cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
No Fun City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Reportedly coined in 2000 by an organiser of Vancouver's annual Symphony of Fire fireworks exhibition (now known as the Celebration of Light), who was upset over a tobacco company being prevented from sponsoring the event. Strict liquor licensing laws have also been pointed to as the source of the nickname, as has an incident in which police advised people to avoid a New Year's celebration, fearing violence. Further popularized in 2010 via a feature documentary called No Fun City about the struggles faced by Vancouver music venues, directed by Melissa James and Kate Kroll.
Senses: examples: text: Where did this wealth of visual expression come from, and how did it blossom in No Fun City, of all places?
ref: 2002, Elizabeth Nolan, "Vancouver's Underground Stars Light up the Night", The Nerve, Volume 3, Number 3, May/June 2002, page 4
text: Celebrates independent art and culture in “No Fun City” — Vancouver, BC.
ref: 2013, Heidi Waechtler, editor, The Canadian Writer's Market, 19th Edition: The Essential Guide for Freelance Writers, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 37:
text: The Winter Olympics brought people out on the street and showed that even in No Fun City, we could find ourselves having endless fun.
ref: 2015 February 27, Patrick Johnston, “Rugby notebook: ‘Fandamonium’ the word of the day at Canada Sevens announcement, Olympic qualifying and more”, in The Province:
glosses: Derogatory name for Vancouver: a major city in British Columbia, Canada.
'havior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English havour, a corruption of Old French aveir, avoir (“a having”), of same origin as English aver (“a workhorse”). The h is due to confusion with have.
Senses: examples: text: Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, / Nor customary suits of solemn black, / Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, / No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, / Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, / Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, / That can denote me truly...;
ref: 1599, William Shakespeare, “Act 1, Scene 2”, in Hamlet:
text: Her who had made him a pastime, bridging the winter across
With a masque, a foolery petty and vain, amusing herself with his loss,—
God! it had been but an insult throughout, her ’havior so sisterly free
ref: 1897, Julia Ditto Young, The Story of Saville, Part 6:
glosses: behaviour; demeanor
alepole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alepoles
form: ale-pole
form: ale pole
Etymology: From ale + pole.
Senses: glosses: A pole erected as an indication of an alehouse.
Synonyms: alestake
alepoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alepole
ludification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ludifications
Etymology: From Latin ludificatio, from ludificare (“to make sport of”), from ludus (“sport”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy.
Senses: glosses: Derision; mockery.
examples: text: As such, ludification of culture is first and foremost a philosophy.
ref: 2014, Harald Warmelink, Online Gaming and Playful Organization, page 184:
text: Although ludification ties in with both gamification and the concept and practice of transmedia it possesses unique characteristics and qualities of its own, primarily evolving around playful ways of creating and interacting with stories.
ref: 2020, Bo Kampmann Walther, Lasse Juel Larsen, “Gamification and Beyond: The Case of Ludification”, in Iza Marfisi-Schottman, Francesco Bellotti, Ludovic Hamon, editor, Games and Learning Alliance, page 123:
text: In this section, we explore the overlaps and distinctions between ludification and gamification in the rise of playful media, with a specific focus upon the effects of play and games upon contemporary social and media practices.
ref: 2021, Ingrid Richardson, Larissa Hjorth, Hugh Davies, Understanding Games and Game Cultures, page 1871:
synonyms: gamification
glosses: The process of ludifying; the process of making something playful or converting something into a game.
ludifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ludification
cocculus indicus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin cocculus, diminutive of coccum (“kermes berry”) + Indicus (“of India”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The fishberry (fruit of Anamirta cocculus).
Alice chess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the protagonist of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, who travelled through a mirror and encountered characters based on chess pieces.
Senses: glosses: A chess variant that employs two chessboards; as each move is made, the moved piece is transferred to the same square on the other chessboard.
beakiron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beakirons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beak-iron.
beakirons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beakiron
elucubration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌluːkjʊˈbɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: elucubrations
Etymology: From the past participle of Latin elucubrare (“compose by lamplight”).
Senses: glosses: The act of elucubrating.
elucubrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elucubration
Feringee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Feringees
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of firangi.
Feringees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Feringee
enwall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enwalls
form: enwalling
form: enwalled
form: enwalled
Etymology: From en- + wall.
Senses: examples: text: O change my state, unthrall my soule enthralled: / Of my escape then will I tell the story, / And with a crown enwalled / Of godly men, will glory in thy glory.
ref: a. 1599 (date written), Mary Sidney, “Psalm CXLII. Voce mea ad Dominum.”, in The Psalmes of David […], London: From the Chiswick Press by C[harles] Whittingham, for Robert Triphook, […], published 1823, →OCLC, page 272:
glosses: Alternative form of inwall.
enwalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enwall
enwalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enwall
enwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enwall
inwalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inwall
inwalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inwall
equiveillance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Police who film protesters while covering up their own badge numbers have no respect for equiveillance.
glosses: A state of equilibrium, or a desire to attain such, between surveillance and sousveillance.
astrobabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + babble.
Senses: examples: text: More subtly, it kills off the very understanding that the real thing is supposed to promote and replaces it with tokens of understanding that have value only in an economy of free-floating, all-purpose astrobabble.
ref: 1986, The Skeptical Inquirer, volume 11:
text: Fluent in astrobabble. Flagrantly philosophical. Fiery for redheads. Awaiting adventure. All femmes need apply.
ref: 1998, Sara Miles, Eric E. Rofes, Opposite sex: gay men on lesbians, lesbians on gay men, page 28:
text: Dad's astrobabble theory is annoying, but at least it does the trick. Mom lets it drop for now.
ref: 2007, Johanna Edwards, How to Be Cool:
glosses: worthless astrological talk
mewingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mewingly
form: most mewingly
Etymology: From mewing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Later the cat arrived back at deponent's place with very sore feet and was found mewingly located in front of the box in the garage where deponent kept his supply of tire patches.
ref: 1919, American Motorist: Volume 11:
text: Sea birds swooped and dived over the surf and called mewingly to one another.
ref: 2007, Katherine Hill, The Oxwagon List, page 73:
glosses: With mewing sounds.
elaidinisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of elaidinization.
elaidinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elaidinisation
Etymology: From elaidin + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical reaction that alters the orientation of double bonds from cis to trans, most often performed on fats and oils to increase the melting point and extend the shelf life without reducing the degree of unsaturation.
elaboratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more elaboratively
form: most elaboratively
Etymology: From elaborative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an elaborative manner.
crunode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuːnəʊd/
Forms: form: crunodes
Etymology: Probably from Latin crux (“a cross”) + English node.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: node (point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch)
Derived terms: crunodal
crunodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crunode
chalkstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalkstones
Etymology: From Old English ċealcstān, equivalent to chalk + stone.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 27:9:
glosses: A mass or piece of chalk.
examples: text: [T]he thoughts of his breeding Gout so fast shocks me: it has beside all the rest made a Deposit in the Great Toe—I mean in the Joint, as if intending a Chalkstone.
ref: 1794 January 23, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus.
Derived terms: chalkstony
chalkstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalkstone
cokernut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cokernuts
Etymology: This spelling was introduced by the London customhouse to distinguish more widely between this and other articles spelt much in the same manner.
Senses: examples: text: The cokernut (sometimes spelt "cocoanut," though it has, of course, no connection with cocoa) is a sort of "ugly duckling" when compared with other nuts, and few people partake of it regularly.
ref: 1911, Henry Valentine Knaggs, The Healthy Life Beverage Book, C. W. Daniel, page 50:
glosses: Archaic form of coconut.
cokernuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cokernut
surgeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surgeless
form: most surgeless
Etymology: From surge + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from surges; smooth; calm.
glosses: Free from electrical surges.
exestuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exestuates
form: exestuating
form: exestuated
form: exestuated
Etymology: From Latin exaestuatus, passive participle of exaestuare (“to boil up”). See estuate.
Senses: glosses: To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
ectethmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛθmɔɪd
Etymology: From ecto- + ethmoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: external to the ethmoid; prefrontal
divast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: devastated; laid waste
Feringhee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Feringhees
Senses: examples: text: The thing stands thus, Sahib, and I tell it to you because I know that an oath is binding upon a Feringhee, and that we may trust you.
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Strange Story of Jonathan Small”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 242:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of firangi.
Related terms: Farang
Feringhees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Feringhee
Plotinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Plotinists
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it is reunited at death.
Related terms: Plotinian
Plotinism
Plotinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Plotinist
manlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more manlessly
form: most manlessly
Etymology: From manless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [L]et her vvounds / Manleſly digd in her, be eaſd and cur'd / VVith balme of thine ovvne teares: […]
ref: 1603–1604 (date written), [George Chapman], Bussy D’Ambois: A Tragedie: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for William Aspley, published 1607, →OCLC, Act V, page 68:
text: Thus furie-like ſhe [Andromache] vvent, / Tvvo vvomen (as ſhe vvill'd) at hand; and made her quicke aſcent / Vp to the tovvre, and preaſſe of men; her ſpirit in vprore. Round / She caſt her greedy eye, and ſavv, her Hector ſlaine, and bound / T' Achilles chariot; manleſly, dragg'd to the Grecian fleet.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “The XXII. Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 307:
glosses: Inhumanly.
coulages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coulage
exothecia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exothecium
exothecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exothecia
Etymology: From exo- + theca (“pollen-producing organ”) + -ium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The outer layer of the anther.
Related terms: endothecium
mesothecium
southsaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of soothsaying.
reciproque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French réciproque.
Senses: examples: text: Neither doth this weakness appear to others only, and not to the party loved; but to the loved most of all, except the love be reciproque.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Love”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: reciprocal
pestilentious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pestilentious
form: most pestilentious
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pestilential.
irroration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irrorations
Etymology: From irrorate.
Senses: examples: text: Generally, to the irroration of the body much use of sweet things is profitable, as of sugar, honey, sweet almonds, pineapples, pistachios, dates, raisins of the sun, corans, figs, and the like.
ref: 1638, William Rawley, History of Life and Death, translation of original by Francis Bacon:
glosses: A sprinkling or wetting with dew.
examples: text: Underside: ground-colour similar, both fore and hind wings with extensive irroration of black scale which varies considerably in amount: in some specimens it is very dense and gives a glackish tint to the ground-colour, especially on the hind wing.
ref: 1907, L. Colonel, C.T. Bingham, The Fauna Of British India, page 239:
text: Black, markings formed by pale blue glossy irroration; markings white on costal edge.
ref: 1952, Alexey Diakonoff, Microlepidoptera of New Guinea, page 100:
text: […] costa with whitish strigulæ separated by dark fuscous or blackish irroration […]
ref: 1969, J. F. Clarke, Exotic microlepidoptera, page 32:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Markings reminiscent of spots or dew drops.
Related terms: irrorate
irrorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irroration
trabea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trabeae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin trabea.
Senses: examples: text: When the emperors were themselves consuls, they wore a Trabea adorned with gems, which were allowed to none else.
ref: 1767, Basil Kennett, Romae Antiquae Notitia:
glosses: A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes, worn by kings, consuls, and augurs.
trabeae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trabea
exsanguinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Lack of blood.
alure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alures
form: allure
Etymology: From Middle English alure, alour, from Old French alure, aleure (“walk, gait”), from aler (“to go”) + -ure (modern French aller).
Senses: examples: text: The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble.
ref: 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
glosses: A walkway or passageway.
alures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alure
cyberdefamation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + defamation.
Senses: examples: text: Cyberdefamation, virus production, or negligent publication cases will rarely arise out of contractual relations.
ref: 2003, Michael Rustad, Cyrus Daftary, E-business legal handbook:
text: Even though online harassment, cyberdefamation, and cyberbullying do not always reach the level of stalking, they do cause significant distress in both the targets of the violence and their families.
ref: 2009, Evan M. Axelrod, Violence Goes to the Internet: Avoiding the Snare of the Net, page 230:
glosses: defamation by material published on the Internet, or in cyberspace
bdellotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bdellatomy.
sizarship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sizarships
Etymology: From sizar + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or standing of a sizar.
sizarships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sizarship
skunkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skunkish
form: most skunkish
Etymology: From skunk + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the skunk, especially in smell.
songish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more songish
form: most songish
Etymology: From song + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The other, which, for want of a proper English word, I must call the songish part, must abound in the softness and variety of numbers; its principal intention being to please the hearing, [...]
ref: 1680, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius:
glosses: Consisting of or containing songs.
examples: text: I have struck off what I am sure would be objected to as not songish enough for the taste of the day. The air will now require to be sung each four lines, which I think answers as well as repeating each part.
ref: 1872, Baroness Carolina Oliphant Nairne Nairne, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Rogers, Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne:
text: This turning away from the performed, songish traits of the cantares, which seems an inevitable result of the inscriptive technology that brings them to us, breaks down any number of other metonymic connections of these songs to the indigenous world.
ref: 2007, Gary Tomlinson, The Singing of the New World:
text: The anamnesis might even take the form, finally, of a meditation on how a musicology might constitute itself from a conceptual frame of sufficient breadth to see that song, the universal corollary of the human propensity toward language, is not so much a musical thing as music is songish.
ref: 2013, Martin Clayton, The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction:
glosses: Characteristic of a song; songlike
incorporality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incorporalities
Etymology: Latin incorporalitas: compare French incorporalité.
Senses: examples: text: Incorporality is free from all Custody or Imprisonment , as also devoid of Pain and Pleasure
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: Obsolete form of incorporeality.
osteocope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteocopes
Etymology: From osteo- + -scope. Compare French ostéocope.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: pain in the bones
Related terms: osteocopic
osteocopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteocope
conusant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: law
glosses: cognizant
Related terms: conuse
conusor
sternites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sternite
endosternite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endosternites
Etymology: From endo- + sternite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in crustaceans and insects.
Derived terms: endosternal
endosternites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endosternite
cisternal maturation model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A proposed transport mechanism of protein through the Golgi apparatus in which the cisternae move, beginning at the cis face and progressing via the medial face to the trans face.
faussebraye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊsbɹeɪ/
Forms: form: faussebrayes
form: fausse-braye
form: faussebraie
Etymology: From French fausse-braie.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A second rampart, exterior and parallel to the main rampart, and considerably below its level.
faussebrayes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faussebraye
strenuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strenu(ous) + -ity, from Latin strenuitas.
Senses: examples: text: sword and fire should force
Both ships and lives of all the Greeks.
And thus, unlike affects Bred like strenuity in both.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book XV”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: strenuousness; activity
suscitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From suscitate + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Svb. This's Heathen Greek, to you? And, what's your Mercury?
Fac. A very Fugitiue, he will be gone, Sir.
Svb. How know you him? Fac. By his viſcoſitie,
His oleoſitie, and his ſuſcitabilitie.
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, Act II, scene v:
text: Neither suscitability of the still-born infant or the resuscitability of the seemingly dead adult require proof to substantiate their possibility. With life extinguished neither operation has any concern, […]
ref: 1917, Detroit Medical Journal, volume 18, page 71:
text: One reader writes to say that students of English “will smile at your suscitability over ‘argy-bargy,’ quite common in the piquant argot of Scotland and North England.” We apologize for our suscitability.
ref: 1949 January 10, Frank Brookhouser, “It's Happening Here”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 240, number 10, page 21:
text: I particularly like the word “suscitate” in connection with teaching and directing. The most fundamental aspect of human movement, breath, is carried on the tongue of suscitate. […] The students’ job is to cultivate “suscitability”—the ability to be stirred awake—and to commit fully to their formation.
ref: 2002, Jill Mackavey, “Synergizing Internal and External Actin”, in Nicole Potter, editor, Movement for Actors, New York, NY: Allworth Press, →ISBN, page 206:
glosses: The capability of being suscitated; excitability.
schismatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schismatic.
schismatical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schismaticals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schismatic.
Related terms: schismaticalness
pleonaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleonastes
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?] abundant, rich; compare French pléonaste.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black variety of spinel.
pleonastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleonaste
yokelish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊkəlɪʃ/
Forms: form: more yokelish
form: most yokelish
Etymology: From yokel + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The exclusion of anoblis and the presence of large numbers of country gentry (around a quarter of the delegation as a whole) gave the meetings a very provincial and at time yokelish ethos.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 409:
glosses: Like a rustic or bumpkin; simple and ignorant.
snaphance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snaphances
Etymology: Dutch snaphaan (“a gun”), originally, the snapping cock of a gun. See snap and hen.
Senses: glosses: A spring lock for discharging a firearm.
glosses: The firearm to which it is attached.
examples: text: [T]o make this realme a praye to al venturers, al ſpoylers, all ſnaphanſes, all forlornehopes, all cormerauntes, all reuenours of the worlde, that wyll inuade this realme, is to ſaye, thou poſſeſſyoner of any landes of this realme, of what degree ſo euer thou be, fro the higheſt to the loweſt, ſhalte be ſlayne and deſtroyed, and thy landes taken frome the by thoſe that wyl haue al for them ſelfes.
ref: 1539 April 9, Cuthbert Tunstall, A Sermon of Cuthbert Tonstall, Bishop of Durham, Preached on Palm Sunday, 1539, before King Henry VIII. […], London: […] [J. Compton, […]] for T[homas] Rodd, […], published 1823, →OCLC:
glosses: A trifling or second-rate thing or person.
glosses: A snappish retort.
snaphances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snaphance
snaphaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snaphaunces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snaphance.
snaphaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snaphaunce
off-sale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The bar also had off-sale liquor available.
glosses: of alcoholic beverages, pertaining to the sale of closed containers for consumption off the premises
Related terms: off-licence
off-trade
boroughholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boroughholders
Etymology: From borough + holder.
Senses: glosses: A tithingman.
boroughholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boroughholder
megatheroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megatheroids
Etymology: From translingual Megatherium + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The more striking phenomena first and most strongly impress the mind, which contrasts for example, the great Cave-Bears of Europe with the actual Brown Bear, the Megatheroids of South America with the small existing sloths, and the gigantic Glyptodons with the Armadillos.
ref: 1851 June 11, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 1, column 2:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: One of a family of extinct edentates found in America, including the megatherium and the megalonyx, among others.
megatheroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megatheroid
twinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: twinners
Etymology: From twin + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Ewes yeerly by twinning rich maisters doo make,
the lamb of such twinners for breeders go take
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
text: In the former or first four pregnancies the proportion of twinners in a hundred twinners is smaller than the proportion of child-bearers in a hundred : […]
ref: 1865, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal ..., page 777:
glosses: One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.
examples: text: Beyond correspondence, twinners around the country got very interested in elaborating their relation to their paired city by visiting it.
ref: 1993, John Lofland, Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: One who visits or interacts with a sister city of their own city.
examples: text: The twinner of Jack's ailing mother, a faded movie actress named Lily Cavanaugh (who was billed in her time as the “Queen of the B Movies”), […]
ref: 2016, John C. Tibbetts, The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, McFarland, →ISBN, page 149:
text: Everyone, that is, except for Jack; his twinner, Jason, died as a baby and has become something of a mythical character in the alternate world, […]
ref: 2020, Debbie Olson, Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 185:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: One who is identical, is similar, or is a counterpart, to another person.
Related terms: doppelganger
evil twin
twinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twinner
diiamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈaɪæm/
Forms: form: diiambs
Etymology: From di- + iamb.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A diiambus.
diiambs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diiamb
mascled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mascle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: mascled armour
synonyms: trellised
glosses: Composed of, or covered with, lozenge-shaped scales.
glosses: Having lozenge-shaped divisions.
prefident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prefident
form: most prefident
Etymology: Compare Latin praefidens (“overconfident”). See pre- and confident.
Senses: examples: text: If the Pastors themselves were not prefident and presumptuous over-valuers of their own apprehensions!
ref: 1689, Richard Baxter, A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts:
glosses: Trusting beforehand; overconfident.
triplicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triplicity
triplicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪˈplɪsɪti/
rhymes: -ɪsɪti
Forms: form: triplicities
Etymology: From triplic(ate) + -ity, from Latin triplicitas, from Latin triplex, triplicis (“threefold”). Compare French triplicité. See triplicate.
Senses: examples: text: In their trinall triplicities on hye
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39:
glosses: The quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness.
examples: text: he very promptly and speedily formed and fashioned a complete fabric of the houses of heaven in all their parts, whereof when he had considered the situation and the aspects in their triplicities, he fetched a deep sigh, and said: I have clearly enough already discovered unto you the fate of your cuckoldry, which is unavoidable, you cannot escape it.
ref: 1693, Thomas Urquhart (translator), The Third Book (originally by François Rabelais) Chapter 25
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The division of the twelve signs according to the four elements.
semichorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semichoruses
Etymology: From semi- + chorus.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
theater
glosses: half a chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, rather than the full choir. It was popular in Ancient Greek theatre.
glosses: A small number of selected singers.
Related terms: semichoral
semichoruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semichorus
cnemial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κνημίς (knēmís, “the lower part of the leg, greaves”).
Senses: examples: text: Some birds and reptiles, like dinosaurs, have a cnemial crest.
text: cnemial ridge
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or located at, the shinbone, or tibia.
Related terms: epicnemial
precnemial
disavaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disavaunces
form: disavauncing
form: disavaunced
form: disavaunced
Etymology: Compare disadvance.
Senses: glosses: To retard; to repel; to do damage to.
disavaunced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disavaunce
disavaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disavaunce
disavauncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disavaunce
concretively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concretively
form: most concretively
Etymology: From concretive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a concretive manner.
mani-pedis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mani-pedi
polysyntheticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polysyntheticisms
Etymology: From poly- + synthetic + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: polysynthesis
polysyntheticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polysyntheticism
leucoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leuco- + Latin oleum (“oil”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: quinoline.
Xanthippic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Xanthippic
form: most Xanthippic
Etymology: From Xanthippe + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Xanthippe (wife of Socrates)
glosses: scolding, nagging
anaptotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.əpˈtɑt.ɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνάπτωσις (anáptōsis, “falling back”), in reference to πτῶσις (ptôsis, “grammatical case”).
Senses: examples: text: anaptotic languages
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; uninflected
dinumeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinumerations
Etymology: From Latin dinumeratio, from di-, dis- + numerare (“to count”), from numerus (“number”).
Senses: examples: text: Seyng therefore, that there is no Dinumeration of tyme with God, it followeth that a thousande yeres with hym, are as one daie […]
ref: circa 1600, Thomas Newton, commentary and translation of Martin Luther
text: What therefore do Philosophers number, measure, waigh? All things: yet have they most solemn dinumerations, dimensions, collibrations, ( 1 ) of Heaven, in Astronomy; ( 2 ) of Earth, in Geographie; ( 3 ) of Times, in Chronology; (4) of Cogitations, in Logick, Mnemonick, Prognostic; (5) of Moral Actions, in Morality; (6) of Speech, in Arts Philological; all of which let us run thorow by the by.
ref: 1656, Jan Amos Komensky, Gate Of The Latine Tongue Unlocked, page 161:
text: I proceed to the Diagnosis; and with this dinumeration of symptoms, I shall take leave of the reader.
ref: 1841, Rev. A. Newton, The Conspiracy Exposed, and Rev. S. S. Lattimore Unmasked, page 189:
text: […] this I assert, my lord, ofter a personal and patient dinumeration of their troops and resources: the quod dubitas ne feceris is ever present to my imagination; but as it may not suffice that I possess the esential^([sic]) requisites of self-confidence an self-conviction, I do farther aver, and I pledge my head, nay my reputation and my honour as an officer
ref: 1930, Francisco de Miranda, Vicente Dávila, Archivo del General Miranda, page 372:
text: I used a technique called dinumeration, where you list off points one by one.
ref: 2019, Jermaine Scott, Rapthology: Lessons in Life and Lyrics:
glosses: enumeration
interambulacra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interambulacrum
interambulacrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interambulacra
Etymology: From inter- + ambulacrum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones between two ambulacra.
Related terms: interambulacral
heteroscian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroscians
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑτερόσκιος (heteróskios) other + shadow: compare French hétéroscien. So called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).
Senses: coordinate_terms: amphiscian
periscian
glosses: A person or object that is located in the temperate zones (i.e., between the polar regions and the tropics), whose shadow thus does not change its north-south direction over the course of the year.
heteroscians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteroscian
scenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Latin scenarius (“belonging to the stage”).
Senses: examples: text: To make a Sketch, or a more perfect Model of a Picture, is in the Language of Poets, to draw up the Scenary of a Play, and the reaſon is the ſame for both; to guide the Undertaking, and to preſerve the Remembrance of ſuch things, whoſe Natures are difficult to retain.
ref: 1695, John Dryden, “Preface of the Translator, with a Parallel, of Poetry and Painting”, in C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC, page xliv:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of scenery.
water turkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water turkeys
Senses: glosses: An anhinga, Anhinga anhinga.
water turkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water turkey
placentious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pləˈsɛnʃiəs/
/pləˈsɛnʃəs/
Forms: form: more placentious
form: most placentious
Etymology: From Latin placentius, from placeō (“to please”).
Senses: examples: text: a placentious person
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: pleasing or pleasant
inconcinne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconcinne
form: most inconcinne
Etymology: See inconcinnous.
Senses: examples: text: You see by what small strings the applications of these four Beasts are tied to these four Visions hitherto, to omit what is very inconcinne, the breaking the order they were first named in, ( chap.4. ver. 7.) the first a Lion, the second an Oxe, the third a Nab, the fourth an Eagle.
ref: 1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the grand Mystery of Godliness, page 183:
text: He could invent a fictional restaurant for you to bite your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic.
ref: 2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages:
text: Xuthus' exit has sharpness and rhetorical wit, with the inconcinne construction making the second line a drastic, even sarcastic aprosdoketon.
ref: 2018, Gunther Martin, Euripides, "Ion": Edition and Commentary, page 309:
glosses: dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable
pitfalling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: able to shew us the ways of the Lord straight and faithful as they are, not full of cranks and contradictions, and pitfalling dispenses
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
text: But always with my future as Nicholas's illustration of moral pitfalling possibilities.
ref: 2013, Julian Mitchell, Imaginary Toys:
text: If one is looking for evidence of last-days decadence in New York during the pitfalling 1970s—which had an entirely different feel from the money-first decadence of the 1980s, except that obth involved turckloads of cocaine—you wouldn't have to look much further than Studio 54.
ref: 2017, Chris Barsanti, The Handy New York City Answer Book:
glosses: entrapping; ensnaring
pitfalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Here is all the evidence of which we are at present cognizant; but is it not almost enough to start a party for New Zealand in the hope of trapping, toiling, or pitfalling, —anything but shooting, —the biggest bird in the world, and bringing it alive to England, as the crown of the Knowsley and the Regent's Park menageries?
ref: 1851, Edmund Saul Dixon, The Dovecote and the Aviary, page 369:
text: Hunting, poisoning, trapping, pitfalling and other types of extermination campaigns are carried out and are sometimes organized by local authorities.
ref: 2013, C.A. Tisdell, Wild Pigs: Environmental Pest or Economic Resource?, page 20:
text: When pitfalling in dry areas, birds and other animals soon learn where to get a drink.
ref: 2023, George C. McGavin, Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou, Essential Entomology, page 287:
glosses: The practice of setting up and using pitfalls to capture animals.
examples: text: Now, falling in love is one thing, but pitfalling is another. A man dislikes the thought of being trapped into a marriage.
ref: 1865, Coelbs Solon Smith, “A Case of Real Distress”, in Punch, volume 49, page 239:
text: It may take some trying and pitfalling, but the end result will be a lot more satisfying than George Babbitt's uniform.
ref: 1961, Men's Wear - Volume 143, page 2:
text: Pitfalling can be by commission, when grouping members do something that gets them into trouble. Pitfalling can be by omission, when grouping members fail to anticipate and avoid, or to address and work through, a problem.
ref: 2005, John O. Burtis, Paul D. Turman, Group Communication Pitfalls, page 65:
text: To exemplify such constraints and appropriately conclude the chapter, our last example will be an actual case of pitfalling (a recent one of ours!) .
ref: 2013, M.A. Ali, Environmental Physiology of Fishes, page 673:
glosses: The process or act of succumbing to an unexpected hazard or pitfall.
mendment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of amendment.
Ordovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ordovian
form: most Ordovian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ordovician.
Ordovian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ordovician.
anthorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνθορισμός (anthorismós) from ἀνθορίζω (anthorízō, “make a counterdefinition”) from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
Senses: glosses: A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the opposing party.
Synonyms: counterdefinition
mercat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercats
Etymology: From Latin mercātus. See market.
Senses: examples: December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall
With irresistible majesty and authority our Saviour removed the exchange, and drove the mercat out of the temple.
glosses: Market; trade.
mercat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercats
Etymology: From Middle Dutch meercatte.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of meerkat.
mercat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercats
Etymology: From mer- + cat.
Senses: examples: text: You can also open this project up to encompass other mercreatures, such as merdogs, mercats, or merdeer.
ref: 1992, Aurelia Gomez, “Papier-mâché Mermaids”, in Crafts of Many Cultures: 30 Authentic Craft Projects from Around the World, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 22:
text: Madeline lived in a conch shell with her merdog called Byron and her mercat called Bella.
ref: 1995, Anna Fienberg, “The Mermaid with Wild Yellow Hair”, in Madeline the Mermaid, Allen & Unwin, published 2010, →ISBN, page 1:
text: ‘To be honest, being a mercat – even a royal one – isn’t my thing. Cat and fish don’t mix. I keep wanting to eat my own fish tail. It’s very tiresome!’
ref: 2012, Richard Dungworth, “Mercats and Hairbrushes”, in Mrs Greene, Mermaid Queen, Ladybird Books, →ISBN:
text: ‘The mercats like the mulch!’ one of the little mermaids said, as the whole lot of them wriggled out of the seaweed basket and dived into the stuff.
ref: 2018, Sibéal Pounder, “Hilma on the Chomp”, in Bad Mermaids: On the Rocks, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:
glosses: A mermaid cat.
lorette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lorettes
Etymology: From French lorette.
Senses: examples: text: Wife or mistress, lorette or lady, there is but one fate for us!
ref: 1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XVIII The Disclosure”, in Queen's Folly:
glosses: A woman of low morals, especially associated with the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette district of Paris.
lorettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lorette
blacktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækˌteɪl/
Forms: form: blacktails
Etymology: Compound of black + tail.
Senses: examples: text: […] the blacke taile Perch [which ſome take for a Ruffe, others for a ſea Breame:]
ref: 1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, London: A. Islip, published 1634, page 452:
text: Melarunus, the Black-tail, a kind of Perch of Ruff, a Fiſh; it alſo taken for a Sea-bream: […]
ref: 1706, Edward Phillips, compiler, J[ohn] K[ersey the younger], “Melarunus”, in The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary. […], 6th edition, London: […] J. Phillips, […]; N. Rhodes, […]; and J. Taylor, […], →OCLC:
text: A perch-like fish of European waters, the blacktail, striped or stone perch, is also known as a ruff or ruffe.
ref: 1912, Harry Thurston Peck, The Standard Illustrated Book of Facts, New York, N.Y.: Syndicate Publishing Company, page 764:
glosses: A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua)
glosses: A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon.
glosses: A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains.
glosses: Certain fish with black tails:
Salmo trutta
glosses: Certain fish with black tails:
Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus
glosses: Certain fish with black tails:
Haemulon carbonarium
Derived terms: taxonomic: Saurenchelys fierasfer
word: blacktail buckbill eel
taxonomic: Chaetodon austriacus
word: blacktail butterflyfish
taxonomic: Serranus atricauda
word: blacktail comber
taxonomic: Dascyllus melanurus
word: blacktail humbug
alt: Hoplunnis diomediana
word: blacktail pike-conger
taxonomic: Moxostoma poecilurum
word: blacktail redhorse
taxonomic: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos
word: blacktail reef shark
taxonomic: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos
word: blacktail shark
taxonomic: Cyprinella venusta
word: blacktail shiner
taxonomic: Lutjanus fulvus
word: blacktail snapper
taxonomic: Enneapterygius spp. etc
word: blacktail triplefin
blacktails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blacktail
kaleidophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaleidophone
tonophant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonophants
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “a tone”) + -φάντης (-phántēs), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to show”). Compare hierophant.
Senses: glosses: A modification of the kaleidophone, for showing the composition of acoustic vibrations. It consists of two thin slips of steel welded together, their length being adjustable by a screw socket.
cledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Etymology: Compare clay.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The upper layer of fuller's earth.
Derived terms: cledgy
tubulipore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubulipores
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of numerous species of Bryozoa belonging to Tubulipora and allied genera, with tubular calcareous calicles.
tubulipores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubulipore