cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
miscomfort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈkʌmfə(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: miscomforts
Etymology: From Middle English miscomfort, miscumfort, misconfort, equivalent to mis- + comfort.
Senses: examples: text: I claim George, that the cause of all this miscomfort and suffrage that has befallen you and I and millions in this world, is due to this spirit of egoism that has possessed the hearts of those men who are at the head of affairs like this road and other kinds of industries that give employment.
ref: 1904, The Blacksmiths Journal
text: The sea was calm and the personnel experienced no miscomfort.
ref: 1981, Thomas J. Marleau, Lewis W. Hall, Bulldozers and bombers:
text: In Nigerian English, "sorry' is used as an expression of apology even when one is not the cause of any miscomfort, while "well-done" is applied generally to greet somebody at work.
ref: 2004, Albert Lekan Oyeleye, Language and Discourse in Society:
glosses: Discomfort
miscomfort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈkʌmfə(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: miscomforts
form: miscomforting
form: miscomforted
form: miscomforted
Etymology: From Middle English miscomfort, miscumfort, misconfort, equivalent to mis- + comfort.
Senses: examples: text: Therfore fayre felawes fyghte frely to morowe & myscomforte yow noughte for ony knyȝt though he be the best knyght in the world he maye not haue adoo with vs alle.
"Therefore, fair fellows, fight freely to-morrow, and miscomfort you nought; for any knight, though he be the best knight in the world, he may not have ado with us all."
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, page 231v (Book X Chapter xxix):
text: This tale is told that none miscomfort him though he have temptations, for never was holy man without them.
ref: 1862, Robert of Brunne, Handlyng Synne W. the French Treatise on which it is Founded, page lix:
text: Now this is what no priest should do— Miscomfort any that live: If a man do penance and repent His sins he should forgive.
ref: 1965 April, “The Legend of Venus”, in The Southern Review, volume 1, page 374:
glosses: Discomfort.
miscomforts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscomfort
allatectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allatectomy
meditance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: meditation
reengagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reengagements
Etymology: From re- + engagement.
Senses: glosses: A renewed or repeated engagement.
reengagements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reengagement
love juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love juices
Senses: examples: text: It is interesting to compare Oberon's love juice with the love potion that Tristan and Isolde drink […]
ref: 2013, Martin S. Bergmann, The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays, page 50:
glosses: A love potion.
examples: text: His seed poured slowly into me, and I wanted all he could give. My thirsty body drank his love juice as the desert flower drinks the slight morning dew. In an instant he was gone.
ref: 1972, Amal N Rafik, The Passion Masters:
text: A very few thrusts brought down my love juice again, and I also felt him shoot a tremendously warm flood of his essence into my longing cunt. Our lips were joined in fierce loving, tongue-sucking kisses, whilst I threw my legs over his buttocks, and heaved up my bottom to meet his manly action with the most libidinous abandon.
ref: 1880, The Pearl, volume 11:
glosses: semen
examples: text: The next moment I began caressing her red clitoris with my hot, stiff organ: Lorna sighed deeply once or twice and her eyes turned up; slowly I pushed my prick in to the full and drew it out again to the lips, then in again and I felt her warm love-juice gush as she drew up her knees even higher to let me further in[…]
ref: 1922, Frank Harris, chapter X, in My Life and Loves:
glosses: vaginal fluid or lubrication from squirting or gushing during female ejaculation
ambitionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambitionists
Etymology: From ambition + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Ambitionists want to play at the highest sporting levels to achieve their dreams of a stellar professional career.
ref: 2020, Joseph S. Chen, Advances in Hospitality and Leisure:
glosses: Someone extremely ambitious.
ambitionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambitionist
Canaanitish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Canaanitish
form: most Canaanitish
Etymology: From Canaanite + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 46:10:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Canaanites.
extorter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extorters
Etymology: From extort + -er.
Senses: synonyms: extortioner
glosses: One who practices extortion.
Related terms: extortor
extorters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extorter
transvolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transvolations
Etymology: From Latin trānsvolō (“to fly over or across”), from trāns- (“across”) + volō (“to fly”).
Senses: examples: text: Such things as these which are extraordinary egressions and transvolations beyond the ordinary course of an even piety, God loves to reward with an extraordinary favour […]
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
text: […] a shadow which they would have you think is cast by the argent wings of hovering angels, but whose chill suggests the transvolation of Lucifer with his pride-frosted host.
ref: 1866, George Henry Calvert, First Years in Europe, page 34:
text: I[…]walked past the Giant Swing[…]I should have liked to try such transvolation, but the seat of the swing had been removed.
ref: 1968, James Kirkup, Bangkok, page 47:
glosses: A flight beyond or across.
transvolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transvolation
Bude light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bude lights
Etymology: From Bude in Cornwall, the home of its inventor.
Senses: glosses: A large light in which a jet of oxygen or air is introduced into the centre of a flame.
wikipedia: Bude
Bude lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bude light
diurnalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diurnal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being diurnal.
fugitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fugitive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility.
irresilient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irresilient
form: most irresilient
Etymology: From ir- + resilient.
Senses: glosses: Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
gemmification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemmifications
Etymology: From Latin gemma (“bud”) + -ficare (“in comparative) to make”). See -fy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The production of a bud or gem.
gemmifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gemmification
importunely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more importunely
form: most importunely
Etymology: From Middle English importunely, inportunely, equivalent to importune + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: vexatiously
persistently
glosses: In an importune manner.
leasow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈliːzəʊ/
Forms: form: leasows
form: lessow
form: leasowe
form: lease
form: leaze
Etymology: From Middle English leesewe, lesewe, leswe, from Old English lǣs (“pasture”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāsu (“pasture”).
Senses: examples: text: Reflexions in her Book, strike one as a Statue does among the tangled Thickets of the Leasowes […].
ref: 1803 July 25, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana:
text: The oxen which are brought on in succession, run the first summer in the park, and in the leasows and temporary straw-yards in the winter; [...]
ref: 1826, Thomas Gill, The Technical repository:
text: Lords could create a leasow by fencing off part of their demesne, if it was held in a block rather than being scattered over the fields and intermingled with the land of tenants.
ref: 2012, Christopher Dyer, A Country Merchant, 1495-1520:
text: Imprimis we do present upon our oaths that one Gilbert Wheeler gentleman enclosed a leasow called the Hide containing 20 acres which was common about 10 years past with the fields there.
ref: 2013, Eric Kerridge, Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After:
glosses: (Green) land as opposed to flood or desert; a pasture.
leasow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈliːzəʊ/
Forms: form: leasows
form: leasowing
form: leasowed
form: leasowed
form: lessow
form: leasowe
form: lease
form: leaze
Etymology: From Middle English leesewe, lesewe, leswe, from Old English lǣs (“pasture”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāsu (“pasture”).
Senses: glosses: To feed or pasture.
leasows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leasow
outreason
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outreasons
form: outreasoning
form: outreasoned
form: outreasoned
Etymology: From out- + reason.
Senses: examples: text: they cannot out-reason the conscience
ref: a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:
text: to be outreasoned is a frustrating and debilitating experience. It is a far cry from being convinced—it usually makes us shut up
ref: 2016, Gary V. Ventimiglia, Free to Run the Race:
glosses: To surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
immortaliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immortalisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of immortalizer.
outreasoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outreason
outreasoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outreason
outreasons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outreason
reclusely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reclusely
form: most reclusely
Etymology: From recluse + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a recluse or solitary manner.
wishedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wishedly
form: most wishedly
Etymology: From wished + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To set so wishedly his footing there
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Fourth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: According to one's wish; as is or was desired.
rock-hard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rock-hard
form: most rock-hard
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rock hard.
naphthalidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From naphthalene and toluidine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: naphthylamine
rockhard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rockhard
form: most rockhard
Senses: examples: text: How to develop rockhard Abs of the Dragon
ref: Jan 2004, Black Belt, Vol. 42, No. 1, page 30
text: 2004, Donald E. Westlake, The road to ruin
Flip Morriscone would rather watch himself than anyone else on the planet, man or woman, and that was because he was in the absolute peak of physical condition; rockhard abs, rockhard butt, legs like a centaur's, neck like a plinth.
text: Tenderly,Master placed his rockhard cock against my full,fleshy lips.
ref: 2002, M J Rennie, Permission/The Perfect Wife, page 145
text: When she glanced up at him, she caught his smile, his hooded, silvered eyes as he slipped a condom over his rockhard cock.
ref: 2006, John Patrick, Secret Passions, page 33
text: 2010, G W Leatherman Parks, Leatherdaddy
My rockhard cock slid in and out of that handsome ass as if I was drilling for oil.
text: Faith in God and in Christ can only become rockhard faith in a rocky fortress through God and Christ himself.
ref: 1994, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Light of the world, page 120
glosses: Alternative spelling of rock hard.
consortable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consortable
form: most consortable
Etymology: From consort + -able.
Senses: examples: text: [F]rom a younger brothers mean eſtate, he roſe to the higheſt degree vvherof a Subject vvas capable either in Title or Truſt. Therin I muſt confeſſe much more conſortable to Charls Brandon under Henry the Eight, vvho vvas equall to him in both.
ref: c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, for R[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: Suitable for consorting or associating with, such as for companionship.
uncoif
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkwɑːf/
/ʌnˈkɔɪf/
Forms: form: uncoifs
form: uncoiffing
form: uncoifing
form: uncoiffed
form: uncoiffed
form: uncoifed
form: uncoifed
Etymology: From un- + coif.
Senses: examples: text: Her Majesty's renown'd (Though uncoif'd) counsel
ref: 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
glosses: To deprive of the coif or cap.
uncoifed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncoif
uncoifed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: uncoifed hair
glosses: Not coifed.
uncoifing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncoif
anteating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ant + eating.
Senses: glosses: Feeding on ants.
Synonyms: sense: feeding on ants
word: myrmecophagous
sense: feeding on ants
word: formicivorous
preachman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preachmen
Etymology: From preach + -man.
Senses: examples: text: it reigns in the Pulpit more than any where else, for some of our Preach-men are grown dog mad
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Cap. C. Price”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A preacher.
preachmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preachman
refutatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more refutatory
form: most refutatory
Etymology: Latin refutatorius: compare French réfutatoire.
Senses: examples: text: refutatory discoure
text: refutatory evidence
text: refutatory speech
glosses: Tending to refute.
eductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eductive
form: most eductive
Senses: glosses: Tending to draw out; extractive.
Related terms: educe
educt
infeasibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infeasible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The increased facilities and reduced cost of transferring cargoes , the constantly augmented carrying capacity and dimensions of the ocean vessel reducing cost of importation soon demonstrated its infeasibleness.
ref: 1884, Robert C. Douglas, Report […] on the Necessity of Deepening the Welland Canal:
glosses: The quality of being infeasible; infeasibility.
nematoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nematoblasts
Etymology: From nemato- + blast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: spermoblast
glosses: A spermatocyte
Derived terms: nematoblastic
nematoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nematoblast
verseman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: versemen
Etymology: From verse + -man.
Senses: examples: text: And they have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart,
The god of us versemen (you know, child ,) the Sun
ref: a. 1722 (date written), Matthew Prior, “A Better Answer”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC:
glosses: A por, especially an inferior one; a versemonger.
versemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verseman
climatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more climatical
form: most climatical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of climatic.
Derived terms: paleoclimatical
topoclimatical
corporealist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporealists
Etymology: From corporeal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: some corporealists and mechanics, who vainly pretended to make a world without a God
ref: 1744, George Berkeley, Siris:
glosses: One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist.
corporealists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporealist
obsoletism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obsoletisms
Etymology: From obsolete + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: He cannot place side by side with 'in respect of', some kindred obsoletism; because any obsoletism, it seems, is equally bad grammar
ref: 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English:
glosses: A disused word or phrase; an archaism.
obsoletisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obsoletism
bezoardic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French bézoardique, bézoartique.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar.
bezoardic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bezoardics
Etymology: Compare French bézoardique, bézoartique.
Senses: glosses: A medicine containing bezoar.
bezoardics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bezoardic
errableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From errable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The fallibility attaching to human nature, or the natural errableness of man is not the matter in dispute
ref: 1839, Rev. T. Sisk, The Rev. Dr. Dillon:
glosses: Liability to error; fallibility.
Synonyms: errability
peopler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peoplers
Etymology: From people + -er.
Senses: glosses: A settler or colonizer.
examples: text: Dwellers in the sounding city,
Peoplers of the peaceful glen,
Come with me, the day is pleasant,
I would scale the tway-coned Ben.
ref: 1872, John Stuart Blackie, Lays of the Highlands and Islands, The Ascent of Cruachan:
glosses: an inhabitant.
peoplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peopler
dictatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dictatory
form: most dictatory
form: dictatorie
Etymology: Latin dictatorius.
Senses: examples: text: [B]ut rather, as I hope, for that our Engliſh, the language of men ever famous, and formoſt in the atchievements of liberty, will not eaſily finde ſervile letters anow to ſpell ſuch a dictatorie preſumption Engliſh.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial
dictatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictatories
form: dictatorie
Etymology: Latin dictatorius.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dictate.
synonyms: word: dictate
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:dictatories.
glosses: Synonym of dictatorship.
synonyms: word: dictatorship
swashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swashy
form: most swashy
Senses: examples: a swashy film adaptation of Robin Hood
glosses: swashbuckling
glosses: soft, flabby or squishy
Related terms: swash
sycophantish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sycophantish
form: most sycophantish
Etymology: From sycophant + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a sycophant; sycophantic
Related terms: sycophantishly
irreligionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irreligionists
Etymology: From ir- + religion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An irreligious person
irreligionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irreligionist
nurstle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nurstles
form: nurstling
form: nurstled
form: nurstled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nursle.
nurstled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nurstle
nurstling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nurstle
excruciable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excruciable
form: most excruciable
Etymology: Latin excruciabilis (“deserving of torture”).
Senses: examples: text: With the same heroic devotion with which they went forth to fight the battles of their country, firmly clinging to the dear old flag, they died the most excruciable deaths possible for rebel tyrants to inflict.
ref: 1872, Amos Stevens Billingsley, From the Flag to the Cross: Or, Scenes and Incidents of Christianity in the War:
glosses: Liable to torment.
imitational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imitational
form: most imitational
Etymology: From imitation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: imitational behaviour
text: imitational teaching
glosses: Pertaining to, employed in, or using, imitation.
Derived terms: imitationally
albinotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more albinotic
form: most albinotic
Senses: glosses: Affected with albinism; albinistic.
lithoglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithoglyphs
Etymology: From litho- + glyph.
Senses: glosses: An engraving on a gemstone.
lithoglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithoglyph
revengeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more revengeable
form: most revengeable
Etymology: From revenge + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a revengeable wrong
synonyms: vengeable
glosses: Capable of being revenged.
trinervate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin trinervatus, from tri- + nervus (“nerve”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex.
raw_tags: of a leaf
fungin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin fungus (“mushroom”). Compare French fongine, fungine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: metacellulose
glosses: A cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.
hot-livered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hot-livered
form: most hot-livered
Senses: examples: text: [Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.
ref: 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.
lecherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lecherers
Senses: examples: 1598-1601, John Marston, Here's a toy to mocke an Ape indeede
To the Theaters I finde thee once more come for lecherers
To satiate ?
glosses: A lecher.
lecherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lecherer
remerge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remerges
form: remerging
form: remerged
form: remerged
Etymology: From re- + merge.
Senses: examples: text: That each, who seems a separate whole,
Should move his rounds, and fusing all
The skirts of self again, should fall
Remerging in the general Soul,
Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 69:
glosses: To merge again.
remerge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remerges
Etymology: From re- + merge.
Senses: glosses: An act of merging again.
remerges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remerge
remerges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remerge
remerging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remerge
wardsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wardsmen
Etymology: From ward + -s- + man.
Senses: examples: text: Wardsmen, selected in each yard among the best of the prisoners, are very serviceable. If prisoners work, they should work in silence
ref: 1821, Sydney Smith, “Prisons”, in Edinburgh Review:
glosses: A man who keeps watch; a guard or warden
glosses: Someone who is responsible for representing or managing a specific ward within a city or municipality.
Related terms: wardsmaid
wardsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wardsman
kiver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kivɚ/
/kɪvɚ/
Forms: form: kivers
form: kivering
form: kivered
form: kivered
Senses: glosses: To cover.
kiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kivɚ/
/kɪvɚ/
Forms: form: kivers
Senses: glosses: Cover.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:kiver.
glosses: A shallow wooden vessel or tub.
kivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiver
kivering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kiver
kivered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kiver
antimoniated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: antimoniated tartar or silver
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: antimoniuretted
glosses: Combined or prepared with antimony.
cizars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: a pair of Cizars
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of scissors.
globularness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From globular + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: globularity
glosses: The quality of being globular.
submedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Etymology: From sub- + medial.
Senses: glosses: Lying under the middle.
Derived terms: submedially
palisado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palisados
form: palisadoes
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Eyelids are fortify'd vvith little ſtiffe briſtles as vvith Paliſadoes, againſt the aſſault of Flyes and Gnats, and ſuch like bold Animalcula.
ref: 1653, Henry More, “Unavoydable Arguments for Divine Providence Taken from the Accurate Structure of Mans Body, from the Passions of His Mind, and Fitnesse of the Whole Man to be an Inhabiter of the Universe”, in An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC, book II, page 94:
topics: fortification
fortifications
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Obsolete form of palisade.
palisado
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: palisadoes
form: palisadoing
form: palisadoed
form: palisadoed
Senses: examples: text: He provided a table sixty feet in diameter, upon which I was to act my part, and palisadoed it round three feet from the edge, and as many high, to prevent my falling over.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):
text: The sea breaks upon this coast against a palisadoed fence of rocks and cliffs, around which swarm flocks of polar birds with cries and screams.
ref: 1853, Mary Howitt., Strife and Peace:
text: At Chaco they had a little earthen fort, with a small ditch palisadoed round it, and a few old honeycombed guns without carriages, and which do not defend the harbour in the least.
ref: 1816, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17:
topics: fortification
fortifications
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Obsolete form of palisade.
cum-dumpster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cum-dumpsters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cum dumpster.
cum-dumpsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cum-dumpster
bow-ties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow-tie
ugly finders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ugly finder
ugly-finder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ugly-finders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ugly finder.
ugly-finders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ugly-finder
crystalline humor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crystalline humour.
crystalline humour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystalline humours
Senses: examples: text: And then again, the parts of the Eye are made Convex, that there might be a direction of many rayes coming from one point of the Object unto one point answerable in the bottom of the Eye; to which purpose the Crystalline Humour is of great moment, and without which the sight would be very obscure and weak.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 80
glosses: The lens of the eye.
bipunctate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + punctate.
Senses: examples: text: bipunctate impression
text: bipunctate striae
glosses: Having two punctures or spots.
embroiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embroilers
Etymology: From embroil + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who embroils.
embroilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embroiler
erectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erect + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] on the crown of the head the feathers are long, and erectable in form of a crest […]
ref: 1802, George Montagu, Ornithological Dictionary:
glosses: Capable of being erected or raised up.
Synonyms: erigible
Derived terms: unerectable
gelatiniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From gelatin + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: gelatiniferous tissue
text: gelatiniferous fibres
glosses: Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
heptarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptarchists
form: heptarch
Etymology: From heptarchy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.
heptarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptarchist
interambulacral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: interambulacral plate
text: interambulacral region
text: interambulacral joint
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
liplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liplets
Etymology: From lip + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Her liplets twain old wine contain, And dews of fount-like purity: Her teeth resemble strings o' pearls, Arrayed in line and fresh from sea
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small lip.
liplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liplet
misrepresenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misrepresenters
Etymology: From misrepresent + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who misrepresents.
Related terms: distorter
misstater
twister
deceiver
misrepresenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misrepresenter
peripetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + petalous.
Senses: examples: text: peripetalous fasciole
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Surrounding, or situated around, the petals.
recompensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recompensive
form: most recompensive
Etymology: From recompense + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: This is the day that must make good that great attribute of God, his justice, that must reconcile those unanswerable doubts which torment the wisest understandings, and reduce those seeming inequalities and respective distributions in the world, to an equality and recompensive Justice in the next.
ref: 1962, Joan Bennett, Sir Thomas Browne: 'A Man of Achievement in Literature, Cambridge University Press:
glosses: Serving to recompense or reward
smicker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more smicker
form: most smicker
form: smikker
Etymology: From Middle English smiker, from Old English smicer, smicor (“beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, neat, tasteful”), from Proto-West Germanic *smikr, from Proto-Germanic *smikraz (“fine, elegant, delicate, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *smēyg- (“small, delicate”), from Proto-Indo-European *smē-, *smey- (“to smear, stroke, wipe, rub”). Cognate with Middle High German smecker (“neat, elegant”), Ancient Greek σμικρός (smikrós), μικρός (mikrós, “small, short”), Lithuanian smeigti (“to lunge, thrust, jab”), Latin mīca (“crumb, morsel, bit”).
For the verb, compare Swedish smickra (“to flatter, coax, wheedle, butter up”), Danish smigre (“to flatter”).
Senses: examples: text: No, his deep-reaching spirit could not brook
The fond addiction to such vanity;
Regardful of his honour he forsook
The smicker use of court-humanity.
ref: 1606, John Ford, Fame's Memorial:
glosses: Elegant; fine; attractive, beautiful.
glosses: Amorous; wanton.
examples: text: A smicker boy, a lither swain,
Heigh ho, a smicker swain,
That his love was wanton fain, […]
ref: 1590, Thomas Lodge, “Corydon’s Song”, in Rosalynde:
glosses: Handsome, spruce; smart, dapper.
smicker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: smickers
form: smickering
form: smickered
form: smickered
form: smikker
Etymology: From Middle English smiker, from Old English smicer, smicor (“beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, neat, tasteful”), from Proto-West Germanic *smikr, from Proto-Germanic *smikraz (“fine, elegant, delicate, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *smēyg- (“small, delicate”), from Proto-Indo-European *smē-, *smey- (“to smear, stroke, wipe, rub”). Cognate with Middle High German smecker (“neat, elegant”), Ancient Greek σμικρός (smikrós), μικρός (mikrós, “small, short”), Lithuanian smeigti (“to lunge, thrust, jab”), Latin mīca (“crumb, morsel, bit”).
For the verb, compare Swedish smickra (“to flatter, coax, wheedle, butter up”), Danish smigre (“to flatter”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Maskall, must you be smickering after wenches, while I am in calamity?
ref: 1808, original 1668, John Dryden, Walter Scott, An Evening's Love:
glosses: To look amorously or wantonly.
glosses: To look or smile seductively or amorously.
examples: text: I gave him a questioning look and he hurled a pillow at me. “Who you a look pon^([sic]) so?” “Me baby father” He smickered.
ref: 2014, Crystal Evans, Every Man Deserves A Good Jacket, page 116:
glosses: To laugh or smile in a sniggering or leering way; smirk.
Derived terms: smickering
smickly
acidimetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acidimetric.
anaphrodisia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + aphrodisia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Lack of desire for sex.
Hyponyms: anorgasmia
Derived terms: anaphrodisic
anaphrodite
deviling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devil
deviling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devilings
Etymology: From devil + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: go leap her, and engender young devilings
ref: 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Knight of Malta”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A small or young devil.
devilings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deviling
hydropathists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydropathist
hydropath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydropaths
Etymology: Compare French hydropathe.
Senses: glosses: A hydropathist.
hydropaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydropath
hydrotellurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrotellurates
Etymology: From hydrotelluric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base.
hydrotellurates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrotellurate
intransgressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intransgressible
form: most intransgressible
Etymology: From Latin intragressibilis (“that can not be crossed”). See in- (“not”) + transgress + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passed over or crossed.
mounch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mounches
form: mounching
form: mounched
form: mounched
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of munch.
mounched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mounch
mounching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mounch
exciteful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exciteful
form: most exciteful
Etymology: From excite + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: an exciteful story
text: Stern Pluto and Persephoné, apply Exciteful pray'rs.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Eleventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: Full of excitement; exciting
semicirque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicirques
Etymology: From semi- + cirque.
Senses: examples: text: Upon a semicirque of turf-clad ground, / The hidden nook discovered to our view / A mass of rock […]
ref: 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Three:
glosses: A semicircular hollow or opening among trees or hills.
semicirques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicirque
undersphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underspheres
Etymology: From under- + sphere.
Senses: glosses: A sphere which is smaller than, and in its movements subject to, another; a satellite.
glosses: An inferior sphere, or field of action.
underspheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersphere
vetoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vetoists
form: Vetoist
Etymology: From veto + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I afterwards proceeded to shew, that both vetoists and anti-vetoists, by uniting to press, as a sine qua non, the necessity of emancipation on the mind of his Holiness, were forcing him to a decision, which at the present moment, for the reasons I then assigned, was pregnant with danger.
ref: 1816, Catholicon; or, The Christian philosopher, page 195:
text: He acknowledged that he had concurred in sacrificing the delegate of the catholics of Ireland out of an absurd complacency to incurable vetoists and corrupt retainers of an hostile administration; but has he, by his subsequent behaviour, endeavoured to retrieve that loss of public principle he then so lamentably deplored?
ref: 1818, William Eusebius Andrews, The Orthodox journal and Catholic monthly intelligencer, volume 6:
text: As the only way to consult the Catholics throughout IReland was through a convention of delegates, and this was prohibited by the Convention Act (1793), the seeds for future disputes were laid. Though the two parties eventually became known as 'vetoists' and 'anti-vetoists, the split had occurred long before the word 'veto' was introduced into the public debate.
ref: 2002, Desmond Keenan, The Grail of Catholic Emancipation 1793 to 1829, page 142:
glosses: One who uses, or supports the use of, the veto, especially in relation to the appointment of Catholic bishops in Ireland in the 19th century.
Related terms: vetoism
vetoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vetoist
boneache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boneaches
form: bone-ache
Etymology: From bone + ache.
Senses: examples: text: After this, the vengeance on the whole camp! or rather, the bone-ache! for that, methinks, is the curse dependent on those that war for a placket.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: The blueberries grew far away and the Old Lady had many a tramp after them. Sometimes her bones ached at night because of it; but what cared the Old Lady for that? Bone ache is easier to endure than soul ache; and the Old Lady’s soul had stopped aching for the first time in many a year.
ref: 1912, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Old Lady Lloyd”, in Chronicles of Avonlea, Boston: L.C. Page, page 43:
text: "Well, sorcerer?" growled the Norman. "Nay, not well," replied Catweazle shivering miserably, "I have the bone-ache."
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 7:
glosses: Pain in the bones, or seemingly in the bones.
Synonyms: topics: medicine
sciences
word: osteocope
boneaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boneache
inition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Old French inition. See initial.
Senses: examples: text: And here I note the inition of my Lords friendship with Mountjoy, which the Queen her self did then conjure.
ref: a. 1635, Robert Naunton, Fragmenta regalia:
glosses: initiation; beginning
receptories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of receptory
receptory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: receptories
Etymology: From Middle English receptorie, from Medieval Latin receptorium (“a place of shelter”).
Senses: glosses: A receptacle, a container .
uncord
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncords
form: uncording
form: uncorded
form: uncorded
Etymology: From un- + cord.
Senses: examples: text: to uncord a package
glosses: To remove or untie cords; to unbind.
uncorded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncord
uncorded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: hyponyms: wireless
glosses: Without a cord or cords.
uncording
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncord
uncords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncord
fiddledeedee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: fiddlededee
Senses: glosses: nonsense; rubbish
Synonyms: fiddlesticks
horsefeathers
pull the other one
bullshit
recurvation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recurvations
Senses: glosses: A backwards bending or flexure backwards.
recurvations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recurvation
Boswellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Boswellian
form: most Boswellian
Etymology: From Boswell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish lawyer and writer, best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson.
imperviability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being imperviable; imperviousness.
indulgement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indulgements
Etymology: From indulge + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: But giving himself the liberty of too frequent indulgements, either to please his friend, or patient, or both, was taken away by death in the prime of his years on the 12th day of October (or thereabouts) in sixteen hundred seventy three, and was, I suppose, buried in the chappel belonging to the said hospital.
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume II (Completing the Whole Work), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […], →OCLC:
glosses: indulgence
indulgements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indulgement
narcotinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From narcotine + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: narcotinic acid
glosses: Pertaining to, or derived from, narcotine.
nectaried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nectary + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: nectaried cotton
text: nectaried cultivars
antonyms: nectariless
unnectaried
glosses: Having a nectary.
nectariless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nectaryless
Etymology: From nectary + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a nectary.
orthospermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: But in regard to the differences both in the internal and external structure of the seeds, […] in the Umbelliferae these differences are of such apparent importance—the seeds being in some cases, according to Tausch, orthospermous in the exterior flowers and cœlospermous in the central flowers,—[…]
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Laws of Variation”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 146:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some umbelliferous plants.
reenaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reenactions
form: reënaction
form: re-enaction
Etymology: From re- + enaction.
Senses: glosses: The process of reenacting.
reenactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reenaction
semiovate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + ovate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Half ovate.
racemule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈsiːmjuːl/
Forms: form: racemules
Etymology: From raceme + -ule.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
qualifier: probably dated
glosses: A little raceme.
racemules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racemule
antizymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antizymic
form: most antizymic
Etymology: From anti- + zymic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antizymotic.
synonyms: word: antizymotic
hydrargyrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydrargyrum + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: hydrargyria; mercurialism or mercury poisoning
hydrogalvanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + galvanic.
Senses: examples: text: hydrogalvanic currents
text: hydrogalvanic bath
text: hydrogalvanic instrument
glosses: Pertaining to, produced by, or consisting of, electricity evolved by the action or use of fluids.
Related terms: hydroelectric