cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
compt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Variant of count.
Senses: examples: text: Your servants ever have theirs,/Themselves and what is theirs, in compt, /To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, /Still to return your own.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, 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):
text: it would be difficult for a youth of his age to follow the expositions of a practical lawyer, concerning actions of compt and reckoning, and of multiple-poindings, and adjudication and wadsets, proper and improper, and poindings of the ground and declarations of expiry of the legal.
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: account; reckoning; computation
Derived terms: comptible
compt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From English comptroller.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of compt..
compt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: compts
form: compting
form: compted
form: compted
Senses: examples: text: For some were warded in the Pittie-vault, some set caution to remove from the town, after they had compted and reckoned for their tavernry with their mistresses; […]
ref: 1792, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, page 340:
text: So shall my ryghteousnes aunswere for me in time to come: for it shal come for my rewarde before thy face. And euery one that is not specked and partie amongst the goates, & blacke amongst the sheepe, let it be compted theft in me.
ref: 1568, Bishops' Bible, Genesis 30:33:
text: The gyftes of fortune compt the, as borowed ware
Who so delyteth to prouen and assaye
ref: a. 1535, Thomas More, Lady Fortune:
glosses: To compute; to count or consider.
compt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of compliment
subaduncate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + aduncate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Somewhat hooked or curved.
caroteel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caroteels
Senses: glosses: A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs.
caroteels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caroteel
clusteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From clustering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In clusters.
leadwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leadworts
Etymology: From lead + wort.
Senses: glosses: Plants in family Plumbaginaceae
Any of various maritime herbs of the genus Plumbago, some of which have lead-coloured spots on the leaves or nearly lead-coloured flowers.
glosses: Plants in family Plumbaginaceae
Any of various maritime herbs of the genus Plumbago, some of which have lead-coloured spots on the leaves or nearly lead-coloured flowers.
especially, of species Plumbago europaea, of southern Europe, north Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, and Armenia.
glosses: Plants in family Plumbaginaceae
Any of various plants of genus Ceratostigma.
glosses: A leadplant, a leguminous shrub of species Amorpha canescens,) of the western U.S. that has hoary pinnate leaves and bears dull-colored racemose flowers; supposed to help locate lead deposits.
glosses: Diverse plants that tolerate high levels of lead, such as spring sandwort (Sabulina verna subsp. verna, syn. Minuartia verna) and alpine pennycress (Noccaea caerulescens, syn. Thlaspi caerulescens).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
word: blue leadwort
taxonomic: Plumbago auriculata
word: Cape leadwort
taxonomic: Plumbago zeylanica
word: Ceylon leadwort
taxonomic: Plumbago europaea
word: European leadwort
taxonomic: Plumbago indica
word: Indian leadwort
taxonomic: Plumbago indica
alt: syn. Plumbago rosea
word: scarlet leadwort
taxonomic: Plumbago zeylanica
word: white leadwort
taxonomic: Plumbago zeylanica
word: wild leadwort
leadworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leadwort
ingluvious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ingluvious
form: most ingluvious
Senses: examples: text: all kinde of rictous and ingluvious gurmandize
ref: 1633, T. N. (translator), Levinus Lemnius, The Touchstone of Complexions:
glosses: gluttonous
Related terms: ingluvies
fiaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiaunts
Senses: examples: text: Nought suffered he the Ape to give or graunt , But through his hand alone must passe the Fiaunt
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: commission; fiat; order; decree
predictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prediction + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Predictional astrology is, to my personal point of view, both a menace and a handicap.
ref: 1951, Alice A. Bailey, The Unfinished Autobiography of Alice A. Bailey, page 231:
text: It is obvious that with it the principle of induction would lose its predictional value.
ref: 1996, Sahotra Sarkar, Logic, Probability, and Epistemology: The Power of Semantics:
glosses: Relating to prediction; prophetic; prognostic.
inadherent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + adherent.
Senses: examples: text: an inadherent material
synonyms: nonadherent
unadherent
glosses: Not adhering.
examples: text: an inadherent intestine
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Free; not connected with the other organs.
grandevous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grandevous
form: most grandevous
Etymology: From Latin grandaevus (“old, aged”), from grandis (“grand”) + aevum (“lifetime, age”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:grandevous.
glosses: Of great age; aged; long-lived.
Related terms: grandevity
errorful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more errorful
form: most errorful
Etymology: From error + -ful.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Involving error; not errorless.
examples: text: They can scarce suffer privileges, that is to say, license to spoil our citizens, given them by our forefathers, and brought in by errorful custom, to be taken from them.
ref: 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments (in modern translation)
glosses: Full of error; wrong.
Derived terms: errorfully
errorlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From errorless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Freedom from error.
battering train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battering trains
Senses: examples: text: When the fire reached this barrier, it was compelled to pause, until a concentration of its heat could overcome the moisture, like an army impatiently waiting the operations of a battering train, to open its way to death and desolation.
ref: 1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XXXVII, in The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Charles Wiley; […], →OCLC:
text: Be that as it might, numberless great guns, whose thunder had long been the voice of battle,—the artillery of the Armada, the battering-trains of Marlborough, and the adverse cannon of Napoleon and Wellington,—were trundled into the midst of the fire.
ref: 1844, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Earth’s Holocaust”, in Mosses from an Old Manse. […], part II, New York, N.Y.: Wiley and Putnam, published 1846, →OCLC, page 141:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A train of heavy artillery, such as battering rams and catapults, for siege operations.
battering trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battering train
bandrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandrols
Senses: examples: text: Yeomen of the guard bearing halberds, trumpeters sounding loud flourishes, bea ers of standards, banners, guidons, pennons, pensils, and bandrols, heralds in coats of arms, pursuivants of arms and marshals of arms with[…]
ref: 1861, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 105:
text: The Crest Mantling and other accessories being out of place upon it, nevertheless it is not uncommon to see these, as well as their arms, painted upon the Banners, or rather Bandrols, of High Sheriffs at the reception[…]
ref: 1889, Charles Worthy, Practical Heraldry: Or, an Epitome of English Armory, Showing how and by Whom Arms May be Borne Or Acquired, how Pedigrees May be Traced Or Family Histories Ascertained, London, George Redway, page 220:
text: Some of them, like the pensils and bandrols, were used in funeral processions. As might be expected from their constant exposure to the weather and the chances of battle, but few old flags have come down to [us].
ref: 1900, James Balfour Paul, Heraldry in Relation to Scottish History and Art: Being the Rhind Lectures on Archaeology for 1898, page 132:
glosses: Archaic form of banderole.
bandrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandrol
pseudomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomorphisms
Etymology: From pseudo- + -morphism or pseudomorph + -ism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that of the species.
Related terms: pseudomorph
pseudomorphic
pseudomorphous
pseudomorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudomorphism
scriptory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈskɹɪptəɹi/
Etymology: From Latin scriptorius, from scribo (“to write”).
Senses: examples: text: scriptory evidence
text: scriptory declaration
text: scriptory work
text: And with such differences of reeds, vallatory, sagittary, scriptory, and others, they might be furnished in Judæa.
ref: c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
text: that of wills duo sunt genera, nuncupatory and scriptory;
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section II”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to writing; expressed or used in writing; written.
dambose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dambonite + -ose?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystalline variety of glucose obtained from dambonite.
hoazin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoazins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoatzin.
hoazins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoazin
odorament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊdəɹəmənt/
Forms: form: odoraments
Etymology: From Latin odōrāmentum.
Senses: examples: text: Odoraments to smell to, of rose-water, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, etc., do much recreate the brains and spirits […]
ref: , II.5.1.v
glosses: Something which gives off a scent; an odoriferous substance.
Synonyms: word: odorant
word: odorament
Hyponyms: word: stinkard
word: stinker
spoliative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spoliative
form: most spoliative
Etymology: Compare French spoliatif.
Senses: glosses: Serving to take away, diminish, or rob.
examples: spoliative bloodletting
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Serving to take away, diminish, or rob.
Serving to diminish the amount of blood in the body.
phyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪli/
homophone: Filey
Forms: form: phyles
form: phylae
Etymology: From New Latin phȳlē, from Ancient Greek φῡλή (phūlḗ, “a union of individuals into a community”).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A local division of the people; a clan or tribe.
glosses: A subdivision of the priestly caste in ancient Egypt, headed by a phylarch.
Derived terms: phylic
phyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyle
chargeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒəs/
Forms: form: more chargeous
form: most chargeous
Etymology: From Middle English charjous, from Anglo-Norman chargeous; equivalent to charge + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: In consideracion whereof, as also for that we apon certen consideracions have assigned accordinge your Majesties commaundemente unto therle of Desmonde for suche howse and lande as your Highnes gave unto him and his heiers masles for his better supportinge at his repayer to your Parliamentes and Counseilles parte of the manse and demaynes of the said Sent Mary Abbay, whereby the said Waltier, after thexpiring of his terme in the same beinge oncerten of any dwellinge place, must be compelled to resorte to the borders of the Yrishrie to another farme he hathe of your Majestie, where he shalbe daylie at grete charges for the defence of the same, and also for the contynewall resorte of the confyners thereaboute whose interteynmente wilbe chargeous unto him for a time, we shall moste humbly beseche your excellent Majestie, of your haboundant grace, to be his good and gracious Lorde, to gyve him for his relyffe and helpe some lycense for transportinge and conveyinge some grayne and lether or other marchandize out of your realme of Englande, and of your princely goodnesse to graunte him som farder estate of your Majesties said farme that he nowe occupieth apon the borders.
ref: 1543, Antony Sentleger, John Alen, James Ormond and Ossorie, George Dublin, Edwarde Midensis, Gerald Aylmer, William Brabason, Thomas Lutrell, James Bathe, Thomas Cusake, Letter to Henry VIII:
text: Now not in mine opinion only, but in the opinion of all the ancient gentlemen, freeholders and borderers of all these places, the easiest way and least chargeous to Her Majesty to reduce this matter were: — that if it would please Her Highness to give Bagenall his money which he paid for this barony and constableship, about 2,365l. besides his charges to his learned council to make his assurance, and her Majesty to take both land and constableship into Her own hands.
ref: 1877 [1586], Hans Claude Hamilton, Ernest George Atkinson, Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Ireland, page 233:
text: Sir, I suppose, and verily judge that if ye had been here at this time (though it should have been somewhat chargeous to you in expenses) it would have and should have been to you much more profits another way, for the presence and sight of a man in the sight of his prince that is in His Grace favour is much worth, &c., and, in especial when His Grace is disposed to give gifts and rewards to his true servants, as, I suppose, that he is now.
ref: 1904 [c. 1605], Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society - Volume 2, page 207:
glosses: burdensome
odoraments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odorament
misbeseem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misbeseems
form: misbeseeming
form: misbeseemed
form: misbeseemed
Etymology: From mis- + beseem.
Senses: glosses: To be unseemly on or from; to fail to suit.
misbeseemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misbeseem
misbeseeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misbeseem
misbeseems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misbeseem
shooty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shooty
form: most shooty
Etymology: From shoot + -y.
Senses: examples: text: the swingy, shooty theatrics of Bionic Commando
ref: 2007, The Official Xbox Magazine: Issues 75-78:
glosses: Involving the shooting of weapons.
examples: text: Increases of auxin up to 12 mg L–1 did not alter the shooty morphology of the callus.
ref: 2020, W. T. Frankenberger Jr., Muhammad Arshad, Phytohormones in Soils Microbial Production & Function:
glosses: Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.
spagyrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spagyrically
form: most spagyrically
form: spagirically
Etymology: From spagyrical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If you will have them spagirically prepared, look in Oswaldus Crollius, Basil. Chymica.
ref: , II.5.1.v
glosses: In a spagyric way; according to alchemical principles.
glabrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin glabritas.
Senses: examples: text: I had had my beardal hair eradicated so that I could glory in a countenance of an infantile softness and an exquisite glabrity.
ref: 1922, Earl Lind, edited by Alfred W. Herzog, The Female-Impersonators, Part 4:
synonyms: glabrousness
glabrism
glosses: smoothness or baldness.
Related terms: glabrous
hammercloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhæməɹˌklɒθ/
Forms: form: hammercloths
Etymology: Probably from Dutch hemel (“heaven, canopy, tester”) (akin to German Himmel, and perhaps also to English heaven) + cloth; or perhaps a corruption of hamper cloth.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, a hackney-coachman, who seemed to have as many capes to his greasy great-coat as he was years old, packed me up in his coach and hemmed me in with a folding and jingling barrier of steps, as if he were going to take me fifty miles. His getting on his box, which I remember to have been decorated with an old weather-stained pea-green hammercloth motheaten into rags, was quite a work of time.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 2:
text: The mulberry-colored coach, apparently not too large for what it contained, though she alone was in it; the handsome, jolly coachman and his splendid hammer-cloth loaded with lace
ref: 1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter VI, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, part 1st (In Town), page 54:
glosses: The cloth that covers a coachbox.
hammercloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammercloth
tonsile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒnsəl
Forms: form: more tonsile
form: most tonsile
Etymology: From Latin tonsilis, from tondere, tonsum (“to shear, clip”). See tonsure.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being clipped.
diphtheritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diphtheritic
form: most diphtheritic
Senses: examples: text: diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder
text: diphtheritic paralysis
text: diphtheritic myocarditis
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling or related to diphtheria.
Synonyms: diphtherial
diphtheric
Derived terms: antidiphtheritic
diphtheritically
nondiphtheritic
postdiphtheritic
prediphtheritic
pseudodiphtheritic
evolvingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more evolvingly
form: most evolvingly
Etymology: From evolving + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With evolution; so as to evolve or develop.
revolvingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From revolving + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With revolution; so as to revolve or rotate.
physiognomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: physiognomizes
form: physiognomizing
form: physiognomized
form: physiognomized
Etymology: From physiognomy + -ize.
Senses: examples: February 24 1796, Robert Southey, letter to Grovesnor C. Bedford Esq.
I defy you or Mr. Shandy to physiognomize that man's name
glosses: To observe and study the physiognomy of.
physiognomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of physiognomize
physiognomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of physiognomize
physiognomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of physiognomize
noctidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin nox, noctis (“night”) + dies (“day”).
Senses: examples: text: A noctidial period on Earth is 24 hours long.
text: The Noctidial Day, the Lunar Periodic Month, and the Solar Year are Natural and Universal; but Incommensurate each to other, and difficult to be reconciled: Yet we are constrained to make use of them, as Measures […]
ref: 1694, William Holder, A discourse concerning Time, with application of the natural day, and lunar month, and solar year, as natural, page 98:
text: […] I extended my peragration of the occident in an austrine direction. After the profection of a noctidial period, I espied an ample concourse […]
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 32:
text: Farewell to noctidial sittings, / Snatched naps, and occasional "nips"! / Good-bye to swift-bolted bun-lunches, / To tasks which I did not expect, […]
ref: 1884, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, page 102:
glosses: Comprising a night and a day.
hatti-sherif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatti-sherifs
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خطِ شریف (hatt-ı şerif, “noble writing”), from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ, “writing”) + شَرِيف (šarīf, “noble, sharif”).
Senses: hypernyms: firman
glosses: In the Ottoman Empire, an edict countersigned by the sultan.
hatti-sherifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatti-sherif
trimestrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: quarterly
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or occurring every trimester, or period of three months.
diaphanometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaphanometers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs, “transparent”) + -meter. Compare diaphanous.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the transparency of a fluid.
diaphanometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaphanometer
'snails
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From God's nails, or His nails, i.e. those with which Jesus Christ was crucified.
Senses: examples: text: 'Snails , I'm almost starv'd with Love, and Cold, and one thing or other
ref: c. 1613, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:
glosses: An oath.
lionism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪənɪzm̩/
ipa: /ˈlaɪəˌnɪzəm/
Etymology: See Lionism.
Senses: examples: text: Sanusi says of his tenure as a Lions Club member: "I have always believed that lionism and clubs alike are anti-Islamic but this disposition, however, changed when I was lured into the club by a friend. And upon realising its objectives, I promise not to rest on my oars in making Lions Club the desire of all who want to render service to humanity."
ref: 2000, Tell: The Weekly Newsmagazine, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria: Tell Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:
text: Thus lionism enshrined the doctrine of love, which binds humanity together.
ref: 2005, Ola Vincent, Ola Vincent’s Speeches, Writings and Presentations: 1985–2004, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria: Macmillan Nigeria, →ISBN, page 449:
text: He [R. Ravichandran] joined lionism in 1985 in Lions Club of Madras Park Town.
ref: 2016–2017, T. M. Gunaraja, P. N. Gopinathan, “Past District Governors”, in The International Association of Lions Clubs (Lions Clubs International) District 324-A1: Lions Handbook, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu: Signpost Celfon.In Technology, page 52:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lionism (“the ideals of and membership in the Lions Club”).
lionisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lionism
sweepages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweepage
bemaul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemauls
form: bemauling
form: bemauled
form: bemauled
Etymology: From be- + maul.
Senses: examples: text: And yet, bemauled as the poor fellow had been, he seemed to glance at me with an eye of pity, as if my case were more deplorable than his.
ref: 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Mrs. Bullfrog”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
glosses: To maul thoroughly or completely.
antisneakage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sneakage.
Senses: examples: text: This is achieved by installing antisneakage baffles in the top, bottom, hoppers, and sides of the precipitator casing.
ref: 1997, William L. Heumann, Industrial air pollution control systems, page 486:
text: Antisneakage baffles usually are placed to force the sneakage flow to mix with the main gas stream for collection in later sections. But, again, the sneakage flow around the last section has no opportunity to be collected.
ref: 2000, Wayne T. Davis, Air pollution engineering manual:
glosses: Preventing sneakage of gases.
mulierty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mulier + -ty?
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The condition of being a mulier; state of being born in lawful wedlock.
streperous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more streperous
form: most streperous
Etymology: From Latin streperus, from strepere. See strepent, and compare obstreperous.
Senses: examples: text: streperous carriage
ref: 1617, Francis Bacon, letter to the King:
text: And though Porta conceive, becauſe in a ſtreperous eruption, it riſeth against fire it doth therefore reſiſt lightning, yet is that no emboldning Illation
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: "I war jest a-countin' ob dem jailbirds, an' had 'rived at 'leven w'en a 'streperous root she keeled me ober.
ref: 1911, Quincy Allen, The Outdoor Chums, Chapter 6:
glosses: loud; boisterous
chemiloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemiloons
Etymology: Blend of chemise + pantaloon?
Senses: glosses: A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one.
chemiloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemiloon
SJS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Swyer-James syndrome.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Schwartz-Jampel syndrome.
SJS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Initialism of San Jose Sharks.
epimere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epimeres
Etymology: From epi- + -mere.
Senses: examples: text: Four pairs of the leg epimeres are distinctly divided by a sejugal interval into two groups.
ref: 1978, Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Biologica:
text: The mesoderm next becomes differentiated into three regions: a dorsal region, called the epimere, which lies to each side of the neural tube; a middle region called the mesomere or nephrotome, situated lateral and ventral to the epimere
ref: 1922, Libbie Hyman, Hyman's Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so-called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, as in a segmented leaf.
epimeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epimere
dinnerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dinner + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But the dinnerly Officer was so hastie on his way, that he refus'd to heare him, posting him ouer to an other season: […]
ref: 1595, Anthony Copley, Wits, Fittes, and Fancies:
glosses: Of or pertaining to dinner.
pantological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pantological
form: most pantological
Etymology: From pantology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: pantological knowledge
text: pantological science
glosses: Of or pertaining to pantology.
electrolytic capacitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrolytic capacitors
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A capacitor that uses an electrolyte as one of its capacitative plates.
alternacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alternacy
alternacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alternacies
Senses: examples: text: the alternacy of gloom and vivid flashes disturbed the sight
ref: 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
glosses: alternateness; alternation
capacitor plague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Premature failure of an electrolytic capacitor, especially when several are beginning to fail at the same time in a piece of equipment (due, for example, to high demands imposed by the circuit design, such as in a switchmode power supply), necessitating "re-capping" (i.e. replacing many capacitors after disconnecting the power and waiting for lethal charge to dissipate).
volyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volyers
Etymology: Perhaps from follower.
Senses: glosses: A smaller boat that follows the main fishing boat.
volyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volyer
gigget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giggets
Senses: examples: text: Guard, Treaſon, treaſon, treaſon. / Boatſ[wain]. Cut the ſlaevs to giggets.
ref: c. 1619–1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Double Marriage. A Tragedy.”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 104, column 2:
text: Next them all ſorts of Roſt-meates, of which the greateſt first, as Chine of Beeffe or Surloine, the Gigget or Legges of Mutton, Gooſſe, Swan, Veale, Pig, Capon, and ſuch like.
ref: 1623, G[ervase] M[arkham], “Of the Outward and Actiue Knowledge of the Hous-wife; and of Her Skill in Cookerie; as Sallets of All Sorts, with Flesh, Fish, Sauces, Pastrie, Banqueting-stuffe, and Ordering of Great Feasts: Also Distillations, Perfumes, Conceited Secrets, and Preseruing Wine of All Sorts”, in Covntrey Contentments, or The English Husvvife. […], London: Printed by I. B. for R. Iackson, […], →OCLC, page 120:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of gigot.
giggets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigget
clerids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clerid
frithy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frithy
form: most frithy
Etymology: From frith (“forest, wood”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Thus stode I in the frytthy forest of Galtres, […]
ref: 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 312, line 22:
text: Wild echoes scream, impetuous torrents roar, And mists and glooms obscure the frithy shore.
ref: 1804, J Story, The Power of Solitude, a Poem, in Two Parts, page 92:
text: to complete their ingratitude and injustice, they transported a cargo of notorious traitors to the Divine Majesty among you, impiously calling the frithy lumber, Ministers of God's Word.
ref: 1807, “Omniana: The birth-day of the World”, in The Athenaeum, volume 2, page 589:
text: In north India, small round, oblong or long, temperate varieties of radish may also be grown, but these should be harvested within 25-30 days, otherwise they become frithy very soon.
ref: 1982, Farmers' Journal - Volume 2, page 52:
text: "Well," he met the Choco's glare, "we can't very well have him looking like some frithy trail wanderer out for a lowsun stroll, that looks bad on us.”
ref: 2017, Joshua K. Sapp, The Shaky Season:
text: The “frithy” or lush epicormic growth is very obvious in the left hand side of the crown in this photograph, as are the stubs with flat cuts that were left, in the right of the photograph.
ref: 2021, Vikki Bengtsson, C. Philip Wheater, Helen Read & Reg Harris, “Responses of oak pollards to pruning”, in Arboricultural Journal, volume 43, number 3:
glosses: Woody; relating to brushwood, undergrowth, or a partial clearing in a forest
Related terms: frith
complimentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more complimentally
form: most complimentally
Etymology: From complimental + -ly. Piecewise doublet of complementally.
Senses: glosses: In a complimental fashion.
Wik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous Australian people from northern Queensland.
Wik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any of their various languages, belonging to the Paman language family.
Wik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wiks
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian and Swedish Wik.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
feoffment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛfmənt/
Forms: form: feoffments
Etymology: From Old French feoffement, fieffement. Compare Latin feoffamentum.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The grant of a feud or fee.
topics: law
glosses: A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession
examples: text: Thanne symonye and cyuile · stonden forth bothe / And vnfoldeth þe feffement · þat fals hath ymaked.
ref: c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
glosses: The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
Synonyms: enfeoffment
Related terms: feoff
feoffee
feoffments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feoffment
graybar hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the graybar hotel
form: gray bar hotel
Etymology: Referring to the gray metal bars of a cell. It was originally used to refer to the main jail facility in downtown Los Angeles, California; some inmates who were ashamed of admitting that they were in jail would tell friends and relatives who were out of town and that they were staying at the Graybar Hotel. Before it was torn down it was so well known that prisoners actually received mail addressed to the Graybar Hotel in Los Angeles.
Senses: examples: text: If you do something like this, I will be sure that you spend a long, long time in the graybar hotel.
ref: 2004, Eliot Trimberger, The Epilepsy and Osteoporosis Link, page 197:
synonyms: graybar motel
gray bar motel
glosses: Jail, a prison.
postumous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of posthumous.
prudhomme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prudhommes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prud'homme.
prudhommes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prudhomme
Mahometanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Mahometanizes
form: Mahometanizing
form: Mahometanized
form: Mahometanized
Etymology: From Mahometan + -ize.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Muhammadanize.
Mahometanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Mahometanize
Mahometanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Mahometanize
Mahometanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Mahometanize
guerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guerites
Etymology: From French guérite. Doublet of garret.
Senses: glosses: A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.
guerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guerite
melassic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See molasses, -ic, acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid obtained from molasses or glucose, probably identical with saccharic acid.
troul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trouls
form: trouling
form: trouled
form: trouled
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of troll (“to entice fish with bait”).
trouled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of troul
trouling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of troul
trouls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of troul
unstate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsteɪt/
Forms: form: unstates
form: unstating
form: unstated
form: unstated
Etymology: From un- + state (noun).
Senses: examples: text: I would unstate myself, to be in a due resolution.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, 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):
text: High-battled Caesar will unstate his happiness.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene xiii]:
text: And thus thoſe Forts vvhich vvere erected to defend the Crovvne, firſt offended the King, ſome fevv vvhereof as he recouered, he flatted to the ground, and vviſhed the other no higher vvalls; ſtill ſvvearing by Gods Birth (his vſuall Oath) hee vvould not ſlightly bee vnſeated of his Crovvne, and vvondring vvhat ſhould mooue them, vvho had ſo readilie aduanced him, ſo ſpeedily to vnſtate him.
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Stephen, the Two and Fortieth Monarch of the English-men: His Raigne, Acts, and Issue”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 13, page 447, column 2:
glosses: To deprive of state or dignity.
unstate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsteɪt/
Forms: form: unstates
form: unstating
form: unstated
form: unstated
Etymology: From un- + state (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Of course protectionists will be indignant at this plain way of stating the case; but see if they can unstate it.
ref: 1884, H. W. Furber, Which? Protection, Free Trade, Or Revenue Reform, page 204:
text: Acknowledgment unstates such implications and thus seems to legitimate victims' claims and status and vindicate their status and position.
ref: 2009, Joanna R. Quinn, Reconciliation(s), page 40:
text: It's why I'm drawn to mystics like Meister Eckhart and more contemporary ones like Simone Weil and the language of apophasis, where you state something, but the statement sort of unstates itself.
ref: 2016, Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living:
glosses: To withdraw (something previously stated); to unsay or retract.
unstates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstate
unstating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstate
inablement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inablements
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enablement.
inablements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inablement
bloodguilty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bloodguilty
form: most bloodguilty
Etymology: From blood + guilty.
Senses: examples: text: a bloodguilty life
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
glosses: Guilty of murder or bloodshed.
Related terms: bloodguilt
bloodguiltiness
bloodguiltless
miswear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miswears
form: miswearing
form: miswore
form: misworn
Etymology: From mis- + wear.
Senses: examples: c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
the people buy in effect chaffe for corn , for that which is miswrought will miswear
glosses: To wear badly or wrongly.
miswearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miswear
miswears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miswear
miswore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of miswear
misworn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of miswear
tracklist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracklists
Etymology: From track + list.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tracklisting; a list of tracks appearing on an album, EP, LP etc.
tracklists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracklist
branchiostege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branchiosteges
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The branchiostegal membrane.
branchiosteges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of branchiostege
branchiostegal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek βράγχιον (bránkhion, “gill (used in the plural)”) + στέγω (stégō, “cover”) + -al
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the operculum that covers the gill slits of fish
branchiostegal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branchiostegals
Etymology: Ancient Greek βράγχιον (bránkhion, “gill (used in the plural)”) + στέγω (stégō, “cover”) + -al
Senses: glosses: A branchiostegal ray.
branchiostegous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: branchiostegal
branchiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From branchio- + -genic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: That originates in the branchial arches
branchial arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branchial arches
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
fish
ichthyology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
synonyms: gill arch
glosses: Any of a series of bony looped structures which support the gills of fish; any of the pharyngeal arches in a fish embryo.
Related terms: pharyngeal arch
anthracyclins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthracyclin
branchioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branchiomas
form: branchiomata
Etymology: From branchio- + -oma.
Senses: glosses: A branchial tumour
constructures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constructure
intorsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intorsions
Etymology: From Latin intortio (“a curling, crisping”). Compare French intorsion. See intort, and compare intortion.
Senses: examples: text: However, if postoperative anatomic intorsion is present, the patient may have DVD that was incorrectly diagnosed as IOOA and treated by IO muscle recessions.
ref: 1999, Arthur L. Rosenbaum, Alvina Pauline Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management, page 68:
text: intorsion of the eyeball
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A winding, bending, or twisting.
A bending or twisting of an organ from its proper alignment.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A winding, bending, or twisting.
The bending or twisting of any part of a plant toward one side or the other, or in any direction from the vertical.
intorsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intorsion
branchio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βράγχιον (bránkhion, “gill”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to the gills of a fish
glosses: Relating to the branchial arch
palaeolongitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeolongitude
branchiomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branchiomeres
Etymology: From branchio- + -mere.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The embryonic structure that develops into the branchial arch
Derived terms: branchiomeric
branchiomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From branchiomere + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from the branchiomere
glosses: Of or pertaining to branchiomerism
aeroplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeroplankton
form: aeroplanktons
Etymology: From aero- + plankton.
Senses: examples: text: Aeroplankton are the atmospheric equivalent of oceanic plankton.
text: The impact of aeroplanktons on human health is complex and multifaceted.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Plankton”, in Biology Online:
glosses: The tiny lifeforms that float and drift in the air, carried by the current of the wind.
Derived terms: aeroplanktonic
adnexitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adnexitides
Etymology: From adnexa + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the adnexa of the uterus, i.e. the Fallopian tubes or ovaries.
adnexitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adnexitis
adnexectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: adnexectomies
Etymology: From adnexa + -ectomy. Doublet of annessiectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The removal of a lump in the tissue of the adnexa of the uterus.
branchiomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The state of being formed of branchiate segments.
adnexectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adnexectomy
aggrecanase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggrecanases
Etymology: From aggrecan + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of proteolytic enzymes that act on aggrecans
Related terms: aggrecanolysis
aggrecanases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aggrecanase
baby mamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby mama
branchiomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From branchio- + -motor.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the movement of the gills or the muscles of the branchial arches
Derived terms: viscerobranchiomotor