cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
altar cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altar card
Angami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Naga Hills in the northeastern part of India.
Angami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One of the major Naga tribes of Nagaland in India.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Gnamei
word: Ngami
word: Tsoghami
word: Tsugumi
word: Monr
word: Tsanglo
word: Tenyidie
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Angami terms
Pucikwar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From A-Pucikwar Pucikwar.
Senses: glosses: An indigenous Great Andamanese people of the Andaman Islands, one of the ten or so distinct tribes which existed when British colonisation began in the 1860s and which disintegrated because of that colonisation.
Pucikwar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From A-Pucikwar Pucikwar.
Senses: glosses: The A-Pucikwar language spoken by these people.
Synonyms: A-Pucikwar
Alaba-K'abeena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia in the Great Rift Valley southwest of Lake Shala.
Synonyms: Alaba
Allaaba
Halaba
proglottis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪs
Forms: form: proglottides
Senses: glosses: proglottid
rotalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotalites
Etymology: Latin rotalis (“having wheels”) + -ite
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any fossil foraminifer of the family Rotaliidae, abundant in chalk formations.
rotalites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotalite
apophlegmatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apophlegmatisms
Senses: glosses: The action of apophlegmatics.
examples: text: ...and so it is in apophlegmatisms and gargarisms, that draw the rheum down by the palate
ref: 1620, Francis Bacon, “Natural History”, in The Works of Francis Bacon, vol. III, published 1730:
glosses: An apophlegmatic medicine.
apophlegmatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apophlegmatism
Rogerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rogerian
form: most Rogerian
Etymology: From Roger + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Carl Rogers (1902–1987), influential American psychologist who helped to introduce a humanistic approach to psychology.
Hiroshiman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hiroshiman
form: most Hiroshiman
Etymology: From Hiroshima + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hiroshima, Japan.
Hiroshiman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hiroshimans
Etymology: From Hiroshima + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Hiroshima, Japan.
Hiroshimans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hiroshiman
convertend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnvə(ɹ)tɛnd/
Forms: form: convertends
Etymology: From Latin convertendus (“to be converted”). Compare subtrahend.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse.
convertends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convertend
brownbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brownback
disfancied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disfancy
disfancies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disfancy
disfancy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disfancies
form: disfancying
form: disfancied
form: disfancied
Etymology: From dis- + fancy.
Senses: glosses: To dislike.
disfancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disfancies
Etymology: From dis- + fancy.
disfancying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disfancy
threadfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threadfishes
form: threadfish
Etymology: From thread + fish.
Senses: glosses: A cutlassfish (Trichiuridae).
glosses: Any of the genus Alectis of fish, noted for their filamentous anal and dorsal fins.
threadfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threadfish
monoecism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: monoecy
glosses: The state or condition of being monoecious.
writ of mandamus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writs of mandamus
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ that compels a government entity to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.
Related terms: mandamus
dousts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doust
dousted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doust
prerogative writ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prerogative writs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A class of writ that effects control over an inferior court or public authority.
polianite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polianites
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?] to become grey.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: manganese dioxide, occurring in hard tetragonal crystals
clewless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkluːləs/
homophone: clueless
Forms: form: more clewless
form: most clewless
Etymology: From clew + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And now the muse (with courage not her own, / But that which heav'n protects with Freedom's, throne) / Has dar'd a clew-less passage to explore[…].
ref: 1772, Thomas Hallie Delamayne, The Senators, page 40:
glosses: Without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze)
examples: text: A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and views that madden to crime.
ref: 1911, Ambrose Bierce, “maiden”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Clueless.
clewless
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkluːləs/
homophone: clueless
Forms: form: more clewless
form: most clewless
Etymology: From clew + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He wandered clewless in a maze of mystery.
ref: 2007, Julian Hawthorne, Idolatry, →ISBN, page 209:
glosses: Without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze)
conquistadorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conquistadorial
form: most conquistadorial
Etymology: From conquistador + -ial.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to conquistadors
glosses: conquering, subjugating, subduing
inhiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnhaɪˈeɪʃən/
Etymology: From Latin inhiātiō, from inhiō, from in- + hiō (“gape”).
Senses: examples: text: Who was he […] that said, "Marriage was a loosing the reins to luxury, an inhiation after obscene lusts?"
ref: 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:
glosses: A gaping after; eager desire; craving.
creaturize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: creaturizes
form: creaturizing
form: creaturized
form: creaturized
Etymology: From creature + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul.
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make like a creature; to degrade to an animal status.
creaturized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of creaturize
creaturizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of creaturize
creaturizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of creaturize
boottopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boottoppings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boot-topping.
boottoppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boottopping
pap boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pap boats
Etymology: From pap + boat.
Senses: examples: text: “I have a vast inclination to get a pap-boat myself, and make him a present of it.”
ref: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.10:
glosses: A boat-shaped receptacle for baby food.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapa), once used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.
papboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papboat
syllogization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syllogize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: In order to become assured of the unchangeable truth and demonstrative force of our syllogisation we must be sure of its correct method
ref: 1899, Augustus Schade, The Philosophy of History:
glosses: reasoning by syllogisms
angiospermatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of angiospermic.
thysanopterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Thysanoptera + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Thysanoptera, the thrips.
lithontriptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: lithotriptic
lithontriptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithontriptics
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a lithotriptic
lithontriptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithontriptic
twire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: twires
form: twiring
form: twired
form: twired
form: tweer
Etymology: From Middle English twiren (“to peep out, pry about, twinkle, glance, gleam”), cognate with Middle High German zwieren (“to spy”), Bavarian zwiren, zwieren (“to spy, glance”). Perhaps related to Old English twinclian (“to twinkle”). More at twinkle.
Senses: examples: text: I saw the wench that twired and twinkled at thee.
ref: c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, “Women Pleas’d”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:
text: Which maids will twire at 'tween their fingers.
ref: c. 1637, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd:
glosses: To glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry.
examples: text: When sparkling stars twire not, thou gild'st the even.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 28”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: To twinkle; sparkle; wink.
twire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: twires
form: tweer
Etymology: From Middle English twiren (“to peep out, pry about, twinkle, glance, gleam”), cognate with Middle High German zwieren (“to spy”), Bavarian zwiren, zwieren (“to spy, glance”). Perhaps related to Old English twinclian (“to twinkle”). More at twinkle.
Senses: glosses: A sly glance; a leer.
twire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: twires
Etymology: From Middle English *twir, *twirn, twern, from Old English *twirn, *tweorn (“twine, thread”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *duwo- (“two”). Doublet of twine.
Senses: examples: text: they put the cocons in hot water, and so stirring them about with a kind of rod, the ends of the silk twires of the cocons stick to it
ref: 1766, John Locke, Observations Upon The Growth And Culture Of Vines And Olives […] :
glosses: A twisted filament; a thread.
Derived terms: twire-pipe
twire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: twires
form: twiring
form: twired
form: twired
Etymology: Perhaps from a dialectal form of *twere, from Middle English *tweren, from Old English þweran (“to stir”) (found in compound āþweran (“to agitate, stir”)), from Proto-Germanic *þweraną (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *twer- (“to turn, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Bavarian zweren (“to stir”). Compare twirk, twirl.
Senses: glosses: To twist; twirl.
twire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: twires
Etymology: Variant of tuyere.
Senses: glosses: A pipe through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge; a tuyere.
Abelam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛləm
ipa: /əˈbə.ləm/
Etymology: Native name in New Guinea.
Senses: glosses: The Ambulas language of Papua New Guinea.
Abelam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛləm
ipa: /əˈbə.ləm/
Forms: form: Abelams
form: Abelam
Etymology: Native name in New Guinea.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Papuan people from New Guinea.
baby gravy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Why anyone would ever want to have kids is beyond this Scream Queen. They're smelly, messy, dirty, they never sleep — and those are the ones who haven't been fathered by Satan. Think of the potential for things going wrong when it's Lucifer's baby gravy that gets the eggs-a-cookin'.
ref: 2010, Meredith O'Hayre, The Scream Queen's Survival Guide: Avoid Machetes, Defeat Evil Children, Steer Clear of Bloody Dismemberment, and Conquer Other Horror Movie Clichés, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: Semen.
metanephridium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metanephridia
Etymology: From meta- + nephridium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
Great Russian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Great Russia.
synonyms: word: Russian
english: regular modern term
translation: regular modern term
glosses: Of or pertaining to Great Russians, the language of Great Russia, as opposed to Little Russia, White Russia, etc.
Great Russian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Great Russians
Senses: glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, Great Russia.
Great Russian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Russian language, especially when (possibly erroneously) considered to be mutually intelligible with the Ukrainian (Little Russian) and Belarusian (White Russian) languages.
baby batter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Because semen can fertilize ova, resulting in pregnancy and subsequently the birth of a baby; it also has approximately the color and consistency of pancake batter.
Senses: examples: text: Another look at butch, beautiful, bareass, bronze-tanned Hank, a silent direction, and the hot number I'd just made baby batter with, leaped onto the bed, burrowed his tousled head in my crotch, and started sucking hot and hungry at my loins.
ref: 1975, Peter Standing, page 93:
text: I could ride around some and listen to country music songs about drinking and cheating and losing love and finding it, since it looked like I wasn't going to be pumping any red-hot baby batter into my own favorite womb any time soon.
ref: 1989, Southern Exposure, page 49:
text: If the idea of a kid who shares genes with you running around somewhere doesn't freak you out, then by all means, sell your baby batter to a sperm bank.
ref: 2009, Trent Hamm, editor, 1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare, Adams Business, →ISBN, page 48:
text: That's cause you sittin' there sippin' on that water, child. Throw some baby batter in there. Lubricate them vocal chords. Trust me, it works.
ref: 2019, “Square One”, in Star:
glosses: semen
warence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English waraunce, from Anglo-Norman warance (modern French garance).
Senses: examples: text: Rvbea maior is an herbe þat me clepuþ reed mader or warance
ref: [a. 1500, Goesta Brödin, editor, Agnus Castus, A Middle English Herbal, published 1950, page 201:
english: Rubea major is an herb that is called red madder or warence
translation: Rubea major is an herb that is called red madder or warence
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text: Rubea the moze hath greter leves tis of grete verttue, and is the herbe that warence or madder is made of, therefore it is called the dyers rubea.
ref: 1529, The Grete Herball, Peter Treueris, page 252:
text: The tariff of gate tolls specifies three sorts of articles for dyeing,—madder (warence); orchil or lichen, under the name of korc, […] woad (weide), together with the potash (cendre), used in scouring and dyeing.
ref: 1852, “Original Documents. Ancient Consuetudinary of the City of Winchester”, in The Archaeological Journal, page 86:
text: in Gerarde’s time, there were for many of them still older English names, a list of which he “gathered out of ancient written and printed copies, and from the mouths of plain and simple country people.” Thus ache is smallage; […] tooth-wort, shepherd’s purse; warence, madder; warmot, wormwood
ref: 1857, John Harland, editor, The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster, at Smithils and Gawthorpe: From September 1582 to October 1621, page 694:
glosses: Dyer's madder, an herb (Rubia tinctorum) or a reddish dye made from the herb.
clerkliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clerkly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And yet here in this Sermon of Jonah is no great curiousness, not great clerkliness, no great affectation of words, nor painted eloquence; it was none other but, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed;" it was no more.
ref: 1758, Hugh Latimer, The sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, Master Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, page 265:
text: I would argue that Ogrin is significant preciesly for the way in which these two aspects of clerkliness are intertwined: his moral guidance falters at the very moment when his literary skill is most apparent, when he rewrites the story of Tristan and Iseut in a letter designed to reconcile the lovers with King Marc.
ref: 2000, Debora B. Schwartz, “Par Bel Mentir:Chrétien's Hermits and Clerkly Responsibility”, in Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, editor, Translatio Studii, page 290:
text: The posture of 'clerkliness' adopted at the beginning of Sir Gowther might be read as the poet's attempt to clothe himself in a similarly ' scientific ' , Hippocratic aura . Learned Latin discourse on demons itself often insists on its own 'clerkliness' in this context — its own indebtedness to a distinctively bookish tradition of intellectual investigation —in very much the same way the Sir Gowther does, and for much the same reasons.
ref: 2005, Corinne J. Saunders, Cultural Encounters in the Romance of Medieval England, page 139:
glosses: scholarship (character or qualities of a scholar)
examples: text: The letter found in the hut is also somewhat different, for while at the Encantadas he was informed that, not only did it evince a certain clerkliness, but was full of the strangest satiric effrontery which does not adequately appear in Porter's version.
ref: 1854, Herman Melville, The Encantadas:
text: And these months of waiting, of trailing about wards and corridors, this pen and paper game, the clerkliness, while the real work went on about him, and he envied the men who did it, and sometimes came near hating them.
ref: 1925, Warwick Deeping, Sorrell and Son: Family Tale:
text: Some other images of the contracts […] take this verisimilitude one step further and illustrate with their neat rows and columns the very idea of clerkliness, order, accountability.
ref: 2017, Jerry Root, The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and Image, page 55:
glosses: The character or qualities of a clerk; the quality of being clerkish; orderliness, attention to detail, diligence, and/or a focus on bureaucratic tasks or recordkeeping.
photoglyphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfəʊ.təˈɡlɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌfoʊ.təˈɡlɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: photoglyptic
Etymology: From photo- + glyphic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the art of photoglyphy
hemiplegy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of hemiplegia.
plebification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plebifications
Etymology: From Latin plebs (“the common people”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy.
Senses: examples: text: You begin with the attempt to popularize learning […] but you will end in the plebification of knowledge.
ref: 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
glosses: Making plebeian; vulgarizing.
Related terms: plebify
plebifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plebification
embase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbeɪs/
Forms: form: embases
form: embasing
form: embased
form: embased
form: imbase
Etymology: From em- + base. Compare Old French embaissier.
Senses: examples: text: [God had] Embast the valleys, and embost the hills.
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
glosses: To lower physically.
examples: text: And either vowd with all their power and witt
 To let not others honour be defaste
 Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate.
examples: text: Alloy in coin of gold […] may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Truth”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.
Derived terms: embasement
embased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embase
came a cropper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come a cropper
embases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embase
embasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embase
embaseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: embase + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embase
suently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suently
form: most suently
Etymology: From suent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Evenly; smoothly.
peoplish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peoplish
form: most peoplish
Etymology: From Middle English peplish, poeplissh, equivalent to people + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He’s been among the peoplish folks / And vows they’re rotten clever
ref: 1799, “Song XXXIII. Tough Times”, in The Columbian Songster […], number 2, page 17:
text: It is possible, that Chancellor Kent is an aristocrat, or is mistaken upon this subject; but it is more probable, that the peoplish politicians of Mississippi have carried their democratic notions too far.
ref: 1834 April, Q., “Legislation of Mississippi”, in The American Jurist and Law Magazine, volume 11, number 22, page 364:
text: The Bloxhams (not being persons of rank) had never attempted it; the practice, even in England, not having yet descended to the class there stigmatized as “the people.” The Bloxhams were certainly very peoplish.
ref: 1845 April, Eliza Leslie, “The Bloxhams and Mayfields”, in Godey’s Lady’s Book, volume 30, number 13, page 150:
text: He thinks that, on the whole, perhaps the chef may rather over-save his bacon at breakfast-time, and go in a trifle too much for fried fish; but the Peoplish in Scarborough just now number many thousands, and they always did have their little prejudices.
ref: 1877 September 5, “The Gouty One at Scarborough”, in Judy, volume 21, page 212:
glosses: Common, vulgar.
straint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old French estrainte, estreinte, French étrainte. See strain.
Senses: examples: text: That with the straint o his weasand nigh he brast
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: strain (tension of overexertion)
enascent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈnæsənt/
Etymology: From Latin ēnāscēns, present participle of ēnāscor (“spring up”), from ē- (“out”) + nāscor (“be born”).
Senses: examples: text: 1744–1745, William Warburton, Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections.
in which, you just get the first glimpse, as it were, of an enascent equivocation.
text: With sweet vicissitudes of day and clime / Mark'd the new annals of enascent Time.
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 61:
glosses: Just coming into being; nascent.
anilic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: nitrosalicylic acid
dishabilitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈbɪlɪteɪt/
Forms: form: dishabilitates
form: dishabilitating
form: dishabilitated
form: dishabilitated
Etymology: Compare disability.
Senses: glosses: To disqualify.
dishabilitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dishabilitate
dishabilitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dishabilitate
dishabilitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dishabilitate
cauk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːk/
homophone: caulk
homophone: cork
homophone: Cork
homophone: cawk
Forms: form: cauks
form: cawk
Etymology: British dialect cauk (“limestone”), from Northern Middle English calke, from Anglian Old English calc; doublet of calx and chalk.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An opaque, earthy variety of barite, or heavy spar.
bufonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bufonites
Etymology: From Latin bufo (“toad”) + -ite. It was once believed to be formed in the head of a toad.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of pycnodonts, whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations.
Synonyms: toadstone
bufonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bufonite
sceneshifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sceneshifters
form: scene-shifter
Etymology: From scene + shifter.
Senses: examples: Holonym: stage crew
synonyms: sceneman
hypernyms: stagehand
glosses: Someone who moves the scenes in a theatre during a performance.
Related terms: scenery
scenester
sceneshifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sceneshifter
contradictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contradictive
form: most contradictive
Etymology: From contradict + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: [T]here is surely, thought she, a perverse and contradictive spirit in man, which makes the whole sex odious.
ref: 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge, published 2016, page 19:
glosses: Contradictory.
Derived terms: contradictively
contradictiveness
bibasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + basic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two replaceable hydrogen atoms; dibasic.
teenful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teenful
form: most teenful
form: teenfull
Etymology: From Middle English teneful, from Old English tēonful, tēonfull (“grievous; vexatious; troublesome; woeful”), equivalent to teen + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: O, whither tends the lamentable spite Of this world's teenful apprehension, Which understands all things amiss, whose light Shines not amidst the dark of their dissension?
ref: 1612, William Shakespeare, A Funeral Elegy:
text: Ne'er the sun might see Me bare who now with bloodshot eyes And teenful heart and cheeks how wan, Gathering bread in beggar's guise, From door to door must wander on.
ref: 1922, Reynold A. Nicholson, Translations of Eastern Poetry and Prose - Page 91:
glosses: Full of grief; harmful; afflicted; troublesome; vexatious
apprizement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apprizements
Etymology: From apprize + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of appraisement.
apprizements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apprizement
hyemation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin hiematio.
Senses: glosses: The passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering.
glosses: The act of affording shelter in winter.
advowee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advowees
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the grandi endeavoured to exploit the estates of the Church by imposing themselves upon them as advowees and devouring their resources.
ref: 1939, Henri Pirenne, Mohammed and Charlemagne, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, page 264:
text: The Custody of Voidances, Presentments, Collations, etc. as Lords and Advowees.
ref: 1691, The case of Exeter College related and vindicated:
glosses: One who has an advowson.
advowees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advowee
on one's bill
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From Billy no mates.
Senses: examples: 2009, The 5th Bentinal, Is the title gone now?, The Liverpool Way
Cygan was only used to sitting on his bill in the changing room cos he was too shit to make it into Arsenal's defence.
glosses: Alone, on one's own.
Related terms: on one's tod
on one's Jack Jones
cassolette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cassolettes
Etymology: From French cassolette, from Spanish cazoleta (“pan”).
Senses: examples: text: Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: A box or vase with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.
examples: text: “Don't you like the word cassolette, Julian?” He supposed Thayer thought she was being clever. Cassolette was also a reference to the natural fragrance of a woman.
ref: 2015, Peter Golden, Wherever There Is Light: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 234:
text: I know you're in a hurry to find out about cassolette, but please first note that “if you use your palm, rub it over your own and your partner's armpit area first.”
ref: 2015, Christopher Buckley, But Enough About You: Essays, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 234:
text: I'm still bemused by the original "cassolette", which turns out to be "the natural perfume of a clean woman: her greatest natural asset after her beauty", and definitely not to be confused with a small hotpot.
ref: 2008, Tamsin Kelly, “The Joy of Sex: Will this sex makeover hit the spot?”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: The natural scent of a woman.
cassolettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cassolette
Altaian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Altaian
form: most Altaian
form: Altayan
Etymology: From Altai + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.
flugelman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flugelmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fugleman.
flugelmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flugelman
deplume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /diːˈpluːm/
Forms: form: deplumes
form: depluming
form: deplumed
form: deplumed
Etymology: From French déplumer, from Latin dēplūmō, from dē- + plūmō (“to cover with feathers”), from plūma (“feather”). Compare dēplūmis (“featherless”).
Senses: examples: text: On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
text: Before the birds are cut and quartered by the butchers they must be totally deplumed.
ref: 2012, Ócha'ni Lele, Sacrificial Ceremonies of Santería:
synonyms: defeather
glosses: To strip of feathers or plumage.
examples: text: the exposure and depluming […] of the leading humbugs of the age
ref: c. 1841, Thomas De Quincey, Libellous Attacks...:
glosses: To lay bare; to expose.
glosses: To condense excess water vapor from the flue gas.
Derived terms: deplumation
deplumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deplume
deplumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deplume
depluming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deplume
dioecism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The devolution of a city into its formerly subordinate constituents, the opposite of synoecism.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: dioeciousness
glosses: The condition of being dioecious.
Derived terms: androdioecism
staurolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more staurolitic
form: most staurolitic
Etymology: From staurolite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: staurolitic bed
text: staurolitic strata
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.
dioeciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dioecious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A dioeciously hermaphrodite plant has flowers structurally perfect, but practically dioecious, those on one plant producing no pollen, and those on another no ovules.
text: dioeciously polygamous
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In a dioecious manner.
Horned God
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Horned God
Senses: topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The second major supernatural figure in the Wiccan religion, a triune god equal to the Goddess, split into the aspects of the Father, Master, and the Sage.
Synonyms: Antlered God
honeybadgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeybadger
honeybadger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeybadgers
Senses: examples: text: The Africans have often mentioned to me that a honeybadger (shidzidzi) when cornered, will stand his ground against any living thing and give a good account of himself into the bargain.
ref: 1984, Gus Adendorff, Hilary Rennie, Wild Company, page 51:
text: ‘Don′t any of you come sneaking around or you′ll feel the size of my fist and a length of sjambok across your bums, ja,’ he shouted, shaking fist and whip; then charged down the boards with the look of an angry honeybadger so that the fisherfolk scattered like gulls.
ref: 1990, Mike Nicol, The Powers That Be, page 58:
text: There were two major projects I was expected to throw myself into with the zeal of a cornered honeybadger.
ref: 2006, Donald Bain, Murder, HE Wrote: A Successful Writer′s Life, page 150:
glosses: Alternative form of honey badger.
socioscientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From socio- + scientific.
Senses: glosses: Relating to society and science.
honey badgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honey badger
heirs apparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heir apparent
aphrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphrometer
naked seeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naked seed
startish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more startish
form: most startish
Etymology: From start + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: startful
glosses: Easily startled; skittish or shy (said especially of a horse.)
retting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rettings
Etymology: From ret + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and similar processes.
glosses: A place where flax is retted; a rettery.
Synonyms: sense: preparation of flax
word: rotting
retting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ret + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ret
rettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retting
soes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soe
duts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dut
republique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: republiques
Senses: examples: text: He lived in the world ſeaventie one years , which was a decrepit age if you conſider his complexion, or his conſummate wiſdome and perfection on of vertue , and his either deſires or hopes to live being but too ſhort a time if you conſider the ſervice that the publique received from him, or the common deſire that was afterward of him becauſe it concerned the moſt excellent republique, that his ſervice ſhould have beene as durable as it was faithfull.
ref: 1651, Fulgenzio Micanzio, The Life of the Most Learned Father Paul, page 201:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of republic.
republiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of republique
enrheum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enrheums
form: enrheuming
form: enrheumed
form: enrheumed
Etymology: From en- + rheum.
Senses: glosses: To affect with a rheum i.e. give someone a cold.
enrheumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enrheum
enrheuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enrheum
enrheums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enrheum
prunello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prunellos
form: prunelloes
Etymology: From French prunelle, diminutive of prune. See prune (“a plum”).
Senses: glosses: A species of dried plum; a prunelle.
glosses: Alternative form of prunella (woollen material)
prunelloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prunello
bandelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandelets
Etymology: From French bandelette, diminutive of bande. See band and bendlet.
Senses: examples: text: The Tænia on the Doric Architrave is called its Bandelet
ref: 1825, William Chambers, A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture:
topics: architecture
glosses: A small band or fillet; any little band or flat moulding, compassing a column, like a ring.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An orthonormal basis that is adapted to geometric boundaries, used in image processing.
bandelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandelet
guilloched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From guilloche + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: guilloched silver
text: guilloched pencil
text: guilloched ribs
text: This example is much richer, yet no less elegant, than the other; the volute, instead of a single spiral, is formed by three; the sculptured echinus beneath is surmounted by a guilloched moulding, and separated from the shaft by a neck […]
ref: 1856, Edward Shaw, The Modern Architect, Or, Every Carpenter His Own Master:
glosses: Wavy or with an intertwining pattern.
cucujo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cucujos
Etymology: From Spanish cocuyo. From Taíno kokuyo.
Senses: synonyms: fire beetle
glosses: Any of a number of species of bioluminescent beetle in the Pyrophorus genus
cucujos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cucujo
confervous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confervous
form: most confervous
Etymology: From conferva + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, consisting of, or resembling confervae.
supraprotest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From supra- + protest.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee
Sprengel pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sprengel pumps
Etymology: Named after the inventor, Hermann Sprengel
Senses: glosses: A kind of vacuum pump in which vacuum is produced by a stream of mercury drops running down a very narrow tube
Sprengel pumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sprengel pump
crinoidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crinoideans
Etymology: Crinoidea + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Crinoidea.
crinoideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crinoidean
setterwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setterworts
Etymology: From setter + wort. The root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle.
Senses: glosses: The bear's-foot (Helleborus foetidus).
setterworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setterwort
croziered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crosiered.
cacholong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cacholongs
Etymology: From French cacholong, said to be from Cach (“the name of a river in Bucharia”) + Kalmyk чолун (çolun, “stone”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A similar variety of opal.
cacholongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cacholong
athermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of athermanous.
Guatemala grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guatemala grasses
Senses: glosses: teosinte (Zea spp.)
synonyms: Guatemalan gama grass
glosses: A grass, Tripsacum laxum.
Guatemala grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Guatemala grass
intrench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intrenches
form: intrenching
form: intrenched
form: intrenched
Senses: examples: text: We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children.
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§120”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
text: Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…]
ref: 1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England, page 269:
glosses: Archaic form of entrench.
Derived terms: unintrenched
intrenching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intrench
intrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intrench
Sabbatarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sabbatarian
gommelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French gommeline, from gomme (“gum”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dextrin
endecane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endecanes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hendecane.
endecanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endecane
politicly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more politicly
form: most politicly
form: politickly
form: politiquely
Etymology: From politic + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I must be ignorant indeed not to know, that the Duchess, ever since you met, hath been most politicly employed in increasing those forces, and sharpening those arms with which she subdued you at first […]
ref: 1731, Jonathan Swift, letter to ???:
synonyms: sagaciously
shrewdly
artfully
glosses: In a politic (shrewd) manner
glosses: Misspelling of politically.
stoolball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nausicaa / With other virgins did at stoolball play.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of stool-ball.
affectuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affectuous
form: most affectuous
Etymology: From Latin affectuosus, from affectus. Compare affectueux. Doublet of affettuoso.
Senses: glosses: passionate or affectionate.
Related terms: affectuously
impartance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impartances
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of impartation.
impartances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impartance
scabbedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English scabbednesse, equivalent to scabbed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being scabby; presence of scabs.; scabbiness
Elphinstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: ‘Good heavens !’ cried Mrs Elphinstone. ‘What is this you are driving us into ?’
ref: 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Penguin Books, published 1962, page 105:
glosses: An English surname.
torminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torminous
form: most torminous
Etymology: From tormina + -ous.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: torminal
glosses: Affected with tormina.
anomuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anomurans
form: anomouran
Etymology: From Anomura + -n.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Anomura.
anomuran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anomuran
form: most anomuran
form: anomouran
Etymology: From Anomura + -n.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen.
anomurans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anomuran
delitescency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The mental organization of the novelist must be characterized, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
synonyms: delitescence
glosses: concealment or hiddenness; seclusion
haemapoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haema- + -poietic.
Senses: examples: text: haemapoietic cells
text: the haemapoietic function of the spleen
text: haemapoietic stem cells
text: the haemapoietic system
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: blood-forming
calyptriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calyptriform
form: most calyptriform
Etymology: From calyptra + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: calyptriform integument
text: calyptriform nanocrystal
text: calyptriform valve
synonyms: calyptrimorphous
glosses: Having the form of a calyptra.