cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
uncodified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + codified.
Senses: synonyms: non-codified
noncodified
antonyms: codified
glosses: Not codified, not part of the code of law, not stated as part of a systematic statement of principles.
Related terms: unwritten
unstated
unofficial
informal
tacit
de facto
uncodified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + codified.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncodify
uncoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of uncolored.
uncoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncolour
unpopulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpopulated
form: most unpopulated
Senses: synonyms: word: deserted
word: peopleless
word: beingless
word: desert
word: deserted
word: desolate
word: disinhabited
word: inhabitantless
word: inhabited
word: lifeless
word: peopleless
word: solitary
word: tenantless
word: unhabited
word: uninhabited
word: unoccupied
word: unpeopled
word: unpopulated
word: untenanted
word: vacant
word: wasteful
glosses: Uninhabited, having no residents.
unpopulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpopulate
unswaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ædəl
Forms: form: unswaddles
form: unswaddling
form: unswaddled
form: unswaddled
Etymology: From un- + swaddle.
Senses: glosses: To remove swaddling, to unwrap.
unifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unify
unendorsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + endorsed.
Senses: glosses: Not endorsed.
unendorsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unendorse
graminivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graminivores
Senses: glosses: An herbivorous animal, a grazer, that feeds primarily on grasses.
Related terms: graminivorous
graminivory
herbivore
carnivore
folivore
frugivore
insectivore
omnivore
nagak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Korean 나각(螺角) (nagak).
Senses: glosses: A seashell horn used in the music of Korea.
holocube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holocubes
form: holo cube
form: holo-cube
Etymology: From holo- + cube.
Senses: examples: text: One wall was a huge holo cube displaying Geneva's table of organization, a spidery orange pyramid with tens of thousands of names connected by lines, from the mayor at the top to the “corridor security” people at the base.
ref: 1976, Joe Haldeman, The Forever War, New York: Ballantine Books, page 113:
text: He snapped a holo-cube into the projector and switched on. I gasped and shrank back in my seat as a great crustacean sprang into being in front of me, blind, chitinous, rust-red, and malevolent.
ref: 1978, Charles Sheffield, “The Deimos Plague”, in Stellar Science Fiction Stories, n 4, New York: Del Rey, p 146
text: And on a little table beside the bed, he found a holocube with a tiny picture of a woman wearing a yellow dress in it. When he moved the ’cube, the woman waved at him and laughed.
ref: 1990, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 79, page 113:
text: Not a cassette, not an infodisk, not a holocube, but an actual book, with a cover and binding and pages.
ref: 1992, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, The Positronic Man, New York: Doubleday, page 25:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A cube-shaped device that shows or stores holographic pictures.
non-canonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + canonical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of noncanonical.
maxes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of max out
maxing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of max out
derring-doery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From derring-do + -ery.
Senses: examples: 1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation, Gnome Press, part II: “Search By the Foundation”, chapter 11: “Stowaway”,
He left Terminus in a sullen distemper. No one was at the port to see him off. […] He, Homir Munn, was risking his neck in derring-doery of the most outrageous sort, and yet he left alone.
glosses: Derring-do.
somewheres
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Somewhere, in some place.
somewheres
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Hmm... Lemme see... That thing's gotta be around here somewheres...
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: The Great Tree:
glosses: Somewhere, in some place.
somewheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somewhere
danso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːnsəʊ/
Forms: form: dansos
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 단소(短簫) (danso).
Senses: glosses: A small notched, end-blown vertical flute made of bamboo or plastic, used in Korean music.
heulandite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heulandites
Etymology: From Heuland + -ite after British mineral collector John Henry Heuland (1778-1856).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A common mineral of the zeolite group with monoclinic crystals, the most usual form being heulandite-Ca (Ca,Na)₂₋₃Al₃(Al,Si)₂Si₁₃O₃₆·12H₂O.
Derived terms: heulanditic
drygulch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌɪɡʌltʃ/
ipa: /ˈdɹaɪ.ɡʌlt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: drygulches
form: drygulching
form: drygulched
form: drygulched
form: dry gulch
form: dry-gulch
Etymology: Because in the American West, outlaws often killed people as they passed through a dry gulch; or because cattle rustlers drove stolen animals off the edge of such a gulch. (ref. John Ayto 1998)
Senses: examples: text: ‘Then one of them got into the car and dry-gulched me.’
ref: 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, page 77:
text: You've delivered yourselves into the hands of capitalists and Christers, and anybody wants to change any of that steps across ’at frontera, they're drygulched on the spot—though I'm sure you'd know how to avoid that, Dwayne.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, pages 722–3:
glosses: To murder; to attack, assault, especially in an ambush.
skeezicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskiːzɪks/
Forms: form: skeezicks
form: skeesicks
form: skeezacks
form: skeezecks
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Because I know he's a sensible young skeesicks.
ref: 1912, P.G. Wodehouse, chapter 7, in The Prince and Betty, Vintage:
text: Yash, this strange-lookin old skeezicks is my brother Reef.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 749:
glosses: A rascal, rogue.
scabland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskæblænd/
Forms: form: scablands
Etymology: From scab + land.
Senses: examples: text: he was determined at least never to have to go back, never to end up again down some gopher-ridden trail through the scabland, howling at the unexplained and unresponsive moon.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 780:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: High, flat land of igneous rock, with thin soil and deep channels formed by glaciers or glacial floods.
dealeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːləθ/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deal
declareth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkleəɹəθ/
Etymology: declare + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of declare
departeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: depart + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depart
destroyest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: destroy + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of destroy
destroyeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: destroy + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destroy
devoureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: devour + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devour
divideth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: divide + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of divide
draweth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: draw + -eth
Senses: examples: text: An oath, in case they were forsworn, draweth a curse on them, a detestable omination towards the priests of God.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of draw
wolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʊlv/
rhymes: -ʊlv
Forms: form: wolves
form: wolving
form: wolved
form: wolved
Etymology: From inflected stem of wolf.
Senses: glosses: To behave like a wolf.
examples: text: he had returned to his schoolboy's script, to distant Evensongs, to the wolving of the ancient chapel organ as the last light is extinguished and the door latched for the long night.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 784:
glosses: Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.
examples: text: He then went to the Crown and Anchor public-house, in the same street, and had two pints of ale, and bread and cheese, the latter of which he “wolved” in a way that “out dando’d Dando.”
ref: 1838 November 16, “Measure for Measure”, in The Morning Chronicle, number 21,530, London, page [3], column 6:
text: Already, some of the labourers were unstraddling the benches to go, having wolved a plate or two, and their piece of pie.
ref: 1924, Elliot Paul, Imperturbe: A Novel of Peace Without Victory, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 39:
text: I’d rather be the wolf than be wolved.
ref: 1941 February 25, “Cut-Throat Enemies Outwitted By ‘Desert Rat’ By Sly Tactics”, in Arizona Republic, 51st year, number 283, Phoenix, Ariz., page two, column 4:
text: Also, when she wolves a sandwich—a peasant greed and sort of pious righteousness, as if “Food is Good For You. The Body Must Survive. I have a Right to this sandwich.”
ref: 1957 July 4, Dawn Powell, edited by Tim Page, The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931–1965, South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 371:
text: That chip by this addition became a feast, and the Fernbank manners, as they wolved into it, were revolting.
ref: 1994, Robin Jenkins, The Thistle and the Grail, Edinburgh: Polygon, published 1997, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: Rare form of wolf (“to devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously”).
Derived terms: wolve down
wolver
appeare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: appeares
form: appearing
form: appeared
form: appeared
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of appear.
heauen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heauens
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of heaven.
eate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eates
form: eating
form: eateing
form: ate
form: eaten
Senses: examples: text: [O]ur men receaued no other recreation from work and sleep, but onlie the time of eateing their meat, whereof they had sufficient, thrice in every twenty-four howers; and besides, some of them had alowed aquauitæ at ech four hower's end.
ref: 1612-1622: Clements R Markham (editor), The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622, published 1880-1881
text: The stronger Beere is divided into two parts ( viz.) mild and stale; the first may ease a man of a drought, but the later is like water cast into a Smiths forge, and breeds more heartburning, and as rust eates into Iron, so overstale Beere gnawes auletholes in the entrales, or else my skill failes, and what I have written of it is to be held as a jest.
ref: 1637, John Taylor, The Famovs Historie of the most part of Drinks, in use now in the Kingdomes of Great Brittaine and Ireland:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of eat.
exalteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: exalt + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular present simple form of exalt
executeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: execute + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of execute
seruante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seruantes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of servant.
cleare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of clear.
soule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soules
Senses: examples: text: His mercy is a panacea, a balſome for an afflicted ſoule, a Soveraigne medicine, an alexipharmacum for all ſinne, a charme for the Divell, his mercy was great to Solomon, to Manaſſes, to Peter, great to all offenders, and whoſoever thou art, it may be ſo to thee.
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Cure of Deſpaire by Phyſick, good counſell, comforts, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 4, member 3, subsection 6, page 707:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of soul.
louely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: louelier
form: more louely
form: loueliest
form: most louely
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of lovely.
ladie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of lady.
readie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more readie
form: most readie
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ready.
celestiall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of celestial.
sorrowe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorrowes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sorrow.
heauenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of heavenly.
fraile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of frail.
stucke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of stuck.
farre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Early Modern spelling of far.
by far
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Paris is by far the largest city in France.
text: These are by far the most impressive narrow-gauge engines in Greece.
ref: 1953 October, A. Trevor Hodge, “On the Narrow Gauge in the Peloponnesus”, in Railway Magazine, page 669:
glosses: To a considerably large extent, easily.
Synonyms: all day
by a long chalk
by a long shot
by a wide margin
by some distance
far and away
by a long way
by far and away
far off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of far-off.
entertaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And Celſo, prethee let it be thy care to night / To haue ſome pretty ſhew, to ſolemnize / Our high inſtalement, ſome muſike maſkerie: / Weele giue faire entertaine vnto Maria […]
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of entertain.
entertaine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of entertain.
streame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streames
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of stream.
recouer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recouers
form: recouering
form: recouered
form: recouered
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of recover.
dissipationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissipationless
form: most dissipationless
Etymology: From dissipation + -less.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That does not involve the dissipation of energy
brest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brests
Senses: examples: text: Thereout a strange beast with seven heads arose, / That townes and castles under her brest did coure.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of breast.
Derived terms: brest-plate
flowre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowres
Senses: examples: text: The shepheardes daughters to gather flowres,
To peinct their girlonds with his colowres
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of flower.
docodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docodonts
Senses: glosses: Any of several extinct mammals of the order Docodonta.
raritie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rarities
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of rarity.
eternall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of eternal.
liue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: liues
form: liuing
form: liued
form: liued
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of live.
liue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of live.
serue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serues
form: seruing
form: serued
form: serued
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of serve.
cherrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cherry.
yeere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeeres
Senses: examples: text: Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “The Contradictions of Stociek philoſophers”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1068:
glosses: Obsolete form of year.
high-hanging fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fruit that, because of its height from the ground, is more difficult to harvest.
examples: text: The smaller research-based centers will tackle the much more difficult to express, high-hanging fruit, in particular, represented by membrane and posttransationally modified proteins.
ref: 2007 Ricardo Cavicchioli - Archaea: Molecular and Cellular Biology - Page 455
antonyms: low-hanging fruit
glosses: Anything that is difficult to achieve, and which is postponed while simpler alternatives are still available.
fancie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fancy.
fancie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fancy.
kisseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: kiss + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kiss
poore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Goes the world now, it will with thee goe hard:
The fattest Hogs we grease the more with Lard.
To him that has, there shall be added more;
Who is penurious, he shall still be poore
ref: "Once Poor, Still Penurious" in "Hesperides" (Robert Herrick, 1648)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of poor.
hydroxyurea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxyureas
Etymology: From hydroxy- + urea.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydroxylated derivative of urea, NH₂CO-NHOH, used as an antineoplastic drug; any N- or O- derivative of this compound
hydroxylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hydroxylate
hydroxylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydroxylated
form: most hydroxylated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: That has been modified by hydroxylation
Derived terms: dihydroxylated
hypohydroxylated
monohydroxylated
nonhydroxylated
perihydroxylated
polyhydroxylated
tetrahydroxylated
trihydroxylated
underhydroxylated
unhydroxylated
soone
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of soon.
hydroxylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxylations
Etymology: From hydroxyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The introduction of a hydroxyl group into a molecule, especially by the replacement of a hydrogen atom
Derived terms: aminohydroxylation
biohydroxylation
dehydroxylation
dihydroxylation
halohydroxylation
monohydroxylation
rehydroxylation
trihydroxylation
underhydroxylation
spotlesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I dreamt the Roses one time went
To meet and sit in Parliament:
The place for these, and for the rest
Of flowers, was thy spotlesse breast.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, The Parliament of Roses to Julia:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of spotless.
maide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maides
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of maid.
lenalidomide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A derivative of thalidomide used to treat some myelomas
magnetospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magnetosphere + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The 'Blandford-Znajek' (BZ) black hole magnetospheric power extraction process was one of the first (1977) analytic attempts to define a general relativistic theory for axisymmetric, stationary, ideal-MHD, BH magnetospheres.
ref: 2002, Chang-Hwan Lee, Hŏn-yŏng Chang (editors), Current High-energy Emission Around Black Holes, page 36:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
Derived terms: magnetospherically
metallicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallicities
Etymology: From metallic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being metallic.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The abundance of elements heavier than helium in stars as a result of nucleosynthesis.
Derived terms: half-metallicity
microcompartment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcompartments
Etymology: From micro- + compartment.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of many small enclosures within most cells having a shell of protein; an organelle
Related terms: microcompartmentalization
faileth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: fail + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fail
fighteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: fight + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fight
filleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: fill + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fill
micromanufacturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + manufacturing.
Senses: glosses: The manufacturing of components or devices on a micro scale, especially by the use of microlithography
forsaketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: forsake + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forsake
hearest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hear'st
Senses: examples: text: And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 24:9:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of hear
against the law
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see against, the, law.
examples: text: It's against the law / It was against the law / Oh, what the mama saw / It was against the law
ref: 1972, Paul Simon, “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”, in Paul Simon:
topics: law
glosses: Illegal; forbidden by law.
microlithography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From micro- + lithography.
Senses: glosses: Any of several techniques for the production of microscale devices; especially the production of semiconductor devices using beams of photons or electrons.
take the lead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌteɪk ðə ˈliːd/
Forms: form: takes the lead
form: taking the lead
form: took the lead
form: taken the lead
Senses: examples: text: At 0-0, United will take the lead if they score the penalty.
text: It was an omen of things to come as in the 56th minute the visitors took the lead after a mix-up between Skrtel and Sotirios Kyrgiakos allowed Ebanks-Blake's through-ball to squeeze between them.
ref: 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:
glosses: To become the leader, to advance into first place.
glosses: To assume leadership over a group.
agnostid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agnostids
Senses: glosses: A trilobite of the order Agnostida.
Related terms: agnostoid
stoge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stoʊɡ/
rhymes: -oʊɡ
Forms: form: stoges
form: stoag
Senses: glosses: A cigarette.
Synonyms: cigarette
fossiliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more fossiliferous
form: most fossiliferous
Etymology: From fossil + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: Having already described him [the whale] in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an archæological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Fossil Whale”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 506:
text: The area contains a great thickness of well exposed fossiliferous, marine strata of uppermost Cretaceous and Eocene age, and it is felt that the most continuous and complete section may be found here.
ref: 1951, Max B Payne, Type Moreno formation and overlying Eocene strata on the West Side of the San Joaquin Valley, Fresno and Merced Counties, California, page 3:
glosses: Containing fossils.
Derived terms: fossiliferously
nonfossiliferous
non-fossiliferous
unfossiliferous
revolutionise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revolutionises
form: revolutionising
form: revolutionised
form: revolutionised
form: revolutionize
Etymology: From revolution + -ise.
Senses: glosses: To change radically or significantly, as in a revolution.
saliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more saliferous
form: most saliferous
Senses: glosses: Yielding or containing salt; saliniferous
iudgement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iudgements
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of judgement.
telleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 101:7:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tell
showeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sheweth
Etymology: show + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of show
mynde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myndes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of mind.
musick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musicks
Senses: examples: text: Harry whose tuneful and well measur’d Song / First taught our English Musick how to span
ref: 1673, John Milton, Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song:
text: Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſes, and other Geometrical Terms, or by Words of Art drawn from Muſick, needleſs here to repeat.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Humours and Dispositions of the Laputians Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 26:
text: 1798, Joanna Baillie, Count Basil, Act 1, Scene 2.
Enter Count Basil, Officers and Soldiers in Procession, with Colours flying, and martial musick. When they have marched half way over the Stage, an Officer of the Dukes enters from the opposite side, and speaks to Count Basil, upon which he gives a sign with his hand, and the martial musick ceases; soft musick is heard at a little distance, and Victoria, with a long procession of Ladies, enters from the opposite side.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of music.
twentie
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of twenty.
authoritie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: authorities
Senses: examples: text: This Lyſander was of great authoritie and eſtimation amongeſt them in the citie: Mandroclidas was also very wiſe, and carefull, about any matter of counsell, and with his wiſedom and policy, very valiant:[…]
ref: 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of authority.
haire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haires
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hair.
bodie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of body.
confesse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: confesses
form: confessing
form: confessed
form: confessed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of confess.
weake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of weak.
subiect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subiects
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of subject.
subiect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of subject.
needeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of need
crowne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crownes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of crown.
doore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doores
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of door.
lacke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of lack.
lacke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lackes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of lack.
enemie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enemies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of enemy.
beautie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauties
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of beauty.
behinde
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of behind.
minde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of mind.
minde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mindes
form: minding
form: minded
form: minded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of mind.
have in mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has in mind
form: having in mind
form: had in mind
form: had in mind
form: have got in mind
Senses: examples: text: That's not what I had in mind, but I'll take it.
text: I had in mind going shopping this afternoon.
text: I had in mind to go shopping.
text: I had your birthday in mind when I went shopping.
text: I had in mind your birthday when I went shopping.
text: I had it in mind to buy you a present.
text: I had in mind buying you a present when I went to the store.
glosses: To consider, to contemplate, to intend.
Related terms: bear in mind
keep in mind
put someone in mind of
auca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aucas
Senses: glosses: A traditional form of art from Catalonia, consisting of a comic-like series of images with text captions, often rhyming couplets.
calamar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calamars
Senses: glosses: A squid.
nuller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nullers
Etymology: From null + -er.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An optical device that uses destructive interference to cancel out a strong light source, such as a star.
microstructured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + structured.
Senses: glosses: Having a microstructure; a structure designed on the micro scale
nanocoating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocoatings
Etymology: From nano- + coating.
Senses: glosses: A coating of nanoscale thickness.
nanoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanorings
Etymology: From nano- + ring.
Senses: glosses: A ring of crystalline material having a diameter measured on the nanoscale.
nanostructured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nanostructured
form: most nanostructured
Etymology: From nano- + structured.
Senses: glosses: Having a nanostructure; a structure designed on the nano scale.
nanosystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanosystems
Etymology: From nano- + system.
Senses: glosses: Any physical system that is engineered at the nano scale
Derived terms: bionanosystem
wc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: proofreading
glosses: Initialism of word choice.
wc
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of which.
pomalidomide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpəʊməˈlɪdəmaɪd/
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A derivative of thalidomide used to treat some myelomas
salinosporamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salinosporamides
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A highly cytotoxic proteasome inhibitor obtained from a marine bacterium
vanadia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: vanadium pentoxide (V₂O₅)
harmonograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmonographs
Etymology: From harmony + -o- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A mechanical device that uses a combination of pendulums to generate an image based on Lissajous curves.
chauve-souris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chauve-sourises
Etymology: From French due to the shape of the blades (see the Wikipedia article)
Senses: glosses: an ornately bladed corseque (three-bladed polearm), with the lateral blades often shaped like bat-wings
Landstuhl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Landstuhl.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Würzburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An independent city, the administrative seat of the Lower Franconia region, Bavaria, Germany.
glosses: A rural district of the Lower Franconia region, Bavaria, surrounding but not including the town of Würzburg, which nevertheless serves as its administrative seat.
Franconia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹæŋˈkəʊ̯.nɪ.ə/
ipa: /fɹæŋˈkoʊ̯.ni.ə/
ipa: /fɹæŋˈkoʊ̯.njə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Franconia, from Francō (“Frank”), from Frankish *Frankō (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô.
Senses: examples: text: Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany: the firſt, towards the ſouth, comprehending the Palatinate of the Rhine, Franconia, Suabia, Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Auſtria, Carinthia, Carniola, Stiria, Tyrol, the Swiſs, and the Griſons...
ref: 1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2:
glosses: A cultural region and former duchy in Germany, comprising the northern area of modern Bavaria and lands to its immediate west.
Derived terms: Franconian
Franconia Notch
Lower Franconia
Middle Franconia
Upper Franconia
Franken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frankens
Etymology: * Dutch Franken
* German Franken
* Yiddish [Term?] (Franken)
Senses: glosses: A surname
A patronymic surname from Dutch, equivalent to English Franks or Frankson, for a descendant of a person named Frank
glosses: A surname
A surname from German
A patronymic surname from German, equivalent to English Franks or Frankson, for a descendant of a person named Frank
glosses: A surname
A surname from German
A topographic surname from German, for someone from Franconia
glosses: A surname
A surname from German
An occupational surname from German, for a freeman
glosses: A surname
A topographic Jewish surname from Yiddish, for Franconian Jews
truthward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more truthward
form: most truthward
Etymology: From truth + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Leaning or leading toward truth
truthward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more truthward
form: most truthward
Etymology: From truth + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: It is a strange thing that human beings will take the chances of cutting themselves off from this mighty current which runs truthward, justiceward, and Godward, and try to make a substitute of their own puny strength.
ref: 1916, Orison Swett Marden, The Victorious Attitude:
glosses: Toward truth
carpetward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more carpetward
form: most carpetward
Etymology: From carpet + -ward.
Senses: examples: to gaze, or fall, carpetward
glosses: Toward the (carpeted) ground.
baryogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baryo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: The generation of baryonic matter in the early moments of the Big Bang.
fireward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firewards
Etymology: From fire + ward.
Senses: glosses: A fire chief.
glosses: A fireman.
fireward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fireward
form: most fireward
Etymology: From fire + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Which faces a fire; which lies in the direction of a fire; etc.
fireward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fire + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a fire.
fire chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire chiefs
form: firechief
Senses: glosses: A leader of a fire station; an officer in charge of firemen and fighting fires.
Synonyms: word: fire marshal
word: fireward
Related terms: fire inspector
library assistant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: library assistants
Senses: glosses: A high-ranking library clerk, second only to a librarian.
pondward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pondward
form: most pondward
Etymology: From pond + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Nearest a pond; facing a pond; leading toward a pond, etc.
pondward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pondward
form: most pondward
Etymology: From pond + -ward.
Senses: glosses: toward a pond
jailward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: gaolward
Etymology: From jail + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: So they pursued their journey jailward along the old road through the woods.
ref: 2013, Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard:
glosses: Toward jail.
supposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supposers
Etymology: From suppose + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is evident, however, that such suppositions can do no more than illustrate the peculiar opinions of the supposer, and cannot prove that which, in the nature of things, they pre-suppose.
ref: 1834, Sir James Mackintosh, History of the revolution in England in 1688:
glosses: One who supposes.
untill
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of until.
little-go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪtəlɡəʊ/
Forms: form: little-gos
form: little-goes
Etymology: From little + go.
Senses: glosses: A private lottery, especially when illegal.
examples: text: "Oh," said Mr. Charles Larkyns, "they give you no end of trouble at these places; and they require the vaccination certificate before you go in for your responsions, - the Little-go, you know. You need not mention my name in your letter as having told you this. It will be quite enough to say that you understand such a thing is required."
ref: 1853, Edward Bradley, chapter 7, in The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green:
text: At school they never flogg'd him, / At college, though not fast, / Yet his little-go and great-go / He creditably pass'd, / And made his year's allowance / For eighteen months to last.
ref: 1856, William Makepeace Thackeray, The King of Brentford's Testament:
text: Let's see, this is only his third term? I'll give him, perhaps, two more to make the place too hot to hold him. Take my word for it, he'll never get to his little-go.
ref: 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1883, page 128:
text: […] the interrogators were able to recognize this as, “There was a question just like that on my little-go.”
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 801:
glosses: Alternative form of little go (“university exam”).
rabbit hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbit holes
form: rabbit-hole
form: rabbithole
Etymology: From rabbit + hole. Extended senses reference Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where Alice travels down a rabbit hole into a bizarre world.
Senses: glosses: A bizarre world, where everyday rules do not apply.
raw_tags: with an article
examples: text: These mushrooms will take you down the rabbit hole, man.
text: You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
ref: 1999, The Wachowskis, 0:29:05 from the start, in The Matrix, spoken by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne):
text: Tumbling down the rabbit hole, she encountered a whole new level of existence where the laws of physics were turned upside down, shaken inside out and taken to the cleaners.
ref: 2012, Linda Hoy, The Effect, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page vii:
synonyms: looking-glass
glosses: A way into such a world.
raw_tags: with an article
examples: text: Near-synonym: rabbit trail (regiolectic)
text: I'm also a fan of a really obscure book series, but that's a rabbit hole that we won't get into.
text: While writing my paper, my research went down several rabbit holes that were only marginally related and wasted a lot of my time.
text: My point is not to go down the rabbit hole of deconstructing the term documentary, […]
ref: 2017, Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi, Mandy Rose, I-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary, →ISBN:
text: I felt pretty strongly that non-food supplements would be a complicated, expensive rabbit hole that rarely cure children fully of anxiety / autism / etc. (especially in the absence of enough nourishing food).
ref: 2018, GAPS Stories, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN:
synonyms: wild-goose chase
glosses: A time-consuming tangent or detour, often one from which it is difficult to extricate oneself.
topics: games
gaming
synonyms: trailhead
glosses: The initial clue that leads to an alternate reality game.
examples: text: The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.
ref: 1866, Lewis Carroll, chapter 1, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
text: As the limber gunners went to the rear, his horse trod in a rabbit-hole and came down, throwing him into a depression of the ground.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 83:
text: There are two platforms (that on the down side is a island) but they are weed-grown, with many rabbit-holes, and there is no cover of any kind.
ref: 1953 June, B. D. J. Walsh, “Branch Lines to Thetford”, in Railway Magazine, page 378:
hypernyms: latibulum[Appendix:Glossary#obsolete|obsolete]]>
cuniculus
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rabbit, hole. The entrance to a rabbit warren or burrow; the whole warren or burrow.
Related terms: wormhole
merchandize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchandizes
Senses: examples: text: So, if a Sonne that is by his Father ſent about Merchandize, doe ſinfully miſcarry vpon the Sea; the imputation of his vvickedneſſe, by your rule, ſhould be impoſed vpon his Father that ſent him: […]
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 84, column 2:
text: [T]he Bay of Galway [is] so well seated for Merchandize, that it has been lookd on as the greatest Place of Trade in all Ireland; insomuch that a forane Merchant meeting an Irishman, asked him in what Part of Galway Ireland stood?
ref: 1745, Guy Miege, The Present State of Great Britain, and Ireland, page 443:
text: They have their stored booths in every bazaar, occupy all the principal caravanseries with their merchandize, and entirely control the business of bankerage and monopolies.
ref: 1854, Henry A. Stern, Dawnings of Light in the East, page 46:
text: The first Act of Parliament (1821) had set out a wide range of things the railway could carry, and in the subsequent 1823 Act this was summarised as "Goods, Merchandize, and other Articles and Things upon and along the same Roads, and for the Conveyance of Passengers..."
ref: 2025 August 20, Caroline Hardie, “The railway that changed the world”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 60:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of merchandise.
merchandize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: merchandizes
form: merchandizing
form: merchandized
form: merchandized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of merchandise; to engage in selling of merchandise.
rabbit warren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbit warrens
Etymology: From rabbit + warren (“nest or burrow”).
Senses: examples: Meronym: rabbit hole (precisely meronymous)
synonyms: rabbit hole[Appendix:Glossary#broad|broadly]] synonymous>
hypernyms: latibulum[Appendix:Glossary#obsolete|obsolete]]>
cuniculus
glosses: An underground system of interconnected tunnels occupied by rabbits.
examples: text: "Everybody knows the publicly visible areas. But in the basement, which is a rabbit warren of ageing kit, we need to do something serious. [...]."
ref: 2020 November 18, Mike Brown tells Paul Stephen, “I wasn't going to let the Mayor down”, in Rail, page 45:
glosses: A confusingly labyrinthine environment.
haemato-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /hiːmətəʊ/
Forms: form: hæmat-
form: haemat-
form: hæmato-
form: hemat-
form: hemato-
Etymology: Representing the combining form of Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).
Senses: examples: text: Back in the late ’90s, when vampirism became fashionable owing to the international popularity of the novel Dracula … A subcircuit of the Buda-Pesth telephone exchange had apparently been reserved for the use of hæmatophages, as they were then known
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 801: [compare -phage]
glosses: blood
Synonyms: haem-
hæm-
haemo-
hæmo-
hem-
hemo-