cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
copperbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copperbars
Etymology: From copper + bar, after the "copper" (coprocessor) component of the Commodore Amiga chipset.
Senses: examples: text: There a^([sic]) quite a lot of effects you can get with horz.retraces, eg a textmode copperbar (change color #0 with every scanline)
ref: 1996, WolfMan^iNSaNiTY, “Which scanline???”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):
text: Although most cards still support screen-tweaking, you can just forget about copperbars (writing within horizontal retrace fuks up the screen BADLY) and other effex. Same goes for changing the font.
ref: 1998, Paul-Jan Pauptit, “Raster trix are a problem nowadays.”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):
text: There was also the (really pretty famous) RSI Demomaker that let u make up your own intros/demos from a load of stock effects (bobs, starfields, copperbars, scrollers etc).. havent been able to find that tho...
ref: 2000, Lando, “looking for software”, in alt.amiga.demos (Usenet):
topics: computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An animated horizontal bar of colour that extends into the overscan area of the display.
wikipedia: Commodore Amiga
copperbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copperbar
moneral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Monera + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Monera.
agynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + -gynous, literally, “not female”.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Without female organs; male.
hyperchloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + chloric?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: perchloric
disoxygenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disoxygenates
form: disoxygenating
form: disoxygenated
form: disoxygenated
Etymology: From dis- + oxygenate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To deprive of oxygen; to deoxidize.
disoxygenated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disoxygenate
disoxygenates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disoxygenate
disoxygenating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disoxygenate
manurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare manurage and Old French manouvrement.
Senses: examples: text: the manurement of Wits is like that of Soyls, where before either the pains of Tilling, or the charge of Sowing, Men uſe to consider what the mould will bear, Heath or Grain.
ref: 1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education:
glosses: cultivation
cairngormstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cairngorm + stone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of Cairngorm in Scotland.
Synonyms: smoky quartz
primity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪmɪti/
Senses: examples: text: This primity God requires to be attributed to himself […]
ref: 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
glosses: Quality of being first; primitiveness.
three-square
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; said especially of a kind of file.
grandific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹænˈdɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more grandific
form: most grandific
Etymology: From Latin grandificus, from grandis (“grand”) + facere (“to make”).
Senses: examples: text: In those grandific works[…]Where perfect fitness, beauty, use, unite.
ref: 1782, William Stevenson, A Hymn To The Deity:
glosses: Making great.
pestful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pestful
form: most pestful
Etymology: From pest + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: after long and pestful calms
ref: 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations:
glosses: annoying; acting as a pest
unteam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unteams
form: unteaming
form: unteamed
form: unteamed
Etymology: From un- + team.
Senses: examples: text: justice and authority laid by the rods and axes as soon as the sun unteamed his chariot
ref: 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To unyoke a team from.
glosses: to remove from a team
unteamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unteam
unteamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not included in a team.
unteaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unteam
unteams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unteam
argumentize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: argumentizes
form: argumentizing
form: argumentized
form: argumentized
Etymology: From argument + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: true way of argumentizing
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:
glosses: To argue or discuss.
argumentized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of argumentize
argumentizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of argumentize
argumentizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of argumentize
halfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfers
Etymology: From half + -er.
Senses: coordinate_terms: thirder
qualifier: decision theory
glosses: With regard to the Sleeping Beauty problem: one who argues that the probability of heads is 1/2.
examples: text: ſuch Halfers in opinions
ref: 1625, Richard Montagu, Appello Caesarem: a just Appeale from two unjust Informers:
glosses: One who possesses or gives half only; one who shares.
examples: text: Bucks , when cut , called Halfers
ref: 1814, Samuel Pegge, Anonymian:
glosses: A gelded male fallow deer.
halfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfer
recussion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin recutire, recussum (“to beat back”), from re- (“re-”) + quatere (“to shake”).
Senses: examples: text: Neither the recussion, nor the retrocession of the sea, were as violent as might have been expected.
ref: 1824 April, F. Place, “Account of the Earthquake in Chili, in November, 1822, from Observations made by several Englishmen residing in that Country”, in Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, volume 17, page 46:
text: The brig reeled under the recussion of the simultaneous discharge of all her larboard guns, and her captain, leaning over the gun in the after port closely watched the effect upon the schooner, which, when last seen, was not half a mile distant.
ref: 1845, J.H. Ingraham, The Cruiser of the Mist, page 21:
text: As soon as the heart relaxes, at the beginning of the diastole, the semilunar valves close, and the recussion of the blood causes the greatest pressure near the valves.
ref: 1904 May 28, Fritz Scwyzer, “The Construction of the Valvular Part of the Aorta and the Significance of its Elastic and Collagenous Tissue”, in International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics, volume 79, number 22, page 1025:
glosses: The act of beating or striking back.
examples: text: Also, at the end of 30 years, over the 1260, or into the period of judgment, we are to expect, not a remarkable event, but some alteration in the course of judgment, some recussion or increase of it, or something worthy to be noted, which may perhaps discover itself in the course of our progress.
ref: 1826, Edward Irving, Babylon and Infidelity Foredoomed of God, page 174:
text: providing that the Judge of the District Court having jurisdiction of the case shall grant the application fixing the amount and conditions of the bond precedent thereto, providing for the service of a copy of the petition, writs, and citation, fixing the return day, and making it obligatory upon the Justice of the Peace to send up to the District Court a certified copy of all minutes and entries on the Justice of the Peace Court Docket in the case together with all original filings, and a written statement of the Justice of the Peace setting forth his reasons for not granting the appeal, or allowing suit for recussion of judgment to be filed, and providing a penalty for the failure of the Justice of the Peace to do so;
ref: 1918, Louisiana. Legislature. Senate, Official Journal, page 170:
text: A party in justice's court may remit a part of his demand so as to bring it within the jurisdiction of the justice, but the recussion must be absolute for all demands in excess of the jurisdiction, for "remission" implies forgiveness, and means a voluntary relinquishment of a claim or a part thereof by one capable of asserting it, and does not refer to the extinguishment of a debt by agreement of the parties , or by judgment of the court .
ref: 1920, Decennial Edition of the American Digest - Volume 14, page 241:
topics: law
glosses: The cancellation of all or part of a judgment.
glosses: Misspelling of recursion.
rosselly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒsəli/
Forms: form: more rosselly
form: most rosselly
Etymology: From rosil (“resin”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That which I haue observed to be the best is a rosselly top , and a brick earthy bottom.
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:
glosses: loose; light
mucopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mucopeptide
porphyrization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porphyrizations
form: porphyrisation
Senses: glosses: The act of porphyrizing, or the state of being porphyrized.
porphyrizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porphyrization
subingression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + ingression.
Senses: examples: text: [T]vvo very volatile Liquors, vvhich being gently put together are as clear as Rock-vvater, and yet vvill almoſt in a moment, vvithout the ſub-ingreſſion of Air to turn them into Bubbles, ſo alter the diſpoſition of their inſenſible parts, as to become a vvhite and conſiſtent Body.
ref: 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, “[Experiment 37]”, in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC, pages 312–313:
glosses: The act of ingressing or entering subtly or unobservedly.
travailous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more travailous
form: most travailous
Etymology: From Middle English travailous (“laborious, wearisome”), from Anglo-Norman travaillous, Old French travaillos (“tiring, painful”). Equivalent to travail + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: […] of my redemption thence, / And portance in travailous history,
ref: c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, edited by Michael Neill, Othello, the Moor of Venice (Oxford World's Classics), Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 223, lines 138–139:
text: A pined and jaded man he was before his middle days, and unlikely to live to full age. Better his mother had been barren, than that her womb should have borne such a sorry travailous life!
ref: 1888, Charles M[ontagu] Doughty, chapter III, in Travels in Arabia Deserta, London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. & The Medici Society Limited, page 59:
glosses: Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome.
thurrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thurrocks
form: thorrocke
Etymology: From Middle English thurrok, from Old English þurruc (“hold of a ship; bilge”), from Proto-West Germanic *þurruk, from Proto-Indo-European *terg-, *terǵ- (“to rub, wipe, clean, make holes”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian durk (“sewer, bilge-water, lowest part in the hold of a ship”), Middle Dutch durck, dorck (“the hold of a ship”) (Dutch durk, dork (“a spout-hole”)), Middle Low German dork (“keel room, the lowest part of a ship's hold”), Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐍉 (þairkō, “hole, eye (of a needle)”), Latin tergō, tergeō (“wipe, scour, clean”, verb), Old English þurh, þuruh (“through”). More at through, thorough.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The hold of a ship; also, the bilge.
Related terms: thurruck
coassessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coassessors
Etymology: From co- + assessor.
Senses: glosses: A joint assessor.
coassessors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coassessor
insected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From insect + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: if a Bee wer as big as a Bull, it must have a ſting proportionable, and what miſchiefs do you think ſuch ſtings would do, when we can hardly endure the ſting of that ſmall inſected animal[…]?
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Dr. T. P.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Resembling or relating to an insect.
praisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more praisingly
form: most praisingly
Etymology: From praising + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They praisingly gave thanks to God.
text: Her previous employer praisingly recommended her for the job.
glosses: With praise.
pseudodox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).
Senses: glosses: Not true in opinion or doctrine; false.
pseudodox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodoxes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).
Senses: examples: text: to maintain the atheistical paradox, pseudodox, which judgeth evil good
ref: a. 1652, Thomas Adams, England's Sickness (sermon)
text: how clearly I can refel that paradox , or rather pseudodox , of those , which hold the face to be the index of the mind
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
glosses: A false opinion or doctrine.
pseudodoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudodox
pneumatogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumatograms
Etymology: From pneumato- + -gram.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.
pneumatograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumatogram
melanosperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanosperms
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?] black seed.
Senses: examples: text: The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp.
glosses: An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust.
Related terms: melanospermous
melanosperms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanosperm
partitionment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partitionments
Etymology: From partition + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of partitioning.
partitionments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partitionment
evulgation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evulgations
Etymology: From Latin evulgatio.
Senses: glosses: A divulging, or publication (act of publishing).
Related terms: evulgate
evulge
evulgations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evulgation
excheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excheats
Senses: examples: text: To make one great by others losse is bad excheat
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of escheat.
excheats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excheat
miquelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miquelets
Etymology: Catalan miquelet, a diminutive of Michael. Supposedly named after a Miquel or Miquelot de Prades, a Catalan mercenary captain in the service of Cesare Borgia.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An irregular or partisan soldier in Catalonia.
glosses: A bandit.
miquelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miquelet
triphyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triphylines
Senses: glosses: triphylite
triphylines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triphyline
rubricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rubric + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Redness.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Accordance with the religious rubric.
murtilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murtillas
Senses: glosses: A Chilean form of myrtle (Ugni molinae)
glosses: ugniberry
rekindlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rekindling
chafeweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chafe + weed.
Senses: glosses: Cudweed (Gnaphalium), which was used as a remedy for chafing.
inquination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inquinations
Etymology: Latin inquinatio.
Senses: examples: text: the middle action , which produceth such imperfect bodies , is fitly called (by some of the ancients) inquination, or inconcoction, which is a kind of putrefaction
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: defilement;pollution; stain or impurity
inquinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inquination
skirtings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skirting
unskirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + skirted.
Senses: glosses: Without a skirt.
examples: text: For some time the banks were unskirted by timber, but presently the wind's force was lessened by the intervention of a few bushes[…]
ref: 1869, New Monthly Magazine, volume 145, page 23:
glosses: Not skirted or surrounded.
deutoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /djuːˈtɒksaɪd/
Forms: form: deutoxides
Etymology: From deuto- + oxide.
Senses: synonyms: word: dioxide
word: binoxide
glosses: a dioxide
Related terms: protoxide
tritoxide
deutoxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /djuːˈtɒksaɪdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of deutoxide
spindleworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spindleworms
Etymology: From spindle + worm.
Senses: glosses: The larva of a noctuid moth (Achatodes zeae) which feeds inside the stalks of maize. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.
spindleworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spindleworm
comminglingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more comminglingly
form: most comminglingly
Etymology: From commingling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to commingle.
introvenient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin introveniens, present participle of introvenire (“to come in”), from intro (“within”) + venire (“to come”).
Senses: examples: text: the commixture of introvenient Nations either by commerce or conqueſt
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Coming in together; entering; commingling.
minimalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of minimalise
minimalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of minimalise
minimalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of minimalise
physicomathematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From physico- + mathematics.
Senses: glosses: An academic subject covering both mathematics and physics.
physicomathematical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From physico- + mathematical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to physicomathematics
glosses: physical and mathematical
Derived terms: physicomathematically
physicomathematician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physicomathematicians
Etymology: From physico- + mathematician.
Senses: glosses: One who studies physicomathematics.
physicomathematicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physicomathematician
equivalation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equivalations
Senses: examples: text: […] the protagonists of this equivalation of "people" with "State" […]
ref: 1963, Richard A. Falk, Law, morality, and war in the contemporary world:
glosses: The act of equating or making equivalent.
equivalations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equivalation
Thailandish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Thailand + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I can't even say, "He's Thailandese," or "Thailandish." Or Siamese, which isn't right anymore and anyway sounds like a cat.
ref: 1991, Roy Blount, First Hubby:
text: The worst-hit economies were the Indonesian, Malaysian, Thailandish, Philippines and Korean ones.
ref: 2000, Indian Institute of Economics, The Asian economic review:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Thailand, its people, or language.
Thailandish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Thailand + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: If, however, a prophet came from Siam — or must we say Thailand, and preached to me in Siamese or Thailandish, I should reject him, not because I did not like what he said, but because I could not make head or tail of it; […]
ref: 1948, JSTOR (Organization), The Musical times and singing-class circular:
text: Muslim friends in Bangkok are engaged on translating the book in^([sic]) Thailandish.
ref: 1977, Muḥammad Ḥamīdullāh, Muslim conduct of state:
glosses: The main language spoken in Thailand; Thai.
unauthorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unauthorizes
form: unauthorizing
form: unauthorized
form: unauthorized
Etymology: From un- + authorize.
Senses: glosses: To disown the authority of; to repudiate.
examples: text: This group of users includes anyone who has created a user account but either hasn't verified their account through their email or has been unauthorized by the administrator.
ref: 2015, Shaun Walker, Bruce Chapman, Cathal Connolly, Professional DNN7: Open Source .NET CMS Platform, page 157:
text: The reverse operation is called “unauthorize” and you’re supposed to do it before removing the DHCP role on a server.
ref: 2016 December 19, “DHCP Unauthorize: There is no such object on the server”, in Dmitri's Wanderings:
text: Hi. I have a question about “authorizing and unauthorizing” my core.
ref: 2023 July 24, Marco_Maria_D_Ottavi, Roon Labs Community:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To withdraw authorization or permissions from.
unauthorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unauthorize
unauthorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unauthorize
cerebripetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: cerebrum + Latin petere (“to seek”)
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Going from the spinal cord to the brain, so as to transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards.
raw_tags: of nerve fibers
Coordinate terms: cerebrifugal
hypnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypno- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: A treatise on sleep; the study or science of sleep.
glosses: The study of hypnosis
Derived terms: hypnologist
neurohypnology
scrimption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrimptions
Etymology: Blend of scrimpt + portion.
Senses: examples: text: There's not a scrimption left - not so much as the full of a thimble.
ref: 1859, Timothy Shay Arthur, Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper, page 31:
glosses: A small portion; a little bit; a scrap.
scrimptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrimption
multangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multangular
form: most multangular
Etymology: From Latin multangulus, from multus (“much, many”) + angulus (“angle”). Compare French multangulaire.
Senses: glosses: Having many angles.
Related terms: multiangular
multangular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multangulars
Etymology: From Latin multangulus, from multus (“much, many”) + angulus (“angle”). Compare French multangulaire.
Senses: examples: text: The roentgenograms showed local loss of density of the navicular, the multangulars, and the cuboid.
ref: 1940, American Journal of Cancer, volumes 39-40, page 466:
text: The distal fragment in contact with the multangulars now has a porosity not seen in the preceding figures.
ref: 1944, Quarterly Bulletin of Northwestern University Medical School, volumes 18-19, page 45:
text: Very strong ligaments secure the distal half of the scaphoid to the multangulars and capitate. Similarly the proximal half has a strong attachment to the lunate.
ref: 1945, RSNA Index to Imaging Literature, volume 44, page 521:
text: There is now narrowing of some of the carpal joint spaces, particularly that between the navicular and the multangulars.
ref: 2012, Anne C. Brower, Donald J. Flemming, Arthritis in Black and White, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 379:
glosses: Either of two bones in the wrist
glosses: Either of two bones in the wrist:
The trapezoid bone (lesser multangular).
glosses: Either of two bones in the wrist:
The trapezium bone (greater multangular).
overskip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overskips
form: overskipping
form: overskipped
form: overskipped
Etymology: From over- + skip.
Senses: glosses: To skip or leap over
examples: text: the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:
glosses: to treat with indifference or ignore.
overskipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overskip
overskipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overskip
overskips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overskip
tautologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tautologizes
form: tautologizing
form: tautologized
form: tautologized
Etymology: From tautology + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To speak or write using tautology; to rephrase something.
tautologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tautologize
tautologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tautologize
tautologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tautologize
indistancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + distancy.
Senses: examples: text: The soul thus existing after death, and separated from the body, though of a nature spiritual, is really and truly in some place; if not by way of circumscription, as proper bodies are, yet by way of determination and indistancy.
ref: 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
glosses: Lack of distance or separation; nearness.
isopodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From isopod + -ous.
Senses: glosses: isopodan (belonging or relating to the isopods).
lafayette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌlæfaɪˈɛt/
/ˌlæfeɪˈɛt/
Forms: form: lafayettes
Senses: glosses: The dollarfish.
glosses: A fish, the goody or spot (Leiostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.
lafayettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lafayette
dollarfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dollarfishes
form: dollarfish
Etymology: From dollar + fish.
Senses: glosses: An American butterfish (Peprilus triacanthus).
dollarfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dollarfish
bawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bawn
charterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From charter + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a charter.
ethnogenocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + genocide.
Senses: glosses: ethnocide
ethnomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethnomimetic
form: most ethnomimetic
Etymology: From ethno- + mimetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ethnomimesis.
ethnomimesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + mimesis.
Senses: glosses: ethnic stereotypes arising from public performances
ethnophaulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethnophaulic
form: most ethnophaulic
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to ethnophaulism.
supervisorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supervisory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Both the substation and the track-sectioning cabin are supervisorily controlled from the existing control centre of the Liverpool Street-Shenfield lines at Chadwell Heath.
ref: 1956 August, “Eastern Region Electrification Extended to Chelmsford”, in Railway Magazine, page 509:
glosses: In a supervisory manner; by a supervisor.
ethnoracism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + racism.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, some forms of ethnoracism have been sustained within long-term traditions […]
ref: 2014, Marcel Stoetzler, Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology, page 211:
glosses: Racism perpetrated against an ethnic group.
interlinearies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlineary
interlineary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: interlinear
interlineary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlinearies
Senses: glosses: A book containing interlineations.
Derived terms: interlinearily
interlinears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlinear
exsuscitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin exsuscitatio.
Senses: examples: text: Paul could not have bin so backward as to need such sharp exsuscitation, when once convinced, for theres no such great unpleasantness to the flesh, as to engender any aversenesse unto that
ref: 1669, Samuel Fisher, Baptism before, or after faith & repentance:
glosses: A stirring up; a rousing.
flowerage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊəɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: flowerages
Etymology: From flower + -age.
Senses: examples: text: And rotatory thumbs on silken knees,
Call'd all her vital spirits into each ear
To listen: unawares they flitted off,
Busying themselves about the flowerage
ref: 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the poem)”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: flowers, considered collectively or in general.
flowerages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flowerage
dividuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dividuous
form: most dividuous
Etymology: From Latin dividuus (“divisible, divided”), from dividere.
Senses: examples: text: This is the main fault in Baxter's metaphysics, that he so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous self-subsistents.
ref: c. 1829, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Baxter's Life of Himself:
glosses: divided; dividual
roisterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more roisterly
form: most roisterly
Etymology: From roister + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a roistering manner.
roisterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roisterly
form: most roisterly
Etymology: From roister + -ly.
Senses: glosses: rowdy or violent
dureful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dureful
form: most dureful
Etymology: From dure + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: dureful Brass
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: long-lasting; enduring
Related terms: duration
tensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tensible
form: most tensible
Etymology: From tense + -ible?
Senses: examples: text: Gold […] is likewise the most flexible and tensible.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensile.
turningness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From turning + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of turning
difflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difflations
Etymology: From Latin difflatio, from Latin difflare, difflatum (“to disperse by blowing”).
Senses: examples: text: The famous author of the Commentary on the 12th of the first section of aphorisms, affirms, that the meat is proportioned to the difflation, and, Com. 15th, that there is a greater difflation in the winter-time, therefore it is requisite there should be more meat eaten; it is therefore requisite the weight should be known; all which the trifling staticomastix denies.
ref: 1807, Sir John Sinclair, The Code of Health and Longevity:
glosses: A blowing apart or away.
difflations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of difflation
aigulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aigulets
Senses: examples: text: Which all above besprinkled was throughout
With golden aigulets that glister'd bright,
Like twinkling stars, and all the skirt about
Was hemm'd with golden fringes.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of aglet.
aigulets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aigulet
postcommunion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postcommunions
Etymology: Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin postcommūniō. By surface analysis, post- + communion.
Senses: glosses: The concluding portion of the communion service.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions.
postcommunion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin postcommūniō. By surface analysis, post- + communion.
Senses: glosses: After communion.
postcommunions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postcommunion
reimbark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reimbarks
form: reimbarking
form: reimbarked
form: reimbarked
Etymology: From re- + imbark.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of reembark.
reimbarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reimbark
reimbarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reimbark
reimbarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reimbark
e-government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-governments
Etymology: From e- + government.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eGovernment.
e-democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-democracies
Etymology: From e- + democracy.
Senses: glosses: democracy managed or attained by means of computer networks
cyberwallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberwallets
Etymology: From cyber- + wallet.
Senses: synonyms: digital wallet
e-wallet
glosses: A virtual wallet holding cybermoney; an account, etc. for the purchase of online goods and services.
cyberwallets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberwallet
cybervulnerabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybervulnerability
cyberweaponry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + weaponry.
Senses: examples: text: [D]isclosures about America's own focus on cyberweaponry – including American-led attacks on Iran's nuclear infrastructure and National Security Agency documents revealed in the trove taken by Edward J. Snowden, the former agency contractor – detail the degree to which the United States has engaged in what the intelligence world calls "cyberexploitation" of targets in China.
ref: 2014 April 6, David E. Sanger, “U.S. tries candor to assure China on cyberattacks”, in The New York Times:
glosses: cyberweapons collectively
byssaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more byssaceous
form: most byssaceous
Etymology: From byssus + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: Some filamentous algae are byssaceous.
text: byssaceous lichens
glosses: Like byssus; consisting of fine interwoven fibres or threads.
pileous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪliəs/
rhymes: -ɪliəs
homophone: pileus
Forms: form: more pileous
form: most pileous
Etymology: From Latin pilus + -eous, perhaps by alteration of pilous or pilose.
Senses: examples: text: Another frequent affection of the labia majora, is vulvular folliculitis of Hulguier, that is to say the inflammatlon of the numerous pileous and sebaceous glands of this organ.
ref: 1861, Friedrich Wilhelm Von Scanzoni, H. Dor, A. Socin, transl., A Practical treatise on the diseases of the sexual organs of women, page 563:
text: A thyroid lack is usually characterised by skin infiltration, by dryness and desquamation, by depletion of the pileous system,[…].
ref: 1949, René Maurice Gattefossé, Technique of Beauty Products, page 166:
text: The play is indeed dominated by disguise and linguistic mimicry as Titus, the "carrot-headed" comic hero, tries to overcome prejudice against redheads and climb the social ladder by donning a wig and pretending to be "normal" in matters pileous.
ref: 1995, Rupert D. V. Glasgow, Madness, Masks, and Laughter: An Essay on Comedy, page 36:
text: What pileous sculptures was the young man creating on that lovely head?
ref: 2006, Andrew Miller, Casanova, unnumbered page:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or consisting of hair.
examples: text: This rare species might, but for the rugose and pileous epidermis and more depressed form, readily be confounded with the preceding.
ref: 1861, W. Newcomb, Catalogue of Helices Inhabiting the West Coast of America, North of Cape St. Lucas and West of the Rocky Mountains: American Journal of Conchology, volume 1, page 342:
text: One cannot help but wonder whether the concerns ultimately had root in the presence of a diminutive, pileous, and swarthy Mediterranean atop a military vehicle, instead of our accepted Anglo-Saxon image of leadership and might.
ref: 2008, John Tehranian, Whitewashed: America's Invisible Middle Eastern Minority, page 17:
text: All of her attention is focused on surveying the rippled surface of my sturdy, pileous torso. I encourage her by stroking down her hair.
ref: 2010, Muriel Lede, The Sacrament of Conception, page 264:
glosses: Covered with hair; hairy.
defluous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfluːəs/
Forms: form: more defluous
form: most defluous
Etymology: From Latin defluus, from defluere (“to flow down”), from de- + fluere (“to flow”).
Senses: examples: text: Her most copious and long hairs[…]were softly defluous.
ref: 1822, Thomas Taylor, The fable of Cupid and Psyche:
glosses: Flowing down; falling off.
unclutch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈklʌt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: unclutches
form: unclutching
form: unclutched
form: unclutched
Etymology: From un- + clutch.
Senses: examples: text: Unclutch his griping hand.
ref: 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To open (something tightly closed).
synonyms: declutch
glosses: To disengage (a clutch, etc.).
examples: text: When a thought arises in you, just remember 'Let me unclutch'.
ref: 2009, Nithyananda Paramahamsa, Why Meditation, page 229:
qualifier: meditation
glosses: To let go of distractions and thoughts.
unclutched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unclutch
unclutched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not clutched.
unclutches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unclutch
unclutching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unclutch
disseverment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disseverments
Etymology: Compare Old French dessevrement.
Senses: examples: text: I could no more consent to the halving of that dollar , than the woman in the Judgment of Solomon to the disseverment of the child of her bowels
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: disseverance
disseverments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disseverment
placoidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdiən
Forms: form: placoidians
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A placoid fish.
placoidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placoidian
panspermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From panspermy + -ic.
Senses: examples: the panspermic hypothesis
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to panspermy or to panspermia.
Derived terms: panspermically
Related terms: panspermial
proproctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proproctors
Etymology: From pro- + proctor.
Senses: examples: text: So it is the University that must go into action in defence of peace: and the University, its full strength mustered, consists of two Proctors, four Proproctors and eight or ten University police
ref: 1962, John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon, Oxford Life:
glosses: An assistant proctor in a university.
proproctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proproctor
gyrogonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrogonites
Etymology: Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle, ring”) + γόνος (gónos, “fruit”)
Senses: examples: text: The shells and gyrogonites also agree specifically with some of those most common in the French deposits […]
ref: 1833, Charles Lyell, chapter XX, in Principles of Geology […] , volume III, London: John Murray, page 280:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The petrified fruit of several species of stonewort
gyrogonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrogonite
idioelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From idio- + electric: compare French idioélectrique.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction
idioelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idioelectrics
Etymology: From idio- + electric: compare French idioélectrique.
Senses: glosses: Any idioelectric substance.
idioelectrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idioelectric
circumambiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumambiency
circumambiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumambiencies
Senses: examples: text: ice receiveth its figure according unto the surface wherein it concreteth, or the circumambiency which conformeth it
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The condition of being circumambient
gilse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gilses
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter [VI], in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 133:
english: They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
translation: They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
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glosses: Alternative form of grilse (“young salmon”).
gilses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gilse
turkey ham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey hams
Senses: glosses: A processed food made primarily from cooked or cured turkey meat and water, formed into the shape of a ham and often sold presliced.
calcareobituminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calcareo- + bituminous.
Senses: examples: text: Here and there, also, deposits bearing testimony to the existence of fresh or brackish-water lagoons, filled with calcareobituminous mud
ref: 1878, Sir Charles Lyell, Elements of Geology:
glosses: Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen.
pinchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pinchingly
form: most pinchingly
Etymology: From pinching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: pinchingly cold
glosses: So as to pinch
synonyms: stingily
glosses: with great poverty or stinginess
aleconner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aleconners
Etymology: From ale + con + -er, from Old English cunnen (“to test”), from cunnian (“to test”).
Senses: glosses: An officer, appointed yearly, who tasted ale (as well as bread), to ensure its quality. The role remains in the 21st century, albeit mostly ceremonial
glosses: One of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London, England for inspecting the measures used in public houses.
Synonyms: aletaster
aleconners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aleconner