cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chronomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chrono- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: The divination of the best time to do something, or the determination of lucky and unlucky days.
levator ani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levatores ani
Etymology: Latin
Senses: examples: text: He had not mentioned suture of the levatores ani muscles, as he considered it a minor part of the operation.
ref: 1921, The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire, page 279:
text: The levatores ani muscles originate Anal Triangle along the internal aspects of the os coxae.
ref: 1986, Bernard Liebgott, The Anatomical Basis of Dentistry, page 72:
text: Supports of the Uterus The uterus is supported mainly by (1) the tone of the levatores ani muscles and (2) the condensations of pelvic fascia, which form three important ligaments.
ref: 1992, Richard S. Snell, Clinical Anatomy for Medical Students, page 361:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: a broad, thin muscle, situated on the side of the pelvis, that forms part of the pelvic floor. In humans it supports the viscera in pelvic cavity and in quadruped animals with tails it is the muscle used to wag the tail.
Apelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: əpĕʹlēz
ipa: /əˈpɛliːz/
Etymology: From the Latin Apellēs, from the Ancient Greek Ἀπελλῆς (Apellês) (Apellēs, Apelles of Kos, a renowned painter in the time of Alexander the Great).
Senses: glosses: A master artist.
raw_tags: used connotatively
coccygeus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coccygei
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle of the pelvic wall, that in combination with the levator ani forms the pelvic diaphragm.
Derived terms: iliococcygeus
pelvic diaphragm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelvic diaphragms
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The pelvic diaphragm is composed of muscles that separate the pelvic cavity above from the perineal region below.
Synonyms: pelvic floor
apneumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăpnyo͞omăʹtĭk
ipa: /æpnjuːˈmætɪk/
Etymology: From a- + pneumatic.
Senses: examples: an apneumatic lung
an apneumatic operation
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Devoid of air; free from air, or effected by or with exclusion of air.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the nonexistence of soul or spirit; non-spiritual.
Chinese date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese dates
Senses: glosses: The jujube (Ziziphus jujuba).
glosses: The jujube (Ziziphus mauritiana).
Chinese dates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese date
oyster Rockefeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oysters Rockefeller
Etymology: Named after John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), the richest American at the time, because of the richness of the sauce.
Senses: glosses: A baked or broiled oyster topped with various other ingredients: often parsley and other green herbs, a rich butter sauce and breadcrumbs.
wikipedia: John D. Rockefeller
oysters Rockefeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oyster Rockefeller
preshifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + shifted.
Senses: examples: text: […] elaborate masking, XDRAWing, refreshing, bit-shifting, preshifted shape sequences, […]
ref: 1983, InCider, volume 1:
text: The images are preshifted, so that disparity is smaller than 1 pixel per camera displacement.
ref: 2010, Tobias Schuchert, Plant Leaf Motion Estimation Using A 5D Affine Optical Flow Model, page 50:
text: Meanwhile, my good friend Bill Budge, an amazing Apple II games programmer, came up with an incredibly fast way to draw proportional text on the Apple II graphics screen using seven preshifted tables.
ref: 2011, Andy Hertzfeld, Revolution in The Valley, page 47:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Shifted in advance.
solenoglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solenoglyphs
Etymology: From soleno- + glyph.
Senses: glosses: Any of the solenoglyphous snakes.
Coordinate terms: aglyph
opisthoglyph
proteroglyph
solenoglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solenoglyph
threateners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threatener
infralow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infralow
form: most infralow
Etymology: From infra- + low.
Senses: glosses: Lower than conventionally low (frequencies etc.).
teleportage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teleport + -age.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time there is no fantasy, as there is in the teleportage of science fiction, or in the Greek myth that requires the insemination of a woman by a swan.
ref: 2010, Jeffrey Boss, Human Consciousness of God in the Book of Job, page 158:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Teleportation.
ordinarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordinarities
Etymology: From ordinary + -ity; compare French ordinarité.
Senses: glosses: Ordinariness: the property of being ordinary.
do not pass go, do not collect $200
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: do not pass go, do not collect £200
Etymology: From the Monopoly game, where it is written on cards that send one directly to jail.
Senses: examples: text: We will all go directly to our own respective Valhallas/Do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dallahs
ref: 1959, Tom Lehrer, "We Will All Go Together When We Go":
text: The only people who get through the doors without are couriers, and they get escorted all the way: make their delivery, get a signature then straight back out - do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars.
ref: 2002, Christopher Brookmyre, Not the End of the World, page 230:
text: Two months later I hit the second knuckle on my pointer finger – six more stitches, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars – and damaged a tendon in the process.
ref: 2005, Ralph Scherder, The Taxidermist's Son, page 160:
text: I'm getting a part on a pilot. I don't have to audition — do not pass go, do not collect $200, just go straight to acting.
ref: 2010, John Scalzi, Agent to the Stars, page 290:
glosses: A phrase indicating that something must be done directly without delays or deviations.
Related terms: don't pass go
get out of jail free card
proctodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From procto- + -dynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition of episodic rectal pain, caused by spasm of the levator ani muscle. Also known as levator ani syndrome or as levator syndrome.
lifes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life
raw_tags: not standard in any era
examples: text: My lifes Cataſtrophe is at an end, / The Staffe whereon my ſickly Loue did leane / And which from falling (ſtill) did him defend, / Is through miſchance in ſunder broken cleane. / Gone is my Mediatrix, my beſt Aduocate, / Who vſde for me to interceſsionate.
ref: 1598, Robert Tofte, “The Third Part of the Moneths Mind of a Melancholy Lover.”, in Alba. The Month's Minde of a Melancholy Lover. (Poetry), published 1880, →OCLC, page 106:
text: Duncane is in his Graue:
 After Lifes fitfull Feuer, he ſleepes well,
 Treaſon ha's done his worſt: not Steele, not Poyſon,
 Mallice domeſtique, forraine Leuie, nothing,
 Can touch him further.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 140, column 2:
text: The heavy hand of the high Thunderer
 Shall light on thee; and thou I doubt ſhalt be
 His Furies object, and ſhalt teſtifie
 By thine infamous lifes accurſed ſtate,
 VVhat now thy ſhame-leſs lips ſophiſticate.
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His Second Weeke, […]. Noah. […].] The Arke. The I. Part of the II. Day of the II. Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 302:
glosses: genitive of life
Related terms: lowlifes
low-lifes
no-lifes
still lifes
lifes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of life
mammee apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammee apples
form: mamey apple
Senses: glosses: A South American fruit tree, Mammea americana, native to the Caribbean.
glosses: The fruit of this tree.
Synonyms: mamey
mammee apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammee apple
mameyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamey
McAlpine's Fusiliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Sir Robert McAlpine, a major employer of Irish workmen, and (possibly) the military appearance of a group of men with shovels over their shoulders.
Senses: examples: text: He'd left his homeland at fifteen, seeking his fortune on the motorways of Britain with McAlpine's Fusiliers before migrating to Sydney.
ref: 2006, Kevin Noble, Baghdad Trucker, Durham: Northern Writers, page 92:
glosses: The Irish immigrant labour force in Britain in the early 20th century.
palatal hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palatal hooks
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:palatal hook.
qualifier: orthodontics
glosses: A small hook for attaching elastic bands on the internal side of braces fixed to the upper teeth.
examples: text: In the Zographensis one finds pьřěaxǫ (John 6:52). Here the liquid is marked with the palatal hook.
ref: 1962, Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, V, page 60:
text: Kalnyn′ states […] that in the best manuscripts […] the instances of marking of palatal l and n in general exceeds those of failing to do so; moreover, the marking of non-palatal consonants with a palatal hook is rare.
ref: 1968, Robert Magidoff et al., editors, Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, in Honor of Boris O. Unbegaun, page 42:
text: In Czech, [the háček] is actually a variant of the palatal hook, which can take the form of caron or apostrophe.
ref: 2004, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, 3rd edition, page 304:
text: l-caron/l-palatal hook
ref: 2009, Theodore Rosendorf, The Typographic Desk Reference, page 130:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: = háček (when it takes the form of a prime)
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A hamiform diacritic ⟨◌̡⟩ formerly used to mark consonantal palatalisation; superseded by the superscript jay ⟨◌ʲ⟩.
palatal hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palatal hook
sumti tcita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /suːm.ti.tʃiː.tɑː/
Forms: form: sumti tcita
Etymology: From Lojban sumti tcita, tanru (“meaning/phrase compound”) spelling for sumtcita.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, a safer statement than yours is the claim that a fi'o construction can be devised that is semantically equivalent to any sumti tcita needed which is NOT in the lexeme BAI set.
ref: 1991 May 13, Bob LeChevalier, “Jim Carter on lujvo place structures”, in lojban-list (Usenet):
text: When the negated tense is a sumti tcita, “nai” ne­gation indicates that the stated relationship does not hold:
ref: 1997, JW Cowan, The complete Lojban language, page 245:
text: We have seen in Lesson 5 that sumti tcita and tense cmavo can be used to add new sumti to a selbri.
ref: 2001, Robin Turner, Nick Nicholas, Lojban For Beginners:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a (Lojban analogue of a) preposition; a "sumti label" for extra sumti (“arguments”) of the selbri which the sumti tcita modifies. (By "extra sumti" are meant sumti which have not been assigned places in the selbri (“predicate”)'s place structure).
kaiserlich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kaiserlich
form: most kaiserlich
Etymology: From German kaiserlich.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to the Kaiser
flatling
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flatling
form: most flatling
form: flatlings
form: flatlong
Etymology: From Middle English flatling, flatlyng, flatlynge, (also as flatlynges), equivalent to flat + -ling.
Senses: glosses: Flatly, plainly.
glosses: In a flat position.
examples: text: Tho with her sword on him she flatling strooke, / In signe of true subjection to her powre […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: With the flat side (e.g. of a weapon).
flattings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatting
flatlings
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flatlings
form: most flatlings
Etymology: From Middle English flatlynges, equivalent to flat + -ling + -s.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flatling.
brown rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: A fungal disease of stone fruit such as peaches and nectarines, caused by the fungus Monilinia fructicola
closh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
homophone: cloche
Etymology: From Dutch klossen (“to play at bowls”).
Senses: examples: text: forbidding the same persons to play at tables, tennis, closh, dice
ref: 1627, Thomas Gataker, Of the Nature and Use of Lots:
glosses: The game of ninepins.
closh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
homophone: cloche
Etymology: Compare French clocher (“to limp”).
Senses: examples: text: To heale the closh, or founder in the feet of Cattell
ref: 1633, Leonard Mascall, he Gouernment of Cattell:
glosses: A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis; founder.
pickpennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickpenny
pickpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickpennies
Etymology: From pick + penny.
Senses: glosses: A miser.
examples: text: […]and therefore lie wholly at the mercy of him whom the greatness of his Title and Pontifical Pomp, exceeding so infinitely his just Revenues, must make a severe exacter of Tribute from them that are most appropriately under his power, and thereby put them to unworthy shifts and sharkings upon the people by pious, or rather impious, Sleights and Frauds, he sending out and dispersing these Birds of his in numerous flocks, to be his hungry Pick-peny's throughout the whole Pastorage of the Empire.
ref: 1664, Dr. Henry More, A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, book 2, chapter 9, section 8, page 143:
glosses: A sharper
Synonyms: alt: miser
word: nipfarthing
word: pinchpenny
sense: sharper
word: cheat
word: swindler
reluctation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪlʌkˈteɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: reluctations
Etymology: From (the stem of) Late Latin reluctatio, from the participle stem of Latin reluctārī.
Senses: examples: text: The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man ; so that as we are to obey his law though we find a reluctation in our will , so we are to believe his word
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Resistance, struggle.
examples: text: But the very next day, by an unreasoning impulse to which he yielded almost mechanically, without reluctation, he found himself seated before the misty orb.
ref: 1933, Clark Ashton Smith, Ubbo-Sathla:
glosses: Reluctance, unwillingness.
Septembrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Septembrists
Etymology: French septembriste.
Senses: glosses: An participant in the September Massacres.
glosses: A supporter of the liberal constitutionalists in the Liberal Wars that took place between 1828 and 1834.
Related terms: septembrize
septembrizer
Septembrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Septembrist
occasionwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From occasion + -wear.
Senses: glosses: clothing to be worn on special occasions
levulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levulins
form: laevulin
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, that yields levulose on decomposition.
Derived terms: levulinic
endeixis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔνδειξις (éndeixis). See endeictic.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the endeixis was the proper form in the case of persons banished for the crime of homicide; of habitual contemners of religion who were caught intruding at any sacred rite; and mroe especially of public debtors who had wrongfully appropriated public funds. In all these cases the guilt to the accused was presumed, unless he could show grounds entitling him to a hearing and to a regular trial.
ref: 1836, Heinrich Hase, The Public and Private Life of the Ancient Greeks, page 295:
text: In Endeixis (denunciation) the accused was beyond the reach of the prosecutor and his summons.
ref: 1892, E Poste, Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens:
text: Apart from this remark there is no evidence that prosecutors were elected for the procedure of endeixis. (Hansen notes that prosecutors were elected for the novel procedure of apophasis, as is evident from the scandal concerning Harpalos, and suggests that prosecutors could be elected for an endeixis.)
ref: 1993, Raphael Sealey, Demosthenes and His Time: A Study in Defeat, page 238:
glosses: A legal procedure in Ancient Greece in which a wrongdoer is denounced to the magistrate.
Related terms: endeictic
marsupion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of marsupium.
needment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needments
Etymology: From need + -ment.
Senses: synonyms: must
necessity
glosses: Something needed or wanted.
examples: text: His wearie limbes upon: and eke behind,
His scrip did hang, in which his needments he did bind
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: We went staff in hand, without knapsacks, and carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief
ref: 1847, William Wordsworth, Autobiographical Memoranda:
text: Rarely, indeed, did it occur to this man of great resource to enter a shop like anyone else and pay down at the counter what was demanded. His domestic supplies of food and liquor, his clothing, his casual needments, were all procured through irregular channels, by the exercise of wonder-craft, experience, and audacity.
ref: 1895, George Gissing, Nobodies at Home: Humble Felicity:
glosses: outfit; necessary luggage
needments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needment
passless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsləs/
Etymology: From pass + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Behold what passless rocks on either hand
ref: 1656, Abraham Cowley, The Plagues of Egypt:
glosses: Offering no way to pass; impassable.
examples: text: Demonstrators were instructed to leave their passes at their homes and present themselves passless at police stations.
ref: 1987, Michael Dingake, My Fight Against Apartheid, page 57:
glosses: Without a pass (authorization document).
conny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conny
form: most conny
Etymology: Compare canny, cunning.
Senses: examples: text: As down the bray he march'd with ample stride;
David as conny a man as one might see,
With whom he often crack'd with muckle glee
ref: 1763, Charles Churchill, The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral:
glosses: Brave; fine; canny.
air raid siren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air raid sirens
form: air-raid siren
Senses: examples: text: It's Christmas at ground zero / There's music in the air / The sleigh bells are ringing / And the carolers are singing / While the air raid sirens blare
ref: 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:
text: "In Kyiv we stayed overnight at a hotel before boarding a Ukrainian Railways train to Kishinev (Chisinau). When we arrived at Kyiv station, an air raid siren went off and the police started rushing people to the shelter. I said to an officer that we would miss our train if we went to the shelter, and he allowed us to go to the platform. The train was there. It departed on time. Our Sleeper car and compartment were what I expected. There were two beds with a table in between. The train arrived in Kishinev as scheduled.
ref: 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, pages 48-49:
glosses: A siren that makes a very loud alarm sound to warn the population of an upcoming air raid.
Synonyms: civil defence siren
tornado siren
candescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candescences
Senses: glosses: incandescence
candescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candescence
hanselines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English haynselyns.
Senses: examples: text: The old tunic, over-tunic, and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cote-hardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines, and many other wondrous garments, party-coloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the king.
ref: 1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, “How the King Greeted His Seneschal of Calais”, in Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: A sort of men's breeches
engore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈɡɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: engores
form: engoring
form: engored
form: engored
Etymology: From en- + gore.
Senses: examples: text: deadly engored of a great wild Bore
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38:
glosses: To gore; to pierce; to lacerate.
examples: text: Cut out this arrow; and the blood, that is engored and dry.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: To make bloody.
engored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engore
engores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engore
engoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engore
phonographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonographists
Senses: glosses: A phonographer.
phonographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonographist
syndesmography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σύνδεσμος (súndesmos, “band, bond”) + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: desmology (study of the ligaments).
enflower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈflaʊə/
ipa: /ɪnˈflaʊɚ/
rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: enflowers
form: enflowering
form: enflowered
form: enflowered
Etymology: From en- + flower.
Senses: examples: text: Millaine theſe od'rous and enfloured fields / Are none of thine, [...]
ref: c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
synonyms: beflower
glosses: To cover or deck with flowers.
enflowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enflower
enflowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enflower
enflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enflower
disanchor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: disanchors
form: disanchoring
form: disanchored
form: disanchored
Etymology: From dis- + anchor: compare French désancrer.
Senses: examples: text: Euen Mariners, which are called with the course and force of winds, being in an Hauen, wil not disanchor, nor depart out of the Hauen, without a prosperous wind
ref: 1600, Robert Cawdry, A Treasure or store-house of similies:
glosses: To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor.
disanchored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disanchor
disanchoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disanchor
disanchors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disanchor
commutatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more commutatively
form: most commutatively
Etymology: From commutative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a commutative manner.
Derived terms: noncommutatively
spermatospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatospores
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of spermospore.
spermatospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatospore
titterel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titterels
Senses: glosses: A bird, the whimbrel.
titterels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titterel
turrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌɹəl/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.əl/
Forms: form: turrels
Etymology: Compare Old French touroul (“a little wooden instrument to fasten doors or windows”).
Senses: examples: text: If the foreign body is so firmly fixed as to resist traction, or if it is impossible to seize it, we will find it useful, if its composition will permit, to employ a gimlet or turrel, the instrument being introduced by gliding it along the left index finger.
ref: 1881, Alfred Poulet, A Treatise on Foreign Bodies in Surgical Practice - Volume 1, page 257:
text: There were plenty of tools in the carpenter's chest, bags of nails, turrels, screws, and iron nuts and bands of all sorts for repairing the yacht.
ref: 1888, Jules Verne, Adrift in Pacific or, Two Years' Vacation:
text: Guyon (Fig. 145, a, b, c, d ) bores a turrel ( a cooper's tool ) into the vault of the cranium and trephines with the crown of the instrument set over this.
ref: 1890, Franz Winckel, A Text-book of obstetrics, page 660:
glosses: A tool used primarily by coopers to bore holes.
turrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turrel
hetaerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hetairism
form: hetarism
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑταῖρος (hetaîros, “companion”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A theoretical early state of human society (as postulated by 19th-century anthropologists) which was characterized by the absence of the institution of marriage in any form, and where women were the common property of their tribe, and the children never knew their fathers.
glosses: An Ancient Greek custom according to which a man's wife was forbidden to accompany him to many public events, including the banquets or symposia which made up a large part of Greek social life, and where men sought out the company of courtesans or hetaerae instead.
Synonyms: sense: theoretical early state of society
word: primitive promiscuity
Derived terms: hetaerist
hetaerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hetaerists
Senses: glosses: A practitioner or advocate of hetaerism.
hetaerists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hetaerist
coevous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kəʊˈiːvəs/
Forms: form: coaevous
Senses: examples: text: some Other Thing Coevous to it
ref: 1667, Robert South, a sermon preached upon Prov. X. 9. at Westminster Abbey:
synonyms: coeval
glosses: contemporary; of the same age
crinigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Forms: form: more crinigerous
form: most crinigerous
Etymology: From Latin criniger; crinis (“hair”) + gerere (“to bear”).
Senses: glosses: hairy, or related to hair.
enchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἔγχυμα (énkhuma, “infusion”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.
ensober
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsəʊbə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: ensobers
form: ensobering
form: ensobered
form: ensobered
Etymology: From en- + sober.
Senses: examples: , "The Mercy of the Divine Judgments"
sad accidents to ensober his spirits
glosses: To make sober.
ensobered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ensober
ensobering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ensober
ensobers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ensober
Lampadist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lampadists
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: One who competed Lampadrome.
Lampadists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lampadist
euosmite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eu- + Ancient Greek ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fossil resin with a strong pleasant odour.
deturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deturbations
Senses: glosses: The act of deturbating.
deturbations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deturbation
misimprovement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misimprovements
Etymology: From mis- + improvement.
Senses: glosses: improper usage; use for bad purposes.
Related terms: misimprove
misimprovements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misimprovement
uncling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌŋk(ə)lɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncle
uncling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌŋk(ə)lɪŋ/
ipa: /ʌnˈklɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʌŋk(ə)lɪŋ/
Forms: form: unclings
form: unclinging
form: unclung
form: unclung
Etymology: From un- + cling.
Senses: examples: text: unleſſe it be the lowest lees of a canonicall infection livergrown to their fides; which perhaps will never uncling
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: To cease from clinging or adhering.
unclings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncling
unclung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncling
syphilitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more syphilitically
form: most syphilitically
Etymology: From syphilitic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: syphilitically affected
text: syphilitically diseased
text: syphilitically rotten
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: In a syphilitic manner; with venereal disease.
rhabdite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdites
Etymology: From rhabd- + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The rhabdite-forming cells are situated in the parenchyma underneath the longitudinal subepidermal muscle layer.
ref: 2017, R. Sluys, A Monograph of the Marine Triclads, page 6:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A minute smooth rod-like or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.
glosses: Any mineral that is characterized by an elongated, rod-like or cylindrical crystal form.
examples: text: In 1882 he analyzed the phosphides in the Cranboume meteorite and found that rhabdite corresponded to the formula (Fe4Ni3)P, whereas schreibersite had the formula (Fe2Ni)?P.
ref: 2023, John G. Burke, Cosmic Debris: Meteorites in History:
glosses: A rhabdophane found in some meteorites.
rhabdites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhabdite
communalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more communalistic
form: most communalistic
Etymology: From communal + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: communalistic conception of married life
text: communalistic society
text: communalistic system
glosses: Pertaining to communalism or sharing.
regible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪbl̩/
Etymology: From the post-Classical Latin regibilis.
Senses: examples: text: If occasion require, the same [forwardness of manhood and boldness] ought to be regible, advised, and considerate.
ref: 1930, William Douglas Simpson, Julian: The Apostate, pages 50–51:
glosses: That may be ruled; governable, tractable.
transanimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transanimates
form: transanimating
form: transanimated
form: transanimated
Etymology: From trans- + animate.
Senses: examples: text: That Maxime is true : Love transanimates into the thing loved.
ref: 1631, Richard Brathwaite, The English Gentleman:
glosses: To transfer a soul conveyed from another body or being.
Derived terms: transanimation
transanimated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transanimate
transanimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transanimate
transanimating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transanimate
imbecilitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbecilitates
form: imbecilitating
form: imbecilitated
form: imbecilitated
Etymology: From imbecility + -ate (verb-forming suffix); compare -itate and Medieval Latin imbēcillitō.
Senses: examples: text: The man, being skilful in natural magick, did use all the artifices his subtilty could devise to imbecilitate the earl.
ref: 1653, Arthur Wilson, The History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King James I:
glosses: To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble.
imbecilitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbecilitate
imbecilitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbecilitate
imbecilitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbecilitate
mistemper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistempers
form: mistempering
form: mistempered
form: mistempered
Etymology: From mis- + temper.
Senses: examples: text: [T]his inundation of mistempered humour […]
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act VI, scene i]:
text: From her miſtempered head ſhe teares her louely Treſſes faſt, / And beareth on her Iuorie breſts, and caſts her on the ground, […]
ref: 1602, William Warner, “The Second Booke. Chapter IX.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: To temper (something) ill; to disorder.
mistempered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistemper
mistempering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistemper
mistempers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistemper
pneumotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pneumo- + therapy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: inhalation therapy
glosses: The treatment of disease by inhalations of compressed or rarefied gases.
Related terms: pneumotherapeutic
pneumotherapeutics
supplicancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: supplication
unmortised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mortised.
Senses: glosses: Not mortised.
doole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: dooles
Senses: examples: text: Till on a day, as in his wonted wise
His doole he made, there chaunst a turtle
Dove To come where he his dolors did devise
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: sorrow; dole
glosses: A rest; a short nap.
glosses: A small conical heap of earth, used in Sussex to mark the bounds of farms and parishes in the downs.
Derived terms: dooleful
effront
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: effronts
form: effronting
form: effronted
form: effronted
Senses: examples: text: I am naturally bashful; nor hath conversation, age, or travel, been able to effront, or enhardem me.
ref: 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:
glosses: To give self-confidence to.
Related terms: effrontery
effronted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of effront
effronting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of effront
effronts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of effront
presignified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of presignify
presignifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of presignify
presignify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presignifies
form: presignifying
form: presignified
form: presignified
Etymology: From Latin praesignificare, from prae (“before”) + significare (“to signify”).
Senses: examples: text: That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:
glosses: To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
presignifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of presignify
cashierer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kæˈʃɪəɹə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: cashierers
Etymology: From cashier + -er.
Senses: examples: text: cashierers of monarchs
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who rejects, discards, or dismisses.
cashierers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cashierer
opianyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From opianic acid + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: meconin
water chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water chickens
Etymology: Compare French poule d'eau and Spanish polla de agua
Senses: glosses: The moorhen
water chickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water chicken
orthopedic surgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthopedic surgeons
Senses: glosses: An orthopedist.
avowee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avowees
Etymology: From French avoué. Compare advowee, advocate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of advowee
Related terms: advowson
avowees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avowee
chiragra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin chīragra, from Ancient Greek χειράγρα (kheirágra).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Gout in the hand.
Derived terms: chiragric
Related terms: gonagra
podagra
defiliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌfɪliːˈ(j)eɪʃən/
Forms: form: defiliations
Etymology: From Latin de- + filius (“son”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the tales of fairy-spiriting may shadow a lamentable verity, and the recovery of the young Montagu be but a solitary instance of good fortune, out of many irreparable and hopeless defiliations.
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The abstraction of a child from its parents.
Related terms: defiliate
defiliations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defiliation
moorband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moor + band.
Senses: glosses: moorpan
covenstead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌvn̩ˌstɛd/
Forms: form: covensteads
Etymology: From coven + stead; first attested in 1969.
Senses: examples: text: He began being late for meetings and, as some members travelled quite a distance to the covenstead and had to leave promptly afterwards, Alex took him to task.
ref: 1969, June Johns, King of the witches: the world of Alex Sanders, page 108:
text: 1986, Raymond Buckland, Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, link
It used to be that one covendom could not overlap another, so one covenstead would never be closer than six miles to the next.
text: 1993, Janet Thompson, Of Witches: Celebrating the Goddess As a Solitary Pagan, page 29,
If that is the case, then the home of the high Priestess is likely to be referred to as the covenstead.
text: The covenstead is the meeting place of a coven.
ref: 1999, James R. Lewis, Witchcraft today: an encyclopedia of Wiccan and neopagan traditions, page 66:
topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location.
examples: text: For the last year, the entire covenstead had noticed an increase in the number of outsiders on their properties.
ref: 1995, Silver RavenWolf, Beneath a Mountain Moon, published 2005, page 104:
text: In connection with these principles the Dianic Covenstead had a very effective series of exercises and techniques for regaining kinship and attunement with nature.
ref: 2006, Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America, page 128:
text: It was easy to say they'd all get along fine—join other covensteads or live free like most everybody else, but the truth was that joining a covenstead was no easy task, and most wouldn't know what to do with themselves without a witch to serve.
ref: 2009, Diana Pharaoh Francis, Bitter Night: A Horngate Witches Book, page 53:
topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Wiccan congregation.
durity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin duritas, from durus (“hard”).
Senses: examples: text: it cometh short of their compactness and durity; and, therefore, requireth not the emery, as the saphire, granite, and topaz, but will receive impression from steel, in a manner like the turquoise.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: hardness; firmness
examples: text: […]surrendred to the said John by the said William by durity and menaces
ref: 1689, Richard Braithwaite, Remembrances of Methods, Orders, and Proceedings […] in the House of Lords:
glosses: harshness; cruelty
excusements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excusement
covensteads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covenstead
disallied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disally
disallies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disally
disally
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsəˈlaɪ/
/dɪsˈælaɪ/
Forms: form: disallies
form: disallying
form: disallied
form: disallied
Etymology: From dis- + ally: compare French désallier.
Senses: examples: text: chicken-pox and small-pox[…]disallying the two diseases. Yet since that day there have never been wanting those who have disputed the validity of the distinction
ref: 1868, Sir John Russell Reynolds, A System of Medicine:
text: As one on earth disfleshed and disallied
From breath or blood corruptible
ref: 1865, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon (poem):
glosses: To separate
examples: text: Nor both ſo looſly diſally'd
 Thir nuptials,
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 63:
glosses: to break off or cancel
disallying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disally
priestism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priestisms
Etymology: From priest + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.
priestisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priestism
endenizen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endenizens
form: endenizening
form: endenizened
form: endenizened
Etymology: From en- + denizen.
Senses: examples: text: For it is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter:
glosses: To bestow the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize.
endenizened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endenizen
endenizening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of endenizen
endenizens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of endenizen
infilm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: infilms
form: infilming
form: infilmed
form: infilmed
Etymology: From in- + film.
Senses: examples: text: to infilm one metal with another in the process of gilding
text: to infilm the glass of a mirror
text: infilm zinc
glosses: To cover with a film or thin coating.
infilmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of infilm
infilming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of infilm
infilms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of infilm
bespirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespirts
form: bespirting
form: bespirted
form: bespirted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bespurt.
bespirted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bespirt
bespirting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bespirt
bespirts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bespirt
tetrazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrazones
Senses: examples: text: Ethyl tetrazone is a colourless liquid with an odour of leeks.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of tetrazene
synonyms: word: tetrazene
tetrazones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrazone