cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overlusty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overlusty
form: most overlusty
Etymology: From over- + lusty.
Senses: examples: text: when a man is over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
glosses: Too lusty or lively.
reotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reotropes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rheotrope.
reotropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reotrope
sonnetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonnetists
Etymology: From sonnet + -ist.
Senses: examples: 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire; / And is become a new-found sonnetist […]
glosses: A writer of sonnets.
Synonyms: sonneteer
sonneter
sonnetists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonnetist
opisthia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opisthion
opisthion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opisthia
Etymology: From New Latin opisthion, from Ancient Greek ὀπίσθιος (opísthios, “rear, behind”), from ὄπισθεν (ópisthen, “at the back, backwards”). By surface analysis, opistho- + -ion.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The middle of the posterior margin of the foramen magnum of the skull.
pressly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pressly
form: most pressly
Etymology: From press + -ly.
Senses: examples: a. 1695, John Lightfoot, Remains'
Study them pressly, for they are of infinite sweetness and satisfaction.
glosses: closely; concisely
ambuscadoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Posted in ambush; ambuscaded.
Related terms: ambuscado
mundatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mundatories
Etymology: Latin mundatorius.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of purificator (“napkin used during Holy Communion”).
synonyms: word: purificator
extra: napkin used during Holy Communion
thranite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thranites
form: thranitae
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θρανίτης (thranítēs), from θρᾶνος (thrânos, “bench”).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme. They were usually the best rowers.
thranites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thranite
bonitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: bonitary dominion of land
text: bonitary owner
text: bonitary ownership
text: bonitary proprietorship
topics: law
glosses: beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil
straighthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straighthorns
Etymology: From straight + horn.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: An orthoceras.
straighthorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straighthorn
cocklebur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockleburs
Etymology: From cockle + bur.
Senses: examples: text: Fig. 1.—Spiculated pollens of ragweeds (ambrosias) low in protein. […] In the cocklebur (Xanthium americanum) and the rough wild elder (Iva ciliata), the spicules are shorter, being 0.7 and 0.5 microns, and the reaction is proportionately less active than with the ragweeds (ambrosias). […] While the grass pollens have so light a coat that they are frequently crushed in the ordinary process of mounting, the ragweed (ambrosias) pollen grains resist pressure between two glass slides carried to the point of crushing the glass.
ref: 1916 September 16, W[illiam] Scheppegrell, “Direct and Indirect Hay-Fever: Preliminary Report of the Research Department of the American Hay-Fever-Prevention Association on the Etiology of Hay-Fever”, in George H[enry] Simmons, editor, The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume LXVII, number 12, Chicago, Ill.: American Medical Association, pages 862–863:
text: These burrs stuck to the tails of the cows as they walked by, and were brought to the cowpen, the cowtails greatly enlarged by the huge amount of cockleburs stuck on them.
ref: 2002, Lura Spears Zerick, The Golden Olden Days, page 69:
glosses: Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.
Synonyms: clotbur
Derived terms: taxonomic: Xanthium ambrosioides
word: Argentine cocklebur
taxonomic: Xanthium echinatum
word: beach cocklebur
taxonomic: Xanthium orientale
word: common cocklebur
taxonomic: Xanthium strumarium
word: rough cocklebur
taxonomic: Xanthium chinense
alt: syn. Xanthium pungens
word: smoothish cocklebur
taxonomic: Xanthium spinosum
word: spiny cocklebur
cockleburs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocklebur
anaplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: from Ancient Greek: ἀνά: (ana), "backward" + πλάσις (plasis), "formation".
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The restoration of lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.
Derived terms: anaplastic
bewailable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bewailable
form: most bewailable
Etymology: From bewail + -able.
Senses: glosses: able to be, or fit to be bewailed; lamentable.
vouchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vouchors
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of voucher.
vouchors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vouchor
cloistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloistresses
Etymology: From cloister + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Like a cloistress she will veiled walk.
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 I, scene i]:
glosses: A nun.
cloistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloistress
effrayable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more effrayable
form: most effrayable
Etymology: From effray + -able.
Senses: glosses: frightful
lavatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lavatic
form: most lavatic
Etymology: From lava + -tic.
Senses: examples: text: lavatic rock
text: lavatic fluid
text: lavatic stone
synonyms: lavic
glosses: Like lava, or composed of lava
intertransverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Etymology: From inter- + transverse.
Senses: examples: text: intertransverse region
text: intertransverse ligament
text: intertransverse muscles
text: intertransverse membrane
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the transverse processes of the vertebrae.
phonaesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonesthesia
Etymology: Apparently coined by British linguist John Rupert Firth. From phon- + -aesthesia.
Senses: examples: text: For this latter term, phonaesthesia is doubtless at work, since kring is also ‘the sound of a small bell’.
ref: 1984, Laurence Picken, Musica Asiatica, volume 4, page 214:
text: In contrast, writers of bucolic dialogues, like George Meriton, for instance, and lively song-writers like Robert Anderson in Cumberland, seem drawn to expressive lexis, marked by sound patterns of reduplication, alliteration and phonaesthesia.
ref: 2010, Katie Wales, “Northern English in Writing”, in Raymond Hickey, editor, Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, page 74:
text: Phonaesthesia refers to the vaguer phenomenon whereby families of words with shared phonemes sometimes evoke related meanings in a not-quite-echoic manner.
ref: 2011, Prue Goodwin, The Literate Classroom, page 41:
text: Those in (1.15) illustrate a weaker type of iconicity, generally known as phonaesthesia: the consonant cluster ‘fl’ seems to suggest quick movement, but it is not a direct representation of movement, or speed.
ref: 2011, Jean Boase-Beier, A Critical Introduction to Translation Studies, page 11:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonesthemes.
wikipedia: John Rupert Firth
Synonyms: sound symbolism
Hypernyms: synaesthesia
Derived terms: phonaesthetic
phonaesthetics
Related terms: ideophone
phonaestheme
hygienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hygiene
fructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin frui, past participle fructus (“to enjoy”). See fruit (noun).
Senses: examples: 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
fructure of the first Earth
glosses: use, fruits or enjoyment
foretaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretasters
Etymology: From fore- + taster.
Senses: glosses: Someone who tastes food before another, usually to check it hasn't been poisoned.
foretasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foretaster
injudicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + judicial.
Senses: glosses: Not according to the forms of law
glosses: Not judicial.
unheart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhearts
form: unhearting
form: unhearted
form: unhearted
Etymology: From un- + heart.
Senses: examples: text: I think he'll hear me. Yet to bite his lip / And hum at good Cominius much unhearts me.
ref: c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 5, scene 1:
glosses: To cause to lose heart; to dishearten.
Related terms: unhearted
unhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + hearted.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unheart
unhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: Formerly, during the winter months, unhearted French lettuces or "butterflies," grown under portable glass and consisting of only a few leaves, were marketed extensively in counts of 4 to 6 dozen.
ref: 1935, Economic Series, number 25, page 79:
glosses: Having had the heart, or central portion, removed.
unhearting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unheart
unhearts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unheart
gynaecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynaecia
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynaeceum.
gynaecia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynaecium
dashism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dash + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: He must fight a duel before his claim to […] dashism can be universally allowed.
ref: 1788, Vicesimus Knox, Winter Evenings:
glosses: The act of showing off or pomp.
insphere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inspheres
form: insphering
form: insphered
form: insphered
Senses: examples: text: My mansion is , where those immortal shapes
Of bright aerial spirits live insphered
In regions mild of calm and serene air.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: Archaic form of ensphere.
insphered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insphere
inspheres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insphere
insphering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of insphere
light-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: lītʹhăn'd(ĭ)d
Forms: form: more light-handed
form: most light-handed
form: lighthanded
Etymology: From Middle English lyghte handyd, from light (adjective) + honded, participle of honden (“to seize, take charge of”), from the noun hond (“hand”). See more at hand.
Senses: examples: text: 'Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?' said Sir Robert. 'Zounds! if you are'
ref: 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:
text: The true state of the case is, that manufactures, as a general thing, in view of the depressed condition of the trade, have been making calculations to do a light business, and got out their logs sooner than they expected, and will on the whole do rather more than they had anticipated, having gone into the woods lighthanded.
ref: 1860, William Peter Strickland, Old Mackinaw, or, The fortress of the Lakes and its surroundings, page 351:
text: Sometimes, on the contrary, they are so harassed by the Blackfoot, who surprise them in the night and carry off their horses, that they are forced to return light-handed, and then they have nothing to eat but roots all the winter.
ref: 1907, Société des Américanistes, Musée de l'Homme, Proceedings, page 43:
text: The trip was to be a short one this time, and he was going lighthanded, leaving behind him the necessities of life as represented by American articles of diet.
ref: 1909, Annie Laurie Adams Baird, Daybreak in Korea: A Tale of Transformation in the Far East, page 113:
text: Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose,all game seemed to have deserted the land, and nightfall found the exhausted man crawling into camp, lighthanded, heavyhearted.
ref: 2013, Jack London, The Son of the Wolf, →ISBN:
text: Some who had sold their outfits at Skagway, and pushed on light-handed so as to get through, began to appropriate new outfits on the other side.
ref: 2014, William Haskell, Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields 1896-1898:
glosses: Carrying very little.
examples: text: At first merely fidgety, and managed with the greatest delicacy by the English postilion, then ill-tempered and capricious, swerving from side to side, necessitating in self-defence the use of the whip—“ But only gently and light-handed, ..."
ref: 1876, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature, Volume 17:
text: See; not a hair is, not an eyelash, not the least lash lost; every hair
Is, hair of the head, numbered.
Nay, what we had lighthanded left in surly the mere mould
Will have waked and have waxed and have walked in the wind what while we slept, […]
ref: 1882, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Golden Echo”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 57:
text: He must go lighthanded to whatever it was that impended.
ref: 1919, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191, numbers 49-52, page 124:
glosses: In a light-handed manner.
Derived terms: word: light-handedly
word: light-handedness
trustily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more trustily
form: most trustily
Etymology: From Middle English trustyly, trystily, equivalent to trusty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a trusty manner.
unigeniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːnɪˈd͡ʒɛnɪtjʊə/
ipa: /ˌjuːnɪˈd͡ʒɛnɪtʃə/
ipa: /ˌjunɪˈd͡ʒɛnɪt͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: unogeniture
Etymology: From Latin unigenitus (“only-begotten”), from unus (“one”) + genitum (“to beget”).
Senses: examples: 1868, Rev. J. Gorle, An Analysis of Pearson on the Creed
Though therefore Christ be the only-begotten and the beloved Son of God, we must not regard these two attributes as equivalent in meaning, but as one depending on the other, the singular love on the unigeniture.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The state of being the sole begotten.
elenchically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From elenchic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of an elench.
mudsucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudsuckers
Etymology: From mud + sucker.
Senses: glosses: A kind of goby.
mudsuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudsucker
onirocritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˌnɪə.ɹəˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
ipa: /oʊˌnɪ.ɹəˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oneirocritic.
onirocritic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˌnɪə.ɹəˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
ipa: /oʊˌnɪ.ɹəˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
Forms: form: onirocritics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oneirocritic.
Related terms: oniric
protractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈtɹæktɪv/
rhymes: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more protractive
form: most protractive
Etymology: From protract + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: He suffered their protractive arts.
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: In this case one half of the group had a contractive distraction imposed (decreasing work time) by a confederate; the other a protractive distraction (increasing work time).
ref: 1970, Managing Human Behavior, page 100:
text: Such a function could only be used in the protractive approach to evaluate different states of the system , for it does not necessarily specify an established point of convergency .
ref: 1986, August W. Smith, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mental Images, Values, & Reality, page 88:
glosses: Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing or delaying.
examples: text: One inflected form of the durative verb is made with a long tense hold and without motion; the nuance in meaning is the same as that of the protractive modulation of adjectival predicates and translates as 'to stare at (uninterruptedly)' (figure 12.15b).
ref: 1979, Edward S. Klima, Ursula Bellugi, The Signs of Language, page 292:
text: The protractive, durational, and continuative morphemes are examples of nonpunctual modifications .
ref: 1990, Harry Bornstein, Manual Communication: Implications for Education, page 88:
text: Fleischmann (1990:22), Sebastian and Slobin (1994: 257-8) also discuss the classivication of so-called aspectual verbs into inchative verbs (e.g. empezar, to start), protractive verbs ( e.g. , quedarse, to remain), cumulative verbs ( e.g., continuar, to continue) and and empletive verbs (e.g. acabar de, to finish)..
ref: 2008, Rafael Salaberry, Marking Past Tense in Second Language Acquisition, page 255:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicating an action or state that is ongoing or sustained.
examples: text: Axial ribs not strongly protractive.
ref: 1888, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection - Volume 2788, page 34:
text: This keel on the first half of the last whorl consists of oblique, protractive strong short ridges, which on the last half disappear and give place to rough corrugations.
ref: 1943, United States National Museum, Bulletin - Issues 180-181, page 111:
text: The horizontal component of the resultant muscular force is protractive during the closing stages,
ref: 1993, Belgian Journal of Zoology - Volume 123, page 248:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Extending forward or projecting outward.
rhombohedric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhombohedric
form: most rhombohedric
Senses: glosses: rhombohedral
antinomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antinomists
Senses: examples: text: Great offenders this vvay are the Libertines and Antinomiſts, vvho quite cancel the vvhole Lavv of God, under the pretence of Chriſtian Liberty, […]
ref: 1632 May 16 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Sanderson, “[Ad Populum.] The Seventh Sermon. At St. Pauls Cross London, May 6. 1632.”, in XXXIV Sermons. […], 5th edition, London: […] [A. Clark] for A. Seil, and are to be sold by G. Sawbridge, […], published 1671, →OCLC, paragraph 32, page 298:
glosses: An antinomian.
antinomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinomist
inconcrete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconcrete
form: most inconcrete
Etymology: Latin inconcretus (“incorporeal”).
Senses: examples: text: For there is not in all the world a more pure, simple, inconcrete procreation than that whereby the mind conceiveth the word within it, by dixit in corde.
ref: 1612 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), Lancelot Andrewes, “A Sermon Preached before the King’s Majesty, at Whitehall, on Wednesday, the Twenty-fifth of December, A.D. MDCXI. being Christmas-Day”, in J[ohn] P[osthumous] W[ilson], editor, Ninety-six Sermons […], volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker, published 1841, →OCLC, page 88:
glosses: Not concrete.
reenthronement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reenthronements
Etymology: From re- + enthronement.
Senses: glosses: A second enthroning
reenthronements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reenthronement
sleaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: sleaved thread or silk
text: The cure is, with a fine small wiar little stronger then a Verginal wiar, and wrapt close about with a soft sleaved silk, and the point blunt and pliantness of the wiar will easily do;
ref: 1695, Gervase Markham, A Way to get Wealth, page 133:
text: Under the tip of one of the wings, I discovered the end of a fine filament like sleaved silk.
ref: 1846, Hannah Flagg Gould, Gathered Leaves: Or, Miscellaneous Papers, page 287:
text: Those whiter lilies which the early morn Seems to have newly woven of sleavèd silk, To which, on banks of wealthy Tagus born, Gold was their cradle, liquid pearl their milk.
ref: 1864, Sir Richard Fanshawe, “The Spring, A Sonnet”, in George Gilfillan, editor, Nichol's Library Edition of the British Poets, page 43:
text: Why is sleaved Silk soe hard
ref: 2001, Mildmay Fane Earl of Westmorland, Tom Cain, The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmoreland, page 94:
text: Richard Hakluyt in his catalogue of the cargo of the Madre de Dios, a typical carrack captured by the English in 1592, lists 'silks, damasks, taffetas, sarcenets, altobassos, that is, counterfeit cloth of gold, unwrought China silks, sleaved silk, white twisted silk, curled cypresse', […]
ref: 2016, S. Adshead, China in World History, page 216:
glosses: Raw; not spun or wrought.
violet-tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violet-tips
Senses: glosses: An American butterfly, of species Polygonia interrogationis, whose wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.
violet-tips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violet-tip
camblet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camblets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of camlet.
camblets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camblet
roedeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roedeer
form: roedeers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roe deer.
floscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more floscular
form: most floscular
Senses: glosses: flosculous
Derived terms: semifloscular
Related terms: floccular
inaccordant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inaccordant
form: most inaccordant
Etymology: From in- + accordant.
Senses: glosses: Not accordant; discordant.
roedeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roedeer
bardish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bardish
form: most bardish
Etymology: From bard + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I found ſo intollerable Antichroniſmes, incredible reports, and Bardiſh impoſtures, as vvell from Ignorance as aſſum'd liberty of Inuention in ſome of our Ancients; […]
ref: 1612 May 19 (date written; Gregorian calendar), [John Selden], “From the Author of the Illustrations”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.
inductional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From induction + -al.
Senses: examples: text: inductional relation
text: inductional transformation
glosses: Pertaining to, or caused by, induction; inductive.
Derived terms: postinductional
reinfectious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reinfectious
form: most reinfectious
Etymology: From re- + infectious.
Senses: glosses: Capable of reinfecting.
disintegrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪntəɡɹəbəl/
Forms: form: more disintegrable
form: most disintegrable
Senses: examples: text: disintegrable packaging
text: a disintegrable membrane
text: Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure.
ref: 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy:
glosses: Capable of being disintegrated.
heptarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /hɛpˈtɑː(ɹ)kɪk/
Etymology: From heptarchy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The Saxons practised this mode of division for fixing the several extents of their heptarchic empire
ref: 1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a heptarchy.
oneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onerations
Senses: glosses: The act of loading or burdening.
Related terms: onerate
onerous
orchestric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orchestric
form: most orchestric
Senses: examples: text: orchestric art
glosses: orchestral
mughouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mughouses
Etymology: From mug + house.
Senses: examples: text: Our sex has dared the mughouse chiefs to meet, / And purchased fame in many a well-fought street.
ref: 1717, Thomas Tickell, An Epistle from a Lady in England to a Gentleman at Avignon:
glosses: An alehouse; a pot-house.
mughouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mughouse
outvillain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outvillains
form: outvillaining
form: outvillained
form: outvillained
Etymology: From out- + villain.
Senses: examples: text: First Lord: He [Parolles] has out-villained villainy so far that the rarity redeems him.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To exceed in villainy.
outvillained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outvillain
outvillains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outvillain
imposement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impose + -ment.
Senses: qualifier: rare except India
glosses: Imposition.
herdbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herdbooks
Etymology: From herd + book.
Senses: glosses: A book listing the pedigrees of one or more herds of livestock.
herdbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herdbook
gastrostege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrosteges
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: ventral scale
glosses: One of the large scales on the underside of a snake.
gastrosteges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrostege
moonblink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moon + blink. It was formerly said to be caused by sleeping in moonlight.
Senses: glosses: nyctalopia
pinchcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinchcocks
Etymology: From pinch + cock.
Senses: glosses: An adjustable clamp used to compress a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of liquid.
Related terms: cock-and-pinch
pinchcocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinchcock
expatiatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expatiatory
form: most expatiatory
Senses: glosses: expansive (of a text); diffusive
Related terms: expatiate
incubatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The measurement investigations show furthermore that some of the wintered gammarid females commenced to get eggs in their incubatory pouches at about the end of January.
ref: 1922, Report of the Danish Biological Station, page 34:
text: Two incubatory pockets in the body wall also occur in Cucumaria coatsi.
ref: 2005, D.R. Khanna, Biology of Echinodermata, page 152:
text: Incubatory medicine was popular in the Greco-Roman world, the most famous example being the sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidauros in southern Greece, which attracted many pilgrims seeking healing.
ref: 2016, Sergey Minov, “The therapy for grief and the practice of incubation in early medieval Palestine”, in Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Derek Krueger, editors, Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries, page 220:
synonyms: incubative
glosses: Serving for or pertaining to incubation.
incubatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incubatories
Senses: examples: text: As already stated, the incubatory is constructed of sun-dried bricks, mortar and earth.
ref: 1888 February, “An Egyptian Incubatory”, in The Southern Cultivator and Industrial Journal, volume 46, number 2, page 58:
text: Eggs are bought for the incubatory at never exceeding 5 cents per dozen, and chicks just from the shell are sold at less than 15 cents per dozen.
ref: 1890, United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Commercial Relations of the United States, page 504:
glosses: A building where eggs are incubated.
legitimatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legitimatists
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of legitimist.
legitimatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legitimatist
fumosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumosities
Etymology: From Middle English fumosite, from Old French fumosité.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fumous.
glosses: The fumes or vapor of alcoholic drink.
inhumate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inhumates
form: inhumating
form: inhumated
form: inhumated
Etymology: First attested in 1612; borrowed from Latin inhumātus, perfect passive participle of inhumō (“to put in the earth, plant; (Ecclesiastical Latin) to inhume”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + humō (“to cover with earth”). Doublet of inhume.
Senses: examples: c. 1850-1869, Frederic Henry Hedge, "Easter Hymn"
Hath the inhumated
Upward aspiring,
Hath he consummated
All his desiring?
glosses: To inhume; to bury.
Related terms: humation
humic
humify
humus
inhumated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inhumate
inhumates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inhumate
inhumating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inhumate
henxman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henxmen
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of henchman.
henxmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of henxman
menow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menows
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of minnow.
menows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menow
disoxygenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: deoxidation
oscitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oscitates
form: oscitating
form: oscitated
form: oscitated
Etymology: From Latin oscitare, from os (“the mouth”) + citare, v. intens. from ciere (“to move”).
Senses: glosses: To gape or yawn.
Related terms: oscitation
oscitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oscitate
oscitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oscitate
oscitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oscitate
refoment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refoments
form: refomenting
form: refomented
form: refomented
Etymology: From re- + foment.
Senses: glosses: To foment again.
refomented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refoment
refomenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refoment
refoments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refoment
dilaniation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: dilaceration
glosses: A tearing into pieces
sanctifyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sanctifyingly
form: most sanctifyingly
Etymology: From sanctifying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to sanctify or make holy.
eyeleteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: eyeleteers
Etymology: From eyelet + -eer.
Senses: glosses: A small, sharp-pointed instrument used in piercing eyelet holes; a stiletto.
eyeleteers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyeleteer
tenemental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tenement + -al.
Senses: examples: text: tenemental land
text: tenemental property
text: tenemental lands were distributed among the tenants , and from the different modes of tenure were distinguished by different names
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.
Ishmaelitish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ishmaelitish
form: most Ishmaelitish
Etymology: From Ishmaelite + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or resembling, an Ishmaelite or the Ishmaelites.
rhinological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhinology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to rhinology.
sporidiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: sporidiferous branchlet
text: sporidiferous flocci
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing sporidia.
semipagan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + pagan.
Senses: glosses: Half pagan.
setulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more setulose
form: most setulose
Senses: examples: text: Hall (1933) pointed out that the diagnostic characters of this homogeneous genus were the setulose fifth vein and the long bristles on the cheeks.
ref: 1938, Harold C. Hallock, “New Sarcophaginae (Diptera)”, in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, volume 40, number 4, page 96:
glosses: Having small bristles or setae.
hylarchical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hylo- + -arch + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: [E]ither the Motion of all Bodies, must have no manner of Cause, or else must there of necesity^([sic]) be some other Substance besides Body, such as is Self-active and Hylarchical, or hath a Natural Power, of Ruling over Matter.
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Presiding over matter.
inheritably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From inheritable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: our corruption led the inheritably descending naughs[…]
ref: 1586, Heinrich Bullinger, Fiftie Godlie and Learned Sermons, Divided Into Five Decades: Containing the Chiefe and Principall Points of Christian Religion, Written in Three Severall Tomes Or Sections. Whereunto are Addid Certaine Epistles of the Same Author Concerning the Apparell of Ministers and Other Indifferent Things. With a Triple Or Three-fold Table Verie Fruitful and Necessarie, page 495:
glosses: By inheritance.
neuroepidermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + epidermal.
Senses: examples: text: the neuroepidermal, or epiblastic, layer of the blastoderm
text: neuroepidermal junction
text: neuroepidermal disease
text: neuroepidermal tumor
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to both the central nervous system and epidermis.
untoothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English untoþed, on tothyd; equivalent to un- + toothed.
Senses: examples: an untoothed gear wheel
glosses: Without teeth.
untoothed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untooth
sinecural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sinecure + -al.
Senses: examples: text: sinecural job
text: sinecural position
glosses: Of or pertaining to a sinecure.
muskadel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muskadels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muscatel.
muskadels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muskadel
fissipation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fissipation, being the simple division of an organised being, requires no organs of reproduction.
ref: 1843 August 12, Ph. B. Ayres, “Theory of Generation”, in The Lancet, volume 2, page 738:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Reproduction by fission; fissiparism.
examples: text: The re-emergence of empire was thwarted by immense topographical variety, coastal confolutions, and wide-openness to the east, which made Christendom difficult to organize and defend as a whole from Viking, barbarian and Islamic attacks round its perimeter; by natural temperateness, which rendered large-scale disasters needing widespread rescue of populations rare (Jones 1981); and by the very devolved political system represented by feudalism, which encouraged the fissipation of whatever larger units did develop.
ref: 2003, Ian Douglas, Richard John Hugget, Companion Encyclopedia of Geography, page 212:
text: Had there been a consolidated nationhood in all African states at this time, this declaration would not have been of such relevance. The danger of fissipation was real and explains why the nationalist elite placed such priority on the project of imagining the nation.
ref: 2012, Anja Osei, Party-Voter Linkage in Africa, page 78:
text: As a student of the history of religions I find fascinating the development of Moorish apocrypha and fissipation into subsects, each with different orally transmitted stories.
ref: 2021, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam:
glosses: The act or process of splitting apart; division into smaller parts.
succubine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more succubine
form: most succubine
Etymology: From succubus + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: the succubine wiles of women
ref: 1951, Walter Mehring, The lost library: the autobiography of a culture:
text: It is sniffed with succubine solemnity by Louise and the 7-year-old twins, Jessica and Gregory.
ref: 1970 April 10, “The Good Witch Of The West”, in Life, page 69:
text: […] an ironic memory of wedding night promise betrayed by the succubine reality that has replaced it in the course of three years of marriage.
ref: 2001, Donald J. Childs, Modernism and eugenics, page 118:
glosses: Having the traits of a succubus.
ascococci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascococcus
ascococcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascococci
Etymology: From New Latin ascococcus, from Ancient Greek ἀσκός (askós) + κόκκος (kókkos). By surface analysis, ascus + -coccus.
Senses: topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is enclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.
bridgetree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridgetrees
Etymology: From bridge + tree.
Senses: glosses: The beam that supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill.
bridgetrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridgetree
hesperidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See hesperidium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.
Related terms: hesperidin
boltonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bolton + -ite, after Bolton, Massachusetts, USA.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: forsterite
widowly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more widowly
form: most widowly
Etymology: From widow + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: widowlike
glosses: Like, or suiting, a widow.
myrmillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myrmillos
form: myrmillones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mirmillo.
myrmillones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrmillo
oxyneurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxy- + neurine.
Senses: glosses: betaine
nauseas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nausea
Hobbist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hobbists
Etymology: From Hobbes + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [I]f a Chriſtian, vvho has the view of Happineſs and Miſery in another Life, be asked vvhy a Man muſt keep his VVord, he vvill give this as a Reaſon: Becauſe God, vvho has the Povver of eternal Life and Death, requires it of us. But if an Hobbiſt be asked vvhy; he vvill anſvver, Becauſe the Publick requires it, and the Leviathan vvill puniſh you, if you do not.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “No Innate Practical Principles”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, § 5, page 17:
text: Many of the accused were Hobbists and Infidels, and some common ill-living Protestants: Shall all the Hobbists, and Infidels, and ill-living Protestants be Extirpated for their faults?
ref: 1690, Richard Baxter, The English Nonconformity, As under King Charles II. and King James II. Truly Stated and Argued […] , page 265:
synonyms: Hobbesian
Hobbesist
glosses: One who follows the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes; a Hobbesian.
Hobbist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hobbist
form: most Hobbist
Etymology: From Hobbes + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He had a Hobbist vision of ‘the whole world consuming in the fire of envy one against another’, from which quietism was the only escape.
ref: 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 177:
glosses: Hobbesian.
Hobbists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hobbist
gentilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gentilizes
form: gentilizing
form: gentilized
form: gentilized
Etymology: From gentile + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: You Marchant Mercers, and Monopolites, / Gain-greedy Chap-men, periur'd Hypocrites, / Diſſembling Broakers, made of all deceipts, / VVho falſifie your Meaures and your VVeights, / T' enrich you ſelues, and your vnthrifty Sons / To Gentillize with proud poſſeſſions: […]
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His First Week, or Birth of the World: […].] The Third Daie of the First Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 73:
glosses: To render (something) gentile or gentlemanly.
glosses: To live like a gentile or heathen.
gentilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gentilize
gentilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gentilize
gentilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gentilizing
form: most gentilizing
Etymology: From gentilize + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This is not my Conjecture, but drawn from God’s known Denouncement againſt the gentilizing Iſraelites, who though they were govern’d in a Commonwealth of God’s own ordaining, he only thir King, they his peculiar People, yet affecting rather to reſemble Heathen, but pretending the Miſgovernment of Samuel’s Sons, no more a reaſon to diſlike thir Commonwealth, than the Violence of Eli’s Sons was imputable to that Prieſthood or Religion, clamour’d for a King.
ref: 1660 February, John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, Compar’d with the Inconveniencies and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in this Nation; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 793:
glosses: Causing one to become, or becoming, a gentile.
gentilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentilizings
Etymology: From gentilize + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of gentilize
The act of becoming a gentile, or adopting gentile customs and practices.
glosses: gerund of gentilize
The act of becoming a gentleman.
gentilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From gentilize + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gentilize
cheiloplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheiloplasty
cheiloplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheiloplasties
Etymology: From cheilo- + -plasty
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Lip surgery, especially as a form of reconstructive or cosmetic surgery.
Related terms: cheiloplastic