cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mustee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌˈstiː/
ipa: /mʌsˈtiː/
ipa: /ˈmʌstiː/
ipa: /məˈsti/
ipa: /ˈməsti/
Forms: form: mustees
Etymology: From mestizo (noun).
Senses: examples: text: a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee; the child of a white man by a mustee woman is a mustiphini;
ref: 1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493
text: Near the commencement of the weeding season of 1835, I was ordered to whip a young woman, a light mustee, for not performing her task.
ref: 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus:
synonyms: octaroon
octoroon
glosses: A person of one-eighth African ancestry.
Coordinate terms: sense: person of mixed race
word: list in mulatto
Derived terms: musteefino
mustiphini
mylonitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mylonite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Fibrous strain fringes up to ~12 mm long surrounding large (~5 mm) pyrites were collected from mylonitic carbonate-rich slates of Aptian age [~110 million years ago (Ma)] in the immediate hanging wall of a north-directed thrust of the Northern Pyrenees near Lourdes, France.
ref: 2000 June 23, Wolfgang Muller et al., “Isotopic Dating of Strain Fringe Increments: Duration and Rates of Deformation in Shear Zones”, in Science, volume 288, number 5474, →DOI, pages 2195–2198:
glosses: Containing mylonite.
myrtled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myrtled
form: most myrtled
Etymology: From myrtle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Thee our Muses invite to these enjoyments; Thee those billows allure, the myrtled seashore, Birds allure with a song, and mighty Gaurus Twines his redolent wreath of vines and ivy.
ref: 1884, John Addington Symonds, New Italian sketches:
text: So, by this glorious lane, over the myrtled hills and down into valleys, whose bed was one hue of rose from the blossoming oleanders, we travelled for five hours, crossing the low ranges of hills through which the Orontes forces his way to the sea.
ref: 1863, Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen:
text: Loud wail the dwellers on the myrtled coasts, The green savannas swell the maddened cry, And with a yell from all the demon hosts Falls the great star called Wormwood from the sky!
ref: 1842, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete:
glosses: containing myrtle
raspatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raspatory
raspatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raspatories
Etymology: From Latin raspatorium. Compare French raspatoir. See rasp.
Senses: examples: text: I put into his Mouth a Raspatory, and, fixing it between the root of his Tongue, and edge of that Tonsil, pulled away the corrupt Flesh
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
text: Through this hole raspatories may be introduced of various sizes and shapes, until the muco-periosteum is detached from one side of the palate; the raspatory will not separate the muco-periosteum from its attachment to the posterior margin of the bony palate, where also the fascia of the soft palate is firmly attached; for this, curved scissors can be used, the palate being drawn forward with a hook and the scissors passed behind the palate.
ref: 1871, Saint Bartholomew's Hospital reports, volume 7, page 163:
glosses: A surgeon's rasp.
myristylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: myristylates
form: myristylating
form: myristylated
form: myristylated
Etymology: From myristyl + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Src42A myri has a point mutation in codon 2, which causes an amino acid substitution from Gly 2 to Asp. Gly 2 is conserved in all members of the Src family and must be myristylated for localization of Src to the cellular membrane in mammals (10 ).
ref: 2000 January 14, Minoru Tateno et al., “Regulation of JNK by Src During Drosophila Development”, in Science, volume 287, number 5451, →DOI, pages 324–327:
text: Similarly, FRS2, which is myristylated and has a potential PTB domain, is specifically phosphorylated by receptors for fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and nerve growth factor (NGF) (39 ).
ref: 1997 December 19, Tony Pawson, John D. Scott, “Signaling Through Scaffold, Anchoring, and Adaptor Proteins”, in Science, volume 278, number 5346, →DOI, pages 2075–2080:
glosses: To undergo myristoylation.
haematitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haematitic
form: most haematitic
Etymology: From haematite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hematitic.
nationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nation + -less.
Senses: examples: text: But if The Zenith Angle is never much more than a muddled adventure tale of cybersecurity in the war on terror, its meditation on the twin natures of the Internet and Al Qaeda (nationless and nebulous, thus so posthuman) is certainly neat enough.
ref: 2004 April 23, Patrick Daily, “Bruce Sterling”, in Chicago Reader:
text: And now, with the tyranny of wrongful power, "The loathsome mark has fallen, the mall remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise."
ref: 1913, Sydney Waterlow, Shelley:
text: These predictions cannot apply to the Jews, for they are few, nationless, and without a government.
ref: 1882, Joseph Wild, The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882:
glosses: Without a nation, not belonging to any nation.
Synonyms: citizenshipless
countryless
stateless
Derived terms: nationlessness
nainsell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nainsel
Etymology: From nain (from reanalysis of an own, mine own etc. as a nain, my nain) + sell, alternative form of self.
Senses: examples: text: "Gin ye hae your appetite wi' you we'll eat, Mr. Montagu, for I'm a wee thingie hungry my nainsell (myself).
ref: 1902, William MacLeod Raine, A Daughter of Raasay:
text: Forsooth her nainsell lives by thift.
ref: 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3):
glosses: self
narial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˈnɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Senses: examples: text: Data on turtles and mammals were collected from the literature, numerous dried skulls, and dissection notes and accumulated experience; the stereoradiographic techniques were not used for these clades partly because turtles and mammals are less relevant for inferences about dinosaurs but mostly because the narial anatomy of turtles and mammals clearly dictates the rostral position of the fleshy nostril relative to the bony nostril.
ref: 2009, Science, pages 850–853:
text: The asymmetry of the bones too is remarkable, although this is characteristic of all the catodon whales, especially as regards the bones of the anterior narial passages, the left of which is very much larger than the right.
ref: 1884, Robert A. Sterndale, Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon:
glosses: Relating to, or located at or near, the nares
Derived terms: circumnarial
internarial
intranarial
perinarial
postnarial
prenarial
subnarial
supranarial
nather
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: "Weel, then," said Jem, imperfectly comprehending the signs made to him by the reeve, "the hut looks nather to t' south naw to t' north, but to t' west; it feaces t' moor; an there is a path fro' it to Hook Cliff."
ref: 1854, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches:
glosses: neither
neoprimitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neoprimitive
form: most neoprimitive
Etymology: From neo- + primitive.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps an equivalent influence on Davies is the movie The Night of the Hunter and its arsenal of neoprimitive, childlike imagery and rural, homespun folk poetry--its starry skies and oversized moon, its troubled Christianity, its lyricized and almost generic treatment of madness, its period street scenes that remind you of magazine ads for hair tonic and talcum powder.
ref: 1996 April 5, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “These Magic Moments”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Related to the neoprimitivism movement.
nickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nickles
Senses: glosses: European green woodpecker (Picus viridis).
nickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On top of the card place a dime or nickle; this should be exactly over the tip of the finger and in the middle of the card.
ref: 1922, Jessie H. Bancroft, Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium:
text: Sweet rolls, the kind that sell four for a nickle at home, cost two for a nickle.
ref: 1919, Edward Alva Trueblood, In the Flash Ranging Service:
text: There were times when he was even constrained to hope that, by the same Great Influence, a spark of magnanimity had been awakened in Christie's abandoned soul; and once, when Eliza reported that her "pa" had given her a nickle, he almost believed that those seemingly ineffective words of his had, thanks to that same all-powerful intervention, made an impression.
ref: 1894, Anna Fuller, Peak and Prairie:
text: There were times when he was even constrained to hope that, by the same Great Influence, a spark of magnanimity had been awakened in Christie's abandoned soul; and once, when Eliza reported that her "pa" had given her a nickle, he almost believed that those seemingly ineffective words of his had, thanks to that same all-powerful intervention, made an impression.
ref: 1894, Anna Fuller, Peak and Prairie:
glosses: Misspelling of nickel.
nowdays
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Oh, A know vera well, we've no time for an old or a new dispensation nowdays.
ref: 1913, Agnes C. Laut, The Freebooters of the Wilderness:
text: I s'pose if the gen'ral run of trotters never got better 'n three 'n a half that a hoss that c'd do it in three 'd be fast, but we don't call 'em so nowdays.
ref: 1899, Edward Noyes Westcott, David Harum:
text: He didn't know any more than little mites of Sunday-school children do nowdays.
ref: 1876, Pansy, Four Girls at Chautauqua:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of nowadays.
glosses: Misspelling of nowadays.
glosses: Alternative form of nowadays.
noxiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noxiousnesses
Etymology: From noxious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Though she's superficial to the point of noxiousness and obsessed with amassing cultural cache, her ridiculous affectations make up for it.
ref: 2007 June 8, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader:
text: If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the[…]hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
text: Among the worst jobs in science, according to the October issue of Popular Science: (15) fish counters, who watch the fish ladders built into dams in the Pacific Northwest for eight hours at a time, pressing a particular button every time they see a fish of a certain species swim past; (11) the two remaining government bureaucrats whose job it is to convince Americans of the merits of the metric system; (4) mosquito researchers in Brazil, who endure up to 17 bites a minute on three-hour shifts (the most troublesome species only responds to human bait) and hope not to get malaria; (1) flatus odor judges working for Minnesota gastroenterologist Michael Levitt, who feeds subjects pinto beans, gathers the resulting gases in plastic tubes, and then has the judges sniff more than 100 samples, rating them for noxiousness (the chief culprit seems to be hydrogen sulfide).
ref: 2003 November 28, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Ripening blackberries even now loaded the bramble bushes, but the foul noxiousness of gas shells had made them uneatable.
ref: 1919, George Herbert Fosdike Nichols (a.k.a. Quex), Pushed and the Return Push:
text: Until that quarrel, the exceeding noxiousness of the Papal doctrine had not clearly presented itself to Mr. Moze.
ref: 1916, E. Arnold Bennett, The Lion's Share:
text: Whatever he has assigned to each at the first creation, noxiousness or harmlessness, gentleness or ferocity, virtue or sin, truth or falsehood, that clings to it."
ref: 1891, Frank F. Ellinwood, Oriental Religions and Christianity:
text: He only perceived a difference in the degrees of their noxiousness to Europe.
ref: 1858, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2:
glosses: the state of being noxious
nubility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nubilities
Senses: examples: text: It's certainly no disgrace to have been ripped off by a pretty-faced hustler--who among us has not mistaken nubility for genius?
ref: 1993 June 11, Mary Shen Barnidge, “Mean Tears”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In France, more than half the women who have reached the age of nubility are married; in Ireland, generally speaking, less than a third.
ref: 1922, Henry Stanton, Sex:
text: Among the northern clans of the Thonga tribe, in South-Eastern Africa, about Delagoa Bay, when a girl thinks that the time of her nubility is near, she chooses an adoptive mother, perhaps in a neighbouring village.
ref: 1913, Sir James George Frazer, Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.:
text: Among most modern nations, the civil laws fixing the earliest date of marriage seem to have been made without any reference to physiology, or with the mistaken notion that puberty and nubility are identical.
ref: 1881, John Harvey Kellogg, Plain Facts for Old and Young:
glosses: The property or state of being nubile
Synonyms: marriageable
Related terms: nubile
outswim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outswims
form: outswimming
form: outswam
form: outswum
Etymology: From out- + swim.
Senses: examples: text: Last July in Berkeley, California, a 38-year-old man under the influence of alcohol drowned after a 50-year-old man offered to give him his car if the younger man could outswim him in San Francisco Bay....That same month a 45-year-old man drowned off Cabo San Lucas, at the southern tip of Baja California, Mexico, while trying to surf the ten-foot waves caused by Hurricane Juliette....
ref: 2002 January 11, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader:
text: He was not afraid now; tortoises do not fight unless attacked, and the boy could easily outswim any of the clumsy creatures.
ref: 1917, Florence Partello Stuart, The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy:
text: Fish! that didst outswim the flood; Tortoise! whereon earth hath stood; Boar! who with thy tush held'st high The world, that mortals might not die; Lion! who hast giants torn; Dwarf! who laugh'dst a king to scorn; Sole Subduer of the Dreaded!
ref: 1904, Edwin Arnold, Indian Poetry:
text: The general belief was that this lad, through some strange mischance, had also fallen into the river, a belief which was quickly dispelled by another boy, no doubt his playmate, calling out,-- "That's my chum, Tom, and you needn't be afraid of him; he can outswim a duck and a goose and a fish all together; he jumped over to save that little girl, seeing as all you big men was afraid--and you can just bet he'll do it too."
ref: 1894, Edward S. Ellis, Brave Tom:
text: * It scarcely breathes with its one lung (the other shriveled and abortive); it is passive to the sun and shade, and is cold or hot like a stone; yet "it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the zebra, outwrestle the athlete, and crush the tiger."
ref: 1869, John Ruskin, The Queen of the Air:
text: Master Frank was two or three years my senior, and before he went to sea, not going to the same school as myself, we got together only during the vacations; when, notwithstanding my prowess, he would fag me desperately at cricket, outswim me on the lake and out-cap me at making Latin verses.
ref: 1848, Edward Howard, Rattlin the Reefer:
hypernyms: outpace
glosses: To swim faster, farther or better than.
overfondness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + fondness or from overfond + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Pryor's overfondness for medium-tempo shuffles can make his shows a little predictable, and his stage presence is more sincere than flamboyant.
ref: 1997 July 4, David Whiteis, “Snooky Pryor”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Where those old songs give one a reassuring feeling even as they discuss personal calamities--losing a lover, or a job, or family, or discovering an overfondness for something addictive like alcohol, or pot, or, again, love--McFerrin's calamities are of the easily overcome, cardboard sort that appear in brief glimpses during ads depicting Reagan's America, brief signs of the bad that we can shoo away if we only keep up a good mental attitude.
ref: 1988 December 23, Ted Cox, “Don't Worry--Turn the Radio Off”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The brilliant light which blazed around the Throne could find no fault in the actual performance of any duty; but the critical eye and caustic pen had been prone for some years to allege an overfondness for pleasure and amusement and the pursuits of social life.
ref: 1910, J. Castell Hopkins, The Life of King Edward VII:
glosses: Excessive fondness.
ownest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: own + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of own
owneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: own + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of own
penecontemporaneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From penecontemporaneous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Our study shows that chondrules formed at higher pressures relative to canonical solar nebula pressures and that some chondrules and CAIs formed penecontemporaneously.
ref: 2000 December 1, Albert Galy et al., “The Formation of Chondrules at High Gas Pressures in the Solar Nebula”, in Science, volume 290, number 5497, →DOI, pages 1751–1753:
glosses: in a penecontemporaneous way
pouchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aʊtʃi
Forms: form: pouchier
form: pouchiest
Etymology: From pouch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He had a trick which I noticed even then, which grew on him later, of pulling his jowl with his right hand as he spoke, and his jowl was already fat and pouchy.
ref: 1918, Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2):
glosses: Resembling a pouch; baggy
Synonyms: loose
saggy
loose-fitting
eviration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin eviratio.
Senses: examples: text: Essentially, then, it was the fear of “eviration,” rather than any overt hostility to women, that excited Rousseauian passions.
ref: 1995, Gary Kates, Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman, BasicBooks, page 170:
glosses: Emasculation; effeminacy.
anelectrotonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + electrotonus.
Senses: examples: text: the impulse is generated only at the anode where the nerve passes suddenly back from anelectrotonus into a normal condition.
ref: 1878, Sir Michaek Foster, A Text book of physiology:
glosses: The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it.
Derived terms: anelectrotonic
willower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willowers
Senses: glosses: A machine for cleaning wool etc.; a willowing machine.
willowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of willower
delibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delibrations
Etymology: From de- + Latin liber (“bark”) + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Coniferous and broadleaved wood destined for delibration or pulping by mechanical, chemical or combined means.
ref: 1966, Timber Statistics for Europe - Volume 19:
topics: business
forestry
glosses: The act of stripping off bark.
glosses: Obsolete form of deliberation.
delibrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delibration
intendancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intendancy
intendancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intendancies
Etymology: From intendant + -cy. Compare French intendance.
Senses: glosses: The office or employment of an intendant.
glosses: A territorial district overseen by an intendant.
expetible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expetible
form: most expetible
Etymology: Latin, expetibilis, from expeto (“I wish for, I aspire to”), from ex (“out”) + peto (“I seek”)
Senses: examples: 1679 (original publication date), Timothy Puller, The Moderation of the Church of England
Uniformity in religious and ecclesiastical matters sure is so excellent and desirable again, that certainly an establishment, somewhat less perfect, with "being of the same mind so far as we have attained," and with a regular and effectual observation of good laws, is more expetible, than an appointment, in some cases more perfect, without the same uniform order and peace therewith.
glosses: Worthy of being wished for; desirable or sought after
pinpatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinpatches
Senses: glosses: A mollusk, the periwinkle.
pinpatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinpatch
exigenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exigenters
Etymology: From exigent + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There are also four Exigenters, whose Office is to make all Exigents and Proclamations in all Actions where Process of Outlawry doth lye.
ref: 1672, Edward Chamberlayne, Angliae Notitia:
topics: law
glosses: An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was to make out exigents.
exigenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exigenter
cenobitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenobitism
form: cœnobitism
Etymology: From cenobite + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The baides in which the early christians took refuge in the ages of cenobitism or of persecution
ref: 1837, Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Robert Huish, Travels in the Holy Land:
glosses: The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.
preelect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preelects
form: preelecting
form: preelected
form: preelected
form: pre-elect
Etymology: From pre- + elect.
Senses: synonyms: forechoose
glosses: To elect beforehand
preelected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preelect
preelecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preelect
preelects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preelect
berycoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more berycoid
form: most berycoid
Etymology: From Beryx + -oid; Beryx is the typical genus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling or relating to the Berycidae, a family of marine fishes.
subpena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpenas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subpoena.
subpena
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subpenas
form: subpenaing
form: subpenaed
form: subpenaed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subpoena.
subpenas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpena
subpenas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subpena
subpenaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subpena
subpenaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subpena
unbethink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbethinks
form: unbethinking
form: unbethought
form: unbethought
Etymology: From un- + bethink.
Senses: examples: text: I unbethought myself.
glosses: To change one's mind, or to forget.
unbethinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbethink
unbethought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbethink
guarish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: guarishes
form: guarishing
form: guarished
form: guarished
Etymology: From the stem of Old French guarir, garir, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Mayd / His readie vvound with better ſalues new dreſt, / Daily ſhe dreſſed him, and did the beſt / His grieuous hurt to guariſh, that ſhe might, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 41, page 473:
glosses: To heal or cure.
guarished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of guarish
parrotries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parrotry
parrotry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parrotries
Etymology: From parrot + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: This sentiment is so lugged into every debate, that it has degenerated into mere parrotry.
ref: 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman, number 3:
text: The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apemanship and parrotry conforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary […].
ref: 1986, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind, Heinemann, published 2005, page 2:
glosses: Thoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition.
feateous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feateous
form: most feateous
Etymology: Compare Old French faitis, faitice, fetis (“well made, fine”), Latin facticius (“made by art”).
Senses: glosses: dexterous; neat
Related terms: feateously
parrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parrocks
Etymology: From Middle English parrok, from Old English pearruc, pearroc (“clatrum, fence by which a space is enclosed, enclosure, enclosed land”), perhaps from post-classic Latin parricus (compare park). Cognate with Dutch perk (“flowerbed”), German Pferch (“pen, fold”).
Senses: examples: text: James Broadbent did not wonder what Isaac Hartley was doing in the sodden parrock that lay behind Elphaborough Hall in the fading light of day […].
ref: 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 231:
glosses: An enclosed area of land; a small field or a paddock.
parrock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parrocks
form: parrocking
form: parrocked
form: parrocked
Etymology: From Middle English parroken, parrokken, from parrok. See above.
Senses: glosses: To enclose or shut in; park.
parrocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parrock
yellowred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yellowred
form: most yellowred
Senses: examples: text: Coxa grey, grey haired, femur blackbrown, yellowwhite haired along the distal lateral border, tibia redbrown to blackbrown, yellowred haired at base, then black haired.
ref: 1926, Treubia
text: Head: Triangular; clypeus enclosed; cheeks surrounding clypeus are nearly straight extending in front of compound eyes; antennae pinkish or of yellowred tile with last article darker; second article longer than third one [...]
ref: 1971, Benakeio Phytopathologiko Institouto, Chronika tou Benakeiou Phytopathologikou Institoutou:
text: “I’ll do it,” said Dolly, and getting up, she carefully passed the spoon over the frothing sugar, and from time to time shook off the clinging jam from the spoon by knocking it on a plate that was covered with yellowred scum and blood-colored syrup.
ref: 2003, Leo Tolstoy, Amy Mandelker, Constance Garnett, Anna Karenina:
glosses: Alternative form of yellow-red.
yellowred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowreds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yellow-red.
insecable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin insecabilis, from in- (“not”) + secabilis (“that may be cut”). Compare French insecable.
Senses: glosses: indivisible (literal or figurative)
glint in the milkman's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glints in the milkman's eye
Etymology: Created by analogy with similar expressions such "a glint in your father's eye", but implying the child was conceived adulterously; milkmen, visiting housewives while their husbands would have been at work, are often associated with adultery.
Senses: examples: text: It’s no wonder then that, musically, from Summer Camp to Best Coast, we’ve stepped into a sepia time machine recently, transported back to a golden age where romance abounded and Justin Bieber was a mere glint in the milkman’s eye.
ref: 2010, Lisa Wright, “Album review: Twin Shadow - Forget (4AD)”, in NME:
text: "And which Pitt would this be? Pitt the Toddler? Pitt the Embryo? Pitt the Glint in the Milkman's Eye?"
ref: 1987, “Dish and Dishonesty”, in Blackadder the Third:
glosses: Someone or something that has not been born or conceived yet.
Synonyms: twinkle in one's daddy's eye
twinkle in one's father's eye
per say
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of per se.
sex hormones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex hormone
breast augmentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breast augmentation
tonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tonic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Slow-developing changes in the population response of the tonically active neurons of the striatum, putative interneurons, have also been found [ T. Aosaki, et al., J. Neurosci.
ref: 1999 November 26, Mandar S. Jog et al., “Building Neural Representations of Habits”, in Science, volume 286, number 5445, →DOI, pages 1745–1749:
text: Force must not be used, but steady firm pressure against the tonically contracted cricopharyngeus is made, while at the same time the distal end of the esophagoscope is lifted by the left thumb.
ref: 1922, Chevalier Jackson, Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy:
text: It is too proud, too austere, too true, and too tonically cruel to appeal to mandarins.
ref: 1917, Arnold Bennett, Books and Persons:
text: The Bookstore, fondest of my father's resorts, though I remember no more of its public identity than that it further enriched the brave depth of Broadway, was overwhelmingly and irresistibly English, as not less tonically English was our principal host there, with whom we had moreover, my father and I, thanks to his office, such personal and genial relations that I recall seeing him grace our board at home, in company with his wife, whose vocal strain and complexion and coiffure and flounces I found none the less informing, none the less "racial," for my not being then versed in the language of analysis.
ref: 1913, Henry James, A Small Boy and Others:
text: The preceding, for instance, proceeds regularly in the key of G in all respects but the very ending of each strain, which takes place in the key of C. Or to speak tonically, the melody and accompaniment after being written nearly all the way in the key of Do, suddenly diverge to the key of Fa, and there close.
ref: 1891, W. S. B. Mathews, A Popular History of the Art of Music:
glosses: in a tonic manner
toothful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothfuls
Etymology: From tooth + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The signal officer was looking wise over something that boomed and buzzed alternately; the machine-gun officer may, or may not, have been enjoying another toothful.
ref: 1917, H. C. McNeile, No Man's Land:
text: "Give her a toothful of whisky, your ladyship.
ref: 1901, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Penelope's Irish Experiences:
text: "Thank you," said David a minute or two later on, holding out the glass while John poured, "jest a wisdom toothful.
ref: 1899, Edward Noyes Westcott, David Harum:
text: Of course it is better late than never, only not much bliss follows late attendance, and hardly a toothful of ecstacy can be obtained in three-quarters of a minute.
ref: 1869, Atticus, Our Churches and Chapels:
glosses: A small amount, especially a small alcoholic drink.
toothful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toothful
form: most toothful
Etymology: From tooth + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: a toothful grin
synonyms: teethful
glosses: Toothy; showing the teeth.
glosses: Toothsome.
thrasonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thrasonic
form: most thrasonic
Senses: examples: text: In praise of Brandenburg the Shouting Emperor spoke, In language like a huge thrasonic joke.
ref: 1892, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 5, 1892:
text: Tu-Kila-Kila lifted himself up in his thrasonic mood.
ref: 1890, Grant Allen, The Great Taboo:
text: But we cannot expect a foreign nation to show that apathy to the answers of the President, which are more thrasonic than the addresses.
ref: 1789, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson:
glosses: thrasonical
thicke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The ground is couered thicke with pokickeries (which is a wild Wall-nut very hard and thick of shell; but the meate (though little) is passing sweete,) with black Wall-nuts, and acorns bigger than Ours.
ref: 1733, Various, Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II:
text: Looke thou no further, but affixe thine eye 50 On that bright shynie round still moving masse, The house of blessed God, which men call Skye, All sowd with glistring stars more thicke then grasse, Whereof each other doth in brightnesse passe, But those two most, which, ruling night and day, 55 As king and queene the heavens empire sway; And tell me then, what hast thou ever seene That to their beautie may compared bee?
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: The Dogs rushed in with such a cry, that all the Forrest rang againe with the noyse, but behold there leaped out no Goat, nor Deere, nor gentle Hinde, but an horrible and dangerous wild Boare, hard and thicke skinned, bristeled terribly with thornes, foming at the mouth, grinding his teeth, and looking direfully with fiery eyes.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of thick.
symphonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: symphonizes
form: symphonizing
form: symphonized
form: symphonized
form: symphonise
Senses: examples: text: to make the Texts they quit them in, Symphonize with their Tenents
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H[oly] Scriptures. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To agree; to be in harmony.
Related terms: symphony
superstitiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superstitiousnesses
Etymology: From superstitious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The characters are all quirky and life-size (the Dillon character's superstitiousness is one of the principal motors of the plot, and the story's outcome doesn't prove him wrong), and, as with the burglaries in Breaking In, the treatment of drugs is refreshingly free of either moralizing or romanticizing.
ref: 1989 October 27, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Drugstore Cowboy”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The accident that aroused it illustrates Indian superstitiousness.
ref: 1912, William Henry Johnson, French Pathfinders in North America:
text: Seeing the good that the Bible has wrought for man in the past, we may well emulate the reverence of these Karaites; while, seeing the unreality of the traditional notion of the Bible that they held, and the mischiefs it has bred, we may well disown their superstitiousness.
ref: 1883, R. Heber Newton, The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible:
glosses: superstition
subtility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈtɪlɪti/
Forms: form: subtilities
Etymology: From subtile + -ity, from Middle French subtilité, from Latin subtīlitas. See subtle. Doublet of subtlety.
Senses: examples: text: —L. By thus glorying in their resistance to the vice of Nature's law—if, indeed, anything natural be vicious—they become not only like inhuman and cruel beasts, but even like the devils whose pride and subtility they borrow.
ref: 1894, Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol.III. (of V.):
glosses: Cunning, craftiness.
examples: text: And that such their subtility might not be perceived, they made him a like paire of eares and nose of wax: wherfore you may see that the poore miser for lucre of a little mony sustained losse of his members.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
text: I cannot omit a subtility of one of those quack operators, with which he gulled the poor people to crowd about him, but did nothing for them without money.
ref: 1665, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:
glosses: A cunning scheme; a trick, a con.
examples: text: But these scruples, if not too intricate, are of too extensive consideration for my present purpose, nor are they such as generally occur in common life; and though casuistical knowledge be useful in proper hands, yet it ought by no means to be carelessly exposed, since most will use it rather to lull than awaken their own consciences; and the threads of reasoning, on which truth is suspended, are frequently drawn to such subtility, that common eyes cannot perceive, and common sensibility cannot feel them. 18.
ref: 1802, John Hamilton Moore, The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant:
glosses: Excessive refinement of argument; casuistry.
examples: text: There is no subtilitie so vaine, but confounds me.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A convoluted or refined argument.
examples: text: As we rise in the scale of forces towards greater subtility, the forces become more important and efficient.
ref: 1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7:
glosses: Fineness; subtlety.
shirtings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirting
suitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suiting
trouserings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trousering
cross-correlations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-correlation
radio soundings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radio sounding
Argie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Argies
Etymology: A diminutive of Argentinian, formed as Arg- + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: The Argies attempted a half-hearted counter-offensive, but our artillery quickly put paid to that.
ref: 2012, Tony Banks, Storming The Falklands: My War and After:
glosses: An Argentine.
Related terms: Aussie
Hongkie
Paki
Sinkie
Argies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Argie
cannelé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannelés
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A style of interweaving giving a channelled or fluted effect to fabric.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A fabric woven so as to have this effect; a rep.
glosses: Alternative spelling of canelé (French filled pastry)
cookings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cooking
Neolithic Revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Neolithic Revolution
form: Neolithic revolution
Senses: examples: text: The end of the last ice age around 10,000 b.c. was followed by what is called the Neolithic Revolution; that is, the revolution that occurred in the New Stone Age (the word Neolithic is Greek for “New Stone.”)
ref: 1997, Jackson J[oseph] Spielvogel, “[The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations] The First Humans”, in Western Civilization, 3rd edition, volume I (To 1715), Saint Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 5, column 1:
text: The Neolithic Revolution (about 8000-3000 B.C.E.) was characterized by people moving from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles.
ref: 2004, Monty Armstrong, David Daniel, Abby Kanarek, Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2004-2005, The Princeton Review, page 328:
text: For most people, the concept of the Neolithic Revolution refers to the actual origin of agriculture with domesticated plants, this occurring in Southwest Asia in the late PPNA or early PPNB at around 9000-8500 BC.
ref: 2005, Peter S. Bellwood, The First Farmers: the origins of agricultural societies, Wiley-Blackwell, page 65
text: The Neolithic Revolution brought about the greatest material transformation in human history.
ref: 2010, I. Peter Martini, Landscapes and Societies: Selected Cases, Springer, page 25
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: the discovery of agriculture
Related terms: Upper Paleolithic Revolution
indiscussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + discussed.
Senses: examples: text: upon reaſons light in themselves or indiscussed in me
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:
glosses: Not discussed.
stroam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stroams
form: stroaming
form: stroamed
form: stroamed
Etymology: British dialect strome (“to walk with long strides”).
Senses: glosses: To wander about idly and without purpose.
glosses: To walk with long strides.
stroamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stroam
stroaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stroam
stroams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stroam
stadimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stadimeters
Etymology: From stadium + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances.
stadimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadimeter
playdough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playdoughs
form: playdoh
form: play-doh
Etymology: From play + dough.
Senses: glosses: Modeling clay for children.
electrepeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrepeters
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
electrepeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrepeter
subdeposit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdeposits
Etymology: From sub- + deposit.
Senses: examples: text: a subdeposit of rock
text: subdeposits of sand
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Something which is deposited beneath something else.
subdeposit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subdeposits
form: subdepositing
form: subdeposited
form: subdeposited
Etymology: From sub- + deposit.
Senses: topics: law
subdeposits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdeposit
cicatrizant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cicatrizant
form: most cicatrizant
Etymology: Compare French cicatrisant, properly the present participle of cicatriser.
Senses: glosses: That helps with healing, or with the formation of a scar
cicatrizant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cicatrizants
Etymology: Compare French cicatrisant, properly the present participle of cicatriser.
Senses: examples: text: used as a cicatrizant and analgesic
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medicine, ointment or similar application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a scar.
cicatrizants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cicatrizant
summities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summity
paduasoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paduasoys
form: padesoy
Etymology: From Padua (“a place name in Italy”) + French soie (“silk”). Compare French pou-de-soie, peau de soie.
Senses: glosses: A rich and heavy silk material.
examples: text: [M]y wife herself retained a passion for her crimson paduasoy, because I formerly happened to say it became her.
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
glosses: A garment made from this material.
intervent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪntə(ɹ)ˈvɛnt/
Etymology: See intervene.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of interventional.
intervented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intervent
interventing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intervent
intervents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intervent
dispost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disposts
form: disposting
form: disposted
form: disposted
Etymology: From dis- + post.
Senses: examples: text: Now, thinke thou see'st this Soule of sacred Zeale,
This kindling Cole of flaming Charitie,
Dispossed all in post; not for his weale,
But, for his further future miserie.)
ref: 1609, John Davies of Hereford, The Holy Roode:
glosses: To eject from a post; to displace.
disposted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispost
disposting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispost
disposts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispost
bharal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bharals
form: bharal
Etymology: From Hindi भड़ल (bhaṛal).
Senses: examples: text: On the way we disturbed the peace of three bharals and the female of a snow-cock ; the latter, with her brood hardly a week old, rose almost from my feet as I clambered round a rock tower.
ref: 1955, The Alpine Journal, volume 60, page 262:
text: In appearance, the bharal resembles both a sheep and a goat. Its horns are smooth, rounded and form a curve backwards over the neck. The fur is brownish grey in colour which attains a slaty grey hue in winter and becomes browner in summer. In Kumaun the bharal is found in the desolate tracts of northern Pithoragarh, usually on the slopes of the main Himalayan range where it lives between the timberline and the snowline.
ref: 1993, Sharad Singh Negi, Kumaun: The Land and the People, page 106:
text: 1997, A. David, Shivakumar, Animal World, page 52,
The bharal or the Blue Sheep also is a Tibetan animal found in Ladakh, Sikkim and Nepal. It is about 90 cm. high. The bharal is brownish-grey in colour, tinted with slaty-blue, more brown in summer and more slaty-blue in winter.
text: 2013, Q. Ashton Acton (general editor), Advances in Conservation Research and Application, 2013 Edition, page 142,
Among the wild prey, bharal (blue sheep/naur) Pseudois nayaur was by far the most common species (92%).
glosses: A blue sheep, being any species of the genus Pseudois, goatlike bovids of the Himalayas and western China with a bluish-grey coat; Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur).
Synonyms: sense: any species of Pseudois
word: blue sheep
sense: Pseudois nayaur
word: Himalayan blue sheep
sense: Pseudois nayaur
word: naur
paramaleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + maleic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: fumaric acid
Derived terms: paramaleate
trisulc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪsʌlk/
Etymology: Latin trisulcus; tri- (“three”) + sulcus (“a furrow”).
Senses: examples: text: Jupiter's trisulc
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Something having three forks or prongs, especially a trident.