cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
seniory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seniories
form: seigniorie
form: seignorie
Senses: examples: text: c. 1506, Margaret Beaufort (translator), The mirroure of golde for the synfull soule by Denis the Carthusian, London: Richard Pynson, “Of the vayne Ioye might dignite honours and riches of the worlde,”
Beholde where is nowe the glorye of kynge assurey: whiche behelde vnder his seignorie and dominacion: the nombre of .xxvi. prouincis
text: If ancient sorrow be most reverend,
Give mine the benefit of seniory,
And let my woes frown on the upper hand.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, London: Jacob Blome & Richard Bishop, Book 1, “The History of the great Mogull,” p. 66,
[…] the great Mogull […] perceiving Cassimeer interposing and not under him, sends Ally Mirza in Ambassie to Iustoff-cawn (a fearefull King) that if hee would with his sonne forthwith come to Lahore and do homage to him, he should re-accept his seniory and his best power at all times to defend him […]
glosses: Position as lord, lordship; primacy.
examples: text: […] Charles kynge of Fraunce surnamed the great, toke Desiderius laste kinge of Lombardes prisoner and annexed his seniory to the dominion of Fraunce.
ref: 1565, Arthur Golding, “To the Reader”, in The Eight Bookes of Caius Iulius Cæsar, London: William Seres:
text: The seigniorie also and principality of this part (which the Persians call a Satrapy, that is, a Dutchy or Countey) doth in great measure exceede all other prouinces that are vnder the protection of the great King.
ref: 1584, Barnabe Rich, transl., The Famous Hystory of Herodotus, London: Thomas Marshe, Book 1, p. 61:
glosses: The territory of a lord, dominion.
examples: text: […] if any man bring a letter vnto him, hee may not open it, but in the presence of the Seigniorie, and they are to see it first, which being read, perhaps they will deliuer it to him, perhaps not.
ref: 1599, Laurence Aldersey, “The first voyage or iourney, made by Master Laurence Aldersey, Marchant of London, to the Cities of Ierusalem, and Tripolis, &c. In the yeere 1581”, in Richard Hakluyt, editor, The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation, volume 2, London: George Bishop, et al, page 151:
text: The Seniory of that Prouince (for they had no particular Lord) sent Messengers that they expected mee in peace, and would giue mee what I would […]
ref: 1625, “The Relation of NUNNO di GUSMAN written to CHAREES the fift Emperour; translated out of RAMUSIOS third Tome, and abridged”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Purchas His Pilgrimes, volume 4, London: Henry Fetherstone, page 1558:
glosses: Collectively, the lords of a region.
colical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colical
form: most colical
Etymology: From colic + -al.
Senses: examples: September 1 1733, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
colical pains
glosses: Resembling or relating to colic.
examples: text: I have already learn'd to apply my selfe unto it; and am now entring into covenant with this chollicall kinde of life; for therein I finde matter, wherewith to comfort me, and to hope better.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Subject to or suffering from colic.
thoroughbrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoroughbraces
Etymology: From thorough + brace.
Senses: examples: text: Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too,
Steel of the finest, bright and blue;
Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide;
Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide
Found in the pit when the tanner died.
ref: 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Deacon's Masterpiece (poem):
text: The wagon-bed is supported by iron bands or perpendiculars abutting upon wooden rockers, which rest on strong leather thoroughbraces: these are found to break the jolt better than the best steel springs, which, moreover, when injured, can not readily be repaired.
ref: 1862, Richard Francis Burton, The City of the Saints, Chapter 1:
text: "Why, it happened by trying to make one coach carry three days' mail—that's how it happened," said he. "And right here is the very direction which is wrote on all the newspaper-bags which was to be put out for the Injuns for to keep 'em quiet. It's most uncommon lucky, becuz it's so nation dark I should 'a' gone by unbeknowns if that air thoroughbrace hadn't broke."
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter III, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 30:
glosses: A leather strap supporting the body of a coach or wagon, attached to springs or serving as a spring itself.
thoroughbraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoroughbrace
polarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /pəʊˈlæɹɪli/
/pəʊˈlɛɹɪli/
Etymology: From polary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Now, if an iron be touched before, it varieth not in this manner; for then it admits not this magnetical impression, as being already informed by the loadstone, and polarily determined by its preaction.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In a polary manner; with polarity.
tricarballylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricarballylates
Etymology: From tricarballylic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of tricarballylic acid.
tricarballylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricarballylate
tricarballylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + carboxyl + allyl + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Propane-1,2,3-tricarboxylic acid, a tricarboxylic acid that inhibits aconitase.
epiplexis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiplexes
Etymology: From Latin epiplexis (“rebuke”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίπληξις (epíplēxis, “rebuke”), from ἐπιπλήσσω (epiplḗssō, “to chastise”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) (see epi-) + πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike”).
Senses: examples: text: Afterwards, questioners employ the rhetorical figure called epiplexis. This interrogative figure is designed to blame the addressee, posing trick questions whose goal is to reveal whatever the speaker considers to be his or her faults. Epiplexis is backed up by cataplexis.
ref: 2013, Jean Godefroy Bidima, “La Palabre: The Legal Authority of Speech”, in Law and the Public Sphere in Africa: La Palabre and Other Writings, page 24:
text: Remember also to structure epiplexes with one of the patterns for figures with multiple elements we met in chapter three. Repeated rhetorical questions can move from general to specific, from short to long, from broad to narrow, but should always unpack like Russian dolls.
ref: 2018, Danyal Freeman, Seductive Academic Writing, page 83:
glosses: A rhetorical device where a sequence of rhetorical questions is used to criticise or blame, or more generally, to elicit an emotional response.
Related terms: epiplectic
sembling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare assembling.
Senses: examples: text: time of sembling birds' droppings
ref: 1899, James William Tutt, A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera:
text: Upon this is founded the practice of sembling, as it is called by the London collectors, among whom, as we learn from Barbut and Harris, it has been long in use, for entrapping the males of the fox-moth […]
ref: 1831, James Rennie, Insect Architecture:
glosses: The practice of attracting male butterflies or other insects by exposing the encaged female. It used to be done by collectors wanting to procure specimens.
sembling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Compare assembling.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of semble
specifical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more specifical
form: most specifical
Etymology: From Middle English specificalle, from Latin specificus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: it is referred to a hidden propriety , a specifical virtue , and a fourth quality
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: it is not therefore so much the understanding that constitutes, among animals, the specifical distinction of man, as his quality of a free agent.
ref: 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 36:
glosses: Synonym of specific.
synonyms: word: specific
subalternant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subalternants
Etymology: See subaltern.
Senses: examples: text: Of these [oppositions], the Universal is the Subalternant , and the Particular the Subalternate
ref: 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A universal proposition.
subalternants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subalternant
a mensa et thoro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /eɪ ˈmɛnsə ˌɛt ˈθɔːɹəʊ/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin a mensa et thoro (“from board and bed”).
Senses: examples: text: A divorce a mensa et thoro, obtained by the wife, is not a bar to her right of dower.
ref: 1864, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott, A digest of New York Statutes and Reports: From the earliest period to the year 1860, 3rd edition, volume II, page 533:
text: The long-defunct possibility of a divorce for adultery allowing remarriage was proposed anew by Cranmer,²⁵ who considered that a divorce a mensa et thoro offended against the duty to cohabit insisted on by the Church.
ref: 2003, B. J. Sokol, Mary Sokol, Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage, page 144:
text: Under specific circumstances, two other kinds of marriage termination, both called divorce (divorcium), could be declared by the ecclesiastical courts of late medieval England: divorce a mensa et thoro ( “from table and bed”) and divorce a vinculo (“from the bond”).[…]Divorce a mensa et thoro resulted in what we would term separation.
ref: 2006, Shannon McSheffrey, Marriage, Sex, And Civic Culture in Late Medieval London, page 23:
topics: law
glosses: That does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes the husband and wife to live apart from each other.
raw_tags: of a divorce
a mensa et thoro
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /eɪ ˈmɛnsə ˌɛt ˈθɔːɹəʊ/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin a mensa et thoro (“from board and bed”).
Senses: examples: text: By the recent statute 20 & 21 Viet c. 85, § 7, no divorce can in future be granted à mensa et thoro, but a decree of judicial separation is to be pronounced, having the like effect.
ref: 1867, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, “Divorce a mensa et thoro”, in A Law Dictionary and Glossary, page 504:
topics: law
glosses: Such as not to dissolve the marriage bond, but merely to authorize the husband and wife to live apart from each other.
raw_tags: of a divorce
Coordinate terms: a vinculo
a vinculo matrimonii
Related terms: separation
phlogoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phlogosis
phlogosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phlogoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φλόγωσις (phlógōsis, “burning heat”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: inflammation of external parts of the body; erysipelatous inflammation
Related terms: phlogosed
phlogotic
airometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airometers
Etymology: From air + -o- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: The air passes through large iron pipes, from the engine-house to an airometer, which stands at the centre of the works.
ref: 1855, “Bowling Iron-Works”, in The Child's Friend, volume 24, page 131:
text: I claim the combination and arrangement of a vaporizer, an air-forcing apparatus, and an airometer, the whole being constructed to operate together, substantially as described..
ref: 1863, “Drake's Apparatus for Vaporizing and Aerating Hydrocarbons”, in English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1862, 1992 - 2056, page 11:
text: In a gas-engine, the combination, with the carburetor and the lamps arranged below the same, of the airometer connected to said carburetor , and the pump-piston cylinder connected by valved pipes with said airometer and carburetor, substantially as shown and described .
ref: 1887, Reuben F. Smith, “347,656: Gas-Engine”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 791:
text: The airometer is built upon the principle that in the cylinder consumption of compressed air, the speed of the air passage is dependent upon the pressure, and that the number of cubic feet of free air used is in direct proportion to the speed the air body assumes when filling the cylinder..
ref: 1912 February 24, “The Excelsior Airometer”, in Mining and Scientific Press, volume 104, page 328:
glosses: Any of various devices used to measure the amount of air used by a system.
Related terms: aerometer
airometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airometer
pathogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathogenes
Etymology: From patho- + -gene.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of pathogen.
pathogenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathogene
pentathionic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penta- + thionic + acid, since it contains five atoms of sulphur.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The dibasic acid HSO₃-S₃-SO₃H
Related terms: pentathionate
shaggedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shagged + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […]the coarseness and shaggedness of the material are best expressed in a sketch, by a line which is marked, heavy, and decided.
ref: 1853, Henry Twining, The elements of picturesque scenery, page 11:
glosses: shagginess
unbullying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbullying
form: most unbullying
Etymology: From un- + bullying.
Senses: examples: text: He warmed to his modesty, his unbullying camaraderie and genial absent-mindedness; he was touched, too, by this southerner's affection for a northern city, so heartfelt that he had actually made his home here.
ref: 2012?, Anthony Quinn, The Rescue Man (page 48)
glosses: Not bullying.
intenible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛnəbəl/
Forms: form: more intenible
form: most intenible
Etymology: From in- (“not”) + teneo (“to hold”). Compare Latin intenibilis (“not to be grasped”). Compare intenable, untenable.
Senses: examples: text: this captious and intenible sieve
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Incapable of holding or containing.
rucksac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rucksacs
Senses: examples: text: His door was flung open, and a compact young man in uniform appeared, carrying Mr. Butteridge's portfolio, rucksac, and shaving-glass.
ref: 1908, H. G. Wells, The War in the Air:
glosses: Dated form of rucksack.
rucksacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rucksac
squiralties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squiralty
squiralty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskwaɪɹəlti/
Forms: form: squiralties
Etymology: From squire + -al + -ty.
Senses: examples: text: that such weight and influence be put thereby into the hands of the squiralty of my kingdom
ref: 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
glosses: The land-owning gentry; the squirearchy.
groundfloor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundfloors
Senses: examples: text: The walls o the groundfloor, however, are generally constructed of these materials; […]
ref: 1881, Joseph Kay, Free trade in land, edition 6, page 264:
glosses: Alternative form of ground floor.
groundfloors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundfloor
bergschrund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bergschrunds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bergshrund.
bergschrunds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bergschrund
randkluft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: randklufts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Randkluft, from Rand (“edge, brink, rim”) + Kluft (“cleft, fissure, joint”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The headwall gap between a glacier or snowfield and the adjacent rock face at the back of the cirque or, more loosely, between the rock face and the side of the glacier.
randklufts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of randkluft
bloodshotten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bloodshotten
form: most bloodshotten
Senses: examples: text: My eyes were haggard and bloodshotten; my hair, bedewed with perspiration
ref: 1834, Henry Junius Nott, Cock Robin:
text: In protracted cases, the eye-balls become perfectly bloodshotten; mimicking a genuine inflammation
ref: 1829, William Dewees, A Treatise on the Physical and Medical Treatment of Children:
glosses: Obsolete form of bloodshot.
nautches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nautch
bunniahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunniah
buniah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buniahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bunniah.
buniahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buniah
outkiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outkisses
form: outkissing
form: outkissed
form: outkissed
Etymology: From out- + kiss.
Senses: examples: text: "And I'll continue doing it, but that guy seems to be outkissing me, judging from the number of beauty contests he has presided over!"
ref: 1962, Ira Lunan Ferguson, Ocee McRae, Texas:
glosses: To surpass in kissing; to kiss more or better than.
outkissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outkiss
outkisses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outkiss
outkissed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outkiss
epicoele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + -coele.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates.
indefinables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indefinable
undefinables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undefinable
C instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C instruments
Etymology: In reference to the musical note C.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: an instrument that either does not transpose, or transposes by an octave or multiple octaves.
C instruments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C instrument
F instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: F instruments
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: an instrument that produces a concert pitch of F when a C is written in the music
F instruments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of F instrument
Didonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Didonias
Etymology: In allusion to the classical story of Queen Dido, who was granted the land she could encompass with a piece of bull hide.
Senses: examples: text: And hence, by Meusnier's theorem, the difference of the squares of the curvatures of curve and surface is constant; the curvature of the surface meaning here the reciprocal of the radius of the sphere which osculates in the reduction of the element of the Didonia.
ref: 1867, Peter Guthrie Tait, An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area.
Didonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Didonia
B♭ instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B♭ instruments
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: an instrument that produces a concert pitch of B♭ when a C is written in the music
B♭ instruments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of B♭ instrument
by-speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-speeches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of byspeech.
by-speeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of by-speech
E♭ instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E♭ instruments
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: an instrument that produces the concert pitch of E♭ when a C is written in the music
E♭ instruments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of E♭ instrument
equisonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equisonances
Etymology: From equi- + Latin sonans, present participle of sonare (“to sound”). Compare French équisonnance. See sonant.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An equal and undistinguishable unison of voices; a perfect consonance.
equisonances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equisonance
subkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subkeys
Etymology: From sub- + key.
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A partial key.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: A key located beneath another key in the registry.
subkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subkey
longbeak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From long + beak.
Senses: glosses: having a long break (applied to various animals)
longbeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longbeaks
Etymology: From long + beak.
Senses: glosses: The American red-bellied snipe (Limnodromus scolopaceus).
glosses: A slender West Indian fish, Euleptorhamphus velox Poey.
longbeaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longbeak
toastable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toastable
form: most toastable
Etymology: From toast + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […]there is neither toastable bread nor bacon in the house!
ref: 1927, Mabel Osgood Wright, Captains of the watch of life and death:
text: […]bread suitable for breakfast, for instance, toastable bread[…]
ref: 1942, Patent and trade mark review: Volumes 41-42:
text: Wholesome treats indeed — as are Weston's fresh, toastable bread, fluffy cakes and other products.
ref: 1955, Canadian Churchman: Volume 82:
text: Kids raced and shrieked, toasted anything toastable on sticks, and upset the clean-up by showering each other with dry leaves.
ref: 1985, A. Carman Clark, From the orange mailbox:
glosses: Suitable for toasting.
toadyisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toadyism
kestral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of kestrel.
racingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more racingly
form: most racingly
Etymology: From racing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A car sped racingly past.
text: We watched a heart-racingly tense thriller.
glosses: In a racing manner; at high speed.
shriekings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrieking
spookfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spookfests
Etymology: From spook + -fest.
Senses: glosses: A frightening event.
spookfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spookfest
Racovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈkəʊvɪən/
Forms: form: Racovians
Etymology: From the Latin Racōviānus, from Racōvia (“Raków”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland, with their headquarters in Raków
glosses: Someone from Raków
Racovians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Racovian
dispropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dispropriates
form: dispropriating
form: dispropriated
form: dispropriated
Etymology: From dis- + Latin proprius (“one's own, proper”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), modelled after appropriate.
Senses: glosses: To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.
dispropriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispropriate
dispropriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispropriate
dispropriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispropriate
reduvid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reduvids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reduviid.
reduvids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reduvid
resegment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resegments
form: resegmenting
form: resegmented
form: resegmented
Etymology: From re- + segment.
Senses: examples: The sentence "In every ode linger many" can be resegmented to read "I never yodel in Germany".
glosses: To segment again or anew; to split into different divisions.
resegmenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resegment
resegments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resegment
resegmented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resegment
toze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tozes
form: tozing
form: tozed
form: tozed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tose.
tozed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toze
tozes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toze
tozing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toze
scillitin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Scilla + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bitter principle extracted from the bulbs of the squill (Scilla).
Related terms: scillain
trysquare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trysquares
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of try square.
trysquares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trysquare
psychographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychography
psychography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: psychographies
Etymology: From psycho- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: The act of a spirit possessing one's physical body in order to write something.
examples: text: He spurns “neuters and geldings” in favor of “men and women fully equipt.” This is not biography but psychography.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: A description of the psyche.
Synonyms: automatic writing
chalkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chalkily
form: most chalkily
Etymology: From chalky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She turned chalkily white on hearing the bad news.
glosses: In a chalky fashion.
superpurgation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superpurgations
Etymology: From super- + purgation.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Willis began to purge the Patient with the above-prescribed Bolus : but there happening thereupon a Superpurgation , he declined the repeating of that Purge.
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises:
glosses: excessive purgation
superpurgations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superpurgation
cessment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cessments
Etymology: From cess + -ment. See cess (verb).
Senses: examples: text: charge the Kingdom with a new Cessment of four hundred chousand Duckers
ref: 1652, Prudencio de SANDOVAL, The Civil Wars in Spain:
glosses: An assessment or tax.
cessments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cessment
noncalcic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + calcic.
Senses: glosses: Not calcic.
tetrathionic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + thionic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A thionic derivative of sulphuric acid, H₂S₄O6
Hypernyms: polythionic acid
Derived terms: tetrathionate
suspection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspections
Etymology: From Middle English suspeccion, suspeccioun, suspeccyon, suspectyon, susspeccioun, from Latin suspectiō and Middle French suspeccion, suspection. Doublet of soupçon.
Senses: glosses: suspicion
cicuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French cicuration.
Senses: examples: text: This holds not only in domestick and mansuete birds; for then it might be thought the effect of cicuration or institution, but also in the wild
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of taming.
Related terms: cicurate
illutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illutations
Etymology: From il- (“in”) + Latin lutum (“mud”).
Senses: glosses: The act of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.
illutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illutation
neurocoeles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurocoele
myopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French myopie.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of myopia.
veterinary hospitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veterinary hospital
inescation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inescations
Etymology: Latin inescatio.
Senses: examples: text: the Soul is enamour'd with these fading Beauties , and ensoared by the powerful Inescations of Sense
ref: 1671, Henry Hallywell, A Discourse of the Excellency of Christianity:
glosses: The act of baiting; allurement.
inescations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inescation
protogrammar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protogrammars
Etymology: From proto- + grammar.
Senses: glosses: A rudimentary grammar.
Synonyms: pregrammar
primatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From primatology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to primatology.
protogrammars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protogrammar
pardie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːˈdi/
homophone: party (t-flapping)
Forms: form: pardi
form: pardy
form: perdy
form: perdie
Etymology: From Middle English parde, from Anglo-Norman pardi, pardeu, and Old French pardeu, from par (“by”) + Deu (“God”).
Senses: examples: text: Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thou cougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, you cough / to fare deliciouſly.
ref: 1577, Martial, “Epigrammes out of Martial. [To Parthenope.]”, in Timothe Kendall, transl., Flowers of Epigrammes […], [Manchester]: […] [Charles Simms] for the Spenser Society, published 1874, →OCLC, pages 56–57:
text: “Perdy,” (said Britomart) “the choise is hard; / But what reward had he that overcame?”
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: “Pardy,” return’d the king, “but still / My joints are somewhat stiff or so. / My lord, and shall we pass the bill / I mention’d half an hour ago?”
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 157:
glosses: By God!
trigintal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trigintals
Etymology: Latin trigintate, from Latin triginta thirty.
Senses: glosses: A trental (various senses)
trigintals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trigintal
preterlegal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preterlegal
form: most preterlegal
Etymology: From preter- + legal.
Senses: glosses: illegal.
pedregal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedregals
Etymology: From Spanish pedregal (“a stony place”), from piedra (“stone”).
Senses: glosses: A lava field in Mexico or the Western US.
pedregals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedregal
trendwatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trendwatchers
Etymology: From trend + watcher.
Senses: examples: text: During the '90s, some social trendwatchers believe, the same overwhelming urge to join will drive aging yuppies off their treadmills and into the streets.
ref: 1991, Kurt Finsterbusch, Annual Editions: Sociology, 91-92:
text: With experience, a trendwatcher becomes skilled at spotting the elusive and subtle shifts that signal fashion change.
ref: 2005, Evelyn L. Brannon, Fashion forecasting:
text: Trendwatchers make good money out of this uncertainty and fear of the future. They specialise in self-fulfilling prophecies: what they claim will be the new fashion, will probably become the fashion because they say so[…]
ref: 2007, Kees Dorst, Understanding design:
glosses: One who studies trends and attempts to predict future trends.
trendwatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trendwatcher
curialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From curial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: is it not an astonishing fact , with reference to the spirit of Curialism, that down to the year 1870 these preposterous claims of aggression should have been upheld
ref: 1875, William Ewart Gladstone, Vaticanism: an Answer to Reproofs and Replies:
glosses: The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
toadeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toadeaters
form: toad-eater
form: toad eater
Etymology: From toad + eater, said to allude to an old alleged practice among mountebanks, who would hire a boy to eat (or pretend to eat) toads, which many had considered poisonous. The toadeater (or "toady") would pretend to writhe in pain, until the quack gave him some "medicine" and pretended that the boy was cured. Compare toady.
Senses: examples: text: 1819, J. Wilson, Complete Dictionary of Astrology "Horary Questions", Of Theft.
a chaplain, tutor, toadeater, or some superior servant
text: You're too zealous a toadeater, and betray yourself.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 24, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
text: Not that he was what is commonly called a Screw; that is to say he was not a mere screw; but he was acute and malicious; saw everybody's worth and position at a glance; could not bear to expend his choice wines and costly viands on hangers-on and toad-eaters, though at the same time no man encouraged and required hangers-on and toad-eaters more.
ref: 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter II, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book III, page 19:
glosses: A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant or flatterer.
toadeaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toadeater
hemacyanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemocyanin.
hoodman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoodmen
form: hoodmans
Etymology: From hood + man.
Senses: examples: text: toronto hoodmans don't even laugh they just yell "yooooo" & "chillll" in different variations and rhythms
ref: 2018 January 31, @racquelll_, Twitter, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2024:
qualifier: chiefly Toronto
glosses: A member of a youth subculture group that listens to urban music, wears puffer jackets and sportswear, uses a heavy Toronto accent (with lingo), is typically uneducated, and may be engaged in illegal activities.
examples: text: Hush, hush! Hoodman / comes.
ref: c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, act 4, scene 3:
topics: games
glosses: The blindfolded player in the game of hoodman-blind, or blind man's buff.
oarweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oarweed
oreweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oreweeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oarweed.
oreweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oreweed
sabretasche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabretasches
Etymology: Borrowed from French sabretache, from German.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, love is the soul of an Irish dragoon In battle, in bivouac, or in saloon, From the tip of his spur to his bright sabretasche.
ref: 1840, Charles Lever, O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the swordbelt.
sabretasches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sabretasche
swordbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swordbelts
Etymology: From sword + belt.
Senses: glosses: A belt with an attachment for the sword, used to carry it when not in use.
swordbelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordbelt
thamnophilid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thamnophilids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Thamnophilidae; an antbird.
thamnophilids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thamnophilid
cosentient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + sentient.
Senses: examples: text: cosentient humanity
text: cosentient individuals
text: cosentient mass of people
glosses: Perceiving together.
pathognomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathognomy
pathognomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathognomies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “passion”) + -gnomy from physiognomy.
Senses: glosses: The facial expressions showing emotions
glosses: The science of such expressions
Related terms: pathognomonic
amylobacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amylobacters
Etymology: From Latin amylum (“starch”) + bacterium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A bacillus (Clostridium butyricum) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. It has medicinal uses
amylobacters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amylobacter
teratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /təˈɹætɪkəl/
Forms: form: more teratical
form: most teratical
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τεράτικος (terátikos, “monstrous”), from τέρας (téras, “monster”).
Senses: examples: text: Herodotus, possibly delighting in teratical stories, might tell what he never heard: or the passage may be an interpolation; or it may be alterd in transcribing
ref: 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:
glosses: wonderful; ominous; prodigious
shamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shamers
Etymology: From shame + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The longer social-media shamers condemn preferences that the overwhelming majority of people share, the more inevitable the pushback.
ref: 2021 July 4, Conor Friedersdorf, “The Sexual Identity That Emerged on TikTok”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2021:
glosses: One who disgraces someone or makes them feel ashamed, especially by public criticism.
examples: text: My means and my conditions are no shamers / Of him that owes 'em, (all the world knows that,) / And my friends no reliers on my fortunes.
ref: 1647, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, volume 5, published 1812, page 284:
glosses: Something which makes someone feel ashamed.
Derived terms: body-shamer
fat-shamer
shamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shamer
motley crews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motley crew
earth-floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth-floors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of earth floor.
earthfloor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthfloors
Senses: examples: text: About two thirds of the children died in infancy by the hands of the mother, who would choke a babe or bury it alive in the earthfloor of her hut simply to stop its crying.
ref: 1889, Jerome Dean Davis, Hand-book of Christian evidences, page 99:
text: The lark in wild glee races the reel round, paying or dealing out and down the turns of the skein or coil right to the earthfloor, the ground, where it lies in a heap, as it were, or rather is all wound off on to another winch, reel, […]
ref: 1966, A Hopkins reader: selections from the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited and with an introduction by John Pick, page 205:
text: *It was made under the eaves on the east side of the Seiryoden, one of the halls of the Palace, at the south end; mortar was spread on the boards to obtain the effect of an earthfloor.
ref: 1972, A. L. Sadler, transl., The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike, page 43:
glosses: Alternative spelling of earth floor.
earth floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth floors
form: earth-floor
form: earthfloor
Senses: glosses: An earthen floor, a floor (in a building) which is simply the ground itself, rather than some covering such as wood or vinyl.
earth floors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earth floor
earth-floors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earth-floor
earthfloors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthfloor
spermatogemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatogemmas
form: spermatogemmae
Etymology: From spermato- + gemma.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: spermosphere
spermatogemmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatogemma
spermatogemmae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatogemma
spermatoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatoblast
monstration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin monstratio.
Senses: examples: text: The Communio, the true point of lustre in the mass, in connection with which the change of substance takes place, and now, after completed consecration, adoration, and monstration of the host, the body of the Lord is partaken of by the priest.
ref: 1878, Jan Jacob van Oosterzee, Practical theology, a manual for theological students:
text: Representation, or the art of making absent Persons and things present, as often as is requisite—this is imitation, monstration, or demonstration of persons and things
ref: 1895, Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Life of Sir William Petty 1623 - 1687/Chapter X:
glosses: The act of demonstrating; proof.
monstration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monstrations
Senses: glosses: A kind of flash mob popular in Russia, where young people take to the streets with homemade banners and placards sporting absurd, non-political slogans.
chaetiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chaetiferous
form: most chaetiferous
Etymology: From chaeta + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: chaetiferous segment
text: chaetiferous species
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Bearing chaetae.
Rai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Indian/Hindi surname, from a personal name based on the noun राजा (rājā, “king”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from India found among people from northern India and coastal Karnataka.
Rai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ray (“a region and satrapy in ancient Iran located between the Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges and the Dasht-e Kavir desert”)
Rai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ancient indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Nepal.
beaupere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauperes
Etymology: From Old French beau (“fair”) + pere (“father”).
Senses: glosses: A father.
examples: text: Now leading him into a ſecret ſhade / From his Beauperes, and from bright heauens vew,[…].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 401:
glosses: A companion.
beauperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beaupere
cephalotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalotomes
Etymology: From cephalo- + -tome.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
synonyms: cephalotribe
cranioclast
glosses: An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery during a stillbirth.
Related terms: cephalotomy
cephalotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalotome
rhyncholite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhyncholites
Etymology: From rhyncho- + -lite. Compare French rhyncholithe.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil cephalopod beak.
rhyncholites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhyncholite
terneplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terneplates
form: terne-plate
Etymology: Probably from terne (“colourless, drab, dull”) (as contrasted with the shiny appearance of tinplate) + plate (“layer of a material on the surface of something, plating”).
Senses: glosses: Thin iron or steel sheeting coated with an alloy of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin), often with some antimony.
terneplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terneplate
gymnopaedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek From Ancient Greek γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + a child.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having young that are featherless when hatched.
raw_tags: of birds
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Of or relating to the Gymnopaedia (a Spartan festival)
superreflection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superreflections
Etymology: From super- + reflection.
Senses: examples: text: There be three kinds of reflections of sounds; a reflection concurrent, a reflection iterant, which we call echo; and a super-reflection, or an echo of an echo
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “III. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The reflection of a reflected image, sound, magnetosonic wave, etc.
Related terms: multireflection
superreflections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superreflection
fluoboric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: fluoroboric acid
Synonyms: borofluoric acid
borofluoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: fluoboric acid
stuntedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stunted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being stunted or dwarfed.