cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
jovialty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒəʊviəlti/
Forms: form: jovialties
Senses: examples: text: disturb the sport of their loudest jovialties
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Consideration of our latter End”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of joviality.
vulturish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vulturish
form: most vulturish
Etymology: From vulture + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […] as if his vulturish face were tilted to the ceiling and his wicked old eyes were peering through the plaster
ref: 2000, Brian McNaughton, Even More Nasty Stories:
glosses: Like a vulture; rapacious.
Synonyms: vulturelike
vulturine
vulturous
discage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkeɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: discages
form: discaging
form: discaged
form: discaged
Etymology: From dis- + cage.
Senses: examples: text: she let me fly discaged
ref: 1874, Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 38:
synonyms: uncage
glosses: To free from, or as from, a cage.
discaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discage
discages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discage
discaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discage
flutteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flutteringly
form: most flutteringly
Etymology: From fluttering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fluttering manner.
histolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From histo- + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: Related to, or causing, histolysis.
Derived terms: histolytically
intermembral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + membral.
Senses: examples: text: intermembral index
text: Intermembral homology is the correspondence of the limbs with each other.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between members or limbs.
landflood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landfloods
Etymology: From land + flood.
Senses: examples: text: in a county where the king had before no footing , awakened all their jealousies and apprehensions of the affections of Kent and all other places; and looked like a land-flood , that might roll they knew not how far ; so that there needed no importunate solicitation to provide a remedy against this growing evil
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: flood; inundation
landfloods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landflood
phyllopodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Phyllopoda + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: flattened and flap-like
raw_tags: of a crustacean limb
Coordinate terms: stenopodous
phytolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytolites
Etymology: From phyto- + -lite.
Senses: glosses: A fossil plant.
phytolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytolite
defeasanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfiːzənst/
Etymology: From defeasance + -ed.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.
topics: law
glosses: void
jar-owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jar-owls
Senses: glosses: The nightjar.
jar-owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jar-owl
laticostate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laticostate
form: most laticostate
Etymology: From Latin lātus (“broad”) + costate, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: However, plants from Europe have a laticostate seed surface, while those from Asia are observed to have two types of seed coats (laticostate and tenuicostate), […]
ref: 2009, S. B. Gontcharova, A. A. Gontcharov, V. V. Yakubov, K. Kondo, “Seed surface morphology in some representatives of the genus Rhodiola sect. Rhodiola (Crassulaceae) in the Russian Far East”, in Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants:
text: Seed micromorphology:—Seed coat is laticostate. Epidermal cells are elliptical to irregularly pentagonal. Cell walls are thickened mostly at the corners, the boundaries are raised […]
ref: 2018, B Özüdoğru, “Phylogenetic position, taxonomy, distribution, and conservation status of the rare and poorly-known Noccaea rosularis, the generic type of Masmenia …”, in Phytotaxa:
text: Populations in Torovicë and at the Fangul-pass certainly belong to the nominate form, although a part of the specimens in Torovicë are extremely widely-spaced (laticostate), and some […]
ref: , Zoltán Fehér, Z. Erőss, A. Varga, Contributions to the knowledge of the Albanian Cochlostoma fauna
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having broad ribs.
opinionately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more opinionately
form: most opinionately
Etymology: From opinionate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Where either are only opinionately wise , Hell is there
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: In a conceited manner.
ultratropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultratropical
form: most ultratropical
Etymology: From ultra- + tropical.
Senses: glosses: Situated beyond, or outside of, the tropics.
examples: text: ultratropical climate
text: ultratropical temperature
glosses: Having an excessively tropical temperature; warmer than the tropics.
Synonyms: sense: outside the tropics
word: extratropical
compassionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compassionable
form: most compassionable
Etymology: From compassion + -able.
Senses: examples: text: 1585, Robert Parsons, A Christian Directorie Guiding Men to their Saluation, Rouen: Fr. Parson’s Press, Part 1, Chapter 8,
He spared him not […] euen then, when he beheld him sorowful vnto death, and bathed in that agonie of blood and water, when he hard him vtter thos most dolorous and compassionable speeches, O my father, if it be possible, let this cuppe passe from me.
text: […] a good Judg […] should tender the Parties Case as compassionable, and desire that he may be delivered from the evil threatning him;
ref: 1678, Isaac Barrow, Several Sermons against Evil-Speaking, London: Brabazon Aylmer, The Eighth Sermon, p. 60:
text: The following interview between Juliet and her parents places her in a very compassionable situation;
ref: 1770, Francis Gentleman, “Romeo and Juliet, altered from Shakespeare by Garrick”, in The Dramatic Censor: or, Critical Companion, volume 1, London: J. Bell, page 184:
text: A man of this kind, on an enforced holiday, is a very compassionable object.
ref: 1890, “On Idleness”, in All the Year Round, Series 3, Volume 3, No. 76, 14 June, 1890, p. 557:
synonyms: pitiable
glosses: Deserving compassion or pity.
examples: 1536, uncredited translator (attributed to Miles Coverdale), A Myrrour or Glasse for them that be Syke [and] in Payne by Guglielmus Gnaphaeus, London: Ian Gough,
Can not thynke ye the poore haue a mercifull, and compassionable harte towarde the, that be in pouerte, & anguysshe, though theyr power can not extende to declare it?
1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 2 in Five Books, London: Henry Fetherstone, “Præritorum, or Discoveries of the World,” Chapter 13, p. 1843,
[…] they in reuenge pulled mee by the heeles from the horse backe, beating me most pittifully, and left mee almost for dead […] and if it had not beene for some compassionable Greekes, who by accident came by and relieued me, I had (doubtlesse) immediately perished.
synonyms: compassionate
glosses: Having, feeling, or showing compassion.
harvestless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harvestless
form: most harvestless
Etymology: From harvest + -less.
Senses: examples: text: They hate me also for my love to you,
My Philip; and these judgments on the land —
Harvestless autumns, horrible agues, plague […]
ref: 1875, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren.
inadhesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + adhesion.
Senses: synonyms: nonadhesion
glosses: Lack of adhesion.
lionly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lionly
form: most lionly
Etymology: From lion + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For although I ſaid before, that the Church coveting to ride upon the lionly form of Juriſdiction, makes a transformation of herſelf into an Aſs, and becomes deſpicable...
ref: 1738, John Milton, “The Reaſon of Church-Government Urg'd againſt Prelaty, Book II”, in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, London: A. Millar, →OL, page 66:
text: Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; […]
ref: 1879, George Meredith, The Egoist:
text: The destructive lionly skepticism burns all bridges to prior beliefs and presuppositions.
ref: 1994, George David Miller, An Idiosyncratic Ethics:
text: Lionly strength expresses independence of will and a restless wandering based in deep curiosity and intense perception.
ref: 1998, Lee Irwin, Gnostic Tarot:
text: Picture these lionly lovers jumping through romantic hoops, otherwise known as the initial courtship phase, and then a disagreement or difference of opinion occurs.
ref: 2015, Brad Kronen, Love in the Stars:
synonyms: leonine
lionesque
lionlike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lion, for example in fierceness.
deliquate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛlɪkweɪt/
Forms: form: deliquates
form: deliquating
form: deliquated
form: deliquated
Etymology: First attested in 1617; borrowed from Latin dēliquātus, perfect passive participle of dēliquō (“to clarify, skim a liquid”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To cause (something) to melt away; to consume, to dissolve.
examples: text: I caus'd an unuſual Brine to be made, by ſuffering Sea-ſalt to deliquate in the moiſt Air.
ref: 1669, Robert Boyle, “Experiment XII. About the Differing Heights whereto Liquors will be Elevated by Suction, according to Their Several Specifick Gravities.”, in A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The I. Part. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Henry Hall, printer to the University, for Richard Davis, →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce.
Related terms: deliquation
deliquesce
deliquescent
liquid
liquor
deliquated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deliquate
deliquates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deliquate
deliquating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deliquate
dichroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From dichroscope + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: dichroscopic lens
text: dichroscopic test
glosses: Pertaining to the dichroscope, or to observations made with it.
respectuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more respectuous
form: most respectuous
Senses: examples: text: I thought it pardonabler to say nothing by a respectuous silence
ref: 1648, Robert Boyle, letter to Mr. Jones:
glosses: respectful
examples: text: a great man, more amorous of her person than reſpectuous of her honour
ref: 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: respectable
automatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin automatus, Ancient Greek αὐτόματος (autómatos). See automaton.
Senses: examples: text: Clocks, or automatous organs, whereby we distinguish of time, have no mention in ancient writers.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of automatic.
epigrammatizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epigrammatizers
Etymology: From epigrammatize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: epigrammatizers of our English prose style
ref: 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Burnet's Life of Bishop Bedell:
glosses: One who writes in an affectedly pointed style.
Related terms: epigram
epigrammatizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epigrammatizer
interjoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interjoists
Etymology: From inter- + joist.
Senses: examples: text: When floors are doweled, it is better to place dowels over the middle of the interjoist, than over the joists, in order to prevent the edge of one board from passing that of the other
ref: 1845, Peter Nicholson, The Mechanic's Companion:
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The space or interval between two joists.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A middle joist or crossbeam.
interjoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interjoist
irrepentance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ir- + repentance.
Senses: examples: text: And there are ſome diſpoſitions blame-vvorthy in men, vvhich are yet, in a right ſenſe, holily aſcribed unto God; as unchangeableneſs, and irrepentance: […]
ref: 1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XLVI, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, page 140:
glosses: Lack of repentance; impenitence.
anapestical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anapestical
form: most anapestical
Etymology: From anapest + -ical.
Senses: glosses: anapestic
buccinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buccinal
form: most buccinal
Etymology: Latin bucina (“a crooked horn or trumpet”).
Senses: glosses: Shaped or sounding like a trumpet.
demisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From demise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a demisable estate
text: demisable desmenses
text: demisable property
topics: law
glosses: Capable of being leased.
demisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demisable
form: most demisable
Etymology: From demise + -able.
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having demisability, the property of being able to burn-up, expected to completely do so, during reentry.
Related terms: demisability
demise
jawy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɔː.i/
Etymology: From jaw + -y.
Senses: examples: text: the dulapes and the jawy part of the face
ref: 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote:
glosses: Relating to the jaws.
lifeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪf.fʊl/
/ˈlaɪf.fl̩/
Forms: form: more lifeful
form: most lifeful
form: lyfull
Etymology: From life + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: A colour grew / Upon his cheek, while thus he lifeful spake.
ref: 1818, John Keats, Endymion, section I:
text: Although the auburn and the black hackles are killing enough in the Highland glens and moorlands, and are good general flies, in some favourite places, where the warmer, richer streams flow lifeful from the glorious lake, above the wooded glen that opens on the fertile valley, the ' Professor,' with all his wily vagaries, is the only tempter that can allure, the only charmer that can charm.
ref: 1848, James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Fraser's Magazine - Volume 38, page 73:
text: Million blossoms burst forth lifeful in their bright colours and perfumes.
ref: 1995, Pritam Sen, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, God's love in Upanishad philosophies, page 181:
glosses: In a lifeful manner; full of life.
lifeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪf.fʊl/
/ˈlaɪf.fl̩/
Forms: form: lifefuls
form: lyfull
Etymology: From life + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: There seems to be an enormous waste of human goodness, while we have at the same time so little of it that we cannot afford, if we only knew our true interests, to lose a single lifeful.
ref: 1904, Joseph Samuel Exell, Isaiah, page 428:
text: I have thus rapidly outlined what I think we may fairly describe as about two lifefuls of work, but there still remains a third.
ref: 1921, The Photographic Journal: Publication of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and the Photographic Alliance, Volume 45:
text: Controversial issues are nothing new to this woman who has jammed two or three lives-ful of events in her 82 years.
ref: 1959 August 6, Jean Sprain Wilson, “She’s 82 And Fighting For World She’ll Leave Behind”, in The Miami News, Miami, Fla., page 4D:
text: She gave so much to so many and now her life is gone -- and what did she ever get out of it?--Nothing--just nothing. A lifeful of nothing.
ref: 1980, Moving Out - Volumes 9-13, page 9:
text: These two specific guys don't deserve the rage a lifeful of such remarks, “ignored,” have engendered.
ref: 1989, Jane Masbridge, “Toward the Next Millennium: No More Than a Matter of Simple Equal Rights”, in The Utne Reader, numbers 34-36, page 48:
text: The poor fellow had a lifeful of losses.
ref: 2002, Blackie Sherrod, Blackie Sherrod at Large, page 163:
glosses: A quantity that fills a lifetime.
metastannate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metastannates
Etymology: From metastannic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”) or meta- + stannate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of metastannic acid.
metastannates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metastannate
nimious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nimious
form: most nimious
Etymology: From Latin nimius.
Senses: examples: text: But instead of that, they raised this prejudicial question, and upon that ensues a litigation, the most nimious I ever saw, even on the part of a corporate body, whose annals generally abound with instances of nimious procedure.
ref: 1851, Alexander MacNeel-Caird, “Decisions in the Supreme Court fully reported”, in The Poor-Law Manual for Scotland, 6th edition, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, page 419:
text: The remaining grounds are, that the facts proved did not warrant a conviction, and that the proceedings were nimious and oppressive, and I am of the opinion that these are grounds on which this Bill of Suspension cannot be sustained.
ref: 1887, “No. 18, Rattray v. White”, in Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in Scotland, volume 3, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, page 93:
topics: law
synonyms: word: onerous
word: unrestrained
word: arduous
word: backbreaking
word: burdenous
word: burdensome
word: cumbersome
word: cumbrous
word: demanding
word: exacting
word: gruelling
word: laborious
word: nimious
word: operose
word: oppressive
word: onerous
word: strenuous
word: taxing
word: wearing
word: excessive
word: extravagant
word: unmeasured
word: unreasonable
word: extreme
word: immoderate
word: intemperate
word: lavish
word: nimious
word: obscene
word: overmuch
word: overweening
word: over the top
word: prodigal
word: undue
word: unrestrained
word: wanton
glosses: Excessive; extravagant; inordinate; vexatious.
Derived terms: nimiously
tipcart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipcarts
Etymology: From tip + cart.
Senses: glosses: A cart constructed so that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load.
tipcarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tipcart
trawlboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trawlboats
Etymology: From trawl + boat.
Senses: glosses: A trawler (fishing boat)
trawlboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trawlboat
virgated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more virgated
form: most virgated
Etymology: From Latin virgatus (“striped”). See virgate.
Senses: examples: text: The Felis, with an elongated tail, and virgated spots .
ref: 1752, John Hill, An history of animals, page 543:
text: This species is distinguished by its very long, virgated, flowering branches.
ref: 1840, Jacob Bigelow, Florula Bostoniensis, page 167:
glosses: Striped; streaked with rod-shaped (long and narrow) streaks.
examples: text: This common tenure pertained to newly assarted holdings and pieces rented out from the demesne as well as to older, virgated areas, even though the former paid only money rent whereas the latter owed field work .
ref: 1970, Viator. Medieval and Renaissance Studies, page 302:
text: The virgated patterns of holdings, stable, regular, and symmetrical, have already suffered greatly at the hands of historians who have noticed in the extents and surveys the non-virgated bits of land in the hands of villeins and also discovered places and whole regions in which the regular pattern of holdings had altogether disappeared if it ever existed.
ref: 2008, M. M. Postan, Essays on Medieval Agriculture and General Problems of the Medieval Economy, page 144:
text: Outstandingly large composite holdings across the estate were mostly constructed by those customary tenants, chiefly virgaters and half virgaters, who acquired additional virgated holdings and often smaller properties as well.
ref: 2010, John Mullan, R. H. Britnell, Land and Family, page 137:
glosses: Held or farmed by a virgater; Having been divided into holdings for virgaters.
axisymmetrising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of axisymmetrise
axisymmetrise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: axisymmetrises
form: axisymmetrising
form: axisymmetrised
form: axisymmetrised
form: axisymmetrize
Senses: glosses: To make, or to become axisymmetric
discontinuee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discontinuees
Etymology: From discontinue + -ee.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.
discontinuees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discontinuee
expurgatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more expurgatorial
form: most expurgatorial
Senses: examples: text: Himself he exculpated by a solemn expurgatorial oath , before thirty bishops , from all participation in the deed.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory.
inextinct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin inextinctus, inexstinctus. See extinct.
Senses: glosses: Not quenched; not extinct.
biocombinatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biocombinatorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a biocombinatorial manner
glosses: By means of biocombinatorics
tetrasepalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + sepalous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having four sepals.
biocombinatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + combinatorial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to biocombinatorics
Derived terms: biocombinatorially
biocombinatorics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + combinatorics.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The use of recombinational techniques to generate families of similar biological macromolecules
homilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homilists
Etymology: From homily + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who prepares or preaches homilies
homilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homilist
nettlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nettler
rudderhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudderholes
Etymology: From rudder + hole.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes.
rudderholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rudderhole
centermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: American form of centremost (superlative form of central: most central; closest to the centre).
gypping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gyp
crossmatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crossmatch
dodecapeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecapeptide
AGMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AGM
dodecapeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecapeptides
form: duodecapeptide
Etymology: From dodeca- + peptide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oligopeptide that has twelve amino acid units
masterbate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of masturbate.
eyeglance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌɪɡlɑːns/
Forms: form: eyeglances
form: eye glance
form: eye-glance
Etymology: From eye + glance.
Senses: examples: text: And ever, as Dissemblaunce laught on him, / He lowrd on her with daungerous eyeglaunce […].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Perilous as her eyeglances were, and much as they menaced, Lord Etherington felt at this moment the importance of soothing Lady Penelope to silence […].
ref: 1823, Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well:
text: The sideways eye glance is a widespread expression combining a lowered head and the eyes looking sideways, thus taking advantage of boldness and shyness at the same time.
ref: 2008, MH Ford, Personal Power:
glosses: A glance of the eye.
eyeglances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyeglance
fulminatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fulminatory
form: most fulminatory
Etymology: Compare French fulminatoire.
Senses: examples: text: a precept expresse and fulminatory
ref: 1607, An Apology:
glosses: Thundering; striking terror.
isochasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isochasms
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek χάσμα (khásma, “abyss, chasm”). See chasma.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A line connecting places on the Earth's surface that have the same mean frequency of auroras.
Derived terms: isochasmic
isochasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isochasm
oblongata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒb.lɒŋˈɡɑː.tə/
ipa: /ˌɑb.lɔŋˈɡɑt.ə/
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Forms: form: oblongatas
form: oblongatae
Senses: examples: text: The line separating the fuliated cerebellum proper from the OBLONGATA constituting the ventral portion of that region
ref: 1893, Burt Green Wilder, Physiology Practicums:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of medulla oblongata.
Derived terms: oblongatal
postoblongata
preoblongata
oblongatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblongata.
pleasurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleasurists
Etymology: From pleasure + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Live happy in the Elysium of a virtuously composed mind, and let intellectual contents exceed the delights wherein mere pleasurists place their paradise.
ref: c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: hedonist
word: pleasure seeker
word: bon viveur
word: epicure
word: epicurean
word: hedonist
word: high-stepper
word: lapling
word: lotus-eater
word: pleasure seeker
word: pleasurist
word: sensualist
word: softling
word: sybarite
word: voluptuarian
word: voluptuary
glosses: Someone devoted to worldly pleasure.
pleasurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleasurist
tablebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪbəlˌbʊk/
Forms: form: tablebooks
Etymology: From table + book.
Senses: examples: text: Put into your table-book whatever you judge worthy.
ref: 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A notebook.
tablebooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tablebook
masterbates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of masturbates.
hyperaccretion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + accretion.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Much greater than normal accretion, typically around a stellar black hole.
masterbated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of masturbated.
masterbating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of masturbating.
beadroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beadrolls
Etymology: From bead + roll.
Senses: glosses: A catalogue of people whose souls are to be prayed for.
examples: text: Dan Chaucer, well of English vndefyled, / On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line.
ref: 1806, Abraham Hayward, “Vicissitudes of Family […] ”, in Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 107:
glosses: A catalogue of names; a pedigree, a long respected series.
beadrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beadroll
marquisdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marquisdoms
Etymology: From marquis + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Againe, there is another familie of Scots, commonlie called the Scoties in Iſubꝛia, whereof Bernard Scotia and Hoꝛace his bꝛother (the one a ſenatoꝛ of Mantua, and the other a pꝛelat) are both famous, as well foꝛ their vertue, as nobilitie: alſo Francis Scotia, loꝛd of Pine and Mondone, and other nobles of the marqueſdome of Saluce, are deſcended from the Scots, […]
ref: 1585, The Historie of Scotland, Conteining the Beginning, Increase, Proceedings, Continuance, Acts and Gouernement of the Scotish Nation, from the Originall Thereof vnto the Yeere 1571, Gathered and Written in English by Raphaell Hollinshead: and Continued from 1571, to 1585, by Others: […], page 284, column 1:
text: The children spent more time in their imaginary “kingdoms, empires, domains, dukedoms, and marquisdoms … and—oh yes! Duchessdoms,” and talked for hours about what to name their castles and realms.
ref: 2017, Karin Roffman, “Blue Mountain (1936–1940)”, in The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 38:
glosses: A marquisate.
marquisdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marquisdom
magnetostructurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From magnetostructural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a magnetostructural manner
detersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detersions
Etymology: Compare French détersion. See deterge.
Senses: examples: text: detersion of a wound
text: detersion of an ulcer
text: detersion of tissue
glosses: The act of deterging or cleansing.
detersions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detersion
nanograting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanogratings
Etymology: From nano- + grating.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale grating
glosses: A grating that has nanoscale markings
beleive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: “I am come my amiable Rebecca, to take my leave of you for the fortnight I am destined to spend with my aunt. Beleive me this separation is painfull to me, but it is as neceſsary as the labour which now engages you.”
ref: [1787–1790], [Jane Austen], “Frederic & Elfrida: a novel”, in Volume the First, chapter III, page 9:
glosses: Misspelling of believe.
preaggregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preaggregations
Etymology: From pre- + aggregation.
Senses: glosses: aggregation performed or produced prior to some other process
quasivacua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasivacuum
impounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impounders
Etymology: From impound + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that impounds.
impounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impounder
inburning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnˌbɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ/
Etymology: From in- + burning.
Senses: examples: text: Her inburning wrath she gan abate.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Burning within.
irreturnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ir- + returnable.
Senses: synonyms: nonreturnable
unreturnable
glosses: Not to be returned.
jasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæsp/
rhymes: -æsp
Senses: examples: text: The floor of Jasp and Emerauld was dight
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Visions of Bellay”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of jasper.
religionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more religionary
form: most religionary
Etymology: From religion + -ary.
Senses: examples: religionary professions
glosses: Relating to religion; pious.
religionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: religionaries
Etymology: From religion + -ary.
Senses: glosses: A religious zealot; a religionist.
Derived terms: co-religionary
whot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whot
form: most whot
Senses: examples: text: He had him seene, and felt the crueltee
Of his sharpe dartes and whot artilleree.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 14:
glosses: Obsolete form of hot.
oppurtunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of opportunity.
woodmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodmongers
Etymology: From wood + monger.
Senses: glosses: A seller of wood.
woodmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodmonger
hampster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæmp.stɚ/
Forms: form: hampsters
Senses: examples: text: The rabbit forms its warren, and the beaver its well-known habitation. The hampster (Fig. 101), a small rodent analogous to the rat, met with in the plains, from Alsace to Siberia, and which is so injurious to agriculture, constructs a dwelling with two issues or exits […]
ref: 1856, Henri Milne-Edwards, Robert Knox, A Manual of Zoology, page 157:
glosses: Obsolete form of hamster.
quasivacuum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasivacua
Etymology: From quasi- + vacuum.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any state that approximates to a vacuum, especially one free of baryons
shearability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shear + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition or extent of being shearable.
concieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of conceive.
shearable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shearable
form: most shearable
Etymology: From shear + -able.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That is subject to shear
disceptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪsɛpˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: disceptations
Etymology: Latin disceptātiō.
Senses: examples: text: verbose janglings and endless disceptations
ref: 1721, John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of It, and the Emergencies of the Church of England, under King Henry VIII. King Edward VI. and Queen Mary the First. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] John Wyat, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Controversy; disputation; discussion.
Related terms: discept
disceptations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disceptation
Portland stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Portland stones
Senses: examples: text: St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace were built with Portland stone.
glosses: A limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period, quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, and used extensively for building in the British Isles.
wetbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wetbirds
Etymology: From wet + bird; the chaffinch's cry was believed to foretell rain.
Senses: glosses: The chaffinch.
wetbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wetbird
superrotational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + rotation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to superrotation.
incubative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From incubate + -ive.
Senses: synonyms: incubatory
glosses: Of or pertaining to incubation.
intersesamoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + sesamoid.
Senses: examples: text: intersesamoid ligaments
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between sesamoid bones.
unimodularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uni- + modularity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being unimodular
beleives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of believes.
beleiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They think the Spirit-led beleiver^([sic]) just trys^([sic]) harder than they do.
ref: 2005, Mike Ratliff, Walking the Walk by Faith, Baltimore: PublishAmerica, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: Misspelling of believer.
ascensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈsɛnsɪv/
Forms: form: more ascensive
form: most ascensive
Etymology: See ascend.
Senses: examples: 1840-1845, Richard Owen, Odontography
Had I been guided in this ascensive survey of the dental system by the general perfection of the species , I must have ended with that of Man
glosses: Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
examples: text: […] it seems, however, highly probable that this is due rather to non-observance of the true ascensive force of the particle than to any real absence in the original MSS.
ref: 1887, Charles John Ellicott, St Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians: With a Critical and Grammatical Commentary:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Augmentative; intensive.
kincob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kincobs
form: kimkhab
form: kinkhab
form: kinkob
Senses: glosses: India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold.
kincobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kincob
observancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: observancies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of observance.
panniered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pannier + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: panniered train
ref: 1827, William Wordsworth, An Evening Walk Addressed to a Young Lady:
glosses: Equipped with panniers.
Derived terms: unpanniered
beleived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of believed.
decursively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɜːsɪvli/
Forms: form: more decursively
form: most decursively
Etymology: From decursive + -ly.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In a decursive manner.
faultful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faultful
form: most faultful
Etymology: From fault + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: So fares it with this faultful lord of Rome,
Who this accomplishment so hotly chas'd;
For now against himself he sounds this doom,
That through the length of times he stands difgrac'd
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: fallible
imperfect
antonyms: faultless
infallible
perfect
glosses: With faults or sins; not perfect; flawed.
Derived terms: faultfully
huntsmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From huntsman + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: At Court your fellowes every day,
Give th'art of Riming, Huntsmanship, or Play,
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:
glosses: The art, practice, or skill of hunting animals.
glosses: The status of being a hunter.
beleiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of believing.
presentimental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From presentiment + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Amelia heard the claret bell ringing as she sat nervously upstairs. She thought, somehow, it was a mysterious and presentimental bell. Of the presentiments which some people are always having, some surely must come right.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 13, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: O! the affecting beauty of the death of Cawdor, and the presentimental speech of the king: […]
ref: 1849 (posth.) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes and Lectures on Shakespeare and some of the Old Dramatists, "Notes on Macbeth"
glosses: Of the nature of a presentiment; foreboding.
rakeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rakery
rakery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪkəɹi/
Forms: form: rakeries
Etymology: From rake + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: the rakery and intrigues of the lewd town
ref: a. 1734, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North:
text: Already, you see, I had begun to acquire a taste for rakery and wenching among the London debutantes.
ref: 1979, Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald:
glosses: Debauchery; lewdness.
enround
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enrounds
form: enrounding
form: enrounded
form: enrounded
Etymology: From en- + round.
Senses: examples: text: Upon his royal face there is no note,
How dread an army hath enrounded him; […]
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To surround.
enrounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enround
enrounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enround
enrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enround
nitrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrometers
Etymology: From nitro- + -meter; compare French nitromètre.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An apparatus for determining the amount of nitrogen or some of its compounds in a substance.
Synonyms: azotometer
nitrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitrometer
vingtun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Contraction of vingt-et-un
Senses: glosses: The card game pontoon.
athiesm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of atheism.
bimarginate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + marginate.
Senses: examples: text: Some shells are bimarginate.
text: bimarginate frond
text: bimarginate lip
text: bimarginate manubrium
glosses: Having a double margin.
isotherombrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isotherombroses
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek θέρος (théros, “summer”) + Ancient Greek ὄμβρος (ómbros, “rain, rainstorm”) + -ose.
Senses: examples: text: The curve or isotherombrose of 0—that is, the line in the vicinity of which it never rains in summer—passes through the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, as well as through Syria, and does not touch Europe.
ref: 1850, Alexander Keith Johnson, The Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena: Reduced from the Edition in Imperial Folio for the Use of Colleges, Academies and Families, page 61:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: An isoline connecting points on the Earth's surface that have the same mean summer rainfall.
Related terms: isothere
isotherombroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isotherombrose
jet d'eau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʒeɪ ˈdoʊ/
other: /ˈdʒɛt ˈdoʊ/
other: /ʒɛ-/
other: /-ˈdu/
Forms: form: jets d'eau
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French jet d'eau (literally “jet of water”).
Senses: glosses: A stream of water spouting from a fountain or pipe (especially from one arranged to throw water upward), used as an ornament in a garden or public place.
glosses: The fountain or pipe from which such a stream issues.
jets d'eau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jet d'eau
northness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northnesses
Etymology: From north + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: an absolute northness or southness
ref: 1852, Michael Faraday, On the Physical Character of the Lines of Magnetic Force:
glosses: A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point to the north.
northnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northness
tollable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From toll + -able.
Senses: examples: text: tollable goods
glosses: Subject to the payment of a toll.
visceroskeletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From viscero- + skeletal.
Senses: examples: text: the visceroskeletal system of muscles
text: visceroskeletal hypoplasia
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the visceral skeleton (frame or skeleton of the viscera).
auncel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auncels
Senses: examples: text: Auncel weight shall be put out, and weighing shall be by equal balance
ref: 1350, statute of Edward III:
glosses: A crude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England.
Related terms: ouncil
auncels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auncel
hyacine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyacines
Senses: examples: text: Some [wines] deepe empurpled as the Hyacine ,
Some as the Rubine laughing sweetely red
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A hyacinth.
hyacines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyacine
nonobedience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + obedience.
Senses: glosses: disobedience
ulmaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Ulmaceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Ulmaceae of flowering plants, including the elm and zelkova.