cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
guardianless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From guardian + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] I would ſooner leaue my lady ſingled in a Bordello, then in the Genoa pallace, […] Surfet would cloake intemperate appetite, / Make the ſoule ſent the rotten breath of luſt, / When in an Italian laſciuious Pallace, a Lady gardianleſſe.
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii:
glosses: Without a guardian.
argumentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more argumentable
form: most argumentable
Etymology: Latin argumentabilis.
Senses: examples: text: With a religion so argumentable as ours, it may be easy to gather out of it a feast for the human understanding
ref: 1817, Thomas Chalmers, A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, Viewed in Connection with the Modern Astronomy:
glosses: Admitting of argument; arguable.
gumboil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumboils
Etymology: From gum + boil.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: parulis
glosses: A small suppurating inflamed spot on the gum.
gumboils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumboil
appreciatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more appreciatorily
form: most appreciatorily
Etymology: From appreciatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With appreciation; appreciatively.
horserake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horserakes
Etymology: From horse + rake.
Senses: glosses: A rake designed to be drawn (pulled) by a horse.
horserakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horserake
oölite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oölites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oolite.
oölites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oölite
muculent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muculent
form: most muculent
Etymology: From Latin mūculentus, from mūcus.
Senses: glosses: slimy; moist and unpleasantly viscous
mountainet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountainets
Etymology: From mountain + -et.
Senses: synonyms: mountlet
glosses: A relatively small mountain, or hill
mountainets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountainet
texturizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From texturize + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be texturized.
recaptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recaptors
Etymology: From re- + captor.
Senses: glosses: One who recaptures, or takes a prize that had been previously taken.
examples: text: The only argument to shew that the loss had not then ceased to be total, was built upon a mistaken supposition that the recaptor had a right to demand a sale, and put a stop to any further prosecution of the voyage.
ref: 1833, David Hughes, A Treatise on the Law Relating to Insurance:
topics: law
glosses: Someone who recovers or attempts to recover by recaption.
recaptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recaptor
masty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more masty
form: most masty
Etymology: From mast + -y.
Senses: glosses: Full of, or producing, mast (the kind of fruit)
disciplinableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disciplinable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We find in animals […] something of Sagacity , Providence , Disciplinableness , and a something like unto a Discursive Ratiocination
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: The quality of being disciplinable.
rootcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rootcaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of root cap.
rootcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rootcap
sebate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sebates
Etymology: From sebacic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of sebacic acid.
sebates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sebate
biliprasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin bilis (“bile”) + prasinus (“green”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark green pigment found in small quantities in human gallstones.
Related terms: bilifuscin
inculpableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inculpable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: inculpability
glosses: The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
asbestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asbestic
form: most asbestic
Etymology: From asbestos + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or resembling, asbestos.
asbestic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From asbestos + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: After the lime and asbestic are thoroughly mixed, the plaster should be allowed to stand at least twenty-four hours before being used.
ref: 1897, The Builder - Volume 73, page 393:
text: They heard of the crushers into which the stone was passed at one end , and of the table at the other end with the cyclones, where the material, which was not asbestic, was rejected, and the asbestic was drawn away as fibre, but they had not heard much of what went on in between, except that there were sieves, jiggers, and various pieces of machinery.
ref: 1897 April 30, Robert H. Jones, “Asbestos and Asbestic: With Some Account of the Recent Discovery of the Latter at Danville, in Lower Canada”, in Journal of the Society of Arts, volume 45, number 2319, page 554:
text: The increased production of nearly 150 per cent in 1897, accompanied by an increase of less than 4 per cent in value , was due to the large amount of asbestic and low grade of fiber included in the product.
ref: 1899, Edward W. Parker, “Asbestos”, in Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, page 714:
text: In mid-December the mine manager at Anderson's Creek reported that he'd pulled down 50 tons of asbestic and was bagging it prior to carting to Beauty Point.
ref: 2017, Nigel Burch, Lost Mines of the Tamar, page 29:
glosses: A type of wall plaster that is a byproduct of the manufacture of asbestos from serpentine.
solacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solacious
form: most solacious
Etymology: Compare Old French solacieux.
Senses: examples: text: Delicious it is in adversity, and solacious in all weakness
ref: 1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches:
glosses: Affording solace.
discoherent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discoherent
form: most discoherent
Etymology: From dis- + coherent.
Senses: glosses: incoherent
Related terms: discoherence
discoherently
grudgingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grudging + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: begrudgingness
glosses: The state or quality of grudging.
oftentide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English oftentide; equivalent to
often + tide.
Senses: glosses: Often; frequently.
surrenderee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surrenderees
Etymology: From surrender + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The lord is compellable by mandamus to admit the surrenderee, that is, the person to whose use the surrender is made.
ref: 1876, Herbert Newman Mozley, George Crispe Whiteley, A Concise Law Dictionary, page 435:
topics: law
glosses: The person to whom a surrender is made.
surrenderees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrenderee
disquieter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disquieters
Etymology: From disquiet + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber.
disquieters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disquieter
diota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diotas
form: diotae
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek, “two-handled”.
Senses: examples: text: 1817, Edward Daniel Clarke, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Part 2: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 4th Edition, Volume 6, page 105,
A Greek had recently discovered a vessel of terra cotta containing some small bronze coins of Naxos, of the finest die, exhibiting the head of the bearded Bacchus in front, and a diota on the reverse, with the legend ΝΑΞΙΩΝ: we bought ten of these.
text: The reasons for introducing these two devices are obvious; but the case of the diota, which is commonly placed horizontally under the feet of the owl, requires a separate explanation. Corsini says, in a dissertation of his Fasti Attici, that it is supposed by dome to refer to the amphora of oil, which was presented to the conquerors at the Panathenæa; but is himself of opinion, that it intended to denotes the manufacture of vessels in terra cotta, for which the Athenians were celebrated.
ref: 1832, G. H. Smith, Appendix I: Observations on the Coinage and Currency of the Greeks: A Manual of Grecian Antiquities, page 262:
text: On the shore here I found three handles of Greek unpainted diotæ, on which magistrates′ names are stamped.
ref: 1865, Charles Thomas Newton, Dominic Ellis Colnaghi, Travels & Discoveries in The Levant, volume 1, page 236:
glosses: A vase or drinking cup with two handles.
diotae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diota
imprenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imprenable
form: most imprenable
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of impregnable.
diotas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diota
dioxaborolanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dioxaborolane
aristocratism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aristocratisms
Etymology: From aristocrat + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: His whole family, you know, are accused of being aristocrats, though their only aristocratism consists in wishing to defend a constitution which all France has sworn to maintain.
ref: c. 1842, Samuel Romilly, The Life of Samuel Romilly:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The principles of aristocrats.
glosses: Aristocrats collectively.
irresistless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irresistless
form: most irresistless
Etymology: From ir- + resist + -less.
Senses: examples: text: When Beauty in Diſtreſs appears, / An irreſiſtleſs Charm it bears: / In every Breaſt does pity move, / Pity, the tender'ſt part of Love.
ref: (please specify the title), Thomas Yalden, “To His Friend Captain Chamberline; in Love with a Lady He Had Taken in an Algeriene Prize at Sea”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Rome, that shall stretch her irresistless Reign
Wherever Ceres views her golden Grain;
ref: 1759, James Grainger (translator), The Elegies of Tibullus, London: A. Millar, Elegy 5, p. 89, Eternal Rome shall rise, where now ye brouze
glosses: Irresistable.
flashboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flashboard
manbote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manbotes
form: manboten
form: manbot
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English mannbōt (“fine paid to the lord of a slain man or vassal”). More at man, bote.
Senses: examples: text: Manbote of freedom
ref: 1628–1644, Edw[ard] Coke, (please specify |part=1 to 4), London:
text: Three weeks later an equal sum, under the name of manbote, was paid to the lord, as a compensation for the loss of his vassal.
ref: 1688, John Lingard, A History of England:
text: 1962, H.R. Loyns, quoted in NYT, Daily Lexeme: Maegbot, 2011
roman: If a man was slain a special manbot, or compensation for the loss of a man, had to be paid to the lord side by side with the mægbot to the kin.
topics: law
qualifier: Anglo-Saxon
glosses: A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.
manbotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manbote
recoiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recoilers
Etymology: From recoil + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that recoils, or causes a recoil.
recoilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recoiler
molochs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moloch
feticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fetishism.
equipedal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + pedal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal.
santalaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Santalaceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the flowering plant family Santalaceae.
regermination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regerminations
Etymology: Latin regerminatio.
Senses: glosses: Germination again or anew; the act of regerminating.
regerminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regermination
impoundage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impoundages
Etymology: From impound + -age.
Senses: glosses: The act of impounding.
glosses: The fee or fine for impounding.
examples: text: During three seasons prior to impoundage , mosquito catching stations were established in the reservoir area and inspected regularly in order to determine approximately the prevalence of anopheline mosquitoes in the area under natural conditions.
ref: 1941, Tennessee Valley Authority, The Pickwick Landing Project, page 285:
glosses: The installation of a dam to create a reservoir or similar body of water.
impoundages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impoundage
capsquare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capsquares
Etymology: From cap + square.
Senses: topics: government
history
human-sciences
military
politics
sciences
war
glosses: A metal plate that covers the trunnions of a cannon and holds it in place.
capsquares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capsquare
sulciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sulciform
form: most sulciform
Etymology: From Latin sulcus (“groove”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: sulciform impression
text: sulciform marking
glosses: Having the form of a sulcus.
husbandage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From husband + -age.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's manager, or "husband".
infashionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infashionable
form: most infashionable
Etymology: From in- + fashionable.
Senses: examples: text: Then his band / May be disordered and transformed from lace / To cutwork; his rich clothes be discomplexioned / With blood, beside the infashionable slashes.
ref: 1635 February 16 (licensing date), James Shirley, “The Coronation. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
glosses: Obsolete form of unfashionable.
livingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livingnesses
Etymology: From living + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: aliveness
glosses: The state or quality of being alive or lively
magazining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magazine + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, though Byron is gone after his Don Juan — Scott and Southey out of the rhyme department — Wordsworth stamp-mastering — Coleridge's poetry in abeyance— Crabbe mute as a fish - Campbell and Wilsont merely magazining
ref: 1831, Fraser's Magazine:
text: Henry Luce was a magazining genius with an incredible sensitivity to soon-to-break waves of popular sentiment[…]
ref: 1980, James David Barber, The pulse of politics: electing presidents in the media age, page 154:
glosses: The act of editing or writing for a magazine.
magazining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From magazine + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of magazine
laminarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laminarites
Etymology: From laminar + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A broad-leafed fossil alga.
laminarites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laminarite
misget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misgets
form: misgetting
form: misgot
form: misgotten
Etymology: From Middle English misgeten, equivalent to mis- + get.
Senses: examples: text: the fruitlesse end
Of thy vaine boast , and spoile of love misgot
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means.
Derived terms: misgetting
misgotten
misgetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misget
misgot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of misget
disquisitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disquisitory
form: most disquisitory
Etymology: From disquisition + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: The disquisitory character of his intellect better loves the serener regions of politics […]
ref: Edinburgh Review (volume 100, page 531)
glosses: Of or pertaining to disquisition; disquisitive.
drysalter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drysalters
Etymology: From dry + salter.
Senses: examples: text: How striking it was to find such sentiments in a man who had risen from nothing to a great fortune, as a dry-salter in London.
ref: 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 82
glosses: A dealer in chemicals used in the arts (oils, preservatives etc.) as well as, often, preserved foodstuffs including pickles or salted meats.
Related terms: drysaltery
drysalters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drysalter
moslings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Origin uncertain: perhaps from morsel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Thin shreds of leather shaved off while dressing skins.
bowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bowable
form: most bowable
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bowable, boweable, equivalent to bow + -able.
Senses: examples: text: In a multi-convoluted helical conveyor of the character described for transporting substantially flat-bottomed full or empty dishtrays, the combination of a supporting structure, a pair of helically-parallel track bars supported by said structure, a plurality of chain-driving sprockets, and an endless, slatted, link-chain belt comprised of a bowable and twistable link-chain, […]
ref: 1973 January 29, Sidney T. Heifetz, George Ran, Theodore Equipment Corporation, Helical endless-belt mechanisms for fuel or empty dishtray transporting and lifting, US Patent 3,857,476, published 31 December 1974, column 7, lines 21–27:
synonyms: flexible
bendable
bendy
yielding
glosses: Capable of being bowed (bent)
Derived terms: unbowable
neuropod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropods
Etymology: From neuro- + -pod.
Senses: examples: text: The notopods begin on the second or third segment and the neuropods are very variable in their segment of origin, being sometimes altogether absent from the anterior region.
ref: 1935, John Roxborough Norman, Coast Fishes: South Atlantic:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any neuropodous animal.
neuropods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropod
hystricomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hystricomorphous
form: most hystricomorphous
Etymology: Hystricomorpha + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to the rodent group Hystricomorpha, which has had many definitions throughout its history.
decompoundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkəmˈpaʊndəbəɫ/
Forms: form: more decompoundable
form: most decompoundable
Etymology: From decompound + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being decompounded.
gastriloquist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastriloquists
Etymology: From gastriloquy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A ventriloquist.
gastriloquists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastriloquist
dichroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichroscopes
Etymology: From di- + chro + -scope from Ancient Greek.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for examining the diochroism of crystals.
Derived terms: dichroscopic
dichroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dichroscope
expiscator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expiscators
Senses: glosses: One who expiscates.
traunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traunters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tranter.
traunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traunter
glossanthrax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gloss- + anthrax.
Senses: glosses: A disease of horses and cattle causing carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
expiscate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: expiscates
form: expiscating
form: expiscated
form: expiscated
Etymology: From Latin expiscatus, past participle of expiscari (“to fish out”), from ex (“out”) + piscari (“to fish”), piscis (“fish”).
Senses: examples: text: Mathematics may be separated into two divisions, one of which expiscates principles or methods, and the other rules or applications.
ref: 1860, John Pringle Nichol, A Cyclopaedia of Physical Sciences:
text: as if every man had to expiscate for himself from the beginning a system of religious belief
ref: 1866, William Lindsay Alexander, Our Lord's Commendation of the study of Holy Scripture:
text: November 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, Chapter XXXIV
I am in a fair way to expiscate my family history
glosses: To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out or rummage (for information)
Related terms: expiscation
expiscatory
depletory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more depletory
form: most depletory
Senses: examples: text: depletory measures
text: depletory remedy
glosses: Serving to deplete; depletive.
inequilobate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inequilobate
form: most inequilobate
Etymology: From in- + equilobate.
Senses: examples: text: inequilobate caudal
text: inequilobate tail
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Unequally lobed; divided into lobes of different shapes or sizes.
foothook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foothooks
Etymology: From futtock, reinterpreted as foot + hook.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of futtock.
foothooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foothook
demiwolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demiwolves
Etymology: From demi- + wolf.
Senses: glosses: A mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The upper half of a wolf
topics: fantasy
glosses: A kind of half-wolf creature, such as a half man, half wolf.
demiwolves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demiwolf
misbestowal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + bestowal.
Senses: glosses: The act of misbestowing.
dolabriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dolabriform
form: most dolabriform
Etymology: From Latin dolabra (“mattock”) (from dolo (“hew”)) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: Some leaves, and certain organs in shellfish, are dolabriform.
glosses: Shaped like the head of an axe or hatchet.
bdellometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bdellometers
Etymology: From the French bdellomètre, from the Ancient Greek βδέλλα (bdélla, “leech”) + the French -mètre (“-meter”), itself from the Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “(something used to) measure”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A cupping glass to which a scarificator and an exhausting syringe are attached.
couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Presents an example of a minimally simple project that the person or group described is presumed unable to accomplish.
Senses: examples: text: “Deladrieux should have stayed an accountant,” Murphy sighed. “He's got three people working for him but they're just administrative clerks, pencil-pushers, they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. That's what you get when you assign engineering jobs to non-engineers.[…]”
ref: 2006, G. C. Lemans, Chantier: A tribute to the world's engineers and their partners in life, page 60:
text: 'It'll be a sad day when the British leave. You lot couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery without the Queen, God bless her'.
ref: 2023 January 28, Martin Thiebaut, The Nomad Letters, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:
text: But, a tip for everyone reading this, don't use Visa Machine, as it couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery! And I should know, as I have had three breweries and I can!
ref: 2018 December 11, Ian Rogers, London to Magadan, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Is unable even to organise a project that requires no planning; is incompetent; used to describe someone as greatly incompetent.
Synonyms: couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery
couldn't organise an orgy in a brothel
couldn't organise a two-ticket raffle
couldn't pour water out of a boot
Related terms: way out of a paper bag
way to run a railroad
whelk stall
sneezings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sneezing
oaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All is but fained, and with oaker dide,
That everie shower will wash and wipe away.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of ochre.
ochers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ocher
phenose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of phenyl + dextrose
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sweet amorphous deliquescent substance obtained indirectly from benzene, and isometric with dextrose.
lithophytous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lithophytous
form: most lithophytous
Etymology: From lithophyte + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of lithophytic.
blindman's buff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blind man's buff.
syllabical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of syllabic.
hymenopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymenopters
Etymology: Compare French hyménoptère.
Senses: glosses: hymenopteran
hymenopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hymenopter
lanyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanyers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lanier.
lanyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanyer
rubbidge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubbidges
Senses: examples: text: […] one of the most rich, and flourishing countreys of the Christian world […] now wasted with the miseries of a long and cruell warr, wallowing in blood, buried in rubbidge and dust […]
ref: 1641, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Lord, in Judgment and Mercy (sermon)
glosses: Obsolete form of rubbish.
rubbidges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubbidge
palmcorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmcorder
palmchats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmchat
chronographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chronograph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or recorded via, a chronograph.
Derived terms: biochronographic
electrochronographic
protrusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more protrusively
form: most protrusively
Etymology: From protrusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a protrusive manner.
shrubbiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shrubby + -ness.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: frutescence
glosses: The quality of being shrubby.
discloud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disclouds
form: disclouding
form: disclouded
form: disclouded
Etymology: From dis- + cloud.
Senses: examples: text: That God would be pleased to discloud these gloomy dayes with the beams of his
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To clear of clouds.
disclouded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discloud
xiphiplastrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xiphiplastron
hypoplastra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypoplastron
hypoplastron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoplastrons
form: hypoplastra
Etymology: From hypo- + plastron.
Senses: glosses: The third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles
Synonyms: hyposternum
Related terms: hypoplastral
hypoplastrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypoplastron
hypoplasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypoplasia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hypoplasia.
hypoplasias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypoplasia
e-sports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + sports.
Senses: examples: text: The effect on traditional sports is just one of the concerns often expressed about this phenomenon. The proliferation of e-sports conjures images of children eating sugary snacks late into the night as they stare at their screens.
ref: 2021 December 19, Joe Drape, “Step Aside, LeBron and Dak, and Make Room for Banjo and Kazooie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of esports.
pentylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pentyl + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: pentylic acid
text: pentylic alcohol
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, pentyl.
Romanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Roman + -ism, after Romanist. Comapre Romish.
Senses: examples: text: Romanism once extinguished, all other Sects will follow, and that the Catholic Religion—falsely so called—for Catholick means universal—is going, none now will venture to deny.
ref: 1790 August 1, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
text: Then I saw how a spot no larger than this could be crowded with millions of souls, and yet be apparently uninhabited. Romanism increases the degradation of tenantism, and rum completes it.
ref: 1866, Gilbert Haven, The Pilgrim's Wallet, page 8:
text: It appears then that Warfield himself really suggests a better way of expressing such differences as obtain between Romanism and Protestantism, or between universalistic and particularistic Protestantism than he has himself employed.
ref: 1967 December 1, Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith, 3rd edition, Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., page 71:
glosses: The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion.
intomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intombs
form: intombing
form: intombed
form: intombed
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of entomb.
Derived terms: intombment
unintombed
intombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intomb
intombing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intomb
intombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intomb
lithotomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithotomists
Etymology: From lithotomy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who performs a lithotomy.
lithotomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithotomist
unketh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unketh
form: most unketh
Senses: glosses: uncouth
spheromere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spheromeres
Etymology: From sphero- + -mere.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the symmetrical segments arranged around the central axis and composing the body of a radiate animal.
spheromeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spheromere
ironicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ironical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: irony; the quality of being ironical.
avoucher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avouchers
Etymology: From avouch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, as when men wickedly swear they rend and tear God's name, and make him, as much as in them lies, the avoucher and approver of all their wickedness […]
ref: 1680, John Bunyan, Life and Death of Mr. Badman:
glosses: One who avouches.
avouchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avoucher
tesseraic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] 100 brick pillars, inlaid very curiously with tesseraic work, with stones of divers colours, little bigger than dice […]
ref: 1712, Sir R. Atkyns, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Done in mosaic; tessellated.
cardioinhibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + inhibitory.
Senses: examples: text: cardioinhibitory response
text: vagal cardioinhibitory fibers
text: cardioinhibitory centre
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: restraining or limiting the heart's action.
emulatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more emulatively
form: most emulatively
Etymology: From emulative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to emulate; by copying.
Asiaticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asiaticisms
Etymology: From Asiatic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Something peculiar to Asia or Asians.
examples: text: […] he writes in The Will to Power that there is something fundamentally immoderate, dissolute, Asiatic in the Greek character: that the bravery of the Greek consists in the battle with their own Asiaticism […]
ref: 2009 [1918], Ernst Bertram, translated by Robert E. Norton, Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Manners similar to those ascribed to Asians.
Asiaticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asiaticism
pretendership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretenderships
Etymology: From pretender + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: But I am at a loss how to dispose of the dauphin, if he happen to be king of France before the pretendership to Britain falls to his share; for I doubt he will never be persuaded to remove out of his own kingdom, only because it is too near England.
ref: 1714 February, [Jonathan Swift], The Publick Spirit of the Whigs: Set forth in Their Generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis: […], London: […] [John Barber] for John Morphew, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The character or claims of a pretender.
pretenderships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretendership
Asiatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asiatic
malleableize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: malleableizes
form: malleableizing
form: malleableized
form: malleableized
form: malleablize
form: malleabilize
Etymology: From malleable + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make malleable.
malleableized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of malleableize
malleableizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of malleableize
malleableizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of malleableize
Pulinda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pulindas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit पुलिंद (puliṃda).
Senses: glosses: One of an ancient tribe of India.
Pulindas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pulinda
indazol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indazols
Senses: glosses: Dated form of indazole.
indazols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indazol
politicogeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From politico- + geographical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geography and politics.
Related terms: geopolitical
episternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Senses: examples: text: episternal sulcus
text: episternal cartilage
text: episternal groove
glosses: Of or pertaining to the episternum.
Derived terms: preepisternal
proepisternal
improsperity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From im- + prosperity, from Latin improsperitas.
Senses: glosses: Lack of prosperity.
inconformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconformable
form: most inconformable
Etymology: From in- + conformable.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unconformable.
Episcopalianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Episcopalian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: I don’t know the first thing about Episcopalianism, but no one seems to mind when they find me sitting in the back pew, staring ahead at the figure of Christ on the cross.
ref: 2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 245:
glosses: The doctrines and practices of Episcopalians.
Hypernyms: Anglicanism
Coordinate terms: Church-of-Englandism
dermatopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dermato- + -pathic.
Senses: examples: text: dermatopathic agent
text: dermatopathic lymph nodes
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to skin diseases or their cure.
Derived terms: dermatopathic lymphadenitis
dermatopathic lymphadenopathy
excisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: exciseable
Etymology: From excise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Tobacco is an excisable commodity.
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Liable or subject to excise.
examples: text: After incomplete resection of soft tissue sarcomas, resection of local tissue should be performed, even if excisable tissue margins appear narrow.
ref: 2007 February, Bacon NJ, Dernell WS, Ehrhart N, Powers BE, Withrow SJ, “Evaluation of primary re-excision after recent inadequate resection of soft tissue sarcomas in dogs: 41 cases (1999-2004)”, in Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, volume 230, number 4, →DOI, →PMID, pages 548–554:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Able to be excised.
ganocephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ganocephala + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ganocephala, a former group of temnospondyls.
mint chocolate chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As exemplified by a peppermint patty or a bowl of mint chocolate-chip ice cream, mint is the chocolate lover’s herb.
ref: 2000, Jerry Traunfeld, The Herbfarm Cookbook, Scribner, →ISBN, page 406:
text: This cake is an ode to York Peppermint Patties, Andes Mints (swiped from your grandmother’s candy bowl), and mint–chocolate chip ice cream.
ref: 2015, Jean Sagendorph, Jessie Sheehan, Icebox Cakes: Recipes for the Coolest Cakes in Town, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 24:
text: On the way home, we stopped at Rite Aid so the kids could get their double scoops, though once again they were out of mint chocolate chip.
ref: 2020, Marla Jo Fisher, Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Motherhood, Prospect Park Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: mint chip
mint 'n chip
coordinate_terms: chocolate chocolate chip
glosses: A flavor (of ice cream, milk shake, etc) with a base tasting like spearmint or peppermint and with chocolate chips interspersed throughout that base.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mint, chocolate chip.
Related terms: mint chocolate
infinituple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infinite. Compare quadruple.
Senses: examples: text: If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.
ref: 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:
glosses: Multiplied an infinite number of times.
multinodate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multinodate
form: most multinodate
Etymology: From multi- + nodate.
Senses: glosses: Having many knots or nodes.
dentilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dentilated
form: most dentilated
Senses: examples: text: a dentilated border
text: a dentilated coin
text: a dentilated margin
text: a dentilated stamp
glosses: toothed
examples: text: a dentilated cornice
glosses: containing dentils
Synonyms: dentate
serrated
notched
Related terms: dentilation
insomnious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insomnious
form: most insomnious
Etymology: From Latin insomniosus, from insomnia (“insomnia”). See English insomnia and -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Insomnious people are encouraged to list all hidden agitations out on a piece of paper or two, or maybe ten. The more one writes them out, the more one will catch the cumbersome thoughts
ref: 2017, Jeannie Chen, Cheng Hsiu Chen, Converse with One Earthly:
glosses: restless; sleepless
cellarets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellaret
cellarages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellarage
Jara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jaras
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civilization that existed in the valley of the Nile River from c. 3150 BCE to 30 BCE.
Christmas cheer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Food and drink, especially alcoholic beverages, consumed around the Christmas holiday.
examples: text: The message of the astronauts, however, was not primarily one of Christmas cheer, and had nothing to do with the "Prince of Peace" or the "spirit of the season." Instead, it consisted of a dramatic reading of the first ten verses of the Book of Genesis, the story of the creation of the world.
ref: 1990, Rowland A. Sherrill, Religion and the Life of the Nation: American Recoveries, page 152:
glosses: The joyful and generous attitude expected of people at Christmas.
kangaroo-rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kangaroo-rats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kangaroo rat.
kick plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kick plates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kickplate.
endeed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of indeed.
endeed
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of indeed.
extatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extatical
form: most extatical
Etymology: From extatic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Hence love is ſaid to be both extatical, that is, carrying the lover as it were out of himſelf unto the loved ;[…]
ref: 1654, John Norton, The Orthodox Evangeliſt, page 13:
glosses: Archaic form of ecstatical.
Petre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːtə/
homophone: Peter
Etymology: From a medieval spelling variant of Peter.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: An English barony.
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, mostly transferred back from the surname.
Sliabh Luachra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌsliːəv ˈluːəxɹə/
Etymology: From Irish Sliabh Luachra (literally “mountain of rushes”).
Senses: glosses: A region of Ireland, straddling the county boundaries of Cork, Kerry, and Limerick, noted for its traditional music, poetry and dance.
harmonizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmonizabilities
Etymology: From harmonize + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Suitability or potential for being harmonized.
American Civil War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the American Civil War
Senses: glosses: A war fought in the United States between 1861 and 1865, between the Northern states (Union) and Southern states (Confederacy).
Synonyms: word: Civil War
word: War Between the States
sense: almost exclusively Southern US
word: War of Northern Aggression
word: War of the Rebellion
word: Great Rebellion
sense: Outside the US
word: Secession War
word: U.S. Civil War
Hypernyms: war
civil war
insurrection
revolt
armed revolt
rebellion
armed rebellion
secession
armed secession
secession war
war of secession
independence war
war of independence
Related terms: Billy Yank
Confederate States of America
Gettysburg
Johnny Reb
secession
slavery
man is the measure of all things
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: According to Plato, the phrase was coined by Greek philosopher Protagoras.
Senses: qualifier: an expression of
glosses: the doctrine that all knowledge is subjective, being derived from observations made by humans, and there can be no objective truth
helos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helo
helos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of helo
homopterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Homoptera + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Homoptera, a former suborder of insects.
lightshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightshift
venturine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare aventurine.
Senses: glosses: Gold powder for covering varnished surfaces in japanning.
Tibby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪbi
Forms: form: Tibbie
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Isabel.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
fraised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fraise + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Fortified with a fraise (palisade).
patriarchdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patriarchdoms
Etymology: From patriarch + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The office, jurisdiction, or rule of a patriarch.
Synonyms: patriarchate
patriarchdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patriarchdom
mauthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mauther
alongshoreman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alongshoremen
Etymology: From alongshore + man.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of longshoreman, a wharfinger or stevedore.
Derived terms: longshoreman
alongshoremen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alongshoreman
intercavernous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈkæv.ɚ.nəs/
rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)nəs
Etymology: From inter- + cavernous.
Senses: examples: text: the intercavernous sinuses connecting the cavernous sinuses at the base of the brain
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the cavernous sinuses.