cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒkʃən/
Forms: form: coctions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin coctio, coctionis.
Senses: glosses: An act of boiling.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Digestion.
examples: text: But it is found by ſad experience, that ſhe rouſes herſelf up to make a criſis, not only upon improper, and, as phyſicians call them, intercident days, […] vvhich ſeldom afford any criſis, and much ſeldomer a good one; but alſo vvhen there appear not any ſigns of coction, or at leaſt of due coction, and by theſe unſeaſonable attempts vveaken the patient, and increaſe the malady, or perhaps make it ſpeedily mortal.
ref: 1686 (indicated as 1685–1686), Robert Boyle, “A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature: […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, section VI, page 396:
text: A yellow Urine is caused by a due Concoction of the Chyle with the Blood. A red Urine is made by the Mixture of Blood with it, or by a greater Coction.
ref: 1697, John Pechey, A Plain Introduction to the Art of Physick, ... to which is added the Materia Medica contracted, and alphabetical tables of the vertues of roots, etc, page 111:
text: The body again was considered as a microcosm, formed of four humours, — the blood, lymph, bile, and atrabile, […] and the terms crudity, coction, and evacuation of the morbific matter, were used to express such supposed changes.
ref: 1858, Thomas Alexander Wise, Essay on the Pathology of the Blood and Its Containing Vessels, page 2:
text: The second coction was the sanguification of this chyle within the liver itself. In the peripheral parts blood was in the third coction made flesh. The coctions were promoted by the animal heat (hence the term) and in the sixteenth century writers […]
ref: 2014 July 10, A.Rupert Hall, The Revolution in Science 1500 - 1750, Routledge, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
Derived terms: recoction
coctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coction
sput
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sputs
Etymology: Compare spud
Senses: glosses: An annular reinforcement in a steam boiler, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.
sputs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sput
subsulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsulphates
Etymology: From sub- + sulphate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulphate with an excess of the base.
subsulphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsulphate
New-York
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: ref: 1897, Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New-York for the Year 1896-'97, New York:
glosses: Archaic form of New York:
A state of the United States
examples: ref: 1834, The New-York Christian Messenger, and Philadelphia Universalist, volume 3, New York:
glosses: Archaic form of New York:
The largest city in the state of New York, and the largest city in the United States, a metropolis extending into neighboring New Jersey
diitiidʔaaʔtx̣
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Ditidaht First Nation members Sarah Tom and Pat Patterson talk about working to revitalize diitiidʔaaʔtx̣, one of the seven Indigenous language groups rooted on Vancouver island.
ref: 2021 March 12, “VANCOUVER ISLAND'S INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES: diitiidʔaaʔtx̣ educators use movement, ASL to reinforce language lessons”, in CBC News:
text: In the spring of 2021, CBC Radio's afternoon show in Victoria spoke to some of the many people working to revitalize Indigenous languages across Vancouver Island.
Those languages include Lekwungen, SENĆOŦEN, Hul'q'umi'num', Ayajuthem, diitiidʔaaʔtx̣, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Kwak̓wala.
ref: 2022 June 26, “Revitalizing Indigenous languages: Meet some of the people working to keep their language alive”, in CBC News:
glosses: Ditidaht language.
worship the ground someone walks on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wûr′shĭp thə ground sŭm′wŭn′ wôks ŏn
enpr: -sŭm′wən-
enpr: -ôn
ipa: /ˈwɜː.ʃɪp ðə ɡɹaʊ̯nd ˈsʌmˌwʌn wɔːks ɒn/
ipa: /-ˈsʌm.wən-/
note: today or older
ipa: /-ɔːn/
ipa: /ˈwɜɹ.ʃɪp ðə ɡɹaʊ̯nd ˈsʌmˌwʌn wɑks ɑn/
ipa: /-ˈsʌm.wən-/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /-wɔks ɔn/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /-wɒks ɒn/
ipa: /ˈwɜː.ʃɪp ðə ɡɹæɔ̯nd ˈsɐmˌwɐn woːks ɔn/
ipa: /-ˈsɐm.wən-/
ipa: /-oːn/
ipa: /ˈwøː.ʃəp ðə ɡɹæʊ̯nd ˈsɐmˌwɐn woːks ɒn/
ipa: /-ˈsɐm.wən-/
ipa: /-oːn/
ipa: /ˈwʌɹ.ʃɪp ðə ɡɹʌʊ̯nd ˈsʌmˌwʌn wɔks ɔn/
ipa: /-ˈsʌm.wən-/
ipa: /ˈwʌɹ.ʃɪp ðə ɡɹʌʊ̯nd ˈsʌmˌwʌn wɔks ɔn/
ipa: /-ˈsʌm.wən-/
Forms: form: worships the ground someone walks on
form: worshiping the ground someone walks on
form: worshipping the ground someone walks on
form: worshiped the ground someone walked on
form: worshiped the ground someone walked on
form: worshipped the ground someone walked on
form: worshipped the ground someone walked on
Etymology: First attested in 1848.
Senses: glosses: To admire or adore someone to excess.
Related terms: put on a pedestal
leptocardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Leptocardii + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Leptocardii (formerly Leptocardia).
leptocardian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptocardians
Etymology: From Leptocardii + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A lancelet (one of the Leptocardii).
leptocardians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptocardian
yin yang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yin-yang.
talma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talmas
Etymology: Probably named after François Joseph Talma (1763–1826), French actor.
Senses: glosses: A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak.
talmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talma
emprosthotonos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
impignoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impignorations
Etymology: From Latin impignoratio: compare French impignoration.
Senses: examples: text: Because the special subject pledged continues the debtor's property, therefore if it perishes during the impignoration, it perishes to the debtor, according to the rule stated above, § 20.
ref: 1871, An Institute of the Law of Scotland, volume 2:
glosses: The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned.
impignorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impignoration
where it's at
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 5 March 2012, Daily Telegraph, Stockholm: on the trail of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoohttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/9111563/Stockholm-on-the-trail-of-the-Girl-with-the-Dragon-Tattoo.html
In fact, for armchair sleuths, Scandinavia — where waterfronts swiftly segue into gritty, albeit imagination-based, crime scenes — is where it's at.
text: Too many students learn another discrimination, between school and the "real world." That discrimination is the source of the concern for relevance. When a student concludes that education is not "where it's at," he is ready to drop out physically or turn off psychologically.
ref: 1973, Performance objectives in education, Educational Technology Publications, Incorporated:
glosses: cool, trendy
examples: text: You say I let you down, you know it's not like that. If you're so hurt why then don't you show it? You say you lost your faith but that's not where it's at. You have no faith to lose and you know it.
ref: 1965, Bob Dylan, “Positively 4th Street”:
glosses: true, truthful
Related terms: place to be
where you at
portension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portensions
form: portention
Etymology: Compare portent.
Senses: examples: text: the red Comets do carry the portensions of Mars
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of foreshowing; foreboding.
portensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portension
enlimn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enlimns
form: enlimning
form: enlimned
form: enlimned
Etymology: From en- + limn. Compare enlumine, illuminate.
Senses: examples: text: par of tables enlymned with Seyntes.
ref: 1453, Testamenta Eboracensia:
glosses: To adorn (a book, manuscript, etc.) by illuminating or ornamenting with coloured and decorated letters and figures.
enlimned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enlimn
Ditidaht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ditidahts
form: Ditidaht
form: Diitidaht
form: Nitinaht
form: Nitinat
Etymology: From Ditidaht diitiidʔaaʔtx̣.
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous North American people of the southern coast of Vancouver Island in Western Canada.
Ditidaht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Diitidaht
form: Nitinaht
form: Nitinat
Etymology: From Ditidaht diitiidʔaaʔtx̣.
Senses: synonyms: diiʔdiitidq
diitiidʔaaʔtx̣
glosses: The language spoken by the Ditidaht people: a member of the Southern Wakashan language group.
Ditidaht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Diitidaht
form: Nitinaht
form: Nitinat
Etymology: From Ditidaht diitiidʔaaʔtx̣.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ditidaht people.
enlimning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enlimn
enlimns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enlimn
approof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: approofs
Etymology: See approve and proof.
Senses: examples: text: A man so absolute in my approof, / That nature hath reserv'd small dignity, / That he enjoys not.
ref: c. 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels:
text: His good remembrance, sir, / Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb; / So in approof lives not his epitaph / As in your royal speech.
ref: c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, act 1, scene 2, lines 48–51:
text: So popular did this volume become, as to pass through eight successive editions in the reign of Elizabeth; and it has lately been revived, under every editorial advantage, by the joint care of Sir Egerton Brydges and Mr. Haslewood, whose taste and accuracy need not my approof.
ref: 1815, Thomas Park, Heliconia: A Selection of English Poetry, Advertisement:
glosses: trial; proof; testimony; affirmation.
examples: text: O perilous mouths, / That bear in them one and the selfsame tongue, / Either of condemnation or approof,
ref: c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 2, scene 4, lines 172–174:
text: But above all, his own works testifie of him to this day, and clearly demonstrate, that what respect the world, and what approof and commendations Authours have given him, was not affected but well deserved
ref: 1640, John Gower (translator), Ovids Festivalls:
text: O GENTLE Maiden! may an humble Muse / That oft hath sought thy fair Approof to gain / One look benign from thy meek eye obtain / While now she culls the flowrets Nature strews / All in her simple Walks, no cultur'd Plain.
ref: 1814, Capel Lofft, Laura:
glosses: approval; commendation
approofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of approof
suability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sue + -ability.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: liability to be sued
petromastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɔɪd
Etymology: From petro- + mastoid.
Senses: examples: text: petrmastoid bone
text: petrmastoid canal
text: petrmastoid portion of the bone
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: periotic
glosses: Of or relating to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone
petromastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æstɔɪd
Forms: form: petromastoids
Etymology: From petro- + mastoid.
Senses: glosses: The portion of the temporal bone that includes the petrous and mastoid parts.
cheapstead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheapsteads
Etymology: From cheap (“purchase, business, market”) + stead (“place”), probably a translation of Old Norse kaupstaðr (“marketplace”). Compare Icelandic kaupstaður (“market town”), Swedish köpstad (“market town”), Old English ċēapstōw (“marketplace”).
Senses: examples: text: […] three weeks of winter were employed in butchering, and more than an acre of field surrounding the cheapstead at Housewick was covered with knots of men and women decapitating and flaying their flocks.
ref: 1879, Charles George Warnford Lock, Clement le Neve Foster, The home of the Eddas:
text: Sleet showers continued until we reached the cheapstead of Akureyri (Acre Beach), at the south end of the fjord.
ref: 1900, Manchester Geographical Society, The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society:
glosses: A marketplace.
beauseant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauseants
Etymology: French beaucéant.
Senses: examples: text: The air has been gay with waving plumes and resplendent beauseants; the streets of the Monumental City have echoed with the measured tramp of six thousand gallant Knights, gathered from all parts of the Union[…]
ref: 1871, Charles Whitlock Moore, The Freemason's monthly magazine: Volume 30, page 373:
glosses: The black and white standard (battle flag) of the Knights Templar.
beauseants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauseant
ingeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingenie
Etymology: From Latin ingenium. See ingenious.
Senses: examples: text: it [God's mercy] chose me suitable company and habitation; it gave me betimes a teachable ingeny
ref: 1683, Richard Baxter, Dying Thoughts:
glosses: natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity
lushburg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lushburgs
Etymology: From Middle English lushburg, lussheburgh.
Senses: glosses: A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxembourg (then called Lussheburgh).
paragnathi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paragnathus
paragnathus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paragnathi
form: paragnatha
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the two lobes forming the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the small, horny, tooth-like jaws of certain annelids.
Related terms: gnatho-
para-
thysanopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thysanopters
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: thrip
glosses: One of the Thysanoptera.
thysanopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thysanopter
droitzschka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droitzschkas
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of droshky.
droitzschkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of droitzschka
entropium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entropia
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of entropion.
multisect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + Latin sectus, past participle of secare (“to cut”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Divided into many similar segments; said of an insect or myriapod
glosses: formed of numerous sects
timorsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪmə(ɹ)səm/
rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: more timorsome
form: most timorsome
form: timbersome
form: timersome
form: timmersome
Etymology: Alteration of timor(ous) + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Maister Mordaunt , is as tender as ony man's in my degree ; but she is something of a timorsome nature , cannot abide angry folk
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Easily frightened; timorous.
chromoplastid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromoplastids
Etymology: From chromo- + plastid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A protoplasmic granule of some other colour than green.
Synonyms: chromoleucite
chromoplastids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromoplastid
planxties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planxty
planxty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planxties
Etymology: Compare Latin planxī (“I have mourned ...”), planctus (“a lament or dirge”), and plangere (“to mourn aloud”).
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Arne. Owenson, who was a handsome young man with a commanding presence, was bitten by a mania for the stage, but failed to make much impression as an actor, though he sang, and danced an Irish planxty in the character of Teague with great success.
ref: 1900, C. J. Hamilton (editor), Notable Irishwomen, Lady Morgan:
glosses: An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character.
sloomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslu.mi/
rhymes: -uːmi
Forms: form: more sloomy
form: most sloomy
Etymology: From sloom + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "Besides, if you get, you'll never be able to hold it down — a sloomy gal like you."
The applicant was only too much afraid that it must be so. She had very little confidence in herself.
ref: 1929, John Collis Snaith, Cousin Beryl, page 100:
text: […] we would gladly soodle a sloomy way home with a burred moon over us and the fern-owls chittering in the pingles and the holts.
ref: 1934, Life and Letters and the London Mercury, volumes 11-12, page 722:
text: He moaned and complained in a sloomy way, but was too slurry-witted to do more. With his head down, his eyes closed, he muttered her name […]
ref: 2008, Gregory Frost, Lord Tophet, page 115:
glosses: sluggish; slow
dollman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dollmans
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dolman.
dollmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dollman
deliquiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deliquiates
form: deliquiating
form: deliquiated
form: deliquiated
Etymology: First attested in 1668; either from deliquium + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or an alteration of deliquate.
Senses: examples: text: Its strong taste, its tendency to deliquiate, and indeed all its properties, lead us to think, that it would act powerfully on the animal œconomy […]
ref: 1790, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Elements of natural history, and of chemistry:
glosses: To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce.
glosses: To cause to melt.
deliquiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deliquiate
deliquiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deliquiate
deliquiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deliquiate
protosulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protosulphides
Etymology: From proto- + sulphide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of protosulfide.
protosulphides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protosulphide
phyllocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllocysts
Etymology: From phyllo- + cyst.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The cavity of a hydrophyllium.
phyllocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllocyst
disculpation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disculpations
Etymology: Compare French disculpation.
Senses: examples: text: This innoxious and ineffectual character, that seems formed upon a plan of apology and disculpation, falls miserably short of the mark of public duty.
ref: 1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents:
glosses: exculpation
disculpations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disculpation
plicidentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plicidentines
Etymology: Latin plica (“fold”) + English dentine.
Senses: topics: biology
dentistry
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A form of dentin which shows sinuous lines of structure in a transverse section of the tooth.
plicidentines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plicidentine
organoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From organo- + -scopy.
Senses: examples: text: It is further maintained, that the figure and extent of these parts of the brain can be discerned externally. This is organoscopy.
ref: 1858, William Fleming, The Vocabulary of Philosophy:
glosses: phrenology
unlooking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + looking.
Senses: glosses: Not looking; unseeing or unregarding.
regainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From regain + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being regained.
epichordal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + chordal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Upon or above the notochord; applied especially to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it.
catapetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cata- + petalous.
Senses: examples: 1962 (posthumously published) Mark Twain, A Cat Tale in Letters from the Earth
[…] ever and anon the enchanted eye wandered from congeries of lordly cat-tails and kindred catapetalous blooms too deep for utterance […]
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
protensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈtɛnsɪv/
/pɹoʊˈtɛnsɪv/
Forms: form: more protensive
form: most protensive
Etymology: From Latin prōtēnsīvus, from prōtendō (“draw out”).
Senses: examples: text: And then our patience is, as Christ's most exactly was, according to the will of God; when it is as extensive, as intensive, and as protensive as God requires it to be.
ref: 1740, 1820, The Whole Works of John Flavel:
text: Time, Protension or protensive quantity, called likewise Duration, is a necessary condition of thought. It may be considered both in itself and in the things which it contains.
ref: 1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform:
text: Examples of the sublime—of this sudden effort, and of this instantaneous desisting from the attempt—are manifested in the extensive sublime of Space, and in the protensive sublime of Eternity.
ref: 1870, John Clark Murray, Outline of Sir W. Hamilton's Philosophy, page 197:
glosses: Drawn out; extended.
examples: text: The diversity as protensive is in the manifoldness of the successive instants through which the appearance as quality is prolonged .
ref: 2009, Laurens Perseus Hickok, Rational Psychology, page 138:
text: Their heightened enjoyment Iser explains in terms of the protensive tension provoked by the strategic interruption of the narrative at crucial moments .
ref: 2010, Robert Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, page 110:
text: When McNay talks about 'protensive' subject formation, she is talking, in many ways, about an imagined (future oriented) space of possibility (the imagined self performing, or the desired narrative).
ref: 2013, Dr Helen Thornham, Ethnographies of the Videogame, page 44:
topics: human-sciences
phenomenology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Anticipating the future; pertaining to protention.
Related terms: protend
protension
sodomitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sodomitical
form: most sodomitical
Etymology: From sodomite + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Of the dozen or so surviving articles, squibs, and letters to the editor, the most remarkable appeared in the Whip and Satirist’s February 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a cabal of gay men in New York's otherwise wholesome nightscape of brothels and riots. Moreover it identified the spider who minced so delicately along the wide-flung strands of the sodomitical web. "There is not one so degraded as this Captain Collins, the King of the Sodomites." He was a foreigner, an Englishman, in the long tradition of blaming homosexuality on the influence of aliens. Among the syndicate of perverts, the writer announced, "we find no Americans as yet—they are all Englishmen or French" (the English called homosexuality the French vice and the French the English vice; for the Whip it was the French and English vice).
ref: 2005, Mark Caldwell, New York Night, page 133:
glosses: Synonym of gay: Of or related to sodomites.
synonyms: word: gay
extra: Of or related to sodomites
Related terms: sodomitically
scise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
homophone: sighs
homophone: size
Forms: form: scises
form: scising
form: scised
form: scised
Etymology: From Latin scindere, scissum (“to cut, split”); form influenced by the unrelated excise.
Senses: examples: text: The wicked steel scised deep in his right side.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
glosses: To cut; to penetrate.
scise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
homophone: sighs
homophone: size
Forms: form: scises
Etymology: From Latin scindere, scissum (“to cut, split”); form influenced by the unrelated excise.
Senses: examples: text: We proceeded about half-a-mile very well; but the night was so wet, that our humanity induced us to make the scise get up on the foot-board.
ref: 1825, Robert Grenville Wallace, Forty years in the world, page 217:
text: "My horse! my horse!" cried he—and as he patted his war neck, the scise saw the fire of his tear-starred eye and trembled.
ref: 1826, “Parsee Rigour”, in The Atheneum, volume 18, page 79:
text: The bearer and the scise ( Sic ) , when they returned , came to the place where I was , and laid hold of Mr. Ducarell .
ref: 1882, Henry Elmsley Busteed, Echoes from Old Calcutta, page 230:
glosses: Alternative form of sais (servant responsible for horses)
scised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scise
scises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scise
scising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scise
tampoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tampoons
Etymology: See tampion.
Senses: glosses: a stopper or bung.
tampoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tampoon
phantasmagories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantasmagory
phantasmagory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantasmagories
Etymology: From French phantasmagorie, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “ghost”) + ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak publicly”).
Senses: glosses: phantasmagoria
gorces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorce
doomsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doomsmen
form: domesman
Etymology: From Middle English domesman, equivalent to doom + -s- + man.
Senses: examples: text: The fire shall burn about the Doomsman.
ref: 1865, original c. 1410-1420, Richard Rolle de Hampole, Richard Morris, The Pricke of Conscience (Stimulus Conscientiæ):
text: And the King marveled at the wisdom of the doomsman, and said to him: "Now I know that all I have heard is truth. […]"
ref: 1890, Horace Townsend, Cedric The Nimble-Witted: The Independent, volume 42, page 28:
text: A doomsman might even interrupt the proceedings and point out the law.
ref: 1925, Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, volume 84:
text: Finally, although the hundred did not send doomsmen or suitors to the county court, Macclesfield men attended the sessions and acted as jurors.
ref: 1990, Dorothy J. Clayton, The Administration of the County Palatine of Chester, 1442-1485:
glosses: One who renders judgement (e.g. a judge, magistrate, or arbiter); an umpire.
examples: text: At the place of execution, Dorothea begged the doomsman to tarry a little, and kneeling by the block, she raised her hands to heaven and prayed earnestly.
ref: 1907, William Canton, A Child's Book of Saints, page 72:
glosses: One who carries out a judgement or sentencing; executioner.
doomsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doomsman
punnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punology
Etymology: From pun + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: he might have been better instructed in the Greek punnology
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
text: Far from restricting or confining meaning, Pearl's elaborate form allows the fullest play of its punnology
ref: 2001, Sarah Stanbury, Pearl:
glosses: The art or practice of punning; paronomasia.
oblectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑ.blɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: oblectations
Etymology: From Latin oblectātiō (“delight, amusement”). Equivalent to oblectate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: "No, sir, though I am myself of a strong temperament, I abhor ebriety, and detest those who swallow wine gulae causa, for the oblectation of the gullet […]"
ref: 1814, Walter Scott, chapter 12, in Waverley:
text: Whereof the first is called oblectation, which is a certain quietness or assentation of the mind or will, because it obeys, and not willingly consents to that pleasantness which the senses hold forth […]
ref: 1898, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Occult Philosophy Or Magic:
glosses: The act of pleasing highly, or state of being greatly pleased; delight.
Related terms: oblectate
oblectations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblectation
caddises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caddis
caseworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caseworms
Etymology: From case + worm.
Senses: glosses: A worm or larva that makes a protective case for itself.
Derived terms: rice caseworm
Related terms: caddice
casebearer
caseworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caseworm
admarginate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: admarginates
form: admarginating
form: admarginated
form: admarginated
Etymology: From ad- + margin + -ate.
Senses: examples: c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor
receive candidly the few hints which I have admarginated for your assistance
glosses: To write in the margin.
admarginated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of admarginate
admarginates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of admarginate
admarginating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of admarginate
simpless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French simplesse.
Senses: examples: text: Such Simpless mought them shend
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iulye. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: simplicity or silliness
interstapedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + stapedial.
Senses: examples: text: interstapedial cartilage
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to part of the columella of the ear, between the stapes and the mediostapedial.
saccharous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: saccharine; relating to saccharin or sugar
Novatians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Novatian
classible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more classible
form: most classible
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of classable.
tautochronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Occupying the same time.
examples: text: tautochronous motion
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone.
suscitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suscitations
Etymology: Latin suscitatio: compare French suscitation.
Senses: examples: text: But the Answer to this, is not difficult, viz. That the Point now before us is not wholly determinable from the bare Grammatical Use of these Words; (according to which we deny not, but that they sometimes import a mere Suscitation or Production of a thing, without supposing any precedent Destruction of the same;) […]
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: The act of raising or exciting.
trabeated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin trabs (“beam”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Built with horizontal beams; furnished with an entablature
Related terms: trabeate
trabeation
scribism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scribe + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The great danger to which scribism yielded was that of moral pedantry and pride
ref: 1899, Shailer Matthews, A History of New Testament Times in Palestine:
glosses: The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Jesus Christ.
assecurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assecuration
Photoshopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Photoshoppers
form: photoshopper
Etymology: From Photoshop (“Adobe Photoshop graphics software”, verb) + -er (“agent noun”).
Senses: examples: text: Each band is composed of a Hypertextualist, a Multimedium, and a Photoshopper, and these form “guilds” for working in the computer lab.
ref: 1999, Anne B. Keating, Joseph Hargitai, The Wired Professor, A Guide to Incorporating the World Wide Web in College Instruction, NYU Press, page 98:
text: The theorist Brett Steele sees in Mies van der Rohe the fist ‘Photoshopper’, the architect who anticipated our present-day modes of producing and processing imagery.
ref: 2004, L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, nn 350–351, University of Michigan, p 104
text: The memes we have interrogated can be seen as associated with – and, indeed, as helping to define – different kinds of affinity spaces. These include gamer spaces, photoshopper spaces, manga/anime spaces, left-leaning political spaces, ‘good’ community member spaces, Asian popular culture fan spaces, among others.
ref: 2006, Colin Lankshear, Michele Knobel, New Literacies: Everyday Practices & Classroom Learning, 2nd edition, Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill International, page 231:
text: Furthermore, Talbot's art is dominated by an overkill of digital filters, fades and effects, applied with the zealous fervour of a born-again Photoshopper.
ref: 2007, Blueprint, nn 258-261:
text: After she took their order, Nick refilled their cups from the carafe Maria had left on the table and asked, “You claim you're not a Photoshopper, so what do you do—besides pound on doors at the crack of dawn?”
ref: 2011, Jacquie D'Aessandro, Summer at Seaside Cove, Penguin:
text: [p 60] In fact, the photo is a fake. Jane Fonda was added by a photoshopper to discredit Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign.
[p 108] Those photographs comprise a trove of near-at-hand raw materials for the photoshopper's art. News photos are on the Web for the taking—and faking.
ref: 2011, Russell Frank, Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet, University Press of Mississippi:
glosses: One who digitally alters photographs.
wikipedia: Adobe Photoshop
Photoshoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Photoshopper
broken record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broken records
Senses: examples: text: She repeated several little anecdotes or remarks about Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and George Antheil. Disconcertingly she kept asking me if I knew them, if I’d been in Paris then, what had happened to them and others, most of them dead. Her mind wandered, repeating itself like a broken record.
ref: 1975, George Wickes, “A Natalie Barney Garland”, in The Paris Review, number 61:
text: 1994, Deb M., Stepping Stones to Recovery from Codependency, Aaron Anderson quoting Ken Fisher, The Making of a Market Guru: Forbes Presents 25 Years of Ken Fisher
In spite of reading all the materials on the Steps, talking to my sponsor, sharing at meetings, I felt like a broken record.
text: She was a broken record forever singing the same song, a lame, blind in one eye, fucked too often by life's injustice sufferer of the flesh.
ref: 2005, Mike Philbin, The Best of Him+chim+her:
text: to sound like a broken record
synonyms: stuck record
glosses: Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, record.
Related terms: change the record
other than
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: There was no furniture in the abandoned house, other than a broken bedstead.
glosses: Except, besides.
examples: text: The problem cannot be solved other than by putting in much time and effort.
text: He was never anything other than pleasant to me.
glosses: Otherwise than; in any other way than, for any other reason than, etc.
Synonyms: apart from
barring
except for
not including
except
Catalina coupon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Catalina coupons
Etymology: Named after the marketing company, founded on a sailing trip to Santa Catalina Island.
Senses: topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: A coupon printed after purchase at the register, based on the items purchased.
me, myself and I
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: I like things the way they are: just me, myself, and I. No complicated organs and systems and such. Give me the simple life.
ref: 1988, John Byrum, Cells:
text: Here I was all alone, no one to help me get over my mom's and sister's death, just me myself and I. It was as if I died and all I could see was black.
ref: 2011, Isaiah Jamal Borgum, Obstacles, Lessions, & Hope:
glosses: Only me; myself alone.
bat five hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bats five hundred
form: batting five hundred
form: batted five hundred
form: batted five hundred
Etymology: From the practice of reckoning the batting average of a hitter in baseball in thousandths.
Senses: glosses: To be successful half of the time; to have a success rate of 50%.
Related terms: bat a thousand
sleep tight
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: The word tight is sometimes explained as here meaning “well, soundly”. However, it can just as well be interpreted in its literal sense of “firm, fast”; compare fast asleep.
Senses: examples: text: Sleep tight! Don't let the bedbugs bite!
glosses: If one keeps oneself tightly bundled one will sleep warm and rest well.
sleep tight
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: The word tight is sometimes explained as here meaning “well, soundly”. However, it can just as well be interpreted in its literal sense of “firm, fast”; compare fast asleep.
Senses: examples: text: "Thank you for washing the dishes."
"Goodnight, Mr Smith.
"Goodnight, Miss Martin. Sleep tight."
Miss Martin's door closes. Hear her light switch on.
Smith locking latches on doors and windows. Turning off the faint music on the vast radio. The light out under Miss Martin's door.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 138, 139:
synonyms: sleep well
glosses: A farewell said shortly before going to bed; usually said between family members or good friends.
Related terms: sit tight
sine qua nons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sine qua non
sine quibus non
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪnɪ ˌkwaɪbʊs ˈnɒn/
ipa: /ˌsɪnɪ ˌkwɪbʊs ˈnəʊn/
ipa: /ˌsɪni ˌkwɪbʊs ˈnɑn/
ipa: /ˌsɪni ˌkwɪbʊs ˈnoʊn/
ipa: /ˌsaɪni ˌkwaɪbʊs ˈnɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
rhymes: -əʊn
Senses: glosses: plural of sine qua non
cephalanthium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalanthia
Etymology: From cephalo- + Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos) + -ium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A calathidium.
p-adic absolute value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: p-adic absolute values
Senses: examples: text: According to Ostrowski's theorem, only three kinds of norms are possible for the set of real numbers: the trivial absolute value, the real absolute value, and the p'''-adic absolute value.ᵂᴾ
text: If cgt;1, then x#92;rightarrowc#123;-v#95;p(x)#125; (with the convention c#123;-#92;infty#125;#61;0) is a nonarchimedean absolute value, denoted #92;vert..#92;vert#95;#123;p,c#125; and called the p-adic absolute value to base c. If cgt;1 and dgt;1 and if r#61;#92;log#95;cd, then #92;vertx#92;vert#95;#123;p,d#125;#61;#92;vertx#92;vertʳ#95;#123;p,c#125; for every x#92;inK. The p-adic topology on K is the topology defined by the p'''-adic absolute values.
ref: 1993, Seth Warner, Topological Rings, Elsevier (North-Holland), page 8:
text: They both gave essentially the same proof, based on the Subspace Theorem (more precisely, Schlickewei's generalisation to p'''-adic absolute values and number fields [30] of the Subspace Theorem proved by Schmidt in 1972 [41]).
ref: 1999, Jan-Hendrik Evertse, Hans Peter Schlickewei, “The Absolute Subspace Theorem and linear equations with unknowns from a multiplicative group”, in Kálmán Györy, Henryk Iwaniec, Jerzy Urbanowicz, editors, Number Theory in Progress, Walter de Gruyter, page 121:
text: It ^([#92;Z#95;p]) can also be defined as the subset ^([of #92;Q#95;p]) with #92;vertx#92;vert#95;plt;p because the p'''-adic absolute value takes no values between 1 and p, and therefore #92;Z#95;p is open.
ref: 2007, Anthony W. Knapp, Advanced Algebra, Springer (Birkhäuser), page 320:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
qualifier: field theory
glosses: A norm for the rational numbers, with some prime number p as parameter, such that any rational number of the form pᵏ(a/b) — where a, b and k are integers and a, b and p are coprime — is mapped to the rational number p⁻ᵏ and 0 is mapped to 0. (Note: any nonzero rational number can be reduced to such a form.)
Synonyms: p-adic norm
Hypernyms: norm
Related terms: p-adic order
p-adic valuation
p-adic ultrametric
wainage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wainages
Etymology: From wain + -age. Compare Old French waaignage.
Senses: examples: text: Bracton says in one place that the villein has an action against his lord if the lord should take away the villein's wainage, i.e. plough and plough-team.
ref: 1900, William James Ashley, Surveys, Historic and Economic, page 46:
topics: law
glosses: Gainage; the team and implements necessary for the cultivation of land.
examples: text: Such an extraordinary wainage could only have been accomplished by the mode of forced requisitions, and by devoting 5000 extra horses to the service; for the conveyance to Lyons was required of 14,000 bombs, 34,000 balls, 300,000 pounds of powder, 800,000 cartridges, and 130 pieces of ordnance.
ref: 1845, Adolphe Thiers, translated by Thomas W. Redhead, The HIstory of the French Revolution, page 342:
text: Provendering and wainage without consent of owner shall be allowed only on due payment in money.
ref: 1887, Rudolph Gneist, Augustus Henry Keane, The Student's History of the English Parliament, page 99:
text: The royal purveyors, who provided for the wants of the peripatetic court, claimed the right of " caption " or seizure , as well as those of “preemption” or compulsory purchase and of "wainage" or the right to horse and wagon for the king's service.
ref: 1909, A. M. Chambers, A Constitutional History of England, page 134:
text: There were also services such as wainage, which may have been very onerous, but were not obligations of a servile character.
ref: 1916, James Maclehose, The Scottish Historical Review - Volume 13, page 184:
glosses: The provision of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods or produce.
wainages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wainage
comptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmp.tə.bəl/
Forms: form: more comptible
form: most comptible
Etymology: From compt + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: The Act of Indemnity, by which no Intrometters with Publick Money are comptible for Publick Money.
ref: 1671, James Dalrymple, “The Countess of Bramford and the Lady Forrester, contra Earl of Callendar, eodem die”, in The decisions of the Lords of Council & Session:
glosses: accountable; responsible
examples: text: I am very comptible even to the least sinister usage.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: sensitive
cynarrhodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cynarrhodia
form: cynarrhodion
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κυνόροδον (kunórodon), from κύων (kúōn) + ῥόδον (rhódon).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.
delirament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deliraments
Etymology: From Latin deliramentum, from delirare. See delirium.
Senses: examples: text: popish deliraments
ref: 1593, Thomas Bell, Thomas Bels Motives:
glosses: A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy.
deliraments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delirament
isuretine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A synthetic nitrogenous base, isomeric with urea.
obsignation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obsignations
Etymology: Latin obsignatio.
Senses: examples: text: You seem in your letter to make the principal end and effect of all sacraments to be obsignation, and all sacraments to be merely obsignatory signs […]
ref: 1643, Samuel Ward, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The act of sealing or ratifying.
examples: , "On the Spirit of Grace"
The spirit of manifestation will but upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation.
glosses: Confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit.
obsignations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obsignation
Kjarposko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kjarposkos
Etymology: Shortened from the name of the creator, Kjartan Poskitt.
Senses: examples: text: Kjarposko is a number puzzle like Sudoku.
glosses: A number puzzle involving linked pairs of numbers
wikipedia: Kjartan Poskitt
bevel gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bevel gears
Senses: examples: text: Each axle has its own final drive two-step reduction, a bevel gear set and a spur gear set which drives the axle. Of these, the spur gears take most of the stress and the bevel gears provide optimum reduction at high speed and low torque—an arrangement which makes for easier assembly and reduced load for the bevel gears.
ref: 1962 June, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: A 3,000 h.p. diesel-hydraulic from MaK”, in Modern Railways, page 416:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.
Derived terms: skew bevel gear