cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
glossarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒˈsɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ɡlɔˈsɛɹi.əl/
ipa: /ɡlɑˈsɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary, it is sufficiently common to be generalized so that the grammatical part of language has been accredited with a permanence which has been denied to the glossarial or vocabular.
ref: 1857, The Protestant Episcopal Quarterly Review, and Church Register:
glosses: Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary.
examples: text: For most of the works, a glossarial commentary is provided at the foot of the page; these annotations are comparable to those in many one-volume textbook editions of Shakespeare.
ref: 2007, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works, page 18:
glosses: In the form of a glossary or gloss.
glosses: Containing a glossary.
Derived terms: glossarially
granitoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more granitoid
form: most granitoid
Etymology: From granite + -oid.
Senses: examples: granitoid gneiss
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling granite.
granitoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granitoids
Etymology: From granite + -oid.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any mineral that resembles granite.
tutress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tutresses
Etymology: Adaptation of Middle French tutreisse, tuteresse, or from Latin tūtrix by change of ending. Equivalent to tutor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: I offer ſubſcription; but always vnder reformation of that moſt honored Tutreſſes Pupils, which ſhall (omitting fabulous traſh) iudiciouſly inſtruct otherwiſe.
ref: 1612, [John Selden], “The Eleuenth Song. Illustrations.”, in Michael Drayton, edited by [John Selden], Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 192:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of tutoress.
tutresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutress
nonbioluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bioluminescent.
Senses: glosses: Not bioluminescent.
nonspectral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + spectral.
Senses: examples: text: I notice that each of the myriad towel carts on the Dreamward’s Deck 12 is manned by its very own Towel Guy, and that their Towel Guys are ruddily Nordic and nonspectral and have nothing resembling withering neutrality or boredom about their mien.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
glosses: Not spectral.
extractiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extractiform
form: most extractiform
Etymology: From extract + -iform.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having the form, appearance, or nature of an extract (infusion or concoction ).
vitrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitrites
Etymology: From Latin vitrum (“glass”), + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A kind of glass with a low fusing point, used as an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.
vitrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitrite
reasonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reasonists
Etymology: From reason + -ist.
Senses: examples: May 19 1731, Daniel Waterland, Christianity Vindicated against Infidelity
such persons are now commonly called reasonists and rationalists, to distinguish them from true reasoners or rational inquirers
glosses: A rationalist.
reasonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reasonist
marrowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marrowy
form: most marrowy
Etymology: From Middle English marowy, marowȝy, merowy, merewi, equivalent to marrow + -y.
Senses: glosses: Full of marrow; pithy.
examples: text: a marrowy vegetable
glosses: Similar to marrow (plant)
odorating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more odorating
form: most odorating
Senses: glosses: Diffusing odour or scent; fragrant or odorous.
Yuchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yuchis
form: Yuchi
form: Euchee
form: Uchee
Senses: glosses: Any of a Native American tribe from the eastern Tennessee River valley, nowadays found mostly in northeastern Oklahoma.
Yuchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Euchee
form: Uchee
Senses: glosses: The language isolate spoken by this tribe.
Yuchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yuchi
evangelicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From evangelical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being evangelical.
inductometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inductometers
Etymology: From induct + -o- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: We can uninsulate the one plate of the differential inductometer; and bringing the other near, we can draw out of it a negative spark; then withdrawing it, we can get a positive spark.
ref: 1881, Philosophical Magazine, page 136:
glosses: An instrument for measuring the degree or rate of electrical induction.
inductometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inductometer
alethoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alethoscopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia, “truth”) + -scope, equivalent to aletho- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument, invented in the 1860s, for viewing magnified pictures by means of a single lens inside a box. By varying the intensity of the light, the same picture can be shown as "daytime" or "nighttime".
Derived terms: megalethoscope
alethoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alethoscope
beambird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beambirds
Etymology: From beam + bird. So called as they often nest on a beam in a building.
Senses: glosses: the spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
beambirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beambird
whimling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whimlings
Etymology: From whim + -ling.
Senses: synonyms: whimsy
glosses: Someone given to whims, a whimsical person
examples: text: Go, whimling, and fetch two or three grating loaves.
ref: c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Coxcomb”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene vii:
glosses: a weak, childish person.
whimlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whimling
epigraphics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epigraph + -ics.
Senses: synonyms: epigraphology
epigraphy
glosses: The science or study of epigraphs.
forepast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + past.
Senses: examples: text: Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best
[…]all forepast displeasures to repeale.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast [translating passé] felicities in memorie, and thence blot out such griefes as we have felt[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Take him away,
 My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall
 Shall taze my feares of little vanitie,
 Hauing vainly fear'd too little.
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, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: That has passed; bygone.
Synonyms: sense: that has passed
word: bygone
word: foregone
word: past
ticement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticements
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enticement.
ticements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticement
disrupture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disruptures
Etymology: From disrupt, after rupture.
Senses: examples: text: a disrupture and breach in the mountain
ref: 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia:
glosses: Alternative form of disruption.
disruptures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disrupture
obedible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obedible
form: most obedible
Senses: examples: text: […] though spirits have nothing material in their nature, which that fire should work upon; yet by the judgment of the Almighty Arbiter of the World, justly willing their torment, they may be made most sensible of pain, and by the obedible submission of their created nature, wrought upon immediately by their appointed tortures […]
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: obedient
unexpectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + expectation.
Senses: examples: text: Surely, these are no small disadvantages: as every other evil, so this especially, is aggravated by our unexpectation.
ref: 1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC:
glosses: Absence of expectation; want of foresight.
viary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin viarius, from via (“a way, road”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to roads, or occurring on roads.
Oʻahu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This essential guide to Oʻahu’s beaches begins at Ala Moana Regional Park and continues counter-clockwise around the island—the traditional route most visitors and residents take when touring the island’s scenic points.
ref: 2005, John R[alph] K[ukeakalani] Clark, Beaches of Oʻahu (A Latitude 20 Book), revised edition, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, back cover:
text: Samuel Kamakau, a bit younger than [David] Malo (he was born in 1815), was also a Lahainaluna student and his family traced its descent from the priestly class of Oʻahu and Kauaʻi.
ref: 2010, Patrick Vinton Kirch, “Sources for Reconstructing Contact-Era Hawaiʻi”, in How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawaiʻi, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Hawaiian Archaic States on the Eve of European Contact), page 31:
text: Palynology—the science of plant pollen, spores, microscopic plankton, and their fossils—has made a particularly important contribution to our understanding of how and when the first generations of Oʻahu people transformed their environment as they settled the island.
ref: 2019, Sumner La Croix, “Voyaging and Settlement”, in Hawaiʻi: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of Oahu.
belace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belaces
form: belacing
form: belaced
form: belaced
Etymology: From be- + lace.
Senses: glosses: To fasten, as with a lace or cord.
examples: text: How to belace and fringe soft Love
ref: 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “(please specify the canto number)”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cover or adorn with lace.
examples: text: Striped trews belaced with tiny silver bells covered his fat baker-legs
ref: 1904, Edward Cumberland, Stubs of Time:
glosses: To beat with a strap.
belaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more belaced
form: most belaced
Etymology: From belace + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Tante Lydia's morning cap was quite as youthful as that of her niece, her flowered wrapper as belaced and befurbelowed as the lingière could make it, and her high heeled mules were at least two sizes too small, and slapped as she walked.
ref: 1913, Ethel Watts Mumford, Out of the Ashes:
glosses: Bordered or adorned with lace.
belaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From belace + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belace
belaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belace
belacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belace
equivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin equus (“horse”) + vorare (“to eat greedily”).
Senses: glosses: That eats horsemeat.
Related terms: equivore
annihilatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annihilatory
form: most annihilatory
Senses: examples: text: annihilatory sacrifice
text: annihilatory intentions
text: annihilatory death
glosses: Of, related to, or causing annihilation.
scamperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scamperers
Etymology: From scamper + -er.
Senses: examples: text: They were no idle scamperers on the mountains that made these wild recesses first known […]
ref: 1873, John Tyndall, The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers:
glosses: One who scampers.
scamperers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scamperer
Republic of South Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of South Africa
Senses: glosses: Official name of South Africa: a country in Southern Africa.
glosses: The Transvaal statelet from 1852 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland's annexation of it in 1902.
Synonyms: Azania
South Africa
RSA
Kingdom of Lesotho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Lesotho
Senses: glosses: Official name of Lesotho: a country in Southern Africa.
annualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annualists
Etymology: From annual + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: On such occasions, the "reserved" pages were filled by some veteran annualist, like Mr. Alaric Attila Watts, editor of the "Literary Souvenir"; or perhaps Mr. Thomas Haynes Bailey, he who wrote "I'd be a Butterfly," and "Gaily the Troubadour," was persuaded to warble some such appropriate sentiment as this in the "Forget-Me-Not":
ref: 1908, Agnes Repplier, A happy half-century and other essays, The Accursed Annual:
glosses: One who writes for, or edits, an annual.
annualists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annualist
water crow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water crows
Etymology: So called in allusion to its dark plumage.
Senses: glosses: The dipper (bird).
glosses: The coot, especially the Eurasian coot.
water crows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water crow
centauries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centaury
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Etymology: Calque of Arabic الْجُمْهُورِيَّة الْجَزَائِرِيَّة الدِّيمُقْرَاطِيَّة الشَّعْبِيَّة (al-jumhūriyya l-jazāʔiriyya d-dīmuqrāṭiyya š-šaʕbiyya).
Senses: glosses: Official name of Algeria: a country in North Africa.
pawnees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pawnee
chimneyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: chimnied
Etymology: From chimney + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The cloud had sunk, and filled with fold on fold
The chimneyed city; […]
ref: 1864, George MacDonald, “The Inner Dream.”, in A Hidden Life and Other Poems:
text: He had watched the evening close in lurid and stormy across the chimneyed wastes of the black country, until the darkness covered all the land, and wiped out even the last memory of the dead day from the western sky.
ref: 1890, Mary Cholmondeley, The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers, page 262:
text: [T]hey stood before a farmhouse, timbered and chimneyed […]
ref: 1899, Charlotte M. Yonge, Hopes and Fears, page 7:
text: They found a rough-cast country cottage, old, damp, decayed; smoky chimneyed and rat-riddled; […]
ref: 1911, W. G. Collingwood, The Life of John Ruskin, page 217:
text: Through this window, and still better from the parapet outside, may be seen […] the hint beyond a steepled and chimneyed horizon of the wooded heights of Highgate.
ref: 1920, Sir Harry Johnston, “Vivie and Norie”, in Mrs. Warren's Daughter:
glosses: Featuring one or more chimneys.
embryous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more embryous
form: most embryous
Etymology: From embryo + -ous.
Senses: glosses: embryonic; undeveloped
examples: text: embryous membrane
glosses: Of or pertaining to an embryon
effigial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From effigy + -al.
Senses: examples: text: effigial burning
text: effigial monument
text: effigial tomb
glosses: Relating to an effigy.
chirk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chirks
form: chirking
form: chirked
form: chirked
Etymology: From Middle English chirken, cherken, charken, from Old English ċearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakċną (“to make a sound, crack”). Doublet of chark. Related also to crake, crack.
Senses: glosses: To become happier.
raw_tags: as "chirk up"
glosses: To make happier.
raw_tags: as "chirk up"
glosses: To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.
chirk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: chirker
form: more chirk
form: chirkest
form: most chirk
Etymology: From Middle English chirken, cherken, charken, from Old English ċearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakċną (“to make a sound, crack”). Doublet of chark. Related also to crake, crack.
Senses: glosses: lively; cheerful; in good spirits
chirurgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: chirurgical
Etymology: Compare French chirurgique surgical, Latin chirurgicus, Ancient Greek χειρουργικός (kheirourgikós, “surgical”), from χειρουργός (kheirourgós, “surgeon”), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). See chirurgeon, and compare surgical.
Senses: examples: text: […] That all Ulcers which are ſtubborn or, as they are termed, rebellious, come under the Name of Cacoethic, a Word frequently met with in chyrurgic Treatiſes […]
ref: 1736, Daniel Turner, “Of Ulcers in General”, in The Art of Surgery: in which is Laid down such a General Idea of the same, as is Founded upon Reason, Confirm'd by Practice, and farther Illustrated with many Singular and Rare Cases Medico-chirurgical. In Two Volumes, 5th corr. edition, volume II, London: Printed for C[harles] Rivington in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Clarke under the Royal Exchange, page 4:
text: "I brought my chirurgic instruments with me."
ref: 1898, Maurus Jokai, The Nameless Castle:
text: "It is but fitting that a great medicus like you," said Nello, adjusting the cloth, "should be shaved by the same razor that has shaved the illustrious Antonio Benevieni, the greatest master of the chirurgic art."
ref: 1863, George Eliot, Romola:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to chirurgery; surgical.
chloritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chlorite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Next Reports Footwall Refrigeration Along a Detachment Fault: Implications for the Thermal Evolution of Core Complexes Jean Morrison, * J. Lawford Anderson Oxygen isotope compositions of epidote and quartz from chloritic breccias that underlie the detachment fault in the metamorphic core complex of the Whipple Mountains yielded quartz-epidote fractionations that range from 4.1 to 6.4 per mil and increase systematically toward the fault.
ref: 1998 January 2, Jean Morrison, J. Lawford Anderson, “Footwall Refrigeration Along a Detachment Fault: Implications for the Thermal Evolution of Core Complexes”, in Science, volume 279, number 5347, →DOI, pages 63–66:
text: The river could still be followed a short distance further upwards; and in its bed there were disjointed fragments of talcose and chloritic rocks.
ref: 1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes:
text: I have not the least doubt of such facts occurring, from what I have seen (and described at M. Video) of portions of fine chloritic schists being entangled in the midst of a gneiss district.
ref: 1862, Charles Darwin, More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II:
glosses: containing chlorite
jacksaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacksaws
Senses: glosses: A bird, the merganser.
examples: text: The circular saw was 14% faster than the jacksaw, but caused more damage.
ref: 1996, Keith Windell, Pruning in Timbered Stands, page 16:
glosses: A heavy-duty hand saw.
jacksaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jacksaw
Kingdom of Belgium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Belgium
Senses: glosses: Official name of Belgium: a country in Western Europe.
deflectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈflɛktəbəɫ]
Forms: form: more deflectable
form: most deflectable
Etymology: From deflect + -able.
Senses: antonyms: undeflectable
glosses: Capable of being deflected.
choise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choises
Senses: examples: text: Since this then is plainly the case, there can be no choise in dying honourably in the field for so just a cause, or leving to see the ruin and intire destruction of our country, our King, and our friends and relations.
ref: 1845, Mrs. Thomson, Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745.:
text: And therefore my desire is, to take this paines, for the pleasure, and profit of the publicke; endeavouring to accommodate it to the content of all, according to the variety of those things, wherewith it may be mixt; that so every man may make choise of that, which shal be most agreeable to his disposition.
ref: 1652, Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, Chocolate= or, An Indian Drinke:
text: Tis not vnknown to you, The feruent loue I beare to young Anne Page, And mutally her loue againe to mee: But her father still against her choise, Doth seeke to marrie her to foolish Slender, 10 And in a robe of white this night disguised, Wherein fat Falstaffe had a mightie scare, Must Slender take her and carrie her to Catlen, And there vnknowne to any, marrie her.
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor:
text: Behold him now, according to his wish, at libertie: in that age, wherein Hercules had the choise, to take the way of vertue or of vice, reason or passion for his guide, and of these two must take one.
ref: 1592, Philippe de Mornay, A Discourse of Life and Death:
text: Ye shall haue choise of a thousande as good as shee, And ye must pardon hir, it is for lacke of witte.
ref: 1504, Nicholas Udall, Roister Doister:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of choice.
choise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: choiser
form: choisest
Senses: examples: text: Muſes, I oft inuoked your holy ayde, / With choiſeſt flowers my ſpeech to engarland ſo; / That it deſpiſde in true but naked ſhew, / Might winne ſome grace in your ſweet grace arraid.
ref: c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 55, page 537:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: I doubt not but ye ſhall have more adoe to drive out dulleſt and lazieſt youth, our ſtocks and ſtubbs from the infinite deſire of ſuch a happy nurture, then we have now to hale and drag our choiſeſt and hopefulleſt wits to that aſinine feaſt of ſowthiſtles and brambles which is commonly ſet before them, as all the food and entertainment of their tendereſt and moſt docible age.
ref: [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC, page 3:
text: When Cato Utican, in vacation times, and at his beſt leaſure, went to recreate himſelf in the country, he uſed to cary with him the beſt Philoſophers, and choiſeſt bookes.
ref: 1655, R[ichard] Younge, Armour of Proof, or A Soveraign Antidote, Against the Contagion of Evil Company. […], second part, London: […] J. M. for James Crump, […], §. 28, page 11:
text: But why then have ſuch an infinite number of other fooleries been taken into conſideration, and thought a fit ſubject for their learned Pens, which are a thouſand times more Ridiculous in appearance, then this is? whereas, on the contrary, there is no Aſtrologer, to whom this Science is not neceſſary; nor any ſearcher into the choiſer pieces of Theological antiquity, to whom in like manner it may not be uſeful; if at leaſt it be true.
ref: 1664, John Heydon, Theomagia, or The Temple of Wisdome. […], London: […] T. M. for Henry Brome […], and for Tho. Rooks […], page 141:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of choice.
Kingdom of Bhutan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Bhutan
Senses: glosses: Official name of Bhutan: a country in South Asia.
differest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: differ + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of differ
distinguishest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: distinguish + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of distinguish
distinguisheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: distinguish + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of distinguish
choky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: chokier
form: chokiest
Etymology: From choke + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It's worse," gulped a choky voice.
ref: 1922, Samuel Hopkins Adams, From a Bench in Our Square:
text: “He's won it!” he ses, in a choky voice. “It's Number I. Bob Pretty 'as won the prize.”
ref: 1909, W.W. Jacobs, Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection):
glosses: Alternative form of chokey.
Derived terms: chokiness
choky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chokies
Etymology: From choke + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chokey.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Senses: glosses: Official name of Saudi Arabia: a country in West Asia, on the Arabian Peninsula.
Hypernyms: Arabia
Arabian Peninsula
kingdom
chronometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chronometric + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The situations of the following places, which were either fixed by us or adapted from other authorities, served as the basis of the chronometrical determination of the longitudes of the intermediate parts.
ref: 1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, volume 2:
text: Observations were made during portions of three lunations of the transit of the moon's bright limb and of such tabulated stars as differed but little in right ascension and declination from the moon, in order to obtain additional data to those furnished by chronometrical comparisons with the meridian of Boston for computing the longitude of this meridian line.
ref: 1841, James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents:
text: It was thus when the discovery of the different expansibilities of metals by heat, gave us the means of correcting our chronometrical measurements of astronomical periods.
ref: 1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects:
text: Sometimes I wonder if an hour like that is real time; or is it, instead, a kind of chronometrical fairy, having no real existence on the dial, but only in essence.
ref: 1908, Zona Gale, Friendship Village:
text: The object of the expedition was to complete the survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under Captain King in 1826 to 1830--to survey the shores of Chile, Peru, and of some islands in the Pacific--and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the World.
ref: 1913, Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World:
text: [E]ach of the transcendentalists went his own way [...] driven at last to some wayward retreat of his own - a library in a mossy house in Concard, a pitched tent along the Merrimack River, or even at sea , on the whale's road , where the white foam sprays and the horological soul dreams of its chronometrical truth.
ref: 1952, The American Temper, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 203:
glosses: Synonym of chronometric.
synonyms: word: chronometric
Derived terms: chronometrically
Kingdom of Sweden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Sweden
Senses: glosses: Official name of Sweden: a country in Northern Europe.
vineries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinery
chrysalid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chrysalis + -id.
Senses: examples: text: Dark: In Larva, Pupa, and Flight details the transformation from a chrysalid state of frustration--rendered here by a dark, mechanistic environment complete with droning soundscape--to a fleeting interlude of freedom.
ref: 2003 June 20, Kerry Reid, “Choice Cuts”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The larva which is fed on honey first adopts a false chrysalid appearance and afterwards goes back to its earlier form, though the necessity for these transformations escapes us entirely.
ref: 1924, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos, The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles:
text: Most of the omissions of matter often treated in textbooks are intentional; for as a subject develops, it is important, especially in books meant to be introductory, to discard the marks of the chrysalid stage before thought had wings.
ref: 1922, Hubert D. Henderson, Supply and Demand:
text: But, for all that, there had been intervals, ere his thirteen years' exile ended, in which, so far from regret, he experienced a certain joy at remembrance of this rough and rugged point of time where he had escaped from the chrysalid state to one of action and freedom and real life.
ref: 1860, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860:
glosses: of or relating to a chrysalis.
Related terms: chrysaline
chrysaloid
chrysalid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysalids
Etymology: Perhaps from French chrysalide.
Senses: examples: text: Of the other chrysalids seven are living at this date (15th October).
ref: 1872, William Henry Edwards, The Butterflies of North America:
glosses: Archaic form of chrysalis.
churrascaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʊˌɹæskəˈɹi.ə/
ipa: /t͡ʃʊˌɹɑːskəˈɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: churrascarias
Etymology: From Portuguese churrascaria.
Senses: examples: text: There are no sword-toting tarted-up gauchos to trouble you, and in all Al Primo Canto offers the churrascaria experience in a significantly more civilized manner than other spots for a lower price.
ref: 2007 September 21, “What Else is New”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Brazilian churrascaria just blocks from its competitor Fogo de Chão.
ref: 2005 March 25, Laura Levy Shatkin, Mike Sula, “Late-Night Comfort Food, Creative Japanese, and Home-Style Lebanese”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A steakhouse where food in a churrasco style is served.
unobservance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + observance.
Senses: examples: text: Among those uncontrouleable Levellers of the World, Fate, or Fortune, (in the Profane Lexicon, and in the Christians undiscovered Providence) may passe for the first; Opinion, and Time (or the Grave) for the other two. The two first require the more serious inquiry into, for the universality of their Power (and yet generall unobservance of it) and usefulnesse of its Contemplation in the occurences of life; the third is not lesse usefull, but a more common Theme, and so needs the lesse Descant.
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
glosses: Lack or neglect of observance.
martern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marterns
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of marten.
marterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martern
solvible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solvible
form: most solvible
Etymology: From solve + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of solvable.
vagrantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vagrantly
form: most vagrantly
Etymology: From vagrant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] they understand [liberty] to mean nothing more than exemption from labour, and permission to leave the glebe to which they are confined, and wander vagrantly, like loosened cattle, into other pastures.
ref: 1838, Robert Bell, A History of Russia, volume 3, page 71:
glosses: In a vagrant manner.
churrasco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʊˈɹæskəʊ/
ipa: /t͡ʃʊˈɹɑːskəʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish churrasco (“barbecue”).
Senses: examples: text: Most of the old favorites--beef brisket, gumbo, churrasco, and Pine's famous Cajun green beans--are still around.
ref: 2006 June 9, Anne Ford, “A Cult Fave Reopens in the Southwest Burbs”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In addition to sandwiches, mini pizzas, and breakfast items like hot oatmeal, muffins, and croissants, Last Kiss offers Chilean specialties including empanadas, a churrasco sandwich (broiled sirloin steak with avocado, tomato, and mayo), sopapilla^([sic]) chips (a crispy version of the puffy fried bread) with cilantro sauce, and mate--the traditional South American herbal tea, served in a gourd.
ref: 2003 January 24, Ethel Hammer, “Restaurant Tours: a cafe that caters to the spirit”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A type of barbecued steak, popular in Latin America.
Kingdom of Swaziland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Swaziland
Senses: glosses: Former official name of Eswatini: a country in Southern Africa, until April 19, 2018.
Related terms: Kingdom of Eswatini
Kingdom of eSwatini
cicatricial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃəl
Forms: form: cicatrical
Etymology: From cicatrix + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: It required a secondary operation to overcome some cicatricial contraction, and, on the whole, he had a very serviceable prepuce; but, what was more to the point, it prevented his ever being mistaken for a Turk.
ref: 1891, Peter Charles Remondino, History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present:
text: This was apparently the result of the difficulty of isolating the vessels in the tangled mass of clot and cicatricial tissue surrounding them, and is a strong argument against too early interference.
ref: 1901, George Henry Makins, Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900:
text: Under the most favorable circumstances a period of from six weeks to two months will be necessary for the treatment, before the formation of the cicatricial callus and the establishment of a firm union between the tendinous stumps.
ref: 1916, United States Department of Agriculture, Special Report on Diseases of the Horse:
glosses: Relating to or caused by a scar.
Derived terms: noncicatricial
paracicatricial
pericicatricial
cindery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cinder + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A new interstate blasted like an infinite airstrip straight through the hills toward the horizon; it had been done so brutally that we kept seeing on either side of the freeway corridor the stump-ends of the old cindery roads, and boarded-up tourist traps dangling precariously on the sheared hillsides.
ref: 1993 November 19, Lee Sandlin, “The American Scheme”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The same snow lies over the fens and marshes and freezes Quixote's windmills to a standstill against the cindery Flemish sky.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
text: Even the form of a crater can but rarely be discovered on the summits of the many red cindery hills; yet the more recent streams can be distinguished on the coast, forming lines of cliffs of less height, but stretching out in advance of those belonging to an older series: the height of the cliffs thus affording a rude measure of the age of the streams.
ref: 1913, Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World:
text: The whole of this coast has been spoiled by the recent upheaval of Monte Nuovo with its lava floods and cindery deluges.
ref: 1884, John Addington Symonds, New Italian sketches:
text: There were men there who made such speeches and expressed such sentiments as any moderately intelligent dustman would have blushed through his cindery bloom to have thought of.
ref: 1880, Charles Dickens, The Letters of Charles Dickens:
text: All at once a shriek or yell of "Hard aport!" and a great iron outward-bound steamer from Hong-Kong bursts into the unwieldy Chinaman, goes crunching through her like ripping pasteboard; tears her open; snarls through steamy nostrils and cindery fiery mouth, and growls over her wreck.
ref: 1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873.:
text: The wagon mired and cannon dragged Have trenched their scar; the plain Tramped like the cindery beach of the damned-- A site for the city of Cain.
ref: 1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War:
glosses: covered in cinders
Synonyms: cinderous
State of Eritrea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the State of Eritrea
Senses: glosses: Official name of Eritrea: a country in East Africa.
Kingdom of Cambodia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Cambodia
Senses: glosses: Official name of Cambodia: a country in Southeast Asia.
Jason mask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jason masks
Etymology: From the mask worn by the character Jason Voorhees in the film Friday the 13th (1980).
Senses: glosses: A hard white hockey mask such as the one popularized by the character Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th films.
wikipedia: Jason Voorhees
Principality of Liechtenstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Principality of Liechtenstein
Senses: glosses: Official name of Liechtenstein: a microstate in Central Europe.
circumspectness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From circumspect + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It must be granted, poor George Wilhelm's case demanded circumspectness.
ref: 1865, Thomas Carlyle, History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.):
text: "But if to the audacity of the design there be brought a commensurate circumspectness of execution, how then?"
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man:
text: If our suspicion be wholly unfounded, let his own questionable ways, not our necessary circumspectness bear the blame.
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus:
glosses: the state or quality of being circumspect
Kingdom of Norway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Norway
Senses: glosses: Official name of Norway: a country in Northern Europe.
cloyster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloysters
Senses: examples: text: At the banquet the king took his station, incog. in a little closet made out of the cloyster of St. Stephen's, on the right side of the hall.
ref: 1823, Giles Gossip, Coronation Anecdotes:
text: Davy Ramsey, his Majesty's clock-maker, had been informed, that there was a great quantity of treasure buried in the cloyster of Westminster-Abbey; he acquaints Dean Williams therewith, who was also then Bishop of Lincoln; the Dean gave him liberty to search after it, with this proviso, that if any was discovered, his church should have a share of it.
ref: 1715, William Lilly, William Lilly's History of His Life and Times:
text: After dinner (there coming this morning my aunt Hanes and her son from London, that is to live with my father) I rode to Huntingdon, where I met Mr. Philips, and there put my Bugden [Bugden, or Buckden, a village and parish in the St. Neots district of Huntingdonshire, four miles S.W. of Huntingdon.] matter in order against the Court, and so to Hinchingbroke, where Mr. Barnwell shewed me the condition of the house, which is yet very backward, and I fear will be very dark in the cloyster when it is done.
ref: 1661, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, September/October 1661:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cloister.
cloyster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cloysters
form: cloystering
form: cloystered
form: cloystered
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cloister.
cloysters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloyster
Samians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Samian
filanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French filandres, from Latin filum (“thread”).
Senses: topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small thread-like worms and of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein.
Synonyms: backworm
transportance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transport + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: give me swift transportance to those fields
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: transportation
coiffured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coiffured
form: most coiffured
Senses: examples: text: The elderly, snow-white-coiffured lady bolted before the group's self-appointed leader could perform his opening statement.
ref: 2013, Bob Fore, Cajun Flight, page 181:
text: He thought she looked like some coiffured dog, with her foreign hair and the bright red beads at her neck, her jowls hanging down.
ref: 2021, Harriet Kline ·, This Shining Life:
text: Inside the pavilion, identically clad, identically coiffured young ladies sport small green feathers in Tyrolean hats and a fairy with pointed ears made out of laser beams explains what we are about to see.
ref: 2021, Alan Booth, Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan:
glosses: Styled; Having been arranged and cut, especially when in an elaborate style.
raw_tags: of a person or animal's hair
examples: text: Liz Dalton Interiors called for spectacular treatments like crown moldings and coiffured overheads which Rybovich built from solid teak.
ref: 1999 May, Peter Frederiksen, “Top Shelf”, in Yachting, volume 185, number 5, page 91:
text: One aesthetic feature of the interior prominently displayed in Zhongguo jianzhu was the coiffured ceiling .
ref: 2001, Joseph W. Esherick, Remaking the Chinese City, page 153:
text: Interrogating coiffured musical learnings is much less about uncovering particular truth than generating multiplicities of thinking and enacting by observing learning experiences of a young child, while reflecting on the realities of my own lived and living pathways.
ref: 2013, Patricia Shehan Campbell, Trevor Wiggins, The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures, page 347:
glosses: Resulting from elaborate training or construction.
Derived terms: uncoiffured
coiffured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coiffure
collicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From colliculus + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: Purified RGCs were cocultured with purified, DiI-labeled superior collicular neurons in the absence (A) or presence (B) of glia.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name), pages 657–661:
glosses: Of or relating to the colliculus.
Derived terms: corticocollicular
intercollicular
intracollicular
midcollicular
postcollicular
precollicular
retinocollicular
subcollicular
supracollicular
combrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more combrous
form: most combrous
Senses: examples: text: Henceforth I flie not Death, nor would prolong / Life much, bent rather now I may be quit / Faireſt and eaſieſt of this combrous charge, / Which I muſt keep till my appointed day / Of rendring up.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 544–548:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cumbrous.
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Etymology: Calque of Dutch Koninkrijk der Nederlanden.
Senses: glosses: Official name of the Netherlands: a country consisting of the Netherlands per se, in Western Europe, as well as three other small island countries in the Caribbean, namely Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.
fructescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fructescences
Etymology: From Latin fructus (“fruit”) + -escence.
Senses: examples: text: Fructescence, or the fruiting season , is the time when vegetables scatter their ripe seeds
ref: 1793, Thomas Martyn, The Language of Botany:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The maturing or ripening of fruit.
fructescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fructescence
comminglement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comminglements
Etymology: From commingle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: There, Mr. Editor, you have a pleasing comminglement of romance and colloquialism.
ref: 1923, James Huneker, Old Fogy:
text: In a word, Velasquez was a puzzling comminglement of the classic and the realist.
ref: 1910, James Huneker, Promenades of an Impressionist:
text: The shadows of the men, instead of an unintelligible comminglement with the dusk, were now sharp and distinct, and the light grotesquely duplicated them till the cave seemed full of beings who were not there a moment before--strange gnomes, clumsy and burly, slow of movement, but swift and mysterious of appearance and disappearance.
ref: 1895, Charles Egbert Craddock (Mary Noailles Murfree), The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls:
glosses: mix, mixture
bonnetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bonnet + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The sidewalks too were littered with men and women, hatless and bonnetless, who had rushed out of the houses.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Without a bonnet.
disporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + -sporous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: bisporous
glosses: Having two spores.
foehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foe + -hood.
Senses: examples: c. 1642, William Bedell, letter
Have you forgotten S. Hierome's and Ruffinus's deadly foehood which was rung over the world?
glosses: The state of being a foe; enmity.
plebiscitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plebiscite + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: plebiscitary democracy
text: plebiscitary presidency
text: M. Ollivier brought forward the plebiscitary scheme, which M. Rouher and his group secretly imposed on him.
ref: 1883, Y. D., “Léon Gambetta”, in The Century Magazine:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a plebiscite.