cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
levelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From level + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Supposing the charge exhibited against governments, under the national control, to be true; and admitting that they do tend towards levelism; it would then become necessary to compute, which species of levelism, that of dividing property between three orders according to Mr. Adams's system, or that of dividing property among all the individuals of a nation according to the supposed tendency, would product the most injustice or misery.
ref: 1814, John Taylor, An Inquiry Into The Principles And Policy Of The Government Of The United States:
text: Our greatest danger is from the contagion of levelism; what folly is it that has set the world agog to be all equal to French barbers .
ref: 1846, Chauncy Goodrich, “Letter from Chauncy Goodrich, February 17,1793”, in Oliver Wolcott, George Gibbs, editor, Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams, page 88:
text: The higher classes of men are more inclined to tyranny, and the lower classes of men are more inclined to levelism.
ref: 1842, Nathanael Emmons, Jacob Ide, The Works of Nathanael Emmons, page 105:
text: According to Ebenezer Pemberton, the Belchers were the victims of immorality and levelism run rampant.
ref: 2014, Michael C. Batinski, Jonathan Belcher: Colonial Governor, page 22:
glosses: The political aim of levelling all distinctions of rank in society; egalitarianism.
examples: text: Reality can be studied at different levels, so forms of 'levelism' have often been advocated in the past. In the 1970s, levelism nicely doevetailed with the computational turn and became a standard approach both in science and philosophy.
ref: 2013, Luciano Floridi, The Philosophy of Information, page 47:
text: Epistemological levelism, based on levels of abstraction, endorses pluralism without falling into relativism or perspectivism, since "the explicit reference to the LoA makes it clear that the model of a system is a function of the available observables, and that it is reasonable to rank different LoAs and to compare and assess the corresponding models" (Floridi 2011a, 75; 2011b, 292).
ref: 2017, Massimo Durante, Ethics, Law and the Politics of Information, page 12:
text: There is the "levelism" of the rich repertoire of mathematical hierarchies, mainly the domain of the logician—in general, mathematicians like to be given a specific informational context to solve their puzzles within.
ref: 2017, Juliet Floyd, Alisa Bokulich, Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing, page 247:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The use of different levels of abstraction in order to understand something.
embowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embowls
form: embowling
form: embowled
form: embowled
Etymology: From em- + bowl.
Senses: glosses: To form like a bowl
examples: 16th century,Philip Sidney, Sidney Psalms
the Earth, embowl'd by thee
glosses: to give a globular shape to.
embowled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embowl
embowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embowl
embowls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embowl
attractile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attractile
form: most attractile
Etymology: From attract + -ile.
Senses: examples: text: attractile force
text: attractile power
text: attractile substance
glosses: Having power to attract.
noctuaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noctuary
noctuary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noctuaries
Etymology: From Latin noctu (“by night”). Compare diary.
Senses: examples: text: that ingenious gentleman, who promised me […] some extracts out of his noctuary
ref: 1714 September 7 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, August 27, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 586; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal.
thrivingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thrivingly
form: most thrivingly
Etymology: From Middle English thrivingli, thryvandly, þryvandely, equivalent to thriving + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a thriving manner, or so as to thrive.
rubber stamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rubber stamp
rubber stamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rubber stamp
bendy straws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bendy straw
fly-tipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-tippers
form: flytipper
Senses: examples: text: A fly-tipper committed a serious error when he dumped a large quantity of waste alongside the track at Burnley earlier this year - his home address was discovered on paperwork found among the piles of rubbish.
ref: 2021 August 25, “Network News: Fly-tipper left key evidence”, in RAIL, number 938, page 18:
glosses: One who engages in fly-tipping.
Related terms: fly-tip
fly-tipping
Negrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negrophobia
Etymology: From Negro + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: ‘But,’ says Gilroy, ‘negrophilia and negrophobia can be intertwined. [Colin] MacInnes seems to have imprisoned black people in his exotic conceptions of their blackness. […]’
ref: 2007 April 14, Ed Vulliamy, quoting Paul Gilroy, “Absolute MacInnes”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The fear, hate, or dislike of black people of any descent, usually Africans.
Synonyms: Blackophobia
melanophobia
Related terms: Afrophobia
Negrophobe
Arabophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabophobia
Etymology: From Arab + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Fear, hate, or dislike of Arabs and their culture
Synonyms: anti-Arabism
Related terms: arabophobe
arabophobic
autoinjection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoinjections
Etymology: From auto- + injection.
Senses: glosses: A (semi-)automatic injection (such as that of an autoinjector).
sleeping giants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeping giant
agua fresca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agua frescas
head_nr: 1
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish agua fresca (literally “fresh water”).
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A tisane beverage, especially made from horchata, hibiscus or tropical fruits, which is served from large glass barrels.
agua frescas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agua fresca
personal training
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal trainings
Senses: glosses: The field of work that involves providing one on one or small group strength training and weightloss services through athletic environments such as a gym
Synonyms: coach
Related terms: personal trainer
personal trainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal training
weightloss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of weight loss.
purple haze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Purple Haze
Etymology: From the violet coloration of the leaves and the allusion to the smoke or mental state to which the buds of the plant will eventually be converted.
Senses: synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: One of numerous strains of cannabis known for their high THC content and recognizable by the color of their leaves, which vary from solid purple to flecked violet.
glosses: lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) when used as a recreational drug
Synonyms: purp
purple
MDIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MDI
sister planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sister planets
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a planet that shares similar physical characteristics, such as size, density and mass, with another planet
above the curve
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: With above average innovative performance or quality, especially a trailblazer developing advances before competitors.
another day, another dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Everything is routine and mundane, and nothing eventful or extraordinary has happened.
examples: text: Poor Tom suffered the tortures. He got up, yawned, and said, «Well, another day another dollar, good night,» and disappeared upstairs.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 3, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 4:
text: Another day, another dollar, another war
ref: 1995, Jewel, “Who Will Save Your Soul”:
text: Another day, another dollar / More money, more murder
ref: 1996, “The Set Up”, in It Was Written, performed by Nas:
glosses: Life goes on, and it is necessary to work in order to earn money.
Synonyms: another day in paradise
Related terms: once more into the breach
routineness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From routine + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being routine, of possessing the traits of being quotidian, and repeating a pattern regularly
backroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backrolls
Etymology: From back + roll.
Senses: glosses: The state of having been reverted, restored
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: backstrap
antonyms: frontstrap
glosses: The rolling the marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion
backroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backrolls
form: backrolling
form: backrolled
form: backrolled
Etymology: From back + roll.
Senses: glosses: To revert something to its previous state
glosses: To roll the marijuana cigarette into backroll shape
Related terms: rollback
backrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backroll
logrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of logroll
buck wild
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buck wild
form: most buck wild
Etymology: From the aggressive state of bucks during mating season.
Senses: examples: text: The dancer was buck wild, and all the old, beer-bellied men were clapping and sticking money in the waistline of her sheer-leg pants.
ref: 1998, Zane, Addicted, Atria Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 190:
text: Hey ladies, when your man wanna get buck wild, just go back and hit 'em up style / Put your hands on his cash and spend it to the last dime for all the hard times
ref: 2001, Blu Cantrell, “Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)”, in So Blu:
text: We had a great time that night, when the DJ at Pacha NYC found out that Mel was in the house, he played "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)." Mel's girlfriend really went buck wild when they played it.
ref: 2010, Russell Peters, Call Me Russell, Doubleday Canada, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Talkin' 'bout your flipchild, he buckwild; talkin' 'bout your stepchild, he buckwild.
ref: 2022, Longmont Potion Castle, Longmont Potion Castle 19, DU Records:
glosses: Crazy, unrestrained, uncontrolled.
wikipedia: Jonathon Green
Related terms: hyphy
crunk
logrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of logroll
backrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backroll
backrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of backroll
beesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beestings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beestings (“The first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth”).
glosses: Alternative form of bee sting.
bee sting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bee stings
form: beesting
form: bee-sting
Senses: synonyms: word: bee bite
glosses: A hypodermic puncture from a bee, resulting in envenomation and often involving the penetration and lodging of the stinger.
synonyms: fried egg
mosquito bite
glosses: Very small breasts.
Related terms: beestung
bee stings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bee sting
bentch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bentches
form: bentching
form: bentched
form: bentched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bentsh.
bentching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bentch
bentched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bentch
bowel cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowel cancers
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the many types of cancers affecting the gastrointestinal tract, rectum, or colon.
bowel cancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowel cancer
brain damage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain damages
Senses: glosses: Stupidity.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brain, damage.
brain damages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain damage
brick house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brick houses
Etymology: Possibly coined in 1977 from the song "Brick House" by The Commodores, who took it from the older expression built like a brick shithouse.
Senses: glosses: A voluptuous woman with a large rotund buttocks and bust.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A house or type of construction made of bricks or blocks of masonry.
brick houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brick house
Cúcuta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountainside city in north-east Colombia, capital of Norte de Santander province.
chooch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chooches
Etymology: From Italian ciuccio and/or Neapolitan ciuccio. The loss of the final vowel is typical of southern Italian languages.
Senses: examples: text: You think we don't know what you're doing, chooch? Throwing rocks at a scout convoy?
ref: 2014 January 13, Red X (Intelligence), season 1, episode 2 (TV):
qualifier: Italian American
glosses: A stupid person; a meathead.
chooches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chooch
dinkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dinkily
form: most dinkily
Etymology: From dinky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a dinky manner
bentches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bentch
logrollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logroller
apothecarie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apothecaries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of apothecary.
gasteromycete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasteromycetes
Senses: glosses: Any of the polyphyletic class Gasteromycetes of fungi that produce spores inside their basidiocarps.
gasteromycetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasteromycete
sectism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectisms
Etymology: From sect + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Devotion to a sect.
sticcado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticcato
Etymology: Compare Italian steccato (“a palisade”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument resembling a xylophone. The bars were made of metal, wood, or glass
epiphyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + phyllo- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: epiphyllous lichen
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing on the leaf.
gastrophrenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastro- + phrenic.
Senses: examples: text: the gastrophrenic ligament
text: gastrophrenic attachment
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to both the stomach and diaphragm.
obolary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɒbələɹi/
Forms: form: more obolary
form: most obolary
Etymology: From obolus + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: the distance is as vast between him and one of us, as subsisted between the Augustan majesty and the poorest obolary Jew that paid it tribute pittance at Jerusalem !
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Possessing only small coins; impoverished.
overscented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overscent
overscented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overscented
form: most overscented
Senses: examples: text: […] he was very ready to go and see her whenever summoned by one of her overscented notes, the odor of which was quite hateful to Mrs. Bulliman.
ref: 1868, Shirley Brooks, chapter 25, in Sooner or Later, New York: Harper, page 142:
text: She admired Louis Lambert, Le colonel Chabert, Cesar Birotteau, and Eugénie Grandet, but she had a lively distaste for the overscented salon stories such as La femme de trente ans,
ref: 1946, Stefan Zweig, chapter 7, in William Rose, Dorothy Rose, transl., Balzac, New York: Viking, page 121:
text: “Ladies love Armani,” he said, sauntering toward the interview rooms.
“Ladies love oxygen, too,” I said, following in his overscented wake.
ref: 2015, Rachel Howzell Hall, chapter 18, in Skies of Ash,, London: Titan Books, page 127:
glosses: Scented excessively.
beguinage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beguinages
Etymology: Borrowed from French béguinage.
Senses: glosses: A walled community of small houses occupied by the Beguines.
beguinages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beguinage
thysanopteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thysanopterans
Etymology: Thysanoptera + -an
Senses: examples: text: All life stages can be recorded from the foliage in the case of leaf+dwelling thysanopterans. The population dynamics of these thrips is also highly under the influence of succession of vegetation in the scrub jungle of MCC campus.
ref: 2017, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A thrips; one of the Thysanoptera.
thysanopterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thysanopteran
merismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέρισμα (mérisma, “part”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Dividing into cells or segments.
unlodge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlodges
form: unlodging
form: unlodged
form: unlodged
Etymology: From un- + lodge.
Senses: examples: text: now that these heavenly mansions are to be voyd , you that shall hereafter be found unlodged
ref: 1633, Thomas Carew, Coelum Britanicum:
glosses: To dislodge.
unlodged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unlodge
unlodges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unlodge
unlodging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unlodge
fungosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fungosity
fungosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fungosities
Etymology: From fungous + -osity; compare French fungosité, fongosité.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fungous or degree of being infused with fungus.
examples: text: The fungosities, which arise in wounds or ulcers, are easily repressed by gentle compression, dry lint, the sulphas cupri, or other gentle caustic.
ref: 1833, Robley Dunglison, “Fungos′ity”, in A New Dictionary of Medical Science and Literature, […], volumes I (A–L), Boston, Mass.: […] [E. W. Metcalf and Company] for Charles Bowen, →OCLC, page 421, column 1:
glosses: A fungal growth.
bloody sweat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloody sweats
Senses: glosses: sweating sickness
bloody sweats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloody sweat
gemmeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gemmeous
form: most gemmeous
Etymology: From Latin gemmeus. See gem.
Senses: examples: text: They were not the Europeans alone, who were ſtruck with its [the honeysucker’s] great beauty; the natives of America, to whom it was ſo familiar, were affected with its gemmeous appearance, and beſtowed on it titles expreſſive of its reſplendent colors.
ref: 1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology:
glosses: Resembling or relating to gems.
Derived terms: gemmeous dragonet
monosulphuret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosulphurets
Etymology: From mono- + sulphuret.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: monosulfide
monosulphurets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosulphuret
indow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indows
form: indowing
form: indowed
form: indowed
Senses: examples: text: Wherby we bith lerned þat it shalnot only be goode to owre prince, but also to vs selff, that he be well indowed; ffor ellis the patriarke wolde not haue made such a trety.
ref: [c. 1471, John Fortescue, “Here is Shewid, What off the Kynges Livelod Geven awey, mey Beste be Taken a Geyn”, in Charles Plummer, editor, The Governance of England: Otherwise Called The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy […] (in Middle English), London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, published 1885 (1926 printing), →OCLC, page 135:
english: Whereby we have learned that it shall not only be good to our prince, but also to ourselves, that he be well endowed; for else the patriarch would not have made such a treaty.
translation: Whereby we have learned that it shall not only be good to our prince, but also to ourselves, that he be well endowed; for else the patriarch would not have made such a treaty.
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text: Vpon her eyelids many Graces ſate, / Vnder the ſhadow of her euen browes, / VVorking belgardes [beautiful looks], and amorous retrate [portrait], / And euerie one her with a grace endowes: [...]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25, page 225:
text: And thus shal the aged Courtier, although he exercise not the qualities that he is indowed withal, comebye his ende at length, to instructe well hys Prince.
ref: 1561, Baldassare Castiglione, “The Fourth Booke of the Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio unto Maister Alphonsus Aristo”, in Thomas Hoby, transl., edited by W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, The Book of the Courtier: From the Italian of Count Baldassare Castiglione: Done into English (The Tudor Translations; XXIII), London: Published by David Nutt […], published 1900, →OCLC, pages 337–338:
text: Firſt, it is needfull that we be indowed with humility of ſpirit, that denying our owne ſelves and carnall reaſon, wee may ſubmit to take ſuch ſence and meaning of the Scripture, as it of it ſelfe affords, with the aſſiſtance of the helps of the Church; and not to impoſe upon it any ſenſe of our owne making; [...]
ref: 1637, John Sym, “The Self-murderers Motives to Kill Themselves”, in Lifes Preservative against Self-killing. Or, A Vsefvl Treatise Concerning Life and Self-murder; […], London: Printed by M[iles] Flesher, for R[obert] Dawlman, and L[uke] Fawne, […], →OCLC, §4 (Of Misunderstood Scripture Perverting the Iudgement; and the Remedy thereof), page 199:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of endow.
Derived terms: indowment
indowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indow
indowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indow
indows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indow
inerratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inerratic
form: most inerratic
Etymology: From in- + erratic.
Senses: glosses: Not erratic
inflammative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inflammative
form: most inflammative
Senses: examples: text: inflammative disease
text: inflammative tissue
glosses: inflammatory
Derived terms: neuroinflammative
woodstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodstones
Etymology: From wood + stone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A striped variety of hornfels, resembling wood in appearance.
glosses: petrified wood
woodstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodstone
chargehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From charge + house.
Senses: examples: text: Do you not educate youth at the / charge-house on the top of the mountain?
ref: c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, scene 1, lines 77–78:
glosses: A schoolhouse.
incensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incensive
form: most incensive
Etymology: From incense + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: incensive aspects of the soul
text: To be extremely hated and inhumanly persecuted , without any fault committed or just occasion offered, is greatly incensive of human passion
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Patience”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Tending to excite, provoke or stir up emotions; inflammatory.
explorement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explorements
Etymology: From explore + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: upon the explorement of many, could scarce find one
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: exploration
explorements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of explorement
lithotriptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪθ.əˈtɹɪp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Forms: form: lithonthriptic
form: lithonthryptic
form: lithontriptic
Etymology: From litho- (“relating to a stone or calculus”) + Ancient Greek τρῖψῐς (trîpsĭs, “rubbing, friction”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the quality of, or used for, dissolving or destroying stone in the bladder or kidneys.
lithotriptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪθ.əˈtɹɪp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Forms: form: lithotriptics
form: lithonthriptic
form: lithonthryptic
form: lithontriptic
Etymology: From litho- (“relating to a stone or calculus”) + Ancient Greek τρῖψῐς (trîpsĭs, “rubbing, friction”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lithontriptic remedy or agent.
Related terms: lithotripsy
lithotriptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithotriptic
tartufe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tartufes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tartuffe.
Molinism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Molina + -ism, named after 16th-century Jesuit theologian Luis de Molina.
Senses: glosses: A religious doctrine attempting to reconcile the providence of God with human free will.
wikipedia: Luis de Molina
Related terms: Molinist
mountlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountlets
Etymology: From mount + -let.
Senses: synonyms: mountainet
glosses: A small or low mountain.
mountlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountlet
touchableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From touchable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being touchable; tangibility.
witts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the clean witts contain native oxide of tin, black or rosin-tin, and wolfram[…]
ref: 1852, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopædia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical:
topics: business
mining
glosses: Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping.
triptyque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪptɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Forms: form: triptyques
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A triptych.
glosses: A customs pass allowing a motor vehicle into and out of France.
neoterically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more neoterically
form: most neoterically
Etymology: From neoteric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: newly; recently
prevailment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prevailments
Etymology: From prevail + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: messengers
Of strong preuailment in vnhardned youth
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: prevalence; superior influence or efficacy
exposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exposals
Etymology: From expose + -al.
Senses: examples: December 1 1720, Jonathan Swift, a letter of advice to a young poet
I believe our corrupted air, and frequent thick fogs, are in a great measure owing to the common exposal of our wit
glosses: exposure
loresman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loresmen
Etymology: From Middle English loresman, equivalent to lore + -s- + man.
Senses: examples: text: An academician or other learned person who is the student of a particular discipline; a loresman.
ref: 1999, Lewis Turco, The book of literary terms:
text: A whittler of course, and volunteer fireman, a loresman of stone and all the materials of Nature, beech and maple, elm and ash, and all the secret, invisible grains of the human heart.
ref: 2010, Stanley Elkin, George Mills:
glosses: An instructor or teacher of traditional wisdom.
loresmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loresman
obediential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əʊˌbiːdiˈɛnʃəl/
Forms: form: more obediential
form: most obediential
Etymology: From Latin *obedientialis, from obēdientia + -ālis. Compare French obédientiel.
Senses: examples: text: an obediential subjection to the Lord of Nature
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
text: So that upon the whole matter it is very evident that we are not justified by the merit of our own works, but by a fiducial obediential dependence upon Jesus Christ and his righteousness, as the condition on our part of our right to impunity and salvation, which was the truth that Paul in this and the foregoing chapter had been fixing as the great spring and foundation of all our comfort.
ref: 1700s, Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible, Romans:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or related to obedience; or obedient.
Derived terms: obedientially
obedientialness
obediential potency
monstruosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monstruosity
monstruosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monstruosities
Senses: examples: text: This is the monstruosity in love
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], column 81:
glosses: Obsolete form of monstrosity.
roccellin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A red dyestuff, the sodium salt of a complex azo derivative of naphtol.
predestinative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + destinative.
Senses: examples: text: The predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, or elections, and in respect of which acts it is one either with the divine or the devilish will; and if the former, the conclusions to be drawn from God's goodness, faithfulness, and spiritual presence; these supply grounds of argument of a very different character […]
ref: 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress:
glosses: Determining beforehand; predestinating.
attaghan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attaghans
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of yataghan.
attaghans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attaghan
fonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈfɒnli/
Forms: form: more fonly
form: most fonly
Etymology: From fon + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: All were it of my foe, then fonly pitied
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: foolishly
regiminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: regiminal treatment
text: regiminal physician
text: regiminal rules
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to regimen.
intentiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intentive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: With these few statements on the purely temporal extendedness of mental life, let us now focus on its intentiveness.
ref: 2012, R. R. Cox, Schutz’s Theory of Relevance: A Phenomenological Critique:
glosses: Closeness of attention; attentiveness; concentration.
rhinolophine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhinolophine
form: most rhinolophine
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Like or pertaining to the rhinolophids, or horseshoe bats.
operosely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more operosely
form: most operosely
Etymology: From operose + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an operose manner.
diaphanoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaphanoscopes
Senses: glosses: A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.
Related terms: diaphanoscopy
diaphanous
diaphanoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaphanoscope
pari-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin par, paris (“equal”).
Senses: glosses: Equal
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Even
Synonyms: word: equi-
hexaphyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having six leaves or leaflets.
resuscitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsʌsɪtəbəl/
Senses: examples: text: he himself had prepared three or four resuscitable plants
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in Some Considerations Touching the Vsefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, part I:
glosses: Capable of being resuscitated.
Derived terms: resuscitability
Related terms: resuscitation
panderism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panderisms
Etymology: From pander + -ism.
Senses: glosses: pimping; proxenetism
pumiceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pəˈmɪʃəs/
/pəˈmɪʃi.əs/
Forms: form: more pumiceous
form: most pumiceous
Etymology: Latin pumiceus.
Senses: examples: text: pumiceous ash
text: pumiceous deposits
glosses: Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.
incautiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incautious + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: uncautiousness
glosses: The state or quality of being incautious.
perversive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more perversive
form: most perversive
Etymology: From perverse + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: There is a widely diffused notion that among all specimens of animal creation man alone possesses any glimmering of reason. This notion is largely fallacious. It is one of those ideas, based upon superficial knowledge, which appeal to the sophisticated modern public. Its initial emergence and its popularity are alike due to the confounding of what is hereditary with what is acquired, and to the perversive confusion between instinct and knowledge.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 3:
text: The late Australian performance artist Leigh Bowery had a profound influence on many designers. Provocative, and at times perversive (he once sprayed enema fluid over unsuspecting audience members),[…]
ref: 2023 November 18, Jess Cartner-Morley, Chloe Mac Donnell, “40 outrageous photos that changed fashion, from teenage Kate Moss to Twiggy in a mini and Lady Gaga’s meat dress”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Tending to pervert.
tensility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tensilities
Etymology: From tensile + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: the tensility of the muscles
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
text: It is therefore almost certain that mutability depends on changes not in the tensility of the collagen fibrils, but in the cohesive forces holding the fibrils together.
ref: 2005, Valeria Matranga, Echinodermata:
glosses: The quality or state of being tensile (capable of being extended).
lock hospital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock hospitals
Senses: glosses: A hospital for the isolation and treatment of lepers.
glosses: A hospital treating people with venereal diseases in which patients were kept confined until cured.
lock hospitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lock hospital
chronopher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronophers
Etymology: From chrono- (“time”) + φέρω (phérō, “to carry”).
Senses: glosses: An instrument that transmits the correct time to other distant clocks by means of electricity. It was used in the United Kingdom in the 19th century, but was obsolete by the turn of the 20th century.
chronophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronopher
aleak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + leak.
Senses: glosses: leaking
aleak
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + leak.
Senses: glosses: leaking
exceptionableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exceptionable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: exceptionability
immitigably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more immitigably
form: most immitigably
Etymology: From immitigable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an immitigable manner.
refaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See refection.
Senses: examples: text: require refaction and satisfaction against the informers
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: recompense; atonement; retribution
Malacozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Malacozoa + -ic
Senses: glosses: molluscan
principalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From principal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being principal; principality.
distantial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distantial
form: most distantial
Senses: examples: text: [S]uch objects of virtue are more impreſſive upon or affections, then thoſe vvhich may be greater in themſelves, but more diſtantiall from our eye; […]
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Tenth Treatise. How a Good Conscience, and a Good Courtier are Consortable. §. VI. Some Notorious Errors Remarked, & what Facility the Breeding of Courtiers may Bring towards an Excellence in Religious Duties, Proved by Examples.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 120:
glosses: Distant.
examples: text: In order for the hypothesis to cover this fact, it would be indispensable that such objects should subtend a uniform visual angle at every distance, and that they do not do so is proof that an element has been introduced which may regulate distantial perception.
ref: 1885 July 4, T. Oughton, “On the Secondary Nature of Monocular Relief”, in The Lancet, volume 2, page 9:
text: The distantial function of speed can, to a great exten , be supplemented or entirely replaced by position, but this is not the case with the combative.
ref: 1907 October, A.C. Dewar, “Speed in Battleship Strategy”, in The United Service Magazine, volume 157, number 947, page 2:
text: Finally, a public setting puts more emphasis on working smoothly with other individuals than on a rich engagement with the affordances of the world (thus reinforcing the distantial tendency).
ref: 2017, Hans Bernhard Schmid, Gerhard Thonhauser, From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity, page 25:
glosses: Pertaining to distance.
examples: text: the distantial spread
text: distantial transformation
text: Hence, given the referents of a point, referred to a distantial system, and the Cartesian equations of the lines of reference, referred to a Cartesian system:
ref: 1860, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, A Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry:
text: We defined a distantial description that describes a set of temporal sequences by their maximal common distantial subsequences, with distances between items.
ref: 2021, Salah Eddine Boukhetta, Christophe Demko, Karell Bertet, Jérémy Richard, Cécile Cayèré, “Temporal Sequence Mining Using FCA and GALACTIC”, in Tanya Braun, Marcel Gehrke, Tom Hanika, editors, Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning, page 197:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the difference between items.
trainbearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trainbearers
Etymology: From train + bearer.
Senses: examples: text: She was first employed as the Queen's trainbearer, and went on to become her main lady-in-waiting.
glosses: Someone who holds up the train of a dress, robe etc.
glosses: Either of two species of long-tailed hummingbirds in the genus Lesbia, found in tropical South America.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lesbia victoriae
word: black-tailed trainbearer
taxonomic: Lesbia nuna
word: green-tailed trainbearer
trainbearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trainbearer
encounterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encounterers
Etymology: From encounter + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The doctrines of the Reformation have , for near two centuries , kept the field against all encounterers
ref: 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther:
glosses: One who encounters; an opponent or antagonist.
encounterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encounterer
hatting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hattings
Etymology: From hat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of hats.
glosses: Fabric used in making hats.
Related terms: top-hatting
hatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hat
sweepy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswiːpi/
rhymes: -iːpi
Forms: form: more sweepy
form: most sweepy
Etymology: From sweep + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a sweepy log
text: The branches bend before their sweepy sway.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: I cleaned their table, each wipe sweepier than the last, reflecting the gradual unburdening of my daily routine.
ref: 2018, Heleen Kist, In Servitude:
glosses: Moving with a sweeping motion, or having a curving shape that suggests it.
giber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gibers
Etymology: From gibe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Come, come, you are well understood to be a perfecter / giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the / Capitol.
ref: c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1, lines 76–78:
text: Come Sempronia , leave him;
He is a giber; and our present business
Is of more serious consequence
ref: 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:
text: Aloof you stand and hear the railer's gibe / While rain their shafts on me the giber-band.
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 108:
glosses: One who utters gibes.
Synonyms: joker
gibers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giber
foraminiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more foraminiferous
form: most foraminiferous
Senses: examples: text: foraminiferous deposits
glosses: Having small openings, or foramina.
examples: text: foraminiferous mud
text: foraminiferous rocks
glosses: Pertaining to, or composed of, foraminifers.
immanifest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From im- + manifest.
Senses: examples: text: The first from the beginning of the world unto the general deluge of Ogyges, they term Adelon, that is, a time not much unlike that which was before time, immanifest and unknown
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: And because it remains a mystery to us, to whom naught else is mysterious except God, we conjecture that it is the thing upon which God meditateth, self-obscured and centred, and because of which He hath held himself immanifest to us for so many aeons; that this is the secret which God keepeth even from the seraphim."
ref: 1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Ebony and Crystal, The Demon, the Angel, and Beauty:
glosses: Not manifest.
Derived terms: immanifestness
inclinableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inclinable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: inclinability
glosses: The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination
infusibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + fusibility. Compare French infusibilité.
Senses: examples: text: the infusibility of carbon
glosses: Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved.
Related terms: infusible
infusibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, infuse + -ibility.
Senses: glosses: Capability of being infused, poured in, or instilled.
Related terms: infusible
nisey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niseys
Senses: glosses: A simpleton.