cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
salvability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the Latin scheme of redemption, salvability was not possible outside the communion of the visible organization.
ref: 1884, Alexander Viets Griswold Allen, The Continuity of Christian Thought:
glosses: The state of being salvable.
tonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒnɪkəl/
Senses: examples: text: For station is properly no rest, but one kind of motion, relating unto that which physicians (from Galen) do name extensive or tonical; that is, an extension of the muscles and organs of motion, maintaining the body at length, or in its proper figure.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: tonic
stiffenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stiffening
enodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From e- + nodal.
Senses: examples: text: enodal signature
synonyms: nodeless
unnoded
glosses: Without a node.
lead the line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leads the line
form: leading the line
form: led the line
form: led the line
Senses: examples: text: Andy Carroll is leading the line, with Suarez playing behind him.
text: Martial, who had been an injury doubt, led the line with strength and positivity.
ref: 2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To play as centre forward.
caecostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caecostomy
postops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postop
ischiocapsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ischio- + capsular.
Senses: examples: the ischiocapsular ligament
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the ischium and the capsule of the hip joint.
Cassandraic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cassandraic
form: most Cassandraic
Etymology: From Cassandra + -ic.
Senses: glosses: prophesying doom
canbisol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A synthetic cannabinoid derivative used mainly in scientific research.
cannabipiperidiethanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] whether or not substituted in the phenyl ring to any extent, including, but not limited to, cannabipiperidiethanone […]
ref: 2017, 2017 California Drug Laws Abridged:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A synthetic cannabinoid.
cannabinomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having similar effects to those of cannabis.
inducteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Rendered electropolar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies.
chemofog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo + fog.
Senses: glosses: Cognitive impairment resulting from chemotherapy.
Synonyms: chemobrain
stannofluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stannofluorides
Etymology: From stanno- + fluoride.
Senses: examples: text: ammonium stannofluoride
text: potassium stannofluoride
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a various double fluorides of tin and some other element.
Related terms: stannous fluoride
stannofluorides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stannofluoride
apertly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more apertly
form: most apertly
Etymology: From apert + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Openly, publicly, without secrecy.
examples: text: And þat is þe professioun appertly · þat appendeth for knyȝtes.
ref: c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I:
glosses: Clearly, plainly.
espringal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: espringals
Senses: examples: text: The espringal (Fig. 4.4(a)), or the wall-crossbow, was merely an enlarged version of the hand crossbow. It fired heavier quarrels or large balls of stone to break down enemy strongholds such as gates fortresses and castles.
ref: 2016, Henry Pratap Phillips, The History and Chronology of Gunpowder and Gunpowder Weapons (c.1000 to 1850), Notion Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of springald.
espringals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of espringal
predicamental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From predicament + -al.
Senses: examples: text: This human predicamental scale
ref: 1646, John Hall, “An Eunuch”, in Poems:
glosses: Relating to a predicament.
Derived terms: predicamentally
dampth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From damp + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare warmth, etc.
Senses: glosses: dampness
Szczedrzyk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Polish spelling of the village's name. Compare Sczedrzik, from the German spelling.
Senses: examples: 2010, Merle W. McMorrow, A Long Short Life, page 217: Her descendants originated from Eastern Germany and the Ukraine. Her paternal grandfather, Frank Jonietz, was born October 8, 1855, near the Oder River in Upper Silicia in the village of Szczedrzyk.
glosses: A village in what is now Poland, what was formerly Germany.
Synonyms: word: Sczedrzik
Related terms: Hitlersee (1934–1945)
tcf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tcf
Senses: glosses: thousand cubic feet
raw_tags: used as a unit of volume
glosses: trillion cubic feet
raw_tags: used as a unit of volume
scullionly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scullionly
form: most scullionly
Etymology: From scullion + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But this is not for an unbuttoned fellow to discuss in the garret at his trestle , and dimension of candle by the snuff ; which brought forth his scullionly paraphrase on St . Paul
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. […], [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: Like a scullion; low class or vulgar.
cobwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobwalls
Etymology: From cob (“clay mixed with straw”) + wall.
Senses: examples: text: She drove full-head at the cobwall—'Oh, Jack, slip off,' screamed Annie—then she turned like light, when I thought to crush her, and ground my left knee against it. 'Mux me,' I cried, for my breeches were broken, and short words went the furthest—'if you kill me, you shall die with me.'
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter X, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A wall made of cob (clay mixed with straw).
cobwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobwall
sulphocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphocyanates
Etymology: From sulphocyanic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A thiocyanate.
sulphocyanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphocyanate
sultanries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sultanry
sultanry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sultanries
Etymology: From sultan + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Neither should I make any great difficulty to affirm the same of the sultanry of the Mamalukes ; where slaves , and none but slaves , bought for money , and of unknown descent , reigned over families of freemen
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
glosses: sultanate.
pomey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒ.mi/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.mi/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pommee.
pomey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒ.mi/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.mi/
Forms: form: pomeys
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pomme (“roundel vert”).
synonyms: word: pomme
extra: roundel vert
pomeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomey
parigenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From parillin + -gen + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A curdy white substance obtained by the decomposition of sarsaparillin.
misapprehensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more misapprehensively
form: most misapprehensively
Etymology: From misapprehensive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By, or with, misapprehension.
curdless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From curd + -less.
Senses: examples: whipped curdless cottage cheese
glosses: Without curd.
chirimoyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirimoya
dolphinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolphinets
Etymology: From dolphin + -et.
Senses: examples: text: The lyon chose his mate, the turtle dove / Her deare, the dolphin his owne dolphinet
ref: 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
synonyms: cow
glosses: A female dolphin.
dolphinets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dolphinet
technicological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technicological
form: most technicological
Senses: examples: text: Some things are made to be drugs; others fulfil purely chemical or technicological uses
ref: 1854, Charles Julius Hempel, Organon of Specific Homœopathy:
glosses: technological
phacelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phacellus
phacellus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phacelli
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek [Term?], meaning "bundle of faggots".
Senses: examples: text: Closer inspection, however, shows that the two phacelli of each pair originate as diverging limbs, from a simple interradial phacellus deep in the bottom of the basal stomach.
ref: 1882, Great Britain - Challenger Office, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76 Under the Command of Captain George S. Nares ... and the Late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N., page 78:
text: [...] phacelli are well developed, occupying the interradial sides of the octagonal stomach cavity. Each phacellus consists of from eight to twelve brush-like filaments.
ref: 1909, The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University ..., page 6:
text: ... the phacellus placed on it, which is formed by a bow-shaped series of gastral filaments.
ref: 1965, William Alexander Forbes, Report on the Anatomy of the Petrels (Tubinares), Collected During the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in the Years 1873-1876:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of certain jellyfishes.
shute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shutes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chute.
glosses: Alternative form of shoot.
glosses: A steep road through a cleft in a hill.
raw_tags: in place names
shutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shute
pleyt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleyts
Etymology: From Middle Dutch pleyt (“flat”). Doublet of flat and plat.
Senses: examples: text: In the second group a variety of ships may be placed: a boeyer, a pleyt, a krayer, an ever, a cogge, a bark, a hulk, and from the middle of the 15th century onwards a carvel.
ref: 1954, Nelly Johanna Martina Kerling, Commercial Relations of Holland and Zeeland with England from the Late 13th Century to the Close of the Middle Ages:
text: The model on display belongs to the family of the "pleyt" or "pleitscip"."
ref: 2011, Money and Beauty, Giunti Editore, →ISBN, page 186:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A riverboat.
pleyt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleyts
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian плеть (pletʹ, “whip, lash”).
Senses: examples: text: In Russia, the pleyt is a terrible form of punishment, which is still, I believe, administered in rare instances in Siberia. It is not ten years ago that a woman was flogged to death in Siberia.
ref: 1896, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, Round about Armenia: The Record of a Journey Across the Balkans Through Turkey, the Caucasus, and Persia in 1895:
text: In 1836, near the town of Krasnophinsk, in the province of Perm, a man, about sixty years of age, was arrested as a vagrant. He received twenty blows with the pleyt or knout, and was sent to Siberia.
ref: 1908, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, The Court of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, volume 1, page 138:
text: The lady was publicly knouted (flogged with an instrument of torture called a pleyt), had her tongue cut out, flung, a piece of quivering and bleeding flesh, on a cart, and banished to Siberia.
ref: 1914, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, The Life of Catherine the Great of Russia:
glosses: A whip, as an instrument of punishment or torture in Russia.
pleyts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleyt
intermissive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intermissive
form: most intermissive
Senses: examples: text: Wounds I vvill lend the French, inſtead of eyes, / To vveep their intermiſſive miſeries.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: I […] reduc'd Ireland, after ſo many intermiſsive VVars, to ſuch a perfect paſſe of obedience; […]
ref: 1644, James Howell, England’s Teares, for the Present Wars, […], London: […] Richard Heron, →OCLC, page 3:
text: And therefore as though there vvere any feriation in nature or juſtitiums imaginable in profeſſions, vvhoſe ſubject is natural, and under no intermiſſive, but constant vvay of mutation, this ſeaſon is commonly termed the phyſician's vacation, and ſtands so received by moſt men.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: patchy
word: spasmodic
word: broken
word: fitful
word: catchy
word: discontinuous
word: intermissive
word: intermittent
word: patchy
word: spasmodic
word: stop-start
glosses: Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent.
Derived terms: unintermissive
riverboatmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riverboatman
bandala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandalas
Senses: examples: text: The fibers of the inner petioles, which are softer but not so strong as the outer, are called tupus, and sold with bandala, or mixed with tapis and used in the native weaving.
ref: 1916, Austin Craig, The Former Philippines Thru Foreign Eyes, page 301:
text: Itermediate textile fibers beween lupis and bandala, known as tupus among other names, were also produced and sold, though rarely in great quantities.
ref: 2023, Norman Owen, Prosperity without Progress, page 77:
glosses: A fabric made in Manila from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).
examples: text: Another exploitative device was instituted by Governor Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera during the first half of the seventeenth century . This was the bandala.
ref: 1975, Renato Constantino, Letizia R. Constantino, The Philippines: A Past Revisited, page 51:
text: Under the bandala, the sale of the crops and other products of the Filipinos was centralized and controlled by the Spanish authorities.
ref: 1977, Kay Kim Khoo, The History of South-East, South, and East Asia, page 225:
text: The province of Pampanga, because of its closeness to Manila, suffered most from the polo services and the bandala since its rice produce and timber were in great demand.
ref: 1999, Manuel A. Caoili, The Origins of Metropolitan Manila, page 28:
text: Doing so then allows us to understand how new colonial institutions adopted these preexisting forms of power, relying on debt to mobilize labor within the repartimiento, bandala, and tribute systems.
ref: 2023, Stephanie Joy Mawson, Incomplete Conquests:
glosses: A system imposed by the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines in the early 17th century which required farmers to sell their products to the government for extremely low prices, and sometimes without ever being paid.
bandalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandala
psychopathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychopathists
Senses: examples: text: Of late years the opinion has been gaining ground among the best psychopathists, that, with few exceptions, the embarrassment of the intellect is secondary to, and consequent upon the disorder and perversion of the emotive faculties.
ref: 1856, The Law Library, volume 92:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: One who studies mental illness.
psychopathists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychopathist
I'll've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: I'll've finished the job by tomorrow morning.
glosses: I will have
he'll've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of he will have.
she'll've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: she will have
superslow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superslow
form: most superslow
Etymology: From super- + slow.
Senses: examples: the superslow rhythmic changes of the electrical potential of the cerebral cortex
glosses: Extremely slow.
Hatschek's pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hatschek's pits
Etymology: Named for its discoverer, Berthold Hatschek (1854–1941).
Senses: examples: text: If the preoral (Hatschek's) pit be regarded as a gland, it has been suggested by v. Wijhe that it is comparable to the neural gland of the Tunicata, and that the ciliated groove is comparable to the opening of that gland, the dorsal tubercle, the edges of which are frequently drawn out in a manner very similar to the course of the ciliated groove of Amphioxus.
ref: 1905, Adam Sedgwick, A Student's Text-book of Zoology, page 21:
text: […] that most authorities now accept the possibility that Hatschek's pit might be the homologue - in some ancestral form, the precursor - of Rathke's pouch, and so of the adenohypophysis.
ref: 1974, R. L. Holmes, The Pituitary Gland: A Comparative Account, page 339:
text: It is known as Hatschek's pit and has been found to react positively to antibodies against substance P, met-enkephalin, cholecystokinin (CCK), mammalian luteinizing hormone (LH), and the enzyme aromatase (P450ₐᵣₒ), which converts certain androgens into estrogens (see Chapter 3).
ref: 2013, David O. Norris, Vertebrate Endocrinology, page 151:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A deep ciliated fossa on the dorsal midline of the buccal cavity in lancelets.
Synonyms: sense: deep ciliated fossa
word: Hatschek’s groove
sense: deep ciliated fossa
word: preoral pit
they'll've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: they will have
we'll've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: we will have
propreantepenult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊpɹiːˌantɪpɪˈnʌlt/
ipa: /ˌpɹəʊpɹiːˌantɪpɛˈnʌlt/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊpɹiˌantiˈpiˌnʌlt/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊpɹiˌantɪˈpiˌnʌlt/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊpɹiˌantɪpɛˈnʌlt/
rhymes: -ʌlt
rhymes: -iːnʌlt
Etymology: First attested in 1893; formed as pro- + preantepenult; compare the earlier propreantepenultimate (1825).
Senses: examples: text: The word dis·ín·te·res·ted·ly is stressed on the propreantepenult.
text: When the propreantepenult is the last strong syllable, use the Pentad.
ref: 1893, Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood, Practical Elements of Elocution, 3rd edition, page 273:
text: There was a time[…]when he could define onomatopoeia, propreantepenult, and give examples of dactyl and anapaest.
ref: 1946, Harry Charles McKown, Home Room Guidance, 2nd edition, page 2:
glosses: The last syllable but four; the fifth-to-last syllable (of a word or other utterance); a word’s or other utterance’s propreantepenultimate syllable.
Coordinate terms: sense: names of syllables
word: ultima
sense: names of syllables
english: last
translation: last
word: ult
sense: names of syllables
word: penultima
sense: names of syllables
word: penultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but one
translation: last but one
word: penult
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultima
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultime
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but two
translation: last but two
word: antepenult
sense: names of syllables
alt: præantepenultima
word: preantepenultima
sense: names of syllables
word: preantepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but three
translation: last but three
word: preantepenult
sense: names of syllables
word: propreantepenultimate
Pflugs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pflug
cribsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cribsheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crib sheet.
cribsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cribsheet
manurage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From manure (verb) + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Novv, of the Conquerour, this Iſle had Brutaine vnto name, / And vvith his Troians Brute began manurage of the ſame.
ref: 1602, William Warner, “The Third Booke. Chapter XIIII.”, 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 63:
glosses: Cultivation of land.
mesogastria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesogastrium
mesogaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesogasters
Etymology: From New Latin mesogastrium, from Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “middle”) + γαστήρ (gastḗr, “belly”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The mesogastrium.
mesogasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesogaster
clinozoisites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clinozoisite
fengite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛn.d͡ʒaɪt/
homophone: phengite
Etymology: Like phengite from Latin phengites, from Ancient Greek φέγγος (phéngos). Superficially contains -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A transparent form of marble or alabaster, formerly sometimes used for windows.
regrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regrators
Etymology: From regrate + -or.
Senses: synonyms: regrater
glosses: Someone who regrates.
regrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regrator
burghmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burghmasters
Senses: glosses: A burgomaster.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workers.
Synonyms: sense: mining officer
word: bailiff
sense: mining officer
word: barmaster
burghmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burghmaster
misacceptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misacceptations
Etymology: From mis- + acceptation.
Senses: glosses: misunderstanding
misacceptations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misacceptation
despume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈspjuːm/
Forms: form: despumes
form: despuming
form: despumed
form: despumed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English despumen, either borrowed from Old French despumer or Latin dēspūmō. Doublet of despumate.
Senses: examples: text: The Honey must first be cocted in water, and despumed; then must the Vinegar be by little and little adjected
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, translated by Rich Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick : Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals:
glosses: To free from spume, foam or scum.
despumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of despume
despuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of despume
NAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of non-aggression principle.
glosses: Acronym of non-aggression pact.
jihobbyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jihobbyists
Etymology: Blend of jihadist + hobbyist. Coined by Jarret Brachman in Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice (2008).
Senses: glosses: One who supports jihad and radical Islam despite not being a member of any violent jihadist organization.
wikipedia: Jarret Brachman
jihobbyists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jihobbyist
Appomattox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The river was named after the Appamatuck tribe of Native Americans (whose name is from Powhatan). The town was named after the county, which in turn was named after the river.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Appomattoc.
Appomattox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The river was named after the Appamatuck tribe of Native Americans (whose name is from Powhatan). The town was named after the county, which in turn was named after the river.
Senses: glosses: A river in Virginia, United States; in full, the Appomattox River.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Appomattox County, Virginia, United States, formerly known as Nebraska and Appomattox Station
glosses: A historic village in Appomattox County, Virginia, United States, formerly the county seat, also known as Clover Hill and Appomattox Court House
glosses: The 1865 surrender of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant's Union army, which occurred at Appomattox Court House at the end of the American Civil War.
Derived terms: Appomattox County
antigriddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigriddles
form: anti-griddle
Etymology: From anti- + griddle, genericization from the kitchen appliance trademark Anti-Griddle, from being the opposite of a griddle (a heated flat cooking surface).
Senses: examples: text: And since not all fourth-graders have an antigriddle (a cooktop that freezes rather than heats), Achatz notes that a cookie sheet atop dry ice will suffice.
ref: 2008, Time, volume 172:
text: Spoon small mounds of the cauliflower mixture onto an antigriddle and let set[…]
ref: 2010, Emily Miller, Antonis Achilleos, How to Cook Like a Top Chef, page 157:
glosses: A device for rapidly freezing food, a cold flat metal surface, used in molecular gastronomy.
ACTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
pillorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pillorizes
form: pillorizing
form: pillorized
form: pillorized
Etymology: From pillory + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To set in, or punish with, the pillory.
glosses: To humilliate or criticise
Synonyms: pillory
pillorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pillorize
pillorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pillorize
pillorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pillorize
swartness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English swartnesse, from Old English sweartnes; equivalent to swart + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being swart.
occamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ochimy
form: ochymy
Etymology: A corruption of alchemy.
Senses: examples: text: The ten ſhillings, this thimble, and an occamy ſpoon from ſome poor ſinner, are all the atonement which is made for the body of ſin in London and Weſtminſter.
ref: 1713 April 10, Richard Steele, The Guardian^(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Guardian_(Vol_1).pdf), volume 1, number 26, page 150:
glosses: An alloy imitating gold or silver.
spathaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spathaceous
form: most spathaceous
Etymology: From spathe + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: spathaceous bract
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or resembling a spathe; spathal.
blobject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blobjects
Etymology: Blend of blob + object
Senses: glosses: A designed product, often a household object, distinguished by smooth flowing curves, bright colours, and an absence of sharp edges.
examples: text: 1. There really is just one concrete particular, viz., the whole universe (the blobject).
2. The blobject has enormous spatiotemporal structural complexity, and enormous local variability, even though it does not have any genuine parts.
ref: 2000, Terry Horgan, Matjaž Potrč, “Blobjectivism and indirect correspondence”, in Facta Philosophica, page 249:
text: But nihilism is also compatible with existence monism—the thesis that there is a single, all-encompassing simple (the cosmos, a.k.a. “the blobject”)—as well as the extreme nihilist thesis that there are no objects whatsoever.
ref: 2016 February 26, Daniel Korman, “Ordinary Objects”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
text: Brentano’s universe[…] like this ball it does not host any independent things or objects, but instead seems to be a single unitary ‘blobject’ that simply exhibits a certain (spatial and temporal) qualitative structure.
ref: 2016, Uriah Kriegel, “Brentano’s Latter-day Monism”, in Brentano Studien, page 70:
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: The entire universe viewed as a single entity featuring internal variability but not containing discrete parts.
blobjects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blobject
typographic ligature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typographic ligatures
Etymology: From typographic + ligature.
Senses: examples: text: ae (a + e) > æ
AE (A + E) > Æ
db (d + b) > ȸ
dz (d + z) > ǳ
Dz (D + z) > ǲ
DZ (D + Z) > Ǳ
et (e + t) > &
ff (f + f) > ﬀ
ffi (ﬀ + ﬁ) > ﬃ
ffl (ﬀ + ﬂ) > ﬄ
fi (f + i) > ﬁ
fl (f + l) > ﬂ
fs (f + s) > ?
ft (f + t) > ?
ij (i + j) > ĳ
IJ (I + J) > Ĳ
lj (l + j) > ǉ
Lj (L + j) > ǈ
LJ (L + J) > Ǉ
ng (n + g) > ŋ
NG (N + G) > Ŋ
nj (n + j) > ǌ
Nj (N + j) > ǋ
NJ (N + J) > Ǌ
oe (o + e) > œ
OE (O + E) > Œ or ɶ
ou (o + u) > Ȣ (majiscule) or ȣ (minuscule)
qp (q + p) > ȹ
ſs (ſ + s) or ſz (ſ + z) > ß (ẞ when capitalized)
st (s + t) > ﬆ
ſt (ſ + t) > ﬅ
ue (u + e) > ᵫ
ref: the following are ligatures
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A character that visually combines multiple letters, usually but not always by connecting them (making them contiguous), such as æ, œ, ß or ĳ; a logotype.
beerware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beer + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software that can be used under a relaxed licence, with the user encouraged to pay for the software by donating to its author enough money to buy a beer.
boomeritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boomer + -itis, coined by Ken Wilber in Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free (2002).
Senses: examples: text: Techies were the most juvenile, but other wealthy men, in the full throes of boomeritis, also acted like kids in a candy store.
ref: 2009, Larry Samuel, Rich: the rise and fall of American wealth culture, page 222:
glosses: A narcissistic liberal worldview associated with baby boomers.
wikipedia: Ken Wilber
unsubstantiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + substantiation.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unsubstantiated.
glosses: The removal of substantiality.
mystagogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mystagogy
mystagogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystagogies
Senses: glosses: The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
acinesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acinesic
form: most acinesic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of akinesic: akinetic.
Related terms: acinetic
acinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of akinetic.
Related terms: acinesic
half-measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-measures
form: half measure
Senses: examples: text: There is much stronger evidence that the title is a ruse, luring the viewer in by half measures.
ref: 2006, Gary Kibbins, Andrew J. Paterson, Grammar & Not-grammar: Selected Scripts and Essays:
text: As Mendicant stated in its report [58,078:H 48:M 12:S ago]: half measures will not suffice.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):
text: Science and philosophy must proceed by half-measures.
ref: 2011, Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression, page 38:
text: The United States and United Nations responded to rough experiences by remaining mired in indecision and hamstrung by half-measures (Bosnia to 1995), facing failure and bailing out (Somalia), acting only after a long period of limited and misdirected pressure (Haiti), or holding back from action where more awesome disaster than anywhere else called for it (Rwanda).
ref: 2011, Richard K. Betts, American Force, page 61:
glosses: An inadequate or incomplete solution to a problem.
half measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half measures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half-measure.
falconiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falconiforms
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Any falcon of the order Falconiformes
Leek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /liːk/
Etymology: Perhaps of pre-Anglo-Saxon (non-Old English) origin and instead from Celtic; compare Welsh llech and Irish leac (“stone”), both from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā.
Recorded as Lec in 1086 (DB).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9856).
glosses: A village and former municipality in Groningen province, Netherlands.
glosses: A surname.
Book
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Books
Etymology: An Americanized form of German Buch, or alternatively a variant of Buck.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
urban scattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The construction of housing in a sporadic and unregulated manner in periurban, rural or country areas.
Related terms: urban sprawl
New Zealand spinach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Zealand spinaches
Senses: glosses: A plant whose leaves are used as spinach-like greens, Tetragonia tetragonioides
herbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of herby: more herby
New Zealand spinaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Zealand spinach
jack-by-the-hedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: garlic mustard
cordaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordaites
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of genus †Cordaites of extinct gymnosperms with long, strap-shaped leaves.
half-virgin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-virgins
Senses: examples: text: He wanted to say something later to Connie about the demi-vierge business…the half-virgin state of her affairs. But he could not bring himself to do it.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 2, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020:
glosses: A person who has participated in some sexual acts, but not full intercourse.
half-virgins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-virgin
SILS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Initialism of single-incision laparoscopic surgery.
single-incision laparoscopic surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single-incision laparoscopic surgeries
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A laparoscopy technique where only a single incision of between 1½ and 5 centimetres is made, mostly through the umbilicus.
unbriny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbriny
form: most unbriny
Etymology: From un- + briny.
Senses: examples: text: Among the accidents on this unbriny sheet of water, but which has unavoidably crept in under this heading, was the loss of an ox belonging to David Barnhart.
ref: 1883, Dennis Byron Waite, O-neh-da Te-car-ne-o-di: or, Up and down the Hemlock, G.E. Colvin & G.P. Wait, page 65:
text: This pro-war impression on the populace the Navy Department sagely foresaw when it sent its men into the unbriny Northwest.
ref: November 10, 1917, Willard Connely, The Independent, Volume 92, "Making Sailors without Ships", Independent Publications, pages 299-300
text: The author disembarks from a Lake Champlain skiff at Burlington, which resembles a fishing-town on the seacoast, although there is a sickly, unbriny smell about.
ref: 1965, Robert L. Gale, Plots and characters in the fiction and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Archon Books, page 154:
glosses: Not briny.
un-briny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more un-briny
form: most un-briny
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unbriny.
wool classer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wool classers
Senses: glosses: A person who sorts and assigns grades to wool according to its quality.
Coordinate terms: wool classing
pavonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈvəʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /pəˈvoʊ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Forms: form: pavonias
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Pavonia of swampmallows.
propreantepenultimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: prō'prēăn'tĭpĭnŭlʹtĭmət
ipa: /ˌpɹəʊpɹiːˌæntɪpɪˈnʌltɪmət/
Etymology: First attested in 1825; formed as pro- + preantepenultimate; compare the later propreantepenult (1893).
Senses: examples: The word minimalism is stressed on its propreantepenultimate syllable.
1825, Samuel Oliver, A General, Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language, pages 269⁽¹⁾ and 270⁽²⁾
⁽¹⁾ In its minute divisions, accent is ultimate, penultimate, antepenultimate, preantepenultimate, propreantepenultimate.
⁽²⁾ The propreantepenultimate accent is the accent on the last syllable but four.
glosses: The last syllable but four (of a word or other utterance).
Coordinate terms: sense: adjectives denoting syllables
english: last
translation: last
word: ultimate
sense: adjectives denoting syllables
english: last but one
translation: last but one
word: penultimate
sense: adjectives denoting syllables
english: last but two
translation: last but two
word: antepenultimate
sense: adjectives denoting syllables
english: last but three
translation: last but three
word: preantepenultimate
permutite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permutites
Senses: glosses: Any of several artificial aluminosilicates that resemble the zeolites.
thingify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thingifies
form: thingifying
form: thingified
form: thingified
Etymology: From thing + -ify.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To convert into a thing; to make concrete or tangible.
Synonyms: objectify
reify
Derived terms: thingification
thingified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thingify
thingifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thingify
thingifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thingify
metareference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metareferences
Etymology: From meta- + reference.
Senses: examples: text: The poem's second line, for example, concludes with the lament "but my nerves. Lord these pensive endings." The latter can be read as a play on words, as in "nerve endings"; as a metareference to the end of that particular line; or even against the very end of the poem itself: "the darkness now confronts me . . ."
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 150:
glosses: A technique in metafiction whereby a character displays awareness of being part of a dramatic work.
metareferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metareference
lowk
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Hey man, I'm lowk too geeked to reply with formatting and everything so I'm just gonna give it to you as one big yap paragraph.
glosses: Abbreviation of low-key.
projectment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: projectments
Etymology: From project + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: dishonest in their Projectments for each others Confusion
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: design; contrivance; projection
projectments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of projectment
reiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːv(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reivers
Senses: examples: text: you may retain nearly every moral and manly virtue , and become a heroic rider and reiver, and hero of song
ref: 1867, John Ruskin, Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne: Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work:
glosses: Archaic form of reaver.
Derived terms: border reiver
reivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reiver
chirognomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chiro- (“hand”) + -gnomy, from physiognomy.
Senses: glosses: The art of judging character by the shape and appearance of the hand.
Derived terms: chirognomic
chirognomist
antiattrition
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + attrition.
Senses: examples: text: The friction of the axle-trees of these machines may be considerably diminished, by applying an improved axle-tree invented by Mr. Gottlieb, which he calls the anti-attrition axle-tree, and for which he has a patent.
ref: 1807, The new encyclopædia:
text: We give hereunder friction and durability tests made by Mr. Thomas Nash, M.I.M.E., comparing anti-attrition metal with magnolia.
ref: 1894 May 1, “The Anti-Attrition Metal”, in Marine Engineer and Motorship Builder, volume 16, page 70:
text: A sheave of lignumvitae cuts a wooden pin less, and is less cut by a metal one, than a sheave of any other timber; while its own sap makes it work as smoothly as other timber even when smeared with grease, black-lead, or any other antiattrition application.
ref: 1830, A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, page 163:
text: The finer sorts from the Cumberland mine are used for making pencils; the coarser for polishing, and to make antiattrition mixtures.
ref: 1833, James Rennie, A New Supplement to the Pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris, page 331:
text: A dense IL layer on graphene surfaces, which lubricated and protected the graphene transfer film, and improved the antiattrition performance of rubber composites [55] (Fig. 8.8).
ref: 2022, P.S. Sarath, Rakesh Reghunath, Sabu Thomas, Jozef T. Haponiuk, Soney C. George, “Tribology of graphene-based polymeric systems”, in Soney C. George, Jozef T. Haponiuk, Sabu Thomas, Rakesh Reghunath, P. S. Sarath, editor, Tribology of Polymers, Polymer Composites, and Polymer Nanocomposites, page 226:
glosses: Countering the effects of friction in machinery.
examples: text: The present value of the antiattrition program, discounted at 5 percent per year to the first grade is only $690, while the present value of preventing attrition in high school by expenditures in elementary school is $1065.
ref: 1971, Martin T. Katzman, The Political Economy of Urban Schools, page 100:
text: When there is an apparent "antiattrition allowance" bias among regulators, "known's" need to be handled independently of the allowance where possible.
ref: 1978, Public Utilities Fortnightly - Volume 101, page 34:
text: Reduces attrition by helping design antiattrition campaigns based on customers' real vs. perceived needs
ref: 1992, Arthur F. Holtman, Donald C. Mann, The New Age of Financial Services Marketing, page 91:
text: So if purchase frequency declines or ceases, the customer may be regarded as potentially at risk, or lost, and antiattrition or reactivation measures may be employed accordingly.
ref: 2005, John Abram, Paul Hawkes, The Seven Myths of Customer Management, page 75:
glosses: Minimizing attrition; serving to retain or recover participants, customers, members, or similar.
antiattrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiattritions
Etymology: From anti- + attrition.
Senses: examples: text: The remaining peroxide of iron is separated, by washing, into two parts: that which is in the finest powder, being dried and mixed with grease, is used as an antiattrition for machinery, and answers the purpose well; the coarser powder is made into small pellets, dried and treated as iron ore.
ref: 1844, American Journal of Pharmacy - Volume 9; Volume 15, page 78:
text: Nathaniel Partridge, of Elm Cottage, near Stroud (Gloucester), Gent.: Specification of an Invention of "The application of a certain composition paste or materials as an Antiattrition applicable to the bearings of wheels and machinery generally," being a commixture of Oil and Lime water.
ref: 1846, Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records:
text: What is antiattrition or white metal, where is it mostly used, and describe the method of fitting it to obtain the best results.
ref: 1899, Francis Ellington Leupp, How to Prepare for a Civil Service Examination:
glosses: A (usually lead or graphite-based) substance applied to machine parts in order to reduce friction; lubricant.
examples: text: The prisons of France are now full of baronets and commoners from England, who long were a credit to their country, but who find no mercy from French tradesmen; par example, the antiattrition baronet, and a certain titled Greek scholar, bear testimony of the truth hereof; and Mr. D. might well be frightened out of a year's growth, when he looked round him and saw the fate of his countrymen; for it is an undeniable truth, that he who has been extravagant at home will never be prudent abroad; so that is the only way of escaping a French prison, with an unlimited term of confinement, is voluntarily to submit to limited abridgment of liberty at home.
ref: 1818, Thomas Brown, Bath: A Satirical Novel, page 118:
text: Travellers, or sojourners in Florence, should patronise Mrs. Townly's establishment; they will find every article they may require, either for travelling or a residence. I can with confidence recommend it. The real antiattrition can be had here.
ref: 1840, Jousiffe, Guide: A Road-book for Travellers in Italy, page 59:
glosses: Something or someone that smooths the way or makes things easier.
pampiniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin pampinus (“a tendril”) + -form.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: In the form of tendrils.