cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
explanate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more explanate
form: most explanate
Etymology: From Latin explanatus (“flattened”).
Senses: examples: text: […]it has been transformed, except in a few taxa where lobules are always explanate, into a galeate water-sac, which is formed wholly from the lobule, with the external surface from the adaxial leaf surface.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Flat; flattened.
Gondwanalandic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Gondwanaland + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Lobules, homologous in structure, recur again only in the Gondwanalandic families Lepidolaenaceae and Jubulopsidaceae thus in the Lepidolaenineae.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Gondwana.
Related terms: Gondwana
Gondwanaland
connectorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From connector + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without connectors.
monkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkies
Senses: examples: text: Now God helpe thee, poore Monkie: / But how wilt thou do for a Father?
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: Archaic spelling of monkey.
butcherknives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butcherknife
licentiousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of licentiousness
worstly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From worst + -ly.
Senses: glosses: worst
fauxhawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauxhawk
hominies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hominy
antifrost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + frost.
Senses: examples: text: Work on anti-frost precautions on diesel locomotives is to be speeded up to ensure that most if not all locomotives have been dealt with before the winter sets in.
ref: 1964 September, “Motive Power Miscellany: BR Workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 220:
glosses: Preventing, or countering the effects of frost.
cop-killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cop-killers
Etymology: From cop + killer.
Senses: examples: text: Serpico spat the words out. "For killing a cop! He's a fucking cop-killer! Tell that to all his fucking friends up there."
ref: 1974, Peter Maas, “Chapter Thirteen”, in Serpico, Bantam edition, New York: Bantam Books, published 1973, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: A person who deliberately kills an on-duty police officer.
cop-killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cop-killers
Etymology: From the bullet's (bullets') supposed ability to penetrate body armor, thus endangering police officers.
Senses: glosses: A Teflon-coated bullet.
disseisin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disseisins
Senses: examples: text: The United States cannot acquire jurisdiction tortiously or by disseisin of the state, or by occupancy with merely the tacit consent of the state.
topics: law
glosses: The act of disseizing.
intracapsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + capsular.
Senses: examples: text: Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Within a capsule.
Derived terms: intracapsularly
Related terms: capsule
placify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: placifies
form: placifying
form: placified
form: placified
Etymology: Compare pacify, placid, placate.
Senses: glosses: To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid.
examples: text: According to the last accounts from Cattaro, all the southern districts have been placified
ref: 1869, “Foreign and Colonial News: Austro-Hungary”, in The Illustrated London News, page 582:
text: The present writer has seen two letters of Bishop Wilberforce to Archbishop Longley, one speaking very severely of the Bishop of Cape Town's overbearing; the other chuckling at having ‘placified’ him, though pacifying, he thought, was out of any man's reach.
ref: 1883 February 24, “Archbishop Tait”, in The Scottish Review, page 228:
text: and of course seeing the legions of the male massing more and more against me did not tend to placify the combatious little soul,
ref: 1929, Alan Patrick Herbert, Topsy, M.P., page 144:
text: The money was meant to placify Sean and keep him from going forward with pressing charges or putting together a lawsuit against his attackers.
ref: 2017, Aaron Goff, Ruppert, Roids & Rings, page 302:
glosses: To calm (someone), to pacify.
placifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of placify
placifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of placify
placified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of placify
acroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Senses: examples: text: Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
antonyms: basiscopic
glosses: Toward or facing the apex.
basiscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Senses: examples: text: In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Toward or facing the base; away from the apex.
obpyriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪɹɪfɔː(ɹ)m
Etymology: From ob- + pyriform.
Senses: examples: text: On fertilization, the archegonia form obyriform calyptrae that are distinctly narrowed at base to form a stalk or peduncle; this does not occur in other Hepaticae.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a shape that is in outline like that of a pear, with the base at the narrower end.
Related terms: pyriform
on the radar
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: After the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, space exploration was on the radar of many Americans who had ignored it earlier.
glosses: Likely to happen, or be important in the near future or tending to attract attention.
bistratose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + stratose.
Senses: examples: text: The capsule in both families is spherical, with a bistratose wall; the outer cell layer usually bears nodular thickenings[…]; the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts[…]
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Composed of two cell layers.
Coordinate terms: unistratose
semiannular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + annular.
Senses: examples: text: The capsule in both families is spherical, with a bistratose wall; the outer cell layer usually bears nodular thickenings[…]; the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts[…]
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Having a shape resembling part of a ring or incomplete circular band.
Related terms: annular
leafy liverwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafy liverworts
Senses: examples: text: […]the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts[…]
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Any of numerous species of liverwort plant belonging to the order Jungermanniales.
leafy liverworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leafy liverwort
generalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From general + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being general, of having wide applicability.
merrymake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: merrymakes
form: merrymaking
form: merrymade
form: merrymade
Etymology: From make merry.
Senses: glosses: To make merry, have fun, celebrate.
merrymake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merrymakes
Etymology: From make merry.
Senses: examples: text: when he saw her toy, and gibe, and geare, / And passe the bonds of modest merimake, / Her dalliance he despisd, and follies did forsake.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Merry-making, celebration, festivity.
dismail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dismails
form: dismailing
form: dismailed
form: dismailed
Etymology: From Old French desmailler.
Senses: examples: text: Their mightie ſtrokes their haberieons diſmayld, / And naked made each others manly ſpalles; […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30, page 265:
glosses: To remove the chainmail or armour from (someone).
jambeau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæm.boʊ/
Forms: form: jambeaus
form: jambeaux
form: giambeu
Etymology: From Middle English iambeau(s) (compare jamber), from an Anglo-Norman [Term?] derivative of Old French jambe (“leg”): compare Old French jambiere. See jamb (noun). Compare lamboy(s).
Senses: examples: text: The mortall steele despiteously entayld / Deepe in their flesh, quite through the yron walles, / That a large purple streme adown their giambeux falles.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
text: [He suspected] a chink in his hinder jambeau, for there was a trickling at the back of his leg, although he felt no pain.
ref: 1984, Julian May, The Nonborn King ; The Adversary, page 200:
text: Jambeaus and sollerets hung loose from his shaky ankles. Cuisses and brassards were bashed as by countless bludgeons. Under a shirt of chain mail, the man's chest was caved in and panting.
ref: 2001, J. Robert King, Mad Merlin, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 39:
text: After all, a knight is not a knight without his jambeaus and sollerets, […]
ref: 2010, Harold Bloom, Ray Bradbury, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 27:
text: A cuish, knee piece, and jambeau protected their legs. All the armor was hammered out to favor scales […]
ref: 2011, Thomas Everill, Chamber of the Dragon's Soul: Awakenings, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 80:
synonyms: jamber
jamb
jambe
jambart
glosses: A piece of armour for the leg (especially below the knee), a greave.
examples: text: Spotted spikefishes and jambeaus are diamond shaped, about as long as they are high, with the greatest depth occurring at the tips of the stout first dorsal and anal spines, near the midbody. The small caudal fin is broadly rounded.
ref: 2016, David B. Snyder, George H. Burgess, Marine Fishes of Florida, Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM, →ISBN:
glosses: Any of the spikefishes of the genus Parahollardia.
jambeaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jambeau
tway
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /tweɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English tweye, from Old English twēġe, reduced form of twēġen (“twain”). Doublet of swy.
Senses: examples: text: Guyons angry blade so fierce did play
 On th'others helmet, which as Titan shone,
 That quite it cloue his plumed crest in tway,
 And bared all his head vnto the bone […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Two.
raw_tags: in virtually all other forms
scarmoge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarmoges
Senses: examples: text: Such cruell game my scarmoges disarmes: / Another warre, and other weapons I / Doe loue […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of skirmish.
debateful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈbeɪtfəɫ]
Forms: form: more debateful
form: most debateful
Etymology: From debate + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Debatefull strife, and cruell enmitie / The famous name of knighthood fowly shend [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Contentious, argumentative, full of strife.
arming sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arming swords
Senses: examples: text: Lo, to that shore one in an auncient gowne, / Whose hoarie locks great grauitie did crowne, / Holding in hand a goodly arming sword, / By fortune came [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A sword seen as a being a part of someone's set of arms or military accoutrements; a warrior's regimental or official sword.
arming swords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arming sword
bisalkene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisalkenes
Etymology: From bis- + alkene.
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
In the case of cavity bisalkene 75, a single isomer was obtained with two equivalents of isobenzofuran 72, each reacting stereospecifically with a cyclobutene-1,2-diester group to produce the symmetrical product 76.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, especially a symmetric dimer, containing two alkene groups
bisaziridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisaziridines
form: bis-aziridine
Etymology: From bis- + aziridine.
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
We have shown that the norbornene π-bonds in 77 reacted with azides to produce a diastereomeric pair of 2:1 adducts 79 that were converted photochemically to a single bisaziridine 80.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound containing two aziridine rings
Large Münsterländers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Large Münsterländer
synaptase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synaptases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συναπτός (sunaptós, “joined together, continuous”) + -ase.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Emulsin.
emulsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emulsins
form: emulsine
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixture of enzymes, extracted from bitter almonds, once used to hydrolyze glucosides.
constantan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constantans
Senses: glosses: An alloy of copper and nickel whose resistivity is constant over a wide temperature range.
Synonyms: eureka
cotidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: co-tidal
Etymology: From co- + tidal.
Senses: glosses: Describing the locations (and of related lines on a chart) linking places where tides occur at the same time of day
Derived terms: intercotidal
Jerusalem crickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jerusalem cricket
Jerusalem crickets
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: gosh; wow; expressing astonishment.
potato bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potato bug
coxalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coxalgias
form: coxalgy
Etymology: From coxa + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: pain in the hip
Derived terms: coxalgic
pseudocoxalgia
coxite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coxites
Etymology: From coxa + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of lamellate structures on the underside of each abdominal segment in certain insects.
Derived terms: colpocoxite
gonocoxite
paracoxite
coxitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coxitides
Etymology: Latin coxa + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the hip joint.
covetise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌvɪtaɪz/
Etymology: From Old French coveitise.
Senses: examples: text: Strife; and debate, bloudshed, and bitternesse,
 Outrageous wrong, and hellish couetize,
 That noble heart as great dishonour doth despize.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Covetousness; excessive desire for something, especially for acquiring wealth.
Niçoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Niçoises
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Niçoise salad.
Related terms: Niçoise olive
Niçoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Niçoise
surplusage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surplusages
Etymology: From Medieval Latin surplusagium, from surplus.
Senses: examples: text: If then thee list my offred grace to vse, / Take what thou please of all this surplusage; / If thee list not, leaue haue thou to refuse […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.
ref: 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation:
glosses: A surplus; a superabundance.
topics: law
glosses: Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and may be rejected.
examples: text: 1802–1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature
one third-part of the surplusage of the estate of any person dying intetate, hall be distributed to his widow,and the reidue amongt his children by equal portions
topics: business
finance
glosses: A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to.
balnicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A measure of how much a quasar resembles a standard "broad absorption line" quasar
Derived terms: balnicity index
Related terms: BAL
reest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reests
form: reesting
form: reested
form: reested
form: reist
Senses: examples: text: Gay Garland had carried my father over long to reest with him at the hinderend.
ref: 1895, S. R. Crockett, The Men of the Moss-Hags:
glosses: Alternative form of rest (“to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish); (of a horse) to stop or refuse to go, balk”).
Related terms: reesty
schene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schenes
form: schoene
form: schœne
Etymology: From Latin schoenus, from Ancient Greek σχοῖνος (skhoînos, “a rush, a reed, a land measure”).
Senses: examples: text: Herodotus has fixed the measure of the schene, in Lower Egypt, at four miles, or a league and a quarter.
ref: 1786, Mr. Savary, “Letters on Egypt”, in The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 62, page 440:
text: With regard to the extent of this lake, we recur again to the testimonies above cited: Herodotus says, that the circumference of the lake Mœris was 3600 stadia, or sixty schenes, which, says the historian, form the dimensions of the maritime base of Egypt, (seventy-five leagues.)
ref: 1817, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, volume 15:
text: We embarked, we parted; we were not long in arriving at the north of Coptos, the distance of a schene.
ref: 1917, Charles Francis Horne, The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, volume 2:
glosses: An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.
night-raven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night-ravens
Senses: examples: text: sad Horrour with grim hew, / Did alwayes sore, beating his yron wings; / And after him Owles and Night-rauens flew, / The hatefull messengers of heauy things [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Cursed creatures, messengers of death, possess the world. / Night-ravens, screech-owls, and voice-killing mandrakes […].
ref: 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, IV.4:
text: Omens thicken upon us, O Gro. First, the night raven that went widdershins round about the palace of Carcë, that night when the King accepted this challenge, and we were all drunken with wine after our great feasting and surfeiting in his halls.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: A bird active at night, sometimes identified with a specific species such as a night owl or nightjar, and sometimes seen as a separate animal in its own right.
Related terms: Nycticorax
lenticula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lenticulas
form: lenticulae
Etymology: From Latin lenticula. See lenticel. Doublet of lentil.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.
glosses: A small lens.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A lenticel.
Lens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Hainaut, Belgium.
glosses: A commune in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A municipality in Valais canton, Switzerland.
eigenpairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenpair
lenticel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛntɪsɛl/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈlɛntəsɛl/
Forms: form: lenticels
form: lenticella
form: lenticelle
Etymology: From New Latin lenticella, diminutive of Latin lēns (“lentil”); compare French lenticelle.
Senses: examples: text: He raises his binocular telescope, bringing the birches near the shoreline into sharp relief, the eye-shaped lenticels in the pale bark seeming to stare back at him, as if following the train’s progress.
ref: 2024, Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, page 89:
glosses: One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.
glosses: A small, lens-shaped gland on the underside of some leaves.
Derived terms: lenticellate
lenticels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lenticel
electrodermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + dermal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the electrical properties of skin
Derived terms: electrodermally
geoelectrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + electrical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geoelectricity
Derived terms: geoelectrically
gyrokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gyro- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to gyrokinetics.
gyrokinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gyro- + kinetics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The branch of physics concerned with the helical flow of particles in the magnetic field of a plasma
isobaricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From isobaric + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being isobaric.
messin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: messins
Senses: glosses: A mongrel dog; a cur.
Related terms: mastiff
learnability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: learnabilities
Etymology: From learn + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being learnable.
glosses: The ease with which something can be learned.
Derived terms: unlearnability
noncovariant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + covariant.
Senses: glosses: Not covariant.
nonideality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonidealities
Etymology: From non- + ideality.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonideal
overluminosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overluminosities
Etymology: From over- + luminosity.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being overluminous
nonidealities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonideality
overluminosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overluminosity
predeposited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + deposited.
Senses: glosses: deposited in advance
vicissitudinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vicissitudinary
form: most vicissitudinary
Etymology: From vicissitude + -in- + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: We say the elements of man are misery and happiness, as though he had an equal proportion of both, and the days of man vicissitudinary, as though he had as many good days as ill ...
ref: 1624, John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (XIII. Meditation. Project Gutenberg)
glosses: pertaining to change, alteration, or mutation.
Synonyms: vicissitudinous
psychophysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psychophysiological
form: most psychophysiological
Etymology: From psycho- + physiological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to psychophysiology
psychophysiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + physiology.
Senses: hypernyms: physiology
<
science
coordinate_terms: neurophysiology
glosses: The branch of physiology that deals with the interaction of the mind and physiological processes.
Related terms: physiopsychological
psychopharmacology
undercoordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undercoordinated
form: most undercoordinated
Etymology: From under- + coordinated.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently coordinated
undercoordination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercoordinations
Etymology: From under- + coordination.
Senses: glosses: An insufficient level of coordination
roge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roges
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rogue.
tranquillise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tranquillises
form: tranquillising
form: tranquillised
form: tranquillised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tranquilize.
enlumine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enlumines
form: enlumining
form: enlumined
form: enlumined
Etymology: From Old French enluminer.
Senses: examples: text: Ne is that ſame great glorious lampe of light, / That doth enlumine all theſe leſſer fyres, / In better caſe, […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 185:
glosses: To illumine; to light up.
enlumines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enlumine
bant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ænt
Forms: form: bants
form: banting
form: banted
form: banted
Etymology: Back-formation from banting.
Senses: examples: text: If he is […] gouty, obese, and nervous, we strongly recommend him to ‘bant.’
ref: 1865 June 12, Pall Mall Gazette:
text: ‘I'm so sorry,’ she cried, jumping up. ‘I shall have to bant if I can't break myself of this habit of sitting on gentlemen's knees.’
ref: 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 70, in Of Human Bondage:
text: ‘I have certainly never banted for the sake of a woman,’ I said jokingly.
ref: 1969, Graham Greene, chapter 7, in Travels with my Aunt:
glosses: To regulate what one eats according to the precepts of William Banting; to go on a diet.
bant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ænt
Etymology: Clipping of banter.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of banter.
Related terms: banting
hornify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hornifies
form: hornifying
form: hornified
form: hornified
Etymology: From horny + -fy and/or horn + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: We see in Figure 8 that the hornified cuticle runs continuously over the cementum […]
ref: 1930, The Journal of the American Dental Association: Volume 17:
glosses: To make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden.
examples: text: The air and the water hornified him. Then he met her. The sun was making her horny, and the sunset got her horny, and the moon, and the trees and the birds, they all got her horny[…]
ref: 2005, Jeff Harris, Fay and Eddy, page 88:
glosses: To make horny; to excite sexually; to arouse.
examples: text: My Wife has hornified me.
ref: c. 1608–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, “Four Playes, or Morall Representations, in One”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC:
glosses: To horn; to cuckold.
hornifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hornify
hornifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hornify
hornified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hornify
overspan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈspæn/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈspæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: overspans
form: overspanning
form: overspanned
form: overspanned
Etymology: From over- + span.
Senses: examples: text: The place for the fuel is carried up ſtrait on both ſides, till about three feet high ; then they almoſt fill it with wood, and over that lay a covering of ſea-coal, and then overſpan the arch[…]
ref: 1763, “The method of burning Bricks”, in A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 2nd edition, volume I, London: W. Owen, page 379:
text: If we look at the geographical position, which the great world-powers (England, Russia, and France) occupy on the surface of the globe, we shall perceive that the actual Russian territories in Europe, Asia, and America, overspan, like an arch, all the civilised countries of Europe, and the vast territories of Tartary and China—descending moreover, like the shoot of a root, from the shores of the Caspian and Aral seas towards the Indian Empire.
ref: 1855, Ernst Georg Ravenstein, “Sitka, and the Russian Territories in America”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume XXXVIII, London: Richard Bentley, page 584:
text: The majestic proportions of this bridge may be partly realized by a few comparisons. […] This bridge would overspan the Capitol at Washington and clear the top of the dome by 51 feet.
ref: 1912, W. W. Dyar, “The Colossal Bridges of Utah”, in The Century Magazine, volume 46, page 510, quoted in Seventeenth Annual Report, 1912, of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, page 260:
glosses: To reach or extend over.
glitterand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Soone as thoſe glitterand armes he did eſpye, / That vvith their brightneſſe made that darknes light, / His harmefull club he gan to hurtle hye, / And threaten batteill to the Faery knight; […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42, page 283:
glosses: Obsolete form of glittering.
weve
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of we've.
shright
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English, preterite of shritch.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shritch
shright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrights
Etymology: From Middle English, preterite of shritch.
Senses: examples: text: cruell Sprights, / That with their pitteous cryes, and yelling shrights, / They made the further shore resounden wide [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A shriek or shrieking; sobbing.
Kemi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Kemi.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Lapland, Finland, near the border with Sweden.
glosses: A river in Lapland, in northern Finland, with its mouth at the town of Kemi.
throughly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹuːli/
Forms: form: more throughly
form: most throughly
form: thruly
Etymology: From through + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The next advantage / Will we take throughly.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 51:2:
glosses: Thoroughly, completely.
forby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈbʌɪ/
Forms: form: more forby
form: most forby
form: foreby
form: forbye
Etymology: From Middle English forby, forbi, of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, equivalent to fore- + by. Compare Saterland Frisian foarbie (“beyond, past”), West Frisian foarby (“over, beyond, past”), Dutch voorbij (“beyond, past”), Low German vörbi, vörbie (“over, up, gone, finished, past”), German vorbei (“over, gone, past”), Danish forbi, Swedish förbi. More at fore, by.
Senses: examples: text: He's a forbye man.
glosses: Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.
Derived terms: forbyland
forby
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈbʌɪ/
Forms: form: more forby
form: most forby
form: foreby
form: forbye
Etymology: From Middle English forby, forbi, of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, equivalent to fore- + by. Compare Saterland Frisian foarbie (“beyond, past”), West Frisian foarby (“over, beyond, past”), Dutch voorbij (“beyond, past”), Low German vörbi, vörbie (“over, up, gone, finished, past”), German vorbei (“over, gone, past”), Danish forbi, Swedish förbi. More at fore, by.
Senses: examples: text: To see the world and folk that went forby, […]
ref: 1899, Richard Garnett, Alois Leonhard Brandl, The universal anthology:
glosses: Past; by; beyond.
examples: text: He was forby kind.
glosses: Uncommonly; exceptionally.
forby
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈbʌɪ/
Forms: form: foreby
form: forbye
Etymology: From Middle English forby, forbi, of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, equivalent to fore- + by. Compare Saterland Frisian foarbie (“beyond, past”), West Frisian foarby (“over, beyond, past”), Dutch voorbij (“beyond, past”), Low German vörbi, vörbie (“over, up, gone, finished, past”), German vorbei (“over, gone, past”), Danish forbi, Swedish förbi. More at fore, by.
Senses: glosses: Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.
glosses: Past; gone by; over.
raw_tags: of time
examples: text: Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old / Who meeting earst with Archimago slie, / Foreby that idle strond, of him were told, / That he, wich earst them combatted, was Guyon bold.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Near; beside; by, close to.
glosses: On one side; out of the way.
examples: text: There was other six forby me.
text: [T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter [VI], in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 133:
english: They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
translation: They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
bold_translation_offsets: 102
107
text: "Put on your dress, ye shameless witch, standin' there in your pelt I'll take a strap to, for havin' the conceit out of you, forby your idling had lost me the sup of gin to keep the breath of life in me."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 173:
glosses: Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention.
glosses: With the exception of; not taking into account.
Synonyms: sense: near
word: next to
sense: besides
word: beyond
word: on top of
word: in addition to
sense: with the exception of;
word: barring
word: except for
word: save for
word: except
overshorten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ō'vər.shôrʹtən
ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈʃɔː.tən/
enpr: ō'vər.shôrʹtən
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃɔɹ.tən/
Forms: form: overshortens
form: overshortening
form: overshortened
form: overshortened
Etymology: From over- + shorten.
Senses: examples: text: This plant has only a certain capacity for daylight, and to overshorten the nights would injure it.
ref: 1936, Harold Vincent Marrot, editor, The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy, 2nd revised edition, Heinemann, page 696:
glosses: To shorten too much; make excessively or inappropriately short.
marriage certificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marriage certificates
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An official record indicating that two individuals were legally married on the date of the certificate.
marriage certificates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marriage certificate
meadwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medæwart
Etymology: From Middle English medewort, from Old English medewyrt, medowyrt, corresponding to mead + wort. Cognate with Norwegian mjødurt, Danish mjødurt.
Senses: examples: text: The metall first he mixt with Medæwart, / That no enchauntment from his dint might saue; / That it in flames of Aetna wrought apart, / And seuen times dipped in the bitter waue / Of hellish Styx, which hidden vertue to it gaue.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground.
stomachous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stomachous
form: most stomachous
Etymology: From Latin stomachōsus, from stomachus (“stomach”). By surface analysis, stomach (“irritation; malice, ill-will, spite; vexation”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 297:
glosses: Bitter, resentful.
fellness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fell + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For very felnesse lowd he gan to weepe, / And said, Caytiue, cursse on thy cruell hond [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The state or quality of being fell; awfulness, horror, cruelty.
bispiraled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + spiraled.
Senses: examples: text: In all of the Jubulaceae there is normally a single spiral (this is also normally the case in Lejeuneaceae, but in some forms the spiral may be lost, while a few forms may have occasional bispiraled elaters).
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Possessing two spirals or helices.
Related terms: spiral
thromboendoarterioectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thrŏm'bōĕn'dōärtî'rĭōĕkʹtəmĭ
ipa: /ˌθɹɒmbəʊˌɛndəʊɑːˌtɪəɹɪəʊˈɛktəmɪ/
rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Etymology: Formed as thrombo- + endo- + arteri- + -o- + -ectomy; compare the better-formed thrombendarteriectomy and see thrombendarteriectomy.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy.
thromb-endarterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Cate, WR, Scott, HW: Cerebral ischemia of central origin: Relief by subclavian vertebral artery thromb-endarterectomy. Surgery, 45:19, 1959.
ref: 1979, Mircea A. Morariu, Major Neurological Syndromes, Thomas, →ISBN, page 132, →ISBN:
glosses: Etymologically incorrect rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy.
burgonet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝ.ɡəˌnɛt/
ipa: /ˌbɝ.ɡəˈnɛt/
ipa: /ˈbɜː.ɡəˌnɛt/
ipa: /ˌbɜː.ɡəˈnɛt/
Forms: form: burgonets
Etymology: From Old French bourguignotte (modern bourguignote), from Bourgogne (“Burgundy”), perhaps influenced by Middle English burgon (“Burgundian”).
Senses: examples: text: He stroke so hugely with his borrowd blade, / That it empierst the Pagans burganet, / And cleauing the hard steele, did deepe inuade / Into his head […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A light helmet worn by infantrymen, bearing a crest and hinged cheekpieces, but typically without a visor.
Derived terms: sense: close burgonet
word: a similar helmet
sense: close burgonet
word: but with a visor
thrombendoarterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) … in pulmonary thrombendoarterectomy, 232
ref: 2002, Joseph E. Arrowsmith, John Simpson, editors, Problems in Anesthesia: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 305, →ISBN:
glosses: Etymologically incorrect rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy.
thrombo-end-arterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thrombo-end-arterectomy was made in 5 instances and by-pass in 4.
ref: 1982: Nordisk Kirurgisk Förening, Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica, volume 148, page 135 (self-published; Almqvist & Wiksell [distrib.])
text: Wylie, E.J., Kerr, E. and Davies, O. (1951). Experimental and clinical experiences with use of fascia lata applied as a graft about major arteries after thrombo-end-arterectomy and aneurysmorrhaphy. Surg. Gynecol. Obstet., 93, 257–72
ref: 1994, Louis J. Acierno, The History of Cardiology, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 677, →ISBN:
glosses: Etymologically incorrect rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy.
thrombo-endoarterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II).
ref: 1989, Antonio Strano, Salvatore Novo, editors, Advances in Vascular Pathology 1989: Proceedings of the 15th World Congress of the International Union of Angiology, Rome, 17–22 September 1989, volume 1, Excerpta Medica, →ISBN, page 483, →ISBN:
glosses: Etymologically incorrect rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy.
in the long term
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: antonyms: in the short term
glosses: After a very long time; eventually; over a long period of time; more generally.
Synonyms: in the long run
thromboendo-arterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Vercellio G, Coletti M, Agrifoglio G (1986) Semiclosed thromboendo-arterectomy on femoro-popliteal tract revised after a fourteen years experience on 595 cases. Int Surgery 71: 59–61
ref: 2000, Marcello Monti, L’ulcera cutanea: Approccio multidisciplinare alla diagnosi ed al trattamento, [The skin ulcer: A multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment], (Springer, →ISBN, page 496, →ISBN:
glosses: Etymologically incorrect rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy.
bittur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitturs
Senses: examples: text: For as a Bittur in the Eagles claw, / That may not hope by flight to scape aliue, / Still waites for death with dread and trembling aw; / So he now subiect to the victours law, / Did not once moue […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of bittern.
thromboendoarterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thromboendoarterectomies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thrombendarteriectomy.
thromboendarterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thromboendarterectomies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thrombendarteriectomy.
thrombo-endarterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombo-endarterectomies
Senses: glosses: Etymologically incorrect spelling of thrombendarteriectomy
eigensolvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigensolver
thrombo-endo-arteriectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thrombo- + endo- + arteriectomy.
Senses: examples: text: Thrombo-endo-arteriectomy (TEA) 10% is especially indicated for the correction of segmental blockades.
ref: 1980: Excerpta Medica, section 9, “Surgery”, volume 43, page 300
glosses: Rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy.
unperjured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + perjured.
Senses: examples: text: The evidence of an inaccurate, but decidedly unperjured witness whom we know thoroughly is worth much more than even voluminous testimony of unknown writers […]
ref: 1887, The Athenaeum, Part 2:
text: […] who would swear that the oath he had sworn was clear and unperjured.
ref: 1917, Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth, Modern American law:
glosses: Not belied by perjury; genuine, honest.