cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
humanitian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhjuːməˈnɪʃən/
Forms: form: humanitians
Senses: examples: text: I haue read historie, I am a little humanitian
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
glosses: A humanist.
humanitians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humanitian
phonetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonetists
Senses: glosses: One versed in phonetics; a phonologist.
glosses: One who advocates a phonetic spelling system.
phonetists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonetist
bowstringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bowstring
bowstrung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bowstring
bowspritted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bowsprit + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a bowsprit.
Aussie battler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aussie battlers
Senses: glosses: An ordinary working-class Australian who perseveres in the face of adversity.
tetraphyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having four leaves.
Related terms: four-leaf clover
starstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starstones
form: star stone
Etymology: From star + stone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hyponyms: star quartz
star ruby
star sapphire
glosses: A gemstone that exhibits asterism.
starstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starstone
tobacconing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From tobacco + -n- + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Neither was it any newes upon this Guild-day to have the Cathedrall now open on all ſides to be filled with Muskatiers, wayting for the Majors returne, drinking and tobacconing as freely as if it had turn'd Alehouſe.
ref: 1647 June 8 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Hall, “Bishop Hall’s Hard Measure”, in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works of that Incomparable Prelate Joseph Hall, D.D. […], London: […] J. Cadwel for J[ohn] Crooke, […], published 1660, →OCLC, pages 63–64:
text: the Habit of TOBACCONING, Makes one more Chimny-like than any thing
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
glosses: Smoking tobacco.
branlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branlins
Etymology: From its red colour. See brand.
Senses: glosses: A small red worm or larva, used as bait for fish.
glosses: A young salmon (parr), in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.
branlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of branlin
dulceness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dulce + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But above all, in this righting and helping of a man's self in his own carriage, he must take heed he shew not himself dismantled, and exposed to scorn and injury, by too much dulceness, goodness, and facility of nature;
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: sweetness
tunica intima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin tunica intima (“inner tunic”).
Senses: examples: text: Injury to the tunica intima will result in roughened endothelial edges and possible adherence of platelets, which may form clots.
ref: 1990, Phyllis Fichtelman Nentwich, Intravenous Therapy, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, page 20:
text: In capillaries of larger caliber, three to four endothelial cells may encompass the lumen. The tunica intima consists of endothelium and a basement membrane; the tunica media is absent and the tunica adventitia is greatly reduced.
ref: 2004, William J. Krause, The Art of Examining and Interpreting Histologic Preparations, 2nd edition, Universal Publishers, page 39:
text: In veins, the tunica intima and tunica media are less distinct than in arteries, e.g., the venous tunica intima is difficult to distinguish at low power magnification [42].
ref: 2009, Sara E. Anderson, Ryan Lahm, Paul A. Iaizzo, “7. The Coronary Vascular System and Associated Medical Devices”, in Paul A. Iaizzo, editor, Handbook of Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology, and Devices, Springer, page 113:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The innermost layer of an artery or vein, made up of one layer of endothelial cells and supported by an internal elastic lamina.
chaffern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chafferns
Etymology: A modification of chafer (“vessel for heating water”) after words like cistern and lantern.
Senses: examples: text: The wards should be daily fumigated by means of thus, benzoin, or other aromatics, or wetted gunpowder thrown on burning coals, put in an irot pot or chaffern, or with the steams of warm vinegar placed in the middle of the ward.
ref: 1780, Donald Monro, Observations on the Means of Preserving the Health of Soldiers, page 102:
text: A glass globe is then to be inverted over the mouth of the matrass, and the heat of a charcoal-chaffern being applied, iodine will sublime in great abundance.
ref: 1832, William Woodville, Medical Botany, page 114:
text: His method of employing the fumigations for sheds or byres containing livestock merely consisted in filling a chaffern two-thirds full of red-hot cinders and in inserting among them a crucible in which a sufficient quantity of roll brimstone was placed.
ref: 1888 April 16, H. Valentine Knaggs, “Sulphur in Diphtheria and As a Germ-Destroyer In Disease”, in The Therapeutic Gazette, volume 12, number 4, page 229:
text: The houses, too, were rich with treasures gatherd from far and wide— brass pots and chafferns from France, gold work from Venice and Genoa , habergeons from Milan , ewers of blue glass powdered with gold, alabaster pots painted and gilded, "cushions of god embroidered with ramping lions of silver," and coverings of cloth of gold.
ref: 1890 January 25, A. S. Green, “The Wealth of England Under the Tudors”, in The Speaker, volume 1, page 88:
glosses: A vessel for heating water.
Related terms: chauffeur
chafferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaffern
hydrozoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrozoons
form: hydrozoa
Etymology: From translingual Hydrozoa.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: hydrozoan
hydrozoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrozoon
Perseid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.sɪ.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.si.ɪd/
Forms: form: Perseids
form: Perseidae
form: Perseide
form: Perseïde
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Perseidēs m, from Ancient Greek Περσείδης m (Perseídēs), from Περσεύς (Perseús) + -ίδης (-ídēs). By surface analysis, Perseus + -id.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the Family of Pelops got the poſſeſſion of two Kingdoms, and became ſuperior in Wealth and Power to the Perſeids their Rivals.
ref: 1735, Thomas Blackwell, An Enquiry Into the Life and Writings of Homer, page 20:
text: […] the Perseids, who reigned at Mycenæ […]
ref: 1858, W. E. Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric age, page 365:
text: […] Heracles, who traces his lineage back to the two great families in the Argolid, the Perseids and the Pelopids […]
ref: 2019, Olga Zekiou, The Poetics of the Homeric Citadel, page 66:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A descendant of Perseus.
Perseid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.sɪ.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.si.ɪd/
Forms: form: Perseide
form: Perseïde
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Perseidēs m, from Ancient Greek Περσείδης m (Perseídēs), from Περσεύς (Perseús) + -ίδης (-ídēs). By surface analysis, Perseus + -id.
Senses: examples: text: The deſcendants and partiſans of the great Hercules, the moſt illuſtrious hero of the Perſeid line, were diveſted of their poſſeſſions, and driven into baniſhment.
ref: 1787, John Gillies, The History of Ancient Greece, page 95:
text: […] the Perseid line […]
ref: 1814, William Mitford, The History of Greece, volume 8, London, page 4:
text: We here reach the commencement of the Perseid dynasty of Mykênæ.
ref: 1869, George Grote, A History of Greece, page 90:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Perseids.
Perseid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.sɪ.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.si.ɪd/
Forms: form: Perseide
form: Perseïde
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Persēis f, from Ancient Greek Περσηΐς f (Persēḯs), from Περσεύς (Perseús) + -ις (-is). By surface analysis, Perseus + -id.
Senses: examples: text: The Perseid Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon of Tiryns, was Hercules's mother, Zeus his father […].
ref: 1880, The Encyclopædia Britannica, page 725:
glosses: An epithet of Alcmene (grand-daughter of Perseus).
glosses: A poem by Trinacrius mentioned by Ovid in Epistulae ex Ponto (4.16.25).
glosses: An episode of Ovid's Metamorphoses devoted to Perseus.
Perseid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.sɪ.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.si.ɪd/
Forms: form: Perseids
form: Perseides
form: Perseide
form: Perseïde
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Persēis f, from Ancient Greek Περσηΐς f (Persēḯs), from Περσεύς (Perseús) + -ις (-is). By surface analysis, Perseus + -id.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the meteors in a meteor shower that appears to come from the constellation Perseus.
Perseid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.sɪ.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.si.ɪd/
Forms: form: Perseide
form: Perseïde
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Persēis f, from Ancient Greek Περσηΐς f (Persēḯs), from Πέρσης (Pérsēs) + -ις (-is). By surface analysis, Perses + -id.
Senses: examples: text: It was not confined to the Male Fury, but belonged also to Medea, the Perseid Hecate or Fury of Colchis, […]
ref: 1828, Nimrod, page 425:
text: Then to the shrine of Perseid Hecate,² / Concealed by forest shades, she boldly went, / Her passions on the wane. But when she there / Saw Aeson's son, her embers flamed anew!
ref: 2023, Ovid's Metamorphoses: A New Translation, page 182:
glosses: An epithet of Hecate (daughter of Perses).
Perseids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)si.ɪdz/
Etymology: Perseid + -s
Senses: glosses: plural of Perseid
alcaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcaids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alcaide.
alcaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcaid
botcherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more botcherly
form: most botcherly
Etymology: From botcher + -ly.
Senses: glosses: bungling; awkward or botched
transposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transposals
Etymology: From transpose + -al.
Senses: glosses: transposition
transposals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transposal
subtutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtutors
Etymology: From sub- + tutor.
Senses: glosses: An assistant tutor.
subtutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtutor
reflectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reflectible
form: most reflectible
Etymology: From reflect + -ible.
Senses: glosses: reflective
manling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ænlɪŋ
Forms: form: manlings
Etymology: From man + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Again, a man so gracious and in high favour with the Emperor, as Augustus often called him his witty manling (for the littleness of his stature), and, if we may trust antiquity, had designed him for a secretary of estate, and invited him to the palace, which he modestly prayed off and refused.
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter:
synonyms: mankin
glosses: A little man; a man of short stature.
examples: text: 'Hah!' said Kaa with a chuckle, 'he has friends everywhere, this manling. Stand back, manling; and hide you, O Poison-People. I break down the wall.'
ref: 1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Kaa’s Hunting”, in The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 59:
text: "Before I do your bidding, manling," Mapes said, "I must cleanse the way between us. [...]
ref: 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune, Berkley, published 2005, →ISBN, page 68:
text: “You're trespassing on my dungeon, manling. And I am the thing... you should be afraid of.”
ref: 2010 July 12, Elizabeth Ito & Adam Muto, “Dungeon” (3:01 from the start), in Adventure Time, season 1, episode 18, spoken by Demon Cat (Clancy Brown):
synonyms: word: bhoy
word: boy
word: boykin
word: boyo
word: callant
word: chav
word: feely-omi
word: guy
word: knave
word: lad
word: little boy
word: man child
word: manling
word: page
word: pillicock
word: sapling
word: shaveling
word: son
word: sonny
word: springald
word: stripling
word: yob
word: younker
word: youth
glosses: A young man; a boy.
Related terms: manlet
manlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manling
themeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theme + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of having a visual theme applied.
Synonyms: skinnable
foliosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1847-1848, Thomas De Quincey, "Protestantism", in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
It is exactly because he is not tedious, because he does not shoot into German foliosity, that Schlosser finds him intolerable
glosses: The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness.
granulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more granulary
form: most granulary
Senses: examples: text: granulary membrane
text: granulary sac
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: granular
undecreed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + decree + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Not decreed.
glosses: Reversed or nullified by decree, as something previously decreed.
periwigged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From periwig + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: What fifty men dared not have done, one woman did! a painted, patched, fucused, periwigged, bolstered, Charybdis, cannibal, Megaera, Lamia!
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!:
glosses: Wearing a periwig.
Derived terms: unperiwigged
orangite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orangites
Etymology: From orange + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orange-yellow variety of thorite, found in Norway.
orangites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orangite
slobberer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slobberers
Etymology: From slobber + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Sorry about our dog, she's a real slobberer!
glosses: Someone or something that slobbers.
slobberers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slobberer
phyllomorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyllo- + morphosis.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The succession and variation of leaves during different seasons.
Teloogoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teloogoos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Telugu.
Teloogoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In common with every other tongue now spoken in India, modern Teloogoo abounds with Sanscrit words […]
ref: 1849, Alexander Duncan Campbell, A Grammar of the Teloogoo Language, Commonly Called the Gentoo:
glosses: Archaic form of Telugu.
Teloogoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Teloogoo
phaseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phase + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The expression of his smile […] was one of profound melancholy—of a phaseless and unceasing gloom.
ref: 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, A Tale of the Ragged Mountains:
glosses: Without a phase, or visible form.
Derived terms: phaselessness
extramatrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + matrical.
Senses: glosses: Outside the matrix of a fungus.
Trophonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Trophonian
form: most Trophonian
Senses: examples: text: Trophonian den
glosses: Of or pertaining to Trophonius, a mythological figure of Ancient Greece, said to have built the temple of Apollo at Delphi and the treasury of King Hyrieus in Boeotia.
imponderableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imponderable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
Synonyms: imponderability
unassessability
lobelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobelets
Etymology: From lobe + -let.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A small lobe; a lobule.
lobelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobelet
dentoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dentoid
form: most dentoid
Etymology: From Latin dens, dentis (“tooth”) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a tooth.
Derived terms: quadridentoid
tridentoid
transpass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transpasses
form: transpassing
form: transpassed
form: transpassed
Etymology: From trans- + pass?
Senses: examples: text: Alexander transpassed the river.
text: […] not containing himselfe within the River Tigris, had transpassed the bankes and bounds of the Romane Empire and made a rode into Mesopotamia, threatning to inuade Syria, and challenging the opposite Continent to Europe […]
ref: 1629, Herodian, Herodian of Alexandria His History of Tvventy Roman CÆsars and Emperors … Interpreted Out of the Greeke Originall, page 7:
text: […] on it rolled. At mid-point of its way, / Where energy as of full manhood reigned / 'Twas little weakened, but, that stage transpassed, / The drain increased in volume, so that it / To lower level sank, and lower still, / Till, broken up and 'minished into threads / Of solitary life , it disappeared, […]
ref: 1887, Alexander Winton Buchan, The Vision Stream, Or The Song of Man: An Allegory, in Six Books, page 32:
text: […] there would be no limits which cannot be transpassed without provoking international protests.
ref: 1977 March 29, Wil D. Verwey, Riot Control Agents and Herbicides in War: Their Humanitarian, Toxicological, Ecological, Military, Polemological, and Legal Aspects, BRILL, →ISBN, page 292:
text: […] Cristobal de Acuña writes in his preface that they arrived in Pará on December 12, 1639, '... after having transpassed the mountains which feed the beginning of the great river, [...]'
ref: 2012 December 6, H. Sioli, The Amazon: Limnology and landscape ecology of a mighty tropical river and its basin, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 3:
qualifier: largely obsolete
glosses: To pass over or through.
Synonyms: sense: pass over
word: cross
sense: pass over
word: overgo
sense: pass over
word: traverse
Related terms: pass by
transpassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transpass
transpasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transpass
transpassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transpass
globulite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globulites
Etymology: From globule + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rudimentary spherical form of crystallite.
Derived terms: globulitic
microscopial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more microscopial
form: most microscopial
Etymology: From microscope + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: It is a vulgar remark , that the works of art do not bear a nice microscopial inspection
ref: 1744, George Berkeley, Siris, a chain of philosophical reflections and inquiries, concerning the virtues of tar-water:
glosses: microscopic
nautiloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nautiloids
Etymology: From nautilus + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Cephalopods have a long fossil record, the earliest certain cephalopod fossils are loosely coiled or straight shelled nautiloids found in the Cambrian of China 515 million years ago.
ref: 2016 August 17, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:
glosses: A mollusc resembling a nautilus; specifically, a cephalopod of the subclass Nautiloidea.
nautiloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nautiloid
form: most nautiloid
Etymology: From nautilus + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling a nautilus.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Pertaining to the subclass Nautiloidea.
nautiloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nautiloid
saponule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saponules
Etymology: Borrowed from French saponule, from Latin sapo (“soap”) + -onis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil.
saponules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saponule
impostured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From imposture + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Done by imposture.
electroengraving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + engraving.
Senses: glosses: The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.
Synonyms: electroetching
indevout
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪndɪˈvaʊt/
Forms: form: more indevout
form: most indevout
Etymology: From in- + devout.
Senses: synonyms: undevout
unpious
glosses: Not devout.
Related terms: indevoutly
indevoutness
hexadactylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + -dactyl + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having six fingers or toes.
actionably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more actionably
form: most actionably
Etymology: From actionable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an actionable manner.
arseniuretted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɑː(ɹ)ˌsɛnɪjʊˈɹɛtɪd/
Forms: form: arseniureted
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Combined with arsenic.
Derived terms: arseniuretted hydrogen
domesticator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domesticators
Etymology: From domesticate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: But the goddess has forgotten that bulls and oxen are the province of man, the domesticator of animals, and so the two cowboys, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, make short work of the Bull.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 197:
glosses: One who domesticates.
domesticators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domesticator
lionship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lion + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Dispirited and weary to the last degree, but a greater lion than ever (he had done nothing all the afternoon but answer letters from strangers; half of them about nothing; half about borrowing money, and all requiring an instantaneous reply), Martin walked down to the wharf, through a concourse of people, with Mrs Hominy upon his arm; and went on board. But Mark was bent on solving the riddle of this lionship, if he could; and so, not without the risk of being left behind, ran back to the hotel.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being a lion, or famous person in society.
carriageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carriageable
form: most carriageable
Etymology: From carriage + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Other cities, indeed, contain more works of carriageable art, but none contain so much of the glorious local art, and of the springs and sources of art, which can by no means be made subjects of package or porterage, nor, I grieve to say, of salvage.
ref: 1857, John Ruskin, “Lecture II”, in The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, section III (Accumulation), page 101:
glosses: Capable of being conveyed in carriages.
examples: text: Except, however, between the lower Shire and Blantyre-Zomba, one is not encouraged to spend hundreds of pounds on the making of a carriageable road, because of the presence, in various tracts, of the tsetse fly, […]
ref: 1895, Special Consular Reports, volume 12, United States: Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, page 485:
glosses: Passable by carriages.
Derived terms: uncarriageable
Hygeian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hygeian
form: most Hygeian
form: hygeian
form: Hygieian
Etymology: From Hygeia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: In the Hygeian school of Greek medicine, based on the teachings of Hippocrates, health was viewed as a natural state of the body.
ref: 2000, Cai Song, Fundamentals of Psychoneuroimmunology:
glosses: Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health.
arseniureted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arseniuretted.
furfurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)fəɹəs/
Forms: form: more furfurous
form: most furfurous
Etymology: From Latin furfurōsus.
Senses: examples: text: furfurous bread
ref: 1822, Sydney Smith, Persecuting Bishops:
synonyms: furfuraceous
glosses: Made of, or resemling, bran
mediative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mediate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: mediative efforts
text: The consequence of our consultations was, that some Northern power should be applied to in a friendly and mediative capacity
ref: 1847, B[enjamin] Disraeli, Tancred: Or, The New Crusade. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to mediation; that mediates
Derived terms: mediatively
thesicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thesicles
Etymology: Diminutive of thesis.
Senses: glosses: A little or subordinate thesis; a proposition.
thesicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thesicle
knitathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knitathons
Etymology: From knit + -athon.
Senses: glosses: A charity event in which participants knit.
knitathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knitathon
asyndetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From asyndetic + -ally. Equivalent to a- + syndetically or to asyndesis or asyndeton + -ical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When the temporal clause precedes the main clause, the main clause can be connected asyndetically or by ወ- wa-.
ref: 2021, Joseph Tropper, Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee, Classical Ethiopic: A Grammar of Gəˁəz § 6.5.5
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In an asyndetic way, whether
Expressed without conjunctions or with conjunctions purposefully omitted.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: In an asyndetic way, whether
Demonstrating asyndesis, expressed with a seeming inability or diminished capacity to connect ideas.
outbrazen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbrazens
form: outbrazening
form: outbrazened
form: outbrazened
Etymology: From out- + brazen.
Senses: glosses: To bear down with a brazen face.
examples: text: see their impudence outbrazen'd by a club of mortal puritans
ref: 1702, Tom Brown, Letters from the Dead to the Living:
glosses: To surpass in impudence.
outbrazened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbrazen
outbrazening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbrazen
outbrazens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbrazen
reissuable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reissue + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being reissued.
Related terms: reissuability
devotionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devotionality
devotionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devotionalities
Etymology: From devotional + -ity.
Senses: examples: 1847, Arthur Hugh Clough, Review of Mr. Newman's The Soul
The belief that religion is, or in any way requires, devotionality, is, if not the most noxious, at least the most obstinate form of irreligion […]
glosses: The practice of a devotionalist.
boskage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boskages
Senses: examples: text: Thridding the sombre boskage of the wood.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.
ref: 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:
text: We were at the head of a valley and below us, half a mile distant, grey and gold amid a screen of boskage, shone the dome and columns of an old house.
ref: 1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of boscage.
boskages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boskage
buffoonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buffoonly
form: most buffoonly
Etymology: From buffoon + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse.
ref: a. 1693, John Goodman, Winter-Evening Conference […] :
glosses: buffoonish
boscages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boscage
inogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἴς (ís, “power, muscle”) + -gen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex nitrogenous substance formerly hypothesized to be continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles during life.
fascicled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fascicle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch
text: the fascicled roots of the dahlia
text: fascicled muscle fibres
text: fascicled needles
glosses: Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster.
dichogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: dichogamous plant
text: dichogamous species
text: dichogamous flowers
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: dichogamic
glosses: Exhibiting dichogamy.
Derived terms: heterodichogamous
nondichogamous
brasen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brasen
form: most brasen
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of brazen.
lomentaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From loment + -aceous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.
benshee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benshees
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of banshee.
benshees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benshee
disgraduate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disgraduates
form: disgraduating
form: disgraduated
form: disgraduated
Etymology: From dis- + graduate.
Senses: examples: text: Yf they be of mine annoĩted and beare my marke diſgreſſe thẽ / I wold ſaye diſgraduate thẽ […]
ref: 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “Antichrist”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio lxxiij, verso:
glosses: To degrade; to reduce in rank.
disgraduated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disgraduate
longstops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longstop
disgraduates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disgraduate
disgraduating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disgraduate
exemplarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exemplarity
exemplarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exemplarities
Etymology: From exemplary + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: the exemplarity of Christ's life
ref: a. 1714, John Sharp, Our obligations to live as CHRIST lived:
text: Therefore, the century-old tradition of exemplarity, in which great works of art are to serve as standards for production (since they offer norms and maintain tradition), is ruptured in the eighteenth century. In the age of innovation,[…]
ref: 2008 December 11, Paul Fleming, Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 11:
text: And where is exemplarity in relation to this? Which is more pri- mordial? That framework is an essentially hierarchical and competing one inherited from traditional metaphysical foundationalism aiming to reach the summit or bottom of[…]
ref: 2012 February 1, Irene E. Harvey, Labyrinths of Exemplarity: At the Limits of Deconstruction, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 172:
text: we can see here how the new value attached to the singular is justified, Blanckenburg's stated intentions notwithstanding, by means of exemplarity: the singular events of a novel are not of interest for what they are in themselves,[…]
ref: 2015 April 17, Michele Lowrie, Susanne Lüdemann, Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law, Routledge, →ISBN:
synonyms: exemplariness
glosses: The quality of being exemplary.
beetle-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beetle-headed
form: most beetle-headed
Senses: examples: text: A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-ear’d knave!
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
synonyms: word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
glosses: Mentally dull; stupid.
sheltrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sheltron.
delighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delighters
Etymology: From delight + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who takes delight in something.
delighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delighter
garmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From garment + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A lovely lady garmented in light from her own beauty.
ref: 1824, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Witch of Atlas:
glosses: Wearing a garment; attired.
Derived terms: ungarmented
perceivably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perceivably
form: most perceivably
Etymology: From perceivable + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: perceptibly
glosses: In a way that can be perceived.
rhizomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhizomatous
form: most rhizomatous
Senses: examples: text: rhizomatous plant
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or resembling a rhizome.
filical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Filices + -al.
Senses: examples: text: the filical flora of Minnesota
glosses: Belonging to the former taxonomic class Filices (ferns).
heterogonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterogony
heterogony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterogonies
Etymology: From hetero- + -gony.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of having two or more kinds of flower, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils
Derived terms: heterogonic
uncanonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncanonizes
form: uncanonizing
form: uncanonized
form: uncanonized
Etymology: From un- + canonize.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of canonical authority.
glosses: To reduce from the rank of a canonized saint.
uncanonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncanonize
uncanonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not canonized.
uncanonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncanonize
uncanonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncanonize
monopolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monopolites
Etymology: From monopoly + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Nor privie Theeves, nor proud Monopolites
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
glosses: A monopolist.
monopolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monopolite
exhibiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhibiters
Etymology: From exhibit + -er. Compare exhibitor.
Senses: examples: text: cherishing th' exhibiters against us;
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: One who exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge, or bill.
exhibiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhibiter
plebeianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plebeianisms
Etymology: From plebeian + -ism; compare French plébéianisme.
Senses: examples: text: From this time, however, you may easily, my dear Friends, believe, a similar plebeianism cannot disgrace me.
ref: 1802, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 425:
glosses: The quality or state of being plebeian.
plebeianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plebeianism
phrenologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French phrénologique.
Senses: glosses: phrenological
chloriodine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chlor- + iodine.
Senses: examples: text: zinc chloriodine
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of chlorine and iodine.
contradictable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contradictable
form: most contradictable
Etymology: From contradict + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being contradicted.
Derived terms: uncontradictable
precentorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precentorships
Etymology: From precentor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or office of a precentor.
precentorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precentorship
rivery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪvəɹi/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹi
Forms: form: more rivery
form: most rivery
Etymology: From river + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a rivery country
glosses: Having rivers.
examples: text: Thy full and youthfull breasts, which in their meadowy pride,
Are brancht with rivery veines, Meander-like that glide.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 10 p. 159:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a river; riverlike.
hemigamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + -gamous.
Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; said of grasses.
light-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: lītʹlĕg'(ĭ)d
Forms: form: more light-legged
form: most light-legged
Etymology: From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + legged (“having legs”, adjective).
Senses: examples: text: Pas dared not Cosma chase
, but did intend next bout with her to meet
, so he with Nous to Geron turned their race,
with whom to join fast ran Urania sweet.
But light-legged Pas had got the middle space
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: Nimble; swift of foot.
aromatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aromatous
form: most aromatous
Senses: examples: text: aromatous plant
glosses: aromatic
chromatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chromatical
form: most chromatical
Senses: examples: text: chromatical properties of light
glosses: chromatic
portreeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portreeves
form: port-reeve
form: portgreve
form: portgrave
Etymology: From Middle English portereve, portereve, from Old English portġerēfa, from port (“a walled market town”) + ġerēfa (“reeve”). By surface analysis, port + reeve.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of the portgreve [of London], Richard the first ordained two bailiffs, but presently after him King John granted them a mayor for their yearly magistrate.
ref: 1772, Jacob's Law Dictionary:
glosses: A borough-reeve: an office equivalent to a mayor (historical) in several major English towns or (dialect) in various minor boroughs of Wales and Southwest England.
glosses: A municipal office subordinate to a mayor, (especially) a bailiff.
glosses: A port reeve, a port warden.
Derived terms: portreeveship
portreeves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portreeve
rowelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rowel
rowelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rowel
intercolonially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intercolonial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Between or among colonies.
seditiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seditious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being seditious.
short exact sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short exact sequence
syntactics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syntactic; see -ics.
Senses: glosses: syntax
conformature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conformatures
Senses: glosses: An 18th-century mechanical device used by hatters and milliners to measure customers’ heads.
teaselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teasel
teaselled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teasel
constricteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: constrict + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of constrict
astringeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: astringe + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of astringe
relievingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more relievingly
form: most relievingly
Etymology: From relieving + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that relieves.
denoteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: denote + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denote
sus law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sus laws
Etymology: From suspected person.
Senses: glosses: A law that permitted a police officer to stop, search and potentially arrest people on suspicion of being in breach of section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824.
Related terms: stop-and-search
trap rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of igneous rock that tends to form polygonal vertical fractures.
irreprovableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irreprovable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being irreprovable.
teratologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teratology
teratologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From teratological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a teratological manner or context.
amblygon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀμβλύς (amblús) + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An obtuse-angled shape, especially an obtuse triangle.
Derived terms: amblygonal
indorsable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From indorse + -able.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of endorsable.
readvance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: readvances
Etymology: From re- + advance.
Senses: glosses: Another advance
readvance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: readvances
form: readvancing
form: readvanced
form: readvanced
Etymology: From re- + advance.
Senses: glosses: To advance again.
readvanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of readvance
readvances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of readvance
readvancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of readvance