cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Piagetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Piagetian
form: most Piagetian
Etymology: From Piaget + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Kohlbergian emergence of increasingly complex stages of moral development is built on the Piagetian emergence of increasingly complex logical operations.
ref: 2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 13, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or relating to Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his cognitive studies with children.
Derived terms: neo-Piagetian
Piagetian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Piagetians
Etymology: From Piaget + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Piaget's theories, esp. on children's cognitive development.
solar apexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solar apex
solar apices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solar apex
tennis rackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tennis racket
venipunctures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venipuncture
venipunctures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of venipuncture
judgementalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of judgmentalism.
judgmentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judgementalism
Etymology: From judgmental + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: He portrays the duality of a land of crisp green lawns where homicide is acceptable but homosexuality repulsive. Indisputably, Wojnarowicz is a writer and artist who articulates the vision of a future where judgementalism is the cannibal of the past.
ref: 1991 May 4, Mary Dowd, “Risky Business”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
glosses: judgmental behaviour or attitude
Derived terms: nonjudgmentalism
Rousseauan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rousseauan
form: most Rousseauan
Etymology: From Rousseau + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rousseauian.
Rousseauan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rousseauans
Etymology: From Rousseau + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rousseauian.
hemoglobinometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemoglobinometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haemoglobinometer.
hemoglobinometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemoglobinometer
anacrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: anacrotic notch
text: anacrotic pulse
text: anacrotic wave
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to anacrotism.
lazy daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lazy daisies
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A kind of chain stitch that can be used to form flower designs.
feceates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of feceate
feceating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feceate
feceated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feceate
elamping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From e- + lamp + -ing?
Senses: examples: text: the cheerfull Sunne, elamping wide, is described
Glads all the world with his uprising raye
ref: 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death:
glosses: shining
drupelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drupelike
form: most drupelike
Etymology: From drupe + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a drupe.
submonition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submonitions
Etymology: Latin submonitio.
Senses: examples: text: contrary to the submonition of their consciences
ref: 1621, Thomas Granger, A Familiar Exposition or Commentarie on Ecclesiastes:
glosses: suggestion; prompting
submonitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submonition
deforcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deforcers
Etymology: From deforce + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Sometime a writ of Right patent: as when it issueth out of any Lords court, for any of his tenents deforced, against the deforcer, and must be determined there
ref: 1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter:
glosses: A deforciant.
deforcers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deforcer
pseudonavicella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudonavicellae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudonavicula.
pseudonavicellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudonavicella
pseudonaviculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudonavicula
soricine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soricine
form: most soricine
Etymology: From Latin soricinus, from sorex (“a shrew”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the shrew family (Soricidae); resembling a shrew in form or habits.
Derived terms: soricine bat
soricine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soricines
Etymology: From Latin soricinus, from sorex (“a shrew”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the shrew family (Soricidae).
potgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potguns
Etymology: From pot + gun.
Senses: examples: text: twelve pot-guns of brass
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.
examples: text: When first in Print, you see him dread
Each Pot-gun level'd at his Head
ref: c. 1730, Jonathan Swift, To Doctor D-l-y on the Libels writ against him:
glosses: A pop gun.
potguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potgun
codeveloper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codevelopers
form: co-developer
Etymology: From co- + developer.
Senses: glosses: A joint developer; one of several developers (of a product, land, etc.).
codevelopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codeveloper
chinoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinolines
Senses: glosses: Dated form of quinoline.
chinolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinoline
thitsee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theesee
form: thietsie
Senses: glosses: A black varnish obtained from the tree Melanorrhoea usitatissima.
rice shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice shells
Senses: glosses: Any of numerous species of sea snails of the genus Olivella of dwarf olives.
rice shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice shell
skirt around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skirts around
form: skirting around
form: skirted around
form: skirted around
Senses: examples: text: Yet the reality in Japan was far more gruesome than the artful depiction in the film, which skirts around the human suffering caused by the bomb.
ref: 2023 July 21, Rachel Hall, “Anti-nuclear groups welcome Oppenheimer film but say it fails to depict true horror”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To circumvent, to bypass, to go around in order to avoid.
Related terms: dance around
talk around
tap dance around
deconfigure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deconfigures
form: deconfiguring
form: deconfigured
form: deconfigured
Etymology: From de- + configure.
Senses: glosses: To remove from a configuration or arrangement.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove or cancel the configuration of; to reset.
Related terms: deconfiguration
deconfiguring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deconfigure
deconfigures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deconfigure
deconfigured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deconfigure
telecommand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telecommands
Etymology: From tele- + command.
Senses: glosses: A command transmitted to a device.
Related terms: telemetry
telecommands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telecommand
dissunder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dissunders
form: dissundering
form: dissundered
form: dissundered
Etymology: From dis- + sunder.
Senses: examples: text: But he himself solemniz'd a retreat
To th' Æthiops, far dissunder'd in their seat
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The First Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: To separate; to sunder; to destroy.
dissundered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dissunder
dissundering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dissunder
dissunders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dissunder
praefloration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prefloration.
overlocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overlockers
Etymology: From overlock + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device for overlock stitching.
overlockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overlocker
pectinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pectinal
form: most pectinal
Etymology: Latin pecten (“comb”). See pectinate.
Senses: examples: text: pectinal teeth
glosses: Of or relating to a comb; resembling a comb.
pectinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pectinals
Etymology: Latin pecten (“comb”). See pectinate.
Senses: examples: text: Now although Galen in this place makes instance but in one, yet there are other fishes, whose eies regard the heavens, as Plane, and cartilagineous fishes, as pectinals, or such as have their bones made laterally like a comb; for when they apply themselves to sleep or rest upon the white side, their eies on the other side look upward toward heaven.
ref: 1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: A fish whose bones resemble the teeth of a comb.
pectinals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pectinal
preflorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefloration
gelder rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gelder roses
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of guelder rose.
softas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softa
sophta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sophtas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of softa.
sophtas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sophta
post note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post notes
Senses: examples: text: […]sign any note, bill, Signing notes bond, draft, check, post note
ref: 1841, Alabama Laws and Joint Resolutions of the Legislature of Alabama:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand.
Related terms: post-it note
post notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post note
advice animal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advice animals
form: Advice Animal
Senses: examples: text: Advice Animals are the greatest epic fad of all time [pics]
ref: 2009 March 28, Author, Advice Animals are the greatest epic fad of all time, MTG Salvation Forum
text: — Mixing advice animals i.e. half a courage wolf quote with half an emo dog one. theres a ton of these.
ref: 2009 July 17, Richie McNuggets, A list of Memes yet to be submitted., Know Your Meme
text: Among the Advice Animal memes popularized by 4chan and Meme Generator, Bachelor Frog (aka Foul Bachelor Frog) occupies a unique "it's funny because it's true" space.
Whereas other advice animals (animal heads that give two-line directives), such as Advice Dog and Courage Wolf, emphasize over-the-top humor, Bachelor Frog relies on nuance familiar to anyone (especially dudes) who's ever lived alone. That naturally makes him the perfect internet mascot.
ref: 2010, March 25, Cole Stryker, A Guide to Foul Bachelor Frog, 4chan's Funniest Advice Dog Spinoff, urlesque
glosses: A photograph of an animal or human captioned with quotations typical of a stereotype or stock character, and where the background of the original image is often replaced with a color wheel.
supersingular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + singular.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a certain class of elliptic curves
Derived terms: supersingular prime
Siegel zero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Siegel zeros
Etymology: Named after Carl Ludwig Siegel.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: exceptional zero
Landau-Siegel zero
glosses: A type of potential counterexample to the generalized Riemann hypothesis, on the zeros of Dirichlet L-function.
Dirichletian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dirichletian
form: most Dirichletian
Etymology: From Dirichlet + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859), German mathematician who made deep contributions to number theory.
Related terms: Dirichlet eta function
Dedekindian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dedekindian
form: most Dedekindian
Etymology: From Dedekind + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Richard Dedekind (1831–1916), German mathematician.
diribonucleotides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diribonucleotide
derth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And shee coy lookes: so dainty, they say, maketh derth
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dearth.
shampoo ginger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shampoo gingers
Senses: synonyms: pinecone ginger
bitter ginger
zerumbet
glosses: An Asian and Polynesian plant related to ginger, Zingiber zerumbet, whose inflorescence contains a substance used as a shampoo.
fricot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fricots
Etymology: Borrowed from French fricot.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Acadian stew made with potatoes, onions, and meat with dumplings.
cosine rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: law of cosines
cosine formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: law of cosines
law of sines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: A statement that relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the sines of its angles.
Synonyms: sine formula
sine law
sine rule
Related terms: law of cosines
cosine law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: law of cosines
sine formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: law of sines
sine law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: law of sines
sine rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: law of sines
coup de force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coups de force
Etymology: Borrowed from French coup de force.
Senses: examples: text: On 26 August 1718, in a remarkable coup de force, Orléans crushed the political audacity and embryonic constitutional pretensions of the Parlement.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 46:
text: The undecidable issue between these different institutions and procedures had in the end to be determined at the boundary of all of them, through coups de force.
ref: 2004, Charles Taylor, “The Sovereign People”, in Modern Social Imaginaries (Public Planet Books), Durham, NC: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 139:
text: It can, of course, always be argued that the acceptance of democracy by the Communists and by the Catholic Church was a matter of power relations: the church had everything to lose from a struggle for power, and the strategic balance between the Soviet Union and NATO barred the French and Italian Communist Parties from any possibility of a coup de force.
ref: 2007, Olivier Roy, “De Facto Secularization”, in George Holoch, transl., Secularism Confronts Islam, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Then, in a remarkable coup de force, he convinced Lilienthal to set up a naval reactors branch at the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)—and had himself appointed its head.
ref: 2012, Richard Martin, “The Birth of Nuclear Power”, in SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future, New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: On 9 March 1945, […] the Japanese launched a coup de force, overthrowing eighty years of French rule in a matter of days.
ref: 2016, Christopher Goscha, The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam, Penguin, published 2017, page 203:
coordinate_terms: coup de main
glosses: A sudden, violent act.
Related terms: tour de force
coups de force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coup de force
successoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From successor + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In July 1717, a commission established by Orléans to adjudicate the issue had emphatically denied the successoral claims of the two brothers, and the Regent declared himself in a state of ‘happy powerlessness to alienate the crown's domain’.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 47:
topics: law
glosses: Pertaining to a successor or succession.
greter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 1595: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley -Draft scheme for Lord Burghley's Hospital, Stamford
The next iiij shall be named by the vicar of St Martyns the eldest churchwarden & the constable of the sayd parish the ballyve of the mannor of Stanford Baron and the keper of the Inn called the Georg in Stanford Baron or by the gretar part therof.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of greater.
buprestidan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buprestidans
Etymology: Latin buprestis, Ancient Greek a poisonous beetle, which, being eaten by cattle in the grass, caused them to swell up and die; ox, cow + to blow up, swell out.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a number of jewel beetles of the family Buprestidae, usually with shiny metallic colours.
buprestidans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buprestidan
circar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sarkar.
circars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circar
chalaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalazes
Senses: glosses: Rare form of chalaza.
chalazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalaze
amphigene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphigenes
Etymology: From amphi- + -gene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Leucite.
Related terms: amphigenesis
amphigenous
slatter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slatters
form: slattering
form: slattered
form: slattered
Etymology: From English dialectal slat (“to throw or dash about”), from Middle English sclatten, skleatten (“to flap”), from Old English slǣtan (“to sic”) and/or Old Norse sletta (“to slap, dash”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: To be awkward, careless, or negligent, especially with regard to dress and neatness.
examples: text: A ſoſſe-bangle; a ſluttiſh, ſlattering, lazy VVench, a ruſtic VVord, only uſed by the Vulgar.
ref: 1768, J[ohn] Ray, “[A Collection of English Words Not Generally Used.] South and East Country Words.”, in A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs: […], 4th edition, London: […] W. Otridge, […], →OCLC, page 87:
glosses: To be wasteful.
Derived terms: slattery
slattern
slattered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slatter
slattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slatter
slatters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slatter
soubahdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soubahdars
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of subadar.
soubahdars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soubahdar
by-respect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-respects
Senses: examples: text: From hence I may reasonably conclude, that Augustus, who was not altogether to good as he was wife, had some by-respect in the enacting of this law
ref: c. 1692, John Dryden, Discourse on Satire:
glosses: self-interest
by-respects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of by-respect
gaff-topsail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaff-topsails
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.
gaff-topsails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaff-topsail
suraddition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suradditions
Etymology: From French suraddition.
Senses: examples: text: [He]had his titles by Tenantius, whom
He serv'd with glory and admir'd success,
So gain'd the suraddition Leonatus
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
synonyms: superaddition
glosses: Something added or appended, as to a name.
suradditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suraddition
prevene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prevenes
form: prevening
form: prevened
form: prevened
Etymology: From French prévenir, Latin praevenire. See prevent.
Senses: examples: text: If Thy indulgent Care / Had not preven'd, among unbody'd Shades / I now had wander'd
ref: 1708, [John Philips], “Book I”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 43:
glosses: To come before; to anticipate.
glosses: To hinder or prevent.
prevened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prevene
prevenes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prevene
prevening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prevene
stylohyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstaɪ.loʊˈhaɪˌɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɔɪd
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin stylohȳoīdēs, from stylus (“a stake or pale”) + -o- + hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”); equivalent to stylo- + hyoid. Doublet of stylohyoideus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the styloid process of the temporal bone and to the hyoid bone.
Derived terms: stylohyoid ligament
stylohyoid muscle
stylohyoid syndrome
stylohyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstaɪ.loʊˈhaɪˌɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɔɪd
Forms: form: stylohyoids
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin stylohȳoīdēs, from stylus (“a stake or pale”) + -o- + hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”); equivalent to stylo- + hyoid. Doublet of stylohyoideus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of stylohyoid muscle.
pike-devant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickedevant
Etymology: From pike (“point”) (from French pique) + French devant (“before”).
Senses: glosses: A pointy beard.
rattleweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattleweeds
Etymology: From rattle + weed.
Senses: synonyms: milkvetch
locoweed
glosses: Any plant of the genus Astragalus. of milkvetches.
glosses: Certain other plants:
Cobwebby wild indigo (Baptisia arachnifera), an endangered legume native to the United States.
glosses: Certain other plants:
Fremont’s leather flower (Clematis fremontii), a flowering plant in the buttercup family found in the United States.
glosses: Certain other plants:
Rattlepod (Crotalaria retusa), a flowering legume native to tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia.
glosses: Certain other plants:
Desert senna (Senna covesii), a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico.
glosses: Certain other plants:
Black cohosh (Actaea racemosa)
synonyms: rattleroot
rattleweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rattleweed
corallian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corallians
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite.
Synonyms: coral rag
corallians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corallian
sporozoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporozoids
Etymology: From sporo- + Ancient Greek ζῴδιον (zōídion, “animal”).
Senses: glosses: A zoospore.
glosses: A sporozoan.
sporozoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporozoid
plank-sheer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plank-sheers
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.
plank-sheers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plank-sheer
Septemberer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Septemberers
Etymology: From September + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Little will it avail whether our Septemberers be punished or go unpunished[.]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book III (The Girondins), page 186:
glosses: A Septembrist.
Septemberers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Septemberer
weakfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weakfish
squeteague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /skwiːˈtiːɡ/
Forms: form: squeteagues
Etymology: From the North American name
Senses: examples: text: Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: The Injuns get to Naturmitgefuhl by the metaphor of a family: if you don't throw the roe-plump squeteague back, that is a sort of nepoticide.
ref: 2001, Adrian Trehorse, The Last Angry White Man, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: A weakfish, a silvery edible American sciaenoid fish of species Cynoscion regalis.
Synonyms: weakfish
chickwit
sea trout
squitee
squeteagues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squeteague
morriced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of morrice
catelectrotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catelectrotonic
form: most catelectrotonic
Etymology: From catelectrotonus + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: catelectrotonic change
glosses: Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.
bow pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow pencils
Senses: glosses: bow compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil
bow pencils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow pencil
illapse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlæps/
rhymes: -æps
Forms: form: illapses
form: illapsing
form: illapsed
form: illapsed
Etymology: From Latin illapsus (“a falling, gliding, or flowing in; an irruption”); from illābor (“to fall, to slide”) + -tus (“suffix forming action nouns from verbs”).
Senses: examples: text: The illapſe of some pre-existent or animating formative Principle, which we may well call the Soul or Anima, that as in the Generation of Mankind by ordinary procreation we ſee the formative power is ſome refined active Spirit or Soul in ſemine deliteſcens, that faſhions the Matter, and actuates it with vital ſenſible Faculties and Operations; ſo the illapſe of ſome ſuch active ſubſtance or powerful Being, illapſing into Matter and uniting with it, might form it into that conſtitution which it enjoyed.
ref: 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind: Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: Printed by William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery […] , →OCLC, page 320:
text: The ſcenes of the Iliad illapſed in glowing colours to her fancy – ſcenes, once the haunt of heroes – now lonely, and in ruins; but which ſtill ſhone, in the poet's ſtrain, in all their youthful ſplendour.
ref: 1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance; Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry. […] In Four Volumes, 2nd edition, volume II, London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, page 117:
text: Peace having been concluded, he returned to the arms of his mother. His life illapsed in a calm and uniform tenour, devoid of strong passion or perturbation of any kind.
ref: 1836 June 11, “The Capuchin. Written by the Comte Peyronnet during his Imprisonment at Ham. Translated from the French.”, in The Parterre of Poetry and Historical Romance; with Essays, Sketches, and Anecdotes, volume IV, number 102, London: Published by Effingham Wilson, Junior [son of Effingham Wilson], 16, King William Street, London Bridge, →OCLC, page 371:
text: That in the highest degree of expansion the elementary particles may become disrupted, and cease to be elementary; but nevertheless the finites, inhering in their surface, and which are now escaping by reason of the disruption, cannot actuate themselves, but must illapse into some of the surfaces of the neighbouring particles; and there like finites continue their motion as before in some other surface; […]
ref: 1846, Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by Augustus Clissold, The Principia; or, The First Principles of Natural Things, being New Attempts toward a Philosophical Explanation of the Elementary World, volume II, London; Boston, Mass.: W. Newbery, 6, King Street, Holborn; H. Baillière, 219, Regent Street; Otis Clapp, School Street, Boston, United States, →OCLC, page 285:
glosses: Usually followed by into: to fall or glide; to pass.
illapses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illapse
playte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playtes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pleyt (“riverboat”).
playtes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playte
presensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presensations
Etymology: From pre- + sensation.
Senses: examples: text: plenitude of happiness that has been reserved for future times, the presage and presensation of it
ref: 1662, Henry More, The Defence of the Moral Cabbala:
glosses: previous sensation, notion, or idea
presensations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presensation
proteaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proteaceous
form: most proteaceous
Etymology: From translingual Proteaceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the large and varied family Proteaceae of plants, mostly found in South Africa or Australia.
shurely shome mishtake
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: shome mishtake shurely
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of surely some mistake; originally coined by Private Eye in imitation of the slurred speech of a drunken editor, or of the lisping Daily Telegraph editor Bill Deedes.
Senses: examples: text: [They] were overwhelmed by the buffet, consisting of a "huge bowel [shurely shome mishtake?] of great pink shrimps balanced on their heads, guarded by a three foot ice swan"
ref: 1990, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Encounter, volume 74, page 40:
text: The letter in AI 2.10.97 re the Philips Pavilion makes me wonder again why that 'experience' (copyright PM Millennium Inc) was so easily hated - and panned again by your reviewer. Why, only a few weeks ago your 'Mayo' called it 'Corbusier's Swiss Pavilion'. Shurely shome mishtake?
ref: 1997, John McKean, “Hard to see what's in front of your eyes”, in The Architect's Journal, volume 206, page 27:
text: Surely this was worthy of comment, if not a headline: "UK drink-driving limit allows binge drinking - shurely shome mishtake?"
ref: 2004, Paul Blezard, “Binge and Drive”, in New Scientist, number 2464:
text: The Star also reports: "A public farewell is being planned next week in Brisbane's football stadium to accommodate all his millions of fans." The Wrap is not sure how big the stadium is, but thinks this might be a case of shurely shome mishtake?
ref: 2006 September 13, Mark Oliver, “The Wrap - No Love Lost”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Highlights a mistake, actual or perceived, which the writer feels is ironic or humorous.
Synonyms: sic
spiricle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiricles
Etymology: Diminutive, from Latin spira (“a coil”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds.
spiricles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiricle
shome mishtake shurely
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shurely shome mishtake.
seven-shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven-shooters
Senses: glosses: A revolver which holds seven cartridges.
Related terms: six-shooter
seven-shooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seven-shooter
proxenet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proxenets
Etymology: Latin proxeneta, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: the common Proxenet or Contractor of all natural Matches and Marriages betwixt Forms and Matter
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
text: Let therefore Love, which is the Proxenet of Nature , the great instrument of conciliating hearts , beget in thee a return and retribution of Love, and never think of those streams of blood which so copioufly flowed from the wounded body of thy dying Lord, without a passive and melting spirit;
ref: 1668, Deus Justificatus: or the Divine Goodness vindicated, page 135:
text: And having not done it, it's clear that he acted not as a proxenet, but judged himself bound for the Price.
ref: 1720, Scotland. Court of Session, Alexander Bruce, The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, page 35:
text: For centuries it has been the cherished dream of a few philosophers and many divines to be the proxenet of a marriage altogether above the earth , and to associate their names with the sure and final wedlock of science and theology.
ref: 1876 March 31, Josiah Crampton, “The Three Heavens”, in The Pall Mall Budget, volume 16, page 21:
glosses: A negotiator; a factor, especially one who negotiates marriages.
examples: text: If taken against their consent, the procuress, or the proxenet who has caused the ruin of the firl less than twenty-one, is severely punished.
ref: 1907, Augustus Ravogli, Syphilis in Its Medical, Medico-legal and Sociological Aspects, page 473:
text: An old proxenet in Paris requested the authorities to transfer the management of her brothel to her daughter, aged nineteen.
ref: 1908, Auguste Forel, The Sexual Question, page 301:
text: Pimps and proxenets took specific charge of the managerial and financial aspects of prosti- tution , and supervised financial transactions with the clients , in addition to purchasing young orphans or abandoned children whom they trained for prostitution.
ref: 1999, Leyla Rouhi, Mediation and Love, page 19:
glosses: A madam; a woman who runs a brothel.
Derived terms: proxenetism
proxenets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proxenet
caoutchoucin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caoutchin.
stigmaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪɡˈmɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /stɪɡˈmɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: stigmarias
Etymology: See stigma.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The fossilized roots of a plant of the genus Sigillaria.
Derived terms: stigmarian
stigmarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stigmaria
sebiparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin sebum (“tallow”) + parere (“to bring forth”).
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: sebaceous
mongcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mangcorn.
tympanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tympanizes
form: tympanizing
form: tympanized
form: tympanized
Etymology: From tympan + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Thou haſt plaid muſique to my dolefull ſoule; / And vvhen my heart vvas tympaniz'd vvith griefe, / Thou lauedſt out ſome into thy heart from mine, / And kept it ſo from burſting; […]
ref: c. 1613–1618 (first performance), Thomas Goffe, The Tragedy of Orestes, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Richard Meighen, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act IIII, scene ii, signature F2, verso:
text: 1807, B. Oley, "Prefatory View of Life and Virtues of the Author", in The Clergyman's Instructor by John Randolph
Tympanized, as other saints of God were.
glosses: To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum.
examples: text: prosperity does so tympanize mens souls , and intrance them from themselves ; that they forget they had a Maker.
ref: 1655, Richard Younge, A Christian Library […] :
glosses: To drum.
tympanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tympanize
lulav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lulavs
form: lulab
Etymology: From Hebrew לולב (luláv).
Senses: glosses: A festive bouquet of willow, myrtle and a closed date palm frond, used in Jewish ritual on Sukkot.
glosses: a closed date palm frond used in this bouquet
Derived terms: shake the lulav
wave the lulav
tympanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tympanize
tympanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tympanize
faucal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: faucial
Etymology: Latin fauces (“throat”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial.
faucal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faucals
form: faucial
Etymology: Latin fauces (“throat”).
Senses: examples: text: Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals.
ref: 1883, Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A sound produced in the fauces.
Related terms: faucalize
faucalized
faucalization
faucals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faucal
entermise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French entremise, from s'entremettre.
Senses: glosses: mediation
tath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taths
form: teathe
form: tathe
Etymology: From Middle English tath, from Old Norse tað (“manure”), from Proto-Germanic *tadą (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic tað (“manure, dung”), dialectal Swedish tad (“manure, dung”).
Senses: examples: text: after the sheep have trod out a great quantity of stones, in feeding off turnips, to have them raked up clean, which I have known some farmers do, nor can the rake be used without taking some of the tathe, or dung, with them .
ref: 1804, Arthur Young, The Farmer's Calendar:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.
tath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: taths
form: tathing
form: tathed
form: tathed
form: teathe
form: tathe
Etymology: From Middle English tathen, from Old Norse teðja (“to manure”), from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic teðja (“to dung, manure”), Norwegian tedja (“to dung”), German zetten (“to let fall in small pieces, let crumble”).
Senses: examples: text: I would have no more ploughed than has been tathed the preceding year
ref: 1808, Agricultural Surveys: Inverness:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.
tathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tath
tathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tath
taths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tath
proventricle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proventricles
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: proventriculus
proventricles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proventricle
posthetomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthetomies
form: posthiotomy
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πόσθη (pósthē, “prepuce”) + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Excision of the foreskin; posthectomy; circumcision.
Derived terms: posthetomist
posthetomize
Paracelsist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paracelsists
Etymology: From Paracelsus + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A Paracelsian.
Paracelsists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paracelsist
centonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin centō (stem centōn-) + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: centoism
glosses: The composition of a cento (poem); the act or practice of composing centos.
polarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polarchy
polarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polarchies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polyarchy.
salsafies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salsafy
salsafy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salsafies
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of salsify.
subalternation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subalternations
Senses: glosses: The state of being subalternate; subordination or inferiority.
subalternations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subalternation
steeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steelers
Etymology: From steel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who points, edges, plates or covers with steel.
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: Alternative form of stealer.
glosses: A steelworker.
steelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steeler
Dorking fowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dorking fowls
Etymology: From the town of Dorking in England.
Senses: synonyms: Dorking
glosses: One of a breed of rectangular-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes.
Dorking fowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dorking fowl
conimene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: conima + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: olibene
superlucration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superlucrations
Etymology: From super- + Latin lucratio (“gain”).
Senses: examples: text: The superlucration between France and Holl.
ref: 1676, William Petty, Political Arithmetick, edition 1899, p. 254):
text: the Superlucration from the Labour of the same Number of Men, over and above their own Nourishment, could, no manner of ways have been so beneficial to the Kingdom.
ref: 1698, Charles Davenant, “On the Plantation Trade”, in Two Discourses on the Public Revenues and Trade of England:
glosses: Excessive or extraordinary gain.
superlucrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superlucration
mockbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mockbirds
Senses: glosses: A bird, the European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus).
Related terms: mockingbird
mockbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mockbird
dishable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈheɪbəl/
/dɪˈseɪbəl/
Forms: form: dishables
form: dishabling
form: dishabled
form: dishabled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of disable.
examples: text: She oft him blamed […] and him dishabled quite.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:
glosses: To disparage.
dishabled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dishable
dishables
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dishable
dishabling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dishable
fustanellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fustanella
waney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waneys
Etymology: Compare wany.
Senses: topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring.
waneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waney
presentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From present + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries.
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
glosses: Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Introducing or asserting the existence or occurrence of something in the present.
Related terms: presentively
presentiveness
presentive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presentives
Etymology: From present + -ive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical construct that introduces or asserts the existence or occurrence of something in the present.
Cimbric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cimbric
form: most Cimbric
Etymology: From Cimbri + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: Cimbrian
glosses: Relating to the Cimbri.
Cimbric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cimbri + -ic.
Senses: glosses: The language of the Cimbri.
crocose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos, “saffron”) + -ose.
Senses: qualifier: sugar
glosses: A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron.