cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ricinolein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ricinoleins
Etymology: From Latin ricinus (“castor-oil plant”) + oleum (“oil”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The glyceride of ricinoleic acid, present in castor oil.
ricinoleins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ricinolein
patamar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patamars
form: patimar
form: pattamar
form: pattemar
form: pattimar
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese patamar.
Senses: examples: text: In may 1831, I proceeded from Bombay to Panoovellee in a small Patamar, I sailed in the afternoon and arrived there before day break, I paid for the whole Patamar five Rupees, but a boat usually sails every day from Bombay to Panoovellee at the cost of a quarter of a Rupee for each person, […]
ref: 1832, David D'Beth Hillel, The Travels of Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel: From Jerusalem, Through Arabia, Koordistan, Part of Persia, and India to Madras, page 138:
topics: nautical
transport
hypernyms: dhow
glosses: A sailing vessel resembling a grab, formerly used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
glosses: A courier or messenger travelling on foot.
patamars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patamar
disnatured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disnatured
form: most disnatured
Etymology: From dis- + natured + -ed: compare Old French desnaturé, French dénaturé.
Senses: examples: text: Create her child of spleen, that it may live
And be a thwart disnatured torment to her
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
text: I am not so disnatured a man, Or so ill borne to disesteem her love.
ref: 1614, Samuel Daniel, Hymen's Triumph:
text: Can the stern mother, than the brutes more From her disnatured breast tear her young child, Flesh of her fles , and of her bone the bone, And dash the smiling babe against a stone?
ref: 1764, Charles Churchill, Gotham:
text: Faust, of course, and Mephistopheles, and even Wagner, peering with glittering eye through the smoke of his alchymical kitchen, are the same creatures of flesh and blood that we were made acquainted with in part one; only all perhaps a little enfeebled in character; Mephistopheles a little more of the conjuror, and a little less of the Devil; Faust much less of a thinker, and not a whit less of a sensualist; Wagner much less modest, and much more besotted in the disnatured studies and fanciful operations of his chemical kitchen.
ref: 1880, John Stuart Blackie, “Preliminary Remarks”, in Faust; A Tragedy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), page 73:
glosses: Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural.
disnatured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From dis- + natured + -ed: compare Old French desnaturé, French dénaturé.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disnature
barratrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barratrous
form: most barratrous
Etymology: From barratry + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: barratrous act
text: barratrous agreement
text: barratrous breach
topics: law
glosses: Tainted with, or constituting, barratry.
Related terms: barratrously
oppugnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɒpʌɡˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: oppugnations
Etymology: Latin oppugnātiō: compare Old French oppugnation.
Senses: examples: text: Then I saw another mighty and glorious messenger of God, who, for the more speed of delivery and safety from all oppugnation, flew with the message of that true and sincere Gospel of Christ which had been long suppressed and opposed by men […]
ref: 1633, Joseph Hall, A paraphrase upon the hard texts of Scripture:
glosses: opposition
oppugnations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oppugnation
medicommissure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medicommissures
Etymology: Latin medius (“middle”) + English commissure.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: intermediate mass
middle commissure
glosses: The interthalamic adhesion
medicommissures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medicommissure
amenorrhoeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amenorrhoea
amenorrheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Amenorrheal patients who respond to progestational agents with withdrawal bleeding are at a greater risk than hypoestrogenic amenorrheal women, and these should be treated more conservatively and monitored more closely.
ref: 2012, Thomas Rabe, Klaus Diedrich, Benno Runnebaum, Manual on Assisted Reproduction:
glosses: Alternative spelling of amenorrhoeal.
amenorrhoeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: amenorrheal
Etymology: From amenorrhoea + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to amenorrhoea.
glosses: Affected by amenorrhoea
duressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duressors
Etymology: From duress + -or.
Senses: examples: text: if you will deliver me that piece of plate , now the duress is discharged ; and yet if it had been moved from the duressor , who had said at the first you shall take this peece of Plate , and make me a bond[…]
ref: 1596, Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law:
topics: law
glosses: Someone who subjects another to duress.
duressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duressor
adustible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈdʌstɪbəl/
Forms: form: more adustible
form: most adustible
Etymology: From adust + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being burned; combustible.
sesspool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesspools
Etymology: From English dialect suss (“hogwash”), soss (“a dirty mess, a puddle”) + pool (“a puddle”). According to the OED, the first element is from earlier suspiral (“water pipe, setting tank”).
Compare Goidelic ses (“a coarse mess”), English cess (“the boggy foreshore of a tidal river”).
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cesspool.
sesspools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sesspool
extemporanean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extemporanean
form: most extemporanean
Senses: examples: text: And for those other faults of barbarism, Doric dialect, extemporanean style, ... I confess all ('tis partly affected), thou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: extemporaneous
ingate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.ɡeɪt/
Forms: form: ingates
Etymology: From in + gate.
Senses: examples: text: […] which hath in charge the ingate of the yeare.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 12:
glosses: entrance; ingress
glosses: The aperture in a mould for pouring in the metal; the gate.
ingates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingate
pseudohypertrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + hypertrophic.
Senses: examples: text: In pseudohypertrophic paralysis, the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: of or related to pseudohypertrophy.
exuperance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exuperances
Etymology: From Latin exuperantia, exsuperantia.
Senses: examples: text: The exuperance of the density of A to water is 10 degrees , but the exuperance of B unto the same water , is 100 degrees
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
glosses: superiority; superfluity
Related terms: exuperant
exuperate
exuperances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exuperance
antiphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiphones
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of antiphon.
synonyms: word: antiphon
antiphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiphone
bevelment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bevelments
Etymology: From bevel + -ment.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
bevelments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bevelment
bromuret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromurets
Etymology: From bromine + -uret.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bromide.
bromurets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromuret
domesticant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domesticants
Senses: topics: anthropology
biology
botany
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A domesticated animal or plant.
domesticants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domesticant
domesticability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domesticabilities
Senses: glosses: The ability to be domesticated.
revirescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹi.vaɪˈɹɛ.səns/
/ɹi.vəˈɹɛ.səns/
Etymology: From Latin revirescens, present participle of revirescere (“to grow green again”).
Senses: glosses: A growing green or fresh again
synonyms: rejuvenation
glosses: renewal of youth or vigour.
Related terms: revirescent
terraculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin terra (“the earth”) + cultura.
Senses: glosses: cultivation of the earth; agriculture
Related terms: terracultural
relatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relatrix
relatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relatrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin relātrīx. By surface analysis, relator + -trix.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A female relator.
subterete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + terete.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat terete.
aftergrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftergrasses
Etymology: From after- + grass.
Senses: examples: text: For the ordinarie times of foddring your fat cattell […] if they féede abroad, and take the benefit of Foggs and after-grasse, then to fodder them Morning, Euening, and high-noone is fully sufficient.
ref: 1614, G[ervase] M[arkham], chapter VII, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman. […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Contayning the Ordering of All Sorts of Woods, […]), page 99:
text: This recess, towards the close of September, when the after-grass of the meadows is still of a fresh green, with the leaves of many of the trees faded, but perhaps none fallen, is truly enchanting.
ref: 1820, William Wordsworth, “The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets. Notes. Sonnet XVII.”, in The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia; and Other Poems. […], London: […] [Andrew and Robert Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, […], →OCLC, pages 44–45:
text: The cool silk of aftergrass under her bare feet
ref: 1974, John McGahern, The Leavetaking, Boston: Little, Brown, part 1, page 68:
synonyms: aftermath
eddish
fog#Etymology_2
after-eatage
glosses: The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown.
Related terms: aftercrop
afterfeed
aftergrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftergrass
androphagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From andro- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: Inclined to eat human flesh; man-eating.
Synonyms: anthropophagous
mesoseme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “sign, mark”). Compare French mésosème.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a medium orbital index, between megaseme and microseme.
tined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tine + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a three-tined fork
text: And the Gray Men, with their eyes fixed upon their master, nodded all their hundred heads and put their hands upon the dangerous three-tined forks that were stuck in every one of the hundred belts.
ref: 1903, L. Frank Baum, The Enchanted Island of Yew:
glosses: Furnished with tines.
tined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From tine + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tine
phonetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phonetizes
form: phonetizing
form: phonetized
form: phonetized
Senses: examples: text: I find a goodly number of Yankeeisms in him, such as idee (not as a rhyme); but the oddest is his twice spelling dew deow, which is just as one would spell it who wished to phonetize its sound in rural New England.
ref: 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Spenser”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, footnote *, page 195:
glosses: To represent (something) by phonetic signs.
phonetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phonetize
phonetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phonetize
phonetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phonetize
pharyngotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharyngotomes
Etymology: From pharyngo- + -tome.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An instrument for incising or scarifying the tonsils, etc.
Related terms: pharyngotomy
pharyngotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharyngotome
spleuchan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spleuchans
form: speuchan
form: spleughan
Etymology: From Goidelic/Scottish Gaelic spliuchan.
Senses: examples: text: But I was saying, there’s some siller in the spleuchan that’s like the Captain’s ain, for we’ve aye counted it such, baith Ailie and me.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: 'I wadna hae been in his skin for the best har'st fee that ever was paid into a Lowlander's purse or a Highlander's spleuchan.'
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 1, page 34:
glosses: A pouch, especially for tobacco or money.
spleuchans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spleuchan
wistonwish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wistonwishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wishtonwish.
wistonwishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wistonwish
takoyaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: takoyaki
form: takoyakis
Etymology: From Japanese 蛸焼き (takoyaki).
Senses: examples: text: There is fresh fish and lotus root and an abundance of other options, such as dumplings (four for 50 pesos) or Japanese takoyakis, fried octopus balls (six for 100 pesos).
ref: 2020 January 2, Concepción de León, “36 Hours in Santo Domingo”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2020:
text: Remove the takoyaki to a platter and use any leftover batter and fillings to cook additional takoyaki. […] Takoyaki is best served right away — just be mindful that the insides are hot.
ref: 2024 January 10, Naz Deravian, “Takoyaki”, in New York Times Cooking, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2024:
glosses: A ball-shaped Japanese dumpling made of batter and filled with diced octopus, tempura scraps, pickled ginger, and green onion.
astrologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: astrologizes
form: astrologizing
form: astrologized
form: astrologized
Etymology: Probably from Middle French astrologiser;' equivalent to astrology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: you […] wander’d up and down Moor-fields Astrologizing upon the duration of His Majesties Government
ref: 1673, Andrew Marvell, The Rehearsal Transprosed, The Second Part, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 312:
text: She remained with Hermes for a long time, engaged in astrologizing or weaving spells:
ref: 1844, Richard Bedingfield, chapter 79, in The Peer and the Blacksmith, London: R. Thompson, page 466:
text: […] “That retrograde Saturn dragging your ass, man?”
“My ass is dragging because I need a beer,” said Weston.
“[…] A beer for my astrologizing friend. . . .”
ref: c. 1953, William S. Burroughs, chapter 6, in Queer, Penguin, published 1985, page 74:
synonyms: prognosticate
glosses: To study or practise astrology; to attempt to foretell the future using astrology.
examples: text: […] the physician must be watchful, and stethoscopists should be silent, that no depressing word may fall upon the patient’s ear. In truth they had better cease the old practice of astrologizing the patient altogether. […] If you prophesy the patient’s death, should he be laboring under some dubious affliction, he will most likely fulfil it, and prove you a truthful prophet.
ref: 1850, Andrew Jackson Davis, “What Is the Philosophy of Healing?”, in The Great Harmonia, volume 1, Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, pages 330–331:
text: Ever since I was astrologized, bad luck has followed me like my shadow,
ref: 1909, O. Henry, “Phœbe”, in Roads of Destiny, New York: Doubleday, Page, page 93:
text: Some sites give you readings, others tell you how to astrologize yourself.
ref: 2001, Gerry Maguire Thompson, The Mind-Body-Spirit Internet Guide, London: Thorsons, page 133:
glosses: To apply astrology to (someone or something).
To attempt to foretell the future of (someone) using astrology, to read or cast (someone's) horoscope.
examples: text: And where Gerson tried to theologize astrology, that is, to render astrology acceptable to theologians, our author essays rather to astrologize theology and make theologians accept astrology.
ref: 1934, Lynn Thorndike, chapter 50, in A History of Magic and Experimental Science, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, page 258:
text: The ancient gods had gradually come to be astrologized, and the planets had developed personalities […]
ref: 1979, Douglas Gray, chapter 5, in Robert Henryson, Leiden: Brill, page 181:
text: […] natural images of trees and birds tend either to be generalized or to smell of medieval oil, and the stars are thoroughly astrologised.
ref: 1984, George Wilson Knight, “The Duchess of Malfi”, in Harold Bloom, editor, Elizabethan Dramatists, New York: Chelsea House, published 1986, pages 104–105:
glosses: To apply astrology to (someone or something).
To make (something) astrological; to interpret (something) in the light of astrology.
astrologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of astrologize
astrologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of astrologize
astrologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of astrologize
simplician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simplicians
Etymology: Compare Old French simplicien.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the veriest simplicians are most lucky; the wisest politicians least.
ref: 1649, John Arnway, The Tablet or Moderation of Charles the First Martyr:
glosses: One who is simple; a simpleton.
simplicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simplician
incarnative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incarnative
form: most incarnative
Etymology: From Middle English incarnatif, incarnative, incarnatyf, incarnatyve, from Medieval Latin incarnātīvus.
Senses: glosses: Causing growth of new flesh i.e. healing or regenerative.
incarnative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incarnatives
Etymology: From Middle English incarnatif, incarnative, incarnatyf, incarnatyve, from Medieval Latin incarnātīvus.
Senses: glosses: Any incarnative medicine.
incarnatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incarnative
antidiet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidiet
form: most antidiet
Etymology: From anti- + diet.
Senses: glosses: Opposing dieting.
starcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starchers
Etymology: From starch + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that starches.
starchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starcher
camphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camphines
Etymology: From camphor + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Rectified oil of turpentine, once used for burning in oil lamps and as a solvent in varnishes.
arcubalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcubalists
Etymology: See arbalist.
Senses: examples: text: A Legionary Soldier appears on an ancient Seal endeavouring to bend the Arcubalist with his foot; but Dr. Meyrick does not think this sufficient to prove that it was the Stirrup Cross-bow […]
ref: 1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopædia of Antiquities:
glosses: A crossbow.
arcubalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arcubalist
commonition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commonitions
Etymology: From Latin commonitio. See monition.
Senses: examples: text: as they appertain to all succeeding ages, and to us, so they are a commonition, an alarm, to raise us from the sleep, and death of sin
ref: 17th C., John Donne, Sermon XC. Preached at the Churching of the Countess of Bridgewater:
text: Daryll Smoot's sermonizing didn't begin and end with nightly commonitions
ref: 2006, Paul Vela, Sealed With a Kiss:
glosses: advice, warning, or instruction.
commonitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commonition
crapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crapples
Etymology: See grapple.
Senses: glosses: A claw.
crapple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crapples
form: crappling
form: crappled
form: crappled
Etymology: See grapple.
crapples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crapple
Elvin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elvins
Etymology: Variant of Alvin.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
mib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mibs
Etymology: Perhaps a corruption of marble.
Senses: examples: text: On my first shot of the last game, I hit two mibs, my shooter and one marble exiting the ring, but leaving a snooger, which is a “commie rat” target marble near the rim of the ring.
ref: 2002, Norah L. Lewis, Freedom to Play: We Made Our Own Fun, page 114:
text: Thirteen five-eighths-inch marbles (“mibs”) are set in a cross in the center. Each mib should be three inches from its neighboring mib. Each player shoots with a “shooter,” a marble that's one-half to three-quarter inches in diameter.
ref: 2002 May, Sean McCollum, “For All the Marbles”, in Boys' Life, page 28:
text: He focused on the mib on the edge of the group inside the circle. The blue one was his favourite and he had it right where he wanted it.
ref: 2011, Sean Kelly, “At the Crossroads: A Teacher's Journey to Understanding Classroom Conflict”, in Peter Gouzouasis, editor, Pedagogy in a New Tonality, page 36:
topics: games
glosses: A marble (glass ball used in games), especially one used as a target.
Related terms: mibs
gambroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gambroons
Etymology: Probably related to gombroon.
Senses: glosses: A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining.
gambroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gambroon
amoret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæməɹɪt/
Forms: form: amorets
Etymology: From Middle English amorette, from Old French amorette, French amourette, diminutive of amour.
Senses: examples: text: While all around Spring's chearful influence own
You feel not, Amoret, her quickening fire
ref: 1746, Joseph Warton, Odes on Various Subjects:
glosses: An amorous girl or woman; a wanton.
glosses: A petty love affair.
glosses: A love knot, love token, or love song.
amorets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amoret
metatarse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metatarses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The metatarsus.
metatarses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metatarse
Thelemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Thelemically
form: most Thelemically
Etymology: From Thelemic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a Thelemic manner.
perigenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to perigenesis.
supinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supine + -ity, from Latin supinitas.
Senses: examples: text: The Supinity of elder dayes hath left so much in silence, or time hath so martyred the Records, that the most industrious heads do finde no easie work to erect a new Britannia.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, The Epistle:
text: 1769, Pierre Henri Treyssac de Vergy, The Mistakes of the Heart: or Memoirs of Lady Carolina Pelham and Lady Victoria Nevil, London: J. Murdoch, Volume 3, Letter 5, p. 41,
It was a mistake of my heart, a deceit of my imagination. Carolina, who ever thought it would at last prove so, often inveighed against my supinity, and advised me to listen to reason.—I never did […]
text: If the government bestows credit upon big financial institutions and then borrows it back it is certainly a manifestation of governmental supinity.
ref: 1922, Sterling P. King, chapter 9, in The Railways and the People, Boston: The Four Seas Company, page 169:
glosses: The quality of being supine; negligence; laziness; heedlessness.
spermospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermospores
Etymology: From spermo- + spore.
Senses: examples: 1880-1881, Francis Maitland Balfour, A Treatise on Comparative Embryology
The spermatozoa are formed either by the direct division of the spermospores into a number of cells , spermoblasts , each of which grows into a spermatozoon ; or by the nucleus of the spermospore becoming subdivided within the cell body
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids.
Synonyms: spermatospore
spermospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermospore
hersillon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hersillons
Etymology: From French herse (“a harrow”).
Senses: topics: fortification
fortifications
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable.
hersillons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hersillon
electrizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of electrize
electrized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electrized
form: most electrized
Senses: examples: text: Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .
ref: 1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205:
text: As experiments teach us that all bodies in nature upon being rubbed acquire one or the other of these two electricities, the following law is deduced […] That there is attraction between an electrized body and a body that is not so.
ref: 1860, Alfred Charles Garratt, Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics, page 23:
text: When an electrized body is presented to an insulated conducting body, signs of electricity are developed, even though the bodies are a greater or less distance apart .
ref: 1862, Thomas Rawson Birks, On Matter and Ether, Or The Secret Laws of Physical Change, page 149:
glosses: Electrically charged.
Derived terms: nonelectrized
unelectrized
electrized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electrize
blackband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackbands
Etymology: From black + band.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter, valuable as an iron ore.
blackbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackband
countercast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercasts
Senses: examples: text: So as they past together on their way,
He 'gan devise this Countercast of Slight
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A trick; a delusive contrivance.
countercasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercast
inlist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inlists
form: inlisting
form: inlisted
form: inlisted
Etymology: From in- + list.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of enlist.
inlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inlist
inlisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inlist
inlists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inlist
phytonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + -nomy; compare French phytonomie.
Senses: glosses: The science of the origin and growth of plants.
supramaxilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə
Forms: form: supramaxillae
Etymology: From supra- + maxilla.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: maxilla
qualifier: like fish
glosses: The upper jaw
raw_tags: of animals
supramaxillae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supramaxilla
rattinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattinets
Senses: glosses: A woollen material similar to, but thinner than, ratteen.
rattinets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rattinet
pimpship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pimp + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: From what bulk-ridden strumpet reeking home? Saving your reverend pimpship, where d'ye ply?
ref: 1682, John Oldham, A Satire […] :
glosses: The office, occupation, or person of a pimp.
seminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seminists
Etymology: From Latin sēmen (“seed”) + -ist.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A believer in the theory of seminism.
seminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seminist
gossiprede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gossipred
Etymology: Compare kindred.
Senses: glosses: sponsorship.
impoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impoons
Senses: glosses: The duykerbok.
impoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impoon
cavalierism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavalierisms
Etymology: From cavalier + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: wine and cavalierism predominated in his upper story
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The practice or principles of cavaliers; cavalier behaviour
cavalierisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavalierism
respersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respersions
Etymology: Latin respersio.
Senses: glosses: The act of sprinkling or scattering.
Related terms: resperse
respersions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of respersion
chubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chubbed
form: most chubbed
Etymology: From chub + -ed.
Senses: examples: 1765–70, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland
a chubbed unlucky boy about the age of lord Richard
glosses: chubby
cripply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cripply
form: most cripply
Etymology: From cripple + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When my mistress brought back the news of the little fellow's death, his poor mother, who was but a sickly, cripply sort of body, just broke her heart and died […]
ref: 1840, Frances Milton Trollope, The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy:
glosses: lame; disabled; crippled
circumterraneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + terraneous.
Senses: examples: H. Hallywell
circumterraneous demouns
glosses: Being or dwelling around the Earth.
miasmatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miasmatists
Etymology: From (the stem of) Ancient Greek μίασμα (míasma, “miasma”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Florence Nightingale, a staunch miasmatist who never came round to bacteria, thought temporary sheds would be safer and proposed radical redesign.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 362:
glosses: A supporter of the theory of miasmatism.
miasmatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miasmatist
superphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superphysical
form: most superphysical
Etymology: From super- + physical.
Senses: examples: text: We trace physics and chemistry to a certain point, but as we pursue the investigation we find something superphysical and superchemical, or else a physics and a chemistry far higher than any we yet know.
ref: 1895, Joseph LeConte, Sight: An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision:
glosses: Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.
sympodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sympodium
cerebroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cerebroid
form: most cerebroid
Etymology: From cerebrum + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The maturation of male gonocytes is inhibited, in all Nereidia, by a factor produced by the cerebroid ganglion; in certain species the maturation of female gonocytes undergoes a cerebral inhibition of the same type.
ref: 2012, Manfred Gabe, Peter Karlson, Jean Roche, “Hormones in Invertebrates”, in Marcel Florkin, editor, Comparative Biochemistry V6: A Comprehensive Treatise, page 259:
text: The picture shows sperical ooids and 'cerebroid' ooids ( arrow ) with cones. The origin of cerebroid Mg-calcite ooids has been related to dissolution and precipitation by bacteria ( Richter 1983).
ref: 2013, Erik Flügel, Microfacies of Carbonate Rocks:
glosses: Resembling, or analogous to, the cerebrum or brain.
cerebroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebroids
Etymology: From cerebrum + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The first cerebroid or capitis cerebroida, is composed of two hemispheres; from these arise, in perfect insects, several pairs of nerves;
ref: 1841, Edward Newman, A Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects, page 182:
text: The cerebroids communicate with each other across the median line .
ref: 1854, Albany Hancock, Dennis Embleton, “Summary of Observations on the Anatomy of Doris, a Nudibranchiate Mollusk”, in Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, page 125:
text: The cerebroid supplies nerves to the tentacles, mouth, and lips.
ref: 1871, Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate, A Manual of the Mollusca: A Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells:
glosses: A cerebroid ganglion.
examples: text: At this stage, of coures, the crew of cerebroids can be removed when the hardware becomes obsolete , and transferred to a different type of ship .
ref: 1974, Raymond Hawkey, Roger Bingham, Wild Card, page 132:
text: The notion of life inherent in the development of cerebroids and gastruloids will be presented as the moral status of these two special organoids is discussed.
ref: 2022, Badrul Hisham Yahaya, Organoid Technology for Disease Modelling and Personalized Treatment, page 197:
text: Outcomes may include timely implementation of technology where it is demanded, low incidence of lawsuits surrounding alleged misuse of the technology, government funding of research into the ethics and biology of animals augmented with human cerebroids, intersection between authors writing for scholarly and public audiences, and results from research on public sentiments..
ref: 2022, Eric Schneider and Veljko Dubljevic/, “Building a Better Beast: Enhancing the Minds of Animals”, in Hans-Georg Dederer, David Hamburger, editor, Brain Organoids in Research and Therapy, page 231:
glosses: An organoid (mass of cells grown in vitro) cultured from cerebral cells.
seah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seahs
Etymology: From Hebrew סְאִים֙.
Senses: topics: units-of-measure
glosses: A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about 7.7 L or 7 quarts.
Meronyms: cab
kab (1⁄6 seah)
ephah
epha (3 seahs)
lethek
lethech (15 seahs)
homer
chomer
cor
kor (30 seahs)
seahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seah
tissued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪʃuːd/
Forms: form: more tissued
form: most tissued
Etymology: From tissue + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wrapped in, or adorned with, tissue, or a particular type of tissue.
examples: text: tissued flowers
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “On Receipt of my Mother’s Picture”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
text: And crested chiefs and tissued dames / Assembled at the clarion's call.
ref: 1787, Thomas Warton, Ode for the New Year:
glosses: variegated
tissued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪʃuːd/
Etymology: From tissue + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tissue
apitpat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + pitpat.
Senses: examples: text: His heart beat apitpat with every smile she flashed his way.
text: O here a' comes—Ah my Hector of Troy, vvelcome my Bully, my Back; agad my heart has gone a pit pat for thee.
ref: 1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of pit-a-pat (“With quick beating or palpitation”).
discrepance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discrepances
Senses: examples: text: There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women.
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of discrepancy.
discrepances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discrepance
lastage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lastages
Etymology: From lestage (“ballasting”), from lest (“ballast”), or Latin lastagium, lestagium. See last (“a load”).
Senses: glosses: A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
examples: text: The better regulation of lastage and ballastage in the Thames.
ref: 1759, Annual Register[?]:
glosses: A tax on wares sold by the last.
examples: text: All maner of shyppes[…]shall brynge with them all theyr lastage of good stones.
ref: 1543, Act 21, (Please provide the book title or journal name), translation of original by Richard II of England:
glosses: The lading of a ship; ballast.
glosses: Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.
lastages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lastage
plaud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɔːd/
ipa: /plɔd/
ipa: /plɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
Forms: form: plauds
form: plauding
form: plauded
form: plauded
Senses: examples: text: Plauding our victorie and this happie end
ref: 1596, George Chapman, The Blind Beggar of Alexandria:
glosses: To applaud.
plauded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plaud
plauding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plaud
plauds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plaud
defatigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌfætɪˈɡeɪʃən/
Etymology: Latin defatigatio.
Senses: examples: text: Another reprehēſion of this colour is in reſpect of defatigation, vvhich makes perſeuerance of greater dignity than inception, for chance or inſtinct of nature may cauſe inception, but ſetled affection, or iudgement, maketh the continuance.
ref: 1597, Francis [Bacon], “Of the Colours of Good and Evill, a Fragment”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland […], published 1632, →OCLC:
glosses: Fatigue; weariness.
Related terms: defatigate
tithonographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tithonic + -graph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or produced by the chemical action of rays of light; photographic.
reve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reves
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of reeve.
reves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reve
politize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: politizes
form: politizing
form: politized
form: politized
Senses: glosses: To make political; to politicize.
examples: text: But let us not for fear of a scarecrow, or else through hatred to be reform'd, stand hankering and politizing
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: To act like a politician; to dispute as politicians do.
Synonyms: politicize
politized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of politize
Synonyms: politicized
politizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of politize
politizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of politize
histonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From histo- + -nomy.
Senses: glosses: The science that deals with organic tissues and their formation, development, and functions.
swingel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪŋ(ɡ)əl/
ipa: /ˈswɪnd͡ʒəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋəl
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
rhymes: -ɪndʒəl
Forms: form: swingels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swingle.
swingels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swingel
sea cob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea cobs
Senses: glosses: The gull (either the lesser black-backed gull or great black-backed gull)
sea cobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea cob
interscapulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From interscapular + -s.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The interscapular feathers of a bird.
overgaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overgazes
form: overgazing
form: overgazed
form: overgazed
Etymology: From over- + gaze.
Senses: examples: text: Earth o'ergazing mountains
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XCI:
glosses: To gaze; to overlook.
overgazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overgaze
overgazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overgaze
overgazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overgaze
scapulo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: scapula
chorographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chorography + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: chorographical description
glosses: Pertaining to chorography; provincial.
Related terms: chorographically
neonazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neonazis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neo-Nazi.
neonazi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “Miller launched the #SayYesToHate campaign the night before Trans Day of Remembrance in 2020, and last month took to defending the neonazi activist James Goddard over an arrest for anti-LGBTQ Twitter posts,” she adds.
ref: 2023 February 17, Brenna Ehrlich, “Brianna Ghey’s Vigils Have Become Protests — But to Friends, She Was Just ‘Bri’”, in Rolling Stone:
glosses: Alternative form of neo-Nazi.
nustle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nustles
form: nustling
form: nustled
form: nustled
Etymology: Compare nuzzle and nursle.
Senses: examples: text: And now by means of those worldly Lectures, which he had by my direction so gravely, and effectually read unto me, I became such a Proficient in Mammon's School, as those who long time had been nursed and nustled in it, could not come near me in the Practical part of a Worldling.
ref: 1641, Richard Brathwaite, The Penitent Pilgrim, published 1847, page 144:
glosses: To take care of fondly; to cherish; to nurse.
examples: text: Old men, long nustled in corruption, scorn them that would seek reformation.
ref: 1807, Sir Philip Sidney, “Policy and Government”, in Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney, volume 2, page 64:
text: […] and yet black pudding is an essential feature of the English Breakfast plate, nustling in amongst the beans with a friendly and approachable demeanour.
ref: 2019, Fergus Henderson, Trevor Gulliver, “Blood Cake and Brown Sauce”, in The Book of St John: Over 100 Brand New recipes from London’s Iconic Restaurant:
glosses: To settle oneself comfortably and snugly.
Synonyms: alt: foo
word: coddle
word: dandle
word: pamper
sense: settle oneself
word: nestle
nustled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nustle
nustles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nustle
nustling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nustle
ataghan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ataghans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yataghan.
ataghans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ataghan
anchoretism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anchoret + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice or mode of life of an anchorite; hermithood
preact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preacts
form: preacting
form: preacted
form: preacted
Etymology: From pre- + act.
Senses: glosses: To act or perform beforehand.
Related terms: preacting
preactive
preactivity
preacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preact
preacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preact
preacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preact
epipodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epipodium
epipodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epipodia
Etymology: From epi- (“on”) + -podium (“relating to a leg-like structure”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the lateral lobes of the foot in certain gastropods.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of lamina.
synonyms: word: lamina