cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
autoscaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + scaling.
Senses: examples: text: The autoscaling feature changes the x and y axis of your graph to fit the available data.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: automatic scaling
churchful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchfuls
form: churchesful
Etymology: From church + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Some folks seem to think that they are going to heaven by whole churchesful. They feel that God sees and hears the congregation worship as a mass or collective group of people. Jesus called the disciples one by one and only twelve. He preached to the masses but when it came to the more personal things, such as healing and conversion, it was a single act.
ref: 1963 November 16, Guy R. Baer, “Saturday Sermonette”, in Public Opinion, volume 95, number 102, Chambersburg, Pa., page three:
text: "You get to yell at a whole churchful of people every Sunday."
ref: 2010, Andrea Boeshaar, Uncertain Heart, Realms, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: As many as a church will hold.
churchfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchful
antiglobalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + globalisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anti-globalization.
antibumping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bumping.
Senses: examples: antibumping chips or granules
an antibumping agent
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Preventing sudden violent releases of vapour from boiling liquid.
Derived terms: antibumping granule
exanthemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Exanthemic typhus and abdominal typhus were in the past considered to be variants of the same disease.
ref: 1975, Bertel von Bonsdorff, The History of Medicine in Finland, 1828-1918:
glosses: Alternative form of exanthematous.
archimages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archimage
archimagus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archimagi
Etymology: From archi- + magus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archmagus.
archimagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archimagus
birationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From birational + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Two varieties are said to be birationally equivalent if there exists a birational map between them.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In birational terms.
anticivil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticivil
form: most anticivil
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anti-civil.
antidown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + down.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Being or relating to an anti-down quark.
antiup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + up.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Being or relating to an anti-up quark.
antisemitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antisemitically
form: most antisemitically
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anti-Semitically.
sawdust trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawdust trails
Etymology: Probably an allusion to the sawdust which covered the floors of the tents in which religious revival meetings were often held.
Senses: examples: text: The Rev. William A. (Billy) Sunday, one of the most noted evangelists of the old "sawdust trail," died suddenly tonight of a heart attack in the home of his brother-in-law, William J. Thompson, a florist.
ref: 1935 November 7, “Billy Sunday Dies; Evangelist Was 71; Former Ball Player Induced Thousands To 'hit Sawdust Trail' To Conversion”, in New York Times:
glosses: The route followed by an itinerant Christian preacher in the United States.
examples: text: Mr. Bernstein explained that this was not obligatory. All he meant was that the suit was good enough to be married in, or for that matter to be buried in.
"Or to be born anew in when Billy Sunday comes to town and I hit the sawdust trail," suggested the purchaser.
ref: 1920, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 3, in The Big-Town Round-Up:
glosses: The path to spiritual redemption or salvation, especially as involving attendance at Christian revival meetings presided over by itinerant preachers in the United States.
Synonyms: sawdust circuit
Related terms: circuit rider
dietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From diet + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to diet; dietetic.
melomaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melomaniac
sawdust circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawdust circuits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sawdust trail.
synonyms: word: sawdust trail
lordless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English lordles, loverdles, from Old English hlāfordlēas, equivalent to lord + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] whose sons, from days long before the Conquest, have always desired to go to sea when the cuckoo sang, and to come home again when they were tired of the hail and salt showers, because they could not bear to be landless and lordless men.
ref: 1921, Anthony Pryde, chapter XI, in Nightfall:
glosses: Without a lord.
Derived terms: lordlessness
Thomaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Thomism.
calfless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæfləs/
Forms: form: more calfless
form: most calfless
Etymology: From calf (“back of the leg below the knee”) + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He gained friends elsewhere, and finally settled in Darmstadt, where he still found women's hearts susceptible, in spite of his small, weak frame, his great long neck, and his calfless legs, of which he writes: "And, oh, my calves, they might have done honour to a poodle!"
ref: 1903, Rupert Hughes, chapter XV, in The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume I:
glosses: Having no or extremely reduced calves.
calfless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæfləs/
Etymology: From Middle English calflees; equivalent to calf (“young cow”) + -less.
Senses: examples: a calfless cow
glosses: Without a calf, or young cow.
unbegot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + begot.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of unbegotten.
lanated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lanated
form: most lanated
Senses: examples: a lanated leaf or stem
glosses: Alternative form of lanate.
dismutate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dismutates
form: dismutating
form: dismutated
form: dismutated
Etymology: From dis- + mutate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To cause or to undergo dismutation.
Derived terms: dismutase
Malayans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malayan
undefining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undefine
undefines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undefine
interspinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + spinous.
Senses: glosses: Interspinal.
eulogistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eulogistically
form: most eulogistically
Etymology: From eulogistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
eulogistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eulogistical
form: most eulogistical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eulogistic.
khakhras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khakhra
bouned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boun
Uralian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Uralian
form: most Uralian
Etymology: From Ural + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Ural Mountains; Uralic.
Derived terms: Uralian emerald
symbolicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From symbolical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being symbolical.
Synonyms: symbolicness
symbolicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symbolicism
dystrophisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Extreme eutrophication.
hanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hank
hanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hank
shipwrecky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪpɹɛki/
Forms: form: more shipwrecky
form: most shipwrecky
Etymology: From shipwreck + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "I was only joking. We've escaped from a burning vessel, you know, and every one else is either burned or drowned. We've provisions for a month, if we don't eat too much, and we're in the South Sea Islands. South Sea Islands sound nice and shipwrecky, don't you think so?"
ref: 1896, Elizabeth Westyn Timlow, “Chapter VI”, in Cricket at the Seashore, Estes and Lauriat:
glosses: Characteristic of a shipwreck.
examples: text: But down below he is not so good by any means — no spring from the loins, and feeblish, not to say shipwrecky, about the knees.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
text: So there I was, standing by the roadside in pitch darkness with my belongings and shipwrecky knees.
ref: 2007, Riaan Manser, Around Africa on My Bicycle, Jonathan Ball Publishers, →ISBN, page 301:
glosses: Weak, feeble; shaky.
unterrific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.təˈɹɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more unterrific
form: most unterrific
Etymology: From un- + terrific.
Senses: examples: text: It was like the dark, cold, but unterrific and comparatively soothing night, that succeeds to a day of storm and earthquake.
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 366:
glosses: Unterrifying; not causing or involving terror.
examples: text: Of these the nearest — yet about twelve miles distant — is the before-named Brezon, a majestic, but unterrific, fortalice of cliff, forest, and meadow, with unseen nests of village, and unexpected balm and honey of garden and orchard nursed in its recesses.
ref: 1887, John Ruskin, Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts, George Allen, pages 392–393:
glosses: Unexceptional, ordinary.
ironside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironsides
Etymology: From Ironside.
Senses: examples: text: In his principles he was an ironside of the Cromwellian type.
ref: 1964, John Newman Edwards, Shelby's expedition to Mexico, page 104:
glosses: One who is very strong and courageous.
Related terms: ironclad
subgenital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subgenital
form: most subgenital
Etymology: From sub- + genital.
Senses: examples: text: Central America, which has the male subgenital plate strongly asymmetrical, produced sinistrad.
ref: 1920, American Entomological Society, Memoirs of the American Entomological Society, numbers 4-6, page 108:
text: Pronotum with a checkered pattern of black on yellow; female subgenital plate moderately produced, slightly excavated at the middle.
ref: 1956, Robert Leslie Usinger, Aquatic insects of California, page 176:
text: Sternum 8 extending over sternum 9 as a distinct subgenital plate.
ref: 1996, Richard W. Merritt, Kenneth W. Cummins, An introduction to the aquatic insects of North America, page 246:
glosses: Posterior or interior to, or beneath the genitalia
Related terms: subgenitalia
monster-cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monster-cocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monster cock.
monster-cocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monster-cock
monster cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monster cocks
form: monster-cock
form: monstercock
Senses: glosses: A very large penis.
glosses: A freakish or grotesque penis.
monster cocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monster cock
sieva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sievas
Senses: synonyms: sieva bean
glosses: A small variety of lima bean.
sievas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sieva
pre-approval letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-approval letters
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An official document confirming that an applicant for a mortgage has been qualified to borrow a certain amount of money at, or below, a specific interest rate.
genocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more genocentric
form: most genocentric
Etymology: From geno- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: Animal social behaviours, such as altruism, now yielded to genocentric theories such as kin selection and reciprocal altruism.
ref: 2006, Robin Headlam Wells, Johnjoe McFadden, Human nature: fact and fiction, page 16:
glosses: Focusing on genes or genetics.
mesodesmatid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesodesmatids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any in the family Mesodesmatidae of clams.
mesodesmatids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesodesmatid
preggos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preggo
cerusite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerusites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cerussite.
cerussites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerussite
cerusites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerusite
morphemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From morphemic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms, of morphemes.
electrothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + thermic.
Senses: glosses: thermoelectric
homeostatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From homeostatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, homeostasis.
trickings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricking
trickinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trickiness
tricksterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tricksterish
form: most tricksterish
Etymology: From trickster + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a trickster; cunning; mischievous.
ale silver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A duty payable to the Lord Mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.
disproportioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disproportion
warfared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of warfare
warfaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of warfare
warfaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warfarings
Senses: examples: text: To the extent that physical warfarings go out of fashion, warfarings of the spirit must take their place. Else deadness and not liveness is the terminus ahead.
ref: 1914, Bouck White, The Carpenter and the Rich Man, page 133:
glosses: warfare; conflict
flaskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flasket
relapsings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relapsing
liberalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liberality
lolli-pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lolli-pops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lollipop.
menopausally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From menopausal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: An older woman in our culture runs a high risk of being a poor woman and of being perceived as a menopausally damaged woman.
ref: 1993, Joan C. Callahan, Menopause: A Midlife Passage, page 60:
text: Given the cluster of syndromes that occur menopausally, effects of new SERMs on cognition and affect becomes increasingly urgent.
ref: 1996, James A. Bristol, Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry: Volume 31, page 15:
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, the menopause.
Derived terms: premenopausally
long-jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-jumpers
form: long jumper
Senses: glosses: An athlete who competes in the long jump.
SERM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SERMs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of selective estrogen receptor modulator.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of structured entity relationship model.
glosses: Initialism of search engine reputation management.
Related terms: SARM
antitheticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitheticalities
Etymology: From antithetical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being antithetical.
antitheticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antithetical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being antithetical.
antitheticalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitheticality
convalescency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convalescencies
Senses: glosses: Dated form of convalescence.
convalescencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convalescency
misaffects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misaffect
yellow hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow hammers
Etymology: The origin is uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: Watching the ballgame today someone broke off a real good curve and I said, "That was a real yellow hammer."
ref: 1970, Jim Bouton, Ball Four, page 341:
text: Williams, getting steady doses of Koufax's "yellow hammer," struck out looking at a curve, Sandy's fifth K.
ref: 2004, Michael Coffey, 27 Men Out: Baseball's Perfect Games, updated edition, page 106
text: “Bastard curveball” is one of several names in baseball for a virtually unhittable curve that breaks so sharply it qualifies as yet another marvel of physics. Yakker. Bowel-locker. Yellow hammer. Take your pick.
ref: 2006, John Schuerholz, Larry Guest, Built to Win: Inside Stories And Leadership Strategies from Baseball's Winningest GM:
text: "[…]I know my baseball, and this kid was a beast. His fastball was okay, a cutter in the low nineties, but it was his dirty deuce that was outright nasty.”
DeBorn frowned. “Dirty deuce?”
“You know—the dirty yellow hammer . . . the yakker. Public enemy number two. A breaking ball, Bert! This kid had a breaking ball that was like hitting a lead shot put[…]"
ref: 2010, Steve Alten, Grim Reaper: End of Days, page 125:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A curve ball, especially a breaking curve that is particularly difficult to hit.
yellow hammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow hammer
lithotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lithotype
lithotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lithotype
recrudescency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recrudescencies
Senses: glosses: Dated form of recrudescence.
recrudescencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recrudescency
recrudescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recrudescence
recrudesced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recrudesce
recrudesces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recrudesce
recrudescing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recrudesce
gymnastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gymnastical
form: most gymnastical
Etymology: From Latin gymnasticus + -al.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gymnastic.
shoots through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shoot through
shooting through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shoot through
shot through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoot through
unkeenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unkeenly
form: most unkeenly
Etymology: From unkeen + -ly.
Senses: glosses: not keenly
noetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noetical
form: most noetical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noetic.
testates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of testate
intervenience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interveniences
Senses: glosses: intervention
interveniency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interveniencies
Senses: glosses: intervention or interposition
repetitionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repetitionary
form: most repetitionary
Etymology: From repetition + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.
Synonyms: recurrent
repetitious
repetitive
repetitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repetitional
form: most repetitional
Etymology: From repetition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.
Synonyms: recurrent
repetitious
repetitive
houndings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊndɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of hounding
puttiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puttier
metathetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more metathetically
form: most metathetically
Etymology: From metathetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: 'Che Normah pronounced the name in the Malay manner, metathetically: Ruperet, the final dental initiated but not exploded.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253:
glosses: By means of, or in terms of, metathesis.
ovarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈvɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /oʊˈvɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Etymology: From ovary + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the ovaries; ovarian.
Derived terms: periovarial
transovarial
antiphrastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antiphrastically
form: most antiphrastically
Etymology: From antiphrastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, antiphrasis.
lyrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lyrated
form: most lyrated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lyrate.
bottle-os
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle-o
doctrinals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctrinal
gismondite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gismondine.
hostries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hostry
persistencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persistency
adoors
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From the obsolete preposition a and doors.
Senses: examples: text: He seem'd to find his way without his eyes,
 for out adoors he went without their help.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: But one of the flock-dogs took his time while they were busie, and ran out adoors with a shoulder of mutton.
ref: 1657, Longus, “Daphnis and Chloe”, in George Thornley, transl., Book 3:
glosses: At the door, or through the door.
hollands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holland
alphasyllabary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphasyllabaries
Etymology: From alpha- + syllabary.
Senses: glosses: A segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit, and where each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary; an abugida.
Synonyms: abugida
avugida
Related terms: alphasyllabic
alphasyllabical
alphasyllabically
alphasyllable
syllabary
alphasyllabaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alphasyllabary
fetichistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fetichistic
form: most fetichistic
Senses: glosses: Dated form of fetishistic.
electropositives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electropositive
anaglyphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anaglyphic.
seaboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seaboat
apothegmatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apothegmatical
form: most apothegmatical
form: apophthegmatical
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἀποφθεγματικός (apophthegmatikós) + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
Synonyms: apothegmatic
apothegmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apothegmatic
form: most apothegmatic
form: apophthegmatic
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἀποφθεγματικός (apophthegmatikós) .
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
Derived terms: apothegmatically
monographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monographic.
eudiometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eudiometry + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to eudiometry.
eudiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eudiometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to eudiometry.
Derived terms: eudiometrically
Libyan Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Sulaimitian
Sulaimitian Arabic
glosses: A group of Arabic dialects spoken primarily in Libya.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Libyan Arabic terms
ayl ⁠
vaccaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaccary
Usbek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Usbeks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Uzbek.
Usbeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Usbegs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Uzbek.
Usbeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Usbek
Usbegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Usbeg
wickings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wicking
clarted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clart
clarting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clart
Hebridian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hebridian
form: most Hebridian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hebridean.
Hebridian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hebridians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hebridean.
Hebridians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hebridian
Bartletts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bartlett
metaphrastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metaphrastical
form: most metaphrastical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metaphrastic.
Pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: English surname, from the noun pipe.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. Named after the calumet (pipe) smoked by native Americans.
Lalo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Tayabas, Quezon, Philippines.
Sheffield stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sheffield stand
Sambos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sambo
roseate terns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roseate tern
whoseever
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of whosever.
Sandwich Terns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sandwich Tern
take the cure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the cure
form: taking the cure
form: took the cure
form: taken the cure
Senses: glosses: To enter into a rehabilitation program.
glosses: To take the waters
take the pledge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the pledge
form: taking the pledge
form: took the pledge
form: taken the pledge
Senses: glosses: To promise to abstain from alcohol.
shepherd's pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shepherd's pie
jötunns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jötunn
carrier pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrier pigeon
motor-van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor-vans
Senses: examples: text: He bought a closed-in motor-van and fitted it out and went with it to a different part of the island each day, while Gwen minded the shop.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 225:
glosses: A motor-driver van.
glosses: A motorhome.
motor-vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor-van
sliding scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sliding scales
Senses: glosses: A pricing scheme for a product or service where a price range is set and the customer is charged based on where their financial resources fall within the range.
glosses: A slide rule.
examples: text: Near-synonym: spectrum
text: not in his favoured midfield role, either but as a false No 9: the sort of role Guardiola only hands to his chosen, crystalline few: Mario Götze at Bayern Munich (less successfully), Lionel Messi at Barcelona (a little more so). Where Foden eventually ends up on that sliding scale is a game of pointless conjecture. But it speaks volumes of Foden’s versatility, technical ability, effortless aggression and tireless running that Guardiola felt that this was the time to find out.
ref: 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A continuous set of measurement values for which the item being measured can change its value easily.
sliding scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sliding scale
superpussy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superpussies
Etymology: From super + pussy.
Senses: examples: text: If you want to be the most orgasmic creature in all the universe, I'll make you into a superpussy!
ref: 2003, Amy Wallace, Sorcerer's apprentice: my life with Carlos Castaneda, page 156:
text: A woman believing she has a 'superpussy,' so strong that it'll pull the husband away from the wife.
ref: 2007, Roland S. Jefferson, One Night Stand: A Novel, page 172:
text: Angela and her superpussy are so special
ref: 2009, Jamie Alden, Kept, page 56:
synonyms: supercunt
glosses: A highly coveted vagina or, by extension, a sexually desirable woman.
superpussies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superpussy
exhalants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhalant
indrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indrawings
Etymology: From in- + drawing.
Senses: examples: text: But--oh," she added, with a sharp indrawing of her breath, "how I did love him!"
ref: 1910, Myrtle Reed, Master of the Vineyard:
text: The words came with a fierce hissing indrawing of the speaker's breath.
ref: 1906, Fred M. White, The Slave of Silence:
text: But the only outward expression they gained was a throwing back of the head, and a deep indrawing of the breath, followed by the quite uninspired exclamation, "Holloa, there's the ocean!"
ref: 1897, Maud Wilder Goodwin, Flint:
glosses: An inhalation of breath; an inspiration.
examples: text: Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: The drawing inward of anything.
inframe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From in + frame.
Senses: examples: text: For the chimeric 35S::ARR1 DDK::GR gene, 35S::ARR1 DDK was ligated inframe to a cassette directing the hormone-binding domain of the rat GR (19).
ref: 2001 November 16, Hiroe Sakai et al., “ARR1, a Transcription Factor for Genes Immediately Responsive to Cytokinins”, in Science, volume 294, number 5546, →DOI, pages 1519–1521:
glosses: inside a frame
ingage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ingages
form: ingaging
form: ingaged
form: ingaged
Senses: examples: text: […] Love is a ſort of Devotion too, and not only ſhould beget Reſpect, but likevviſe ingage Patience.
ref: [1703], Tho[mas] d’Urfey, The Old Mode & the New, or, Country Miss with Her Furbeloe. A Comedy. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott, and sold by Samuel Clark, […], Francis Faucet […], and Lucas Stowkey […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
text: Besides these two Motives, could I need any other to ingage me in the defence of Vertue, I should find yet a very powerful one in that dutiful Affection which I pay, and which every Subject ows to a GOOD PRINCE: Since the QUEEN, I am fully perswaded, would not so much rejoyce in the Accession of great Kingdoms to her Dominions, as to see the People, already happy in Her Government over them, indeavouring to make themselves and one another so, in following the great Example which She sets them of Vertue and Piety.
ref: 1705, Lady Damaris Masham, Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian life:
text: […]commanded that part of his cavalery which was behind his foot, to charge the King's and the general's regiments in the flanck, just at the time when they were so warmly ingaged at push of pike with his men.
ref: 1816, James Stanier Clarke, The Life of James the Second King of England Etc […] , page 14:
text: ―Answer was made, She wolde be muche bounden to me if I wolde maintaine yᵉ Rightes of my Familie, and lett all others from usinge of my propertie, when perceivinge Her to be of a livelie Witt, I went about to ingage her in converse, if onlie so I mighte looke into Her Eyes, wh. were of a coloure suche as I have never seene before, more like to a Pansie, or some such flower, than anything else I can compair with them.
ref: 1897, H. C. Bunner, “Love in Old Cloathes”, in Constance Fenimore Woolson, editor, Stories by American Authors (Volume 4):
glosses: Obsolete spelling of engage.
inground
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We snuck to the side of the house, and through a giant trellis we could see the glorious sparkling water in a half inground, half aboveground pool, complete with a beach ball and other floaty things.
ref: 2006 July 21, Liz Armstrong, “Summertime Slump”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: inside the ground
interpretership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interpreterships
Etymology: From interpreter + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: He came back to the frontiers and obtained an interpretership at the U.S. Agency at Mackinac.
ref: 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:
glosses: A qualification in interpreting
examples: text: Havelock had passed in London the examination necessary for the degree of a qualified Moonshee, or native tutor, and his Persian was so good that regularly throughout his life, when his superior officers wished to mark their appreciation of his services, they recommended him for an interpretership!
ref: 1909, Leonora Blanche Lang, The Red Book of Heroes:
glosses: The state of being an interpreter
interpretess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interpretesses
form: interpretress
Etymology: From interpreter + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: However, I chose to go incognito, to avoid any disputes about ceremony, and went in a Turkish coach, only attended by my woman, that held up my train, and the Greek lady, who was my interpretess.
ref: 1724, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e:
text: They were all (our interpretess whispered) the Sultan's "favourites," round-faced apricot-tinted girls in their teens, with high cheek-bones, full red lips, surprised brown eyes between curved-up Asiatic lids, and little brown hands fluttering out like birds from their brocaded sleeves.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, In Morocco:
glosses: A female interpreter.
intracrustal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + crustal.
Senses: examples: text: There are two main mechanisms that govern postseismic deformation: (i) viscoelastic relaxation in an intracrustal asthenospheric layer (4 ) and (ii) afterslip in a velocity-strengthening region above the coseismic rupture zone (5 ).
ref: 1998 November 6, J. C. Savage et al., “Detecting Strain in the Yucca Mountain Area, Nevada”, in Science, volume 282, number 5391, →DOI:
glosses: inside or within crusts
inwound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inwound
form: most inwound
Senses: examples: text: I decided to make my permanent residence in the East, and my wife and daughters whose affections were so deeply inwound with the Midland, loyally consented to follow, although it was a sad surrender for them.
ref: 1921, Hamlin Garland, A Daughter of the Middle Border:
text: Round the border hemmed with high deep hedges round Go the children, peering over or between Where the dense bright oval wall of box inwound, Reared about the roses fast within it bound, Gives them grace to glance at glories else unseen.
ref: 1917, Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Channel Passage and Other Poems:
text: Then wept for woe the damsel bound With iron and with anguish round, That none to help her grief was found Or loose the inextricably inwound Grim curse that girt her life with grief And made a burden of her breath, Harsh as the bitterness of death.
ref: 1896, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Tale of Balen:
text: With what blossomless flowerage of sea-foam and blood-coloured foliage inwound It shall crown as a heifer's for slaughter the forehead for marriage uncrowned?
ref: 1881, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Erechtheus:
glosses: enwound
inwoven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Into whose clay-built walls the necklace of pearls was inwoven
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
glosses: past participle of inweave
inwove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of inweave
inweaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inweave
inweaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inweave
irradiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irradiators
Etymology: From irradiate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Slides were then exposed to 365-nm ultraviolet (UV) light (Stratalinker 1800 UV irradiator) for 25 to 30 min.
ref: 2001 September 28, S. M. Bailey et al., “Strand-Specific Postreplicative Processing of Mammalian Telomeres”, in Science, volume 293, number 5539, →DOI, pages 2462–2465:
text: These PBMCs were inactivated by irradiation with 5000 roentgens in a cesium source irradiator and then washed twice.
ref: 1997 November 14, Diana Finzi et al., “Identification of a Reservoir for HIV-1 in Patients on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy”, in Science, volume 278, number 5341, →DOI, pages 1295–1300:
glosses: A device used to irradiate.
Related terms: radiationist
jeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jeasts
Senses: examples: text: Plume adds, "Sir John Mennes saw once his old father in his shop--a merry cheeked old man that said, 'Will was a good honest fellow, but he darest have crackt a jeast with him at any time.'"
ref: 1927, William Allan Nielson, The Facts About Shakespeare:
text: And after, at a feast, Which he the king did make, He burnt the bonds all in jeast, And would no money take.
ref: 1885, T. H., The History of Sir Richard Whittington:
glosses: jest
jibaro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jibaros
Etymology: From Spanish jíbaro.
Senses: examples: text: Also slated are Armonia Huasteca, a trio from the mountains of central Mexico that plays ranchera music with violin and lovely three-part harmonies; Edwin Colon Zayas y Su Taller Campesino, a superb Puerto Rican jibaro outfit led by a virtuoso of the cuatro, a small guitar with ten strings; and Irene Farrera, a Venezuelan-born singer-songwriter who now lives in Eugene, Oregon.
ref: 1999 October 1, Peter Margasak, “Toto La Momposina Y Sus Tambores”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A style of country music from Puerto Rico
examples: text: The cultivation of the crops is entirely in the hands of the jibaro, or peasant, who is seldom of direct Spanish descent, while the financiering and exportation is conducted almost entirely by peninsulares, or Spanish-born colonists, who monopolize every branch of commerce to the exclusion of the colonian-born subject.
ref: 1898, Murat Halstead, The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,:
glosses: A peasant from Puerto Rico
judgmatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more judgmatical
form: most judgmatical
Senses: examples: text: Ye provide weel for your family, although ye tak' no' the pleasure therein ye might hae ta'en had ye been content wi' ane wife, as the Holy Scriptures tell us is enough for ony mon, an' ye hae sufficient judgment to tak' the advice o' a judgmatical mon about your lands an' your herds; but when it comes to your ca'in' yoursel' a pirate captain, it is enough to make a deceased person chuckle by the absurdity o' it."
ref: 1902, Frank R. Stockton, Kate Bonnet:
text: "That's what I call judgmatical," old Mike shouted, with a voice that rivalled cannon; "whoever thought of that deserves three epulets, one on each shoulder and one upon his head.
ref: 1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven:
glosses: judicious
Derived terms: judgmatically
jusi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: husi
form: jussi
Etymology: From Philippine Spanish jusi, ultimately from Hokkien, possibly either:
* 富紗 /富纱 (hù se, literally “rich yarn”) or 富絲 /富丝 (hù si, literally “rich silk”), according to Chan-Yap(1980)
* 互紗 /互纱 (hō͘ se, literally “intertwining yarn”), according to Manuel(1948)
Compare Tagalog husi, Bikol Central husi, Cebuano husi, and Hiligaynon husi.
Senses: examples: text: It is made of jusi cloth, that is, cloth woven from banana leaf fiber.
ref: 1917, John Stuart Thomson, Fil and Filippa:
text: Her head covered with a handkerchief saturated in cologne, her body wrapped carefully in white sheets which swathed her youthful form with many folds, under curtains of jusi and pina, the girl lay on her kamagon bed.
ref: 1912, Jose Rizal, The Social Cancer:
glosses: a thin fabric woven from the fibers of the Manila plantain (abaca), Musa textilis, and pineapple leaves, to which filaments of imported silk are sometimes added and sometimes a little cotton. It is woven principally in Iloilo and western Luzon: used for women's dresses and, to some extent, for men's shirts.
jutty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jutties
Etymology: See jetty, jut, jet.
Senses: examples: text: The taking of life being displeasing to Buddha, outside many of the temples old women and children earn a livelihood by selling sparrows, small eels, carp, and tortoises, which the worshipper sets free in honour of the deity, within whose territory cocks and hens and doves, tame and unharmed, perch on every jutty, frieze, buttress, and coigne of vantage.
ref: 1910, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Tales of Old Japan:
text: I was (says our friend) at the Naval Hospital, at Yarmouth, on the morning when Nelson, after the battle of Copenhagen (having sent the wounded before him,) arrived at the Roads, and landed on the jutty.
ref: 1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,:
text: This guest of summer, the temple-haunting martlet, does approve by his mansionry that the heaven's breath smells wooingly here; no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A projection in a building; also, a pier or jetty
jutty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jutties
form: juttying
form: juttied
form: juttied
Etymology: See jetty, jut, jet.
Senses: glosses: To project outwards.
kerne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kernes
Senses: examples: text: Donald no sooner beheld his kinswoman than he dropped on his knee and with the wildest demonstrations of joy kissed the hand of the ragged kerne who supported her.
ref: 1902, William MacLeod Raine, A Daughter of Raasay:
text: April 11: The army advances again to Armagh, where it waits for galloglasse and kerne from the Pale.
ref: 1870, James Godkin, The Land-War In Ireland (1870):
glosses: Alternative spelling of kern.
sour krout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sour krouts
Senses: examples: text: Within the tropics, lime juice and sugar were made to suffice as antiscorbutics; on reaching a higher latitude, sour krout and vinegar were substituted; the essence of malt was reserved for the passage to New Holland, and for future occasions.
ref: 1919, Compiled by Gwendolen H. Swinburne, A Source Book Of Australian History:
text: "Tell me--you mean--" "The natives of the Emerald Isle, and those from the land of sour krout," said Mr. Jinks, with elegant paraphrase.
ref: 1856, John Esten Cooke, The Last of the Foresters:
text: Though it is somewhat anticipating events, it is convenient to record here the result of these efforts to defeat the hitherto unconquerable enemy. Mr. Perry's report at the termination of the voyage is as follows:-- "Sour krout, mustard, vinegar, wheat, inspissated orange and lemon juices, saloup, portable soup, sugar, molasses, vegetables (at all times when they could be got) were, some in constant, others in occasional use.
ref: 1893, James Cook, Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World:
glosses: Archaic spelling of sauerkraut.
mesiobuccal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesio- + buccal.
Senses: examples: text: Molar buccal cingulae are absent except for tiny remnants at the base of the buccal cleft and on the mesiobuccal surface of the protoconid of M 1 .
ref: 1999 August 27, Steve Ward et al., “Equatorius: A New Hominoid Genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya”, in Science, volume 285, number 5432, →DOI, pages 1382–1386:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the mesial and the buccal surfaces of a tooth.
Derived terms: mesiobuccally