cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phallometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phallo- + -metric.
Senses: examples: text: In what seems to be the first attempt to create scientific phallometric data for American males, Lieutenant William A. Schonfeld of the U.S. Army Medical Corps published ‘Primary and Secondary Sexual Characteristics: A Study of Their Development in Males from Birth Through Maturity, With Biometric Study of Penis and Testes,’ in the American Journal of Diseases in Children, in 1943.
ref: 2001, David M Friedman, A Mind of its Own, Robert Hale, published 2009, page 95:
glosses: Of or pertaining to phallometry.
Derived terms: phallometrically
radde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of read
subperitoneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + peritoneal.
Senses: examples: text: subperitoneal fascia
text: subperitoneal inflammation
text: subperitoneal space
text: subperitoneal tissue
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under the peritoneum.
hot-short
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot short.
folkland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folklands
Etymology: From Old English folcland. Equivalent to folk + land.
Senses: examples: text: The folkland, the national fund, was administered and conveyed conjointly by the king and the witan.
ref: 1889, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution:
topics: law
glosses: Land held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion.
Related terms: bookland
folklands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folkland
loanland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loanlands
Etymology: From Old English lǣnland.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Land that has been granted temporarily, without any loss of ownership.
Related terms: bookland
folkland
loanlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loanland
moonet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonets
Etymology: From moon + -et.
Senses: examples: text: […] they may discover a better face of heaven; some lesser planets moving round about the sun, and the moonets about Saturn and Jupiter […]
ref: 1658, Joseph Hall, The Devout Soul, Or, Rules of Heavenly Devotion Also the Free Prisoner, Or, the Comfort of Restraint:
glosses: A little moon; a moonlet.
Related terms: minimoon
moonette
moonito
moonlet
moonets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonet
highering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From higher + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Heaven yield her for it, but in me put force / To weary her ears with one continuous prayer, / Until she let me fly discaged to sweep / In ever-highering eagle-circles up / To the great Sun of Glory, […]
ref: 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Gareth and Lynette”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: Rising higher; ascending.
highering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From higher + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of higher
misreceive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misreceives
form: misreceiving
form: misreceived
form: misreceived
Etymology: From mis- + receive.
Senses: glosses: To receive illegitimately or in error.
Related terms: misreceipt
misreceived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misreceive
misreceives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misreceive
misreceiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misreceive
odontograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontographs
Etymology: From odonto- + -graph.
Senses: topics: dentistry
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels.
odontographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontograph
haüynite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɑːˈwiːˌnaɪt/
Forms: form: haüynites
form: hauynite
Etymology: René Just Haüy, (1743-1822), French crystallographer, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric tectosilicate feldspathoid mineral with sulfate and chloride.
wikipedia: René Just Haüy
Synonyms: haüyne
dilucidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˌluːsɪˈdeɪʃən/
/dɪˌljuːsɪˈdeɪʃən/
Forms: form: dilucidations
Etymology: Latin dilucidatio.
Senses: examples: text: And if such dilucidations be necessary to make us value writings that treat of familiar and secular affairs, […]
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H[oly] Scriptures. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of making clear; clarification or explanation.
Related terms: dilucid
dilucidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dilucidation
Swinburne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Swinburnes
form: Swinbourn
form: Swinbourne
form: Swinburn
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Chollerton, Northumberland, from Old English swīn (“pig, swine”) + burna (“stream, brook”).
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A village in the Free State province, South Africa.
Derived terms: Swinburnean
Swinburnian
epicoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epicoracoids
Etymology: From epi- + coracoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.
Related terms: epicoracoidal
epicoracoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicoracoid
girdlestead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɜː(ɹ)dəlˌstɛd/
Forms: form: girdlesteads
Etymology: From girdle + stead.
Senses: examples: text: [D]iuide your ſelfe in two halfes, iuſt by the girdleſtead; […]
ref: 1605 August (first performance), Geo[rge] Chapman, Ben Ionson, Ioh[n] Marston, Eastward Hoe. […], London: […] [George Eld] for William Aspley, published September 1605, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, signature E, recto:
text: [T]he Lance his target tooke, / Which could not interrupt the blow, that through it cleerly ſtrooke, / And in his bellies rimme was ſheath’d, beneath his girdle-ſtead; […]
ref: [1611?], Homer, “The Fifth Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 74:
text: [T]hey have made me swell above the girdle-stead.
ref: c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry [William] Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington; […], published 1812, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 72:
glosses: That part of the body where the girdle is worn, i.e. the waist.
girdlesteads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girdlestead
arciferal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the epicoracoid cartilages fused anteriorly, but separate and overlapping posteriorly.
raw_tags: of frogs
Related terms: firmisternal
firmisternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the epicoracoid cartilages fused both anteriorly and posteriorly.
raw_tags: of frogs
Related terms: arciferal
scaphiophrynine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaphiophrynines
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the frogs in the microhylid subfamily Scaphiophryninae.
scaphiophrynines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaphiophrynine
microhylid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microhylids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the frog family Microhylidae.
microhylids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microhylid
fourdrinier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourdriniers
Etymology: Named after Henry Fourdrinier, its joint inventor.
Senses: glosses: A machine for making continuous rolls of paper.
wikipedia: Henry Fourdrinier
fourdriniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourdrinier
catechumenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: catechumenical instructions
glosses: Alternative form of catechumenal (“of or pertaining to catechumens”).
rhachidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rachidian
Senses: examples: text: the rhachidian teeth of a mollusk
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the rachis.
irrefutableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irrefutable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: irrefutability; the state or quality of being irrefutable.
halvesies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halfsies.
allurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allurances
Etymology: From allure + -ance.
Senses: glosses: allurement
allurances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allurance
rescription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescriptions
Etymology: From Latin rescriptio. Compare French rescription. See rescribe.
Senses: examples: text: You cannot oblige me more than to be punctual in rescription.
ref: 1662, Robert Loveday, Loveday's Letters, Domestick and Forreign, page 31:
glosses: The act of writing back; the answering of a letter.
tiliaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Tiliaceae + -ous, from Latin tilia (“linden tree”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the family Tiliaceae (now principally subfamily Tilioideae in family Malvaceae) of flowering plants, including the linden.
mesosperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A membrane of a seed.
Related terms: secundine
primines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primine
nonsexists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsexist
nonracism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + racism.
Senses: glosses: Absence of racism; the quality of not being racist.
nonsexism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + sexism.
Senses: glosses: Absence of sexism; the quality of not being sexist.
General Tso's chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Chinese general and statesman Tso Tsung-tang (Zuǒ Zōngtáng in pinyin) in late Qing dynasty, though there is no evidence connecting him with the dish.
Senses: examples: text: Hot and sour soup, shrimp toast, shumai, General Tso’s chicken, pork with garlic sauce, beef with asparagus, hot and spicy shrimp, sushi deluxe, cheesecake, fried bananas, litchi sherbet.
ref: 2009 May 31, Joanne Starkey, “Old-School Chinese With Efforts at Fusion”, in New York Times:
glosses: A sweet and spicy dish of deep-fried chicken, popular in Chinese restaurants in North America.
Synonyms: General Tso's
General Tso
General Tso chicken
General Tao's chicken
General Tao chicken
General Tao's
General Tao
echoable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From echo + -able.
Senses: examples: text: That is, it must make sure that the host has caught up with the input character stream and echoed all echoable characters.
ref: 1976, Robert P. Blanc, Ira W. Cotton, Computer networking:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being echoed to the display.
solan geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solan goose
solan goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solan geese
form: Solent goose
Senses: glosses: Morus bassanus, a seabird, the northern gannet.
loob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loobs
Etymology: Phonetic respelling of the first syllable of lubricant.
Senses: glosses: lubricant, especially social lubricant
omental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From omentum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: omental artery
text: omental tumor
text: omental transposition
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.
Derived terms: gastroomental
omental bursa
supraomental
Hunanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hunanese
form: most Hunanese
Etymology: From Hunan + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Hunan, a province of south-central China.
Hunanese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hunan + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The Xiang language.
alfenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver. It was produced in Germany in the 19th century.
denaturalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denaturalization
denaturalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denaturalisation
denaturability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From denature + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being denaturable.
belirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: belirts
form: belirting
form: belirted
form: belirted
Etymology: From Middle English belirten, bilurten, from Old English belyrtan (“to deceive”), equivalent to be- + lirt. Cognate with Scots belirt (“to jilt, beguile, deceive”).
Senses: glosses: To deceive; beguile.
glosses: To cheat; befool.
tersulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tersulphides
form: tersulfide
Etymology: From ter- + sulphide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trisulfide.
tersulphides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tersulphide
ginging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The lining of a shaft with stones or bricks to prevent collapse.
tersulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tersulphide.
obtruder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obtruders
Etymology: From obtrude + -er.
Senses: examples: text: they will also do Justice to the Inventors or Publishers of true Experiments, as well as upon the Obtruders of false ones
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who obtrudes.
obtruders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obtruder
cissoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cissoids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κισσός (kissós, “ivy”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “form, image”).
Senses: examples: The cissoid of a circle and a line is a conchoid
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of curves defined as the locus of a point, P, on a line from a given fixed point and intersecting two given curves, C₁ and C₂, where the distance along the line from C₁ to P remains constant and equal to the distance from P to C₂.
Related terms: cissoidal
cissoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cissoids
Etymology: From cis + -oid
Senses: glosses: a cisgender person
cissoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cissoid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a cissoid.
cissoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cissoid
lirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: lirts
form: lirting
form: lirted
form: lirted
form: lirte
Etymology: From Middle English lirten, lurten (“to cheat”), from Old English *lyrtan (found only in belyrtan (“to deceive”)), from Proto-West Germanic *lurtijan (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *lerd- (“to bend, crook”). Cognate with Scots lirt (“to cheat, deceive, delude”), Middle High German lürzen (“to deceive”), Middle High German lerz, lurz, lorz (“left, left-handed”), Old English lort, lyrt (“crooked”).
Senses: glosses: To deceive; beguile.
glosses: To cheat; befool.
Derived terms: belirt
lirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: lirts
form: lirte
Etymology: From Middle English lirten, lurten (“to cheat”), from Old English *lyrtan (found only in belyrtan (“to deceive”)), from Proto-West Germanic *lurtijan (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *lerd- (“to bend, crook”). Cognate with Scots lirt (“to cheat, deceive, delude”), Middle High German lürzen (“to deceive”), Middle High German lerz, lurz, lorz (“left, left-handed”), Old English lort, lyrt (“crooked”).
Senses: glosses: Deception; guile.
glosses: A cheat; a go-by.
lirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: lirts
form: lirting
form: lirted
form: lirted
Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps alteration of lirk (“to jerk”).
Senses: glosses: To toss.
glosses: To walk or move in a quick, lively, or pert manner.
glosses: To gambol; frisk.
stillicidious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Falling in drops; dripping.
Related terms: stillicide
stillicidium
unpreach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpreaches
form: unpreaching
form: unpreached
form: unpreached
Etymology: From un- + preach.
Senses: examples: text: The clergy their own principles denied: Unpreach'd their non-resisting cant, and pray'd / Their liberty and property's so dear
ref: 1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], “(please specify the page)”, in The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], →OCLC:
text: [Y]et for a priest of the Church of England, […] to show the white feather in the hour of need, is to unpreach in one minute all that he had been preaching his life-long.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, “How They Took the Pearls at Margarita”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 269:
glosses: To undo or overthrow (something) by preaching; to revoke (something preached before).
unpreaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpreach
unpreaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpreach
unpreaching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: an unpreaching minister
glosses: That does not preach.
Kingsleyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kingsleyan
form: most Kingsleyan
Etymology: From Kingsley + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), English priest, novelist, and historian.
fleamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfliːmi/
Forms: form: more fleamy
form: most fleamy
Etymology: From fleam + -y.
Senses: examples: text: foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain
ref: c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: spend words with this fleamy clodd of an Antagonist
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. […], [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: bloody; clotted
leptiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leptiform
form: most leptiform
Etymology: From Leptus + -form.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a form somewhat like mites of the order Leptus; said of active insect larvae with three pairs of legs.
apteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apterans
Etymology: Ultimately from a- + Ancient Greek πτερ(όν) (pter(ón), “wing”). The noun is specifically Aptera + -an; the adjective is a- + -pteran.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Aptera, an obsolete taxonomic category of wingless arthropods.
apteran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ultimately from a- + Ancient Greek πτερ(όν) (pter(ón), “wing”). The noun is specifically Aptera + -an; the adjective is a- + -pteran.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apterous.
apterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apteran
insurmountableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insurmountable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: insurmountability
glosses: The quality of being insurmountable.
unpriest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpriests
form: unpriesting
form: unpriested
form: unpriested
Etymology: From un- + priest.
Senses: examples: text: 1644 July, John Milton, The Judgment of Martin Bucer touching Divorce, Book II, Chapter XXIV, tr. of Martin Bucer, De Regno Christi.
The same thought Leo, bishop of Rome, Ep. 85, to the African bishops of Mauritania Caesariensis, wherein complaining of a certain priest, who divorcing his wife, or being divorced by her, as other copies have it, had married another, neither dissolves the matrimony, nor excommunicates him, only unpriests him.
synonyms: unfrock
glosses: To deprive of priesthood
unpriest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unpriests
Etymology: From un- + priest.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a priest.
unpriested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpriest
unpriesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpriest
unpriests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpriest
gramashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See gamashes.
Senses: examples: text: But the form was indisputable — Douce David Deans himself, in his best light-blue Sunday's coat, with broad metal-buttons, and waistcoat and breeches of the same, his strong gramashes or leggings of thick grey cloth
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings.
heterogynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterogynous
form: most heterogynous
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: examples: text: Some heterogynous insects have winged males and wingless females.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having females very unlike the males in form and structure.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants or bees.
timberhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timberheads
Etymology: From timber + head.
Senses: examples: text: If one refers to af chapman one finds that while only three drawings of comparable ships show boomkins fitted, all drawings of bluff-headed ships show either an extra timberhead or a half-round cutting in the top of the hawse piece to accommodate this spar when needed.
ref: 1985, The Great Circle, page 32:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.
timberheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timberhead
preopinion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + opinion.
Senses: examples: text: an indistinct voracity eating almost any [foods]; others out of a timorous pre-opinion refraining very many
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Opinion previously formed; prejudice.
trijugous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin trijugus (“threefold”), from tri- + jugum (“a yoke”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: trijugate.
epiperipheral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + peripheral.
Senses: examples: 1870-1880, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Psychology
On comparing these three great orders of feelings , we found that whereas the epiperipheral are relational to a very great extent , the entoperipheral , and still more the central , have but small aptitudes for entering into relations.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; especially applied to the feelings that originate at the extremities of nerves, as for example when touching an object with the finger.
Related terms: entoperipheral
enstead
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of instead.
croupade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croupades
Etymology: From French croupe (“hind quarters”).
Senses: glosses: A leap in which the horse pulls its hind legs up towards the belly.
croupades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croupade
aligerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin aliger (from ala (“wing”) + gerere (“to carry”)) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: winged
infratrochlear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.fɹəˈtɹɑk.li.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɒkliə(ɹ)
Etymology: From infra- + trochlear.
Senses: examples: text: infratrochlear axis
text: infratrochlear artery
text: infratrochlear vessel
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
antonyms: supratrochlear
glosses: Below a trochlea; applied especially to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.
Derived terms: infratrochlear nerve
homogonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: In Hottonia, a Primulaceous genus of two species, the European one has heterogonous dimorphism for cross-fertilization: the American one has homogonous showy flowers with only the general chance for intercrossing, and earlier flowers which are cleistogamous for self-fertilization.
ref: 1907, Asa Gray, Gray's Botanical Text-book, page 235:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having all the flowers alike in terms of the stamens and pistils.
examples: text: Time and an instant, space and a point, boundary and the bounded, are not homogeneous, but nevertheless cognate or "homogonous".
ref: 1982, Philip P. Wiener, Leibniz Selections, page 204:
text: This concept of "change as homogonous variation” is arguably the most profound and most problematic for Plato.
ref: 2011, Jiayan Zhang, One and Many, page 35:
glosses: Existing on a continuum; able to be transformed one into another by means of continuous change.
Related terms: homogeneous
monometallist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monometallists
Etymology: From mono- + metal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of monometallism.
monometallist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monometallist
form: most monometallist
Etymology: From mono- + metal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Advocating monometallism.
monometallists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monometallist
poriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pory + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: the Poriness of the Bone
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
glosses: porosity
chesterlite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chester + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of microcline from Chester County, Pennsylvania.
criminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: the courtiers are often furious and (according to the doctrines there) criminative against the judges
ref: a. 1734, Roger North, The lives of the Right Hon. Francis North:
glosses: Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory.
bryonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bryony + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An emetic substance obtained from bryony root.
earthdrake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːθ.dɹeɪk/
ipa: /ˈɝθ.dɹeɪk/
Forms: form: earthdrakes
form: earth-drake
form: earth drake
Etymology: From Middle English *erthedrake, from Old English eorþdraca (“earth dragon”), equivalent of earth + drake.
Senses: examples: text: […] he sacrifices his own life in destroying a frightful earthdrake, […]
ref: 1876, William Spalding, The History of English Literature, page 40:
text: The slayer also lay,
The terrible earth-drake deprived of life,
Oppressed by bale: the ring-hoard longer
The twisted worm, might not control.
ref: 1887, Albert H[arris] Tolman, The Style of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, page 15:
text: While attempting to remain as true to history as possible, I created a world of witches and wizards, earthdrakes and talking ravens, according to my imagination.
ref: 2008, M.C. Halliday, The King's Daughter - Page 196:
text: Aric had heard improbable tales of earth drakes eating entire mekillots. Seeing this one, however, he no longer had reason to doubt.
ref: 2010, Jeff Mariotte, City Under the Sand: A Dark Sun Novel:
topics: fantasy
glosses: a dragon.
raw_tags: in early Anglo-Saxon literature
Related terms: firedrake
nithedrake
seadrake
earthdrakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthdrake
metely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mete + -ly.
Senses: glosses: proportionable, proportionate
omnivagant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + Latin vagans, present participle of vagari (“to wander”).
Senses: glosses: free-roaming; travelling everywhere
lirk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: lirks
form: lirking
form: lirked
form: lirked
form: lurk
form: lerk
form: lairk
form: lark
Etymology: From Middle English lyrken, from Old Norse lerka (“to plait, fold, bind, lace up tightly, chastise”), related to Old Norse lurkr (“cudgel, club”) (see Proto-Celtic *lorgā).
Senses: glosses: To jerk.
glosses: To crease; rumple; cause to hang in loose folds.
glosses: To become creased or wrinkled.
lirk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: lirks
form: lurk
form: lerk
form: lairk
form: lark
Etymology: From Middle English lerke, from the verb. See above.
Senses: glosses: A crease; rumple; fold.
glosses: A fold in the skin; a wrinkle.
daguerreotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
daguerrotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of daguerreotypy.
physicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physick
physicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of physics.
physicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of physick
physick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physicks
Senses: examples: text: Learn before thou speak, and use physick or ever thou be sick.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Sirach 18:19:
glosses: Obsolete form of physic.
physick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: physicks
form: physicking
form: physicked
form: physicked
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of physic.
ostracean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɒsˈtɹeɪʃi.ən/
/ɒsˈtɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: ostraceans
Etymology: From Latin ostrea (“an oyster”). See oyster.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any bivalve of the family Ostreidae; an oyster.
ostraceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostracean
disaccommodation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + accommodation.
Senses: examples: text: the least disproportion or disaccommodation of one to the other would spoil the whole work
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited.
trefoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trefoil + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The knop is formed of three rams' heads, and the base, trefoiled-shaped, has three bosses […]
ref: 1884, The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review, page 101:
glosses: Having the shape of a trefoil.
examples: text: If the shield is regarded as one showing dimidiated arms, then it may be read as (dexter) gules, a cross trefoiled and voided or, . .. (sinister) gules (2), on two pallets argent, ladders (2) semé (?) azure.
ref: 1993, Adolph S. Cavallo, Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 141:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having the shape of a trefoil.
Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities; of a cross: having ends which terminate in trefoils (similar or identical to bottony).
examples: text: There is a plain trefoiled window above in the tower; the lower part of the spire having two lancet windows, with a circle […] The pulpit is of modern oak, of five panels, each panel being divided into two trefoiled arched partitions;[…]
ref: 2014 March 28, James Conway Walter, A History of Horncastle (Illustrated), Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing, partition, etc.
Synonyms: trefly
tréflé
trefled
dipchick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipchicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dabchick.
dipchicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipchick
pseudogalena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + galena.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sphalerite.
farcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farcements
Etymology: From farce + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: They spoil a good dish with improper sauce and unsavory farcements.
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: stuffing; forcemeat
examples: text: In short, it was a veritable farcement of questions that each man put to him.
ref: 1883, Jacques de Mailles, History of Bayard the Good: Chevalier Sans Peur Et Sans Reproche, page 273:
text: The process in the average public school is not education, but farcement, to borrow an old English word — a stuffing of undigested facts into unhealthy children, after the fashion of the geese of Strasburg.
ref: 1899 December, M.H. Hatfield, “Dynamics of School Puberty”, in Mind and Body, volume 6, number 70, page 222:
glosses: A mixture of various things crammed together.
examples: text: More and more local dishes are being revived nowadays, thanks to the wonderful work of Marie Thérèse Hermann; so look, because more and more country restaurants are sure to reintroduce farcements and farçons in the years to come, and I would not be surprised if a few in the Albertville-Moûtiers axis were to activate regional menus during the 1992 Olympics.
ref: 1989, Madeleine Kamman, Madeleine Kamman's Savoie, page 227:
text: The unwary can come unstuck, however: a friend, told not to miss the farcement of Saint Gervais, struggled manfully through a plateful of this stodgy, Christmas pudding-like dish before learning that the proper way to eat it is to cut off small pieces and fry them.
ref: 1992, Reg Butler, Robin Mead, European Ski Resorts, page 48:
text: Another convivial and single-course dish that I am thinking of is “farcement”. One of our friends made it for us at the students' residence when my (future) husband and I were studying in Paris.
ref: 2019, Christine Cappio, Gweimui’s Hong Kong Wet Markets:
text: I first ate farcement in a little piste-side restaurant in Les Houches in Chamonix as the snow bucketed down outside.
ref: 2021, Lizzie Kamenetzky, Fireside Food for Cold Winter Night:
glosses: A regional dish from Savoie consisting of slow-cooked grated potatoes with cream, pork or bacon, onion, and dried fruit.
farcements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farcement
alamort
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: all amort
form: all-a-mort
form: à la mort
Etymology: From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”). Compare amort.
Senses: glosses: To the death; mortally.
alamort
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: all amort
form: all-a-mort
form: à la mort
Etymology: From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”). Compare amort.
Senses: examples: text: How fares my Kate, what ſweeting all a-mort?
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 223, column 2:
glosses: Half-dead; in a depressed condition; dejected.
dodded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dod + -ed.
Senses: examples: dodded cattle
glosses: Without horns.
dodded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From dod + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dod
monopolylogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monopolylogues
Etymology: From mono- + poly- + -logue; compare monologue. Etymologically unrelated to monopoly but metaphorically related to it, as only one actor provides the drama.
Senses: glosses: A drama in which an actor performs as many characters
Related terms: monopolylogist
monopolylogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monopolylogue
lithoclast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithoclasts
Etymology: From litho- + -clast.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A now obsolete instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.
lithoclasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithoclast
Apician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: more Apician
form: most Apician
Etymology: From Latin Apīciānus, from Apīcius + -ānus, equivalent to Apicius + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Marcus Gavius Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure.
examples: text: Thrice happy you! who are not driven to such Apician luxuries,—Apician at least in point of expense, if not of so palatable a quality.
ref: 1857, R.E.H. Greyson [pseudonym; Henry Rogers], “Letter to Alfred West Esq., December 10, 1838”, in Henry Rogers, editor, The Greyson Letters: Selections from the correspondence of R.E.H. Greyson, Esq., page 18:
text: If dishonesty can live in a gorgeous place with pictures on all its walls, and gems in all its cupboards, with marble and ivory in all its corners, and can give Apician dinners, and get into Parliament, and deal in millions, then dishonesty is not disgraceful, and the man dishonest after such a fashion is not a low scoundrel.
ref: a. 1883 (date written), Anthony Trollope, “‘The Way We Live Now’ and ‘The Prime Minister’—Conclusion”, in An Autobiography […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1883, →OCLC, pages 210–211:
synonyms: epicurean
hedonistic
glosses: Choice, dainty; (of people) eating only what is choice, preferring the best or most expensive food.
raw_tags: of food
roofy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːfi
homophone: roofie
Forms: form: more roofy
form: most roofy
Etymology: From roof + -y.
Senses: examples: text: roofy houses
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: roofed
glosses: Having roofs.
roofy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːfi
homophone: roofie
Forms: form: roofies
Etymology: From roof + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roofie (“drug”).
Sapphick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Sapphick meaſure is indeed very muſical, and what Horace ſeems beſt to hace practiſed ; but methinks it is too ſoft, and fit only to be employed on love and pleaſant eaſy ſubjects : it ſeems too much confined, like the uſual meaſure of our ſongs, and the lofty ſenſe of ſome of his Odes is above it.
ref: 1728, John Hughes, The Preſent State of the Republick of Letters, volume I, page 422:
glosses: Obsolete form of Sapphic.
Lipans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lipan
desilverize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desilverizes
form: desilverizing
form: desilverized
form: desilverized
Etymology: From de- + silver + -ize.
Senses: synonyms: desilver
glosses: To deprive of silver; to remove the silver from.
desilverized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desilverize
desilverizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desilverize
desilverizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desilverize
desilverization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desilverizations
Etymology: From de- + silverization.
Senses: glosses: The process of desilverizing.
silverization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silver + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of silverizing.
insalivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There is an important difference between rapid and thorough digestion. In a similar way, a high temperature of our food facilitates deglutition, but, by dispensing with insalivation and the proper use of our teeth, we make the stomach perform the work of our jaws and salivary glands; in other words, we make our food less digestible.
ref: 1881 January 24, Felix Leopold Oswald, “Physical Education I”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 18:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The mixing of food with saliva during mastication.
Related terms: insalivate
destalinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destalinizes
form: destalinizing
form: destalinized
form: destalinized
Etymology: From de- + Stalin + -ize.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: To free from the influence of Joseph Stalin.
Related terms: destalinization
destalinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of destalinize
destalinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destalinize
destalinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destalinize
dueness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From due + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: On God's part , I would call it a dueness, remembering how Paul prohibits the word "recompence" as any way challengeable by any or all the creatures
ref: a. 1680, Thomas Goodwin, Of the Creatures, and the Condition of their State by Creation:
glosses: Quality of being due; debt; what is due or becoming.
nudation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nudations
Etymology: From Latin nudatio, from nudare (“to make naked”), from nudus (“naked”). See nude.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The act of stripping, or making bare or naked.
nudations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nudation
microchronometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microchronometers
Etymology: From micro- + chronometer.
Senses: glosses: A chronoscope, a timekeeping device used for minuscule timeframes.
microchronometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microchronometer
cereuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cereus
appeall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appealls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of appeal.
appeall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: appealls
form: appealling
form: appealled
form: appealled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of appeal.
gradational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gradation + -al.
Senses: glosses: By regular steps or gradations.
examples: text: gradational process
glosses: Of or pertaining to gradation.
Derived terms: gradationally
intergradational
intragradational
photoxylographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + xylographic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to photoxylography.
graduational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more graduational
form: most graduational
Etymology: From graduation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to graduations.
bibliopegistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bibliopegist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The Augustan period of MEAD, WEST, and RATCLIFFE exhibited pretty much the same character of bibliopegistic art.
ref: c. 1817, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, The Bibliographical Decameron:
glosses: Relating to bookbinding.
epitrochlear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒkliə(ɹ)
Etymology: From epi- + trochlear or epitrochlea + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: epitrochlear basin
text: epitrochlear node
glosses: Relating to the epitrochlea.
mainor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainors
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman meinoure, Old French manuevre. See maneuver and French main (“hand”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act or fact, especially of theft.
examples: text: for the future one credible Witness proveing the Fact, and supported by probable Circumstances, or the Mainor being upon Search or otherwise found with or upon the Malefactor[…]
ref: 1821, Anthony Mills, The Ancient Ordinances and Statute Laws of the Isle of Man:
topics: law
glosses: A stolen article found on the person of the thief.
mainors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainor
paranthracene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + anthracene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.
expeditely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more expeditely
form: most expeditely
Etymology: From expedite + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an expedite manner; promptly.
longilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɒnd͡ʒɪˈlætəɹəl/
rhymes: -ætəɹəl
Forms: form: more longilateral
form: most longilateral
Etymology: From Latin longus (“long”) + lateralis (“lateral”), from latus (“side”).
Senses: glosses: Having long sides
examples: text: naturally making a longilateral figure, the perfect quadrate being made by nine.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
glosses: having the shape of a long parallelogram.
water mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water mouse
water mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water mice
form: water-mouse
form: watermouse
Etymology: From Middle English water mous, watermowse, equivalent to water + mouse.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: water rat
glosses: Any of several species of rodents of the genus Hydromys, native to New Guinea and Australia, with strong hind legs and partially webbed toes.
glosses: Xeromys myoides
Related terms: rakali
Maitreyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maitreyan
form: most Maitreyan
Etymology: From Maitreya + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Maitreya.
hypodermically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hypodermic + -ally.
Senses: examples: how to inject quinine hypodermically
glosses: By hypodermic means.