cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
laryngophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laryngo- + -phony.
Senses: glosses: The sound of the voice as heard through a stethoscope placed upon the larynx.
rhizodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizodonts
Etymology: From rhiz- + -odont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A reptile whose teeth are rooted in sockets, such as the crocodile.
glosses: Any of the Rhizodontida
rhizodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizodont
humicubation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humicubations
Etymology: From Latin humus (“the ground”) + cubare (“to lie down”).
Senses: examples: text: He is afraid, that this Doctrine of fasting, and mourning, and tears, and humicubation, and sackcloth, and ashes, pertaineth to the establishment of Romish pennance.
ref: 1678, John Bramhall, The Works of the most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall, D.D. The Late Lord Archbishop of Ardmagh, Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland, volume III, Dublin: Benjamin Tooke, page 800:
text: The χαμολνία, Humicubation, lying upon ground, &c. which things have been overacted, and still are in the Greek and Roman Churches.
ref: 1695, John Whitefoot, A Discourse upon I. Peter IV. VIII., Cambridge: John Hayes, page 16:
text: For humicubation we have David's example, ‘And David fasted a fast, and went in and lay all night upon the earth.’
ref: 1845, Peter Gunning, The Paschal or Lent Fast Apostolical and Perpetual, Oxford: John Henry Parker, page 147:
glosses: The act or practice of lying on the ground.
humicubations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humicubation
denunciative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more denunciative
form: most denunciative
Etymology: Latin denuntiativus.
Senses: examples: text: a hard and denunciative dogmatism
ref: 1874, Frederic Farrar, Life of Christ:
glosses: denunciatory
Derived terms: denunciatively
bridechamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridechambers
Etymology: From bride + chamber.
Senses: examples: text: And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 9:15:
glosses: The nuptial apartment.
bridechambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridechamber
windas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winda
lockless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lock + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a lock.
recrementitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recrementitious
form: most recrementitious
Senses: examples: text: there are in most mercuries, either recrementitious particles, or at least some loose adherences, separable from the rest of the body
ref: 1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles:
glosses: Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross.
Hellespontian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hellespontian
form: most Hellespontian
Etymology: From Hellespont + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Hellespont.
grammarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammarianisms
Etymology: From grammarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principles or practices of grammarians.
grammarianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammarianism
lowries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowry
lowry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒɹi/
ipa: /ˈlɑɹi/
Forms: form: lowries
Etymology: Related to lorry.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An open boxcar used on railroads.
nall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɔːl/
Forms: form: nalls
Etymology: From Middle English a nal (“an awl”).
Senses: examples: text: , And apron, and scissars for head and for tail,
Whole bridle and saddle, whitleather, and nall,
With collars and harness, for thiller and all[…]
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: An awl.
nalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nall
turnplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnplates
Etymology: From turn + plate.
Senses: examples: text: In the Birmingham station the large turnplate in the locomotive engine house is completed, and the necessary rails fitting it for the reception of engines will he laid in a few days.
ref: 1839, Peter Lecount, chapter 14, in The History of the Railway Connecting London and Birmingham, Simpkin, Marshall, and Company:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A turntable (rotating platform for turning vehicles).
turnplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnplate
inconcluding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + concluding.
Senses: glosses: Having no consequence or conclusion
beylics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beylic
lionel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lī'ən əl
ipa: /ˈlaɪənl/
Forms: form: lionels
Etymology: From Old French [Term?], diminutive of lion.
Senses: glosses: lion cub
lionels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lionel
phytoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phytoid
form: most phytoid
Etymology: From phyto- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a plant, plantlike.
phytoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoids
Etymology: From phyto- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: a plantlike creature.
ligustrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ligustron
Etymology: Ligustrum + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bitter principle found in the bark of the European privet (Ligustrum vulgare).
subquintuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + quintuple.
Senses: examples: text: If unto this lower Pulley there were added another, then the Power would be unto the Weight in a subquintuple Proportion.
ref: 1641, John Wilkins, Mercury, or the Secret and Swift Messenger:
glosses: Having the ratio of one to five.
agatine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agatine
form: most agatine
Etymology: From agate + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: agatine steel
glosses: Resembling, containing, or pertaining to agate.
overfloat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈfləʊt/
Forms: form: overfloats
form: overfloating
form: overfloated
form: overfloated
Etymology: From over- + float.
Senses: examples: text: Sundry Fields and Meddowes there are, that are usually overfloated a long time together
ref: 1654, John Bate, The Mysteryes of Nature, and Art; conteined in foure seuerall Tretises:
glosses: To overflow.
examples: text: It's hidden in the perfect overfloating clouds and less than perfect trees whose branches interrupt the sky.
ref: 2010, Samuel Hazo, Like a Man Gone Mad:
glosses: To float above
overfloated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overfloat
overfloating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfloat
overfloats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfloat
vituperious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vituperious
form: most vituperious
Senses: examples: text: vituperious thouing men
ref: 1723, Owen Feltham, Resolves:
text: Thou be obſequious in his doubtleſſe right
 'Gainſt the vile Atheiſts vituperious ſting
ref: 1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium:
glosses: despicable; disgraceful.
Derived terms: vituperiously
Ossianic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ossianic
form: most Ossianic
Etymology: From Ossian + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: [F]or what I saw, the compositions might be fairly classed as Ossianic.
ref: [1879], George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “[Impressions of Theophrastus Such.] A Man Surprised at His Originality.”, in Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Essays and Leaves from a Note-book, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 51:
synonyms: Ossianesque
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard.
chyometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chyometers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χέω (khéō, “pour”) + -meter.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of liquids, consisting of a tube with a piston inside.
chyometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chyometer
largiloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more largiloquent
form: most largiloquent
Etymology: Compare Latin largiloquus.
Senses: glosses: grandiloquent
hired gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hired guns
Senses: examples: text: The hired guns, who protect diplomats, dignitaries and businesspeople, tear through the streets of the capital in convoys of armored SUVs.
ref: 2008 December 9, Rania Abouzeid, “Iraqis Welcome Blackwater Indictments”, in Time:
glosses: A person who is employed as an armed guard, enforcer, or mercenary and who is prepared to use gunplay or similar violent methods in order to assert the interests of their employer.
examples: text: [O]ne of Gore's senior advisers, top-tier lobbyist Peter Knight, is a hired gun for pharmaceuticals giant Schering-Plough.
ref: 1999 November 22, Viveca Novak, “The Claritin Case”, in Time:
glosses: A person who is employed to advance the interests of their employer, especially in a vigorous manner using such methods as political lobbying, legal advocacy, or persuasion.
Synonyms: sense: person employed as an armed guard, enforcer, or mercenary
word: gunfighter
Related terms: mercenary
impertransibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being impertransible.
bifidate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: First attested in 1847; borrowed from Latin bifidātus, from bifidus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, bifid + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: It is well-known among philologists that trifidate stemmata are generally rarer than bifidate ones.
ref: 2024, Claudio De Stefani, “Stemmi trifidi e traduzioni orientali”, in Wiener Studien:
glosses: Bifid, divided into two main parts.
capulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capulets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of capellet.
capulets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capulet
carriagemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carriage + making.
Senses: glosses: The construction of carriages.
wagonmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wagon + making.
Senses: glosses: The construction of wagons.
carriagebuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carriage + building.
Senses: glosses: The construction of carriages.
wagonbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wagon + building.
Senses: glosses: The construction of wagons.
wagonworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagonworks
Etymology: From wagon + works.
Senses: glosses: A place where wagons are constructed.
wagonbuilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagonbuilders
Etymology: From wagon + builder.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: cartwright, cartmaker
synonyms: word: wagonmaker
english: craftsman or manufacturer
translation: craftsman or manufacturer
word: ;
english: craftsman
translation: craftsman
word: wagonwright
word: waggonwright
word: wainwright
coordinate_terms: coachbuilder
coachmaker
coachwright
glosses: A craftsman who builds wagons or a manufacturer of wagons.
Related terms: waggoneer
waggoner
wagoneer
wagoner
wagonman
wagonmaster
wainman
carter
cartman
wheelwright
wagonmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagonmakers
Etymology: From wagon + maker.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: cartmaker, cartwright
synonyms: word: wagonbuilder
english: craftsman or manufacturer
translation: craftsman or manufacturer
word: ;
english: craftsman
translation: craftsman
word: wagonwright
word: waggonwright
word: wainwright
coordinate_terms: coachmaker
coachbuilder
coachwright
glosses: A craftsman who makes wagons or a manufacturer of wagons.
Related terms: waggoneer
waggoner
wagoneer
wagoner
wagonman
wagonmaster
wainman
carter
cartman
truckmaker
wheelwright
wagonbuilders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wagonbuilder
wagonmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wagonmaker
carriagemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carriagemakers
Etymology: From carriage + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of carriages.
carriagebuilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carriagebuilders
Etymology: From carriage + builder.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of carriages.
carriagebuilders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carriagebuilder
carriagemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carriagemaker
piacularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piacularity
piacularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piacularities
Etymology: From Latin piaculariter (“by way of atonement; sinfully”), piacularius (“atoning, expiatory”) from piaculo (“I appease or propitiate with an offering”). See pius (“dutiful”).
Senses: examples: text: 1849, Thomas De Quincey "The Theban Sphinx", page 141, The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, volume 6, edited by David Masson, published 1890, by A. & C. Black
[I]t illustrates a profound but obscure idea of pagan ages, which is connected with the elementary glimpses of man into the abysses of his higher relations, and lurks mysteriously amongst what Milton so finely calls "the dark foundations" of our human nature. This notion, it is hard to express in modern phrase, for we have no idea exactly corresponding to it; but in Latin it was called piacularity.
text: Adam Smith also dwells on the closely related phenomenon of piacularity; a man who has unintentionally brought about the death or serious injury of another man will feel 'piacular', and spend the rest of his life trying to make up for it […]
ref: 1978, JBSP: The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology:
glosses: The quality of being piacular, of requiring atonement.
Anglicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being English.
Synonyms: Englishness
metallifacture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallifactures
Etymology: From metal or Latin metallum (“metal”) + -i- + -facture.
Senses: examples: text: Given the necessary raw materials, capital, and skilled labour, nothing is easier than to turn trees into chairs, and ore into the finest products of metallifacture.
ref: 1887, Robert Dennis, “Depression and Its Causes” (chapter I), in Industrial Ireland: A Practical and Non-Political View of “Ireland for the Irish.”, London: John Murray, page 3:
text: [see title]
ref: 1895 September 16, “Metallifacture Discovery: Claim that the Lost Art of Hardening Copper Is Found”, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, volume 21, number 20, St. Louis, page 1:
text: Chiefly works in Germ., Engl. and French, esp. on Machinery, Electrotechnic, Architecture, Engineering, Metallifacture, Mechanics, Textile and Leather Industries, Papermaking, Ind. for the supply of Chemicals and Provisions, on Patents and Traffic; […]
ref: 1898, “726 Ingenieur u. Patentanwalt W. H. Uhland, Leipzig-Gohlis, Lindenstr. 13. 9000”, in List of Private Libraries / Liste de Bibliothèques Privées / Verzeichniss von Privat-Bibliotheken, volume III (Germany / Allemagne / Deutschland) (overall work in English, French, and German), Leipzig: G[eorg] Hedeler, page 93:
glosses: The production and manufacture of metals.
examples: text: Under the head of Metallifactures, we include the manufacture of hardware, brassware and jewelry: reserving, however, that of watches, for the following section.
ref: 1841, Roswell Park, “Chreotechnics” (chapter XIV), in Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge […], Philadelphia: Hogan & Thompson, page 478:
text: 3. Manufactures. […]
b. Furniture.
 (1.) General and Unclassified.  H 6
 (2.) Metallifactures.      H 7
ref: 1899 October, “Index to the Classification”, in Author and Title Catalogue of the Cathedral Library, of New York, New York: The Cathedral Library Association, page 8:
text: Eventually, of course, the West will absorb enormous quantities of locally-produced metallifactures; the war may easily hasten the establishment of some of these factories close to the point of production.
ref: 1918 January 1, “Copper Metallurgy in 1917”, in Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering, volume 18, number 1, New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., page 5:
text: One is accustomed, when thinking of things connected with the manufacture of modern machine parts, to assume that heat treatment actually has been demonstrated. That is to say, that factory or shop executives universally recognize the fact that the physical properties of metallifactures may be altered and adjusted by a properly selected schedule of heating and cooling.
ref: 1919 May 1, “Has Heat Treatment Been Demonstrated?”, in Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering, volume 20, number 9, New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., page 449:
glosses: A manufactured article of metal.
metallifactures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallifacture
gunstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunsticks
form: gun-stick
Etymology: From gun + stick.
Senses: glosses: A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.
gunsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunstick
agricolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin agricolatio.
Senses: examples: text: Those employed in the agricolation of Great Britain undervalue those substances which constitute the chief food of the vegetable kingdom, and therefore the agriculture of England is inferior to that of China, Belgium, and several other countries of the continent of Europe.
ref: 1889, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, page 219:
text: It is an axiom of agricolation that the soil must be made suitable for the crop.
ref: 1912, Central Conference of American Rabbis, Centennial Convention:
glosses: agriculture
reversedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reversedly
form: most reversedly
Etymology: From reversed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reversed way.
fumetere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: fumitory
intransmutability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + transmutability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being intransmutable.
isochronism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isochronisms
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being isochronous.
isochronisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isochronism
painable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more painable
form: most painable
Etymology: From pain + -able. Compare French pénible.
Senses: examples: text: The manacles of Astyages were not […] the less weighty and paynable for being composed of gold or silver.
ref: 1649, John Evelyn, Of Liberty and Servitude:
synonyms: word: excruciating
word: torturous
word: agonizing
word: ailsome
word: excruciating
word: groanful
word: hurtful
word: painable
word: painful
word: terrible
word: tormenting
word: tormentous
word: torturous
word: unpleasant
word: wrenchful
glosses: Painful.
ribaud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribauds
Senses: examples: text: Tom Pyper, an ironicall Sarcasmus , spoken in derision of these rude wits , which make more account of a ryming ribaud , then of skill grounded vppon learning and iudgement
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of ribald.
ribaud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ribaud
form: most ribaud
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ribald.
ribauds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribaud
floatage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floatages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flotage.
floatages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floatage
dogbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogbolts
Etymology: Origin obscure. Possibly from Middle English *dolgbote, from Old English dolgbōt (“remedy or compensation for injury”), from dolg (“injury, wound”) + bōt (“remedy, boot”).
Senses: examples: text: And experience sheweth, that he which was void of gifts before he was ordered priest, is as very an ass and dogbolt as he was before,[…].
ref: 1583, William Fulke, edited by Charles Henry Hartsthorne, A Defence of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue, against the Manifold Cavils of Gregory Martin, published 1843, page 469:
text: 1621, Thomas Middleton, Honourable Entertainments, 2007, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, Collected Works, page 1440,
Dull dogbolt!
text: 1655, James Shirley, The Gentleman of Venice Act 3, Scene 1, 1833, William Gifford, Alexander Dyce (editors), The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, Volume 5, page 35,
They are dogbolts!
text: Thou wilt never be such a dogbolt to refuse a hint to a friend?
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: A fool; a contemptible person.
dogbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogbolts
Etymology: From dog + bolt.
Senses: glosses: The bolt of the capsquare over the trunnion of a cannon.
dogbolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogbolt
demonstratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demonstratory
form: most demonstratory
Etymology: From demonstrate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: But Lamartine also perceived clearly that this demonstratory review, exaggerated and altered by the clubs, and especially by the Blanqui club, overshot the mark which appeared to him to have been assigned by its organizers.
ref: 1854, Alphonse de Lamartine, History of the French Revolution of 1848, volumes 1-2, page 118:
glosses: Serving to demonstrate something.
tentaculiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tentaculiform
form: most tentaculiform
Etymology: From tentacle + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: tentaculiform cirrhi
text: tentaculiform filaments
text: tentaculiform suckers
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Shaped like a tentacle.
imborder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imborders
form: imbordering
form: imbordered
form: imbordered
Senses: examples: text: Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers
Imborder'd on each bank
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of emborder.
imbordered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imborder
imbordering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imborder
imborders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imborder
implumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From im- + plumed.
Senses: examples: text: When now the Eagle cutting off his tale,
And even for sorrow waxing wan and pale;
At which sad sight, this poore implumed crue,
Stand faintly trembling in their soveraignes view
ref: 1619, Michael Drayton, “The Owl”, in Poems:
synonyms: featherless
glosses: not plumed; without plumes or feathers
arthrodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arthrodia + -ic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: arthrodial.
spewiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spewy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being spewy.
graphotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphotypes
Etymology: From grapho- + -type.
Senses: glosses: A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or zinc oxide is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.
graphotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: graphotypes
form: graphotyping
form: graphotyped
form: graphotyped
Etymology: From grapho- + -type.
Senses: glosses: To produce a design by this process.
Related terms: typograph
graphotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphotype
implausibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From implausible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: implausibility; the state or quality of being implausible.
formulization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formulizations
Senses: glosses: The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized.
formulizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formulization
glaucine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Glaucium + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid obtained from various plant of genus Glaucium (horned poppy).
glaucine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glaucine
form: most glaucine
Etymology: From Glaucium + -ine.
Senses: glosses: glaucous or glaucescent
involucred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From involucre + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A Verticil or Whirl may be[…]Naked; that is without involucre, bracte or brittle. Bracted - or Involucred
ref: 1793, Thomas Martyn, The Language of Botany:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having an involucre.
myristin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The myristate of glycerin, found as a vegetable fat in nutmeg butter, etc.
Derived terms: dilauromyristin
laurodimyristin
trimyristin
antisacerdotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisacerdotal
form: most antisacerdotal
Etymology: From anti- + sacerdotal.
Senses: examples: May 19 1731, Daniel Waterland, Christianity Vindicated against Infidelity
The charge of such sacerdotal craft hath often been unjustly laid by anti-sacerdotal pride or resentment
glosses: Hostile to priests or the priesthood.
umble pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umble pies
Senses: glosses: humble pie; a pie made of offal
umble pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umble pie
resorcylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or producing resorcinol
inexposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + exposure.
Senses: glosses: A lack of exposure; the state of not being exposed.
derbio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: pompano
silverfish
glosses: A large European food fish, Trachinotus ovatus.
restiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more restiform
form: most restiform
Etymology: From Latin restis (“rope”) + -form.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Formed like a rope; applied especially to several rope-like bundles or masses of fibres on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.
pretendence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretendences
Senses: examples: text: God and men doe scorne
Their proiects, censures, vaine pretendences
ref: 1603, Samuel Daniel, A Panegyrick Congratulatory to the King's Most Excellent Majesty:
glosses: The act of pretending; pretense.
pretendences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretendence
pinnywinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnɪˌwɪŋkl̩s/
ipa: /ˈpɪniˌwɪŋk(ə)ls/
ipa: /ˈpɪnɪˌwɪŋkl̩s/
Senses: examples: text: They prick us and they pine us, and they pit us on the pinnywinkles for witches; [...]
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume II (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 230:
glosses: Alternative form of pilliwinks.
anagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anagraphs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναγραφή (anagraphḗ).
Senses: glosses: An inventory; a record.
glosses: A physician's prescription or recipe.
glosses: A kind of anagram.
anagraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anagraph
enduringness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enduring + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being enduring; lastingness.
Synonyms: abidingness
protractedness
lastingness
fruticous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fruticous
form: most fruticous
Senses: examples: text: fruticous lichen
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: fruticose
augurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːɡəɹəs/
ipa: /ˈɔɡəɹəs/
ipa: /ˈɑɡəɹəs/
Forms: form: more augurous
form: most augurous
form: augurious
Etymology: From augur + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: [S]o feard / The faire-man’d horſes, that they flew, backe, and their chariots turn’d, / Preſaging in their augurous hearts, the labours that they mourn’d / A little after; […]
ref: [1611?], Homer, “The XVIII. Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 258:
text: The library movement made an augurous start in India but the momentum can only be kept through the concerted efforts of the Indian Library Association, educators, central and state governments, and municipalities, for elevating the status of professional librarian.
ref: 1967, Indian Librarian, volume 22, page 77:
text: The Mikado had gotten the preceding season off to an exhilarating, augurous start.
ref: 1994, Gerald Bordman, American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1869–1914, New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: inauspicious
word: portentous
word: augurous
word: baleful
word: bodeful
word: boding
word: dire
word: disastrous
word: fatal
word: foreboding
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-omened
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicate
word: inauspicious
word: nefastous
word: omenic
word: ominous
word: brooding
word: portentous
word: presageful
word: presagious
word: prodigious
word: sinister
word: star-crossed
word: sullen
glosses: Full of augury; foreboding.
Related terms: augural
metrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metricians
Etymology: Compare French métricien. See meter (“rhythm”).
Senses: synonyms: metrifier
metrist
versemonger
versesmith
glosses: A composer of verses.
metricians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metrician
ligniperdous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin lignum (“wood”) + perdere (“to destroy”). Compare French ligniperde.
Senses: examples: text: ligniperdous fungus
text: ligniperdous insects
text: ligniperdous mushroom
glosses: Wood-destroying
immensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immensible
form: most immensible
Senses: examples: text: Bodyes ſo infirme, ſo ſoone deſtroid,
Should cuer brooke ſuch Paines immenſible
ref: 1612, Sir John Davies, The Muses Sacrifice:
glosses: immeasurable
Related terms: mensurate
leucocytogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leucocyte + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: word: leukocytopoiesis
word: haemopoiesis
english: also applies to erythrocytes
translation: also applies to erythrocytes
glosses: The formation of leucocytes.
Related terms: leucocytogenic
leucocytogenetic
lutulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being lutulent; muddiness
hyetographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: hyetographical
glosses: Of or pertaining to hyetography.
lobulette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobulettes
Etymology: From lobule + -ette.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: lobelet
english: small lobule
translation: small lobule
glosses: A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.
lobulettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobulette
airable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more airable
form: most airable
Etymology: From air + -able.
Senses: examples: text: There's a lot of violence and bad language in this programme. Are you sure it's going to be airable?
glosses: Suitable for broadcast.
unairable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unairable
form: most unairable
Etymology: From un- + airable.
Senses: examples: text: Originally considered unairable, the long-lost series was eventually released on DVD.
glosses: Not suitable for broadcast.
martialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From martial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being martial or warlike.
affiancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affiancers
Etymology: From affiance + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who writers a marriage contract.
affiancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affiancer
ambulacriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ambulacriform
form: most ambulacriform
Etymology: From ambulacrum + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the form of ambulacra.
gemminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jemminess
Etymology: From gemmy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: An infinite gemminess of flowers scintillates .along its course
ref: 1859, Theodore Winthrop, A Companion to the Heart of the Andes, page 41:
glosses: The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.
toppiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toppieces
Etymology: From top + piece.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of top piece.
toppieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toppiece
toupeed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: toupéed
Etymology: From toupee + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: After the toupeed client left, still grumbling about time wasted, Sisi saw stretched before her long nights with no customers.
ref: 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), page 247:
glosses: Wearing a toupee.
ethide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethides
Senses: examples: text: boride ethide
text: potassium ethide
text: stannic ethide
text: zinc ethide
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of ethyl of a binary type.
ethides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethide
subzygomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætɪk
Etymology: From sub- + zygomatic.
Senses: examples: text: subzygomatic artery
text: subzygomatic fracture
text: subzygomatic depression
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under the zygoma or zygomatic process.
xylemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xylem + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the xylem.
Derived terms: extraxylemic
intraxylemic
phloemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phloem + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the phloem.
Derived terms: intraphloemic
xylemless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xylem + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a xylem.
institutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From institution + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: […] Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 345:
text: The second class of rites are memorial in character. As the former were addressed to the gods, so these are chiefly for the benefit of the people. They are didactic, to preserve the myth, or institutionary, to keep alive the discipline and forms of the church.
ref: 1876, Daniel Garrison Brinton, chapter 6, in The Religious Sentiment: Its Source and Aim, page 225:
text: 1917, Albert Bigelow Paine, “Mark Twain—A Biographical Summary” in Mark Twain’s Letters, New York: Gabriel Wells, 1923, Volume I, p. 16,
[…] he declared he would travel to Mars and back, if necessary, to get that Oxford degree. He appreciated its full meaning—recognition by the world’s foremost institution of learning of the achievements of one who had no learning of the institutionary kind.
synonyms: institutional
glosses: Relating to an institution or institutions.
examples: text: […] among the Institutionary rules of youth, [Aristotle] adviseth they might not be permitted to hear Iambicks and Tragedies before they were admitted unto discumbency or lying along with others at their meales.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book 5, Chapter 6, pp. 203-204:
text: 1772, Review of Macbride’s Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Physic, The Monthly Review, Volume 47, November 1772, p. 381,
The first or institutionary part, which is divided into seven books, explains the principles on which the art is founded, and may be read with pleasure even by those who would wish only to be acquainted with the theory of medicine, considered as a curious and interesting branch of natural philosophy.
glosses: Containing the first principles or doctrines; rudimentary.
Eurasian Economic Union
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Eurasian + economic + union
Senses: glosses: an economic union between the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan
Synonyms: Eurasian Union
EEU
EAU
EAEU
big babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big baby
rat-race
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rat-races
form: rat-racing
form: rat-raced
form: rat-raced
Senses: glosses: To rat run, that is, to drive on side streets, often at high speeds, to avoid traffic.
glosses: To partake or participate in a rat race, in all senses.
rat-race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat-races
Senses: examples: text: Their own private life gets to be a rat-race.
ref: 1939, Christopher Morley, chapter 26, in Kitty Foyle, page 261:
glosses: Alternative form of rat race.
trading partner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trading partners
Senses: glosses: A country that another country does business with, usually on a regular basis.
government spending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: All government consumption and investment, excluding transfer payments made by the state.
Synonyms: government expenditure
transfer payment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfer payments
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A redistribution of income in the market system initiated by a government, such as welfare, social security, etc.
Synonyms: government transfer
transfer
Hypernyms: equalization payment
unparticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unparticular
form: most unparticular
Etymology: From un- + particular.
Senses: glosses: Not particular.
hired hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hired hands
Senses: examples: text: [H]e was numbered among the missing after the Brandywine battle, and presently turned up as a hired hand on the Barton farm.
ref: 1866, Bayard Taylor, chapter 1, in The Story of Kennett:
text: I rented th' back five-acre to John Westfall. I had more'n I could handle with only one hired hand.
ref: 1896, Stephen Crane, chapter 2, in The Third Violet:
text: The Krikavas' farm was auctioned off in pieces. . . . Kevin Krikava, 29, now works as a hired hand on another farm.
ref: 1990 July 20, Dirk Johnson, “A Farmer, 70, Saw No Choice; Nor Did the Sentencing Judge”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Nov 2011:
glosses: A person who is employed to perform routine chores and manual labor, especially on a farm or ranch.
Hyponyms: farmhand
farm hand
fieldhand
field hand
hired gun
ranchhand
Coordinate terms: servant
Related terms: hiree
right hand
right-hand man
right-hand woman
gal Friday
girl Friday
man Friday
factotum
kiack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kayak
kiack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiacks
Senses: examples: text: Common names for the alewife are gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, or kiack.
ref: 2007, “Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)”, in Fisheries and Aquaculture—Government of Nova Scotia, retrieved 30 Nov 2011:
text: Finally, I visited a group of kiack fishermen down in Argyle. This was a new fishery to me. The kiack (also called gaspereau and alewife in other areas) is fished with a dip net out of small brooks in the Tusket River area.
ref: 2010, William Casselman, Nova Scotia Fish Word: Kiack, www.billcasselman.com (retrieved 29 Nov. 2011)
glosses: Alosa pseudoharengus, a species of small freshwater fish, also known as the alewife.
kiack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiacks
Senses: glosses: A temple for practitioners of Buddhism within Burma.
chukar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌk.ɚ/
Forms: form: chukars
form: chakor
form: chakore
form: chichore
form: chickore
form: chikhor
form: chikkor
form: chikor
form: chikore
form: chuckoor
form: chuker
form: chukor
form: chukore
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चकोर (cakor), from Sanskrit चकोर (cakora).
Senses: examples: text: The black partridge is very noisy during the spring, which corresponds with its breeding season, and calls loud and incessantly in the morning, at midday, and sometimes even at night; the painted partridge has a pleasant chirping note; the chukar is another noisy bird; its call-note is fully described by Hume.
ref: 1892, Ram Bramha Sanyal, A Hand-book of the Management of Animals in Captivity in Lower Bengal:
text: The climate is dry and at the time the chukars hatch that Is In their favor.
ref: 1937, Monthly Bulletin of the Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission, Texas. Game, Fish, and Oyster Commission:
text: I bagged this one on Michigan's upper peninsula. ruffed grouse to be more difficult to hit, but the chukar is the most difficult to get to. I have hunted chukar when they held tight to the point of a dog and the .410 was plenty of gun, but I have also hunted them when the 12-gauge was none too much.
ref: 2003, Layne Simpson, Shotguns & Shotgunning, page 92:
glosses: A bird of species of partridge native to central Asia (Alectoris chukar).
Synonyms: chukar partridge
remugient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmuːd͡ʒɪənt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈmjud͡ʒiənt/
Forms: form: more remugient
form: most remugient
Etymology: From (the stem of) Latin remugiens, present participle of remugire. See mugient.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hether the Earth ſtand firm and prove favourable to the induſtry of the Artificer, or vvhether ſhe threaten the very foundations of our buildings vvith trembling and tottering Earth-quakes accompanied with remugient Echoes and ghaſtly murmurs from below; vvhatever notable emergencies happen for either Good or Bad to us, theſe are the Joves and Vejoves that vve vvorſhip, vvhich to us are not many but one God, vvho has the onely povver to ſave or deſtroy: […]
ref: 1660, H[enry] More, chapter III, in An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC, book I, page 63:
synonyms: word: booming
word: canorous
word: booming
word: boom-boom
word: canorous
word: orotund
word: remugient
word: resonant
word: resounding
word: reverberant
word: rotund
word: sonoral
word: sonorous
word: tympanic
word: vibrant
glosses: Resounding, echoing.
examples: text: The mud crusts underfoot, remugient beasts stir up the undergrowth, Johnson attracts flies: greenflies, blowflies, blackflies, crutflies.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 96:
glosses: Mooing, lowing.
HIF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HIFs
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel-industry
glosses: Initialism of higher intermediate fare.
coordinate_terms: VIF
HAB
glosses: Initialism of horizontal integration facility.
EMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EMAs
Senses: topics: health
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of European Medical Association (association representing Medical Doctors in Europe).
topics: health
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of European Medicines Agency (a European Union agency for the evaluation of medicinal products).
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel-industry
glosses: Initialism of Excess Milage Allowance.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of exponential moving average.
glosses: Initialism of economically motivated adulteration.
septemvir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɛpˈtɛmvə(ɹ)/
/sɛpˈtɛmvɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: septemvirs
form: septemviri
Etymology: From Latin septemvir.
Senses: glosses: A member of a septemvirate; one of seven people associated in some office.
Related terms: septemviral
septemvirate
septemviri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septemvir
spousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spouse
spoused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spouse
cultural patrimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cultural patrimonies
Senses: examples: text: For the New Party, the Palace Museum protests were a triumph....And by consistently calling the Palace collection "the Chinese cultural patrimony," New Party leaders and other protesters were able to rally the sympathy of a surprisingly large population that identified such material as key to Taiwan's inchoate struggle for a cultural identity.
ref: 1996, Andrew Solomon, The New York Times, Don't Mess With Our Cultural Patrimony!:
text: Considered even more broadly, the historical background of pillage is also directly relevant to the current state of a country's cultural heritage and thus should be an integral part of the deliberations of the CPAC [Cultural Property Advisory Committee], especially in determining whether the cultural patrimony of the requesting country is "in jeopardy from pillage." If a substantial portion of the archaeological heritage of a nation has already been lost in the past, even moderate levels of looting would constitute a serious threat, and it becomes even more critical to preserve the little that remains.
ref: 2000, Archaeological Institute of America, UNESCO Convention Under Fire:
glosses: Objects possessing continuing cultural, traditional, or historical importance to the heritage of a group, particularly those considered inalienable by the group as of the time the objects had been separated from the group or from the historical setting of the objects.
Related terms: cultural wealth