cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unintimidating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unintimidating
form: most unintimidating
Etymology: From un- + intimidating.
Senses: examples: text: I was impressed with how unintimidating Barnard's weight-loss plan is.
ref: 1992 November, Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, “A Physician's Slimming Guide For Permanent Weight Control [book review]”, in Vegetarian Times, page 101:
text: Robertson, born and raised in Alabama, is unassuming and generally unintimidating.
ref: 2009 August 18, Tyler Kepner, “Yankees’ Robertson Emerges in Innings of Import”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not intimidating; not making one fearful.
rivalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rivalises
form: rivalising
form: rivalised
form: rivalised
Etymology: From rival + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rivalize.
rivalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rivalise
manipulated variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manipulated variables
Senses: glosses: The variable in a scientific experiment that is changed.
half marathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half marathon
Otomi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌoʊtəˈmiː/
Forms: form: Otomi
form: Otomis
form: Otomies
form: Ottomies
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish otomí, from Classical Nahuatl otomih, plural of otomitl.
Senses: examples: text: the eſpies of Tlaxcallan ſayde, that none had fought with them but certayne outlawes and knaues called Otomies, who lyued as vagaboundes without a Lorde or other ruler
ref: 1578, Thomas Nicholas, The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the VVeast India, London: Henry Bynneman, translation of Historia general de las Indias by Francisco López de Gómara, page 124:
text: Thoſe in New Spaine, which they call Ottomies, were of this ſort, beeing commonly poore Indians, inhabiting a rough and barren Land, and yet they are in good numbers, and liue together with ſome order, and ſuch as doe know them, find them no leſſe apt and capeable of matters of Chriſtian Religion, then others which are held to be more rich and better gouerned.
ref: 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, volume 3, London: William Stansby, page 1001:
glosses: A person belonging to the indigenous Otomi ethnic group of central Mexico.
Otomi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌoʊtəˈmiː/
Forms: form: Otomies
form: Ottomies
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish otomí, from Classical Nahuatl otomih, plural of otomitl.
Senses: glosses: An Oto-Manguean language and one of the indigenous languages of Mexico, spoken by around 240,000 indigenous Otomi people in the central altiplano region of Mexico.
Derived terms: Otomian
OLE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /oˈlɛj/
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Object Linking and Embedding.
examples: text: The problem started with damage to overhead line equipment (OLE - the railway's electrification system), which halted a Great Western Railway service.
ref: 2024 August 21, Philip Haigh, “Stranded trains: problems for passengers and operators”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 52:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: OHLE
glosses: Overhead line equipment.
pensionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pensionaries
Etymology: From pension + -ary.
Senses: glosses: one who receives a pension; a pensioner
glosses: A leading functionary and legal adviser of the principal town corporations in the Netherlands.
Derived terms: grand pensionary
pensionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pension + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: pensionary spies
ref: 1633, John Donne, Elegy I: Jealousy:
glosses: maintained by a pension; receiving a pension
examples: a pensionary provision for maintenance
glosses: pertaining to a pension
pensionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pensionary
-cardia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Formed on Ancient Greek κᾰρδῐ́ᾱ (kărdĭ́ā, “heart”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming abstract nouns), equivalent to cardia + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Heart condition.
gâches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gâche
reprehender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reprehenders
Etymology: From reprehend + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who reprehends.
prostheticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prostheticist
prostheticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prostheticists
Etymology: From prosthetic + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Retinoblastoma surgery almost always results in a case for the prostheticist to create a substitute for the destroyed orbital contents […]
ref: 1980, The Principles and Practices of Rehabilitation, page 81:
text: Her neighbour in the darkest of the upstairs rooms is a dental prostheticist […]
ref: 2001, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible, →ISBN, page 235:
text: While the two fields can exchange ideas about the design of artificial hands, the prostheticist has the entire natural anatomical, neurological and cerebral power of a human being to work with, whereas the roboticist has the additional and formidable task of duplicating all that backup capacity.
ref: 2002, Keith A. Chandler, The Android Myth: How Humans Think and Why Computers Can't, →ISBN, page 46:
text: We live in a society of automatons, of machines tightly coupled with "organic" bodies themselves denatured and reassembled, discursively by the teacher, politician, and boss as well as literally under the knife of the surgeon or the hand of the prostheticist.
ref: 2005, Chris Hables Gray, Peace, War, And Computers, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of prosthetist.
-pode
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -pod.
glosses: Alternative form of -podium.
prosthetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosthetists
form: prostheticist
Senses: examples: text: She's a licensed prosthetist, meaning, she fits prosthetic limbs to people after an amputation.
ref: 2009 August 12, Ross Forman, “CMSA's Schmit: A Jackie-of-all-trades”, in Windy City Times, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2010:
glosses: A person who makes or fits prosthetic devices.
prosthetists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosthetist
datafile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datafiles
form: data file
Etymology: From data + file.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer file that stores data for use by an application or system.
circulant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a circulant graph; a circulant matrix
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Involving circulation.
circulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circulants
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A circulant matrix.
poontangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poontang
zorkmid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zorkmids
Etymology: From the computer game Zork (1980).
Senses: examples: text: Yes, the zorkmid is still the official medium of exchange, and this realm supposedly was founded by a relative of Dimwit Flathead III […]
ref: 1984, Softalk for the IBM personal computer:
text: Nethack (www.nethack.org), which is not IF but does use the zorkmid as its currency, has a one zorkmid coin. It is simply described as "a gold piece".
ref: 2003, Robin Johnson, “One Zorkmid desc?”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet):
text: After the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the Eastern European nation of Ukraine adopted the Zorkmid as its national currency.
ref: 2008, Brian Briggs, The BBook of Geek:
topics: video-games
glosses: A fictional unit of currency used in various computer games.
Related terms: Zorkian
narratologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narratology
tempuras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tempura
multiplot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + plot.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple plots (allotments of land).
glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple plots (dramatical structures).
glowplug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glowplugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of glow plug.
glowplugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glowplug
scrollback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scroll + back.
Senses: examples: text: The program can hold as many as 5000 lines of a session in a scrollback buffer.
ref: 1993 April, InfoWorld, volume 15, number 15:
text: New communications documents are set for a scrollback area of unlimited size […]
ref: 1995, Charles Rubin, The Macintosh bible guide to ClarisWorks 4:
text: The scrollback buffer allows you to scroll back and review earlier commands and command output.
ref: 2005, Dave Taylor, Learning UNIX for Mac OS X Tiger:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.
Synonyms: backscroll
zorkmids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zorkmid
unplotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + plotted.
Senses: glosses: Not plotted.
glosses: Not given a plot or storyline.
glosses: Not divided into plots.
raw_tags: of land
unplotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unplot
unacidified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + acidified.
Senses: glosses: Not acidified.
thrillseeking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thrillseeking
form: most thrillseeking
Etymology: From thrill + seeking.
Senses: glosses: Searching for thrilling situations, like a thrill-seeker.
thrillseekers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrillseeker
antidrinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + drinking.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to the drinking of alcohol.
Synonyms: antialcohol
antidrink
antialcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antialcohol
form: most antialcohol
form: anti-alcohol
Etymology: From anti- + alcohol.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to the drinking of alcohol.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Counteracting the effect of alcohol.
Synonyms: antidrinking
cosmicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cosmic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The literary philosophy developed by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft, stating that there is no recognizable divine presence, such as God, in the universe, and that humans are particularly insignificant in the larger scheme of intergalactic existence.
glosses: The scientific study of the cosmos.
dark art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark arts
Senses: examples: text: In New York, I learned the dark arts of politics, and spent a lot of time doing that.
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 55:
glosses: Synonym of black art.
synonyms: word: black art
dark arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark art
mosk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosks
Senses: examples: text: Should the English hoist their flag here, a new factory must be erected; the most eligible situation for which would be where the mosk now stands, or the mosk itself might be converted into one, and another rebuilt elsewhere; but to this the sultan has insuperable objections. In an English fort, to think to have a mosk open to the ingress of a large body of Malays at all times is wholly incompatible with a certain reserve and security required from it.
ref: 1846, Henry Keppel, The Expedition to Borneo, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2007:
text: Then I left the mosk and began to promenade the quarters and the streets ...
ref: 1900, Richard F. Burton, Supplement Nights to The Book of the Thousand And One Nights, Vol 6, Online edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2002:
glosses: Archaic form of mosque.
gullable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gullable
form: most gullable
Etymology: From gull + -able.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of gullible.
Derived terms: gullably
anadromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That's the advantage of anadromy (a sea-run life history): The ocean years allow fast growth.
ref: 2009 August, David Quammen, “Where the Salmon Rule”, in National Geographic, page 36:
glosses: The migration of fish, from salt water to fresh water, as adults
warningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more warningly
form: most warningly
Etymology: From warning + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] Moby Dick moved on, still withholding from sight the full terrors of his submerged trunk, entirely hiding the wrenched hideousness of his jaw. But soon the fore part of him slowly rose from the water; for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch […] and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air, the grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 133, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 604:
text: The woman put her finger to her lips, warningly.
ref: 1891, Henry Francis Keenan, chapter 13, in The Iron Game:
text: The outsides of old Edinburgh churches frightened her, they were of such dark stone, like presences almost the colour of the Castle rock, and were built so warningly with their upraised fingers.
ref: 1961, Muriel Spark, chapter 1, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, London: Macmillan:
glosses: In a warning manner; in such a way as to warn.
goudron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːˈdɹɒn/
Forms: form: goudrons
Etymology: Borrowed from French goudron (“tar”).
Senses: examples: text: The manner of laying down the asphalt is as follows : -A fire is first lighted under the boiler, then the goudron is put in.
ref: 1887, Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland, Transactions, volume 17, page 213:
text: About 50 kilos of goudron from Romany oil were carefully cracked at about 400 °C., partly with steam an partly without. In the latter case, dark paraffin wax was obtained from the higher fractions, […]
ref: 1900, Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain), Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, page 652:
text: He is unable to select his crude, and often has to be satisfied with a worse residuum; nor is he in a position to dispose of his goudron as the latter, and for all these reasons, such a refinery is compelled to secure as high a ...
ref: 1902, The Petroleum Review, with which is Incorporated "Petroleum", page 671:
text: The carbon electrodes rest on a layer f of goudron, which is tar boiled or evaporated to a density greater than that of ordinary tar.
ref: 1903, Great Britain. Patent Office, Patents for Inventions. Abridgments of Specifications, page 75:
text: In some parts the oil soaks through river alluvia and forms small goudron deposits.
ref: 1906, The Petroleum Review ..., page 156:
text: For this purpose, the goudrons are diluted with a certain quantity of water, so as to reduce the acid to 50 °B.; at the same time, the mass is energetically blown with air, in order to separate and to bring to the surface of the ...
ref: 1909, Petroleum Review:
text: (6) Natural liquid goudrons are solutions of more or less oxidized (resinified) solid hydrocarbons in liquid hydrocarbons, and are therefore thick and viscous.
ref: 1923, Petroleum Times:
glosses: Tar, especially boiled tar.
Arkadia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Arcadia (“region of Ancient Greece”)
fetus in fetu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetuses in fetu
form: foetus in foetu
Etymology: From Latin fētus in fētū.
Senses: topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: A fetus growing inside the body of another fetus, either from an unsuccessful twin pregnancy, or as a tumorlike growth.
Coordinate terms: chimeric
conjoined
heteropagus
teratoma
vanishing twin syndrome
post-apocalyptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more post-apocalyptic
form: most post-apocalyptic
Etymology: From post- + apocalyptic.
Senses: glosses: After the apocalypse.
examples: text: Stephen King is an author of post-apocalyptic fiction.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a fiction genre dealing with the collapse of society.
queazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: queazier
form: queaziest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of queasy.
phone numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phone number
quadrillionths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrillionth
galea aponeurotica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæl.i.ə ˌæp.ə.n(j)ʊˈɹɑt.ɪk.ə/
Forms: form: galeae aponeuroticae
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin galea aponeurōtica (“aponeurotic helmet”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epicranial aponeurosis.
shuka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shukas
Etymology: From Swahili shuka.
Senses: glosses: A sash (decorative length of cloth) worn in parts of Africa.
cowriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowriter
refluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛflu.ənt/
Forms: form: more refluent
form: most refluent
Etymology: From Latin refluens, present active participle of refluō (“I flow back”).
Senses: examples: text: […] let them cast it [my soul] downe
Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne
His curled head;
ref: c. 1615, George Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book , p. 309:
text: When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them;
ref: 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 14, Chapter 7, p. 123:
text: […] in haste the refluent ocean
Fled away from the shore, and left the line of the sand-beach
Covered with waifs of the tide, with kelp and the slippery sea-weed.
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “5”, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC:
text: now floods back refluent like a tide, the red, thick stream of life again
ref: 1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
synonyms: ebbing
glosses: Flowing back.
obole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oboles
Etymology: Borrowed from French obole. Doublet of obolus, obol, and pul.
Senses: examples: text: If a small ship arrives at Billingsgate it will give one obole as thelony [custom]
ref: 2003, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Coins and Currency: An Historical Encyclopedia, →ISBN:
glosses: An obsolete French coin.
Lahey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laheys
Etymology: Variant spelling of Leahy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
outrant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outrants
form: outranting
form: outranted
form: outranted
Etymology: From out- + rant.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in ranting.
basant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bezant.
basions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basion
tricheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichery
minuteslong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From minutes + -long.
Senses: examples: text: The crowd gave him a rousing, minuteslong, standing ovation.
ref: 2006, Katheryn Russell-Brown, Protecting our own: race, crime, and African Americans, page 48:
coordinate_terms: minutelong
glosses: Lasting minutes.
Related terms: hourlong
hourslong
wellborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From well + born.
Senses: examples: text: Of Scotch descent and wellborn, Thomas Scott had, as a boy, been a page at the French Court[…
ref: 1885, Annie Besant, Autobiographical Sketches:
text: Morris said Chicago's transit system responds primarily to the needs of "the rich and the wellborn."
ref: 2001 July 13, Ann Sterzinger, “Road Rage”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Of aristocratic or high-ranking birth
unskillfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unskillful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Grammar is perhaps the most comprehensive of all studies; but it is chiefly owing to the unskillfulness of instructors, and to the errors and defects of the systems in use, that it is commonly regarded as the most dry and difficult. 5. "
ref: 1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars:
text: Thirteen years later, a variety of causes, some of which will be unfolded in the course of this narrative, had contributed to irritate the impatience of the nation, while the unskillfulness of the existing minister had disarmed the royal authority.
ref: 1876, Charles Duke Yonge, The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France:
glosses: The state or quality of being unskillful, of lacking skill
comprehensivization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɒmpɹɪhɛnsɪvaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Etymology: From comprehensive + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of comprehensivizing.
tergiversant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That tergiversates.
ex-stepfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex-stepfathers
Etymology: From ex- + stepfather.
Senses: glosses: A previous husband of one's mother during one's lifetime, other than one's father, typically following the divorce or death of the father.
Synonyms: ex-stepdad
Hypernyms: ex-stepparent
Related terms: ex-stepmother
ex-stepparent
stepbrother
stepchild
stepdaughter
stepfamily
stepfather
stepmother
stepparent
stepsibling
stepsister
stepson
ex-stepmother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex-stepmothers
Senses: glosses: A previous wife of one's father during one's lifetime, other than one's mother, typically following the divorce or death of the mother.
Synonyms: ex-stepmom
Hypernyms: ex-stepparent
Related terms: ex-stepfather
ex-stepparent
stepbrother
stepchild
stepdaughter
stepfamily
stepfather
stepmother
stepparent
stepsibling
stepsister
stepson
ex-stepparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex-stepparents
Senses: glosses: An ex-stepfather or ex-stepmother.
terras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terra
Messine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛsaɪn/
Forms: form: more Messine
form: most Messine
Etymology: From French messin. By surface analysis, Metz + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: the Messine Republic
synonyms: Metzian
glosses: Of or relating to the city of Metz
Messine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛsaɪn/
Forms: form: Messines
Etymology: From French messin. By surface analysis, Metz + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: But the Messines were undaunted and thirsted for revenge.
ref: 1865, Der Heilige Bernard:
synonyms: Metzian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Metz
ex-stepdad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex-stepdads
Etymology: From ex- + stepdad.
Senses: glosses: An ex-stepfather, implying affection.
ex-stepmom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex-stepmoms
Senses: glosses: An ex-stepmother, implying affection.
ex-stepmothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ex-stepmother
ex-stepfathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ex-stepfather
ex-stepparents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ex-stepparent
praying mantises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praying mantis
praying mantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praying mantis
falchioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fôlʹshənd
ipa: /ˈfɔːlʃənd/
Etymology: From falchion + -ed, from the noun.
Senses: glosses: Armed with a falchion.
falchioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fôlʹshənd
ipa: /ˈfɔːlʃənd/
Etymology: From falchion + -ed, from the verb.
Senses: glosses: Slain by a falchion.
Synonyms: macheted
falchioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fôlʹshənd
ipa: /ˈfɔːlʃənd/
Etymology: From falchion + -ed, from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: […] O sorrow the sail and woe the rudder that were set for Mairie Quail; his suns the huns, his dartars the tartars, are plenty here today; who repulsed from his burst the bombolts of Ostenton and falchioned each flash downsaduck in the deep; […]
ref: 1939, James Joyce, chapter I, in Finnegans Wake, page 135:
glosses: simple past of falchion
stepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepsises
Etymology: From step- + sis; clipping of stepsister.
Senses: glosses: A stepsister.
stepbro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepbros
Etymology: From step- + bro.
Senses: glosses: A stepbrother.
untenty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untenty
form: most untenty
Senses: examples: text: "The cursed Highland salvages!" muttered the captain, half aloud; "what is to become of me, if Gustavus, the namesake of the invincible Lion of the Protestant League, should be lamed among their untenty hands?"
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose:
text: I have told you already I would never be so untenty as to commit myself.
ref: 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona:
glosses: Inattentive; clumsy; incautious.
chicaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicaners
Etymology: Compare French chicaneur.
Senses: examples: text: distinguish the two most different things I know in the world , a logical chicaner from a man of reason
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who uses chicanery.
cheki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chekis
form: chequee
form: chequi
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish چكی (cheki).
Senses: qualifier: Turkish units of measurement
glosses: A unit of weight equal to 200 kg (441 lbs.).
qualifier: historical units of measurement
glosses: A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 180 okas.
examples: text: At Constantinople, the cantaro, or quintal, contains 44 okes, or 100 rottoli; and the cantaro weighs about 123¾ lbs. avoirdupois, the oke 2lbs. 13 oz., and the rottolo 19⁴⁄₅ oz., and the chequee 11¼ oz. avoirdupois.
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, Vol. XXX, s.v. "Rottolo"
text: Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔).
ref: 1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, s.v. "Weights and Measures"
text: 6107. Turkish Weights. The Turkish Chequi is 11⅓ ounces avoirdupois... 1 Chequi = 100 Drachmas.
ref: 1900, William B. Dick, Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes, page 530:
qualifier: historical units of measurement
glosses: A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 100 dirhems (variously 0.15–0.35 kg).
Meronyms: sense: subdivisions
word: dirhem
sense: subdivisions
word: dram
sense: superdivisions
word: rottol
sense: superdivisions
word: rotl
sense: superdivisions
word: oka
sense: superdivisions
word: batman
sense: superdivisions
word: kantar
sense: superdivisions
word: quintal
accable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accables
form: accabling
form: accabled
form: accabled
Etymology: Borrowed from French accabler (“to overwhelm”).
Senses: glosses: To overwhelm; to encumber.
accables
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accable
Grenadines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɛnədinz/
Senses: glosses: A group of small islands in the Caribbean, divided between the larger islands of Grenada and Saint Vincent, in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
anosmics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anosmic
calli-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”).
Senses: glosses: beautiful
Derived terms: calliaphone
calligraphy
callimorph
calliope
callipygian
callipygous
Callisto
wolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of woll
ansae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ansa
anteriorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anteriority
antheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthesis
anthracnoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthracnose
anthroparchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthroparchy
kwanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kwangas
Senses: glosses: A type of Congolese pap made from manioc
Synonyms: chikwangue
antibioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antibiosis
edgepath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edgepaths
Etymology: From edge + path.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A path comprising edges laid end to end.
edgepaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edgepath
Heracleitus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Heraclitus.
cuers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuer
maistres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maistre
insinuant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insinuant
form: most insinuant
Etymology: From Latin insinuans, present participle: compare French insinuant.
Senses: glosses: Insinuating; insinuative.
thrusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thrust
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thrust
swanskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swanskins
Etymology: From swan + skin.
Senses: glosses: The skin of a swan with the down or feathers on.
glosses: A type of brushed flannel cotton twill fabric.
soupe du jour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soupes du jour
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of soup du jour.
grith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Forms: form: griths
Etymology: From Middle English grith, griþ, from Late Old English griþ, from Old Norse grið (“domicile, home”), in the plural with a meaning "truce, peace; sanctuary, asylum".
The English word is attested from the early 11th century, and after the end of the Anglo-Saxon period assumed a meaning of peace in general, especially by association with frith. The word became obsolete by the 16th century, or during the 17th century in Scottish English, but was revived in the context of historical novels in the 19th century.
The verb griþian (“to make peace”) appears in the Laws of Æthelred (Þæt hi Godes cirican æȝhwar ȝeorne griðian and friðian) and in Middle English is attested occasionally during the 13th century.
Senses: glosses: Guaranteed security, sanctuary, safe conduct.
glosses: Security, peace or protection guaranteed in particular instances in Old English law.
glosses: A place of protection, a sanctuary.
Synonyms: asylum
reference points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reference point
octalogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octology
Etymology: Formed in imitation of trilogy, with prefix octa-.
Senses: examples: 1886 http://books.google.com/books?id=_GgAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA548&dq=%22octalogy%22#v=onepage&q=%22octalogy%22&f=false
The Shakespearean octalogy which begins with Richard II. and ends with Richard III.
glosses: A set of eight works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as eight individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
Related terms: dilogy
trilogy
tetralogy
pentalogy
hexalogy
heptalogy
ennealogy
decalogy
polylogy (2+)
houser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housers
Etymology: From Middle English housere, equivalent to house + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Federal aid for foster care - in effect a houser of last resort for children from troubled families - may also be legitimately described as an entitlement.
ref: 2003, Scott Leckie, National Perspectives on Housing Rights, page 150:
text: They thought they had busted a moonshiner or a houser of illegal aliens, but what was really below their feet was beyond their wildest imaginations!
ref: 2007, Charles Clemons, Funky Shrooms and Other Exquisite Delights, page 21:
text: Social work and gerontological literature for the most part have omitted Haniet Tubman's role as a houser of the aged.
ref: 2013, Philip McCallion, Housing for the Elderly: Policy and Practice Issues, page 230:
glosses: One who, or that which, houses.
examples: text: "The Disco" is a sweet and summery horn-fueled gem, while "Sweet Music" is a gospel-infused peak houser that we'd love to hear alongside Bohannon's disco stomper "Let's Start The Dance."
ref: 1999, Billboard, volume 111, number 29, page 29:
glosses: A house music track.
Derived terms: Houser
flare-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flare-up
flamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪmi/
Forms: form: flamier
form: flamiest
form: flamey
Etymology: From Middle English flawmy; equivalent to flame + -y.
Senses: glosses: Flaming, blazing.
glosses: Flamelike, flame-colored.
glosses: Composed of flame.
flamier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of flamy: more flamy
flamiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of flamy: most flamy
levain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levains
Etymology: Borrowed from French levain.
Senses: topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A starter dough for sourdough bread.
Synonyms: mother dough
mother sponge
starter dough
CMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CMAs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Census Metropolitan Area.
glosses: Initialism of certified management accountant.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of China Meteorological Administration.
glosses: Initialism of computer-marked assignment (that uses scan sheets).
glosses: Abbreviation of calcium magnesium acetate.
examples: text: ... WILFORD J. WILLY CMA SR GRADE LIEUTENANT AND JOSEPH P. KENNEDY SR GRADE LIEUTENANT CMA BOTH USNR CMA WERE KILLED PD COMMANDER SMITH ...
ref: 1944, telegram to Gen. Carl Andrew Spaatz from Gen. Jimmy Doolittle; Edward Renehan, The Kennedys at War, 1937-1945 (2002), Doubleday, page 304
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of comma, used in communication systems without punctuation marks (e.g., telegrams).
topics: government
glosses: Initialism of congestion management agency.
Related terms: sense: accountant
word: CA
sense: accountant
word: CGA
sense: accountant
word: CPA
CMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Consumer and Markets Authority.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of Country Music Association Awards.
examples: text: Indeed, the more common complaint is that the regulator is too willing to accept an acquirer’s proposed remedies to competition concerns. Microsoft tried the remedy route with Activision but the CMA, unusually, wasn’t convinced. Tough.
ref: 2023 April 27, Nils Pratley, “Ignore Microsoft’s whines about the Activision takeover. The CMA did its job”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Competition and Markets Authority.
shiftwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shift work
Etymology: From shift + work.
Senses: glosses: Scheduled work outside of customary daylight working hours.
glosses: A mode of employment in which sets of workers are rotated to maintain a continuous 24/7 operation; usually, with a system of three 8-hour shifts (24 ÷ 3 = 8): first shift, second shift, and third shift.
Related terms: day shift
graveyard shift
night shift
swing shift
scootering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She now counts many of those people among her friends and considers herself a scooter girl--someone for whom scootering is the primary interest, as opposed to a mod or a skinhead, for whom the scooter is just one component of a complex subculture. "
ref: 1998 July 24, Cara Jepsen, “Active Cultures: Scottzilla revs it up”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Bicycling, skateboarding and scootering can provide health benefits in numerous ways.
ref: 2007 May 29, “Can We Afford Our Oil Gluttony? (6 Letters)”, in New York Times:
text: 2018 Peter Pinkerton "No Honking", Pinkalicious and Peterrific
Excuse me, scooter scootering.
glosses: The activity of riding a scooter, often specifically a kick scooter.
scootering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scooter
scootered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scooter
ilka
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ilk + a.
Senses: examples: text: But the bobby kens me fine--I've bailed John oot twice, for a guinea ilka time, and they recognize steady customers there like anywheres else! "
ref: 1919, Sir Harry Lauder, Between You and Me:
glosses: Each or every
indigo buntings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigo bunting
non-strict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonstrict
Etymology: From non- + strict.
Senses: glosses: Not strict.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of an inequality, such that it includes the possibility of equality.
nonstrict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-strict.
Derived terms: nonstrictly
nonstrictness
pontage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pontages
Etymology: From Latin pons, pontis (“a bridge”): compare French pontage.
Senses: examples: text: They pay no Toll for Goods which they have in Right of the Church , and were formerly by the common Law discharg'd from Pontage and Murage
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.
cicatrises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cicatrise
nonstretchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-stretchable
Etymology: From non- + stretchable.
Senses: glosses: Not stretchable.
tunnelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tunnelly
form: most tunnelly
Etymology: From tunnel + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This will be written under difficulties which you know — shaky trains, tunnelly ways, crowded carriages...
ref: 1922, Maud Monahan, Life and letters of Janet Erskine Stuart:
text: The snores of Mr. Malloy's tenants in the pipes have a deep tunnelly quality.
ref: 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:
text: It was dead, and not that tunnelly deadness of an open line — that would've been the sound of angels singing in heaven compared to this...
ref: 2007, Jennifer Egan, The Keep:
glosses: Resembling or characterized by tunnels.
Synonyms: tunnellike
cyberjunkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberjunkies
Etymology: From cyber- + junkie.
Senses: glosses: A person who is addicted to computers or the Internet.
cyberjunkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberjunkie
mutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
homophone: much
Forms: form: mutches
Etymology: From Middle Dutch mutse, from amutse, from Late Latin almucia (“almuce”). Doublet of almuce.
Senses: glosses: A nightcap (hat worn to bed).
examples: text: But of all the congregation, none enjoyed the singing more than the dear old women who sat in the front seats near the pulpit, their quiet old faces looking so sweet and pure under their snow-white “mutches.”
ref: 1901, Ralph Connor, The Man From Glengarry, Echo Library, published 2007, page 66:
text: And […] off to the asylum they hurled the daftie, he went with a nurse's mutch on his head and he put his head out of the back of the waggon and said Cockadoodledoo! to some school bairns […]
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 15:
text: 1986, Sheila MacGregor, The folktales: 5: Silver and Gold, Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Till Doomsday in the Afternoon: The Folklore of a Family of Scots Travelers, the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, page 74,
So Silver and Gold gets all prepared and ready, and he says, “Och, that′s awfae-lookin′ things on your heids”, he says. “Tak′ they mutches aff. You′ll no′ need them now because your faither′ll no′ see you.” So they tak′ the mutches aff their heid and they throw them awa′.
glosses: A linen or muslin hat, especially one of a type once commonly worn by elderly women and young children.
Derived terms: bonet mutch
double mutch
hair-mutch
kell mutch
laced mutch
mutchless
night mutch
toy mutch
under-mutch
Mutti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Muttis
Etymology: (surname): Of several origins:
* Borrowed from Italian Mutti, perhaps a variant of the surname Muti.
* Borrowed from Punjabi ਮੁੱਤੀ (muttī), a typical surname of the Kamboh community.
* Borrowed from Bemba Mutti, Muti, from given names, from the Bemba people
Senses: glosses: A surname.
A European surname from Italian.
glosses: A surname.
A South Asian surname from Punjabi.
glosses: A surname.
A Southern African surname from Bemba.
Related terms: Muti
dulcor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Take Sugrede Coriandre ſeedes 3 qv. of an ovvnce, deſcidede liqveriſh ℥ [?]. Calmus, redd Roſes, ana a q. of an ounce, Cĩnamone 3 qv. of an ounce, Ginger, cloves, Mace, Nuttmegges, ana a q. of an oũce, all vvhich being contunded together, & as much Suger mixede thervvith, as ther is of the other poulder, or accordinge as vve deſire the dulcor therof, vve muſt in the morning faſting, or one hovver before ſuppervſe heerof.
ref: 1599, Oswaldus Gabelhouer, translated by Charles Battus and A. M., The Boock of Physicke: […], Dort: […] Isaack Caen, page 116, column 2:
text: Honie in thankſgiuing, ſweetning the minde with the dulcor of diuine benefites:[…]
ref: 1607, I[ohn] C[arpenter], The Plaine Mans Spirituall Plough. Containing the Godly and Spirituall Husbandrie. Wherein Euery Christian Ought to be Exercised, for the Happie Encrease of Fruite, to Eternall Life., London: […] Thomas Creede, page 164:
text: By the way, you muſt not apprehend the Blood to decline to the ſame Degree of Acidity Vinegar is of; for that muſt neceſſarily Infer a Total extinction of the Dogmatick Innate and Influent heat; but that it only recedes from its Dulcor and Sweetneſs, to a Crude Auſterity and ſome ſmall Acidity.
ref: 1675, Gideon Harvey, The Disease of London: or A New Discovery of the Scorvey. […], London: […] T. James, for W. Thackery, page 90:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dulcour.
intrinsicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intrinsic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being intrinsic.
Synonyms: intrinsicality
intrinsicity
extrinsicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extrinsic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being extrinsic.
Synonyms: extrinsicality
extrinsicity
chaingun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chainguns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chain gun.
chainguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaingun
grillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grillion
picote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picotes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of picot.
picotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picote
picotas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picota
picota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picotas
form: piccotah
form: picotta
form: picottah
Etymology: From Portuguese picota.
Senses: synonyms: shadoof
glosses: A machine for raising water consisting of a long lever or yard, pivotted on an upright post, weighted on the short arm and bearing a line and bucket on the long arm.
cryptonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptonyms
Etymology: From crypto- (“hidden, secret”) + -onym (“name”).
Senses: examples: text: The spy was known only by his cryptonym, 'Shadow'.
glosses: A secret name, a code name.
Derived terms: cryptonymic
cryptonymous
cryptonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptonym
fulminators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fulminator
code names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of code name
sautillé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sautillés
Etymology: French sautillé
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A bow stroke played rapidly in the middle of the bow, one stroke per note, so that the bow bounces very slightly off the string.
fulminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulminators
Etymology: From fulminate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Most fulminators dial once.
ref: 1991 June 28, Michael Miner, “Tribune Staff Rider/New Comiskey: Photo Friendly?”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Instead of helping to educate his constituents or move the debate ahead, he provided more red meat for fulminators, erroneously insisting that the rival House health care bill features “a government program that determines if you’re going to pull the plug on grandma.”
ref: 2009 August 24, “Who Wants to Yell Next?”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who fulminates, or criticizes intensely.
Related terms: fulmination
batteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batteaux
Senses: examples: text: The remainder of the men were employed in unbarreling our Pork and stringing it on poles for convenience of carriage, and carrying our Batteaux from the river to the pond.
ref: 1867, Simeon Thayer, Edwin Martin Stone, The Invasion of Canada in 1775, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of bateau.
parametricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From parametric + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: parametricality
glosses: The quality or state of being parametric: parametric nature (of a design or concept), whether through parameterization applied retroactively or as an inherently native property.
Related terms: parametricism
parametrise
parametrize
parametrized
parametrisation
parametrization
parameterise
parameterize
parameterized
parameterisation
parameterization
Augæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Augæan
form: most Augæan
Etymology: Comparable to Europæan and Herculæan.
Senses: examples: text: Obedient to your well urged petition, I have gone into the Herculæan task of clearing — not the Augæan stables, but what is worse, — my baskets of papers.
ref: 1879, Susan Warner, My Desire, page 429 (R. Carter and Brothers)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Augean.
idiopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiopathy
prosterna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosternum
mouches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mouch