cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Buddha belly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buddha bellies
Etymology: From depictions of the potbellied Chinese folkloric deity Budai that are often mistakenly thought to represent the Gautama Buddha in the West.
Senses: examples: text: He wears a wrinkled polo shirt that does little to disguise his bulging Buddha belly.
ref: 2000, Steve Martini, The Attorney, Jove Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
glosses: A round, protruding belly.
Buddha bellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Buddha belly
extrorsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of extrorse.
synonyms: word: extrorse
tineman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinemen
Etymology: Probably akin to tine (“to shut or enclose”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night.
tinemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tineman
scleroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scleroid
form: most scleroid
Etymology: From sclero- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The shells of nuts are scleroid.
text: This scleroid form , which plays a very important part in the vegetation of Fungi, is only a transitory one; it always proceeds from the filamentous state, and may be compared with the tubers of the Potato, and not with a true subterranean stem; its life is truly latent, and only preserved by the hygrometric nature of its tissue.
ref: 1876, Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, A General System of Botany, page 950:
text: The scleroid patches, when present, took no part in the reaction. No new scleroid tissue was produced.
ref: 1911, William Randolph Taylor, “On the Production of New Cell Formations in Plants”, in Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania, page 290:
text: The walls of these scleroid basidia often reach 1 μm or more in thickness and the walls stain deeply with congo red.
ref: 1981, Timothy J. Baroni, A Revision of the Genus Rhodocybe Maire (Agaricales), page 24:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a hard texture.
examples: text: Did you find his drums were thickened and scleroid ?
ref: 1953, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 415:
text: Pharyngeal walls thick, scleroid.
ref: 1960, Konstantin Ivanovich Skri︠a︡bin, Essentials of Nematodology, page 364:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: thickened.
scleroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scleroids
Etymology: From sclero- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: This is caused by the scleroid which turns around the optic nerve, and projects somewhat above it, thus forming, when illuminated, the clear scleroidal margin.
ref: 1860 September 15, Max Kuechler, “The Present State of Ophthalmoscopy”, in The Medical and Surgical Reporter, volume 4, number 24, page 493:
text: Bone had been found in various organs and tissues, including the dura and pia mater, in the scleroid and choroid, in the tonsils, in the thyroid, the lung and pleura and other serous membranes.
ref: 1914, Arpad G. Gerster, “On the Fomation of Bone in the Human Penis”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 243:
text: The scleroid is a complete sphere; choroid and retina are incomplete externally.
ref: 1978, Alfred Sherwood Romer, Thomas Sturges Parsons, The Vertebrate Body:
glosses: The outermost layer of an eyeball.
examples: text: At the end of gall formation isolated scleroids are differentiated in the gall parenchyma, and much more rarely, tracheids and vessels.
ref: 1961, Doklady: Botanical sciences sections - Volumes 136-141, page 15:
text: Clusters of irregularly shaped cells (scleroids) form hard shells , like those of pecans or fruit pits .
ref: 2002, Paul W. Syltie, How Soils Work, page 13:
text: Scleroids form hard layers in roots, stems and seeds.
ref: 2010, Ralph Kirby,T.G. Downing and M.I.El Gohary, Fundamentals of Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Biophysics:
glosses: A plant cell with thick cell walls.
phenacite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenacites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of phenakite.
phenacites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenacite
sustentacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sustentacles
Etymology: From Latin sustentaculum. See sustentation.
Senses: examples: text: That God's the sustentacle of all Natures
ref: 1642, Henry More, Psychathanasia:
glosses: sustenance or substance.
sustentacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sustentacle
folkloristically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more folkloristically
form: most folkloristically
Etymology: From folkloristic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a folkloristic manner.
pourpresture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pourprestures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of purpresture.
pourprestures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pourpresture
soaproot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soaproots
Etymology: From soap + root.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants whose roots were formerly used as a substitute for soap.
A perennial herb (Gypsophila struthium), of Spain and Morocco.
glosses: Any of several plants whose roots were formerly used as a substitute for soap.
Plants of western North America of genus Chlorogalum.
soaproots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soaproot
deltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From delta + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of deltaic.
synonyms: word: deltaic
Derived terms: deltic acid
glent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glents
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of glint.
glent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glents
form: glenting
form: glented
form: glented
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of glint.
glents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glent
rennets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rennet
renneting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rennetings
Senses: glosses: Adding rennet to milk during cheesemaking
glosses: A kind of apple; the rennet
rennetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renneting
incask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incasks
form: incasking
form: incasked
form: incasked
Etymology: From in- + cask.
Senses: examples: text: And being demanded of that which was donc by Nayu and Curlus,
Incasked if euer it was heard, that the seruants were suborned and admitted as witnesses to the death of their Masters
ref: 1624, William Camden, William Udall, The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland, page 232:
glosses: To cover with a casque or as with a casque.
incasked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incask
incasking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incask
incasks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incask
indesert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indeserts
Etymology: From in- + desert.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hich stop the Way to the true Knowledge and Service of Mankind, overlook the little Distinctions of Fortune, raise obscure Merit, and discountenance successful Indesert […]
ref: 1709 September 28 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Joseph Addison], “Saturday, September 17, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 69; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC:
text: 1831, George Hall (vicar of Tenbury), The dictate book; being lessons on life, men, and manners
All those who made their entrance into the world with the same advantages, and were once looked on as his equals, are apt to think the fame of his merits a reflection on their own indeserts, and will therefore take care to reproach him […]
glosses: Ill desert; failure to deserve something.
indeserts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indesert
physicological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Now this Phyſico-logical Scheme of Oratorial Receptacles, or Machines, contains a great Myſtery, [...]
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section I. The Introduction.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 41:
glosses: Of or relating to physicology.
surmounter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surmounters
Etymology: From surmount + -er.
Senses: examples: a. 1750', Aaron Hill, "Cleon to Lycidas"
Giant surmounters of wit's loftiest Alps!
glosses: One who, or that which, surmounts.
surmounters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surmounter
molluscous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mollusc + -ous.
Senses: glosses: molluscan
anacharis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up”) + χάρις (kháris, “grace”).
Senses: glosses: Any freshwater weed of genus Elodea in the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharitaceae), native to America; the waterweed or water thyme.
waterweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterweed
hemachrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hematin
camber-keeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more camber-keeled
form: most camber-keeled
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged.
pinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinders
form: pindar
form: pinda
Etymology: Via Gullah from Kongo mpinda (“peanut”), also borrowed in Dutch as pinda.
Senses: glosses: A peanut, the nut-like pod containing the edible seed(s) of a leguminous plant.
glosses: The plant, Arachis hypogaea, that bears peanuts.
pinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinders
Etymology: From Middle English pindere, pyndere, pundere, pendere, from Old English *pyndere, from Old English pyndan (“pen up”), from pund (“pound, enclosure”). Equivalent to pend (“to pen”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who impounds; a poundkeeper.
pinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinder
dedition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deditions
Etymology: From Latin deditio, from dedere (“to give away, surrender”), from de- + dare (“to give”).
Senses: examples: text: [A]lmoſt all Victories, […] end in Deditions and Capitulations, and Faith given to the Conqueror, whereby oftentimes the former Laws, Privileges, and Poſſeſſions are confirmed to the Subdued, without which the Victors ſeldom continue long or quiet in their New Acqueſts, without extream Expence, Force, Severity and Hazard.
ref: 1713, [Matthew Hale], “How the Common Law of England Stood at and for Some Time after the Coming in of King William I.”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC, page 78:
glosses: The act of yielding; surrender.
deditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dedition
cumfrey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌmfɹi/
Senses: examples: text: if her brother had bruised his ankle-bone in his tumble, cumfrey and butter was better to bring him round
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of comfrey.
servents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servent
zabra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zabras
Senses: glosses: A small sailing vessel used off the coasts of Spain and Portugal.
oxytonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxytone + -ical.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: oxytone
scyllarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪˈlɛəɹiən/
Forms: form: scyllarians
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: scyllarid
glosses: Any of the family Scyllaridae of crustaceans with depressed body and broad, flat antennae; a slipper lobster
scyllarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scyllarian
zabras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zabra
phalansteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phalanstery
phalansterian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phalansterians
Etymology: From phalanstery + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One who favours the system of phalansteries proposed by Charles Fourier.
Derived terms: phalansterianism
phalansterians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phalansterian
basketworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basketworms
Etymology: From basket + worm.
Senses: glosses: The larva of a psychid moth.
basketworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basketworm
psychid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Psychidae; a bagworm.
psychids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychid
bagmoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagmoths
Etymology: From bag + moth.
Senses: glosses: A kind of moth, the bagworm.
bagmoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagmoth
pilenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilentum
pilentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilentums
form: pilenta
Etymology: From Latin pilentum.
Senses: glosses: A ceremonial chariot or carriage, used by Roman noblewomen.
pilentums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilentum
Vengo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group of northwestern Cameroon
Vengo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their language, also known as Babungo, in the Benue-Congo family, with 14000-27000 speakers.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Babungo terms
shilf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare German Schilf (“sedge”).
Senses: examples: text: Five-and-twenty of them are tied together and laid at the depth of one fathom at most on sunk posts, as the sevrugas go to shallow places and among the shilf.
ref: 1800, William Tooke, View of the Russian Empire During the Reign of Catharine the Second, page 56:
text: Two loads of clay, and one load of coarse shilf mixed and wetted, and trodden together to lump […]
ref: 1849, The Ecclesiologist: Volume 9, page 288:
text: Reet is that shilf we have on older houses here. They do take it off sometimes and change to new.
ref: 2021, Heike Thieme, Mable: my naturally biggest Love to our dog !, page 64:
glosses: straw or reeds.
examples: text: Below the statum of tin ground is a bed of stiff clay called shilf or shale.
ref: 1808, The Literary panorama - Volume 4, Issue 1808, page 547:
text: So, too, will shilf, the name given to the little pieces of waste slate which are abundant in Cornwall: one part of shilf to two of mud and straw was the usual recipe for 'clob', as the Cornish often called it.
ref: 1962, Connoisseur Year Book and Diary, page 104:
glosses: Coarse shale or slate fragments.
hautpas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əʊˈpɑː/
Forms: form: hautpas
Etymology: From French haut (“high”) + pas (“step”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haut-pas.
ethionic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of ethyl + thionic + acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The unstable sulfonic acid 2-sulfooxyethanesulfonic acid
Derived terms: isethionic acid
prosiphon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosiphons
Etymology: From pro- + siphon.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites, not connected with the true siphon.
prosiphons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosiphon
prefecundation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + fecundation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The collective changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially those affecting the ovum.
prefecundation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + fecundation.
Senses: glosses: prior to fecundation.
dripple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪpəl/
rhymes: -ɪpəl
Forms: form: dripples
form: drippling
form: drippled
form: drippled
Etymology: From drip + -le (frequentative suffix) or a blend of drip + dribble.
Senses: glosses: to dribble briskly; to drip with wet
white-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-pots
Senses: examples: text: Old Violet was a worthy colored woman who kept a goody shop, where school children could buy journey or johnny cake, white pot, or poor man's custard, and candy
ref: 1905, Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, Newport: Our Social Capital:
glosses: A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot.
white-pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-pot
poor knights of Windsor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: French toast
codeshared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of codeshare
codesharing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of codeshare
codependently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more codependently
form: most codependently
Etymology: From codependent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a codependent manner.
hart's ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɑːts ɪə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: Kleinia grandiflora, an Asian plant once used medicinally in India.
spinulescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinulescent
form: most spinulescent
Etymology: From spinule + -escent.
Senses: examples: text: spinulescent spots
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having small spines; somewhat thorny.
glaum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glaums
form: glauming
form: glaumed
form: glaumed
Etymology: Alteration of dialectal clam, claum (“to grope or grasp ineffectually, snatch”), from Middle English *clammen, *clemmen, from Old English clæmman, clemman, from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan, from Proto-Germanic *klamjaną. In some senses, likely influenced by clamber. Compare dialectal glaump, glamp (“to grasp, snatch at, clutch, grope", also "gulp”), Scots clam, claum (“to grope or grasp ineffectually, snatch”), Norwegian klemme (“to seize with claws”), Middle High German klemmen (“to squeeze”). Doublet of glom. Related also to English clamp.
Senses: examples: text: My heart, for fear, gaed sough for sough, / To hear the thuds, and see the cluds / O' clans frae woods, in tartan duds, / Wha glaum'd at kingdoms three.
ref: 1789, “The Battle of Sherramuir”, Burns, Robert (lyrics):
text: "Few get what they glaum at."
ref: 1895, The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, page 194:
text: She plays a game of blind-man's bute, / Glaums at the first she touches; / Even if the coof has coin enough, / She multiplies his riches.
ref: 1908, The Caledonian, page 82:
text: "Katty, Katty Regan, for God's sake" he cried, all in a breath, his voice wild and high with surprise and despair, his hand glauming at nothing. Only with her last word had her own voice broken from her, letting him know whose[…]
ref: 1914, Joseph Mary Plunkett, The Irish Review, page 246:
text: ... used to be always embracing me Josie whenever he was there meaning him of course glauming me over and when I said I washed up and down as sar as possible asking me did you wash[…]
ref: 2008 April 17, James Joyce, Ulysses, Oxford Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 695:
glosses: To grasp or snatch (at), usually feebly or ineffectually; to grope (at) with the hands, as in the dark.
examples: text: Pádraig Ó Cíobháin, of An Spidéal, heard the word glauming from his mother-in-law , Kathleen Lanigan, in Kilkenny. The good lady offered this gloss: 'She'd be going around the house glauming for something - searching for [it].'
ref: 1999, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, The Words We Use: Collection 3, volume 3, page 43:
text: Linda eyed Teddy intently, he was still glauming his mind for something, anything. He was not giving up. Linda asked himself, just what happened to this guy? Tina was still sulking from the balcony, Mrs Abebe attempted throughout the[…]
ref: 2022 October 19, Bongani Prince Zwane, The Ballarag's imagination Rush, Ukiyoto Publishing, →ISBN, page 213:
glosses: To search (for something).
Synonyms: sense: grope with the hands
word: fumble
word: grubble
word: feel around
sense: grasp, snatch
word: clutch
word: grab
word: grasp
glaum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glaums
form: glauming
form: glaumed
form: glaumed
form: glawm
form: gloom
form: glom
Etymology: From Middle English gloumen, glomen (“to look glum or sullen, scowl, frown at, lower”), from Old Norse glám- (in compounds), cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk glåma (“to stare”).
Senses: examples: text: I drop my bantering side, glauming a hard frown. “Why would your clients not want you to execute on these in full? Obviously you have a skilled eye for dramatic impact. And I know naught of intricate fashion construction,[…]
ref: 2022 January 25, Angel Payne, Misadventures with a Duke, Waterhouse Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To look sullen or sad; scowl, frown.
examples: text: He drummed on the table, glauming at me and through me until I wondered if I should count the interview ended. Then of a sudden he shouted, […]
ref: 1954, Margaret Cooper Gay, Hatchet in the Sky, a Novel, New York : Simon and Schuster:
glosses: To look (at), to stare (at).
glaumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glaum
glauming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glaum
glaums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glaum
ensear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ensears
form: ensearing
form: enseared
form: enseared
Etymology: From en- + sear.
Senses: examples: text: Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To sear; to dry up.
spoilfive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoil five
Etymology: From spoil + five.
Senses: glosses: A trick-taking card game in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be "spoiled".
spoil five
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spoilfive.
satangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satang
twenty-five-thousander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twenty-five-thousanders
Etymology: From twenty-five thousand + -er, a calque of Russian двадцатипятитысячники (dvadcatipjatitysjačniki).
Senses: glosses: One of the approximately 25,000 industrial workers who voluntarily left their homes to do rural work in the kolkhozes in the USSR in the early 1930s.
twenty-five-thousanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twenty-five-thousander
mintages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mintage
siphonate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪfəˌnət/
Etymology: From siphon + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having a siphon or siphons.
siphonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪfəˌnət/
Forms: form: siphonates
Etymology: From the substantivation of the above adjective through the associated taxon's name, Siphonata. Equivalent to siphon + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the former group Siphonata, a lamellibranch with a siphon.
glosses: Any siphonate bivalve.
trannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trannels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of treenail.
trannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trannel
Briarean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaɪˈɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /bɹaɪˈɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Briarean
form: most Briarean
Etymology: From Latin Briareius, from Briareus (“a mythological hundred-handed giant”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; many-handed.
undight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undights
form: undighting
form: undighted
form: undighted
Etymology: From un- + dight.
Senses: examples: text: His mayled haberjeon she did undight, / And from his head his heavy burganet did light.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To take off (a piece of clothing).
undighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undight
disenthralment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disenthralments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disinthrallment.
disenthralments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disenthralment
disenthrallment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disenthrallments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disinthrallment.
disenthrallments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disenthrallment
gee whillikers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gee willikers.
gee willickers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gee willikers.
pogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pogie
phaseomannite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Phaseolus and mannite, because it is found in the unripe fruit of the bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: inositol
-punk
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: First used when coining cyberpunk or as a back-formation to coin steampunk. Probably from the influence of the punk subculture on these genres.
Senses: glosses: Denotes a futuristic, aesthetically-oriented genre of fiction based on the noun to which it is suffixed, usually involving ahistorical or anachronistic technology and its effects on society.
wikipedia: punk subculture
clockpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clock + -punk, from clockwork.
Senses: examples: text: The term [steampunk] is also frequently applied to works set in original worlds drawing inspiration from nineteenth century culture and technology, and at times is even used to refer to comparable blends of alternate history and retro-futurism across a much wider historical span (blurring with categories like Renaissance-era "clockpunk" and interwar "dieselpunk").
ref: 2011, Nader Elhefnawy, After the New Wave: Science Fiction Since 1980, Createspace, →ISBN:
text: Then sometime in the early 90's^([sic]) came steampunk. Alright, that's a little goofy, but people understood what it meant. It was the "punk"-like hacker culture from cyberpunk using Victorian era, steam based technology. […] But authors couldn't stop there! No, they had to go back further and write about clockpunk: hackers in Da Vinci's time making things run on springs and gears and other clockwork.
ref: 2011, Ted Stoltz, Universal Serendipity, Lulu Press, →ISBN, pages 43–44:
text: Oddly enough, K. W. Jeter wrote a clockpunk novel in 1987 called Infernal Devices. The story takes place in London and involves human-fish hybrids and a brilliant clockwork maker whose father had been experimenting with building automata, clockwork humans.
ref: 2013, Lois H. Gresh, The Mortal Instruments Companion, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the technology and society of the Renaissance.
Related terms: word: davincipunk
potargo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What lord of old would bid his Cook prepare Mangos, potargo, champignons, caveare?
ref: 1709, William King, Art of Cookery:
glosses: bottarga
setee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of settee (sofa or sailing vessel)
setees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setee
Carcel lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carcel lamps
Etymology: Named after its French inventor, Bernard Guillaume Carcel.
Senses: glosses: A mechanical lamp from the 19th century, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.
Carcel lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Carcel lamp
palaestric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palaestric
form: most palaestric
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palestric.
epithalamies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epithalamy
epithalamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epithalamies
Senses: examples: text: He shew'd us how for sinnes we ought to sigh,
And how to sing Christs Epithalamy
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of epithalamium.
choree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːɹiː/
Forms: form: chorees
Etymology: French chorée.
Senses: glosses: a choreus, trochee (a foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short)
Derived terms: dichoree
chorees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choree
labimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labimeters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Labimeter. Compare French labimetre.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A labidometer.
labimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labimeter
pollage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊlɪd͡ʒ/
/ˈpɒlɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: pollages
Etymology: From poll + -age.
Senses: examples: text: delivering of our realm from his grievous bondage and pollage
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A poll tax, one charged for each person.
pollages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollage
pollakiurias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollakiuria
pollams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollam
Serie B
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Before kick-off, a section of Chelsea's support sadly let themselves and their club down by noisily interrupting the silence held in memory of the Hillsborough disaster and for Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, who collapsed and died after suffering a heart attack during a Serie B game on Saturday.
ref: 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: The second division of professional football in Italy.
Serie A
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛːrje ˈa/
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The highest division of professional football in Italy.
Ligue 1
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French ligue (“league”) + 1.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The highest division of professional football in France.
crackaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cracka
Bundesliga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The German Football Bundesliga (the highest division of professional men's football in Germany)
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The Austrian Football Bundesliga (the highest division of professional men's football in Austria)
Primeira Liga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Portuguese for "Premier League".
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The highest division of professional football in Portugal.
Eredivisie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeːrədivizi/
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The highest division of professional football in the Netherlands.
heterocentrisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterocentrism
haemochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haemachrome.
Derived terms: haemochromometer
barracan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barracans
Etymology: From Middle French barracan, from Arabic بَرَّكَان (barrakān).
Senses: glosses: A thick, strong kind of camlet from linen, wool, cotton or all three, usually with a stripe structure and fringes, traditionally used for outer garments of both sexes in the Arab World, of a similar purpose as the Roman toga and palla or the Indian sari.
barracans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barracan
prebatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prebatch
prebatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prebatch
prebatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prebatch
Hibs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Garry O'Connor stabbed Hibs into a third-minute lead from close range and the Edinburgh side deservedly went into the break with their lead intact.
ref: 2012 April 14, Clive Lindsay, “Aberdeen 1-2 Hibernian”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Hibernian Football Club, a football club based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
convival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more convival
form: most convival
Etymology: From Latin convivalis. See convive.
Senses: examples: text: And though this may only seem an adventure of northern stomachs, yet as Herodotus tells us, in the hotter clime of Persia, the same was a convival dish, and solemnly eaten at the feasts of their nativities.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Relating to a feast or festivity; convivial.
Related terms: convivial
senatorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin senātōrius + -an. By surface analysis, senator + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: If a man of senatorian rank should marry a woman of libertine condition, she would not be his wife while he retained his dignity, but she would nevertheless be in a condition to become his wife, if he should lose it.
ref: 1826, Hector Davies Morgan, The doctrine and law of marriage, adultery, and divorce, page 219:
text: 1832-1834, Thomas De Quincey, "The Caesars", in Blackwood's Magazine
within the senatorian jurisdiction, these governors, with the title of Proconsuls, were to have no military power whatsoever
glosses: senatorial
callipee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: callipees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calipee.
Dons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Few goals had been expected with the three league meetings between the sides this season having produced one goal - and that a controversial penalty scored by Dons striker Scott Vernon.
ref: 2012 April 14, Clive Lindsay, “Aberdeen 1-2 Hibernian”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Aberdeen Football Club, a football club based in Aberdeen, Scotland.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Wimbledon Football Club, a defunct football club based in London.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: AFC Wimbledon, a football club based in London, founded by the supporters of Wimbledon FC.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Milton Keynes Dons F.C., a football club based in Milton Keynes, England.
tray-trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trey (“three”).
Senses: examples: text: Shall I play my freedom at tray-trip, and become thy bond-slave?
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
glosses: An old game played with dice. It is unknown what the game involved, but it is likely dependent on rolling a 3.
corrosibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrosibility
corrosibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrosibilities
Senses: examples: text: Corrosibility […] answers corrosiveness.
ref: 1675, Robert Boyle, Experiments, Notes, Etc., about the Mechanical Origin of Qualities:
glosses: corrodibility.
corrodibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrodibility
Caley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club, a football club based in Inverness, Scotland
glosses: A surname.
praecocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: præcocial
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of precocial.
day-net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day-nets
Senses: examples: text: why such setting up with corks, straitening with whalebones; why is it but, as a day-net catcheth larks, to make young men stoop unto them?
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 2, subsection iii:
glosses: A net for catching small birds.
day-nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of day-net
retepore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retepores
Etymology: Latin rete (“net”) + porus (“pore”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of several species of bryozoans of the genus Reteporella (syn. Retepora) or the family Reteporidae, that form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds.
retepores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retepore
Killie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪli
Etymology: From Kilmarnock + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: After soaking up the pressure, Killie then stormed ahead in the 73rd minute
ref: 2018 November 10, Press Association, “Ross Millen punishes blunt Hearts in impressive away win for Killie”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Kilmarnock Football Club, a football club based in Kilmarnock, Scotland.
true-pennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of true-penny
true-penny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true-pennies
Senses: examples: text: "Ha!" said Christie, "art thou there, old True-penny? here, stable me these steeds, and see them well bedded, and stretch thine old limbs by rubbing them down; and see thou quit not the stable till there is not a turned hair on either of them."
ref: 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: Alternative form of truepenny.
incension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incensions
Etymology: From Latin incensio. See incense (“to inflame”).
Senses: examples: text: subtile or windy spirits are taken off by incension or evaporation
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of heating or burning
incensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incension
Doonhamers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Queen of the South Football Club, a football club based in Dumfries, Scotland.
phonotypies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonotypy
phonotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonotypies
Etymology: From phono- + -typy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The English Phonotypic Alphabet, a phonetic alphabet developed in the 1850s.
Derived terms: phonotypic
phonotypist
semiphonotypy
tataupa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tataupas
Etymology: From Tupian.
Senses: examples: text: Psophia and palamedea species also aid in feeding these Indians, as likewise tataupas, ypacahas, yahamis, mbatuitis, and chloritos forms. They eat nearly every feathered creature, however, from a gull upward, deriving great advantages ...
ref: 1901, “United States of Brazil: A geographical sketch”, in Bureau of the American Republics, Washington, D.C., page 52:
text: In the case of the Tataupas bred in 1904, no less than fourteen young birds were reared in the one season from a single female and two males. When male No. 1 commenced to incubate his batch of four pink eggs, the female was transferred ...
ref: 1921, The Avicultural Magazine, page 89:
glosses: A South American tinamou (Crypturellus tataupa).
tataupas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tataupa
deobstruent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deobstruent
form: most deobstruent
Etymology: From de- + obstruent.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Removing obstructions; having the power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient.
deobstruent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deobstruents
Etymology: From de- + obstruent.
Senses: glosses: Any medicine that removes obstructions; an aperient.
deobstruents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deobstruent
plyght
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plyghts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of plight.
plyght
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plyghts
form: plyghting
form: plyghted
form: plyghted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of plight.
plyghts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plyght
Dumfries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dʊmˈfɹiːs
-ˈfɹiːz/
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Dùn Phris (“Fort of the Thicket”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, and the former county town of Dumfriesshire (OS grid ref NX9776).
glosses: A community and parish in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A town in Prince William County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfriesshire
North Dumfries
plyghting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plyght
plyghted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plyght
Dumfries and Galloway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996, formerly a region created in 1975 from the counties of Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire.
glosses: The UK Parliament constituency, which, despite its name, does not cover the whole of the Dumfries and Galloway council area.
horseheal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːshiːl/
ipa: /ˈhɔɹshiːl/
Etymology: From Middle English horshelne, from Old English horselene, a compound of hors (“horse”) and elene (“elecampane”). The compound was later reinterpreted as being formed of horse + heal, as it was supposed to cure diseases of horses.
Senses: glosses: The plant elecampane.
scabwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scab + wort.
Senses: glosses: The plant elecampane.
horsehides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsehide
Land's End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A headland in western Cornwall. It is known for being the westernmost point in England, and the distance between it and John o' Groats is geographically the longest distance between two points on the mainland of Great Britain.
John o' Groats
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Jan de Groot, a Dutchman who once plied a ferry from the Scottish mainland to Orkney.
Senses: glosses: A village in northeast Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland. It is known because the distance between it and Land's End is geographically the longest distance between any two points on the mainland of Great Britain (OS grid ref ND3872).
Bessemer steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bessemer steels
Etymology: Named after Sir Henry Bessemer, the English engineer who invented the process.
Senses: glosses: Steel made using the Bessemer process
wikipedia: Henry Bessemer
Bessemer steels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bessemer steel
Falkirk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Faukirke, from Old English fāg (“multicoloured”) + ċiriċe (“church”), a calque of Middle Irish Eiglesbrec (literally “speckled church”), probably ultimately from Cumbric *eglēs (“church”) + Cumbric *vreith (“speckled”). The l is first attested in the 15th century, likely a hypercorrection by analogy with terms such as wall (Scots wa). Compare Medieval Latin Varia Capella (“Falkirk”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Falkirk council area, in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, originally in Stirlingshire.
glosses: A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996, and previously a local government district in Central Region (1975–1996).
Paisley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪzli/
Forms: form: Paisleys
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Pàislig (“pasture”).
Senses: glosses: A town, the administrative centre of Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4863).
glosses: A locality in the Murray Mallee region, South Australia.
glosses: An unincorporated community and village in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A census-designated place in Lake County, Florida, United States.
glosses: A small city in Lake County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Derived terms: Paisleyism
Perthshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹθʃəɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹθʃʌɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɜːθʃə/
ipa: /ˈpɜːθʃɪə/
ipa: /ˈpɝθʃɪɚ/
Etymology: From Perth + -shire.
Senses: glosses: A historical county in central Scotland, joined with Kinross-shire for administration after 1929.
glosses: The council area (or formerly the administrative county or district) of Perth and Kinross.
raw_tags: from 1929
Mull of Kintyre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Maol Chinn Tìre.
Senses: glosses: A headland in Scotland, at the southwesternmost tip of the Kintyre peninsula.
Derived terms: Mull of Kintyre rule
Mull of Kintyre test
taxi ranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxi rank