cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
conoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Etymology: From conoid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: And a moment later a conoidal bullet struck him square in the chest and knocked him flat in the dirt among his comrades.
ref: 1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige:
text: Many different forms have been given to the heads of projectiles, as flat, ogival, hemispherical, conoidal, parabolic, blunt trifaced, etc.
ref: 1891, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891:
glosses: Having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape.
Derived terms: conoidally
interconoidal
intraconoidal
preconoidal
intastable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + tastable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being tasted.
monorhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monorhymes
Etymology: From mono- + rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: Until 1629 no other rhyme scheme approaches the importance of monorhyme; in 1655–1729 alternating rhyme numbers over half of the total output, and for two of the next three generations it drops down to about a third.
ref: 2013, David Malkiel, Stones Speak - Hebrew Tombstones from Padua, 1529-1862, page 36:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A poem or rhyme scheme whose lines all end with the same rhyme.
monorhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + rhyme.
Senses: glosses: Having a single rhyme
monorhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monorhyme
paramorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramorphs
Etymology: From para- + -morph.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of pseudomorph in which there has been a change of physical characteristics without alteration of chemical composition, as in the change of aragonite to calcite.
Synonyms: sense: form of mineral
word: allomorph
paramorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paramorph
consentingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consentingly
form: most consentingly
Etymology: From consenting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It'll be more sociable," the masseuse suggested, lifting her bag to the table and covering its shiny onyx surface with bottles and polishers. Mrs. Spragg consentingly slipped the rings from her small mottled hands.
ref: 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country:
text: Yet, as he talked, Dosia became curiously aware that from his position directly across the room he was covertly watching her as she sat consentingly listening to George Sutton, whose round face was bending over very near, his thick coat sleeve pinning down the filmy ruffles of hers as it rested on the carved arm of the little sofa.
ref: 1894, Various, McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908:
text: I know some who consentingly have acquired both profit and advancement from cuckoldom, of which the bare name only affrights so many people.
ref: 1877, Charles Cotton, The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 7:
glosses: in a consenting manner, showing consent
objectize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: objectizes
form: objectizing
form: objectized
form: objectized
Etymology: From object + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: […] an indestructible power with two opposite and counteracting forces, which,[…], we may call the centrifugal and centripetal forces. The intelligence in the one tends to objectize itself, and in the other to know itself in the object.
ref: 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “A Chapter of Requests and Premonitions concerning the Perusal or Omission of the Chapter that Follows”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, page 275:
glosses: To turn into, or treat as, an object; to objectify.
objectized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of objectize
objectizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of objectize
objectizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of objectize
refrangibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refrangibility
refrangibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈfɹændʒɪbəl/
Forms: form: refrangibilities
Etymology: Compare French réfrangibilité.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being refrangible.
consideringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consideringly
form: most consideringly
Etymology: From considering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Sara surveyed his goodly proportions consideringly.
ref: 1920, Margaret Pedler, The Hermit of Far End:
text: Miss Howe signed her note and bit consideringly at the end of her pen.
ref: 1899, Mrs. Everard Cotes (Sara Jeannette Duncan), The Path of a Star:
text: Tom was a thoroughly practical kind of a young fellow, and now he shook his head consideringly.
ref: 1894, Gordon Stables, As We Sweep Through The Deep:
glosses: in a manner suggesting one is considering, pensively
hypnum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypnums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Hypnum of mosses.
hypnums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypnum
constrainedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more constrainedly
form: most constrainedly
Etymology: From constrained + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As his glance met that of Mr. Calvert, he bowed constrainedly, and the red of his face deepened.
ref: 1903, Carter Goodloe, Calvert of Strathore:
glosses: in a constrained manner; subject to constraint
comminglements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comminglement
contextless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From context + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Like their fellow Glaswegians in Arab Strap, Scatter like to add contextless and slightly cryptic monologues to their music--an unfortunate predilection, since the delivery usually sounds forced and overstrict alongside the impulsive swells of the band's free-folk drone.
ref: 2006 March 24, Mia Lily Clarke, Monica Kendrick, Brian McManus, “Short Takes on Recent Releases”, in Chicago Reader:
text: What is a problem, though, is that the fictional math in WN is extremely important but also extremely vague, comprising mostly repeated and contextless verbiage--"If I could only establish its K-reducibility with the aid of a suitable calibrator set!"
ref: 2000 December 22, David Foster Wallace, “FICTION: Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama”, in Science, volume 290, number 5500, →DOI, pages 2263–2267:
glosses: without context
Derived terms: contextlessness
foreseeingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foreseeingly
form: most foreseeingly
Etymology: From foreseeing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With foresight.
continency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒntɪnənsi/
Forms: form: continencies
Senses: examples: text: [22] But the fruit of the Spirit is: charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, [23] mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity.
ref: 1610, Douay–Rheims Bible, Galatians 5:22-23
glosses: Alternative form of continence.
conversationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversationists
Etymology: From conversation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Witty, learned, imaginative, she was conceded to be the best conversationist in any circle.
ref: 1914, Sarah Knowles Bolton, Lives of Girls Who Became Famous:
text: BROWN, SAMUEL, M.D., chemist, born in Haddington, grandson of John Brown of Haddington, whose life was devoted, with the zeal of a mediaeval alchemist, to a reconstruction of the science of atomics, which he did not live to see realised: a man of genius, a brilliant conversationist and an associate of the most intellectual men of his time, among the number De Quincey, Carlyle, and Emerson; wrote "Lay Sermons on the Theory of Christianity," "Lectures on the Atomic Theory," and two volumes of "Essays, Scientific and Literary" (1817-1856).
ref: 1907, Edited by Rev. James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia:
text: [A] He was expert at fence, had some skill in drawing, and was a ready and eloquent conversationist and declaimer.
ref: 1850, Various, International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,:
glosses: Someone skilled in the art of conversation.
dyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The candle's flame flickered dyingly and finally went out.
glosses: While, or as if, dying.
dittander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈtændə]
Forms: form: ditander
Etymology: From an Anglo-Norman or Middle English form ditaundere attested in a glossary ca. 1265 and by an obscure reason extended from the word underlying dittany.
Senses: synonyms: broadleaved pepperweed
dittany
perennial pepperweed
pepperwort
peppergrass
tall whitetop
glosses: A peppergrass of species Lepidium latifolium, native from Iberia to the Himalayas, introduced elsewhere.
counterstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntəstɹəʊk/
Forms: form: counterstrokes
Etymology: From counter- + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: He met him with a counterstroke so swift, / That quite smit off his arme as he it up did lift.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A blow given in return.
examples: text: The declaration of the Allied Governments that they will not conclude peace separately during the war or demand terms of peace without previous agreement with each other is an opportune counterstroke to the campaign initiated by Germany for the purpose of detaching France from Russia and especially from Britain.
ref: 1914, Various, New York Times Current History= The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2:
text: She could understand how a man like Monohan would hate a man like Jack Fyfe, would nurse and feed on the venom of his hate until setting a torch to Fyfe's timber would be a likely enough counterstroke.
ref: 1916, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Big Timber:
text: May 1947 EDISON'S CONQUEST OF MARS CHAPTER ONE "LET US GO TO MARS" It is impossible that the stupendous events which followed the disastrous invasion of the earth by the Martians should go without record, and circumstances having placed the facts at my disposal, I deem it a duty, both to posterity and to those who were witnesses of and participants in the avenging counterstroke that the earth dealt back at its ruthless enemy in the heavens, to write down the story in a connected form.
ref: 1947, Garrett Putnam Serviss, Edison's Conquest of Mars:
glosses: A retaliation.
noctilucine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noctilucin
Etymology: From Latin noctilūca (“firefly”) + -ine. Term coined by British scientist Thomas Lamb Phipson (1833–1908). It appeared first in his article On noctilucine, the phosphorescent principle of luminous animals, published in The chemical new, vol. 32, no. 832, on November 5, 1875.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrogenous substance in fireflies, glowworms and marine animals, once believed to be responsible for their luminescence.
disannuller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disannullers
Etymology: From disannul + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disannuls.
disannullers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disannuller
grapy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: grapier
form: grapiest
Etymology: From Middle English grapy, equivalent to grape + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grapey.
Derived terms: grapiness
cutcherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutcherries
form: cutchery
form: katcheri
form: katcherry
form: kacheri
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-
Sanskrit कृ (kṛ)
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Sanskrit -य (-ya)
Sanskrit कृत्य (kṛtya)
Ashokan Prakrit 𑀓𑀘 (kaca)
Prakrit 𑀓𑀘𑁆𑀘 (kacca)
Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-der.
Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰr̥dʰás
Sanskrit गृह (gṛha)
Ashokan Prakrit *𑀕𑀭𑁆𑀳 (*garha)
Prakrit 𑀖𑀭 (ghara)
Prakrit -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-)
Prakrit *𑀓𑀘𑁆𑀘𑀳𑀭𑀺𑀆 (*kaccahariā)
Hindi कचहरी (kacahrī)bor.
Marathi कचेरी (kacerī)bor.
Tamil கச்சேரி (kaccēri)bor.
English cutcherry
Borrowed from Tamil கச்சேரி (kaccēri, “office, administrative office”).
Senses: examples: text: The cutcherry clerks and the police are with him everywhere; higher native officials are often on his side.
ref: 1914, George Robert Aberigh-Mackay, Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series:
text: He went to the cutcherry and enrolled himself as a muktear (attorney) and soon the litigants and the magistrates found out how clever he was and he acquired a big practice.
ref: 1909, Cecil Henry Bompas, Folklore of the Santal Parganas:
text: --Since the first edition was published, I have been told by a late officer of the Ceylon Government, that many years ago, what remained of the Dutch records were removed from the record-room of the Colonial Office to the cutcherry of the government agent of the western province: where some of them may still be found.
ref: 1860, James Emerson Tennent, Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and:
glosses: An administration office in India.
examples: text: I walked through the ruins of the Fort of Bangalore ... it is not without some degree of magnificence. On the upper storey it contains four halls, each comprising two balconies of state for the prince, and each balcony faces a different Cutchery, or court for giving audience. No person, except a few trusty guards, were admitted into the hall with the Sultan: but at each end of the court was erected a balcony for the officers of the highest rank.
ref: 1807, Francis Buchanan, A Journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore, Cananara and Malabar, London:
glosses: A hall used for business, political, or social assemblies, such as a magistrate's court or a building housing a public agency.
glosses: Kaempferia galanga, a plant resembling ginger.
Related terms: kedgeree
cutcherries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutcherry
Hangchou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 杭州 (Hángzhōu) Wade-Giles romanization: Hang²-chou¹.
Senses: examples: text: The Emperor Kao-tsung (1107-1162), whose official name was Kou, and whose familiar name was Te-chi, was the ninth son of the Emperor Hui-tsung. At first he was entitled Prince of K'ang, but on the two emperors Hui-tsung and Ch'in-tsung being taken north as prisoners by the Khitan he established himself as emperor in Hangchou.
ref: 1971, Masterpieces of Chinese Album Painting in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, page 124:
text: The Sung Dynasty is divided into a Northern and Southern Sung, the former when the capital was at Kaifeng, and the latter when Hangchou was the capital.
ref: 1983, Edwin T. Morris, The Gardens of China, Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, page 16:
text: When the dust settled, there was the Chin dynasty with its own emperor plus two Sung emperors as prisoners in the north, and Kao-tsung, the first emperor of the Southern Sung, in Hangchou.
ref: 1994, Julie Landau, Beyond Spring, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 227:
glosses: Alternative form of Hangzhou.
Dairen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dīʹrěnʹ
Etymology: From Japanese 大連(だいれん) (Dairen).
Senses: examples: text: That treaty gave into the possession of the victorious Japanese, subject to agreement with China, the Kwantung Territory and the southern portion of the Manchurian Railway, from Changchun to Dairen and Port Arthur, and all the property pertaining thereto, including extensive, partially developed mines.
ref: 1922, South Manchuria Railway Company, Manchuria Land of Opportunities, Thomas F. Logan, Inc., page 6:
text: Negotiating with Stalin was like dealing with an octopus. At Yalta it had been agreed that Dairen in China would be an open port that the Chinese could use. And now they were trying- it'd be under the control of the Chinese, that the Russians could use is what I intended to say. And, it was now an approach, by Stalin, that would have given him complete possession of that part of Manchuria. And that, I wasn't in favor of doing.[...]Dairen would be administered by the Chinese, as a Chinese port, but it would be a free port that everybody could use including the Russians.
ref: 1965, Harry S. Truman, MP2002-390 Former President Truman Recalls Stalin's Broken Agreement About the Port of Dairen, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
text: The reported population in 1953 was 126,000 for Port Arthur and 766,400 for Dairen.
ref: 1967, Nai-Ruenn Chen, Chinese Economic Statistics: A Handbook for Mainland China, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 131:
text: Post quake priorities also affected water, road, and air cargoes. Hsin-kang, one of China's largest ports, was put out of operation, forcing diversion of ships to Dairen, Tsingtao, and Shanghai, creating some congestion. By late August, however, ships were moving in and out of Hsin-kang port.
ref: 1976, National Intelligence Daily Cable, page 4:
text: Sun, 46, a test pilot stationed in Dairen on the mainland, flew his MiG-21 jet fighter to an air base near Seoul on Aug. 7.
ref: 1983 August 21, “Seoul Decision To Allow Sun's Asylum Cheered”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIV, number 33, Taipei, page 4:
text: In 1939, he worked for the Manchuria Daily News, an English-language newspaper in Dairen, China.
ref: 1992 December 13, “Shin Higashi, Japanese Journalist, Dies”, in AP News, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2020:
text: Aug 22, 1945 Russian airborne landings at Port Arthur and Dairen
ref: 2012, A. A. Evans, David Gibbons, The Illustrated Timeline of World War II, Rosen Publishing, page 247:
text: In early 1931 it planned to cooperate with Zhang Xueliang in order to construct a new transportation and telecommunications system that threatened to undermine the dominant position of the Japanese-controlled Southern Manchurian Railroad, and develop its own port at Hulutao as a competitor with Dairen.
ref: 2015, Alfred J. Rieber, “The borderland thesis: the east”, in Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 136:
glosses: Synonym of Dalian: the Japanese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Dalian
extra: the Japanese-derived name
Kano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːnoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hausa Kanṑ.
Senses: glosses: A state of Nigeria in the North West geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Kano City.
glosses: The largest city and state capital of Kano State, Nigeria.
Derived terms: Kannywood
Kano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːnoʊ/
Forms: form: Kanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 狩野 (Kano) or Japanese 加納 (Kanō).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Sultanate of Oman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sultanate of Oman
Senses: glosses: Official name of Oman: a country in West Asia, on the Arabian Peninsula.
Jidda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: at last the Suva appeared, with Captain Boyle, who took me back to Jidda.
ref: 1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 109:
text: When we landed in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, the temperature was above 100 degrees.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1012:
glosses: Alternative form of Jeddah.
Lyallpur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani لائل پور (lāyal pur) / लायलपुर (lāyalpur), named after James Broadwood Lyall.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Faisalabad, a city in Punjab Pakistan.
wikipedia: James Broadwood Lyall
gamespace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamespaces
Etymology: From game + space.
Senses: examples: the value placed on social interaction in gamespaces
glosses: The virtual space within which a video game takes place.
gamespaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamespace
Saint Louis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪnt ˈluːɪs/
ipa: /seɪnt ˈluəs/
ipa: /seɪntˈluːwi/
ipa: /sənt ˈluːɪs/
ipa: /sɑn ˈlui/
ipa: /seɪnt ˈluːwiː/
Forms: form: St Louis
form: St. Louis
form: Saint-Louis
Etymology: From French Saint-Louis, usually after King Louis IX of France (sometimes with oblique reference to later French kings named Louis). Sometimes after other places named for him. In the case of the Alsace commune, originally from German Sankt Ludwig bei Basel. In the case of the Minnesota river, thought to reference its French discoverer's recent Cross of Saint Louis, named for the French king. Doublet of São Luís.
Senses: examples: text: ...that Saint Louis smarty that thinks he dresses so fine...
ref: 1876, “Mark Twain”, in Tom Sawyer, page 156:
glosses: A city in eastern Missouri, United States, near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and formerly important in the United States' westward expansion.
glosses: A river in northeastern Minnesota, United States.
Derived terms: word: East St. Louis
word: East Saint Louis
word: Saint Louisan
word: Saint Louisian
word: Saint Louis County
english: nickname for St. Louis, Missouri
translation: nickname for St. Louis, Missouri
word: the Lou
Campinas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil.
Meshed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mashhad.
Taegu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /taˈɡuː/
ipa: /tæˈɡu/
ipa: /ˈteɪɡu/
rhymes: -uː
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Daegu.
Guayaquil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital of the state of Guayas, Ecuador, and the largest city in Ecuador.
Hofei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In the fall of 1939 Miss Wilkinson returned to do mission work in Occupied China. She gave a year’s service to Nantungchow. In the fall of 1940 she returned to Hofei and had the experience of sharing for a brief period with folk who, in her own familiar setting, had undergone the experience of life under Japanese occupation. After only a short time in Hofei Miss Wilkinson joined others of the women missionaries of the Disciples of Christ who, in response to the consular request that American women and children leave China, returned home in January of 1941.
ref: 1948, They Went to China, United Christian Missionary Society, page 47:
text: I spent a day and a night in Hofei, the provincial capital of Anhwei, thanks to one of those unforeseen incidents that make the Chinese airlines so charming.[...]Two hours later, we landed in Hofei, where we were stuck in the airport, flattened by an African heat (this was August) bristling with cicadas.[...]The authorities in charge decided that I would stay in the Hofei Guest House, a luxurious place recently built on a hill outside the city, with a very nice garden and a lotus-covered pond.[...]Though Hofei is the provincial capital and must have about a million inhabitants, it appears that it never receives foreign tourists; it has no model factories and no Maoist relics—nothing worth organizing a guided visit.[...]But Hofei did have—like Peking, Canton, Soochow, Loyang, Sian, and most of the other cities I visited—an exhibit of archaeological objects "found in the province during the Cultural Revolution."
ref: 1977, Simon Leys, Chinese Shadows, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 82–83:
text: Three out of the four Chang sisters grew up in Soochow, yet they all considered themselves "natives of Hofei": they spoke Hofei dialect, had Hofei nurse-nannies, and could all recall details of that world, even though they had only heard about it from other people.
Hofei sits in the middle of Anhwei province, between the Huai and the Yangtze Rivers.* The military first recognized its strategic importance twenty-seven hundred years ago. Then, Hofei straddled two rival kingdoms and so naturally became the venue of their seesaw struggles.
ref: 2002, Annping Chin, Four Sisters of Hofei, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23:
text: Dr. and Mrs. Corpron returned to Hofei (formerly known as Luchow-fu) and at once began repairing the hospital.
ref: 2012, Tim L. Adsit, Seeds of Change, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of Hefei.
Belem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Belém.
collidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collidines
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of six isomers of trimethylpyridine
collidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collidine
Douala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The largest city of Cameroon, situated on the west coast.
overtread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtreads
form: overtreading
form: overtrod
form: overtrodden
Etymology: From Middle English overtreden, from Old English ofertredan.
Senses: glosses: To tread over or upon.
overtreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtread
overtreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtread
Yaounde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yaoundé.
overtrod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of overtread
overtrodden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of overtread
Dusseldorf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Düsseldorf.
do.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ditto.
kittysol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kittysols
form: kettisol
form: kittisal
form: kittysoll
form: quitasol
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish quitasol.
Senses: glosses: A Chinese parasol of paper and bamboo.
kittysols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kittysol
bioplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From bioplasm + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: bioplastic
text: bioplasmic forces
text: bioplasmic molecule
text: bioplasmic energy
glosses: Pertaining to, or consisting of, bioplasm.
insculption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insculptions
Senses: glosses: inscription
Related terms: insculpt
insculptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insculption
misfashion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misfashions
form: misfashioning
form: misfashioned
form: misfashioned
Etymology: From mis- + fashion.
Senses: glosses: To form, make, or fashion wrongly.
misfashioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfashion
misfashioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfashion
misfashions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfashion
ahigh
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈhaɪ/
Etymology: From Middle English a-high. By surface analysis, a- + high.
Senses: examples: text: One heaved a-high to be hurled down below,
ref: c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, act 4, scene 4, line 86:
glosses: on high
bell jar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell jars
Senses: glosses: A piece of laboratory equipment used for creating vacuums, often made of glass in a bell-like shape.
glosses: A bell-shaped glass used to cover and protect items such as food.
Related terms: sense: bell-shaped glass cover
word: cloche
bell jars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell jar
hospitage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hospitages
Etymology: From Latin hospitagium, for Latin hospitium. See hospice.
Senses: examples: text: That his ungentle hoste n'ote
him appeach
Of vile ungentlenesse or hospitages breach
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: hospitality (lodging or putting someone up)
purificative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purificative
form: most purificative
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pūrificātīvus.
Senses: synonyms: cathartic
purgative
purifying
glosses: Having power to purify or cleanse.
wandy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwɒndi/
Forms: form: more wandy
form: most wandy
Etymology: From wand + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His wandy circlet with his bladed bands
ref: 1880, Sidney Lanier, “On a Palmetto”, in Poems:
glosses: Long and flexible, like a wand; wandlike
convocational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more convocational
form: most convocational
Etymology: From convocation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: convocational reform
text: convocational transcript
text: convocational service
glosses: Of or pertaining to a convocation.
Derived terms: convocationally
gibingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gibingly
form: most gibingly
Etymology: From gibing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] but your loves,
Thinking upon his services, took from you
The apprehension of his present portance,
Which most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion
After the inveterate hate he bears you.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: “You little fool!” he said half-angrily, half-gibingly; and thereafter they rode in silence - she too mortified with shame and anger to venture upon words.
ref: 1904, Rafael Sabatini, chapter 25, in The Tavern Knight:
glosses: With gibes; scornfully; jestingly.
ropish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ropish
form: most ropish
Etymology: From rope + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat ropy.
glosses: ropelike
vassaless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌvæsəˈlɛs/
Forms: form: vassalesses
Etymology: From vassal + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Should to a beast his noble heart embase ,
And be the vassal of his vassaless
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A female vassal.
vassalesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vassaless
displeasantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more displeasantly
form: most displeasantly
Etymology: From displeasant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a displeasant manner.
nitrosaccharin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nitro- + saccharin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, guncotton, etc.
uveous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uva + -eous.
Senses: examples: text: Behind, concealed by woods of pine, / There grew on plains the uveous vine;
ref: 1879, Robert Scott, Poems, page 3:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grape or grapes.
Synonyms: sense: of or pertaining to grapes
word: grapey
uveous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uvea + -ous. (Related to above via Latin uva.)
Senses: examples: text: The uveous coat and the inside of the choroides are wonderfully blackened;[…].
ref: 1721, Cotton Mather, The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements, published 1815, page 250:
text: 1760, cataract, entry in Thomas Dyche, A New General Engliſh Dictionary, unnumbered page,
[…] alſo a diſtemper in the eyes cauſed by the congelation of phlegm between the uveous coat and cryſtalline humour.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the uvea; uveal.
Synonyms: sense: of or pertaining to the uvea
word: uveal
wieldance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wield + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: […] this spiritual edge shall either turn again, or, through our weak wieldance, not enter the stubborn and thick hide of obdured hearts […]
ref: 1626, Joseph Hall, Saint Paul's Combat. Part II:
glosses: wielding.
ribaudries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribaudry
ribaudry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribaudries
Senses: examples: text: And roll with rest in rhymes of ribaudry
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “October. Ægloga Decima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of ribaldry.
involucellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more involucellate
form: most involucellate
Etymology: From involucel + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing involucels.
seismic damper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismic dampers
Senses: glosses: A mechanical device to dissipate kinetic energy of seismic waves penetrating a building structure.
languaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From language + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The city since of many-languaged men
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book 20”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having a specified type or number of languages.
glosses: Skilled in, or capable of, language.
Derived terms: overlanguaged
underlanguaged
unlanguaged
languaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From language + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of language
nevadite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Nevada + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A granitoid variety of rhyolite.
overrigid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrigid
form: most overrigid
Etymology: From over- + rigid.
Senses: glosses: Too rigid or severe.
Derived terms: overrigidly
wouldingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] whatsoever you do, you do, first, against one velleity, or wouldingness, or other; and secondly, with some mixture of the contrary […]
ref: 1644, Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism:
glosses: willingness; desire
seismic dampers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seismic damper
moff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Uncertain. Akin to the synonymous Georgian მოვი (movi), Armenian մով (mov) and Persian [script needed] (mov), the latter attested ca. 1540 in ʿAlamara-ye Shah Tahmasp in the phrase [script needed] (alecheh-ye mov kar-e Hend, “mov-alacha made in India”). Note further Tajik мовут (movut), Uzbek movut (“broadcloth”).
Senses: glosses: A thin silk material made in the Caucasus.
moff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moffs
Etymology: Mutation of moth
Senses: glosses: A moth.
affectibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of affectability.
dendrologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛndˈɹɒlədʒɪst/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: dendrologists
Etymology: From dendrology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: an expert or student of dendrology; someone knowledgeable about trees
dendrologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dendrologist
jereed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jereeds
form: djereed
form: djerid
form: djerrid
form: jerid
form: jerreed
form: jerrid
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish جرید (cirid) (Turkish cirit), from Arabic جَرِيد (jarīd).
Senses: examples: text: The spur hath lanced his courser's sides—
 Away—away—for life he rides—
 Swift as the hurled on high jerreed,
 Springs to the touch his startled steed, […]
ref: 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale, 8th edition, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 12, lines 249–252:
glosses: A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights.
glosses: A traditional Turkish equestrian team sport played outdoors on horseback in which the objective is to score points by throwing a blunt wooden javelin at opposing team's horsemen.
jereeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jereed
legislatorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legislatorships
Etymology: From legislator + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: His conduct, while he was there, was equally unprincipled, if not as atrocious, as it has been since his elevation to the Legislatorship.
ref: 1793, George Huddesford, Topsy Turvy:
glosses: The office or position of a legislator.
legislatorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legislatorship
gunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunnies
form: gunnieses
form: gunnis
form: gunniss
Etymology: Borrowed from Cornish gonis (“gunnies”).
Senses: examples: text: At the mines of Bruay the gunnies are filled by rubbish from the surface, carried down through pipes by a current of water.
ref: 1911, Mining Journal, page 811:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A vacant space left in the ground after a lode has been mined.
gunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunny
fb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fbs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of football.
glosses: Abbreviation of femboy.
fb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fbs
form: fbing
form: fbed
form: fbed
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of follow back.
retorter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retorters
Etymology: From retort + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who retorts.
retorters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retorter
dispraisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dispraisingly
form: most dispraisingly
Etymology: From dispraising + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By way of dispraise; reproachfully.
orthodoxally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more orthodoxally
form: most orthodoxally
Etymology: From orthodoxal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [...] in plain Engliſh, more warily, more judiciouſly, more orthodoxally than twice their number of Divines have don in many a prolix Volume: [...]
ref: 1659 February, John Milton, A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes.; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 744:
glosses: Obsolete form of orthodoxly.
osmite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osmites
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of osmious acid.
osmites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osmite
melanochroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more melanochroic
form: most melanochroic
Etymology: From melano- + -chroic from Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs, “complexion”).
Senses: glosses: Having a dark complexion; dark-skinned
raw_tags: of humans
myodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myo- + dynamics.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The part of physiology related the principles of muscular contraction and forces.
Related terms: myology
wrongous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrongous
form: most wrongous
form: wrongeous
Etymology: From Middle English wrongous, for earlier wrongwis, wrangwis, from Old English wrangwīs (“wrongous, rough, uneven”), equivalent to wrong + -ous (see also wrongwise). Cognate with Swedish vrångvis (“wrong, iniquitous”). See wrong, and compare righteous.
Senses: examples: text: It’s my opinion that the creature Dougal will have a good action of wrongous imprisonment and damages again him, under the Act seventeen hundred and one, and I’ll see the creature righted.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 61:
text: If the prisoner is detained an unreasonable time, he would have an action for wrongous imprisonment.
ref: 1879, James Paterson, Reports of Scotch Appeals in the House of Lords:
topics: law
glosses: Wrongful; not right; unjust; illegal.
Derived terms: wrongously
wrongousness
Related terms: wrongwise
iconolater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iconolaters
Etymology: From icono- + -later.
Senses: glosses: Someone who worships images; a practicer of iconolatry.
Related terms: iconolatrous
iconolatry
iconolaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iconolater
untangible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untangible
form: most untangible
Etymology: From un- + tangible.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of intangible.
koff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koffs
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch kof (“koff”), Middle Dutch cof (“stable; barn”).
Senses: glosses: A type of two-masted Dutch vessel.
koffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koff
kailyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kailyards
form: kailyaird
form: kaleyard
Etymology: From kail + yard.
Senses: examples: text: There was formerly a poor widow, and she had three daughters, and all she had to feed them was a kailyard. There was a great gray horse who was coming every day to the yard to eat the kail.
ref: 1860–62, J.F. Campbell, "The Widow and Her Daughters", Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. II
glosses: A kitchen garden.
glosses: A late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century school of writing, set in small Scottish towns, a notable example being J. M Barrie's A Small Minister
Derived terms: kailyarder
kailyardism
Kailyard school
kailyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kailyard
semisextile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semisextiles
Etymology: From semi- + sextile.
Senses: examples: text: The semisextile, or twelfth part of a circle , is a distance of thirty degrees in the zodiac […]
ref: 1825, Society of the Mercurii (LONDON), The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century; Or, The Master Key of Futurity, and Guide to Ancient Mysteries, Being a Complete System of Occult Philosophy. ... By the Members of the Mercurii; Raphael, the Metropolitan Astrologer; the Editor of the Prophetic Almanack; and Other Sideral Artists. ... The Seventh Edition, Supervised ... by Merlinus Anglius, Junior, Gent. [i.e. R. C. Smith]., page 265
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.
Related terms: ⚺
semisextiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semisextile
uncautiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncautiously
form: most uncautiously
Etymology: From uncautious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without caution; not cautiously.
vinny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪni/
Forms: form: more vinny
form: most vinny
Etymology: From Middle English *vinny, *finny, from Old English fyniġ (“mouldy”); related to vinew.
Senses: examples: text: vinny cheese
glosses: vinewed, mouldy
somnambule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somnambules
Etymology: Borrowed from French somnambule.
Senses: glosses: A somnambulist.
somnambules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somnambule
glosser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glossers
Etymology: From gloss + -er.
Senses: examples: text: the Glossers upon the Alcoran
ref: 1679, Lancelot Addison, The Life and Death of Mahumed:
glosses: A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator.
glosses: A polisher; one who gives a luster.
glossers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glosser
tetrarchical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
The patriarchs had a sort of tetrarchical , or ethnarchical authority , for I suppose it is not easy to distinguish them
glosses: Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy.
Latindom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: In the second half of that century, the intellectual triumph of Latindom and Christendom is complete.
ref: 1975, George Sarton, Introduction to the history of science:
glosses: The realm or sphere of Latin or Latin influence.
examples: text: New Celtic words entered Latindom through Gaul: [...]
ref: 1938, Urban Tigner Holmes, Alexander Herman Schutz, A history of the French language:
glosses: The expanse of territory, roughly comprising the former Roman Empire, where the Latin predominated as the spoken language.
anourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anurous.
heaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heapers
Etymology: From heap + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who heaps, piles, or amasses.
heapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heaper
miswander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miswanders
form: miswandering
form: miswandered
form: miswandered
Etymology: From mis- + wander.
Senses: examples: text: Her weary palfrey, closely as she might, Now well recover'd after long repast, In his proud furnitures she freshly dight, His late miswander'd ways now to remeasure right
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
text: Or show you restless, miswandering, misclimbing ones new and easier footpaths?
ref: 1909, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, →ISBN:
text: The reason for this attitude toward Spain is not far to seek, and it finds an explanation in the words of José Ortega Gasset, quoted by Mr. Trend: Is it not bitter sarcasm that after and a half centuries of miswandering we are invited to follow the ....
ref: 1968, The New York Times Book Review:
text: As if it were a maze where these orphans of his heart had miswandered in their journey in life […]
ref: 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, page 6:
glosses: To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.
miswandered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miswander
miswandering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miswander
miswanders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miswander
humstrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humstrums
Senses: glosses: An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed.
glosses: A hurdy-gurdy.
glosses: Music badly played.
humstrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humstrum
organogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organogenies
Etymology: From organo- (“biological organs”) + -geny (“origin”).
Senses: glosses: Organogenesis.
organogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organogenies
Etymology: Learned borrowing from German Organogenie, itself from organo- + -genie; equivalent to organo- (“biological organs”) + -geny (“origin”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: theory of recapitulation
glosses: The study of the evolution of the forms of biological organs and systems of organs by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.
Hypernyms: morphogeny
Coordinate terms: histogeny
blastogeny
cormogeny