cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
humbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humbirds
Etymology: From hum + bird.
Senses: examples: text: The Humbird is one of the vvonders of the Countrey, being no bigger than a Hornet, yet hath all the demenſions of a Bird, as bill, and vvings, vvith quills, ſpider-like legges, ſmall clavves: For colour, ſhe is as glorious as the Raine-bovv; as ſhe flies, ſhe makes a little humming noiſe like a Humble-bee: vvherefore ſhee is called the Humbird.
ref: 1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 28:
glosses: A hummingbird.
humbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humbird
kerasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerasins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrogenous substance, free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain, and closely related to cerebrin.
antiheroically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antiheroically
form: most antiheroically
Etymology: From antiheroic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an antiheroic manner.
loimic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λοιμός (loimós) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The title of this translation (περὶ λοιµικῆς) and its preface prove that the Small-pox had been known to the antient Greeks under the name of Loimiké (the loimic or pestilential disease) and even divided into two distinct species. (pp. 20, 21.)
ref: 1821, Robert Willan, edited by Ashby Smith, Miscellaneous Works, T. Cadell, page 12:
text: Galen has not left us any distinct history of Loimic diseases; but there are numerous scattered observations in his works respecting them—[…]
ref: 1823, The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science, volume 3, Burgess and Hill, page 44:
text: Philo, the Jewish philosopher, gives a description of a ‘loimic’ pestilence which occurred during that century, and appositely conveys the mode of diffusion and the circumstances of the confluent small-pox.
ref: 1851, Edward Bascome, A History of epidemic pestilences, John Churchill (publisher)
John Churchill, page 18:
text: […] a euphemism, therefore, was needful to gild over and sweeten the surface of their hideous and poisonous essence, and none more emphatic than that of Abel, for the works of Cain, whose loimic virus has tinged even their admirer’s pen, and ever since shows him a cruel and sarcastic Mishellene, whereas he is as kind a Philhellene as any prejudiced mortal may be.
ref: 1867, S. J. Cassimati, The Greeks and Their Detractors, Clayton & Company, page 44:
text: A.D. 92. A loimic plague is described by the Jewish philosopher Philo, who believed it to have been caused by hot dust. ‘The clouds of dust suddenly falling on men and cattle, produced over the whole skin a severe and intractable ulceration. […]’
ref: 1871, George Fleming, Animal Plagues: Their History, Nature, and Prevention, Chapman & Hall, page 26:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.
Derived terms: antiloimic
mountainboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountainboarders
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in the sport of mountainboarding.
mountainboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountainboarder
endophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + phyllous.
Senses: examples: text: an endophyllous parasite lives within the leaf
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Inside leaf or sheath.
Related terms: endophyllic
latisternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Etymology: Latin latus (“broad”) + English sternal.
Senses: examples: text: latisternal ape
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a broad breastbone, or sternum (said of Pithecina, a former taxonomic classification that is now probably Pitheciidae or Pithecia)
unrealize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrealizes
form: unrealizing
form: unrealized
form: unrealized
Etymology: In sense 1, unreal + -ize.
In sense 2, un- + realize.
Senses: examples: text: His fancy, habitually moving about in worlds not realized, unrealizes everything at a touch.
ref: 1875, James Russell Lowell, Spenser:
text: But De Quincey generally sees a much deeper technical significance, an idealizing or unrealizing effect in the language.
ref: 1951, Journal of Literary History, page 39:
text: Every action that realizes a dream or desire unrealizes it in reality.
ref: 2002, Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet:
glosses: To make unreal; to idealize.
examples: text: I easily realized that all of his statements were wrong. How do you unrealize that?
glosses: To alter one's own viewpoint after a previous realization; to change one's mind.
unrealizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrealize
unrealizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrealize
opisthography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From opistho- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: Of this description are ,odontalgia , otalgia , lychnobite , pseudodox , asmatography , opisthography , alectoromachy , opsimathy , addephagy, & c .
ref: 1822, The Eclectic Review:
glosses: A writing upon the back of anything, as upon the back of a sheet already written upon on one side.
Related terms: opisthographic
amygdalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amygdala + -ic. By surface analysis, amygdal- + -ic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to almonds or amygdalin.
Related terms: amygdalic acid
infractible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infractible
form: most infractible
Etymology: From infract + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: But there was always a thorough and infractible eight hours devoted to his work in Wall Street,
ref: 1924, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy:
glosses: Capable of being broken or broken down.
Related terms: fracture
virger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virgers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of verger.
virgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virger
sicamore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sicamores
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sycamore.
sicamores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sicamore
outfawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outfawns
form: outfawning
form: outfawned
form: outfawned
Etymology: From out- + fawn.
Senses: glosses: To exceed in fawning.
outfawned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outfawn
outfawning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outfawn
nyctalopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of nyctalopia.
blowpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blow + point?
Senses: glosses: A child's game, probably involving blowing small fragments of wood through a tube at targets.
open-arse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊpənɑːs/
Forms: form: open-arses
Etymology: From Middle English open-ers, from Old English openears, corresponding to open + arse, ‘with allusion to the large cavity at the end of the fruit between the persistent calyx lobes’ – OED3.
Senses: examples: text: In several of our counties the same fruit is called an open arse; another of those unluckily belotted travesties of a very properly-expressed original phrase [...].
ref: 1837, John Bellenden Kerr, An Essay on the Archaeology of our Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes, vol II.1:
text: On a second reading, prompted by the reproaches of several friends and scholars, I conclude that the pun on medlar, slangily known as ‘an open-arse’, and poperin pear, shape-resembling penis and scrotum, is so forcibly obvious that ‘an open et-caetera’ must here mean ‘an open arse’.
ref: 1968, Eric Partridge, Shakespeare's Bawdy, Routledge, published 2002, page 129:
glosses: The medlar fruit.
moky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moky
form: most moky
Etymology: Compare Icelandic mökkvi (“cloud, mist”), mökkr (“a dense cloud”), Welsh mwg (“smoke”), and English muggy, muck.
Senses: glosses: misty; dark; murky
monkeypod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌŋkipɒd/
Forms: form: monkeypods
Etymology: From monkey + pod.
Senses: examples: text: Tears filled the eyes of some of the people heading to work that morning who heard the strains of music in the deposed queen's harden, among its tamarind and monkeypod trees.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 231:
glosses: Albizia saman, a flowering tree in the pea family, native to the neotropics.
glosses: Couroupita nicaraguarensis (syn. Lecythis nicaraguarensis) (coco de mono)
glosses: Lecythis ollaria (coco de mono)
glosses: Pithecellobium dulce (blackbead)
glosses: Senna petersiana (dwarf cassia)
Synonyms: sense: Albizia saman
word: rain tree
sense: Albizia saman
word: saman
sense: Lecythis ollaria
word: paradise nut
sense: Pithecellobium dulce
word: sweet Inga
sense: Pithecellobium dulce
word: Madrasthorn
sense: Pithecellobium dulce
word: Manila tamarind
Related terms: monkey pot
monkeypods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkeypod
thioacids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioacid
sulphophosphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sulfophosphoric
Etymology: From sulpho- + phosphoric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or designating a hypothetical thioacid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphoric acid, and known only in its salts.
tetrachlorocuprate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrachlorocuprates
Etymology: From tetrachloro + cuprate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion CuCl₄²⁻; any salt containing this anion
sulfophosphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulphophosphoric.
tetracyanocuprate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetracyanocuprates
Etymology: From tetracyano + cuprate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion Cu(CN)₄²⁻; any salt containing this anion
disutilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disutilizes
form: disutilizing
form: disutilized
form: disutilized
Etymology: From dis- + utilize.
Senses: examples: text: Death's black dust, being blown,
Infiltrated through every secret fold
Of this sealed letter by a puff of fate,
Dried up forever the fresh-written ink,
Annulled the gift, disutilized the grace,
And left these fragments.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh:
glosses: To deprive of utility; to render useless.
disutilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disutilize
disutilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disutilize
appar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: appar.
Senses: examples: text: [Appar from Fr lier, from L ligāre to bind]
ref: 2008, The Chambers Dictionary, page 926:
text: [abbrev of the place-name Kirriemuir, where appar they are common, + dumpling f the rounded shape]
ref: 1999, Mairi Robinson, Concise Scots dictionary, page 344:
glosses: Abbreviation of apparently.
Latinly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You ſhall hardly finde a man amongſt them, which cannot make a shift to expresse himself in that language; nor one amongst a hundred that can do it Latinly
ref: 1656, John Heylyn, A survey of the estate of France:
text: Among them they have developed a repertoire of apparently endless variety, touching nearly every facet of the Spanish character, from the naively peasant to the Latinly sophisticated.
ref: 1940, The American Dancer, page 42:
text: There England’s enemies are the pope and his priestly minions or the French, all of whom write or speak Latinly.
ref: 2010, Grace Tiffany, “Being English Through Speaking English: Shakespeare and Early Modern Anti-Gallicism”, in Beatrice Batson, editor, Word and Rite: The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Return. Re-turn. With “re” being defined, loosely, linguistically, Latinly, as “again,” and “turn” as, probably, “back.” So, “again back.”
ref: 2013 January 12, Mike Bell, “When things we used to love boomerang back”, in Calgary Herald, page D1:
text: Brann takes the real in a (Latinly) literal sense, as meaning possessing ‘thinghood,’ “and material thinghood at that” (387).
ref: 2017, Dennis Sepper, “Foreword”, in Eva T. H. Brann, The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance, 25th anniversary edition, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xxiv:
glosses: In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin.
pendence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See pendent.
Senses: examples: text: The Italians are very precise in giving the cover a graceful pendence or slopeness, dividing the whole breadth into nine parts […]
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
glosses: slope; inclination
glosses: pendency; suspension in time; delay
princekin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: princekins
Etymology: From prince + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: the princekins of private life
ref: 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A petty prince; a princeling.
princekins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of princekin
withdrawing room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withdrawing rooms
Senses: examples: text: a door in the middle leading to a parlour and withdrawing-room
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A room for retirement from another room, as for example after dining; a drawing room.
Derived terms: drawing room
withdrawing rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of withdrawing room
thigh master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thigh masters
Etymology: From thigh + master, from the trademark Thighmaster.
Senses: glosses: A piece of exercise equipment used to tone the thighs, especially aimed at women.
wikipedia: Thighmaster
myelencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myelencephalon + -ic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of myelencephalous (“Of or pertaining to the myelencephalon; cerebrospinal”).
thigh masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thigh master
myelencephala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myelencephalon
eotvos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the physicist Loránd Eötvös.
Senses: glosses: A unit of gravitational gradient in the CGS system of units. 1 eotvos = 10⁻⁹ gals per cm.
wikipedia: Loránd Eötvös
thievishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thievish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being thievish.
thievishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thievishly
form: most thievishly
Etymology: From thievish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a thievish manner; like a thief.
strength training
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Research and experience from major projects at Colorado State University and the United States Military Academy at West Point, and ongoing work at Nautilus headquarters in Lake Helen, Florida, support the concept that optimal strength training requires as little as one set of eight to twelve repetitions taken to momentary muscular failure.
ref: 1982, Daniel P. Riley, Strength Training by the Experts, page 40:
text: Unfortunately, many athletes […] shy away from true strength training programs with high intensities and lower repetitions because they fear "bulking up".
ref: 2006, Harvey Newton, Explosive Lifting for Sports, enhanced edition, page 4
text: Many strength training professionals prefer free-weight exercises.
ref: 2007, William J. Kraemer, Steven J. Fleck, Optimizing Strength Training, page 42:
text: Although weightlifting is a sport in its own right, the techniques of the clean and jerk and the snatch are used extensively within sport-specific strength training and conditioning, as well as in more general strength training, due to their unparalleled ability to develop an individual's power.
ref: 2009, Strength Training, DK Publishing, page 17:
synonyms: resistance training
weight training
glosses: A form of exercise in which the goal is to increase the strength of muscles through low numbers of repetitions of an exercise performed with high resistance.
Related terms: calisthenics
strength training on Wikiversity
loggerheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loggerheaded
form: most loggerheaded
Senses: examples: text: Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! / You logger-headed and unpolish'd grooms!
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, 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):
text: a great loggerheaded booby
ref: 1653-1693, Thomas Urquhart, The Works of Rabelais:
glosses: dull; stupid
Derived terms: loggerheaded duck
extralogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + logical.
Senses: glosses: Outside of the domain of logic.
Related terms: extralogically
restrictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more restrictionary
form: most restrictionary
Etymology: From restriction + -ary.
Senses: glosses: restrictive; serving to restrict
uvitonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, 6-methyl-2,4-pyridinedicarboxylic acid, obtained by the action of ammonia on pyrotartaric acid.
urosternite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urosternites
Etymology: From uro- + sternite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The sternal or lower of any of the segments of insects and other arthropods, often described as genitalia.
urosternites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urosternite
unshroud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshrouds
form: unshrouding
form: unshrouded
form: unshrouded
Etymology: From un- + shroud.
Senses: examples: text: At length the piercing sun his team unshrouds
ref: 1633, Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island:
glosses: To remove a shroud from; to uncover.
unshrouding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unshroud
unshrouds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unshroud
rectinerved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rectinerved
form: most rectinerved
Etymology: From recti- + nerved.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having straight veins or nerves.
raw_tags: of leaves
lompish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lompish
form: most lompish
Senses: examples: text: The Sprite […] lifting vp his lompiſh head, vvth blame / Halfe angrie asked him, for vvhat he came.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 43, page 15:
text: After them vvent Diſpleaſure and Pleaſaunce, / He looking lompiſh and full ſullein ſad, / And hanging dovvne his heauy countenaunce; / She chearfull freſh and full of ioyaunce glad, / As if no ſorrovv ſhe ne felt ne dread; […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18, page 581:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of lumpish.
toplight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toplights
form: top-light
form: top light
Etymology: From top + light.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A lantern or light on the top of a vessel.
glosses: any light at the top of something
examples: text: Although exhibiting some typical Bulleid design features — the continuous curve of the bodyside and the toplights above the door droplights being particularly characteristic — the interior of the vehicles owed much to Maunsell era practice.
ref: 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 395:
glosses: Alternative form of top light.
toplights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toplight
interauricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From inter- + auricular.
Senses: examples: text: the interauricular partition of the heart
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the auricles.
hyetography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From hyeto- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The science that deals with the geographical distribution of rain.
Related terms: hyetograph
hyetographic
hyetographical
circulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circulate + -ive?
Senses: examples: text: Instead of being foreclosed and immovable, it is, in fact, the only species of landed property that is essentially moving and circulative.
ref: 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Constitution of the Church and State:
glosses: Promoting circulation; circulating.
Derived terms: noncirculative
noncirculative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + circulative.
Senses: glosses: Not circulative.
barmecidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barmecidal
form: most barmecidal
form: Barmecidal
Etymology: See Barmecide feast.
Senses: examples: a barmecidal meal
glosses: unreal; illusory
sterrometal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: No surprise is, therefore, felt when we are told that a tube of sterrometal is capable of resisting a pressure of 763 atmospheres, a tube of wrought-iron of similar size and form giving way under 267 atmospheres.
ref: 1863, The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science:
glosses: An alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, used in making cannon.
harpress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harpresses
Etymology: From harper + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: the soft sigh of the evening breeze in the rustling leaves of an aspen which overhung the seat of the fair harpress
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: A female harpist.
Nordicism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Nordic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The theory that the Nordic race is superior to other races.
Nordicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nordicisms
Etymology: From Nordic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A word or phrase, etc., characteristic of Nordic languages.
Nordicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nordicists
Etymology: From Nordic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to Nordicism.
glosses: A linguist who specialises in studying Nordic languages.
Nordicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nordicist
architraved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From architrave + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: 1791, William Cowper (translator), The Odyssey of Homer, Book 7, lines 105-108, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Volume 2, p. 151,
[…] the doors were gold
Which shut the palace fast; silver the posts
Rear’d on a brazen threshold, and above,
The lintels, silver, architraved with gold.
text: The zone decoration becomes a pattern composed of innumerable groups of architraved and arched divisions, set one within the other, so as to cover the whole surface of the wall.
ref: 1914, Gertrude Bell, chapter 5, in Palace and Mosque at Ukhaiḍir, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, page 130:
topics: architecture
glosses: Furnished with an architrave.
Woodburytype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Woodburytypes
Etymology: From Woodbury + -type, after the name of the inventor.
Senses: glosses: A photomechanical printing process in which a relief pattern in gelatin is hardened and pressed against a metal plate, producing an intaglio.
glosses: A print of this kind.
Woodburytypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Woodburytype
agood
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈɡʊd/
Etymology: From a- + good.
Senses: examples: text: […]And, at that time I made her weep a-good, / For I did play a lamentable part:
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: In earnest; heartily; in good earnest.
nonsaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + saturated.
Senses: glosses: Not saturated.
expediteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From expedite + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being expedite.
heliotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios) + Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).
Senses: glosses: A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
Derived terms: heliotype
heliotypic
melliloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more melliloquent
form: most melliloquent
Etymology: From Latin mel, mellis (“honey”) + loquens (“speaking”), present participle of loqui (“to speak”).
Senses: glosses: Speaking sweetly or harmoniously.
contortedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contortedly
form: most contortedly
Etymology: From contorted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contorted manner.
contortedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contorted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being contorted.
creakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːkɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of creaking
bendless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bend + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without bends; straight.
ramigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Forms: form: more ramigerous
form: most ramigerous
Etymology: From Latin ramus (“a branch”) + -gerous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing branches; branched.
intrusionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrusionists
Etymology: From intrusion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who favours the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners.
intrusionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrusionist
organofluorides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organofluoride
turbillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbillions
form: turbullion
Etymology: French tourbillon, from Latin turbo (“a whirl”).
Senses: examples: text: each of them is a fun moving on its own axis in the centre of its own vortex or turbillion
ref: 1712 September 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “MONDAY, September 1, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 472; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: 'I would not undertake to supply either lords or ladies wi' such a turbullion of roaring, and thumping, and winnowing of arms, for a month's wages twice told.'
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, Enthusiasm, act 2:
glosses: A whirlwind or vortex.
turbillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbillion
rivergoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From river + going.
Senses: glosses: Made for, or used on rivers.
Related terms: seagoing
germule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germules
Etymology: From germ + -ule.
Senses: examples: text: A seed will lie hidden in the earth, below the search of air and sun, in a latent state, for ages; yet, when thrown near the surface it germinates. But life is not in the body of the seed, but a germule within the seed and within a cell.
ref: 1881, James Barr Walker, Experiences of Pioneer Life in the Early Settlements and Cities of the West, page 301:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small germ.
germules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of germule
photomagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + magnetism.
Senses: glosses: The branch of science that deals with the relation of magnetism to light, or the effect in which a material acquires or loses its ferromagnetic properties in response to light.
metalman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalmen
Etymology: From metal + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who works with metals.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A workman who takes the roof down to give the miners more height to work in.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: metalhead
glosses: A metal musician or fan.
metalmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalman
rondeletia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rondeletias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Rondeletia of tropical rubiaceous shrubs.
rondeletias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rondeletia
deducibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈdjuːsɪbli/
Etymology: From deducible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There was little free and breathable oxygen then in either the "air" or water, for deducibly it was all chemically bound up with hydrogen in H2O or in the solid crust of the planet
ref: 1999, Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life:
glosses: In a way that can be deduced.
Bathybius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin, from Ancient Greek. See bathy-. Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and once supposed to be a free living protoplasm, later found to be the result of precipitation.
wikipedia: Thomas Henry Huxley
enshelter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enshelters
form: ensheltering
form: ensheltered
form: ensheltered
Etymology: From en- + shelter.
Senses: examples: text: If that the Turkish Fleete
Be not enshelter'd, and embay'd, they are drown'd
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, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To shelter.
ensheltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enshelter
ensheltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enshelter
stereoelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stereo- + electric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of solid bodies alone, without the use of liquid.
examples: text: The phosphate backbone-modified oligonucleotides described in this section are diastereoisomeric mixtures and form less stable hybrids than the normal phosphodiester oligonucleotiedes. However, the contribution of the P atom chirality to the overall destabilization of the hybrids may be less than expected and a distortion of the backbone due to stereoelectric factors has to be considered as well ( FROEHLER and MATTEUCCI 1988 ; IMBACH , personal communication ) .
ref: 2012, Rudolph L. Juliano, Targeted Drug Delivery, page 334:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the three-dimensional arrangement or orientation of electrically charged groups.
stuccoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuccoers
Etymology: From stucco + -er.
Senses: glosses: An artist who works in stucco; stuccoist.
stuccoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuccoer
Vedantist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vedantists
Etymology: From Vedanta + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Someone versed in the doctrines of the Vedanta.
Vedantists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vedantist
sigmoidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sigmoidally
form: most sigmoidally
Etymology: From sigmoidal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sigmoidal manner.
mesonasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Etymology: From meso- + nasal.
Senses: examples: text: mesonasal cavity
text: mesonasal flap
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.
double-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a double-faced hammer
glosses: Having two functional faces.
examples: text: Fame , if not double-faced , is double-mouthed ,
And with contrary blast proclaims most deed
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
synonyms: two-faced
glosses: deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous
Related terms: two-faced
Janus-faced
speak with a forked tongue
fluophosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluophosphates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A double salt of fluoric acid and phosphoric acid.
fluophosphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluophosphate
travell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travells
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of travel.
glosses: Obsolete form of travail.
travell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: travells
form: travelling
form: travelled
form: travelled
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of travel.
graduall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more graduall
form: most graduall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gradual.
habituall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more habituall
form: most habituall
Senses: examples: text: Thomas Aquinas attributeth preparation vnto free-vvill, but not conuerſion. Now this preparation hee thus coloureth, that it is indeed a furtherance to the habituall grace of cõuersion, but yet through the free aſsiſtance of God mouing vs inwardly.
ref: 1617, Zacharias Ursinus, “Quest. 90. What is the Quickning of the New Man?”, in Henrie Parrie [i.e., Henry Parry], David Pareus, transl., The Svmme of Christian Religion, Deliuered Zacharias Vrsinvs in His Lectures vpon the Catechisme, […] Translated into English […], and Lately Conferred with the Last and Best Latine Edition […], London: Imprinted by H. L. and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson, […], →OCLC, 3rd part (Of Mans Thankefulnes), section 4 (What are the Causes of Conuersion), page 861:
text: I vvas baptized in thy Cordiall vvater, againſt Original ſinne, and I haue drunke of thy Cordiall Blood, for my recouerie, from actuall, and habituall ſinne, in the other Sacrament.
ref: 1624, John Donne, “11. Prayer.”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 280–281:
text: Our hearts are ſaid to be purified by faith; Acts 15. 9. not our lives onely in the acts of holineſſe and purity, but our heart in the habituall frame of them.
ref: 1653, Thomas Shepard, The Sound Beleever. A Treatise of Evangelicall Conversion. Discovering the Work of Christs Spirit, in Reconciling of a Sinner to God, London: Printed for Andrew Crooke […], →OCLC, page 83:
text: Now he [Edmund Bonner] was deprived, and had no more to doe with the Bishoprick of London, then with the Bishoprick of Conſtantinople, he had the habituall power of the Keies, but had no flock to exercise it upon.
ref: 1658, John Bramhall, “The Fourth and Fifth Reasons against This Improbable Fiction, from the No Necessity of It, and the Lesse Advantage of It”, in The Consecration and Succession, of Protestant Bishops Justified. […], Gravenhagh [The Hague]: By John Ramzey, →OCLC, page 54:
text: [N]o drunkard (i.e.) no Habituall, Impenitent drunkard, ſhall come into Gods Kingdome.
ref: 1658, Thomas Hall, “[Chap. 3.] Verse 2. For men shall be lovers of themselves, Covetous, Boasters, Proud, Blasphemers, disobedient to Parents, unthankfull, unholy, &c.”, in A Practical and Polemical Commentary: Or, Exposition upon the Third and Fourth Chapters of the Latter Epistle of Saint Paul to Timothy. […], London: Printed by E. Tyler, for John Starkey, […], →OCLC, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LvwqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA95 page [95]]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of habitual.
individuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more individuall
form: most individuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of individual.
individuall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: individualls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of individual.
lamaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lamaic
form: most lamaic
Etymology: From lama + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to lamaism.
ineffectuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ineffectuall
form: most ineffectuall
Etymology: From in- + effectuall.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ineffectual.
intellectuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intellectuall
form: most intellectuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intellectual.
intellectuall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intellectualls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intellectual.
manuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manuall
form: most manuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of manual.
manuall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manualls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of manual.
menstruall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of menstrual.
mutuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mutuall
form: most mutuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mutual.
perpetuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perpetuall
form: most perpetuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of perpetual.
punctuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punctuall
form: most punctuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of punctual.
rituall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rituall
form: most rituall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ritual.
rituall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ritualls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ritual.
sensuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sensuall
form: most sensuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sensual.
tactuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tactuall
form: most tactuall
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of tactual.
polemicall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polemicall
form: most polemicall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of polemical.
textuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more textuall
form: most textuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of textual.
unusuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unusuall
form: most unusuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unusual.
grandeeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandeeships
Etymology: From grandee + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: I think the Conde de Altamira has no less than nineteen Grandeeships centered in his person
ref: 1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain, 1775 and 1776:
glosses: The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship.
grandeeships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandeeship
ginhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginhouses
Etymology: From gin + house.
Senses: examples: 1911, Allan Noble Monkhouse, "Cotton", 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Up till 1870 or thereabouts, cotton seed was regarded as a positive nuisance upon the American plantation. It was left to accumulate in vast heaps about ginhouses, to the annoyance of the farmer and the injury of his premises.
glosses: A building where cotton is ginned.
ginhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ginhouse
victuall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victualls
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Making of Things Inalimentall, to become Alimentall, may be an Experiment of great Profit, for Making new Victuall.
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century. [Experiments in Consort, Touching the Affinities, and Differences, of Plants, and Liuing Creatures: And the Confiners and Participles of Them.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 649, page 159:
text: [C]onſider, what Victuall or Eſculent Things there are, which grow ſpeedily, and within the yeere, As Parſnips, Carrets, Turnips, Onions, Radiſh, Artichokes of Hieruſalem, Maiz, and the like. […] The Victuall in Plantations, ought to be expanded, almoſt as in a Beſieged Towne; That is, with certaine Allowance.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Plantations. XXXIII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, pages 199–200:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of victual.
victuall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: victualls
form: victualling
form: victualled
form: victualled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of victual.
inconditional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- (“not”) + conditional. Compare French inconditionnel, Portuguese incondicional.
Senses: examples: text: an inconditional and absolute verity
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: unconditional
unprizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prizable.
Senses: examples: text: A bawbling vessel was he captain of,
For shallow draught and bulk unprizable;
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Not prized or valued; without value; not worth capturing.
examples: text: Shee is a Pearle, that is vnprizable;
ref: 1625, Nicholas Breton, “A Quyet Woman”, in Characters and Essayes, Aberdeen: Edward Raban, page 45:
text: If in all your boundless Store
A Blessing so unprizable there be,
Crown whate’er you gave before
With a true Friend, full of Sincerity:
ref: 1725, Henry Baker, “The Petition”, in Original Poems: Serious and Humourous, London: for the author, page 2:
glosses: Invaluable; whose value is beyond estimation.
unæquall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unæquall
form: most unæquall
Etymology: From un- + æquall.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of unequal.
unæqual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unæqual
form: most unæqual
Etymology: From un- + æqual.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of unequal.
unequall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unequall
form: most unequall
Etymology: From un- + equall.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of unequal.
vertuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The moſt in ſoule deiected; the moſt baſe, / And moſt vnſeruiceable weede, vnles / You by your heauenly Influence change his vilenes / Into a vertuall habit fit for vſe.
ref: 1607, Thomas Dekker, “The Whore of Babylon. […]”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker […], volume II, London: John Pearson […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 216:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of virtual.
garnisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garnishers
form: garnishor
Etymology: From Middle English garnishere, equivalent to garnish + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, garnishes.
garnishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garnisher
opinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin opinabilis.
Senses: examples: text: he should admit and leave unto us sense and opinion, and not withall allow that which is sensible and opinable, a man is not able to shew.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being opined or thought.
visuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more visuall
form: most visuall
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of visual.
art game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: art games
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A video game designed to convey an aesthetic and provoke a reaction, rather than to provide a traditional diversion with set goals.
Related terms: walking simulator
vertual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For Dr. [John] Dee, in his Mathematical Preface to Euclids Elements of Geometrie, hath vvorthily taken pains to make Architecture a Mathematical Science; and as a vertual Proof of his ovvn Learned Plea, quotes tvvo Authentique Authors, viz. Vitruvius and Leo Baptiſta [i.e., Leon Battista Alberti], […]
ref: 1683, Joseph Moxon, “Numb[er] I. Applied to the Art of Printing. Preface.”, in Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the Art of Printing. […], volume II, London: […] Joseph Moxon […], →OCLC, pages 5–6:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of virtual.