cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
brabblement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brabblements
Etymology: From brabble + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: They provokt with wrath[…]Aaron[…]wyth foolish brablementes.
ref: 1556, Matthew Parker, The whole Psalter translated into English metre:
glosses: A brabble; a noisy contest or wrangle.
brabblements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brabblement
overmickle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + mickle.
Senses: synonyms: overmuch
glosses: overly; too much
overmickle
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From over- + mickle.
Senses: synonyms: overmuch
glosses: too much; overly
saccharilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccharillas
Senses: glosses: A kind of muslin.
saccharillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saccharilla
nainsooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nainsook
synchoresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek συγχώρησις (sunkhṓrēsis, “agreement”), from συν- (sun-, “with”) + χωρέω (khōréō, “withdraw”).
Senses: examples: text: Oft Synchoresis will a point concede,
That other points with greater weight may plead.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Synchoresis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater power.
silvanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sylvanite.
killographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more killographic
form: most killographic
Etymology: From kill + -o- + -graphic, on the pattern of pornographic. Coined by the National Institute on Media and the Family in 2003.
Senses: examples: text: There's something of the chicken-and-egg debate about killographic video games. Do they produce real-world aggression, or are the games merely mirroring actual violence in our society?
ref: 2005 December 23, Chris Noon, “Good News For Probst's EA As Judge Blocks Game Law”, in Forbes:
glosses: Featuring graphic depictions of violence, especially of an intensity or form considered excessive and socially harmful.
raw_tags: of a video game
wikipedia: National Institute on Media and the Family
diffine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diffines
form: diffining
form: diffined
form: diffined
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of define.
craspedote
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the former division Craspedota.
tucum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tecum
Etymology: From Brazilian Portuguese tucum, from Old Tupi.
Senses: glosses: A fine, strong fibre obtained from the young leaves of a Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum vulgare), used for cordage, bowstrings, etc.
glosses: The plant that yields this fibre.
Related terms: tucuma
saltigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From saltus (“a leap”) + -grade (“way of walking”) (often used especially for foot morphology).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
saltigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltigrades
Etymology: From saltus (“a leap”) + -grade (“way of walking”) (often used especially for foot morphology).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Saltigradae, a former tribe of jumping spiders (now treated as the family Salticidae).
saltigrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltigrade
laterigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlædərɪˌɡreɪd/
/ˈlætərɪˌɡreɪd/
Etymology: From Latin latus (stem later-) + -grade (“way of walking”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a mode of locomotion involving sideways movement.
raw_tags: of legs
Related terms: lateral
crabwise
appendance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appendances
Etymology: From French appendance.
Senses: glosses: An appendage, attachment
appendances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appendance
statistology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From statistics + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of statistics.
amadavat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amadavats
form: amaduvad
form: avadavat
Etymology: Variant of Ahmedabad, city in Gujarat, India, from which the bird was imported to Europe.
Senses: glosses: An estrildid finch, Amandava amandava, of India and Southeast Asia, commonly kept and bred as a cagebird.
amadavats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amadavat
amaduvad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amaduvads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of avadavat.
amaduvads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amaduvad
cigarilloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cigarillo
tubulature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubulatures
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tubulure.
tubulatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubulature
expoliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expoliations
Senses: examples: text: now thy bloudy Passion begins : a cruell expoliation begins that violence
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of exspoliation.
expoliations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expoliation
synchronical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French synchronique.
Senses: examples: text: it is very difficult to make out, how the air is conveyed into the left ventricle of the heart, especially the systole and diastole of the heart and lungs being very far from being synchronical
ref: 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, 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:
synonyms: synchronic
glosses: Happening at the same time; synchronous.
Related terms: synchronically
exfetation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛksfiːˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: exfoetation
Etymology: From ex- + fetation.
Senses: examples: text: Tubal Exfetation
IMPERFECT FETATION OCCURRING IN THE FALLOPIAN TUBE
ref: 1822, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine: In Four Volumes, Volume 4:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus
lienculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lienculus
lienculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lienculi
Etymology: Diminutive of Latin lien (“spleen”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: splenculus
glosses: an accessory spleen
dissepiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissepiment
dissentiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dissentiously
form: most dissentiously
Etymology: From dissentious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dissentious manner.
bryozoum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bryozoa
Senses: glosses: A bryozoon.
bois durci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French bois durci (“hardened wood”).
Senses: glosses: A hard, polishable composition of fine sawdust mixed with blood or egg white, formerly used for making household items. It had a somewhat metallic glean.
chiefage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevage
form: chivage
Etymology: From Old French chevage, from chief (“head”). See chief.
Senses: glosses: A tribute by the chief; a kind of poll tax.
jebel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛbəl/
Forms: form: jebels
form: djebel
Etymology: Borrowed from French djebel, from Arabic جَبَل (jabal, “mountain”).
Senses: glosses: A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa).
disoxidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disoxidates
form: disoxidating
form: disoxidated
form: disoxidated
Etymology: From dis- + oxidate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To deoxidize.
disoxidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disoxidate
disoxidates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disoxidate
disoxidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disoxidate
xenharmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by Ivor Darreg, from xen- + harmonic
Senses: examples: text: The back cover lists "Materials and Services", including Xenharmonikon (cooperation prevails in the xenharmonic world), and persons cooperating in a tape exchange--meaning that if you send a tape of your music, to someone on the list, you get back a tape of their music.
ref: 1978 September 24, Ivor Darreg, “A Xenharmonist's Message to the Computer Musicians”, in Computer Music Journal, volume 2, number 2, The MIT Press:
text: Dissonance scores can also be applied in situations where no musical score exists, and two examples are given: a xenharmonic piece by Carlos, and a Balinese gamelan performance.
ref: 2013, William A. Sethares, Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale, page 189:
text: Microtonal music is sometimes referred to as xenharmonic music, the term deriving from the Greek xenia (hospitable) and xenos (foreign or strange) (Chalmers 1974; Darreg 1977; Wilson 2014).
ref: 2015, Curtis Roads, Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic, page 219:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Not conforming to the common 12-tone equal temperament.
Synonyms: microtonal
pentahydroxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentahydroxide
patrol cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patrol car
adroop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈdɹuːp/
Etymology: From a- + droop.
Senses: examples: text: Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune’s favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “'”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 549:
text: His friend Lou looked dismal in the rain, hat brim adroop, eyebrows soggy,
ref: 1968, Robert Coover, chapter 2, in The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., New York: Random House, page 51:
text: 2005, John Banville, The Sea, Leicester: W. F. Howes, Part 2, p. 187,
For a second I had that image of myself again, hunched hugely on my chair, pink lower lip adroop and enormous hands lying helplessly before me on the table, a great ape, captive, tranquillised and bleary.
glosses: Drooping.
examples: text: fair long rows of orchard trees, adroop with rosy fruit
ref: 1891, Elizabeth Akers, “In the Fields”, in The High-Top Sweeting and Other Poems, New York: Scribner, page 57:
text: a crushed stone walk between hedges adroop with riotously colored fruits
ref: 1945, Gardner Fox, “Man Nth”, in Planet Stories:
text: a drive adroop with Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion
ref: 1994, William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own, New York: Scribner, published 1995, page 244:
glosses: Covered (with something that droops); having something drooping over it.
unstaggering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstaggering
form: most unstaggering
Etymology: From un- + staggering.
Senses: glosses: Not staggering; steadfast.
plungingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plungingly
form: most plungingly
Etymology: From plunging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The ship was sailing plungingly; astern the billows rolled in riots.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: With a motion like a plunge.
peeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more peeringly
form: most peeringly
Etymology: From peering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] most mariners cherish a very superstitious feeling about seals, arising not only from their peculiar tones when in distress, but also from the human look of their round heads and semi-intelligent faces, seen peeringly uprising from the water alongside.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: While looking with difficulty.
bridge roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridge rolls
Senses: glosses: A long bread roll.
intercedings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interceding
scornest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: scorn + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of scorn
strivest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: strive + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of strive
shudderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Such an added, gliding strangeness began to invest the thin Fedallah now; such ceaseless shudderings shook him; that the men looked dubious at him […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: plural of shuddering
tossings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tossing
unenervated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenervated
form: most unenervated
Etymology: From un- + enervated.
Senses: examples: text: Nantucket captains will send a son of such tender age away from them, for a protracted three or four years' voyage in some other ship than their own; so that their first knowledge of a whaleman's career shall be unenervated by any chance display of a father's natural but untimely partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and concern.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Not enervated; robust; vigorous.
prolongingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prolongingly
form: most prolongingly
Etymology: From prolonging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a voice that prolongingly moulded every word
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 128, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: So as to prolong or lengthen.
espacement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: espacements
Senses: examples: text: the espacement of trees on a plantation
glosses: A spacing out.
unmomentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmomentous
form: most unmomentous
Etymology: From un- + momentous.
Senses: examples: text: […] and though the Parsee's mystic watch was without intermission as his own; yet these two never seemed to speak—one man to the other—unless at long intervals some passing unmomentous matter made it necessary.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: Not momentous.
unmollifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmollifiable
form: most unmollifiable
Etymology: From un- + mollifiable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be mollified.
antislaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antislavers
Etymology: From anti- + slaver.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: One who opposes slavery.
antislavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antislaver
proslaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proslavers
Etymology: From pro- + slave + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who supports the idea of slavery.
proslavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proslaver
untrackably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untrackably
form: most untrackably
Etymology: From untrackable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: In a way that cannot be tracked.
markest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: mark + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of mark
marketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: mark + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mark
whaleship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whaleships
Etymology: From whale + ship.
Senses: examples: text: For many years past the whaleship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: A ship used for hunting whales.
whaleships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whaleship
cherrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cherry + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The gathering of cherries.
cherrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cherry + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cherry
unintegral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unintegral
form: most unintegral
Etymology: From un- + integral.
Senses: examples: text: I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: Not integral.
unparticipated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + participated.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Not participated in; done alone.
voyagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voyaging
jesty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsti
Forms: form: more jesty
form: most jesty
Etymology: From jest + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 119, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Inclined to jest; waggish; sportive.
outspreadingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more outspreadingly
form: most outspreadingly
Etymology: From outspreading + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: In a way that outspreads.
outspreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outspread
outspreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outspread
glidest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: glide + -est
Senses: examples: text: Yet calm, enticing calm, oh, whale! thou glidest on, to all who for the first time eye thee, no matter how many in that same way thou may'st have bejuggled and destroyed before.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of glide
jettest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: jet + -est
Senses: examples: text: Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!—that one strivest, this one jettest all in vain! In vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun […]
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of jet
jettest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: jet + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of jet: most jet Most jet-black in colour.
unastonished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unastonished
form: most unastonished
Etymology: From un- + astonished.
Senses: examples: text: With unastonished eyes Fedallah gazed, and crossed his arms […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Not astonished.
unrigged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rigged.
Senses: examples: text: As she drew nigh, all eyes were fixed upon her broad beams, called shears, which, in some whaling-ships, cross the quarter-deck at the height of eight or nine feet; serving to carry the spare, unrigged, or disabled boats.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Not rigged; not having the rigging up.
examples: text: The citizens are demanding an unrigged election.
glosses: Not dishonestly manipulated.
ungraduated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + graduated.
Senses: examples: text: Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Not graduated.
etherial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more etherial
form: most etherial
Etymology: From ether + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Sure he preſum'd of praiſe, vvho came to ſtock / Th' etherial paſtures vvith ſo fair a flock; / Burniſh'd, and bat'ning on their food, to ſhovv / The diligence of carefull herds belovv.
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “[The First Part]”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 22:
text: Etherial visitants of earth, / Foiled benefactors, proves your worth / But sundry texts, disowned in mart, / Light scratched, not graved on man's hard heart?
ref: 1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XVIII. The Hill-side.”, in Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], →OCLC, part IV (Bethlehem), pages 512–513:
glosses: Archaic form of ethereal.
coincidings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: plural of coinciding
unsurrendered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + surrendered.
Senses: examples: text: Oh! ye three unsurrendered spires of mine; thou uncracked keel; and only god-bullied hull; thou firm deck, and haughty helm, and Pole-pointed prow,—death-glorious ship! must ye then perish, and without me?
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Not surrendered.
untottering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tottering.
Senses: examples: text: Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the morn[…]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Not tottering; stable; steadfast.
becharming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of becharm
becharmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of becharm
becharms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of becharm
intermixingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intermixingly
form: most intermixingly
Etymology: From intermixing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: So as to intermix, or mingle together.
unbegotten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unbegot
Etymology: From un- + begotten.
Senses: examples: text: If care of our descent perplex us most, / Which must be born to certain woe, devour'd / By Death at last—and miserable it is / To be to others cause of misery, / Our own begotten, and of our loins to bring / Into this cursed world a woeful race, / That after wretched life must be at last / Food for so foul a monster—in thy power / It lies, yet ere conception, to prevent / The race unblest, to being yet unbegot.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 979–988:
text: Thou knowest not how came ye, hence callest thyself unbegotten; certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 119:
glosses: Not begotten.
unsplinterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + splinterable.
Senses: examples: unsplinterable glass
glosses: Resistant to being splintered.
nonsplinterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + splinterable.
Senses: examples: nonsplinterable glass
glosses: Resistant to being splintered.
draggingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more draggingly
form: most draggingly
Etymology: From dragging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "The harpoon," said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on one bended arm — "is it safe?"
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 133, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: In a way that drags; with a dragging motion.
examples: text: The children began to sing draggingly. Half a dozen carried the first verse through alone.
ref: 1913, Primary Education: Volume 20:
glosses: Slowly; with reluctance, or as if held back.
unverdured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unverdured
form: most unverdured
Etymology: From un- + verdured.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, thou dark Hindoo half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded thy separate thrones somewhere in the heart of these unverdured seas[.]
ref: 1993, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, page 407
glosses: Without verdure.
unverdant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unverdant
form: most unverdant
Etymology: From un- + verdant.
Senses: glosses: Without verdure; unverdured.
launchest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: launch + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of launch
unconquering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + conquering.
Senses: examples: text: Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Not conquering; failing to conquer.
breedeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: breed + -eth
Senses: examples: text: The moth breedeth upon cloth and other lanifices; especially if they be laid up dankish and wet.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of breed
belongest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: belong + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of belong
planetarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more planetarily
form: most planetarily
Etymology: From planetary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For so revolvingly appalling was the White Whale's aspect, and so planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: In a planetary manner or context; like planets.
sovereignest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] God save the mark!—
And telling me the sovereign’st thing on earth
Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: superlative form of sovereign: most sovereign
corpusant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corpusants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corposant.
corpusants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corpusant
Burtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /bɝˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Burtonian
form: most Burtonian
Etymology: From Burton + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Robert Burton (1577–1640), English scholar and writer.
examples: text: Similar statements were made in Britain, where the growing white lead industry in Newcastle-upon-Tyne caused waves of illness and even death among women workers: Dr Charles T. Thackrah had early on denounced the serious intoxications linked to the use of lead in industry and described the main symptoms allowing the disease to be diagnosed and patients to be distanced from the source of poisoning (1831), as had Henry Burton, who stated that a greyish coloration of the gums was an unmistakable symptom of lead poisoning, then known as the "Burtonian line" (1840).
ref: 2021, Judith Rainhorn, The Colour of Controversy..., pp. 8–9
glosses: Of or relating to Henry Burton (1799–1849), British physician and chemist.
glosses: Of or relating to Tim Burton (born 1958), American filmmaker known for his darkly whimsical art and films.
lanceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lance + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a lance.
launces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of launce
scorningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scorningly
form: most scorningly
Etymology: From scorning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With scorn.
landlubberly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more landlubberly
form: most landlubberly
Etymology: From landlubber + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like a landlubber.
Derived terms: landlubberliness
unmisgiving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmisgiving
form: most unmisgiving
Etymology: From un- + misgiving.
Senses: examples: text: A little lad, but twelve years old, whose father with the earnest but unmisgiving hardihood of a Nantucketer's paternal love, had thus early sought to initiate him in the perils and wonders of a vocation almost immemorially the destiny of all his race.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Without misgivings.
ungrandiose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungrandiose
form: most ungrandiose
Etymology: From un- + grandiose.
Senses: glosses: Not grandiose.
spearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spearing
Penfieldian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Penfieldian
form: most Penfieldian
Etymology: From Penfield + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Wilder Penfield (1891–1976), American-born Canadian neurosurgeon.
prolongings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolonging
spider goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider goats
Senses: glosses: A goat that has a spider's genes, and produces silk during lactation.
enwrapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: O could I live to see the generall end, / Behold the world enwrapt in funerall flame, / When as the Sunne shall lend his beames to burne What he before brought forth, […]
ref: 1624, “The Tragedy of Nero”, in Old English Plays, Vol. I:
text: The lovely vision enwrapt her soul.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 199:
text: Down fall the tears from skies enwrapt in gloom, / Without this drink, the flowers could never bloom! / As now these flowerets yield delight to me, / So shall my dust yield flowers—God knows for whom.
ref: 1883, Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward Henry Whinfield, Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, No. 72, page 50:
glosses: simple past and past participle of enwrap
biocapsule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocapsules
Etymology: From bio- + capsule.
Senses: glosses: A biological capsule; a capsule used in a biological context.
biocapsules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biocapsule
Mid-Atlantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + Atlantic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to this region.
shaikh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaikhs
Senses: examples: text: To the wine-house I saw the sage repair, / Bearing a wine-cup, and a mat for prayer; / I said, "O Shaikh, what does this conduct mean?" / Said he, "Go drink! the world is naught but air."
ref: 1883, Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward Henry Whinfield, Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, No. 80, page 54:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sheik.
mattrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mattrasses
Senses: examples: text: And now poor Stubb goes to bed upon a mattrass that is all too soft; would it were stuffed with brushwood!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of mattress.
mattrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mattrass
esteemest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: esteem + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of esteem
noninstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + instructed.
Senses: glosses: Not instructed.
untheological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + theological.
Senses: glosses: Not theological.
rechurn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rechurns
form: rechurning
form: rechurned
form: rechurned
Etymology: From re- + churn.
Senses: glosses: To churn again.
rechurning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rechurn
rechurns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rechurn
rechurned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rechurn
feignings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪnɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of feigning
stunsails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stunsail
boxman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxmen
Etymology: From box + -man.
Senses: glosses: A casino employee who supervises the craps table.
examples: text: The boxman weighs out the amount of each size required into a weigh-box […]
ref: 1919, Municipal Journal (volume 46, page 30)
glosses: Any of various types of worker who use or look after boxes.
Related terms: english: two-up game supervisor
translation: two-up game supervisor
word: boxer
boxmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boxman
unimaginableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unimaginable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unimaginable.
Synonyms: unimaginability
bowsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊzmən/
Forms: form: bowsmen
form: bowman
Etymology: From bow (“front of vessel”) + -s- + man.
Senses: examples: text: Being the savage's bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale's back.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Monkey-Rope”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, pages 355–356:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sailor who works in the bow of a vessel.
Coordinate terms: bowswoman
bowsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowsman
bejuggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈd͡ʒʌɡəl/
Forms: form: bejuggles
form: bejuggling
form: bejuggled
form: bejuggled
Etymology: From be- + juggle.
Senses: examples: text: Yet calm, enticing calm, oh, whale! thou glidest on, to all who for the first time eye thee, no matter how many in that same way thou may'st have bejuggled and destroyed before.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To confuse; to confound.
bejuggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bejuggle
bejuggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bejuggle
bejuggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bejuggle
pseudogapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + gapping.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A form of ellipsis that elides most but not all of a non-finite verb phrase, as in "He drinks milk more often than he does water".
lovings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loving
clappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklæpɪŋz/
Senses: examples: text: And thus, through the serene tranquillities of the tropical sea, among waves whose hand-clappings were suspended by exceeding rapture, Moby Dick moved on, still withholding from sight the full terrors of his submerged trunk […]
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: plural of clapping
monsieurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monsieur
postzionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postzionists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Post-Zionist.
postzionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postzionist
dageshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dagesh
enticings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On each soft side--coincident with the parted swell, that but once leaving him then flowed so wide away--on each bright side, the whale shed off enticings. No wonder there had been some among the hunters who namelessly transported and allured by all this serenity, had ventured to assail it; but had fatally found that quietude but the vesture of tornadoes.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 538:
glosses: plural of enticing
forethrown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + thrown.
Senses: examples: text: […] as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forethrown shadow.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 130, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: thrown forward
Ahabian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ahabian
form: most Ahabian
Etymology: From Ahab + -ian, after the fictional captain in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick who is obsessed with killing a whale who once injured him.
Senses: glosses: tyrannically monomaniac
wikipedia: Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
tindered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tinder
tindering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tinder
wanings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waning
swarths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swarth
hooroosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /həˈɹuːʃ/
Forms: form: hoorooshes
form: hurroosh
Senses: examples: text: Oh, none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time. What a hooroosh aloft there!
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 120, in Moby-Dick:
text: Under cover of a hooroosh by the Manchester, the Gurkhas have rushed a bluff 600 yards ahead of our line and are sticking to their winnings.
ref: 1920, Sir Ian Hamilton, Gallipoli Diary:
glosses: A commotion.
predestinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predestinate
predestinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of predestinate
predestinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of predestinate
berine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: berines
form: berining
form: berined
form: berined
Etymology: From be- + rine.
Senses: glosses: To touch.
glosses: To fall upon; fall.
beride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪd
Forms: form: berides
form: beriding
form: berode
form: beridden
Etymology: From Middle English beriden, biriden, from Old English berīdan (“to ride round, surround, besiege, overtake, seize, occupy”), equivalent to be- (“around, about”) + ride. Cognate with Dutch berijden (“to ride a horse, jockey”).
Senses: glosses: To ride around; beset with horsemen.
glosses: To ride beside or by the side of.
glosses: To ride upon; infest.
beroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: berolls
form: berolling
form: berolled
form: berolled
Etymology: From Middle English birollen, equivalent to be- + roll.
Senses: glosses: To roll about; roll around; roll over.
beghost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beghosts
form: beghosting
form: beghosted
form: beghosted
Etymology: From be- + ghost. Compare bespirit, beghast.
Senses: examples: text: Was Hamlet's armour beghosted too?
ref: 1910, Charles Francis Keary, The pursuit of reason:
text: For two centuries or more Littlecote, which is near Hungerford, was owned by the Darrell family, and it was they who finally beghosted not only the house but also the neighbourhood — even as far as the Hungerford to Salisbury road.
ref: 1988, John Canning, 50 Great Ghost Stories:
text: Later she remembered them as ensorcelled houses; beghosted by their occupants' fears of disappointment, by the memories of their lives and other lives they might have had.
ref: 1989, Ronald Frame, Penelope's hat:
text: […] and the publication of the very interesting tale from which it is taken, we have been so beghosted both in prose and verse, […]
ref: 2005, Charles Lloyd, Philip Cox, Anti-Jacobin novels: Edmund Oliver (1798):
glosses: To endow with a spirit or ghost; haunt.
glosses: To make a ghost of; teach (one) how to play a ghost.
Derived terms: beghosted
Related terms: beghast
Jihun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Anazarbus...an ancient Cilician city, situated in the Aleian plain about 10 m. W. of the main stream of the Pyramus (Jihun)
ref: 1911, Hugh Chisholm, editor, Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., Anazarbus:
text: Skies like a zone our weary lives enclose, / And from our tear-stained eyes a Jihun flows; / Hell is a fire enkindled of our griefs; / Heaven but a moment's peace, stolen from our woes.
ref: 1883, Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward Henry Whinfield, Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, No. 92, page 60:
glosses: The Ceyhan river.
kindergarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of kindergarten + -archy.
Senses: examples: text: The kindergarchy was alive and well in the Carlyle household, with Alice centre stage and Mum and Dad both fretting about being reduced to the role of indentured servants.
ref: 2011, James Craig, London Calling, SohoConstable, →ISBN:
hyponyms: infantocracy
glosses: The state or phenomenon of children dominating, particularly in the context of children's needs, wishes, and preferences being accorded equal or greater status than those of adults.
knowbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knowbies
Etymology: From know + -bie, patterned after newbie, with know replacing new to suggest knowledge.
Senses: examples: text: Neither newbie or knowbie, I count myself among the silver surfers, those geezers in Dickensian nightshirts who preceded the blogging guys in pajamas.
ref: 2005 June 19, William Safire, “The Way We Live Now: 6-19-05: On Language; Qualassurepurp”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An experienced Internet user.
knowbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knowbie
post-creole continuum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-creole continua
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A situation wherein a creole language consists of a spectrum of varieties between those most and least similar to the superstrate language.
Related terms: acrolect
basilect
hyperlect
lect
matrilect
mesolect
patois
pidgin
estafette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estafettes
form: estafet
Etymology: Borrowed from French estafette, from Italian staffetta, diminutive of staffa (“stirrup”).
Senses: glosses: A dispatch rider, especially military; a mounted courier.
cuntwhore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuntwhores
form: cunt-whore
form: cunt whore
Etymology: From cunt + whore.
Senses: examples: text: Only you could love this cuntwhore body.
ref: 1999, Sue William Silverman, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, page 162:
text: Me, a Christian girl whom they nominated devil's cunt and cuntwhore and infidel-bitch and wiping their boots on my hair swore I would be the bearer of a Mohammedan child into this world
ref: 2001, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Three apples fell from heaven, link:
text: So used to the teacup-sized cuntwhores of Perga was he that it was weird to see big women again.
ref: 2009, Suki Khan, Pink Tiger and the Whore Liberation Front, page 103:
glosses: A woman.