cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ratiocinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ratiocinatory
form: most ratiocinatory
Senses: examples: text: ratiocinatory knowledge
glosses: ratiocinative
diradiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin dīradiō (“to arrange in rays”), from dis- + radius.
Senses: examples: text: ACTINOBOLISM, is the same with the Diffusion or Diradiation of Light or Sound, by which it's carried or flows every way from its Centre.
ref: 1725, John Harris, Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences:
text: ACTINOBOLISM, from ακτιν, a sum beam, and βαλις, a plumb line, in physics, diffusion, or the diradiation of light or sound by which it flows every way from its centre.
ref: 1829, London Encyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Science:
glosses: The emission and diffusion of rays of light.
albuminiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˌbjuːmɪˈnɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Senses: examples: text: albuminiferous granules
text: albuminiferous gland
synonyms: albuminiparous
glosses: Supplying albumen.
remodification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remodifications
Etymology: From re- + modification.
Senses: glosses: The act or result of remodifying; subsequent modification.
remodifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remodification
immortification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immortifications
Etymology: From im- + mortification.
Senses: examples: text: immortification of spirit is the cause of all our secret and spiritual indispositions
ref: 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Failure to mortify the passions.
immortifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immortification
stomatoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomatoscopes
Etymology: From stomato- + -scope.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth, consisting of a small light on the end of a stick.
stomatoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomatoscope
lipochrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: examples: text: Lipochrin can be obtained from the eyes of frogs.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow pigment found in the small round fat drops in the retinal epithelium cells.
zenzizenzizenzizenzike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An extension of Robert Recorde's naming system for mathematical powers presented in his 1557 mathematics book The Whetstone of Witte, from the root word zenzic.
Senses: examples: text: A Zenzizenzizenzizenzike or Square of Squares Squaredly Squared
ref: 1696, Samuel Jeake, chapter 4, in Arithmetic surveyed or reviewed, volume 3, page 272; 'A compleat body of arithmetic, in four books...' 1701:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The sixteenth power of a number.
Merkozy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Merkel (“Angela Merkel”) + Sarkozy (“Nicolas Sarkozy”)
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The (personification of the) unified position of France and Germany during the early 21st century European sovereign debt crisis.
probality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Probability.
mesorhine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- (“middle”) and rhino- (“nose”).
Senses: examples: text: mesorhine skull
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a medium-width nose, between leptorhine and platyrhine.
roughtail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rough + tail.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a rough tail.
raw_tags: in animal names
Derived terms: roughtail catshark
roughtail lizard
roughtail rock agama
roughtail stingray
roughtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roughtails
Etymology: From rough + tail.
Senses: synonyms: shieldtail
glosses: A small snake of the family Uropeltidae.
glosses: The roughtail stingray
roughtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roughtail
preappoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preappoints
form: preappointing
form: preappointed
form: preappointed
Etymology: From pre- + appoint.
Senses: examples: text: 1839 Thomas Carlyle, from letter quoted in Thomas Carlyle; a History of the First Forty Years of His Life by James Anthony Froude
I am no man whom it is desirable to be too close to — an unhappy mortal — at least, with nerves that preappoint me to continual pain and loneliness.
text: ALL REMAINING ALLIANCE PERSONNEL OUTSIDE SOL THEATER ARE DIRECTED TO MUSTER AT PRE-APPOINTED STAGING AREAS AND COMMENCE OFFENSIVE COMBAT OPERATIONS AT FIRST AVAILABLE OPPORTUNITY.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: EMERGENCY FLASH TRAFFIC - URGENT:
glosses: To appoint beforehand.
Derived terms: preappointment
preappointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preappoint
preappointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preappoint
preappoints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preappoint
estrangedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From estranged + -ness.
Senses: examples: Jun 27 1715, Samuel Wright, A Sermon preach'd before the Societies for Reformation of Manners
So that after all , the Disgusts and Estrangedness of vicious Men towards the Good , are owing to their being unacquainted with the Pleasure and Comfort of a Godly , Righteous , and Suber Life
glosses: The state of being estranged; estrangement.
gyreful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gyreful
form: most gyreful
Etymology: From gyre + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Of forayne worlde, on mounte Olimpe / whose carts when they were roulde / With gyrefull sway, by course swyfters, / to winne the glistring branche.
ref: 1566, Horace, “The fyrst Satyre”, in Thomas Drant, transl., A Medicinable Morall, that is, the two Bookes of Horace his Satyres […]:
text: Theyre labor hoat they folow: toe the flame fits gyreful awarding.
ref: 1582, Virgil, translated by Richard Stanyhurst, Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Aeneis […], page 95:
text: Leaf preened by wind takes janty flight, / And gyreful now—now out of sight,
ref: 1892 November, Mary V. Agnew, “A Sepia Sketch, with Suggestions for a Thanksgiving Dinner”, in Table Talk, volume 7, number 11, page 381:
glosses: Moving in gyres, whirling.
pectoriloquial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French pectoriloque.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or of the nature of, pectoriloquy.
contributional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contribution + -al.
Senses: examples: text: contributional margin
text: contributional method
glosses: Pertaining to, or making, a contribution.
gonocalyx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gono- + Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “cup of a flower”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The bell-shaped opening of a sessile gonozooid.
imperceived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From im- + perceived.
Senses: glosses: Not perceived; unperceived.
pretibial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + tibial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: anterior to the tibia
Derived terms: pretibial fever
pretibially
fahlunite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fahlunites
Etymology: From Fahlun + -ite, after a place in Sweden (nowadays written Falun).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydration of iolite.
fahlunites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fahlunite
oinomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of oenomania.
archidiaconal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːkɪdaɪˈækənəl/
Etymology: From Latin archidiāconus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: […] they giue good allowance of Episcopal dignitie & their iurisdiction but they vtterly disallow and would gladly infringe Archidiaconall power and weaken that first.
ref: 1604, William Tooker, chapter 6, in Of the Fabrique of the Church and Church-Mens Livings, London: John Norton, page 120:
text: 1787, William Hutchinson, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine, of Durham, Newcastle: S. Hodgson, Volume 2, pp. 88-89,
[…] by compromise it was settled, that the prior should enjoy archidiaconal jurisdiction in the churches of Jarrow and Weremouth, and Goldesburgh throughout the rest for life.
text: […] his Phi Beta Kappa key shone against a spotty black vest; he smelled of old pipes; he was altogether funereal and archidiaconal; and to real-estate brokerage and the jobbing of bathroom-fixtures he added an aroma of sanctity.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Chapter 3, page 26:
text: With Father Jolliffe cringing under the archidiaconal disapproval it ought to have been a chilling moment and, by Treacher at least, savoured and briefly enjoyed […]
ref: 2001, Alan Bennett, “The Laying on of Hands” in Four Stories, London: Profile Books:
text: Hicks wrote in the diary in July 1913 about the arrangements for the two forthcoming archidiaconal installations.
ref: 2015, GR Evans, Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War:
qualifier: Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy; Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: Pertaining to an archdeacon.
proverbialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proverbialists
Etymology: From proverbial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who often uses proverbs in speech or writing.
glosses: Someone who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.
Related terms: proverbialism
proverbialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proverbialist
Aryanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Aryanizes
form: Aryanizing
form: Aryanized
form: Aryanized
form: Arianize
Etymology: From Aryan + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To render Aryan; to be subjected to the cultural and linguistic influence of the Aryan peoples.
glosses: To remove all non-Aryan characteristics or individuals from a society.
Derived terms: Aryanization
Aryanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Aryanize
Aryanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Aryanize
Aryanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Aryanize
pendulosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pendulosity
pendulosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pendulosities
Etymology: See pendulous.
Senses: examples: text: pendulosity, they having no support or suppedaneous stability
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state or quality of being pendulous.
pustulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pustulations
Etymology: Latin pustulatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of producing pustules.
examples: text: spongiform pustulation
text: polycyclic pustulation
glosses: The state of being pustulated.
pustulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pustulation
histrionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: histrionizes
form: histrionizing
form: histrionized
form: histrionized
Senses: examples: text: […]the solicitation of the court, and his own recreation, he was pleased to histrionize it
ref: 1652, Thomas Urquhart, The Jewel:
glosses: To act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically.
Related terms: histrionic
histrionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of histrionize
histrionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of histrionize
inconscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconscious
form: most inconscious
Etymology: From in- + conscious.
Senses: examples: text: [T]here may poſſibly be One Plastick Inconſcious Nature, in the vvhole Terraqueous Globe, by vvhich Vegetables may be ſeverally organized and framed, and all things performed vvhich tranſcend the Povver of Fortuitous Mechaniſm.
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, chapter III, in The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC, page 181:
glosses: Unconscious.
triacontahedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek. From triaconta- + -hedral.
Senses: glosses: Having thirty sides.
Related terms: triacontahedron
errorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: errorists
Etymology: From error + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who encourages and propagates error.
glosses: One who holds onto an erroneous belief.
errorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of errorist
optogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optograms
Etymology: From opto- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: The bleaching of visual purple is limited to the area exposed to light, so that an optogram or image of the luminous object, such as a window, can be obtained.
ref: 1924, John Herbert Parsons, An Introduction to the Study of Colour Vision, page 16:
text: The study of optograms caught the imagination of the public as well as the scientific community. Some scientifically minded sleuths hoped that the optograms of murder victims might betray their killers!
ref: 2001, Stanley Finger, Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations Into Brain Function, page 82:
text: What Dantin, Ginory, and Bernardet do not know—that is, the true facts about the killer's identity and the source of Dantin's image—will come not from the material evidence of the optogram, but from the vagaries of chance, as Bernardet's flânerie allows him to stumble on both Dantin's portrait and the true killer himself.
ref: 2006, Andrea Goulet, Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction, page 183:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on rhodopsi.
Related terms: optography
optograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optogram
grinderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grindery
grindery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grinderies
Etymology: From grind + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The materials used by leatherworkers.
glosses: A mill where something is ground.
metallographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallographists
Etymology: From metallography + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But, alas, you and I cannot thus escape each other's jargon, for the metallographist must needs learn from the millman and the millman from the metallographist, and each has become the slave of his own tools, his own jargon.
ref: 1911, Electrochemical and Metallurgical Industry, volume 9, page 286:
text: It has been said that the metallographic microscope is an instrument for seeing only what you want to see, and this slur on the good faith and credibility of metallographists will only be strengthened by such statements as that of the authors that their photomicrograph No. 3, magnified 225 diameters, shows segregation, while No. 4 does not.
ref: 1915 November 4, Iron Trade Review, volume 57, page 920:
text: Which of the two reports is of more immediate practical value, the chemist's or the metallographist's? Surely, that of the metallographist.
ref: 1938, Albert Sauveur, The Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel, page 1:
glosses: One who writes on the subject of metals.
metallographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallographist
monothalamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) and θᾰ́λᾰμος (thắlămos).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Whose spikelets are all similar.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a single chamber.
outbrag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbrags
form: outbragging
form: outbragged
form: outbragged
Etymology: From out- + brag.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in bragging.
examples: text: Like vnſhorne veluet, on that termleſſe ſkin
Whoſe bare out-brag'd the web it ſeem'd to were.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: To surpass in beauty or splendor.
outbragged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbrag
outbragging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbrag
outbrags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbrag
imprescriptibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imprescriptibly
form: most imprescriptibly
Etymology: From imprescriptible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an imprescriptible manner; obviously or uncontrollably
flea beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flea beetles
Senses: glosses: Any of the small jumping beetles of tribe Alticini of the leaf beetle family Chrysomelidae.
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Phyllotreta alberta
word: Alberta flea beetle
taxonomic: Agasicles hygrophila
word: alligator weed flea beetle
taxonomic: Altica ambiens
word: alder flea beetle
taxonomic: Phyllotreta vittula
word: barley flea beetle
english: subtribe Oedionychina spp.
translation: subtribe Oedionychina spp.
word: bladder clawed flea beetle
taxonomic: Chaetocnema rileyi
word: Boca Chica flea beetle
taxonomic: Chaetocnema concinna
word: brassy flea beetle
taxonomic: Phyllotreta aeneicollis
word: bronzy brassica flea beetle
taxonomic: Chaetocnema brunnescens
word: buttonwood flea beetle
taxonomic: Psylliodes chrysocephala
word: cabbage-stem flea beetle
taxonomic: Chaetocnema pulicaria
word: cloverr flea beetle
taxonomic: Chaetocnema pulicaria
word: corn flea beetle
taxonomic: Chaetocnema ectypa
word: desert corn flea beetle
taxonomic: Serraphula duplessisi
word: Du Plessis's flea beetle
taxonomic: Omophoita cyanipennis
word: eight-spotted flea beetle
taxonomic: Psylliodes punctulatus
word: hop flea beetle
taxonomic: Phyllotreta armoraciae
word: horseradish flea beetle
taxonomic: Phyllotreta nemorum
word: large-striped flea beetle
taxonomic: Psylliodes luridipennis
word: Lundy flea beetle
taxonomic: Altica spp.
word: metallic flea beetle
taxonomic: Cangshanaltica fuanensis
word: moss-eating flea beetle
taxonomic: Chaetocnema opulenta
word: opulent flea beetle
word: pale-striped flea beetle
alt: Epitrix cucumeris; Psylliodes affinis
word: potato flea beetle
taxonomic: Longitarsus jacobaeae
word: ragwort flea beetle
taxonomic: Phyllotreta undulata
word: small striped flea beetle
taxonomic: Disonycha xanthomelas
word: spinach flea beetle
english: Aphthona
translation: Aphthona
word: spurge flea beetle
taxonomic: Epitrix cucumeris
word: squash flea beetle
taxonomic: Altica ignita
word: strawberry flea beetle
taxonomic: Phyllotreta striolata
word: striped flea beetle
word: striped turnip flea beetle
taxonomic: Chaetocnema confinis
word: sweet-potato flea beetle
taxonomic: Epitrix hirtipennis
word: tobacco flea beetle
taxonomic: Chaetocnema denticulata
word: toothed flea beetle
taxonomic: Epitrix tuberis
word: tuber flea beetle
taxonomic: Phyllotreta striolata
word: turnip flea beetle
taxonomic: Phyllotreta pusilla
word: western black flea beetle
taxonomic: Phyllotreta ramosa
word: western striped flea beetle
taxonomic: Crepidodera aurata
word: willow flea beetle
flea beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flea beetle
coppled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coppled
form: most coppled
Etymology: From copple + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: There is something of a Difference in the Shape of ſeveral of theſe; ſome being flatter on the top, others more coppled; but the Differences do not ſeem to be ſo great as to imply that they are of diſtinct Species
ref: 1729, J[ohn] Woodward, “Classis IV. Multivalvia.”, in An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England; […], tome I, London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn] Senex, […]; and J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, […], →OCLC, part II (A Catalogue of the English Fossils in the Collection of J. Woodward […]), page 68:
glosses: Rising to a point; conical; copped.
aphlogistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + phlogistic.
Senses: examples: text: an aphlogistic lamp
text: aphlogistic coal
text: an aphlogistic exhibition
glosses: flameless
baptization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baptizations
Etymology: From Middle English baptizacion, from Latin baptizātiō. By surface analysis, baptize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Their baptizations were null.
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
glosses: Baptism.
baptizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baptization
unimposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + imposed.
Senses: examples: text: The Court of Appeals held that District Court had authority to order sentence to run concurrently with as-yet unimposed sentence on pending state charges.
ref: 2003, West Publishing Company, West Group, West's federal reporter: cases argued and determined in the United States courts of appeals and Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals:
glosses: Not imposed.
unimposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + imposable.
Senses: examples: text: Even the minimum Guideline fine will be unimposable on any organizational defendant whose affected volume of commerce exceeds $5 million
ref: 1989, United States. Dept. of Justice, Department of Justice:
glosses: Not capable of being imposed.
Cymrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cymric
glyphographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glyphography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to glyphography.
vidame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈviːdɑːm/
ipa: /viˈdæm/
rhymes: -iːdɑːm
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: vidames
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French vidame, from Latin vice-dominus, from Latin vice (“instead of”) + dominus (“master, lord”).
Senses: glosses: One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later were given status of fiefs, and became feudal nobles.
vidames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vidame
papyraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more papyraceous
form: most papyraceous
form: papyritious
Etymology: From Latin papȳrāceus (“made of papyrus”) under influence of Middle French papyracee and French papiracé.
Senses: glosses: Of, similar to, or related to papyrus.
glosses: Synonym of papery: of, similar to, or related to paper, particularly its thinness or texture.
synonyms: word: papery
extra: of, similar to, or related to paper, particularly its thinness or texture
Synonyms: word: papyral
word: papyric
word: papyriferous
word: papyrian
word: papyrine
Related terms: fetus papyraceus
lamina papyracea
demesmerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demesmerizes
form: demesmerizing
form: demesmerized
form: demesmerized
Etymology: From de- + mesmerize.
Senses: glosses: To remove from a state of mesmerization.
demesmerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demesmerize
demesmerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demesmerize
demesmerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demesmerize
bookmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookmates
Etymology: From book + mate.
Senses: glosses: An associate in studying or reading.
bookmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookmate
sacciferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sækˈsɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin saccus (“a sack”) + -iferous.
Senses: examples: text: sacciferous insect
text: sacciferous larvae
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing a sac.
prayingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prayingly
form: most prayingly
Etymology: From praying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With prayer.
glosses: pleadingly
lademan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lademen
Etymology: From lade + -man.
Senses: glosses: A miller's servant
lademen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lademan
plagueless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plague + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from plague.
metallograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallographs
Etymology: From metallo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A print made by metallography.
metallographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallograph
Christ on a cracker
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: A humorous variation of the exclamation "Christ" or "Jesus Christ". Usually an expression of surprise, shock, exasperation etc.
Synonyms: wow
imboil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imboils
form: imboiling
form: imboiled
form: imboiled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of emboil.
imboiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imboil
imboiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imboil
infuscation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infuscations
Senses: glosses: The act of darkening.
glosses: The state of being dark; obscurity.
examples: text: We consider, until more specimens are discovered, interruptus as only a subspecies of poecilogaster as the major differences between the two are color intensity of the wing infuscations, and of pile and tomentum.
ref: 1959, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Technical Bulletin:
glosses: A dark patch or marking.
infuscations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infuscation
pseudocone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocones
Etymology: From pseudo- + cone.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, such as the dragonfly, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.
pseudocones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocone
milkful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more milkful
form: most milkful
Etymology: From milk + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: milk-full vales
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
text: The earth brought forth its fruit; fishful its river-mouths; milkful the kine; heavy-headed the woods.
ref: 1856, John O'Donovan, Annala Rioghachta Eireann, page 97:
glosses: Full of milk; abounding with food.
astrogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + -geny.
Senses: examples: 1874-1896, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology
The first kind , Inorganic Evolution , which , had it been dealt with , would have occupied two volumes , one dealing with Astrogeny and the other with Geogeny , was passed over because it seemed undesirable to postpone the more important
glosses: The creation or evolution of the stars or heavens.
Related terms: astrogonic
bittering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitterings
Etymology: From bitter + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: A patent was lately grantedd to David Dear, of the town of Salina, county of Onondaga, and state of New York, for an improved mode of separating the bitterings from, and cleaning hte same from salt kettles or boilers of any description used in the manufacture of salt.
ref: 1839, “Dear's Process of Separating and Removing the Bitterings from the Kettles or Boilers Used in the Manufacture of Salt”, in Mechanics' Magazine, volume 30, page 94:
text: It is used as a kettle addition in conjunction with other post-fermentation bitterings.
ref: 2013, Encyclopaedia of Brewing:
glosses: A bitter compound, such as that used in adulterating beer or that removed from coffee.
examples: text: This observation would suffice to explain the fact mentioned at the commencement of this paragraph, that bittering is almost exclusively confined to red wines, these containing, as is well known, a somewhat large amount of tannin absorbed from the skins and kernels of the grape during the primary fermentation.
ref: 1898, Franz Lafar, Technical mycology v.1,, page 405:
text: Aroma hops can be used for bittering also, and many homebrewers swear by this, claiming a finer, cleaner overall hop profile.
ref: 2001, John J. Palmer, How to Brew, page 56:
glosses: The act of making or becoming bitter.
Synonyms: bittern
bittering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bitter + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The Consumer Product Safety Commission also questions the effectiveness of the bittering agent and wrote that there is no evidence that DB or any other possible adversive agent is actually effective at limiting the ingestion of consumer products .
ref: 2006, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, H.R. 2567, the Antifreeze Bittering Act of 2005, page 4:
text: Centennial is an aroma-type cultivar that is used for its aromatic properties and bittering potential .
ref: 2012, Sam Calagione, Extreme Brewing, page 214:
text: a bittering agent in antifreeze
glosses: Causing a bitter taste or smell.
bittering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bitter + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bitter
bitterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bittering
Prakritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Prakrit + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Prakrit.
Related terms: Sanskritic
effectivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effectivity
emperil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emperils
form: emperiling
form: emperilling
form: emperiled
form: emperiled
form: emperilled
form: emperilled
Senses: examples: text: His person to emperill so in fight
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Dated form of imperil.
emperils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emperil
emperiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emperil
emperilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emperil
emperiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emperil
emperilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emperil
epitopal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epitope + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an epitope
ambrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæmbɹəʊz/
Senses: examples: text: Stachys semeth to Gesner to be the herbe that we cal in english Ambrose , & I deni not but that it may be a kynde of it. Howe be it I haue sene the true Italian staches, whiche hath narower and whyter leaues then Ambrose hath.
ref: 1548, William Turner, The Names of Herbes:
glosses: A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia (Dysphania botrys).
discoverment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discoverments
Etymology: From discover + -ment.
Senses: glosses: discovery
discoverments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discoverment
elaidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elaidins
form: elaïdin
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solid isomeric modification of olein.
Derived terms: elaidinization
elaidinize
Related terms: elaidamide
hebetation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin hebetatio: compare French hébétation.
Senses: glosses: The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.
glosses: The state of being blunted or dulled.
wall crawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall crawlers
form: wall-crawler
form: wallcrawler
Etymology: From wall + crawler.
Senses: examples: text: The wall crawler will also take ultrasound readings to reveal pits and cracks beneath the surface of the steel walls.
ref: 1995 September 23, Vincent Kiernan, “Send in the robots”, in New Scientist, volume 147, →ISSN, page 36:
text: The wall crawler... is a commercially available crawler, which attaches to the steel tank wall through strong, permanent magnetic wheels.
ref: 2004, “Remote Testing of Underground High Level Radioactive Waste Storage Tanks”, in Materials Evaluation, volume 62, American Society for Nondestructive Testing, →ISSN, page 917:
text: This weaponized wall crawler, assumedly capable of creeping into some 2025 apartment window in Baghdad, Beruit, or Kerachi "carrying a combat load," definitely is not meant to be your friendly neighborhood Spiderman.
ref: 2009 March 3, Nick Turse, The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives, New York: Metropolitan Books, →ISBN, page 243:
glosses: something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces
megabar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megabars
Etymology: From mega- + bar.
Senses: glosses: A unit of pressure equal to one million bars
wall-crawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall-crawlers
form: wall crawler
form: wallcrawler
Etymology: From wall + crawler.
Senses: examples: text: As Mother Jones goes to press, the masked, web-slinging wall-crawler is busy foiling a computer technician's evil designs to brainwash people through subliminal advertising in video games.
ref: 1983 September-October, Bob Sanders, “Our Kind Of Superhero”, in Mother Jones, volume 8, number 8, page 9:
text: You're not just buying and selling with a wizard and a scholar in tow. What's so important that you have to hire a wall-crawler?
ref: 1999 January 7, Juliet E. McKenna, The Thief's Gamble (Tales of Einarinn), Orbit, →ISBN, →OL:
text: Her fingers slipped, and she felt herself starting to fall. At that same moment the wall-crawler sprang down at her, gripping the carved inscriptions in the black glossy surface with its left hand while its right swung down to clamp around her throat.
ref: 2010 December 28, Joe Schreiber, Red Harvest (Star Wars), New York: LucasBooks, →ISBN, chapter 42:
glosses: something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces
unichromosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + chromosomal.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or based upon a single chromosome
roller football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 2006, Steve Beauchampe, Played in Birmingham, Played in Britain
Despite efforts to maintain interest by staging novelty races and roller football, few of these rinks would survive, and only one more opened before the end of the century, at the Sherbourne Hotel, Balsall Heath, in 1887.
text: The most popular outdoor skating games, roller-frisbee, roller football, and roller hockey, are very difficult to adapt to indoor areas.
ref: 1979, Hal Straus and Marilou Sturges, Roller Skating Guide, World Publications, Inc., page 139
glosses: the sport of either association football or American touch football played on roller skates.
anfractuose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anfractuose
form: most anfractuose
Senses: examples: text: anfractuose anthers
glosses: rare spelling of anfractuous
misemployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misemployments
Etymology: From mis- + employment.
Senses: glosses: Wrong or unsuitable employment; misuse.
imageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From image + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being imaged
Derived terms: unimageable
subtransparent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + transparent.
Senses: examples: text: subtransparent patch
text: subtransparent zone
glosses: Almost, but not perfectly, transparent.
cerebritides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerebritis
cerebritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebritides
Etymology: From cerebrum + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the cerebrum
glaired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glair
glairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glair
attrectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin attrectatio, from ad + tractare (“to handle”).
Senses: examples: text: [S]ince that materiall part and exteriour actions of Religion could be acted and perſonated by any man, there was ſcarce any thing left to make it religious, but the attrectation of the rites by a holy perſon; […]
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section I”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 7, page 4:
glosses: Frequent handling or touching; fingering.
wavily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wavily
form: most wavily
Etymology: From wavy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: crookedly, twistingly, in a curved and winding manner
beingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beingly
form: most beingly
Etymology: From being + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to (one's) being or existence.
examples: text: Earlier Thomas quotes Proclus in his explanation thus: "All beingly being is infinite, not according to multitude or magnitude, but according to power alone.
ref: 2003, Journal of Chinese philosophy
glosses: Existing; extant.
examples: text: Doesn't this question point to an experience similar to that Plato must have had in obsessively asking what the essence ("ousia"), the "truth," "the true being" or "the beingly being" of things was?
ref: 1995, William J. Richardson, Babette E. Babich, From phenomenology to thought, errancy, and desire:
glosses: True; real; essential; actual.
profusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more profusive
form: most profusive
Senses: examples: text: profusive gift
glosses: profuse; lavish; prodigal
Derived terms: profusively
trigastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + gastric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having three bellies.
catabasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catabasion
catabasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catabasia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καταβάσιον (katabásion, “a way down”), from κατάβασις (katábasis).
Senses: topics: architecture
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A vault under the altar of a Greek church.
inebrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inebrious
form: most inebrious
Senses: glosses: intoxicated; drunk
examples: text: Such that with scorching Fevers fill our Veins,
And with inebrious Fumes distract our Brains.
ref: a. 1704, Thomas Brown, “The Wonder of Wonders; or, a rich Vintner, and no Cuckold”, in The Remains of Mr. Thomas Brown, published 1720, page 297:
glosses: intoxicating
Synonyms: sense: intoxicated
word: drunk
sense: intoxicating
word: heady
word: temulentive
word: alcoholic
Derived terms: inebriously
Related terms: inebriated
lithontriptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithontriptors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lithotripter.
lithontriptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithontriptor
acrook
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈkɹʊk/
Etymology: From a- + crook.
Senses: examples: text: C. Custance. Wife, why cal ye me wife?
Sim Sure. Wife? this gear goth acrook.
ref: c. 1553, Nicholas Udall, edited by Edward Arber, Roister Doister, Birmingham, published 1869, Act IV, Scene 3, p. 62:
text: Loe, is not there the draught of some gold-sandy brooke
That on this azure ground glydes (as it were) acrooke?
ref: 1625, “The Pillars, or fourth Booke of Noe”, in William L’Isle, transl., Part of Du Barts English and French, London: John Haviland, page 158:
text: […] our spirits immersed / In wilfulness, our steps run all acrook.
ref: 1881, Christina Rossetti, “Behold the Man!”, in A Pageant and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 177:
text: And night ten years, o’er rough and smooth,
And up and down, and acrook and across,
I lead my pupils by the nose,
ref: 1905, Albert G. Latham, transl., Goethe’s Faust, London: J.M. Dent, published 1908, Part 1, p. 25:
synonyms: askew
awry
crookedly
obliquely
glosses: In an oblique or crooked direction.
acrook
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈkɹʊk/
Etymology: From a- + crook.
Senses: examples: text: 1905, Eudorus C. Kenney, “Jack and the Sparrows” in Some More Thusettes, Cortland, NY: The Democrat Printery, p. 7,
So Jack of salt a handful took /
And slyly watched with neck acrook
The sparrows.
text: "Arm acrook, too, a-thinkin’ thet in ther dark all cats is grey."
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 198:
text: His knees were acrook and his feet lifted on their toes as if they were ready for flight.
ref: 1954, Eilís Dillon, chapter 3, in The San Sebastian, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, page 57:
synonyms: bent
crooked
glosses: Bent or formed into a hook.
raw_tags: of a body part
examples: text: The whole evening […] lay empty ahead of us. What bliss! There was not a pin acrook in the house, the washing up would be done […]
ref: 1994, Jean Brown, chapter 26, in We’ll See the Cuckoo, Lancaster: Palatine Books, published 2004, page 519:
synonyms: askew
glosses: Not in its proper place or properly oriented.
Caribbee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Caribbean.
Caribbee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caribbees
Senses: glosses: One of the Carib people; a Caribbean.
Caribbees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caribbee.
Caribbees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: To avoid being becalmed under the lee of Guadeloupe, our captain had taken the longer route to windward, and we were now crossing the pathway of Columbus when he first approached these islands of the Caribbees.
ref: 1880, Frederick Albion Ober, Camps in the Caribbees, page 176:
text: A railway runs across the island, the only one in the Caribbees, and by this conveyance some of our party made a visit to Codrington College, a long-established and honorable seat of learning.
ref: 1895, Charles Augustus Stoddard, Cruising Among the Caribbees: Summer Days in Winter Months, page 172:
text: Of all the Caribbees, Dominica most awakened my curiosity and excited my imagination.
ref: 1967, Robert Bayley, The Sunny Caribbees: An Informal Guide to the West Indies:
glosses: The Caribbean.
miscolour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscolours
form: miscolouring
form: miscoloured
form: miscoloured
form: miscolor
Etymology: From Middle English miscolouren. Compare Saterland Frisian Misklöär (“mismatched colour”). By surface analysis, mis- + colour.
Senses: glosses: To give a wrong colour to.
examples: to miscolour facts
glosses: To set forth erroneously or unfairly.
miscolouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscolour
miscolouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscolourings
Senses: glosses: miscoloration
miscolours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscolour
floroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fləˈɹuːn/
Forms: form: floroons
Etymology: From French fleuron. See flower.
Senses: examples: text: The mountains of glass that harboured within their elevated cavities such floroons, encompassing innumerable dazzling circlets of all sizes and shades[…]
ref: 1898, Amanda McKittrick Ros, Delina Delaney:
glosses: A border worked with flowers.
floroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floroon
lamellose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lamellose
form: most lamellose
Etymology: Compare French lamelleux.
Senses: glosses: Composed of, or having, lamellae
glosses: lamelliform.
misconfident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misconfident
form: most misconfident
Etymology: From mis- + confident.
Senses: examples: text: Such men, instead of convincing, yield; and make themselves miserable, and their opposites foolishly proud and misconfident.
ref: 1640, Bishop Hall, Christian Moderation:
glosses: Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.
housebote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: houseboat
Forms: form: housebotes
Etymology: From house + bote.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel.
Related terms: firebote
housebotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housebote
diageotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dia- + geotropism.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The tendency of plant organs, especially roots, to grow horizontally.
Related terms: diageotropic
overquell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overquells
form: overquelling
form: overquelled
form: overquelled
Etymology: From Middle English overquellen, equivalent to over- + quell.
Senses: examples: text: What champion now shall tame the power Hell,
And the unruly spirits overquell?
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: To quell or subdue completely; gain or have power over.
overquelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overquell
orbicule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orbicules
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An inclusion in an igneous rock
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A lipid droplet, covered by sporopollenin, in the anthers of some plants
quadchromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quad- + chromatic.
Senses: glosses: Involving four colors
glosses: Having color vision using four primary colors; tetrachromatic
Synonyms: quadricolor
quadricolored
tetrachromatic
tetracolored
Coordinate terms: dichromatic
trichromatic
manelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manelike
form: most manelike
Etymology: From mane + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mane.