cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wightly
form: most wightly
Etymology: From wight + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Þanne drede went wiȝtliche · and warned þe fals / And bad hym flee for fere · and his felawes alle.
ref: c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
glosses: Swiftly; nimbly; quickly.
wishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wishable
form: most wishable
Etymology: From wish + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable.
witnesser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witnessers
Etymology: From witness + -er.
Senses: synonyms: witness
glosses: One who witnesses.
workfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workfolks
Etymology: From work + folk.
Senses: examples: text: Tess waited outside the door of the farmhouse till the group of workfolk had received their wages, and then Marian introduced her.
ref: 1892, Thomas Hardy, chapter XLII, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Volume 2, page 118:
synonyms: workforce
glosses: Collectively, people who perform manual labour.
wranglership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wranglerships
Etymology: From wrangler + -ship.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The honor or position of being a wrangler (at the University of Cambridge, England)
writership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writerships
Etymology: From writer + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I advise you by all means to go home and let your father procure for you a writership in the Civil Service, which with his influence he can have no difficulty to accomplish, and then it may be in my power to serve you.’
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 95
glosses: The position or office of a writer in the East India Company.
glosses: The job of a writer or clerk; clerkship.
vineyardists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vineyardist
visionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visionist
uranometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uranometry
virtuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of virtuate
upshoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upshoot
upshooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upshoot
virtuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of virtuate
virtuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of virtuate
typifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typifier
upwafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upwaft
upwafts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upwaft
upwafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upwaft
thickskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thickskin
umbilications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbilication
tutoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutoress
uredospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uredospore
tulipists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tulipist
rejoicements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rejoicement
rejoicest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: rejoice + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of rejoice
spicenuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spicenut
rhomboganoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhomboganoid
spherosiderites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spherosiderite
rejournments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rejournment
swineries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swinery
sumpitans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumpitan
repressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of represser
sumptuosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumptuosity
uromeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uromere
water sapphires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water sapphire
weatherglasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weatherglass
ravelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raveler
rebaptizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebaptizer
resonancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resonancy
rangerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rangership
urethrotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urethrotome
scraws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scraw
proscribers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proscriber
waywodeships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waywodeship
poeticules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poeticule
tephrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tephrite
vallations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vallation
witnessers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witnesser
workfolks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workfolk
dressest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dress + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of dress
dresseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dress + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dress
whimwhams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whimwham
writerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writership
wranglerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wranglership
permitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permitter
philologians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philologian
pinnigrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinnigrade
nummulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nummulation
ophiomorphites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophiomorphite
novenaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of novenary
opinionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opinionist
oscules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oscule
novelries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of novelry
nobilifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nobilify
nobilified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nobilify
middlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middler
moreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moreen
mistermed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misterm
naphthalates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naphthalate
mercurammoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercurammonium
mariputs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mariput
luctations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luctation
misterms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misterm
misterming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misterm
neoterisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoterism
knuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knuff
lansehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanseh
lactaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactary
lazybacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lazyback
lightrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightroom
likehoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of likehood
jargonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jargonist
jaspachates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaspachate
javels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of javel
jowlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jowler
justiceships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of justiceship
Judaists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Judaist
kerchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kercher
indorsees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indorsee
interstitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interstition
inthroned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inthrone
indentments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indentment
incremations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incremation
inthroning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inthrone
inthrones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inthrone
graphoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphoscope
girkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girkin
groundages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundage
gymnocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnocyte
hagiarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hagiarchy
guirlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guirland
harnessers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harnesser
furniments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furniment
idolatrized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of idolatrize
farmeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmery
francolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of francolite
heptastichs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptastich
fluoroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluoroid
idolatrizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of idolatrize
idolatrizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of idolatrize
herbarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbarian
hypostasized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypostasize
hypostasizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hypostasize
hypostasizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hypostasize
bulette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /buːˈlɛt/
/buːˈleɪ/
Forms: form: bulettes
Etymology: From a derogatory gallicization of bullet; coined by Tim Kask in the first edition of the official D&D magazine, Dragon, as an addition to the original Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
Senses: examples: text: The Bulette (pronounced boo-lay), has only two semi-vulnerable spots.
ref: 1976-06, "The Bulette (a.k.a. Landshark)", "Creatures Features", The Dragon, volume 1, number 1, page 19
text: The classic monsters (Frankenstein, Dracula, Godzilla, most hauntings, even the dinosaurs in _Jurassic Park_, etc) are all manifestations or consequences of human arrogance and ignorance; so violence, prejudice, ethical blindness and your local bulette are all part of the same idea.
ref: 1995-06-29, The Amorphous Mass <robin...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>, "Re: Rotten, Sexist, Racist Worlds (WAS: Females playing...)", rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc, <Pine.A32.3.91.950629164923.38897A-100000@red.weeg.uiowa.edu>#1/1
text: Rippersnapper was a land shark. By the mythical name, this is a bulette.
ref: 1997-04-07, Dan Davis <DAV...@docker.com>, "Re: Mithical Cretures Hits Beast Wars.", alt.toys.transformers, <33498C02.17C0@docker.com>#1/1
text: 2001-04-20, "dave" <JobberToSt...@yahoo.com>, "OK what is a "bulette"", rec.games.roguelike.adom, <9bppfs$igu$1@uns-a.ucl.ac.uk>
My orcish barbarian who found a nice eternium 2hs in SMC was killed by a bulette in the second level of the unremarkable dungeon.
text: Bulettes can automatically sense the location of anything within 60 feet that is in contact with the ground.
ref: 2003, Steven Creech, Kevin Ruesch, “Torn Asunder: Critical Hits”, in Inc., Bastion Press, page 93:
text: The creation of some unknown arcanist in millennia past, the bulette has bred true to become one of the fiercest predators of the hills.
ref: 2009-09, Jason Bulmahn, "Bulette", Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary, Paizo Publishing, page 39
qualifier: fantasy roleplaying games
glosses: A fictional species of land-dwelling shark in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.
Related terms: landshark
hayrakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hayrake
horseponds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsepond
imbargos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbargo
imbargoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbargo
imbanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imband
imbanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imband
imbands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imband
imbasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbase
imblazoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imblazon
imblazoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imblazon
imblazons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imblazon
imbased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbase
imbases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbase
pull someone's fat out of the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls someone's fat out of the fire
form: pulling someone's fat out of the fire
form: pulled someone's fat out of the fire
form: pulled someone's fat out of the fire
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pull someone's bacon out of the fire.
imbizos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbizo
pull the fat out of the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls the fat out of the fire
form: pulling the fat out of the fire
form: pulled the fat out of the fire
form: pulled the fat out of the fire
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pull out of the fire.
coadventurers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coadventurer
eulytites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eulytite
doorcases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doorcase
ensphered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ensphere
embronzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embronze
disciplesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discipless
ensphering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ensphere
embronzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embronze
disencharming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disencharm
discures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discure
disencharms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disencharm
embronzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embronze
discured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discure
derivals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derival
emperesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emperess
discuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discure
disreputabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disreputability
enspheres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ensphere
destinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destinist
disencharmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disencharm
disponees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disponee
defibrinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defibrination
collauds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collaud
collauding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collaud
collauded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collaud
eventuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eventuation
entosthoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entosthoblast
excerptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excerption
dunceries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duncery
dissertators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissertator
deuterozooids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deuterozooid
faciends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faciend
excheators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excheator
coadjutants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coadjutant
appeachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appeacher
arthroderms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arthroderm
antihydropics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antihydropic
antiloimics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiloimic
almsfolks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of almsfolk.
synonyms: word: almsfolk
subinferred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subinfer
subinferring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subinfer
opinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opinator
excusators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excusator
antemurals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antemural
pull someone's bacon out of the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls someone's bacon out of the fire
form: pulling someone's bacon out of the fire
form: pulled someone's bacon out of the fire
form: pulled someone's bacon out of the fire
form: pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
form: pull someone's fat out of the fire
Senses: glosses: To rescue someone, especially at the last moment.
Synonyms: save someone's bacon
Related terms: pull out of the fire
politico-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: political
politico-economic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From politico- + economic.
Senses: examples: text: The incorporation of Southern Appalachia entailed nearly one hundred fifty years of ecological, politico-economic, and cultural change.
ref: 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, “Introduction”, in Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 1:
glosses: Political and economic.
Derived terms: politico-economically
ex-slave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex-slaves
Etymology: From ex- + slave.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: freedman
text: […] nearly half the Appalachian ex-slaves had endured fifteen years or more of enslavement, and they were old enough to form and to retain oral histories.
ref: 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, “Introduction”, in Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 12:
glosses: A former or emancipated slave.
jointists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jointist
postemancipation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + emancipation.
Senses: examples: text: …coal companies conspired with the prisons, court systems, and governments in each of those states to implement one of the more egregious forms of racial exploitation imposed on postemancipation blacks.
ref: 2001, John C. Inscoe, “Introduction”, in Appalachians and Race, page 9:
glosses: After the Emancipation Proclamation.
peculiar institution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the peculiar institution
Etymology: "Peculiar" here does not mean strange. It means "peculiar" (particular) to a certain area, in this case the Southern United States.
Senses: examples: text: He became a great drunkard and a great gambler (vices intimately connected with the "peculiar institution,") and was obliged to give up his business.
ref: 1855, Peter Randolph, Illustrations of the 'Peculiar Institution':
text: He documents the extensiveness of the peculiar institution's presence throughout the region and establishes a much more realistic context for the emergences of abolitionist sentiments and the various forms it took.
ref: 2001, John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race, Introduction, page 3:
glosses: slavery
stunt cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stunt cocks
Etymology: From stunt + cock, by analogy with stuntman.
Senses: glosses: A phallus used to sub in for a pornographic actor's actual penis, either another man's or a realistic facsimile.
stunt cocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stunt cock
sub in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subs in
form: subbing in
form: subbed in
form: subbed in
Etymology: From sub (from substitute) + in.
Senses: examples: text: As the Medford native was replacing McKennie, Shaq Moore ran off the bench to sub in for Dest. And England manager Gareth Southgate made another move while he could, Marcus Rashford for Bukayo Saka.
ref: 25 November 2022, Jonathan Tannenwald, “U.S. dominates England for long stretches, but plays to 0-0 tie at World Cup”, in The Philadeplhia Inquirer:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To replace something or take someone's place,
subs in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sub in
subbing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sub in
subbed in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sub in
freedperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freedpersons
form: freedpeople
Etymology: From freed + person.
Senses: examples: text: Like David Williams earlier, Smith looks at gold-rich Lumpkin County and tells the story of how a second generation of this unique group of freedpeople worked closely with the local white elites to obtain property, resources, and teachers to establish schools.
ref: 2001, John C. Inscoe, “Introduction”, in Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, page 7:
glosses: A person who has been released from a condition of slavery.
Related terms: ex-slave
freedman
freedwoman
freedwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freedwomen
Etymology: From freed + woman.
Senses: examples: text: Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South.
ref: 2001, John C. Inscoe, “Introduction”, in Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, page 7:
glosses: A woman who has been released from a condition of slavery.
Related terms: ex-slave
freedman
freedperson
list price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: list prices
Senses: examples: text: A respectable workman was with me yesterday, and objected that you receive from Mr. Cheetham a higher payment than the list price.
ref: 1870, Charles Reade, chapter 5, in Put Yourself in His Place:
text: Paying the manufacturer's list price shown on the window sticker of a new car may be about as smart as snapping up an itinerant rug merchant's opening offer.
ref: 1966 April 29, “Autos: How to Pay Less for a New Car”, in Time:
text: Publishers typically sell hardcover books to retailers at half the list price, while retailers set consumer prices.
ref: 2009 October 20, Motoko Rich, “In Book-Pricing Battle, How Low Can They Go?”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Oct 2011:
topics: business
glosses: The retail selling price of an item, as recommended by the manufacturer or retail distributor, or as listed in a catalog.
Related terms: sticker price
MSRP
SRP
RRP
indenumerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + denumerable.
Senses: examples: text: From the fact that no enumeration can exhaust all sets of positive integers, Cantor infers that the set of all sets of positive integers is absolutely indenumerable.
ref: 1963, Hao Wang, Provability, Computability and Reflection, Elsevier, page 563:
glosses: Not denumerable.
breech delivery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breech deliveries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of breech birth.
unvigintillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Forms: form: unvigintillions
Etymology: From un- + vigintillion.
Senses: qualifier: modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale
glosses: 10⁶⁶.
qualifier: dated British & Australian; long scale; dated British & Australian; long scale
glosses: 10¹²⁶.
Synonyms: sense: a long scale undecillion
word: 1066
Related terms: Previous: vigintillion: short scale 1063
long scale 10120
Next: duovigintillion: short scale 1069
long scale 10132
eau de nils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eau de nil
samite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsæmaɪt/
Forms: form: samites
Etymology: From Old French samit, from Medieval Latin samitum, examitum, from Byzantine Greek ἑξάμιτον (hexámiton), from ἕξ (héx, “six”) + μίτος (mítos, “thread”).
Senses: examples: text: [A] robe / Of samite without price, that more exprest / Than hid her, clung about her lissome limbs, / In colour like the satin-shining palm / On sallows in the windy gleams of March: [...]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 104–105:
text: And in the center of that lake there hath for some time been seen the appearance as of a women's arm--exceedingly beautiful and clad in white samite, and the hand of this arm holdeth a sword of such exceeding excellence and beauty that no eye hath ever beheld like.
ref: 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights:
glosses: A material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages.
Peacemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peacemakers
Etymology: Proprialisation of peacemaker.
Senses: examples: text: Peacemaker on his hip
glosses: An early type of American revolver, particularly the Colt 1873 Single Action Army model.
glosses: The B-36 bomber.
affirmatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affirmatory
form: most affirmatory
Senses: examples: 1855-1863, William Massey, A History of England During the Reign of George the Third
The House being resolved into a committee to consider the state of the nation , Mr . Pitt moved three resolutions , the first , declaratory of the King's disability ; the second , affirmatory of the right and duty of both Houses to provide for the exercise of royal authority […]
glosses: Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative.
deposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From depose + -able.
Senses: examples: text: So hereafter they shall be only Keepers of the Great Seal , which for Title and Office , are deposable
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Dr. Pritchard”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
Derived terms: indeposable
undeposable
electrotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electrotype + -ic.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to, or produced by means of, electrotypy
monosperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosperms
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A monospermous plant; a plant only having one seed.
monosperms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosperm
mosaical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mosaic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: a mosaical floor
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: Archaic form of mosaic.
Derived terms: mosaically
retistene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline hydrocarbon produced indirectly from retene.
afflicters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afflicter
blowball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowballs
Etymology: From blow + ball.
Senses: glosses: The downy seedhead of a dandelion, a dandelion clock.
blowballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowball
dendriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛndɹɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more dendriform
form: most dendriform
Etymology: From dendr- + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having a branched structure similar to a tree.
Synonyms: dendritic
Derived terms: tridendriform
emigrationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From emigration + -ist.
Senses: glosses: supporting emigration
emigrationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emigrationists
Etymology: From emigration + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate or promoter of emigration.
emigrationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emigrationist
fearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪəɹə/
ipa: /ˈfɪɹɚ/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈfɪəɹə(ɹ)/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈfiɹə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfiəɹə/
ipa: /ˈfiɹəɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfɛːɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə(ɹ)
homophone: fairer (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: fearers
Etymology: From fear + -er.
Senses: examples: text: O praise the Lord: you Levies howse, assent / To praise the Lord: you all his fearers frame / Your highest praise to praise Jehovas name.
ref: a. 1599 (date written), Mary Sidney, “Psalm CXXXV. Laudate nomen.”, in The Psalmes of David […], London: From the Chiswick Press by C[harles] Whittingham, for Robert Triphook, […], published 1823, →OCLC, page 261:
text: Come Sir, reply'd Sancho, judge you of your Knight-Errantry, and don't meddle with other Men's Fears; for I am as pretty a Fearer of Heaven as any of my Neighbours; and ſo let me diſpatch this Scum, (and much Good may't do thee honeſt Sancho;) […]
ref: 1749, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “An Account of Rich Camacho’s Wedding, and what Befel Poor Basil”, in [Peter Anthony] Motteux, transl., edited by [John] Ozell, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha. […], 8th edition, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC, part II, page 159:
text: 1870, Richard Brock (author and publisher), A New Family Herbal; Or, A History and Description of All the British and Foreign Plants, 2nd Edition, page 396,
Good advice, certainly, but the difficulty is, to be able to distinguish the real fearers of God, from those who only make a pretence to such fear.
text: But such fear binds the fearer and the goal is never achieved as the fearer abuses what is found today to create the tomorrow that does not exist. It becomes an illusory dream that always evades the fearer while holding him or her tightly in its tyranny.
ref: 2009, Poul F. Guttesen, Leaning Into the Future: The Kingdom of God in the Theology of Jürgen Moltmann and in the Book of Revelation, Pickwick Publications, page 53:
glosses: One who fears, especially one who fears God; a worshipper.
Derived terms: God-fearer
fearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fearer
forbidder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forbidders
Etymology: From forbid + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [...] [A]nd other care perhaps / May have diverted from continual watch / Our great Forbidder, ſafe with all his Spies / About him.
ref: 1674, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 238, lines 813–816:
glosses: One who forbids.
forbidders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forbidder
powderhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powderhorns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of powder horn.
powderhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powderhorn
upwhirl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upwhirls
form: upwhirling
form: upwhirled
form: upwhirled
Etymology: From up- + whirl.
Senses: glosses: To rise upward in a whirl.
glosses: To raise upward with a whirling motion.
upwhirled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upwhirl
upwhirling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upwhirl
upwhirls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upwhirl
vauntful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vauntful
form: most vauntful
Etymology: From vaunt + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: vauntful armor
text: vauntful words
glosses: boastful; vainly ostentatious.
chevronel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevronels
form: cheveronel
form: chevronelle
Etymology: From chevron + -el (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: CHEVRONEL, a diminutive of chevron, and as ſuch only containing half a chevron.
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.
Related terms: couple-close
chevronels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chevronel
hyperdicrotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + dicrotism.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A hyperdicrotic condition; extreme dicrotism
coorbitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coorbital
metaxylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaxylenes
Etymology: From meta- + xylene.
Senses: examples: text: The acid is decomposed by strong hydrochloric acid at 210°, yielding xylylic acid and metaxylene.
ref: 1883, “Journal of the Chemical Society”, in Chemical Society, volume 44, Great Britain, page 589:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: That variety of xylene, or dimethyl benzene, in which the two methyl groups occupy the meta position with reference to each other. It is a colourless inflammable liquid.
metaxylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaxylene
juxtaposit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒʌkstəˈpɒzɪt/
Forms: form: juxtaposits
form: juxtapositing
form: juxtaposited
form: juxtaposited
Etymology: From Latin iūxtāpōnō (past participle iūxtāpositus).
Senses: examples: text: In the whole Surface of an Ox's Crystalline, he reckons there are more than twelve Thousand Fibres juxtaposited.
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To juxtapose.
Related terms: juxtaposition
juxtaposited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of juxtaposit
juxtapositing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of juxtaposit
juxtaposits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of juxtaposit
oneiroscopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oneiroscopists
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: synonyms: oneirocritic
oneirocrite
glosses: Someone who interprets dreams.
oneiroscopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oneiroscopist
hyperconnected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + connected.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That is not the union of two proper closed sets; such that every open set is dense.
raw_tags: of a topological space
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having an edge set that spans a matroid defined on its edges via exterior algebra.
raw_tags: of a graph
examples: text: The hyperconnected people in this study reported they use a minimum of seven communications devices and nine communications applications each day, including e-mail, mobile phones, IM, Web conferencing, and social networks.
ref: 2009, Harrison Rainie, Janna Quitney Anderson, Susannah Fox, Ubiquity, Mobility, Security, page 482:
text: The resulting flows of information are making the world not only interconnected and hyperconnected but interdependent— everyone everywhere is now more vulnerable to the actions of anyone anywhere.
ref: 2016, Thomas L. Friedman, Thank You for Being Late, →ISBN:
glosses: Making intense use of telecommunications networks.
examples: text: Algorithmic strategies were beginning to look as if they could make sense and meaning out of the vast swathes of hyperconnected documents.
ref: 2015, Jonathan Savage, Clive McGoun, Teaching in a Networked Classroom, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Connected by hyperlinks.
examples: text: These findings were replicated in two additional independent cohorts, demonstrating that at childhood the brain in ASD is functionally hyperconnected in systems related to cognitive, social, and affective processes.
ref: 2017, Kenneth F. Swaiman, Stephen Ashwal, Donna M Ferriero, Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology E-Book: Principles and Practice, →ISBN:
glosses: Containing an unusually large number of connections.
Synonyms: sense: not the union of two proper closed sets
word: irreducible
sense: connected by hyperlinks
word: hyperlinked
Derived terms: hyperconnectedness
biseptate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + septate.
Senses: glosses: With two partitions or septa
gubernance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: with the Gubernance of all the King's Tenants and Subjects within the fair Manor and Hundred
ref: 1550 (date written), John Strype, chapter XXXIII, in Historical Memorials, Chiefly Ecclesiastical, and Such as Concern Religion and the Reformation of It, and the Progress Made therein, under the Reign and Influence of King Edward VI. […], volume II, London: […] John Wyat […], published 1721, →OCLC, page (273):
glosses: government
Orphean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Orphean
form: most Orphean
Etymology: From Orpheus + -an.
Senses: examples: text: It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries.
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 123:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythical poet and musician.
Derived terms: Orphean warbler
monotonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: January 23, 1752 (Old Style) Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to his son
Monotonical declamation.
glosses: monotonic
morphodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpho- + dynamics.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of changing morphology, typically of geologic surfaces
Synonyms: geomorphodynamics
Derived terms: biomorphodynamics
oversolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversolar
form: most oversolar
Etymology: From over- + solar.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a concentration or abundance of a chemical element or isotope greater than that found in the Sun.
deceptious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deceptious
form: most deceptious
Etymology: From Latin deceptiosus.
Senses: examples: text: as if those organs had deceptious functions
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: deceptive, tending to deceive.
imperturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin imperturbatio.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e become partakers of his [God's] Divine Nature, in this calm and ſerenity of minde, […] VVherefore in our copying of this equality and imperturbation, vve muſt profeſs vvith the Apoſtle, VVe have not received the Spirit of the VVorld, but the Spirit vvhich is of God; […]
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Nineteenth Treatise. Of Violent Solitude, or Close Imprisonment. §. II. The Deficiency of Single Natural Reason Argued for Consolation in this Case; and the Validity of Grace Asserted.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 342:
glosses: Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness.
siphunculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: siphunculate
Etymology: From Latin sīphunculus + -ated.
Senses: examples: text: Cephalopods may have very various forms , and may even be chambered and siphunculated; but , in this case , the chamber nearest the mouth of the shell is small , and incapable of lodging the viscera
ref: 1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the anatomy of vertebrated animals:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a siphuncle.
photosharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo + sharing.
Senses: glosses: The sharing of photographic images, especially via social networking sites
spinpolarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinpolarizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spin polarization.
incrystallizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incrystallizable
form: most incrystallizable
Etymology: From in- + crystallizable.
Senses: synonyms: uncrystallizable
glosses: Not crystallizable; incapable of being formed into crystals.
negotiatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more negotiatory
form: most negotiatory
Etymology: From negotiate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: negotiatory evidence
text: negotiatory process
text: negotiatory function
glosses: Of or pertaining to negotiation.
platiniridium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of platinum + iridium
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.
spin polarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spin polarizations
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the intrinsic alignment of the angular momentum of a system
Related terms: spin-polarized
bitterful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bitterful
form: most bitterful
Etymology: From Middle English bitterful, equivalent to bitter + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Through his harmless proclamations can always be traced an innate gentleness of heart, a desire to effect uses and a courtesy, the possession of which would materially improve the bitterful living princes whose names will naturally suggest […]
ref: 1939, David Warren Ryder, San Francisco's Emperor Norton:
text: “Oh, Nip. You're going to be bitterful of wit at my expense?”
ref: 1960, Mountain of Villainy: A Triplicity
text: Now it came to pass that when Ptolemy, son of Lagus, came into this city with his army that these men, in observing this mad custom of their fathers, instead of guarding the city, suffered their country to submit itself to a bitterful lord, and their law was openly proved to have commanded a foolish practice.
ref: 1967, Leila Leah Bronner, Sects and Separatism During the Second Jewish Commonwealth:
text: Right to be superior, angry, resentful, bitterful. . . . Bitterful? Orin's bitterful quiverful. That was rather good — If he slept here.
ref: 1974, Mary Stolz, The edge of next year:
text: The 18th May movement was a struggle by courageous citizens to guard the country's democracy, Ko noted, adding that the occasion should no longer be remembered bitterful, but celebrated as a historic day on which May people sacrificed to contribute to the country's democratization.
ref: 1997, Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific:
synonyms: bitter
glosses: Full of bitterness.
Mahometist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mahometists
Etymology: From Mahomet + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Mohammedist.
Mahometists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mahometist
misdistinguish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misdistinguishes
form: misdistinguishing
form: misdistinguished
form: misdistinguished
Etymology: From mis- + distinguish.
Senses: examples: text: So that if we imagine a difference where there is none, because we distinguish where we should not, it may not be denied that we misdistinguish.
ref: 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, volume 3:
glosses: To make wrong distinctions in or concerning.
misdistinguished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdistinguish
spin-polarized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spin-polarized
form: most spin-polarized
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting spin polarization
misdistinguishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdistinguish
misdistinguishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdistinguish