cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pinnatilobate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See pinnate and lobate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: pinnatilobed
glosses: Having lobes arranged in a pinnate manner.
merestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merestones
Etymology: From Middle English merestone, merestane, from Old English mǣrstān (“boundary-stone”), equivalent to mere (“boundary”) + stone.
Senses: examples: text: The mislayer of a merestone is to blame
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: Past the mere-stones that marked their turf they strode, with grass stems between their teeth and dandelion seed heads in their hair […].
ref: 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 30:
glosses: A stone designating a limit or boundary; a boundary stone.
merestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merestone
vakeel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vakeels
form: vakil
Etymology: From Urdu وکیل (vakīl) or Hindi वकील (vakīl), from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl, “agent”).
Senses: glosses: An attorney, lawyer or agent.
glosses: An ambassador.
Related terms: wakil
vakeels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vakeel
manable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manable
form: most manable
Etymology: From man + -able?
Senses: examples: text: A pile on ye, won't you! had you not been so manable, here are some would have saved you that labour.
ref: 1607, Thomas Middleton, The Familie of Love:
glosses: marriageable; weddable
raw_tags: of a woman
impoison
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impoisons
form: impoisoning
form: impoisoned
form: impoisoned
Etymology: From Middle English impoisounen, empoisounen, from Old French empoisoner, equivalent to im- + poison.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of empoison.
Derived terms: impoisoner
impoisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impoison
impoisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impoison
impoisons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impoison
trepidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trepidity
trepidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trepidities
Etymology: From trepid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: trepidation
mudarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mudar + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A brown amorphous bitter substance having a strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar.
bogtrotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bogtrotters
Etymology: From bog + trotter.
Senses: examples: text: “And — what ! indeed, must we leave talking about poor Mr. Philpot , and planning how to get him off, to attend to this Bogtrotter? ”
ref: 1830, Edward Lane, The Fugitives:
glosses: One who lives in boggy countryside; (derogatory) one of the lowest class of Irish.
glosses: Someone who participates in bogtrotting.
bogtrotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bogtrotter
misseem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈsiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: misseems
form: misseeming
form: misseemed
form: misseemed
Etymology: From mis- + seem.
Senses: examples: text: Ne certes, daughter, that same warlike wize, / I weene, would you misseeme; for ye beene tall, / And large of limbe t'atchieve an hard emprize [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To be unbecoming to; not to suit.
misseemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misseem
misseems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misseem
disownment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disownments
Etymology: From disown + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of disowning.
disownments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disownment
rabbitproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rabbitproof
form: most rabbitproof
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rabbit-proof.
escalloped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of escaloped.
lockage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockages
Etymology: From lock + -age.
Senses: glosses: Materials for locks in a canal.
examples: text: This line had been constructed as provided for in the Act of incorporation of May 7, 1794, to avoid the use of lockage on the branch canals authorised as feeders to the main waterway.
ref: 1952 April, C. R. Clinker and Gordon Biddle, “Swannington and Ticknall Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:
glosses: The works forming a canal lock or locks.
glosses: A toll or fee paid for transporting a vessel through the locks of a canal.
examples: 1829, De Witt Clinton, a letter
The entire lockage will be about fifty feet.
synonyms: lift
canal lift
glosses: The total height difference (elevation and descent) made by the locks of a canal.
glosses: The use or transit of a canal lock.
examples: text: But first, a bunch of songs, some down-home cracker-barrel advice, a few gallons of lemonade, pratfalls and cornball humour and her first onscreen kiss — which begins barely half in camera range and moves out of sight before real lip lockage commences.
ref: 2009 April 10, Linda Barnard, “Hannah Montana: The Movie: Down-home girl”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A situation where things lock together.
lockages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockage
streaminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From streamy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I give the case of a star-group which is certainly not the most remarkable for streaminess, but chances to be more convenient for the purposes of illustration than most others
ref: 1874, Richard A. Proctor, The Universe and the Coming Transits:
glosses: The quality or state of being streamy.
marmalet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marmalets
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of marmalade.
marmalets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marmalet
haematometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haematometers
form: hematometer
Etymology: From haemato- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A hemadynamometer.
glosses: An instrument for determining the number of blood corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.
haematometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haematometer
wornil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wornils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wormil.
wornils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wornil
obtend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒbˈtɛnd/
ipa: /əbˈtɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: obtends
form: obtending
form: obtended
form: obtended
Etymology: From Latin obtendere, obtentum (“to stretch or place before or against”), from ob (see ob-) + tendere (“to stretch”).
Senses: examples: text: ’Twas giv’n to you, your darling son to shroud,
To draw the dastard from the fighting crowd,
And, for a man, obtend an empty cloud.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To oppose; to hold out in opposition.
glosses: To offer as the reason for something; to pretend.
Related terms: obtension
obtended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obtend
obtending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obtend
obtends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obtend
routinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more routinary
form: most routinary
Etymology: From routine + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: routinary visitation
text: routinary jobs
text: routinary activities
text: [H]e [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence, which is quite separate from his scientific.
ref: 1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Works and Days”, in Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, pages 163–164:
glosses: Involving, or pertaining to, routine; customary.
volow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: volows
form: volowing
form: volowed
form: volowed
Etymology: From Middle English volewen, from Latin volō (“I will”), the answer in the baptismal service.
Senses: examples: text: The child was well volowed (ſaye they) yee and oure vicare is as fayre a volower as ever a pꝛeſt within this twenty myles.
ref: 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “Anoylynge”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio cvij, verso:
glosses: To baptize.
volowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of volow
volowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of volow
volows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of volow
molybdous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From molybdenum + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: molybdous acid
text: molybdous dioxide
text: molybdous salt
text: molybdous sulphide
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing molybdenum
disespoused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disespouse
disespouses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disespouse
disespousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disespouse
cobishop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobishops
Etymology: From co- + bishop.
Senses: examples: text: Valerius[…]made use of Austin as a Co-Bishop
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
glosses: A joint or coadjutant bishop.
cobishops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobishop
circumclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜː(ɹ)kəmˈkluːʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: circumclusions
Etymology: From Latin circumcludere, circumclusum (“to enclose”).
Senses: glosses: The act of enclosing on all sides.
coordinate_terms: retroclusion
torsoclusion
glosses: An acupressure technique in which the pin is passed beneath the vessel, the wire loop placed over its point, and the ends brought over the artery and made fast.
circumclusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumclusion
studderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of studdery
studdery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstʌdəɹi/
Forms: form: studderies
Etymology: From stud + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares.
examples: text: King Henry the Eighth erected a noble studdery.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: A place for keeping a stud of this kind.
nonhigh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + high.
Senses: examples: a nonhigh rounded vowel
glosses: Not high.
sley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sleɪ/
Forms: form: sleys
Etymology: From Middle English slay, from Old English slege.
Senses: glosses: Reed (of a loom).
glosses: A guideway in a knitting machine.
examples: text: An extreme draft is not desirable in the spinning of filling yarns either on a frame or mule, although yarn from the latter machines is usually spun from coarser roving than would be possible on a filling frame, and it would seem preferable to spin same from roving with a medium draft, or, from double roving, and particularly so for fine sheetings, cambrics and other styles of cloth, that require finer filling than the warp and which have a higher count or pick, than sley.
ref: 1903 December, “The Adjustment of Cotton Preparing and Spinning Machinery”, in Textile World, volume 26, number 3, page 125:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
synonyms: word: sett
glosses: The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
sley
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /sleɪ/
Forms: form: sleys
form: sleying
form: sleyed
form: sleyed
form: slay
Etymology: From Middle English slay, from Old English slege.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed.
Related terms: sleave
sleid
milky stork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milky storks
Senses: glosses: Mycteria cinerea, a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.
milky storks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milky stork
nonlow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + low.
Senses: examples: Welmers, William Everett (1973), African Language Structures, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 82: “After a low tone at any point in a phrase, there are only two possibilities: the next syllable may have the same pitch and thus also have low tone, or it may have a nonlow pitch[…]”
glosses: Not low.
Barten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bartens
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch and North German Barten.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch or German.
chromatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹəˈmætɪks/
ipa: /kɹəʊ-/
ipa: /kɹoʊˈmætɪks/
ipa: [-ɾɪks]
rhymes: -ætɪks
Etymology: From chromatic + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Chromatic harmonies or notes.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The science of colours; the branch of optics that deals with the properties of colours.
Related terms: chromatist
deodate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deodates
Etymology: From Latin Deo (“to God”) (from Deus (“God”)) + datum (“thing given”).
Senses: examples: text: Long it were to reckon up particularly what God was owner of under the Law: for of this sort was all which they spent in legal sacrifices; of this sort their usual oblations and offerings; of this sort tithes and firstfruits; […] of this sort whatsoever their Corban contained, wherein that blessed widow's deodate was laid up.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: A gift or offering to, or from, God.
deodates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deodate
chirosophist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chirosophists
Etymology: From chirosophy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A palmist.
Related terms: chirosophy
chirosophists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirosophist
zone of proximal development
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zones of proximal development
Etymology: Calque of Russian зо́на ближа́йшего разви́тия (zóna bližájševo razvítija), coined by Soviet psychologist and social constructivist Lev Vygotsky.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The space between what a learner is capable of doing unsupported and what the learner cannot do even with support.
glour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glours
form: glouring
form: gloured
form: gloured
Etymology: Regarding the spelling glour/glower, compare lour/lower.
Senses: examples: text: Here the Neapolitan appeared at the door, glouring at us both. Velvet-Hood was back in her place in an instant. Said he, in his snarling way, his black eyes shooting out sparkles. "What is this hole and corner work? These confidences when I am gone—speak?"
ref: 1858 May 1, [Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald], “By Night Express”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal, volume XVII, number 423, London: Published at the office, 16, Wellington Street North, Strand; printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, London, →OCLC, page 479:
glosses: Alternative spelling of glower.
glours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glour
glouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glour
gloured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glour
chylified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chylify
chylifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chylify
chylify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪlɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: chylifies
form: chylifying
form: chylified
form: chylified
Etymology: From chyle + -ify.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To make chyle of.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To be converted into chyle.
chylifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chylify
chyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chyle
eremacausis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛɹɪməˈkɔːzɪs/
Etymology: From New Latin ēremacausis, from Ancient Greek ἠρέμα (ēréma, “quietly”) + καῦσις (kaûsis, “burning”).
Senses: glosses: A gradual decay through slow combustion or oxidation, like that of old trees or dead animals.
chattel house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chattel houses
Senses: glosses: A small moveable wooden house occupied by working-class people.
wobblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wobblingly
form: most wobblingly
Etymology: From wobbling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a wobbling motion.
wobblily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wobblily
form: most wobblily
Etymology: From wobbly + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a wobbly manner.
gnathite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnathites
Etymology: From gnatho- + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda.
Synonyms: mandible
maxilla
maxilliped
Derived terms: scaphognathite
gnathites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnathite
impallid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impallids
form: impalliding
form: impallided
form: impallided
Etymology: From im- + pallid.
Senses: examples: text: Tis the green ſickneſs of the ſoul , that feeding upon coals and puling rubbiſh , impallids all the body to an Hectique leanneſs
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: To make pallid; to blanch.
impallided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impallid
impalliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impallid
impallids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impallid
deafmutism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deafmutisms
form: deaf-mutism
Senses: synonyms: surdimutism
glosses: The condition of being a deaf-mute.
deafmutisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deafmutism
probationship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probationships
Etymology: From probation + -ship.
Senses: glosses: A state of probation.
probationships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probationship
matachin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matachins
form: matachines
form: matachina
form: matachine
Etymology: From Spanish matachín.
Senses: glosses: A carnivalesque dance with swords and bucklers, traditionally performed in Spain by costumed troupes.
glosses: A dancer who performs this dance.
Related terms: matachini
matachins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matachin
Fingalian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Fingallian.
divinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdɪvɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: divinizations
form: divinisation
Etymology: From divine + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: [W]here would they be now if it had not been for Israel, and the stern check which Israel put upon the glorification and divinisation of this natural bent of mankind, this attractive aspect of the not ourselves?
ref: 1873, Matthew Arnold, “Religion Given”, in Literature & Dogma: An Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. […], →OCLC, section 3, page 37:
text: And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace […] the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like[.]
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 93:
glosses: The act or process of making divine.
divinizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divinization
anchylotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: anchylotic joint
glosses: Alternative spelling of ankylotic (of or pertaining to ankylosis).
ankylotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anchylotic
Etymology: From ankylosis + -ic or ankyl- + -otic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ankylosis.
cymogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cymogenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; used for producing low temperatures.
philomathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From philo- + -mathy.
Senses: glosses: The love of learning or literature.
Related terms: philomath
philomathic
astrolithology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + lithology.
Senses: glosses: The science of aerolites.
fatshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatshits
Etymology: From fat + shit.
Senses: examples: text: At times Herma answered to the name of fatshit, pukeface, and lardass.
ref: 1975, Robert Klane, Fire sale, link:
text: "Hey, fatshit," Tommy said.
ref: 1988, Dick Dunham, Fat Guys Don't Wear Stripes, link:
text: Mr. Fatshit is here, and we're living with him every day!
ref: 2007, Charles E. Merkel, II, The Girl in the Picture, link:
text: He came home all happy and now you've depressed the hell out of him with your fascists and fatshits and God knows what else! Jasus, what do you think yer on!”
ref: 2011, Bill Watkins, A Celtic Childhood, page 214:
glosses: a contemptible fat person
perlitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perlitic
form: most perlitic
Etymology: From perlite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: the perlitic structure of certain rocks
text: perlitic rock
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to or resembling perlite.
lupinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lupinines
Etymology: From lupin + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bitter alkaloid present in Lupinus.
lupinines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lupinine
pearlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearlin
glosses: Alternative form of pearlings.
fatshits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatshit
narcotical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more narcotical
form: most narcotical
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of narcotic.
narcotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more narcotically
form: most narcotically
Etymology: From narcotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a narcotic manner.
glosses: By means of narcotics
browless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more browless
form: most browless
Etymology: From brow + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a brow or eyebrows.
examples: text: And yet notwithstanding all this, ſo browless was this Herétique , that he was not aſham'd to tell the World , That all he preached was ſent him immediately from Heaven.
ref: 1679, Lancelot Addison, The Life and Death of Mahumed:
glosses: Without shame.
pukeface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pukefaces
Etymology: From puke + face.
Senses: examples: text: Listen, pukeface — DRIVER. Yes? (Pause.) CONTROLLER. 135? 135? Where are you? DRIVER. Don't have anything to do with 135.
ref: 1984, Harold Pinter, Other places: four plays: Volume 1948, Part 2, page 29:
text: "It's your fault, pukeface!"
ref: 1999, Ineke Holtwijk, Wanda Boeke, Asphalt angels, link:
text: What he saw was not Peck Wilson but some soft scared pukeface whose mind couldn't stop running up against the bared teeth of the moment.
ref: 2007, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Talk Talk, page 284:
glosses: A contemptible, undesirable, or ugly person.
pukefaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pukeface
scannability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scanability
Etymology: From scan + -ability.
Senses: examples: the scannability of a bar code
glosses: The quality or degree of being scannable.
glosses: The quality or degree of being scannable.
The ease with which a particular body of text can be read and understood by the target reader, especially at scanning or skimming speed; readability, especially regarding scanning.
synonyms: skimmability
lutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lutations
Etymology: From Latin lutare, lutatum (“to bedaub with mud”), from lutum (“mud”). Compare French lutation.
Senses: glosses: The act or method of luting vessels, of cementing vessels using lute (the material)
lutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lutation
eyeservant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyeservants
Etymology: From eye + servant.
Senses: synonyms: eye-server
glosses: A servant who can only be relied upon to perform duties while watched.
eyeservants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyeservant
civic crown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civic crowns
Etymology: Calque of Latin corōna cīvica, the adjective being from cīves (“citizen”).
Senses: synonyms: oak wreath
glosses: A crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.
civic crowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civic crown
lemures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛmjəriːz/
Etymology: From Latin lemurēs. See lemur.
Senses: examples: text: The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.
ref: 1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:
text: So still lay the figure, and so dim was its outline, that any other than Arbaces might have felt a superstitious fear, lest he beheld one of those grim lemures, who, above all other spots, haunted the threshold of the homes they formerly possessed.
ref: 1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VII, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC, book IV, page 13:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: Lares
glosses: The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant.
Related terms: lemur
Lemuria
pearlitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pearlitic
form: most pearlitic
Etymology: From pearlite + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to or resembling pearlite.
Derived terms: nonpearlitic
gastromalacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gastro- + malacia (“abnormal softness of the organs”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A softening of the coatings of the stomach, usually after death.
bisectrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisectrixes
form: bisectrices
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.
bisectrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisectrix
perigean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From perigee + -an?
Senses: examples: text: The perigean tides are the spring tides that occur soon after the Moon passes its perigee.
text: perigean high water
text: perigean low water
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: perigeal
glosses: Pertaining to the perigee.
tenocyclidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From th(i)en(yl) + -o- + cycl(ohexyl) + -clidine (“muscarinic receptor agonist/antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A dissociative anaesthetic drug with stimulant and hallucinogenic effects, similar to phencyclidine but more potent.
MGFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MGF
affirmative actions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affirmative action
HDI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Human Development Index, a United Nations measure of well-being in a country.
astrand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɹænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Etymology: From a- + strand.
Senses: examples: text: […] I had news by the Chirurgeon, how that my Ships-company that betook themselvs to flight with the Shallop were run astrand on the Scemkal or Dagestan Coast, a Countrey butting out against the Caspian Sea.
ref: 1671, “The Copy of a Narrativ, Sent from Capt. D. Butler,”, in John Morrison, transl., The Perillous and Most Unhappy Voyages of John Struys, London: Samuel Smith, published 1683, page 373:
text: As the tall ship, whose lofty prore
Shall never stem the billows more,
Deserted by her gallant band,
Amid the breakers lies astrand,—
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto VI. The Guard-room.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XIII, page 260:
text: There were some boats and barges astrand in the mud,
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 47, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 482:
text: […] he slipped and lay face down in the running stream and was hauled astrand.
ref: 1932, Robinson Jeffers, “Margrave”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, published 1938, page 374:
synonyms: aground
glosses: Resting on the bed of a body of water rather than floating; on or onto a shore or beach. (of a watercraft)
unprobably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unprobably
form: most unprobably
Etymology: From un- + Latin probabilis (“approvable”), from probare (“to approve”). Compare probable.
Senses: glosses: improbably
bed covers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bed cover
bed-covers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bed-cover
triamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triamides
Etymology: From tri- + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amide containing three amido groups.
triamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triamide
electrotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to electrotherapy or electrotherapeutics.
electrotherapeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + therapeutics.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: the use of electricity in therapeutics
recourseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recourse + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Where Thetis handmaids still in that recoursefull deepe
With those rough Gods of Sea, continuall revells keepe;
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 1 p. 7:
glosses: Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately.
glosses: resourceful
coehorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coehorns
Etymology: From the name of its inventor, Baron Coehorn.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two people.
coehorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coehorn
strabism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strabisms
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: strabismus
antiquarianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antiquarianizes
form: antiquarianizing
form: antiquarianized
form: antiquarianized
form: antiquarianise
Etymology: From antiquarian + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: She talks to old women, and tracks rare flowers, and sketches and photographs and geologizes and antiquarianizes and gets burnt till she won't be fit to wear a low dress for a month, and looks uncommonly well on it all the time.
ref: 1901, Mary H. Debenham, Una's friends: their holiday in fairyland:
glosses: To act the part of an antiquary.
antiquarianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antiquarianize
antiquarianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antiquarianize
antiquarianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antiquarianize
corneo-calcareous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹi.əs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: calcareocorneous (horny and calcareous)
efferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛfəɹəs/
Forms: form: more efferous
form: most efferous
Etymology: From Latin efferus (“savage”), from ex (“intensifier”) + ferus (“wild”).
Senses: examples: text: From the teeth of that efferous beast, from the tusk of the wild boar, – O Thou, that art the root and generation of David, preserve our root and all his generation.
ref: 1614, John King, Vitis Palatina:
glosses: wild like a beast; fierce or ferocious
Related terms: efferate
flibbergib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflɪbə(ɹ)d͡ʒɪb/
Forms: form: flibbergibs
Senses: examples: text: [T]hese flatterers, and flibbergibbes another day ſhall come and clawe you by the back […]
ref: 1549 March 25 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Second Sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer, which He Preached before King Edward [VI].”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 37, recto:
glosses: A sycophant.
Related terms: flibbertigibbet
flibbergibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flibbergib
interpale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interpales
form: interpaling
form: interpaled
form: interpaled
Etymology: From inter- + pale.
Senses: glosses: To place pales between or among; to separate with pales.
examples: text: He ware upon his head a diademe of purple interpaled with white, like as Darius was accustomed.
ref: 1553, John Brende, Historie of Quintus Curcius:
glosses: To interweave or interlace.
interpaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interpale
interpales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interpale
interpaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interpale
polemoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polemoscopes
Etymology: From Greek Monster Polemos (the embodiment of war) + -scope. Compare French polémoscope.
Senses: glosses: opera glasses or field glasses with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects that do not lie directly in front.
wikipedia: Polemos
polemoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polemoscope
engrailment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engrailments
Etymology: From engrail + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The ring of dots around the edge of a coin or medal, etc.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary.
engrailments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engrailment
Whiteboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Whiteboy
white boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white boy
appanagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appanagists
Etymology: French apanagiste.
Senses: glosses: A prince to whom an apanage has been granted.
appanagists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appanagist
chemoenzymatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chemoenzymatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By chemoenzymatic means.
whiteboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiteboys
form: white boy
Etymology: From white + boy.
Senses: examples: text: The words of the whiteboy crept into his mind as he got ready to crawl out of bed—and he once again realized Cassandra hardly ever showered.
ref: 2006, Eminemsrevenge, Jew Girl, page 164:
text: whiteboy still more than anything else this betrays me.
ref: 2011, Kevin Coval, Patricia Smith, L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems, link:
text: “Shut up, whiteboy. How does it feel to hit a girl? You feel strong?
ref: 2011, Berel Arrow, The Thirty Six, page 9:
qualifier: literal
glosses: A Caucasian male.
glosses: Heroin.
whiteboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiteboy
mediaspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From media + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: Mainly White Noise and Libra are full of mediaspeak from television, radio and the tabloids.
ref: 2007, Jan Riepe, The Future Belongs To Crowds, page 72:
text: Unlike Ginsberg's use of omnipresent mediaspeak to critique the abstractions of the war, Balaban employs less accessible texts in “The Gardenia in the Moon.”
ref: 2007, Philip Metres, Behind the lines, page 117:
glosses: The jargon used by the mass media.
Whiteboyism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Whiteboy + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The conduct or principles of the Whiteboys.
smegmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smegmatic
form: most smegmatic
Etymology: From Latin smēgmaticus.
Senses: examples: text: smegmatic pseudocysts
text: smegmatic debris
glosses: Of, relating to, or containing smegma.
Related terms: smegmatick
smegmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smegmatics
Etymology: From Latin smēgmaticus.
Senses: examples: text: If you glory in Captives, and desire by a sparkling splendour to fire Platonick Amoretto's out of their lawlesse liberty, borrow but lustre from these Artificiall Smegmaticks.
ref: 1665, Thomas Jeamson, Artificiall embellishments, or Arts best directions: how to preserve beauty or procure it, dedication:
text: the Bolus's, Rubrics, and Okers, Figuline, Stiptic, Smegmatic &c. as they are diversly qualified for several uses, Medical, and Mechanical
ref: 1675 May 9 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] Evelyn, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, Relating to the Culture and Improvement of It for Vegetation, and the Propagation of Plants, &c. […], London: […] John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, published 1676, →OCLC:
text: […]the Physicians, whose Task it is to take care not only of the Health, but the Beauty, Cleanliness and Comely Plight of the Body; in order the latter of which Smegmaticks, Mundifiers, Cleansers, Adorners, are useful.
ref: 1693, John Edwards, A discourse concerning the authority, stile, and perfection of the books of the Old and New-Testament, pages 191-192:
glosses: A cleansing substance.
disgradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: degradation; a stripping of titles and honours
halicore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /həˈlɪ.kə.ɹiː/
Forms: form: halicores
Etymology: From Late Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “sea”) + κόρη (kórē, “girl, maiden”).
Senses: examples: text: I constitute the fourth order or stem of mammalia out of the suborders of Whales, Dolphins, Halicores, Seals, and Carnivoræ […]
ref: 1849, Johann Jacob Kaup, Monograph of the Falconidæ:
text: […]the dugong or halicore, of which the distribution is rather widespread, from the Red Sea and East African coasts to the west coast of Australia.
ref: 1884, Robert Armitage Sterndale, Natural history of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon, page 268:
glosses: The dugong.
halicores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halicore
subalmoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subalmoners
Etymology: From sub- + almoner.
Senses: glosses: An assistant almoner.
subalmoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subalmoner
petiolulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petiolule + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Supported by its own petiolule
subventaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + Latin ventus (“wind”).
Senses: examples: text: subventaneous eggs
glosses: unfertilized (thought to be produced by the wind).
antimetaphorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimetaphorical
form: most antimetaphorical
Etymology: From anti- + metaphorical.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or avoiding the use of metaphor.
radicalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radicalism
habitakle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habitakles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of habitacle.
habitakles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habitakle
overdated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdate
overdating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdate
rhythmus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhythmuses
form: rhythmi
Etymology: From Latin rhythmus, from Ancient Greek ῥυθμός (rhuthmós).
Senses: examples: text: the rhythmus of language
ref: 1819, Rev. James Chapman, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Obsolete form of rhythm.
radiotelegraphist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiotelegraphists
Etymology: From radio- + telegraphist.
Senses: glosses: A radiotelegraph operator.
radiotelegraphists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiotelegraphist
bobberies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobbery
bobbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobberies
Etymology: Uncertain; occurs earliest in British thieves' cant and Chinese Pidgin English, as well as extensively throughout British dialect. In origin, unrelated to the Anglo-Indian exclamation.
Senses: examples: text: bobbery: a disturbance.
ref: 1795, H.T. Potter, A New Dictionary Of All The Cant And Flash Languages:
text: They’d’ve kick’d up a rale bubbery, and’ve thrown the fat intu the fire in a jump.
ref: 1834, ‘Jack Downing’, Andrew Jackson, page 228:
text: Another and another followed, till, at last, the unwieldy bank, amidst an awful bobbery, swung high and dry on the shelving beach; and out we all sprung, right glad once more to feel ourselves on terra firma.
ref: 1840 December 4, Francis J. Bellew, “Memoirs of a Griffin”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register, page 228:
text: Efficient in a devilish way, he allows troops to slip by and makes a dead set for their officers, using small pockets of scouts to kick up a maximum bobbery, so that those advancing to the attack believe they have been set on by battalions instead of sections.
ref: 1942 December 2, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 22, column 1:
glosses: A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance.
Derived terms: bobbery pack
bobbery
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Alteration of Hindi बाप रे (bāp re, “O father!”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus the British and Colonial Courts are comparatively empty compared with the Indian Court and jewellery room, which are invariably crowded - so much so that special precautions have to be taken with regard to the latter, only a few being admitted at a time, and they stare at gaudy pictures and glittering jewellery and at the gold brocades and brilliant silks and cloths of their own country and cry "Bapré" or, as it is generally known, "Bobbery," in admiration[.]
ref: 1884 February 5, The South Australian Register, Adelaide, page 1, column 1:
text: "Hullo!" said Col. Wingate, of the Dogras, who had just entered the stand, "another Carr-Jones spoof? By Jove, it isn't Carr-Jones; it's Polhill and Ulmun! Oh! bobbery: here, I'll lay a hundred to one in gold mohurs against the griffs!"
ref: 1908 September 5, The Evening Journal, Adelaide, page 6, column 2:
glosses: Oh dear! Alas! Good lord!
Related terms: bobbery-bob
caduke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caduke
form: most caduke
Etymology: Compare French caduc. See caducous.
Senses: examples: text: the caduke pleasures of this worlde
ref: 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge ... the seven penytencyall Psalms:
glosses: perishable; frail; transitory
drabbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drabbets
form: drabette
Senses: glosses: A coarse linen fabric, originally made from hemp.
Related terms: duck
drabbets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drabbet
lairage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛːɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: lairages
Senses: examples: text: On this they built the station with a lairage for cattle beneath.
ref: 1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, page 632:
glosses: A place where sheep or cattle may be rested during transit to a market or abattoir.
rerefief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪə(ɹ)fiːf/
Forms: form: rerefiefs
Etymology: From French arrière-fief. See rear (“hinder”), and fief.
Senses: examples: text: by these means the feodal polity was greatly extended; these inferior feudatories (who held what are called in the Scots law "rerefiefs") being under similar obligations of fealty
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
synonyms: subfief
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A fief held by an intermediary or subtenant
rerefiefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rerefief
founding members
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of founding member
centres of curvature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centre of curvature
tautophonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tautophony