cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ochroleucous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ochroleucous
form: most ochroleucous
Etymology: From ochre + -o- + leucous.
Senses: glosses: Yellowish-white; having a faint tint of dingy yellow
gymnasiarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnasiarchs
Etymology: From Latin gymnasiarchus, from Ancient Greek γυμνασίαρχος (gumnasíarkhos).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: An officer who had various powers and duties connected with the gymnasia, such as the payment of training, oil, or other necessities.
gymnasiarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnasiarch
dukeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dukeships
Etymology: From duke + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Will your dukeship / Sit down and eat some sugar-plums?
ref: 1627, Philip Massinger, “The Great Duke of Florence”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, published 1845, act 4, scene 2, page 216:
synonyms: dukedom
glosses: The quality or condition of being a duke.
dukeships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dukeship
pykar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pykars
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali পাইকার (paikar), from Hindustani پیکار (pekār) / पैकार (paikār), from Classical Persian پای کار (pāy-kār).
Senses: examples: text: There were also smaller dealers, known by the names of Pykars, resident throughout the country at large who made purchases and prepared the opium in their houses from 10 to 50 maunds, but the commodity thus received from the Pykars was never genuine.
ref: 1892, Sir George Watt, A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India:
text: In Dacca before Plassey only 9 dalals and 11 pykars were permitted in the cloth trade. Any other person calling himself a dalal or a pykar was liable to be punished by Nawab's Daroga of Mulmul Khas Kuthee.
ref: 1961, Narendra Krishna Sinha, The Economic History of Bengal:
text: The Council of Revenue wrote to the CCC in 1772 that the Company's pykars were procuring cocoons through debt-bondage and coercion and that 'the riots and chassars are reduced to a state of actual slavery."
ref: 1995, Studies in History, volume 11, page 197:
glosses: A broker dealing directly with a manufacturer of goods.
pykars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pykar
ascidiaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascidiarium
ascidiarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌsɪdiˈɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /əˌsɪdiˈɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: ascidiaria
Etymology: From Late Latin. See ascidium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The structure that unites the ascidiozooids in a compound ascidian.
agrostography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀγρώστη (agrṓstē, “grass”) + + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: In the present unsatisfactory condition of agrostography, the limits between various Triticoid and Festucoid genera, and especially the value of the numerous small groups split off from Festuca and its allies by Grisebach, Ruprecht, Parlatore, and others, cannot be determined, and we must await the promised revision of this vast and very difficult family by Colonel Munro, before we can expect to see the existing class reduced to order.
ref: 1866, Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, page 57:
glosses: The scientific description of grasses.
Coordinate terms: agrostology
divisionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From division + -ary.
Senses: glosses: divisional
patroonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɹuːnʃɪp/
Forms: form: patroonships
Etymology: From patroon + -ship. Compare Dutch patroonschap.
Senses: examples: text: His patroonship of Rensellaerwick lay immediately below Fort Aurania, and extended for several miles on each side of the Hudson, beside embracing the mountainous region of the Helderberg.
ref: 1809, Washington Irving, A History of New York:
text: It was a protest against the patroonship system, which went back to the 1600s when the Dutch ruled New York, a system where […] ‘a few families, intricately intermarried, controlled the destinies of three hundred thousand people and ruled in almost kingly splendor near two million acres of land.’
ref: 2003 (revised), Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, HarperCollins 2005, p. 211
glosses: The position or office of a patroon; landownership (originally of a Dutch colony).
glosses: An estate run by a patroon, or under a similar system.
patroonships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patroonship
infoldment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infoldments
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of enfoldment.
infoldments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infoldment
representance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Conception is a complex mode of obtaining knowledge of object - representance and is formed from the ab exteriori perceptions
ref: 1910, Louis Francis Anderson, Prolegomena to Theism:
glosses: representation; likeness
unspoofable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspoofable
form: most unspoofable
Etymology: From un- + spoofable.
Senses: examples: text: In the second half of this year, we'll be introducing a secure domain name service that ties a certificate to a domain name to make it unspoofable.
ref: 2002 April 15, Network World, volume 19, number 15:
glosses: That cannot be spoofed.
incerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incerative
form: most incerative
Etymology: From Latin cera (“wax”).
Senses: examples: text: certaine incerative powders of Bora
ref: 1649, A Discourse of Fire and Salt, translation of original by Blaise de Vigenère:
glosses: Cleaving or sticking like wax.
intangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intangles
form: intangling
form: intangled
form: intangled
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of entangle.
intangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intangle
intangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intangle
intangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intangle
irrubrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrubrical
form: most irrubrical
Etymology: From ir- + rubrical.
Senses: synonyms: unconventional
glosses: Contrary to the rubric or convention; not rubrical.
larchen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑɹt͡ʃən/
Etymology: From larch + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Her sisters larchen trees
ref: a. 1821, John Keats, Meg Merrilies:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the larch tree.
grossification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gross + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.
examples: text: The swelling of the ovary after fertilisation is termed grossification
ref: 1830, John Lindley, An Introduction to Botany:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization.
Horroxian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Horroxian
form: most Horroxian
Etymology: From Horrox (a Latinized form of Horrocks) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jeremiah Horrocks (1618–1641), English astronomer.
hummocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hummockings
Etymology: From hummock + -ing.
Senses: examples: 1915 (published), 1848 (first written), Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack
hummocking at the open water
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of hummocks in polar ice.
burry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: burrier
form: burriest
Etymology: From Middle English burry, bury, equivalent to bur + -y.
Senses: examples: text: burry wool
glosses: Abounding in burs.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bur.
qualifier: or other produced sound
glosses: Characterized by a burr.
raw_tags: of speech
disorganizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disorganizers
Etymology: From disorganize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that disorganizes, or causes disorder and confusion.
disorganizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disorganizer
Donnean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌnɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈdʌni.ən/
rhymes: -ʌniən
Forms: form: more Donnean
form: most Donnean
Etymology: From Donne + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John Donne (1572–1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest.
carryings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrying
glossographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glossography
glossography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: glossographies
Etymology: From gloss + -ography.
Senses: glosses: The writing of glossaries or glosses
glosses: The study of ancient words or languages
Derived terms: glossographical
periople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perioples
Etymology: French périople, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The external smooth horny layer of a hoof.
Derived terms: perioplic
biplanarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biplanar + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being biplanar.
diplanar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈpleɪnɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /daɪˈpleɪnə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From di- + planar.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: biplanar
glosses: Having two planes.
foilable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foilable
form: most foilable
Etymology: From foil + -able.
Senses: examples: text: foilable plans
text: foilable tactics
glosses: Capable of being foiled.
Derived terms: unfoilable
impersuasible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impersuasible
form: most impersuasible
Etymology: From im- + persuasible.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: obstinate, immovable, unmovable, unyielding
text: Come , behold the Desolations wrought by God for the space of 67 years on an Empire impersuasible by all the Methods of Grace.
ref: 1684, unknown author, A Calendar of Prophetick Time:
synonyms: impersuadable
unpersuadable
antonyms: word: persuasible
word: persuadable
word: ;
word: movable
word: reachable
english: extreme degree
translation: extreme degree
word: ;
word: gullible
glosses: Not persuasible; not to be moved by persuasion.
Derived terms: impersuasibleness
impersuasibly
Related terms: impersuasibility
ne bis in idem
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Latin, meaning "not twice for the same".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The concept that no legal action can be instituted twice for the same cause.
Related terms: double jeopardy
readee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: readees
Etymology: From read + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who receives a (supposedly) psychic reading, such as a cold reading or a tarot reading.
readees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of readee
heartline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartlines
Etymology: From heart + line.
Senses: qualifier: palmistry
glosses: A line on the palm supposed to reflect a person's emotional state.
Related terms: heartline roll
heartlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartline
mandarinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: more mandarinic
form: most mandarinic
Etymology: From mandarin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a mandarin.
overgarrisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overgarrisoned
form: most overgarrisoned
Etymology: From over- + garrisoned.
Senses: glosses: Garrisoned to excess.
diker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: duiker
Forms: form: dikers
form: dyker
Etymology: From dike + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Their armour and weapons were found at times, by delvers and dykers, for centuries after; are found at times unto this day, beneath the rich drained cornfields which now fill up that black half-mile[.]
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 28, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 386:
glosses: One who digs or works on dykes; a ditcher.
glosses: One who builds stone walls, usually dry-stone without lime.
dikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diker
mucigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucigens
Etymology: From mucin + -gen.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: mucinogen
glosses: A granular substance formed in epithelial cells that, mixed with water, gives rise to mucin.
bipinnatifid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + pinnatifid.
Senses: examples: text: bipinnatifid leaf
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: bipinnatiparted
bipinnatipartite
glosses: Doubly pinnatifid.
keyakis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyaki
oxalurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxalurates
Etymology: From oxaluric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of oxaluric acid.
oxalurates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxalurate
pauperization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pauperizations
Etymology: From pauperize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: the modern schemes for the amelioration which ignore the laws of competition, must end either in pauperization, […] or in the destruction of property
ref: 1848, [Charles Kingsley], Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC:
glosses: The act or process of reducing to poverty.
pauperizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pauperization
dextrad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dextro- + -ad.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Toward the right side; dextrally.
batrachophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈtɹækəˌfeɪɡəs/
ipa: /ˌbætɹəˈkɒfəɡəs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”) + -phagous.
Senses: examples: text: […] the frogs had their full share in the general calamity. The convention of Cintra delivered the remnant of the race from their batrachophagous oppressors […]
ref: 1825, The Quarterly Review, London:
glosses: Feeding on frogs.
mockish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mockish
form: most mockish
Etymology: From mock + -ish.
Senses: glosses: mock; counterfeit; sham
glosses: mocking
champurrado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champurrados
Etymology: From Spanish champurrado.
Senses: glosses: A traditional chocolate-based atole found in Mexico, containing panela, vanilla, anise and cinnamon.
glosses: A Cuban water-based drink, containing several spices, mixed with rum or brandy.
uncapitalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncapitalizes
form: uncapitalizing
form: uncapitalized
form: uncapitalized
form: uncapitalise
Etymology: From un- + capitalize.
Senses: examples: text: The easy way to uncapitalize text is to highlight it and press Shift+F3
ref: 2004, Stanley Zarowin, “A Quick Way to Capitalize and Uncapitalize”, in Journal of Accountancy:
text: Section 2.1 uncapitalize tetramethylsilane since it is mid-sentence
ref: 2009, David E. Volk, Talk:NMR spectroscopy/Draft:
glosses: To convert the first letter (or more) of (something) from uppercase to lowercase; to make uncapitalized.
Synonyms: decapitalize
Related terms: uncapitalized
refrigerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more refrigerative
form: most refrigerative
Etymology: Compare French réfrigératif.
Senses: glosses: Cooling; allaying heat.
refrigerative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refrigeratives
Etymology: Compare French réfrigératif.
Senses: glosses: A refrigerant.
refrigeratives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refrigerative
trimethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + methylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cyclopropane
Derived terms: trimethylene carbonate
melaconite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?], meaning "black dust".
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tenorite.
revealability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reveal + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being revealable.
verminly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verminly
form: most verminly
Etymology: From vermin + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a verminly generation
ref: 1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes:
glosses: Resembling vermin.
verminly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more verminly
form: most verminly
Etymology: From vermin + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of vermin.
anenterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + entero- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: These anenterous Echinoderms (Ophiuridæ, Luidea, Asterias proper, Astropecten,) belong to the order Asteroideat
ref: 1843, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Without a stomach or an intestine.
flagginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flaggy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.
renowmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more renowmed
form: most renowmed
Senses: examples: text: To the most renowmed prince and mighty lord […]
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of renowned.
disdainously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disdainously
form: most disdainously
Etymology: From disdainous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: haue they disdainously laugh
ref: 1546, John Bale, The Actes of Englysh Votaries:
glosses: disdainfully
oxaluric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxalyl and uric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex nitrogenous acid related to the ureids, and obtained from parabanic acid as a white silky crystalline substance.
Derived terms: oxaluramide
oxalurate
dzhigit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dzhigits
form: djigit
form: jigit
Etymology: From Turkic languages (compare Nogai йигит (yigit), Tatar егет (yeget, “young male”)), via Russian джиги́т (džigít).
Senses: glosses: A skilled horseman in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
qualifier: Caucasus
glosses: A brave man in general.
Related terms: dzhigitovka
dzhigits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dzhigit
intellected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intellect + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: [S]miting each with her enchanting wand, / She ſhut them in her ſties. In head, in voice, / In body, and in briſtles they became / All ſwine, yet intellected as before, […]
ref: 1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book X.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 229, lines 294–297:
glosses: Endowed with intellect; intellectual or intelligent.
priesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priestings
Etymology: From priest + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I’m never unmoved by a priesting and I found myself thinking a lot about the power to bind and loose which is bestowed at ordination.
ref: 2009 August 29, Kelvin Holdsworth, “Ordination in Edinburgh”, in Thurible.net:
text: Methodists remained unimpressed by the tortuous path that its Covenant partner had taken towards allowing women into the episcopate (finally achieved in 2014, twenty years after the first priestings of women and fourteen years after the synodical process began).
ref: 2017, Jeremy Morris, The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume IV:
glosses: The ordination of a priest.
examples: text: “My Son,” saith he, “honour God & the King ; but I say, honour God and the bishop as high-priest, bearing the image of God according to his ruling, and of Christ, according to his priesting, and after him honour the king.”
ref: 1641, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy:
glosses: The office of a priest.
priesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From priest + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of priest
repairment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repairments
Etymology: From repair + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of repairing.
Synonyms: sense: a renewing
word: reparation
repairments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repairment
alular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alula + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: alular digit
text: alular metacarpal
text: alular quills
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Pertaining to the alula.
fightingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fightingly
form: most fightingly
Etymology: From fighting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was only a vague old man who had made a muddle of life, but firmly and fightingly he was sure of that.
ref: 1918, Constance Holme, Beautiful End:
synonyms: combatively
pugnaciously
glosses: So as to fight, like a fight; ferociously
glycoluric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glycol + uric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from glycol and urea. Hydantoic
Related terms: english: old name for hydantoic acid
translation: old name for hydantoic acid
word: glycoluric acid
antipodagric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + podagric.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That acts against gout
antipodagric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipodagrics
Etymology: From anti- + podagric.
Senses: glosses: A medicine for gout.
antipodagrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipodagric
conciliable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conciliable
form: most conciliable
Etymology: From Latin conciliō + -ābilis.
Senses: examples: text: Nor doth hee put avvay adulterouſly vvho complaines of cauſes rooted in immutable nature, utter unfitneſſe, utter diſconformity, not concileable, becauſe not to be amended vvithout a miracle.
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 62–63:
glosses: Capable of being conciliated or reconciled.
Derived terms: unconciliable
conciliable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conciliables
form: conciliabule
Etymology: From Latin conciliābulum.
Senses: examples: text: some have sought the truth in the conventicles and conciliables of Heretickes and Sedaries
ref: 1641, Francis Bacon, A Wise and Moderate Discourse, Concerning Church-Affaires:
glosses: A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature.
trunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Forms: form: trunches
Etymology: See truncheon.
Senses: glosses: A stake; a small post.
trunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trunch
bedstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedstocks
Etymology: From bed + stock.
Senses: examples: text: There was some medical evidence in support of the view of their accidental origin, but according to Dr. Ogston there was no blood on the bedstock where the nails were represented to have been: and as the woman had died from bleeding, this was not likely to have escaped being stained with blood, if the woulds, as alleged for the defence, had really been produced by the nails.
ref: 1873, Alfred Swaine Taylor, The Principles and practice of medical jurisprudence v. 1:
text: Is it not often hard, and so hard that Ahitophel, a king's counsellor, who could not but have a well-made bed, could not sleep a wink in it? he leaped over the bedstock, and hanged himself , and slipped down to hell .
ref: 1885, Samuel Rutherford, Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished, page 91:
text: Each rail of the bedstock is attached by a mortise-and-tenon joint to the headboard. It is somewhat unusual that the foot of the bedstock, which has its own low, freestanding footposts with turned finials, is also tenoned to the main footposts supporting the tester.
ref: 1998, Valerie Dorge, F. Carey Howlett, Painted Wood: History and Conservation, page 319:
glosses: The structural framework that supports a bed, which can include any of the headboard, footboard, side rails, and platform or slats, depending on the type of bed.
examples: text: Were this sector to be even further penalised by additional taxation and administrative burdens, the effect would be either to (a) reduce available tourism bedstock and hence damage the UK's £74 billion tourism economy, and/or ( b ) require replacement purpose-built commercial bedstock, and thus more new building, reduced sustainability, more damage to the environment, less open land, more usage of energy and other resources, and the under-usage of existing buildings.
ref: 2010, David Weston, Louise Weston, Start and Run A Bed & Breakfast:
text: The legal requirement to link the demolition and upgrading of old bedstock as a condition for developing new accommodation is especially important .
ref: 2012, Victor T.C. Middleton, Jackie R. Clarke, Marketing in Travel and Tourism, page 446:
text: These figures imply that Malta would have 316 beds per square kilometer, in an already densely populate country,, and 100,000 beds by 2030 means that the current licensed bedstock will almost double in ten years and create bedstock equivalent to that created in the past 60 years.
ref: 2022, Konstantinos Andriotis, Carla Pinto Cardoso, Dimitrios Stylidis, Tourism Planning and Development in Western Europe, page 44:
glosses: Beds that are available for commercial purposes.
bedstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedstock
colliquable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colliquable
form: most colliquable
Senses: examples: text: no part of the body feeling ſo exactly ; which tender consistence renders it the more colliquable & consumptive
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
glosses: Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid.
entobronchia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entobronchium
entobronchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entobronchia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the entobronchia.
entobronchium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entobronchia
Etymology: From ento- + bronchium.
Senses: examples: text: The first entobronchium radiates out anteriorly to the hilum of the lung, and one of its branches opens into the cervical sac.
ref: 1907, Robert Wiedersheim, Comparative anatomy of vertebrates, page 384:
glosses: One of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.
Derived terms: entobronchial
hydantoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: glycoluric acid
defiguration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌfɪɡjəˈɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: defigurations
Etymology: From de- + figure + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Those ceremonies were prefigurations of Christ to come : these traditions are defigurations and deformations of Christ exhibited
ref: 1628, Joseph Hall, Christian Liberty Laid Forth:
glosses: disfiguration; mutilation
revoluble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɒljʊbəl/
Etymology: From Latin revolubilis (“that may be rolled back”). See revolve.
Senses: examples: text: Us, then, to whom the thrice three year / Hath filled his revoluble orb since our arrival here, I blame not.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of revolving.
gummatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gummatous
form: most gummatous
Etymology: From gumma + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: gummatous disease
text: gummatous meningitis
text: gummatous synovitis
text: gummatous tissue
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Producing, containing, or resembling, gumma.
Derived terms: nongummatous
irremunerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irremunerable
form: most irremunerable
Etymology: From Latin irremūnerābilis. Compare French irrémunérable. See remunerate.
Senses: synonyms: nonremunerable
glosses: Not remunerable.
greyhounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of greyhound
greyhounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of greyhound
Lorettine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lorettines
Etymology: From Loreto + -ine. Loretto, Kentucky, USA, was named after the order was founded.
Senses: glosses: One of a Roman Catholic order of nuns, the Sisters of Loretto, founded in the nineteenth century, devoting themselves especially to the education of the poor, or minority communities.
Lorettine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Loreto + -ine. Loretto, Kentucky, USA, was named after the order was founded.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to the Sisters of Loretto
Lorettines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lorettine
McD's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation of McDonald's.
Senses: glosses: McDonald's restaurant
Synonyms: word: Mickey D's
word: Maccies
word: Maccy D's
word: Macca's
word: McDo
Related terms: McD
perilousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perilous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: My nerves were now keyed to a point beyond fear; nevertheless, I realised the perilousness of our situation.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 121:
glosses: The quality of being perilous.
Synonyms: dangerousness
riskiness
hazardousness
perillous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perillous
form: most perillous
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of perilous.
stylohyal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stylo- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).
stylohyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stylohyals
Etymology: From stylo- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A segment in the hyoid arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.
stylohyals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stylohyal
inertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These vicissitudes of exertion and inertion of the arterial system constitute the paroxysms of remittent fever.
ref: 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Lack of activity or exertion; inertness; quietude.
examples: text: nitrogen inertion
text: One of the most important application areas of total flooding fire suppressants is explosion inertion. The inerting concentration of an agent is the concentration required to prevent unacceptable pressure increases in a premised fuel/air/agent mixture subjected to an ignition source.
ref: 2003, Arthur E. Cote, Operation of Fire Protection Systems:
glosses: The process of inerting; the use of an inert gas to reduce the risk of explosion.
gnatworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnatworms
Etymology: From gnat + worm.
Senses: examples: text: He that would behold a very anomalous motion, may observe it in the Tortile and tiring stroaks of Gnatworms
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, page 160:
text: Here a rich insect-life had developped:^([sic]) Argynnis, wasps and Syrphidae, besides numerous dancing gnatworms.
ref: 1909, Adolf Severin Jensen, “On the Mollusca of East-Greenland”, in Meddelelser om Gronland, page 345:
text: The fry of kaluga fish, gnatworms, freshwater prawns, mysids, etc.
ref: 1962, Lev Semenovich Berg, Freshwater Fishes of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries, page 55:
synonyms: wiggler
glosses: The aquatic larva of a gnat.
gnatworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnatworm
thermocurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermocurrents
Etymology: From thermo- + current.
Senses: glosses: A current, as of electricity, developed or set in motion by the action of heat; a thermoelectric current.
thermocurrents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermocurrent
shroomhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shroomheads
Etymology: From shroom + -head.
Senses: glosses: One who takes magic mushrooms.
Synonyms: shroomer
shroomheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shroomhead
comptrollership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comptrollerships
Etymology: From comptroller + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or office of a comptroller.
comptrollerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comptrollership
controllership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: controllerships
Etymology: From controller + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or office of a controller.
controllerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of controllership
ombudsmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ombudsmanships
Etymology: From ombudsman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or office of an ombudsman.
Suky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sukey
form: Sukie
Etymology: An 18th-century pet form of Susan and Susanna.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
notchweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notchweeds
Etymology: From notch + weed.
Senses: glosses: Stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium vulvaria), a plant that gives off an unpleasant smell.
notchweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notchweed
heteropelmous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”) + -ous.
Senses: qualifier: bird anatomy
glosses: Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes.
Coordinate terms: antiopelmous
sympelmous
schizopelmous
nomopelmous
simblot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simblots
Etymology: French simbleau.
Senses: glosses: The harness of a drawloom.
simblots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simblot
bocals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bocal
corruptless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corruptless
form: most corruptless
Etymology: From corrupt + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The borders with corruptless myrrh are crowned
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Of the Pythagorean Theorem”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not susceptible to corruption (abuse of power, or decay); incorruptible.
diatonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From diatonic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: diatonically based
text: diatonically spaced
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In a diatonic manner.
mucid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmjuːsɪd/
Forms: form: more mucid
form: most mucid
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mucidus, from Latin mucus (“mucus”). See mucus, and compare moist.
Senses: examples: text: the incessant flurried movement of the flexuous lips, the little spasmodic cough, the mucid vacancy of the shell-fish-like eyes with their inflamed rims, pointed, significantly enough to discrimination, to one clear explanation of her aspect and condition.
ref: 1913, Bernard Capes, Bag and Baggage, The Soft Seraphic Screen:
glosses: Musty; mouldy; slimy or mucous.
glosses: Rotten, bad, worthless.
Derived terms: mucidity
mucidness
antemosaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ante- + Mosaic.
Senses: examples: text: This was practised not only in the Antemosaic Times, but afterwards.
ref: 1747, Samuel Hebden, A treatise on forms of prayer of human composition, page 44:
text: The manners and condition of society referred to or implied in some, at least, of the following passages, adduced by De Wette, seem to point to a much later period of Jewish history, than the Antemosaic or Mosaic age.
ref: 1837 September 24, Christian Examiner, volume 23, page 46:
text: I am horrorstruck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: Before the time of Moses.
ingenerably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ingenerably
form: most ingenerably
Etymology: From ingenerable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For as for that conceit of Anaxagoras, of pre and post-existent atoms, endued with all those several forms and qualities of bodies ingenerably and incorruptibly, it was nothing but an adulteration of the genuine Atomical philosophy […]
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Without being generated.
dispatchful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dispatchful
form: most dispatchful
form: despatchful
Etymology: From dispatch + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: with dispatchful looks in haste
She turns , on hospitable thoughts intent
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: hasty; hurried.
euphonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euphonous
form: most euphonous
Senses: glosses: Synonym of euphonious.
synonyms: word: euphonious
herbiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more herbiferous
form: most herbiferous
Etymology: From herb + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: herbiferous meadows
glosses: Bearing herbs or vegetation.
glosses: Misspelling of herbivorous.
manganesious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From manganese + -ious.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: manganous
ravener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raveners
Etymology: From raven + -er.
Senses: examples: text: mention is simply of violent men , and of raveners or snatchers
ref: 1645, John Ball, A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace:
glosses: One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.
examples: text: It is a creature of a very deformed shape, monstrous presence, a great ravener, and altogether untameable
ref: 1635, John Swan, Speculum Mundi:
glosses: A bird of prey.
raveners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ravener
mesembryanthemum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesembryanthemums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: The celebrated garden in which suicidal gamblers used to put an end to their troubles was overgrown with mesembryanthemum.
ref: 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Europe in 1960”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 2nd book (The Days after Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration), page 227:
text: They had come out on to the coast road now, and Cornwall was out-postering itself, as usual, with rocky headlands and sandy coves and fishing villages that spilled themselves down the cliff face like cascades of mesembryanthemum.
ref: 1939, Jan Struther, “A Country House Visit”, in Mrs. Miniver:
synonyms: mesemb
mesem
glosses: Any of the genus Mesembryanthemum of herbaceous or suffruticose plants.
mesembryanthemums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesembryanthemum
alliciency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now if these Magneticall emissions be only qualities, and the gravity of bodies incline them only unto earth; surely that which moveth other bodies to descent carrieth not the stroak in this, but rather the Magneticall alliciency of the earth;
ref: 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: the power to attract; attractiveness; draw
oxhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxheads
Etymology: From Middle English oxe head, oxheved, equivalent to ox + head. Compare hogshead.
Senses: examples: text: Dost make a mummer of me, oxe-head?
ref: 1608, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess:
glosses: A fool; a blockhead.
oxheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxhead
factoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factoresses
Etymology: From factor + -ess.
Senses: synonyms: word: factrix
glosses: A female factor (agent or representative).
factoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factoress
procuratorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From procurator + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: A Procuratorial Exception is Twofold , viz . First, That A. is not a lawful Proctor : And , Secondly , That he cannot be a Proctor.
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a procurator or proctor.
adynamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pneumonia , as well as gastritis , and other inflammations of the viscera , lead to adynamy. The lungs undoubtedly act with less vivacity on the nervous ...
ref: 1829, Louis Jacques Bégin, The French Practice of Medicine, page 151:
glosses: adynamia
hejira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hejiras
Senses: examples: text: Her mother was — had been — Scottish (although you couldn't tell by looking), and they had once made the long journey to her homeland. Juliet had been very small and could remember little of this hejira.
ref: 2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, →ISBN, pages 184–185:
glosses: Alternative form of hegira.
hejiras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hejira
tighteningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tighteningly
form: most tighteningly
Etymology: From tightening + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to tighten.
intersidereal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + sidereal.
Senses: examples: text: — OK.... now, if the traveller comes back to Earth, he will have aged eight minutes when his children would be eight years older!
— Exactly... That's why all intersidereal explorers who have reached the fifth level of consciousness never come back[…]
ref: 2015, Laurent Pommès, The Next Step of Humanity:
glosses: Between or among constellations or stars; interstellar.
dry nurse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry nurses
Etymology: To distinguish from a wet nurse, who suckles a baby.
Senses: examples: text: The family found a dry nurse to take care of the infant.
coordinate_terms: wet nurse
glosses: A nurse who takes care of a baby, but does not breastfeed.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An inferior officer who carries on the duty on board ship, due to the captain's ignorance of seamanship.
dry nurse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dry nurses
form: dry nursing
form: dry nursed
form: dry nursed
Etymology: To distinguish from a wet nurse, who suckles a baby.
Senses: glosses: To feed, attend, and bring up without suckling.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of an inferior officer: to carry on the duty on board ship, due to the captain's ignorance of seamanship.
dry nurses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry nurse
spermatophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: spermatophorous capsules
text: spermatophorous cells
glosses: Producing seed or sperm; seminiferous.
Chaldaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chaldaic
form: most Chaldaic
form: Chaldaïc
Etymology: From Latin chaldaicus. By surface analysis, Chalda- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
Chaldaic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chaldaïc
Etymology: From Latin chaldaicus. By surface analysis, Chalda- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: The lect spoken by the Chaldeans.
Chaldaic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chaldaics
form: Chaldaïc
Etymology: From Latin chaldaicus. By surface analysis, Chalda- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A Chaldean.
Synonyms: Chaldee
Chaldaics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chaldaic
polyphonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyphonous
form: most polyphonous
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of polyphonic
Derived terms: polyphonously
worse things happen at sea
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Some people console themselves with the thought that, basically, worse things happen at sea: in middle-class Britain today, particularly familied fortysomethings, it’s Chicken-Licken time.
ref: 2015 September 13, Euan Ferguson, “The week in TV: Doctor Foster; Beck; Ballers; Hunted; The Queen’s Longest Reign: Elizabeth and Victoria”, in The Observer:
glosses: Things are not as bad as they seem.
bousy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bousy
form: most bousy
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of boozy.
histographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histographers
Etymology: From histo- + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: one who describes organic tissues; a histologist
histographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histographer
impedible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛdɪbəl/
Forms: form: more impedible
form: most impedible
Etymology: From impede + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: Will is not impedible, it cannot be restrain'd tall
ref: 1655, Jeremy Taylor, Unum Necessarium:
antonyms: unimpedible
glosses: Capable of being impeded or hindered.
omnipresency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of omnipresence.
ribanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From riband + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] PROTHYMIA, or Promptitude, vvas attir'd in a ſhort tuck't garment of flame-colour, vvings at her backe; her hayre bright, & bound vp vvith ribands; her breaſt open, virago-like; her buskins ſo ribanded: […]
ref: 1604 March 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), B[en] Jon[son], “The Pegme at Fen-church”, in B. Jon: His Part of King James His Royall and Magnificent Entertainement through His Honorable Cittie of London, Thurseday the 15. of March. 1603. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] [and George Eld] for Edward Blount, published 1604, →OCLC, signature [A4], verso:
glosses: Decorated with ribands; ribboned.
party hearty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parties hearty
form: partying hearty
form: partied hearty
form: partied hearty
Etymology: Chosen for its rhyme.
Senses: glosses: To engage in unrestrained merriment.