cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nupson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnʌpsən/
Forms: form: nupsons
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: O that I were so happy as to light on a nupson
ref: 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
synonyms: word: alcatote
word: asshat
word: arsehole
word: asshole
word: bayard
word: berk
word: birdbrain
word: blither
word: bobchin
word: bonehead
word: bozo
word: buffoon
word: brickhead
word: Charlie
word: chucklehead
word: chowderhead
word: chump
word: clart
word: clown
word: der-brain
word: dill pickle
word: dim bulb
word: dingleberry
word: dipshit
word: dipstick
word: dirtbrain
word: div
word: divvo
word: divvy
word: dolt
word: donk
word: doodle
word: doofus
word: dope
word: dork
word: dote
word: dotterel
word: dullard
word: dumbass
word: dumbbell
word: dumb fuck
word: dummy
word: dunce
word: dunderhead
word: dupe
word: fathead
word: fenderhead
word: fiddle
word: fuckwit
word: fuzznut
word: geck
word: gig
word: gink
word: goober
word: gooseberry
word: gowk
word: gubbins
word: gump
word: ha'p'orth
word: Homer Simpson
word: ignoramus
word: imbecile
word: jamoke
word: jerk
word: jerkoff
word: jolterhead
word: jolthead
word: juggins
word: jughead
word: knucklehead
word: lamebrain
word: mameluke (US (Italian-American)
word: slang)
word: maroon
word: meathead
word: mong
word: moron
word: mug
word: muggins
word: mushhead
word: nimrod
word: nincompoop
word: nit
word: nitwit
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: numskull
word: numps
word: numpty
word: nupson
word: oaf
word: pillock
word: pinhead
word: plonker
word: prat
word: retard
word: shit for brains
word: shithead
word: shitwit
word: schmo
word: schmuck
word: snapperhead
word: softhead
word: sot
word: stupid
word: sucker
word: thickhead
word: tonto
word: tool
word: tosser
word: tosspot
word: twat
word: twerp
word: twit
word: wally
word: wantwit
word: wazzock
word: yampy
glosses: A simpleton; a fool.
nupsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nupson
fanins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanin
blushet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blushets
Etymology: From blush + -et?
Senses: examples: text: little blushet Wax ne'er so easy
ref: 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 4:
glosses: A modest girl.
blushets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blushet
rushbuckler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rushbucklers
Etymology: From rush + buckler?
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:rushbuckler.
synonyms: swashbuckler
glosses: A rough, violent, bullying person.
rushbucklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rushbuckler
fatalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fatal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fatal; deadliness.
retainal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retain + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of retaining or keeping; retention.
rapiered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪpɪə(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From rapier + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: scarlet-coated, rapiered figures
ref: 1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC:
glosses: Wearing, or carrying, a rapier (the sword).
unbeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unbeasts
Etymology: From un- (“not”) + beast.
Senses: examples: text: That was no beast, said Irc scornfully into his mind. That was an unbeast. Twisty and nasty. Keep your eye out for more, Hem said.
ref: 2010 December 7, Alison Croggon, The Crow: The Third Book of Pellinor, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 321:
text: We don't deserve the epitaph of "Beasts," for the natural beasts learned a long time ago what harmony in their ecosystems was. We are the plastic unbeasts called men. We kill our own flesh for spiritual reasons cloaked in patriotism. Were has our own animal gone? Are we so intellectually trapped that only didactic philosophies are left?
ref: 2013 February 8, Wayne T. Williams, Kissing the Hand of the Dead, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: Something which might be mistaken for, but which is not, a beast.
unbeast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbeasts
form: unbeasting
form: unbeasted
form: unbeasted
Etymology: un- + beast
Senses: glosses: To get rid of the beastly form or nature of.
unbeasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbeast
lithotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: lithotypic section
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or produced by lithotypy.
unparched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃt/
Etymology: From un- + parched. In the obsolete sense, un- functions as an intensifier.
Senses: examples: text: My tongue […] unparch'd.
ref: a. 1649, Richard Crashaw, Psalm CXXXVII:
glosses: Dried up; withered by heat.
examples: text: unparched cornmeal
text: To one fresh from the baked Australian plains, there is likeness between any green and humid land and the last unparched country that he may have seen.
ref: 1868, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain, volume 2, page 93:
glosses: Not parched.
hyposulphuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hyposulfuric.
enwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enwomans
form: enwomaning
form: enwomanning
form: enwomaned
form: enwomaned
form: enwomanned
form: enwomanned
Etymology: From en- + woman.
Senses: examples: text: Grace which doth more than Enwoman Thee
ref: 1592, Samuel Daniel, Delia:
text: She is "one of the most enwomaned women I've seen, a brunette of eternity incomprehensibly beautiful"
ref: 2008, Baz Dreisinger, Near Black: White-To-Black Passing in American Culture, Univ of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: To endow with the qualities of a woman; to make womanly
Synonyms: feminize
enwomaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enwoman
enwomaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enwoman
enwomans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enwoman
nutriture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːtɹɪtjʊə(ɹ)/
/ˈnjuːtɹɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Etymology: Latin nutritura.
Senses: examples: text: Never make a meal of flesh alone, have some other meat with it of less nutriture.
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
text: The solitary life of Haller in his old age was very triste: the nutriture of his mind lay in the letters of the learned, and in his immense library .
ref: 1834, Sir Egerton Brydges, The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges, page 383:
text: That the prejudice, happily for Britain, much less popular, now, than it was a few years since, which attributes to intoxicating liquors, generally, a pre-eminent nutriture, is a warmly controverted point, the reader need not be told.
ref: 1840 March, “On the Nutriture of Intoxicating Liquors”, in The London tee-total magazine, and literary miscellany, volume 1, number 1, page 96:
glosses: nutrition; nourishment
examples: text: The program was designed ( a ) to provide evidence concerning the status of iodine nutriture in the United States and the extent of iodine deficiency, ( b ) to examine the efficacy of existing methods of preventing iodine deficiency and, especially, why iodization sometimes fails, ( c ) to explore possible changes in methodology of iodization and ( d ) to determine if there are causes of goiter in the United States other than iodine deficiency.
ref: 1971, Iodine Nutriture in the United States:
text: Thus, in any consideration of the iron nutriture of adolescents, biological variability must be taken into account.
ref: 1976, Alvin M. Mauer, Iron Nutriture in Adolescence, page 3:
text: What range of coenzym saturation is indicative of adequate vitamin nutriture?
ref: 1982 ·, Lu Ann Langham, Biochemical Assessment of Riboflavin Nutriture Utilizing a Radiometric Assay of Pyridoxamine (pyridoxine) 5'-phosphate Oxidase, page 89:
text: A negative association between copper nutriture and fetal growth was found in four studies.
ref: 2002, Edward J. Massaro, John M. Rogers, Folate and Human Development, page 228:
glosses: The process of digesting and absorbing specified nutrients through diet.
astragalar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astragalus + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the astragalus.
Derived terms: calcaneoastragalar
tibioastragalar
mechanograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanographs
Etymology: From mechano- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: One of a number of mechanically-produced copies of anything.
mechanographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanograph
unplacable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unplacable
form: most unplacable
Etymology: From un- + placable.
Senses: glosses: implacable
vicount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicounts
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of viscount.
vicounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicount
prosomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosoma
Winnebagoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Winnebago
Winnebagos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Winnebago
olivin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From olive + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex bitter gum found on the leaves of the olive tree.
Synonyms: olivite
excitosecretory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: excito-secretory
Etymology: From excito- + secretory.
Senses: examples: text: excitosecretory nerve
text: excitosecretory system
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Triggering secretion; said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are activated.
euritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euritic
form: most euritic
Etymology: From eurite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: euritic dyke
text: euritic rocks
glosses: Of or relating to eurite (felsite)
shaik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaiks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sheik.
shaiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaik
weetingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Equivalent to weeting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: all mens hearts with secret ravishment He stole away, and weetingly beguyld
ref: 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegie vpon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney.”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: That man is wood
That weetingly hastes on the thing he hates
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wittingly (“knowingly”).
pitiableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitiablenesses
Etymology: From pitiable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: pitiability
glosses: The quality of being pitiable.
unboundably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unboundably
form: most unboundably
Etymology: From unboundable + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: limitlessly
glosses: Beyond measure; infinitely.
oververbose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oververbose
form: most oververbose
Etymology: From over- + verbose.
Senses: glosses: Excessively verbose or wordy.
perissological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perissological
form: most perissological
Etymology: Compare French périssologique.
Senses: examples: text: We skated out tangents and cotangents of majestic circles, together with signs and wonders, versed, inversed, and reversed, which it would be perissological to enumerate.
ref: 1855 March, “A Trip to Lake Saltonstall”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 20, page 180:
text: I am reluctantly driven to thinking, however, that, as Mr. Schutze finds it as hard to believe these currently-accepted scientific explanations of phenomena as it is to believe in the Holy Trinity, his days of mental progress must have me to an end, in which case further discussion of these subjects would be but a perissological performance which would be better avoided.
ref: 1886 February 27, W.L. Prosser, “Letter to the Editor”, in Secular Review: A Journal of Agnosticism, volume 18, page 142:
text: There is no doubt that the ordinary reader would enjoy, and he certainly would profit much by, a revival of the classic work—if only he did not fall asleep over its magniloquent but perissological otiosity.
ref: 1908, Charles Francis Horne, The Technique of the Novel, page 126:
glosses: Redundant or excessive in words.
examples: text: But these are changes that would modify neither the sets of values expressed in a perissological way nor the non-verbal communication that takes place around the artefact in question.
ref: 2016, Pierre Lemonnier, Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non-verbal Communication, page 158:
text: Perissological resonators can reveal relationships extant in various domains like kinship, exchange, death, marriage etc.
ref: 2020, Niraj Kumar, George van Driem, Phunchok Stobdan, Himalayan Bridge, page 87:
text: There was the links of those things, their perissological qualities (Lemonnier 2012), the world of artefacts, knowledge, symbols, rules, stories and emotions in which they were immersed.
ref: 2020, Bjørnar Olsen, Mats Burström, Caitlin DeSilvey, After Discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics:
glosses: Serving to reinforce a message; having strong associations.
Synonyms: verbose
wordy
Related terms: perissology
pneumometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pneumo- + -metry.
Senses: synonyms: spirometry
glosses: The measurement of lung capacity.
Related terms: pneumometer
ebulliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ebulliates
form: ebulliating
form: ebulliated
form: ebulliated
Senses: examples: 1599, Oswald Gäbelkover, The Boock of Physicke
verisate them , and then ebulliate' the ame in a quarte of good vvine
glosses: To boil or bubble up.
Related terms: ebullate
ebullient
ebulliated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ebulliate
ebulliates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ebulliate
ebulliating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ebulliate
inerrability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I cannot allow their wisdom such a compleatness and inerrability as to exclude my Self; since none of them hath that part to act
ref: 1648, attributed to Charles I of England, Εἰκὼν Βασιλική [Eikōn Basilikē = Royal Portrait]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie, in His Solitvdes and Svfferings:
glosses: Lack of, or exemption from error; infallibility.
peptogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peptogens
Etymology: See peptone and -gen.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Any substance convertible into peptone.
synonyms: peptic
glosses: An agent that promotes digestion.
Related terms: peptogenous
peptogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peptogen
knight-errantries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knight-errantry
knight-errantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knight-errantries
Senses: glosses: The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures.
examples: text: Virtue is knight-errantry no more
ref: 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
glosses: Chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.
transelementation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French transélémentation.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: transubstantiation
autocrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocrators
Etymology: From Late Latin autocratōr, from Ancient Greek αὐτοκράτωρ (autokrátōr, “emperor”).
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of autocrat.
Derived terms: autocratress
autocrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autocrator
demiquaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛmɪkweɪvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: demiquavers
Etymology: From demi- + quaver.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A semiquaver, a sixteenth note.
Derived terms: semidemiquaver
demiquavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demiquaver
nunnish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nunnish
form: most nunnish
Etymology: From nun + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun.
Synonyms: nunlike
Derived terms: nunnishly
nunnishness
valero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: valerian
Derived terms: valerolactone
valerophenone
disarticulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disarticulators
Etymology: From disarticulate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who disarticulates and prepares skeletons.
disarticulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disarticulator
vulneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulnerations
Etymology: Latin vulneratio.
Senses: glosses: The act of wounding.
glosses: The state of being wounded.
vulnerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulneration
forequoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + quoted.
Senses: examples: text: But before we examine them, let us take notice of the Authors great contradiction to himſelf in this point, and that within very few Pages; falſhood is not onely diſſonant from truth, but alſo from it ſelf; for whereas in the forequoted place he makes his aſſertion on univerſal, that God ſeeth no ſin in perſons converted, and therefore there are no afflictions befall them becauſe of ſin: […]
ref: 1648, Anthony Burgess, The True Doctrine of Justification: […], London: […] Robert White, for Thomas Vnderhil […], page 33:
text: And the We who are redeemed here, are thoſe in the forequoted place, who are ſaid to be in the Chriſt Jeſus, who walk not after the Fleſh, but after the Spirit;[…]
ref: 1716, John Shuttleworth, A Perswasive to Union: […], London: […] W. Taylor, […] J. Cooke, […], page 34:
synonyms: aforequoted
glosses: Cited before; quoted in an earlier part of the treatise or essay.
otalgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otalgies
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of otalgia.
montigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin montigena (from mons, montis (“mountain”) + the root of gignō, genō (“to beget”)) + -ous. (Compare orogenous, -genous.)
Senses: examples: text: Asperula trifida Makino […] ¶ Perennial, 1–4 decim. high. Rhizome slender, long-creeping, rooting at the nodes. […] ¶ A montigenous species.
ref: 1903, T[omitaro] Makino, Observations on the Flora of Japan, Fasciculus 3, Tokyo, pages 38–39; reprinted from the Botanical Magazine, volume 17, Tokyo, 1903:
text: It seems a piece of the mountain, rock of its rock, wedged indistinguishably between the crags—itself a crag, but one over which the spirit has passed. Carved and placed as they are, the columns of this temple express the very essence of all this montigenous austerity and forsakenness.
ref: 1965, Nikos Kazantzakis, “Pilgrimage Through Greece” (chapter 17), in P. A. Bien, transl., Report to Greco, London: Bruno Cassirer (Publishers) Ltd, page 163:
text: There is an important difference between a boor ([…]), and an ignoramus ([…]). A boor is a person who not only is ignorant, but is also uncultured, with neither good manners ([…]) nor good personality traits ([…]). Rather he is like a montigenous creature, like a wild animal.
ref: 1979, Isaac ben Moses Magriso, Avoth: MeAm Loéz, Maznaim Publishing Corporation, page 83:
text: 5.30 pm, 2FC, Roundabout: Open a bottle of Car Door to welcome Manuel [i.e., Manuel and the Music of the Mountains] and his montigenous minstrels as they descend from the peaks for this afternoon’s lively interlude.
ref: 1983 August 17, Doug Anderson, “Radio Choice”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 45,438, Sydney: John Fairfax and Sons Ltd., page 20:
text: The Trees that the colonists informed Oviedo existed in that land were pines, oaks, which yielded gall-nuts, evergreen oaks of acorns, vines of montigenous grapes, chestnuts (but the fruit was small), willows, cane like that of Spain, walnut trees, blue berries used for making raisins which the Indians dried and saved for winter.
ref: 1998, Eloy J. Gallegos, Santa Elena: Spanish Settlements on the Atlantic Seaboard from Florida to Virginia, 1513 to 1607, Villagra Press, page 68:
glosses: Pertaining to or native to mountains.
myomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myomorphs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: myodont
hypernyms: rodent
mammal
animal
glosses: Any of the suborder Myomorpha of mouse-like rodents.
myomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myomorph
epitapher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛpɪˌtæfə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: epitaphers
Etymology: From epitaph + -er.
Senses: examples: text: By this blessed cuppe of sacke which I now holde in my hand, and drinke to the health of all Christen soules in, thou art a puissant Epitapher.
ref: 1592, Thomas Nashe, Strange News of the Intercepting Certain Letters:
glosses: A writer of epitaphs; and epitaphist.
epitaphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epitapher
Grangerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grangerites
Etymology: From Granger + -ite; see grangerize.
Senses: examples: text: In most cases the Grangerite soon loses his self-control, and develops an acute mania for embellishing his volume with all and every print upon which he can lay his hands, apposite in the slightest degree to the subject of the book.
ref: 1922, P. B. M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home, 2nd edition, London: Philip Allan & Co., page 122:
glosses: A collector of illustrations from various books to include in a scrapbook.
Related terms: Grangerism
grangerize
Grangerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grangerite
infragrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infragrant
form: most infragrant
Etymology: From in- + fragrant.
Senses: synonyms: nonfragrant
unfragrant
glosses: Not fragrant
mechanography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From mechano- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The mechanical reproduction of documents.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A diagnostic procedure that measures ground reaction forces in order to assess muscle function and strength.
Derived terms: mechanographist
undauntable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undauntable
form: most undauntable
Etymology: From un- + daunt + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Sitting in the front seats of the bus staring at the storm burying the highway and the sagebrush and the antelope, Mike and I were trembling from an untaintable, undauntable expectancy.
ref: 1997, Mark Jenkins, To Timbuktu, page 14:
glosses: Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless.
apheliotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: apo- + heliotropism
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: the tendency to bend away from sunlight, as some plants do; negative phototropism
egoical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ego + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the ego, or egoism.
electrolyzation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrolyzations
Etymology: From electrolyze + -ation.
Senses: glosses: electrolysis
electrolyzations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrolyzation
globosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globosity
globosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globosities
Etymology: Latin globositas: compare French globosité.
Senses: examples: text: the globosity of the earth
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A spherical or globose shape.
glosses: The state of being globose
futilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more futilous
form: most futilous
Senses: examples: text: Vain and futilous are the feavourish dreams of the antient Rabbins
ref: 1659, Samuel Lee, Orbis miraculum, or, The temple of Solomon […] :
text: futilous imaginations for the future
ref: 1674, John Owen, A vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning communion with God […] :
glosses: futile; trifling
superacidulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superacidulated
form: most superacidulated
Etymology: From super- + acidulated.
Senses: examples: text: superacidulated solution
glosses: Excessively acidulated; superacidic
disapprobatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disapprobatory
form: most disapprobatory
Etymology: From dis- + approbatory.
Senses: examples: text: disapprobatory adjectives
text: disapprobatory nickname
text: disapprobatory remarks
synonyms: disapproving
glosses: Containing or showing disapprobation; that disapproves.
reconvey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconveys
form: reconveying
form: reconveyed
form: reconveyed
Etymology: From re- + convey.
Senses: examples: to reconvey goods
to reconvey an estate
glosses: To convey again, or back to a former place or owner.
reconveyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconvey
reconveying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconvey
reconveys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconvey
reconveyances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconveyance
ladkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladkins
Etymology: From lad + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: Tharrhon that young ladkin hight, / He prayed this aged Sire for to reveal / What way this Dragons poyſonous deſpight, / And ſtrong Pantheothens inwalling might, / We may eſcape.
ref: 1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 3, stanza 31, page 44:
glosses: A little lad.
ladkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladkin
warefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wareful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: With pretence from Strephon her to guard, / He met her full; but full of warefulness.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: wariness; cautiousness
urochs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urochses
form: urochsen
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of aurochs.
urochses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urochs
bosset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bossets
Etymology: From boss + -et.
Senses: glosses: A small boss or knob, especially one in a series.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A pedicle (attaachment point for antlers in cervids)
bossets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bosset
inconvertibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inconvertible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being inconvertible; inconvertibility.
homelily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more homelily
form: most homelily
Etymology: From homely + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a homely way; plainly; inelegantly.
ophthalmometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophthalmometers
Etymology: From ophthalmo- + -meter.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: keratometer
glosses: An instrument for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye, by which their curvature can be ascertained, un order to assess astigmatism.
Related terms: ophthalmometric
ophthalmometry
ophthalmometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophthalmometer
disgestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disgestions
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of digestion.
obversely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more obversely
form: most obversely
Etymology: From obverse + -ly.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In an obverse manner.
glosses: correspondingly
licheniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more licheniform
form: most licheniform
Etymology: From lichen + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: licheniform rash
glosses: Having the form of a lichen.
artsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artsmen
Etymology: From arts + -man.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he pythe of all Sciences, which maketh the Arts-man differ from the inexpert, is in the middle propoſitions, which in euerie particular knowledge are taken from Tradition & Experience.
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 48, verso:
glosses: A man skilled in an art or in arts.
artsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artsman
panivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin panis (“bread”) + vorare (“to devour”).
Senses: examples: text: But the people who persevered in their panivorous propensities, accused the emperor of selling our corn to the English.
ref: c. 1825, Joseph Fouché, The Memoirs of Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto:
glosses: Eating bread.
overcarried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcarry
overcarries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcarry
overcarry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcarries
form: overcarrying
form: overcarried
form: overcarried
Etymology: From Middle English overcarien, equivalent to over- + carry.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, the scales could be weighted still more heavily in favour of completing the sorting at Leicester, even if this demanded 20min allowance, since not doing the work there inevitably results in overcarrying of parcels; and that could mean delay in delivery and complaints from the customer.
ref: 1964 February, Warren Smith, “The Midland's accelerated timetable”, in Modern Railways, page 99:
text: Soe they resolved with losse of their lives to recover or to end the losse of theire libertie , being overcarried indifferently with hate and disdaine , two mightie passions to drive on disordered desires
ref: a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
glosses: To carry too far, or beyond the proper point.
glosses: To go to excess.
overcarrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcarry
hoistaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoistaways
Etymology: From hoist + away.
Senses: glosses: A kind of mechanical lift (elevator).
hoistaways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoistaway
reverseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reverseless
form: most reverseless
Etymology: From reverse + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having a reverse
examples: text: 1799, Anna Seward, Collection of Original Sonnets, To the Hon. Thomas Erskine
E'en now thy lot shakes in the Urn, whence Fate
Throws her pale edicts in reverseless doom!
text: A wave of quiet grief swept faithful Imogen with its tremulous chill at thought of the reverseless change a moment of time had wrought
ref: 1906, George Banghart Henry Swayze, Yarb and Cretine:
glosses: irreversible
earthbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthbanks
Etymology: From earth + bank.
Senses: glosses: A bank or mound of earth.
earthbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthbank
deceptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛptɪbl̩/
Forms: form: more deceptible
form: most deceptible
Senses: examples: text: The first and father cause of common Error, is the common infirmity of humane nature; of whose deceptible condition, although perhaps there should not need any other eviction, then the frequent errors we shall our selves commit, even in the expresse declarement hereof: Yet shall we illustrate the same from more infallible constitutions […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 1:
text: Bright Truth! I grew aweary of the dull,
Undeviating, dusty road of Science,
Vacant o’ beauty, barren o’ sweetness;
I thought—deceptible, ah! too deceptible—
The true Elysium lay within the mind
Fill’d with amaranthian flow’rs of Fantasie […]
ref: 1822, George Darley, The Errors of Ecstasie, London: G. & W.B. Whittaker, page 39:
glosses: Capable of being deceived.
Related terms: deceptibility
deception
unmasculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmasculates
form: unmasculating
form: unmasculated
form: unmasculated
Etymology: From un- + masculate.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, the sinnes of the South unmasculate Northern bodies
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To emasculate (deprive of power).
unmasculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmasculate
unmasculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmasculate
unmasculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmasculate
myopathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myopathias
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of myopathy.
myopathias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myopathia
boatages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatage
overfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfree
form: most overfree
Etymology: From over- + free.
Senses: glosses: Excessively free (liberal, familiar, or liberated).
Related terms: overfreely
isosporic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + spore + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: isosporic ferns
text: isosporic structure
text: isosporic cyanobacteria
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: isosporous
glosses: Producing only one kind of spore.
Related terms: heterosporic
misconstruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌmɪskənˈstɹʌkt/
Forms: form: misconstructs
form: misconstructing
form: misconstructed
form: misconstructed
Etymology: From mis- + construct.
Senses: synonyms: misbuild#Verb
hypernyms: construct#Verb
build#Verb
;
screw up#Verb
fuck up#Verb
coordinate_terms: deconstruct#Verb
destruct#Verb
reconstruct#Verb
glosses: To construct wrongly.
examples: Near-synonyms: misinterpret, misportray, misapprehend, miscomprehend, misunderstand
synonyms: misconstrue
glosses: To construe or interpret erroneously.
Related terms: destruction
malconstruction
misconstruction
misconstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misconstruct
misconstructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misconstruct
misconstructs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misconstruct
heliotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliotypes
Etymology: From helio- + -type.
Senses: glosses: A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
heliotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heliotypes
form: heliotyping
form: heliotyped
form: heliotyped
Etymology: From helio- + -type.
Senses: glosses: To produce pictures by heliotypy.
heliotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliotype
phlorol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phlorols
Etymology: From phloretin + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenol that is metameric with xylenol, obtained by distillation of certain salts of phloretic acid.
Derived terms: phlorone
phlorols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phlorol
bibliophilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biblio- + -philism.
Senses: synonyms: bibliophilia
glosses: A love of books.
Related terms: bibliophil
bibliophile
countersalient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: counter-salient
Etymology: From counter- + salient.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Leaping in opposite directions (as if past or away from each other); said of two figures on a coat of arms.
bescrawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːl
Forms: form: bescrawls
form: bescrawling
form: bescrawled
form: bescrawled
Etymology: From be- + scrawl.
Senses: examples: text: So far is it from the kenne of theſe wretched projectors of ours that beſcraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church.
ref: 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “That Church-governement is Prescrib’d in the Gospell, and that to Say Otherwise is Unsound”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 4:
glosses: To cover (something) with scrawls; to scribble over.
bescrawled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bescrawl
bescrawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bescrawl
bescrawls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bescrawl
sufficingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sufficing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Any reader who does not recognise the stately "go," and altogether noble sufficingness of that line, may rest assured that thousands of the beauties of poetry will remain for ever undiscovered by him […]
ref: 1855, Leigh Hunt, Stories in Verse, page 28:
glosses: sufficiency
welaway
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of wellaway.
epiderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiderms
Etymology: Compare French épiderme. See epidermis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: The epidermis.
epiderms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epiderm
Heptateuch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The first seven books of the Hebrew Bible.
Related terms: Pentateuch
puerileness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From puerile + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being puerile; puerility.
hydrophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrophore
knoppern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knoppern
form: knoppern
form: knopperns
Etymology: Compare German Knopper. See knop.
Senses: glosses: A kind of gall (blister on a plant) produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, and formerly used in tanning and dyeing.
knopperns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knoppern
hydroguret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogurets
Etymology: hydro- (“hydrogen”) + -uret (“-ide”)
Senses: examples: text: hydroguret of carbon
text: hydroguret of cinnamyle
text: hydroguret of phosphorus
text: hydroguret of potash
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydride.
Derived terms: bihydroguret
hydrogurets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroguret
kainit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kainits
Etymology: An old trade name, from kainite.
Senses: glosses: Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.
kainits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kainit
unplausive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unplausive
form: most unplausive
Etymology: From un- + plausive.
Senses: examples: text: (Ulysses to Agamemnon) Achilles stands i' the entrance of his tent:
Please it our general to pass strangely by him,
As if he were forgot; and, princes all,
Lay negligent and loose regard upon him:
I will come last. 'Tis like he'll question me
Why such unplausive eyes are bent on him […]
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: disapproving
wittified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wittified
form: most wittified
Etymology: From witty + -fy + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Divers of these were made in silver and enamel, but, in embroidery, plenty, which were dispersed to those wittified ladies who were willing to come into the order; and for a while they were formally worn, till the foundress fell under the government of another, and then it was left off.
ref: 1826, Roger North, The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, the Hon. Sir Dudley North, Commissioner of the Customs, and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, page 61:
text: I gaze in an awed way at those upon Broadway, Or Grand Street's assemblage of pearls, Those smartly garbed, natty, vivaciously chatty, Deliciously prettified, Silly or wittified, Patently citified Girls.
ref: 1919, Life - Volume 74, Issue 2, page 1007:
text: Ali Baba had a maid by the name of Margiana, and she was very wittified,—discovered the whole thing, but she didn't say anything.
ref: 1924, Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society, volume 17, page 130:
glosses: Possessed of wit; witty.
inexcusableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inexcusable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The other thing that we infer from the precedent discourse , is the inexcusableness of those persons , who professing religion , yet live below a principle much inferior to religion
ref: a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being inexcusable; inexcusability.
embracive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more embracive
form: most embracive
Etymology: From embrace + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Not less kind in her way, though less expansive and embracive, was Madame de Montcontour to my wife, as I found on comparing notes with that young woman, when the day's hospitalities were ended.
ref: 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Disposed to embrace, or fond of caressing.
concavation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concavations
Etymology: From concave + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of making concave.
synonyms: concavity
glosses: the state of being concave
concavations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concavation
distinguishedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distinguishedly
form: most distinguishedly
Etymology: From distinguished + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This address was presented to the queen a day before that of the lords, and received an answer distinguishedly gracious.
ref: 1758, Jonathan Swift, The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen:
glosses: In a distinguished manner.
kinesipathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kinesi- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: kinesitherapy
Derived terms: kinesipathic
kinesipathist
limonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limonins
Etymology: From a putative combinative form of lemon + -in. (See also Old French lymon (“citrus”), Italian limone (“lemon”), both from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn).) Compare limonoid, limonene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A limonoid found in orange and lemon seeds.
Related terms: limonene
limonoid
limonins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limonin
mortalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mortal + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] therefore, to him, Isabel wholly soared out of the realms of mortalness, and for him became transfigured in the highest heaven of uncorrupted Love.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: The quality of being mortal; mortality.
noonstead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noon + stead.
Senses: examples: text: With all our sister Nymphes, that to the noone-sted looke,
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 1 p. 5:
text: Long on the shore, distrest Marina lay:
For he that ope's the pleasant sweets of May
Beyond the Noon-stead so farre droue his teame,
ref: 1616, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, The Second Booke, the First Song, page 9:
glosses: The position of the sun at midday.