cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wharp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of warp (“sediment which subsides from turbid water, especially from the River Trent”).
cosovereign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosovereigns
Etymology: From co- + sovereign.
Senses: glosses: A joint sovereign.
cosovereigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosovereign
discomposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: O perplex'd diſcompoſition, O ridling diſtemper, O miſerable condition of Man.
ref: 1624, John Donne, “1. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: Discordance; inconsistency.
multigranulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multigranulate
form: most multigranulate
Etymology: From multi- + granulate.
Senses: glosses: Having, or consisting of, many grains or granules.
synonyms: multigranular
glosses: ;
Related terms: paucigranulate
Grotowskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Grotowskian
form: most Grotowskian
Etymology: From Grotowski + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), Polish theatre director and innovator of experimental theatre.
Townsend
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: tounʹ-zənd
ipa: /ˈtaʊn.zənd/
ipa: /ˈtæɔn.zənd/
Forms: form: Townsends
form: Townshend
form: Townhend
form: Townend
Etymology: From town + -s- + end. From Middle English toun (“hamlet, village”) + ende (“end”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A placename:
A community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A former township in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in New Castle County, Delaware.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McIntosh County, Georgia.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Broadwater County, Montana.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
Two townships in Ohio, in Huron County and Sandusky County.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Blount County, Tennessee.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place in Oconto County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in England:
A council ward in Chesham parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP9602).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in England:
A suburb of Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7409).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in England:
A northern suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset (OS grid ref SZ1194).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Baughurst parish, Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU5658).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in England:
A western suburb of St Albans, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL1408).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Priddy parish, Mendip district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST5251).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in England:
A suburban area of Merriott parish, South Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4413).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in England:
An eastern suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9147)
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Poulshot parish, south-west of Devizes, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9659).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in England:
A suburban area of Urchfont, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU0456).
Derived terms: Daentl Townsend Siegel syndrome
Hooker's Townsend daisy
Port Townsend
Ramsauer-Townsend effect
Townsend avalanche
Townsend daisy
Townsend deprivation index
Townsend discharge
Townsendian
Townsendite
Townsend's storm petrel
earnestful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more earnestful
form: most earnestful
Etymology: From Middle English ernestful. By surface analysis, earnest + -ful.
Senses: glosses: serious; earnest
sylphid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪlfɪd/
Forms: form: sylphids
Etymology: From French sylphide. See sylph.
Senses: examples: text: He insisted on it, and Lucilia, at length, placed her elegant foot on his hand, and darted so nimbly on horseback, that all her motions gave the idea of one of those sylphids, which imagination paints to us in such delicate colours.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XVII. Corinna in Scotland.] Chap[ter] VI.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume V, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 50:
text: the palace of the sylphid queen
ref: 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:
text: Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear.
ref: 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto II:
glosses: A young or little sylph.
sylphids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sylphid
brachydome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachydomes
Etymology: From brachy- + dome.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis.
brachydomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brachydome
flanch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /flæntʃ/
/flɑːntʃ/
Forms: form: flanches
form: flaunch
Etymology: Old French flanche (“flank”). See flank.
Senses: glosses: A flange (rim or projection).
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A bearing consisting of a circle segment encroaching on the field from the side, and always occurring in pairs.
Derived terms: flanched
flanching
lignum rhodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪɡnəm ˈɹəʊdɪəm/
Etymology: From New Latin lignum rhodium (literally “rosy wood”), from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).
Senses: glosses: The fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees, especially of species Convolvulus scoparius and Convolvulus floridus (Convolvulaceae) from the Canary Islands, and of the West Indian Amyris balsamifera (Rutaceae).
glosses: Rhodiola rosea (Crassulaceae).
glosses: An oil yielded by such plants, used in herbal medicine.
Synonyms: sense: fragrant wood
word: rhodium wood
crabbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crabbish
form: most crabbish
Etymology: From crab + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: [He] regardes not the whips of the moste crabbish Satyristes.
ref: 1606, Thomas Dekker, The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London:
glosses: Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.
glosses: crablike; resembling a crab, or crab
isospondylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the former order Isospondyli.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the anterior vertebrae separate and normal.
revocableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From revocable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being revocable.
Synonyms: revocability
chamfret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamfrets
Etymology: See chamfron.
Senses: glosses: A small gutter; a furrow or groove.
glosses: A chamfer.
chamfrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chamfret
restrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restrives
form: restriving
form: restrove
form: restriven
Etymology: From re- + strive.
Senses: glosses: To strive again.
restriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restrive
restrove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of restrive
cranioclast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cranioclasts
Etymology: From cranio- + -clast.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: cephalotribe
glosses: An instrument for crushing the head of a foetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult cases.
Related terms: cranioclasm
cranioclasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cranioclast
figurabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figurability
figurability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figurabilities
Etymology: Compare French figurabilité.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being figurable.
afterpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterpieces
Etymology: From after- + piece.
Senses: examples: text: To preface much concerning these little after-pieces of Poetry, I hold needlesse, having spoke my mind so fully before.
ref: 1642, Henry More, Psychodia Platonica, Cambridge: Roger Daniel, Preface:
text: The idea of farces, or after-pieces, tho’ an inferior branch of the Drama, is, in fact, among the refinements of an improved age.
ref: 1787, George Colman, “Notes on the Epistle to the Pisos”, in Prose on Several Occasions, volume 3, London: T. Cadel, page 96:
text: There was a silly after-piece called Carnarvon Castle, or, The Birth of the Prince of Wales.
ref: 1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 225
text: […] let us have a play entire from beginning to end; so as it be a German play, no matter what, with a good tricking, shifting after-piece, and a figure-dance, and a horn-pipe, and a song between the acts.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 257-258:
text: The policeman, perceiving that the interest of the entire group of spectators was centred upon himself and Lorison […] was fain to prolong the situation—which reflected his own importance—by a little afterpiece of philosophical comment.
ref: 1910, O. Henry, “Blind Man’s Holiday”, in Whirligigs, New York: Doubleday, Page, page 273:
glosses: An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The heel of a rudder.
afterpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterpiece
cockmatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockmatches
Etymology: From cock + match.
Senses: glosses: A cockfight.
cockmatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockmatch
heartshaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartshaped
form: most heartshaped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heart-shaped.
monogrammic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monogrammic
form: most monogrammic
Etymology: From monogram + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of monogrammatic.
synonyms: word: monogrammatic
obumbration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obumbrations
Etymology: Latin obumbratio.
Senses: examples: text: The miraculous obumbration of the holy Ghost , made more intelligible by two parallel cases
ref: 1654, Peter Heylyn, Theologia Veterum:
glosses: The act of darkening or obscuring; obnubilation; obscuration.
Related terms: obumbrate
obumbrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obumbration
incloser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclosers
Etymology: From inclose + -er.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of encloser.
inclosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incloser
tossy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒsi/
Forms: form: more tossy
form: most tossy
Etymology: From toss + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "Honoria, take your feet off my dress. Argemone, my child, I hope you spent a pleasant evening?"
Argemone answered by some tossy commonplace.
ref: 1848, Charles Kingsley, Yeasy:
glosses: Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud, contemptuous, affectedly indifferent.
familiariser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: familiarisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of familiarizer.
Montagnais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French montagnais, from montagne (“mountain”) + -ais.
Senses: glosses: An Algonquian language spoken by approximately 11,000 people in Eastern Canada.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Innu
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Innu-aimun
Montagnais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French montagnais, from montagne (“mountain”) + -ais.
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of the Innu people of Canada.
semeniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seminiferous.
hellkite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hellkites
Etymology: From hell + kite, with the rapacious implication of kite (“bird of prey”).
Senses: examples: text: O hellkite!
ref: 1606, Shakespeare, Macbeth, IV.iii.217:
glosses: A person who is cruel and wicked, like a devil.
hellkites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hellkite
adjoinant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: land adjoinant
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Contiguous, adjoining.
shepherdling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepherdlings
Etymology: From shepherd + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A little shepherd.
monoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: examples: text: a monoplastic element
text: a monoplastic nanophosphates
text: a monoplastic growth
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That has one form, or retains its primary form.
auditorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auditorships
Etymology: From auditor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or duties of auditor.
auditorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auditorship
grapplement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grapple + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Him backward overthrew , and down him stayd
With their rude hands, and griesly grapplement
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A grappling; close fight or embrace.
rubidus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubiduses
Etymology: From Latin rubidus.
Senses: glosses: A butterfly, hybrid between the viceroy (Limenitis archippus) and the red-spotted purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax).
driftwind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driftwinds
Etymology: From drift + wind.
Senses: examples: text: drift-winds force to raging
ref: 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.
driftwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driftwind
interglobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interglobular
form: most interglobular
Etymology: From inter- + globular.
Senses: examples: text: interglobular spaces
text: interglobular dentin
topics: anatomy
dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between globules
mispersuade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispersuades
form: mispersuading
form: mispersuaded
form: mispersuaded
Etymology: From mis- + persuade.
Senses: glosses: To persuade wrongly; to persuade into doing something wrong
mispersuaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispersuade
mispersuades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispersuade
mispersuading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispersuade
circumjovial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + Jovial.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: In orbit around the planet Jupiter; circumjovian.
circumjovial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumjovials
Etymology: From circum- + Jovial.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly the declination of each Circumjovial, assigned by the diligent and sagacious Caſſini
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter.
circumjovials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumjovial
coercibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more coercibly
form: most coercibly
Etymology: From coercible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As an instrument of economic warfare, then, the "oil weapon" can be defined as the ability credibly to threaten to withhold the supply of oil from certain oil-importing nations in order coercibly to effect a change in their political stance.
ref: 1980, The Middle East and the United States: Perceptions and Policies, →ISBN:
text: I would sooner consider that a cult since my taxes are coercibly taken from me, while my contributions to the ICC are voluntary.
ref: 1997 May 12, Roger Poehlmann (name), "Roger/Michelle Poehlmann" (username), "Re: Roger's earth-shattering rebuttal of Lifton's criteria", in alt.religion.christian.boston-church, Usenet
text: […] the vast and heavy communitarianism that seems to have regulated the immobile mechanics of oriental empires, or hordes, or Aztecs, not to mention Stalin, no doubt, with his “oriental” communist despotism enforcing commonality coercibly.
ref: 2013, Denis Guénoun, About Europe: Philosophical Hypotheses, →ISBN, page 218:
qualifier: possibly erroneous
glosses: Coercively; in a way that is coercive; by coercion.
examples: text: Industry will meet this obligation either voluntarily or coercibly through taxes.
ref: 1960, The National Underwriter, volume 64, page 161:
text: Had the Persians, however, not transported those Paionians farther east, we must consider that hundreds of other Skudrians had also entered Asia and traveled to Parsa, either freely or coercibly.
ref: 1995, Jack Martin Balcer, The Persian Conquest of the Greeks, 545-450 B.C., page 152:
qualifier: possibly erroneous
glosses: As a result of coercion; having been coerced; in a coerced manner.
Related terms: coercively
errable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛrəbəl/
[ˈɛrəbɫ̩]
Forms: form: more errable
form: most errable
Etymology: From err + -able.
Senses: glosses: Liable to error; fallible.
Related terms: errability
errableness
errable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛrəbəl/
[ˈɛrəbɫ̩]
Forms: form: more errable
form: most errable
Senses: examples: text: But there is now vſed of ſome, another maner of Surueying, Butting, Bounding, but ſpecially of entring of the ſame in theſe latter daies, wherof I would not haue you alſo ignorant, and that is in this forme: they enter ſeuerally euery mans Meſuage, or Tenement, and butte and bound firſt the Scite thereof accordingly, and then euen in the ſame enter all in one (infra) they doo particularly butte and bounde, and alſo enter euery mans Errable lande, alſo his Meadowes, Cloſes, and Paſtures, belongyng to euery of the ſame ſeuerall tenements, all together, and then ſet out the Rent in the right Margent thereof, and the fine and the Herriot therfore, to be due in the left Margent thereof, as for your inſtruction, I will ſet out hereafter onely one example.
ref: 1588, Valentine Leigh, The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surueying of Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes: […], […] John Windet, for Andrewe Maunsell, […]:
text: the saide John Combe, his heires and assignes, shall and will, from tyme to tyme, and at all tymes herafter, well and sufficientlie save and keepe harmles and indempnified as well the saide fowre yardes of errable lande
ref: 1602, William Combe, John Combe, “The original Conveyance of over a hundred acres of land from William and John Combe to Shakespeare”, in Shakespeare Estate Records:
text: By the grant of all a mans errable land there doth paſſe no more but that kinde of land: […]
ref: 1651, William Sheppard, The Touch-Stone of Common Assurances. Or, A Plain and Familiar Treatise, Opening the Learning of the Common Assurances or Conveyances of the Kingdome., London: […] W. Lee, M. Walbancke, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, page 94:
glosses: Obsolete form of earable.
Kivu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
glosses: The region bordering this lake.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Xenopus vestitus
word: Kivu clawed frog
taxonomic: Dendromus nyasae
word: Kivu climbing mouse
taxonomic: Cricetomys kivuensis
word: Kivu giant pouched rat
taxonomic: Geokichla piaggiae tanganicae
word: Kivu ground thrush
taxonomic: Crocidura lanosa
word: Kivu long-haired shrew
taxonomic: Crocidura kivuana
word: Kivu shrew
Catholicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Catholicizes
form: Catholicizing
form: Catholicized
form: Catholicized
form: Catholicise
form: catholicize
form: catholicise
Etymology: From Catholic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Dickinson's iconography of suffering, with its sexualized pleasure-pain, Catholicizes austere American Protestantism.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: To make Catholic; to convert to Catholicism.
glosses: To become Catholic; to convert to Catholicism.
Derived terms: Catholicization
de-Catholicization
re-Catholicization
re-Catholicize
Related terms: Christianize
Protestantize
Catholicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Catholicize
Catholicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Catholicize
Catholicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Catholicize
beteela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beteelas
Etymology: Possibly from Portuguese beatilha.
Senses: glosses: A type of muslin from the East Indies, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.
beteelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beteela
Catholicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Catholicises
form: Catholicising
form: Catholicised
form: Catholicised
Etymology: From Catholic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Catholicize.
Catholicises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Catholicise
Catholicising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Catholicise
Catholicised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Catholicise
changefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more changefully
form: most changefully
Etymology: From changeful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: These words were lowly and sweetly murmured in the same way with the word mother, being changefully varied in their modulations, […]
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: In a changeful manner.
tripunctate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + punctate.
Senses: glosses: Having three punctures or spots.
spousage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spousages
Etymology: From Old French espousaige, from espouser. See spouse (transitive verb).
Senses: examples: text: all the world shall confess his name in peace, be of her full perfect age and apt unto this spousage
ref: 1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches:
glosses: espousal
willying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of willy
filicic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /fɪˈlɪsɪk/
Etymology: From Latin filix (“a fern”) + -icis.
Senses: examples: text: filicic amblyopia
text: filicic extract
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from ferns
Derived terms: filicic acid
humective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humective
form: most humective
Senses: glosses: Tending to moisten.
Related terms: humectant
humid
humective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humectives
Senses: glosses: A humectant.
inquietness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inquiet + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Devysing of generall inquietnes throw ye haill realme.
ref: 1570, George Buchanan, Admonition:
glosses: unquietness
parascenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parascenium
parascenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parascenia
Etymology: New Latin, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: One of two apartments adjoining the ancient stage, probably used as dressing rooms.
Related terms: proscenium
tramble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trambles
form: trambling
form: trambled
form: trambled
Senses: examples: text: When this Buddle grows full , we take it up ; here distinguishing again the Forehead from the Middle and Tails ; which are Trambled over again : But the Forebead of this with the Forebead of the Launder , are Trambled in a second Buddle
ref: 1670, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections:
topics: business
mining
glosses: To wash (tin ore, etc.) with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose.
trambled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tramble
trambles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tramble
trambling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tramble
pansensism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pănsĕnʹsĭzm
ipa: /panˈsɛnsɪzm/
Etymology: First attested in 1956; formed as pan- + sense + -ism. Compare omnisensuality and panæsthetism.
Senses: examples: text: A clarification is needed at this point concerning Campanella’s doctrine of universal sensation or pansensism, which has a close relationship to his doctrine of self-consciousness.
ref: 1956, Franciscan Studies, XVI, page 58:
glosses: The closely allied forms of panpsychism espoused by the Italian Renaissance philosophers Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588) and Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639), in which all things are capable of perception or sensation.
raw_tags: in the history of philosophy
strigate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪ.ɡət/
rhymes: -ɪɡət
Etymology: From Latin strigatus, from striga (“row, strip, swath”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having transverse bands of colour.
Related terms: strigose
strigulate
strigulation
strigae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of striga
reindex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reindexes
form: reindexing
form: reindexed
form: reindexed
Etymology: From re- + index.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To index again or anew.
reindexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reindex
reindexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reindex
reindexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reindex
disquietive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disquietive
form: most disquietive
Etymology: From disquiet + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Tending to disquiet; unnerving or offputting
illusoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From illusory + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being illusory.
ganzfeld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑːnsˌfɛld/
ipa: /ˈɡænsˌ-/
Forms: form: ganzfelds
Etymology: From German, meaning "complete field", from ganz + Feld.
Senses: glosses: A particular phenomenon of visual perception, the ganzfeld effect.
Derived terms: autoganzfeld
ganzfeld effect
ganzfeld experiment
ganzfeld effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganzfeld effects
Senses: glosses: A phenomenon of visual perception caused by staring at a uniform field of colour, leading to a sensation of blindness and sometimes to hallucinations.
grey whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey whales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus)
Innu-aimun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Montagnais language.
Innu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Montagnais inniw (“man”), from Proto-Algonquian *erenyiwa. Not related to Inuit.
Senses: glosses: The Montagnais language.
gonioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonioscopes
Etymology: From gonio- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: any of various instruments allowing a clinician to view the irideocorneal angle through a mirror or prism
Synonyms: goniolens
Related terms: gonioscopy
gonioscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonioscope
goomah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goomahs
form: goomar
Etymology: From Neapolitan cummà (“godmother”); popularized by Southern Italian immigrants in America.
Senses: qualifier: Italian-American slang
glosses: A mistress.
examples: text: Not only was Ralph a "made guy," but, as Silvio pointed out, Tracee was not related to Tony by blood, nor was she his goomah.
ref: 2004, Richard Greene, Peter Vernezze, The Sopranos and philosophy: I kill therefore I am, page 54:
text: Under the cover story of Tippy having worms and going to live on a farm, Johnny gave Tippy to his goomah, Fran, whose son renamed him Freckles.
ref: 2008, Christopher J. Vincent, Paying respect to The Sopranos: a psychosocial analysis, page 25:
glosses: The mistress of a Mafioso.
gaminerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamineries
Etymology: Borrowed from French gaminerie. See gamin.
Senses: examples: 1935, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Blandings Castle', Herbert Jenkins, 1957, page 179.
When she had entered his employment a few days before, he had noticed, of course, that she had a sort of ethereal beauty; but then every girl you see in Hollywood has either ethereal beauty or roguish gaminerie or a dark, slumbrous face that hints at hidden passion.
glosses: impishness
gathered dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gather dust
gathering dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gather dust
gathers dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gather dust
gentleman scientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentleman scientists
form: gentlemen scientists
Senses: glosses: A financially independent male scientist who pursues scientific study as a hobby.
gluttonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gluttonises
form: gluttonising
form: gluttonised
form: gluttonised
Etymology: From glutton + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gluttonize.
great deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great deals
Senses: examples: text: We have a great deal of territory to cover.
text: Few expressed any great deal of confidence in the legislative branch.
text: The audience is generally unaware of the great deal of work that goes into its creation.
text: They didn't realize he had this great deal of intellectual depth.
text: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
text: Physicians wield a great deal of power.
ref: 1996, Kevin Hogan, The psychology of persuasion, page 60:
text: The low-keyed vision of Poland as a small and humble supplicant of the European Union still has a great deal of supporters.
ref: 2008, Andrzej Nowak, History and geopolitics: a contest for Eastern Europe, page 195:
glosses: Large number, amount, or extent; profusion.
examples: text: I got a great deal on a motorcycle.
text: There are plenty of great deals on flights.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see great, deal.
Related terms: a great deal
good deal
gait apraxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gait apraxias
Senses: glosses: A form of ataxia characterized by an inability to initiate the process of walking, despite the power and coordination of the legs being normal when tested in the seated or lying position.
gluttonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gluttonise
epipetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + petal + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Borne on the petals or corolla.
superrecursive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Etymology: From super- + recursive, coined by Mark Burgin.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Being a generalization of ordinary algorithms that are more powerful than Turing machines.
hallion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallions
Etymology: Compare hellion.
Senses: glosses: A rascal.
hallions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallion
houpelande
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houpelandes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of houppelande.
houpelandes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houpelande
Jonquière
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Jonquière.
Senses: glosses: A former city in Quebec, Canada.
join the choir invisible
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: joins the choir invisible
form: joining the choir invisible
form: joined the choir invisible
form: joined the choir invisible
Etymology: From a poem by George Eliot, O May I Join the Choir Invisible, further popularized by the "dead parrot" sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Senses: examples: text: This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to see its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies. It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.
ref: 1969 December 7, “Full Frontal Nudity”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese), Dead Parrot sketch:
text: Made me wonder whether I should invest in a portable MRI unit to monitor birds about to join the choir invisible for any signs of brain activity.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 30:
glosses: To die.
wikipedia: George Eliot
chromolithographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromolithographers
Etymology: From chromo- + lithographer.
Senses: glosses: Someone engaged in chromolithography
chromolithographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromolithographer
superempirical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: super-empirical
Etymology: From super- + empirical.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: supernatural, preternatural; extrasensory
text: Although they deviate from what is commonly understood as "religion", they share an interest in the superempirical.
hypernyms: nonexperiential
unexperiential
coordinate_terms: word: empirical
english: nearly antonymous
translation: nearly antonymous
word: experiential
word: evidence-based
word: nonempirical
word: unempirical
glosses: Above or beyond that which can be experienced empirically.
Derived terms: superempirically
Related terms: ultraempirical
hyperempirical
cloudbust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloudbusts
Etymology: From cloud + bust.
Senses: examples: text: A sudden cloudbust up in the hills during the night […] swelled the creek
ref: 1929 June, Boys' Life, page 72:
text: "Setting up for a cloudbust," Hickory said. "She don't aim to hit right around here, anyway."
ref: 1949, George Palmer Putnam, Hickory shirt: a novel of Death Valley in 1850:
glosses: A cloudburst.
Related terms: cloudbuster
cloudbusting
caprifoliaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Caprifoliaceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Caprifoliaceae family of honeysuckles.
drawerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From drawer + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He stands in the kitchen (one side of the room with a sink and counter, a stove, a drawerless white cabinet, an old wok on the stove, pots and pans, a tea kettle, a coffeemaker, mustard, coffee, sugar packets, salt).
ref: 2007, Greg Bottoms, The colorful apocalypse: journeys in outsider art, page 137:
glosses: Without drawers.
brokeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brokery
brokery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brokeries
Senses: examples: text: And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, / And tricks belonging unto brokery.
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: brokerage.
reexperience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reexperiences
form: reëxperience
form: re-experience
Etymology: From re- + experience.
Senses: glosses: A renewed or repeated experience.
reexperience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reexperiences
form: reexperiencing
form: reexperienced
form: reexperienced
form: reëxperience
form: re-experience
Etymology: From re- + experience.
Senses: glosses: To experience again or anew.
reexperiences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reexperience
reexperiencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reexperience
reexperienced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reexperience
nonmotivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + motivation.
Senses: glosses: Lack of motivation.
nonmotivational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + motivational.
Senses: glosses: Not motivational.
antitravel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitravel
form: most antitravel
Etymology: From anti- + travel.
Senses: examples: text: I need not dwell on the effect of the antitravel tax on our common carrier transportation services in the United States.
ref: 1961, United States Congress, Hearings: Volume 3:
text: As a film that professes an antitravel message, it asserts the beauty of cinematic spectatorship as a more spectacular and fluid form of virtual mobility.
ref: 1994, Anne Friedberg, Window shopping: cinema and the postmodern, page 100:
text: "It's already been done," he responded dejectedly, which was why he was writing an antitravel book about his home region: "You see, there's nowhere left to go."
ref: 2003, World literature today: Volume 77, Issues 1-4, University of Oklahoma:
glosses: Opposing or preventing travel.
grainless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From grain + -less.
Senses: examples: grainless silage
glosses: Without grain.
examples: text: making grainless enlargements
ref: 1934, Popular Science, volume 125, number 4, page 78:
text: Highlights start blocking up and shadows turn to featureless black far sooner than on normal films — but the shadows are a very lovely black, because shadow areas of the two new films are clear and grainless.
ref: 1973 January, Popular Mechanics, volume 139, number 1, page 52:
glosses: Free from grainy texture or appearance.
Derived terms: grainlessness
nonprovable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + provable.
Senses: glosses: Not provable.
paratheatrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paratheatrical
form: most paratheatrical
Etymology: From para- + theatrical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paratheater.
paratheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paratheatre
Etymology: From para- + theater, coined by Jerzy Grotowski.
Senses: glosses: A kind of experimental theater in which the audience directly participates.
wikipedia: Jerzy Grotowski
Related terms: paratheatrical
paratheatre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paratheater.
unparted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + parted.
Senses: examples: unparted hair
unparted lips
glosses: Not parted.
unparted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + parted.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpart
tragicomedian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tragicomedians
Etymology: See comedian and tragicomedy.
Senses: glosses: A writer or performer of tragicomedy.
tragicomedians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tragicomedian
yoh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Afrikaans and Xhosa.
Senses: examples: text: When they looked upon me, in my suffering, they would sigh, and exclaim, "Oh, Yoh!" (Oh! dear! Oh! pity!)
ref: 1855, G. Thompson, Letters to Sabbath School Children on Africa, page 146:
text: The nurses looked at it with open eyes and open mouths. "Yoh," said Sechelela. "What is this?
ref: 1952, P. H. H. White, Doctor of Tanganyika, page 42:
text: Yoh! I'm so gatvol of this tjoekie and need a zol to handle these moggy people.
ref: 2025 March 26, Khanyisile Ngcobo, “'Yoh! You're in the OED' – South Africa makes its linguistic mark”, in BBC:
glosses: Expresses surprise, wonder, admiration, frustration, shock, or distress.
thurification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thurifications
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle French thurification, from Late Latin thurificatio, from Latin thurificatus; equivalent to thus (“incense”) + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: They lay [a shield and spear] on the altar, and, with the customary genuflexions and thurifications, pass off.
ref: 1827, Henry Taylor, Isaac Comnenus: a play, page 152:
glosses: The act, or an instance, of burning incense.
thurifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thurification
Xmassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Xmassy
form: most Xmassy
Etymology: From Xmas + -y.
Senses: examples: text: To the attics where thin pink salamanders writhed through crushed red Xmas balls and turned all silver and red and Xmassy.
ref: 1996, Don Webb, A spell for the fulfillment of desire, page 84:
text: And then I closed the front door, trying to resist the first wave of Xmassy memories. For some very odd reason, Arthur's shambling retreat down the icy front path had summoned up a buming recollection of Christmas past.
ref: 2010, A. L. Kennedy, So I Am Glad, page 135:
glosses: Abbreviation of Christmassy.
scug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skŭg
ipa: /skʌɡ/
other: /skʊɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: scugs
form: skug
form: scoug
form: skoog
Etymology: Scottish and Northern English from Old Norse skuggi, from Proto-Germanic *skuwwô (“shadow, reflection”). Cognate with Icelandic skuggi, Swedish skugga, Danish skygge, Old English sċūa, sċūwa (“a shade”).
Senses: glosses: Shade, shadow.
examples: text: We was jickering along […] under the scug o' the hill.
ref: 1897, Outlaws, Hamilton, page 156:
glosses: A shelter, a sheltered place (especially on the side of a hill).
examples: text: "Let's go scug-hunting" is a common phrase. […] a stick with a leaden head, used for knocking down birds and scugs (squirrels).
ref: 1883, Alfred Easther, A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield, page 78:
glosses: A squirrel.
examples: text: […] before the lower school scugs got there, and pitched it in at Acropolis.
ref: 1865, Bracebridge Hemyng, Butler Burke at Eton, page 75:
text: Scug, Et[on]. Har[row]. Negatively, a boy who is not distinguished in person, in games, or social qualities. Positively, a boy of untidy, dirty, or ill-mannered habits; one whose sense of propriety is not fully developed.
ref: 1881, C. E. Pascoe, Everyday Life in our Public Schools, page 312:
text: A scug was an untidy, ill-mannered, and morally undeveloped boy, a shirker at games, bumptious and arrogant. If not naturally vicious, a scug was considered degenerate.
ref: 1969, Ralph G. Martin, Jennie: the Life of Lady Randolph Churchill: The romantic years, 1854-1895, Prentice-Hall, page 54:
glosses: A lower-school or inferior boy.
scug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: skŭg
ipa: /skʌɡ/
other: /skʊɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: scugs
form: scugging
form: scugged
form: scugged
form: skug
form: scoug
form: skoog
Etymology: Scottish and Northern English from Old Norse skuggi, from Proto-Germanic *skuwwô (“shadow, reflection”). Cognate with Icelandic skuggi, Swedish skugga, Danish skygge, Old English sċūa, sċūwa (“a shade”).
Senses: glosses: To shelter; to protect.
glosses: To hide; to take shelter.
papillulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From papillule + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a minute papilla (papillule) in the centre of a larger elevation or depression.
anteports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anteport
flindermice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flindermouse
flindermouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flindermice
Etymology: From flinder (“moth, butterfly”) + mouse. Compare Dutch vlinder (“butterfly”). Compare also flittermouse, flinder.
Senses: glosses: A bat (the mammal).
carbanil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carbonyl and aniline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: CO.N.C₆H₅, the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.