cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
inoffending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inoffending
form: most inoffending
Etymology: From in- + offending.
Senses: examples: text: […] and the sins of the offender, and the anger of the offended, and the sorrows of the inoffending, all drowned and forgotten in the love and delight of their everlasting reconciliation!
ref: 1859, Henry Grattan Guinness (the Elder, D.D.), Sermons: New edition (page 343)
glosses: Obsolete form of unoffending.
insanify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insanifies
form: insanifying
form: insanified
form: insanified
Etymology: insane + -ify
Senses: examples: text: There may be, at present, some very respectable men at the head of these maniacs, who would insanify them with some degree of prudence, and keep them only half mad, if they could. But this won't do; Bedlam will break loose, and overpower its keepers.
ref: 1809, The Edinburgh Review, volume 14, page 43:
text: Under the insanifying influence produced by the horrors of the French Revolution, and the angry excitement of the war then raging, every Review was perverted into an instrument of political animosity and religious, or rather of ir-religious, hatred.
ref: 1847, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 38:
glosses: To render insane.
insanifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insanify
insanifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of insanify
insanified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insanify
dewings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dewing
dewinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dewing
inroader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inroaders
Etymology: From inroad + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who makes advances or incursions into a territory.
inroaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inroader
intagliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intagliations
Senses: glosses: Engraving in the form of an intaglio.
intagliations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intagliation
ghowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghowls
Senses: examples: text: […] he seems to have gloated over impurity with a ghowl-like appetite for the filthiest garbage […]
ref: 1835, William Rae Wilson, Records of a Route Through France and Italy, page 433:
glosses: Obsolete form of ghoul.
ghowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghowl
iridomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: irido- + motor
Senses: glosses: Relating to the movement of the iris of the eye.
irrationably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irrationably
form: most irrationably
Etymology: From irrationable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Irrationally.
Chosica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Lurigancho-Chosica district, Lima province, Peru (district also known as Chosica).
non-self-governing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + self-governing.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
ref: 1948, “Article 2”, in Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
glosses: Not self-governing.
Lurigancho-Chosica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Chosica
glosses: A district in Lima province, Peru.
tradwifedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tradwife + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm or sphere of tradwives.
irrecollection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unrecollection.
unrecollection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: un- + recollection
Senses: glosses: Failure to remember something.
unrecollectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrecollectable
form: most unrecollectable
Etymology: un- + recollectable
Senses: glosses: Not recollectable.
recollectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recollectable
form: most recollectable
Etymology: recollect + -able
Senses: synonyms: recallable
rememberable
antonyms: unrecallable
unrememberable
unrecollectable
glosses: Able to be recollected.
ipomoein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: translingual Ipomoea + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glucoside obtained from Ipomoea pandurata.
iridauxesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A thickening of the iris of the eye, from exudation of lymph into its substance.
iridocapsulitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: irido- + capsule + -itis
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Iritis with accompanying inflammation of the capsule of the lens.
crystalline lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystalline lenses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lens (“part of the eye”).
synonyms: word: lens
extra: part of the eye
crystalline lenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crystalline lens
irreportable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unreportable.
Isander
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Isandrus
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: Peisander
glosses: A Lycian prince and the son of King Bellerophon.
Peisander
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Isander.
synonyms: word: Isander
Isandrus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Isander.
isorropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Isorropic Lines. We may imagine lines drawn through all points for which P has the same value, and may call these lines isorropic; that is, lines of equal value.
ref: 1885, Simon Newcomb, Elements of analytic geometry, page 58:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of equal value.
viviparas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vivipara
wemb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wembs
Senses: examples: Sawny turned about in a great passion, and found, to his surprise, that the person who abused him was a saucy parrot that hung up not far from him in a cage; upon which he clapped his hand to his sword, and told him, were he a man as he was a green-goose, he would have run him through the wemb.
glosses: Obsolete form of womb (“stomach, abdomen”).
wembs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wemb
flat as a bedsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Utterly flat.
seals on bedsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seal on a bedsheet
microdairy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdairies
Etymology: From micro- + dairy.
Senses: coordinate_terms: microbrewery
glosses: A small commercial dairy.
microdairies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdairy
woodskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodskins
Etymology: wood + skin
Senses: glosses: Bark used for making canoes.
glosses: A canoe made from bark.
woodskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodskin
unvaluably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unvaluably
form: most unvaluably
Senses: examples: text: But ye know that it was by no less a price, than the noble and unvaluably precious blood, sufferings, and death of the Son of God, as the anointed Saviour, who, through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot unto God […]
ref: 1797, The Practical Expositor, page 54:
glosses: Obsolete form of invaluably.
gram panchayat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gram panchayats
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi ग्राम पंचायत (grām pañcāyat, literally “village council”).
Senses: synonyms: village panchayat
glosses: A form of local governance of a village or between small groups of villages in India.
non-digital native
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-digital natives
Senses: topics: engineering
human-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
technology
synonyms: digital immigrant
antonyms: digital native
glosses: A person who was born or raised before the widespread use of digital technology.
urorosein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of urrhodin.
synonyms: word: urrhodin
Moccas beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moccas beetles
Etymology: Named after Moccas Park, a nature reserve near the village of Moccas, Herefordshire, UK, where the beetle was first discovered.
Senses: glosses: A beetle of species Hypebaeus flavipes.
Moccas beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moccas beetle
repollard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repollards
form: repollarding
form: repollarded
form: repollarded
Etymology: From re- + pollard.
Senses: glosses: To pollard again.
repollards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repollard
repollarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repollard
repollarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repollard
dragglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draggling
dropple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropples
Etymology: drop + -le; compare droplet, Limburgish dróppel.
Senses: examples: text: ... dropple of dew / The white on her neck & the dun on her breast / The wood piegon loiters right full in thy view / On the maple that hangs oer the path with a nest / A few sticks accross & the eggs shining through / Just under the maple […]
ref: 1996 [????], John Clare, John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837: Volume V, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 134:
text: […] swings his arms around, dropples of water spatting everywhere.
ref: 2002, Graeme Feltham, 100 Naked Beers:
glosses: A drop (of rain, dew, etc).
dropples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropple
dragling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draglings
Etymology: From dragon + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A small or baby dragon.
draglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragling
swirr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swirrs
Etymology: Blend of swoosh + whirr.
Senses: examples: text: ... who heard the swirr of their skirts as they struck the bushes, took possession of the abandoned fortress. The taller and slighter of the two picked up the fragments of the handkerchief, and, after examining them, passed to his companion one[…]
ref: 1864, Sarah (Webb) Peterson, The Lady's Friend, page 855:
text: ... swirr of the scythe from the distant hayfields in the valley; the sonorous drone of wild bees on the wing; the hushed cry of the cuckoo from the woods; the elastic warmth of the thyme-laden air.
ref: 1865, Ordeal, The Ordeal for Wives, page 166:
text: ... swirr of wind among the palm-branches, or the dull beat of the waveless Mediterranean far below.
ref: 1883, Annie Edwards, A Ballroom Repentance, page 244:
text: ... swirr of the locusts, the laughing of the jackass, or the tuneful note of the magpie.
ref: 1892, Ellerton Gay, Drifting Under the Southern Cross: An Australian Romance:
text: ... swirr of the wheels, and the handful of luminous cloud which preceded the lamp. The clang of the bell, as the corner was neared, seemed to act as a summons.
ref: 1901, Temple Bar, page 400:
text: ... swirr of a bat's wing, the twittering hoot of a barn-owl, the cheep of night insects.
ref: 1905, Beulah Marie Dix, The Fair Maid of Graystones, page 27:
text: ... swirr of the knife and the sickening swish accompanying the official decapitation of Henry J. Allen, president of the defunct board.
ref: 1924, William Allen White, Helen Ogden Mahin, The Editor and His People, page 183:
text: ... swirr of myriads of little travelling feet caught his quick ear—the moving mass was an immense colony of beaver. Thousands upon thousands of them. Scores of baby beavers staggered along, following their mothers; scores of older beavers[…]
ref: 2019 December 2, E. Pauline Johnson, Legends of Vancouver: A Journey Through Indigenous Tales and Folklore of Vancouver, Good Press:
glosses: A noise of something moving, like a swoosh or a whirr.
swirr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swirrs
form: swirring
form: swirred
form: swirred
Etymology: Blend of swoosh + whirr.
Senses: glosses: To make such a noise.
swirred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swirr
swirrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swirr
swirrs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swirr
swirring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swirr
gravestand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪ̯v.stænd/
Forms: form: gravestands
form: gravestanding
form: gravestood
form: gravestood
Etymology: Blend of grave + grandstand.
Senses: examples: text: I'm not trying to gravestand here or anything, but I'm genuinely curious if JewWario would be alive today if Angry Joe hadn't fucked him and the rest of Blistered Thumbs over?
ref: 2017 July 17, Kama [username], “Re: Flustered Fernando and the Seven Pesos”, in Dead Horse Interchange, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025:
text: You’re the guy who buddies around with people who mocked me for being a suicide survivor and laughed about it, and gravestood on people after they just passed right in front of their widow.
ref: 2021 August 21, Bad Opinions Serpico [username], Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025:
text: It's also harder for you to gravestand and fearmonger and fundraise when you can't make people think they need to be in fear for their life at every second.
ref: 2023 October 13, GaryLaserFren [username], X, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025:
glosses: To exploit someone's death for a selfish purpose.
Derived terms: gravestanding
diaperfag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaperfags
Etymology: From diaper + fag.
Senses: glosses: Term of abuse.
hypernyms: diaper lover
qualifier: potentially derogatory or offensive
glosses: A homosexual man who wears diapers for sexual gratification.
diaperfags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaperfag
gravestands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪ̯v.stændz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gravestand
gravestood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪ̯v.stʊd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gravestand
Buurma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Buurmas
Senses: glosses: A surname
gravestanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪ̯v.stæn.dɪŋ/
Etymology: From gravestand + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Gravestanding is the worst kind of bait there is. You're all trying to force how tragic this guy's death is down our throats and then acting indignant when we get mad that you're doing so, just because a guy you liked died.
ref: 2015 February 3, FortePlus [username], “RWBY's Monty Oum died”, in GameFAQs, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025:
text: In this post, WildGoose attacks even more people for their so called “gravestanding” and evening^([sic]) going after a legitimate attempt to raise money for suicide prevention.
ref: 2016 January 19, Cannabis Curtis [username], “There Is a Cancer within #GamerGate”, in Medium, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2016:
text: Directly afterward, this account started liking tweets whining about gravestanding.
ref: 2022 November 20, Bad Opinions Serpico [username], Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025:
glosses: The act of exploiting someone's death for a selfish purpose.
gravestanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪ̯v.stæn.dɪŋ/
Etymology: From gravestand + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gravestand
multitransfused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multitransfused
form: most multitransfused
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polytransfused
synonyms: word: polytransfused
alorreactivo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alorreactivo
form: most alorreactivo
form: aloreactivo
Senses: glosses: alloreactive
duck's frost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck-frost
Senses: examples: text: The weather most unsuitable is that kind of frost which comes on in the early morning, and is accompanied with some rime on the grass—a duck's frost, just sufficient to check fox-hunting. Every footstep on grass in this condition when the sun comes out burns up as black as if the sole of the boot were of red-hot iron, and the poacher leaves an indelible trail[…]
ref: 1880, Richard Jefferies, The gamekeeper at home, sketches of natural history and rural life [signed R.J.]., page 146:
text: A cooler lcimate has prevailed and some frost, but at the time of writing there has been more rain, which in the country is known as a duck's frost. At present there has been little skating, for the ice has been thin and unsafe. When the ponds are well frozen then the land is solid also, and this is the gardener's opportunity to cart the dung on to the fields.[…]
ref: 1899, The Agricultural Gazette and Modern Farming, page 133:
text: "Smartish frost and we shall get a duck's frost tonight. This is the third white un we've had." The shepherd then put one foot on one of the spokes of the waggon wheel and looked at his new hurdles. As he chewed his twist and spat I could see he wasn't too happy[…]
ref: 2009 July 15, Fred Archer, The Distant Scene, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:
text: '[…] duck's frost to-night.' Abel looked up absently, humming the air he intended to play next. 'I bin in the Callow, and I've gotten a primmyrose,' continued Hazel, accustomed to his ways, and not discouraged. 'And I got a bit of blackthorn[…]
ref: 2025 August 16 [????], Mary Gladys Meredith Webb, Gone to Earth: in large print, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: A slight frost visible in the morning; (jocularly) rain (overnight).
duck-frost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Is it a frost ti-neet? Hey! a duck-frost! Ah fell full smack o' mi feeace.
ref: 1889, John Nicholson (School principal), The Folk Speech of East Yorkshire, page 90:
text: ... duck-frost. In the meadows and along the fringes of the woods the white rime lay thick and powdery on grass and dead leaves; every foot that touched it left a black mark, as if seared with a hot iron, when the sun came up[…]
ref: 1901, William Joseph Long, Secrets of the Woods, IndyPublish.com, page 146:
text: ... duck-frost has given way to a blue sky and a hot sun. The gardener claimed five degrees in the early dawn, and the nasturtiums confirmed it.
ref: 1916, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson, The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, page 328:
glosses: Alternative form of duck's frost
dyslipemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dyslipidemic
Meiller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Meillers
Senses: glosses: A surname
wetstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly influenced by the fact that many stones are wetted with water or oil to improve sharpening, as an example of an eggcorn.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of whetstone (“a stone used to sharpen a blade”).
dwallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dwallows
form: dwallowing
form: dwallowed
form: dwallowed
Senses: examples: text: ... a flower dwallows, so does a sick and fading child.
ref: 1864, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, The Lake Country, page 302:
text: Sweet is this kiss as smell of dwallowed hay, / Or the fresh primrose on the first of May;
ref: 1866, “Relph of Sebergham”, in The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland, page 23:
text: If it sud rain on St. Swithin's Day, / We're feckly sarrat [served] wi' dwallow'd hay (Cum.).
ref: 1913, Elizabeth Mary Wright, Rustic Speech and Folk-lore, page 318:
glosses: To wither or fade, or become yellow or jaundiced.
dwallowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dwallow
dwallows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dwallow
re-deport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-deports
form: re-deporting
form: re-deported
form: re-deported
Senses: examples: text: Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was wrongfully expelled to El Salvador in March and then brought back to face criminal charges, was detained again on Monday after the administration indicated that it planned to re-deport him to Uganda, his lawyer said.
ref: 2025 August 25, Alan Feuer, Jazmine Ulloa, Chris Cameron, “Abrego Garcia Detained Again After Administration Signaled It Would Re-Deport Him”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of redeport
re-deports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-deport
re-deporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-deport
re-deported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-deport
de-rivet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-rivets
form: de-riveting
form: de-rivetting
form: de-riveted
form: de-riveted
form: de-rivetted
form: de-rivetted
Etymology: From de- + rivet (verb).
Senses: glosses: To remove a rivet.
Derived terms: de-riveter
de-riveter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: de-riveters
Etymology: From de-rivet + -er.
Senses: antonyms: riveter
glosses: A tool used to remove rivets.
de-riveters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of de-riveter
Rohingyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rohingya
Stentorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Stentorian
form: most Stentorian
Senses: examples: text: Neither is eloquence or rhetoric unclaimed by him: he perſuaded with Stentorian loquacity, and convinces by the irreſiſtible powers of a bellowing horſe laugh.
ref: 1771 April, A Candidate Doctor of Oddities [pseudonym], “To the Printer of the Town and Country Magazine”, in The Town and Country Magazine; or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, volume III, London: […] A[rchibald] Hamilton, Junʳ. […], →OCLC, page 202, column 1:
text: Lieut. Col. [Charles] Bœrstler, exerting a Stentorian voice, roared in various directions as though he commanded thousands, and created such a panic in the enemy, that they fled before him whereever he moved.
ref: 1817, S[amuel] S[tanhope] Smith et al., “Battle of Queenstown; Cannonading from Erie to Ontario; […]”, in David Ramsay, S. S. Smith, et al., History of the United States, from Their First Settlement as English Colonies, in 1607, to the Year 1808, […] Continued to the Treaty of Ghent, […], volume III, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] M[athew] Carey, […], →OCLC, page 204:
text: But Ramble, who was remarkable for his Stentorian faculties, riſing, put an end to the diſpute, by roaring out the burleſque on the Attic Fire, in a voice Stentor himſelf need not have been aſhamed to own.
ref: 1766, “The History Returns to Charles. He Is Introduced to a Numerous Company. […]”, in The Wanderer: or, Memoirs of Charles Searle, Esq; […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Lowndes, […], →OCLC, pages 216–217:
text: Applying the law of the case to our present argument, the section to be interpreted overrides in Stentorian voice, any contentions to the contrary.
ref: 1887–1896, Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt, edited by Robert Ricatte, Journal : Mémoires de la vie littéraire 1887–1896, volume 16 (overall work in French), Monaco: Editions de l’Imprimerie nationale de Monaco, published 1956–1958, →OCLC, page 31:
text: And she pondered the first of Miss Seeton’s sketches, the one Delphick had been coerced into showing her: the sleek cat reflected in the mirror, with the ram—the ram from the wrong, confusing case—beneath it on the bonnet of the Rolls-Royce in which Ferencz Szabo, of the Stentorian voice, rode so proudly.
ref: 1994, Hamilton Crane [pseudonym; Sarah J. Mason], chapter 32, in Miss Seeton Undercover (Miss Seeton; 17), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 256:
text: The Stentorian voice spoke out again: I said, LET THERE BE GOLF!
ref: 2000, James B. Cash, “Preamble: I. Genesis”, in Playing Through (Pronounced Thruff) the Rough (Pronounced Ruff): An Irrelevant History of Golf(e), Sort Of; or, Scotland, Shakespeare, and Golf(e), Kettering, Oh.: Carney, Cole Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Rare form of stentorian.
stentorianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stentorian + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I still walk about Paris, and am as far as ever from knowing it. But the slow unfolding of the secret of this most jealous and beautiful of capitals is part of its charm. Its elusiveness, its painted age, its haggard or its lovely air at dawn, its wisdom, its paradoxes, its elegance and its drabness, its village-like calm, its circus-like stentorianness, […] are glittering facets of the same incomparable charm.
ref: 1936, George Slocombe, “Paris”, in The Tumult and the Shouting: The Memoirs of George Slocombe, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, section IV, page 55:
text: ‘If you are strong enough to take it, young man,’ she snarled in reply, her voice vibrant with unexpected stentorianness which startled her listener.
ref: 1974, Obi B[enue] Egbuna, Emperor of the Sea and Other Stories (Fontana African Novels), London: Fontana, →ISBN, page 102:
text: Так же с зычностью поднимали призрачный мир сановников: ― На прогу-у-улку! Внимание, часовые! В случае неповиновения – применять оружие! Всем, всем подниматься!
ref: 2019 [1986], Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Marian Schwartz, chapter 227, in March 1917 (The Red Wheel; Node III), book 2, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN:
roman: Tak že s zyčnostʹju podnimali prizračnyj mir sanovnikov: ― Na progu-u-ulku! Vnimanije, časovyje! V slučaje nepovinovenija – primenjatʹ oružije! Vsem, vsem podnimatʹsja!
glosses: The quality of being stentorian.
Ignatianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ignatianists
Etymology: Ignatian + -ist
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ignatian.
synonyms: word: Ignatian
Ignatians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ignatian
Ignatianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ignatianist
YIHAT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Young Intelligent Hackers Against Terrorism.
Ihlat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ihlats
form: Ihlat
Senses: glosses: A member of a certain subgroup of the Turcoman people.
Ihlats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ihlat
Igdyr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Iğdır.
iguaniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iguaniform
form: most iguaniform
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an iguana.
iliospinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From ilio- + spinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the ilium and the spine.
iliopelvic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ilio- + pelvic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the ilium and the pelvis.
iliocaudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ilio- + pelvic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Both iliac and caudal.
iliotrochanteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ilio- + trochanteric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the ilium and the trochanter.
ilioscrotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ilio- + scrotal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the ilium and the scrotum.
ilioischiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ilio- + ischiatic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ilioischial.
synonyms: word: ilioischial
ilioischiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ilio- + ischiac.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ilioischial.
synonyms: word: ilioischial
iliodorsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ilio- + dorsal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the ilium and the back.
iconostaseis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iconostasis
iconostasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iconostasia
Senses: glosses: The screen between the sanctuary and choir in the Greek Orthodox Church.
glosses: A shrine.
Related terms: iconostasis
iconostasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iconostasion
wheree'er
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Contraction of whereever.
Idumaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Idumaean
form: most Idumaean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Idumean.
Idumaean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Idumaeans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Idumean.
Idumaeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Idumaean
imbordure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbordures
form: imborduring
form: imbordured
form: imbordured
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of emborder.
imbordures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbordure
imbordured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbordure
imborduring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbordure
Cranwell, Brauncewell and Byard's Leap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: All places were also parishes. Byard's Leap was abolished in 1931, and Brauncewell followed in 2011.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in North Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England, which includes the named places.
imbarge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbarges
form: imbarging
form: imbarged
form: imbarged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of embarge.
imbarges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbarge
imbarging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbarge
imbarged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbarge
imperspirability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being imperspirable.
imperspirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imperspirable
form: most imperspirable
Etymology: From im- + perspirable.
Senses: glosses: Not perspirable.
implial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Is it the expressed will or the implied will, and, if so, how much of expression or of implial goes to constitute the valid will as such?
ref: 1897, The Social Democrat, volume 1, page 368:
antonyms: inferral
glosses: The act of implying; implication.
inconglomerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconglomerate
form: most inconglomerate
Etymology: in- + conglomerate
Senses: glosses: Not conglomerate; not clustered together.
indiscriminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + discriminated.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of undiscriminated.
indignatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indignatory
form: most indignatory
Senses: examples: text: […] indignatory platitudes against organized crime and mafia-type criminals […]
ref: 2004, John Reid, Hollywood Classics 2: B Movies, Bad Movies, Good Movies, page 16:
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to indignation.
conjunctory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a conjunction.
inductory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to induction.
indivinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indivinable
form: most indivinable
Etymology: From in- + divinable.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of undivinable.
spellcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spellcasts
form: spellcasting
form: spellcast
form: spellcast
form: spellcasted
form: spellcasted
Etymology: Back-formation from spellcaster and spellcasting, equivalent to spell + cast.
Senses: examples: text: We can’t stop them starting to spellcast—but sorcery will be no defence against these weapons.
ref: 1992, Mary Gentle, chapter 6, in Grunts! A Fantasy with Attitude, New York, N.Y.: Roc, published 1995, →ISBN, book 1 (Brothers in Arms), pages 66–67:
text: She still had the vestiges of a headache, and she needed to save her ability to spellcast, especially with Behlem—and possibly his consort—out to get her.
ref: 1997, L[eland] E[xton] Modesitt, Jr., chapter 94, in The Soprano Sorceress (Spellsong Cycle; 1), New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 377:
text: There were plenty of wood bits, so I hastily spellcast fire magic, for my wings were already rigid with the bitter cold.
ref: 2009, Claudia Newcorn, chapter XVII, in Dark Fire (Krisálys Chronicles of Féyree; Scroll 2), Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: To cast (a magical spell).
examples: text: “Likely he spellcast His Reverence four days ago when Their Reverences came to town to give the Midwinter Ceremonies,” suggested dearth inking, “and the spell only burst open tonight, after smouldering inside His Reverence all this time.”
ref: 1982 October, Phyllis Ann Karr, chapter 1, in Frostflower and Windbourne, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published May 1985 (2nd printing), →ISBN, page 2:
text: The Moon Guard had to spellcast it at least three times to bring it down.
ref: 2004, Richard A[llen] Knaak, chapter 8, in The Well of Eternity (Warcraft: War of the Ancients; 1), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 113:
text: I stared at the enchanted dream catcher, my heart thumping, and prepared to spellcast it.
ref: 2015, Tamara Grantham, chapter 29, in Dreamthief (Olive Kennedy, Fairy World MD; 1), [The Colony, Tex.]: Crimson Tree Publishing, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: To cast a magical spell on (someone or something).
spellcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spellcast
spellcastings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spellcasting
spell casting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spell castings
Senses: examples: text: Some magical powers remain in the dusty dung of the bat. You can scoop up enough for two dice worth of spell castings.
ref: 1986, Steven Estvanki, James Marciniak, Steven Marciniak, Captif d’Yvoire and Beyond the Silvered Pane (Tunnels and Trolls), Ealing, London: Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Hewat’s rendering of the sensibility of spell casting is as straightforward and lyrical as are his descriptions of the blues and rags and jazz that provide alternative protections and consolations to their disciples.
ref: 1986 January 12, Tom Nolan, “Lady’s Time by Alan V. Hewat (Harper & Row: $16.95; 338 pp.)”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025:
text: Now that I have that, it’s the ultimate playground. Magic, technology, lasers, spell casting, all happening at once in the OASIS.
ref: 2018 March 28, Jack Shepherd, quoting Ernest Cline, “Ernest Cline interview on Ready Player One, working with Steven Spielberg, and the future of virtual reality”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2018:
text: The conversation about the video game Hogwarts Legacy has been dominated by social issues rather than spell casting or Hippogriff taming.
ref: 2023 February 9, Julia Jacobs, “Hogwarts Legacy Can’t Cast Aside Debate Over J.K. Rowling”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of spellcasting.
spell castings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spell casting
spell-casting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spell-castings
Senses: examples: text: Here are all the perfect ingredients—battles, spell-castings of both black and white varieties, old wishing wells, gypsy funerals, mysterious lovers who are not what they seem—woven into a plausible and entertaining tale.
ref: 1958 February, Riley Hughes, “Books”, in The Catholic World, volume 186, number 1,115, New York, N.Y.: Paulist Fathers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 387, column 2:
text: The scholars were arguing about “Grimms’ Fairy Tales,” but they paid little attention to Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel or the rest of that band. They were concerned with spell-casting, proverb-injecting, sexual metaphors, submerged voices and bourgeois tendencies.
ref: 1986 April 13, Scott Kraft, “Lasting Spell of Grimm Tales Grips Scholars”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025:
text: Apart from her domestic duties, the Witch taught her which herbs and berries to pick for spell-casting.
ref: 1996 June 7, Eleanor Lang, “Story of the Year winner: The Sheltie”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2022:
text: I suspect that this assumption of chaos — the sense that institutions have failed and no one is in charge — helps explain the well-documented resurgence of occultism among millennials. Attempts at spell-casting are obviously not unique to today’s young people; […]
ref: 2017 November 3, Michelle Goldberg, “Season of the Witch”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2017:
text: Before we can properly begin, there are, thankfully, myriad workshops to attend, including the art of spell-casting and how to cope with “emotional overload” during the game.
ref: 2018 February 2, Helen Coffey, “Why Harry Potter fans are flocking to this Polish castle”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of spellcasting.
spell-castings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spell-casting
indiscerptibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indiscerptibly
form: most indiscerptibly
Etymology: From indiscerptible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of indiscerpibly.
quadratic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of squaric acid.
synonyms: word: squaric acid
inexpungeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexpungeable
form: most inexpungeable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inexpungible.
moramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Derived terms: dextromoramide
levomoramide
infracostalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infracostales
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of a series of muscles arising from the underside of a rib and inserted into the first, second, or third rib below.
infracostales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infracostalis
infrabestial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infrabestial
form: most infrabestial
Etymology: From infra- + bestial.
Senses: glosses: Below even the level of an animal; utterly subhuman.
infraconscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infraconscious
form: most infraconscious
Etymology: From infra- + conscious.
Senses: glosses: Below the level of the conscious mind; subconscious.
° Celsius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ° Celsius
Senses: examples: text: But it warned that the number of resorts enjoying these kind of conditions would fall from 599 to 500 if temperatures rose by only 1° Celsius - as is expected within 14 years. A 4° Celsius rise would reduce the number to just 200. […] Of the countries studied, Germany is most at risk, the OECD said, with only a 1° Celsius rise in temperatures effectively reducing the number of snow-reliable areas by 60pc.
ref: 2006 December 14, Edmund Conway, “OECD: Global warming could spell ruin for Alps”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2016:
text: Barring large amounts of spending on shoreline barriers and flood control systems, these images show what China would face if carbon emissions cause global temperatures to rise by 2° Celsius (3.6°F), the current international target by 2100, or by 4° Celsius (7.2°F), roughly the warming predicted if no action is taken to curb emissions.
ref: 2015 December 11, Derek Watkins, “China’s Coastal Cities, Underwater”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2015:
text: Temperature / 0° Celsius 21.1° C 37.8° C
ref: 2021 June 18, Jason Samenow, Dylan Moriarty, Laris Karklis, Diana Leonard, Artur Galocha, “How a heat dome is pushing extreme temperatures to new heights in the West”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of degree Celsius.
Brauncewell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet, site of medieval village and former civil parish in Cranwell, Brauncewell and Byard's Leap parish, North Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0152 (hamlet), TF0452 (medieval village))
Byard's Leap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Said to be named after a legendary horse's leap; see Wikipedia article and compare bayard.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Cranwell, Brauncewell and Byard's Leap parish, North Kesteven district and Fulbeck parish, South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK9949).
India-no-place
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Indianoplace
Etymology: Blend of Indianapolis + no place.
Senses: examples: text: They were twenty-year-old twins who had just moved out from Indianapolis, or “India-no-place,” as they said. They wanted to be stars.
ref: 1978, Benjamin Stein, Dreemz, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 187:
text: Hardly anybody writes odes to Indianapolis. No Sandburg or Gershwin has ever praised the Midwestern city’s hard American beauty. No bustling metropolis, that town; no seething cauldron of culture. Instead, folks mockingly called it “India-no-place.”
ref: 1984 June 11, Jacob V. Lamar, Jr., “India-no-place No More”, in Time, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: These monikers are frequently descriptive (“The Capital City”), associated with a prominent industry (“The Railroad City”), geographical (“Crossroads of America”), sports-related (home of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing”), religiously inspired (“City of Churches”), derogatory (“Naptown,” “India-no-place,” “End-of-No-Place”), or abbreviations (“Indy”).
ref: 1994 November 22, Deborah B. Markisohn, “Slogans and Nicknames”, in Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, →ISBN:
ref: 2021 May 11, Norman Minnick, “Indianoplace; Or, What Results from Being Plunked Down On a Flat, Swampy, Heavily Forested Tract of Land”, in The Indianapolis Anthology, Belt Publishing, →ISBN
text: It has a sort of big city, whose nickname is India-no-place, but the rest of the state is composed of small towns with little opportunity.
ref: 2025 April 7, Edward McClelland, “Hands Off, Indiana”, in Chicago, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Indianapolis.
Indianoplace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of India-no-place
modern studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A subject in the Scottish school system, concerning contemporary social and political issues and political processes.
inframontane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + montane.
Senses: glosses: Below the mountainous regions.
drunker than a skunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From drunk as a skunk.
Senses: examples: text: His eyes were warm. "Get a slug of liquor for that tooth." He turned away and walked back to the bus. She'd be drunker than a skunk when he got back, but maybe that would blow out her tubes and she'd feel better. He would sleep in Norma's bed if Alice passed out. He couldn't stand the smell of her when she was drunk.
ref: 1947, John Steinback, The Wayward Bus, The Viking Press, page 137:
text: I was drunker than a skunk. I was three sheets to the wind. What a bagful. Right to the gills.
ref: 1977, Robert Kroetsch, Words of My Roaring, Paperjacks, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Lieutenant McGuire, the boat officer, was gung-ho and he came along and just shook his head because here was his gunner's mate drunker than a skunk.
ref: 1990, James Robert Wilson, Landing Zones: Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
text: ["]He'd come home from school for a visit, and he said you—"
I threw a hasty arm over my brother's shoulders, sheepish as a youngster caught stealing a cookie. "Ain't no reason to recollect on that."
"You got drunker than a skunk."
"And threw up for what felt like days straight."
ref: 2022, Janyre Tromp, Shadows in the Mind's Eye, Kregel Publications, →ISBN, page 73:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Alternative form of drunk as a skunk (“highly inebriated”).
Derived terms: drunker than a skunker
drunker than a skunker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From drunker + than + a + skunker, formed by analogy with drunker than a skunk so that it rhymes.
Senses: examples: text: Carol Highberger Henry, 59, of Jefferson, La., was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol when she was stopped after driving through several front lawns on Santa Anna Drive around 9:20 p.m. Monday.
According to an affidavit of probable cause, Henry refused to take sobriety tests, instead repeatedly saying to officers, "I'm drunker than a skunker."
ref: 2005 August 4, Carol Highberger Henry, quotee, “West Police News”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
text: "Yo, looser as a gooser." This bit of non-standard English, scarcely intelligible even to native speakers, was clear evidence that Mac was drunker than a skunker. But he was still sober enough to navigate. He went upstairs to the topmost balcony and stood just inside the door. Leaning against the wall, he looked down at the scene below.
ref: 2008, Peter Innes, The Man with the Grasshopper Mind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Id rather be drunker than a skunker than sober as a gopher
ref: 2016 July 10, @jhelsing17, Twitter:
text: I don't know if you follow him and his comments but it has been worse and I mean he came across as drunker than a skunker...
ref: 2021 March 11, @Jennife77965809, Twitter:
text: Is a random Tuesday and my friend just called my phone drunker than a skunker goodbye. I have work in the morning.😒
ref: 2025 June 18, @_xbriaaaaaa, Twitter:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Alternative form of drunk as a skunk (“highly inebriated”).