cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
platness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plat + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Like Socrates, who took a mischievous delight in shocking squeamish people by the homeliness of his illustrations, and the platness of his diction, Jesus indulged over and over again in popular imagery and language of the plainest sort.
ref: 1912 March, Elijah GreenLeaf, “What Jesus though of Revolt”, in The Westminster Review, volume 177, number 3, page 332:
text: The bottom of the valley between Cueva de Pérez and la Mejicana […] is much broader and flatter than the bottom of the same valley […] (Fig 5. and Fig 6.)
Fig. 5. [caption] Quebrada de la Mejicana. (Valley between Cueva de Pérez and the Mines.) Obs. the slide rock and the platness and broadness of the valley's bottom.
ref: 1921, José M. Sabral, “Some Physiographic Notes on the Sierra de Famatina”, in Geografiska Annaler, volume 3, pages 322–323:
text: The surface […] sticks out […] as a latosol covered Mesa surface. Its platness must have sharply contrasting^([sic]) with the already rounded inselbergs of the preceding Tertiary landscape which are usually covered with Hughe boulders.
ref: 1984, R. Paepe, “Landscape changes in Greece as a result of changing climate during the Quaternary”, in Desertification in Europe: Proceedings of the Information Symposium in the EEC Programme on Climatology, Held in Mytilene, Greece, 15–18 April 1984, page 52:
glosses: Flatness.
versability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From versable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Now the use of the Auxiliaries is, at once to set the soul a going by herself upon the materials as they are brought to her, and by the versability of this great engine, round which they are twisted, to open new tracks of enquiry, and make every idea engender millions.
ref: 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
glosses: The quality or state of being versable.
turnability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From turn + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being turnable.
ethylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethyl + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: ethylic alcohol
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, derived from, or containing ethyl.
Derived terms: alt: =acetic acid
word: ethylc acid
english: =ethanol
translation: =ethanol
word: ethylc alcohol
ferriprussic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ferri- + prussic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ferricyanic
multigenerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multigenerous
form: most multigenerous
Etymology: From Latin multigenerus, from multus + genus.
Senses: synonyms: multifarious
multigenre
glosses: Having many kinds.
bemangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemangles
form: bemangling
form: bemangled
form: bemangled
Etymology: From be- + mangle.
Senses: examples: text: To his bemangled shape of horror
ref: 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “(please specify the canto number)”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To mangle; to tear asunder.
bemangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bemangle
asternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Etymology: From a- + sternal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Not sternal; that do not join the sternum.
raw_tags: of ribs
heptaglot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptaglots
Etymology: From hepta- + -glot.
Senses: glosses: A book in seven languages.
glosses: A person who speaks seven languages.
heptaglots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptaglot
waldgrave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waldgraves
Etymology: From German Waldgraf. See wald and margrave.
Senses: glosses: The head forestkeeper, or nobleman who held some power in forested areas, in the Holy Roman Empire, now Germany.
waldgraves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waldgrave
forestkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestkeepers
Etymology: From forest + keeper.
Senses: glosses: One appointed to look after a forest.
forestkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestkeeper
floscularian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floscularians
Etymology: From Latin flosculus (“a floweret”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the rotifers of the genus Floscularia.
floscularians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floscularian
resplit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: resplits
form: resplitting
form: resplit
form: resplit
Etymology: From re- + split.
Senses: glosses: To split again.
resplits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resplit
resplitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resplit
scalenohedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.
wisard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wisards
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of wizard.
wisards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wisard
invertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of invertebrate.
calamistrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calamistrates
form: calamistrating
form: calamistrated
form: calamistrated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin calamistrātus, perfect passive participle of calamistrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Which belike makes our Venetian ladies at this day to counterfeit yellow hair so much, great women to calamistrate and curl it up […], to adorn their heads with spangles, pearls, and made flowers […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 2, subsection ii:
glosses: To curl (the hair).
lighty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lighties
form: lightie
Senses: glosses: A young man; a boy.
lighty
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: That heart, she said, is lighty priz'd, / Which is too lighty won; / And long shall rue that easy maid / Who yields her love too soon.
ref: 1784, Thomas Percy, “The Hermit of Warkworth, a Northumberland Ballad”, in Thomas Evans, Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date, volume 3, page 23:
glosses: Alternative form of lightly; however, more often a misspelling of lightly.
redeemability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From redeem + -ability or redeemable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Its redeemability converts the redemptors into rent-chargers, and, according to an official report quoted in Mr. Dowell’s “History of Taxation in England,” ever since Pitt’s rearrangement the unredeemed amounts have been regarded as a fixed charge on properties, subject to which they have been bought and sold many times over.
ref: 1896 July 18, The Speaker: A Review of Politics, Letters, Science, and the Arts, volume XIV, London: […], page 53, column 2:
glosses: The quality of being redeemable.
Synonyms: redeemableness
hunkerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hunker + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The state of being a hunker; excessive conservatism or hostility to progress.
belswagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛlswæɡɚ/
Forms: form: belswaggers
Etymology: Contraction of bellyswagger.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed you are a charitable Belſwagger:[…]
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act V, page 78:
text: 1905, Bernard Capes, "Chapter 6", in A Jay of Italy (historical fiction)
glosses: A slob, obscene person, or a bully.
belswaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belswagger
scalenohedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalenohedrons
form: scalenohedra
Etymology: From scalene + -o- + -hedron.
Senses: examples: text: Though the hexagonal scalenohedron is derived from the double twelve-faced pyramid, by the development of half its faces, and might be constructed from that figure, it is more readily obtained from the positive or negative rhomboid which may be supposed to be inscribed in the scalenohedron.
ref: 1859, James Tennant, Walter Mitchell, Mineralogy and Crystallography: Being a Classification of Crystals According to Their Form, page 408:
text: By bringing together the rhombohedron and the scalenohedron, as has been done in Fig. 119, it will be noticed that the lateral edges of the two forms have a similar position towards the axes, so that for every scalenohedron there must be a rhombohedron whose lateral edges coincide with the lateral edges of the other form. This rhombohedron is called the inscribed rhombohedron of the scalenohedron.
ref: 1866, Josiah Parsons Cooke, Elements of Chemical Physics, page 154:
text: 1907, Benjamin K. Emerson, Joseph H. Perry, The Green Schists and Associated Granites and Porphyries of Rhode Island, US Geological Survey, Bulletin Number 311, page 24,
Other steep scalenohedrons of the principal zone are also often present, sometimes in addition to y, sometimes taking its place.
text: Calcite crystals show a great variety of habits — acute and obtuse rhombohedra and scalenohedra, prisms, and thin tabular forms.
ref: 1940, John W. Evans, George MacDonald Davies, Elementary Crystallography, page 111:
topics: chemistry
crystallography
geography
geology
geometry
mathematics
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron having twelve sides, each in the form of a scalene triangle, that is topologically equivalent to a hexagonal bipyramid and whose middle section can be said to inscribe a rhombohedron.
Related terms: scalenohedral
star bipyramid
scalenohedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalenohedron
scalenohedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalenohedron
impenitencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impenitency
impenitency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impenitencies
Etymology: From impenitent.
Senses: examples: text: Let us therfore, […] amend our Lives vvith all ſpeed; leſt through impenitency vve run into that Stupidity, vvhich vve novv ſeek all means ſo vvarily to avoid, […]
ref: 1673, John Milton, Of True Religion, Heresie, Schism, Toleration, and What Best Means may be Us’d against the Growth of Popery. […]; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 812:
glosses: Archaic form of impenitence.
mediatorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediatorships
Etymology: From mediator + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or character of a mediator.
glosses: mediation
mediatorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediatorship
billons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billon
constrainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more constrainable
form: most constrainable
Etymology: From constrain + -able.
Senses: examples: text: by mere force of their agreement taken place as a law, making all men constrainable to be obedient thereunto
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Capable of being constrained.
Derived terms: unconstrainable
subtangent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtangents
Etymology: From sub- + tangent.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.
subtangents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtangent
censae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of census
undecylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From undecyl + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Related to, derived from, or containing undecyl.
Related terms: undecylic acid
slingshot effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slingshot effects
Senses: glosses: The use of the relative movement and gravity of a planet or other celestial body to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft.
logcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logcocks
Senses: glosses: The pileated woodpecker.
logcocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logcock
engiscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engiscopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐγγύς (engús, “near”) + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A kind of reflecting microscope, invented around 1830.
engiscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engiscope
hepatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of hepatic
overhardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overhardy
form: most overhardy
Etymology: From over- + hardy.
Senses: glosses: Too hardy.
corrodibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrodibilities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being corrodible.
tentaculiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more tentaculiferous
form: most tentaculiferous
Etymology: From tentacle + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: tentaculiferous arm
text: tentaculiferous disc
text: tentaculiferous cephalopod
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Producing or bearing tentacles.
fumarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin fumus (“smoke, fume”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid extracted from fumitory.
rotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin rotālis (“wheeled, turning”), from rota (“wheel”) + -ālis (“-al”, forming adjectives). In reference to motion, under the influence of earlier rotary.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to wheels.
glosses: Alternative form of rotary: of or relating to circular motion.
Derived terms: equirotal
rotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian and Latin Rota (“an ecclesiastical appellate court in the Catholic Church”) + -al (“forming adjectives”), under the influence of Latin rotālis.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: Of or relating to the Rota.
rotal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotals
Etymology: From Arabic رُطْل (ruṭl), variant of classical رِطْل (riṭl), ultimately from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra).
Senses: topics: units-of-measure
glosses: Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight variously equal to 1–5 lbs. (.5–2.5 kg.).
ericinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless oil (quickly becoming brown) with a pleasant odour, obtained by the decomposition of ericolin.
fraughtage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɔːtɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: From fraught + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Our fraughtage, sir, I have convey'd aboard; and I have bought the oil, the balsamum and aqua-vitae.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: c. 1610-1614, William Rowley (attributed), A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed
our ships are so near return, as laden on the Downs with such a wealthy fraughtage.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: freight; cargo
aphorismer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphorismers
Etymology: From aphorism + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And for the discipline propounded, seeing that it hath been inevitably proved, that the natural and fundamental causes of political happiness in all governments are the same, and that this church-discipline is taught in the word of God, and, as we see, agrees according to wish with all such states as have received it ; we may infallibly assure ourselves that it will as well agree with monarchy, though all the tribe of Aphorismers and Politicasters would persuade us there be secret and mysterious reasons against it.
ref: 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation of Church-Discipline in England:
text: Another famous aphorismer is Prince Bismarck. But the sayings of the Prince are not as a rule so terse as those of many of his illustrious equals.
ref: 1881 December 3, “European Intrigues”, in Essex Standard, volume 51, number 2660, Colchester, England, page 4:
text: As a philosopher and epigrammer and aphorismer he [Benjamin Franklin] was in a class by himself.
ref: 1912 [1903], Simeon Ford, A Few Remarks, 4th edition, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 353:
text: If they would call themselves aphorismers— as they are lovers of sophistry; those who practice sophistry; they are but lovers of fallacious arguments or false reasoning.
ref: 1909, May Barnard Wiltse, Theorem Or Teleology of Spiritualism, New Rockford, ND: Eddy County Provost, page 65:
text: An aphorismer who called himself after Kapila, the Sankhya’s reputed founder, sought to revive it [the classical Sankhya] around the fourteenth century.
ref: 1976, José Pereira, editor, Hindu theology: a reader, Garden City, NY: Image Books, page 54:
glosses: A dealer in aphorisms.
aphorismers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphorismer
towy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊ.i/
ipa: /toʊ.i/
homophone: toey
Forms: form: more towy
form: most towy
Etymology: From tow + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a towy mass
glosses: Composed of, or resembling, tow (the fabric).
disrealize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disrealizes
form: disrealizing
form: disrealized
form: disrealized
form: disrealise
Etymology: From dis- + realize.
Senses: examples: text: And yet haue they not alwaies plentie or aboundaunce of these readye at hand neyther, or in ease they haue, yet is it marred and disrealised with muche galle of griefes and sorowes.
ref: 1548, Erasmus, “The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Ghospell of S. Luke, Chapter XV”, in Nicholas Udall, transl., The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente:
text: By that disrealizing and subliming touch of genius which made the ragged beggar who sat to Michael Angelo rise from beneath his chisel “transformed into the Patriarch of Poverty,” the great novelist leads us into the realm where his ideal creations float in immortal freedom, and sets us free to rove and rest with them.
ref: 1870, William Rounseville Alger, The Sword, the Pen, and the Pulpit, page 30:
text: The rules as I take it, if rules can be spoken of in such a matter, are two only. The first is, “Disrealise everything, and never forget that whatever art is, it is not nature.” The second is the same as that just given, “Try all things if you like: but if you try the exceptional, the abnormal the unconventional, remember that you try it at your own peril, and you must either make a great success or an intolerable and inexcusable failure.
ref: 1892, George Saintsbury, Miscellaneous Essays, page 409:
text: But the snow threw over everything an unfamiliar guise; the reflected light, striking gently yet brilliantly up from below, had a disrealising quality, produced a subtle architectural confusion, such as the process of floodlighting coarsely travesties.
ref: 2012, J.I.M. Stewart, The Guardians, page 149:
glosses: To strip of its reality.
disrealized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disrealize
disrealizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disrealize
disrealizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disrealize
regaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regalers
Etymology: From regale + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Another book Kalpadrukosh mentions hornbills as "priyatmaj" meaning nourisher and regaler of his mate.
ref: 2020, Raju Kasambe, Indian Grey Hornbill: Unravelling the Secrets, page 92:
glosses: One who regales.
regalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regaler
idiopathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of idiopathic.
Derived terms: idiopathetically
predeclare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: predeclares
form: predeclaring
form: predeclared
form: predeclared
Etymology: From pre- + declare.
Senses: examples: text: their indefeasible power of predeclaring the eternal destiny of every living layman
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: To declare or announce beforehand.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: forward-declare
glosses: To declare some source code element (such as a class) in advance of its full description, so that other preceding parts of the code can refer to it.
predeclared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of predeclare
predeclares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predeclare
predeclaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of predeclare
racemulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more racemulose
form: most racemulose
Etymology: From racemule + -ose.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing in very small racemes.
whiskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiskins
Senses: glosses: A shallow drinking bowl.
whiskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiskin
herbid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herbid
form: most herbid
Etymology: Latin herbidus.
Senses: examples: text: The Roseous Plantain is so called, because it beares an herbid and patulous umbell compacted of many leafes
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory:
glosses: Covered with herbs.
herbwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herbwomen
Etymology: From herb + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who sells herbs.
herbwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbwoman
nomadian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomadians
Etymology: From nomad + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A nomad.
nomadians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomadian
wennel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wennels
Senses: examples: text: 16thC, Thomas Tusser, May′s Husbandry, A Book of Huswifery, in 1812, William Mavor (editor), Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry together with A Book of Huswifery, page 156,
Pinch never thy wennels of water and meat⁴, / If ever ye hope to have them good neat.
text: To Agnes Fullam my daughter-in-law 1 calf or wennel to be weaned and brought up at Easter next come 12 months until it be profitable and then to have it to her own use.
ref: 1983, Frederick George Emmison, Elizabethan Wills of South-West Essex, page 24:
text: His white-locked head shaking from side to side, the man was moaning: “They ploughed up the common and me wennel Bu′′ercup died. An so me chile died and then me ′ooman died. They all on ′em died cos they ploughed up the common... ”
ref: 2010, J. A. Noble, The Lime Walk: A Story of Norfolk Family Life in the Regency Era, page 147:
glosses: Obsolete form of weanel.
wennels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wennel
ratepaying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rate + paying.
Senses: glosses: Paying rates or taxes.
morindin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morinda + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow dyestuff extracted from the rootbark of plants of the genus Morinda.
gemmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmi
Forms: form: gemmier
form: gemmiest
Etymology: From gem + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The gemmy bridle glittered free, / Like to some branch of stars we see / Hung in the golden galaxy.
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, part the third, page 13:
glosses: Full of, or covered in, gems.
examples: text: His mildly vivid dewy beam
Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam
With elf-light tiniest figures lit
Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit
Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip
In circle.
ref: 1863, Roden Noel, Behind the Veil: And Other Poems, London: Macmillan and Co., page 149:
glosses: Bright and glittering, as though studded with gems.
Derived terms: gemmily
gemmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmi
Forms: form: gemmier
form: gemmiest
Senses: glosses: Spruce; smart; jemmy.
Derived terms: gemminess
uvate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin uva (“grape”) + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: Aguascalientes also produces a fine grape preserve, commonly known as uvate.
ref: 1892, Hubert Howe Bancroft, Resources and Development of Mexico, page 233:
glosses: A conserve made of grapes.
examples: text: He, however, found that reaction takes place between silver uvate and ethyl iodide in the cold, but he used ethyl iodide diluted with alcohol, which alcohol probably contained enough water to re-produce uvic acid.
ref: 1878, George H. U. Harrow, “On Pyrotritartaric and Carbopyrotritartaric Acids, Produts of teh Action of Dilute Sulphuric Acid on Diacetosuccinic Ether”, in Journal of the Chemical Society, volume 33, page 431:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of uvic acid.
repacified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repacify
repacifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repacify
repacify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repacifies
form: repacifying
form: repacified
form: repacified
Etymology: From re- + pacify, q.v. Cognate with repay.
Senses: glosses: To pacify again, to make peaceful a second time.
glosses: To pacify, to make peaceful once again.
repacifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repacify
weevily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weevily
form: most weevily
form: weevilly
Etymology: From weevil + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 1813, The Literary Panorama, Volume 13, “State of Trade,” Lloyd’s Coffee House, June 21, p. 1037,
A considerable portion of the rice now on hand is of inferior quality, and weevily; it gives distaste in families, and few domestics make sufficiently good use of their eyes to pick it carefully.
text: O, I’ll have none of your weevily wheat,
And I’ll have none of your barley,
O, I’ll have none of your weevily wheat
To bake a cake for Charlie.
ref: 1893, Albert Paine, “Weevily Wheat”, in Rhymes by Two Friends, Fort Scott, Kansas, page 112:
text: […] Hornblower remembered the stuffy dark midshipman’s berth, the smells and the creakings, the bitter cold nights, turning out in response to the call for all hands, the weevilly bread and the wooden beef, and he yearned for them all, with the sick feeling of hopeless longing.
ref: 1950, C. S. Forester, “The Penalty of Failure”, in Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, London: Michael Joseph:
text: Hind had made his fortune provisioning railway construction gangs and lakeboat crews with the very cheapest of weevily foodstuffs.
ref: 2011, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 9, in A Good Man,, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, page 139:
glosses: Infested with or containing weevils.
vavasories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vavasory
vavasory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vavasories
Etymology: French vavassorie.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasour.
topics: law
glosses: The lands held by a vavasour.
Synonyms: subvassalage
pneumatograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumatographs
Etymology: From pneumato- + -graph.
Senses: synonyms: stethograph
pneumograph
glosses: An instrument for recording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration.
Derived terms: pneumatographic
pneumatographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumatograph
impairer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impairers
Etymology: From impair + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone that impairs.
impairers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impairer
inconsequentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inconsequent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: inconsequence
republicanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: republicanizes
form: republicanizing
form: republicanized
form: republicanized
Etymology: From republican + -ize. Compare French républicaniser.
Senses: examples: text: France was republicanized.
text: June 14, 1807, Thomas Jefferson, "Letter to John Norvell"
He has taken the text of Hume as his ground work, abridging it by the omission of some details of little interest, and wherever he has found him endeavoring to mislead, by either the suppression of a truth or by giving it a false coloring, he has changed the text to what it should be, so that we may properly call it Hume’s history republicanised.
text: To republicanize the rising generation, the convention of the people of South-Carolina made it the duty of the constituted authorities to do away this accompaniment of royalty as far as was compatible with liberty.
ref: 1809, David Ramsay, The History of South-Carolina:
glosses: To convert (a state etc.) to republican principles.
Related terms: republicanization
republicanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of republicanize
republicanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of republicanize
republicanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of republicanize
indissipable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdɪsɪpəbəl/
Forms: form: more indissipable
form: most indissipable
Etymology: From in- + dissipable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being dissipated.
interbrachial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + brachial.
Senses: examples: text: interbrachial arcs
text: interbrachial septa
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Between the arms.
thrusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrushers
Senses: glosses: The song thrush.
thrushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrusher
Valsalvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Valsalva + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666–1723), Italian anatomist.
Related terms: Valsalva device
Valsalva maneuver
Valsalva manoeuvre
Valsalvian experiment
double first
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double firsts
Senses: glosses: A first-class degree in both classics and mathematics.
examples: text: Chess-playing requires complete abstraction, and Nigel, though he was a double-first, occasionally lost a game from a lapse in that condensed attention that secures triumph
ref: 1880, [Benjamin Disraeli], Endymion […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: One who achieves such a degree.
double firsts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double first
wing-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: winghanded
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: hand-winged
glosses: Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as in the bats, flying foxes or pterodactyls.
exsiccation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exsiccations
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin exsiccatio, exsiccationis, from Latin exsicco: compare French exsiccation.
Senses: examples: text: That which is concreted by exsiccation or expression of humidity, will be resolved by humectification, as earth, dirt and clay.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edward Dod OCLC 216753971
text: This property is […] more specific than that of hardening in the air; which may be reckoned a kind of exsiccation, like the drying of clay into bricks.
ref: 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology, section XIX:
glosses: The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
Related terms: exsiccate
desiccation
exsiccations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exsiccation
lienal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.ən.əl/
/laɪˈin.əl/
Etymology: From lien + -al or its etymon, Latin lien (“the spleen”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the spleen.
Synonyms: splenic
Derived terms: gastrolienal
phrenicolienal
uncurably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncurably
form: most uncurably
Etymology: From uncurable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: uncurably ill
glosses: In an uncurable manner; in a way that cannot be cured.
ophelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ophelia + -ic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to felworts, of a former plant genus, Ophelia (now included in Swertia), of the gentian family.
Derived terms: ophelic acid
incorporally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incorporally
form: most incorporally
Etymology: From incorporal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of incorporeally.
obversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obversions
Etymology: Latin obversio (“a turning towards”).
Senses: glosses: The act of turning toward or downward.
examples: text: All men are mortal, so, by obversion, no men are immortal.
text: From 'warmth is agreeable' we can affirm, by formal obversion, 'warmth is not disagreeable, and not indifferent.' We cannot affirm, without an examination of the subject matter, 'cold is disagreeable.'
ref: 1870, Alexander Bain, Logic: Induction:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An immediate inference that denies the opposite of something previously affirmed.
obversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obversion
ethine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ethyne.
Derived terms: ethinyl
habitance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habitances
Etymology: Old French habitance.
Senses: examples: text: What art thou , man , ( if man at all thou art , )
That here in desert hast thine habitance
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Hardly had the peahen done speaking, when the antelope came up to them, thinking to shelter under the shade of the tree, and seeing the two birds, saluted them and said, ‘I came to this island to-day, and I have seen none richer in herbage nor more pleasant of habitance.’ Then he besought them of company and amity, and they, seeing his friendly behaviour to them, welcomed him and gladly accepted his offer.
ref: 1882-1884, John Payne, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Story of the Birds and Beasts and the Son of Adam:
glosses: dwelling; abode; residence
habitances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habitance
huisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huishers
Senses: examples: text: Was ever such a full-mart for an huisher
ref: 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Obsolete form of usher.
huisher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: huishers
form: huishering
form: huishered
form: huishered
Senses: examples: text: Hee brought-in likevvise the ancient cuſtome againe, that in vvhat moneth hee had not the Knitches of rods vvith Axes borne before him, a publique Officer called Accensvs ſhould huiſher him before, and the Serjeants or Lictours follovv after behinde.
ref: 1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Caius Iulius Cesar Dictator”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 20, page 8:
glosses: Obsolete form of usher.
huishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huisher
pulpitish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulpitish
form: most pulpitish
Etymology: From pulpit + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: We say nothing of the pulpitish and dogmatic tone which seems never so far to forget itself as to drop down into the easy accents of friend talking with friend.
ref: 1861, The Christian Review Volume 26:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching.
astrachan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrachans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of astrakhan.
astrachans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrachan
flavaniline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin flavus yellow + English aniline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A synthetic yellow dyestuff, C₁₆H₁₄N₂, a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline.
komenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comenic acid
Etymology: Probably German Mekonin (by transposition of letters) + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid derived from meconic acid.
comenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of komenic acid.
ovisac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovisacs
Etymology: From ovum and sac.
Senses: glosses: A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova.
glosses: The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.
ovisacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovisac
unpossibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unpossibility
unpossibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unpossibilities
Etymology: From un- + possibility.
Senses: examples: text: ‘It would be a matter of utter unpossibility,’ replied Legs, […] ‘to stow away in my hold even one-fourth part of that same liquor which your majesty has just mentioned.’
ref: 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest:
glosses: Impossibility.
castlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæslət/
/ˈkɑːslət/
Forms: form: castlets
form: castelet
form: castellet
form: castlelet
Etymology: From Middle English castelet, from Old French castelet, northern form of chastelet. Equivalent to castle + -et. Compare French châtelet, Italian castelletto.
Senses: examples: text: And an halfe Mile lower it leaveth Fulbroke Parke and Castlet on the right
ref: a. 1559, John Leland, Itineraries:
glosses: A small castle.
castlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castlet
misadjustment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misadjustments
Etymology: From mis- + adjustment.
Senses: glosses: Wrong or unsuitable adjustment.
Related terms: misadjust
misadjustments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misadjustment
glucinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From glucinum + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: glucinic oxide
text: glucinic salts
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, derived from, or containing beryllium.
uva ursi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin uva (“grape”) + ursus (“bear”).
Senses: glosses: The bearberry.
digitizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digitization
monstruous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒnstɹʊəs/
Forms: form: more monstruous
form: most monstruous
Etymology: From Middle English monstruous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin mōnstruōsus.
Senses: examples: text: For he was sterne and terrible by nature, […] And rather like a Gyant monstruous […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Monstrous.
Derived terms: monstruousness
ginnee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginnees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of jinni.
ginnees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ginnee
sponsorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From sponsor + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: sponsorial relation
text: sponsorial service
glosses: Pertaining to a sponsor.
Derived terms: sponsorially
spumescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See spumescent.
Senses: glosses: foaminess or frothiness.
Derived terms: spumescent
fossilification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fossil + -ification.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fossilization (“process of becoming a fossil”).
synonyms: word: fossilization
extra: process of becoming a fossil
deteriority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin deterior (“worse”). See deteriorate.
Senses: examples: text: And what account can vve give of their holding out for ſome Generations againſt the inconveniencies of the Air, or deteriority of Diet, but the ſtrength and firmneſs of their Conſtitutions?
ref: 1692, John Ray, “The First Question Concerning the World’s Dissolution, Whether there be Any Thing in Nature that may Probably Cause or Argue a Future Dissolution? Three Probable Means Propounded and Discussed.”, in Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC, section I (The Waters Again Naturally Overflowing and Covering the Earth), page 43:
glosses: A worse quality or state; inferiority.
sautrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sautries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of psaltery.
sautries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sautrie
ameliorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ameliorable
form: most ameliorable
Senses: examples: text: ameliorable event
text: ameliorable outcome
text: ameliorable consequences
synonyms: improvable
glosses: Capable of being ameliorated, or improved.
notidanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notidanians
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of various sharks of the obsolete family Notidanidae, at present corresponding to the Hexanchidae.
Synonyms: cow shark
notidanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notidanian
neologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more neologically
form: most neologically
Etymology: From neological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a neological manner.
defectionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛkʃənɪst/
Forms: form: defectionists
Etymology: From defection + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someon who advocates or encourages defection.
defectionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defectionist
fusted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fusted
form: most fusted
Etymology: From fust + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Of fusted hoppes, now lost for lacke of sayle, / Or mo'ld browne-paper that could nought availe.
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: mouldy; having a bad smell
Related terms: fusty
begrease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begreases
form: begreasing
form: begreased
form: begreased
Etymology: From be- + grease.
Senses: synonyms: grease up
glosses: To dirty or smear with grease or other oily matter.
begreased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of begrease
begreases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begrease
begreasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of begrease
globiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more globiferous
form: most globiferous
Etymology: From globe + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: globiferous organ
text: globiferous pedicellariae
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a round or globular tip.
knab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /næb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: knabs
form: knabbing
form: knabbed
form: knabbed
Etymology: See nab, and compare knap.
Senses: glosses: To nab or steal.
examples: text: a Mouthful of Fresh Grats to Knab upon
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To seize with the teeth; to gnaw.
knab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: knabs
Etymology: See nab, knob (in the sense of a rounded hill).
Senses: glosses: A hill.
glosses: a promontory or headland
knabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knab
knabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knab
knabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knab
knaidlach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knaidel
staminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstæmɪnəl/
/ˈstæmənəl/
Etymology: stamen + -al. Compare French staminal.
Senses: examples: text: staminal tube
text: staminal column
text: Chinese hibiscus, five large red petals like arms and legs and a head; a long staminal column.
ref: 2024, Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall, Solaris (2025), page 23:
glosses: Of or pertaining to stamens.
staminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstæmɪnəl/
/ˈstæmənəl/
Etymology: stamina + -(a)l.
Senses: examples: text: The supplies […] consisting chiefly of large quantities of provisions, vegetables, staminal foods, and pemmicans, will be sold […] on Monday.
ref: 1896 November 2/3, Daily News 3 (quoted in the New English Dictionary)
glosses: Pertaining to or promoting stamina or endurance.
examples: text: The absurdity […] of magnifying its accidental casual connexion with patronage, into something staminal and essential to its growth and perfection.
ref: 1798, J. Barry, Let. Dilettanti Soc., page 32:
text: I know myself to be free from these staminal defects.
ref: 1805, Southey, in Robberds' Mem. W. Taylor II, page 77
text: an exposition of his staminal ideas of this subject
ref: 1845, J. Martineau, Misc., published 1852, page 92:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the stamina or basic structure or constitution of a thing.