cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hieroglyphists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hieroglyphist
perturbability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perturb + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being perturbable.
Derived terms: imperturbability
unperturbability
wraprascal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wraprascals
Etymology: From wrap + rascal.
Senses: glosses: A kind of coarse overcoat.
wraprascals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wraprascal
tartronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tartronates
Etymology: From tartronic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of tartronic acid.
tartronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tartronate
polytheize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polytheizes
form: polytheizing
form: polytheized
form: polytheized
Senses: examples: text: This new polytheizing Christianity , therefore , was still subordinate and subsidiary in the theologic creed to the true Christian worship
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: To adhere to, advocate, or inculcate the doctrine of polytheism.
polytheized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of polytheize
polytheizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of polytheize
polytheizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of polytheize
æthiops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of aethiops.
Lententide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Lenten (“of or related to Lent”) + tide (“time”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Lent.
synonyms: word: Lent
feitsui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 翡翠 (fěicuì).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: jadeite
latitudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more latitudinous
form: most latitudinous
Etymology: From latitude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Having latitude, or broad range; wide-ranging or of broad scope
lichenographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lichenographists
Etymology: From lichenography + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.
lichenographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lichenographist
swunken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌŋkən
Senses: glosses: past participle of swink
gesturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gesturable
form: most gesturable
Etymology: From gesture + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being represented by gestures.
compassable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compassable
form: most compassable
Etymology: From compass + -able.
Senses: examples: February 11 1780, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons
We want many things compassable only by the help of other beings like ourselves. They want things compassable within our Help.
glosses: Capable of being compassed or accomplished.
Derived terms: uncompassable
malpighia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malpighias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Malpighia, named after Italian biologist and physician Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694).
Senses: examples: text: He had identified a cestrum, a malpighia, and a climbing vine he suspected was a cissus when Dorrie and Gerry came across the terrace and pulled up deck chairs on either side of him.
ref: 2016, Joan Hess, The Deadly Ackee:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Malpighia of tropical American shrubs.
malpighias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malpighia
exhibitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exhibit + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: reflecting upon himself as Exhibitive
ref: 1693, John Norris, Reason and Religion:
glosses: Serving for exhibition; representative.
Related terms: exhibitively
worder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worders
Etymology: From word + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In summe, the active Christian is the onely Seraphicall Doctor, the just Dealer, the best Casuist, the good Example, Master of the Sentences, each good Action speaking more effectually, Imitation, or Conviction to Spectators, than any (though the subtlest worder) could ever arrive to.
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
glosses: Someone who words something a certain way; a turner of phrases.
examples: text: a ten-worder
glosses: Something having a certain number, or type, of words
raw_tags: in combinations
worders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worder
fatuitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fatuitous
form: most fatuitous
Senses: glosses: stupid; fatuous
Derived terms: fatuitousness
scuffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scufflers
Etymology: From scuffle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who scuffles.
glosses: A large round bread cake that is scored so that it can be torn into pie-shaped pieces.
scuffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scufflers
Etymology: From scuffle + -er.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: cultivator, scarifier, grubber, horse hoe (not always precisely differentiated; dialectal usage has varied)
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A scarifier; an implement resembling a scarifier but lighter.
Related terms: scuffle
scuffle hoe
scufflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuffler
deess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪˈ(j)ɛs/
Forms: form: deesses
Etymology: Borrowed from French déesse, feminine of dieu (“god”).
Senses: examples: text: He does so much magnifie Nature and her actings in all this material world, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joint deess with God in the affairs thereof.
ref: 1685, Herbert Croft (bishop), (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: The Hindus "take the bull by the horns" and boldly make "sítlá" (small-pox) a goddess, an incarnation of Bhawáni, deëss of destruction-reproduction.
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXV, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 256 footnote:
glosses: A goddess.
gesticulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gesticulators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gesticulātor.
Senses: glosses: One who gesticulates
gesticulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gesticulator
loanmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loanmongers
Etymology: From loan + monger.
Senses: examples: text: Teach us that wealth is not elegance; that profusion is not magnificence; and that splendour is not beauty. Teach us that taste is a talisman which can do greater wonders than the millions of the loanmonger.
ref: 1831, Benjamin Disraeli, The Young Duke, Book III, Chapter 10:
text: The Punic Wars […] he presented as a gigantic necessary struggle between noble north-side soldiers and revengeful, obdurate, but extremely competent south-side loanmongers.
ref: 1937, H. G. Wells, Star-Begotten, Chapter 6, §4:
glosses: A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.
loanmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loanmonger
manganesate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manganesates
Etymology: From manganese + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A manganate.
manganesates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manganesate
besiegement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: besiegements
Etymology: From besiege + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of besieging.
examples: text: ...Setting before their eies besiegement, hungar, and the arrogant enemy...
ref: 1578, Arthur Golding, The Abridgement of the Historyes of Trogus Pompeius:
glosses: The state of being besieged.
besiegements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of besiegement
rowport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rowports
Etymology: From row + port.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An opening in the side of small warships, such as sloops-of-war, placed near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.
Related terms: gunport
rowlock
rowports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rowport
incumbrancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incumbrancers
Etymology: From incumbrance + -er.
Senses: examples: text: jointress , a tenant by the courtesy , a remainderman and reversioner , a judgment creditor , and every other incumbrancer , unless he be an incumbrancer pendente lite[…]
ref: 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law:
topics: law
glosses: One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
incumbrancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incumbrancer
sea pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea passes
Senses: glosses: A document formerly carried by neutral merchant vessels in wartime to show their nationality.
sea passes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea pass
uncardinal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncardinals
form: uncardinaling
form: uncardinalling
form: uncardinaled
form: uncardinaled
form: uncardinalled
form: uncardinalled
Etymology: From un- + cardinal.
Senses: examples: text: he quickly got a dispensation to uncardinal himself
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To remove from the cardinalship; to remove from the position of cardinal.
fosterment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foster + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of fostering or encouraging something.
glosses: food, nourishment or upkeep
impreparation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From im- + preparation.
Senses: examples: text: Which impreparation and unreadiness when then they find in us, they turn it to the soothing up of themselves in that cursed fancy, whereby they would fain believe that the hearty devotion of such as indeed fear God is nothing else but a kind of harmless error […]
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Lack of preparation.
ironish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ironish
form: most ironish
Etymology: From iron + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: an ironish taste
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:
glosses: Resembling iron.
reexpel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reexpels
form: reexpelling
form: reexpelled
form: reexpelled
Etymology: From re- + expel.
Senses: glosses: To expel again.
Related terms: reexpulsion
reexpelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reexpel
reexpelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reexpel
reexpels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reexpel
multicipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multicipital
form: most multicipital
Etymology: From multi- + Latin caput (“head”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having many heads or stems from one crown or root
fucusol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fucus + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oily liquid, resembling and possibly identical with furfurol, obtained from fucus and other seaweeds.
aldern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alder + -en.
Senses: examples: text: an aldern bow
text: an aldern pole
glosses: Made of alder wood.
woolfell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolfells
form: woolfel
Etymology: From wool + fell; see fell (“skin”).
Senses: examples: text: For first Mr. Dier's opinion was that the ancient custom for exportation was by the common laws; and goeth furder, that that ancient custom was the custom upon wools, woolfells, and leather.
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, “A.D. 1610. Ætat. 50.”, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, […]: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon […], volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, →OCLC, page 194:
glosses: A skin of an animal with the wool attached.
woolfells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolfell
woolfel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolfels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woolfell.
woolfels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolfel
misadventurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misadventurous
form: most misadventurous
Etymology: From misadventure + -ous?
Senses: glosses: unfortunate; doomed
Derived terms: misadventurously
chemosmotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chemiosmotic.
lutose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lutose
form: most lutose
Etymology: From Latin lutosus, from lutum (“mud”).
Senses: glosses: Covered with clay or dirt, or appearing to be so; miry.
erythrozyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erythro- + zyme.
Senses: glosses: A ferment extracted from madder root, capable of inducing alcoholic fermentation in sugar solutions.
denominable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: an hot and sanguineous affluxion, or else denominable from other humours, according to the predominancy of melancholy, phlegm, or choler
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being denominated or named.
pedantize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pedantizes
form: pedantizing
form: pedantized
form: pedantized
Etymology: From pedant + -ize. Compare French pédantiser.
Senses: glosses: To act pedantically; to use pedantic expressions.
glosses: to make pedantic
pedantized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pedantize
pedantizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pedantize
pedantizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pedantize
ramulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæm.jʊˌləʊs/
ipa: /ˈɹæm.jəˌloʊs/
Forms: form: more ramulose
form: most ramulose
Etymology: From Latin ramulosus, from ramulus, diminutive of ramus (“branch”).
Senses: glosses: Having many small branches, or ramuli.
lenticellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lenticellate
form: most lenticellate
Etymology: From lenticel + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Producing or containing lenticels.
melodics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The branch of music theory that deals with pitch, harmony, and melody.
examples: text: melodics cannot be of central interest in the case of long poems.
ref: 2016, Peter Nicholls, Peter Boxall, Thinking Poetry, page 25:
glosses: The analysis of poetry in terms of the use of meter, rhyme, alliteration, and repetition to create a lyrical sound when read aloud.
Derived terms: harmolodics
semiphlogisticated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + phlogisticated.
Senses: examples: text: semiphlogisticted iron
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Partially impregnated with phlogiston.
monometallism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monometallisms
Etymology: From mono- + metal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The use of only one metal (such as gold or silver) in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of monetary value.
Related terms: bimetallism
monometallist
monometallistic
monometallisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monometallism
dawish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dawish
form: most dawish
Etymology: From daw + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […] a piece of meat to which Mr. Jackdaw had helped himself, and which he was holding firmly down with one foot whilst he pecked away at it after the dawish fashion […]
ref: 1862, John George Wood, The illustrated natural history: Volume 2, page 277:
text: An officer! A dawish fool, forsooth,
His class——denial of God in man; in truth
I've scarce the time for pity,—none for ruth.
Go marry then your Soldier!
ref: 1873, Walter Rew, “A Hate Strain”, in Maud Vivian: A Drama; and Poems, page 180:
glosses: Like a jackdaw.
objectist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objectists
Etymology: From object + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: absolute objectists, who made the subjective perception dependent on the real existence of the object
ref: 1854, Joseph Antisell Allen, Day-dreams of a Butterfly:
glosses: An objectivist.
glosses: One who follows the doctrine of objectism.
objectists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of objectist
tuitionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tuition + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: tuitionary cost
text: tuitionary period
text: tuitionary condition
glosses: Of or pertaining to tuition.
assignability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From assign + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being assignable.
engravement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engravements
Etymology: From engrave + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Engraving (act of engravement).
examples: text: the engravement of art and man's device
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). An Exposition of the Creed”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: engraving (engraved work).
engravements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engravement
hemihedrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemihedrisms
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hemihedral crystallization
hemihedrisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemihedrism
polyporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyporous
form: most polyporous
Etymology: From poly- + porous.
Senses: examples: text: So again , in the group of Echinidæ , the members of the comparatively recent polyporous group , in which each ambulacral plate bears more than three pairs of ambulacral pores
ref: 1890, Manchester Microscopical Society, Transactions and Annual Report:
glosses: Having or involving many pores.
glosses: Relating to the fungus genus Polyporus.
artiodactylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: even-toed; belonging to the Artiodactyla
Related terms: artiodactyl
timidous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪmɪdəs/
Forms: form: more timidous
form: most timidous
Senses: examples: text: lets the timidous miscarry
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: timid
flooky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flooky
form: most flooky
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fluky.
maffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mafflers
Etymology: From maffle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] they alſo abuſe their power, and go too far in their commandements, (for ſo they be called at the wine ) who enjoyne ſtutters, ſtammerers, and mafflers to ſing, […]
ref: 1657, “The Sympofiaques, or Table-Questions.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophy, Commonly Called, the Morals, Written by the Learned Philoſopher Plutarch of Chaeronea, page 535:
glosses: A stammerer.
mafflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maffler
penalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penality
penality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penalities
Etymology: See penalty.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the Ancients denied the Antipodes, and some unto the penality of contrary affirmations
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: penality is not merely an effect or a specific result of neoliberalism but is a core defining feature.
ref: 2020, Roger Hopkins Burke, Contemporary Criminological Theory:
glosses: The quality or state of being penal; liability to punishment.
enravishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enravishments
Etymology: From enravish + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: they contract a kind of splendour from the seemingly obscuring veil; which adds to the enravishments of her transported admirers
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy or bliss.
enravishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enravishment
omphalomesenteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omphalo- + mesenteric.
Senses: examples: text: the omphalomesenteric arteries and veins of a foetus
text: omphalomesenteric duct
text: omphalomesenteric remnants
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery.
Synonyms: omphalomesaraic
etacist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etacists
Senses: glosses: One who favors etacism.
etacists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etacist
fittedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fitted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being fitted; adaptation.
perivertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From peri- + vertebral.
Senses: examples: text: perivertebral muscle
text: perivertebral space
text: perivertebral tissue
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the vertebrae.
winnard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winnards
Senses: glosses: The redwing.
Derived terms: wisht as a winnard
winnards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winnard
knaveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knavery
writer's cramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The recording of their tales is no more than a matter of ears and fingers. There are only two fates I dread—deafness and writer's cramp.
ref: c. 1900, O. Henry, He Also Serves:
text: "The following boys will go in to extra lesson this afternoon and next Wednesday," it began. And "the following boys" numbered four hundred.
"Bates must have got writer's cramp," said Clowes, as he read the huge scroll.
ref: 1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 12, in Mike: A Public School Story:
text: Christmas dividend checks and checks covering Christmas presents to his employees were always signed by him. . . . He had writer's cramp by the time he finished.
ref: 1922, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 23, in Cappy Ricks Retires:
text: Henry James, after he suffered an attack of writer's cramp, began to dictate to a typist.
ref: 2007 Nov. 4, John Updike, "On Literary Biography" (excerpt from Due Considerations), New York Times (retrieved 9 Dec 2011)
synonyms: cheirospasm
graphospasm
mogigraphia
glosses: A debilitating pain preventing easy movement of the wrist, hand, or fingers, resulting from prolonged use of a pen or pencil.
wax wode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waxes wode
form: waxing wode
form: waxed wode
form: wex wode
form: waxed wode
form: wex wode
form: waxen wode
Etymology: From Middle English waxen wode.
Senses: examples: text: My hair stode up, I waxed wode, my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake
ref: 1806, James Petite Andews, The History of Great Britain:
glosses: To become angry because of something, be made angry by someone or something.
glosses: To be alienated from somebody, be overcome with repugnance for.
clashier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of clashy: more clashy
clashiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of clashy: most clashy
dentolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dentilingual.
dentolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dentolinguals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dentilingual.
inconnection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + connection.
Senses: glosses: disconnection
precipitantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more precipitantly
form: most precipitantly
Etymology: From precipitant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Us if he ſhall hear now, how much leſs will he hear when we cry hereafter, who once deliver'd by him from a King, and not without wondrous Acts of his Providence, inſenſible and unworthy of thoſe high Mercies, are returning precipitantly, if he withold us not, back to the Captivity from whence he freed us.
ref: 1660 February, John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, Compar’d with the Inconveniencies and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in this Nation; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 793:
synonyms: word: precipitately
word: precipitant#Adverb
glosses: In a precipitant manner; hastily, hurriedly
cellulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cellulate
cellulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cellulated
form: most cellulated
Senses: glosses: Consisting of or containing cells.
outreckon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outreckons
form: outreckoning
form: outreckoned
form: outreckoned
Etymology: From out- + reckon.
Senses: examples: text: The Egyptian priests pretended an exact chronology for some myriads of years; and the Chaldeans and Assyrians far outreckon them.
ref: 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
glosses: To surpass in reckoning or computation.
outreckoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outreckon
outreckoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outreckon
outreckons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outreckon
Martlemas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Deliver'd with good respect. And how doth the Martlemas, your master?
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, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: How old art thou now, Adam? / Four score, come Martlemas: and by our Lady, I can run with a lapwing.
ref: 1796, George Colman the Younger, The Iron Chest, act I, scene 2:
glosses: Obsolete form of Martinmas.
misascribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misascribes
form: misascribing
form: misascribed
form: misascribed
Etymology: From mis- + ascribe.
Senses: examples: text: Some people misascribe the works of Shakespeare to other writers.
synonyms: misattribute
glosses: To ascribe wrongly.
Related terms: misascription
misdescribe
misdescription
misascribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misascribe
misascribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misascribe
misascribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misascribe
atokous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The eggs of certain annelids are atokous.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: atokal
glosses: Producing only asexual individuals.
Related terms: atoke
atoky
irregulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: irregulates
form: irregulating
form: irregulated
form: irregulated
Etymology: From ir- + regulate.
Senses: examples: text: its fluctuations are but motions subservient; which winds, storms, shores, shelves, and every interjacency irregulates
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: to make irregular; to disorder
irregulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of irregulate
irregulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of irregulate
irregulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of irregulate
splash out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splashes out
form: splashing out
form: splashed out
form: splashed out
Senses: examples: text: I decided to splash out on a trip around Europe after getting a nice Christmas bonus.
text: She splashed out $500 on breast implants.
text: How much did you have to splash out to get that Ferrari?
glosses: To spend a lot of money on something desired but not necessary.
interthoracic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + thoracic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Misspelling of intrathoracic.
Socotran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Socotran
form: most Socotran
form: Soqotran
Etymology: From Socotra + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Socotra.
Socotran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Socotrans
form: Soqotran
Etymology: From Socotra + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Socotra.
Synonyms: Socotrine
Socotrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Socotran
famosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin famositas (“infamy”). Compare French famosité. See famous.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being famous.
irremovably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irremovably
form: most irremovably
Etymology: From irremovable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Those whom he once had taken to were irremovably lodged for ever in his affections
ref: 1838, Edinburgh Review:
glosses: So as not to be removable.
commiserable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commiserable
form: most commiserable
Etymology: Formed as commiser-, the present active indicative stem of the Latin commiseror (whence commiserate) + English -able. Compare miserable.
Senses: examples: text: the Guiltineſſe of Bloud, of many Commiſerable Perſons.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Plantations”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 204:
glosses: pitiable
insheathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insheathes
form: insheathing
form: insheathed
form: insheathed
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ensheathe.
insheathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insheath
glosses: simple past and past participle of insheathe
insheathes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insheathe
insheathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of insheath
glosses: present participle and gerund of insheathe
gibfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gibfish
Senses: examples: text: When a gib fish has found a stream that he likes , he makes a hole as a swine works in the ground with his nose , his mouth being nailed with the gib in its socket
ref: 1834, Thomas Medwin, The Angler in Wales: Or, Days and Nights of Sportsmen:
text: In Northumberland the male [salmon] is called a summercock, or gibfish
ref: 1885, Edward Hamilton, Recollections of Fly Fishing for Salmon, Trout, and Grayling:
glosses: A male salmon.
arborical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to trees; arboreal.
friskals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friscals
form: friskles
Etymology: Apparently the plural of *friskal (“a playful leap or jump”), from frisk (“brisk and lively movement”) + -al. Compare frisco.
Senses: examples: text: Lay but the raynes on her necke, to take too and seeke not to hold her in, there is no ho with her; then much liberty shall you see what friskals shee will fetch, leape, fling, and flie out, that no ground shall hold her.
ref: 1622, The Life of Guzman de Alfarache:
text: Ixion […] turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes
ref: 1631, Ben Jonson, Chloridia:
text: And, saying so, he gave two or three friskals in the air with very great signs of contentment, and presently went to Dorotea, and taking her mule by the bridle he withheld it, […]
ref: 1923, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, modernised spelling edition:
glosses: Leapings; capers.
reenjoy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reenjoys
form: reenjoying
form: reenjoyed
form: reenjoyed
form: re-enjoy
Etymology: From re- + enjoy.
Senses: examples: text: since the Calmness of temper Achilles reenjoy'd
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: To enjoy again or anew.
reenjoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reenjoy
reenjoying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reenjoy
reenjoys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reenjoy
prevertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From pre- + vertebral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: prespinal
glosses: Situated immediately in front of, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column
Derived terms: prevertebral fascia
prevertebral ganglia
prevertebral muscles
prevertebral plexus
prevertebral space
leapings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaping
capeskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capeskin
dispreaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispread
dispreader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispreaders
Etymology: From dispread + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Joſeph of Arimathea, richer in grace than wealth, and a great diſpreader of the Goſpel, and (as many ancient Writers report) the firſt planter of Chriſtian Rehbgion in this Iſland, yet till Chriſts death had ſmall courage to profeſſe him; […]
ref: 1618 December 15 (Gregorian calendar), Daniel Featley, “The Smoaking Flaxe. A Sermon Preached at Lambeth before His Grace, the Lord Bishop of London, […]”, in Clavis Mystica: A Key Opening Divers Difficult and Mysterious Texts of Holy Scripture; […], London: […] R[obert] Y[oung] for Nicolas Bourne, […], published 1636, →OCLC, page 15:
text: Beſides another inconvenience, if learned Men be the firſt receivers out of Books, and diſpreaders both of vice and error, how ſhall the Licenſers themſelves be confided in, unleſs we can confer upon them, or they aſſume to themſelves above all others in the Land, the grace of infallibility, and uncorruptedneſs?
ref: 1738, “Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicens’d Printing, to the Parlament of England”, in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton: […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 148:
text: Now they resorted only to that mountain where the hermit was, and the reason of their foregathering with the holy man was their assiduity in repeating “Praised be Allah!” for it is recounted that the pigeon sayeth in praise, “Praised be the Creator of all Creatures, the Distributor of daily bread, the Builder of the heavens and Dispreader of the earths!”
ref: 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Hermits. [Night 148.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume III, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 126 of 125–126:
glosses: Someone who spreads or propagates.
dispreaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispreader
sidehill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidehills
Etymology: From side + hill.
Senses: examples: text: By reason of this planning the line, which for much of its length has a sidehill location in river canyons with steep sides, was compelled to tunnel extensively, the 43 tunnels on the route having a combined length of 44,189 ft.
ref: 1941 March, “Notes and News: Modernising a Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 133:
glosses: The side or slope of a hill; a sloping descent.
Synonyms: hillside
Derived terms: sidehill gouger
sidehills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidehill
amazeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amazeful
form: most amazeful
Etymology: From amaze + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: [B]ats with breasts and wings / Clasp fast the walls, and each to other clings, / But, swept off from their coverts, up they rise / And fly with murmurs in amazeful guise / About the cavern; […]
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Twenty-fourth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, pages 249–250, lines 7–11:
glosses: Full of amazement; astonished.
leverock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leverocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laverock.
garancin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French garance (“madder”), Latin garantia.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pigment extracted from madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin.
epispore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epispores
Etymology: From epi- + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
epispores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epispore
sextolet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextolets
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: sextuplet
glosses: A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
sextolets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sextolet
imperatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imperatory
form: most imperatory
Senses: examples: text: imperatory voice
glosses: imperative
astriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more astriferous
form: most astriferous
Etymology: From Latin astrifer, from astrum (“star”) + ferre (“to bear”).
Senses: examples: text: astriferous robes
text: The Ethereous or Astriferous Heaven
ref: 1672, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles:
glosses: Bearing stars.
flushboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flushboards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flashboard (“board placed upon a milldam”).
flushboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flushboard
limitaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin limitaneus. See limit (transitive verb).
Senses: examples: text: Such being the case, it has been regarded as the political interest of England to balance and divide the enmity of France by a strict alliance with some limitaneous state.
ref: 1803, John Pinkerton, Modern Geography:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a limit.
drabbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drabbish
form: most drabbish
Etymology: From drab + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: the fronts of the thighs of Gibberne's white trousers were scorched a drabbish brown
ref: 1901, H. G. Wells, The New Accelerator:
glosses: Somewhat drab in colour.
examples: text: instead of the drabbish woman she had expected, Mrs. Hall saw a pale, dark-eyed, ladylike creature, whose personality ruled her attire rather than was ruled by it.
ref: 1884, Thomas Hardy, Interlopers at the Knap:
glosses: Having the character of a drab or low wench.
nicotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: nicotic acid
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: nicotinic
catechismal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catechismal
form: most catechismal
Etymology: From catechism + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a catechism; having the form of questions and answers; catechical.
hatcheler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatchelers
form: hatcheller
Etymology: From hatchel + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who uses a hatchel.
hatchelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatcheler
metallotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metallo- + therapy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A former supposed treatment of disease by applying metal plates to the surface of the body.
Synonyms: metalloscopy
ascham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aschams
Etymology: Named after Roger Ascham, who was a great lover of archery.
Senses: glosses: A cupboard or case for storing bows and other archery equipment.
wikipedia: Roger Ascham
aschams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascham
gnatling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnatlings
Etymology: From gnat + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: the world's tiniest bat, which was smaller than a gnatling[…]
ref: 2012, Jason Hurlburt, Herstory:
text: A gnatling's wind gives all its frame to ſigh
ref: 1782, James Elphinston, The Epigrams of M. Val. Martial:
text: […]attack these gnatlings in their neſt
ref: 1761, Charles Churchill, The Rosciad:
glosses: A tiny gnat.
gnatlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnatling
condurango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cundurango
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The bark of a South American vine, Marsdenia cundurango, of the milkweed family, once erroneously believed to cure cancer.
glosses: The plant itself, Marsdenia cundurango.
Derived terms: condurangin
cundurango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of condurango.
nigged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From UK dialect nig (“to clip money”), and -ed.
Senses: examples: text: nigged walls
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
synonyms: nidged
glosses: Roughly shaped with a stonecutter's hammer; hammer-dressed.
nigged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From UK dialect nig (“to clip money”), and -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nig
toothleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: toothletted
Etymology: From toothlet + -ed.
Senses: examples: a toothleted leaf
glosses: Having a toothlet or toothlets.
impledge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impledges
form: impledging
form: impledged
form: impledged
Etymology: From im- + pledge.
Senses: examples: text: Think'st thou, amid this ample round,
A single brow but thine has frown'd,
To sadden this auspicious morn,
That bids the daughter of high Lorn
Impledge her spousal faith to wed
The Heir of mighty Somerled;
ref: 1815, Walter Scott, Lord of the Isles, Canto I:
glosses: To pledge.
impledged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impledge
impledges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impledge
impledging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impledge
maxillopalatine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ælətaɪn
-ælətɪn
Etymology: From maxillo- + palatine.
Senses: examples: the maxillopalatine process of the maxilla
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull.
maxillopalatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ælətaɪn
-ælətɪn
Forms: form: maxillopalatines
Etymology: From maxillo- + palatine.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: That area of the skull.
maxillopalatines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxillopalatine
mauvine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mauve + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A mauve pigment obtained from aniline.
moanful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moanful
form: most moanful
Etymology: From moan + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of moaning; expressing sorrow
glosses: Worthy of moaning.
Related terms: moanfully
Bastia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæstiə/
ipa: /ˈbɑːstjə/
ipa: /ˈbɑːstiə/
ipa: /ˈbæstiə/
ipa: /ˈbɑːstiə/
ipa: /bɑːˈstiːə/
Senses: glosses: A town and port, the capital of the department of Upper Corsica, Corsica, France.
inirritative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inirritative
form: most inirritative
Etymology: From in- + irritative.
Senses: examples: text: The inirritative fever differs from the puerperal and from the hectic fever, by the permanent inactivity of the stomach
ref: 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not accompanied with excitement.