cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
heterostylism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: heterostyly
impertransible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin im- (“not”) + pertransire (“to go through”). See per- and transient.
Senses: qualifier: almost always said of clay
glosses: impermeable
tobine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tobines
Etymology: Compare German tobin, Dutch tabijn. See tabby.
Senses: glosses: A stout twilled silk, formerly used for dresses.
tobines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tobine
autocratorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autocratorical
form: most autocratorical
Senses: examples: text: […] the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in respect of the same Divinity, have the same autocratorical power […]
ref: 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
glosses: autocratic
incumber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incumbers
form: incumbering
form: incumbered
form: incumbered
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of encumber.
Derived terms: incumberingly
incumberment
unincumbered
incumbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incumber
incumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incumber
incumberment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incumberments
Etymology: From incumber + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of encumberment.
incumberments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incumberment
incumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incumber
dallop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dallops
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps cognate with Norwegian dialect dolp, a lump.
Senses: examples: text: Of barlie the longest and greenest ye find, / leaue standing by dallops, till time ye doo bind
ref: 1573, Thomas Tusser, “Augusts husbandrie”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, London: English Dialect Society, published 1878, page 131:
glosses: A tuft or clump, especially an unploughed patch amongst fields of corn.
examples: text: Dallop, s[ubstantive] a deal heap, a division or small heap,[…]
ref: [1826, John Thomson, “Dallop”, in Etymons of English Words, Edinburgh: Published by Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale-Court; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, →OCLC, column 1:
text: DALLOP, s[ubstantive] […] 5. A clumsy and shapeless lump of any thing tumbled about in the hands.
ref: [1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia; an Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as It Existed in the Last Twenty Years of the Eighteenth Century, and still Exists; with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by and for J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament Street, →OCLC, page 88:
glosses: Alternative form of dollop.
dallops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dallop
epithumetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epithumetic
form: most epithumetic
form: epithumetical
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιθυμητικός (epithumētikós), from ἐπιθυμέω (epithuméō, “to want, to desire”).
Senses: glosses: sensual; inclined towards lust
mesotrochal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + trochal.
Senses: examples: text: mesotrochal band
text: mesotrochal larva
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the middle of the body surrounded by bands of cilia (said of the larvae of certain marine annelids).
relievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relievable
form: most relievable
Etymology: From relieve + -able.
Senses: examples: text: relievable duties
text: Suits in Parliament originally commenced for things relievable at Law
ref: 1678, Matthew Hale, Pleas of the Crown. A Methodical Summary:
glosses: Capable of being relieved
revestiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revestiary
revestiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revestiaries
Etymology: From Latin revestiarium: compare French revestiaire. See revest.
Senses: glosses: The storage space or room in a church or temple where the vestments etc. are kept.
Synonyms: english: the modern form
translation: the modern form
word: vestry
Hellanodic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hellanodics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἑλλανοδίκας (Hellanodíkas), from Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek”) + δίκη (díkē, “justice”).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A judge or umpire in certain games or combats.
Hellanodics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hellanodic
testacean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more testacean
form: most testacean
Etymology: From Latin testaceus (“having a shell”) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Covered with or having a shell.
testacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testaceans
Etymology: From Latin testaceus (“having a shell”) + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the rhizopods in the former grouping Testacea.
testaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of testacean
illaqueable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illaqueable
form: most illaqueable
Etymology: From Latin illaqueō (“I entrap”) + -able.
Senses: examples: text: As concerning the infamous and diabolical magic, he that would know whether or no a philosopher be temptable by it, or illaqueable into it
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being ensnared or entrapped.
irretrievableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irretrievable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: irretrievability
glosses: The state or quality of being irretrievable.
lapsable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lapsable
form: most lapsable
Senses: examples: text: But to be mutable or changeable in way of diminution, lapsable or peccable, is an essential property of a rational imperfect being.
ref: a. 1688, Ralph Cudworth, A Treatise of Freewill:
glosses: Alternative form of lapsible.
Derived terms: illapsable
trivialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trivialisms
Etymology: From trivial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: If it is possible for trivialism to be true, it may be false as well as true that all humans are mammals […]
ref: 2004, Graham Priest, J. C. Beall, Bradley Armour-Garb, The Law of Non-contradiction: New Philosophical Essays, page 252:
text: This charge of trivialism is also called the principle of explosion […]
ref: 2008, Peter Baofu, The future of post-human mathematical logic, page 97:
text: Trivialism is pretty hopeless as a philosophy, although it is very easy to defend/maintain verbally!
ref: 2012, Koji Tanaka, Francesco Berto, Edwin Mares, Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications, page 296:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The theory that every proposition and its negation is true.
examples: text: When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):
glosses: A trivial matter or method; a triviality.
Related terms: trivialist
trivialistic
trivialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trivialism
hedgebote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedgebotes
Etymology: From Middle English hege botte; equivalent to hedge + bote.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A haybote.
hedgebotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedgebote
lifemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifemates
Etymology: From life + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: The truth seems to be, however, that when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him better than most of his schoolmates or lifemates.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Introduction”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: GWF 45 desires friends with goal for lifemate to share and care for keeps.
ref: 1981 April 18, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
text: He’s a warlock—albeit a mediocre one. His next-door neighbor and platonic lifemate, poised, purple-clad witch Mrs. Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett), is much more powerful.
ref: 2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2018:
glosses: A companion for life.
lifemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifemate
monarchess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monarchesses
Etymology: From monarch + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female monarch, i.e. queen or empress.
monarchesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monarchess
bronchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: bronchic respiration
text: bronchic dilatations
text: bronchic cell
glosses: bronchial
sulphurization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphurizations
Etymology: From sulphur + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfurization.
sulphurizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphurization
obstetricious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin obstetrīcius.
Senses: glosses: Serving to assist childbirth; obstetric.
eschewment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eschew + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of eschewing.
Carron oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First used at the Carron ironworks in Scotland (operating 1759 -1982) Carron oil was mentioned by Dr. Joseph F. Montgomery in his 1872 journal Burns and Scalds: Their Treatment, with Cases. Referring to a case in 1863, he used a carron oil in the treatment of three children badly burned in an explosion. the mixture had at the time been widely used in Scotland for the treatment of burns.
 "Dr. Montgomery managed to apply oil and lime-water liniment. In fact, this type of oil was also being used during the same time on the other side of the world in Scotland (Lee 170). According to the British Medical Journal, lime-water liniment was often mixed with linseed oil to help with the burn and this combination became known as Carron oil in the world of burn medicine".
Senses: examples: text: Carron oil—so called from the famous Carron ironworks, where it is extensively used—not only lessens the immediate pain, but covers the part with a film which effectually shuts out the air and prevents the skin getting dry.
This Carron oil […] consists of equal parts of olive oil and lime-water. Olive oil, or salad or Lucca oil, is the oil best suited for the purpose; but if not easily obtainable, linseed oil answers the purpose very well.
ref: 1884 October 11, Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, page 656:
text: Then Mrs. McLash, with woman's wisdom, came rushing from her bedroom with cotton-wool and bandages and iodine and chlorodyne and carron-oil.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 148:
glosses: A lotion of linseed oil and limewater, applied to burns and scalds.
wikipedia: Carron Company
disflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disfleshes
form: disfleshing
form: disfleshed
form: disfleshed
Etymology: From dis- + flesh.
Senses: examples: text: […]nor the fat man disflesh himself
ref: 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To reduce the flesh or obesity of.
glosses: To disembody.
disfleshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disflesh
disfleshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disflesh
disfleshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disflesh
suboccipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + occipital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput.
Derived terms: suboccipital muscle
suboccipital nerve
suboccipital triangle
suboccipital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suboccipitals
Etymology: From sub- + occipital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the group of suboccipital muscles.
myselves
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From my + -selves.
Senses: examples: text: So many pistols I have borrowed to protect myselves from creatures who too readily recognize my weapons and have murder in their heart!
ref: 1954, Frank O'Hara, To Grace Hartigan:
text: I can't communicate with myselves. I lost millions in the last couple of weeks, playing the market the regular way.
ref: 1972, Robert Silverberg, {Now + n, Now - n}:
qualifier: sometimes multiplicity
glosses: Me; used to indicate the speaker as an entity with more than one self.
clong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈklɑŋ/
Forms: form: clongs
Etymology: Corruption of conlang. Created on Reddit around 2020.
Senses: related: word: cloŋ
glosses: Synonym of conlang.
synonyms: word: conlang
clong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈklɑŋ/
Senses: glosses: past participle of cling
recognizor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recognizors
form: recognisor
Senses: examples: text: No crime attaches to the recognizors for suffering a forfeiture, any more than in failing to perform any other civil contract
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: One who enters into a recognizance.
recognizors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recognizor
handygripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handy gripes
form: handy-gripes
form: handygrips
Senses: examples: text: For now the mastives, charging home, / To blows and handygripes were come:
ref: c. 1660–1680, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part I, canto III:
glosses: Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; close quarters in fighting.
Synonyms: grappling
wrestling
heresiographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heresiography
heresiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: heresiographies
Etymology: From heresy + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A treatise on the topic of heresy.
preventingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preventingly
form: most preventingly
Etymology: From preventing + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: preventatively
glosses: So as to prevent or hinder.
gazeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gazeful
form: most gazeful
Etymology: From gaze + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Which when as I, that never tasted blis / Nor happy howre, beheld with gazefull eye, / I thought there was none other heaven then this […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Gazing.
mudwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudworts
Etymology: From mud + wort.
Senses: glosses: Any of the plant of genus Limosella, found in muddy areas.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Limosella pubiflora
word: Chiricahua Mountain mudwort
taxonomic: Limosella acaulis
word: Owyhee mudwort
taxonomic: Limosella aquatica
word: water mudwort
taxonomic: Limosella australis
word: Welsh mudwort
mudworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudwort
applotment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applotments
Etymology: From applot + -ment.
Senses: glosses: apportionment; allocation
Related terms: applotter
applotments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applotment
cocciferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin coccum (“a berry”) + -ferous. See coccus.
Senses: glosses: Bearing or producing berries.
Synonyms: bacciferous
protectoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protector + -al.
Senses: examples: text: protectoral power
synonyms: protectorian
glosses: Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial.
cynorexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyno- + Ancient Greek ὄρεξις (órexis, “appetite”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Bulimia.
pseudoneuropterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Pseudoneuroptera + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Pseudoneuroptera, a former division of insects somewhat resembling the Neuroptera.
irresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ir- + resistance.
Senses: glosses: lack of resistance
retractation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retractations
Etymology: Compare French rétractation, Latin retractatio (“a revision, reconsideration”).
Senses: examples: text: […] but while they own what G. Fox hath written, and that he writ it with a perfect spirit: I say untill they do make some Recantation or Retractation: or shew the Reasons why they doe not, H. Norton who keeps more plainly to his Principles is to windward of them, and the Foxians do but strip themselves naked to be more derided and scorned as the more notorious Juglers and Dissemblers .
ref: 1872, Publications of the Narragansett Club: George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, page 257:
text: When he met Strether's eye on such occasions he looked guilty and furtive, fell the next minute into some attitude of retractation.
ref: 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: retraction (of something previously said)
retractations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retractation
sworded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sword + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a long-sworded man
text: The helmed cherubim
And sworded seraphim
Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd
ref: 1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “Hymn on the Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Wearing or carrying a sword.
Derived terms: unsworded
Related terms: broadsworded
pompillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ointment or pomatum made of black poplar buds.
intemperant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intemperant
form: most intemperant
Etymology: From Latin intemperāns, -antis. See in- (“not”) + temperant.
Senses: examples: text: I know in Monterey, from my own experience, the court places the question before the alleged intemperant person and asks them if they want to go to a hospital.
ref: 1956, California. Legislature. Senate. Interim Committee on the Treatment of Mental Illness, Partial Report - Volumes 3-6, page 86:
text: In particular, supporters of nativist policies decried the tendency to permit intemperant (or any other) newcomers to vote in American elections.
ref: 1981, United States. Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, U.S. Immigration Policy and the National Interest, page 72:
text: Having positioned this deficiency within this illustration and bearing in mind that the intemperant person is an individual who cannot either control or regulate his passionate appetites, it is easily found among all people whether educated or not.
ref: 1991, Carlos Bernardo González Pecotche, Deficiencies and Propensities of the Human Being, page 95:
glosses: intemperate
albuminimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌælbjʊmɪˈnɪmɪtɚ/
Forms: form: albuminimeters
Etymology: From Latin albumen, albuminis + -meter. Compare French albuminimètre.
Senses: glosses: An instrument, usually made of wood, for determining the quantity of albumen in a liquid, generally urine.
Related terms: albuminimetry
albuminimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albuminimeter
sicklied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sickly
subduple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + duple.
Senses: examples: text: 3:6 is a subduple ratio, while 6:3 is a duple ratio.
text: As one of these under pulleys abates half of that heaviness of the weight, and causes the power to be in a subduple proportion; so two of them abate half of that which remains, and cause a subquadruple proportion, three a sextuple, four a suboctuple.
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: subdouble
glosses: Indicating one part of two; in the ratio of one to two.
aswing
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈswɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: From a- + swing.
Senses: examples: text: And sweeping trails of amaranthine blooms
Crossing the lucent air, aswing or still,
ref: 1838, Thomas Burbidge, “Armoria’s Garden”, in Poems, Longer and Shorter, London: William Pickering, page 177:
text: […] over the western seas, where all the remembered years lie floating idly aswing with the ebb and flow,
ref: 1906, Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 170:
text: The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing.
ref: 1921, Mary Grant Bruce, chapter 8, in Back to Billabong:
text: […] she sat on her bed and considered things for a long time, her hands tapping the coverlet and one foot aswing.
ref: 1945, Maurice Walsh, chapter 12, in Nine Strings to Your Bow, Toronto: Smithers & Bonellie:
text: Undergraduates, their gowns aswing, were kicking a man into the mud.
ref: 1994, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Vintage, Part 1, p. 8:
glosses: In a state of swinging.
contranatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contranatural
form: most contranatural
Etymology: From contra- + natural. Compare counternatural.
Senses: examples: text: For it is the perfection of every being to act according to the principle of its nature, and it is the nature of an arbitrarious principle to act or not, to do or undo, upon no account but its own will and pleasure; to be determined and tied up, either by itself, or from abroad, is violent and contra-natural.
ref: 1667, George Rust, A Funeral Sermon, preached at the obsequies of […] Jeremy Lord Bishop of Down:
glosses: Opposed to or against nature; unnatural.
ideomotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ideo- + motion.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: ideomotor movement; movement done subconsciously, such as twitching.
stereochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereochromes
Etymology: From stereo- + -chrome.
Senses: glosses: A picture produced by stereochromy.
stereochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereochrome
stereochromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stereochromy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to stereochromy.
monosyllabism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosyllabisms
Senses: glosses: The state of consisting of monosyllables, or having a monosyllabic form.
examples: text: His monosyllabism and formal manner convinced me that he was stoned.
ref: 2022, Denise Mina, Confidence:
glosses: The frequent occurrence or use of monosyllables.
monosyllabisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosyllabism
beechy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: other: /bitʃi/
homophone: beachy
Forms: form: more beechy
form: most beechy
Etymology: From beech + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The peculiar idyllic character of the German hills is principally found in such places as the beechy glens about Eisenach and the Inselberg in Thüringen, in the vale of the Bode, in the Hartz, in the lovely valley of Lorsbach, luxuriant with beech and birch, with hills folding in one another like fingers, and the chestnut glades about Cronberg in the Taunus.
ref: 1862 September 13, George Carless Swayne, “Castles of the Taunus”, in Once a Week, number 168:
glosses: Of, relating to, or containing beech trees.
syllabism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syllabisms
Senses: examples: text: This latent syllabism, which underlies the alphabetism of the hieroglyphic writing, indicates with sufficient clearness the origin of the Egyptian alphabet.
ref: 1995, Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The expression of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words.
Related terms: isosyllabism
syllabisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syllabism
reforestize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reforestizes
form: reforestizing
form: reforestized
form: reforestized
Etymology: From re- + forest + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To reforest.
reforestized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reforestize
reforestizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reforestize
antacrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + acrid.
Senses: examples: text: It is antacrid probably; is called a specific for the epilepsy, and all corrvulsive disorders; and commended also for vertigoes, apoplexies, pleurifies, quartans, worms, and I don't know what.
ref: 1770, Charles Alston, John Hope, Lectures on the Materia Medica, page 58:
text: Take extract of lead, mercurial ointment, antacrid cerate , of each an equal part. Incorporate them in a mortar or on a tile.
ref: 1772, Nikolai Detlef Falck, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, page 441:
text: In syphilis, I directed the patient to take of the antacrid tincture 15 drops in a little water or sassafras tea, three times a day, and dress the chancres with the prepared calomel powder, covered with lint, twice a day.
ref: 1859 February, Alexander Bryant, “Falck on Venereal”, in Maryland and Virginia Medical Journal, volume 12, page 108:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Serving to correct acridness of the humours.
antacrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antacrids
Etymology: From anti- + acrid.
Senses: examples: text: Antacids and antacrids select, from the mineral kingdom, exhibited per anum, vaginam et urethram, to absorb vitiated secretion .
ref: 1825, “Dr, Nuttall's Lectures”, in The Lancet, page 580:
glosses: An antacrid drug.
goodship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English goodschipe, from Old English gōdscipe (“kindness”), equivalent to good + -ship.
Senses: glosses: goodness
hemitone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemitones
Etymology: Latin hemitonium, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A semitone.
hemitones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemitone
fissuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissurations
Etymology: From fissure + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of dividing or opening; the formation of a fissure.
glosses: The condition of having fissures.
fissurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fissuration
antisabbatarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisabbatarian
form: most antisabbatarian
Etymology: From anti- + Sabbatarian.
Senses: glosses: opposing the observance of the Sabbath
antisabbatarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisabbatarians
Etymology: From anti- + Sabbatarian.
Senses: glosses: An opposer of the observance of the Christian Sabbath.
antisabbatarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisabbatarian
devoutful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more devoutful
form: most devoutful
Etymology: From devout (adjective) + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of devotion; devoted or pious.
examples: text: [T]o ſelect among ten thouſand faires, / A Lady farre inferior to the moſt, / In faire proportion both of limbe and ſoule: / To take her from auſterer check of parents, / To make her his by moſt deuoutfull rightes, / Make her commandreſſe of a better eſſence / Then is the gorgious world even of a man.
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent. […], revised edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii:
glosses: Sacred.
Beliebers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Belieber
overweigh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈweɪ/
Forms: form: overweighs
form: overweighing
form: overweighed
form: overweighed
Etymology: From Middle English overweȝen; equivalent to over- + weigh. First known attestation in the Ancrene Wisse ("luue ouerweið hit").
Senses: examples: text: And when the princely Perſean Diadem,
Shall ouerweigh his wearie witleſſe head,
And fall like mellowed fruit, with ſhakes of death,
In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain
Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:
text: My unsoil’d name, the austereness of my life, / My vouch against you, and my place i’ the state, / Will so your accusation overweigh, / That you shall stifle in your own report, / And smell of calumny.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: I beg permission to have a few witnesses examined concerning my character, and if their testimony shall not overweigh my supposed guilt, I must be condemned, although I would pledge my salvation on my innocence.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
glosses: To exceed in weight, outweigh; to preponderate; to weigh down.
wikipedia: Ancrene Wisse
overweighed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overweigh
overweighing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overweigh
overweighs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overweigh
Indo-Briton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indo-Britons
Etymology: From Indo- + Briton.
Senses: examples: text: Since then, twelve others have been received into the church; all Burmans but one, an Indo-Briton
ref: 1839, Howard Malcom, Travels in South-Eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam and China […] :
glosses: A person born in India, of mixed Indian and British ancestry.
Related terms: Anglo-Indian
Indo-Britons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indo-Briton
extratextuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extra- + textuality or extratextual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being extratextual.
intratextuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intratextualities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being intratextual.
examples: text: Spenser has an intimate feel for Vergilian intratextuality, the mirrorings and repetitions that create patterns of likeness and difference, reaching over the whole text and linking images, motifs, and persons.
ref: 2010, Joseph Farrell, Michael C. J. Putnam, A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition, page 183:
glosses: A reference by a text to itself.
Related terms: intertextuality
Arachosia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Arachōsia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραχωσία (Arakhōsía), a borrowing from the Iranian language of that region; ultimately from Proto-Iranian *hárahwatiH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *SáraswatiH. Compare the Old Persian name of the place: 𐏃𐎼𐎢𐎺𐎫𐎡𐏁 (h-r-u-v-t-i-š /⁠harauvatiš⁠/, literally “rich in waters/lakes”).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Achaemenid and Seleucid satrapy in the eastern part of their respective empires, around modern-day southern Afghanistan.
enflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enfleshes
form: enfleshing
form: enfleshed
form: enfleshed
Etymology: From en- + flesh.
Senses: examples: text: Vices which are […] enfleshed in him.
ref: 1598, John Florio, “Enflesh”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC:
text: Accordingly, ablenationalism when taken to this extreme, perpetuated through the war on drugs and its financial and enfleshed circulation of violence, reconfigures what Puar (2017) calls the "right to maim."
ref: 2023, Shelley Lynn Tremain, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, page 1936:
glosses: To envelop or supply with flesh.
Derived terms: enfleshment
enfleshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enflesh
enfleshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enflesh
enfleshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enflesh
fistinut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fistinuts
Etymology: Compare Turkish fıstık / فستق. See pistachio.
Senses: examples: text: The Pistacia mutica (fistinut tree), Cercis siliquastrum, Vitex agnus and othr^([sic]) Mediterranian^([sic]) species of trees are characteristic for the Southern coast of the Crimea, from the Cape Aya to Kisiltash.
ref: 1930, Guide-book for the Excursion of the Second International Congress of Soil Science, volume 1, Moscow: Organizing Committee of the Second International Congress of Soil Science, Public Office of the State Planning Committee of the USSR, page 33:
glosses: A pistachio nut.
fistinuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fistinut
chrysology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chryso- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The branch of political economy relating to the production of wealth, generally including precious metals.
monociliated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + ciliated.
Senses: examples: text: monociliated cell
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having only one cilium.
outstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outstorms
form: outstorming
form: outstormed
form: outstormed
Etymology: From out- + storm.
Senses: examples: text: Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies.
ref: 1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad:
glosses: To exceed in storming (in various senses).
outstormed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outstorm
outstorming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outstorm
outstorms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outstorm
Achaemenid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkiːmənɪd/
ipa: /əˈkɛmənɪd/
Forms: form: Achaemenide
form: Achæmenid
form: Achæmenide
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Achaemenidēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαιμενίδης (Akhaimenídēs), from Ancient Greek Ἀχαιμένης (Akhaiménēs) + Ancient Greek -ίδης (-ídēs, patronymic suffix). By surface analysis, Achaemenes + -id.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the dynasty which ruled the Persian empire c. 550–330 BCE (the Achaemenid Empire), founded by Achaemenes.
Derived terms: Achaemenid Aramaic
Achaemenid Empire
Achaemenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkiːmənɪd/
ipa: /əˈkɛmənɪd/
Forms: form: Achaemenids
form: Achaemenidae
form: Achaemenide
form: Achæmenid
form: Achæmenide
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Achaemenidēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαιμενίδης (Akhaimenídēs), from Ancient Greek Ἀχαιμένης (Akhaiménēs) + Ancient Greek -ίδης (-ídēs, patronymic suffix). By surface analysis, Achaemenes + -id.
Senses: glosses: A member of the dynasty which ruled the Persian empire c. 550–330 BCE (the Achaemenid Empire).
Synonyms: Achaemenean
Achaemenian
Hakhamanishi
Hakhamaneshi
Achaemenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Achaemenid
Achaemenidae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Achaemenid
sachemship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sachemships
Etymology: From sachem + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or position of a sachem.
Achaemenides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Achaemenide + -s
Senses: glosses: plural of Achaemenide
sachemships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sachemship
dissuasory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissuasory
form: most dissuasory
Senses: examples: text: dissuasory message
text: dissuasory guidelines
glosses: Tending to dissuade; dissuasive.
irregularist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irregularists
Etymology: From irregular + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: to bear out the heartless flourishes of tians indeed are puritans , irregularists , exorbitants
ref: 1661, Richard Baxter, The Vain Religion of the Formal Hypocrite:
glosses: One who is irregular.
irregularists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irregularist
tartarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tartar + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: salt of tartar
glosses: Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar.
longulite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longulites
Etymology: From Latin longus (“long”) + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of crystallite with a slender acicular form.
longulites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longulite
immomentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immomentous
form: most immomentous
Etymology: From im- + momentous.
Senses: examples: text: And now our newspapers cease to assert the Austrian defeat immomentous, or the co-operation of Prussia certain.
ref: 1805, Anna Seward, “Letter XLI, to Miss Ponsonby”, in Letters of Anna Seward:
text: the traditional achievements connected with his memory, prove, if any proof were necessary, that he played no immomentous part upon the stage of life in his generation
ref: 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood:
glosses: Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant.
Achaemenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Achæmenian
Etymology: From Achaemenes + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Achaemenid
Achaemenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Achaemenians
form: Achæmenian
Etymology: From Achaemenes + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Achaemenid
Achaemenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Achaemenian
Achæmenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Achaemenian.
Achæmenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Achæmenians
Senses: examples: text: `So it is still spoken, and there is yet an Egypt? And what Pharaoh sits upon the throne? Still one of the spawn of the Persian Ochus, or are the Achæmenians gone, for far is it to the days of Ochus.'
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of Achaemenian.
Achæmenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Achæmenian
Achæmenid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Achaemenid.
Achæmenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Achæmenids
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Achaemenid.
Achæmenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Achæmenid
proratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prorate + -able.
Senses: glosses: divisible pro rata (proportionately); capable of being prorated.
disgracive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disgracive
form: most disgracive
Etymology: From disgrace + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: I wonder at those , that will assume a knowledge of all ; they are unwisely ashamed of an ignorance , which is not disgracive
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: Causing disgrace.
antennate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antennates
form: antennating
form: antennated
form: antennated
Etymology: From antenna + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Workers attempt to avoid the queen, but if antennated try to escape or exhibit a submissive crouching posture, while the queen starts to bite and pull their legs and antennae.
ref: 2005, Peter J.B. Slater, Jay S. Rosenblatt, Charles T. Snowdon, Advances in the Study of Behavior, →ISBN, page 10:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: To bring one's antennae into contact with another insect.
raw_tags: of an insect
Derived terms: antennation
antennate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antenna + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: As reaction to humidity and activity level are usually closely linked it is therefore inadvisable to draw comparisons between strengths of response of de-antenate and antennate insects.
ref: 1944, The Journal of Experimental Biology, volumes 20-23, page 156:
glosses: Having antennae or a shaped-like form.
hamiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hāʹmĭfôrm
ipa: /ˈheɪmɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more hamiform
form: most hamiform
Etymology: First attested in glossaries in 1842 and first used in 1870; either directly from the Latin hāmiformis (1651, 1806) or formed from the suffixation of its etymon, hāmus (“hook”), with the English -form.
Senses: examples: text: HAMIFORM. (Hamus, a hook.) Curved at the extremity.
ref: 1842, George Brettingham Sowerby, A Conchological Manual, 3rd edition, page 156:
text: Hamiform, curved at the extremity.
ref: 1843, Thomas Brown, The Elements of Fossil Conchology, glossary, page 129:
text: Distinguished by the elongated hamiform siphonal canal and the posterior canal co-ordinated with the “facies” of Aporrhais.
ref: 1870, American Journal of Conchology, volume V, page 139:
text: Legs (♂) light: anterior femora long, rather narrow; a short cylindrical hamiform process (a hook with apex sharply bent towards base of femur) projecting from lower side at about ⅓ of its length: anterior tibiæ long, narrow on basal half, wide at apex, nor curved; intermediate long (longer than femora), strongly curved inwards; posterior long, slender: anterior tarsi stout, joints not dilatate, 5th longest, longer than three preceding together, basal joint much longer than 2nd, squamulose in middle of lower side near apex, 2nd and 3rd joints with two narrow rows of squamæ in middle of lower side; four posterior tarsi narrow, cylindrical, posterior much longer than intermediate; posterior coxæ contiguous.
ref: 1904, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, volume XXVIII, page 590:
topics: biology
conchology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Curved at the extremity.
examples: text: Pinnae subentire or slightly repand, gradually short-acuminate; under surface provided with gland-like, hamiform hairs; main rachis provided with a callous gland at the place of insertion of the pinnae.
ref: 1916, Cornelis Rugier Willem Karel Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, Malayan Ferns and Fern Allies, Landsdrukkerĳ, page 177:
glosses: Shaped like a hook.
embolismal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From embolism + -al.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of embolismic.
nigrita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigritas
Senses: glosses: Any member of genus Nigrita, certain estrildid finches.
nigritas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigrita
nigrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin niger (“black”) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: An insulating material consisting of the impure residuum obtained in the distillation of paraffin.
fuliginose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fuliginose
form: most fuliginose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fuliginous.
periodicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From periodical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: periodicity
redeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rede + -less.
Senses: synonyms: helpless
heedless
glosses: Without rede or counsel.
seasoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seasoners
Etymology: From season + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that seasons or gives a relish.
glosses: A sailor who is hired for a season.
glosses: A loafer or beachcomber.
glosses: A conker that has been stored for a whole year and allowed to harden.
seasoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seasoner
increpation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: increpations
Etymology: Latin increpatio.
Senses: examples: text: first the admonitions , fraternal or paternal , of his fellow Christians , or of the governors of the Church , then more public reprehensions and increpations
ref: 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A rebuke or reproof.
increpations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of increpation