cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
psittacofulvin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psittacofulvins
Senses: glosses: A type of yellow pigment found in the feathers of parrots
ventrad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ventrad
form: most ventrad
Etymology: From ventro- + -ad.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Toward the ventral side.
antizymotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antizymotic
form: most antizymotic
Etymology: From anti- + zymotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: antizymic
glosses: Preventing fermentation, decomposition, or similar enzyme activity.
antizymotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antizymotics
Etymology: From anti- + zymotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A substance that prevents fermentation or decomposition.
antizymotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antizymotic
balkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more balkish
form: most balkish
Etymology: From balk + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […] I was forthwyth reclaymed from my former resolution, reckening it for better, that my penne shoulde walke in such wyse in that craggie and balkishe way […]
ref: 1577, Richard Stanihurst, A plain and perfect description of Ireland, quoted in The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works:
glosses: uneven; ridgy
dvorniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dvornik
originable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From origin + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Self-poisoning is shown to be originable in the failure to burn off, by means of the oxygen which enters the blood in respiration, the poisonous substances formed in the body by the expenditure of force in living, and that this poison may afterward spread by contagion, and especially in overcrowded and underfed communities.
ref: 1887, The Methodist Review, volume 69, page 771:
glosses: Capable of being originated.
pregustation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregustations
Etymology: From pre- + gustation.
Senses: examples: text: simultaneous secretion and ingestion of Sw followed by egestion are natural components of the pregustation phase of host selection probes
ref: 2001, Kerry F. Harris, Oney P. Smith, James E. Duffus, Virus-Insect-Plant Interactions:
glosses: The act of tasting something beforehand; foretaste.
pregustations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pregustation
virole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viroles
Etymology: From French virole (“ferrule”). See ferrule.
Senses: examples: text: […] except when he has a hood, bells, virols, or rings, and leashes, in which case he is said to be hooded, belled, jessed, and leashed; […]
ref: 1836, Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, The Popular Encyclopedia;: pt. 1: England-Germany (literature and science), page 698:
text: The Florentine GUICCIARDINI bore : Azure, three hunting-horns argent, the mouth-pieces and viroles or, banded gules. Gules, three trumpets fessways in pale argent, is the canting coat of CALL (Baronets).
ref: 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 386:
text: Viroled- (vi-rold') Furnished with a virole or viroles. Said of a bugle or horn when borne with rings of a different tincture from the bugle itself.
ref: 1908, Arthur Francis Pimbley, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: Together with an Illustrated Supplement, page 67:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.
Related terms: veruled
viroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virole
rangatira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rangatiras
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori rangatira.
Senses: examples: text: Stout commoners on the left side, and real rangatira on the right distaff side. A New Zealander through and through.
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 99:
text: Defeated and captured rangatira became slaves, but they could regain their former status if they succeeded in escaping from their captors or eventually obtaining an honourable release.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 68:
glosses: A hereditary Māori leader of a kinship group; a chieftain or high-born Maori.
rangatiras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rangatira
hornblendic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hornblende + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: hornblendic schism
text: ...a gloomy sea of hornblendic granite...
ref: 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, The Atlantic:
glosses: Of or pertaining to hornblende.
Derived terms: subhornblendic
iridioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iridioscopes
Etymology: See iris, and -scope.
Senses: glosses: A kind of ophthalmoscope, invented in the 19th century, allowing a person to examine their own eye.
Related terms: iriscope
iridioscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iridioscope
infangthef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of infangthief.
housage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housages
Etymology: From house + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Warehouses were landed at the Wharfs and Warehouses of private Individuals, and that that was attended with the Loss to the Company of so much Wharfage and Housage
ref: 1841 May 10, Francis Twemlow, Report on Sunday Trading on Canals […] :
glosses: A fee for storing goods in a house.
housages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housage
Anglodom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Angledom
form: anglodom
Etymology: From Anglo + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: [...] to the less congenial soil of Scotland, New and Old England, and is still nourished in spiritual hothouses, in forms at once captivating and perplexing to the practical pious mind of Anglodom.
ref: 1902, William Cowper Conant, Salvation:
text: Our civilization, with all its aspirations, is industrial and commercial — and there is no morality in that competition worth priding ourselves upon. It isn't Yankeedom more than it is Anglodom.
ref: 1910, Lafcadio Hearn, Elizabeth Bisland, The Japanese letters of Lafcadio Hearn:
text: [...] and where English-speaking Africans will wage the liberation struggle, the primacy of "anglodom" in the African world is likely to continue in the future.
ref: 1987, Adelaide M. Cromwell, Dynamics of the African/Afro-American connection:
glosses: The realm, sphere, or influence of English or Anglo-American language or culture.
reciprocalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reciprocality
reciprocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reciprocalities
Etymology: From reciprocal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of being reciprocal.
Related terms: reciprocity
Yankeedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Yankee + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The region inhabited by Yankees.
examples: text: Our civilization, with all its aspirations, is industrial and commercial — and there is no morality in that competition worth priding ourselves upon. It isn't Yankeedom more than it is Anglodom.
ref: 1910, Lafcadio Hearn, Elizabeth Bisland, The Japanese letters of Lafcadio Hearn:
glosses: The condition, state, sphere, or influence of Yankees or of being a Yankee.
glosses: Yankees collectively.
meddlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meddlingly
form: most meddlingly
Etymology: From meddling + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: meddlesomely
glosses: In a meddling manner.
ministerially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ministerial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: After 20 weeks, two medical doctors from a ministerially appointed panel of at least six must agree the pregnant woman or foetus has a severe medical condition.
ref: 2018 September 13, Erica Miller, “Where Australia stands on abortion”, in CNN:
glosses: In the character or capacity of a minister.
feveret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feverets
Etymology: From fever + -et.
Senses: examples: text: A light feveret, or an old quartan ague, is not a sufficient excuse for non-appearance.
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
glosses: A slight fever.
feverets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feveret
uncypher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncyphers
form: uncyphering
form: uncyphered
form: uncyphered
Etymology: From un- + cypher.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncipher.
uncyphered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncypher
uncyphering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncypher
uncyphers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncypher
unrazored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + razored.
Senses: examples: text: quote
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page en:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: Not shaven; unshaven.
monocarbonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + carbonic.
Senses: examples: text: Acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: monocarboxylic (containing a single carboxyl group).
Vinny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Vincent + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Vincent.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Lavinia.
linoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linoxins
form: linoxyn
Etymology: From linoleic + oxygen + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A resinous substance obtained as an oxidation product of linoleic acid.
linoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linoxin
Natchezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Natchez
lardries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lardry
lardry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lardries
Etymology: See lardery.
Senses: glosses: A larder.
Jonesy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊnzi/
Forms: form: Jonesie
form: Jonesey
form: Jonesi
Etymology: From Jones + -y.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of Jones. A nickname of the surname Jones.
hattock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hattocks
Etymology: From hat + -ock (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: glosses: A small hat.
Derived terms: horse and hattock
hattock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hattocks
Etymology: From Old Norse hǫttr (“cowl or covering”) + -ock (“diminutive suffix”). Compare dialectal Swedish hatt (“the covering of a corn-rick”).
Senses: glosses: A shock of standing sheaves of corn or grain, the tops of which are covered and protected by two sheaves laid in such a way as to carry off rain; the two covering sheaves, also called hood sheaves or hooders.
glosses: A hole in a roof where owls lodge.
hattocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hattock
Smithy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Smith + -y.
Senses: glosses: A nickname of the surname Smith.
Wrighty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wright + -y.
Senses: glosses: A nickname for the surname Wright.
glosses: Nickname for Steve Wright (1954–2024), English radio broadcaster.
foremeant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + meant.
Senses: examples: text: it must be clearly understood that no general enquiry into the relations between man and the animal kingdom was foremeant
ref: 1879, Edward Williams Byron Nicholson, The Rights of an Animal:
glosses: Intended beforehand; premeditated.
Related terms: foremeaning
suprasphenoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + sphenoidal.
Senses: examples: the suprasphenoidal appendage, or pituitary body
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated above the sphenoidal bone.
Greeny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Green + -y.
Senses: glosses: A nickname of the surname Green.
examples: text: Eh? What are you saying? Goblins are people too?! HELL NO! Goblins are responsible for all the world's evils! We must CLEANSE Enroth of the Goblin scum that has infested it! DOWN WITH GREENY!
ref: 1998 May 29, Gorgeous George, “Re: Little disturbed by killing minorities in MM6”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg (Usenet), message-ID <356eea00.232031671@news.feist.com>:
text: Terra: It's a freaking nightmare. Just leave me alone. I'm okay, so get going. You heard me. Get going. You too, Greeny. [referring to Beast Boy, a superhero with green skin]
ref: 2017, Teen Titans: The Judas Contract:
glosses: A nickname for someone (e.g., a fictional character or a creature of myth) who is green.
Clarkey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Clarke + -y.
Senses: glosses: A nickname of the surname Clarke.
Haytian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Haytian
form: most Haytian
Etymology: From Hayti + -an.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Haitian.
Haytian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haytians
Etymology: From Hayti + -an.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Haitian.
Smythy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Quinny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Quinn + -y.
Senses: glosses: A nickname of the surname Quinn.
Hughesy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hughes + -y.
Senses: glosses: A nickname of the surname Hughes.
seismic design
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An authorized engineering procedure meant to plan new or retrofited structures or systems subject to earthquake exposure.
barebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bareback
Haytians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haytian
extraregular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + regular.
Senses: examples: text: If any extraregular example hath ever happened , that may be made use of to affright men[…]
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
text: Mathilda became a nun, and Adelheid cherished her monastic friendships with Cluniac monks, but extraregular widowed piety was also presented as a viable option for widowed holiness.
ref: 2002, Katherine Ann Clark, Pious Widowhood in the Middle Ages, page 102:
text: While most recent suggestions have focused on the monastic, it may be worth remembering that Jonah was a favourite of lay and extraregular readers well into the Reformation, when it was tranlated by Tyndale and supplied with a passionate prologue on the nature of Christian patience.
ref: 2002, David Lawton, “Englishing the Bible”, in David Wallace, editor, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, page 480:
text: Attempts to ascertain the institutional origins of these extraregular movements have met with varied success .
ref: 2012, Joanne Maguire Robinson, Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Soulspage=29:
glosses: Not covered by a rule or rules; not fitting into a system.
examples: text: Transformed deviants tend to become not merely moral but hypermoral. They are not simply "reformed" or "rehabilitated" into regular people with regular jobs and regular lives. They become extraregular people , have extraregular jobs ( even if the job is not the way they make a living ) , and live extraregular lives .
ref: 2002, John Lofland, Deviance and Identity, page 282:
glosses: Hypernormal.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Meeting stricter criteria than those which define a regular (object, function, space, etc)
Derived terms: extraregularly
vivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French vivres, plural of vivre (“to live”).
Senses: examples: text: I'll join you at three, if the vivers can tarry so long.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: provisions; victuals
missishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From missish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being missish.
missishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more missishly
form: most missishly
Etymology: From missish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a missish manner.
gatherable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gather + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being gathered or collected.
examples: text: The Priest hood of the first born is gatherable hence because the Levites were appointed to the service of the Altar, instead of the first born
ref: 1625, Thomas Godwyn, Moses and Aaron, or Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites Used by the Ancient Hebrews:
glosses: Deducible from premises.
Hebraistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hebraistic
form: most Hebraistic
Etymology: From Hebraist + -ic or Hebra- + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Hebraistic genitives
text: Hebraistic studies
glosses: Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language.
woolenet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolenets
form: woolenette
form: woollenet
form: woollenette
Senses: glosses: A thin, light woollen fabric.
rufol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin rufus (“reddish”) + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenol derivative of anthracene which on oxidation produces a red dyestuff related to anthraquinone.
unctious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unctious
form: most unctious
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unctuous.
synonyms: word: unctuous
equeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equery
equery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equeries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of equerry.
power off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powers off
form: powering off
form: powered off
form: powered off
Senses: glosses: To turn off, to cut the power to.
Synonyms: de-energize
depower
power down
Johannisberger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Johannisbergers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Johannisberger, from Johannisberg + -er.
Senses: glosses: A fine white wine, using Riesling grapes, produced on the estate of Castle Johannisberg, Germany, on the north bank of the river Rhine.
Johannisbergers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Johannisberger
power on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powers on
form: powering on
form: powered on
form: powered on
Senses: glosses: To turn on (an electrical device).
transferography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From transfer + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of copying inscriptions etc. by making transfers (such as on stone)
off-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off-minded
form: most off-minded
form: offminded
Etymology: From off- + minded.
Senses: examples: text: So, on a certain occasion, old Doacon Jones "drapped" in his "quarter" without uttering the conventional pleading grunt, which remiss was noted by the preacher — the Deacon being a little off-minded, as his wife, had recently died, [...]
ref: 1892, Southern practitioner:
glosses: Absent-minded; distracted; being of less than sound mind; mentally despondent; touched.
examples: text: Anyway, my little tootsie-bug, you are very right about how offminded that crazy man is.
ref: 2011, Michael A. Heck, Angel Above Water:
glosses: Mentally unstable or insane; crazy.
gunnage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gun + -age.
Senses: examples: text: For being set afloat again, after swimming all night and half a day, he brought into the Portland Roads a Crappo ship of twice his tonnage, and three times his gunnage; and now his sailors were delighted, having hope of prize-money.
ref: 1895, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, The Maid of Sker, page 237:
text: What winds blew, and how many knots we ran, are all noted down, no doubt, in the ship's log: and as for what ships we saw—every one of them with their gunnage, tonnage, their nation, their direction whither they were bound—were not these all noted down with surprising ingenuity and precision by the lieutenant, at a family desk at which he sat every night, before a great paper elegantly and mysteriously ruled off with his large ruler?
ref: 1911, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and travels in London, page 295:
text: The gunnage shown does not necessarily mean that a ship had that exact number of guns; gunnage was an administrative formula for the computation of the size of the crew.
ref: 1985, A. J. Holland, Buckler's Hard: A Rural Shipbuilding Centre, page 221:
glosses: The number of guns carried by a warship.
examples: text: Now Sir, if you look back you'll find the Number of Guns exactly agree with the Gunnage here payd; and that after the passing his Accounts and deducting his own share, he gave them a Note for 300 l, which being divided as the Act directs, there is coming to the King about 84 l.
ref: 1702, A. Baldwin, An Answer to Mr. Paschal's letter to his friend in the country, page 12:
text: Letter unsigned, by order of the Lords of the Treasury, addressed to the Officers of Ordnance, touching 133l. 6s. 8d., which had been ordered into the hands of the treasurer and paymaster of the office of ordnance for Capt. Walters, on account of gunnage: desiring them to order the treasurer to pay the captain that sum not on account of gunnage, but as bounty for extraordinary service.
ref: 1871, Calendar of Treasury Papers, 1556-7-1696, preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, page 267:
text: All prizes would now be worth 10s a ton for every ton of the prize, and ₤6 13s 4d for every gun she carried ('tonnage and gunnage'); if an enemy warship was destroyed, prize money would be paid at the rate of £10 per gun.
ref: 2008, J. D. Davies, Pepys's Navy: Ships, Men & Warfare, 1649–1689:
glosses: A bounty or prize paid to the captors of an enemy ship, based on the number of guns on that enemy ship.
examples: text: Unlike the other delegations, the British proposed to reopen the settlements of Washington regarding capital ships and aircraft carriers by extending the accepted life of existing capital ships from twenty to twenty-six years, reducing the size of any battleship to be built in the future from 35,000 to something under 30,000 tons and their maximum gunnage from 16-inch to 13.5-inch, and reducing the maximum size of aircraft carriers from 27,000 to 25,000 tons and their maximum gunnage from 8-inch to 6-inch .
ref: 1935, Rolland A. Chaput, Disarmament in British Foreign Policy, page 158:
glosses: The size of the guns on a warship.
prostatitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prostatitis
alvearies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alveary
comprovincials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comprovincial
who's asking
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Are you the owner of this vehicle?" / "Who's asking?"
glosses: Used to ask a stranger asking a question to identify themselves
Related terms: what's it to you?
DILLIC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: dillic
Senses: glosses: Initialism of do I look like I care?.
muffineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: muffineers
Etymology: From muffin + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: He was sitting at his table by the light of a solitary candle, with a pen in one hand, and a muffineer in the other, with which he occasionally sprinkled salt on the wick, to make it burn blue.
ref: 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section VIII:
text: The handled spice dredger was superseded during the 1760s by the handleless caster used for cinnamon and known to collectors as the muffineer, a name brought into use for such a caster early in the nineteenth century.
ref: 1957, George Bernard Hughes, Small antique silverware:
text: The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker.
ref: 2009, Briann G. Greenfield, Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-century New England:
glosses: A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins.
glosses: A dish for keeping muffins hot.
muffineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muffineer
tetanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tetanoid
form: most tetanoid
Etymology: From tetanus + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling tetanus.
up-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more up-minded
form: most up-minded
form: upminded
Etymology: From up- + minded.
Senses: examples: text: If people are upminded about future possibilities, present tragedies diminish in psychological consequence.
ref: 1975, Playgirl
text: They are representative reform and opening up-minded officials in North Korea.
ref: 1997, British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service, British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service, Summary of world broadcasts:
text: The master of New Helvetia himself was hearty and up-minded as ever.
ref: 2001, Cecelia Holland, An Ordinary Woman: A Dramatized Biography of Nancy Kelsey:
glosses: Up-beat; positive; progressive.
importless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more importless
form: most importless
Etymology: From import + -less.
Senses: examples: ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], column We less expect That matter needlesse, of importlesse burthen, Divide thy lips.:
glosses: meaningless
dominateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dominate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dominate
commencest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: commence + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of commence
commenceth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: commence + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commence
asteriated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asteriated
form: most asteriated
Etymology: See asterias.
Senses: examples: text: an asteriated quartz, sapphire
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Radiated, with diverging rays.
diarthrodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: diarthrodial joints
text: diarthrodial cartilages
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: synodial
glosses: free-moving
raw_tags: of a joint
Related terms: diarthrosis
vaultage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaultages
Etymology: From vault + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Hee'le call you to ſo hot an Anſwer of it
That Caues and Wombie Vaultages of France
Shall chide your Treſpas, and returne your Mock
In ſecond Accent of his Ordinance.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: A vaulted place or arched cellar.
glosses: Vaulted work.
vaultages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaultage
versionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: versionists
Etymology: From version + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes or favours a version of a text, such as the Bible.
glosses: A translator.
glosses: A translator.
Someone who live dubs into another language, often in East Asian media.
versionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of versionist
demonstrater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonstraters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demonstrator.
demonstraters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonstrater
Greekess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greekesses
Etymology: From Greek + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female Greek.
Greekesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Greekess
numismatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numismatologists
Etymology: From numismatology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One versed in numismatics.
Synonyms: numismatist
numismatician
numismatologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numismatologist
sithe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /saɪð/
Forms: form: sithes
Etymology: From the Anglo-Saxon sīðe meaning scythe.
The spelling with was influenced by unrelated Latin word scissor (“cutter”), and scindere (“to split”).
Senses: examples: text: […]and, whatever thing the sithe of time mows down, devour unspared.
ref: 1669, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Samuel Simmons, Book X:
text: Jupiter with his eagle, Juno with her peacock, Time with his sithe, had much outgrown their original proportions;...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: Obsolete form of scythe.
sithe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /saɪð/
Forms: form: sithes
form: sithing
form: sithed
form: sithed
Etymology: From the Anglo-Saxon sīðe meaning scythe.
The spelling with was influenced by unrelated Latin word scissor (“cutter”), and scindere (“to split”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of scythe.
sithe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /saɪð/
Forms: form: sithes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sith.
sithe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /saɪð/
Forms: form: sithes
form: sithing
form: sithed
form: sithed
Senses: glosses: To journey, travel, wayfare.
sithe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /saɪð/
Forms: form: sithes
form: sithing
form: sithed
form: sithed
Etymology: Regional pronunciation of sigh.
Senses: examples: c1475, The Macro Plays, Mankindː
I may both sithe and sob; this is a piteous remembrance
glosses: To sigh.
sithe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /saɪð/
Forms: form: sithes
Etymology: Regional pronunciation of sigh.
Senses: glosses: A sigh.
sithe
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: /saɪð/
Etymology: Clipping of sithen.
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore (O kyng) I speake as one for all, / Sithe all as one do beare you egall faith:
ref: 1561, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville, Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex, Smith, Lucy Toulmin, editor, Heilbronn, published 1883, act 1, scene 2, page 13:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sith (“since”).
sithed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sithe
sithes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sithe
sithing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sithe
ungulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungulous
form: most ungulous
Etymology: From ungula + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ungulate.
ghess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ghesses
form: ghessing
form: ghessed
form: ghessed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of guess.
ghessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ghess
ghesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ghess
ghessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ghess
water frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water frames
Senses: examples: text: The water-frame itself, built in units of 1,000 spindles, created the first pure English cotton cloth.
ref: 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 214:
glosses: A water-powered spinning machine, especially of the kind invented by British industrialist Richard Arkwright.
water frames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water frame
nutrication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nutricatio, from nutricare, nutricari (“to suckle, nourish”), from nutrix (“a nurse”).
Senses: examples: text: Beside the remarkable teeth, the tongue of this animal is a second argument to overthrow this airy nutrication
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: feeding or nourishment
jetcar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetcars
Etymology: From jet + car.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A car capable of travelling at very high speeds.
jetcars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jetcar
desulphuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desulphurations
Etymology: Compare French désulfuration.
Senses: glosses: desulfurization
desulphurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desulphuration
overdried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdry
overdries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdry
overdry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdries
form: overdrying
form: overdried
form: overdried
Etymology: From over- + dry.
Senses: examples: text: Such are puddings stuffed with blood, or otherwise composed; baked meats, soused indurate meats, fried and broiled, buttered meats, condite, powdered and over-dried; […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 2, subsection i:
glosses: To dry too much.
overdrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdry
storial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔːɹɪ.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more storial
form: most storial
Etymology: From Middle English storial.
Senses: glosses: historical
humanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From human + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: Every fact, every relation which enables us to do this, must be considered; but the differentia and generalizations, as applicable to man's nature, are alone the property of Humanics.
ref: 1860, Thomas Wharton Collens, Humanics, page 11:
glosses: The study of human nature.
unorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unorn
form: most unorn
form: unorne
form: unourne
Etymology: From Middle English unorne, from Old English unorne (“old, obsolete, worn out, decrepit, simple”), from un- + orne, orene (“excess, harm, injury”).
Senses: glosses: Old; worn out; feeble.
oncograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncographs
Etymology: From onco- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for registering the changes observable with an oncometer.
oncographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncograph
unwreathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwreathes
form: unwreathing
form: unwreathed
form: unwreathed
form: unwreath
Etymology: From un- + wreathe.
Senses: examples: text: But sin it is, no less;—a blot, foul as the crater-pool of hell; it puts out the sun at noon; it parches all fertility; and, conscience or no conscience—ere he die—let every master who wrenches bond-babe from mother, that the nipple tear; unwreathes the arms of sisters; or cuts the holy unity in twain; till apart fall man and wife, like one bleeding body cleft
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: Yes, our last farewell is breathed,
And we part, for ever part;
Every tie is now unwreathed
Which had bound us heart to heart;
ref: 1861, Sarah Parker Douglas, Poems (poem), Farewell:
text: the splendid rhythms and harmonies that wreathed and unwreathed themselves in his mind
ref: 1927, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Old Countess, Chapter 6:
glosses: To untwist, uncoil, or untwine (something wreathed).
unwreathes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unwreathe
unwreathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unwreath
glosses: present participle and gerund of unwreathe
displosive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more displosive
form: most displosive
Etymology: Latinate; compare Latin displosio.
Senses: examples: text: displosive material
text: displosive sound
glosses: Explosive.
possessival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Etymology: From possessive + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It looks as if the possessival termination had detached itself in the form of es or is
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the possessive case.
overswell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈswɛl/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈswɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
ipa: /ˈəʊvəswɛl/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌswɛl/
Forms: form: overswells
form: overswelling
form: overswelled
form: overswelled
form: o’erswell
form: over-swell
Etymology: From over- + swell.
Senses: examples: text: In some years the river overswells its banks, causing widespread flooding.
text: Let floods o’erswell, and fiends for food howl on!
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: Fill, Lucius, till the wine o’erswell the cup;
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Come, you have made mee resolute and bould,
And now receive your lapps ore-swell’d with gold.
ref: 1636, Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse, London: John Crowch, act I, scene 1:
text: 1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. M—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p. 13,
[…] the heart gratefully throbbing—overswelled with thankful sensations
text: When mushrooms they were fairy bowers,
Their marble pillars over-swelling,
ref: 1835, John Clare, “Decay”, in The Rural Muse, London: Whittaker, page 60:
text: […] then Badoglio and his staff [went by] looking rather big for their cars, like the necks of bookmakers overswelling their collars;
ref: 1942, G. L. Steer, chapter 2, in Sealed and Delivered,, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 14:
synonyms: overflow
spill over
glosses: To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.).
examples: text: […] the rents of lands still grew higher upon every lease that expired, till they have arrived at the present exorbitance; when the frog, overswelling himself, burst at last.
ref: 1729, Jonathan Swift, “Maxims Controlled in Ireland”, in The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, volume 15, London: W. Johnston, published 1765, page 243:
text: 1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, The Burton Club, Volume 1, Translator’s Foreward, p. xvi,
My annotations avoid only one subject, parallels of European folk-lore and fabliaux which, however interesting, would overswell the bulk of a book whose speciality is anthropology.
text: A frequent difficulty in the manufacture of Emmental cheese in America, and perhaps elsewhere, is a tendency for the cheese to overswell.
ref: 1923, “Proceedings of the World’s Dairy Congress”, in Session, volume 1, 7, p. 289:
text: [The monster’s] ungrateful progeny rush to gorge on her blood, but it overswells their bellies and they literally burst to death.
ref: 1998, Pamela Norris, chapter 10, in Eve: A Biography, New York: New York University Press, page 322:
glosses: To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large.
Related terms: overswollen
overswell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈswɛl/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈswɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
ipa: /ˈəʊvəswɛl/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌswɛl/
Forms: form: overswells
form: o’erswell
form: over-swell
Etymology: From over- + swell.
Senses: examples: text: [The trial] drew a crowd […] that almost stormed the City Hall corridors. Three policement were needed to keep back the overswell.
ref: 1978, Constance Backhouse, Leah Cohen, chapter 3, in The Secret Oppression: Sexual Harassment of Working Women, Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, page 54:
text: 1983, Kenneth A. McClane, “From a Silent Center” in A Tree Beyond Telling, San Francisco: Black Scholar Press, p. 31,
when no Jihad / opens the conceived / to distention, the reedy creek / to overswells / of mudwallow:
text: I could feel that my overswell of emotions had communicated itself to him.
ref: 1997, David Njoku, Eve, Lagos: True Tales Publication, page 53:
synonyms: surge
glosses: An excessive or sudden increase or flood (of something).
overswelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overswell
overswelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overswell
overswelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overswellings
Senses: glosses: Excessive swelling.
overswells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overswell
overswells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overswell
pharmacopolist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmacopolists
Etymology: From Latin pharmacopola + -ist, from Ancient Greek φαρμακοπώλης (pharmakopṓlēs), from φάρμακον (phármakon, “drug, charm, enchantment”) + -πώλης (-pṓlēs, “-seller, -monger”). Cf. papyropolist. Doublet of pharmacopole.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, an apothecary.
synonyms: word: pharmacist
extra: a person who sells medicine, an apothecary
pharmacopolists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharmacopolist
unadulterate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈdʌltəɹət/
Forms: form: more unadulterate
form: most unadulterate
Etymology: From un- + adulterate.
Senses: examples: text: unadulterate air
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
text: because he
Attended public meetings, and would always
Stand prating there of commerce, public faith,
Economy, and unadulterate coin,
And other topics, ultra-radical
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
synonyms: unadulterated
glosses: Not adulterated; pure.
Related terms: unadulterately
gigantine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gigantine
form: most gigantine
Senses: examples: text: The Fairies have their enchanted Castles and certain Gigantine Ghosts
ref: 1673, John Eachard, Some Opinions of Mr. Hobbs:
glosses: Obsolete form of gigantic.
ornithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɔː(ɹ)ˈnɪθɪk/
Etymology: From ornitho- + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: ornithic fossils
text: ornithic proportions with unusual strength
ref: 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates:
glosses: Of or pertaining to birds.
boltheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolthead
black-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more black-mouthed
form: most black-mouthed
Senses: synonyms: foulmouthed
glosses: Using foul or vulgar language
carnin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin carō (“meat, flesh”), + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin.
klipfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klipfishes
form: clipfish
Senses: glosses: Sun-dried salted cod, exported from Norway.
glosses: A fish of certain genera in the family Clinidae.
klipfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klipfish
treget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: trickery, jugglery, deceit
murrayin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Murraya + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glucoside found in the flowers of the plant Murraya paniculata, and similar species.
kiddow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiddows
form: kiddaw
Senses: glosses: The guillemot.
kiddows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddow
disgracer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disgracers
Etymology: From disgrace + -er.
Senses: glosses: someone who disgraces.
disgracers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disgracer
heavisome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heavisome
form: most heavisome
Etymology: From Middle English hevysom, equivalent to heavy + -some.
Senses: glosses: Of a sad or gloomy mood.