cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gaussages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaussage
genips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genip
gessoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gesso
ghazel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghazels
Senses: examples: text: Blind, his body swaying like a blade of grass, he sang a poetic ghazel, every line a stab to my heart.
ref: 2015, Ella Leya, chapter 32, in The Orphan Sky:
glosses: Alternative form of ghazal.
ghazels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghazel
Ghost Dance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In the fall of 1890, a new religious fever, “Ghost Dancing,” spread among the Indian tribes pushed to the far edge of the prairies by broken treaties and the advance of the white man. Their religion held that floods would come, destroying, the whites. And then, game would return; dead Indians would be resurrected, and living Indians would be protected from all harm by wearing painted ghost shirts and performing the special dance.
ref: 1973 March 4, John Kifner, “The Ghosts Dance Once Again at Wounded Knee”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: In life, many of the Army’s victims were the followers of the Ghost Dance, a nineteenth-century faith that originated with a vision, delivered, it was said, by God to the Paiute messiah Jack Wilson, more commonly known as Wovoka.
ref: 2019 December 5, Julian Brave NoiseCat, “Perhaps the World Ends Here: The coming battle over space”, in Harper's Magazine, →ISSN:
glosses: A 19th-century religious movement, incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems, according to which performing a dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead and bring prosperity and unity to native peoples.
Ghost Dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ghost Dances
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ghost dance.
glycosometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosometers
Etymology: From glycose + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A medical instrument for determining the amount of sugar in diabetic urine.
glycosometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycosometer
Gopher State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gopher State
Etymology: Alluding to the abundance of the animal.
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Minnesota: a state of the United States.
Related terms: North Star State
graftage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From graft + -age.
Senses: glosses: The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.
Great White Way
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great White Way
Etymology: So called from its brilliant illumination at night.
Senses: examples: text: But Broadway's economic survival would be a Pyrrhic victory of sorts if artistic invention is slowly leached out in an attempt to make the Great White Way a New York outpost of the theme park–ing of America.
ref: 2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 28:
text: The Great White Way was full of […] theater mavens and gamblers, goons and drunks—and also crooks, crooks aplenty in service to the next big score.
ref: 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 136:
glosses: Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters.
Greek kalends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Greek calends.
in someone's pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: be in someone's pocket
form: be in the pocket of someone
form: in the pocket of someone
Senses: glosses: Receiving money from, and under the influence of, a person or group of people, with the expectation that a favor or advantage will be proffered in return.
be in the pocket of someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: see conjugation of "be"
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in someone's pocket.
in the pocket of someone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in someone's pocket.
leg bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg bridges
Senses: glosses: A type of bridge for small spans in which the floor girders are rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel legs, driven into the ground as piling, or resting on mudsills.
leg bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leg bridge
broad-headed bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad-headed bugs
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the family Alydidae
light-struck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: lītʹstrŭk
Forms: form: more light-struck
form: most light-struck
form: lightstruck
Etymology: From light (noun) + struck (participial adjective).
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Damaged by accidental exposure to light.
raw_tags: of plates or films
glosses: Spoiled by exposure to light, which causes riboflavin to catalyze a chemical process ultimately producing a thiol (MBT) from isohumulone.
raw_tags: of beer
Synonyms: topics: photography
hobbies
arts
lifestyle
word: fogged
sense: of beer
word: skunked
broad-headed bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broad-headed bug
Listerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Listerizes
form: Listerizing
form: Listerized
form: Listerized
Etymology: From Lister + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: […] after Esmarch we hold back the bloody torrent which once gushed forth after the catling; and Listerizing with Lister's spray we bar all passage into gaping wounds of motes that people the sunbeam and breed havoc in the tract of the sanguineous life stream.
ref: 1878, Maryland Medical Journal: Medicine and Surgery, volume 4, page 284:
text: Another operation was urged as a necessity (for what I never heard), and after much cutting, scraping and Listerizing, it was pronounced to be cancer of the womb, and in February she died.
ref: 1887, Homœopathic Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Pediatrics, page 144:
text: Still, all unknown, the message had gone forth from the miserable little garret at the Ecole Normale, and, though little understood, the whisper reached Pasteur that the English surgeons at Bazeilles were 'Listerizing' wounds with great success.
ref: 1902, The Nineteenth Century and After, page 102:
glosses: To make antiseptic.
Listerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Listerize
Listerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Listerize
Listerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Listerize
lithophany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The technique of producing lithophane.
Lenard tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lenard tubes
Senses: glosses: A tube for producing Lenard rays.
Lenard tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lenard tube
Lenard ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lenard rays
Etymology: Named after the German physicist Philipp Lenard, who first described them.
Senses: glosses: One of the rays that emanate from the outer surface of a plate composed of any material permeable by cathode rays, such as aluminium, which forms a portion of a wall of a vacuum tube, or which is mounted within the tube and exposed to radiation from the cathode.
Related terms: Lenard tube
Lenard rays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lenard ray
arboriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arboriferous
form: most arboriferous
Etymology: From Latin arbor (“tree”) + -iferous, or directly from New Latin arborifer (“tree-bearing”).
Senses: glosses: Producing or having many trees.
simultaneous interpretation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of simultaneous interpreting.
synonyms: word: simultaneous interpreting
consecutive interpretation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of consecutive interpreting.
synonyms: word: consecutive interpreting
simultaneous interpreting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
synonyms: simultaneous interpretation
coordinate_terms: consecutive interpreting
glosses: A type of oral translation from one language into another which is produced at the same time as a person is speaking.
Related terms: conference interpreting
consecutive interpreting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
synonyms: consecutive interpretation
coordinate_terms: simultaneous interpreting
glosses: A type of oral translation from one language into another which is produced after a person has finished speaking and typically with the aid of notetaking.
note-taking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If any railway official, policeman, or member of the Forces on duty, requests the discontinuance of any particular form of observation or note-taking, it is clearly right to give immediate compliance, especially when it is borne in mind that public authorities now have very wide powers to hold members of the general public in custody while inquiries are being conducted as to their bona fides.
ref: 1940 July, “Notes and News: The appearance of Evil—A Warning to Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, page 418:
glosses: Alternative form of notetaking.
note-taking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of note-take
takes notes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take notes
taking notes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take notes
took notes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take notes
taken notes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take notes
plant bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plant bugs
Etymology: Most of these insects are known for feeding on plant sap.
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the family Miridae
plant bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plant bug
Ruairi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
shore bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shore bug
Trentonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɛnˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /tɹɛnˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Trentonians
Etymology: From Trenton + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Trenton, New Jersey, United States.
Trentonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trentonian
nasolacrimal sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasolacrimal sacs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of lacrimal sac.
synonyms: word: lacrimal sac
nasolacrimal sacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasolacrimal sac
isochronize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: isochronizes
form: isochronizing
form: isochronized
form: isochronized
Senses: glosses: To make (the motion of a moving body) more uniform in rate of rotation, or in frequency of vibration.
isochronized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of isochronize
isochronizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of isochronize
isochronizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of isochronize
iodocresol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodocresols
Etymology: From iodo- + cresol.
Senses: glosses: Any of several isomeric iodine derivatives of the cresols, especially one used in medicine as a substitute for iodoform.
iodocresols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iodocresol
iodoformogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iodoform + -o- + -gen.
Senses: glosses: A light powder, a compound of iodoform and albumin, used as a substitute for iodoform.
iodol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: tetraiodopyrrol
tear sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tear sacs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of lacrimal sac.
synonyms: word: lacrimal sac
tear sacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tear sac
tetraiodopyrrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraiodopyrrole
Senses: glosses: A crystallized substance with chemical formula C₄I₄NH, used like iodoform.
Synonyms: iodol
thyroiodin
tetraiodopyrrole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tetraiodopyrrol.
thyroiodin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: tetraiodopyrrol
inswept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + swept.
Senses: glosses: Narrowed at the forward end; said of an automobile frame when the side members are closer together at the forward end than at the rear.
instroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instrokes
Etymology: From in + stroke.
Senses: glosses: An inward stroke; specifically, in a steam engine or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crankshaft.
instrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instroke
outstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outstrokes
Etymology: From out- + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, a perfect Medal has its Profile and out-ſtroaks ſharp (Nummus aſper) and by no means rugged; the Figures clean and well poliſh'd; the Contours neatly trimm'd, and exactly round and carefully preſerv'd; that the Extancy and Relievos correſpond with the Ingraving, and have not ſuffer'd in Percuſſion; in all which, there is a certain Spirit of Antiquity and Excellency to be diſcern'd in Antient Medals almoſt inimitable.
ref: 1697, J[ohn] Evelyn, “Instructions How to Collect, and Procure such Medals as are Antique, and Rare; and to Distinguish the True from the False, for the Prevention of Frauds and Impostures”, in Numismata. A Discourse of Medals, Antient and Modern. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke […], →OCLC, page 201:
antonyms: instroke
glosses: An outward stroke; specifically, in a steam engine or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving toward the crankshaft.
outstrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outstroke
Pachuca tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pachuca tanks
Etymology: Though originally devised in New Zealand, it was first practically introduced in Pachuca, Mexico.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A high narrow tank with a central cylinder for the introduction of compressed air, used in the agitation and settling of pulp (pulverized ore and water) during treatment by the cyanide process.
Pachuca tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pachuca tank
pad elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pad elephants
Senses: glosses: An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of a howdah for carrying passengers.
pad elephants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pad elephant
lacrimal punctum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacrimal puncta
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A minute orifice in the margin of each eyelid, through which the lacrimal ducts convey the lacrimal fluid from the eye to the lacrimal sac.
Synonyms: lacrimal point
Hypernyms: lacrimal apparatus
pagoda sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pagoda sleeves
Senses: glosses: A funnel-shaped sleeve arranged to show the sleeve lining and an inner sleeve.
pagoda sleeves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pagoda sleeve
lacrimal point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacrimal points
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: lacrimal punctum
lacrimal points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacrimal point
lacrimal puncta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacrimal punctum
paralgesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + algesia.
Senses: glosses: abnormal sensibility or insensibility to pain
parakite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parakites
Etymology: From para- + kite.
Senses: glosses: A train or series of kites on one string and flying tandem, used for attaining great heights and for sending up instruments for meteorological observations or a person for military reconnaissance.
glosses: An individual kite of such a train.
parakites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parakite
Parnellism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Parnell + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The policy or principles of the Parnellites.
Parnellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parnellites
Etymology: From Parnell + -ite.
Senses: glosses: One of the adherents of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) in his advocacy of home rule for Ireland.
Related terms: Parnellism
Parnellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parnellite
Parnell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːˈnɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: Purnell
Etymology: Matronymic from a medieval spoken form of Petronella.
Senses: glosses: A surname from the given name Petronella. (see Etymology)
examples: text: They had called him Parnell to show how Irish he was. At school they called him Parny, so that was it. Anyway Katy and Shane Quinn could always explain it to anyone who mattered that his real name was Parnell, like the great leader. It was just as well nobody asked them too much about the great leader. They were somewhat hazy about what he was leading and when and why.
ref: 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Iowa County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Atchison County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Grattan Township, Kent County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Nodaway County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Mitchell, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Parnellian
Parnellism
Parnellite
passenger miles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passenger mile
tarsal gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarsal glands
Senses: glosses: Synonym of meibomian gland.
synonyms: word: meibomian gland
Meibomian gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meibomian glands
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of meibomian gland.
Pasteurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Pasteur + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.
wekiu bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wekiu bugs
Etymology: From Hawaiian Puʻu Wēkiu, the highest peak on Mauna Kea, where the first specimen was found.
Senses: glosses: An insect in either of two species in the family Lygaeidae, Nysius wekiucola (found on Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii) and Nysius wekiucola (found on the neighboring Mauna Loa), notable for living above the snow line at temperatures constantly below freezing, and for feeding on frozen insects (all other species in the family feed on plants).
Meibomian glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Meibomian gland
pastorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See pastor and compare auditorium.
Senses: glosses: A parsonage, in some Baptist churches.
tarsal glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarsal gland
patesi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patesis
Senses: glosses: The ruler of any of certain city states of ancient Chaldea, conceived to be a direct representative of the local tutelary god.
patesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patesi
pedigree clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedigree clauses
Senses: glosses: A clause sometimes inserted in contracts or specifications, requiring that a construction material such as cement must be of a brand that has stood the test of a specified number of years' use in an important public work.
pedigree clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedigree clause
pedograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedographs
Etymology: From pedo- (“foot”) + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument carried by a pedestrian for automatically making a topographical record of the ground covered during a journey.
Related terms: pedogram
pedography
pedographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedograph
Pele's hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes.
Senses: glosses: The volcanic glass threads or fibers formed when small particles of molten material are thrown into the air and spun out by the wind into long hair-like strands.
Related terms: Pele's tears
lacrimal fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacrimal fluids
Senses: glosses: Fluid secreted by the lacrimal glands to lubricate the eye and fight bacteria. It consists of water, mucin, lipids, lysozyme, lactoferrin, lipocalin, lacritin, immunoglobulins, glucose, urea, sodium, and potassium.
Synonyms: tear fluid
Peninsula State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Florida
tear fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tear fluids
Senses: glosses: lacrimal fluid
tear fluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tear fluid
lacrimal fluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacrimal fluid
pericystitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peri- + cystitis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the tissues surrounding the bladder
perique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periques
Etymology: From Louisiana French.
Senses: glosses: A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, and tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark in color. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.
permutators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permutator
lacrimal caruncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacrimal caruncles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small globular nodule at the inner corner of the eye that covers sebaceous and sudoriferous glands.
pharmacodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pharmacodynamic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In pharmacodynamic terms.
pharmacodynamical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharmaco- + dynamical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pharmacodynamic.
phenalgin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phenyl, analgetic, and -in.
Senses: glosses: An ammoniated compound of phenyl and acetamide, used as an analgesic and antipyretic, and resembling phenacetin in its therapeutic action.
phenalgine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phenalgin.
phosphorus steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphorus steels
Senses: glosses: A steel containing more phosphorus than carbon.
photoelectrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoelectrographs
Etymology: From photo- + electrograph.
Senses: glosses: An electrometer registering by photography.
photoelectrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoelectrograph
photoprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoprints
Etymology: From photo- + print.
Senses: glosses: Any print made by a photomechanical process.
photoprint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photoprints
form: photoprinting
form: photoprinted
form: photoprinted
Etymology: From photo- + print.
Senses: glosses: To produce a print of (something) by a photomechanical process.
photoprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoprint
phototherapic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phototherapy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to phototherapy.
phototrichromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + trichromatic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a photomechanical process for making reproductions in natural colors by three printings.
photothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + thermic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to both light and heat.
pifflingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pifflingly
form: most pifflingly
Etymology: From piffling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a piffling manner.
pigeonwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeonwings
Etymology: From pigeon + wing.
Senses: glosses: A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.
glosses: An old style of dressing men's side hair in a form resembling a pigeon's wings; or a wig of similar shape.
glosses: A fancy dance step executed by jumping and striking the legs together.
glosses: A certain fancy figure in skating.
qualifier: tempering
glosses: A color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel.
Related terms: cut the pigeon wing
pigeonwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigeonwing
pilot balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilot balloon
pilot wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilot wheels
Senses: glosses: A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, especially an automatic machine tool, by hand.
pilot wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilot wheel
pilot valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilot valves
Senses: glosses: A small hand-operated valve to let in liquid to operate a valve that is difficult to turn by hand.
pilot valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilot valve
pinguefaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The spontaneous tendency to pinguefaction would also conduce to quietude of disposition in the animal, and to the more economical and easy satisfaction of the appetite.
ref: 1853, George Godfrey Cunningham, A history of England in the lives of Englishmen, volume 6, page 161:
glosses: A making of, or turning into, fat.
Pintsch gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Richard Pintsch, German inventor.
Senses: glosses: A kind of oil gas formerly used for lighting railroad cars, which carried it in compressed form.
pipewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pipe + wood.
Senses: glosses: An ericaceous shrub of the southern United States, whose wood can be used to make pipe bowls.
pituitrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a proprietary name, from pituitary.
Senses: glosses: An extract of bovine posterior pituitary hormones (i.e. oxytocin and vasopressin) formerly used in obstetrics to induce labour and to treat postpartum haemorrhage.
ploutered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plouter
ploutering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plouter
phylogeographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylogeographers
Etymology: From phylo- + geographer.
Senses: glosses: One who studies phylogeography.
phylogeographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phylogeographer
postglacially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postglacial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: After glaciation.
populistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more populistically
form: most populistically
Etymology: From populistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a populist manner.
populistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more populistic
form: most populistic
Etymology: From populist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Populist.
Derived terms: populistically
psychanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychanalyses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psychoanalysis.
psychanalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psychoanalytic.
psychanalytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psychoanalytical.
psychanalyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychanalysts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psychoanalyst.
psychanalysist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychanalysists
Senses: glosses: A psychoanalyst.
psychanalysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychanalyst
psychanalysists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychanalysist
analysist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analysists
Etymology: From analysis + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of analyst.
analysists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analysist
psychanalytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From psychanalytic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psychoanalytically.
pulmometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pulmo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the capacity of the lungs.
pyrolignite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrolignites
Etymology: From pyro- + lignite.
Senses: glosses: A crude acetate produced by treating pyroligneous acid with a metal or basic compound.
pyrolignites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrolignite
jacky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæki/
homophone: Jackie
Forms: form: jackies
Senses: examples: text: Up and down that street on a bright Saturday afternoon may be seen our Middle Western jackies chumming with the British sailors and Tommies, or flirting with the Irish girls, or gazing through the little panes of the show-windows […]
ref: 1918, Winston Churchill, A Traveller in War-Time:
glosses: A sailor.
examples: text: I've snuff, and tobacky, / And excellent jacky.
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: English gin.
Derived terms: jacky dragon
jacky winter
jacky-winter
jackies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jacky
Japonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japonism
jury mast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jury masts
form: jury-mast
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: [P]erhaps the Jury Masts may just serve to carry me into Harbour, (as they have done,) and then the ship is to sink:—very likely, for such events happen perpetually.
ref: 1787 October 11, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A temporary mast, in place of one that has been carried away or broken.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An apparatus to support the trunk and head in cases of spinal disease.
plantstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantstands
Etymology: From plant + stand.
Senses: glosses: A tall narrow table on which a pot plant can be displayed.
plantstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plantstand
oversoak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversoaks
form: oversoaking
form: oversoaked
form: oversoaked
Etymology: From over- + soak.
Senses: examples: text: If you oversoak lentils, they may begin to germinate.
glosses: To soak for too long.
oversoaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversoak
oversoaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversoak
oversoaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversoak
relay cylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relay cylinders
Senses: glosses: In a variable-expansion central-valve steam engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine.
reluctivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reluctivity
audiophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From audio- + -phobia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Excessive sensitivity to noise.
Derived terms: audiophobic
Related terms: english: excessive sensitivity to light
translation: excessive sensitivity to light
word: photophobia
repoussage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈpuːsɑːʒ/
Etymology: From French repoussage, from repousser.
Senses: glosses: The art or process of hammering out or pressing thin metal from the reverse side, either to produce decorative work or to level up part of an etched plate that has been worked so as to cause a depression.
rheocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheocrats
Etymology: From rheo- + -crat.
Senses: glosses: A kind of motor speed controller permitting gradual variation in speed, and reversal. It is especially suitable for use with motor-driven machine tools.
rheocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rheocrat
running load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running loads
Senses: glosses: The air pressure supported by each longitudinal foot segment of a wing of an aircraft.
glosses: The whole weight of an airplane and its load divided by the span, or length from tip to tip.
obiism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obeahism
Etymology: From obi + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Obiism and Fanteeism have been exercised in my own presence, and their results proved by the evidence of my own eyes and other senses.
ref: 1909, Bram Stoker, The Lady of the Shroud:
glosses: Belief in, or the practice of, the obeah superstitions and rites.
obeahism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obeah + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of obiism.
university extension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: university extensions
Senses: glosses: The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centres.
Related terms: further education
university extensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of university extension
oleography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oleo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The art or process of producing the pictures known as oleographs.
glosses: The process of identifying oils by their oleographs.
Derived terms: oleographic
ondometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ondometers
Senses: glosses: An instrument designed to measure wavelengths.
ondometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ondometer
oleographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oleography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to oleography.
Derived terms: oleographically
oleographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From oleographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in the style of, oleography.
osmogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osmogenes
Etymology: From osmo- + -gene.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus, consisting of a number of cells whose sides are of parchment paper, for conducting the process of osmosis. It is used especially in sugar refining to remove potassium salts from the molasses.
osmogenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osmogene
osteopathically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From osteopathic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of osteopathy.
osteopathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteopathists
Senses: glosses: An osteopath.
osteopathists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteopathist
osteoperiostitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + periostitis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of a bone and its periosteum
oscillography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Measurement by means of an oscillograph.
Otto engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Otto engines
Senses: glosses: An engine using the Otto cycle.
Otto engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Otto engine
outpensioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outpensioners
Etymology: From outpension + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who is granted an outpension.
outpensioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outpensioner
outpension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outpensions
Etymology: From out- + pension.
Senses: glosses: A public pension granted to one not required to live in a charitable institution.
Derived terms: outpensioner
outpensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outpension
andromimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From andro- + mimetic. Literally “male mimic”.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sexology
sexuality
glosses: Transmasculine.
examples: text: The administration of exogenous cyclic AMP was found to produce marked “andromimetic” effects on a number of enzymes...
ref: 1974 March 20, D.J.B.Sutherland, R.L.Singhal, “Alterations in adenylate cyclase activity of the rat prostate gland”, in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, pages 238–249:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Imitating the biological processes of a male organism.
Derived terms: andromimetophilia
andromimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: andromimetics
Etymology: From andro- + mimetic. Literally “male mimic”.
Senses: examples: text: An andromimetic...is the counterpart of a gynemimetic. He lives full-time as a man. If he has access to male hormone and undergoes hormonal masculinization, it is more likely than not that he will seek hysterectomy and breast removal...
ref: 1988, John Money, Gay, Straight, and In-between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation, →ISBN, page 98:
topics: lifestyle
sexology
sexuality
glosses: A transmasculine individual or trans man.
Related terms: andromimesis
gynemimesis
gynemimetophilia
transgender
trans man
oxyhydrogen light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyhydrogen lights
Senses: glosses: A light produced by the incandescence of certain substances, especially lime, in the oxyhydrogen flame.
ottava rima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˌtɑːvə ˈɹiːmə/
ipa: /oʊˌtɑvə ˈɹimə/
Forms: form: ottave rime
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ottava rima (literally “eighth rhyme”).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc).
Synonyms: english: by ellipsis
translation: by ellipsis
word: ottava
Related terms: terza rima
aneroid barometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aneroid barometer
orometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orometers
Etymology: From oro- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An aneroid barometer having a second scale that gives the approximate elevation above sea level of the place where the observation is made.
orometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orometer
osmograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osmographs
Etymology: From osmo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for recording the height of the liquid in an endosmometer or for registering osmotic pressures.
osmographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osmograph
ondogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ondograms
Senses: glosses: The recording produced by an ondograph.
ondograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ondogram
ondograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ondographs
Senses: glosses: An instrument for autographically recording the waveforms of varying currents, especially rapidly varying alternating currents.
Related terms: ondogram
ondographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ondograph
autographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: By means of autography.
Cahenslyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cahensly + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P. P. Cahensly, a member of the German parliament, to divide the foreign-born population of the United States, for ecclesiastical purposes, according to European nationalities, and to appoint bishops and priests of the same race and speaking the same language as the majority of the members of a diocese or congregation.
Related terms: Cahenslyist
Cahenslyite
Camorrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɒɹɪst/
Forms: form: Camorrists
Etymology: From Camorra + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: At first the society fought back, but when the Fascists began breaking up Camorrists' meetings with hand grenades the opposition ceased.
ref: 2016, Thomas Reppetto, American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power:
synonyms: Camorra
Camorrista
glosses: A member of the Camorra.
Camorrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Camorrist
kekune oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An oil obtained from the candlenut, used as a varnish and for various other purposes.
capsulotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capsulotomy
carcels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carcel
carnic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hygroscopic monobasic acid with chemical formula C₁₀H₁₅O₅N₃, obtained as a cleavage product from an acid of muscle tissue.
Related terms: carnal
cataclasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cataclasm
cataplectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, cataplexy
Related terms: anticataplectic
centauromachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centauromachies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek; see centaur + -machy.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A fight in which centaurs take part; a common theme in ancient relief sculpture.
centauromachies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centauromachy
chain tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain ties
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A tie consisting of a series of connected iron bars or rods.
chalazogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chalaza + -o- + -gamy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A process of fecundation in which the pollen tube penetrates to the embryo sac through the tissue of the chalaza, instead of entering through the micropyle.
Related terms: chalazogam
chalazogamic
chalazogamous
chalazogamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chalazogamy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to chalazogamy.
chelaship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chela + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of chela (pupil or disciple).
chicalote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicalotes
Etymology: From Spanish chicalote, from Nahuatl chicalotl.
Senses: glosses: Flatbud prickly poppy (Argemone munita), a prickly poppy native to California.
chicalotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicalote
Chilean pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chilean pines
Senses: glosses: A monkey puzzle (tree).
Chilean pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilean pine
Chinook State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Chinook State
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Washington: a state of the United States.
Related terms: Evergreen State
Christian Scientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christian Scientists
Senses: glosses: A member of the Christian Science denomination.
Christian Scientists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christian Scientist
chromophotograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromophotographs
Etymology: From chromo- + photograph.
Senses: glosses: A color photograph.
chromophotographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromophotograph
chromophotographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chromo- + photographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to color photography.
chupatties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chupatty
clairaudients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clairaudient
clairsentients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clairsentient
claircognizant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more claircognizant
form: most claircognizant
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to claircognizance.
claircognizant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claircognizants
Senses: glosses: One who has the power of claircognizance.
claircognizants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claircognizant
peter pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peter peppers
Senses: glosses: An heirloom chili pepper grown in North America for its unusual penis-shaped fruits.
peter peppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peter pepper
clearcoled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clearcole
clearcoles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clearcole
clearcoling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clearcole
cocainist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocainists
Etymology: From cocaine + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Heroinists and cocainists are ever so much more likely to become so, a condition which is perhaps due to the fact that the addicts of heroin and cocain are, as a rule, of a lower class. The author, in his experience, has found this to be the case.
ref: 1921, Frederick Tice, Practice of Medicine, volume 8, page 26:
glosses: A cocaine addict.
cocainists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocainist