cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
duffle coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duffle coats
Senses: examples: text: We turned to see a muscular young man lounging in the door which led into the sitting-room. He wore green corduroy trousers, a duffle coat and an old school tie.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, in Crime out of Mind:
glosses: Alternative spelling of duffel coat.
platymeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platymeters
Etymology: From platy- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for measuring the capacity of condensers, or the inductive capacity of dielectrics.
platymeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platymeter
meresman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meresmen
Etymology: From mere + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: An officer who ascertained and marks meres (boundaries) on maps.
meresmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meresman
dust-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dust-offs
Senses: glosses: The act of removing dust from something.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: Vietnam War
glosses: A medical helicopter.
Dust Bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dust Bowl
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of the American Midwest, extending into Canada, that experienced severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage in the 1930s.
glosses: The period of time in which these storms took place.
Ingersollian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ingersollian
form: most Ingersollian
Etymology: From Ingersoll + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) American politician and orator, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism.
eagle eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eagle eyes
Senses: glosses: Good eyesight.
glosses: Someone with good eyesight.
glosses: A keen eye for detail.
glosses: Someone with a keen eye for detail.
Related terms: eagle-eyed
hax0r
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hax0rs
Etymology: From hacker + -0r.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of haxor.
Derived terms: chix0r
scalepan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalepans
Etymology: From scale + pan.
Senses: glosses: The pan of a scale, in or on which items to be weighed are placed.
scalepans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalepan
actinosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinosomes
Etymology: From actino- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The body of various cnidarians and ctenophores, such as the starfish.
actinosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinosome
up to one's ears
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: up to here
up to one's eyeballs
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: See up to here.
Senses: examples: text: First and foremost (rather than last but not least), I couldn't have done this without my wife Nicki Norman, who serves as sounding board and a voice of rationality and moderation, and who sees the big picture when I'm up to my eyeballs in details.
ref: 2010, Peter H. Gleick, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water:
glosses: Deeply engaged in something, to the point of being overwhelmed.
outscent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outscents
form: outscenting
form: outscented
form: outscented
Etymology: From out- + scent.
Senses: examples: text: This he did to qualify the infamy of Garnet's death , and that the perfume of this new title might outscent the stench of his treason.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To exceed in odour; to be more odorous than.
outscented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outscent
outscenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outscent
outscents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outscent
protectorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protector + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no protector; unprotected.
surroyals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surroyal
swabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swabbers
form: swobber
Etymology: From swab + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I,
The gunner, and his mate,
Lov'd Mall, Meg, and Marian, and Margery,
But none of us car'd for Kate: […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: One who swabs a floor or deck.
examples: text: Meaningless filler code that shouldn't interact with a person's DNA. […] He pulls a pen-size swabber from his pocket, chrome finished with a needle point on one end, and a pad for swabbing on the other.
ref: 2017, Emily Suvada, This Mortal Coil, page 337:
glosses: An instrument for swabbing.
glosses: A baker's implement for cleaning ovens.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An interior officer on British warships, responsible for seeing that the ship was kept clean.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Four privileged cards, formerly used in betting in whist.
swabbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swabber
haematocryal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hematocryal
Etymology: From haemato- + cryo- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: haematocryal animal
text: haematocryal creature
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: cold-blooded
coldtraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coldtrap
thecaphore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thecaphores
Etymology: From theca + -phore. Compare French thécaphore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A surface or organ bearing a theca, or covered with thecae.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A podogynium.
thecaphores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thecaphore
fotive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊtɪv/
Forms: form: more fotive
form: most fotive
Etymology: From Latin fovere, fotum (“to keep warm, to cherish”).
Senses: examples: text: barren seeds
That drop from heaven, if I not cherish them
With my distilling dews, and fotive heat
ref: 1633, Thomas Carew, Coelum Britanicum:
glosses: nourishing
hematocryal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haematocryal.
pettifogulize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pettifogulizes
form: pettifogulizing
form: pettifogulized
form: pettifogulized
Etymology: From pettifog + -ule + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: So far from seeking to "pettifogulise"—i.e., to find evasions for any purpose in a trickster's minute tortuosities of construction—exactly in the opposite direction, from mere excess of sincerity, most unwillingly I found, in almost everybody's words, an unintentional opening left for double interpretations.
ref: 1853, Thomas De Quincey, “Introduction to the World of Strife”, in Autobiographic Sketches (De Quincey’s Works; I), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 59:
text: On these high authorities I rest my case, and when I quote from these adjudications you will find to your dismay and horror that you are nothing but a pettifogulizing idiot.
ref: 1882, Sylvan Drey, Woman's Rights: A Strictly Original Comedy in Three Acts, Baltimore, →OCLC, page 21:
text: “To pettifogulize,” says De Quincey, “is to find evasions for any purpose in a trickster’s minute tortuosities of construction.” Hermeneutic theology, according to this definition, is mere pettifogulizing systematized and elevated to the dignity of a sacred science.
ref: [1885 April, E. P. Evans, “Christian Hermeneutics and Hebrew Literature”, in The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, volume 23, number 4, Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, →OCLC, page 356:
text: I remember an attempt a few years ago to pettifogulize the Legislature in this State, when the small attorney met this unanswerable claim to representation by stating that he conceded the women had a right to be represented, but they were all represented now, for they had brothers or fathers or cousins or husbands, or ought to have, who could and did represent them.
ref: 1885 June 17, J. W. Hamilton, “The One Exception to the Golden Rule”, in Zion's Herald, volume 62, number 24, Boston: Boston Wesleyan Association, →ISSN, page 190, column 5:
text: Is the case to be pettifogulized? Will this great government stifle evidence in a court of justice in order to convict a man?
ref: 1908, Edwin C. Madden, The U. S. Government's Shame, Detroit: National Book Co., →OCLC, page 151:
text: And when, during the next semester, we were expected to read widely outside of class, but to pettifogulize (as I might have said then) with our professor over a handful of philological problems, though I roamed far abroad in the chivalric lais and romances, I was so frequently absent from our linguistic symposia that I had to be content with a rather disreputable grade.
ref: 1941, Herbert Ellsworth Cory, The Emancipation of a Freethinker, Milwaukee: Bruce, →OCLC, page 22:
text: But, oh my yes, women do often imagine that they love, and with all that faded and pettifogulizing ammunition of theirs—lipstick, rouge, pomade, and no end of swabbings from the stybian pot—pointedly set out to do so.
ref: 1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 553:
glosses: To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks.
disenshrouded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌdɪsɪnˈʃɹaʊdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disenshroud
disenshrouded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌdɪsɪnˈʃɹaʊdɪd/
Senses: examples: text: the disenshrouded statue
ref: 1875, Robert Browning, Aristophanes' Apology:
glosses: Freed from a shroud-like covering; unveiled.
eddishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eddish
eadish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eadishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eddish.
eadishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eadish
king of insects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The bee.
raw_tags: as is the convention for monarchic titles
as “King of Insects”
death star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death stars
Etymology: From death + star: star as in satellite; death as in the decimation of an industry. Influenced by the Death Star base in Star Wars media.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: a direct-to-home satellite television satellite (used by the cable television provider industry, to describe their competitors and the effect they would have in decimating the cable industry, prior to the introduction of digital satellite television and the three-foot dish revolution)
wikipedia: Star Wars
Synonyms: DBS
direct broadcast satellite
Related terms: DTH
beey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bēʹi
ipa: /ˈbiːi/
rhymes: -iːi
Forms: form: more beey
form: most beey
Etymology: From bee + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It was the sweetest April-time, / And beey-swarms humm’d thro’ the trees, / And Nature’s voice, in silver rhyme, / Received fresh cadence from the bees.
ref: 1871, P.J. Malone, “Goethe and Frederica”, in The Rural Carolinian, II, page 252:
text: Fell backwards into a soft, though rather waspy and beey, bed.
ref: 1887, Ptolemy Houghton, Hatred Is Akin to Love, page 35:
text: [Sugar honey] has a peculiarly sweet, spicy, “beey” flavor that is simply delicious.
ref: 1905, The Bee-Keepers’ Review, volume XVIII, page 58:
text: The buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey sound was back. In fact, it sounded even more buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey than it had before.
ref: 2008, Muncy Christian, The Very Bloody Marys, page 190:
glosses: Reminiscent of or containing bees.
fellars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fellar
tarbabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarbaby
fair crack of the whip
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Like you mean the non interference of the officials with the knockon from Soward and not called and the knockon from Chase which eventuated in a try to the Dragons not called, fair crack of the whip mate, see both sides of the coin, not the one you want to see.
ref: 2007 July 19, john smith, “Dumb Referee”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet):
text: ‘Fair crack of the whip, mate. We′ve had bacon and eggs for a week.’ He coughed noisily. ‘And you expect a man to jump out of bed for bacon and bloody eggs.’
‘What would sir prefer? Soufflé au Parmesan? Or a swift kick up the backside?’
ref: 2011, Peter McAra, The Vintner's Letters, unnumbered page:
text: “Now, straighten up!” The men shuffled into position.
“Come on, sir!” pleaded one of them.
“Fair crack of the whip mate”, Nugget said.
ref: 2011, Michael Lawriwsky, Hard Jacka: The Story of a Gallipoli Legend, unnumbered page:
glosses: Fair go, fair suck of the sauce bottle; used as an appeal for reasonableness.
fair crack of the whip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fair cracks of the whip
Senses: examples: text: We believe it is our duty to help these people, because we don't think they are getting a fair crack of the whip.
ref: 1927 March 7, “Mr. J. H. Thomas And Trade Unions”, in The Times, London, England, page 16:
text: 1993, William Trethowan, interviewed, in Greg Wilkinson (editor) Talking About Psychiatry, page 43,
I never thought the Department of Psychiatry had a fair crack of the whip during my time in Birmingham. I was promised facilities, a new unit for psychiatry, none of which came to pass.
text: Yet style for Stoppard is not, as he feels it was for Oscar Wilde, the means and the end: ‘I′m not a writer who doesn′t care what things mean ... but despite myself I am a kind of writer who doesn′t give a fair crack of the whip to that meaning’ (Delaney, p.99).
ref: 2001, Terry Hodgson, The Plays of Tom Stoppard: For Stage, Radio, TV and Film, page 86:
text: 2010, House of Lords, The British Film and Television Industries: Decline Or Opportunity? 1st Report of Session 2009-10, Volume II: Evidence, page 91,
Lord Inglewood: Then you intimated that you felt that your members were not getting a fair crack of the whip. Is that right?
Mr McVay: I think that previously we do not think that we were getting a fair crack of the whip. I think we have every chance now to exploit our content.
glosses: An equitable opportunity to achieve something; a fair go.
Synonyms: fair go
fair shake of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sav
aloha shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aloha shirts
form: Aloha shirt
Etymology: Former trademark, coined by Ellery Chun.
Senses: examples: text: At this election booth one of the officials wears the popular, brightly colored "aloha" shirt; the other a feather lei about his hat.
ref: 1935, Travel, volumes 76-77:
text: No Savile Row suit, no pure silk business ensemble, no costume of any sort, modern or ancient, can possibly beat the traditional aloha shirt for pure form-follows-function glory. Put on a real aloha shirt, with primary colors detonating all over the surface, and you couldn't hang on to a bummer of a mood if your sister was dating Saddam Hussein.
ref: 1996 September, Patrick Mott, “100% Cotton Prozac”, in Orange Coast, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 28:
text: Emanuel was proud of his image reflected in the glass—tropical blooms covered every inch of his short-sleeved aloha shirt in a busy design of Hawaiian hibiscus, poinsettia, and bougainvillea.
ref: 1999 December 14, Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, New York: The Free Press, →ISBN, page 83:
text: The design motifs on the early 1930s aloha shirts were generally Japanese or Chinese and applied to the greige goods by roller printing in Japan.
ref: 2006 Spring, Linda B. Arthur, “The Aloha Shirt and Ethnicity in Hawai'i”, in Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, volume 4, number 1, Berg Publishers, →DOI, pages 8–34:
synonyms: Hawaiian shirt
glosses: A collared shirt of a type originating in Hawaii, often brilliantly colored with floral or Polynesian patterns.
bring up the rear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings up the rear
form: bringing up the rear
form: brought up the rear
form: brought up the rear
Senses: examples: text: As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet;
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 1:
antonyms: lead the way
coordinate_terms: take up the running
glosses: To be last in a moving line of people, to walk or go behind others in a line.
perspirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)spɪɹəbəl/
/pə(ɹ)ˈspaɪɹəbəl/
Forms: form: more perspirable
form: most perspirable
Etymology: From perspire + -able. Compare French perspirable.
Senses: examples: text: electrics will not commonly attract, except they grow hot, or become perspirable
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being perspired.
examples: text: children likewise are not hairy , for that their skins are more perspirable
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Emitting perspiration; perspiring.
Derived terms: unperspirable
semivocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊkəl
Etymology: From semi- + vocal.
Senses: examples: text: semivocal sound
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a semivowel.
intensitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intensitive
form: most intensitive
Senses: examples: text: 'un-' is a prefix to nouns, adjectives, and secondary adverbs, and is generally purely negative, though sometimes intensitive in the sense of 'bad': […]
ref: 1891, Henry Sweet, A New English Grammar:
glosses: Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive.
inweave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inweaves
form: inweaving
form: inwove
form: inweaved
form: inwoven
form: inweaved
form: enweave
Etymology: From in- + weave.
Senses: examples: text: And thou, faire Phoebus, in thy colours bright
Wast there enwouen […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 570:
text: [The enchanted standard] contained the figure of a raven, which had been inwove by the three sisters of Hinguar and Hubba with many magical incantations […]
ref: 1762, David Hume, chapter 2, in The History of England: from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Accession of Henry VII, London: A. Millar, page 57:
text: Branches of sea-willow radiant with spring, and supple sprays of tamarisk recovering from the winter, were lightly inwoven and arched together, with the soft compliance of reed and rush from the marsh close by, and the stout assistance of hazel rods from the westward cliff.
ref: 1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven:
text: For indeed in the middle the fashion thereof was red, but at the ends it was all purple, and on each margin many separate devices had been skilfully inwoven.
ref: 1912, Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica:
text: No sooner had the mournful song run its course than the minister took to the altar and delivered a sermon that in my state gave little comfort. […] His voice enweaved itself through the somber vapors left by the dirge.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 156:
glosses: To weave in or together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving; to interlace.
musnud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musnuds
form: masnad
form: musnad
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi मसनद (masnad).
Senses: glosses: A raised seat with embroidery and pillows for the back and elbow. This forms the seat of honor, as in the zenana, where it is the seat of the lady of the house, and privileged visitors are invited to share it as a mark of respect and favor. It is also the ceremonial seat or throne of a rajah.
summity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summities
Etymology: From summ + -ity, from Latin summitas, from summus (“highest”). Compare French sommité. See sum.
Senses: glosses: The height or top of anything.
glosses: The utmost degree; perfection.
Synonyms: summit
aloha shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aloha shirt
sounding rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sounding rods
Senses: synonyms: sounding lead
glosses: A rod or piece of iron let down in a groove by a pump, used to ascertain the depth of water in a ship's hold.
glosses: A probe used in urethral sounding.
glosses: A sex toy consisting of a metal or plastic rod, generally with a ball at the end, which is inserted into the urethra.
abovestairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From above + stairs.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of above stairs.
abovestairs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From above + stairs.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of above stairs.
abovestairs
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From above + stairs.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of above stairs.
high up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high up
form: most high up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high-up.
high up
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
glosses: In a high or elevated position.
monticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monticles
form: monticule
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French monticule.
Senses: glosses: A small mountain, or hillock.
procerity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin proceritas.
Senses: examples: text: […] when he met with a tall woman he immediately commanded one of his Titanian retinue to marry her that they might propagate procerity.
ref: 1756, Samuel Johnson, Memoires of Frederick III, &c.:
glosses: tallness, height
taenioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more taenioid
form: most taenioid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “band, ribbon”) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a ribbon; ribbonlike.
taeniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “band, ribbon”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a ribbon; ribbonlike.
filamentiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From filament + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: filiferous
spindleshanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spindleshanks
form: spindle-shanks
Etymology: From spindle + shanks.
Senses: examples: text: “If I chose,” said she, “to remain a spinster, is that any reason why every bespectacled spindleshanks sitting under an outrageous sign should remark upon it?” “Spindleshanks?” said I. “Am I to understand that you refer to me as Spindleshanks?" "You are," she said, shortly. “I may not,” said I, with dignity, “have the lower extremities of a Grecian athlete in marble, but I assure you that, such as they are, my limbs are ample for my proportions.
ref: 1918, Clarence Budington Kelland, Harper's Magazine - Volume 136:
glosses: A thin, lanky person with long legs.
Related terms: spindle-shanked
macilency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: leanness
Related terms: macilent
crassitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crassitudes
Etymology: From Middle English crassitude, from Latin crassitūdō.
Senses: glosses: thickness, coarseness.
glosses: The state or quality of being crass.
decurtation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decurtations
Senses: glosses: The act of cutting short.
Related terms: decurtate
long as one's arm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very long.
yardarm to yardarm
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: yardarm and yardarm
Senses: glosses: Very close to each other.
over the hills and far away
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Far away; not near.
Related terms: over the hill
bedwarf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedwarfs
form: bedwarfing
form: bedwarfed
form: bedwarfed
Etymology: From be- + dwarf.
Senses: examples: text: Tis shrinking, not close weaving, that hath thus In mind and body both bedwarfed us.
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:
glosses: To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.
pantascopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Viewing all; taking a view of the whole.
Related terms: pantascope
rockweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockweeds
Etymology: From rock + weed.
Senses: hypernyms: brown alga
glosses: Ascophyllum nodosum, a seaweed also known as knotted wrack.
hypernyms: brown alga
glosses: Fucus vesiculosus, a similar seaweed also known as bladderwrack.
rockweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockweed
covinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more covinous
form: most covinous
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.
Derived terms: covinously
Related terms: covin
homocercy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The possession of a homocercal (symmetric) tail (by a fish).
mistrist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistrists
form: mistristing
form: mistristed
form: mistristed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mistrust.
desophisticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desophisticates
form: desophisticating
form: desophisticated
form: desophisticated
Etymology: From de- + sophisticate.
Senses: examples: text: [he] in sound, sterling, desophisticating sense was far superior to him
ref: 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:
glosses: To clear from sophism or error.
desophisticated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desophisticate
desophisticates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desophisticate
desophisticating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desophisticate
cogman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cogmen
Senses: glosses: A dealer in cogware, or coarse cloth.
cogmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cogman
naturize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈneɪt͡ʃəɹaɪz/
Forms: form: naturizes
form: naturizing
form: naturized
form: naturized
Etymology: From nature + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis the secret
Of nature, naturized 'gainst all infections,
Cures all diseases, coming of all causes
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To endow with nature; to make rural or countryside-like
naturized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of naturize
naturizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of naturize
naturizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of naturize
aerometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The science of measuring the air, including air pressure, density, quality, direction and condensation; pneumatics.
anisotropous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ænaɪˈsɒtɹəpəs/
Forms: form: more anisotropous
form: most anisotropous
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of anisotropic.
prorector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prorectors
form: pro-rector
Etymology: From pro- + rector.
Senses: glosses: An officer who presides over the academic senate of a university in certain countries, especially Germany.
glosses: A substitute or assistant rector.
Related terms: prorectorate
prorectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prorector
interwreathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interwreathes
form: interwreathing
form: interwreathed
form: interwreathed
Etymology: From inter- + wreathe.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1657 Richard Lovelace, to my dear friend Mr. E.R
Say, happy youth, crown'd with a heav'nly ray
Of the first flame , and interwreathed bay
text: Gentle undulations of soil, interwreathed with fantastic crystallic streams, banked by flowery slopes, and backed by a forest vegetation [...]
ref: 1843, Edgar Allen Poe, Morning on the Wissahiccon:
glosses: To weave into a wreath; to intertwine.
interwreathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interwreathe
interwreathes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interwreathe
interwreathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interwreathe
solemnizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solemnizers
Etymology: From solemnize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who solemnizes.
solemnizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solemnizer
swordplayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swordplayers
Etymology: From Middle English swerdplaer.
Senses: examples: text: Have they not Sword-players, and ev'ry ſort / Of Gymnic Artiſts, Wreſtlers, Riders, Runners […]?
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 79:
glosses: One who takes part in swordplay; a fencer or gladiator.
swordplayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordplayer
stonehatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonehatches
Senses: glosses: The ringed plover.
stonehatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonehatch
Mahometry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mahomet + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Islam
aerenchymas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerenchyma
aerenchymae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerenchyma
microprotrusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microprotrusions
Etymology: From micro- + protrusion.
Senses: glosses: A microscopically small protrusion.
microprotrusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microprotrusion
aerialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeriality
aeriality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerialities
Etymology: From aerial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The very excess of the extravagance, in fact, by suggesting to the reader continually the mere aeriality of the entire speculation, furnishes the surest means of disenchanting him from the horror which might else gather upon his feelings.
ref: 1827, Thomas De Quincey, On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts:
glosses: The state of being aerial or airy; insubstantiality.
indevirginate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indevirginate
form: most indevirginate
Etymology: From in- + devirginate.
Senses: examples: text: Pallas, the Seed of Ægis-bearing Jove,
Who still lives indevirginate, her eyes
Being blue, and sparkling like the freezing skies.
ref: c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624:
glosses: virgin; virginal.
trusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹuːʒən/
Etymology: From Latin trudere, trusum (“to thrust, shove”). Compare French trusion. See intrusion, extrusion.
Senses: examples: text: in the operations of drawing, sucking, pumping, &c. which is really Pulsion and Trusion
ref: 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
glosses: The act of pushing or thrusting.
entrochite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrochites
Etymology: From en- + trochite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.
Derived terms: entrochal
entrochites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entrochite
trochoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trochoblast
gargyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gargyles
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of gargoyle.
gargyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gargyle
circulatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circulatory
zigurat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zigurats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ziggurat.
zigurats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zigurat
clothback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothbacks
Etymology: From cloth + back.
Senses: glosses: A book bound in cloth.
clothbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothback
tincs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinc
frex
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of for example.
Synonyms: e.g.
eg
ex.
preoblongata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + oblongata.
Senses: examples: text: The preoblongata is reinforced by the pons. Part of the epicale is a dorso-ventral extension into the massive cerebellum
ref: 1893, Burt Green Wilder, Physiology Practicums:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anterior part of the medulla oblongata.
gambadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gambado
amianthoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amianthoid
form: most amianthoid
Etymology: From amianthus + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling amianthus.
conceptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conceptible
form: most conceptible
Etymology: See conceive.
Senses: examples: text: it is not conceptible that in an infinite , or indeed in a very long period of Revolutions of Mankind , those or any things of this kind discoverable would have been of so late a puisne a discovery
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being conceived; conceivable.
Derived terms: inconceptible
stichometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stichometry + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.
purcelane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purcelanes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of purslane.
purcelanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purcelane
Erastianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Erastian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principles of the Erastians.
sea jellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea jelly
sea jelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea jellies
Senses: glosses: A jellyfish.
sarcodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sarcode + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to sarcode.
bungarum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bungarums
Etymology: From the native name.
Senses: glosses: A krait (venomous snake of the genus Bungarus)
bungarums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bungarum
preadministration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preadministrations
Etymology: From pre- + administration.
Senses: examples: text: baptism , as it was instituted by Christ after the preadministration of St. John[…]
ref: 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
glosses: Previous administration.
preadministrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preadministration
triternate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + ternate.
Senses: examples: text: triternate leaves on columbines
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Three times ternate; applied to a leaf dividedvintovthree stalks, each with three leaflets that divide into three lobes
blastemal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blastemal
form: most blastemal
Etymology: blastema + -al
Senses: examples: text: blastemal cell
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: blastematic
blastemic
blastematous
glosses: Relating to the blastema.
colliflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colliflowers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cauliflower.
colliflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colliflower
theogonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of theogony.
cramponee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cramponné
form: cramponnée
form: cramponé
form: cramponée
Etymology: From French cramponné. See crampoon.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having a cramp or square piece at the end; said of a cross.
geogonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geogony
geogony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geogonies
Etymology: From geo- + -gony.
Senses: examples: text: Some writers divide Geology into two branches; 1. Geognosy, or Positive Geology, which embraces only the known facts of the science. 2. Geogony, or Speculative Geology, which attempts to point out the causes of those facts, and the inferences that result from them.
ref: 1847, Edward Hitchcock, Elementary Geology:
glosses: The branch of science dealing with the formation of the Earth.
examples: text: The whole system of modern geology is a reproduction of Brahminical geogonies and Maha Pralayas, or great floods.
ref: 1875, John Muehleisen Arnold, Genesis and Science; Or The First Leaves of the Bible:
glosses: A particular account of the formation of the Earth.
Derived terms: geogonic
impest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impests
form: impesting
form: impested
form: impested
Etymology: From im- + pest.
Senses: glosses: To afflict with pestilence, in most cases the bubonic plague.
glosses: To plague
impested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impest
impesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impest
impests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impest
overlick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overlicks
form: overlicking
form: overlicked
form: overlicked
Etymology: From over- + lick.
Senses: glosses: To lick over.
examples: an overlicked paw
glosses: To lick too much or too often.
overlicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overlick
overlicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overlick
overlicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overlick
overbrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbɹaʊ/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)bɹaʊ/
Forms: form: overbrows
form: overbrowing
form: overbrowed
form: overbrowed
Etymology: From over- + brow.
Senses: examples: text: The prints of the Matlock cliffs on the Derwent, which every body has seen, will give the stranger some idea of the rocks which overbrow the partially wooded ravines, and glens down which the streams tributary to the Dove descend.
ref: 1836, A. K. Killmister, The Oakleigh Shooting Code, page vii:
text: With solemn feet I tread the hill, That overbrows the lonely vale
ref: 1852, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Woods in Winter”, in The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
text: 18000, William Wordsworth, Michael
Did with a huge projection overbrow
Large space beneath.
glosses: To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
overbrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbɹaʊ/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)bɹaʊ/
Forms: form: overbrows
Etymology: From over- + brow.
Senses: examples: text: If the man thall have a Mole on the overbrow, then let fuch a perfon refrayne from marriage altogether , or all his life time; for that such a person (if he marry) shall have five wives in his lifetime.
ref: 1649, Godfridus, The Knowledge of Things Unknown, page 155:
text: I could not say that he didn't give the matter consideration, but while I noticed once in a while, by the lifting of an eyebrow or a slight corrugation of the overbrow, that the gubernatorial mind seemed to have some slight premonitory symptom of the induction of a thought, it passed off without apparent fruition.
ref: 1914, Tennessee Bar Association, Proceedings of the Annual Session of the Bar Association of Tennessee, page 96:
text: As I translated, however, Valeo's face contorted, his overbrow furrowing as he picked at his food.
ref: 2016, Anne Boles Levy, The Well of Prayers:
glosses: The area immediately above the eyebrow and below the forehead.
examples: text: For reasons of safety it was decided to drill off the overbrow and to blast it at one time to break 30,000 tons.
ref: 1948, The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin, page 10:
glosses: A projecting shelf of rock on the face of a cliff.
overbrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbrow
overbrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbrow
overbrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbrow
paleous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪliəs/
/ˈpæliəs/
Forms: form: more paleous
form: most paleous
Etymology: From Latin palea (“chaff”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: this attraction have we tried in straws and paleous bodies
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: paleaceous
glosses: chaffy; like chaff
overcloy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcloys
form: overcloying
form: overcloyed
form: overcloyed
Etymology: From over- + cloy.
Senses: examples: text: A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, / A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants, / Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth / To desperate ventures and assured destruction.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: He neuer pleaſd his fathers eyes till now, / Nor fild my hart with ouer cloying ioyes.
ref: c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I:
glosses: To fill beyond satiety.
overcloyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcloy
overcloying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcloy
overcloys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcloy
rounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rounces
Etymology: Compare French ronce (“bramble, brier, thorn”), ranche (“a round, step, rack”), or English round.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.
rounce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rounces
form: rouncing
form: rounced
form: rounced
Etymology: Compare French ronce (“bramble, brier, thorn”), ranche (“a round, step, rack”), or English round.
Senses: glosses: To restore damaged coffee by stirring it in a tub with boiling water and then drying it.
rounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rams (“card game”).
Related terms: rounce robble hobble
rounces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rounce
rounces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rounce
feudataries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feudatary
feudatary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of feudatory.
feudatary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feudataries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feudatory.
ectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛktəl/
Forms: form: more ectal
form: most ectal
Etymology: From ecto- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Note on the ectal ("apparent”) origin of the N. trigeminus in the cat
ref: 1883, Burt Green Wilder, On the Brain of a Cat Lacking the Callosum, Preliminary Notics:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer.
Derived terms: ectally
agrope
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Etymology: From a- + grope.
Senses: examples: text: Life and life and life! agrope in
The dusk of death, warm hands, stretched out
For swords, proved more life still to hope in.
ref: 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italy and the World:
text: And he saw other things too in her manner: saw how it had adjusted itself to the hidden intricacies of a situation in which, even after Mrs. Fisher's elucidating flashes, he still felt himself agrope.
ref: 1905, Edith Wharton, House of Mirth:
glosses: In the act of groping.