cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
withwind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withwinds
form: withywind
form: withwine
Etymology: From Middle English withwinde, withewynde, from Old English wiþwinde, wiþewinde, wiþowinde, from Proto-Germanic *wiþiwindǭ, equivalent to withe + wind (verb). Cognate with Middle Dutch wedewinde, Icelandic viðvindill, Danish vedbende, vedbend.
Senses: examples: text: He bare a burden ybound with a broad list, / In a withewyndes wise ybounden about.
ref: 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman:
text: In both barley and wheat, in the deep rich land, near Ilsley, in Oxfordshire, I observed, withwind with mighty grossness climbed up most of the halm to the top, no doubt, but to the prejudice of the corn in many respects, which must be eat up before harvest.
ref: 1757, Edward Lisle, Observations in Husbandry - Volume 2, page 303:
text: The increase of the withwind here was, without doubt, occasioned by the laying down this ground only to one summer-seed after the hop clover was sown, when it had borne three or four crops of summer corn after its wheat crop; for by the winter ploughings, the offsets of the roots of weeds, and their seeds, were propagated.
ref: 1855, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia - Volume 1, page 420:
text: Years ago, when I began to garden among the squitch and the withwind, I considered them the primal enemies of mankind.
ref: 1957, Country Life - Volume 121, page 826:
glosses: A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).
withwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of withwind
lituiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lituiform
form: most lituiform
Etymology: From lituus + -form.
Senses: examples: text: lituiform species
glosses: Having the form of a lituus.
subpedunculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + pedunculate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Supported on, or growing from, a very short stem
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: having a short peduncle.
hydrolyzate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrolyzates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hydrolysate.
polyphonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyphonisms
Senses: examples: text: […] magnifying the sound by the polyphonisms or repercussions of the rocks, caverns, and other phonocamptic objects below in the mount.
ref: 1786, William Derham, Derham's Physico and Astro Theology:
glosses: polyphony
polyphonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyphonism
immunobinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + binding.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The direct binding of an antigen to an antibody
Derived terms: dot-immunobinding assay
quicksave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪkˌseɪv/
Forms: form: quicksaves
form: quicksaving
form: quicksaved
form: quicksaved
Etymology: From quick + save. Attested at least since 1992, as a feature in the game Wolfenstein 3D (in the form "Quick Save").
Senses: examples: text: Press F5 to quicksave before trying something risky.
text: Games can be quicksaved at any time, so you won't be forced to start every mission from scratch after making a bad tactical decision.
ref: 2000, Computer Gaming World, volumes 191-194:
text: I think most gamers would be surprised by how much time they waste reloading and quicksaving for every minute imperfection and harmless mistake they make.
ref: 2004, Opticreep, “[POLL]: Save Gave Habits”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet):
text: 6.00: the user “quicksaves” the game: the first time this happened
ref: 2009, Zach Waggoner, My avatar, my self: identity in video role-playing games, page 180:
topics: video-games
glosses: To save progress in one's game with a rapid keystroke, without needing to, e.g., reach a checkpoint.
quicksave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪkˌseɪv/
Forms: form: quicksaves
Etymology: From quick + save. Attested at least since 1992, as a feature in the game Wolfenstein 3D (in the form "Quick Save").
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An act of quicksaving.
topics: video-games
glosses: A save created by quicksaving.
Related terms: quickload
quicksaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quicksave
quicksaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quicksave
quicksaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quicksave
checkpointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of checkpoint
cuffies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuffy
cuffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuffies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cuffee (“black person”).
frize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frizes
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Archaic form of frieze.
frize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frizes
form: frizing
form: frized
form: frized
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Archaic form of frieze.
frizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frize
immunocapture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmjuːnəʊˌkæpt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
/ˈɪmjʊnəʊˌkæpt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From immuno- + capture.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The direct capture of an antibody spore on the surface of a small bead.
immunocapture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmjuːnəʊˌkæpt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
/ˈɪmjʊnəʊˌkæpt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: immunocaptures
form: immunocapturing
form: immunocaptured
form: immunocaptured
Etymology: From immuno- + capture.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: To capture an antibody by using this technique
internalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internalins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins found on the surface of bacteria of the genus Listeria.
intracardially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intracardial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Within the heart
Related terms: intracardial
intracardiac
intracardial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + cardial.
Senses: glosses: intracardiac
Derived terms: intracardially
arendator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arendators
form: arrendator
Etymology: From Russian аренда́тор (arendátor), from Latin arendator, arrendator, from arendare, arrendare (“to pay rent”), from arenda (“yearly rent”), from ad + renda (whence French rente, English rent). Compare arrentation and rent.
Senses: examples: text: The arendator collects the stated imposts merely from the boors, which amount to no great matter
ref: 1799, William Tooke, A View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine II and to the close of the present Century:
glosses: In the Russian Empire, a person who farmed local rents or revenues.
arendators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arendator
intrapancreatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + pancreatic.
Senses: glosses: Within the pancreas
chaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chape + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Furnished with a chape or chapes.
glosses: Archaic spelling of chapped.
caffila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caffilas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cafila.
caffilas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caffila
intrasplenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intrasplenic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Within the spleen
cephalotripsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalotripsy
cephalotripsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalotripsies
Etymology: From cephalo- + -tripsy, from τρῖψις (trîpsis, “rubbing”) + -y.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: cranioclasm
glosses: The act or operation of crushing the head of a dead foetus in the womb in order to ease its extraction from the womb.
Related terms: cephalotribe
isomaltooligosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isomaltooligosaccharide
paraglossa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraglossas
form: paraglossae
Etymology: From para- + glossa (“insect's tongue”).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua of certain insects.
Derived terms: paraglossal
paraglossae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraglossa
isomaltooligosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isomaltooligosaccharides
Etymology: From iso- + malto- + oligosaccharide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of oligosaccharides composed (mostly) of isomaltose monomers
Related terms: isomaltoheptose
isomaltohexose
isomaltopentose
isomaltosaccharide
isomaltotetrose
isomaltotriose
paraglossas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraglossa
isomaltotetraose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomaltooligosaccharide formed from four isomaltose monomers
isomaltotriose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isomaltotrioses
Etymology: From iso- + maltotriose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomaltooligosaccharide formed from three isomaltose monomers.
isomaltopentose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomaltooligosaccharide formed from five isomaltose monomers
isomaltohexose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomaltooligosaccharide formed from six isomaltose monomers
isomaltoheptose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomaltooligosaccharide formed from seven isomaltose monomers
festue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: festues
Etymology: See fescue.
Senses: examples: text: a Lion to be fought against with a Festue
ref: 1610, Pierre du Moulin, A Defence of the Catholicke Faith:
glosses: A straw; a fescue.
festues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of festue
hyporhachides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyporhachis
hyporhachis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyporhachides
Etymology: From hypo- (“beneath”) + rhachis (“shaft of a feather”, variant of rachis).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The stem of an aftershaft.
interpalpebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + palpebral.
Senses: glosses: Between the eyelids.
isomaltotetrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomaltooligosaccharide formed from four isomaltose monomers
panym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panyms
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paynim.
panyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panym
vaginism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaginisms
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of vaginismus.
qualifier: social media
glosses: A term that refers to gender-critical feminism, based on its obsession with vaginas.
vaginisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaginism
isothiourea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isothioureas
Etymology: From iso- + thiourea.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The isomer of thiourea, NH₂-C(=NH)-SH, known only as substituted derivatives
sudatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sudatories
Etymology: From Latin sūdatorius, from sūdāre (“to sweat”).
Senses: glosses: A sudatorium; a hot room used to induce sweating.
sudatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sudatory
form: most sudatory
Etymology: From Latin sūdatorius, from sūdāre (“to sweat”).
Senses: glosses: Sweating; perspiring.
sudatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sudatory
sudangrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sudangrass
deliration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delirations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dēlīrātio.
Senses: examples: text: deliration or alienation of the understanding
ref: 1677, Joseph Mede, The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-learned Joseph Mede:
text: […] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.
ref: 1673, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory:
text: insaneness is understood the deliration of the mind from falses , and eminent deliration is the deliration of the mind from falsified truths
ref: 1768, Emanuel Swedenborg, Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love:
glosses: aberration of the mind; delirium
Related terms: delirate
delirations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deliration
circumcisor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumcisors
Etymology: From circumcise + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out circumcision.
circumcisors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumcisor
actinomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinomeres
Etymology: From actino- + -mere.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the radial segments making up the body of one of the Coelenterata or similar organism
Related terms: actinomeric
actinomeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinomere
batton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battons
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of batten.
glosses: Archaic spelling of baton.
legislations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legislation (multiple acts of legislation)
leukocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From leukocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or containing, leukocytes.
Derived terms: hyperleukocytic
intraleukocytic
ingluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: ingluvial hypomotility
text: ingluvial ganglion
text: ingluvial nerve
text: The ingluvial content was removed by ingluviotomy and analyzed.
ref: 1993, J.T. Lumeij, Ina Westerhof, T. Smit, T. J. Spierenburg, “Diagnosis and treatment of Poisoning in Raptors from the Netherlands”, in Patrick Thomas Redig, John E. Cooper, J. David Remple, D. Bruce Hunter, editors, Raptor Biomedicine, page 234:
text: The occipital gan glion connects the endocrine glands the recurrent nerve runs upto the ingluvial ganglion above the crop.
ref: 2007, Prakash Puranik, Asha Bhate, Animal Forms And Functions: Invertebrata, page 321:
text: In the praying mantis, Mantis religiosa (Mantodea) and the embians, Adelembia sp. and Heoembia sp. (Embioptera), a single dorsal oesophageal nerve, which sends numerous side branches along its entire course, terminates in the ingluvial ganglion.
ref: 2012, M. Lehane, P. Billingsley, Biology of the Insect Midgut, page 63:
text: Ingluvial hypomotility is a relatively common clinical concern observed in a large number of avian species.
ref: 2016, Jennifer E. Graham, Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Avian, page 153:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ingluvies or crop of birds or other animals.
pluvian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːviən
Forms: form: pluvians
Senses: glosses: The crocodile bird
pluvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːviən
Forms: form: more pluvian
form: most pluvian
Senses: glosses: Rainy.
pluvians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluvian
listerial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From listeria + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to listerias, or to the genus Listeria
Derived terms: antilisterial
bridalties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridalty
bridalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridalties
Senses: examples: text: "Were she even that, and death the high priest who should solemnize our bridality, I would to my grave with rapture, if only her beauty shared it with me," returned the passionate Italian .
ref: 1856, Emma Robinson, Caesar Borgia: An Historical Romance, page 49:
text: The happy pair finally go on their honeymoon, start with the papa for Ostend, "whither, across the watery plain of ocean, the eternal breeze of Eden appeared to fill the snowy sails and propel the switft barque; and whither arrived he witnessed their Heaven-ordained bridality, and then with many a fervent blessing left them to follow out their future diamond-hewn path of existence."
ref: 1864 July 23, “Blackfriars' or, The Monks of Old”, in The Spectator, volume 37, page 855:
text: But to favour thee above thy brethren as a priest of infinite merit, we decree that thou shalt be the high-priest to solemnize this bridality.
ref: 1887, Walter Stanhope, The Maid and the Monk, page 209:
glosses: A wedding.
examples: text: in honour of this bridaltee
ref: 1633, Ben Jonson, The King's Entertainment at Welbeck:
text: […] bridality is to take place this evening […] in the Pineroom at Oglebay Park
ref: 1940, Advertising Research Foundation, The Continuing Study of Newspaper Reading - Issues 16-24, page 6:
glosses: celebration of the wedding feast; wedding reception.
examples: text: I came back from Windsor after dinner and escaped the bride, who is so tedious in her "bridality," and sought my own room in isolation; but there she is knocking at the door — happily she is not the younger generation, so her advent does not distress me to tragedy.
ref: 1897 July 17, Mlle. Sans-Gêne, “Notes from my Diary”, in Country Life Illustrated, volume 2, page 56:
text: Amusingly written letter about postponing a wedding ceremony at which the Dean was to officiate, discussing arrangements and referring to "toys & trinkets and bridalities of all sorts."
ref: 1958, Walter Romeyn Benjamin, The Collector, page 22:
glosses: Any of the various items or rituals that are part of a wedding celebration, especially those concerning the bride.
verberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verberations
Etymology: Latin verberatio: compare French verbération.
Senses: examples: text: the Effects of a soft Press or Verberation, Heat and Drousiness
ref: 1712, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies:
glosses: The act of verberating; a beating or striking.
glosses: The impulse of a body which causes sound.
verberations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verberation
resultate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resultates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of resultat.
resultates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resultate
podophthalmite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podophthalmites
Etymology: From podo- + Ancient Greek ὀφθαλμός (ophthalmós, “eye”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The eyestalk of a crustacean.
podophthalmites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podophthalmite
tritoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tritorium
tritorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritoria
Etymology: Compare Latin terere, tritum (“to rub”).
Senses: examples: text: The receivers should be emptied, by means of a tin funnel, into the tin or pewter tritorium described p. 30; and the crude spirit kept there till it be wanted for rectification; or, if the tritorium will not contain all that may happen to be made, this spirit may be drawn off […]
ref: 1758, Robert Dossie, The elaboratory laid open:
text: He passes judgment on the different kinds of retorts and receivers, cucurbits, tritoria, filters, vessels for crystallization; and particularizes all the apparatus required in chemistry.
ref: 1758, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 4:
text: The particular kind of tritorium which facilitated the etherification of phosphoric acid, and is applicable to many other chemical operations, affords the means of practising the operation just now proposed, as follows.
ref: 1809, Mr. Boullay, “On Sulphuric Ether, and on the Preparation of it”, in The Repertory Of Arts And Manufactures:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A vessel for separating liquids of different densities.
indamage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indamages
form: indamaging
form: indamaged
form: indamaged
Senses: examples: text: The trial hath indamaged thee no way
ref: 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of endamage.
indamages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indamage
indamaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indamage
balmified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of balmify
balmifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of balmify
balmify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: balmifies
form: balmifying
form: balmified
form: balmified
Etymology: From balmy + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: Nature to attenuate, open, deterge, and dissolve; and Milk and Water, and Seeds, to cool, nourish, and balmify
ref: 1742, George Cheyne, The Natural Method Of Cureing the Diseases of the Body:
glosses: To render balmy.
balmifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of balmify
grugru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grugrus
Senses: glosses: A kind of palm tree bearing an edible fruit and nut.
Acrocomia aculeata
glosses: A kind of palm tree bearing an edible fruit and nut.
Acrocomia crispa
glosses: A grugru worm
Derived terms: grugru nut
grugru palm
grugru worm
grugrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grugru
digamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: digamous marriage
glosses: Pertaining to a second marriage, i.e. one taking place after a divorce or the death of the first spouse.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: androgynous
projecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: projectures
Etymology: Latin projectura: compare French projecture.
Senses: examples: text: I now found myself on the projecture of a rock: above and below, the hill-side was nearly perpendicular. Opposite, at the distance of fifteen or twenty yards, was a similar ascent: at the bottom was a glen, cold, narrow, and obscure. The projecture, which served as a kind of vestibule to the cave, was connected with a ledge, by which, though not without peril and toil, I was conducted to the summit.
ref: 1799, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly, or The Sleep Walker, Chapter 10:
glosses: Something that juts out beyond a surface; a projection.
projectures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of projecture
engraff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: engraffs
form: engraffing
form: engraffed
form: engraffed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of engraft.
Derived terms: engraffment
engraffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engraff
engraffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engraff
engraffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engraff
aerographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerographers
Etymology: From aerography + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone versed in aerography; an aerologist.
aerographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerographer
shallow-waisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shallow-waisted
form: most shallow-waisted
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; said of a vessel.
Embering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Emberings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ember day.
synonyms: word: Ember day
entonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entonic
form: most entonic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔντονος (éntonos, “strained”), from τείνω (teínō).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having great tension, or exaggerated action.
Related terms: entasis
inghalla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The reedbuck.
septomaxillaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septomaxillary
háčekless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From háček + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The German form Asch is obviously preferable to a háček-less As.
ref: 1970, Visible Language, IV, page 322:
text: First, you sort the entries disregarding the acute accent and háček in ďťňľ (but sorting the čšž after the corresponding háčekless letters). Then you do a second pass and put the letters with acute accent and ďťňľ after those accentless.
ref: 2008 March 16th, “garabik-news-2005-05”, sci.lang, “Re: Look for code of a special character” (see the original message)
glosses: Written without a háček.
septomaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
-æksɪlɛəɹi
Etymology: From septo- + maxillary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla.
septomaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
-æksɪlɛəɹi
Forms: form: septomaxillaries
Etymology: From septo- + maxillary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: septomaxilla (small bone between the nasal septum and the maxilla in many reptiles and amphibians.)
háček-less
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of háčekless.
viverrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viverrine
foussa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foussas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fossa (“carnivorous mammal”).
foussas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foussa
proboscidiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proboscidiform
form: most proboscidiform
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís, stem προβοσκιδ-) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: a proboscidiform mouth
glosses: probosciform (having the form or uses of a proboscis)
roseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roseal
form: most roseal
Etymology: From rose + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The rosiall colour, whiche was wonte to be in his vysage, [was] tourned into salowe.
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
text: For when from roſeall Aurora’s door / Fair Titan shak’d his locks, and marched out; [...]
ref: 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto VII. The Great Little One. Stanza 226.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC, page 112, column 2:
text: 1646-48, Richard Crashaw, Steps To The Temple.
The rich and roseal spring of those rare sweets.
glosses: Resembling a rose in scent or colour.
deliracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See delirate.
Senses: glosses: delirium
pervestigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pervestigations
Etymology: Latin pervestigatio.
Senses: examples: text: In the pervestigation of the true and genuine text, it was perspicuously manifest to all men that there was no argument more firm or certain to be relied on.
ref: 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants:
glosses: thorough investigation
pervestigations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pervestigation
porphyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porphyres
Senses: examples: text: Let us consider the red and white colours in porphyre: hinder light but from striking on it, and its colours vanish; it no longer produces any such ideas in us[…]
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 8:
glosses: Obsolete form of porphyry.
scatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scatches
Etymology: From French escache, from Italian scaccia.
Senses: examples: text: and thus, having brought your horse to a Post set up for that purpose, and one to assist you with a Rein fastened to the rings of a half Cannon Bit or a Scatch, you having mounted his back, let your assistant hold him to the post with his head facing it,
ref: 1684, Thomas de Grey, The Compleat Horse-Man, and Expert Ferrier, 5th edition, page 236:
glosses: A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse.
glosses: A stilt.
scatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scatch
disestimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + estimation.
Senses: glosses: disesteem
linch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪnʃ/
rhymes: -ɪnʃ
Forms: form: linches
form: lynch
Etymology: From Middle English linche, link, from Old English hlinc (“a hill”). Possible doublet of lynch.
Senses: examples: text: Within ten years linches were formed; rain washed down the mould, some accident arrested it at a certain line, and a terrace was the result. Certainly the tendency is for the upper part of such a field to be denuded of mould, to be worked "to the bone," i.e. to the bare chalk or stone. But the first makers of linches had no choice. They had to farm on slopes or not at all, […]
ref: 1910, An introduction to the study of local history and antiquities, page 387:
text: Indeed, a map of 1844 marks some of the lower terraces on the southern and eastern flanks of the hill as "Tor Linches," a linch or lynchet being a terrace of land wide enough to plot. (Some linches were deliberately Fashioned; others came about as the land flattened into platforms through being worked.)
ref: 2013, Peter James, Nick Thorpe, Ancient Mysteries, →ISBN, page 289:
glosses: A ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.
examples: text: I lay down on a linch to lithe my bones.
ref: 15th century, anonymous, Mum and the Sothsegger (15th c.)
glosses: An acclivity; a small hill or hillock.
Derived terms: linchy
Related terms: lince
lynchet
emphrensied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emphrensied
form: most emphrensied
Etymology: From em- + phrensy (obsolete spelling of frenzy) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: In a frenzy; maddened.
unseel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsiːl/
homophone: unseal
Forms: form: unseels
form: unseeling
form: unseeled
form: unseeled
Etymology: From Middle English unsele, from Old English unsǣle, from Proto-Germanic *unsēliz, from *un- + *sēliz, equivalent to un- + seel.
Senses: glosses: To unstitch the seeled eyes of a hawk.
examples: text: Are your eyes yet unseel'd
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To give light to; to enlighten.
unseeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unseel
unseeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unseel
unseels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unseel
offension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old French [Term?], from Latin offensio (“an offense”).
Senses: examples: text: … they nourish wicked adultery and much fornication, they fill the world with offensions and bastards, and give great occasion of murdering …
ref: c. 1517–1587, John Foxe, "The Primitive Church of Rome", reprinted in The Acts and Monuments … with a preliminary diss. by George Townsend (1841), page 84
text: Napoleon had possessed himself of those very points, which would serve him as a basis of offension against Prussia and Austria. Nicholas acted in his spirit, when he fortified those points by a chain of fortresses.
ref: a. 1955, Karl Marx (original author), Manuskripte über die polnische Frage: (1863–1864), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG (2020), page 183
glosses: Assault; attack, offensive; offense.
pycnaspidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πυκνός (puknós, “dense, crowded”) + ἀσπίς (aspís, “a shield”) + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Having the posterior side of the tarsus covered with small irregular scales.
raw_tags: of birds or their tarsus
Coordinate terms: endaspidean
exaspidean
holaspidean
taxaspidean
compulsatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compulsatively
form: most compulsatively
Etymology: From compulsative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: compulsively.
sawtries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sawtry
sawtry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːtɹi/
Forms: form: sawtries
Senses: examples: text: The chaplets white and red their ladies bore.
Their instruments were various in their kind,
Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind:
The sawtry, pipe, and hautboy's noisy band.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of psaltery.
sleave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sliːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: sleeve
homophone: slieve
Forms: form: sleaves
form: sleaving
form: sleaved
form: sleaved
Etymology: Compare Danish slöife, a loose knot, Swedish slejf (“a knot of ribbon”), German Schleife (“a loop”).
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads.
Synonyms: sley
sleave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sliːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: sleeve
homophone: slieve
Forms: form: sleaves
Etymology: Compare Danish slöife, a loose knot, Swedish slejf (“a knot of ribbon”), German Schleife (“a loop”).
Senses: glosses: The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
examples: text: Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
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 II, scene ii]:
glosses: Silk not yet twisted; floss.
sleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleave
sleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleave
sleaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleave
semiglutin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + glutin?
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptone-like body, insoluble in alcohol, formed by boiling collagen or gelatin for a long time in water.
Related terms: hemicollin
Chinese folk religion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any of the predominantly ancestor veneration-based, animist, ethnic religious traditions (with elements of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and others) which form the main belief system of a person's spiritual life among many of the Han Chinese.
Hypernyms: folk religion
conventionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conventionists
Etymology: From convention + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: It must needs be a hostile kind of a world, when the buyer (if it be but of a sorry post-chaise) cannot go forth with the seller thereof into the street to terminate the difference betwixt them, but he instantly falls into the same frame of mind and views his conventionist with the same sort of eye, as if he was going along with him to Hyde park corner to fight a duel.
ref: 1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, London: T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, page 40:
glosses: One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
glosses: One who supports a convention or assembly.
Related terms: conventioner
conventionism
conventionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conventionist
encomion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛŋˈkəʊ.mi.ən/
Forms: form: encomions
Etymology: A variant of encomium, modelled on Ancient Greek ἐγκώμιον (enkṓmion).
Senses: examples: text: VVel this Encomion was not extemporall, it came too perfectly off.
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act IV, scene v, signature N iij, verso:
text: […]it’s the worth of theſe both Engliſh and Latin Poems, not the flouriſh of any prefixed encomions that can invite thee to buy them, though theſe are not without the higheſt Commendations and Applauſe of the learnedeſt Academicks, both domeſtick and forrein: […]
ref: 1646 (indicated as 1645), Humph[rey] Moseley, “The Stationer to the Reader”, in John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC, signature a 3, verso:
glosses: encomium; panegyric
pulsimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulsimeters
Etymology: From pulse + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A sphygmograph.
examples: text: In order not to affect users' habits of using mobiles and to avoid the electromagnetic interference effects of the pacemaker, we have designed a wristable sphygmomanometer and pulsimeter which uses bluetooth power class II [7,8] as the device for short-distance transmission.
ref: 2012, Attila Roka, Current Issues and Recent Advances in Pacemaker Therapy, page 248:
text: The pulsimeter consisted of a leaden bob attached to a long thread, the length of which could be adjusted gradually until the rate of oscillation of the pendulum thus formed coincided with the patient's pulse-beat.
ref: 2019, Abraham Wolf, A History of Science Technology and Philosophy in the 16 and 17th Centuries:
glosses: Any of various devices designed to monitor someone's pulse.
pulsimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulsimeter
isatropic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid obtained from atropine.
gaidic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă, “the Earth”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: 2-hexadecenoic acid
glosses: An acid obtained from hypogaeic acid.
praseolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From praseo- + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of altered iolite with a green colour and greasy lustre.
foodplants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodplant
fripperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fripperers
Senses: examples: text: Why, a meer Fripperer, or Broker's Shop, that's ſain to sell her Wares at second hand
ref: 1693, Thomas D'Urfey, The Marriage-hater Match'd:
glosses: A fripper; one who deals in frippery or old clothes.
fripperers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fripperer
ossicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ossiculum
ossiculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ossicula
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ossiculum (“little bone”), from os (“bone”) + -culum, neuter of -culus (diminutive suffix).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An ossicle.
perspirative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin perspīrāre (“to perspire”).
Senses: examples: text: The difficulty of injecting vegetable vessels seems to shew that their perspirative pores are much less than those of animals […].
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 164:
glosses: Performing the act of perspiration or sweating; perspiratory.
suradanni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: suradan
glosses: A valuable kind of wood obtained from the genus Hieronyma in South America. It is hard and resistant, and used for timbers, rails, furniture, etc.
symphytism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σύμφυσις (súmphusis, “growing together”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the phrasal adverbs have assumed the form of single words, by that symphytism which naturally attaches these light elements to each other.
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: coalescence; compounding of two words.
Pampero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pamperos
Etymology: Spanish
Senses: glosses: Someone inhabiting the pampas of South America.
Pamperos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pampero
macruroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macruroid
form: most macruroid
Etymology: From Macrura + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Macrurous.
Canary Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canary Islanders
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Canary Islands, Spain.
Synonyms: Canarian
sulphostannate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphostannates
Etymology: From sulphostannic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of sulphostannic acid.
sulphostannates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphostannate
goaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊf/
Forms: form: goafs
form: goaves
Etymology: Compare gob.
Senses: glosses: A rick or stack (of hay, etc.) when laid up inside a barn (e.g., as winter fodder).
topics: business
mining
glosses: That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed.
examples: 1869, George Fowler, On a Method of Abstracting Explosive Gas from the Goaves of Coal Mines, in Transactions, Volume 18, North of England Institute of Mining Engineers, page 160,
In an operation of this kind, primarily for the purpose of extracting the gas out of the goaves, but also with a view to drain the solid coal, it is clear that it is desirable, as much as possible, to draw as directly as possible from the goaf.
1874, William Hopton, The Prevention of Catastrophes in Mines, in The Hermon Prize Essays: Essays on the Prevention of Explosions and Accidents in Coal Mines, W. M. Hutchings, page 57,
Hundreds of lives have been sacrificed by sudden outbursts of gas from the floor and goaf, and miners are constantly working in jeopardy, when a small expense would remove the gas, and prevent the casualties.
2010, Hua Guo, et al., CSIRO Coal Mining Research and Technologies, Jürgen F. Brune (editor), Extracting the Science: A Century of Mining Research, Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, page 73,
High gas emissions from the longwall goaf is one of the main problems at a number of highly gassy coal mines in Australia, resulting in a significant number of face stoppages. To address the issue of goaf gas control, CSIRO's research aimed at developing optimum goaf gas control.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The waste left in old mine workings; goafing.
Synonyms: sense: waste
word: goave
sense: waste
word: goafing
sense: waste
word: gob
sense: waste
word: gobbin
Related terms: word: goave
goaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goaf
action hero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: action heroes
Senses: glosses: The hero of a work of fiction containing action, whose heroism typically includes participation in that action.
rumbowline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rumbowlines
Senses: examples: text: Her stern was where her stem should be, her yards set abaft the masts, her square sails gybing out before the wind, so that the tackle and rigging, poles, transoms, and rumbowlines appeared to have been lifted together and reversed in their relation to the hull.
ref: 1900 June 7, W. H. Helm, “Green Oceans: Chapter XIII.—The Queer Clipper.”, in The Morning Post, number 39,941, London, page 2:
text: Frost shivered inside his sodden wrap of rumbowline canvas, judged the need to reef main courses, and calculated back to the onset of the squall, disbelieving that less than five minutes earlier the random surge of an unexpectedly long swell had lifted Salmon’s stern into the path of an enemy cannon ball.
ref: 2002, J. E. Fender, The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost: Being an Account of the Life and Times of Geoffrey Frost, Mariner, of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, […], Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: Alternative form of rombowline.
pinniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinniform
form: most pinniform
Etymology: From Latin pinna (“feather, fin”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: The Blennius , with pinniform and bifid cirri under the throat , and with transverse areolæ on the back
ref: 1752, John Hill, A General Natural History:
glosses: Shaped like a fin or feather.
trialogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪəlɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪəˌlɔɡ/
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪəˌlɑɡ/
Forms: form: trialogues
form: trialog
form: trilogue
Etymology: From tri- + -alogue. Note that official documents of the European Union use the spelling trilogue (perhaps influenced by the French spelling).
Senses: glosses: A conversation or talk between three people.
glosses: An informal tripartite meeting attended by representatives of the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission.
Related terms: monologue
dialogue
quadralogue
multilogue
trialogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trialogue
concertmeister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concertmeisters
Etymology: A partial calque of German Konzertmeister; from concert + meister.
Senses: glosses: A concertmaster.
concertmeisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concertmeister
indenization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indenizations
Senses: examples: text: There were also another pardon and two indenizations; and so agreeing to a fortnight's vacation, I return'd home
ref: 1686 January 3 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for December 24 1685]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of endenization.
indenizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indenization
tolsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolseys
form: tholsel
form: tolzey
form: tolsel
Senses: glosses: A tollbooth.
examples: text: it is by adjournment only that they afterwards sit to do business at the Tolsey
ref: January 11 1803, Sir George Onesiphorus Paul, An Address Delivered at a General Meeting of the County of Glocester:
glosses: A merchants' meeting place or exchange.