cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
syllabist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syllabists
Senses: examples: text: These are but slight tricks compared with what have been played with the Hebrew and Arabic; and we verily believe that a clever syllabist could take any English sentence and show that it was any given language and had any given meaning.
ref: 1842, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 28, page 335:
text: The relationship between these views and the Coleridgean preoccupation with "organic" versus "mechanic" form is sufficiently obvious; the theoretical distance between this view and the rationalizing tendencies of the syllabists is vast.
ref: 2009, Laura Dabundo, “Metrical Theory and Versification”, in Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals):
text: In Yugoslavia the special qualities of the Serbian, the Croatian and the Slovenian languages, above all the musical accent, account for the long disputes between the “syllabists” and the “tonists” in the beginning of this century (and earlier).
ref: 2015, Alex Perminger, editor, Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, page 527:
glosses: One who forms or divides words into syllables.
Related terms: syllabism
syllabists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syllabist
homogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + -gamous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having all the flowers alike.
examples: text: homogamous families
text: homogamous marriage
text: homogamous mating
glosses: Sharing the same attitudes or qualities.
Derived terms: homogamously
levigable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Besides the Perrys, dri'd and preserv'd Fruit, useful is the Pear-Tree (and best the most barren, or Pig-taile, as they call it, which is the Wild Pyraster) for its excellent colour'd Timber, hard and levigable (seldom or not ordinarily worm-eaten) especially for Stools, Tables , Chairs, Pistol-Stocks, Instrument-Maker, Cabinets, and very many works of the Joyner, (who can make it easily to counterfeit Ebony) and Sculptor, either for flat, or emboss'd-Works, and to Engrave upon, because the Grain intercepts not the Tool.
ref: 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, Or a Discourse of Forest-trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions:
text: Can he mean that there is but one substance which fulfils these two conditions of being levigable, and fusible without evaporation?
ref: 1823, J.J. Conybeare, “Article VI: Some Account of Maier's Symbola Aureae Mensae Duodecim Nationum”, in Annals of Philosophy, volume 22, page 429:
text: And how when the Critic had done his best, And the Pearl of Price, at reason's test, Lay dust and ashes levigable On the Professor's lecture-table;
ref: 1850, Robert Browning, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day:
text: Hereditary conscience, passing through this fierce crucible, lay levigable before Goethe, to be swept away into dust-hole or moulded into the image of reason.
ref: 2020, Moncure D. Conway, The Mythology of the Devil:
glosses: Capable of being levigated. (any sense)
brotheler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brothelers
Etymology: From brothel + -er.
Senses: examples: text: brothelers impure
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
synonyms: brothelgoer
glosses: One who frequents brothels.
brothelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brotheler
inconscionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconscionable
form: most inconscionable
Senses: examples: text: So inconscionable are these common people, and so little feeling have they of God, or their owne soules good.
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of unconscionable.
tensiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tensile + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Made tensile.
carvene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French carvi (“caraway”) + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of limonene, C₁₀H₁₆, extracted from caraway.
decarburization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkɑːbjəɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: decarburizations
Etymology: From de- + carburization.
Senses: glosses: decarbonization.
auguration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: augurations
Etymology: From Latin auguratio.
Senses: glosses: augury; divination
tetradactylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: tetra- + dactylous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having four digits on the foot or hand.
Related terms: tetradactyl
superficialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superficialists
Etymology: From superficial + -ist.
Senses: examples: .
synonyms: sciolist
glosses: A superficial or shallow person; some who sees things superficially
superficialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superficialist
nanoinclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoinclusions
Etymology: From nano- + inclusion.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale inclusion, typically less than a hundred nanometers in size.
eternization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eternizations
Etymology: From eternize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: eternalization
eternizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eternization
abductively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdʌk.tɪv.li/
ipa: /ˈæbˌdək.tɪv.li/
Etymology: From abductive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an abductive fashion.
adductively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From adductive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an adductive fashion.
unmeshed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + meshed.
Senses: glosses: Not meshed.
unmeshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unmesh + -ed.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unmesh
Hebrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hebricians
Etymology: From Hebrew + -ician.
Senses: glosses: A Hebraist.
Hebricians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hebrician
bedraw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdɹɔː/
ipa: /bɪˈdɹɔ/
ipa: /bɪˈdɹɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: bedraws
form: bedrawing
form: bedrew
form: bedrawn
Etymology: From Middle English bedrawen, from Old English bedragan (“to draw aside, seduce”), from Proto-West Germanic *bidragan, equivalent to be- + draw. Cognate with Scots bedraw, bydraw (“to draw aside, supersede”), Dutch bedragen (“to total, amount to”), German betragen (“to amount to”).
Senses: examples: text: Become, be with, be helping me; Bespouse, bedraw, be make-me see.
ref: 2010, Jordan Spencer Cunningham, Bobby Robertson, Timothy Brooks, The New Ipf Anthology of Fine Literature:
text: "Oh, how grand those rays! they seem to bedraw earth to Heaven!"
ref: 1875, THE BRITISH FLAC & CHRISTIAN SENTINEL:
glosses: To draw aside or away.
glosses: To draw away; seduce; deceive.
atonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atonable
form: most atonable
Etymology: From atone + -able.
Senses: examples: text: atonable sin
glosses: Capable of being atoned for.
Synonyms: expiable
Derived terms: unatonable
variolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more variolitic
form: most variolitic
Etymology: From variola.
Senses: glosses: speckled; spotted.
variolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more variolitic
form: most variolitic
Etymology: From variolite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: variolitic basalt
text: variolitic nodules
text: variolitic lava
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling variolite.
scytheman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scythemen
Etymology: From scythe + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Another said that he should be glad to know how the Devonshire trainbands, who had fled in confusion before Monmouth's scythemen, would have faced the household troops of Lewis
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: "Time presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of contract."
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page xviii. 219:
glosses: One who uses a scythe; a mower.
scythemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scytheman
gleucometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gleucometers
Etymology: Compound of gleuco- + -meter, where the first component is taken from Ancient Greek γλεῦκος (gleûkos, “sweetness”).
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.
Related terms: gluco-
glucometer
glaucometer
vinatico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Portuguese vinhatico.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of vinhatico.
Pre-Cana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pre-Canas
Etymology: From pre- + Cana, from the biblical story of the wedding feast at Cana.
Senses: glosses: In Catholic tradition, a spiritual retreat for couples about to be married.
lochage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈləʊkɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: lochagoi
form: lochagi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λοχαγός (lokhagós).
Senses: examples: text: One lochage only avowed his dissent; adding his opinion, that they ought at once to throw themselves on the king's mercy, as the only resource affording a reasonable hope […].
ref: 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
text: ‘Come inside. The lochage wishes to speak with you.’
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: The head of a lochos in Ancient Greece; an officer or commander.
lochages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lochage
myrica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myricas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Myrica of shrubs and trees.
combable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more combable
form: most combable
Etymology: From comb + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be combed (in a desired fashion)
raw_tags: of hair
Derived terms: combability
uncombable
thankworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thankworthy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being thankworthy.
geminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪnəs
Etymology: Latin geminus.
Senses: examples: text: geminous teeth
text: And this the practice of Christians hath acknowledged, who have baptized these geminous births.
ref: 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (6th edition, book 3, chapter 15)
text: The reader will also observe that in the example just cited 'justice' is rendered by 'equality and justice;' on the same page he will find carelessness and inadvertency' where the original has only neglect; and so he will find throughout the book such geminous and even tergeminous renderings to the number of at least two hundred.
ref: 1861 March, “Critical Notices of Works on India and the East”, in Calcutta Review, volume 36, page v:
glosses: double; appearing or growing in pairs
p.g.a.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Producers' Guild of America, used as post-nominal letters indicating a member of the guild.
cedrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cedrenes
form: cedren
Etymology: From cedar + -ene?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A rich aromatic oil, C₁₅H₂₄, extracted from oil of red cedar.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of similar substances, such as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc.
cedrenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cedrene
musciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more musciform
form: most musciform
Etymology: From Latin mūscus (“moss”) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: The surface had an irregular, musciform quality, interrupted by various ridges and valleys.
text: 8. Native Gold, of a bright gold-yellow colour, in musciform leaves, upon saxum metalliferum; from the same place (very rich.)
ref: 1832, Carl Ludwig Giesecke, A Descriptive Catalogue of a New Collection of Minerals in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society, Dublin: R. Graisberry, page 129:
text: ...they connect with the theciferous, partly "peristomiate," and radiately divided (hence musciform) group of fungi...
ref: 1871, Theodore Hilgard, “Investigations on the Development of the Yeast, or Zymotic Fungus.”, in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Nineteenth Meeting), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Joseph Lovering, page 310:
text: Kelleria and Drapetes are humble subshrubby and caespitose, musciform plants, with sessile and imbricate leaves.
ref: 1880, Henri Baillon, The Natural History of Plants, volume VI, London: L. Reeve & Co., page 118:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the appearance or form of a moss.
musciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more musciform
form: most musciform
Etymology: From Musca + -form.
Senses: examples: text: The insect had a distinctly musciform appearance, although its shiny, golden colouration was altogether more agreeable.
text: Larva.—Length, 7–9 mm. White, head black. General shape musciform, tapered anteriorly, blunt posteriorly.
ref: 1918, J. R. Malloch, “A Preliminary Classification of Diptera, Exclusive of Pupipara, Based upon Larval and Pupal Characters”, in Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, volume XII, Urbana, page 401:
text: They hatch out into musciform larvae which feed upon the nutriment collected by the bees for their own larvae.
ref: 1925, A. D. Imms, A General Textbook of Entomology, London: Methuen & Co., page 657:
text: In many musciform flies the first two segments are also fused...
ref: 1965, Fritz Zumpt, Myiasis in Man and Animals in the Old World: A Textbook for Physicians, Veterinarians, and Zoologists, Butterworths, page 8:
glosses: Having the form or structure of flies of the genus Musca or family Muscidae.
cydonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Cydonia + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (oblonga), regarded as a variety of amylose.
surcingled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From surcingle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Contained in a surcingle.
pre-Cana
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + Cana, from the biblical story of the wedding feast at Cana.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Prior to a wedding.
raw_tags: in Catholic tradition
exterraneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin exterraneus, from ex (“out”) + terra (“land”).
Senses: glosses: foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad
dekastere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dekasteres
Etymology: From deka- + stere.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decastere.
dekasteres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dekastere
madrigaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madrigalers
Etymology: From madrigal + -er.
Senses: glosses: A madrigalist (writer or performer of madrigals)
madrigalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madrigaler
adfiliated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of affiliated.
gryphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gryphites
Etymology: Gryphaea + -ite
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A shell of the genus Gryphaea.
gryphites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gryphite
exalbuminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ex- + albuminous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having no endosperm about the embryo; said of certain seeds.
microphonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more microphonous
form: most microphonous
Senses: glosses: Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; amplifying.
goosish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːsɪʃ/
Forms: form: more goosish
form: most goosish
form: gooseish
form: goose-ish
Etymology: From Middle English goosish; equivalent to goose + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a goose; somewhat gooselike.
examples: text: Don't do anything gooseish, will you?' 'No, and don't you do anything gooseish either!' she retorted.
ref: 2008, Georgette Heyer, Charity Girl - Page 23:
text: “Don't be goosish.” Lucy was studying the room.
ref: 2011, Barbara Metzger, An Angel for the Earl:
text: […] She was always gooseish.” She waved her fan languidly as they made their way through the crowd until they reached the other side of the room.
ref: 2012, Candace Camp, The Wedding Challenge:
glosses: Foolish.
Derived terms: goosishness
polariscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: polarimetry
glosses: The art or process of making observations with a polariscope.
naturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nature
chromotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromotypes
form: chromatype
Etymology: From chromo- + -type.
Senses: glosses: A sheet printed in colour by any process, such as a chromolithograph
glosses: A photographic picture in the natural colours
Derived terms: photochromotype
Related terms: chromotypic
chromotypy
chromotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromotype
lungie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlʌŋi/
Forms: form: lungies
form: longie
Senses: examples: text: a kittywake's and lungie's nest
ref: 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: A guillemot
lungie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlʌŋi/
Forms: form: lungies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lungi.
lungies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lungie
glosses: plural of lungy
frigatoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frigatoons
Etymology: From Italian fregatone. Compare French frégaton and see frigate.
Senses: examples: text: "Your protegé shall not want advancement through my forgetfulness, be assured, Kenard. But why are you so anxiously looking through your glass to the windward?"
"For the three-masted frigatoon."
"You are doubtless mistaken in her character!"
"I cannot be, my lord. No honest trader in these waters ever had such a rig. She is a pirate, and, if she is anywhere near us, will be sure to give us a taste of her quality ere long."
ref: 1839, J.H. Ingraham, Captain Kyd; or, The Wizard of the Sea:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A Venetian vessel with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.
frigatoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frigatoon
Saxonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Saxonic
form: most Saxonic
Etymology: From Saxon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Saxons or Anglo-Saxons.
podder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podders
Senses: examples: text: As to the Light within, you make such a Podder about as if a Man could not tell that two and two were equal to four without it discovered it to him, I fhall give you my Sentiments about it: The Light within you understand to be the Spirit of Christ, or a Part of the Divine Nature;
ref: 1745, John Graham, Simon Pure unmask'd: or, the Errors of Quakerism display'd, page 26:
text: What a podder about a translation!
ref: 1925, William Hickling Prescott, Roger Wolcott, The Correspondence of William Hickling Prescott, 1833-1847, page 562:
text: As soon as I saw it, bless me, think I, what a podder is here troubling this gentleman with so many long printed letters.
ref: 1946, English Association, Essays and Studies - Volume 32, page 38:
text: “What a podder [pother] has this noble blood made in the world . . . ,” he declared, “methinks nothing of man's folly has less show of reason to palliate it.”
ref: 1991, David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, page 574:
glosses: Alternative form of pother.
podder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podders
Senses: examples: text: If Ah'd only got some podder, Ah can mek Fourt' of July raght here.
ref: 1894 July 5, “Fourth of July at Highfield Poorhouse”, in Youth's Companion, volume 67, page 307:
text: Thursday the Therd Day: I Kept Laising aBought all Day for I was very Laisay only I made a Stople to a podder Horn : and So on:
ref: 1966, Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum - Volume 12, page 281:
text: And when I remarked I couldn't provide 'em with no meat since I was out of podder for my rifle, Micajah--or Big Harpe as some calls him-- he smiled, sorta chuckled, and lent over the table, and said, 'No man oughta be without podder,' — or something like that and then poured out of his own horn.
ref: 2005, Kenneth Tucker, A Wilderness of Tigers, page 5:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of powder.
podder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podders
Senses: examples: text: B., a Podder in the Bank, demanded and took a reward for his trouble in receiving the money.
ref: 1880, Kedarnath Ghosh, Compendium of Criminal Rulings:
text: Five of these 100-rupee notes have been traced to a podder or money-changer in the Fort, who deposes that he received them from four soldiers in the Royal Fusiliers.
ref: 1915, Government Gazette: The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, page 48:
text: He mentioned that he had no time to check the scrolls, and that the statement of the tellers and podders was quite false.
ref: 1957, Labour Law Journal, page 101:
glosses: A money changer.
podder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podders
Senses: examples: text: It sounds like treacle,' said Abe, with a puzzled look; but I don't see what the podder's got to do with it, anyhow; and the young woman's got no business to be wasting her time waiting for the milk to set.
ref: 1898, The Literary World - Volume 57, page 70:
text: Now and then toads would appear, and the shout " There's a podder!" would come from some child or other during an acute moving crisis.
ref: 1930, Mother Cecile in South Africa, 1883-1906: Foundress of the Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord, page 37:
text: Speaking of toads—after a rainfall in South African country places, the roads would be hopping with great, fat, ugly, croaking toads (known to us kids as 'podders').
ref: 2006, F. M. K. Ridgway, Our Wandering Years, page 227:
glosses: A frog or toad.
podder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alteration of podware.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of podware.
podders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podder
heterobiographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterobiography
repleader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repleaders
Etymology: From re- + pleader.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
text: When a repleader is awarded , the amendment must begin where the plea, which makes the issue bad, begins to be the faulty ( a );
ref: 1794, Modern Reports - Volume 6, page 2:
text: The Circuit Court should have been moved for a repleader; had they refused, such refusal is assignable for error.
ref: 1926, Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, page 912:
topics: law
glosses: A second pleading, or course of pleadings.
repleaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repleader
luxive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luxive
form: most luxive
Etymology: luxe (“luxury”) + -ive
Senses: glosses: Luxurious, extravagant.
puncticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puncticular
form: most puncticular
Senses: examples: text: He that vvould diſcern the rudimentall ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the bigneſſe of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull eye may alſo diſcover the puncticular Originals of Perivvincles and Gnats.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 137:
glosses: Comprised in, or like, a point; exact.
disposement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disposements
Etymology: From dispose + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The next thing to be noticed is, that God having in these types foretold he should be a Nazarite ; and also in his wise disposement forelaid it, that an inhabitant of Nazareth, and a Nazarite devoted to be more eminently holy and a saviour, should by one and the same word be signified in vulgar use
ref: a. 1680, Thomas Goodwin, Christ Our Mediator:
glosses: disposal (several meanings)
disposements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disposement
whally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʍɔːlɪ/
/ˈwɔːlɪ/
Forms: form: more whally
form: most whally
Senses: examples: text: And next to him rode lustfull Lechery,
Vpon a bearded Goat, whose rugged haire,
And whally eyes (the signe of gelosy) […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Yet he with whally eyes and shaggy beard
ref: 1627(?), Richard Niccols, The beggers ape, page 14
text: One of her eyes was whally, the other was inscrutable.
ref: 1970 [????], Henry Williamson, Collected Nature Stories, page 206:
glosses: Having a light-coloured iris of the eye.
Related terms: walleye
representationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more representationary
form: most representationary
Etymology: From representation + -ary.
Senses: glosses: representative.
encrustment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encrustments
form: incrustment
Etymology: From encrust + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: disengaging truth from its encrustment of error
ref: 1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC:
glosses: encrustation (something forming a crust).
encrustments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encrustment
inunderstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inunderstanding
form: most inunderstanding
Etymology: From in- + understanding.
Senses: examples: 1868, Rev. J. Gorle, An Analysis of Pearson on the Creed
Can we think that such material and mortal, that such inunderstanding souls, should be furnished with bodies of so long permansion, and our spirits joined to flesh so suddenly dissolvible, were it not that they lived but once […]
glosses: Devoid of understanding.
Tarantinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tarantino
pentangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pent- + angular.
Senses: coordinate_terms: triangular
quadrangularity
rectangular
glosses: Having five corners or angles.
Derived terms: subpentangular
Related terms: pentangularity
pentangularly
gonydial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: gonydial angle
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.
rascaless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rascalesses
Etymology: From rascal + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female rascal.
rascalesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rascaless
gourdworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gourdworms
Etymology: From gourd + worm.
Senses: glosses: A fluke or trematode worm, especially the liver fluke.
gourdworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gourdworm
hireless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hire + -less.
Senses: examples: text: "To cry the state of the political atmosphere,"—and so forth, I set off on a tour to the North, from Bristol to Sheffield, for the purpose of procuring customers, preaching by the way in most of the great towns, as an hireless volunteer, in a blue coat and white waistcoat, that not a rag of the woman of Babylon might be seen on me.
ref: 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter X, in Biographia Literaria:
glosses: Without recompense, payment or reward.
pseudographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudography
pseudography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudographies
Etymology: From pseudo- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: Some of our contemporaries have thought proper to be sceptical on the subject of this publication, and have pretty plainly hinted that there is fraud somewhere, reminding their readers that 'pseudography has been as profitable a vocation as the forging of palimpsests, or the painting of Raphael's pictures not by Raphael.'
ref: 1864, Publishers' circular and booksellers' record, volume 27, page 471:
glosses: False writing; forgery.
glosses: Incorrect spelling.
intermembranous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹənəs
Etymology: From inter- + membranous.
Senses: examples: text: intermembranous ossification
text: intermembranous part
text: intermembranous space
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: intermembrane
glosses: Within or beneath a membrane.
overliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəlɪnəs/
ipa: /ˈoʊvəɹlɪnəs/
Etymology: From overly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being overly.
Carelessness, inattentiveness, negligence.
examples: text: VVould God ouerlineſſe and contempt vvere not yours, euen to them vvhich are mounted higheſt vpon beſt deſert; […]
ref: 1610, Jos[eph] Hall, “Section II. The Answerers Preamble.”, in A Common Apologie of the Church of England: Against the Uniust Challenges of the Ouer-iust Sect, Commonly Called Brownists. […], London: […] [William Stansby] for Samuel Macham, […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: The quality or state of being overly.
A sense of superiority; haughtiness.
reconcilements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconcilement
tuggingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tugging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Involving tugging (forceful pulling).
glosses: achingly or deeply
Related terms: heart-tuggingly
black up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blacks up
form: blacking up
form: blacked up
form: blacked up
Senses: glosses: To become or make (something) black or darker.
examples: text: Cantor starts blacking up, right then and there, painting his face with a burnt piece of cork.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 191:
glosses: To put on or wear blackface makeup.
glosses: To make something (e.g. a film, cast, story line, etc.) more racially black in character; blackenize.
Caspian tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caspian tigers
Senses: glosses: An extinct race of Panthera tigris tigris, that had been recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and formerly inhabited the sparse forest habitats and riverine corridors west and south of the Caspian Sea, from Turkey, Iran and west through Central Asia into the Taklamakan Desert of Xinjiang, China.
Synonyms: Hyrcanian tiger
Turan tiger
separatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more separatical
form: most separatical
Etymology: From separate + -ical?
Senses: examples: text: Churches and congregations were torn asunder , many ministers were dismissed , churches of a separatical character were formed , the peace of society was permanently broken up
ref: 1830, Timothy Dwight, The Life of President Edwards:
glosses: Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical.
speculatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more speculatorial
form: most speculatorial
Senses: glosses: speculatory; speculative
Pactolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pactolian
form: most Pactolian
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands.
glosses: golden
binoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /baɪˈnɒksaɪd/
Forms: form: binoxides
Etymology: From bin- + oxide.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of dioxide.
binoxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binoxide
grippleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gripple + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being gripple.
amasthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Uniting the rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens does.
Synonyms: amacratic
inexertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inexertions
Etymology: From in- + exertion.
Senses: examples: text: And that exertion/inexertion combo is stressing me right out of my life. Exertion makes me tired. Inexertion makes me useless. No time and no energy to love.
ref: 2019, Jennifer Coffman, Celebrating Brokenness, page 95:
glosses: Lack of exertion or effort; indolence; laziness.
inexertions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inexertion
undeified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undeify
undeified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not deified.
undeifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undeify
undeify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undeifies
form: undeifying
form: undeified
form: undeified
Etymology: From un- + deify.
Senses: examples: text: An Idol may be undeified
ref: 1711 June 4 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, May 24, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 73; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive godness.
undeifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undeify
paragnathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + -gnathous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: having both mandibles of equal length, with the tips meeting, as in certain birds
cotland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotlands
Etymology: From cot + land.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The land attached to a cottage, or held by the owner of the cottage.
cotlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotland
luciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luciform
form: most luciform
Etymology: From Latin lux, lucis (“light”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: This tunicle of the soul , whether it be called pure ether , or luciform vehicle , or animal spirit , seemeth to be that which moves and acts upon the gross
ref: 1744, George Berkeley, Siris, a chain of philosophical reflections and inquiries, concerning the virtues of tar-water:
glosses: Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light.
blink-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blink-eyed
form: most blink-eyed
Etymology: From blink + eyed.
Senses: examples: text: Mingled with powdred shot & fethered steele
So thicke vpon the blink-ei’d Burghers heades
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The Second Part […], 2nd edition, part 2, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: Habitually winking.
cohesibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Cohesibility is the tendency which one part of matter evinces to unite with another part of matter, so as to form out of different bodies one common mass.
ref: 1826, John Mason Good, “Lecture IV. On the Properties of Matter, Essential and Peculiar.”, in The Book of Nature. […], volumes I (Series I. Nature of the Material World; […].), London: […] [A[ndrew] & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 81:
glosses: The state of being cohesible.
corvetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corvettos
Senses: examples: text: You must draw the horse in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..
ref: 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman:
text: but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the rector of Saynt Andrew of S—, nearest in neighbourhood, but not of mine own cure, myself being of D— manor house in the same vicinage,—who astonished beyond measure at my so extasied gladness, demanded wherefore I did carry myself on this wise?
ref: 1843, Bernard M— (of S—), A Dream of a Queen's Reign, page 4:
glosses: A curvet; a leap.
examples: text: These all have a crowning corvetto and ovolo.
ref: 1996, Avnēr Rabbān, Kenneth G. Holum, Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective After Two Millennia, page 141:
text: House D had Egyptian architectural features and artefacts, such as a stone slab with a corvetto cornice, a royal signet ring (Psamtik I), and mud sealings (Necho II) (Mumford 2007).
ref: 2010, Alan B. Lloyd, A Companion to Ancient Egypt, page 348:
text: An Egyptologist's mind immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of inward-sloping walls, torus and corvetto cornice.
ref: 2018, Jan Assmann, The Invention of Religion:
text: The metope is occupied by a circular disk or shield, but in lieu of the regular cornice there is one which resembles the Egyptian cornice, consissting of a deep and high corvetto, and a bold torus below it
ref: 2023, William McClure Thomson, The Land and the Book: Vol. II, page 481:
glosses: An Egyptian style of cornice, resembling the roof structure of a reed hut.
corvettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corvetto
turfen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From turf + -en.
Senses: examples: text: turfen steps
text: […] the shepherds of Desvres were seen at a distance betaking themselves to the insufficient shelter of the turfen hovels dotted upon the cote to afford them a retreat from the vicissitudes of the atmosphere.
ref: 1831, Catherine Grace Frances Gore, The Tuileries, volume 3, page 175:
glosses: Made of turf; covered with turf.
wardmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːdməʊt/
Forms: form: wardmotes
form: ward moot
form: wardmoot
Etymology: From Middle English wardmote. Equivalent to ward + moot.
Senses: examples: text: Association was built into the structure of communal government in the City's wardmotes and precinct meetings and in the open vestries of many suburban parishes.
ref: 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 121:
glosses: A meeting of the inhabitants of a ward, especially in the City of London.
glosses: A court formerly held in each ward of London, England for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like.
wardmotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wardmote
genealogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of genealogical.
assistful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assistful
form: most assistful
Etymology: From assist + -ful.
Senses: glosses: helpful
organotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From organo- + -trophic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: (of bacteria) That can obtain metabolic energy from the oxidation of organic compounds
Derived terms: chemoorganotrophic
organotrophically
photoorganotrophic
Related terms: organotrophy
fulgently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fulgently
form: most fulgently
Etymology: From fulgent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For genuine students the time to simply praise is past, the time to fitly appraise not yet come; for the morning he so fulgently heralded is still far from its noon, and the most prescient are still all-unsure what shall be the character of the evolution and completion of its day.
ref: 1878, James Thomson, A Note on Shelley:
text: I was silent when the sun set fulgently over the far hills, and Kilderry blazed all red and gold in a flame that seemed a portent.
ref: 1926, H. P. Lovecraft, The Moon-Bog:
glosses: In a fulgent manner; dazzlingly; glitteringly
hemiglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemiglyphs
Etymology: From hemi- + glyph.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
hemiglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemiglyph
trifoliolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + foliolate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: unifoliolate
bifoliolate
quadrifoliolate
glosses: Having three leaflets, as some compound leaves do.
Related terms: english: three leaves
translation: three leaves
word: trifoliate
trifoliolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trifoliolates
Etymology: From tri- + foliolate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant of this kind.
encystation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encystations
Etymology: From en- + cyst + -ation.
Senses: glosses: encystment
encystations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encystation
squirely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squirely
form: most squirely
Etymology: From squire + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like or suiting a squire.
hypnocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypnocysts
Etymology: From hypno- + cyst.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily enclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food.
hypnocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypnocyst
titmouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titmouse
heriotable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heriot + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.
ref: 1777, Joseph Nicolson, Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland:
glosses: Subject to the payment of a heriot.
copperish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more copperish
form: most copperish
Etymology: From copper + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: She was naked like himself, but chocolate-coloured, not copperish as he was.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 63:
glosses: Like copper; coppery.
Derived terms: copperishness
lepidopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lepidopters
Senses: glosses: lepidopteran; one of the Lepidoptera.
lepidopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepidopter
humifuse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humifuse
form: most humifuse
Etymology: From Latin humus (“ground”) + fusus, past participle of fundere (“to spread”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent
demesnial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈmiːni.əl/
Forms: form: more demesnial
form: most demesnial
Etymology: From demesne + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: demesnial custom
text: demesnial land
text: demesnial township
glosses: Of or pertaining, or of the native of a demesne
bowgrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊɡɹeɪs/
Forms: form: bowgraces
Etymology: From bow + grace.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A frame or fender made of rope or junk (old cordage), hung over the sides or bow (front) of a vessel to avoid it getting damaged.
bowgraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowgrace
fasciole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fascioles
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fasciola (“a little bandage”). See fascia.
Senses: examples: text: anal fascioles
text: lateral fascioles
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins.
Derived terms: parafasciole
fascioles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fasciole
lighterage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lighterages
Etymology: From lighter + -age.
Senses: glosses: The fee paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter (flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances).
examples: text: If Goods are to be brought Home to your own House, there are Charges for Weighage, Cranage, Porterage, Wharfage, Cartage, Lighterage, &c.
ref: 1738, William Markham, A General Introduction to Trade and Business:
text: 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 355,
He has certainly organized the lighterage service of the harbor for the O.S.N. Company with great ability.
text: Moreover, as the traffic would be mainly morning and evening rush-hour services, at other times of the day much lighterage across the river could be saved by using part of the new terminus for freight trafic.
ref: 1952 July, “New Terminus for New York?”, in Railway Magazine, page 434:
glosses: The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
lighterages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lighterage
vaporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French vaporation, Latin vaporatio.
Senses: glosses: evaporation
mootable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mootable
form: most mootable
Etymology: From moot + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a mootable point
text: a mootable question
glosses: Capable of being mooted.
woulding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwʊdɪŋ/
Forms: form: wouldings
Etymology: From would + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: an act of some kind of woulding or appetite, and that is constantly twofold to the same matter; the flesh hath one woulding, and the spirit hath another
ref: 1653, Henry Hammond, Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament:
glosses: An emotion of desire; an inclination; velleity.
wouldings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woulding
peppermint stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peppermint sticks
Senses: hypernyms: candy
<
confection
coordinate_terms: peppermint bark
glosses: Synonym of candy cane.
synonyms: word: candy cane