cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
saussurite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsoʊsjʊəɹaɪt/
Forms: form: saussurites
Etymology: From Saussure + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tough, compact mineral aggregate, of a white, greenish, or greyish colour. It is an aggregate of albite, zoisite, prehnite and other aluminium silicates, and is produced by the alteration of feldspar.
saussurites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saussurite
zoisitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zoisitic
form: most zoisitic
Etymology: From zoisite + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to zoisite.
gopher tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gopher tortoises
Etymology: By surface analysis, gopher (“burrowing rodent”, compare translingual Gopherus) + tortoise.
Senses: glosses: Any of the species of the taxonomic genus Gopherus, which are burrowing tortoises of southern North America.
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Gopherus flavomarginatus
word: Bolson tortoise
contradictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contradictional
form: most contradictional
Etymology: From contradiction + -al.
Senses: examples: text: We have tri'd already , & miserably felt what ambition worldly glory & immoderat wealth can do, what the boistrous & contradictional hand of a temporall
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: contradictory; inconsistent; opposing
psilanthropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more psilanthropic
form: most psilanthropic
Etymology: psilanthropy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: a psilanthropic explanation
ref: 1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Luther's Table Talk:
glosses: Relating to, or embodying, psilanthropy.
loss of face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: losses of face
Etymology: From lose face.
Senses: glosses: Loss of the respect of others, humiliation, public disgrace.
hardboil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hardboils
form: hardboiling
form: hardboiled
form: hardboiled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard-boil.
hard-boil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hard-boils
form: hard-boiling
form: hard-boiled
form: hard-boiled
form: hard boil
form: hardboil
Etymology: Back-formation from hard-boiled.
Senses: glosses: To cook (an egg) to a solid consistency: to cause to be hard-boiled.
thrumwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The second component is wort.
Senses: glosses: A species of flowering marsh plant, Damasonium alisma.
glosses: A kind of amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus).
coneine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of conine.
indigest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indigest
form: most indigest
Etymology: From Latin indigestus (“unarranged”).
Senses: examples: text: To fortify the most indigest and crude stomach, ay, were it of one that, through extreme weakness, vomited blood, applying only a warm napkin to the place, after the unction and fricace
ref: 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):
text: [M]onsters and things indigest […]
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 114”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: Me thinkes a troubled thought is thus expreſt, / To be a Chaos rude and indigeſt: […]
ref: 1613, William Browne, “The Third Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. [The First Booke], London: […] Geo[rge] Norton, […], →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: Crude; undigested; upset; unformed; unorganized.
Derived terms: indigestly
indigest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indigests
Etymology: From Latin indigestus (“unarranged”).
Senses: examples: text: Be of good comfort (Prince) for you are borne
To ſet a forme vpon that indigeſt
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:
text: The other, more compendious as well as mischievous class of errors, are those indigests of grammar, […]
ref: 1805, E. H. Seymour, Remarks […] upon the plays of Shakespeare, London, page 3:
text: Begotten from greedy indigests of pride
which rotted inside
ref: 1965, Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre, Tiger of time, and other poems, New York: Trident Press, page 56:
glosses: Something indigested; a crude mass, or disordered state of affairs.
indigest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indigests
form: indigesting
form: indigested
form: indigested
Etymology: From Latin indigestus (“unarranged”).
indigests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigest
pervicacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pervicacity of humour, of tastes, of character is one of the most marked features in the life of Ruskin
ref: 1911, Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of John Ruskin:
glosses: obstinacy; pervicaciousness
epaule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epaules
Etymology: From French épaule (“shoulder, shoulder of a bastion”). See epaulet, and compare spall (“the shoulder”).
Senses: glosses: The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.
epaules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epaule
coaita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaitas
form: koaita
Senses: examples: text: 1830, Unnamed translator, Georges Louis Leclerc, The Natural History of Quadrupeds, [1749–1804, Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi], Volume 3, page 338,
All these facts, even the worms in the intestines, correspond with our coaitas. […] It is obvious, therefore, that the exquima of Marcgrave is a sapajou of the same species, or, at least, of a species very nearly allied to that of the coaita.
text: Even the coaita, screened by the intervention of the bodies, had, for the time, ceased to utter its cries of alarm.
ref: 1866, The Boys' Journal, volume 6, page 36:
text: The flesh of the Coaitas is much esteemed by the natives in this part of the country[…].
ref: 1896, Henry Ogg Forbes, A Hand-book to the Primates, volume 1, page 230:
glosses: spider monkey
coaitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coaita
Abuna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑˈbu.nɑ/
Etymology: From Portuguese Abunã.
Senses: glosses: A river in northeastern Bolivia that forms part of its border with Brazil.
Abuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑˈbu.nɑ/
ipa: /əˈbuː.nə/
ipa: /əˈbu.nə/
ipa: /ɑˈbu.nɑ/
Forms: form: Abunas
Etymology: From Ge'ez አቡነ (ʾäbunä, “our father”), from Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”), from أَبُو (ʔabū), a form of أَب (ʔab, “father”), and ـنَا (-nā, “our”).
Senses: examples: text: Two weeks later, before Abunas Pēṭros and Mātēwos, Menilek publicly swore not to deceive Mangashā nor cause him any harm.
ref: 1982, Ḥagai Erlikh, Ethiopia and Eritrea During the Scramble for Africa: A Political Biography of Rās Alulā, 1875-1897, African Studies Center, page 180:
text: Thus, four Ethiopian monks were consecrated in Cairo in June 1929 (Abunas Abreham, Petros, Mikael, Yeshaq), and the fifth (Abuna Sawiros) was consecrated in Addis Ababa in January 1930.
ref: 2012, Wudu Tafete Kassu, “Religion and Cold War Politics in Ethiopia”, in Philip Emil Muehlenbeck, editor, Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective, Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: The title of the leader, or patriarch, of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
speak highly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speaks highly
form: speaking highly
form: spoke highly
form: spoke highly
Senses: examples: text: He spoke highly of her work.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:speak highly.
glosses: To praise.
pernancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pernancy
pernancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)nənsi/
Forms: form: pernancies
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman pernance, from Old French prenance, from prendre, prenre, penre (“to take”), from Latin prendere, prehendere.
Senses: examples: text: pernancy of the profits
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.
Related terms: pern
sternson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sternsons
Etymology: See stern (“noun”) and compare stemson.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted.
Synonyms: stern knee
sternsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sternson
church-ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: church-ales
form: churchale
form: church ale
Etymology: From Middle English cherche ale.
Senses: examples: text: If many be at an Alehouse , a Christmaſſe dinner, or Churchale, and ( without any intention of an Affray) they ſodainly fall together by the eares[…]
ref: 1683, John Keble, An Assistance to Justices of the Peace […] :
glosses: A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was drunk.
glosses: The strong ale brewed for this purpose.
church-ales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of church-ale
five-twenties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.
Related terms: seven-thirties
trething
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trethings
Etymology: From Welsh treth (“an allowance, contribution, tribute, or tax”), trethu (“to rate or tax”).
Senses: examples: text: All counties, hundreds, wapentakes and trethings , shall stand at the old ferm, without any encrease, except in our Demesne Lands
ref: 1732, Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, The History of England:
glosses: A tax; an impost.
trethings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trething
plaiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaidings
form: playding
Etymology: From plaid + -ing.
Senses: glosses: plaid cloth; tartan cloth
Related terms: plaiden
plaidings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaiding
concertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concertions
Etymology: From concert + -ion?
Senses: examples: text: Concertion of design, how exquisite!
ref: 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
glosses: Act of concerting; adjustment.
concertions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concertion
scratchback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scratchbacks
Etymology: From scratch + back.
Senses: glosses: A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
Related terms: scratch someone's back
scratchbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scratchback
pretypified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pretypify
pretypifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pretypify
pretypify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pretypifies
form: pretypifying
form: pretypified
form: pretypified
Etymology: From pre- + typify.
Senses: examples: text: That the promised Messias was to sit at the right hand of God , was both pretypified and foretold
ref: 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
glosses: To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.
pretypifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pretypify
salt-green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red, / Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams, / Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (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: sea green
dietical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The three fountains of physick, namely dietical, chirurgical, and pharmaceutical.
ref: 1640, Edmund Chilmead, Love's Melancholy:
glosses: dietetic
pinweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinweeds
Etymology: From pin + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Lechea of low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.
Derived terms: Illinois pinweed
pinweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinweed
spongiopilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spongio- + Ancient Greek πίλῐνος (pílĭnos, “made of felt”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A kind of cloth interwoven with small pieces of sponge and rendered waterproof on one side by a covering of rubber. When moistened with hot water it is used as a poultice.
stick-tight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick-tights
Senses: glosses: beggar's ticks
Related terms: english: totally different plant
translation: totally different plant
word: sticktight
stick-tights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stick-tight
pernicion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See pernicious.
Senses: examples: text: Synods are whelps o'th'Inquisition,
A mungrel breed of like pernicion.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: destruction; perdition
sororize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɒɹəɹaɪz/
Forms: form: sororizes
form: sororizing
form: sororized
form: sororized
Etymology: From Latin soror, sororis (“a sister”).
Senses: glosses: To associate, or hold fellowship, as sisters; to have sisterly feelings.
Related terms: fraternize
sororized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sororize
sororizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sororize
sororizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sororize
picra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪkɹə/
Etymology: From Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek πίκρα (píkra, “a kind of antidote”), from πικρός (pikrós, “sharp, bitter”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.
Related terms: hiera picra
magistrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magistral
sulliage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌl.i.əd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: sulliages
Etymology: Compare sullage, suillage, or sully (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Though we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind.
ref: 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:
text: the sins and sulliages of their earthly […]affections
ref: 1653, Henry Hammond, Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament:
glosses: foulness, filth or dirt
twittle-twattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twittle-twattles
Etymology: See twattle.
Senses: examples: text: The Gossips bawdy twittle twattle, / The Nurse and Midwife's prittle prattles / That must be very Welcome made
ref: 1667, Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, “(please specify the page)”, in R[oger] L[’Estrange], transl., The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, […], London: […] H[enry] Herringman […], →OCLC:
synonyms: twit-twat
glosses: Frivolous chatter or gossip; gabble, tattle.
twittle-twattles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twittle-twattle
sapeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapeurs
Etymology: From French sapeur.
Senses: examples: text: For these sapeurs, the essential thing was to dress elegantly, with name-brand clothes made by famous designers if possible.
ref: 2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 182:
text: Since the 1920s, the sapeurs of the Congo have been making sartorial statements on the streets of Brazzaville and Kinshasa.
ref: 2020 July 27, Trey Kay, “Congolese dandies: Meet the stylish men and women of Brazzaville”, in The Guardian, London: The Guardian Media Group, retrieved 01 Oct 2020:
glosses: A member of the social movement known as La Sape, who dress as dandies and put great emphasis on style and physical appearance.
revenge porn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: France has threatened to fine Facebook for sharing data between its various apps. Almost every day you get hammered for not properly policing the content, including extremists’ videos, revenge porn and fake news, that appears on your platforms.
ref: 2018 January 20, Eve Smith, “The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do”, in The Economist:
text: The charges against Mr. Bradshaw were the latest in a series of high-profile revenge porn cases in recent years, and groups that support survivors of sexual violence say there has been an increase in reports of revenge porn and other forms of online sexual harassment during the coronavirus pandemic.
ref: 2021 November 16, Amanda Holpuch, “Maryland Mayor Is Charged in ‘Revenge Porn’ Case”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
hypernyms: cybercrime
glosses: Sexually explicit media of a person distributed online without the consent of the pictured individual, typically by a former partner or hacker, either from genuine video or by deepfake, and often with the intent to humiliate the subject and damage his/her reputation.
Related terms: sextortion
Mr. and Mrs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Messrs. and Mmes.
form: Mr. & Mrs.
form: Mr and Mrs
form: Mr & Mrs
Senses: examples: text: Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
text: Mr. and Mrs. John Smith.
text: In the evening the reception party and a few other friends were entertained at cards by Mr. and Mrs. Flint. These guests included Messrs. and Mmes. Frank W. King, J. B. Bushnell, J. H. F. Peck, Fred Parke, Frank Burnett, Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Moore, Mrs. Sanders, the Misses Fairchild, Coleman, Messrs. B. E. Green. Luther Green, Barnwell, Drs. Rogers and Bryant. / The members of the Bonnie Brae Club were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Akin at their handsome residence on West Beacon street on the 13th. The prizes at whist were won by Miss Coleman and Mr. H. Jevne.
ref: 1898 January 22, “Society”, in The Capital, volume VII, number 4, Los Angeles, Calif., page 5, column 2:
text: Guests at the St. Louis affair included E. Lawrence Phillips, Ralph Lockett, Eddie Coe, Harvey Wilson, Del Lampkin, Morris Lipsky, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lipsky, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sharkey, Messrs. and Mmes. Mel Vaught, Harold Eutah, John McKee, Cecil Turner, Ray Turner, Jack Price, Earl Bunting, Ted Martin, Orval Williams, Robert L. Heth and Mike J. Dressen, W. M. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. George Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Proper, Tony Silvestri, E. M. Ford, John Fabick, who had 44 in his party for the largest single party of the evening; […]
ref: 1947 January 11, “Lads, Lassies Welcome ’47; 4 Orgs Hosts At New Year’s; 500 attend banquet and ball in St. Louis—HASC host to 225 in Kansas City”, in The Billboard, page 66:
text: Out of town guests attending today’s anniversary event will include Mmes. Wilson Nesbitt, Marjorie Mayne, Doris Weatherstone Smith and Sir Humphery Cotton Minchin, from England; William R. Mesland of Iran; Mr. and Mrs. John Watson of San Francisco; Messrs. and Mmes. Robert Butt, R. D. Roberts, Joseph Perry, Charles E. and E. W. Ballwanz, and Maj. and Mrs. C. E. Collings of Los Angeles, and Mr. and Mrs. George Evans of Hemet.
ref: 1959 February 1, “Pains To Receive On Anniversary”, in The San Diego Union; republished in Rodney H. Pain, Beatrix: From Royal Court to Cookstove, Trafford Publishing, 2003, →ISBN:
text: Out of town friends and relatives at the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Tomaschek, Chicago; Messrs^([sic]) and Mmes. Wm. Domonoske, Fred Domonoske, and Herman Domonoske, of Waterville; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tesch and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Weckwerth, Granite Falls; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Holtan, Dawson; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Miller and Mrs. G. Lange of Echo; […]
ref: 1987, Bernelda Ost Roberts, compiler, A Genealogy of the Weckwerth Family: From Posen (Prussia) to Minnesota and Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.: B.O. Roberts, →OCLC, page 274:
glosses: a title used for a married couple before the surname or before the name of the husband.
cock pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock pigeons
Senses: synonyms: he-pigeon
coordinate_terms: hen pigeon
glosses: A male pigeon.
hen pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hen pigeons
Senses: synonyms: she-pigeon
coordinate_terms: cock pigeon
glosses: A female pigeon.
bull bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bull bar
cock pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock pigeon
hen pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hen pigeon
antinobilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-nobilism
Etymology: From anti- + Latin nōbilis + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Nor was Beaumarchais himself an obvious proponent of rank anti-nobilism: for he himself was a noble.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 325:
text: Patrice Higonnet considers this the height of antinobilism during the French Revolution because it combined with the persecution of emigres by the military commissions created on 19 fructidor V.
ref: 2008, Howard G Brown, Ending the French Revolution, page 159:
glosses: Opposition to the nobility.
psalmodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psalmody
psychanalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychanalysis
pyrogravure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrogravures
Etymology: From French pyrogravure.
Senses: glosses: pyrography
glosses: A design or picture made by pyrography.
prophylaxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prophylaxy
pyrogravures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrogravure
Maecenases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maecenas
becloaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more becloaked
form: most becloaked
Etymology: From becloak + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A becloaked man approaches, his hat pulled over his face.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 336:
glosses: Wearing a cloak.
Synonyms: cloaked
becloaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From becloak + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of becloak
algogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more algogenic
form: most algogenic
Etymology: From algo- + -genic, wherein algo- refers to pain, and -genic indicates causation thereof.
Senses: examples: text: We wish to study the algogenic effect of bee stings.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inducing pain.
algogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more algogenic
form: most algogenic
Etymology: From algo- + -genic, wherein algo- refers to an alga or algæ, and -genic indicates production thereby.
Senses: examples: text: The algogenic organic matter affects the efficacy of water treatment.
topics: sciences
glosses: Produced by an alga or algæ.
rivalrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌɪvəlɹəsli/
Forms: form: more rivalrously
form: most rivalrously
Etymology: From rivalrous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The advent of Calonne as Controller-General and Breteuil as Minister for the Royal Household in November 1783 meant that the ministry now contained (with Vergennes) three rivalrously ambitious ministers with conflicting philosophies and power bases.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 341:
glosses: With rivalry; competitively.
corporate executives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporate executive
antiministerialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiministerialists
form: anti-ministerialist
Etymology: From anti- + ministerialist.
Senses: examples: text: Every day I am more and more an Antiministerialist, and an implacable foe of the unholy Alliance.
ref: 1822, Samuel Parr, letter, 14 Oct 1822
text: The anti-ministerialists received aid, moreover, from an unlikely source, namely the government itself.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 342:
glosses: Someone opposed to government ministers or ministries.
antiministerialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiministerialist
capillaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capillaire
cleveite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleveites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystalline variety of uraninite.
connexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connex
diazote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nitrogen gas.
Derived terms: diazotize
cran-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: cran-apple cobbler
cran-grape juice
glosses: cranberry
fluorohydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorohydrides
Etymology: From fluoro- + hydride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: salt
<
compound
<
substance#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: hydrofluoride
hydrofluorate
difluoride
bifluoride
fluorate
fluoride
glosses: A compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
Derived terms: argon fluorohydride
rudie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudies
Etymology: From rudeboy + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: He thinking surely a boy wearing glasses can't be a rudie.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 66:
glosses: A juvenile delinquent.
suspiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspirals
Etymology: From suspire + -al.
Senses: glosses: A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct, particularly one in a building.
glosses: A spring of water passing underground toward a cistern or conduit.
suspirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suspiral
archegony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arche- + -gony.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: spontaneous generation; abiogenesis
morone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: maroon colour
pretensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pretense + -ed.
Senses: glosses: pretend; fake
Derived terms: pretensedly
bulau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Native name.
Senses: examples: text: The bulau, of Sumatra, has a few stout bristly hairs scattered among the fur of its back, and gives the first indication of a tendency toward the production of spines.
ref: 1884, Popular Science, volume 26, number 19, page 428:
glosses: An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Echinosorex gymnura), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.
merenchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛɹɪŋˈkaɪmə/
Etymology: From mero- + -enchyma.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: tissue composed of spheroidal cells
Coordinate terms: chlorenchyma
collenchyma
parenchyma
sclerenchyma
bar-b-que
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar-b-ques
Senses: examples: text: I watch as neighbors and friends enjoy bar-b-que cookouts, now that it is summertime.
ref: 2010, Marie L. Schoendorf, Treasured Memories: Inspirational Stories for the Soul, page 370:
text: But whatever your choice, it's the smoky taste enhanced by a unique sauce that bar-b-que buffs will travel miles for.
ref: 1992 March-April, Tampa Bay Magazine, volume 7, number 2, page 96
text: Every family has its own secret way of making bar-b-que sauce.
ref: 1973 August-September, Shirley Searcy, "Family Style Bar-B-Que Sauce", in Ebony Jr., volume 1, number 3, page 36
glosses: Alternative spelling of barbecue.
bar-b-ques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bar-b-que (alternative spelling of barbecues).
Abu Simbel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑ.bu ˈsɪm.bl̩/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Senses: glosses: A village, in the Aswan area of Egypt, that is the site of several ancient temples.
non-iron
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + iron.
Senses: examples: text: non-iron shirt
glosses: That does not need ironing.
quadrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Church music was carefully taught at the universities. IT was of the four sciences of the quadrium, and was a means of promotion in the church and colleges.
ref: 1861, William Howitt, John Cassell's illustrated history of England:
text: He describes how by the late fifteenth century the language arts of the trivium had come to seem useful only for communication, teaching and public debate, and how humanists turned to the mathematical arts of the quadrium - including music - to enable new means and methods of discovery.
ref: 1997, Timothy J. Reiss, Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe:
text: The classical curriculum distinguishes between trivium and quadrium to classify knowledge fields in education. Trivium deals with the disciplines of language, grammar, rhetoric, dialectic and logic, while quadrium deals with the sciences of arithmetic, geometry and astronomy.
ref: 2014, Andreas Nordin, Transnational Policy Flows in European Education:
topics: education
glosses: Synonym of quadrivium.
synonyms: word: quadrivium
quadrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quadr- + -ium.
Senses: examples: text: The decimal character of 4.1 is a reminder that this is not a conventional H isotope such as quadrium, ⁴H, or other isotopes up to ⁷H, with lifetimes, when known in the 0.1 to 1 zs range.
ref: 2011, “Kinetic Isotope Effects for the Reactions of Muonic Helium and Muonium with H₂”, in Science, volume 331, number 6016, page 448:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
related: word: mul:Q
synonyms: mul:H-4
mul:⁴H
hydrogen-4
hydrogen 4
hypernyms: hydrogen
mul:H
coordinate_terms: protium
mul:H-1
mul:¹H
hydrogen-1
hydrogen 1
normal hydrogen
light hydrogen
;
mul:H-2
mul:²H
mul:D
hydrogen-2
hydrogen 2
heavy hydrogen
;
mul:H-3
mul:³H
mul:T
glosses: A highly unstable synthetic isotope of the element hydrogen, ⁴₁H, having one proton and three neutrons.
examples: text: The almost stationary ultra-cold neutron(s) occupies a position in the metal lattice where another dissolved hydrogen is most likely to tunnel in less than a nanosecond, forming a deuteron / triton / quadrium by capturing the cold neutron and releasing binding energy.
ref: 2014, Robert Godes, “Controlled Electron Capture and the Path Toward Commercialization”, in J. Condensed Matter Nucl. Sci., volume 13:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quadrium atom or nucleus.
lacquer-ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lacquerware.
footwarmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footwarmers
Etymology: From foot + warmer.
Senses: examples: text: Sturrock records that he found hot-water footwarmers in use on the Northern Railway of France in about 1857, and that he was so impressed with the extra comfort obtained from this simple device that he obtained permission from the French authorities to bring one to England. A dozen similar, but smaller footwarmers were made at Doncaster, without official sanction, and placed in the coaches of a train conveying some of the directors to London. Sturrock was taken to task by the chairman for having incurred this unauthorised expenditure, but before he left the meeting, the directors had ordered 200 footwarmers for public use.
ref: 1948 January and February, “Memoirs of Archibald Sturrock”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:
text: There was no steam heating, but footwarmers were provided in winter to alleviate the long and rigorous journey to Burtonport.
ref: 1953 October, H. C. Casserley, “Closure of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 705:
text: stoves warmed and clarified the air, and there were always hotwater bottles and footwarmers for cold nights.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 357:
related: word: foot warmer
word: foot-warmer
synonyms: foot heater
hypernyms: warmer#Noun
coordinate_terms: handwarmer
glosses: Something used to keep the feet warm, especially during a journey.
footwarmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footwarmer
Lithosian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lithosians
Etymology: From Latin Lithosia, the typical genus, from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “a stone, a rock”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various moths once grouped in the former family Lithosiidae, now mostly classified in the subfamily Arctiinae of family Erebidae.
Lithosians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lithosian
radiotoxicological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + toxicological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to radiotoxicology
radiotoxicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + toxicology.
Senses: glosses: The study of radiotoxicity
there's no use crying over spilt milk
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of there's no point crying over spilt milk.
sixes and nines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the appearance like the numerals 6 and 9.
Senses: glosses: Curly quotation marks, as opposed to straight quotes.
Academe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of academe.
proto-industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proto-industries
Etymology: From proto- + industry.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: cottage industry
text: It is now generally recognised that the rise of cottage industry, or proto-industry as it is now more fashionably called, played an important role in the transformation of the West European economy during the modern era.
ref: 1993, JL Van Zanden, The Rise and Decline of Holland's Economy, page 103:
text: Proto-industry allowed women family members (and sometimes children too) to engage in spinning, weaving and other menial industrial tasks within their homes, and thereby to supplement the income their husbands and fathers derived from agricultural work.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 359:
glosses: Domestic manufacturing or commercial activity seen as being a precursor to industrialization.
Related terms: preindustrial
preindustrialization
proto-industrialization
proto-industries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proto-industry
testerical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more testerical
form: most testerical
Etymology: From testes, by analogy to hysterical. Coined by Juli Loesch in 1972 along with testeria.
Senses: examples: text: If the police at the G20 protests were pumped-up, testerical, itching for a fight, it was partly because their commanding officers have spent years blurring the distinction between peaceful campaigners and terrorists.
ref: 2009 April 21, George Monbiot, “G20 videos won't change the Met”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Overly aggressive, irritable, or unreasonable, as from being overwhelmed by testosterone.
Derived terms: testerically
Related terms: testeria
testeric
hysterical
macho
testiness
testy
dieoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dieoffs
Etymology: Deverbal from die off.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of die-off.
die-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of die-off
testeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From testes, coined as a feminist response to the use of hysteria.
Senses: glosses: Behavior exhibiting excessive irritability, aggression, or unreasonableness.
Related terms: word: testeric
word: testerical
word: testerically
word: machismo
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: testiness
solvations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solvation
testerically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more testerically
form: most testerically
Etymology: From testerical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a testerical manner.
Related terms: testeria
testeric
thenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the thenar
trimix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimixes
Etymology: From tri- + mix.
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A mixture of helium, nitrogen, and oxygen used in deep diving as a breathing gas instead of air.
Coordinate terms: nitrox
heliair
heliox
high vacuum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high vacuums
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A vacuum having a pressure less than about a hundred millipascals
gopik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gopiks
form: gopik
Senses: examples: text: While the local currency is the manat, the Russian ruble is in circulation and prices are often confusingly quoted in manats and rubles. […] The currency is the manat with a hundred gopik […]
ref: 1995, Fielding's ‘The World's Most Dangerous Places’, page 170:
text: One Azerbaijani manat is equivalent to 100 gopiks. The exchange rate prevailing in September 1995 was $1 equivalent to 4,395 manats.
ref: 1997, Islam and the Modern Age, volume 28, page 330:
text: The manat, consisting of 100 gopik, was introduced in 1992 and remains tied to the Russian ruble with widely fluctuating exchange rates.
ref: 2000, Worldmark Yearbook, volume 1, page 193:
text: One manat equals 100 gopiks; however, there are no gopiks in circulation due to inflation in the early 1990s.
ref: 2002, Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast, Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Alternative form of qapik.
surgiholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surgiholics
Etymology: From surgery + -holic.
Senses: examples: text: Surgery should be avoided when the deformity is minimal, particularly in patients with a "surgiholic" tendency.
ref: 1988, Roger Kohn, Textbook of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Lea & Febiger, →ISBN, page 189:
glosses: A person motivated to undergo repeated cosmetic surgery.
surgiholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surgiholic
chorioptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Chorioptes + -ic
Senses: glosses: Caused by mites of the genus Chorioptes.
flerovium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flĭrō'vēəm
ipa: /flɪˈɹoʊviəm/
ipa: /flɛˈroʊviəm/
ipa: /fləˈroʊviəm/
Etymology: From Flerov + -ium, named after the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, which was named after Georgy Flyorov.
Senses: glosses: The chemical element with atomic number 114.
wikipedia: Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions
Synonyms: word: eka-lead
word: ununquadium
word: Fl
Derived terms: organoflerovium
heptagynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepta- + -gynous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having seven pistils
heptametric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepta- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a heptameter
arshins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arshin
testeric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testerics
Senses: examples: text: Even to raise the possibility of such research would be to invite the testerics in Congress to shut off the UN's funding.
ref: 2009 June 29, George Monbiot, “Yes, addicts need help. But all you casual cocaine users want locking up”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A testerical person.
Related terms: testeria
testerical
testerically
testerics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of testeric
testrionics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From testes, masculinizing histrionics as though it were derived from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus”) (like hysterical into testerical), though it actually derives from histriōnicus (“pertaining to acting”).
Senses: examples: text: I'd suggest that any "testrionics" are more about men who fear homosexuailty than about feminists who do not seem to fear such.
ref: 2004 March 16, Hyerdahl1, “Re: Are boys disadvantaged by having women teachers?”, in soc.men (Usenet), message-ID <20040316103242.19482.00001656@mb-m16.aol.com>:
text: The cop is a nice, fair guy, and he loves and respects his attorney wife - no macho testrionics there.
ref: 2006 April 15, P. Feeney, “Disturbingly close to home”, in Amazon.com:
text: They can't help their testronics.
ref: 2008 April 2, Heidi Graw, “Re: The (H)Risen Christ”, in sci.lang (Usenet), message-ID <GpNIj.15137$pb5.7571@edtnps89>:
glosses: histrionic displays, especially of machismo or male chauvinism
Hypernyms: histrionics
isogametic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + -gametic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or exhibiting isogamy
hematosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The hematin of blood.
consignificative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + significative.
Senses: glosses: synonymos; having the same meaning
sclerotitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sclerotic + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of scleritis.
synonyms: word: scleritis
sclerae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclera
scleras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclera
purgament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purgaments
Etymology: From Latin purgamentum (“offscourings, washings, expiatory sacrifice”). See purge.
Senses: glosses: Something excreted or purged; excretion.
examples: text: superfluous Purgaments and Excrements
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A cathartic; a purgative.
purgaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purgament
subvertisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subvertisements
Etymology: Blend of subvert + advertisement.
Senses: examples: text: Another example is the famous 'subvertisement' which shows two cowboys riding together at sunset as if in a Marlboro ad but the caption reads, 'I miss my lung, Bob'.
ref: 2006, John Blewitt, The Ecology of Learning: Sustainability, Lifelong Learning and Everyday Life, CRC Press, →ISBN:
glosses: An individual piece of subvertising.
Synonyms: subvert
Kassites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kassite
subvertisements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subvertisement
subvertingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more subvertingly
form: most subvertingly
Etymology: From subverting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to subvert; in a subversive manner.
Campbellism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Campbell + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Restoration Movement.
Related terms: Campbellite
antimissionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimissionary
form: most antimissionary
Etymology: From anti- + missionary.
Senses: examples: the antimissionary riots in China
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Opposing religious missionaries.
antimissionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimissionaries
Etymology: From anti- + missionary.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes religious missionaries.
weathercocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weathercock
weathercocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weathercock
docufictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more docufictional
form: most docufictional
Etymology: From docufiction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to docufiction.
docufictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of docufiction
nonindividuated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + individuated.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, there is nothing intrinsically important about hippos; in fact most grounding-related hierarchies would predict nonhuman, nonindividuated participants to be less newsworthy and therefore less foregroundable than individuated human participants.
ref: 1990, Suzanne Fleischman, Tense and Narrativity: From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction, page 181:
glosses: Not individuated; treated as a mass or unit.
foregroundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foregroundable
form: most foregroundable
Etymology: From foreground + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, there is nothing intrinsically important about hippos; in fact most grounding-related hierarchies would predict nonhuman, nonindividuated participants to be less newsworthy and therefore less foregroundable than individuated human participants.
ref: 1990, Suzanne Fleischman, Tense and Narrativity: From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction, page 181:
text: So John finished his coffee is more foregroundable than John didn't finish his coffee or John could have finished his coffee, but it is obvious that context is in these cases extremely important and even more so are our expectations about what usually happens[…]
ref: 2004, Tuija Virtanen, Approaches to Cognition Through Text and Discourse, page 104:
text: [The Ulysses legend] existed in more coherent form and was thus more easily foregroundable[…]
ref: 2012, Richard Daniel Lehan, Literary Modernism and Beyond, page 155:
glosses: Capable of being brought to the foreground.
newsworthily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more newsworthily
form: most newsworthily
Etymology: From newsworthy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is newsworthy.