cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dendroclimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dendro- + climatic.
Senses: examples: text: This trend removal is similar to that used to remove nonclimatic growth-related trends in dendroclimatic records (29 ).
ref: 2000 May 12, Tammy M. Rittenour et al., “El Niño-Like Climate Teleconnections in New England During the Late Pleistocene”, in Science, volume 288, number 5468, →DOI, pages 1039–1042:
text: It is also a product of the NSF- and NOAA-sponsored Analysis of Rapid and Recent Climatic Change (ARRCC) and other non-PALE (for example, dendroclimatic) projects, and is also a result of research funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), including the Paleoecological Analysis of Circumarctic Treeline (PACT) program.
ref: 1997 November 14, J. Overpeck et al., “Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries”, in Science, volume 278, number 5341, →DOI, pages 1251–1256:
glosses: Of or relating to dendroclimatology
bioeconomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + economic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bioeconomics or a bioeconomy
bioeconomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioeconomists
Etymology: From bio- + economist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies bioeconomics.
bioeconomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioeconomist
devolatilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: devolatilizes
form: devolatilizing
form: devolatilized
form: devolatilized
Etymology: From de- + volatilize.
Senses: glosses: To remove volatile components from
examples: text: Because hydrous silicate melts devolatilize at room pressure, our study exploits the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the liquid-glass transition to measure the density of a hydrous silicate liquid at 1 bar (3 ).
ref: 1999 February 26, Frederick A. Ochs, Rebecca A. Lange, “The Density of Hydrous Magmatic Liquids”, in Science, volume 283, number 5406, →DOI, pages 1314–1317:
glosses: To lose volatile components
Derived terms: devolatilization
devolatilizer
perissad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “odd”) + -ad.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: artiad
glosses: odd; not even; said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder.
perissad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perissads
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “odd”) + -ad.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: artiad
glosses: An atom of this kind.
diachylon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪəˈkaɪlɒn/
Forms: form: diachylons
form: diachyla
form: diachylum
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διάχῡλος (diákhūlos, “juicy”).
Senses: examples: text: Externally, I find the practitioners on whom I have chiefly relied used the plasters of Paracelsus, of melilot, diachylon, and probably diaphoenicon, all well known to the old pharmacopoeias, and some of them to the modern ones,—to say nothing of "my yellow salve," of Governor John, the second, for the composition of which we must apply to his respected descendant.
ref: 1832, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist), The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants, later made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerine mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.
dicumarol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicumarols
Senses: examples: text: A derivative called dicumarol is used as an anticoagulant (blood thinner).
ref: 2001 December 7, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Furthermore, the thermophilic formation of magnetic iron oxides was prevented by the ferric reductase inhibitor p-chloromercuriphenyl sulfonate (pCMPS), the hydrogenase inhibitor quinacrine dihydrochloride, the protonophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP), and the electron transport inhibitors 2-n-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide (HOQNO) and dicumarol.
ref: 1997 August 22, Shi V. Liu et al., “Thermophilic Fe(III)-Reducing Bacteria from the Deep Subsurface: The Evolutionary Implications”, in Science, volume 277, number 5329, →DOI, pages 1106–1109:
glosses: Alternative form of dicoumarol.
hippodame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippodames
Etymology: By confusion with hippotame.
Senses: examples: text: on every syde / They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke, / That his swift charet might have passage wyde / Which foure great Hippodames did draw in temewise tyde.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Nor did less tumult swell the late defeat Of monstrous Dagon, from whom, worse deformed With hippodame and kraken, self -assumed, So spirits can, turned infantry and steed, Nor chose the ambush of his doubtful shape.
ref: 1851, William Wilberforce Lord, Christ in Hades:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A sea horse or hippocampus.
hippodames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippodame
diffusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diffusable
form: most diffusable
Etymology: From diffuse + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It is now apparent that future analyses of Delta in Notch signaling events must consider its potential as a diffusable ligand.
ref: 1999 January 1, Huilin Qi et al., “Processing of the Notch Ligand Delta by the Metalloprotease Kuzbanian”, in Science, volume 283, number 5398, →DOI, pages 91–94:
text: There are other much more effective and less depressing diffusable stimulants.
ref: 1900, Martha M. Allen, Alcohol= A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of diffusible.
detesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detester
digitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more digitated
form: most digitated
Senses: glosses: Having digits; characterized by digitation.
examples: text: In Brazil I have often admired the varied beauty of the bananas, palms, and orange-trees contrasted together; and here we also have the bread-fruit, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf.
ref: 1913, Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World:
text: The other pair of limbs terminate in something that, from the single instance I experienced, seemed to resemble soft but firm antennae or, perhaps, digitated palpi--" "Feelers!"
ref: 1904, Robert W. Chambers, In Search of the Unknown:
text: From the large digitated leaves an extract is made which has proved of service in whooping-cough, and of which from one-third to half a teaspoonful may be given for a dose.
ref: 1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure:
text: Its massive central mountain, surmounted by many peaks, occupies a considerable area on the floor, and exhibits a digitated outline at the base.
ref: 1895, Thomas Gwyn Elger, The Moon:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole.
Derived terms: undigitated
diked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dike
disenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disenters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of dissenter.
disenter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disenters
form: disenterring
form: disenterred
form: disenterred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of disinter.
disenterred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disenter
disenterring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disenter
diplomatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diplomatical
form: most diplomatical
Etymology: From French diplomatique and its etymon New Latin diplōmaticus + -al. By surface analysis, diplomat + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever the channels of diplomatical communication between the United States and France shall be opened, I shall demand satisfaction for the insult and reparation for the injury.
ref: 1801, Edited by James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents:
glosses: Dated form of diplomatic.
gibbier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French gibier.
Senses: examples: text: the Fowl and Gibier are Tax free.
ref: 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 209:
text: The bread muſt ſoon be of the fineſt wheat; poultry and gibbier must be added to beef and mutton
ref: 1787, John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States:
glosses: wildfowl; game
discordancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discordancies
Senses: examples: text: A linear regression through these 18 data sets yields an upper intercept age of 555.4 ± 1.6 Ma [mean squared weighted deviation (MSWD) = 0.10] and a lower intercept indistinguishable from 0 Ma, suggesting that normal discordancy is a function of recent Pb loss.
ref: 2000 May 5, M. W. Martin et al., “Age of Neoproterozoic Bilatarian Body and Trace Fossils, White Sea, Russia: Implications for Metazoan Evolution”, in Science, volume 288, number 5467, →DOI, pages 841–845:
glosses: discordance
Derived terms: serodiscordancy
discretional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discretional
form: most discretional
Etymology: From discretion + -al.
Senses: examples: text: That of their small force, some of the soldiers were superannuated, others invalid; therefore, since the course to be pursued was left discretional, their unanimous advice was, to remain where they were, and fortify themselves as strongly as possible.
ref: 1873, Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie, Wau-bun:
text: The Admiral, very apprehensive of her falling into the hands of the enemy, sent me with discretional orders to Captain Hood, that, should he not be able to get her off the shoal, he might put his men into the Thames, and burn the Venerable, making the signal at the same time for the Thames to close with the Venerable as soon as possible.
ref: 1838, Sir John Ross, Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I:
glosses: discretionary
Derived terms: discretionality
discretionally
podogynium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podogynia
Etymology: From podo- (“foot”) + Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + -ium (“structure”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pedicel rising from the base of a flower with the ovary at the top.
iguanodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iguanodonts
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
synonyms: iguanodon
glosses: Any member of the genus Iguanodon.
iguanodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iguanodont
dispensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dispensible
form: most dispensible
Senses: examples: text: Another striking epigenetic aspect of Xist function is that the Xist locus is dispensible for maintenance of the inactive state (25, 26 ).
ref: 2001 August 10, Yongkyu Park, Mitzi I. Kuroda, “Epigenetic Aspects of X-Chromosome Dosage Compensation”, in Science, volume 293, number 5532, →DOI, pages 1083–1085:
text: The region of IKK- containing the leucine zipper-like motif was required both for homodimerization of IKK- and for formation of heterodimers with IKK-, whereas the putative helix-loop-helix region was dispensible.
ref: 2025 October 31, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 278, number 5339, →DOI, pages 866–870:
glosses: Alternative form of dispensable.
haemoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hemoplastic
Senses: glosses: haematoplastic
panurgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panurgy
panurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panurgies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek, pan- + -urgy.
Senses: examples: text: Wisdom and Eloquence without Truth and Justice are a Panurgy, that is to say, a guile or slight, such as Parasites use in Comedies
ref: 1707, Nicholas Ling, Politeuphuia, Wits Common-Wealth:
glosses: Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft.
Related terms: panurgic
angiomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angiomatoses
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare genetic non-neoplastic condition presenting with little knots of capillaries in various organs.
Synonyms: Von Hippel-Lindau disease
Derived terms: encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis
Related terms: angiomatotic
distinguishably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distinguishably
form: most distinguishably
Etymology: From distinguishable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The two distinguishably younger samples (5013 and 8034, from the Maranhão and Cassiporé, respectively) are from the northernmost portion of the Brazilian CAMP. A similar relation is shown on the African continental margin in Guinea (4 ).
ref: 1999 April 23, Andrea Marzoli et al., “Extensive 200-Million-Year-Old Continental Flood Basalts of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province”, in Science, volume 284, number 5414, →DOI, pages 616–618:
glosses: In a distinguishable way
angiomatoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiomatosis
Von Hippel-Lindau disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of von Hippel–Lindau disease.
a-vie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more a-vie
form: most a-vie
Etymology: From a- + vie.
Senses: examples: text: Our mind doth likewise take revenge of it, they lie, they cog, and deceive one another a vie.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: In rivalry.
Schweitzerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Schweitzerian
form: most Schweitzerian
Etymology: From Schweitzer + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and missionary.
distressedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distressedly
form: most distressedly
Etymology: From distressed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Sally said distressedly: "Oh, Mike, it's all true and I'm so sorry!"
ref: 1953, Murray Leinster, Space Platform:
text: Marjorie caught it in her hand, where it lay palpitating distressedly; and thrusting her arm through a broken pane of glass, allowed the creature to escape.
ref: 1922, Edith Lavell, The Girl Scouts' Good Turn:
text: She looked distressedly at his table.
ref: 1908, Ethel Turner, In the Mist of the Mountains:
text: As she remained looking at him with bright, curious eyes, but still shaking her fair head distressedly, he moved nearer and caught her hand in the little pale lilac thread glove that was, nevertheless, too wide for her small fingers, and said appealingly: "But why should YOU forget it?
ref: 1893, Bret Harte, Sally Dows and Other Stories:
glosses: in a distressed manner
Ellulian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ellulian
form: most Ellulian
Etymology: From Ellul + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), French philosopher, sociologist, theologian, and Christian anarchist.
elliptizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elliptization
frozen custard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frozen custards
Senses: glosses: A cold dessert similar to ice cream, made with eggs in addition to cream and sugar.
frozen custards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frozen custard
sharpfin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sharp + fin.
Senses: examples: sharpfin barracuda
sharpfin chubsucker
sharpfin houndshark
sharpfin mola
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having sharp fins.
raw_tags: in the names of aquatic creatures
hyposphagma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπόσφαγμα (hupósphagma).
Senses: examples: text: Those which are sicke of the disease which phisitians call Hyposphagma, which is a suffusion of blood under the skin, imagine that all things they see are bloodie and red.
ref: , II.12
glosses: A bruise or contusion; a bloodshot eye.
glanceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glance + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […]in movements of fingers, by glanceless eyes, by voiceless opening and shutting of telegraphic lips[…]
ref: 1858, George Augustus Sala, A Journey Due North:
text: He in turn is represented as an inherently divine being, as indicated again by his glanceless mask-like face.
ref: 2006, Rupert Shepherd, Robert Maniura, Presence, page 126:
glosses: Not glancing; blind, dim, or lacking sparkle or vitality.
raw_tags: of the eyes
chubsucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chubsuckers
form: chub sucker
Etymology: From chub + sucker.
Senses: glosses: Any of various freshwater suckers of the genus Erimyzon, native to North America.
chubsuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chubsucker
bubble shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble shells
Senses: glosses: Any of the headshield slugs of genus Bulla, belonging to the order Cephalaspidea of gastropods.
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the headshield slugs of genus Bulla, belonging to the order Cephalaspidea of gastropods.
A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla (Bullidae) and certain shells of similar appearance of the now disused order Tectibranchiata of molluscs.
glosses: Any of the family Epitoniidae (syn. Janthinidae), of pelagic sea snails.
Synonyms: purple snail
violet snail
bubble shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble shell
seniorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: seniorizes
form: seniorizing
form: seniorized
form: seniorized
Etymology: From senior + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make or become senior.
examples: text: As faire he was, as Cithereas make, / As proud as he, that ſignoriſeth hell, […]
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 46, page 64:
glosses: To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it over.
seniorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of seniorize
seniorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seniorize
seniorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seniorize
cherogril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherogrils
Etymology: From Latin choerogryllus, from Ancient Greek χοιρογρύλλιος (khoirogrúllios), a compound of χοῖρος (khoîros) and γρῦλος (grûlos), both meaning “pig”. The Greek word was used in the Septuagint to render Hebrew שפן (“hyrax”).
Senses: examples: text: Cherogril which cheweth the cudde, and divideth not the hoofe, is uncleane.
ref: 1609, Douay-Rheims Bible, Leviticus 11:5
text: Ah, the Conies! Those little cherogrils, or chief-rabbits; tiny, timid, defenseless.
ref: 1947, Day, Richard Ellsworth, The Borrowed Glow, Philadelphia: Judson Press, page 226:
text: The best-known species [of Hyracoidea] are the Cape-hyrax [...] and the daman or cherogril of Syria
ref: 1951, Burton, Maurice, “Hyrax: A Natural Odd Man Out”, in The Illustrated London News, volume 218, number 5830, page 58:
glosses: A hyrax.
cherogrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherogril
ASAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of advanced synthetic aperture radar.
perula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perulae
Etymology: From Latin pērula, diminutive of pera (“wallet”), from Ancient Greek πήρα (pḗra). Compare French pérule.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the scales of a leaf bud.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pouchlike portion of the perianth in certain orchids.
perulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perula
cresorcin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of isorcin.
synonyms: word: isorcin
ophiuran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ophiuran
form: most ophiuran
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: ophiuroidean
glosses: Of or relating to the Ophiuroidea.
ophiuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophiurans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: ophiuroidean
glosses: Any member of the echinoderm class Ophiuroidea; a brittle star.
ophiurans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophiuran
oulachan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oulachans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eulachon.
oulachans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oulachan
exogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exogens
Etymology: From exo- + -gen: compare French exogène.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant characterized by wood, bark and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and growth only occurring on the outside.
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The last phase of the hair growth cycle that follows telogen, during which the hairshaft is released from the hair follicle and is shed from the body.
Derived terms: exogenic
Related terms: endogen
anagen
catagen
telogen
exogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exogen
paradisical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paradisical
form: most paradisical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paradisiacal.
medregal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medregals
Etymology: From Spanish medregal.
Senses: glosses: A bonito or greater amberjack (Seriola fasciata).
medregals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medregal
optimacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optimacy
optimacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optimacies
Etymology: Compare French optimatie. See optimate.
Senses: examples: text: mixture 'twixt Monarchy, Optimacy, and Democracy
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: government by the nobility
glosses: the nobility, collectively
glosses: a most favourable condition or state
fucktoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucktoys
form: fuck toy
form: fuck-toy
Etymology: From fuck + toy.
Senses: glosses: A person regarded as a sex object.
fucktoys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fucktoy
fuck-toy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck-toys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fucktoy.
fuck toy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck toys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fucktoy.
fuck-toys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuck-toy
fuck toys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuck toy
stercory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: excrement; dung
glosses: dunghouse
subventitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subventitious
form: most subventitious
Senses: examples: text: Monsieur Cuckoldry should never 1 be favourable nor propitious to them , -- that he should never help , aid , supply , succour , nor grant them any subventitious furtherance, auxiliary , suffrage , or adminiculary assistance
ref: 1653-1693, Thomas Urquhart, The Works of Rabelais:
glosses: helping; aiding; supporting
parietic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: parietina -ic acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid found in the lichen Parmelia parietina.
Synonyms: chrysophanic acid
buttonweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttonweeds
Etymology: From button + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially:
Any of several plants of the genera Diodia and Hexasepalum (syn. Diodella), of the madder family.
glosses: Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially:
False buttonweed (Spermacoce spp.).
glosses: Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially:
Velvetleaf, Indian mallow (Abutilon theophrasti).
glosses: Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially:
Certain knapweeds (Centaurea spp.).
glosses: Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially:
Clustered bluet (Oldenlandia uniflora).
glosses: Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially:
Dwarf mallow, common mallow (Malva neglecta).
glosses: Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially:
Water buttons (Cotula spp.).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cotula australia
word: annual buttonweed
taxonomic: Spermacoce spp.
word: false buttonweed
taxonomic: Leptinella scariosa
word: feathery buttonweed
taxonomic: Erythrymenia minuta
word: Iridescent buttonweed
taxonomic: Diodia teres
word: rough buttonweed
taxonomic: Diodia serrulata
word: seaside buttonweed
taxonomic: Diodia ocymifolia
word: slender buttonweed
taxonomic: Diodia apiculata
word: stiff buttonweed
taxonomic: Diodia sarmentosa
word: tropical buttonweed
taxonomic: Diodia virginiana
word: Virginia buttonweed
buttonweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttonweed
Mancona bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sassy bark
connumeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connumerations
Etymology: From Latin connumeratio, from Latin connumerare, connumeratum (“to number with”).
Senses: examples: text: He is arguing against a sophism which turned on the difference between connumeration and subnumeration: it was contended, that persons or things equal in dignity and homousian are connumerated […]
ref: a. 1822, Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, The Doctrine of the Greek Article:
glosses: A reckoning or counting together.
connumerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connumeration
proctodaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proctodaeum
balotade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balotades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ballotade.
balotades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balotade
overcolor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcolors
form: overcoloring
form: overcolored
form: overcolored
Etymology: From over- + color.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of overcolour.
overcolored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcolored
form: most overcolored
Senses: glosses: Rendered too colourful; with an excess of color.
glosses: exaggerated
overcolored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcolor
overcoloring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + coloring.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcolor
overcoloring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + coloring.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overcolouring.
overcolors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcolor
Bishop Barkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bishop Barker
rusine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rusine
form: most rusine
Etymology: Rusa + -ine
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of, like, or relating to, a deer of the genus Rusa.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the brow tine simple, and the beam forked at the tip.
raw_tags: of an antler
Hyacinthian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnθiən
Forms: form: more Hyacinthian
form: most Hyacinthian
Etymology: From Hyacinth + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hyacinth, a divine hero in Ancient Greek mythology.
blackroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackroots
Etymology: From black + root.
Senses: glosses: Several North American plants with black roots of:
genus Pterocaulon, such as Pterocaulon pycnostachyum (dense-spike blackroot) and Pterocaulon virgatum (wand blackroot)
glosses: Several North American plants with black roots of:
species Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver's root)
glosses: Several North American plants with black roots of:
species Aletris farinosa (colicroot)
glosses: Several plant diseases caused by fungi in the genus Aphanomyces causing that cause roots to rot and turn black.
blackroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackroot
caligraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caligraphies
Senses: examples: text: The caligraphy was, like the paper, unusual, bold, decided, and, I should have guessed, produced by a J pen.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: Archaic form of calligraphy.
Antilegomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀντιλεγόμενα (antilegómena), from ἀντι- (anti-, “against”) + λέγω (légō, “to speak”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical.
Related terms: Homologoumena
copple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpəl/
rhymes: -ɒpəl
Forms: form: copples
Etymology: From cop + -le, diminutive.
Senses: glosses: A crest on a bird's head.
Derived terms: copple-crown
coppled
copple dust
copples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copple
rheotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheotropes
form: reotrope
Etymology: From rheo- + -trope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current; synonym of commutator.
Related terms: rheostat
rheotropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rheotrope
dog-fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-foxes
form: dogfox
form: dog fox
Etymology: From Middle English dogge fox. By surface analysis, dog + fox.
Senses: examples: text: Till sung his midnight hymn the owl, / Answer'd the dog-fox with his howl, / Then waked the King—at his request, / Lord Ronald stretch'd himself to rest.
ref: 1815, Walter Scott, “Canto Third”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XXVI, page 115:
text: Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox / Gone to ground
ref: 1969, Roger Waters, “Grantchester Meadows”, in Ummagumma, performed by Pink Floyd, Lupus Music:
synonyms: tod
glosses: A male fox.
glosses: The arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus, and especially the blue fox subspecies.
glosses: Any species of the genus Vulpes.
Hypernyms: fox
Coordinate terms: sense: male fox
english: female fox
translation: female fox
word: vixen
dog-foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog-fox
superexcitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superexcitations
Etymology: From super- + excitation.
Senses: synonyms: surexcitation
hyperexcitation
glosses: Excessive, or more than normal, excitation.
superexcitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superexcitation
goramies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goramy
goramy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goramies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gourami.
longshanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longshanks
Etymology: long + shanks
Senses: glosses: A bird, the stilt.
signors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signor
signior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signiors
Senses: examples: text: […]all gave way to Mr. Thorne, who was something of a grand signior, as a country gentleman always is in a provincial city.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
glosses: Alternative form of signore.
signiors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signior
caboched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caboshed.
caligraphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caligraphy
loosefill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From loose + fill.
Senses: glosses: A kind of insulation made of light loose materials spread evenly.
Related terms: dunnage
borborygms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borborygm
cururo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cururos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coruro.
cururos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cururo
sidely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sidely
form: most sidely
Etymology: From Middle English *sideli (adjective), sideli (adverb), equivalent to side + -ly. Cognate with German seitlich (“lateral”). Compare also sideling.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] The evidence of that philosophy is found in its perennial focus on a 'this-sidely' world and an 'other-sidely' world.”
ref: 2001, Torben Riise, The Eyes of The Sphinx:
glosses: Of or relating to the side (of something); lateral.
sidely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English *sideli (adjective), sideli (adverb), equivalent to side + -ly. Cognate with German seitlich (“lateral”). Compare also sideling.
Senses: examples: text: […] satisfying her homosexuality with the keeping of a secret scrapbook of pictures of favorite male actors or athletes or by supervising the activities of young boys or visiting turkish^([sic]) baths or mens^([sic]) locker rooms, leering sidely while seeking protection behind a carefully guarded guise of virility […]
ref: 1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, New York: Grove Press:
glosses: To the side; sideways; laterally; sideling; obliquely; indirectly.
phycomater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyco- + Latin mater (“mother”).
Senses: examples: text: The cells, granules, and plasma of which they consist become developed, and propagate themselves in the areolar and vascular net-works within the canals, like the sporules, thallus, and phycomater of fungi: […]
ref: 1850, Monthly Journal of Medical Science, volume 10, page 105:
glosses: A gelatin in which the algae spores have been supposed to vegetate.
cloom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kluːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: clooms
form: clooming
form: cloomed
form: cloomed
Etymology: A variant of clam (“to clog”).
Senses: examples: text: If none of these ways will cause them to swarm, but that they lie forth ſtill, then rear the Hive enough to let them in, and cloom up the Skirts all but the Door
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
text: There also were wicker skeps or hives, and these were cloomed. This meant that they were banked with a mixture of dirt and cow manure to protect them from the weather and the cold
ref: 1965, Murray Hoyt, The World of Bees:
glosses: To close with glutinous matter.
cloomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cloom
clooming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cloom
clooms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cloom
inshipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From in- + ship + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inship
inshipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + ship + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Shipped in from outside; imported.
examples: text: And so, my lord protector, see them guarded / And safely brought to Dover where, inshipped, / Commit them to the fortune of the sea.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Placed on a ship; embarked.
ember-goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmbəɡuːs/
Forms: form: ember-geese
form: embergoose
form: emmer-goose
form: imber-goose
Etymology: Calque of Norwegian emmer-gaas.
Senses: examples: text: There is the distant cry of an embergoose, and then the moon slips up out of the grasp of the trees.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 406:
glosses: The great northern loon, Gavia immer.
one-sidely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The observers most adequately list the different aspects of this insight and yet emphasize somewhat one-sidely the patient's need for love as the most important motivating factor.
ref: 1994, Samuel Eisenstein, Norman A. Levy, Judd Marmor, The Dyadic Transaction:
text: More than that, it reveals a one-sidely individualistic view of our humanity.
ref: 1995, David K. Clark, Robert Vincent Rakestraw, Readings in Christian Ethics: Issues and applications:
glosses: Misspelling of one-sidedly.
bemar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemars
form: bemarring
form: bemarred
form: bemarred
Etymology: From be- + mar.
Senses: examples: text: He hath all to be pist my shooes He hath bemarred my paper [...]
ref: 1994, Elizabeth Goodenough, Mark A. Heberle, Infant tongues: the voice of the child in literature:
glosses: To mar about or all over; injure seriously.
infant respiratory distress syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infant respiratory distress syndromes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition that occurs in premature infants due to underdeveloped lungs and surfactant deficiency.
behallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: behallows
form: behallowing
form: behallowed
form: behallowed
Etymology: From be- + hallow.
Senses: examples: text: [...] bishops and servants of God — the "senatores natu majores," the elders and chiefs of the people — caused his eldest son, Egfurth, to be behallowed (which is the Saxon term used for the consecration of a bishop) as king of Mercia.
ref: 1835, William Henry C. Grey, The Lords and the People:
text: Kings are "behallowed" as well as bishops; […]
ref: 1842 April 24, “The Anglo-Saxon Confessions”, in The Church of England Quarterly Review, volume 11, article 4, page 343:
glosses: To make holy; consecrate; sanctify; hallow completely.
airshowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airshower
airshower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airshowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of air shower.
air shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air showers
Senses: synonyms: Auger shower
glosses: An extensive cascade of ionized particles formed by the entry of a cosmic ray into the atmosphere.
apogalactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apo- + galactic.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an apogalacticon
perigalactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + galactic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a perigalacticon
bigyrotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + gyrotropic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting gyrotropy in two separate senses
bowshocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowshock
convexified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of convexify
convexified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: converted to a convex form
microaccelerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microacceleration
microacceleration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microaccelerations
Etymology: From micro- + acceleration.
Senses: glosses: A numerically very small acceleration
nonubiquitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-ubiquitous
Etymology: From non- + ubiquitous.
Senses: glosses: not ubiquitous
palaeorecord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeorecords
Etymology: From palaeo- + record.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleorecord.
residual volume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: residual volumes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The volume of unexpended air that remains in the lungs following maximum expiration.
scotogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scoto- + -genic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Created from dark matter
vital capacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vital capacities
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The maximum volume of air that can be discharged from the lungs following maximum inspiration.
Derived terms: forced vital capacity
Related terms: lung volume
behelp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈhɛlp/
rhymes: -ɛlp
Forms: form: behelps
form: behelping
form: behelped
form: beholp
form: behelped
form: beholp
form: beholpen
Etymology: From be- + help. Cognate with Scots behelpe (“to assist”), West Frisian beholpje, Dutch behelpen (“to make do”), German behelfen (“to manage”).
Senses: examples: text: But we live in a good hope of better times and then, hopefully, will this dessign be excuted; Meanwhile I must behelp myself with this boock, so, as I have found it, and so as it is.
ref: 1713, The records of the Swedish Lutheran churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck
text: It is said of one of them that at an audience with the Queen of England he was asked whether he was married and, his knowledge of the English language being defective, replied: "No, Your Majesty, behelp me so!
ref: 1933, Hugo von Waldeyer-Hartz, Admiral von Hipper:
text: Filthiness is in their skirts (Lamentations I) and woe behelp them at the second coming. Alleluia.
ref: 1961, John Reeves, A beach of strangers: an excursion:
glosses: To help (with); give aid or assistance to.
beknowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beknowledges
form: beknowledging
form: beknowledged
form: beknowledged
Etymology: From be- + knowledge.
Senses: examples: text: Detected he hath reported a rhyme upon names of sundry men & women in our parish but will not beknowledge who made it nor of whom he had it.
ref: 1999, Andrew Barrett, Christopher Harrison, Crime and punishment in England: a sourcebook (quoting a much older text)
glosses: To acknowledge.
same-bloodedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samebloodedness
Etymology: From same-blooded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: At any rate, this does tend to put in truer perspective the symbolic claim placed by Herodotus in the mouth of 'the Athenians'—also Ionians—in 480/479, that the fact of being Greek was constituted in essential part by 'same-bloodedness'.
ref: 2009, Paul Cartledge, Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities:
text: Even the style bears similarity, and, as Shin explains, both appealed to the 'same bloodedness' of the Korean people.
ref: 2010, Petre Pan, The How Not To Blog: The Economic Testing Ground:
text: The idea that the Bible develops the same logic of the political privilege given to the natives as compared with the strangers, the Greek theme of the suggegenia, the same-bloodedness, as a necessary condition for the equality in the dēmos, […]
ref: 2012, Sanja Bahun, Dušan Radunović, Language Ideology and the Human New Interventions:
glosses: The state or condition of being same-blooded; consanguinity; homogeneity.
sameish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sameish
form: most sameish
Etymology: From same + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: They all look alike, have about the same tone and the same color, and indeed they are very sameish all around.
ref: 1899, Brush and pencil:
text: Dressed like my mother, except all in green—green knit top, sameish green trousers.
ref: 2005, Philip Galanes, Father's Day:
glosses: Basically the same; somewhat similar; rather alike.
examples: text: Otherwise, with the sameish meals and the utterly sameish pattern, the patternless days, I might lose count, lose my bearings, they might trick me.
ref: 1994, Lesley Glaister, Partial eclipse:
text: Undergraduates are grouped in rather sameish groups to do rather sameish things. You are there because you fit in.
ref: 2004, Hannah Adcock, Twentysomething: A Survivor's Guide:
glosses: Run-of-the-mill; ordinary; usual.
examples: text: For example, readers might say they love a post you've written on headlines, because they're finding that their headlines are becoming stale and “sameish.”
ref: 2012, Darren Rowse, Chris Garrett, ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income:
glosses: Dull; drab; boring; typical; not exciting.
Derived terms: sameishness
sameishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sameish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The danger for the couplet, a short endlessly recurrent metre, is an effect of sameishness.
ref: 1958, Geoffrey Tillotson, Pope and human nature:
text: Under these compulsions, it is natural that there should be similarity of technique and style, even on occasion a sameishness in content, between avant-garde poetic movements in different countries.
ref: 1974, Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom, Quest:
text: This is a pity, especially because one has the feeling that all the members are far too well behaved to make their statements with offensive violence — as a result the general impression was that of a rather uneventful "sameishness" …
ref: 1976, Apollo
text: ' [...] A certain sameishness is wooed, consciously or unconsciously, in the interest of homogeneity.'
ref: 1976, Christopher Palmer, Delius: portrait of a cosmopolitan:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being sameish; similarity; uniformity.
examples: text: The gentle sameishness of the milk swishing into the hand-bowl seemed to have soothed the burglar very much.
ref: 1904, George Newnes, The Strand magazine:
glosses: Usualness; normality; familiarity.
Synonyms: sense: usualness; normality; familiarity
word: normalcy
word: normaldom
word: normality
word: normalness
suck-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suck-boys
Senses: examples: text: “Is he a suck-boy too?” “Let's find out,” Kurt said. He moved in front of Buddy and pressed the tip of his dripping cock to Buddy's nose.
ref: 2006, John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big, page 123:
qualifier: chiefly LGBTQ
glosses: Someone who has a particular enjoyment of or skill for fellatio.