cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kiby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪbi/
rhymes: -aɪbi
Forms: form: more kiby
form: most kiby
Etymology: From kibe + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And he halteth often that hath a kiby heel
ref: a. 1529, John Skelton, The Crowne of Lawrell:
glosses: Affected with kibes.
brachydiagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachydiagonals
Etymology: From brachy- + diagonal.
Senses: coordinate_terms: macrodiagonal
glosses: The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism.
brachydiagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brachy- + diagonal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism.
brachydiagonals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brachydiagonal
catechetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From catechetical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a catechetical manner; by catechesis
examples: text: If the professors were to teach catechetically, it would be (as far as relates to intellectual instruction) but a question of words. They would be so far "Tutors" under another name.
ref: 1854, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Collegiate and Professorial Teaching and Discipline, in an Answer to Professor Vaughan's Strictures ..., page 6:
text: In the midst of a catechetically structured recital of the ills to which life is subject, "Ithaca"'s narrator asks, Did Stephen participate in his dejection?
ref: 1989, Morris Beja, Shari Benstock, Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium, Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 221:
text: Even where the audience knows the answers and recites them catechetically, the question-and-answer pattern reactivates the sense of wonder at again bringing the diverse elements of the world together, replaying the primal educational scene in which the correspondences and continuities were first dramatized
ref: 2008, Gregg A. Hecimovich, Puzzling the Reader: Riddles in Nineteenth-century British Literature, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: By question and answer.
fuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌf/
ipa: /fɐf/
ipa: /fʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: fuffs
form: fuffing
form: fuffed
form: fuffed
Etymology: Imitative. Compare puff.
Senses: examples: text: cats fuffing and fighting
ref: 1828, Mansie Waunch, The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith:
glosses: To puff.
fuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌf/
ipa: /fɐf/
ipa: /fʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: fuffs
Etymology: Imitative. Compare puff.
Senses: glosses: A puff.
glosses: The spitting of a cat.
glosses: A burst of anger.
fuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fuff
fuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fuff
fuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fuff
overtroubled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overtroubled
form: most overtroubled
Etymology: From over- + troubled.
Senses: glosses: Excessively troubled.
overtroubled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtrouble
pumpage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumpages
Etymology: From pump + -age.
Senses: glosses: That which is raised by pumps.
examples: text: A comparison of Silurian dolomite aquifer water-level hydrographs and pumpage graphs indicates that in general water-level decline is directly proportional to pumpage and suggests that recharge balances discharge.
ref: 1962, Arthur John Zeizel, Ground-water resources of Du Page County, Illinois:
glosses: The amount of work done by pumps.
pumpages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpage
unlute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlutes
form: unluting
form: unluted
form: unluted
Etymology: From un- + lute.
Senses: glosses: To separate, as things cemented or luted
examples: text: Let the Vessels be cool'd, and unluted, and the Panacæa will appear at the bottom of the Cucurbite
ref: 1696, M. le Clerc, The Compleat Surgeon:
text: carelesly unlute the vessels
ref: 1673, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the title)”, in Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums. […], London: […] W[illiam] G[odbid] for M[oses] Pitt, […], →OCLC:
glosses: to take the lute from, to unseal
unluted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unlute
unlutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unlute
unluting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unlute
cumdump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumdumps
form: cum dump
form: cum-dump
Etymology: cum + dump
Senses: examples: text: “Me and my guys need ourselves a cumdump for when we go on tour. Some hole who'll keep us entertained on our private plane and take care of our cocks at night – especially numero uno here.”
ref: 2007, John Patrick, Come Again, Volume 1, page 61
text: He couldn't simply enjoy me as his personal cumdump for the past several weeks and not feel a thing, even if the gift was nothing more to give me something to remember him by after he gave me my deserving promotion.
ref: 2010, Eric Summers, Big Holiday Packages, page 40
text: He grunts, pulls out, pulls off and uses the hard stomach below him as a cobblestone cumdump.
ref: 2010, Eric Summers, Teammates, page 25
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: A place or person to ejaculate in, especially a body part or cavity.
Related terms: cum dumpster
cumwhore
cum guzzler
cumbucket
equiponderous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + ponderous.
Senses: examples: text: A Method much different from our Progressive Conduct, whose Engine-Wheel is light, and equiponderous on all Sides, and every Ladle hath its Opposite for a Counterpoise
ref: 1722, Edward Barlow, An Axact Survey of the Tide:
glosses: Having equal weight.
extensibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extensible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being extensible.
frequentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frequentable
form: most frequentable
Etymology: From frequent + -able.
Senses: examples: text: While youth lasted in him, the exercises of that age and his humour not yet fully discovered, made him somewhat the more frequentable and less dangerous.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: accessible
harpooneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: harpooneers
Etymology: From harpoon + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: To all this I joyously assented; for besides the affection I now felt for Queequeg, he was an experienced harpooneer, and as such, could not fail to be of great usefulness to one, who, like me, was wholly ignorant of the mysteries of whaling, though well acquainted with the sea, as known to merchant seamen.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Biographical”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 63:
glosses: A harpooner, one who uses a harpoon to hunt whales.
harpooneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harpooneer
nutritial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nutritial
form: most nutritial
Senses: examples: text: Diana praise , Muse , that in darts delights ,
Lives still a maid , and had nutritial rights
With her born - brother , the far - shooting Sun.
ref: c. 1618, George Chapman, Hymns of Homer, Book 11:
glosses: Pertaining to, or connected with, nutrition; nutritional.
air stove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air stoves
Senses: synonyms: hot-air stove
glosses: A precursor to the radiator, functioning by heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes and then distributed through a room or building.
Related terms: calorifere
air stoves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air stove
vatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vatical
form: most vatical
Etymology: Latin vates a prophet, and + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Neither couldst thou have made up those vatical predictions without this conveyance.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetic.
unedge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unedges
form: unedging
form: unedged
form: unedged
Etymology: From un- + edge.
Senses: examples: text: […]bodies that were made for shining brass,
Are […]unedged
ref: 1610–1614, John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Valentinian”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To deprive of an edge; to blunt.
unedged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unedge
unedged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: unedged tools
glosses: Not given an edge.
unedges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unedge
unedging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unedge
classicalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classicalists
Etymology: From classical + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I shall not devote a fourth section to [Andrea] Palladio, nor weary the reader with successive chapters of vituperation; but I shall, in my account of the earlier architecture, compare the forms of all its leading features with those into which they were corrupted by the Classicalists; […]
ref: 1851, John Ruskin, “The Quarry”, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXXIX, page 25:
glosses: Synonym of classicist.
synonyms: word: classicist
classicalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of classicalist
intramercurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: intra-Mercurial
form: intra-mercurial
Etymology: From intra- + mercurial.
Senses: examples: text: a hypothetical intramercurial planet
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Between the planet Mercury and the sun.
docible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more docible
form: most docible
Etymology: From Latin docibilis, from docere (“to teach”). Compare docile.
Senses: examples: text: I doubt not but ye ſhall have more adoe to drive out dulleſt and lazieſt youth [...] then we have now to hale and drag our choiſeſt and hopefulleſt wits to that aſinine feaſt of ſowthiſtles and brambles which is commonly ſet before them, as all the food and entertainment of their tendereſt and moſt docible age.
ref: [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Easily taught, tamed or managed; teachable.
Derived terms: docibleness
indocible
Related terms: docile
notchboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notchboards
Etymology: From notch + board.
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The board that receives the ends of the steps in a staircase.
Synonyms: sense: part of staircase
word: bridgeboard
notchboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notchboard
emplore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emplores
form: emploring
form: emplored
form: emplored
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of implore.
glosses: Misspelling of implore.
omniformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From omniform + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Her centrall omniformity / Thus eady keepeth off needleffe infinity
ref: 1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΑΝΤΙΨΥΧΟΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΑ [Antipsychopannychia], or A Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of having every form.
bodypart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodyparts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of body part.
dropsied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dropsy + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a dropsied honour
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
synonyms: oedemic
glosses: Suffering from dropsy (edema).
fountful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fountful
form: most fountful
Etymology: From fount + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1718, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, Book XV
'Go wait the Thunderer's will,' Saturnia cried, / 'On yon tall summit of the fountful Ide: / There in the Father's awful presence stand, / Receive and execute his dread command.'
text: The golden pleasures of love and song will me whole And in fountful recesses I'll repeat (beyond the ear of shepherds) The stories I heard in a dream, and your lambent kisses I stole And stood upon a hill surrounded by songful birds
ref: 1959, Mehdi Ali Seljouk, My Goddess: A Devotional Epic, page 31:
glosses: Full of fountains or springs.
examples: text: Dost thou explore Sabrina's fountful source, Where huge Plinlimmon's hoary height afoends;
ref: 1766, Robert Dodsley, A Collection of Poems, volume 4, page 62:
text: Far beyond the tangible love goeth When the matron's holy fountful breast Of the slumbering infant's breathings knoweth, Distant in its rosy curtained nest :
ref: 1875, Charles Curle, “Breathings of the Invisible”, in Wind Tossed Leaves Reclaimed, page 3:
text: ...foliage where fountful rivers run and limpid pools lie beneath plashy rocks.
ref: 2001, “Big Walls in Kenya”, in The Alpine Journal, volume 106, page 25:
glosses: Gushing.
recarried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recarry
recarries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recarry
recarry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recarries
form: recarrying
form: recarried
form: recarried
Etymology: From re- + carry.
Senses: examples: text: Pigeons are then related to carry and recarry letters.
ref: 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:
glosses: To carry back.
recarrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recarry
treasonableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From treasonable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being treasonable.
bodyparts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodypart
cumdumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cumdump
ferricyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferricyanates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ferricyanide.
ferricyanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferricyanate
cum-dump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cum-dumps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cumdump.
cum-dumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cum-dump
cum dump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cum dumps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cumdump.
cum dumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cum dump
unpiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + piety.
Senses: glosses: Lack of piety.
liguliflorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: liguliflorous head
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing only ligulate flowers.
selenocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seleno- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: a selenocentric coordinate system
text: a selenocentric orbit
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the moon at the center.
Related terms: english: the Sun
translation: the Sun
word: heliocentric
english: Mercury
translation: Mercury
word: hermeocentric
english: Venus
translation: Venus
word: cytherocentric
english: the Earth
translation: the Earth
word: geocentric
english: Mars
translation: Mars
word: areocentric
english: Jupiter
translation: Jupiter
word: zenocentric
english: Saturn
translation: Saturn
word: cronocentric
english: Uranus
translation: Uranus
word: uranocentric
english: a planet
translation: a planet
word: planetocentric
english: a star
translation: a star
word: astrocentric
english: a galaxy
translation: a galaxy
word: galactocentric
undividual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈdɪvɪdjuəl/
Etymology: From un- + dividual.
Senses: glosses: indivisible
tetrapetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + petalous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing four distinct petals.
besottedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more besottedly
form: most besottedly
Etymology: From besotted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a besotted manner.
bedcord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedcords
Etymology: From bed + cord.
Senses: examples: text: On this floor is spread in places matting made of bamboo grass. On this matting many of the natives throw down a cotton blanket, or possibly a thin mattress, for beds. Some have a rude bed made of four posts sixteen inches high with crossheads and side pieces pinned together and then cris-crossed with bed cords.
ref: 1912, James Hudson Maurer, The Far East:
glosses: A cord or rope interwoven into a bedstead as support for a rope bed.
bedcords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedcord
foxish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foxish
form: most foxish
Etymology: From Middle English foxish, equivalent to fox + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Over all the faces was a sheen of appetite for something. They had a foxish look under the moving tree light.
ref: 1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, published 2018, page 83:
text: One was a "small, decidedly vulpine race," characterized by prominent, pointed, erect ears, pointed muzzle, silky hair and typically whitish belly. Consistent with foxish traits, the dogs were usually, brown, reddish or in some cases, white and gray.
ref: 2002, Bryan David Cummins, First nations, first dogs:
text: Then, he is — more tigerish than the tiger, more skunkish than the skunk, more foxish than the fox.
ref: 2008, Moishe Nadir, Harvey Fink, That is how it is:
text: Different types of political organisation, such as constitutional arrangements protecting individual rights, were simply ruses generally adopted by foxish elites to pull the wool over the eyes of the people.
ref: 2009, Joseph V. Femia, Vilfredo Pareto:
glosses: Like or characteristic of a fox; foxlike; (by extension) sly.
Derived terms: foxishly
Related terms: foxlike
foxy
repulsory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repulsory
form: most repulsory
Etymology: Latin repulsorius.
Senses: glosses: Repulsive; acting to repel; driving back.
boatmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boatman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The art of managing or looking after a boat.
flatuosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatuosities
Etymology: Compare French flatuosité.
Senses: examples: text: It attenuateth[…]crude and colde humours, and flatuosities abounding in flegmatike and melancholicke persons.
ref: 1600, Richard Surflet, Maison rustique, or, The countrey farme:
text: The fourth cause is flatuosity : for wind stirred moveth to expel : and we find that ( in effect ) all purgers have in them a raw spirit or wind ; which is the principal cause of tortion in the stomach and belly
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: Remove that flatuosity, which is the cause of thy Disease.
ref: 1675, J.Love, Clavis Med.:
glosses: flatulence
distinguishingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distinguishingly
form: most distinguishingly
Etymology: From distinguishing + -ly.
Senses: examples: January 13, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Joseph Addison
the heads of that party have been distinguishingly favourable to me
glosses: With distinction; with some mark of preference.
viridescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viridescences
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being viridescent.
viridescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viridescence
convocationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convocationists
Etymology: From convocation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate or defender of convocation.
convocationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convocationist
outsuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsuffers
form: outsuffering
form: outsuffered
form: outsuffered
Etymology: From out- + suffer.
Senses: examples: text: All in all, she said, she had spent twenty-one years in gaol; which was a longer sentence than many convicts serve. And yet, there were women walking down there, too, who would outsuffer her. She had seen them come; she dared to say she would not be there to see them leave . . .
ref: 1999, Sarah Waters, Affinity, Virago Press (2012), page 15:
glosses: To exceed in suffering.
outsuffered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsuffer
outsuffering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsuffer
outsuffers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsuffer
hemiholohedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + holohedral.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Presenting hemihedral forms in which half the sectants have the full number of planes.
body-part
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body-parts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of body part.
body-parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body-part
acquittanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acquittance
turribant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtʌɹɪbənt/
/ˈtɜːɹɪbənt/
Forms: form: turribants
Senses: examples: text: with hundred turrets like a turribant
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 28:
glosses: Obsolete form of turban.
turribants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turribant
befrill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befrills
form: befrilling
form: befrilled
form: befrilled
Etymology: From be- + frill.
Senses: glosses: To provide or decorate with a frill.
befrilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befrill
befrilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befrill
befrills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befrill
hungerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hungerers
Etymology: From hunger + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing in Milton is finelier fancied than in these temperate dreams of the divine Hungerer
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who hungers or yearns.
hungerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hungerer
neuropterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of neuropteral.
Related terms: -pterous
overrighteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrighteous
form: most overrighteous
Etymology: From over- + righteous.
Senses: glosses: Excessively righteous
Derived terms: overrighteously
allomerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + -merous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Characterized by allomerism; allomeric.
hungeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hungeringly
form: most hungeringly
Etymology: From hungering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With hunger or yearning.
allodialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allodialists
Etymology: From allodial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A holder of allodial land.
allodialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allodialist
laryngoscopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laryngoscopists
Etymology: From laryngoscope + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who performs a laryngoscopy.
laryngoscopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laryngoscopist
barytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəɹˈɪtɪk/
Etymology: From baryta + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to baryta
glosses: Containing barium
discordable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discordable
form: most discordable
Etymology: Compare Old French descordable.
Senses: examples: text: discordable Mindes
ref: 1575, H. N., Evangelium Regni:
glosses: That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant.
osteophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteophones
Etymology: From osteo- + -phone.
Senses: synonyms: BAHA
glosses: An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.
Related terms: bone conduction
osteophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteophone
prenasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Etymology: From pre- + nasal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers.
prenasal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: prenasals
Etymology: From pre- + nasal.
Senses: glosses: The anterior half of a divided nasal scale.
uratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urate + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: uratic calculi
text: uratic deposits
text: uratic precipitation
glosses: Of or containing urates.
disyoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊk
Forms: form: disyokes
form: disyoking
form: disyoked
form: disyoked
Etymology: From dis- + yoke.
Senses: examples: text: Deep, indeed, / Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared / To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, / Disyoke their necks from custom, and assert / None lordlier than themselves but that which made / Woman and man.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 30:
text: O me, my wife, my boys— / And—O myself, how, miserably moved, / Am I disyoked now from both boys and wife!
ref: 1875, Robert Browning, “Herakles”, in Aristophanes’ Apology […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 319:
glosses: To free (someone or something) from a yoke; to disjoin, to unyoke.
disyoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disyoke
disyokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disyoke
disyoking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disyoke
imblaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Forms: form: imblazes
form: imblazing
form: imblazed
form: imblazed
Etymology: From im- + blaze.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of emblaze.
imblazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imblaze
imblazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imblaze
imblazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imblaze
kathetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάθετος (káthetos, “perpendicular”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: kathetal joints
text: kathetal surface
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Making a right angle; perpendicular
sonneter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonneters
Etymology: From sonnet + -er.
Senses: glosses: A composer of sonnets; sonnetist.
sonneters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonneter
navals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: naval affairs or achievements
guardiance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: guardianship
incapableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incapable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.
KED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KEDs
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Kendrick Extrication Device.
Kendrick Extrication Device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kendrick Extrication Devices
Etymology: Named after its inventor, Richard Kendrick.
Senses: examples: text: 1997, Ian Greaves, T. J. Hodgetts, Keith Porter, Emergency care: a textbook for paramedics
The extrication devices (such as the Russel Extrication Device, REDTM, or the Kendrick Extrication Device, KEDTM) are short, moulded, rigid boards which are placed along the spine and strapped to the patient.
text: 2000, Brian Dolan, Lynda Holt, Accident and emergency: theory into practice
In current use are the Kendrick Extrication Device (KED), the Russell Extrication Device (RED) and the ED2000.
text: 2009, United States Army, Casey Bond, 68w Advanced Field Craft: Combat Medic Skills
Spine Boards and the Kendrick Extrication Device (KED) Spine boards and the KED aid in rescuing and immobilizing casualties with known or suspected spinal fractures.
text: The Kendrick Extrication Device can be very hard to utilize in jaws of life situations and you simply have to do the best you can.
glosses: A specialized immobilization backboard device used to protect the spinal cord in patients that are found in a confined or seated position such as a car in auto extrications.
Synonyms: KED
KED board
Vietcong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌviː.ɛtˈkɒŋ/
ipa: /ˌvi.ɛtˈkɑŋ/
Forms: form: Viet Cong
form: VC
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Vietnamese Việt Cộng, short for Việt Nam cộng sản (“Vietnam(ese) communist(s)”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: NVA
ARVN
glosses: A communist organization and guerrilla army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States, South Korea, Australia, and the South Vietnamese government during the Vietnam War and was supported by communist North Vietnam.
Related terms: Republic of South Vietnam
Vietcong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌviː.ɛtˈkɒŋ/
ipa: /ˌvi.ɛtˈkɑŋ/
Forms: form: Vietcongs
form: Vietcong
form: Viet Cong
form: VC
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Vietnamese Việt Cộng, short for Việt Nam cộng sản (“Vietnam(ese) communist(s)”).
Senses: examples: text: Then I went to Cam Ranh Bay, a huge base, and received the same official briefing, upbeat and hopeful. Afterward, I asked the briefing officer if he thought any Vietcong were working on the base itself. He said yes. I asked how many, and he said, “We figure twenty to thirty percent of our employees are Vietcong.”
ref: 2010, Walter Mondale, David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics, Scribner, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 78:
glosses: A member of this organization.
Viet Cong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Vietcong.
bejesuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdʒɛz.ju.ɪt/
Forms: form: bejesuits
form: bejesuiting
form: bejesuited
form: bejesuited
Etymology: From be- + Jesuit.
Senses: examples: text: who hath so bejesuited us that we should trouble that man with asking licence to doe so worthy a deed?
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
glosses: To subject (someone) to Jesuits or Jesuit belief.
bejesuited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bejesuit
corpora lutea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corpus luteum
cucumiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kyo͞okyo͞oʹmĭfôrm
ipa: /kjuːˈkjuːmɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more cucumiform
form: most cucumiform
form: cucumeriform
Etymology: First attested in a glossary in 1826, in a fragment in 1838, and in a grammatical sentence in 1892; formed by the suffixation of cucumi-, the short i-stem of the Latin cucumis (“cucumber”), with the English -form; compare the earlier New Latin cucumeriformis (1703), cucumiformis (1791) and French cucumeriforme (1777), cucumiforme (1804).
Senses: examples: text: Cucumiform (Cucumiformis). Cucumber-shaped. Whose longitudinal section is oblong, and transverse circular.
ref: 1826, William Kirby, William Spence, An Introduction to Entomology, volume IV, page 265:
text: She was there, tumbling the marvelous cucumiform weights down upon a chest which looked as though it would cave in under such manna.
ref: 1955, William Gaddis, The Recognitions, Harcourt, Brace, page 329:
text: Uncharacteristically for him, Lord Vetinari laughed out loud. He very nearly gloated at the downfall of his enemy and slammed his copy of the Ankh-Morpork Times, open at the crossword page, on to his desk. ‘Cucumiform, shaped like a cucumber or a variety of squash! l thumb my nose at you, madam!’
ref: 2011, Terry Pratchett,, Snuff: Discworld Novel 39, page 17:
glosses: Shaped like a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and possibly curved.
Related terms: cucumber
chrysotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysotypes
Etymology: From chryso- + -type.
Senses: glosses: A photograph taken on paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of gold chloride.
chrysotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrysotype
tetragold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + gold.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Four gold atoms in a compound.
trigold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + gold.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Three gold atoms in a compound.
mislearn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mislearns
form: mislearning
form: mislearned
form: mislearned
form: mislearnt
form: mislearnt
Etymology: From mis- + learn.
Senses: glosses: To learn wrongly.
mislearned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislearn
mislearning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mislearn
mislearns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mislearn
mislearnt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislearn
kinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: Compare French kinique.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quinic.
phototopographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phototopographers
Etymology: From photo- + topographer.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out phototopography.
phototopographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phototopographer
phototopographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + topographic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phototopography.
Derived terms: phototopographically
lordeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lord + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lord
lordest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lord + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of lord
botherations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "I'm afraid you won't understand when I say I've very tiresome things to consider. Botherations, necessities at home. The pinch, the pressure in London."
ref: 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
glosses: plural of botheration
laudators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laudator
encloister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encloisters
form: encloistering
form: encloistered
form: encloistered
form: incloister
Etymology: From en- + cloister.
Senses: glosses: To shut away in a cloister.
Synonyms: cloister
encloistered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encloister
encloistering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encloister
encloisters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encloister
hydrocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocyanates
Etymology: From hydro- + cyanate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hydrocyanide
hydrocyanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrocyanate
incloister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incloisters
form: incloistering
form: incloistered
form: incloistered
Etymology: From in- + cloister.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of encloister.
incloistered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incloister
incloistering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incloister
incloisters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incloister
rodomontadist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rodomontadists
Etymology: From rodomontade + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who boasts; braggart
numismatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Senses: glosses: The systematic description of coins and medals.
Related terms: numismatic
waterworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waterworn
form: most waterworn
form: water-worn
Etymology: From water + worn.
Senses: examples: text: waterworn stones
text: In many parts of the island the bottoms of the valleys are covered in an extraordinary manner by myriads of great loose angular fragments of the quartz rock, forming “streams of stones.” […] The blocks are not waterworn, their angles being only a little blunted […]
ref: 1845, Charles Darwin, chapter 9, in Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, pages 196–197:
text: The cliffs were water-worn, as if they had been gnawed for thousands of years by hungry waves.
ref: 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 13, in Elsie Venner, volume 1, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, page 236:
text: They ate in silence, sitting on the grass in the shade of the big tree where Billy Slim’s father had kept his hotel, where the naughty girls came to work as barmaids, where the bedrooms worked day and night and where small bags of water-worn gold once passed across the bar in payment for drinks and other recreations.
ref: 1952, Neville Shute, chapter 8, in The Far Country, London: Heinemann:
text: He has seen their lights around the ship at night, the green glow of their underwater torches, and he imagines them hovering in the water-worn doorways, their mouths red with the flesh of men, their wrists braceleted in seaweed, singing, weaving moonbeams into their hair.
ref: 2010 August 2, Téa Obreht, “Blue Water Djinn”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Worn or smoothed by the action of water erosion.
assimilability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assimilabilities
Senses: examples: c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Ben Jonson
It would form an interesting essay […] were all the attempts to ridicule new phrases brought together, the proportion observed of words ridiculed which have been adopted, and are now common, such as strenuous, conscious, &c, and a trial made how far any grounds can be detected, so that one might determine beforehand whether a word was invented under the conditions of assimilability to our language or not.
glosses: The quality or degree of being assimilable.
Derived terms: bioassimilability
rixdaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rixdalers
Senses: glosses: An old Dutch silver coin, the rijksdaalder
Related terms: rigsdaler
rixdalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rixdaler
unfurnish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfurnishes
form: unfurnishing
form: unfurnished
form: unfurnished
Etymology: From un- + furnish.
Senses: glosses: To strip (a place) of defences or defenders.
glosses: To strip of furniture.
unfurnishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfurnish
unfurnishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfurnish
tetractinellid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetractinellids
Etymology: From translingual Tetractinellida and Tetractinellidae.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any sponge of the order Tetractinellida or family Tetractinellidae.
Related terms: Tetractinomorpha
tetractinellids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetractinellid
unconformist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unconformists
Etymology: From un- + conformist.
Senses: glosses: A nonconformist.
unconformists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unconformist
tetrasilver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + silver.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Four silver atoms in a compound.
trisilver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + silver.
Senses: examples: text: This, however, reacts with methyl iodide just as the trisilver salt does. When dry trisilver cochinelate is heated with excess of methyl iodide at 100°, a mixture of the methyl ethers of trimethyl and dimethyl hydrogen cochinelate, OMe⋅C₆HMe(CO₂Me)₃ and OMe⋅C₆HMe(CO₂H)(CO₂Me)₂, is obtained; these can be separated by means of aqueous sodium carbonate.
ref: 1900, “Mixed Esters of Cochinelic Acid”, in Journal of the Chemical Society, page 661:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Three silver atoms in a compound.
allectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allectations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin allectatio, allectationis.
Senses: examples: text: I am to add , that with such allectation they were Tuned by the Musick-masters
ref: 1686, John Cosin, Two Letters […] :
glosses: enticement; allurement
allectations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allectation
garbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garblers
Etymology: From garble + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who garbles.
garblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garbler
overofficious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overofficious
form: most overofficious
Etymology: From over- + officious.
Senses: examples: text: over-officious Truth
ref: 1697, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects:
glosses: Excessively officious or inclined to meddle.
receptacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French réceptaculaire.
Senses: examples: text: the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower
text: receptacular bract
text: receptacular nectary
text: receptacular scalesyy
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or growing in, the receptacle.
nonexpansile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + expansile.
Senses: glosses: Not expansile.
numbedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From numbed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But if the Nerve be quite divided , the Pain is little , only a kind of Stupor or Numbedness
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
glosses: numbness
invalorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more invalorous
form: most invalorous
Etymology: From in- + valorous.
Senses: glosses: Lacking valour; cowardly.
tractility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tractile + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: 1673, Robert Boyle, Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums, London: M. Pitt, “If the Strange Subtilty of Effluviums,” Chapter 2, p. 8,
Silver, whose Ductility and Tractility are very much inferiour to those of Gold, was, by my procuring, drawn out to so slender a Wire, that, when we measur’d it, which was somewhat troublesom to do, with a long and accurate measure, we found, that eight Yards of it did not yet fully counterpoise one Grain:
text: We shall not […] anticipate these chemical details […] but will confine ourselves at present to that potent talisman “Coal,” at whose bidding, and whilst in a state of combustion, the minerals are decomposed and liquefied, and their gritty, brittle, stony qualities changed to those of tractility and extensibility.
ref: 1861, John Henry Pepper, The Playbook of Metals, London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, Introduction, p. 4:
synonyms: ductility
glosses: The quality of being tractile (capable of being drawn or stretched out at length).
gerundively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gerundive + -ly.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In the manner of a gerund; as, or in place of, a gerund.
indeterminables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indeterminable
enlard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enlards
form: enlarding
form: enlarded
form: enlarded
form: inlard
Etymology: From en- + lard.
Senses: examples: text: Nor, by my will, assubjugate his merit,
As amply titled as Achilles is,
By going to Achilles:
That were to enlard his fat already pride
And add more coals to Cancer when he burns
With entertaining great Hyperion.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: To cover or dress with lard or grease.
enlarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enlard
enlarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enlard