cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bignoniaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bignoniaceous
form: most bignoniaceous
Etymology: Bignoniaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the flowering plant family Bignoniaceae.
nonhorticultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + horticultural.
Senses: glosses: Not horticultural.
GUIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GUI
finedraw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: finedraws
form: finedrawing
form: finedrew
form: finedrawn
Etymology: From fine + draw.
Senses: examples: text: and when one of larger dimensions was required, several of these were sewn finedrawn together with such care that no seams were discernible.
ref: 1842, Miss Lambert (F.), The Hand-book of Needlework, page 24
glosses: To sew up so finely that the seam is not visible; to renter.
finedrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of finedraw
finedraws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of finedraw
finedrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of finedraw
filoplume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filoplumes
form: filopluma
Etymology: From Latin filum (“a thread”) + pluma (“a soft feather”).
Senses: examples: text: filoplumes of chickens
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A hair-like feather; a feather with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
Related terms: word: pluma
word: filoplumaceous
english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: pinfeather
filoplumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filoplume
marlite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)laɪt/
Forms: form: marlites
Etymology: From marl + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Marlites […]are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.
ref: 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A wind-resistant variety of marl.
Synonyms: marlstone
Derived terms: marlitic
marlites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marlite
facelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more facelessly
form: most facelessly
Etymology: From faceless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Social networking will turn us all into facelessly meaningless numbers on a screen.
glosses: Without a face or identity.
reboation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reboations
Etymology: From Latin reboare; compare reboant.
Senses: examples: text: […]were deafened in the awe-inspiring roar of the torrent, the reboations of which we heard at some distance after we had left the spot whence they proceeded.
ref: 1874, The Yorkshire Magazine: A Monthly Literary Magazine, volumes 3-4, page 560:
text: To an untrained ear the deep-mouthed reboation of a ship's horn seems to have lost itself in the fog,[…].
ref: 1937, The Atlantic, volume 159, page 218:
text: Rustle we with rustle answer, thunder with our rolling thunder, / In a crashing reboation, threefold, tenfold multiplied.
ref: 1965, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Albert G. Latham, edited by Ernest Rhys, Faust: Parts I and II, page 249:
glosses: A loud reverberation; the echo of a bellow or roar.
Related terms: reboant
pestery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pestery
form: most pestery
Etymology: From pester + -y.
Senses: glosses: Tending to pester.
disinsure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disinsures
form: disinsuring
form: disinsured
form: disinsured
Etymology: From dis- + insure.
Senses: glosses: To render insecure; to put in danger.
glosses: to take away insurance of; to uninsure
disinsured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disinsure
disinsures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disinsure
disinsuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disinsure
despread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: despreads
form: despreading
form: despread
form: despread
Etymology: From de- + spread.
Senses: glosses: To recombine radio signals that have been spread or distributed.
despread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: despreads
form: despreading
form: despreaded
form: despreaded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dispread.
despreaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of despread
despreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of despread
despreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of despread
mesally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mesal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mesially.
Derived terms: dorsomesally
executress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: executresses
Etymology: From executor + -ess. Compare French exécutrice.
Senses: glosses: A female executor; an executrix.
executresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of executress
proruptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proruption
extravenate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + Latin vena (“vein”).
Senses: examples: text: the wound is affected in like manner as is the extravenate blood by the Sympathetick medicine
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science:
text: The profusion of blood was great; although he penetrated the pleura, nothing came forth, except that which was extravenate, although great care was used.
ref: 1953, Edgar Ashworth Underwood, Charles Joseph Singer, Science, Medicine, and History, volume 1, page 393:
text: There is no other organ of contained blood [so] filled to capacity, wherefore Aristotle, contrary to the physicians [states that] the origin of the blood is in the heart, not in the liver, because there is no extravenate blood in the liver.
ref: 1961 [1616], William Harvey, translated by C.D. O'Malley, F.N.L. Poynter, and K.F. Russell, Lectures on the Whole of Anatomy, translation of Prelectiones Anatomiae Universalis (in New Latin):
text: There is no other organ of contained blood [so] filled to capacity, wherefore Aristotle, contrary to the physicians, [states that] the origin of the blood is in the heart, not in the liver, because there is no extravenate blood in the liver.
ref: 2014 June, Dagmar Provijn, “Bloody analogical reasoning”, in Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality:
glosses: That has been let out of the veins.
extravenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extravenates
form: extravenating
form: extravenated
form: extravenated
Etymology: From extra- + Latin vena (“vein”).
Senses: examples: text: And finally, that having obtained this plenary satisfaction, of the sympathy maintained betwixt the blood extravenated, and that yet conserved in the veins ....
ref: 1650, Walter Charleton, transl., A Ternary of Paradoxes: The Magnetick Cure of Wounds, 2nd edition, translation of original by Jean Baptiste van Helmont:
text: For he holds, that there is a certain virulent anodyne Quality in extravenated Blood, or in some such Matter, which makes the Kidney forget its Office of separating the forum and so sends it back to the Belly.
ref: 1686, Johann Doläus, Systema Medicinale, a Compleat System of Physick, Theorical and Practical, page 472:
text: I vainly essayed to command the distorted muscles of my countenance, finding it so fictitiously incrassated with dubious uncertainty, and abounding with cosmetic gushes of extravenated humour.
ref: 1811, “The Philadelphia Repertory”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volumes 1-2:
glosses: Synonym of extravasate.
synonyms: word: extravasate
Related terms: extravenation
metempirics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From met- + empirics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet related to, the knowledge gained by experience.
Puseyite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Puseyites
Etymology: From Pusey + -ite, after Edward Bouverie Pusey.
Senses: synonyms: Tractarian
Tractator
Tractite
glosses: One who holds the principles of Puseyism; a member of the Oxford movement.
wikipedia: Edward Bouverie Pusey
Related terms: Newmanite
Puseyites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Puseyite
diswarn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diswarns
form: diswarning
form: diswarned
form: diswarned
Etymology: From dis- + warn (with intensive dis-).
Senses: glosses: To dissuade or warn against.
diswarned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diswarn
diswarning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diswarn
diswarns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diswarn
latitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin latitatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of concealment or hiding.
singulatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From singulative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a singulative manner or context.
seitanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪˈtænɪk/
homophone: Satanic
homophone: satanic
Etymology: From seitan + -ic, punning on satanic.
Senses: examples: text: Perfectly sinful for hardcore meat-eaters and vegans alike, seitanic jambalaya is a favorite at parties, potlucks, […]
ref: 2007, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero, Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook, page 170:
glosses: Made with, or relating to, seitan (wheat gluten).
lytico-bodig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Chamorro
Senses: glosses: A particular neurological disorder, whose symptoms include both paralysis and dementia.
MI9
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation of Military Intelligence, Section 9.
Senses: glosses: A section of British military intelligence in World War II; they were charged with aiding resistance fighters in enemy territory and recovering Allied troops from behind enemy lines.
Related terms: MI5
MI6
swyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swype
bunnyhopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bunny + hopping.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: The act of jumping repeatedly to avoid enemy fire, especially in first-person shooters. In some games, the jumping animation or air speed is faster than the walking animation or speed, making hopping a more efficient mode of movement.
exsert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: exserts
form: exserting
form: exserted
form: exserted
Etymology: From Latin exsertus, past participle of exserō (“to stretch out or forth”). See exert.
Senses: examples: text: Some worms are said to exsert the proboscis.
glosses: To thrust out; to cause to protrude.
Derived terms: exsertile
Related terms: exserted
exsert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: more exsert
form: most exsert
Etymology: From Latin exsertus, past participle of exserō (“to stretch out or forth”). See exert.
Senses: examples: exsert stamens
glosses: Standing out; projecting beyond some other part.
Related terms: insert
exserted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exsert
exserted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exserted
form: most exserted
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: protruding, projecting
cicatricule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cicatricules
Senses: glosses: cicatricula
cicatricula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cicatriculas
form: cicatriculae
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The point, in the yolk of an egg, from which the embryo is formed.
Related terms: cicatrix
chiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiels
Senses: examples: text: "And yet the chiel has shown us once before that he knows what he's talking about."
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of chield.
neuridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance isolated from the brain, later identified as spermine.
afflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of afflate
afflated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more afflated
form: most afflated
Senses: glosses: Inspired, especially divinely.
prease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He[…]turn'd abacke, and to retyre him hasted
Through the thick prease, there thinking him to hyde
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of press.
prease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preases
form: preasing
form: preased
form: preased
Senses: examples: text: That it the Posterne did from closing stay :
The while the Prince hard preased in betweene
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of press.
glosses: Obsolete form of praise.
afrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afrites
Senses: examples: text: As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […]
ref: 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Strictly Business:
glosses: Alternative form of ifrit.
Balearic Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Part of the Mediterranean Sea, between the Balearic Islands and Levante.
Synonyms: Iberian Sea
Iberian Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Balearic Sea
zymotechnics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zymo- + technics.
Senses: examples: Meronym: biotechnology
synonyms: zymotechnology
glosses: The applied science and technology of fermentation.
Related terms: zymosis
zymotechnic
zymotechnical
zymurgy
cnidariologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cnidariologists
Etymology: From Cnidaria + -logist.
Senses: glosses: A zoologist who studies cnidarians.
tinctumutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinctumutations
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The dynamic variation in colour of certain animals such as chameleons and cephalopods.
Related terms: mutation
tincture
Timor Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtiːmɔː(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: A sea situated between the island of Timor and Australia.
transhumant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transhumance; migratory
transhumant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transhumants
Senses: glosses: A seminomadic farmer.
spirochæte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirochætes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spirochaete.
capilotade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capilotades
Etymology: From French capilotade.
Senses: glosses: A type of stew, typically of several different meats.
shame, shame
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Reduplication of shame.
Senses: examples: text: Sir William: No, there are still many things, and I cannot emphasize this too strongly, not on top of other things. I myself, on my way here this evening, saw a thing that was not on top of another thing in any way.
Other members: Shame, shame!
ref: 1970, “The Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus:
text: You must believe it whether you will or no—for tis true, that neither the Marquis, nor any one of his family are in possession of any place under, or any pension from the State. (Great tumult, and cries of "Shame! Shame!")
ref: 1831, The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend:
glosses: I condemn the content of this speech; Expression of admonishment or disgust at the content of a speech.
Related terms: hear, hear
now, now
there, there
entrance examinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entrance examination
everyone and their mother
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: ref: 2011, “Now Everyone And Their Mother Is Shorting China, Especially These Four Stocks”, in Business Insider:
text: DS Andy Wainwright: You do know there are more guns in the country than there are in the city.
DS Andy Cartwright: Everyone and their mums is packin' round here!
ref: 2007, Hot Fuzz:
glosses: Synonym of everybody and his brother.
synonyms: word: everybody and his brother
Related terms: and his mother
calutrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calutron
glycollates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycollate
Kelvin bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kelvin bridge
empty function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function whose domain is the empty set.
Hypernyms: function
swansongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swansong
enstrophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enstrophy
caravanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caravanners
Etymology: From caravan + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who leads a caravan (trail of animals).
glosses: A person who holidays in a caravan (mobile home).
roller towels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roller towel
Yorkshire fogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yorkshire fog
cardon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardons
form: cardona
Senses: glosses: Any of several large columnar cacti mostly of the genus Cereus.
adjectivized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adjectivize
adjectivizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adjectivize
adjectivizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adjectivize
metagalaxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metagalaxy
vacuum gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuum gauge
iron bacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iron bacterium
CAMP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Central Atlantic magmatic province.
cologarithms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cologarithm
antitransforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitransform
Carolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəlaɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Caroline
Carolines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəlaɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Caroline
Carolines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəlaɪnz/
Forms: form: the Carolines
Etymology: From Spanish Carolinas, after Charles II of Spain.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Caroline Islands.
synonyms: word: Caroline Islands
decigrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decigrade
metamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metamer
lay days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lay day
straining beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straining beam
chloroborates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chloroborate
ceratosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceratosaur
air-raid wardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air-raid warden
cabans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caban
capilotades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capilotade
cardons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardon
candie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of candy (“Indian unit of mass”).
cannelés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cannelé
halpace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halpaces
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A haut-pas; a dais.
halpaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halpace
mylohyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌɪ.lə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.loʊˈhaɪˌɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɔɪd
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin mylohȳoīdēs, from Ancient Greek μῠ́λη (mŭ́lē, “a molar”) + Latin hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”); equivalent to mylo- (“molar”) + hyoid.
Senses: examples: text: the mylohyoid nerve
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or in the region of the lower jaw and the hyoid apparatus, or the mylohyoid muscle.
Derived terms: mylohyoid line
mylohyoid muscle
mylohyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌɪ.lə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.loʊˈhaɪˌɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɔɪd
Forms: form: mylohyoids
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin mylohȳoīdēs, from Ancient Greek μῠ́λη (mŭ́lē, “a molar”) + Latin hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”); equivalent to mylo- (“molar”) + hyoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of mylohyoid muscle.
lady's garters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ribbongrass, Phalaris arundinacea
squabbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squabbish
form: most squabbish
Etymology: From squab + -ish.
Senses: glosses: thickly built; fat; heavy
ale-knight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ale-knights
Senses: examples: text: Come, all you brave wights, / That are dubbed ale-knights, / Now set out yourselves in sight; / And let them that crack / In the praises of sack, / Know malt is of mickle might.
ref: a. 1654, “The Answer of Ale to the Challenge of Sack”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume 6, London: J. Johnson, et al, published 1810, page 208:
text: Payne, for a long time, lived and worked alone in his filthy den; but towards the close of his career, he took in, as a fellow-labourer, an excellent workman named Weir. This man was a regularly 'dubbed ale-knight,' loved barley-wine to the full as much as his partner, and used to sing: […]
ref: 1864, Robert Chambers, “November 20”, in Chambers Book of Days, page 597:
glosses: A drinking companion.
ale-knights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ale-knight
homacanth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line.
Related terms: acanthous
heteracanth
lecanoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Lecanora + -ic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic acid obtained from several species of lichens (Lecanora, Roccella, etc.).
Synonyms: diorsellinic acid
orsellic acid
lecanorin
Derived terms: lecanorate
bisecants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisecant
exsuction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈsʌkʃən/
Forms: form: exsuctions
Etymology: From Latin ex(s)ugō, ex(s)uctum (“to suck out”), from ex (“out”) + sugō (“to suck”). Equivalent to ex- + suction.
Senses: examples: text: VVe thought it not amiſs to try if a Pendulum vvould ſvving faſter, or continue ſvvinging longer in our Receiver, in caſe of the exſuction of the Air, then othervviſe.
ref: 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, “[Experiment 26]”, in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC, page 202:
glosses: The act of sucking out.
exsuctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exsuction
agnition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin agnitio, from agnoscere. See notion.
Senses: examples: text: [Jesus] was borne in Bethlem a City of Juda: where incontinent by the glorification of the Angels, the agnition of the Shepeherds, the veneration of the wiſe men, the prophecy of holy Simeon, and the admiration of the Doctours, he was had in honour.
ref: 1569, Richard Grafton, “The Seuenth Age, and Seuenth Part of this Chronicle”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume I, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 75:
glosses: Acknowledgement.
quadrifocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + focal.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to lenses that have four different powers per eye.
Related terms: bifocal
trifocal
quadrifocals
disbind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disbinds
form: disbinding
form: disbound
form: disbound
Etymology: From dis- + bind. Compare disband.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon
Nay how dare we disbind or loose our elves from the tie of that way of agnizing and honouring God
text: Under what circumstances is it acceptable to annotate, extra-illustrate, cut up, disbind, rebind, reprint, recycle or discard books?
ref: 2012, Leah Price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, Princeton University Press, page 6:
glosses: To unbind; to loosen.
disbinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disbind
disbinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disbind
and his mother
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: It looks like everyone and his mother has come out tonight.
text: Anyone and his mother could see through that disguise.
glosses: Serves as an intensifier for an inclusive noun or phrase such as everyone, anyone, each someone or all someones.
synodically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From synodical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: the alterations made by the commissioners were brought to the Convocation then sitting, where they were Synodically agreed upon
ref: a. 1715, Robert Nelson, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: In a synodical manner; in a synod; by the authority of a synod.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: In a synodic way
encirclet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encirclets
Etymology: From encircle + -let.
Senses: examples: text: So that therein appears some blood,
Like wine and milk that mingled stood,
In whose encirclets if ye gaze,
Your eyes may tread a lover's maze
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: A small circle; a ringlet.
encirclets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encirclet
ladified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ladify
ladifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ladify
ladify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ladifies
form: ladifying
form: ladified
form: ladified
form: ladyfy
Etymology: From lady + -fy.
Senses: glosses: To make a lady of; to make ladylike.
ladifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ladify
trutination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trutinations
Etymology: From Latin trutinari (“to weigh”), from trutina (“a balance”). See trone (“a steelyard”).
Senses: examples: text: And we conceive men may mistake, if they distinguish not the sense of levity unto themselves, and in regard of the scale, or decision of trutination
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of weighing.
trutinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trutination
spermatia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatium
spermatium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /spɜː(ɹ)ˈmeɪʃiəm/
Forms: form: spermatia
Senses: examples: text: cellular filaments bearing spermatia
ref: 1848, John Hutton Balfour, Manual of Botany:
glosses: One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.
fautress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fautresses
Etymology: From Latin fautrix: compare French fautrice.
Senses: examples: 1598-1616, George Chapman (translator), Homer's Iliad
Ever they cried to him. And this even his wise breast did move
To more desire of victory, it made him pray, and prove,
Minerva's aid, his fautress still: "O Goddess, hear," said he,
"And to my feet stoop with thy help, now happy fautress be."
glosses: A patroness.
fautresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fautress
rigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin rigatio, from rigare (“to water”).
Senses: glosses: irrigation
dispunct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpʌŋkt/
Forms: form: dispuncts
form: dispuncting
form: dispuncted
form: dispuncted
Etymology: See dispunge.
Senses: examples: text: I desire the Reder then so to take me, as though I did not deal here withal, nor speak of the matter, but utterly to haue pretermitted, and dispuncted the same.
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
text: ... all beyond Carthage, as Mauritania, & c., would wind up into a small inconsiderable tract, as being dispuncted by no great states or colonies.
ref: 1859, Thomas De Quincey, Writings, page 162:
glosses: To expunge, to erase; to mark for erasure.
cunningman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunningmen
Senses: examples: text: He that with injury is griev'd,
And goes to law to be reliev'd,
Is sillier than a sottish chouse
Who , when a thief has robb'd his house,
Applies himself to cunning men,
To help him to his goods agen
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: A fortuneteller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
cunningmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunningman
secularness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From secular + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: secularity
glosses: The quality or state of being secular.
eucrasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐκρασία (eukrasía, “well-temperedness”). By surface analysis, eu- + -crasy. Compare French eucrasie.
Senses: examples: text: a good digestion should follow; and it will be some days before the stomach recover its eucrasy again , and perform its office well
ref: 1683, Everard Maynwaringe, The Method and Means of Enjoying Health, Vigour and Long Life:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mixture of qualities that constitutes health or soundness.
leipothymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leipothymic
form: most leipothymic
Senses: glosses: Dated form of lipothymic.
eustyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eustyles
Etymology: From eu- + -style.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An intercolumniation of two-and-a-quarter column diameters.
eustyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eustyle
summarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summarists
Etymology: From summary + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who summarizes.
Related terms: summist
summarizer
summarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summarist
desinential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Medieval Latin dēsinentia + -al. Compare French désinentiel.
Senses: examples: text: desinential consonant
text: desinential letter
text: desinential morpheme
text: desinential stress
text: Furthermore, b, as a desinential element, has a dynamic function.
ref: 1877, Fitzedward Hall, On English Adjectives In-able:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: consisting of desinences or grammatical endings; terminal
Derived terms: desinential inflection
spirulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spirulate
form: most spirulate
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the colour spots, or structural parts, arranged spirally.
engoulée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of engouled.
mussite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mussites
Etymology: From Mussa + -ite, since it comes from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of pyroxene; diopside.
biliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biliments
Senses: glosses: A woman's ornament; habiliment.
biliments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biliment
liripoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liripoop
sinistrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinistrine
Etymology: Latin sinister (“left”), because it is levorotatory.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A slimy polysaccharide extracted from squill.
everyone and his mother
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Golf is supposed to be a gentleman's game, but I curse everyone and his mother out there. I have to win.
ref: 1983 January 24, “THE KILLER D”, in Miami Herald:
glosses: Synonym of everybody and his brother.
synonyms: word: everybody and his brother
imperviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imperviable
form: most imperviable
Senses: glosses: impervious
Derived terms: imperviableness
Related terms: imperviability
dahabeah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dahabeahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dahabieh.
dahabeahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dahabeah
everybody and his mother
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: On Thursday the same remark would have applied equally to Tokomairiro; everybody and his mother seemed to be paying us a visit.
ref: 1868 February 5, “Clutha Ferry Races”, in Bruce Herald, Bruce, NZ:
glosses: Synonym of everybody and his brother.
synonyms: word: everybody and his brother
sun traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun trap
green papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green paper
autotransfusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autotransfusion
dittologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dittology
audio guides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audio guide
audiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audiogram
audio frequencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audio frequency
get into the act
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets into the act
form: getting into the act
form: got into the act
form: got into the act
form: gotten into the act
Senses: examples: text: The scramble for this business is already on; everybody wants to get into the act. More than 370 American concerns have applied for franchises to give service over foreign and domestic airways.
ref: 1945, Yank: The Army Weekly:
glosses: To participate in an activity, especially a successful or attractive one.
Synonyms: get in on the act
pepsinogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepsinogen
galactogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galactogen
fish stories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish story
agglutinogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agglutinogen
get in on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets in on
form: getting in on
form: got in on
form: got in on
form: gotten in on
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Stetzle sighed. "Gee, I wish I could get in on something like that. Running a chopmill is a mighty slow way to get rich."
ref: 1912 Dec, Modern Electrics, page 911/1:
text: Of course, a lot of them say it is just their luck because they are not good enough grabbers to get in on anything like that.
ref: 1916, The dry goods reporter, volume 47, number 1, page 1:
text: If you absorbed the rise of cryptocurrencies, this all may feel a bit less foreign. Likewise if you’ve kept up with the (market) story of Tesla, whose founder, Elon Musk, who has gone to war with short sellers, got in on the GameStop action this week.
ref: 2021 January 29, John Herrman, “Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To gain participation in an activity, especially an attractive one.
Derived terms: get in on the act
cloudly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cloudlier
form: more cloudly
form: cloudliest
form: most cloudly
Etymology: From cloud + -ly. Compare cloudlike.
Senses: examples: text: Here the redoubtable Ramm contracted his brow, clasped up his mouth, till it wrinkled at each corner, and redoubled his smoking with such vehemence, that the cloudly volumes soon wreathed round his head, as the smoke envelopes the awful summit of Mount Etna.
ref: 1824, Washington Irving, Works: Tales of a traveller; the conquest of Spain:
text: In acidified acetone, the above mentioned skeletons yielded yellow or orange organic solutions which float above a colourless cloudly aqueous solution.
ref: 1986, Comparative biochemistry and physiology:
text: When the Shyr mutant was grown on this cloudly medium, there was a clear zone surrounding the colonies.
ref: 1987, American Society for Microbiology, Applied and environmental microbiology:
text: For a cloudly atmosphere (curves 2-6) with the growth of the optical thickness T of a cloudly layer the decrease of the contribution of the photons with the small lengthes^([sic]) of the run are observed in the receiving streams, […]
ref: 1994, Walter A. Flood, Walter Blaine Miller, Atmospheric propagation and remote sensing III, Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a cloud or clouds; cloudlike; cloudy; nebulous.
Synonyms: cloudish
confessional chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confessional chair
sentry-boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentry-box
cloudish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cloudish
form: most cloudish
Etymology: From cloud + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The boys move in cloudish groups, like schools of fish on the reef.
ref: 2010, Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna: A Novel:
glosses: Resembling a cloud or clouds; cloudly; cloudlike.
examples: text: I just remember being on the trail and the sun seemed to be out—sort of cloudish, maybe somewhere around three or four in the afternoon.”
ref: 2001, Ann Rule, Empty Promises:
glosses: Somewhat cloudy.
raw_tags: of weather
Related terms: hazy
nebulous
interclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interclusions
Etymology: From Latin interclusio. See interclude and interclusive.
Senses: glosses: interception; a stopping or obstruction
despend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: despends
form: despending
form: despended
form: despended
form: dispend
Senses: examples: text: Some noble men in Spain can despend 50000 l. ſome Forty, ſfome Thirty, and divers twenty thouſand Pounds per annum.
ref: 1655, James Howell, “to the Lord Viscount Colcheſter”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To spend; to squander.
despended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of despend
despending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of despend
despends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of despend
sowter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sowters
Senses: examples: text: The tailleur and the sowter
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd:
glosses: Obsolete form of souter.
sowters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sowter
psilanthropist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psilanthropists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψιλός (psilós, “bare, mere”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: the theanthropist is a Christian, the psilanthropist cannot be so ; and vice versa
ref: 1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Omniana:
glosses: One who believes that Jesus Christ was a mere man.
psilanthropists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psilanthropist
sheep-biter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep-biters
form: sheepbiter
Etymology: sheep + biter (“one who bites”). Figurative term possibly influenced by the fable "De cane oves domini sui occidente, a quo suspensus est" in Hecatomythium by Laurentius Abstemius (later included with Aesop's Fables as "A Sheep-Biter Hang'd" — see quotations).
Senses: examples: text: What curre will not bawle, & be ready to flye on a mans face, when he is set on by his master, who, if hee bee not by to encourage him, he casts his taile betwixt his legges, & steales away like a sheepe byter.
ref: 1592, Thomas Nashe, Pierce Penniless:
glosses: A sheepdog that worries (chases or attacks) sheep.
examples: text: His gait, like a sheep-biter, fleering aside
ref: 1573, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie:
text: A poor man has but one ewe, and this grandee sheep-biter leaves whole flocks of fat wethers, whom he may knock down, to deuour this.
ref: 1604, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore, act 2, scene 1:
text: Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly, / rascally sheep-biter come by some notable / shame?
ref: c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 2, scene 5:
text: There are Political Sheep-biters as well as Pastoral; Betrayers of Publick Trusts as well as of Private; And Humane Curs that are as Wolvish as the Other.
ref: 1669, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, Fable CCCXXX: A Sheep-Biter Hang'd, page 296:
glosses: A contemptible person, especially one who practices petty thefts.
Synonyms: git and Thesaurus:thief
Derived terms: sheep-biting
Related terms: bitesheep
sheepbiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheepbiter
tallophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tallophyte
inner cabinets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inner cabinet
house-searches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house-search
bath-brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bath-brush
aeroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeroscope
opposite sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opposite side
half-integers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-integer
photolytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photolyte
tiebar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiebars
form: tie bar
Etymology: From tie + bar.
Senses: examples: text: The scheme for strengthening comprised, in the first place, the provision of tiebars between all piers to reduce the spread under loading at arch springing level. These tiebars were made of old rails placed immediately below springing level, between the tops of the piers, throughout the spans, and with a positive fan fix into each abutment.
ref: 1954 January, “Strengthening of Coquet Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
glosses: A flat bar used as a tie in construction work.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of tie (“the symbol ⁀”).
synonyms: word: tie
extra: the symbol ⁀
tiebars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiebar
scrotocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrotoceles
Etymology: From scroto- + Ancient Greek κήλη (kḗlē, “hernia, tumour”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rupture or hernia in the scrotum.
scrotoceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrotocele
Restorationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Restorationers
Etymology: From Restoration + -er.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of restorationist.
Restorationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Restorationer
coleopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coleopters
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Coleoptera; a beetle.
examples: text: But the coleopter, with its tubular wing, belongs in a class by itself.
ref: 1955 May, “Why You May Fly in a Barrel”, in Popular Science, volume 166, number 5, page 100:
glosses: A type of VTOL aircraft which uses a ducted fan as the primary fuselage of the entire aircraft.
coleopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coleopter
search warrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of search warrant
overaffect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overaffects
form: overaffecting
form: overaffected
form: overaffected
Etymology: From over- + affect.
Senses: glosses: To have too great an effect on.
examples: text: if those that overaffect antiquity will follow the square thereof, their bishops must be elected by the hands of the whole church
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: To care for unduly.
overaffected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overaffect
overaffecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overaffect
overaffects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overaffect