cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whipstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipsticks
Etymology: From whip + stick.
Senses: examples: text: So Priestley, with a sinister glitter in his patient eyes, had reversed his whipstick, pliant end downward, and bent along the ground. He knew the nature of seasoned pine. A sharp jerk, and the whipstick would snap, supplying a nilla-nilla which would make him an over-match for a dozen Folkestones in rotation.
ref: 1903, Joseph Furphy, Such is Life, Chapter 6:
glosses: A whipstock; the handle of a whip.
whipsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipstick
doubleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From doublet + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a doublet.
doubletted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From doublet + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a doublet.
chickenhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickenheads
Etymology: From chicken + head.
Senses: examples: text: I'd been used to a lot of jawns following me around from when I first got out there on the rap scene. They were usually chickenhead skanks attracted to the gangsta culture who would lick and suck and fuck any and everything you wanted them to. Four and five times, if you told them to.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 261:
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A woman who readily performs fellatio.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:chickenhead.
glosses: An unintelligent and promiscuous woman.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:chickenhead.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bulbous protrusion on a rock face easily grabbed, stepped on, or tied off on when climbing.
suckt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suck
cluckt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cluck
dust mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dust mice
Senses: glosses: A dust bunny.
dust mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dust mouse
shake tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shake table
vibration control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A set of technical means to mitigate seismic impact in building and non-building structures for enhancing their seismic fitness.
Related terms: vibration control on Wikiversity
seismic loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seismic load
brown bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown bag
brown bags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brown bag
brown bagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brown bag
pull out of one's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls out of one's ass
form: pulling out of one's ass
form: pulled out of one's ass
form: pulled out of one's ass
form: pull out of one's arse
Senses: examples: text: Don says his community is 95% Caucasian, but I think he pulled that figure out of his ass.
glosses: To fabricate (a factual-sounding claim) from no factual basis or evidence.
Derived terms: ass-pull
Related terms: PIDOOMA
talk out of one's ass
horseshoe up one's ass
crash cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crash carts
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: A portable set of trays, drawers and shelves containing equipment and medication used in a medical emergency
Synonyms: crash trolley
crash trolley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crash trolleys
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: crash cart
single curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single curves
Senses: topics: arts
business
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional shape into which a thin flat sheet of material, e.g. metal, can be formed by bending alone, without stretching or compression.
Related terms: compound curve
compound curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound curves
Senses: topics: arts
business
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional shape into which a thin flat sheet of material, e.g. metal, can be formed by operations that must include stretching and/or compression, in addition to bending.
Related terms: single curve
platform screen door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platform screen doors
Senses: examples: text: They will feature wider gangways for better wheelchair accessibility, as well as compatibility with platform screen doors - should these ever be introduced in the future.
ref: 2023 August 9, “Network News: SPT delighted with testing of new Glasgow Subway trains”, in RAIL, number 989, page 24:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: platform door
platform edge door
glosses: One of a series of doors at a train or subway station, at the edge of a platform, that prevent access beyond the platform when there is no train to be boarded.
Schubert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʃubɚt/
Forms: form: Schuberts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schubert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: Franz Schubert, Austrian composer
Derived terms: Schubertiad
Schumann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schumanns
form: Schuman
form: Shoemann
form: Shoeman
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schumann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Schumann resonance
Vogt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /voʊt/
Etymology: From German Vogt. Doublet of foud.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Related terms: Voight
Voigt
Vought
orped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orped
form: most orped
form: orpit
form: horpyd
Etymology: From Middle English orped, orpud, from Old English orped (“grown up, adult, of full strength, stout, active, bold”), of unknown origin. Possibly from Old English or- (“without”) + pād (“tunic, cloak”), literally "without cloak, tunic-less" in the sense of "ready to fight, brave, daring" (compare English berserk), though many see this as unconvincing.
Senses: glosses: Bold, brave, valiant; active, alert; self-assured, hardy, vigorous.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Ferocious; furious; fierce.
raw_tags: of an animal
Derived terms: orpedly
orped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From orp + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orp
register tons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of register ton
lickt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lick
Tirano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy, on the border with Switzerland.
hornotine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)nətaɪn/
Forms: form: hornotines
Etymology: From Latin hornotinus (“of this year”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A yearling; a bird born in the current year.
mockt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mock
lockt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of locked.
lockt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Next, I want the borders shut down and lockt tight for at least 72 hours.
ref: 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN:
glosses: simple past and past participle of lock
hypotactically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypotactically
form: most hypotactically
Etymology: From hypotactic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hypotactic manner.
reëmbrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëmbraces
form: reëmbracing
form: reëmbraced
form: reëmbraced
Senses: examples: text: He then, in the year 1731, went over to Holland, and reëmbraced the Protestant religion, which he had renounced to push his fortunes in Spain.
ref: 1848, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England, volume IV, page 378:
text: Irresponsibly, his reverie reëmbraced the memory he had of the woman who alone held the key to his matrimonial entanglement.
ref: 1912, Louis Joseph Vance, The Destroying Angel (2010 republication), chapter VI: “Curtain”, page 44
glosses: Alternative form of reembrace.
re-embrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-embraces
form: re-embracing
form: re-embraced
form: re-embraced
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reëmbrace.
reembrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reembraces
form: reembracing
form: reembraced
form: reembraced
form: re-embrace
form: reëmbrace
Etymology: From re- + embrace.
Senses: examples: text: But the Republicans were not ready to reembrace the man they believed had put personality and even principles before party.
ref: 2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 404:
glosses: To embrace again.
onlead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: onleads
form: onleading
form: onled
form: onled
Etymology: From on- + lead. Cognate with Dutch aanleiden (“to lead on, lead further”), German anleiten (“to guide, instruct, teach, direct”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus did the guardian of his crystal cup onlead him in the quest of strength and speed, forewise of that dire approaching day when strength against strength, speed against speed, life against life, he and his mortal foe should be swung […]
ref: 1909, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine:
text: The little suggestions of look and tone; the easy fibs and bigger lies; the tricks of persuasion, the onleading wiles — all these I could not master.
ref: 1918, Michael Williams, The Book of the High Romance: A Spiritual Autobiography, page 41:
glosses: To lead on or forward.
baskt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bask
Judaïsm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These republished studies do not by any means cover the whole ground taken in China and Religion;—for instance, I had published no previous special studies of Manicheism, Judaïsm, or Shintōism, but composed the chapters on those subjects in 1905 directly from notes I had gradually stored, and from the works of others who had already nearly exhausted the matter available for study, and had published the results of their labours.
ref: 1910, Edward Harper Parker, Studies in Chinese Religion, London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., page vii:
glosses: Rare spelling of Judaism.
offlead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: offleads
form: offleading
form: offled
form: offled
Etymology: From off- + lead.
Senses: examples: text: In Jan., 1963, the m/v Diversity, inbound from a drill rig after attempting to offlead drill mud, capsized in heavy weather.
ref: 1970, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Preprints - Offshore Technology Conference:
text: Sevenoaks adds: "In just one month, we've been approached by 50 dealers anxious to offlead their prerecorded videocassettes," […]
ref: 1989 December 28, Billboard:
glosses: To lead off or away.
food babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food baby
earthquake protector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthquake protectors
Senses: qualifier: earthquake engineering
glosses: A sliding type of low friction base isolation for protection of building structures against lateral impact of strong earthquakes.
earthquake protectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthquake protector
snive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: snīv
ipa: /snaɪv/
enpr: snīv
ipa: /snʌɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
rhymes: -ʌɪv
Forms: form: snives
form: sniving
form: snived
form: snived
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested).
sniving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snive
Tafia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Taffia.
patioed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patio + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Furnished with a patio.
snaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæst/
other: /sneɪst/
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: snastes
form: snast
form: snaist
form: snaast
form: sneeste
form: sneest
form: snace
form: snaice
form: sneeze
form: snaich
Etymology: Perhaps related to snite (verb), or perhaps related to gnast.
Senses: examples: text: Till some part of the candle was consumed, and the dust gathered about the snaste; but then it made the snaste big, and long, and to burn duskishly.
ref: 1626, Francis Bacon, Natural History, page 127:
text: A coming letter is foretold by a projecting spark on the snaste.
ref: 1865, Edward FitzGerald, Works, page 426:
text: As that snaste of that candle, goos out.
ref: 1899, Fison, Merry Suf., page 62:
glosses: The burnt or burning part of the wick of a candle; the snuff.
snaste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæst/
other: /sneɪst/
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: snastes
form: snasting
form: snasted
form: snasted
form: snast
form: snaist
form: snaast
form: sneeste
form: sneest
form: snace
form: snaice
form: sneeze
form: snaich
Etymology: Perhaps related to snite (verb), or perhaps related to gnast.
Senses: glosses: To snuff a candle.
nimini-pimini
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nimini-pimini
form: most nimini-pimini
Senses: examples: text: You have only, when before your glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini — the lips cannot fail of taking their plie.
ref: 1786, John Burgoyne, The Heiress:
text: Then the vowels -- the three broad rich a's -- which no one can pronounce with nimini-pimini closed lips -- how thoroughly they answered to her character!
ref: 1853, Dinah Craik, Agatha's Husband:
text: O Tom, what a nimini-pimini muff you are, to be sure!
ref: 1861, Robert Michael Ballantyne, The Gorilla Hunters:
glosses: Alternative form of niminy-piminy.
nimini-pimini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of niminy-piminy.
botanick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of botanic.
botanick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botanicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of botanic.
chaotick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chaotick
form: most chaotick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chaotic.
episodick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more episodick
form: most episodick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of episodic.
epispastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epispastick
form: most epispastick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of epispastic.
epispastick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epispasticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of epispastic.
hyperbolick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperbolick
form: most hyperbolick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hyperbolic.
rototom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rototoms
Etymology: From roto- + tom.
Senses: examples: text: The guy said, 'The rototom's talking! Hear the rototom?' Swear to god, he said the rototom was telling the story. 'Can't put no verse there, the rototom telling the story'.
ref: 2005, Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, St. Martin's Publishing, page 409:
text: [A] rototom, has the majority of its energy in the lower frequencies.
ref: 1987, John Strawn, The Proceedings of the AES 5th International Conference: Music and Digital Technology, Audio Engineering Society, pages 23-24
glosses: A drum that has no shell and is able to change pitch by rotating its drumhead around a threaded metal ring.
Kawésqar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kawésqars
form: Kawésqar
form: Kawesqar
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Kawesqar, who occupied the islands and coast of the western sector of the Magellan Strait.
ref: 2009, María Estela Mansur, and Raquel Piqué, “Between the Forest and the Sea: Hunter-Gatherer Occupations in the Subantarctic Forests in Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina”, in Arctic Anthropology, volume 46, number 1/2, pages 145-46:
glosses: A member of an indigenous people of the Tierra del Fuego.
Kawésqar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kawesqar
Senses: examples: text: [A]lso in the Kawesqar or Alacaluf language of southern Chile.
ref: 2008, Willem Adelaar, “Towards a typological profile of the Andean languages”, in Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics,, volume 33, page 27:
glosses: An Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Alacaluf people.
Related terms: Kawesqaran
Qawasqar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kawésqar.
imitatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imitatrixes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin imitātrīx. By surface analysis, imitate + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female imitator.
Synonyms: imitatress
taratantara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taratantaras
form: tantara
form: tarantara
Senses: examples: text: To boot and saddle again they sound. Rog. Tara! Taratantara! Taratantara!
ref: 1698, John Vanbrugh, Aesop:
glosses: The onomatopoeia of a particular sound made by a bugle or trumpet.
CCP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of critical control point.
glosses: Initialism of complete cleft palate.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of cubic close-packed.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of central counterparty.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of cyclic citrullinated peptide.
determinest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: determine + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of determine
socio-economically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more socio-economically
form: most socio-economically
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of socioeconomically.
politico-economically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more politico-economically
form: most politico-economically
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of politicoeconomically.
politicoeconomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From politicoeconomic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a politico-economic manner or context.
ideopolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ideopolitical
form: most ideopolitical
Etymology: From ideo- + political.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ideology and politics.
politicoeconomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more politicoeconomic
form: most politicoeconomic
Etymology: From politico- + economic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of politico-economic.
Derived terms: politicoeconomically
obliterans
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin oblitterare (“to hide writing”), from ob (“out”) + littera (“letter”).
Senses: examples: Dr Adam explained that the phimosis was caused by balanitis xerotica obliterans
1940, 1. IRVING S. WRIGHT, M.D., THE TREATMENT OF ARTERIOSCLEROSIS OBLITERANS, Ninety-First Annual Session of the American Medical Association, New York, page Title
THE TREATMENT OF ARTERIOSCLEROSIS OBLITERANS
glosses: Producing obstruction due to inflammation and fibrosis.
Related terms: balanitis xerotica obliterans
bronchiolitis obliterans
thrombangiitis obliterans
thromboangiitis obliterans
32nd notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 32nd note
alist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.lɪst/
Forms: form: alists
form: a-list
Etymology: Abbreviation of association list.
Senses: examples: text: We use alists extensively in this work. A directed graph is an alist associating vertices with edge lists.
ref: J. S. Moore and Q. Zhang, Proof Pearl: Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm Verified with ACL2, in Joe Hurd and Tom F. Melham (ed.), Theorem proving in higher order logics: 18th international conference, 2005, p. 375
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An association list.
rotl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒtəl/
/ˈɹɒtl/
Forms: form: rotls
form: artal
Etymology: From Arabic رُطْل (ruṭl), variant of classical رِطْل (riṭl), ultimately from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra).
Senses: examples: text: Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔).
ref: 1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, s.v. "Weights and Measures"
topics: units-of-measure
glosses: Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of weight, usually 1–5 pounds (0.5–2.5 kg).
cons cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑnz sɛl/
/ˈkɑns sɛl/
Forms: form: cons cells
Etymology: From cons + cell.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of cons.
synonyms: word: cons
VOB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VOBs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Abbreviation of video object.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of versioned object base.
VOBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VOB
versioned object base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: versioned object bases
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: An individual database in the versioning software ClearCase.
seismic retrofit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismic retrofits
Senses: glosses: Modification of a building that already exists to make it seismically fit.
T&A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of tits and ass/tits and arse.
Senses: glosses: Scantily clad women, or entertainment featuring scantily clad women.
T&A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of time and attendance.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Time and attendance reporting.
T&A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Telegraph & Argus.
gargety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From garget + -y.
Senses: glosses: Affected with gargets
snap-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snap-shots
Senses: examples: text: Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
ref: 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative form of snap shot.
top-class
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more top-class
form: most top-class
Senses: examples: text: Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.
ref: 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Of the highest quality.
Synonyms: first-class
Related terms: top of one's class
loss-making
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loss-making
form: most loss-making
form: lossmaking
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: unprofitable
text: The briefing to the Board set out four areas where changes were proposed in the amount attributable to InterCity. Transferring loss-making services to Provincial and taking over Gatwick Express and London-Norwich gave a benefit of £14m.
ref: 2020 January 2, David Clough, “How InterCity came back from the brink”, in Rail, page 66:
antonyms: profitable
lucrative
profitmaking
glosses: Making financial losses.
Related terms: lossmaker
Thasos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thassos
form: Thásos
Senses: glosses: An island of Greece, in the northern Aegean Sea.
Cephalonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌsɛfəˈləʊniə/
/ˌkɛfəˈləʊniə/
Forms: form: Cephallenia
form: Cephallonia
form: Kefallinia
form: Kefallonia
form: Kefalonia
form: Kephallenia
Senses: examples: text: “An idea, a vision, the change of the policy towards the protection of the night sky as a natural resource, as well as the enthusiasm of people of Kefalonia towards the magic of the dark sky led to the declaration of Aenos National Park as the first Dark Sky Park of Greece,” said Michalis Xanthakis, Deputy Head of Management Unit of Zakynthos and Ainos National Parks and Protected Areas of the Ionian islands.
ref: 2023 June 9, DarkSky International, Aenos National Park named first International Dark Sky Park in Greece:
coordinate_terms: Corfu
Ithaca
Kythira
Lefkada
Paxos
Zakynthos
glosses: An island of Greece in the eastern Ionian Sea, the largest of the Ionian Islands.
Derived terms: Cephalonian
Cephaloniot
Zakynthos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzakɪnθɒs/
ipa: /ˈzɑkɪnθɔs/
Forms: form: Zakinthos
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζάκυνθος (Zákunthos). Doublet of Zante.
Senses: synonyms: Zante
glosses: An island of Greece, on the Ionian Sea; the third-largest Ionian island.
Derived terms: Zakynthiot
Related terms: Zantiot
Kythira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cythera
form: Kythera
form: Kithira
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Κύθηρα (Kýthira).
Senses: coordinate_terms: Cephalonia
Corfu
Ithaca
Lefkada
Paxos
Zakynthos
glosses: An island of Greece in the south-east Ionian Sea at the opening to the Aegean Sea.
Related terms: Antikythera
Kythira Strait
Saronic Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Saronic Islands
Senses: glosses: A group of Greek islands located in the Saronic Gulf in the south-east Ionian Sea at the opening to the Aegean Sea.
Cephalonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛfəˈləʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkɛfə-/
ipa: /ˌsɛfəˈloʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkɛfə-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Cephalonia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: of or from Cephalonia
Cephalonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛfəˈləʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkɛfə-/
ipa: /ˌsɛfəˈloʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkɛfə-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Cephalonians
Etymology: From Cephalonia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: someone from Cephalonia
Synonyms: word: Cephaloniot
center spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: center spots
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In various sports, a visible or non-visible spot at the center of the playing surface.
center circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: center circles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centre circle.
centaury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntɔːɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈsɛntəɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈsɛntɔɹi/
Forms: form: centauries
form: centory
Etymology: From Middle English centaure, from Old English centaurie, from Medieval Latin centaurēa, centauria, from Latin centaurēum, centaurion, from Ancient Greek κενταύρειον (kentaúreion, “several plants related to Centaurea”), from κένταυρος (kéntauros, “centaur”) (due to the mythological discovery of its medicinal properties by Chiron the Centaur). Doublet of centaurea.
Senses: glosses: Any of the flowering plants in or formerly in the genus Centaurium.
Centaurium, sensu stricto
glosses: Any of the flowering plants in or formerly in the genus Centaurium.
Gyrandra, a genus in Gentianaceae, formerly included in Centaurium, with species commonly called centaury
glosses: Any of the flowering plants in or formerly in the genus Centaurium.
Schenkia, a genus in Gentianaceae, formerly included in Centaurium, with species commonly called centaury
glosses: Any of the flowering plants in or formerly in the genus Centaurium.
Zeltnera, a New World genus in Gentianaceae, formerly included in Centaurium, with species commonly called centaury
glosses: Any of diverse other plants:
Centaurea, a genus in the Asteraceae containing species sometimes called centaury
glosses: Any of diverse other plants:
Cheirolophus crassifolius, a species in the Asteraceae commonly known as Maltese centaury
glosses: Any of diverse other plants:
Sabatia, a New World genus in the Gentianaceae containing species sometimes called centaury
Derived terms: American centaury
yellow centaury
Celtic Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sea in British Isles, Europe in the Atlantic The area of the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Ireland bounded by Saint George's Channel, the Bristol Channel, the English Channel, and the Bay of Biscay.
cenogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caenogenesis.
Celebes Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The area of the western Pacific Ocean bounded by the Sulu Sea, the island of Borneo, the Sangihe Islands and Sulawesi.
cecostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cecostomies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caecostomy.
cecostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cecostomy
cattleperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattlepersons
form: cattlepeople
Etymology: From cattle + person.
Senses: glosses: Someone who rears or works with cattle.
Caucasia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Caucasus
glosses: The "mesopontic" geographic region of land which lies between the Black and Caspian Seas, consisting of both the North Caucasus Region and Transcaucasia, and traversed by the Caucasus Mountains; the northern boundary of this region is roughly on a line extending from the Don to the Volga River deltas, and the southern boundary generally coincident with the lower course of the Aras River.
Cartagena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹtəˈheɪnə/
ipa: /kɑːtəˈheɪnə/
rhymes: -eɪnə
Etymology: From Spanish Cartagena, ultimately from Latin Carthāgō Nova (“New Carthage”), of Punic origin, cognate to
Phoenician 𐤒𐤓𐤕-𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕 (qrt-ḥdšt, “Carthage”, literally “New City”).
Senses: glosses: A city in Murcia, Spain.
glosses: A city in northern Colombia.
Derived terms: Cartagena bark
Cartagena ipecac
Cartagenan
Sao Paulo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of São Paulo, used especially when ã is not available.
Poona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The city became known as Poona in English during British rule in 1857 and changed to Pune in 1978.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Pune.
Monterrey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒntəˈɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˌmɑntəˈɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: Monterey
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Monterrey, from Galician Monterrei, from monte (“mountain”) + rei (“king”).
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of the state of Nuevo León, Mexico.
Medellín
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Medellín.
Senses: glosses: A city and departmental capital of Antioquia department, Colombia; the second-largest city in Colombia.
Ibadan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Yoruba Ìbàdàn.
Senses: glosses: A city, the state capital of Oyo State, Nigeria.
bedsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedsites
Etymology: From bed + site.
Senses: examples: text: Of the three bedrooms, two have fireplaces, and all are of fair size, with windows and bedsite well placed.
ref: 1860, Foreign Quarterly Review:
glosses: A space in a room for a bed.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The spot where an animal sleeps.
bedsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedsite
enunciatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: enunciatory act
text: enunciatory rhetoric
glosses: Of or pertaining to enunciation.
flamelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪmlət/
Forms: form: flamelets
Etymology: From flame + -let.
Senses: examples: text: And every separate window-pane, / Backed by the outer darkness, showed / A mirror, where the flamelets gleamed / And flickered to and fro, and seemed / A bonfire lighted in the road.
ref: 1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] Prelude.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, stanza 2, page 2:
text: For weak turbulence the local structure of these flamelets approaches that of unperturbed steady laminar flames.
ref: 2013, R. Borghi, S.N.B. Murthy, Turbulent Reactive Flows:
glosses: A small flame.
flamelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flamelet
globularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globularity
globularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globularities
Etymology: From globular + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: globularness
glosses: The state of being globular.
mispractice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispractices
Etymology: From mis- + practice.
Senses: synonyms: malpractice
glosses: Wrong or bad practice; misconduct
mispractice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispractices
form: mispracticing
form: mispracticed
form: mispracticed
Etymology: From mis- + practice.
Senses: glosses: To practice wrongly
mispractices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mispractice
overcomingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overcomingly
form: most overcomingly
Etymology: From overcoming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to overcome.
pleuralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleuralgias
Etymology: From Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek [Term?]. By surface analysis, pleuro- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pain in the side or region of the ribs.
pleuralgias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleuralgia
rooty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rootier
form: rootiest
Etymology: From root + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Disk plows also are better suited to rough, stony, and rooty ground because the disks ride over the obstructions.
ref: 2012, Douglas M. Considine, Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia, page 2023:
glosses: Full of roots.
Derived terms: rootiness
unobedient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unobedient
form: most unobedient
Etymology: From Middle English unobedient. Equivalent to un- + obedient.
Senses: examples: text: For although they were worthy of any puniſhment: yit had I leuer they might haue flooriſhed in welfare and ſafetie: which had come to paſſe, if they had not bin vtterlye vnobedient too all good counſel.
ref: 1571, John Calvin, “Iohn Calvin to the Godly Readers Sendeth Greeting”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The Psalmes of Dauid and Others. With M. Iohn Caluin’s Commentaries, London: […] Thomas East and Henry Middelton; for Lucas Harison, and G[e]orge Byshop, →OCLC, 1st part:
text: Pepin, not unobedient to the Popes call, passing into Italy, frees him out of danger, […]
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC, page 43; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
text: But unobedient to that well-known voice / His eye was seeking it, / When Moath firm of heart, / Performed the bidding; […]
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “The Eighth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume II, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 103:
glosses: Disobedient.
Derived terms: unobedience
verbarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɜːˈbɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /vɝˈbɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: verbarians
Etymology: From verb + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: Southey gives himself free scope as a verbarian.
ref: 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English:
glosses: One who coins words.
verbarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɜːˈbɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /vɝˈbɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From verb + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: That friend […] added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing a word.
ref: 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Constitution of the Church and State:
glosses: Of or relating to words; verbal.
verbarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbarian
vivificative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vivificative
form: most vivificative
Senses: glosses: animating; giving life or vigor; vivifying.
weeviled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weeviled
form: most weeviled
form: weevilled
Etymology: From weevil + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: weeviled grain
text: weeviled tree
glosses: Infested by weevils.
engraveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engravery
engravery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engraveries
Etymology: From engrave + -ery?
Senses: examples: text: They wonder to find the art of engravery so ancient upon precious stones and signets
ref: c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
glosses: engraving (act, or object)
incommodate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incommodates
form: incommodating
form: incommodated
form: incommodated
Etymology: First attested in 1575; borrowed from Latin incommodātus, perfect passive participle of incommodō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of incommode.
Senses: examples: text: [N]either knovv I vvhether it is more hard to manage of the tvvo, a dejected eſtate, or a proſperous, vvhether vve may be more incommodated vvith a reſty horſe, or vvith a tyred one: […]
ref: 1645, Jos[eph] Hall, “Sect[ion] II. The Contrariety of Estates wherein Contentation is to be Exercised.”, in The Remedy of Discontentment: Or, A Treatise of Contentation in whatsoever Condition: […], London: […] J. G. for Nath[aniel] Brooks, […], published 1652, →OCLC, pages 6–7:
glosses: To incommode, make uncomfortable.
incommodate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incommodate
form: most incommodate
Etymology: First attested in 1575; borrowed from Latin incommodātus, perfect passive participle of incommodō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of incommode.
Senses: glosses: Incommoded, inconvenienced.
fumiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more fumiferous
form: most fumiferous
Etymology: From Latin fumifer (fumus (“smoke”) + ferre (“to bear”)) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Producing smoke.
gieseckite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Giesecke + -ite, after Karl Giesecke.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A greenish-grey variety of muscovite.
nemophilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈmɒ.fɪ.lɪst/
ipa: /nɛˈmɒ.fɪ.lɪst/
Forms: form: nemophilists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νέμος (némos) + -philist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a visitor of the woods.
Related terms: nemophilous
nemophily
nemophilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nemophilist
Jamestown weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jamestown weeds
Etymology: After Jamestown, Virginia, USA.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jimsonweed.
synonyms: word: jimsonweed
Jamestown weeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jamestown weed
woolpack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolpacks
Etymology: From Middle English wolpak, wullepak, equivalent to wool + pack.
Senses: examples: text: There was a Fellow with a Wen in his Neck, larger than five Woolpacks, and another with a couple of wooden Legs, each about twenty foot high.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Country Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page [220]:
glosses: A bag of wool, traditionally weighing 240 pounds.
examples: text: During the following hour, the high white fleecy clouds lowered and congested and grayed into woolpack.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 10:
glosses: A cirrocumulus cloud.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A charge resembling a pillow or cushion.
woolpacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolpack
niggardy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English nygardie; equivalent to niggard + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, greatly making thyself naked, thou fastenest on a person in dreams, O niggard, baffling the plan and design of a man.
Departure from the niggardy is praised : Thou hast left niggardy, hast found what is pleasant; […]
ref: 1922, John McKenzie, Hindu Ethics: A Historical and Critical Essay, page 24:
glosses: Niggardliness.
overmore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English overmore; equivalent to over + more. Compare overmuch.
Senses: examples: text: And lest the chaunted weedes the which she had him given before
Should faile at neede, a helping charme she whispred overmore
ref: 1567, Ovid, “The Seventh Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:
glosses: beyond
glosses: moreover; furthermore
unigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin unigena, from unus (“one”) + genere, gignere (“to beget”), + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a single type, or genus.
glycidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glycide + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: glycidic ester
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or derived from, glycide.
Derived terms: glycidic acid
self-murder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-murders
Etymology: From self- + murder. Compare German Selbstmord, Dutch zelfmoord, Swedish självmord.
Senses: examples: text: My mind being by these means grown as desperate as my fortune, there was scarce a wickedness which I did not meditate, in order for my relief. Self-murder itself became the subject of my serious deliberation; and I had certainly resolved on it, had not a more shameful, though perhaps less sinful, thought expelled it from my head.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Suicide.
leadman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈliːdmən/
Forms: form: leadmen
Etymology: From lead + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Such a light and metal'd dance / Saw you never yet in France / And by lead-men for the nones, / That turn round like grindlestones
ref: a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: The male leader of a group of workers, who reports to a supervisor.
glosses: One who leads a dance
glosses: A member of the set decoration department on a film set who is responsible for the props and swing gang and/or set dressers.
leadmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leadman
nutrimental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nutrimental
form: most nutrimental
Etymology: From nutriment + -al.
Senses: glosses: nutritious
curvicostate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curvicostate
form: most curvicostate
Etymology: Latin curvus + English costate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having bent ribs.
Republic of Botswana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Botswana
Senses: glosses: Official name of Botswana: a country in Southern Africa.
Republic of Indonesia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Indonesia
Etymology: Anglicised from Indonesian Republik Indonesia.
Senses: glosses: Official name of Indonesia: a country in Southeast Asia.
Republic of the Sudan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of the Sudan
form: Republic of Sudan
Senses: glosses: Official name of Sudan: a country in North Africa and East Africa.
Republic of Zimbabwe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Zimbabwe
Senses: glosses: Official name of Zimbabwe: a country in Southern Africa.
Republic of Burundi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Official name of Burundi: a country in East Africa.
empair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empairs
form: empairing
form: empaired
form: empaired
Senses: examples: text: Who when their powres empair'd through labour long, With due repast they had recured well, And that weak captive wight now wexed strong, Them lift no longer there at leisure dwell, But forward fare, as their adventures fell:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
text: Therefore, he that wil avoyde the open shame of privie sinne, the common plague of priavate offences, the greate wrackes of little rockes, the sure disease of uncertaine causes, must set hande to the sterne, and eye to his steppes to shun the occason as neere as he can; neither running to bushes for renting his clothes, nor rent his clothes for emparing his thrift, nor walke upon yse for taking of a fall, nor take a fall for brusing himselfe, nor go to Theaters for beeing allured, nor once bee allured for feare of abuse.
ref: 1841, The School Of Abuse, Containing A Pleasant Invective Against Poets:
text: ...it is impossible for me to express the real concern I have had on the account of this barbarous libel, when I am emparing my health, and venturing every thing for the good of my Country.
ref: 1966, Winston Churchill, Marlborough, His Life and Times, page 868:
glosses: Obsolete form of impair.
examples: text: A Table for emparing the English Foot with Foreign measures, in English.
ref: 1767, James Ferguson, Tables and Tracts, Relative to Several Arts and Sciences, page 270:
text: In emparing the above analysis with that of the Extract of Malt, of the German Pbarmacopoea, as given by Hager, that has been so generally received by the profession, I find it to substantially agree with that article.
ref: 1878, The Carolina Medical Journal - Volumes 1-2, page 368:
text: The elements we enjoy are altered: Metals likewise, yea golde must be empaired with some other stuffe to make it fit for our service.
ref: 1893, Michel de Montaigne, George Saintsbury, The Essays of Montaigne Done Into English, page 408:
glosses: To match, pair up, or combine.
Derived terms: empairment
empaired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empair
glosses: simple past and past participle of empaire
empairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of empair
glosses: present participle and gerund of empaire
empairs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of empair