cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
physiogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physiogenies
Etymology: Simplified learned borrowing from German Physiontogenie, itself from physio- + Ontogenie; equivalent to a reduction of physio- + ontogeny to physio- (“nature”) + -geny (“origin”). The simplification means that the term is also used to translate German Physiogenie, the distinction between Physiontogenie and Physiogenie not being made in English.
Senses: examples: text: Es wird daher erst die Aufgabe einer zukünftigen Physiogenie sein, die Entwickelungsgeschichte der Functionen mit gleichem Eifer und Erfolge in Angriff zu nehmen, wie dies für die Entwickelungsgeschichte der Formen von der Morphogenie längst geschehen ist.
ref: 1874, Ernst Haeckel, “Das Grundgesetz der organischen Entwickelung” (chapter I), in Anthropogenie; oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen. Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Grundzüge der Menschlichen. Keimes- und Stammes-geschichte, volume 1, page 15; translated as “The Fundamental Law of the Evolution of Organisms”, in The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny. From the German of Ernst Haeckel., 1897, page 21:
english: It will, therefore, be the task of a future Physiogeny to grasp the history of the evolution of the functions with the same earnestness, and with the same success, with which Morphogeny has long ago undertaken the study of the history of the evolution of forms.
translation: It will, therefore, be the task of a future Physiogeny to grasp the history of the evolution of the functions with the same earnestness, and with the same success, with which Morphogeny has long ago undertaken the study of the history of the evolution of forms.
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topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: theory of recapitulation
glosses: The study of the evolution of functions and vital activities by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.
Hypernyms: germ history
Coordinate terms: morphogeny
gourdful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gourdfuls
form: gourdsful
Etymology: From gourd + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Mother, make Harry bring me a gourdful fresh from the spring.
ref: 1921, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, Macaria:
text: She had been milked only a few hours before, and so he got only a gourdful from her.
ref: 1909, William Dean Howells, Boy Life:
text: Cephas got a gourdful of water from the pail in the sink, and carried it carefully over to the table.
ref: 1900, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Pembroke:
text: I had a grim sense of amusement on finding that the old woman was not deaf, for she went out, and presently came back with a gourdful, which I eagerly drank.
ref: 1866, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866:
glosses: As much as a gourd wili carry
cyanosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See cyanic and -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Native sulphate of copper.
erythroleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”) + Latin oleum (“oil”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from orchil.
grenadilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grenadillas
Senses: examples: text: On these plains, too, you will find the bushy oleander, many varieties of Jerusalem thorn and African rose, the bright scarlet of the cordium, bowers of jessamine, vines of grenadilla, and the silver and silky leaves of the portlandia.
ref: 1852, Mrs. David Osborne, The World of Waters:
glosses: African blackwood, a tree of species Dalbergia melanoxylon, found in Africa, valued for its timber.
glosses: The wood obtained from this plant, blackwood, which is particularly used for making musical instruments.
examples: text: Here and there we found a European farm, marked in the distance by the waving tops of the gum-trees, with the low wooden house festooned by the brilliant mauve blossoms of the climbing bougainvillea, and the garden enclosed by hedges of grenadilla, whose fruit is much eaten in South Africa.
ref: 1899, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa:
glosses: Alternative form of granadilla.
Synonyms: mpingo
grevious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grevious
form: most grevious
Senses: examples: text: Then there was a rich man in the mount of Carmel that hight Nabal, and on a time he sheared and clipped his sheep, to whom David sent certain men, and bade them say that David greeted him well, and whereas aforetimes his shepherds kept his sheep in desert, he never was grevious to them, ne they lost not much as a sheep as long as they were with us, and that he might ask his servants for they could tell, and that he would now in their need send them what it pleased him.
ref: 1903, Philip P. Wells, Bible Stories and Religious Classics:
text: There is found the keynote of the grevious native government in an incident of the date of 1841 by which "the foreign relations of the government became involved with the schemes of a private firm.
ref: 1898, Murat Halstead, The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,:
text: Their reading is accurate, their time good, and their melody frequently constitutes a treat which would do a power of good to those who hear the vocalisation of many ordinary psalm-singers whose great object through life is to kill old tunes and inflict grevious bodily harm upon new ones.
ref: 1869, Atticus, Our Churches and Chapels:
qualifier: nonstandard outside dialects
glosses: Alternative spelling of grievous.
greystone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greystones
Etymology: From grey + stone.
Senses: examples: text: The walls were of native greystone in its natural roughness; all over the front and one angle the American ivy climbed and waved, mounting to the tower; while at the back, the closer clinging Irish ivy covered the little "apse," and creeping round the corner, was advancing to the windows, and promising to case the first one in a loving frame of its own.
ref: 1865, Susan Warner, Melbourne House, Volume 1:
text: Here and there the bogland showed a darker tint, and at his feet, cupped out in the smooth greystone, lay a sheet of water.
ref: 1919, H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile, Mufti:
text: An ancient packhorse bridge over the River Derwent leads to the greystone cottages and riverside parish church of Baslow.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 52:
text: 21 SATURDAY Thirty-nine years ago, Margaret Burroughs founded the DuSable Museum of History and Art on the first floor of her South Michigan Avenue greystone, with the pantry serving as its library.
ref: 2000 October 20, Cara Jepsen, “Datebook”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative form of graystone.
grinde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Take of Linet two grains, of Musk three, of Ambergreece four, and the oyl of Bems a pretty quantity; grinde them all upon a Marble stone fit for that purpose; then with a brush or sponge rake them over, and it will sweeten them very well; your Gloves or Jerkins must first be washed in red Rose-water, and when they are almost dry, stretch them forth smooth, and lay on the Perfumes.
ref: 1671, anonymous author, A Queens Delight:
text: The other is to warme the water; and then, when you have put it into a pot, or dish, as much Chocolate as you thinke fit, put in a little of the warme water, and then grinde it well with the molinet; and when it is well ground, put the rest of the warme water to it; and so drinke it with Sugar.
ref: 1652, Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, Chocolate= or, An Indian Drinke:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of grind.
grone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grones
form: groning
form: groned
form: groned
Senses: examples: text: Dead is Sansfoy, his vitall paines are past, Though greeved ghost for vengeance deepe do grone: He lives, that shall him pay his dewties last,[*] 440 And guiltie Elfin blood shall sacrifice in hast.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of groan.
growen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Our soule deliuered out of this foule & filthie prison, where, by long continuing it is growen into an habite of crookednes, shall againe draw her owne breath, recognize her ancient dwelling, and againe remember her former glory & dignity.
ref: 1592, Philippe de Mornay, A Discourse of Life and Death:
glosses: past participle of grow
guttery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guttery
form: most guttery
Etymology: From gutter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Its guttery flare exposed a bed, with a thin mattress and a skimpy cover, shoved close up under the sloping wall; a sprained chair on its last legs; an old horsehide trunk; a shaky washstand of cheap yellow pine, garnished forth with an ewer and a basin; a limp, frayed towel; and a minute segment of pale pink soap.
ref: 1913, Irvin S. Cobb, The Escape of Mr. Trimm:
text: I am on picket, and writing in the guard-tent by a guttery lantern.
ref: 1900, Erskine Childers, In the Ranks of the C.I.V.:
glosses: Having a guttering flame; flickering and weak.
examples: text: On the Warlocks' early records, for all that the music was grim and dark and guttery, there was a lightness and a sense of fun in the totally over-the-top playing, each repetitive, maddening, Chinese-water-torture ching-ching-ching drawn out so far past the point of absurdity you could imagine strobe lights flashing off the band's shit-eating grins.
ref: 2005 October 21, Monica Kendrick, “Wait for It”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Dark and brooding.
examples: text: DB okay for one time laughs. at the crass, guttery humour.
ref: 2011 July 1, “Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap Movie Review”, in Times of India:
text: The more guttery bit of our mind wants to break into a disco remix of 'Ranbir and Priyanka sitting in a tree…'
ref: 2011 January 26, Hafsah Sarfraz, “Banned: Slackistan to address red flags before allowed screening”, in The News International:
glosses: Vulgar; salacious or crude.
guttery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutteries
Etymology: From gutter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In large abattoirs, the triperies and gutteries should preferably be situated under the slaughtering halls and in direct contact with them, by means of a system of chutes.
ref: 1957, Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Meat Hygiene, Meat hygiene, page 168:
glosses: The part of an abattoir used for emptying the gut of its contents; tripery.
cercarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜːˈkɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /sɝˈkɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more cercarian
form: most cercarian
Etymology: Cercariae + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of, like, or relating to cercariae.
cercarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜːˈkɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /sɝˈkɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: cercarians
Etymology: Cercariae + -an
Senses: glosses: A cercaria.
cercarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cercarian
ptiloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptilosis
ptilosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ptiloses
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin ptilōsis, from the Ancient Greek πτῐ́λωσῐς (ptĭ́lōsĭs).
Senses: examples: text: Pterylography must be based on the distribution of the follicles, for the ptilosis as seen externally does not reflect the actual pterylosis.
ref: 2013, Donald S. Farner, Avian Biology, volume 2, page 31:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The appearance or study of feathers on a bird, including factors such as their texture or shape.
examples: text: The state of the lid, when deprived of the eyelashes, has been called ptilosis or alopecia ; the effect of the removal is very inconsiderable, and unless you look closely to the lid of a person of light hair, you can hardly distinguish whether the eyelashes are wanting or not.
ref: 1826, The Lancet - Volume 10, page 323:
text: This is an aggravated form of the last disease, and presents ulceration and induration of the edges of the eye: lids, so as to cause the cilia, or lashes to fall out—ptilosis.
ref: 1836, London Medical and Surgical Journal - Volumes 8-9, page 677:
text: Loss of the eye-lashes, (ptilosis, madarosis, alopecia.) -- Destruction of the bulbs by ulceration or by injury causes permanent loss of the cilia, which may be either total or partial.
ref: 1843, Sir William Lawrence, Isaac Hays, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye, page 124:
text: There may be ulceration and notching (ptilosis) of the lid margin (Figure 1.3).
ref: 2012, Kenneth C. Chern, Michael A. Saidel, Ophthalmology Review Manual, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Loss of the eyelashes, due to ulceration or other damage to the follicles.
Related terms: sense: properties of feathers
word: pterylosis
sense: loss of eyebrows
word: alopecia
sense: loss of eyebrows
word: madarosis
hammerstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammerstones
Etymology: From hammer + stone.
Senses: examples: text: Striking a hand-held isotropic block or cobble (a core) with a hammerstone initiates a cone-shaped crack at roughly 60° from the axis of force, exemplified by the hole in a plate glass window made by a pellet gun (18, 19 ).
ref: 2001 March 2, Stanley H. Ambrose, “Paleolithic Technology and Human Evolution”, in Science, volume 291, number 5509, →DOI, pages 1748–1753:
text: On the other hand, in the same crannog, a hammerstone broken in two was found, each half in a different place, as were two parts of a figurine at Dumbuck.
ref: 1905, Andrew Lang, The Clyde Mystery:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of stone used to hit or strike in a similar way to a modern-day hammer.
harmonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harmonical
form: most harmonical
Senses: examples: text: The CGLE is a general model that describes the behavior of reaction-diffusion systems near onset of self-oscillations, while they remain approximately harmonical.
ref: 2001 May 18, Minseok Kim et al., “Controlling Chemical Turbulence by Global Delayed Feedback: Pattern Formation in Catalytic CO Oxidation on Pt(110)”, in Science, volume 292, number 5520, →DOI, pages 1357–1360:
text: There follows an "harmonical parallel between the types of the Old Testament and the Four Evangelists' relations of our Lord and Saviour;" also a "discourse of the estate of the Jews," by Dr. Jackson, "The destruction of Jerusalem," and long extracts from a work entitled "Moses unveiled," besides other matter.
ref: 1903, J. E. Acland, Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I.:
text: The action of the auricles is synchronous; that of the ventricles is the same; that of the auricles and ventricles is consentaneous; and that of the whole heart is rhythmical, or harmonious--the diastole of the auricles occurring in harmonical time with the systole of the ventricles, and vice versa.
ref: 1859, Joseph Maclise, Surgical Anatomy:
glosses: Alternative form of harmonic.
Derived terms: biharmonical
harmonicalness
inharmonical
harmonical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmonicals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of harmonic mean.
synonyms: word: harmonic mean
conceptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: a. 1688, Ralph Cudworth, A Treatise of Freewill
The understanding as necessary nature in us , or clear distinct conception , can never err , because there cannot possibly be any clear conception of falsehood in eternal things as geometry and metaphysics , clear conceptibility' is the essence
glosses: The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness.
harzburgite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harzburgites
Etymology: From Harzburg + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The two rutiles occur in veins in harzburgite xenoliths carried in volcanoes of the eastern African Rift: Labait and Pello Hill.
ref: 2000 January 14, Roberta L. Rudnick et al., “Rutile-Bearing Refractory Eclogites: Missing Link Between Continents and Depleted Mantle”, in Science, volume 287, number 5451, →DOI, pages 278–281:
glosses: An ultramafic igneous rock, a variety of peridotite consisting mostly of olivine and low-calcium pyroxene.
Derived terms: harzburgitic
precel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precels
form: precelling
form: precelled
form: precelled
Etymology: See precellence.
Senses: examples: text: […]attempted a Princely Graffe, which as farre precels her, which hee hath lighted upon[…]
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: To surpass; to excel; to exceed.
precelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precel
precelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precel
precels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precel
stelography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “post, slab, pillar”) + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: […] this pillar thus engraved (as it was the first of its kind that we have upon record) gave probably the origin to the invention of stelography, or the ancient manner of writing upon stone, ever after […]
ref: 1767, Thomas Stackhouse, chapter IV, in A new history of the Holy Bible:
glosses: The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.
headward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From head + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The highest, flattest, and smoothest part of Tibet (3 ) is the central, Oligo-Miocene plateau, mature but still sheltered, especially in the west, from headward erosion.
ref: 2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”, in Science, volume 294, number 5547, →DOI, pages 1671–1677:
text: [View Larger Version of this Image (130K GIF file)] Discussion The martian landforms resemble terrestrial gullies, which form by a combination of processes, including overland flow, headward sapping (32 ), debris flow, and other mass movements (33 )--all processes that, on Earth, involve the action of water.
ref: 2000 June 30, Michael C. Malin, Kenneth S. Edgett, “Evidence for Recent Groundwater Seepage and Surface Runoff on Mars”, in Science, volume 288, number 5475, →DOI, pages 2330–2335:
text: Even without the structures, there was a morphological feedback: As headward stream channels widened from lateral erosion, new floodplains developed that were lower, fine textured, and vegetated (Fig. 3 ), a condition noted in 1975 (2 ).
ref: 1999 August 20, Stanley W. Trimble, “Decreased Rates of Alluvial Sediment Storage in the Coon Creek Basin, Wisconsin, 1975-93”, in Science, volume 285, number 5431, →DOI, pages 1244–1246:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Cutting backwards or upstream above the original source.
examples: text: When lift is applied, forces are experienced which appear to the pilot as being applied from a headward direction, i.e., from head to toe.
ref: 2014, Frederick I. Ordway, Advances in Space Science and Technology - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Toward the head.
headward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From head + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: As the isthmus disappeared at the close of the 17th century, the river continued to erode the island headward and build it up at its downstream end, so that the western and southern shores where the first settlement had been built, were partly destroyed.
ref: 1957, John L. Cotter, New Discoveries at Jamestown:
glosses: In a headward direction.
healme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: healmes
Senses: examples: text: The mightie monarch of a royall realme, Swaying his scepter with a princely pompe, Of his desires cannot so steare the healme, But sometime falls into a deadly dumpe; When as he heares the shrilly sounding trumpe Of forren enemies, or home-bred foes, His minde of griefe, his hart is full of woes.
ref: 1594, Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepherd:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of helm.
crataeguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crataegus
heathenry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heathenries
Etymology: From heathen + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: It was as though she were some tinted and lavishly adorned statue of barbaric heathenry, and he her postulant; and her large eyes appeared to judge an immeasurable path, beyond him.
ref: 1921, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry:
text: In the simpler case of northern heathenry the civilization spread with a simplier progress.
ref: 1917, G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England:
glosses: The state of being heathen.
examples: text: Asatru is one of the most popular types of heathenry.
ref: 2019, Theodoric Dukka, A Heathen's Guide Experiences & Advice On Magic & Spiritworking, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Heathenry (“Germanic (neo)paganism”).
heavenful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavenfuls
form: heavensful
Etymology: From heaven + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He saw a heavenful of stars for a moment, and then saw nothing for a long time.
ref: 1906, Perceval Gibbon, Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases:
text: And it was only when I had lain myself upon leaves for my bed, my head on my caftan, a rill for my lullaby, and two stars, which alone I could see out of the heavenful, for my watch-lights; and only when my eyes were already closed toward slumber, that a sudden strong thought pierced and woke me: for I remembered that Leda was the name of a Greek woman who had borne twins.
ref: 1901, M.P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud:
glosses: skyful
hemal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This specimen is identified as a fossil snake on the basis of its highly kinetic skull with anteriorly free ending maxillae and dentaries, slender and elongate tooth-bearing palatines and pterygoids, single mental foramen in the dentary, high number of presacral vertebrae, and the presence of hypapophyses or hemal ridges throughout the trunk, distally bifurcated lymphapophyses in the cloacal and proximal tail region, and paired hemapophyses on the tail vertebrae.
ref: 2000 March 17, Eitan Tchernov et al., “A Fossil Snake with Limbs”, in Science, volume 287, number 5460, →DOI, pages 2010–2012:
glosses: American standard spelling of haemal.
Derived terms: neurohemal
hemispheral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + spheral.
Senses: examples: text: No hemispheral differences in the magnitude of rCBF activations were detected.
ref: 1998 January 2, Allen R. Braun et al., “Dissociated Pattern of Activity in Visual Cortices and Their Projections During Human Rapid Eye Movement Sleep”, in Science, volume 279, number 5347, →DOI, pages 91–95:
glosses: hemispheric
heterotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + tropic.
Senses: examples: text: This behavior is analogous to that of any cooperative binding protein, such as hemoglobin (18, 19 ), although in this case, cooperativity is observed between heterotropic rather than homotropic ligands.
ref: 2000 October 27, Kenneth E. Prehoda et al., “Integration of Multiple Signals Through Cooperative Regulation of the N-WASP-Arp2/3 Complex”, in Science, volume 290, number 5492, →DOI, pages 801–806:
text: Some allosteric enzymes exhibit mixed homotropic and heterotropic interactions.
ref: 2002, N. V. Bhagavan, Medical Biochemistry, →ISBN, page 111:
text: In heterotropic allosteric regulation, the bacterial enzymes are activated by ADP and inhibited by phosphoenolpyruvate binding at the allosteric site.
ref: 2006, Perry A. Frey, Robert H. Ables, Adrian D. Hegeman, Enzymatic Reaction Mechanisms, →ISBN, page 500:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Concerning an effect in one entity that is controlled or influenced by a separate entity, such as when one ligand influences the binding of another ligand.
examples: text: Heterotropic pregnancy occurs when intrauterine and ectopic pregnancies coexist.
ref: 2007, Jonathan S. Berek, Berek & Novak's Gynecology, →ISBN, page 629:
text: Various hereditary conditions and congenital condition give rise to heterotropic calcification something abnormal in metabolic and endocrinal functions also give rise to deposition of calcium in extraskeletal system.
ref: 2009, Kulkarni, Textbook of Orthopaedics and Trauma, →ISBN, page 2524:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Concerning a process that abnormally takes place outside of its normal system as well as within its normal system.
examples: text: At the end of the twentieth century Nature is alive and well, permeating the experience of everyday life as a riotous profusion of heterotropic images, signs and discursive constructs.
ref: 1998, Andrew Herod, Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Gerard Toal, An Unruly World?: Globalization, Governance, and Geography, →ISBN:
text: In contrast, heterotropic intentional mental states, intentional acts and actions cannot be performed and experienced by a single individual: heterotropic states, acts and actions necessarily refer to and depend on other individuals, i.e. they involve at least two individuals.
ref: 2013, Anita Konzelmann Ziv, Hans Bernhard Schmid, Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents, →ISBN, page 121:
text: As Webster informs us, it is both psychomorphic and heterotropic. I suppose that's a fancy way of saying Illyrion is many things to many men.
ref: 2014, Samuel R. Delany, Nova, →ISBN:
glosses: Arising from the interaction of separate people or entities.
Synonyms: heterotrope
hieratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They made innuendoes concerning the stability of the other articles of hieratical law.
ref: 1904, Elizabeth Miller, The Yoke:
glosses: Alternative form of hieratic.
Derived terms: unhieratical
holin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holins
Senses: examples: text: All known pneumococcal phages contain a cell wall lytic system consisting of a holin that permeabilizes the cell membrane, and either an N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase (amidase) or a lysozyme, capable of digesting the pneumococcal cell wall (8 ).
ref: 2001 December 7, Jutta M. Loeffler et al., “Rapid Killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae with a Bacteriophage Cell Wall Hydrolase”, in Science, volume 294, number 5549, →DOI, pages 2170–2172:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a diverse group of small proteins produced by dsDNA bacteriophages in order to trigger and control the degradation of the host's cell wall at the end of the lytic cycle.
Derived terms: antiholin
hyperconscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperconscious
form: most hyperconscious
Etymology: From hyper- + conscious.
Senses: examples: text: He makes his poor hyperconscious creations sing their cynical sagas with Beatlesesque grace over charmingly cheesy keyboard riffs, in the deadpan tone he probably arrived at after trying everything else, with a disheveled charisma he can't decide whether to embrace or deny.
ref: 1999 November 5, Michaelangelo Matos, “Quasi”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Extremely conscious or aware
hypermutability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + mutability.
Senses: examples: text: This explains previous observations of a defect in bypass of damage in XP-V cells and cell extracts (82 ) and accounts for the marked hypermutability of XP-V cells in response to UV light and some chemical agents.
ref: 1999 December 3, Tomas Lindahl, Richard D. Wood, “Quality Control by DNA Repair”, in Science, volume 286, number 5446, →DOI, pages 1897–1905:
glosses: The state of being hypermutable
hypoconid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoconids
Etymology: From hypo- + conid.
Senses: examples: text: Differs from Catopithecus and Oligopithecus by the retention of P 2 2, its single-cusped P 4, its P 3-4 of about the same size, its hypoconid nontwinned with entoconid on lower molars, its upper premolars without inner cusps, and by its broader upper molars with only very slight hypocone swelling.
ref: 1999 October 15, J.-J. Jaeger et al., “A New Primate from the Middle Eocene of Myanmar and the Asian Early Origin of Anthropoids”, in Science, volume 286, number 5439, →DOI, pages 528–530:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the main cusps, at the posterolabial side.
Related terms: entoconid
posteroconid
hypoconulid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoconulids
Etymology: From hypo- + conulid.
Senses: examples: text: Two upper incisors vertically implanted with I 1 slightly larger than I 2 (judging from the remaining roots), strong vertical upper and lower canine with rounded crown sections, reduced and single-rooted P 2, P 3 as large as P 4, simple with their crown obliquely orientated and high protoconid, M 1 with low paraconid, metaconid widely separated from protoconid, and buccodistally projecting hypoconulid.
ref: 1999 October 15, J.-J. Jaeger et al., “A New Primate from the Middle Eocene of Myanmar and the Asian Early Origin of Anthropoids”, in Science, volume 286, number 5439, →DOI, pages 528–530:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
synonyms: parastylid
glosses: The distal cusp of a lower molar.
pruning hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pruning hooks
Senses: glosses: billhook
caipivodka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caipivodkas
Etymology: Blend of caipirinha + vodka
Senses: synonyms: caipiroska
glosses: A caipirinha cocktail made with vodka instead of cachaca.
caipivodkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caipivodka
standing army
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standing armies
Senses: glosses: A professional permanent army composed of full-time career soldiers, and not disbanded during times of peace.
milk fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of fever caused by infection, occurring in women shortly after childbirth (previously associated with the start of lactation).
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
synonyms: postparturient hypocalcemia
parturient paresis
glosses: An acute metabolic disorder occurring at the start of lactation and caused by calcium deficiency, which primarily affects dairy cows.
iligant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iligant
form: most iligant
Senses: examples: text: I was just afther thinkin' I had nothin' but throuble, whin in comes these iligant fish."
ref: 1906, Horatio Alger Jr., Randy of the River:
text: In the mean time, "Phelim," the pig, throve finely, and grew to be, as Mrs. O'Shaughnessy said, "an iligant cratur, intirely."
ref: 1885, Grace Greenwood, Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children:
text: "Fait, sur," said Pat, "my ligs was gone intirely, wid long walkin', and I sazed the furst iligant baste I come to."
ref: 1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of elegant.
imbruted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbrute
imminency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imminencies
Senses: examples: text: His career as editor had been long enough, however, for him to impress upon the minds of the French public the imminency of the Prussian Peril.
ref: 1918, John L. B. Williams, A.M., Fighting France:
text: For Mr. Madison the caucus was unanimous, but there was a difference with regard to the Vice-Presidency, then filled by the aged George Clinton of New York, who represented the anti-Virginian wing of the party in power. Mr. Calhoun, in a set speech, opposed the renomination of Governor Clinton, on the ground that in the imminency of a war with England the Republican party ought to present an unbroken front.
ref: 1867, James Parton, Famous Americans of Recent Times:
glosses: imminence
commorance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commorances
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of commorancy.
commorances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commorance
crossrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossrows
form: cross-row
Etymology: From cross + row. For its use as a name for the alphabet, see Christcross-row.
Senses: examples: text: To achieve straight crossrows, you will need guide lines so that you can align the trees up and down the slope.
ref: 1961, California Agricultural Experiment Station, Circular: Issues 501-542:
glosses: A row that crosses others.
examples: text: For before on your breſt, and behind on your back,
In Romaine letters I never founde lack
In your croſſe rowe nor Chriſt croſſe you ſpede,
ref: c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
roman: Your Pater noſter, your Ave, nor your Crede.
text: And from the cross-row plucks the letter G
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: The alphabet, or Christcross-row.
crossrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossrow
imployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imployments
Senses: examples: text: […] King Henry [VIII] full fraught all thoſe vvith vvealth and revvards, vvhom he retained in his imployment.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Cornwall”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 202:
text: [I]t is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe [the Clerk of the Acts], and possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment.
ref: 1893 February (date written), Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, “Particulars of the Life of Samuel Pepys”, in Samuel Pepys; Mynors Bright, transcriber, edited by Henry B. Wheatley, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page xxvii:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of employment.
inaugurative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inaugurate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: When Christ reigns as Viceroy for Jehovah for a thousand years, as the Word of God so distinctly intimates, it may be that some such plan as this, far more perfect and world-wide in its aim, will form part of the inaugurative forces of that happy lot.
ref: 1891, Commissioner Booth-Tucker, Darkest India:
glosses: That inaugurates
saltfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From salt + foot.
Senses: glosses: A large salt cellar formerly placed near the centre of the table, with the superior guests seated above it.
inbreathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inbreathe
reddition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈdɪʃən/
Forms: form: redditions
Etymology: From Latin redditio, from reddere (“to give back, to return”). Compare French reddition. See render and rendition.
Senses: examples: text: perfect obedience[…]partly by voluntary reddition and desire of protection, and partly by conqueſt
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: restoration; restitution: surrender
examples: text: reddition, or application of the comparison
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: explanation; representation
redditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reddition
incommensuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incommensurations
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being incommensurate or contradictory.
glosses: A crystal structure where natural translation distances are incommensurate with each other.
examples: text: To see how striking this incommensuration is, I plotted (see figure) the real part of the plane wave with Q = ( p [1- d ]/a, p /a), for a = 3.8 Å, with smooth interpolation between the lattice points.
ref: 1997 November 21, Sudip Chakravarty, “CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: Enhanced: Quantum Magnetism and Its Many Avatars”, in Science, volume 278, number 5342, →DOI, pages 1412–1413:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Incommensurate peaks in the spin fluctuation spectrum.
indistinctively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indistinctively
form: most indistinctively
Etymology: From indistinctive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They had not reached the point of differentiating divorces, but classed them indistinctively as disgraceful incidents, in which the woman was always to blame, but the man, though her innocent victim, was yet inevitably contaminated.
ref: 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country:
text: It was as an unconscious and deep trance, through which something like a dream only faintly and indistinctively stirs.
ref: 1835, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Rienzi:
glosses: In an indistinct manner
preteritness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preteriteness
Etymology: From preterit + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being past.
indraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indrafts
Etymology: From in- + draft.
Senses: examples: text: And yet, at other times, there is a mysterious indraft, which irresistibly draws a passing vessel among the isles, though not bound to them.
ref: 1856, Herman Melville, The Piazza Tales:
text: In the evening, Mr. Tucker went on shore to teach the younger ones to repeat the Lord's Prayer and the creed, more perfectly; and I, with the rest of my party, rowed up "the Southern Arm," an indraft of about three miles, winding among the most picturesque mountains I ever saw.
ref: 1860, Edward Feild, Extracts from a Journal of a Voyage of Visitation in the "Hawk," 1859:
text: In point of fact they will clearly illustrate the diversion of the tendency to rise, spoken of in the Report before alluded to, as resulting in ascending columns and sheets, between which wind flaws, capricious in their direction and intensity, and often amounting to sharp squalls, mark out the course of their feeders and the indraft of cooler air from a distance to supply their void.
ref: 1850, William Radcliff Birt, The Hurricane Guide:
text: For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well, only that I found it drive a little distant from the place where I had landed before; by which I perceived that there was some indraft of the water, and consequently I hoped to find some creek or river there, which I might make use of as a port to get to land with my cargo.
ref: 1812, Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Of York, Mariner, Vol. 1:
glosses: Alternative form of indraught (“drawing in”).
inshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inshoots
Etymology: From in + shoot.
Senses: examples: text: The pitcher started the ball wide, but, with a sudden break it took an inshoot across the plate.
ref: 1906, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Son:
text: Woods fooled him on a wide curve and a swift inshoot.
ref: 1898, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Cruise:
glosses: The act of shooting or moving rapidly inward, as a baseball that is pitched with a curve.
chertiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cherty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being cherty.
porcelanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porcelanites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; porcelain jasper.
Related terms: porcelainite
porcelanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porcelanite
interfinger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interfingers
form: interfingering
form: interfingered
form: interfingered
Etymology: From inter- + finger.
Senses: examples: text: The lagoon deposits overlie and interfinger with beach sands in SAV3 and SAV4, which overlie an early Holocene estuary deposit in SAV4.
ref: 2001 May 18, Kevin O. Pope et al., “Origin and Environmental Setting of Ancient Agriculture in the Lowlands of Mesoamerica”, in Science, volume 292, number 5520, →DOI, pages 1370–1373:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To interpenetrate in long alternating strips like clasped fingers.
interfinger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + finger.
Senses: examples: text: Strong-intensity interfinger NOE cross-peaks observed in the complex, but not for the free protein (26 ), indicate that binding is also promoted by the formation of extensive intraprotein interactions (Fig. 4 B).
ref: 1998 January 16, Roberto N. De Guzman et al., “Structure of the HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein Bound to the SL3 {Psi}-RNA Recognition Element”, in Science, volume 279, number 5349, →DOI, pages 384–388:
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: Between two zinc fingers.
interfingered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interfinger
interfingering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interfinger
interfingering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interfingerings
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An interpenetration in long alternating strips like clasped fingers.
hammerstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammerstone
harzburgites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harzburgite
harzburgitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harzburgitic
form: most harzburgitic
Etymology: From harzburgite + -ic.
Senses: examples: harzburgitic garnets
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing or relating to harzburgite.
planktotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plankto- + -trophic.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to an adult stage that is a capable swimmer, R. exoculata has a free-swimming, planktotrophic, post-larval stage that feeds on photosynthetically derived organic material and can be found as far as 100 km from a known vent field (53, 54 ).
ref: 2001 October 26, C. L. Van Dover et al., “Biogeography and Ecological Setting of Indian Ocean Hydrothermal Vents”, in Science, volume 294, number 5543, →DOI, pages 818–823:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That feeds on plankton
Derived terms: nonplanktotrophic
Related terms: planktotroph
planktotrophy
secess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin secessus. See secede.
Senses: examples: text: Silent Secesse, wast Solitude Deep searching thoughts often renew'd.
ref: 1647, Henry More, A Platonick Song of the Soul:
glosses: retirement; retreat; secession
semicrustaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + crustaceous.
Senses: glosses: partially crustaceous
swaip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swaips
form: swaiping
form: swaiped
form: swaiped
Etymology: From Middle English swaipen (“to strike, scourge”), from Old Norse sveipa (“to sweep, stroke”) and/or Old English swāpan (“to sweep”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *swaipaną (“to sweep, swing, hurl, fling”). Doublet of swoop.
Senses: examples: text: Och, for his swaiping! That was a lucky job for him, —the ill-favored, foul-mouthed blackguard, heretic and villain thief!
ref: 1842, Anthony Ganilh, Ambrosio de Letinez, page 143:
text: But Ayas swaiped aside among the crowd, Aflush with hate and burning discontent: And many murmured at him: for, said they, “Hamil at least doth surely mean us well!“
ref: 1883, Welbore St. Clair Baddeley, Bedoueen Legends: And Other Poems, page 40:
text: It is in good manners to swaip / But only when just celebrating / Without malice and arrogance / To show accomplishment once
ref: 2013, Percarus:
glosses: To walk proudly; to sweep along.
swaiped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swaip
swaiping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swaip
swaips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swaip
eventerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eventerates
form: eventerating
form: eventerated
form: eventerated
Etymology: Likely a "relatinized" calque of French éventrer, from Latin ē(x)- (“out”) + Latin venter (“belly”, ventr- in compounds) + -ate (verb-forming suffix); this should have given *eventrate, compare its obsolete doublet eventrate and orienate.
Senses: glosses: To rip open; to disembowel.
Related terms: eventration
eventerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eventerate
eventerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eventerate
eventerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eventerate
croodle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: croodles
form: croodling
form: croodled
form: croodled
Etymology: Compare cruddle, crudle.
Senses: examples: text: Far ben thy dark green plantin's shade
The cushat croodles am'rously
ref: a. 1810, Robert Tannahill, The Wood O' Craigie Lea:
text: Oh! that I had wings-not as a dove , to fly home to its nest and croodle there
ref: 1858 January, Charles Kingsley, “My Winter-Garden”, in Frasers Magazine:
text: Mrs. Dootson bridged the other half, and, croodling down to Meg's height, she somewhat forced the friendship
ref: 1898, William Edwards Tirebuck, Meg of the Scarlet Fool:
glosses: To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
glosses: To fawn or coax.
croodle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: croodles
form: croodling
form: croodled
form: croodled
Etymology: Onomatopoeic "croo" + -le.
Senses: examples: text: Too dark to see well, but judge from movements of old bird's head and croodling noise.
ref: 1899, Zoologist:
text: Do pigeons croodle, or only doves?
ref: 2017, Thomas Rohrer, Worms Drowning in the Rain:
glosses: To make a cooing sound.
croodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croodles
Etymology: Onomatopoeic "croo" + -le.
Senses: examples: text: [A]nd no sound falls on my ears, except the distant roar of a passing train, the song of linnets, and croodle of turtle-dove and cushat.
ref: 1888, Gordon Stables, In Touch with Nature: Tales and Sketches from the Life, page 46:
text: [A] third-storey apartment under the eaves loud with the croodles and canoodling of amorous pigeons.
ref: 1997, Aidan Higgins, Flotsam and Jetsam, page 265:
glosses: A bird's coo, especially that of a dove.
croodled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of croodle
croodles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of croodle
croodling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of croodle