cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Yenissei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Yenisei.
Northern Dvina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: So called to distinguish it from the Western Dvina or Daugava.
Senses: glosses: A river in Russia.
confusement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From confuse + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: All of these big words are causing me confusement.
glosses: Confusion.
pitchforkful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitchforkfuls
form: pitchforksful
Etymology: From pitchfork + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: If you clean it out as other people do, ten pitchforksful will come in for every one you throw out.
ref: 1889, “The Master-maid”, in Andrew Lang, editor, The Blue Fairy Book, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. and New York, page 121:
glosses: The amount that a pitchfork holds.
Pavlovian conditioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: classical conditioning
in puris naturalibus
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in puris naturalibus.
Senses: examples: text: Report has it, however, that when he returned from the wood he found the no longer fair lady firmly established in his bed, in puris naturalibus; or one should say, in impuris naturalibus.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XVII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 316:
text: Boyles crouched against the wall in puris naturalibus, while Ned wrapped the magician's cape around his bare legs and flagged down the coach.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 49:
glosses: In a purely natural state; naked.
dhuhr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈðʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈðʊhə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊhə(ɹ)
Forms: form: zuhr
form: dhuhur
Etymology: From Arabic ظُهْر (ẓuhr, “noon”), in صَلَاة اَلظُّهْر (ṣalāt aẓ-ẓuhr, “noon prayer”).
Senses: examples: text: Each afternoon – immediately following the dhuhur or midday prayers – he was summoned to Fatima's tent for a question-and-answer period.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 55:
text: It is 1999 and I am told that, as an employee of the nation of Islam, one of my duties is to supervise the female students of the college while they participate in Dhuhr.
ref: 2010, Kylie Sturgess, The Lay Scientist, The Guardian (online), 10 Nov 2010
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The midday Islamic prayer.
transcompiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcompilers
Etymology: From transcompile + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A translating compiler that takes the source code of a programming language as its input and outputs the source code into either another programming language or an older version of the same language.
Synonyms: source-to-source compiler
translating compiler
transpiler
Hypernyms: compiler
Related terms: transcompile
cross-compiler
Acri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Acris
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Acri.
Senses: glosses: A town in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy.
glosses: A habitational surname from Italian.
Antenor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A son of Aesyetes
ex-husbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ex-husband
echinuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more echinuliform
form: most echinuliform
Etymology: From Latin echinus (“hedgehog”), + -form.
Senses: glosses: Resembling small spines.
Brunetto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brunettos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Brunetto.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
apetaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He suggested that well-established plants, as shrubs and trees, as well as those which mass their flowers may dispense with petals. Petaly is apparently correlated with entomophily, and apetaly with anemophily.
ref: 1899, John Merle Coulter, M. S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Botanical Gazette (volume 28, page 281)
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
antonyms: petaly
glosses: The condition of having no petals
seter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seters
Etymology: See saeter.
Senses: examples: text: Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.
ref: 1964, Reidar Christiansen, Folktales of Norway, page 114:
text: In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the seters.
ref: 1968, Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme, A geography of Norden: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, page 248:
text: For example, twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from the north of England mention place-names incorporating the term 'shield' or 'shiel', a 'shieling' being an area of summer pasture corresponding to the seters of Sweden.
ref: 2002, Brian Roberts, Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present, page 131:
glosses: Alternative spelling of saeter.
seter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seters
Senses: examples: text: The lowest important terrace, known as Sherbrooke-street terrace, lies at a height of 36-6 meters in the Leda clay; the next, Waterwork terrace, at a height of 67 meters, is excavated in the lower Silurian limestone, and I am not sure whether it should not be regarded as a seter.
ref: 1906, Eduard Suess, “The Face of the Earth”, in Das Antlitz der Erde, page 479:
text: As far as Suess could see from the existing maps and from the aneroid that he had wisely brought with him, the seters are also horizontal. Nowhere did Suess see any marine fossils on the seters, and neither had anybody else before him.
ref: 2003, The Large Wavelength Deformations of the Lithosphere, →ISBN, page 227:
glosses: A natural terrace in solid rock, formed by waves, that marks the former position of a shoreline.
seter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seters
Senses: examples: text: Similar to the seter, it is forbidden to touch the tree, or to chop the tree down for firewood, or timber. It is clear that the sacred tree and the seter cow have powers, beyond that of an ordinary cow or tree, which assist in protecting the herding family and their herd of animals from harm.
ref: 2011, Natasha Fijn, Living with Herds: Human-Animal Coexistence in Mongolia, →ISBN, page 232:
text: As I entered her house early on the afternoon before the ritual, Nadmid Udgan was busy making protective amulets (seter, lusyn örgöl) on her manual sewing machine.
ref: 2011, Morten Axel Pedersen, Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia, →ISBN, page 154:
text: So our man [Tulga] made a great show of bringing his black stallion, tied the seter, and let the horse go free.
ref: 2013, Caroline Humphrey, Hurelbaatar Ujeed, A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism, →ISBN, page 238:
text: In both traditions, Shamanism and Buddhism, a rite of entrusting and consecrating a domestic animal to a deity involves tying a seter around the neck of a sheep or goat or on the mane of a horse.
ref: 2013, John P. Hoffmann, Understanding Religious Ritual, →ISBN:
glosses: A silk scarf or thin pice of cotton cloth used to consecrate a domestic animal to a deity in Mongolia.
seters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seter
nominate executor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nominate executors
Senses: glosses: An executor or administrator appointed to administer the estate of a deceased who left a valid will.
Coordinate terms: dative executor
hightide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hightides
Etymology: From Middle English hegtide, from Old English hēahtīd (“a holy day”), equivalent to high + tide. Cognate with Dutch hoogtijd, German Hochzeit, Danish højtid, Swedish högtid, Icelandic hátíð, Norwegian Bokmål høytid, Norwegian Nynorsk høgtid. Compare also highday, hockday.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high tide.
cockpunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockpunches
Etymology: From cock + punch.
Senses: examples: text: What was coming? A slap to the face? A fist to the gut? An epic cockpunch?
ref: 2012, Tamara Hogan, Chase Me, link:
glosses: A strike to the groin
cockpunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cockpunches
form: cockpunching
form: cockpunched
form: cockpunched
Etymology: From cock + punch.
Senses: glosses: To strike in the groin
cockpunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockpunch
cockpunches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cockpunch
cockpunched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cockpunch
cockpunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cockpunch
highpriesthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highpriesthoods
form: high-priesthood
Senses: glosses: The office or dignity of a highpriest.
highgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highgates
form: he-gate
form: heigait
Etymology: From Middle English hiȝe gate, heiȝe gate, heie gate, equivalent to high + gate (“way, road, path”).
Senses: glosses: A highway.
highday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highdays
form: high-day
Etymology: From Middle English heh dæi, from Old English hēah dæġ, equivalent to high + day. Compare Dutch hoog dag, German hoher Tag.
Senses: examples: text: Here a man cleaned a horse or his harness, there a group chatted on the curb of the well; here a white-capped cook showed himself, and there, beside the entrance, a couple teased the brown bear that inhabited the stone kennel, and on high days made sport for the Captain of Vlaye's dogs.
ref: 1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “XXI. The Castle of Vlaye”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:
glosses: A feast day, holiday, or festival; a time of pleasure.
glosses: A time or period of full activity or strength; heyday.
Related terms: heyday
hightide
highpriestship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highpriestships
Etymology: From high priest + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office of a high priest.
highpriestly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more highpriestly
form: most highpriestly
Etymology: From highpriest + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a highpriest.
SMSF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SMSFs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of self-managed superfund.
snoggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒɡəl
Forms: form: snoggles
form: snoggling
form: snoggled
form: snoggled
Etymology: Blend of snog + snuggle?
Senses: examples: text: 2001, Billie, Re: Meg went dateless in Aspen, alt.gossip.celebrities, <20010107192337.27750.00000321@ng-fs1.aol.com>
No, she and Crowe both attended, but they entered and exited separately, but were seen dancing and snoggling together.
text: 2003, "dog", Re: What is the best selling jazz album of all time?, rec.music.jazz, <3f9b0f03_2@newspeer2.tds.net>
Hey he's not bad when reading a book, or snoggling with a lady.
text: I ended up with an older woman at a club last night. She looked okay for a 57-year-old. We drank a bit, and a had a bit of a snoggle and she asked if I'd ever had a Sportsman's Double.
ref: 2007 May 2, Stipo, “Sportsman's Double”, in alt.humor (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Feb 2024:
text: … so that the greatest tension in all romances comes as a heroine is maybe, just maybe, about to kiss someone. This is always spellbinding and illustrates my maxim that it is less erotic to snoggle for sixty minutes than spend sixty seconds wondering if you are almost about to be snoggled.
ref: 2010 (2012), Roger Ebert, "Chandi Chowk to China", Chicago Sun-Times, reprinted in A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck, Andrews McMeel Publishing, page 39
glosses: To kiss.
look on the bright side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks on the bright side
form: looking on the bright side
form: looked on the bright side
form: looked on the bright side
form: look on the bright side of it
Senses: examples: text: Look on the bright side. At least having a broken leg means Joyce will have to do the TPS reports until they remember to send your laptop over.
text: Patrick O'Brien: No hard feelings? I've been falsely accused, had the crap kicked out of me, now I have no job.
Gene Hunt: Look on the bright side. Still got your health. So, you know, every cloud.
ref: 2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:
synonyms: look on the positive side
coordinate_terms: look on the dark side
glosses: To examine a situation, usually unfavorable, from a positive perspective; to be cheerful or optimistic.
Related terms: the glass half-full
count one's blessings
every cloud has a silver lining
nitta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪtə/
Forms: form: nittas
Etymology: From Fula nete, and its source, Mandingo nɛtɛ.
Senses: examples: text: These are the hard times, the long lingering days before the rains. Udders dry, grain reserves shot – even the insipid nitta pods in short supply.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 65:
glosses: A tropical tree of the genus Parkia, having edible pods and seeds, especially Parkia filicoidea or Parkia biglobosa.
Fafnir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɑːvnəɹ/
/ˈfɑːfnɪəɹ/
Etymology: Old Norse Fáfnir; Icelandic Frænir
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: a son of the dwarf king Hreidmar, who killed his father, transformed into a lindworm, a type of dragon, and was subsequently slain by Regin and Sigurd.
Related terms: Volsunga Saga
ciboa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Ciboa-Tree is very much like a Palm-Tree, and grows to a great Height: The Leaves which grow on the Top are very usesul for covering of Houses, and the Natives extract Wine out of it in the same Way as out of the Palm-Tree […]
ref: 1738, Francis Moore, Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa:
text: In the afternoon it rained hard, and we had recourse to the common Negro umbrella, a large ciboa leaf, which being placed upon the head, completely defends the whole body from the rain.
ref: 1799, Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, volume 1:
text: Stands of ciboa darken the valleys, and massive tabbas, wide around as Big Ben, transfix the hilltops.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 94:
glosses: A type of palm tree with large fronds, Borassus aethiopicum, growing in West Africa.
prosopagnosias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosopagnosia
Gullinbursti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse Gullinbursti (“Golden-bristled”); sometimes known as Slíðrugtanni.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A giant bronze mechanical boar forged by Brokkr and Eitri as a gift for the god Freyr.
dioch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌɪ.ək/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɑk/
Forms: form: diochs
form: diock
Senses: examples: text: From the trees comes the doleful cry of the black-faced dioch, and the weary rustle of galagos creeping back to their nests after a meticulous night's prowl.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 146:
glosses: An African weaverbird of the genus Quelea.
Synonyms: quelea
Derived terms: alt: red-billed quelea, Quelea quelea
word: Sudan dioch / Sudan diock
Potto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in North Yorkshire.
Jörmungandr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɔɹmunˌɡɑndɹ̩/
ipa: /-mʊn-/
ipa: /-ˌɡænd-/
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse Jǫrmungandr.
Senses: examples: text: The dragon Jörmungandr, for instance, was said to encircle the entire world of Midgard (where people live). To complete the circle, he bit his own tail.
ref: 2006, Stephen Krensky, Dragons, page 28:
text: The ultimate symbol of evil, the Midgard Serpent or Jörmungandr, was the offspring of the trickster Loki and the sorceress Angur-boda, who also gave birth to Hel (the queen of the dead) and the Fenris Wolf (see page 239).
ref: 2006, Ruth Binney, Nature's Ways: Lore, Legend, Fact and Fiction, page 234:
text: Thus the Aegypto-Greek Ourobouros or Norse Jörmungandr (Midgard serpent) surrounds the cosmos, biting its own tail in a symbol of perpetuity and infinity, never ending, always regenerating.
ref: 2010, Valerie Estelle Frankel, From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend, page 70:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The World Serpent or Midgard Serpent, an offspring of Loki, which is thrown into the ocean by Odin but grows to encircle the world, and is finally slain during Ragnarok by Thor, who then succumbs to its poisonous breath.
Synonyms: sense: mythological serpent
word: Miðgarðsormr
sense: mythological serpent
word: Midgardsormr
sense: mythological serpent
word: Midgard Serpent
sense: mythological serpent
word: World Serpent
Related terms: amphisbaena
hoop snake
Kraken
Leviathan
ouroboros
Shesha
Theli
barguest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barguests
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barghest.
barguests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barguest
wanderlusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wanderlust
easiliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find / The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare / Might easiliest harbour in?
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: December 15 1665, William Temple, letter to Sir William Coventry
My presumptions may be great with my friends, but they are the easiliest checked of any man's alive.
text: Inquire what be the stones that do easiliest melt
ref: a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Inquisitions touching the compounding of metals:
glosses: superlative form of easily (adverb): most easily
crare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: crares
form: craie
form: cray
form: crayer
Etymology: From Old French craier, creer, croyer (“ship of war”), Late Latin craiera, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic (compare German Krieger (“warrior”), or Dutch krijger).
Senses: examples: text: Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find / The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare / Might easiliest harbour in?
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: A slow unwieldy trading vessel.
crares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crare
crayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crayer
unenamelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enamelled.
Senses: glosses: Not enamelled (UK), enameled (US).
unenameled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enameled.
Senses: glosses: Not enameled.
interconnector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interconnectors
Senses: glosses: That which interconnects.
glosses: That which interconnects.
A structure that allows energy to flow between networks, especially electricity and natural gas between international energy networks.
interconnectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interconnector
robotkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From robot + -kind; compare humankind.
Senses: glosses: Robots collectively, regarded as a species.
robothood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From robot + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being a robot.
reboations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reboation
alvite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alvites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A silicate of hafnium, thorium and zirconium
astatate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astatates
Etymology: From astatine + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion AtO₃⁻; any salt containing this anion.
Derived terms: perastatate
astatide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astatides
Etymology: From astatine + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of astatine and another element.
azamacrocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aza- + macrocyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to an azamacrocycle
blomstrandine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blomstrandines
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic oxide mineral containing a mixture of several rare earths
carroting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carrot + -ing, in reference to the orange colour of the drying fur.
Senses: examples: text: The present commonly used method for application of the carroting solution to the furs is, as indicated above, the brushing of the fur with the solution while the fur is on the pelt, with subsequent drying usually performed at an elevated temperature.
ref: 1942, Constantine F. Fabian, U.S. patent 2,306,872:
text: In a now-classic 2002 article, they warn museum professionals that the remnants of mercury from the carroting process still remain a threat.
ref: 2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN, pages 47–48:
synonyms: secretage
glosses: A process in the manufacture of felt in which the animal pelt is treated with a solution of mercury salts, such as mercuric nitrate.
chrysiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chryso- + -iasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A pigmentation of the skin following contact with gold salts
nonacoordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nona- + coordinate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having nine ligands
photopolymerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + polymerizing.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That aids photopolymerization
gadopentetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gadolinium + pentetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to gadopentetic acid and its derivatives
Derived terms: gadopentetate
gadoteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: gadolinium + ?
Senses: glosses: Relating to gadoteric acid and its derivaties
wardom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wardoms
Etymology: From war + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, because both policies were global, it led to the establishment of a global state of "wardom."
ref: 1987, J. F. C. Fuller, A Military History of the Western World, Vol. III:
text: [...] between two periods within the era of industrialization: the "paleotechnic" under the sway of steam and mechanics, that coincides with the "imperial-financial age," the era of Kriegspiel or "wardom"; [...]
ref: 1996, Armand Mattelart, The Invention of Communication:
text: ([...] I am even of opinion that this is the only way to escape from the terrible and ever increasing miseries of wardom militarism).
ref: 2010, Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies, page 28:
glosses: The state or condition of war; warfare; conflict.
huebnerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huebnerites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hübnerite.
hydroxylbastnäsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxylbastnäsites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic mixed carbonate and fluoride of cerium and lanthanum
nuclearities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclearity
uncapricious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncapricious
form: most uncapricious
Etymology: From un- + capricious.
Senses: glosses: Not capricious.
comfortabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comfortability
Quilon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kollam.
yidakis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yidaki
springall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springalls
Senses: examples: text: Understand, this Firſt-ling [the wallflower] vvas / Once a briſk and bonny Laſſe, / VVho a ſprightly Springall lov'd, / And to have it fully prov'd, / Up ſhe got upon a vvall, / Tempting dovvn to ſlide vvithall: / But the ſilken tvviſt unty'd, / So ſhe fell; and bruis'd, ſhe dy'd.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “How the Wall-flower Came First, and Why So Called”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of springald (“young man”).
springalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of springall
encyclopedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encyclopedies
Senses: glosses: encyclopedia
encyclopaedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encyclopaedies
Senses: glosses: encyclopedia
encyclopaedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encyclopaedy
downrank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downranks
form: downranking
form: downranked
form: downranked
Etymology: From down + rank.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To lower in rank.
downranked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downrank
downranking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downrank
downranks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downrank
parachutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parachutable
form: most parachutable
Etymology: From parachute + -able.
Senses: examples: parachutable supplies
glosses: Capable of being deployed by parachute.
antiparachute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + parachute.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Opposing parachutes or parachutists.
monazitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monazite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Composed of monazite
peece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peeces
form: piece
Senses: examples: text: The Prince beheld the peece, which site and art / Impregnable had made on every part.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, VII, xxix
glosses: A fortress.
peece
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peeces
form: peecing
form: peeced
form: peeced
form: piece
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of piece.
peeces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peece
peeced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peece
peecing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peece
redeliverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From redeliver + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being redelivered.
undeliverability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + deliver + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Response rate was limited due in part by^([sic]) the undeliverability of a large portion of the surveys (approximately 50%) and to respondents' attrition from the firm in question.
ref: 2007, Angela Kay Lawson, Having Your Day in Court, page 25:
glosses: The quality of being undeliverable.
niobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From niobium + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to niobium.
Derived terms: niobic acid
unclaimable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unclaimable
form: most unclaimable
Etymology: From un- + claimable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be claimed.
sand crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand crab
chanchito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chanchitos
Senses: glosses: Australoheros facetus, the chameleon cichlid.
chanchitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chanchito
rews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rew
gill-over-the-ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the female name Gillian.
Senses: glosses: ground ivy
eyeshines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyeshine
dranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drank
snake's head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake's heads
form: snake's-head
form: snakeshead
form: snakehead
form: snake-head
Etymology: From snake + -'s + head. An upright portion of each plant bears a checkered or overlapping pattern that resembles the appearance of snakeskin.
Senses: examples: text: Hangings of tapestry were behind the high seats, worked with flowers, snake’s-head, snapdragon, dragon-mouth, and their kind; and on the dado below the windows were sculptures of birds and beasts and creeping things.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:
synonyms: fritillary
glosses: snake's head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris), a flowering plant in the family Liliaceae, native to Eurasia.
glosses: snake's head desertdandelion (Malacothrix coulteri), a plant in the family Asteraceae, native to North America.
glosses: Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arum maculatum), a plant in the family Araceae, native to northern Europe.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see snake, head.
Synonyms: word: chess flower
word: chequered daffodil
word: chequered lily
word: drooping tulip
word: fritillary
word: frog-cup
word: guinea flower
word: guinea-hen flower
word: Lazarus bell
word: leper lily
word: snake's head
word: snake's head fritillary
Hypernyms: word: lily
Related terms: word: :Category:Lily family plants
snakesheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snakeshead
osmiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osmiates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: osmate
perastatate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perastatates
Etymology: From per- + astatate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion AtO₄⁻; any salt containing this anion
kinetogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kinetogenic
form: most kinetogenic
Etymology: From kineto- + -genic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Producing movement.
cessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cess
broskis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broski
copyholding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copyholdings
Senses: glosses: tenure by copyhold
copyholdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copyholding
diascord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: diascordium
Venice treacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
glosses: Synonym of theriac.
synonyms: word: theriac
treacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treacle
treacled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more treacled
form: most treacled
Etymology: From treacle + -ed.
Senses: examples: a slice of treacled bread
glosses: Covered with treacle.
houndly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: houndlier
form: more houndly
form: houndliest
form: most houndly
Etymology: From Middle English houndly, houndely, from Old English hundlīċ (“of or like dogs, canine”), equivalent to hound + -ly. Cognate with Middle Dutch hondelike (“doglike”), Middle High German huntlich (“doglike”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] all of which really ought to be secondary considerations to those two houndly gifts, the keen, discriminating sense of smell, and ready, truthful tongue.
ref: 1865, Baily's Magazine of sports and pastimes, volume 9, page 129:
text: Of course, I knew he couldn't read; we loved this basset for his extraordinary beauty and houndly bouquet, not his brains. But he had been quite the book-hound as a youngster, [...]
ref: 2008, Kitty Foth-Regner, Heaven Without Her:
text: But nothing compares to the adoring look in those houndly eyes, nor the profound sigh of bliss when that large head is lowered onto your lap to receive gentle [...]
ref: 2013, Thomas J. Mattingly, Earl C. Hudson, Smokey:
glosses: Of, like, or characteristic of hounds or dogs; doglike; dogly; canine.
precompensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + compensation.
Senses: glosses: compensation in advance
Related terms: precompensate
houndish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more houndish
form: most houndish
Etymology: From Middle English houndisch, equivalent to hound + -ish. Compare Dutch honds (“doglike”), German hündisch (“houndish; doglike”).
Senses: examples: text: This the "free" burgher of our Civilisation calls "houndish fidelity," with a contemptuous accent on the "hound."
ref: 1897, Richard Wagner, Religion and art:
text: [...] houndish face was anything but memorable, yet Verna felt certain she had seen it somewhere before. "Delfred! Delfred! Delfred! Woof! Woof! Woof!" continued the chant outside the garden wall.
ref: 1994, Jack Lovejoy, Outworld Cats:
text: Long strings of yellow dangled from Jorn's houndish snout, and his eyes were red.
ref: 2008, Jeffrey Overstreet, Cyndere's Midnight:
text: Lucrezia laughed, a houndish laugh, almost a baying.
ref: 2010, Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror:
glosses: Like, pertaining to, or characteristic of a hound; doggish; canine.
Related terms: houndly
houndy
houndy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: houndier
form: more houndy
form: houndiest
form: most houndy
Etymology: From hound + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, there was a time when the question was debated whether the Airedale should not be grouped with the hound, and in the earlier days of his development he certainly had a very decidedly houndy look, as well as a houndy weight, […]
ref: 1904, Herbert Compton, The Twentieth Century Dog:
text: The brothers were of opposite types, one inclined to be heavy-boned and houndy, the other somewhat elegant, arch-loined, and light; the same variation occurred in the two bitches: all four were prize-winners. In due course I sold them.
ref: 1906, William Arkwright, The pointer and his predecessors:
text: […] “houndy” dogs, Mont still was not pleased with the dogs and gave five of them to the Reece brothers, Brice and Mark, who lived near Sunburst on the Pigeon River, south of Plott Valley.
ref: 2007, Bob Plott, The Story of the Plott Hound:
glosses: Like, resembling, or characteristic of a hound; houndlike.
houndlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more houndlike
form: most houndlike
Etymology: From hound + -like. Compare houndly.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, the desire for "long ears, houndlike head, and much throatiness" was going on, though one of our first and most successful breeders protested [...]
ref: 1878, John Henry Walsh, The dogs of the British Islands:
text: And in the British Isles, there were the shepherd-type dogs already mentioned, an ancestral houndlike dog and a small house dog that could have later given rise to the terriers.
ref: 1996, Roger A. Caras, A Perfect Harmony:
text: Houndlike ears: See Drop ear. Houndlike lips: Well-developed, deep, pendulous flews.
ref: 2007, American Kennel Club, The Complete Dog Book: 20th Edition:
glosses: Like, resembling, or characteristic of a hound; houndly.
Derived terms: unhoundlike
boyg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Norwegian Bøyg
Senses: examples: text: He fought the boyg all right, pedantry, routine, timeservers at office desks, trustees, collegepresidents^([sic]), the plump flunkies of the ruling businessmen, all the good jobs kept for yesmen, never enough money, every broadening hope thwarted.
ref: 1936, John Dos Passos, The Big Money, Random House, pages 93–94:
glosses: Formless hindrances personified as an enemy
Hungarland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hungerland
form: Ungerland
Etymology: From Middle English *Hungerland, from Old English Hungerland, Ungerland (“Hungary”), equivalent to Hungar + land. Compare German Hungarland, Ungarland (“Hungary”), Icelandic Ungverjaland (“Hungary”).
Senses: examples: text: The gouernment of Hungarland was anciently spirituall & seculer, the spiritualty was gouerned by the Arch-Byshop of Strigonium (who were Chancellors os the Land) and of Colozza.
ref: 1611, Giovanni Botero, Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms and Commonwealths:
text: Considering that the surrounding text mentions imported fashions from other parts of Europe (France, Italy), it is possible that "Hungerland" should mean Hungary and the reference would be to a special kind of ribbon produced there.
ref: 2009, Monica Matei-Chesnoiu, Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere:
text: “A pact between Poland, Romania, and the Hungarians.” “But what about us?” The tongs snapped closed. “We're lost already. ... you're needed to go to the Hungerland factory. On a flax-buying mission.” “Received word from who? Max?”
ref: 2011, Alison Pick, Far to Go:
glosses: Hungary (Magyarország).
Related terms: Hungarish
Hungerland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hungarland.
Hungarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hungarish
form: most Hungarish
Etymology: From Hungary + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: May 25th, I sent the Lantgrave my twelve Hungarish horses.
ref: 1589 May 25, John Dee, Diary; republished as James Orchard Halliwell, editor, The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee […] , 1842, page 31:
text: Take, in the name of the Lord, of Hungarish gold, which hath been cast thrice through antimony and hath been laminated most thinly, as much of it as you will, and make with quick Mercury an amalgam; […]
ref: c. 17th century, The Book of Saint Dunstan; republished as Arthur Edward Waite, editor, The Alchemical Writings of Edward Kelly, 1893, page lviii:
text: The weak ones have this property, that upon them no Gold doth touch bright, but the Gold doth only grind on it, and becometh in the aspect weake and ruffe, also the Hungarish or other weak Gold will not touch it self right upon Touch-stones […]
ref: 1686, John Pettus, Fleta Minor: The Laws of Art and Nature, in Knowing, Judging, Assaying, Fining, Refining, and Inlarging the Bodies of Confin’d Metals […] , pages 136–37:
text: Little more than a hundred years ago, a work was published in Germany, entitled, “[…] treatise of the chewing and smacking of the dead in graves, wherein the true nature of those Hungarish vampyres and blood-suckers is showed, and all writings are reviewed which have hitherto appeared concerning this matter.” Leipsig, 1734.
ref: 1846, [Thomas Carlyle?], “Miscellanea Mystica—No. II”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 27, page 159:
text: Now it was said the French King sent his present to congratulate the Sultan upon his accession and also 10,000 ducats to the ambassador to accompany the Sultan on this Hungarish voyage.
ref: 2001, Richard Bruce Wernham, editor, List & Analysis of State Papers: January to December 1596, page 287:
glosses: Of or relating to Hungary, its culture, language, or people; Hungarian.
Hungarish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hungary + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: One of them reader of Hungarish.
ref: 1799, Francis Peck, Desiderata Curiosa Or a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious:
glosses: The Hungarian language; Magyar.
electric toothbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric toothbrush
were you born in a tent
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: An admonishment to someone who has left a door open.
Related terms: born in a barn
rhenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhenates
Etymology: From rhen(ium) + -ate (“derivative”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion ReO₄⁻; any salt containing this ion.
Synonyms: perrhenate
Derived terms: nonahydridorhenate
polyoxoanion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyoxoanions
Etymology: From poly- + oxoanion.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several complex polymeric oxoanions, especially those of larger transition elements
rhabdophane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdophanes
Etymology: From rhabdo- + -phane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of phosphate minerals containing varying amounts of several lanthanides
ribby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪbi/
rhymes: -ɪbi
Forms: form: more ribby
form: most ribby
Etymology: From rib + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the plain, you will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against them in a surf of green surges.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
text: Fendi's smasheroo short, short fur belted over shorts, worn with ribby stockings, ribbier over-the-knee socks, Oxford ties.
ref: 1971, Vogue - Volume 158:
glosses: Pertaining to or having ribs; ribbed.
examples: text: He grew thin and ribby, with narrow shoulders and a breast like a plucked chicken.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 215:
glosses: Specifically, thin so as to have prominent ribs; emaciated.
examples: text: Darbishire glanced at the first manuscript. "This one’s pretty ribby for a kick-off. It’s Binns’ famous effort.”
ref: 1952, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings and Darbishire:
glosses: Shabby, in poor condition.
bejan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːdʒən/
Forms: form: bejans
form: bajan
Etymology: From French béjaune (“freshman”), from bec jaune (“yellow beak”), in allusion to young birds.
Senses: examples: text: They'd been at it, say and night, for four years – only to be shown up by a snivelling little wimp of a bejan.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 215:
glosses: A freshman at various Scottish and continental universities.
faith healers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faith healer
sergedusoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sergdusoy
form: sergedesoy
Etymology: From French serge de soie.
Senses: examples: text: SERGEDUSOY (Fr.). A coarse silken stuff, as its name implies. It was used in the last century for coats, etc., for common people, being a degree above cloth.
ref: 1860, Frederick William Fairholt, Costume in England, page 578:
text: He is wearing a freshly starched cravat and a new sergdusoy jacket, his boots are polished and he carries a clumsily wrapped package under his arms.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 240:
glosses: Silk serge.
thiocyanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiocyanides
Etymology: From thio- + cyanide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: thiocyanate
stellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stellites
Etymology: Brand name.
Senses: glosses: Any of a range of alloys of cobalt and chromium.
synchysite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchysites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of calcium carbonate / calcium fluoride minerals that contain varying amounts of lanthanides
primaried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of primary
primaried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Having a specified number or kind of primaries (kind of flight feather).
Derived terms: nine-primaried oscine
primarying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Mounting a challenge to an incumbent office-holder in a party primary.
primarying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of primary
lewises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lewis
preeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preem
preeming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After the preeming period, the lads are put either to the gig-machines, or to the lewises in the cutting or shearing-room.
ref: 1835, Andrew Ure, The philosophy of manufactures, page 203:
glosses: The task of cleaning the teasel-rods and handles in cloth manufacture.
neurotransmissive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + transmissive.
Senses: examples: text: […] man is apparently able to make more efficient use of his glia in the selective use and conservation of his neurotransmissive chemicals.
ref: 1976, Walter Robinson Ingram, A review of anatomical neurology, page 252:
glosses: Relating to neurotransmission.
surfle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surfles
form: surfling
form: surfled
form: surfled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of surfel (“wash with cosmetic water”).
glosses: To embroider.
surfled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surfle
surfling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surfle
surfles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surfle
interuniversal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + universal.
Senses: glosses: Between universes.
fudgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fudgeable
form: most fudgeable
Etymology: From fudge + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It is not benchmarkable and it will almost inevitably be fudgeable and inaccurate to some extent, even with your best efforts to attribute benefits to specific IT changes.
ref: 2003, Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management, page 253:
glosses: Capable of being fudged.
Derived terms: unfudgeable