cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
feese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feeses
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English fese (“a blast, a rush, a burst”), a derivative of Middle English fesen (“to put to flight”). More at faze.
Senses: examples: text: Conatum longius petere. Quintill: To fetche his feese of beave further of in leaping.
ref: 1565, Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus linguae Romanae et Britannicae, page 109:
text: To leap without fetching any race or feese, nullo procursu salire.
ref: 1580, John Barrett, Alvearie:
text: And giving way backward, fetch their feese or beire againe, and with a fierce charge and assault to returne full butt upon the same that they had knocked and beaten before.
ref: 1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Holland, Res Gestae:
glosses: Obsolete form of feeze (“running start”).
glosses: Obsolete form of feeze (“state of fretful excitement or worry”).
feese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feeses
Senses: examples: text: William Fellow als Norry grants to thomas thacker of Hyghege in Com. Derby gen . these Armes following: Gules a feese betwene iij maskes argent And by way of Augmentacon upon the Feese a treyfull asure stalkede verte betweene ij bytturse heds rasy in theire ppr . coloure, about theire necks a laase wth a folding knotte golde taslede azure on every masks iij droppes sable.
ref: 1881, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, page 50:
text: Bigware. Or, a feese gu. betw. three lozenges az. ( another, six ) .
ref: 1884, Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, page 82:
text: Other branches of the family in Wilberton, Isle of Ely, South Pertherton, in county Somerset, Petersham in county Surrey, and in Westmoreland all have the following arms: Or a feese indented ( another dancettée ) between three crosses crosslet fitchée gules.
ref: 1908, William Richard Cutter, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, page 1958:
text: The Jetter Coat of Arms "Sable, a feese between three bats displayed Argent.
ref: 1987, Grata Jeter Clark, The Jeter Mosaic: Seven Centuries in the History of a Family, page 10:
glosses: Alternative form of fess (“horizontal band, in heraldry”).
feese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Some rain in the night which feesed [froze] as it fell, […]
ref: 2002, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Gary E. Moulton, The Definitive Journals of Lewis & Clark, page 189:
glosses: Alternative form of feeze (“to freeze”).
feeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feese
feeses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of feese
inviscate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inviscates
form: inviscating
form: inviscated
form: inviscated
Etymology: From Latin inviscatus, past participle of inviscare (“to birdlime”), from in- (“in”) + viscum, viscus (“mistletoe, birdlime”).
Senses: examples: text: […] withall its food being flies and such as suddenly escape, it hath in the tongue a mucous and slymy extremity, whereby upon a sudden emission it inviscates and tangleth those insects.
ref: 1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book 3, Chap. 21, "Of the Cameleon":
glosses: To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.
inviscated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inviscate
inviscates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inviscate
inviscating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inviscate
superexcrescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + excrescence.
Senses: glosses: Something superfluously long
Castille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Castile.
countor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countors
Etymology: From count + -or.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause
countors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countor
dickcissel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪkˈsɪsəl/
ipa: /ˈdɪkˌsɪsəl/
Forms: form: dickcissels
Etymology: Said to be imitative of its call.
Senses: examples: text: But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.
ref: 1901, Sylvester D. Judd, The Relation of Sparrows to Agriculture, page 91:
glosses: The American black-throated bunting (Spiza americana).
dickcissels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dickcissel
seraskierate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seraskierates
Etymology: From seraskier + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: glosses: The office or position of a seraskier.
seraskierates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seraskierate
misly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misly
form: most misly
Senses: examples: text: As late as it was, yet Rolt and Harris would go home to-night, and walked it, though I had a bed for them; and it proved, dark, and a misly night, and very windy.
ref: 1667 February 3 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 24th, 1666–1667”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VI, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC, page 146:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mizzly.
sauvignon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sauvignons
Etymology: From French sauvignon.
Senses: glosses: Any of several grape varieties and associated wines originally from France
sauvignons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sauvignon
cloudling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloudlings
Etymology: From cloud + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: And yet at first it seemed hard to believe that so innocent a cloudling could be the progenitor of mist dense enough to blot out even a section of the enormous landscape.
ref: 1894, George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, John St. Loe Strachey, The Cornhill magazine:
text: “I'll give you an example: a cloudling may coalesce one morning and rise to the sky, ready to meander across the horizon for a few hours before joining a bank of other cloudlings.
ref: 2009, Chloe Aridjis, Book of clouds:
glosses: A small or miniature cloud; an immature or formative stage in the development of a cloud.
Synonyms: cloudlet
cloudlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloudling
runch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runches
Senses: glosses: The wild radish.
runch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runches
form: runching
form: runched
form: runched
Senses: glosses: To grind, as with the teeth; to crunch.
runches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runch
asperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asperations
Etymology: From Middle English asperacione, from Latin asperationem.
Senses: glosses: Harshness; unpleasantness.
examples: text: The Welshe doe drown the true ſounde of manie letters and ſillables by a kinde of asperation, contrarie to moste Languages
ref: 1728, John Norden, Speculi Britanniae Pars:
glosses: The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.
asperations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asperation
hennotannic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: henna + tannic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: lawsone (acid)
burbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burbolts
Senses: examples: text: I saw a little devil fly out of her eye like a burbolt, which sticks at this hour up to the feathers in my heart
ref: 1621, John Ford, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton:
glosses: Obsolete form of birdbolt.
burbolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burbolt
ethylsulphuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethyl + sulphuric acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The partial ethyl ester of sulfuric acid, H.C₂H₅.SO₄, produced as a thick liquid by the action of sulphuric acid on alcohol
haemacytometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemacytometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemocytometer.
Related terms: haemacytometric
haemacytometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemacytometer
acroter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈækɹətə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: acroters
Etymology: From French acrotère. Doublet of acroterium.
Senses: examples: text: It is a very elegant building, with four supporting Tuscan columns on pedestals, a cornice with a carved wooden valance, and an acroter with square pear-shaped balusters continuing round to the outer wall
ref: 2007, Galila El Kadi, Alain Bonnamy, Architecture for the Dead : Cairo's Medieval Necropolis, page 191:
topics: architecture
glosses: An acroterium.
acroters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acroter
superpolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superpolitic
form: most superpolitic
Etymology: From super- + politic.
Senses: examples: text: superpolitic aphorism
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: More than politic; above or exceeding policy.
Saxondom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Saxon + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The Saxon domain or race.
rameal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ramal.
corkwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corkwings
Etymology: From cork + wing?
Senses: glosses: corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops)
corkwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corkwing
intertissued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + tissued.
Senses: examples: text: the intertissued robe of gold and pearl
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: interwoven
septuagesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɛptjuəˈd͡ʒɛsɪməl/
Senses: examples: text: our abridged and septuagesimal ages
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies.
consectaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin consectaneus.
Senses: examples: text: It is swifter then so : it is not consectaneous, or in chase of it, but coetaneous with it, and its foster-sister.
ref: 1654, Alexander Balloch Grosart, The Fuller Worthies' Library:
glosses: Following as a matter of course.
ball-flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball-flowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ball flower.
ball-flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball-flower
mammonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammonisation
Etymology: From Mammon + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of rendering something mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.
Related terms: mammonize
hercogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of herkogamous.
Related terms: hercogamy
astructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astructive
form: most astructive
Etymology: From Latin astructus, past participle of astruere (“to build up”), from ad + struere (“to build”).
Senses: glosses: constructive.
spiciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiciform
form: most spiciform
Etymology: From Latin spica (“a spike, ear”) + -form.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: spike-shaped
scampavia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scampavias
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian scampavia.
Senses: glosses: A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the 19th century.
scampavias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scampavia
neveling
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English nevelinge, nevelyng, neuelinge (“flat down”, adverb), equivalent to nuel + -ling. More at nuel.
Senses: glosses: On one's face; face-down.
neveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nevelling
Etymology: From nevel (“to deliver a blow with the hand or fist, pummel”), equivalent to nevel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A beating with the fists.
granarys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ,
Up and out with Captain Witham in several places again to look for oats for Tangier, and among other places to the City granarys […]
text: […] this considerable consumption of grain by the poor will not only greatly contribute to the keeping up and maintaining the granarys, and help to give the corn a natural currency at home […]
ref: 1751, William Paterson, John Law, Proposals and Reasons for Constituting a Council of Trade in Scotland:
glosses: plural of granary
avoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvəʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: avokes
form: avoking
form: avoked
form: avoked
Etymology: Compare avocate. Ultimately from Latin āvōcō, āvōcāre.
Senses: examples: text: And after our long communication and reasoning in the King's Highness Cause, which, at length, we have written to your Grace in our common Letter, for a confirmation of many inconveniences and dangers which we perswaded to his Holiness, to follow both to himself and to the See Apostolick, in case his Holiness should avoke the cause; […]
ref: 1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]:
glosses: To call back again or revoke
Related terms: advoke
avoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of avoke
avokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of avoke
avoking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of avoke
incomposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incomposed
form: most incomposed
Etymology: From in- + composed.
Senses: examples: text: Thus Satan; and him thus the Anarch old, / With faltring speech and visage incompos'd, / Answer'd. I know thee, stranger, who thou art,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, 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: disordered; disturbed
Derived terms: incomposedly
incomposedness
overplus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəplʌs/
Forms: form: overpluses
form: overplusses
Etymology: From over- + Anglo-Norman plus, Middle French plus.
Senses: examples: text: Where some for an over-plus, or supererogation have added this necessaity, that they must necessarily accompany them, as well in death, as in life.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Thou hast thy Will, And Will too boote, and Will in ouer-plus.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 135”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: I proposed that the two referees should retire and consider for themselves how much should be allowed for the boy's board and lodging, deducting at the rate of sixpence a day for what advantage was gained by his going on errands; and that the overplus should be restored.
ref: 1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 262
glosses: That which remains beyond what is necessary or required; a surplus.
Derived terms: overplusage
overpluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overplus
frizel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frizels
Senses: examples: text: To this succeeded the Snaplance ^([sic]), in which a motion was given to the dog, or cock, and a movable plate of steel, called the frizel, or hammer, was placed vertically above the pan to receive the action of the flint.
ref: 1832, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, volume 10, page 164:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.
frizels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frizel
eventilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eventilates
form: eventilating
form: eventilated
form: eventilated
Etymology: From Latin eventilatus, past participle of eventilare (“to fan”). See ventilate.
Senses: examples: text: I cannot forbear to touch another circumstance which might seem at first to be a miracle of Nature, beyond the causes which I have alledg'd; but having well eventilated it we shall find that it depends upon the same principles.
ref: c. 1658, Sir Kenelm Digby, The Sympathetick Powder:
glosses: To winnow out; to fan.
examples: text: I[f] regard be had to the Univerſity of humane Reaſon, it is no vvhere ſo narrovvly diſcuſſed and eventilated, and the judgement rectified by clear notions: […]
ref: 1657, Jam. Howel [i.e., James Howell], “Of the Court of Admiralty”, in Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and Chief Emporium of Great Britain: […], London: […] J[ohn] Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, […], →OCLC, page 377:
glosses: To discuss; to ventilate.
eventilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eventilate
eventilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eventilate
eventilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eventilate
slimsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪmzi/
rhymes: -ɪmzi
Forms: form: more slimsy
form: most slimsy
form: slimpsy
Etymology: Blend of slim + flimsy
Senses: examples: text: In front of the store, and in and out of the interminable pushcarts, with their flaring oil-lamps at night illuminating a bewildering miscellany of merchandise,—everything from spoiled grapefruit to slimsy suspenders, Rosey played and fought and bit her way.
ref: 1922, Robert Gordon Anderson, The Isle of Seven Moons, Chapter 8:
glosses: flimsy; frail
grallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Grallae + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The crane and fowls of a like kind, seem to hold a middle place between land and water fowls, as they have separate toes like land fowls, but the bills and legs of the aquatic orders. [...] From the length of their legs they are called grallic, or stilted.
ref: 1812, Noah Webster, Jun., “The Grallic or Stilted Kind, with Cloven Feet”, in History of Animals; Designed for the Instruction and Amusement of Persons of both Sexes, New Haven, Conn.: Published and sold by Howe & Deforest, and Walter & Steele; Walter & Steele, printers, →OCLC, paragraph 315, page 169:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: gralline
glosses: Of or relating to the Grallae, a former taxonomic classification of wading birds.
letterwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From letter + wood.
Senses: examples: text: Letterwood has often been used to make bows and walking-sticks.
glosses: The wood of the tree Brosimum guianense, marked with black spots resembling hieroglyphics.
Synonyms: snakewood
leopardwood
touch-needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touch-needles
Senses: glosses: A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for testing the purity of gold or silver articles by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
touch-needles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touch-needle
misgraffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: LYSANDER
Ah me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth:
But either it was different in blood,--
HERMIA
O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low!
LYSANDER
Or else misgraffed in respect of years;--
HERMIA
O spite! too old to be engag'd to young!
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: grafted wrongly; misgrafted
predomination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predominations
Etymology: Compare French prédomination.
Senses: examples: text: Quoth th'other, haue thy ſtarres maligne been ſuch, / That their predominations ſvvay ſo much / Ouer the reſt, that vvith a milde aſpect / The Liues and loues of Shepherds doe affect?
ref: 1613, William Browne, “The First Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. [The First Booke], London: […] Geo[rge] Norton, […], →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.
predominations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predomination
pookoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pookoos
Senses: examples: text: The pookoo (Cobus Vardoni), named after Major Vardon, a mighty hunter of Livingstone's early period, is another rare, water-loving antelope, found by one or two travellers near the Zambesi in the direction of the Chobe Kiver Junction.
ref: 1893, H[enry] Anderson Bryden, Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the Kalahari Desert, and the Lake River Country, Ngamiland […] , London: Edward Stanford, page 507:
text: The pookoo (Kobus vardoni) of the same country, though now extremely rare, bears the name of another sportsman who also died without putting the world into his debt.
ref: 1894, Robert Brown, “Man and Beast: The Beginning of the End”, in The Story of Africa and Its Explorers, volume 3, London: Cassell & Company, page 210:
text: Returning to camp I saw my first pookoo standing out in the middle of the plain. It had seen me, so that I could approach no nearer than three hundred yards. […] The pookoo is a most beautiful little antelope, and carries itself exactly like a waterbuck. The hair is reddish, long and curly, and the hide (as with all the waterbucks) very tough and thick.
ref: 1900, Ewart S. Grogan, Arthur H. Sharp, “Karonga to Kituta across the Tanganyika Plateau”, in From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of Africa from South to North, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 66:
glosses: Obsolete form of puku (“medium-sized antelope found in Central Africa”).
pookoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pookoo
pukus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puku
nuel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English newel, niwel (“right down”, adverb), from Old English nēol, nȳwol, nēowol, neowol, niwol, nihol (“precipitous, headlong, prone, prostrate, obscure, deep down, low, profound, abysmal”), of uncertain origin. Possibly a variant of nifol (“dark, gloomy, obscure”), from Proto-West Germanic *nebul, from Proto-Germanic *nibulaz, *nebulaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰelos, from *nébʰos (“cloud, mist, moisture”); or more likely, from Proto-Germanic *nīhwulaz (“descending; low”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneygʷʰ- (“to tend; incline; lean toward; bend”), from *ken- (“to press; pinch; kink”).
If derived from *nibulaz, then cognate with Dutch nevel (“mist, fog, haze”), German Nebel (“fog, mist, haze, nebula”), Icelandic nifl (“fog, darkness”), Icelandic njól (“mist, night, darkness”), Latin nebula (“fog, cloud, vapour”), Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud”).
If derived from *nīhwulaz, then cognate Old Frisian niwul, Middle Low German nīgel, nugel, nule, nūl (“forwards; forward over”), Middle Dutch niel (“thrown forward on the ground; prostrate”) (Dutch nuul-, vernielen).
Senses: glosses: Prone; tending to.
glosses: face-down; prostrate.
Related terms: neveling
unimpressively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unimpressively
form: most unimpressively
Etymology: From unimpressive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unimpressive manner.
untypically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untypically
form: most untypically
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of atypically.
elaphine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elaphine
form: most elaphine
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the red deer, Cervus elaphus.
elaphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elaphines
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
Senses: glosses: The red deer
forboden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of forbid
entomolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔντομον (éntomon, “insect”), + -in.
Senses: glosses: chitin
correligionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correligionists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of co-religionist.
correligionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of correligionist
sandish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ændɪʃ
Forms: form: more sandish
form: most sandish
Etymology: From Middle English sandishe, sondisshe, equivalent to sand + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Sandish Earth
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], “Kalendarium Hortense: Or, The Gard’ners Almanac; […] ”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: sandlike
sandy
glosses: Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact.
lean finely textured beef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LFTB
form: lean, finely textured beef
Senses: examples: text: Two such materials that have been available for only a relatively short period of time are lean finely textured beef (LFTB) and lean finely textured pork (LFTP). They are obtained by low-temperature recovery of protein from trimmed beef […]
ref: 2001, Meat Science and Applications (Y. H. Hui, Wai-Kit Nip, Robert W. Rogers), page 455
text: In a related study, Van Laack et al. (1997) studied the residual color of patties prepared from normal or high pH beef and lean finely textured beef. Addition of lean finely textured beef to high pH beef resulted in a more well-done color […]
ref: 2002, Steve Taylor, Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, volume 44, page 168:
text: When specified by the purchaser, lean finely textured beef may be combined with boneless beef meeting the above material requirements […]
ref: 2006, in The Meat Buyers Guide: Beef, Lamb, Veal, Pork, and Poultry (produced by the North American Meat Processors Association), page 29
text: So now the world is aware that "lean finely textured beef" is actually an alias for "ammonia-soaked centrifuge-separated byproduct paste".
ref: 2012 March 28, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart (actor), Comedy Central:
synonyms: word: pink slime
word: soylent pink
word: boneless lean beef trimmings
alt: BLBT
qualifier: meat industry
glosses: A meat byproduct produced from otherwise unusable material such as skin and connective, spinal, and digestive tissues by heating and then mixing with ammonia in a centrifuge to produce a food additive.
throw-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throw-off
aphilanthropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + philanthropy.
Senses: examples: text: His tetricity, carency of bonity, and of xenodochy, and his aphilanthropy fayed not his accolents
ref: May 6 1843, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, letter to Squire Pedant:
glosses: Abscence of love for humankind; loathing of people.
flukan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flukans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flucan.
flukans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flukan
flucans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flucan
slap-bang
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slap-bang
form: most slap-bang
Etymology: From slap + bang.
Senses: examples: text: It was a stormy day and it was slap-bang in the middle of the fair weather season.
text: You'll see the tower slap-bang in front of you when you come out of the station.
glosses: Directly or immediately.
glosses: In a violent or sudden or noisy manner.
Synonyms: sense: directly, immediately
word: smack
Derived terms: slap-bang shop
cetraric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ingredient of cetrarin
Derived terms: cetrarate
catechumenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkætɪˈkjuːməneɪt/
/ˌkætɪˈkjuːmənət/
Forms: form: catechumenates
Etymology: From catechumen + -ate.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The state or condition of a catechumen, or the time during which one is a catechumen.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A group or body of catechumens
topics: Christianity
glosses: The building where catechumenates gather.
catechumenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catechumenate
Cerbère
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune and border town in Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France.
epitrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin epitrope, from Ancient Greek ἐπιτροπή (epitropḗ, “reference, arbitration”), from ἐπιτρέπω (epitrépō).
Senses: glosses: A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to someone to do what he or she proposes to do, e.g. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.
Related terms: epitropy
limbous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See limbus.
Senses: examples: text: There are two types of squamous sutures: limbous sutures have mutual ridges or serrations, and the more common plane sutures, which exhibit less structured surfaces which are mutually roughened, such as the temporoparietal suture, the suture between the two maxillae, or the meeting of the zygomatic and palatine bones.
ref: 1996, Don Cohen, An Introduction to Craniosacral Therapy: Anatomy, Function, and Treatment:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: With slightly overlapping borders.
raw_tags: of a suture
overlappingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overlappingly
form: most overlappingly
Etymology: From overlapping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to overlap.
bibliotheke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliothekes
Senses: examples: text: a great learned man of Tygur in Germany, was minded to put fourth his vniuersall Bibliotheke of all kindes of wryrters
ref: c. 1544, John Leland, New Year's Gift:
glosses: Alternative form of bibliotheque.
bibliothekes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliotheke
adjectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adjection + -al.
Senses: examples: text: the relative adjectional habits of the three language
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
glosses: Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed.
ad interim
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad interim (“in the meantime”).
Senses: glosses: In or for the meantime; temporarily.
Derived terms: ad interim copyright
cervelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Garnished with natty sprigs of chervil, the cervelas was almost deceptively angelic, with buttery notes of pistachio balanced by small chunks of black truffle, which landed on the palate like tiny earthy comets.
ref: 2021, Alexander Lobrano, My Place at the Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris, page 101:
glosses: Alternative form of cervelat.
glosses: Synonym of rackett (“musical instrument”).
synonyms: word: rackett
extra: musical instrument
high-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more high-handedly
form: most high-handedly
Etymology: From high-handed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "May heaven," answered Ulysses, "requite to them the wickedness with which they deal high-handedly in another man's house without any sense of shame."
ref: 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book XX., page 267
glosses: In a high-handed manner.
Related terms: high-handed
fleabitten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fleabitten
form: most fleabitten
Etymology: From flea + bitten.
Senses: glosses: flea-ridden
glosses: wretched or sordid; mean
glosses: Of horses: having small reddish spots on a lighter ground colour.
fogle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fogles
Etymology: Unclear. German Vogel (“bird”) has been suggested, the connection being bird's-eye, a fabric from which such handkerchiefs were made. Hotten (see References) suggests a connection with the Italian slang foglia (“pocket, purse”) or French argot fouille (“pocket”).
Senses: examples: text: 1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford, 2009, Gutenberg eBook #7735,
One, gentlemen, I myself expelled from our corps for ungentlemanlike practices; he picked pockets of fogles, (handkerchiefs)--it was a vulgar employment.
text: […]and we've to pick up the stakes and cords at Uncle Ben's, to get the bird's-eye fogles in St. Martin's-lane,[…].
ref: 1853, Lord William Lennox, “Ernest Atherley, Or Scenes at Home and Abroad”, in The Sporting Review, Volume 30, page 202:
text: Doodles, therefore, wore a cut-away coat, a colored shirt with a fogle round his neck, old brown trousers that fitted very tightly round his legs, and was careful to take no gloves with him.
ref: c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings:
glosses: A pocket handkerchief.
wikipedia: Ernest Weekley
thurl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɝl/
ipa: /θɜːl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: thurls
Senses: examples: text: 1918, G. C. Humphrey, The Rural Efficiency Guide, Volume 4: Stock Book, page 22,
Deficiencies which are common to the hind quarters of the cow, include shortness and narrowness of rump, a drooping rump, narrowness between the thurls and pin bones and thickly fleshed thighs.
text: Also I would call attention to the fact that the heifers were wider through the thurls at five months of age than through the hips, but after they had become mature cows they were wider through (or across) their hips, than across their thurls.
ref: 1921, American Genetic Association, The Journal of Heredity, page 327:
text: [?Although] other measurements were taken, only height at withers, depth of chest and width between thurls were analysed statistically; these measurements are representative of development in height, depth and width of body, respectively.
ref: 1963, South African Journal of Agricultural Science, volume 6, page 478:
text: Her pin bones, thurls, and hips should be wide apart and level. The pin bones are the points at the rear of the cow protruding out from the pelvis. The thurls are the hip joints where the rear legs attach on either side of the cows pelvis.
ref: 2011, Philip Hasheider, The Family Cow Handbook: A Guide to Keeping a Milk Cow, page 40:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Either of the rear hip joints where the hip connects to the upper leg in certain animals, particularly cattle; often used as a reference point for measurement.
thurl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɝl/
ipa: /θɜːl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: thurls
form: thurling
form: thurled
form: thurled
Etymology: See thirl.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirl.
thurl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɝl/
ipa: /θɜːl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: thurls
Etymology: See thirl.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirl.
thurled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thurl
thurling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thurl
thurls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thurl
fraid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Guess ye'd better speak to 'em about spendin' so much money, Mr. Merrick; I'm 'fraid they may need it some day." "
ref: 1912, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation:
text: When a man is 'gaged in prah, he ain't fraid o' nuffin--dey can't nuffin tetch him."
ref: 1873, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Complete:
text: "Yis," he continued, "there was a time when folks said I could a hed Miry ef I'd asked her; and I putty much think so myself, but I didn't say nothin': marriage is allers kind o'ventursome; an' Miry had such up-and-down kind o' ways, I was sort o' fraid on't.
ref: 1872, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Fireside Stories:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of afraid.
wildgrave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wildgraves
Etymology: From German Wildgraf or Dutch wildgraaf. See wild, and compare margrave.
Senses: examples: text: The Wildgrave winds his bugle horn, / To horse, to horse! halloo, halloo!
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, “[Ballads and Lyrical Pieces.] The Wild Huntsmen”, in The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Company] for Arch[ibald] Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 217:
glosses: Alternative spelling of waldgrave.
wildgraves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wildgrave
weather-bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather-bits
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
weather-bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather-bit
fuggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌɡi/
rhymes: -ʌɡi
Forms: form: fuggier
form: fuggiest
Etymology: From fug + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Mac and Smoky scorned the fuggy atmosphere of the lower decks, and proceeded to select a breezy spot on the after boat-deck.
ref: 1921, Clutha N. Mackenzie, The Tale of a Trooper:
text: "It's horribly fuggy in here, and I've Jambi[1] to do; but I'm not going till you give me your word that you'll leave young Kinloch alone."
ref: 1905, Horace Annesley Vachell, The Hill:
glosses: Muggy; stuffy; poorly ventilated.
glosses: Dazed or lethargic.
Derived terms: fuggily
fugginess
mammaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammaloids
Etymology: From mammal + -oid.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A mammalian humanoid creature.
hippopotamoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippopotamoids
Etymology: From hippopotamus + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Any animal similar to a hippopotamus.
stood on ceremony
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stand on ceremony
stands on ceremony
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stand on ceremony
standing on ceremony
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stand on ceremony
liar liar pants on fire
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to taunt a liar.
etypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more etypical
form: most etypical
Etymology: From e- + typical.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Dissimilar to the type.
Derived terms: etypically
Related terms: atypical
prittle-prattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prittle-prattles
Etymology: Reduplication of prattle.
Senses: examples: text: The Vindication of the Bishop of Duresme (Durham). The First Reason. (Chapter II, p. 24.) Archbishop John Bramhall.
In criminal cases, where things are pretended to be done against penal laws, such as this, the proofs ought to be clearer than the noon day light. Here is nothing proved, but one single witness named, and he a professed enemy, who never testified it upon oath, or before a judge, or so much as a public notary, or to the face of a protestant, but only whispered it in corners (as it is said by adversaries) among some of his own party. Such a testimony is not worth a deaf nut, in any cause between party and party. If he had been a witness beyond all exception, and had been duly sworn and legally examined, yet this testimony, in the most favourable cause, had been but half a proof, though a hundred did testify it from his mouth, it is still but a single testimony; and as it is, it is plain prittle-prattle, and ought to be valued no more than the shadow of an ass.
text: W. E. Burton
For the present, then, I forgive your impertinence! but I impignorate my promise to make sausages of your intestines if you ever bore me again with your pig-my prittle prattle.
text: Most people these days are busy people — they do not have time to listen to prittle-prattle — to needless public talking […]
ref: 1947, The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, volume 46, page 354:
glosses: empty talk; prattle
prittle-prattles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prittle-prattle
stupose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stupose
form: most stupose
Etymology: From Latin stupa, stuppa (“tow”). Compare stupeous.
Senses: examples: text: a stupose mat of hyphae
text: stupose disc
text: stupose stalk
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: stupeous
glosses: Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow
basihyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basihyoids
Etymology: From basi- + hyoid.
Senses: examples: text: Both sutures are passed dorsal to the basihyoid bone, with the most dorsal suture exiting on the ipsilateral side of the lingual process (asterisk) and the most ventral suture on the contralateral side of the lingual process.
ref: 2009, Norman Edward Robinson, Kim A. Sprayberry, Current Therapy in Equine Medicine, page 259:
text: From the basihyoid, however, it extends dorsally to wrap around the M. sternothyroideus before returning ventrally and curving under the M. episternocleidomastoideus toward the scapula (Herrel et al., 2001b; Meyers et al., 2002)
ref: 2013, Krystal A. Tolley, Anthony Herrel, The Biology of Chameleons, page 21:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: basihyoideum
glosses: The central part of the hyoid bone, which is found at the base of the tongue.
basihyoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basihyoid
ingurgitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingurgitations
Etymology: Latin ingurgitatio: compare French ingurgitation.
Senses: examples: text: Debilitated people, who have been unfortunately accustomed to great ingurgitation of spirituous potation, frequently part with a great quantity of water during the night, but with not more than usual in the day-time.
ref: 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life, Section XVIII:
text: And it is written of Epicurus, that he procured the same for himself; for after his disease was judged desperate, he drowned his stomach and senses with a large draught and ingurgitation of wine ...
ref: 1864, Francis Headlam translation (from Latin) of Francis Bacon, Instauratio Magna (1630), "On the Dignity and Advancement of Learning", Book IV
text: I have lain on the floor of the sea and breathed with the breathing of the sea-anemone, swallowed with ingurgitation of the sponge.
ref: 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:
text: In America, the basically Puritan foundations were undermined by the ingurgitation of German transcendentalism ...
ref: 1956 June, Oskar Seidlin, “Review of Review of Deutscher Geist und angelsächsische Geistesgeschichte by Klaus Dockhorn”, in Modern Language Notes:
text: So much then for my intellectual formation, or, if you prefer, my "cultural baggage," constituted for the most part of lacunas and contained in the kind of colander that is my brain, retaining here and there a few scraps of knowledge, at least consciously, for after all it is possible that the ingurgitation of Kant and Spinoza, as with mathematics, forcibly as it were, and of which I do not have a very clear recollection either, may, without me knowing it, have contributed to shaping it ...
ref: 1982, Claude Simon, "Reflections on the Novel," Symposium Address reprinted in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, (September 22, 1999)
glosses: The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; gulp.
glosses: That which is so swallowed greedily or immoderately.
ingurgitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingurgitation
flos-ferri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin [Term?], meaning "flower of iron".
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of aragonite occurring in delicate white coralloidal forms, common in beds of iron ore.
imprimery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imprimeries
Etymology: From French imprimerie, from imprimer (“to print, to imprint”) + -erie (“-ery”), from im- (“in-”) + primer (“to print”). Equivalent to imprint + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: France's National Imprimery dates back to the Renaissance but now mostly prints ID cards.
glosses: Synonym of printer, printing house, &c., a self-employed printer or printing establishment.
synonyms: word: printer
extra: a self-employed printer or printing establishment
word: printing house
extra: a self-employed printer or printing establishment
word: &c
extra: a self-employed printer or printing establishment
glosses: Synonym of printing, the art or act of printing.
synonyms: word: printing
extra: the art or act of printing
glosses: Synonym of print, a single instance of printing.
synonyms: word: print
extra: a single instance of printing
rheinberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rheinberry
rheinberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheinberries
form: Rhine berry
Etymology: From German Rheinbeere.
Senses: glosses: One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica).
glosses: A European buckthorn.
decerpt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɜːpt/
Etymology: From Latin decerptus, past participle of decerpere.
Senses: glosses: past participle of decerp
inescate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inescates
form: inescating
form: inescated
form: inescated
Etymology: First attested in 1602; borrowed from Latin inēscātus, perfect passive participle of inēscō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + ēsca (“a bait”).
Senses: examples: text: Many such pranks are played by our Jesuits, sometimes in their own habits, sometimes in others, – to inescate and beguile young women.
ref: 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
glosses: To allure; to lay a bait for.
inescated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inescate