cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
undeeded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deeded.
Senses: examples: text: undeeded land
text: First, has the legislature of the territory attempted to make such undeeded lots, pending contest, subject to taxation?
ref: 1899, “Topeka Commercial Security Co. et. al. v. McPherson et. al.”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 54, page 489:
text: It should be noted that neither of these letters written by the White House staff referred to any portion of the undeeded papers as a gift to the United States, nor do they indicate an intent at that time to treat any portion of those papers as a gift.
ref: 1974, Statement of Information: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, page 81:
text: In North Elba, the Hendersons, Jeffersons, Carasaws, Wortses, Fraziers, Halls, Thompsons, and Browns all chose to farm on undeeded land.
ref: 2023, Amy Godine, The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier:
topics: law
glosses: Not transferred by deed.
examples: text: Or else my sword, with an unbatter'd edge, I sheathe again undeeded.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]:
text: The hand of truthful Time, which obscures the rays of the undeeded sceptre, and dulls the whiteness of the robe of hereditary ermine, approaches but to tinge with brighter hue the green and living freshness of the poet's, or the hero's laurel!
ref: 1842, “Lusitania Illustrata”, in Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal, page 506:
text: Now their deeds are left undeeded, Buried 'neath unhallowed laws; Now their names are only needed As a watchword of applause.
ref: 1847, Robert Naismith, “The Covenanters”, in Necropolis, and Other Poems, page 80:
text: No return will ever come from undeeded lust in proposal
ref: 2011, Kelechukwu Brnfre, Les Cinquantes Sonnets: The Fifty Sonnets, page 39:
glosses: Not made famous or marked by any great action.
archegonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archegonium + -al.
Senses: examples: text: archegonial base
text: archegonial branch
text: archegonial chamber
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the archegonium.
liminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From limy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being limy.
renverst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: renverse + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renverse
renversed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renverse
renversing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renverse
blitheful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈblaɪð.fʊl/
/ˈblaɪθ.fʊl/
Forms: form: more blitheful
form: most blitheful
Etymology: From Middle English blythfull, blithefulle, bliþeful, bliþful, equivalent to blithe + -ful.
Senses: glosses: jolly, joyous or carefree.
Derived terms: blithefully
blithefulness
fluoboride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoborides
Etymology: From fluo- + boride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any borofluoride.
fluoborides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluoboride
newfangleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English newfangelnesse, newfongilnes, from Old English *nīwefangelnes (compare Old English underfangelnes), equivalent to new- + fangle + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of newfangledness.
ricker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rickers
Etymology: From rick + -er.
Senses: glosses: A thick pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.
rickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ricker
unconfidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + confidence.
Senses: examples: text: I think what we see here is a spiral of unconfidence because by listening to you, reporters and mass media people, I sense that you do not have a strong confidence about what you report and you don't have confidence to tell the government what to do .
ref: 1991, Carolina G. Hernandez, Werner Pfennig, Media and Politics in Asia, page 202:
text: But feelings of confidence and unconfidence are essential guides to our cognitive efforts.
ref: 2005, Carl Bereiter, Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age, page 113:
text: Focusing on his Readiness, I wonder aloud if his feelings of 'unconfidence' can become an ally in his coaching, allowing him to use his own feelings of 'unconfidence' in the next session as an indicator that he's doing real work with Jane and enabling her shift back in the workplace.
ref: 2021, Tatiana Bachkirova, Peter Jackson, David Clutterbuck, Coaching and Mentoring Supervision, page 173:
glosses: Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.
examples: text: Obviously If P ( Hᵢ / E ) > P ( Hᵢ) then we can say that by evidence E the confidence of H by the expert is increased and at the same time the unconfidence of Hᵢ is decreased.
ref: 1988, International Conference on Computer-Aided Production Engineering, page 556:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The complement of confidence; the probability that something is not the case.
cofferer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒfɹə/
ipa: /ˈkɒfəɹə/
ipa: /ˈkɑfəɹɚ/
Forms: form: cofferers
Etymology: From Middle English cofrer, from Old French coffrier; equivalent to coffer + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who keeps treasures in a coffer; a treasurer.
glosses: The Cofferer of the Household.
cofferers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cofferer
resurrectionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resurrectionizes
form: resurrectionizing
form: resurrectionized
form: resurrectionized
Etymology: From resurrection + -ize.
Senses: examples: March 14 1804, Robert Southey, letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
you will stare at the catalogue of dead authors whom I shall have to resurrectionise
glosses: To resurrect, or raise from the dead.
examples: text: "Remember, the law now punishes with transportation those who resurrectionize, and those who encourage resurrectionists."
ref: 1846, George W.M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, London: George Vickers, page 338:
glosses: To remove a body from its grave (illegally, for dissection); to engage in bodysnatching.
resurrectionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resurrectionize
resurrectionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resurrectionize
resurrectionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resurrectionize
debentured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From debenture + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: debentured goods
glosses: Entitled to, or given, a debenture.
dynametrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Let us know the dynametrical power of these engines, and the cost per dynametrical horse power!
ref: 1866 April 13, Edward E. Allen, “Steam Expansion”, in Engineering, volume 1, page 242:
text: The dynametrical results were somewhat complicated in the second trial in Col. Wood's lot .
ref: 1867, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 321:
text: The engine we have been describing was submitted to two trials at Cardiff, and on the first occasion it run 4 hours 51.3 min., and on the second 5 hours 1.06 min. mchanical time, with an allowance of 14 lb. of coal per dynametrical horse power;
ref: 1872, “Vienna Universal Exhibition, 1873”, in The Country Gentleman's Magazine, volume 9, page 272:
glosses: Pertaining to a dynamometer.
misallege
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misalleges
form: misalleging
form: misalleged
form: misalleged
Etymology: From mis- + allege.
Senses: glosses: To state erroneously.
misalleged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misallege
misalleges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misallege
misalleging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misallege
orthotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property of cutting at right angles.
glosses: A method of cutting or dividing an optical element, such as a lens or a crystal, in a manner that is perpendicular to a specific axis or surface.
Derived terms: orthotomic
orthotomous
gorillagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorillagrams
Etymology: From gorilla + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A gift message, similar to a singing telegram, but delivered by a performer dressed in a gorilla suit.
gorillagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorillagram
countercomplainant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercomplainants
Etymology: From counter- + complainant.
Senses: glosses: One who files a countercomplaint.
countercomplainants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercomplainant
Listerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lister + -ism, after Joseph Lister who pioneered antiseptics.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The systematic use of antiseptics in operations and the treatment of wounds.
wikipedia: Joseph Lister
halesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halesias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: synonyms: silverbell
glosses: Any of the genus Halesia of American shrubs with white flowers.
halesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halesia
meritory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meritory
form: most meritory
Etymology: From merit + -ory.
Senses: glosses: meritorious; deserving
fellowless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fellowless
form: most fellowless
Etymology: From fellow + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: Without fellow or equal; peerless.
glosses: Without a fellow (e.g. university employee)
incircumspection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French incirconspection.
Senses: examples: text: An unexpected way of delusion, and whereby he more easily led away the incircumspection of their belief. Which fallacy he might excellently have acted before the death of Saul; for that being within his power to foretell, was not beyond his ability to foreshew: and might have contrived signs thereof through all the creatures, which visibly confirmed by the event, had proved authentick unto those times, and advanced the Art ever after.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, chapter XI, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book I:
glosses: Lack of circumspection.
paramere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parameres
Etymology: From para- + -mere.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, such as a starfish
glosses: Lateral genital lobes that occur as part of the external reproductive organs of some male insects, sometimes developing into a phallus as the insect matures.
Related terms: parameral
parameric
parameres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paramere
importunator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: importunators
Senses: examples: c'''. 1600, Sir Edwin Sandys, Europae Speculum State of Religion
Abrogators and dispensers against the law of God, but tyrannous importunators and exactors of their own.
glosses: One who importunes.
Synonyms: importuner
importunators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of importunator
tradesfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trade + -s- + folk.
Senses: examples: text: Small trades-folk, male and female shopwalkers, better class artisans, lower middle-class women worn with household cares, occasional young folk in search of a sensation - these were the impressions which the audience conveyed to the trained observation of Malone.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Victuallers , Vintners , and Tradesfolk would soon get all the Money of the Kingdom into their own Hands
ref: c. 1724, Jonathan Swift, The Drapier Demolished:
synonyms: tradesfolks
glosses: People employed in trade; tradesmen and tradeswomen.
tradesfolks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tradesfolk.
synonyms: word: tradesfolk
fenestrule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenestrules
Etymology: From Latin fenestrula (“a little window”), diminutive of fenestra (“a window”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.
fenestrules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenestrule
glycogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glycogen + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to glycogen
osteotomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteotomists
Etymology: From osteotomy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The osteotomists, affirming that fracture cannot be performed at this low level, say that osteoclasy must be given up.
ref: 1884, Canadian Practitioner, volume 9, page 75:
glosses: Someone skilled in osteotomy
osteotomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteotomist
hydrochlorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrochlorates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hydrochloride
hydrochlorates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrochlorate
unreaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See un- (“not”), and compare rive.
Senses: examples: text: Couldst thou think that a cottage not too strongly built, and standing so bleak in the very mouth of the winds, could for any long time hold tight and unreaved?
ref: 1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC:
glosses: Not torn, split, or parted.
introductorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From introductory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By way of introduction.
kiltless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kilt + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a kilt.
introductionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From introduction + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without introduction.
crusher gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crusher gauges
form: crusher gage
Senses: topics: ballistics
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An instrument for measuring the explosive force of gunpowder, etc., by its effect in compressing a piece of metal.
inerringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inerringly
form: most inerringly
Etymology: From in- + erring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of unerringly.
oxygenizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxygenize + -able.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: oxidizable
Afric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Afric
form: most Afric
Etymology: Circa 1425; from Middle English Affrike, Affrique, Affryke, from Latin Āfricus. Compare early Old English Africe (attested only in one translation).
Senses: examples: text: One woman speaks saying I have never seen any human this black. I have says another, this one is as black as others I have seen. She is Afric. Afric and much more, says another.
ref: 2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, Chatto & Windus, page 109:
glosses: African.
Afric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Africs
Etymology: Circa 1425; from Middle English Affrike, Affrique, Affryke, from Latin Āfricus. Compare early Old English Africe (attested only in one translation).
Senses: examples: text: Two of the largest animals of Africa were much desired by the directors of the museum, viz.: the double horned Rhinoceros, and the Hippopotamus. In search of them he wandered among the Hottentots and the Africs, the latter of whom were at that time much incensed against Europeans, and carried on a ferocious war when opportunities for it offered.
ref: 1822, The Saturday Magazine, page 254:
glosses: An African.
Afric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Affrike, Affryk, Affryke, possibly from Middle French Affrique, Affrike, from Latin Āfrica.
Senses: glosses: Africa.
fortlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fortlets
Etymology: From fort + -let.
Senses: examples: text: if the Goods or Beasts be in a Fortlet or Castle, the Sheriff may take with him the Power of the Country, and beat down the Castle.
ref: 1668, A Treatise of diseases of the head, brain and nerves:
glosses: A little fort.
Derived terms: mile-fortlet
fortlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortlet
winningness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From winning + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Taylor tried a jape or two as in a campy hootch number for Linda Kent who, for some prankish reason, made her entrance behind an obliging cabbage; but the whole seemed underchoreographed and overdependent upon the winningness of the dancers.
ref: 1979, High Fidelity Musical America, volume 29, number 2:
text: Those who insist on charm, on winningness in style, on subtle harmonies and fine exquisiteness of suggestion, are disappointed in Burke
ref: 1879, John Morley, Burke:
glosses: The quality or state of being winning.
laborless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laborless
form: most laborless
Etymology: From labor + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not laborious; not requiring labor; easy.
glosses: Without labor; without work
notopodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notopodium
notopodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notopodia
Etymology: From noto- (“back”) + -podium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium of an annelid.
Synonyms: hemapodium
Related terms: neuropodium
labourless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labourless
form: most labourless
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laborless.
impedimental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impedimental
form: most impedimental
Etymology: From impediment + -al.
Senses: examples: text: impedimental bars; impedimental device
text: Here again, if he had consented to remain quiet, he might have been what the world calls “successful;” but he was troubled with convictions—things so impedimental to success!—and these drew down upon him a sentence of excommunication.
ref: 1857, George Henry Lewes, “Modern Philosophy: Transition Period: From Proclus to Bacon”, in The Biographical History of Philosophy from Its Origin in Greece Down to the Present Day, Library edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 384:
glosses: Of the nature of an impediment; hindering or obstructing.
noious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noious
form: most noious
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noyous.
keratophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɛɹətəʊfaɪt/
Forms: form: keratophytes
Etymology: From kerato- (“horn”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Alternative spelling of ceratophyte.
keratophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratophyte
diluvialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diluvialists
form: Diluvialist
Etymology: From diluvial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But the old diluvialists were induced by their system to confound all the groups of strata together instead of discriminating,—to refer all appearances to one cause and to one brief period, not to a variety of causes acting throughout a long succession of epochs.
ref: 1830, Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology […] , volume I, London: John Murray, page 30:
glosses: One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge.
diluvialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diluvialist
dishelm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛlm
Forms: form: dishelms
form: dishelming
form: dishelmed
form: dishelmed
Etymology: From dis- + helm.
Senses: examples: text: Lying stark, dishelmed and mute, and motionlessly pale.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To deprive of a helmet.
Related terms: behelm
unhelm
dishelmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dishelm
dishelming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dishelm
dishelms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dishelm
foveolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foveolate
form: most foveolate
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin foveolātus (“pitted”), by surface analysis, foveola + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having small pits or depressions, like the receptacle in some composite flowers.
Derived terms: efoveolate
knacky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more knacky
form: most knacky
Etymology: From knack + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I spak about to your highness, and a weel clinkit commodity it seems to me to be: he's a bit knacky clever body, that same Willie Dunbar
ref: 1830, Alexander Campbell, Perkin Warbeck:
glosses: Having a knack; cunning; crafty.
Derived terms: knackiness
modificable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more modificable
form: most modificable
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of modifiable.
Panslavist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or supporting, Pan-Slavism
Panslavist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Panslavists
Senses: glosses: Someone who favours Pan-Slavism.
Panslavists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Panslavist
gypse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French gypse.
Senses: examples: text: The soil of Cyprus is for the most part rocky; there are in it many entire hills of talc or gypse […]
ref: 1745, Richard Pococke, A Description of the East:
glosses: Obsolete form of gypsum.
micromillimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromillimeters
form: micromillimetre
Etymology: From micro- + millimeter.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nanometer.
synonyms: word: nanometer
micromillimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromillimeter
nodation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin nodatio (“knottiness”).
Senses: glosses: The act of making a knot.
synonyms: knottedness
glosses: The state of being knotted.
scutcheoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈskʌt͡ʃənd/
Etymology: From scutcheon + -ed.
Senses: glosses: escutcheoned; having a coat of arms
examples: text: scutcheoned panes in cloisters old
ref: 1888, James Russell Lowell, Heartsease and Rue, Friendship:
glosses: emblazoned on, or as if on, a shield
micromillimetre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromillimetres
Etymology: From micro- + millimetre.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of micromillimeter.
micromillimetres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromillimetre
bronchopneumonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronchopneumonia
bronchopneumonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bronchopneumonia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bronchopneumonia.
huddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huddlers
Etymology: From huddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who huddles.
huddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huddler
papess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papesses
Etymology: French papesse.
Senses: examples: text: Was the history of that their monstrous Papess of our making?
ref: 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:
glosses: A female pope, i.e. the fictitious Pope Joan.
Synonyms: word: papissa
word: popess
inertitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inert + -itude.
Senses: examples: text: I know it was a dangerous experiment to send military amongst them in the night time, but it is equally necessary to be firm and courteous and forbearing, and if my information had been true, inertitude would have been criminal.
ref: 1842, Charles Terry, New Zealand, its advantages and prospects, as a British colony:
text: So, if it were possible to place an orb quietly in some particular part of space, where it would be equally free from the attractive influence of every one of the celestial systems, it would, from the same tendency to inertitude, remain quiescent and at rest for ever.
ref: 1826, John Mason Good, “Lecture IV. On the Properties of Matter, Essential and Peculiar.”, in The Book of Nature. […], volumes I (Series I. Nature of the Material World; […].), London: […] [A[ndrew] & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, pages 78–79:
glosses: Inertness; inertia.
pasturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pasturable
form: most pasturable
Etymology: From Middle English pasturable, equivalent to pasture (verb) + -able.
Senses: examples: text: pasturable land
text: pasturable reserves
glosses: Fit for pasture.
Derived terms: unpasturable
Related terms: pasturage
pastureland
placability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placabilities
Etymology: From Latin plācābilitās. Compare French placabilité.
Senses: synonyms: placableness
glosses: The quality of being placable or appeasable.
resenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resenters
Etymology: From resent + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Earl vvas the vvorſe Philoſopher, being a great Reſenter and a vveak Diſſembler of the leaſt diſgrace: […]
ref: c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, for R[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: One who resents.
resenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resenter
undecennary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 1783, Dr. E. Stiles, election sermon
an undecennary account laid before Parliament
glosses: Once every eleven years; undecennial.
vaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vaunces
form: vauncing
form: vaunced
form: vaunced
Etymology: See advance.
Senses: examples: text: Then tooke the bold Sir Satyrane in hand
An huge great speare , such as he wont to wield ,
And , vauncing forth from all the other band Of knights ,
addrest his maiden-headed shield
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To advance (various senses).
vaunced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vaunce
vaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vaunce
vauncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vaunce
vireton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viretons
Etymology: From French vireton. See vire.
Senses: glosses: An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flight.
viretons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vireton
deiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdiː.ɪˌfɔː(ɹ)m/
/ˈdeɪ.ɪˌfɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: more deiform
form: most deiform
Etymology: From Medieval Latin deifōrmis (literally “godlike”).
Senses: examples: text: But that full graſp of vaſt Eternitie / Longs not to beings ſimply vegetive, / Not yet to creatures merely ſenſitive: / Reaſon alone cannot arrive to it. / Onely ſouls Deiform intellective / Unto that height of happineſſe can get; / Yet immortalitie with other ſouls may fit.
ref: 1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΑ [Psychathanasia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Poem of the Immortality of Souls, Especially Mans Soul”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC, book 1, canto 2, stanza 47, page 19:
glosses: Godlike.
examples: text: When our minds shall perceive what a pure imitation of God its life is, and how exactly deiform all its motions and actions are, with what ravishing pleasure will they even review their own motions […]
ref: 1683, John Scott, The Christian Life from Its Beginning to Its Consummation in Glory:
glosses: Conformable to the will of God
Derived terms: deiformity
entoglossal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ento- + glossal.
Senses: examples: text: entoglossal process of lizards
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within the tongue; applied to the glossohyal bone.
untomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untombs
form: untombing
form: untombed
form: untombed
Etymology: From un- + tomb.
Senses: examples: text: [P]erchance the Turks are minded as John King of England was, who being wiſhed by a Courtier to untombe the bones of one who whileſt he was living had been his great enemy, Oh no, ſaid King John, would all mine enemies were as honourably buried.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Godfreys Death and Buriall”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 51:
synonyms: see at disentomb
glosses: To take (something, especially a body) from a tomb.
glosses: to reveal (something hidden)
untombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untomb
untombed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untombed
form: most untombed
Senses: glosses: Having never been placed in a tomb, or having been removed from it.
untombing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untomb
untombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untomb
enfiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French enfiler (“to pierce, thread”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having an object, such as the head of a man or animal, impaled on it.
papesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papess
appensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appension
husbandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more husbandable
form: most husbandable
Etymology: From husband + -able.
Senses: examples: text: husbandable land
ref: 1881, John Webb Probyn, Systems of Land Tenure in Various Countries:
glosses: Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
renewedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From renewed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: again; once more
adenographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adenography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to adenography.
apoise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈpɔɪz/
Etymology: From a- + poise.
Senses: glosses: poised; balanced
gynantherous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils.
palpableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palpable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He brimmed with deep feeling as he replied in a steady voice, the steadiness of which was spoilt by the palpableness of his great effort to keep it so:— […]
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXIX, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being palpable.
mournival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː.nɪ.vəl/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹ.nɪ.vəl/
Forms: form: mournivals
form: murnival
Etymology: Perhaps from French mornifle (“a card game”).
Senses: examples: text: Before George, there's not enough to rig out a Mournival of VVhores: they'l think me grown a meer Curmudgeon. Mercy on me, how will this glorious Trade be carri'd on, with ſuch a miſerable Stock!
ref: 1677 (date written), John Dryden, The Kind Keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: A Comedy: […], London: […] R[ichard] Bentley, and M[ary] Magnes, […], published 1680, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 37:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: In the game of gleek, and other card games, a set of four cards of the same face value.
examples: text: It was, as we shall have occasion to emphasize, not an accidental circumstance that the terror-novel was in the fullest flush of popularity during the seventeen-nineties, and it was also in this decade that Mrs. Radcliffe wrote and published her most characteristic works, A Sicilian Romance, 1790; The Romance of the Forest, 1791; The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1794; and The Italian, or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents, 1797, a mournival of Gothic masterpieces.
ref: 1964 [1938], Montague Summers, “The Romantic Feeling” (chapter I), in The Gothic Quest, Russell & Russell, page 56:
text: “[…] And there are those two girls to provide for. Isabella, Isabella—I always think of them as half a mournival of Isabellas—but what the deuce are their other names?”
“Isabella Lees and Isabella Brownwood,” said Thomas.
ref: 1958, Phyllis Bentley, “Isabella, Isabella”, in Love and Money: Seven Tales of the West Riding, New York: MacMillan Publishers, section 10, page 81:
text: Four plumbers came by a little while ago, looked at the leaks, and left to go to lunch. I guess, lacking a penis, that I'm not qualified to note that, yes indeedy, there is a leak from the ceiling in the lab. Or, perhaps, they it^([sic]) would take a mournival of manly men to keep lil' ole' me from panicking. They milled around in the hall for a minute, told me they's be back, and left.
ref: 2005 May 27, Penelope Periwinkle, “Obsolete”, in soc.singles.moderated (Usenet):
text: The Emperor, flanked by his Custodes, and Horus along with his Mournival of captains teleported onto the ship, but were scattered across the vast command decks by sinister magicks.
ref: 2010, Aurelius Rex, “The History and Legacy of Dorn’s Betrayal”, in Aurelius Rex, editor, The Dornian Heresy, number 1, page 6, column 2:
glosses: A set of four people or things; a quartet.
mournivals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mournival
murnival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murnivals
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of mournival
murnivals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murnival
blowze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowzes
form: blouse
form: blowse
Etymology: Probably from the same root as blush.
Senses: glosses: A ruddy, fat-faced woman, or a wench.
Derived terms: blowzy
blowzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowze
deathfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deathful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: most remote from a deathfulness, and most agreeable by their liveliness
ref: 1701, unknown author, Several letters between two ladies:
glosses: An appearance suggestive of death.
vaporability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vapor + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being vaporable.
defamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more defamous
form: most defamous
Etymology: From defame + -ous.
Senses: glosses: defamatory; tending to defame
gynandromorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynandromorphic.
sarcoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcoblasts
Etymology: From sarco- + -blast.
Senses: examples: text: There is nothing improbable therefore in the assumption that the entire series in their earliest condition, that is to say when the chitinoid exudation of which the test is entirely composed makes its appearance around the sarcoblast, are identical in form .
ref: 1885 November, Surgeon-Major Wallich, “Critical Observations on Prof. Leidy's "Freshwater Rhizopods of North America," and Classification of the Rhizopods in general”, in Annals & Magazine of Natural History, page 332:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods, thouth to play a role in nutrient storage or in the metabolism of the cell.
examples: text: These elongated structures were less differentiated than the parent sarcoblast; they did not develop cross-banding as a rule in the short period of cultivation (about 5 days) used by these workers.
ref: 1960, Margaret R. Murray, “Skeletal Muscle tissue in Culture”, in Geoffrey Bourne, editor, The Structure and Function of Muscle V1: Structure, page 114:
glosses: An embryonic cell that can differentiate into myoblasts.
sarcoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcoblast
urinometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From urine + -o- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the specific gravity of urine by the urinometer.
duncical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌnsɪkəl/
Forms: form: more duncical
form: most duncical
Etymology: From dunce + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: the most dull and duncical commissioner
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: Like a dunce; stupid or silly.
expirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From expire + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Clear any expirable entry in the cache table that was set by the foo module (and thus has a $cid that begins with the foo: prefix): […]
ref: 2008, John VanDyk, Pro Drupal Development, Apress, →ISBN, page 362:
glosses: That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.
improportionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more improportionable
form: most improportionable
Etymology: From im- + proportionable.
Senses: examples: text: I am a Rhinoceros, if I had thought a creature of her symmetry, could have dar'd so improportionable
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
glosses: Not proportionable.
tiar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiars
Etymology: Compare French tiare. See tiara.
Senses: examples: text: Of beaming sunny rays, a golden tiar / Circled his head, nor less his locks behind / Illustrious on his shoulders, fledge with wings, / Lay waving round; […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 625-628:
text: A tiar on his head of curious frame
ref: 1816, James Hogg, Mador of the Moor (poem):
text: [E]astern flowers large, / Some dropping low their crimson bells / Half-closed, and others studded wide / With disks and tiars, fed the time / With odour in the golden prime / Of good Haroun Alraschid.
ref: 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, part VI, page 25:
glosses: A tiara.
tiars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiar
undulationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undulationists
Etymology: From undulation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: the undulationist will conceive that his opinions have gained no small accession of evidence by this exemplification of what they will account for
ref: 1833, William Whewell, Address Delivered in the Senate-House at Cambridge:
glosses: One who believes that light is a wave.
undulationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undulationist
viewiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From viewy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being viewy (having unpractical views)
Nisqually
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nisquallies
form: Nisqually
Senses: glosses: Any member of a Native American tribe in western Washington state, near the Nisqually River.
Nisquallies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nisqually
waterful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waterful
form: most waterful
Etymology: From water + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of water; watery.
dew water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dewwater
Senses: glosses: Water originating in the form of dew.
dewwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dew water.
mendery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menderies
Etymology: From mend + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Most research libraries have had or continue to have a "mendery" where repair work takes place.
ref: 1992, Who, What and Where in Book Repair: Institutional Profiles of the LCCDG, 1992, http://cool.conservation-us.org, February 2, 2009
glosses: The department of a library where damaged books are repaired.
examples: text: Sara Hyland and May Courtney have decided to try and carry on as a 'Mendery and Dressmaking Establishment.'
ref: 1995, William Michael Murphy, Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives:
glosses: An establishment in which clothes are repaired.
menderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mendery
butt joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butt joint
child brides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of child bride
Garamantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably from Berber igherman, "cities".
Senses: glosses: An ancient Saharan people who used an elaborate underground irrigation system, and founded a prosperous Berber kingdom in what is modern-day Libya.
oblea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obleas
Senses: glosses: A dessert from several countries in Latin America, consisting of two thin wafers sandwiching a sweet filling.
Amerikay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.keɪ/
Forms: form: Americay
Senses: examples: text: Then forth went this brave youth and crossed the ocean
To free Amerikay was his intention
ref: ca. 1760, anonymous author, “Brave Wolfe”:
glosses: America.
breadth-first search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breadth-first searches
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: BFS
coordinate_terms: depth-first search
glosses: A search algorithm that begins at the root node and explores all the neighboring nodes.
responsure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A response.
retexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retex
retruse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retruse
form: most retruse
Etymology: From Latin retrusus (“concealed”), past participle of retrudere.
Senses: glosses: Thrust backward; retruding.
examples: 1662, Henry More, Preface to A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings
I have a sense of something in me while I thus speak, which I must confess is of so retruse a nature that I want a name for it, unless I should adventure to term it
glosses: abstruse
impactable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impactable
form: most impactable
Etymology: From impact + -able.
Senses: glosses: Likely to be impacted.
smugglable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smugglable
form: most smugglable
Etymology: From smuggle + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be smuggled.
subpartition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpartitions
Etymology: From sub- + partition.
Senses: glosses: A partition that makes up part of a larger partition.
subpartition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subpartitions
form: subpartitioning
form: subpartitioned
form: subpartitioned
Etymology: From sub- + partition.
Senses: glosses: To divide into further partitions.
subpartitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subpartition
subpartitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subpartition
subpartitions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subpartition
subpartitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpartition
M98
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M98s
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The Mauser model 98, or a firearm action based on this design.
KSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Chicago typewriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chicago typewriters
Etymology: From its use by Chicago's underworld in the Prohibition Era, and likening the rattling sound of gunfire to that of a typewriter.
Senses: examples: text: As the .45 cartridge is used in many weapons, Ballistics test-fired it in all — three different models of the Thompson sub-machine gun, the “Chicago typewriter” of gang warfare; the Reising sub-machine gun used by the marine Corps; the new and exciting M-3 sub-machine gun; the Colt .45 automatic pistol […]
ref: 1946, Wesley Winans Stout, Bullets by the Billion, page 68:
text: Few arrests were made and the city was alive to the sound of screeching tyres, the chatter of the Chicago typewriter or Tommy gun (which was invented just too late for the First World War but just in time for Capone & Co) and the music of the speakeasies and juke joints.
ref: 2010 July 23, Neil Norman, “The man who really caught Capone”, in Express:
text: The Russian soldiers carried Czech-made Skoda Tommy guns reminiscent of the well-known Thompson Chicago typewriter, made famous by the FBI and gang warfare during the Depression years.
ref: 2012, Edward M. Arnett, A Different Kind of War Story, page 105:
glosses: Synonym of Thompson submachine gun.
synonyms: word: Thompson submachine gun
Synonyms: Tommy gun
Chicago atomizer
Chicago piano
Chicago style
chopper
Hypernyms: trench broom
trench sweeper
Related terms: english: gunfire
translation: gunfire
word: Chicago lightning
english: coffin
translation: coffin
word: Chicago overcoat