cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
prophane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prophanes
form: prophaning
form: prophaned
form: prophaned
Senses: examples: text: VVhen the vulgar ſort / Sit on their Ale-bench, vvith their cups and kannes, / Matters of ſtate be not their common talke, / Nor pure religion by their lips prophande.
ref: 1600, [Michael Drayton, Richard Hathwaye, Anthony Munday, Robert Wilson], The First Part of the True and Honorable Historie, of the Life of Sir John Old-castle, the Good Lord Cobham. […], London: […] [V[alentine] S[immes]] for Thomas Pauier, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of profane.
prophanely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prophanely
form: most prophanely
Etymology: From prophane + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of profanely.
dendrolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛndɹəlaɪt/
Forms: form: dendrolites
Etymology: From dendro- + -lite, from Ancient Greek δένδρον (déndron, “tree”) and λίθος (líthos, “stone”).
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A petrified or fossilised tree, plant, or part of a plant.
dendrolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dendrolite
firetail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firetails
Etymology: From fire + tail.
Senses: glosses: Any Australian finch of the genus Stagonopleura.
glosses: The common redstart.
Synonyms: sense: European redstart
word: fireflirt
Derived terms: beautiful firetail
diamond firetail
red-eared firetail
painted firetail
firetails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firetail
herdess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herdesses
Etymology: From herd + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: She is the herdess fair that shines in dark,
And gives her kids no food, but willows bark
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: A shepherdess; a female herder.
herdesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herdess
hydropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydropathy
laniariform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laniariform
form: most laniariform
Etymology: From laniary + -form.
Senses: examples: 1840-1845, Richard Owen, Odontography
the presence not only of canines, but of a pair of laniariform incisors in the upper jaw of the Camelidæ
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Shaped like a laniary, or canine tooth.
water doctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water doctors
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physician who treats diseases with water; a hydropathist.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: One who claims to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
water doctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water doctor
simious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪm.i.əs/
Forms: form: more simious
form: most simious
Etymology: From Latin simia (“ape”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: that strange simious, schoolboy passion of giving pain to others
ref: 1839, Sydney Smith, Ballot:
glosses: Simian; resembling a monkey.
Related terms: simio-
gummosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gummosity
gummosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gummosities
Senses: examples: 1707-1710, Sir John Floyer, The Physician's Pulse-watch
The fiziness of Chyle depends on an exceeding Puļse , the crudity and mucilaginous Gummosity on a deficient Pulse
glosses: The quality of being gummy; a viscous or adhesive quality.
overfreight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfreights
form: overfreighting
form: overfreighted
form: overfraught
Etymology: From over- + freight.
Senses: glosses: To overload with freight.
overfreighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfreight
overfreights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfreight
caponet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkeɪpəˈnɛt/
Forms: form: caponets
form: caponette
Etymology: From capon + -et.
Senses: examples: text: Some little fragments , that his haunches wore;
Or sure that caponet.
ref: 1624, George Chapman, Juvenal's Fifth Satire:
glosses: A young capon.
caponets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caponet
waister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waisters
Etymology: From waist + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The largest division of a ship's company, and the most ignoble, was that of the waisters, the men stationed in the waist, the men " without art or judgment," who hauled aft the fore and main sheets, and kept the decks white.
ref: 1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time, page 129:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A seaman stationed in the waist of a warship.
waisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waister
eyeflap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyeflaps
Etymology: From eye + flap.
Senses: glosses: A blinder on a horse's bridle.
eyeflaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyeflap
forficate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forficate
form: most forficate
Etymology: From Latin forfex, forficis (“shears”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Deeply forked
raw_tags: said mostly of tails of certain birds
sympathetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sympathetical
form: most sympathetical
Etymology: From Latin sympathēticus + -al.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of sympathetic.
altrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more altrical
form: most altrical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of altricial.
etymologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etymologers
Etymology: From Latin etymologus + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.
ref: 1926, James A.H. Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume X, part I, page 248, column 1:
glosses: An etymologist.
etymologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etymologer
folliculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folliculous
form: most folliculous
Etymology: Latin folliculosus (“full of husks”): compare French folliculeux.
Senses: examples: text: folliculous tonsillitis
text: folliculous enteritis
text: folliculous amygdalitis
glosses: Follicular; having or producing follicles.
gellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelly
gelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gellies
Senses: examples: text: Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round , They softly wipt away the gelly blood
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of jelly.
pharisean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pharisean
form: most pharisean
form: Pharisean
Senses: examples: text: Pharisean disciples
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: Following the practice of Pharisees; pharisaic.
Owenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Owenites
Etymology: From Owen + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A follower or successor of Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer.
Related terms: Owenian
Owenism
Owenist
Owenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Owenite
overbrim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbrims
form: overbrimming
form: overbrimmed
form: overbrimmed
Etymology: From over- + brim.
Senses: examples: text: And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
ref: 1819 September 19, John Keats, “To Autumn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 137:
glosses: To flow over the brim of; to overflow.
examples: text: And all the while, methought, his voice did swim,
As if it drowned in remembrance were
Of thoughts which make the moist eyes overbrim: […]
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 235:
glosses: To be so full as to overflow.
overbrimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbrim
overbrimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having too large a brim.
overbrimming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈbɹɪmɪŋ/
ipa: /oʊ.vɚˈbɹɪmɪŋ/
Etymology: From over- + brimming.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbrim
overbrimming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈbɹɪmɪŋ/
ipa: /oʊ.vɚˈbɹɪmɪŋ/
Etymology: From over- + brimming.
Senses: examples: text: The fisherman who takes two little orphans into his already overbrimming family belongs fortunately to a world not altogether of legend.
ref: 1888, Frank T. Marzials, Life of Victor Hugo, page 173:
text: His face, which would otherwise have been very handsome, had a sickly, pallid, sodden look that told its own story; and his movements, so far from having anything of the elastic spring given by constant exercise and overbrimming vitality to the English boy, were heavy and languid, as if any exertion were an effort to him.
ref: 1898, David Ker, O'er Tartar deserts, or, English and Russian in Central Asia, Pantheon, →ISBN, page 82:
text: The flavor of nights about the campfire and other nights spent in driving sleet, also days when the first flowers come and the wide beds of the desert rivers are swollen with overbrimming floods; the cruel exposure of winter, the thrilling balminess of early spring — all spoke to him again from that motionless figure.
ref: 1913, John Breckenridge Ellis, Lahoma, Bobbs-Merrill, page 112:
glosses: Being plentiful, particularly excessively so.
Derived terms: overbrimmingly
overbrims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbrim
sultanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sultanships
Etymology: From sultan + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: In essence, he moved the symbolism of the sultanship from an emirate or caliphal base to a national base. Various Muslim circles and conferences outside Nigeria came to regard him as the chief spokesman for Nigerian Muslims.
ref: 2006, John N. Paden, Muslim Civic Cultures and Conflict Resolution, page 128:
glosses: The office or status of a sultan.
sultanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sultanship
vaginant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French vaginant. See vagina.
Senses: examples: text: A vaginant leaf is one investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.
text: vaginant lamina
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Serving as a sheath.
graspless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more graspless
form: most graspless
Etymology: From grasp + -less.
Senses: examples: text: From my graspless hand / Drop friendship's precious pearls.
ref: 1794, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lines on a Friend:
glosses: Without a grasp; relaxed.
examples: text: She stretched forth her hands, and would have grasped the form within, but it was graspless as air.
ref: 1819, John Gamble, Views of society and manners in the north of Ireland, page 249:
text: And all earth's fairest toys, like graspless air To it will be.
ref: 1892, Maurice Francis Egan, Songs and Sonnets: And Other Poems, page 139:
glosses: Unable to be grasped or handled; insubstantial.
Derived terms: grasplessness
miscontent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mis- + content.
Senses: examples: text: Thys boke we have devysed, […]
In hope that no man shall
Be myscontent withall.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 23, 27–28:
glosses: discontent
miscontent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscontents
form: miscontenting
form: miscontented
form: miscontented
Etymology: From mis- + content.
Senses: glosses: discontent
monodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + dynamic.
Senses: examples: text: Monodynamic men, men of a single talent, are rarely misapprehended; men of multitudinous powers, myriad-minded men, to use Coleridge's phrase, almost always.
ref: 1823, Thomas De Quincey, “Death of a German Great Man”, in London Magazine:
glosses: Possessing only one capacity or power.
examples: text: the atom of iodine is monodynamic in hydriodic acid, where it combines with a single atom of monodynamic hydrogen; tridynamic in terchloride of iodine, where it combines with three monodynamic atoms of chlorine.
ref: 1868, Reports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government, page 155:
glosses: Forming a bond with only one other atom.
nigrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin niger (“black”): compare French nigrine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A ferruginous variety of rutile.
ophthalmies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophthalmy
ophthalmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophthalmies
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ophthalmia.
Derived terms: microphthalmy
tetracarpellary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + carpellary.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing four carpels.
newfangledness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From newfangled + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being newfangled.
outsweeten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsweetens
form: outsweetening
form: outsweetened
form: outsweetened
Etymology: From out- + sweeten.
Senses: examples: text: The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander,
Outsweeten'd not thy breath
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: To surpass in sweetness.
outsweetened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsweeten
outsweetening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsweeten
outsweetens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsweeten
buttony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buttony
form: most buttony
Etymology: From button + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That carriage came round to Gillespie Street every day; that buttony boy sprang up and down from the box with Emmy’s and Jos’s visiting-cards […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “60”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: 1869, W. S. Gilbert, “Bob Polter” in Bab Ballads, p. 179,
“And will my whiskers curl so tight?
My cheeks grow smug and muttony?
My face become so red and white?
My coat so blue and buttony?
text: […] the inconsistent woman fell upon his buttony breast weeping copiously.
ref: 1873, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 16, in Work: A Story of Experience, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 372:
text: That night I lay on a buttony mildewed company mattress between my favorite sheets.
ref: 1997, Kate Wheeler, “Improving My Average”, in Not Where I Started From, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 5:
glosses: Having a large number of buttons.
examples: text: The Stalactical, is generally of a brassy colour; and so is the blistered buttony Ore, which is protuberant in a semi-circular form […]
ref: 1778, William Pryce, chapter 3, in Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise of Minerals, Mines, and Mining, London: for the author, page 62:
text: Tietjens paused and aimed with his hazel stick an immense blow at a tall spike of yellow mullein with its undecided, furry, glaucous leaves and its undecided, buttony, unripe lemon-coloured flowers.
ref: 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ..., Part 1, Chapter 6:
text: […] something a little doggish peeped out of the black buttony eyes, a hint of the seraglio.
ref: 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, London: Heinemann, published 1962, Part 2, Chapter 2, p. 83:
text: […] the street had been widened at the expense of a row of sycamores whose blotched bark and buttony seed pods had seemed oddly toylike to him, as if God were an invisible playmate.
ref: 1993, John Updike, “The Black Room”, in Prize Stories 1995: The O. Henry Awards, New York: Doubleday, published 1995, page 279:
glosses: Resembling a button or buttons.
examples: text: But the little dinky, buttony or warty berries must not be packed at all.
ref: 1912, P. M. Kiely, Southern Fruits and Vegetables for Northern Markets, St. Louis, Missouri, page 157:
text: Some seasons a large number of berries are buttony.
ref: 1917, F. W. Dixon, Small Fruit Plants Annual Catalog, Holton, Kansas, page 8:
glosses: Resembling a button or buttons.
Not fully grown and matured; overly small and insufficiently juicy. (of berries)
glosses: Resembling a button or buttons.
Full-berried. (of hops)
Synonyms: sense: resembling a button
word: buttonlike
buttony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From button + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever we inquired of the village girls what their occupation was, almost invariably the quaint answer ‘We do buttony’ was given.
ref: 1906, Lady Dorothy Nevill, chapter 3, in Ralph Nevill, editor, The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill, London: Edward Arnold, page 33:
text: From this time onwards ‘buttony’, or making buttons, gradually became an important industry at which many people earned their livings.
ref: 1958, Agnes Allen, chapter 12, in The Story of Clothes, New York: Roy Publishers, page 113:
text: […] she busied herself in the front room, rustling about in Anne Kellaway’s box of buttony materials filled with rings of various sizes, chips of sheep horn for the Singletons, a ball of flax for shaping round buttons, bits of linen for covering them, both sharp and blunt needles, and several different colors and thicknesses of thread.
ref: 2007, Tracy Chevalier, Burning Bright, New York: Dutton, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 126:
text: Catastrophically for Dorset buttony, Ashton's buttonmaking machine was invented in 1850 and proudly exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. As a consequence of this invention, the Dorset cottage industry collapsed virtually overnight […]
ref: 2010, David Hilliam, Little Book of Dorset:
glosses: The manufacture of buttons.
examples: text: She collected all her treasures, the bottle with the brass top that she had got from Shovel’s old girl, […] the pretty buttons Tommy had won for her at the game of buttony, the witchy marble, […] these and some other precious trifles she made a little bundle of and set off for Double Dykes with them, intending to leave them at the door.
ref: 1896, J. M. Barrie, chapter 15, in Sentimental Tommy, London: Cassell, page 172:
topics: games
glosses: A children’s game played with buttons.
Synonyms: sense: manufacture of buttons
word: buttonmaking
calmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːmi/
homophone: kami
Forms: form: more calmy
form: most calmy
Etymology: From calm + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a still and calmy bay
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30:
glosses: tranquil; calm
ostracite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostracites
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil oyster.
ostracites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostracite
graveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravery
gravery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪvəɹi/
Forms: form: graveries
Senses: examples: text: either of picture or grauerie and embossing
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: The process or technique of engraving.
kamichi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamichis
Etymology: From French kamichi, from earlier kamityi. Borrowed from an indigenous language of the Caribbean.
Senses: glosses: A South American bird with a long, slender, horn-like ornament on its head and two sharp spurs on each wing, the horned screamer, Anhima cornuta.
kamichis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kamichi
reproacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reproachers
Etymology: From reproach + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who reproaches.
reproachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reproacher
filiciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filiciform
form: most filiciform
Etymology: From Latin filix (“fern”) + Latin -icis + English -form. Compare French filiciforme.
Senses: examples: text: Filiciform leaves
ref: 1822, William Daniel Conybeare, William Phillips, Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales:
glosses: Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.
ichebu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichebus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ichibu.
ichebus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichebu
itzebu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: itzebus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ichibu.
itzebus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of itzebu
itzibu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: itzibus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ichibu.
itzibus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of itzibu
waygate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waygates
Etymology: From way + gate.
Senses: examples: text: 1 and 2 are connected to one pipe, B, which leads to the pitshaft -- descends close to the side of the same — and then passes horizontally along the top of the waygate, whence branches lead off to the different workings where the men are employed
ref: 1849, John Warburton, “Harvey's apparatus for cleansing potters' materials from particles of iron”, in Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel:
glosses: The tailrace of a mill.
waygates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waygate
craphouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craphouse
gemmiparity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: reproduction by budding; gemmation
Related terms: gemmiparous
sharebone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharebones
Etymology: From share + bone.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The pubis.
sharebones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharebone
misbestow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misbestows
form: misbestowing
form: misbestowed
form: misbestowed
Etymology: From mis- + bestow.
Senses: glosses: To bestow improperly.
misbestowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misbestow
misbestowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misbestow
misbestows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misbestow
curdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: curdier
form: curdiest
Etymology: From curd + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, 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: The oil by degrees gets covered with a curdy mass, which after some time settles to the bottom, while itself becomes limpid and colorless.
ref: 1842, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines:
glosses: Like, or full of, curd; coagulated.
Derived terms: curdiness
fabrile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin fabrilis, from faber (“workman”). See forge.
Senses: examples: text: fabrile industries
text: fabrile skill
glosses: Pertaining to a factory, or to stonework, metalwork, woodwork, etc.
minargent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably from aluminium and Latin argentum (“silver”).
Senses: glosses: An alloy of (starting with the main component, and ending with the smallest) copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium, formerly used by jewellers as a substitute for silver.
unvulgarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unvulgarizes
form: unvulgarizing
form: unvulgarized
form: unvulgarized
form: unvulgarise
Etymology: From un- + vulgarize.
Senses: glosses: To divest of vulgarity; to make not vulgar.
unvulgarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unvulgarize
unvulgarized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvulgarized
form: most unvulgarized
Senses: examples: text: Remaking the school should mean turning teaching into a profession, in the unvulgarized, unabused, original meaning of the concept […]
ref: 1991, New Politics, page 147:
text: The three, however, continue to maintain together the unvulgarized mediaevalism of the place, and in the town hall, at any rate, there takes place every year a ceremony hallowed by a fantastic and antique tradition […]
ref: 1926, Charles Pasco Hawkes, Mauresques: With Some Basque and Spanish Cameos, page 220:
glosses: Not vulgarized.
unvulgarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unvulgarize
arquated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arquated
form: most arquated
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: arcuate
glosses: shaped like a bow (curve); arched; curved.
limpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limpins
Etymology: 16th-century dialectal variant of limpet.
Senses: examples: text: The Limpins, Muskles, and Scallops.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book I.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: A limpet.
limpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limpin
dumpage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumpages
Etymology: From dump + -age.
Senses: glosses: The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter.
glosses: A heap of dumped matter.
glosses: A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads.
dumpages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumpage
fistuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fistuliform
form: most fistuliform
Etymology: From fistula + -form.
Senses: examples: text: Stalactites and iron pyrites occur fistuliform.
ref: 1816, William Phillips, An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy:
glosses: Shaped like a fistular or pipe; having a tubular shape
in transitu
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in transitu.
Senses: examples: text: stoppage in transitu
topics: law
glosses: in transit; during transportation
odometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of odometrical.
Derived terms: odometrically
odometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hodometric
form: hodometrical
form: odometric
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an odometer or to odometry.
epacris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epacris
form: epacrises
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Epacris of shrubs.
epacrises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epacris
hectarages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hectarage
spyrytuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spyrytuall
form: most spyrytuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spiritual.
spirituall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spirituall
form: most spirituall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spiritual.
spirytual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spirytual
form: most spirytual
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spiritual.
spirytuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spirytuall
form: most spirytuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spiritual.
spyritual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spyritual
form: most spyritual
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spiritual.
keffekil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiefekil
form: keffekill
Etymology: From Turkish [Term?], composed of Kefe (“Caffa, a city in Crimea”) + kil (“clay”). The material was imported from that region of Crimea.
Alternatively, according to Webster (1913), from Persian کف (kaf, “foam”) + گل (gel, “clay”). Note that Turkish kil is from Persian گل (gel).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of clay; meerschaum.
wikipedia: Feodosia
William Phillips (geologist)
Derived terms: keffekilite
spyrituall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spyrituall
form: most spyrituall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spiritual.
spyrytual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spyrytual
form: most spyrytual
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spiritual.
antheroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antheroid
form: most antheroid
Etymology: From anther + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: antheroid body
text: antheroid carpels
text: antheroid tissue
glosses: Resembling an anther.
unwill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unwills
Etymology: From un- (“lack or absence of”) + will (noun). Compare Dutch onwil.
Senses: examples: text: Woe to him that shall be under His unwill!
ref: 1895, Kuno Meyer, The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living:
text: They are major poets out of whak, twisted and balked by unwill.
ref: 1988, Daniel G. Marowski, Contemporary Literary Criticism, page 5:
text: The first challenge to shaping and taming this emerging world is the will itself and the human problem of unwill, especially in relation to femininity.
ref: 2005, Melodie Calvert, Jennifer Terry, Processed Lives:
text: If women are showing "technological ineptitude" and are "disinclined towards technology" by showing an "unwill" to co-operate technologically, does this merely indicate stupidity?
ref: 2009, Amanda du Preez, Gendered Bodies and New Technologies:
glosses: Lack or absence of will; willlessness; undesire.
unwill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwills
form: unwilling
form: unwilled
form: unwilled
Etymology: From un- (reverse action prefix) + will (verb).
Senses: examples: text: And as he is, who unwills what he willed, / And by new thoughts doth his intention change, / So that from his design he quite withdraws, / Such I became, upon that dark hillside, / Because, in thinking, I consumed the emprise, / Which was so very prompt in the beginning.
ref: 1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 8, lines 37–42:
text: But if it can will and unwill, it can also love and hate, and if it can love and hate, it can also in some small degree do the works of the law and believe the gospel.
ref: 1969, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson, Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation:
text: Accordingly, a Gnostic will to glorification is a will to unwill, a will to unwill itself , and to unwill itself as a free and an active will, a will whose very actuality freely enacts a continual enslavement of itself.
ref: 1990, Thomas J. J. Altizer, Genesis and Apocalypse, page 83:
text: You can't back up like a dumptruck and unwill the actions of the past, much as we may long to. And you can never unwill children — though some people like to make such remarks when they're in great distress or trying to show off, or in some other desperate state.
ref: 2007, Joan Frank, The Great Far Away, page 167:
glosses: To annul or reverse by an act of the will.
unwills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unwill
effectuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more effectuall
form: most effectuall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of effectual.
Derived terms: ineffectuall
bulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulses
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese bolsa. Doublet of purse and bolsa.
Senses: examples: text: [L]et me then comfort myself with the large treasure of Johnson's conversation which I have preserved for my own entertainment and that of the world, and let me exhibit what I have upon each occasion, whether more or less, whether a bulse, or only a few sparks of a diamond.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 997:
text: bulses of diamonds and bags of guineas
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: A bag or package of diamonds, gold dust or other precious materials.
bulses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulse
travells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travell
travells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of travell
impassableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impassable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: impassability; the state or quality of being impassable.
bearing rein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearing reins
form: bearing-rein
Senses: examples: text: Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 105:
glosses: A checkrein.
bearing reins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearing rein
uroglaucin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uro-, Latin glaucus (“bright”), + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance, apparently the same as indigo, occasionally found in the urine in degeneration of the kidneys. It is readily formed by oxidation or decomposition of indican.
Related terms: urrhodin
Samoyede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Samoyedes
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Samoyed.
Samoyedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Samoyede
apomecometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apomecometers
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the heights of buildings etc.
apomecometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apomecometer
cravingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cravingly
form: most cravingly
Etymology: From craving + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Only look up, as they did that were wounded, weepingly, wishingly, pitifully, cravingly; see and sigh, look upon him whom you have pierced […]
ref: 1841, Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey, Course of Lectures on the Scripture Types, page 305:
synonyms: desirously
longingly
glosses: With longing or craving.
grandiloquous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grandiloquous
form: most grandiloquous
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: grandiloquent
altrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin altrīcēs, plural of altrīx (“nourisher”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: altricial birds.
Related terms: altricial
altriciality
gripman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gripmen
Etymology: From grip + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man employed to manipulate the grip of a cable car (the streetcar), therefore enabling it to start and stop.
gripmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gripman
kyley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kyleys
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of kylie (“boomerang”).
kyleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyley
non prosequitur
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Latin [Term?], meaning "he does not prosecute".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A judgement entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he/she fails to appear to prosecute.
Related terms: nolle prosequi
non-pros
suicidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈs(j)uːɪˌsaɪ.dɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈsuɪˌsaɪ.dɪ.zəm/
rhymes: -uːɪsaɪdɪzəm
Etymology: From suicide + -ism.
Suicidism (sense 2) was coined by Canadian academic Alexandre Baril by queer, trans, disability and critical suicidology scholar Alexandre Baril in 2016, who published the concept and theoretical framework for the first time 2018 in the periodical Criminologie. Suicidism has since been expanded and further developed in later publications such as in the Disability Studies Quarterly (2020) and the book Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide (2023).
Senses: synonyms: suicidality
suicidalness
glosses: The quality or state of being suicidal.
hypernyms: word: ableism
word: sanism
word: <
word: anger
word: fear
word: hatred
word: inclination
word: partiality
word: preference
word: unfairness
word: resentment
glosses: Discrimination and oppression against suicidal people.
Orangeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orange + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principles or beliefs of the Loyal Orange Institution, commonly known as the Orange Order.
intranscalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intranscalent
form: most intranscalent
Etymology: From in- + transcalent.
Senses: glosses: impervious to heat; adiathermic
Related terms: intranscalency
siphuncled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From siphuncle + -ed.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a siphuncle; siphunculated.
equimomental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From equi- + momental.
Senses: glosses: Having equal moments of inertia.
Manx cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋks kæt/
enpr: mănks kăt
Forms: form: Manx cats
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a breed that is native to the Isle of Man, principally characterized by suppression of the tail, and with a short-haired coat and a medium-sized, rounded, cobby body.
Synonyms: Manx
Manxie
Related terms: word: riser
word: rumpie
word: stumpie
english: Manx cats with different types of tail
translation: Manx cats with different types of tail
word: longie
english: the long-haired variant of the breed
translation: the long-haired variant of the breed
word: Cymric cat
anthozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Anthozoa + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the anthozoans (any member of Anthozoa, the corals, sea pens and sea anemones).
ulnage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A form of alnage ultimately influenced by Latin ulna.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of alnage.
unqualitied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unqualitied
form: most unqualitied
Etymology: From un- + quality + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Go to him, madam, speak to him: He is unqualitied with very shame
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Deprived of the usual faculties.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Not possessing qualities.
torosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torosity
torosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torosities
Etymology: From torose + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: their muscles never attaining the torosity and firmness of those of an entire man
ref: 1833, James Russell, Observations on the Testicles:
glosses: The quality or state of being torose.
goutily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more goutily
form: most goutily
Etymology: From gouty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He hobbled goutily away.
text: the iron pins of the flagstaff creaked goutily and painfully; the flagstaffs themselves bent as though they were the masts of a fleet of houses moored in a roadstead of bricks.
ref: 1901, Louis Couperus, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Small Souls, Chapter XXII:
glosses: In a gouty manner; as if affected with gout.
orval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French orvale.
Senses: synonyms: annual clary
red-topped sage
glosses: A sage, of species Salvia viridis.
shipholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipholders
form: ship-holder
Etymology: From ship + holder.
Senses: glosses: The owner of a ship.
shipholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipholder
Shawnees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shawnee
embryoniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin embryō (stem embryōn-) + -iferous.
Senses: examples: text: embryoniferous cirrus
text: embryoniferous ovum
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having, or producing, an embryo.
movableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From movable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being movable; mobility.
urodelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Urodela + -ian
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the salamanders of Urodela (synonym of Caudata).
Related terms: urodelan
urodele
urodelous
urodelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urodelians
Etymology: Urodela + -ian
Senses: examples: text: Salamanders are urodelians.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Urodela (synonym of Caudata).
urodelians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urodelian
conirostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Conirostres + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the former tribe Conirostres of perching birds with strong, conical beaks.
Manx cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋks kæts/
enpr: /mănks kăts/
Senses: glosses: plural of Manx cat
loweringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more loweringly
form: most loweringly
Etymology: From lowering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ahab stood apart; and every time the tetering ship loweringly pitched down her bowsprit, he turned to eye the bright sun’s rays[…]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: He shambled along with bowed head, his brain in a tumult of agony and despair. When he looked loweringly up, quivering at each sound, his eyes had the expression of those of a criminal who thinks his guilt and his punishment great, and knows that he can find no words.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: As he stood, loweringly phlegmatic as any caged hate, his peering eyes and snarling lip would occasionally lift themselves together, not towards the glittering lord of destinies on the dais, but towards his henchman, the Greek, who would answer the challenge with a stare of serene and opulent contempt.
ref: 1905, Bernard Capes, A Jay of Italy, Chapter 4:
glosses: In a lowering manner; menacingly; with cloudiness or gloom.
villageries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villagery
villagery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villageries
Etymology: From village + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Are not you hee, / That frights the maidens of the Villageree, […]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature B3, verso:
glosses: A district of villages.
inexpectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + expectation.
Senses: examples: text: Such are Inexpectation, unacquaintance, want of Preparation
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: Absence of expectation.
strobilaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: strō′bə-lā′shəs
ipa: /ˌstɹəʊ̯.bəˈleɪ̯.ʃəs/
ipa: /ˌstɹoʊ̯.bəˈleɪ̯.ʃəs/
ipa: /ˌstɹəʉ̯.bəˈlæɪ̯.ʃəs/
ipa: /ˌstɹɐʉ̯.bəˈlæɪ̯.ʃəs/
ipa: /ˌstɹo.bəˈle.ʃəs/
ipa: /ˌsʈɾoː.biˈleː.ʃou̯s/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more strobilaceous
form: most strobilaceous
Etymology: From strobila + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: strobilaceous inflorescence
text: strobilaceous stroma
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a strobile or a cone.
examples: text: strobilaceous bud
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Producing strobiles.
urao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish urao.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mineral trona.