cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
preexistentism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From preexistent + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The soul either exists before its union with the body (preexistentism), or it is created by God at the same time with the body (creationism or coexistentism), or it springs up from physical generation (traducianism, evolution system). These are the principal hypotheses on the origin of the soul[.]
ref: 1840, G. F. Wiggers, “Augustine’s reasons for his theory”, in An Historical Presentation of Augustinism and Pelagianism from the Original Sources, Andover: Gould, Newman & Saxton, page 280:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The theory that souls exist prior to their association with human bodies.
suburbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From suburb + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a suburb or suburbs.
simplemindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more simplemindedly
form: most simplemindedly
Etymology: From simpleminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The idea of containment has been given an all too simplemindedly military definition of requirements at the expense of the political underpinning needed to provide the stability of adequate public resolution in the Western democracies.
ref: 1988, Colin S. Gray, The Geopolitics of Super Power, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: In a simpleminded manner.
simplemindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From simpleminded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being simpleminded.
curviserial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curviserial
form: most curviserial
Etymology: Latin curvus bent + English serial.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
departable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more departable
form: most departable
Etymology: Related to part.
Senses: examples: text: the kingdom shall go to the issue female; that it shall not be departable among daughters
ref: a. 1626, Francis Bacon, The Case of the Post-Nati of Scotland:
glosses: divisible
disfurniture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disfurnitures
form: disfurnituring
form: disfurnitured
form: disfurnitured
Etymology: From dis- + furniture.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Fakney, being asked whether at the time he so disfurnitured his house[…]
ref: 1806, Sir Edward Hyde East, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown - Volume 2:
glosses: To disfurnish.
disfurniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + furniture.
Senses: synonyms: disfurnishing
glosses: The act of disfurnishing, removal of furnishings or furniture
disfurnitured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disfurniture
disfurnitures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disfurniture
disfurnituring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disfurniture
entoperipheral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ento- + peripheral.
Senses: examples: 1870-1880, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Psychology
On comparing these three great orders of feelings , we found that whereas the epiperipheral are relational to a very great extent , the entoperipheral , and still more the central , have but small aptitudes for entering into relations
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances.
Related terms: epiperipheral
exposture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare imposture.
Senses: examples: text: Determine on some course,
More than a wild exposture to each chance
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: exposure
hawm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hawms
form: hawming
form: hawmed
form: hawmed
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: Guzzlin' an' soäkin' an' smoäkin' an' hawmin' about i' the laanes, […]
ref: 1880, Tennyson, Ballads and Other Poems, The Northern Cobbler:
glosses: To lounge; to loiter.
hawm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haulm (straw)
hawmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hawm
hawming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hawm
hawms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hawm
lenticelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lenticelles
Etymology: From French lenticelle.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of lenticel.
lenticelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lenticelle
municipalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: municipalisms
Etymology: From municipal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being municipal.
examples: text: Extensive welfare provision such as coal, grocery packages and clothing soon became a characteristic of RP municipalism.
ref: 2017 September 22, Charlotte Joppien, Municipal Politics in Turkey: Local Government and Party Organisation, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Rochdale socialists, for example, evinced an equally keen interest in municipalism within the context of socialist unity. Moreover, municipal intervention did not always strike a chord with the interests of local trade unions.
ref: 2019 July 31, David James, Centennial History of the Independent Labour Party, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
topics: government
politics
qualifier: urban studies
glosses: The political philosophy or practice of preferring public services administered by local government and local organisations.
municipalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of municipalism
otography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From oto- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific description of the ear.
outstart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outstarts
form: outstarting
form: outstarted
form: outstarted
Etymology: From out- + start.
Senses: examples: text: Once again outstarted beads of anguish upon John's furrowed brow, his hands knit to quivering fists, his grey eyes, their steadfast serenity quite gone, wavered […]
ref: 2022, Jeffery Farnol, John o' the Green:
glosses: To start out or up.
outstarted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outstart
outstarting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outstart
outstarts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outstart
overslop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overslops
Etymology: From Middle English oversloppe, Old English oferslop, oferslype (“an overgarment; surplice”), equivalent to over- + slip. Cognate with Icelandic yfirsloppur (“overalls”).
Senses: glosses: An outer garment or slop.
overslops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overslop
primerole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primeroles
Senses: examples: text: […] not a rill of water but crept from its hiding place, under banks entangled with briers and weeds, or thickly set with their clusters of primeroles (to use old Chaucer's word for that palest and prettiest of yellow flowers) […]
ref: c. 1884, Anna Eliza Bray, Henry de Pomeroy: The Eve of St. John:
text: Primeroles and anemones were awake in the filbert-brakes; and asphodel and many lily-flowers nodded their half-opened heads in the grass […]
ref: 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers:
glosses: A primrose.
primeroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primerole
reedified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reedify
reedifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reedify
reedify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reedifies
form: reedifying
form: reedified
form: reedified
form: re-edify
Etymology: From re- + edify: compare French réédifier, Latin reaedificare.
Senses: examples: text: Return'd from Babylon by leave of kings / Their lords, whom God dispos'd, the houfe of God / They first re-edify ; and for a while / In mean estate live moderate ; till, grown / In wealth and multitude, factious they grow :
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 347-352:
glosses: To edify anew; to build again after destruction.
Related terms: edifice
reedifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reedify
sinistrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnɪstɹəs/
Forms: form: more sinistrous
form: most sinistrous
Etymology: From sinister + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: sinistrous gravity
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
antonyms: dextrous
glosses: On the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral.
examples: text: But even put them into the hands of a knave or a fool , and yet , with the most sinistrous and absurd choice , he shall not extinguish the light of any one chapter.
ref: 1725, Richard Bentley, Remarks upon a late Discourse of free-thinking:
glosses: wrong, sinister, absurd, or perverse
stereoscopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereoscopists
Etymology: From stereoscope + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone skilled in the use or construction of stereoscopes.
stereoscopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereoscopist
tubulure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːbjʊlʊə(ɹ)/
/ˈtuːbjʊlʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: tubulures
Etymology: Compare French tubulure, from tubulé, past tense verbal use of tube. Equivalent to tubule + -ure
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A short tubular opening at the top of a retort, or at the top or side of a bottle; a tubulation.
tubulures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubulure
adducin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adducins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of related actin-regulating proteins.
Derived terms: adducinlike
adducins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adducin
banstickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banstickles
Etymology: From Middle English banstikel from Old English bān (“bone”) + sticel (“prickle, sting”). See bone (noun) and stickleback.
Senses: glosses: three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
banstickles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banstickle
exanguious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin exanguis.
Senses: examples: text: The third is the paucitie of blood obſerved in this animal, ſcarce at all to be found but in the eye, and about the heart; which defect being obſerved, inclined ſome into thoughts, that the ayre was a ſufficient maintenance for theſe exauguious^([sic]) parts.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 162:
glosses: Alternative form of exsanguious.
oxybutyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxy- + butyric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: hydroxybutyric
Related terms: oxobutyric
depicture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depictures
form: depicturing
form: depictured
form: depictured
Etymology: From de- + picture; formed under the influence of depict.
Senses: examples: text: The bed appointed for the prince to rest himselfe, was of blacke Ebonie enchased which Rubies, Diamons and Carbun[c]ls […] on which by degrees mans state from infancie to his olde age was plainly depictured,
ref: 1596, Thomas Lodge, A Margarite of America, London: John Busbie:
text: 1749 Henry Fielding, A Journey from this World to the Next, Book 1, Chapter 3, in The Works of Henry Fielding, London: J. Johnson et al., 1806, Volume 4, pp. 339-340,
I next mounted through a large painted staircase, where several persons were depictured in caricatura;
synonyms: depict
portray
render
glosses: To make a picture or representation of.
examples: text: The modern Fiction which depictures the son of Cytherea [i.e. Eros] with a bandage round his eyes, is not without a spiritual meaning. There is a sweet and holy Blindness in Christian LOVE […]
ref: 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Moral and Religious Aphorisms”, in Aids to Reflection, London: William Pickering, published 1836, page 85:
text: 1862, Ellen Wood (as Mrs. Henry Wood), Life’s Secret, London: Charles W. Wood, 1867, Volume 2, Chapter 9, p. 192,
You have seen some of its [the dispute’s] disastrous working upon the men: you cannot see it all, for it would take a whole volume to depicture it.
text: Now as soon as the goldsmith saw her, he knew her (for that the Prince had talked with him of her and had depictured her to him) […]
ref: 1886, “The Tale of the Prince who fell in love with the Picture”, in Richard Francis Burton, transl., Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, London: The Burton Club, page 229:
synonyms: describe
depict
portray
glosses: To represent in words.
examples: text: […] he entered the church with a proud firm step, and with a countenance which depictured his inward triumph;
ref: 1790, Ann Radcliffe, chapter 12, in A Sicilian Romance, volume 2, London: T. Hookham, page 115:
text: A look, depicturing such agony as Ingram never saw before, in the face of man, accompanied this declaration on the part of his friend […]
ref: 1845, Thomas Cooper, “London ’Venture; or, The Old Story Over Again”, in Wise Saws and Modern Instances, volume 1, London: Jeremiah How, page 58:
text: 1910, anonymous, “The State of Arkansaw” in John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, New York: Sturgis & Walton, p. 227,
I followed my conductor into his dwelling place;
Poverty were depictured in his melancholy face.
synonyms: reflect
show
indicate
betoken
glosses: To give visual evidence of (referring to a person's facial expression or appearance)
examples: text: […] I would depicture her, a foiled and wistful little wraith, very lonely in eternity […]
ref: 1909, James Branch Cabell, chapter 30, in The Cords of Vanity, New York: Doubleday, Page, page 326:
synonyms: imagine
picture
glosses: To form a mental image of.
Derived terms: depicturement
depicture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depictures
Etymology: From de- + picture; formed under the influence of depict.
Senses: examples: text: The conception of a misdeed operating through several generations […] was a novel one at the time; this graphic depicture of the past at work upon the present has anticipated a great deal of the history and criticism of the following twenty-five years […]
ref: 1876, George Parsons Lathrop, chapter 8, in A Study of Hawthorne, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 237:
text: No pen could do them justice; and, among painters, only the brush of a Corot could attempt their depicture without depriving them of their exquisite, their almost evanescent, softness.
ref: 1914, Arnold Haultain, chapter 8, in Of Walks and Walking Tours, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 31:
text: 1972, Stanley Bertram Chrimes, Henry VII, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, Appendix F: “Portraiture of Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth,” p. 333,
Three other depictures of Henry VII are known to have been made during his lifetime.
synonyms: depiction
glosses: The act or result of depicturing something or someone.
depictured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depicture
depictured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more depictured
form: most depictured
Senses: examples: text: The astonishment and anguish depictured on her countenance increased the apprehensions of this unfortunate father […].
ref: 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin, published 1999, page 305:
glosses: Depicted, portrayed.
depictures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depicture
depictures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depicture
depicturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depicture
tongue-pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue-pads
Senses: glosses: A great or incessant talker; a chatterbox.
tongue-pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongue-pad
intersert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interserts
form: interserting
form: interserted
form: interserted
Etymology: From Latin intersertus, past participle of interserere (“to intersert”), from inter (“between”) + serere (“to join, weave”).
Senses: examples: text: If I may […]intersert a short speculation, the depth of the sea […]is determined in Pliny to be fifteen furlongs.
ref: 1614, Edward Brerewood, Enquiries Touching the Diversity of Languages and Religions:
glosses: To put in between other things; to insert.
interserted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intersert
interserting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intersert
interserts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intersert
lithotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lithotype + -y.
Senses: glosses: The art or process of making a kind of hard stereotype plate, by pressing into a mould, taken from a page of type or other matter, a mixture of shellac and fine sand, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state.
unbreech
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbreeches
form: unbreeching
form: unbreeched
form: unbreeched
Etymology: From un- + breech.
Senses: examples: text: Looking on the lines
Of my boy's face, my thoughts I did recoil
Twenty-three years; and saw myself unbreech'd
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To remove the breeches of.
examples: text: She was overladen with guns , some were unbreeched , and her port - holes left open
ref: 1801, Thomas Pennant, A journey from London to the Isle of Wight:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To free the breech of (a cannon etc.) from its fastenings or coverings.
unbreeches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbreech
unbreeching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbreech
preterient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin praeteriens, present participle of praetereō. See preterite.
Senses: examples: preterient states
For quotations using this term, see Citations:preterient.
glosses: Passed through; antecedent; previous.
adverbial case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adverbial cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a noun case in the Abkhaz, Georgian, and Udmurt languages
Coordinate terms: grammatical case
epitaphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epitaph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an epitaph.
epitaphic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epitaphics
Etymology: From epitaph + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: An epitaphic is the writinge that is sette on deade mennes toumbes or graues in memory or commendacion of the parties there buried.
ref: 1548, Nicholas Udal, The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente:
text: There lyeth buryed in the Body of the Paroche Churche of Thormerton one Petrine De la Ryvers with a Frenche Epitaphic .
ref: 1769, John Leland, The Itinerary, page 100:
text: Hearst's Journal-American[…]began its snarky epitaphic on the Star this way:
ref: 2015, James Eric Black, Walt Kelly and Pogo: The Art of the Political Swamp, page 52:
glosses: An epitaph.
epitaphics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epitaphic
breeched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -iːtʃt
homophone: breached
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breech
breeched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -iːtʃt
homophone: breached
Senses: glosses: Dressed in breeches.
Synonyms: be-breeched
Derived terms: unbreeched
well-breeched
latibulize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: latibulizes
form: latibulizing
form: latibulized
form: latibulized
Etymology: From Latin latibulum (“hiding place”), from latere (“to lie hid”) + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: 1802, George Shaw, General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History, vol. 3, part 1, publ. by G. Kearsley, page 11, footnote.
When kept in gardens in Italy and Germany, it is observed to latibulize in October, and to reappear in April.
text: Grippe got a grip on Col. John Stapp which kept him latibulizing till the ground-hog heralded close of winter, and bluebirds and robins have begun rehearsing their spring symphonies.
ref: 1915 February 19, “Kidd's Store”, in The Interior Journal, Stanford, Kentucky, page 1, column 2:
text: Special attention in the analysis of the coast line is paid to estuaries, which are comfortable areas that bears use as a starting point to move to the interior of the island to latibulize and a place where female bears come with cubs (Ovsyanikov, 1995).
ref: 2013, N. G. Platonov, I. N. Mordvintsev, V. V. Rozhnov, “The possibility of using high resolution satellite images for detection of marine mammals”, in Biology Bulletin, volume 40, number 2, →DOI, pages 197–205:
glosses: To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter.
examples: text: Now, sir, two courses are open to you: Without impropriety you might latibulize.
ref: 1894 October 27, Jas. W. Coulter, “An Open Letter”, in The Bessemer Indicator., Bessemer, Colorado, page 1, column 7:
text: […] and we can, with all dignity and politeness, inform them that their services are not required, and that they may, as far as we are concerned, latibulize in the "sound money" party.
ref: 1896 October 28, “An Open Letter”, in The Lambertville Record., Lambertville, New Jersey, page 3, column 6, quoting a "Richard Stockton":
text: O, why, like the reptile, did his sorrow not latibulize?
ref: 1908, Anson D. Eby, Showers of blessing, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, page 102:
glosses: To retreat and lie hidden.
Related terms: hibernate
latibulized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of latibulize
latibulizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of latibulize
latibulizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of latibulize
betid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of betide
topcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topcloths
form: top-cloth
Etymology: From top + cloth.
Senses: examples: text: On one table, for example, we placed a silver topcloth over a rose cotton undercloth.
ref: 1992, Renny Reynolds, Elaine Louie, The Art of the Party: Design Ideas for Successful Entertaining:
text: In the market Nwibe's wife hurriedly removes her topcloth to cover her husband: behaviour that would be mad in many a non-African context.
ref: 2002, Harold Bloom, Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart, page 79:
glosses: A cloth used to cover the top of anything, such as a table or a person's torso.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.
topcloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topcloth
lupulinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: lupulic acid
macrural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹəl
Forms: form: more macrural
form: most macrural
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Macrurous.
Hercynian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin Hercynia silva, Hercynius saltus (“the Hercynian forest”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Hercynian Forest, an extensive forest in ancient Germany.
Hercynian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hercynians
Etymology: From Latin Hercynia silva, Hercynius saltus (“the Hercynian forest”).
Senses: glosses: A person from the Hercynian Forest.
Manks
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋks/
enpr: mănks
Forms: form: more Manks
form: most Manks
Senses: examples: text: […] the others marry with the Manks women, so their children become natives.
ref: c. 1648, William Blundell, A History of the Isle of Man:
glosses: Obsolete form of Manx.
Manks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋks/
enpr: mănks
Senses: examples: text: Those who reckon the extirpation of the Manks language to be a necessary step towards the general extension of English which they deem essential
ref: 1835, Archibald Cregeen, Dictionary of the Manks Language:
glosses: Obsolete form of Manx.
Manks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋks/
enpr: mănks
Senses: glosses: plural of Mank
Manks
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋks/
enpr: mănks
Forms: form: more Manks
form: most Manks
Senses: glosses: Something from the English city of Manchester; short for Mancunian, usually "Mancs"
Manks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋks/
enpr: mănks
Senses: glosses: variant plural of Manc
Synonyms: Mancunian
bouri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouris
Etymology: Native name.
Senses: glosses: A mullet (Liza ramada, syn. Mugil capito) found in the rivers of southern Europe and in Africa.
bouris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouri
chondrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondrometers
Etymology: From chondro- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A steelyard for weighing grain.
chondrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondrometer
inductoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inductorium
inductorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inductoriums
form: inductoria
Senses: glosses: An induction coil.
inductoriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inductorium
thik
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thilk.
multilettered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multilettered
form: most multilettered
Etymology: From multi- + lettered.
Senses: examples: text: The reader soon begins to recognise these patterns, like the recurrent multilettered thunder-word, representing the thunderclap which terrified the savage cavemen into religious belief and started off the cycle of civilisation.
ref: 1978, Matthew John Caldwell Hodgart, James Joyce: a student's guide, page 133:
glosses: Having many letters (characters of an alphabet).
parchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more parchingly
form: most parchingly
Etymology: From parching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: So as to parch or dry out.
rubbingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rubbingly
form: most rubbingly
Etymology: From rubbing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to rub; with a rubbing action or motion.
rubberily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rubberily
form: most rubberily
Etymology: From rubbery + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rubbery manner.
antiplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiplastic
form: most antiplastic
Etymology: From anti- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: Diminishing plasticity.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation.
glosses: Opposing the use of plastics, typically for environmental reasons.
antiplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiplastics
Etymology: From anti- + plastic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any substance that prevents the process of healing, or granulation.
glosses: A substance added to clay to make it less malleable.
pettichaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pettichaps
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pettychaps.
superterrestrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superterrestrial
form: most superterrestrial
Etymology: From super- + terrestrial.
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, modern criticism argues that a tangible or palpable body is not adapted to a superterrestrial abode. But this is ignoring the fact that the stars and the planets are superterrestrial, and yet they are material.
ref: 1979, Henry Clarence Thiessen, Vernon D. Doerksen, Lectures in Systematic Theology:
text: Lulling music washed around me, soft voices announced the rising and falling of airliners, huge screens clicked soothingly through neverending arrivals and departures. Where in all this superterrestrial world was Tom?
ref: 1987, Christina Hardyment, “Picking up Gold and Silver”, in Heidi’s Alp: One Family’s Search for Storybook Europe, Book Club edition, New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Press, →OCLC, page 99:
glosses: Above the Earth or earthly concerns.
desargination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From des- + arginine + -ation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: removal of a terminal arginine moiety from a protein
Related terms: desarginated
palsgravine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palsgravines
Etymology: Dutch paltsgravin: compare German Pfalzgrafin.
Senses: glosses: The consort or widow of a palsgrave.
palsgravines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palsgravine
scerned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scerne
scerning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scerne
edematogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From edemato- + -genic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Causing edema.
Derived terms: antiedematogenic
Related terms: edematization
edematogenesis
edematous
Chian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkiən/
Forms: form: more Chian
form: most Chian
Etymology: From Chios + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.
ref: 1740, John Dyer, “The Ruins of Rome. A Poem.”, in Poems. … Viz. I. Grongar Hill. II. The Ruins of Rome. III. The Fleece, in Four Books, London: Printed by John Hughs, for Messrs. R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], published 1759, →OCLC, pages 42–43:
text: More capacious bowls bring hither, boy, and the Chian wine or the Lesbian: or what might restrain this flowing qualm;
ref: 1841, William Jacobs, The self-instructing Latin classic, page 187:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea.
Derived terms: Chian earth
Chian turpentine
Chian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkiən/
Forms: form: Chians
Etymology: From Chios + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Chiot
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Chios.
monographous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: monographic
exocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + cellular.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That occurs outside of a cell (though may be initiated from within one)
sea unicorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea unicorns
Senses: glosses: The narwhal.
sea unicorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea unicorn
incombine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incombines
form: incombining
form: incombined
form: incombined
Etymology: From in- + combine.
Senses: examples: text: sow the sorrow of man's nativity with seed of two incoherent and incombining dispositions?
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: To not combine; to disagree, differ, or not match.
incombined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incombine
incombines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incombine
incombining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incombine
embush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embushes
form: embushing
form: embushed
form: embushed
Etymology: From Middle English embushen, enbusshen, enbuschen, from Old French embuissier, enbuschier. Compare ambush, imbosk.
Senses: examples: text: […]embushing himselfe presently among the bushes and brambles
ref: 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.
embushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embush
embushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embush
embushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embush
fluorgenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fluorogenic.
invigor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: invigors
form: invigoring
form: invigored
form: invigored
Senses: glosses: To invigorate.
invigored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of invigor
invigoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of invigor
invigors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of invigor
teretous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teretous
form: most teretous
Senses: glosses: terete
septula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septulum
septulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septula
Etymology: Diminutive of Latin septum (“septum”).
Senses: examples: text: Test small, elongate, subfusiform, with bluntly rounded poles, septa thin and widely spaced, thin and short transverse septula alternating with foramina, thickened at the lower ends where they join with the tops of the parachomata, one or two axial septula between adjacent septa, outer whorls may also have a secondary transverse septulum between adjacent primary transverse septula;
ref: 2015, Alfred R. Loeblich Jr., Helen Tappan, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification, page 739:
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small partition or division within a rock or mineral structure, especially within the fossil of a foraminifera or similar microorganism.
approvedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more approvedly
form: most approvedly
Etymology: From approved + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
exscript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exscripts
Etymology: From Latin exscriptus, past participle of exscribere.
Senses: examples: text: Ah, might it please Thy dread exuperance To write th' excript thereof in humble hearts.
ref: 1609, John Davies, The Holy Rood:
glosses: A copy; a transcript.
exscripts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exscript
requitement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: requitements
Etymology: From requite + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The erle Douglas sore beyng greued with the losse of his nacion and frendes, entendyng a requitement if it were possible of the same‥did gather a houge armie.
ref: a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC:
text: Hamlet would requite his loves. Hewitt has soured on requitements. Hamlet would teach deep drinking. Hewitt is on the temperance dodge.
ref: 1880, Puck, volume 7, page 126:
glosses: requital
semiplume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiplumes
Etymology: From semi- + plume.
Senses: examples: text: semiplume feathers
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A feather which has a downy vane and a long rachis, often used for insulation.
semiplumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiplume
Valmiera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The largest city in the Vidzeme region, in north-central Latvia.
fluorocoumarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorocoumarins
Etymology: From fluoro- + coumarin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any fluoro derivative of a coumarin
bodement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodements
Etymology: From bode + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Makes all these bodements.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: An omen; a prognostic.
bodements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodement
fluoroethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluoro- + ethyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any fluoro derivative of an ethyl radical.
galactoxyloglucan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactoxyloglucans
Etymology: From Blend of galactose + xylose + glucan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amyloid glucan, from seeds of Mucuna etc., that contains galactose and xylose.
galatrox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: galectin + Latin atrox
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acidic galectin from Bothrops atrox snake venom
Related terms: thrombolectin
batroxobin
galectins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galectin
ginsenosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginsenosidases
Etymology: From ginsenoside + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a ginsenoside glycoside
glucosaminide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucosaminides
Etymology: From glucosamine + -ide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any N-acyl derivative of a glucosamine.
Derived terms: glucosaminidase
glucosidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glucoside + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a glucoside
Derived terms: nonglucosidic
Related terms: glycosidic
gluphosinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glufosinate.
glycodelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycodelins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of progestagen-associated endometrial glycoproteins.
granulocytin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lectin from the flesh fly Sarcophaga peregrina
hepatospecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hepatospecific
form: most hepatospecific
Etymology: From hepato- + specific.
Senses: glosses: Limited to, or occurring only in the liver
heteroplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + -plasia.
Senses: glosses: The presence of a tissue or organ in an abnormal place
Synonyms: alloplasia
Related terms: heteroplasm
heteroplasmic
heteroplasty
hexaminidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexaminidases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hexosaminidase.
hypogravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + gravity.
Senses: glosses: The presence of an apparently decreased gravitational field (such as in an aircraft following a parabolic path)
immunoprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoprotections
Etymology: From immuno- + protection.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: protection against the affects of an antigen
Related terms: immunoprotective
immunoprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunoprotective
form: most immunoprotective
Etymology: From immuno- + protective.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That protects against the affects of an antigen
Related terms: immunoprotection
immunoproteome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoproteomes
Etymology: From immuno- + proteome.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The proteome consisting of all the proteins involved in a particular immune response
Related terms: immunoproteomic
immunoproteomics
attagal
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Alteration of girl into gal, in attagirl.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of attagirl.
synonyms: word: attagirl
immunoscreening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoscreenings
Etymology: From immuno- + screening.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The detection of expressed proteins by reaction with a library of antibodies
immunosorbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Removed from a mixture by means of an immunosorbent.
intraveneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of intravenous.
lauroylsarcosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lauroyl + sarcosine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the N-lauroyl derivative of sarcosine; its sodium salt is an ionic detergent used to purify membrane proteins
ligninolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lignin + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ligninolysis
lipoplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipoplex
lipoplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipoplexes
Etymology: From lipo- + -plex.
Senses: glosses: A complex of plasmids and lipids
synonyms: genosome
glosses: A complex of DNA and liposome used in nonviral gene therapy
Derived terms: lipoplexed
lymphotactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular small chemokine
lysomotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lysosomotropic.
grutch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: grutches
form: grutching
form: grutched
form: grutched
form: gruch
Etymology: The verb is from Middle English grucchen (attested since c. 1200), from Old French grouchier (“to grumble”), of unknown origin, perhaps from Germanic, and likely of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Frankish *grōtijan (“to accuse, yell at, make cry, scold”). The noun is from Middle English grucche, from the verb; it is attested since about 1400. See also grudge, grouch, grouse.
Senses: examples: text: "But I am a man who may grutch and grumble, but when I have set my face to do a thing I will not turn my back upon it until it be done."
ref: 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company:
glosses: To murmur, complain.
examples: text: But that their natures bad appeard in both:
For both did at their second Sister grutch
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To grudge.
grutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: grutches
form: gruch
Etymology: The verb is from Middle English grucchen (attested since c. 1200), from Old French grouchier (“to grumble”), of unknown origin, perhaps from Germanic, and likely of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Frankish *grōtijan (“to accuse, yell at, make cry, scold”). The noun is from Middle English grucche, from the verb; it is attested since about 1400. See also grudge, grouch, grouse.
Senses: examples: text: In it he melted lead for bullets,
To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets;
To whom he bore so fell a grutch,
He ne'er gave quarter t' any such.
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1:
glosses: A complaint.
catanadromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cata- + anadromous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Ascending and descending freshwater streams from and to the sea, as the salmon does; anadromous.
sea toads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea toad
peristerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peristerites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περιστερά (peristerá, “pigeon”) + -ite. In reference to the iridescence of a pigeon's neck.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: belomorite
glosses: A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent.
peristerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peristerite
racemation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racemations
Etymology: From Latin racematio (“a gleaning”), from racemari (“to glean”), racemus (“a cluster of grapes”). See raceme.
Senses: examples: text: Since also a Cock will in one day fertilitate the whole racemation or cluster of egges, which are not excluded in many weeks after.
ref: 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: A cluster or bunch, as of grapes.
glosses: The cultivation or gathering of clusters of grapes.
racemations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racemation
cuminil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway.