cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
physicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From physic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science.
ref: 1870, Thomas Henry Huxley, The scientific aspects of positivism:
glosses: The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
aletaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aletasters
Etymology: From ale + taster.
Senses: glosses: An aleconner.
aletasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aletaster
inconfutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconfutable
form: most inconfutable
Etymology: From in- + confutable.
Senses: synonyms: unconfutable
glosses: Not confutable.
Derived terms: inconfutably
stationaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stationary
topsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topsmen
Etymology: From top + -s- + man.
Senses: glosses: The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle.
synonyms: topman
glosses: The uppermost sawyer in a sawpit.
topsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topsman
sawpits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saw-pits
form: saw pits
Senses: glosses: plural of sawpit.
bedribble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedribbles
form: bedribbling
form: bedribbled
form: bedribbled
Etymology: From be- + dribble.
Senses: glosses: To dribble upon.
bedribbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedribble
bedribbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedribble
bedribbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedribble
rhaponticine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin rhaponticum (“rhubarb”). See rhubarb.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chrysophanic acid
enshaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enshaded
form: most enshaded
Etymology: From en- + shade + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: the flower-enshaded veranda
ref: 1855, Philippe Ferdinand A. de Rohan-Chabot, Electra:
glosses: Marked with different shades.
examples: c. 1810-1820, John Keats, "To Sleep"
O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign, / Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, / Enshaded in forgetfulness divine: […]
glosses: Kept in shade or darkness.
chrysophanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysophanols
Etymology: From chrysophane + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound found in rhubarb.
chrysophanols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrysophanol
prolegate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolegates
Etymology: From Latin prolegatus, from pro (“for”) + legatus (“legate”).
Senses: glosses: The deputy or substitute legate.
prolegates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolegate
mercurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercurisms
Etymology: From mercury + -ism.
Senses: glosses: mercury poisoning
mercurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercurisms
Etymology: From Mercury + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Altho at this distance you had no early Account or Particular of his Death; yet your Affection may cease to wonder that you had not some secret Sense or Intimation thereof by Dreams, thoughtful Whisperings, Mercurisms, Airy Nuncio's, or sympathetical Insinuations, which many seem to have had at the Death of their dearest Friends:
ref: 1690, Sir Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend:
glosses: A communication of news; an announcement.
mercurisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercurism
mercurialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mercurial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being mercurial; mercuriality.
baktun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baktunob
form: baktuns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of b'ak'tun.
cast around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts around
form: casting around
form: cast around
form: cast around
Senses: glosses: To cast about.
Alviri-Vidari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Northwestern Iranian language spoken in Alvir and Vidar, two villages near Saveh, Markazi Province, Iran.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Alviri-Vidari terms
Alviri
Vidari
Alviri-Vidari
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Alviri-Vidari language.
Chinese broccoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra, kailan, a long, blue-green vegetable with thick, glossy stems and leaves typically eaten in Chinese and particularly Cantonese cooking; gailan.
Chinese kale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra, kailan,: a long, blue-green vegetable with thick, glossy stems and leaves typically eaten in Chinese and particularly Cantonese cooking; gailan.
gailan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 芥蘭／芥兰 (gaai3 laan4-2).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:gailan.
glosses: Alternative spelling of kailan.
gai-lan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cantonese 芥蘭 /芥兰 (gaai³ laan⁴⁻²).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kailan.
kai-lan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See kailan.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kailan.
multiepitope
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-epitope
Etymology: From multi- + epitope.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Involving multiple epitopes
nanogold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + gold.
Senses: glosses: A nanoparticle of metallic gold
glosses: A colloidal suspension of such particles in a liquid
normolipidemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normo- + lipidemic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Having the normal amount of lipid in the blood.
Related terms: normolipemia
normolipemic
lipidemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lipidemic
form: most lipidemic
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Having lipid in the blood
Derived terms: antilipidemic
hyperlipidemic
hypolipidemic
normolipidemic
Related terms: lipidemia
paracancerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + cancerous.
Senses: glosses: Located near cancerous cells or tissue
Synonyms: paracarcinoma
paracarcinomal
propidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The divalent radical CH₃-CH₂-CH< analogous to ethylidene; propylidene
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The pesticide butan-2-yl 2-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperidine-1-carboxylate
tetrandrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Stephania tetrandra (“a plant in which it is found”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A benzylisoquinoline alkaloid that is a calcium channel blocker and isolated from Stephania tetrandra - C₃₈H₄₂N₂O₆.
thiobenzoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiobenzoates
Etymology: From thio- + benzoate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of thiobenzoic acid
thiobenzoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thio- + benzoic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The thiocarboxylic acid analogous to benzoic acid C₆H₅-CO-SH
thiobenzoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thio- + benzoic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to thiobenzoic acid or its derivatives
come on over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes on over
form: coming on over
form: came on over
form: come on over
Senses: examples: text: “I’m so glad it isn’t worse.”
“Yes, ain’t, abody still has something to be thankful for? Then you’ll come on over, Amanda?”
“Yes, I’ll be over.”
ref: 2009, Anna Balmer Myers, chapter 24, in Amanda:Daughter of the Mennonites:
synonyms: come over
glosses: to visit someone's home or other location.
acetylomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylome
acetylome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetylomes
Etymology: From acetyl + -ome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The complete set of protein acetylations of an organism
aminoalkoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amino- + alkoxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amino derivative of an alkoxy radical
automethylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of automethylate
automethylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: automethylates
form: automethylating
form: automethylated
form: automethylated
Etymology: From auto- + methylate.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To methylate itself
Related terms: automethylation
fishos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fisho
bishydroxamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bis- + hydroxamic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a bishydroxamic acid or derivative
bishydroxamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bishydroxamic acids
Etymology: From bis- + hydroxamic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of compounds having two hydroxamic acid groups, especially those chiral compounds having two adjacent hydroxamic acid groups that are used in asymmetric synthesis.
Related terms: CBHA
cardiocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiocyte
cardiocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiocytes
Etymology: From cardio- + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: Any myocyte of the heart.
chaetocin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chetocin
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A fungal metabolite, having a 3,6-epidithio-diketopiperazine structure, that has antimicrobial and cytostatic activity.
chlorovinyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorovinyls
Etymology: From chloro- + vinyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chloro- derivative of a vinyl radical
citrullination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citrullinations
Etymology: From citrulline + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Naturally occurring/substituted amino acids, flanking targeted arginine, influence its susceptibility to citrullination by peptidylarginine deiminases.
ref: 2017, B. Amin, W. Voelter, “Human Deiminases”, in A. Douglas Kinghorn, Heinz Falk, Simon Gibbons, Jun'ichi Kobayashi, editors, Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products, Volume 106, Springer, page 220:
text: In MS citrullination is the most studied PTM^([post-translational modification]) from those listed in Table 6.1.
ref: 2017, Alastair Wilkins, Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, 2nd edition, Springer, page 141:
text: 2019, Shuzheng Song, Yingyan Yu, Progression on Citrullination of Proteins in Gastrointestinal Cancers, Zhe-Sheng Chen, Jian-ye Zhang, Yunkai Zhang, Yan-yan Yan (editors), Targeted Cancer Therapies, From Small Molecules to Antibodies, Frontiers Media, page 162,
The exact effect of citrullination of proteins on cancer should be studied further.
Citrullination of proteins is not only detected in in vitro experiments, but also in human blood.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: deimination
glosses: The posttranslational modification of the amino acid arginine in a protein into the amino acid citrulline.
Derived terms: autocitrullination
hypercitrullination
cogovern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cogoverns
form: cogoverning
form: cogoverned
form: cogoverned
Etymology: From co- + govern.
Senses: glosses: To govern with another
Related terms: cogovernance
cogovernment
cogovernor
corecognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corecognitions
Etymology: From co- + recognition.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: simultaneous recognition of two entities
crosstalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crosstalk
crosstalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crosstalk
crotonylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotonylations
Etymology: From crotonyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: posttranslational modification of lysine residues in a histone by the introduction of crotonyl groups
crotonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crotonic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical CH₃-CH=CH-CO- derived from crotonic acid
Derived terms: crotonylation
cyclopropylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopropylamines
Etymology: From cyclopropyl + amine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The primary amine derived from cyclopropane by replacing a hydrogen atom by an amino group; any derivative of this compound
Synonyms: aminocyclopropane
derepressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + repressible.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to cause, or to undergo derepression
Derived terms: nonderepressible
desuccinylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + succinylation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of a succinyl moiety previously added by succinylation
Related terms: desuccinylate
succinylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: succinylations
Etymology: From succinyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The addition of a succinyl radical to a compound
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The posttranslational modification of lysine residues in proteins by such a reaction
Derived terms: desuccinylation
dimethylammonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimethylammoniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent cation obtained by protonation of dimethylamine (CH₃)₂NH₂⁺
dimethyllysine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dimethyl + lysine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A methylated derivative of lysine, found in histones, that contributes to gene regulation
eRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eRNAs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of enhancer RNA.
epicardially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From epicardial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: by way of the epicardium
Derived terms: subepicardially
Related terms: epicardial
exencephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exencephalies
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition in which part of the brain protrudes through a defect in the skull
Synonyms: exencephalia
extragenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + genic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Occurring outside of a gene, or as a result of a different gene.
hepatoblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatoblastomas
Etymology: From hepato- + blastoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A blastoma situated in the liver
hydromethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydromethylations
Etymology: From hydro- + methylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A class of reactions in which a hydrogen atom and a methyl group are added to the double bond of an alkene to form a branched alkane
Related terms: hydroxymethylation
hydroxymethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydroxy + methylated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by hydroxymethylation.
Derived terms: hyperhydroxymethylated
unhydroxymethylated
hypophosphorylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypophosphorylations
Etymology: From hypo- + phosphorylation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: phosphorylation to a less than normal extent, or less than fully
Related terms: hypophosphorylated
geometric isomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geometric isomer
indiscriminantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of indiscriminately.
intermyocardial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of intramyocardial.
ketogluterate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ketoglutarate.
lincRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lincRNA
methylammonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylammoniums
Etymology: From methyl + ammonium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent cation obtained by protonation of methylamine CH₃NH₃⁺
alfaia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alfaias
Etymology: From Portuguese alfaia.
Senses: examples: text: And there was the band’s centerpiece and glory, the interlocking rhythm of a trap-set drummer, a percussionist, and three standing drummers playing the alfaia, the large wooden drum from the African-derived, northeastern Brazilian song-and-dance tradition of maracatu.
ref: 2015 August 3, Ben Ratliff, “Review: Nação Zumbi Returns to Central Park SummerStage”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Brazilian drum with a membrane made of animal skin.
methyllysine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methyllysines
Etymology: From methyl + lysine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three methylation products of the amino acid lysine that play a role in epigenetics.
monomethylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monomethylate
monomethylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monomethylates
form: monomethylating
form: monomethylated
form: monomethylated
Etymology: From mono- + methylate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To add a single methyl group to a compound
Related terms: monomethylation
myocardioblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myocardioblast
myocardioblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myocardioblasts
Etymology: From myo- + cardio- + -blast.
Senses: glosses: A myoblast that develops into heart muscle
ncRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ncRNA
nonfermenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-fermenting
Etymology: From non- + fermenting.
Senses: glosses: That does not cause fermentation
nucleocomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleocomplexes
Etymology: From nucleo- + complex.
Senses: glosses: A complex of nucleic acids
oligoamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoamines
Etymology: From oligo- + amine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polyamine containing only a few amine groups
osmoresponsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osmo- + responsive.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: whose transcriptional expression is altered by changes in the osmolarity of the environment
glosses: Relating to osmoresponse
Derived terms: osmoresponsiveness
panobinostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hydroxamic acid drug and acts as a non-selective histone deacetylase inhibitor
phenylbutyrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylbutyrates
Etymology: From phenyl + butyrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phenyl derivative of a butyrate
piRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piRNA
preorganized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + organized.
Senses: glosses: organized in advance
preorganized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preorganize
Related terms: preorganization
preorganize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preorganizes
form: preorganizing
form: preorganized
form: preorganized
form: preorganise
Etymology: From pre- + organize.
Senses: glosses: To organize in advance.
Related terms: preorganization
propargylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From propargyl + amine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acetylenic primary amine HC≡C-CH₂-NH₂
romidepsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An anticancer agent obtained from the bacterium Chromobacterium violaceum.
schwannomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schwannomatoses
Etymology: From schwannoma + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of neurofibromatosis characterized by multiple cutaneous schwannomas
splanchnopleura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of splanchnopleure.
splanchnopleure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splanchnopleures
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σπλάγχνα (splánkhna, “viscera”) + πλευρά (pleurá, “a side of something”).
Senses: glosses: A layer of embryonic cells formed from the mesoderm and endoderm that develops into the wall of the viscera.
Related terms: splanchnopleural
splanchnopleuric
sleightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sleightly
form: most sleightly
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sleightely; equivalent to sleight + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He healeth others sleightly, because he is sick of the same malady
ref: 1658, Samuel Crooke, Τα Διαφεροντα, or Divine characters in two parts, acutely distinguishing the more secret and undiscerned differences between 1. The Hypocrite in his best dresse of seeming virtues and formal duties. And the true Christian in his real graces and sincere obedience. As also between 2. The blackest weeds of dayly infirmities of the truly godly, eclipsing saving grace, and the reigning sinnes of the unregenerate that pretend unto that godlinesse they never had, page 218:
text: The raveled is a kind of cheat bread also, but it retaineth more of the gross and less of the pure substance of the wheat; and this [manchet], being more sleightly wrought up, is used in the halls of the nobility and gentry only, whereas the other [cheat bread] either is or should be baked, in cities and good towns, of an appointed size (according to such price as the corn doth bear) and by a statute provided by King John in that behalf.
ref: 1994, William Harrison, Georges Edelen, The Description of England, page 134:
glosses: With cunning; dexterously.
Francic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Francic
form: most Francic
form: Frankic
Senses: glosses: Frankish
subepicardial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + epicardial.
Senses: glosses: beneath the epicardium
Related terms: subepicardium
suberoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From suberic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A divalent radical formally derived from suberic acid by removal of both hydroxyl groups
Derived terms: suberoyl bis-hydroxamic acid
suberoyl chloride
subpocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpockets
Etymology: From sub- + pocket.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A distinct part of the binding site of an enzyme
trapoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A cyclic tetrapeptide, of fungal origin, that is an antitumor agent
tyrosinyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tyrosine + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from tyrosine.
ultrabithorax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ubx
Etymology: From ultra- + bithorax.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A particular homeobox protein and associated gene.
biforous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin biforis (“having two doors”), from bis (“twice, two”) + foris (“door”).
Senses: examples: text: biforous spiracles
text: The true biforous spiracle has its opening completely divided by a transverse bar, leaving two usually rather slit-like openings.
ref: 2013, R. A. Crowson, The Biology of the Coleoptera, page 234:
glosses: Biforate.
louri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: louris
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of lory (type of parrot).
louris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of louri
air level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air levels
Senses: glosses: A spirit level.
examples: text: When diving, take care to monitor not just your air level, but that of your partner.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see air, level.
air levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air level
marsupite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsupites
Etymology: From Latin marsupium, marsuppium (“pouch, purse”) + English -ite; see also marsupial.
Senses: examples: text: The most remarkable fossil of this class is the marsupite, which I have thus named from its resemblance, when closed, to a purse. The marsupite (Tab. 51) was a molluscous animal, of a sub-ovate form, having the mouth, which was surrounded by arms, or tentacula, in the centre.
ref: 1839, Gideon Algernon Mantell, The Wonders of Geology, volume 1, page 309:
text: The crinoideans are sparingly distributed in the cretaceous group; the most remarkable is the marsupite, which appears to have been an unattached crinoidean.
ref: 1839, Rosina Maria Zornlin, Recreations in Geology, page 84:
text: The plates of the head are thin and broad, and marked on their outer surface by lines of growth, and radiating ridges resembling the plates of the marsupite.
ref: 1843, J. Chaning Pearce, On an entirely new form of Encrinite from the Dudley Limestone: The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Zoology, Botany and Geology, volume 12, page 472:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil crinoid of the genus Marsupites, resembling a purse.
marsupites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsupite
Welshland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh + land. Compare Old English wēalland (“foreign country, Normandy”). Cognate with German Wälschland (“Italy”, literally “foreign-land”), German Welschland (“French-speaking Switzerland”).
Senses: examples: text: For a century after Hengist and Horsa the green island which they were conquering was a "Welshland," or abode of strangers, while the "Dutchland," or home of "the folks," was the half-sunken coast they had left behind them.
ref: 1902, John Fiske, The Historical Writings of John Fiske:
glosses: The land of foreigners; a foreign land, originally applied to Celtic lands, but later extended to include Roman and Romance-speaking areas.
examples: text: It is now practically established that the legend emanated from the Kymri, spreading from "Welshland" through Cornwall into the Welsh-speaking colony of Brittany upon the opposite shore.
ref: 1905, The Gentleman's magazine:
text: But I have opposed them, and think to withsay, for I have been steward of all Britain's land, and earl I am potent, unlike to my companions, and I have Welshland half-part in my hand; more I have alone than the others all clean.
ref: 1996, Wace, Eugene Mason, Layamon, Arthurian chronicles:
text: Welshland: Now called Wales, Welshland lay just west of Mercia and was made up of Celts that held many different lands, which included place names like Gwent and Gwynedd.
ref: 2005, Curt Bissonette, Noble Stone:
glosses: The land of the Welsh; Wales.
examples: text: And this denomination, originating from this part, was afterward transferred to the whole of Italy, which was called Welshland, and its inhabitants Welshers.
ref: 1818, Royal Irish Academy, The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy:
text: He says that in his time Lombardy, or Gallia Cisalpina, was called by the Germans Welshland, and hence, by the vulgar, Italy was called Welshland, and the Italians Welshers.
ref: 1873, Lewis Gidley, Stonehenge:
qualifier: usually following German terminology
glosses: Italy.
brustle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʌsəl/
rhymes: -ʌsəl
Forms: form: brustles
form: brustling
form: brustled
form: brustled
Etymology: From Middle English brustlen, variant of brastlen, from Old English brastlian, from Proto-West Germanic *brastulōn, from Proto-Germanic *brastōną. Related to German prasseln (“to crackle”). See burst.
Senses: glosses: To crackle; to rustle.
examples: text: Cour. Oh, an Atheist, Sir; he believes neither God nor the Devil.
Fath. 'Sbud, I'll brustle up to him. Are you an Atheist, Fellow? hoh?
ref: 1684, Thomas Otway, The Atheist: Or, The Second Part of the Soldiers Fortune:
glosses: To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.
brustles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brustle
corticous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corticous
form: most corticous
Senses: glosses: Synonym of corticose.
synonyms: word: corticose
discind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪnd/
Forms: form: discinds
form: discinding
form: discinded
form: discinded
Etymology: From Latin discindo, from dis- + scindo (“to cut, split”).
Senses: examples: text: [W]e found […] ſeveral ſuch Concretions as to bigneſs and ſhape, but ſo ſoft, that vve could eaſily cruſh and diſcind them betvvixt our fingers.
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, “[Two Essays, Concerning the Unsuccessfulness of Experiments, Containing Divers Admonitions and Observations (Chiefly Chymical) Touching that Subject.] The Second Essay, of Un-succeeding Experiments.”, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts; […], 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Herringman […], published 1669, →OCLC, page 87:
glosses: To divide or split (something).
discind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪnd/
Forms: form: discinds
form: discinding
form: discinded
form: discinded
Etymology: From Latin discindo, from dis- + scindo (“to cut, split”).
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of descend.
discinded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discind
discinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discind
discinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discind
poachy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: poachier
form: more poachy
form: poachiest
form: most poachy
Etymology: From poach (“to poke, stab”) + -y.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Wet and soft; boggy.
raw_tags: said of land
Synonyms: queachy
uliginous
marshy
Derived terms: poachiness
diwan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diwans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dewan.
Dutchkin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dutchkin
form: most Dutchkin
form: dutchkin
Etymology: From Dutch + -kin (“kind, type, sort”).
Senses: examples: text: With Dutchkin doublets, and with jerkins jagg’d? / With Spanish spangs, and ruffs fet out of France, / With high-copp’d hats, and feathers flaunt-a-flaunt?
ref: 1576, George Gascoigne, The Steel Glass:
glosses: Of a Dutch or German kind or sort; Dutch-like; German-like.
geosynclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Forms: form: more geosynclinal
form: most geosynclinal
Etymology: From geo- + synclinal.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of the Earth's crust, bending downward or subsiding and permitting the gradual accumulation of sediment.
geosynclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Forms: form: geosynclinals
Etymology: From geo- + synclinal.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The downward bend or subsidence of the Earth's crust, which permits the gradual accumulation of sediment and hence forms the first step in the formation of a mountain range.
Related terms: geosyncline
geosynclinals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geosynclinal
inclavated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inclavated
form: most inclavated
Etymology: From Latin inclavatus, from in- (“in”) + clavare (“to fasten with nails”), from clavus (“nail”).
Senses: examples: text: the grinding is far more easily and perfectly performed ; beside , these are more firmly inclavated, and infixed into the jaw bones
ref: 1666, John Smith, King Solomon's Portraiture of Old Age:
text: He has written wholly to divert himself: he has for that moment been inclavated to pleasure-seeking with somewhat the ruthlessness of a Nero and all the tenacity of a debutante […]
ref: 1924, James Branch Cabell, Straws And Prayer-Books:
glosses: Set; fast; fixed.
alum stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alum stones
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of alumstone (“alunite”).
alum stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alum stone
thretty
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: As ye were nine year less than thretty, / Sweet ane an' twenty!
ref: 1785, Robert Burns, Epistle to J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard:
glosses: thirty
porte-crayon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porte-crayons
form: port-crayon
form: portcrayon
Etymology: From French porte-crayon, from porter (“to carry”) + crayon (“a crayon”).
Senses: examples: text: Kauffman's figure holds a porte-crayon and a tablet, on which she has sketched the allegorical image of Prudence […].
ref: 1992, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Angelica Kauffman, Reaktion Books, published 1992, page 72:
glosses: An instrument (typically a metallic tube with a clasp) used to hold a pencil, lead etc. for drawing.
portcrayons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portcrayon
supportful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supportful
form: most supportful
Etymology: From support + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I can say that our organization is supportful of the actions on behalf of many farm groups to stop the initiatives that are being led by the current administration, to remove article 22 and article 11 at the GATT talks.
ref: 1990, Formulation of the 1990 Farm Bill:
text: Lastly, I would like to extend my most serious gratitude to my very supportful family.
ref: 1994, Quality of Care in After School Programs:
text: Again his parents and supportful employment staff hit on a resourceful solution for turning the problem into a constructive activity.
ref: 2013, Eric Schopler, Parent Survival Manual:
glosses: Providing support; supportive.
examples: text: proud of their supportful wings
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book II”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: Abounding with support.
imbuement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbuements
Etymology: From imbue + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of imbuing, or state of being imbued.
glosses: A deep tincture.
imbuements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbuement
unclue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unclues
form: uncluing
form: unclued
form: unclued
Etymology: From un- + clue.
Senses: examples: text: unclue ropes
glosses: To unwind; to untangle.
examples: text: uncluing the plot
glosses: To decipher; to untangle (e.g. a mystery)
unclued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unclue
unclued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The title is an indirect hint to the three unclued lights, which in turn might say what is to be done about the diagram.
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: Not provided with a clue, as in a crossword.
unclues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unclue
uncluing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unclue
worldkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːldkɪn/
Forms: form: worldkins
Etymology: From world + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: I too could now say to myself: Be no longer a Chaos, but a World, or even Worldkin. Produce! Produce!
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “The Everlasting Yea”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 136:
text: How in this humdrum worldkin of ours did mortal men ever come to do this madness?
ref: 1900, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic Monthly:
text: "Our little worldkin is very quiet & nothing is new therein. […]"
ref: 1979, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr, Essays, first series:
glosses: A diminutive or miniature world; a microcosm.
Asian pear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asian pears
Senses: glosses: A fruit from species of pear from northeastern Asia, known better for their crisp, juicy texture than for their flavor
an apple pear or Chinese pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
glosses: A fruit from species of pear from northeastern Asia, known better for their crisp, juicy texture than for their flavor
a Chinese white pear (Pyrus × bretschneideri)
Synonyms: sense: Pyrus pyrifolia
word: nashi pear
sense: Pyrus pyrifolia
word: sand pear
sense: ya li pear, ya pear
word: Pyrus × bretschneideri
apple pear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple pears
Senses: glosses: A fruit of a northeast-Asian species of pear with a crisp, juicy texture and an apple-like shape.
glosses: Pyrus pyrifolia, the tree that bears this fruit.
Synonyms: Asian pear
Chinese pear
Korean pear
Japanese pear
Taiwan pear
sand pear
nashi pear
papple
workstead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worksteads
Etymology: From work + stead. Cognate with German Werkstatt (“workshop”), Swedish verkstad (“workshop”).
Senses: examples: text: As we walked we saw white slags lying together; where perhaps had been the workstead of some ancient artificer.
ref: 1888, Charles Montagu Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta:
text: The factors to consider in establishing a computer workstead can be divided into two categories (or perhaps linked to a two-headed monster): the computer's turf and everything else about home-based business.
ref: 1982, Personal computer:
text: He could feel Edain turning like a hound at a scent as they went by a well-equipped bowyer′s workstead, with rows of recurves hanging to dry inside and billets of ashwood ready to be split and smoothed for arrow shafts.
ref: 2010, S. M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady:
glosses: Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio, or garage, set up where work can be performed; a workstation.
examples: text: Today there is a trend back to the old workstead as technology can bring people within sight and sound of each other even though they are hundreds of miles apart.
ref: 1999, Betty Neville Michelozzi, Coming Alive from Nine to Five:
glosses: Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio, or garage, set up where work can be performed; a workstation.
A place of employment; workplace.
glosses: Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio, or garage, set up where work can be performed; a workstation.
A laboratory.
apple pears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple pear
Chinese white pear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese white pears
Senses: glosses: The fruit of a hybrid northeast-Asian pear species, Pyrus × bretschneideri, with the crisp, juicy texture of an apple pear, but with shape and flavor more like those of the European pear.
glosses: A tree producing such fruit.
Chinese olive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese olives
Senses: glosses: The olive-shaped fruit of a Chinese tree, Canarium album, usually eaten dried or its seed eaten as a nut.
aminoglycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminoglycans
Etymology: From amino- + glycan.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycan composed of amino sugar moieties
disship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈʃɪp/
Forms: form: disships
form: disshipping
form: disshipped
form: disshipped
Etymology: From dis- + ship.
Senses: examples: text: the Captaine by discretion shall from time to time disship any artificer or English servingman or apprentice out of the Primrose into any of the other three ships
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To dismiss from service on board ship.
disshipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disship
disshipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disship
disships
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disship
indubious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdjuːbiəs/
/ɪnˈduːbiəs/
Forms: form: more indubious
form: most indubious
Etymology: From Latin indubius. See in- (“not”) + dubious.
Senses: glosses: Not dubious or doubtful; certain.
examples: text: indubious confidence
ref: 1673, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague:
glosses: Not doubting; unsuspecting.
Derived terms: indubiously
sea gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea gowns
Senses: examples: text: My Guide carried my Sea-Gown, which was my covering in the night, and my Pillow was a Log of Wood
ref: 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World. […], London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC:
text: Up from my cabin,
My sea-gown scarf'd about me
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners.
sea gowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea gown
dissonancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissonancy
dissonancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissonancies
Etymology: From dissonant + -cy or dissonance + -y.
Senses: glosses: discord
glosses: dissonance
Chinese olives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese olive
bedstaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedstaffs
form: bedstaves
Etymology: From bed + staff.
Senses: examples: text: Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff.
ref: 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves.
ref: c. 1629, Richard Brome, The City Wit:
text: The groom of the wardrobe brings in the loose straw and lays it reverently at the foot of the bed. The gentleman-usher draws back the curtains. Two squires stand by the bedhead and two yeomen of the guard at the foot. One of these, with the help of the yeomen of the chamber, carefully forms the truss, and rolls up and down on it to make it smooth and ensure that no dagger or such are hidden in it....A canvas is laid over the straw, then the feather-bed, which is smoothed with a bedstaff.
ref: 1962, Lawrence Wright, Warm & Snug:The History of the Bed, Routledge & K.Paul; quoted in “Straw mattresses, chaff beds, palliasses, ticks stuffed with leaves”, in Old and Interesting, 2008 January 9:
text: Wooden poles or 'bed-staves' were used, pushed inside the lower frame, or into holes in the frame, to hold it [the bedding] all on. They are commonly mentioned in connection with beds in 16th and 17th century inventories, but no surviving examples of bedstaves are known to the author in England, although some survive in Sweden.
ref: 1998 September 28, Hans Vredeman de Vries, “Great Bed of Ware”, in Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections, Victoria and Albert Museum:
glosses: bedpost.
Derived terms: in the twinkling of a bedstaff
bedstaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedstaff
galerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galerites
Etymology: Latin galerum a hat, cap: compare French galérite. See -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus †Galerites.
galerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galerite
bedstaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedstaff
arctogeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɑɹk təˈdʒi ə/
Forms: form: Arctogeal
form: arctogaeal
Etymology: From Arctogea + -al. Arctogea, coined in 1868 by Thomas Henry Huxley, is from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos) (see Arctic) and γαῖᾰ (gaîă, “land, earth”).
Senses: topics: biogeography
biology
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Arctogea, a biogeographical division comprising the holarctic and paleotropical regions, as opposed to Notogea, the rest.
Hyponyms: Nearctic
palearctic
paleotropical
Indomalayan
Related terms: Arctogaean
Arctogaeic
Arctogean
Arctogeic
guist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: guists
form: guisting
form: guisted
form: guisted
Senses: examples: text: Upon the plaine; the which him selfe prepar'd
To guist with that brave straunger knigh
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of joust.
guists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guist
telangiectasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telangiectasy