cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
supraoccipital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supraoccipitals
Etymology: From supra- + occipital.
Senses: examples: text: Although the sutures are difficult to trace, the supraoccipital contacts the parietal anteriorly at a tight interdigitated suture, and contacts the ophistotic posterolaterally at a straight suture.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Cranial Anatomy and Palaeoneurology of the Archosaur Riojasuchus tenuisceps from the Los Colorados Formation, La Rioja, Argentina”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A bone on the dorsal side of the great foramen of the skull, usually forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but distinct in the young.
Derived terms: dermosupraoccipital
supraoccipitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supraoccipital
glossarially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more glossarially
form: most glossarially
Etymology: From glossarial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a glossary.
helmage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helm + -age.
Senses: glosses: guidance; direction; helming
appellatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɛlətəɹi/
ipa: /əˈpɛlətɹi/
ipa: /əˈpɛləˌtɔɹi/
Etymology: From Latin appellātōrius, from appellō.
Senses: examples: text: An appellatory libel ought to contain […]the name of the party appellant.
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
text: On this point, the appeal, although it was drawn up by an attorney, limited to criticism of an appellatory nature, without attempting to demonstrate that the interpretation or application of the law is untenable; it thus obviously confuses the Federal Court, which is a court of constitutional law, with an appeals court or a corrective authority having full power of cognizance and unlimited examining authority.
ref: 1985, United Nations Juridical Yearbook - Volumes 23-25, page 193:
text: The proclamation civis Romanus sum was essentially an appellatory formula: Paul was stressing his right to appeal to a higher judicial authority for protection against the illegal action of the Duoviri.
ref: 2010, Harry W. Tajra, The Trial of St. Paul, page 28:
topics: law
glosses: Containing or pertaining to a legal appeal.
examples: text: With respect to the supremacy of the Pope, it has not, I believe, been asserted, even by those who possess most facility of assertion, that his interference in the nomination of Bishops, any farther than the form of recognition, or his exercise of an appellatory jurisdiction upon matters relating to discipline, are, in any degree , necessary to the existence or purity of a Catholic hierarchy.
ref: 1823, Thomas Moore, The Works, page 100:
text: In the event of my not acceding, which was altogether the case, to the prayer of any one of these hospitable petitions, indeed I may say injunctions, as they were pretty generally adverted to by an appellatory clap on the shoulder, I was immediately put down, by the individual in question, as a "mean critter, and entirely unworthy of any gentleman's notice;"
ref: 1846, It Blows, it Snows: A Winter's Rambles Through Canada, page 221:
text: Inflexions limited to the interval of a semi-tone, or of a minor third (a tone and a half,) are plaintive; and those which range through the greater intervals of the major third (two tones,) fourth, fifth, &c., express proportionate degrees of intensity in the appellatory or assertive effect .
ref: 1881, David Charles Bell, Standard Elocutionist, page 19:
text: This means that all of them are subject to the same appellatory force that marks prophetic speech and accordingly go beyond pronouncements of particular semantic contents, being not just narrative or hymn but also testimonies of the speaker that these speeches are the word of Go, presented before hearers who must be won over by this testimony.
ref: 2019, Angelika Neuwirth, The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage, page 369:
glosses: Serving to ask or demand something.
appellatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɛlətəɹi/
ipa: /əˈpɛlətɹi/
ipa: /əˈpɛləˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: appellatories
Etymology: From Latin appellātōrius, from appellō.
Senses: examples: text: The legates, despairing of success, returned to give an account of their negotiation to the king; and the term of the appeal made by the bishops being almost expired, they took this opportunity of renewing it, and received appellatories from the cardinals, who signified to Becket at the same time, that he should not pass any censure upon the king, prelates, or realm of England, without the pope's express direction.
ref: 1758, T. Smollett, History of England - Volume 2, page 113:
text: (see title)
ref: 1829, Charles Dunne, The Appellatory, Or the Complaint of a Subject to His King Against Ministerial Tyranny and Opression, page 1:
text: And therein he doth ask and desire, first, second, third, yea, instantly, letters dismissory, appellatory, libels, or appellatories, to be given him according to order of law, submitting himself and his whole cause and causes, goods, dignity, state, and title, under the protection and defence of the king's majesty, according to law and custom in that behalf;
ref: 1838, John Foxe, Stephen Reed Cattley, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, page 790:
glosses: A written petition or appeal.
scambler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æmblə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scamblers
Etymology: From scamble + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who scambles.
scamblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scambler
flammation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flame + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Arsenic […]being artificial and sublimed with salt, will not endure flammation
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of setting on fire; inflammation
indart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: indarts
form: indarting
form: indarted
form: indarted
Etymology: From in- + dart.
Senses: glosses: To pierce as if with a dart.
indarted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indart
indarting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indart
indarts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indart
limehound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limehounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lyam-hound.
limehounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limehound
rammish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rammish
form: most rammish
Etymology: From Middle English rammysh, rammyssh, equivalent to ram + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a ram
glosses: rank, foul, or lascivious.
geire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geires
Etymology: Probably from a shortening of gerfalcon, or garefowl. Cognate with German Geier (“vulture”).
Senses: glosses: A vulture.
Glossic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latin glossa (“a word requiring a gloss”), + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Ellis's Glossic is a new concurrent system of spelling, intended to remedy the defects, without interfering with the use, ...
ref: 1873, The quarterly journal of science and annals of mining, metallurgy, engineering, industrial arts, manufactures, and technology, page 382:
text: The Glossic version is taken from Ellis's English Dialects, pp. 28, 29, compared with the more exact pateotype version in his English Pronunciation, Part V. pp. 61, 52. I have ventured to alter Ellis's Glossic spelling wherever I thought that I could ...
ref: 1892, James Gow, A Method of English for Secondary Schools, page 162:
text: The last improvement of Ellis's notational experiments was his 'veri eezi' Glossic of 1871, coupled with the Universal Glossic which aimed “at giving simbelz faur dhi moast mine'ut foanet-ik anal-isis yet achee-vd”.
ref: 1971, Roman Jakobson, Word and Language, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 458:
glosses: A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but always using one symbol to represent one sound.
gardenhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From garden + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a garden; the status, respect, or appearance befitting a proper garden.
broideries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broidery
broidery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broideries
Senses: examples: text: the golden broidery tender Milkah wove
ref: 1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens:
text: The lamp stood on the table, and Carrara leant by the huge tome spread out before him; and opposite sat Beatrice, bending over her broidery—the small head, with its rich knot of gathered hair, so exquisitely placed—the slender figure, so graceful in its attitude.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 145:
glosses: embroidery
tazel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tazels
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of teasel.
tazels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tazel
moschine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Moschus + -ine
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to genus Moschus or family Moscidae, including the musk deer.
degenerationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degenerationists
Etymology: From degeneration + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One who believes in the theory of degenerationism.
degenerationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degenerationist
dispatchment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispatchments
Etymology: Compare Old French despechement.
Senses: examples: text: For want of dispatchment of matters
ref: 1529, Cardinal Wolsey, State Trials:
glosses: The act of dispatching.
demidevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demidevils
Etymology: From demi- + devil.
Senses: examples: text: Othello: Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil / Why he hath thus ensnared my body and soul?
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A half-devil, half-human.
demidevils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demidevil
flagworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flagworms
Etymology: From flag + worm.
Senses: glosses: A worm or grub, such as Corthylus columbianus (chestnut timber worm, Columbian timber beetle), found among flags and sedge.
flagworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagworm
holaspidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield”) + -ean.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; said of certain birds.
Coordinate terms: endaspidean
exaspidean
pycnaspidean
taxaspidean
bordage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bordages
Etymology: Latin bordagium.
Senses: glosses: The low-level tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
bordages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bordage
rosulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rosulate
form: most rosulate
Etymology: New Latin rosulatus, from rosa (“a rose”).
Senses: examples: text: It appears to claim a very close relationship to the preceding species, differing chiefly in the tiny leaves being rather more rosulate than caudiculate, and in not being adpressed, but rather the reverse; its petals, also, are narrower.
ref: 1874, The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches, volume 5, page 326:
text: In young plants, the leaves are often more or less arranged in four vertical ranks, but become more rosulate with age.
ref: 1950, Gilbert Westacott Reynolds, The Aloes of South Africa, page 494:
text: […]differs from the typical form in having smaller, shorter more rosulate milky-green leaves, shorter sheaths, greenish-yellow buds, straighter flowers and narrower more or less unicoloured yellowish racemes.
ref: 1971, Hans Bornman, David S. Hardy, Aloes of the South African Veld, page 199:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Arranged in small rose-like clusters.
raw_tags: of leaves and bracts
Frankfort black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: German or Frankfort BLACK, is made of the lees of wine burnt , then wash'd ' in water and ground in mills[…]
ref: 1735, John Barrow, Dictionarium Polygraphicum:
glosses: A black pigment formerly used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc.
high-low
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪləʊ
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
related: word: high/low
glosses: Describing a game in which the high hand and the low hand win.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: Designating a blackjack card counting technique in which the lowest cards are worth +1 point and the highest cards −1 point, and the counter places higher bets against higher point totals.
high-low
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪləʊ
Forms: form: high-lows
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of highlow (“type of shoe”).
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game where a player has to guess if the next card will be higher or lower than the one shown.
high-lows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high-low
fardingdale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fardingdales
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of farthingale.
fardingdales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fardingdale
acicularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acicularly
form: most acicularly
Etymology: From acicular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an acicular way.
dimensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If of the smallest stars in sky / We know not the dimensity […]
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Sir L. D. in Paris”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: dimension
purportless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purportless
form: most purportless
Etymology: From purport + -less.
Senses: synonyms: meaningless
purposeless
glosses: Without purport or meaning.
cognoscibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As the sun gives to things not only their visibility , but also their generation ; so does that highest Good , not only cause the cognoscibility of things , but also their very essences and beings
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being cognoscible.
evincible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evincible
form: most evincible
Etymology: From evince + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: possibly the Immortality of the Soul is evincible by very great reason
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable.
Related terms: evincibly
Bourbonist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bourbonist
form: most Bourbonist
Etymology: From Bourbon + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Bourbonism
Bourbonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bourbonists
Etymology: From Bourbon + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Bourbonism.
Bourbonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bourbonist
dipropargyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + propargyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pungent volatile liquid, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives and isomeric with benzene.
Synonyms: dipropinyl
restoratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more restoratory
form: most restoratory
Senses: glosses: restorative
ophiurioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ophiuroid.
ophiurioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophiurioids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ophiuroid.
ophiurioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophiurioid
crossbarred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crossbar + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: doors, crossbarred and fast bolted
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
examples: text: crossbarred muslin
glosses: Made or patterned in lines crossing each other.
distermination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin disterminatio.
Senses: examples: text: This turning out of the Church, this Church-banishment, or distermination.
ref: 1657, Henry Hammond, Power Keys:
glosses: separation by bounds
changemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changemakers
Etymology: From change + maker.
Senses: glosses: One who makes a change.
changemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of changemaker
Drayton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹeɪ.tən/
rhymes: -eɪtən
Forms: form: Draytons
Etymology: From Middle English Drayton, from Old English Drægtūn (literally “town where logs are dragged”), from draġan (“to draw, drag”) + tūn (“enclosure, town”). Alternatively from Proto-Brythonic *treβ (“town, settlement”) + Old English tūn.
Senses: glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
A suburban area of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU672860).
glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP830922).
glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG185135).
glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
A suburb of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5662).
glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4241).
glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
A village and civil parish near Abingdon, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire.
glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
A village and civil parish in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST404248).
glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
A hamlet in Chaddesley Corbett parish, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO906760).
glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
A locality in Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
A community in Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
An unincorporated community in Dooly County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
A city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.
glosses: Any of several places in England, with more in other countries named after the English ones:
An unincorporated community in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Drayton Bassett
Drayton Beauchamp
Draytonian
Drayton Parslow
Drayton St. Leonard
Fen Drayton
Fenny Drayton
Market Drayton
West Drayton
surgeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒfəl/
Forms: form: more surgeful
form: most surgeful
Etymology: From surge + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: tossing the surgeful tides
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:
glosses: surging
unimplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + implicate.
Senses: examples: , Chapter XI
unimplicate in folly
glosses: Not implicated.
inexist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inexists
form: inexisting
form: inexisted
form: inexisted
Etymology: From in- + exist.
Senses: examples: text: the Object Inexists in the Knowiag[sic] Power as Another Thing
ref: 1700, John Sergeant, Transnatural Philisophy:
text: subsistencies inexisting within the divine Mind
ref: 1768–1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued:
glosses: To exist or live within.
inexisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inexist
inexisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inexist
inexists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inexist
trisplanchnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + splanchnic.
Senses: examples: text: trisplanchnic nerve = greater splanchnic nerve
text: trisplanchnic neurectomy
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the three great splanchnic cavities: those of the head, chest, and abdomen.
intussuscepted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See intussusception.
Senses: glosses: Received into some other thing or part, like a sword into a sheath.
examples: text: intussuscepted nipple valve
text: intussuscepted tissue
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Forming an intussusception.
thunderworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunderworms
Etymology: From thunder + worm, so called because it leaves its burrows after a thunderstorm.
Senses: synonyms: Florida worm lizard
graveyard snake
glosses: A small burrowing snake-like lizard (Rhineura floridana) native to Florida.
thunderworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunderworm
biognosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + Ancient Greek γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”).
Senses: glosses: The investigation of life.
portcluse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portcluses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of portcullis.
portcluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portcluse
sphex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sfɛks/
Forms: form: spheges
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Sphex, from the Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx, “wasp”), plural σφῆκες (sphêkes).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: digger wasp
glosses: Any of the sand wasps of Sphex and allied genera.
Derived terms: sphexish
antisphexish
sphexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphex
loppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loppy
form: most loppy
Etymology: From lop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: loppy ears
glosses: Somewhat lop; inclined to lop; droopy; floppy
examples: text: loppy sea
glosses: choppy; agitated
Derived terms: loppiness
Dorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dorisms
Senses: synonyms: Doricism
glosses: A Doric Greek phrase or style.
Dorisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dorism
furdle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dəl
Forms: form: furdles
form: furdling
form: furdled
form: furdled
Etymology: See fardel, and compare furl.
Senses: examples: text: Jericho[…]though crumpled and furdled up,[…], if infuſed in Water, will ſwell and diſplay its parts.
ref: c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
glosses: To draw up into a bundle; to roll up.
furdled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of furdle
furdles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of furdle
furdling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of furdle
seizor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seizors
Etymology: From seize + -or
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One who seizes or takes possession (for example, of vessels)
seizors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seizor
Upsaroka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Upsarokas
form: Upsaroka
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Absaroka.
Upsarokas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Upsaroka
aphetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.fəˌtaɪz/
Forms: form: aphetizes
form: aphetizing
form: aphetized
form: aphetized
Etymology: aphesis or aphetic + -ize.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To shorten by aphesis.
aphetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aphetize
aphetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aphetize
incontracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + contracted.
Senses: examples: text: This dialect uses the incontracted termination both in nouns and verbs.
ref: 1727, Anthony Blackwall, The Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated:
glosses: uncontracted
demolishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demolishments
Etymology: From demolish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: demolition (literal or figurative)
wishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wishly
form: most wishly
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of wistly.
Senses: examples: text: To die seemeth unto him a naturall and indifferent accident: thereon he wishly [translating justement] fixeth his sight, and thereon he resolveth without looking elsewhere.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.4:
glosses: Steadfastly; intently.
thiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thillers
Etymology: From thill + -er.
Senses: examples: text: , And apron, and scissars for head and for tail, / Whole bridle and saddle, whitleather, and nall, / With collars and harness, for thiller and all […]
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
text: [T]he middle of it [i.e., the thigh, is] the prop or thiller, the body the vveight, and the leg the povver; either of vvhich being brought by a ſharp angle to a dovvnright or perpendicular or more, vvith the thiller, vvill by ſo much leſſen the vveight, from the yielded aſſumption in that mechanick povver, That the point, vvhich is toucht by a perpendicular from the centre of heavineſs, is one of the terms: […]
ref: 1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, chapter V, in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. Wherein the Greatness, Littleness and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled. […], London: […] Robert Boulter, […], →OCLC, page 153:
glosses: The horse that goes between the thills, or shafts of a carriage, and supports them.
glosses: The last horse in a team.
thillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiller
dogsick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dog + sick.
Senses: glosses: Very unwell; sick as a dog.
cockneyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockneyisms
form: Cockneyism
Senses: glosses: The characteristics, manners, or dialect of a Cockney.
glosses: A Cockney phrase or idiom.
cockneyisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockneyism
drugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: druggers
Etymology: From drug + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] a rural citizen entered a druggist's shop and asked for ten cents' worth of magnesia. The drugger gave him some of Husband's magnesia, and labeled it as such. In half an hour the purchaser returned, and said he wanted ten cents' worth more. The drugger told him that he had given him a full dose. "I know that," replied the man; "I want this for my Wife!"
ref: 1870, Harper's Magazine:
glosses: A druggist.
druggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drugger
etwee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etwees
Senses: examples: text: The twinkling jewels, and the gold etwee,
With all its bright inhabitants
ref: a. 1763, William Shenstone, Economy: A Rhapsody, addressed to young poets:
text: From the inn she is taken to the house of the procuress, divested of her home-spun garb, and dressed in the gayest style of the day; her pincushion and scissars discarded for an etwee and watch, and the tender native hue of her complexion incrusted with paint, and disguised by patches.
ref: 1791 June 1, John Ireland, “The Harlot’s Progress. Plate I.”, in Hogarth Illustrated, volume I, [London]: J[ohn] & J[osiah] Boydell […], →OCLC, pages 4–5:
glosses: Obsolete form of étui.
etwees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etwee
irreconciliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ir- + reconciliation.
Senses: glosses: Lack of reconciliation; disagreement
Related terms: irreconcilable
irreconcilableness
reinterrogate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinterrogates
form: reinterrogating
form: reinterrogated
form: reinterrogated
Etymology: From re- + interrogate.
Senses: glosses: To interrogate again.
reinterrogated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinterrogate
reinterrogates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinterrogate
reinterrogating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinterrogate
semster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semsters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of seamster.
semsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semster
affranchisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French affranchissement.
Senses: glosses: The act of freeing; enfranchisement; emancipation.
Related terms: affranchise
enarched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From en- + arch + -ed.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Bent into a curve; said of a bend or other ordinary.
inextended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + extended.
Senses: synonyms: unextended
glosses: Not extended.
blennogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blenno- + -genous, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: glosses: Generating or producing mucus.
Synonyms: mucigenous
muciparous
mucogenic
bedrizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedrizzles
form: bedrizzling
form: bedrizzled
form: bedrizzled
Etymology: From be- + drizzle.
Senses: glosses: To drizzle upon (usually said of rain, but also of other liquids e.g. blood).
bedrizzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedrizzle
bedrizzles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedrizzle
bedrizzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedrizzle
disconvenient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disconvenient
form: most disconvenient
Etymology: From dis- + convenient.
Senses: examples: text: […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.
ref: 1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man:
glosses: Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.
pepsinhydrochloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pepsin + hydrochloric.
Senses: glosses: Only used in pepsinhydrochloric acid
niggardise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From niggard + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: “For he, whose daies in wilfull woe are worne, / The grace of his Creator doth despise, / That will not use his gifts for thanklesse nigardise.”
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Niggardliness.
windore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windores
Etymology: A corruption of window, or perhaps coined on the wrong assumption that window is from wind + door.
Senses: examples: text: Not as the ancient heroes did, / Who, that their base births might be hid, / Knowing they were of doubtful gender, / And that they came in at a windore, / Made Jupiter himself, and others / O' th' gods, gallants to their own mothers
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “(please specify the page)”, in Hudibras. The First Part. […], London: […] J. G. for Richard Marriot, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of window.
windores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windore
eupathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eupathy
eupathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːpəθi/
Forms: form: eupathies
Etymology: From eu- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: For then is there said to be an Eupathy or good Disposition of the Affections
ref: a. 1710, Richard Browne, transl., Plutarch's Natural Questions:
glosses: Right feeling.
ornithotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ornitho- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: The anatomy or dissection of birds.
Derived terms: ornithotomist
reletting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relet
reletting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relettings
Senses: glosses: An instance of letting a property again.
roseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosery
rosery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roseries
Etymology: From rose + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A rose garden
lixivia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lixivium
lixivium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lixiviums
form: lixivia
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lixivium, lixivia, from lixīvus. See lixivial.
Senses: synonyms: lye
glosses: A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes.
glosses: Any solution obtained by lixiviation.
holocryptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɒl.əˈkɹɪp.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌhɑ.ləˈkɹɪp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Etymology: From holo- + cryptic.
Senses: examples: text: A holocryptic cipher is one constructed so as to offer no clue to its meaning to anybody without the key.
text: A holocryptic code
glosses: Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered.
temporizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more temporizingly
form: most temporizingly
Etymology: From temporizing + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: yieldingly
glosses: In a temporizing manner.
blaubok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blauboks
Etymology: Dutch.
Senses: glosses: The bluebuck.
blauboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blaubok
reencourage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reencourages
form: reencouraging
form: reencouraged
form: reencouraged
Etymology: From re- + encourage.
Senses: hypernyms: encourage#Verb
coordinate_terms: remotivate#Verb
reinspire#Verb
reinvigorate#Verb
glosses: To encourage again.
Related terms: reencouragement
reencouraged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reencourage
reencourages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reencourage
reencouraging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reencourage
wrest block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrest blocks
form: wrest-block
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A wooden block in the pianoforte, often made of several pieces, into which the wrest-pins are driven.
Synonyms: pin block
wrest plank
insanable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin īnsānābilis. Compare Old French insanable. See in- (“not”) + sanable.
Senses: examples: text: […] by the Cirrhæan spikes, by the boiled head of my own baby served in Egyptian vinegar, I curse the whole insanable cacoëthical cohort of scriptitating—
ref: 1921, Frank Moore Colby, The Margin of Hesitation, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 132:
synonyms: sanable
glosses: Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.
prehensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Adapted to seize or grasp; prehensile.
rusticly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rusticly
form: most rusticly
Etymology: From rustic + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “To you it seems so,” rusticly Ajax Oïleus said, “Your words are suited to your eyes.[…]"
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book XXIII”, 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: Archaic form of rustically.
confectory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: the wanton might Of Confectory Art endeavor'd how
To charm all Tasts to their sweet overthrow
ref: 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “(please specify the canto number)”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Relating to the art of making confectionery.
confectory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confectories
Senses: glosses: confectioner's; sweetshop
emperorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emperorships
Etymology: From emperor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or office of an emperor.
emperorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emperorship
link rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of linkrot.
doublehearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doublehearted
form: most doublehearted
Etymology: From double + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: double-hearted hypocrite
ref: 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:
glosses: deceitful; treacherous; double-crossing.
smaragdite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smaragdites
Etymology: Compare French smaragdite; so called from its emerald-green color. See smaragd.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varieties of gabbro.
smaragdites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smaragdite
missel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsəl/
rhymes: -ɪsəl
Forms: form: missels
Senses: glosses: A missel thrush.
glosses: mistletoe
Related terms: missel thrush
missel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsəl/
rhymes: -ɪsəl
Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses.
missel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsəl/
rhymes: -ɪsəl
Forms: form: missels
Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses.
lixiviums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lixivium
wrest-block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrest-blocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wrest block.
pentadactyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pentadactyloid
form: most pentadactyloid
Etymology: From pentadactyl + -oid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the form of, or a structure modified from, a pentadactyl limb; having an underlying structure that is a limb with five digits (although these may be fused or only exist in vestigial form).
bilinguar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bilingual.
beef-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beef-witted
form: most beef-witted
Etymology: From beef + witted.
Senses: examples: text: The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!
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 II, scene i]:
glosses: stupid; dull
ridiculize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ridiculizes
form: ridiculizing
form: ridiculized
form: ridiculized
Etymology: From ridicule + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: My heart still trembling, lest the false alarmes
That words oft strike up should ridiculize me.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Twenty-third Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: To make ridiculous; to ridicule.
ridiculized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ridiculize
ridiculizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ridiculize
ridiculizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ridiculize
prohibiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prohibiters
Etymology: From prohibit + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who prohibits or forbids.
examples: text: a prohibiter of movement
glosses: Something that prohibits or hinders.
prohibiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prohibiter
muriatiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more muriatiferous
form: most muriatiferous
Etymology: From muriatic + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: muriatiferous clay
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Producing muriatic substances or salt.
goff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒf
Senses: examples: text: Forester soon took an aversion to the game of goff, and recollected Scotch reels with less contempt.
ref: 1848, Maria Edgeworth, The Gardener:
glosses: Obsolete form of golf (“ball game”).
goff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒf
Forms: form: goffs
Etymology: Compare French goffe (“ill-made, awkward”), Italian goffo, Spanish gofo, German dialect Goff (“a blockhead”).
Senses: examples: text: He calls the bishop Grey-beard Goff,
And makes his power a mere scoff.
ref: 1678, “The Geneva Ballad”:
glosses: A fool; a clown.
goff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒf
Forms: form: goffs
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
synonyms: word: bump
extra: sudden movement of underground strata
furacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin furacitas.
Senses: examples: text: they are ſly, cunning, and artful to a great degree; they glory in every species of furacity and artifice , eſpecially when the theft or deception has been ſo well executed as to eſcape detection.
ref: 1790, Edward Umfreville, The Present State of Hudson's Bay:
glosses: The habit of, or addiction to, theft; thievery.
stanchly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stanchly
form: most stanchly
Etymology: From stanch + -ly.
Senses: glosses: staunchly
manumotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manumotors
Etymology: From Latin manus (“hand”) + mōtō (“I move, set in motion”).
Senses: glosses: A small wheeled carriage that could be moved by its occupant
Related terms: pedomotor
manumotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin manus (“hand”) + mōtō (“I move, set in motion”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: vocimotor
glosses: Relating to the physical process of handwriting.
manumotors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manumotor
inbeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inbeings
Etymology: From in- + being. Compare Old English onwist (“habitation”), Dutch aanwezigheid (“presence, existence”).
Senses: glosses: The fact or state of being in; existence in something else.
examples: text: This is not spoken concerning the union, the inbeing, or indwelling of any distinct divine nature of Christ
ref: 1746, Isaac Watts, Useful and Important Questions Concerning Jesus the Son of God Freely Proposed: With a Humble Attempt to Answer Them According to Scripture:
glosses: Inherence; inherent existence; indwelling; immanence.
glosses: Inward or essential nature; that which a thing is in itself.
qualifier: applied to the persons of the Trinity
glosses: An indwelling being.
gulleting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gullet + -ing.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.
batfowling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bat-fowling.
botchedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more botchedly
form: most botchedly
Etymology: From botched + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a botched manner.
dynamitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dynamite + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The work of dynamiters.