cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
double vertical line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double vertical lines
Senses: examples: text: The whole tone unit stands between a double vertical line (double bars) ||.
ref: 1998, Burkhard Dretzke, Modern British and American English Prononunciation: A Basic Textbook, page 89:
glosses: The typographical character ‖; a symbol composed of two closely spaced line-height vertical lines.
examples: text: The ǁGana people (800 speakers—the double vertical line denotes a click sound) of Botswana have no generic word for living things, nor do they recognize a plant versus animal distinction.
ref: 2007, K. David Harrison, When Languages Die:The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge, page 39:
text: In addition, Leibniz drew a double vertical line from line 36 to 37 (from “solidum est” to “Mechanice”[)].
ref: 2008, Ursula Goldenbaum, Douglas Jesseph, Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and his Contemporaries, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, vertical, line.
aphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or exhibiting aphonia; unable to speak.
aphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphonics
Senses: glosses: A person who has aphonia.
fangirled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fangirl
fangirling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fangirl
speedings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speeding
slowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slowing
pliancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pliancy
insucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insuckings
Etymology: From in + sucking.
Senses: examples: text: Yoritomo met their smiles and kowtowings and noisy insuckings of breath with an austere dignity that I took pains to imitate.
ref: 1910, Robert Ames Bennet, The Shogun's Daughter:
text: Her initial response to this was a retropulsion or insucking of the tongue, so severe that speech was impossible, and she was in continual danger of swallowing her tongue.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: A sucking inward.
upturnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upturning
synkinesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synkinesia
thalamotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalamotomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An invasive procedure, primarily effective for tremors such as those associated with Parkinson's disease, where a selected portion of the thalamus is surgically destroyed.
Derived terms: microthalamotomy
subthalamotomy
thalamotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thalamotomy
mannerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mannerizes
form: mannerizing
form: mannerized
form: mannerized
Etymology: From manner + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To perform or produce according to a certain manner or style.
examples: text: She experiences violent drives, but she herself is 'above' them. Her affects are never neuroticized, as her tics are never mannerized.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To adopt (a behaviour) as a mannerism; to convert into a mannerism.
mannerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mannerize
mannerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mannerize
mannerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mannerize
proparoxytonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + paroxytonic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to words whose stress falls on the antepenultimate (third to last) syllable
Synonyms: proparoxytonous
Related terms: oxytonic
paroxytonic
proparoxytone
piss in the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses in the wind
form: pissing in the wind
form: pissed in the wind
form: pissed in the wind
form: spit into the wind
form: spit in the wind
form: piss into the wind
Senses: examples: text: You can make a complaint if you like, but you'll just be pissing in the wind.
glosses: To waste time on a pointless or fruitless task; do something that is ineffective or counterproductive.
Synonyms: fart in a windstorm
piss up a rope
whistle in the wind
ungeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + geographic.
Senses: glosses: Not geographic.
Synonyms: ungeographical
skim milks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skim milk
binocle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binocles
Etymology: From French binocle, from Latin bi- (“two”) + oculus (“eye”).
Senses: examples: text: Anna did not look at her husband; but, taking her glass, she gazed at the place where Vronsky had fallen. It was so distant, and the crowd was so dense, that she could not make anything out of it. She dropped her binocle, and started to go; but at that instant an officer came galloping up to make some report to the emperor. Anna leaned forward, and listened.
ref: 1899, Lyof Tolstoi, “Part Two/Chapter 29”, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., Anna Karenina:
glosses: A kind of double-barrelled field glass or opera glass.
binocles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binocle
Plutophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Plutophiles
Etymology: From Pluto + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who is fond of the planet Pluto.
chrysochlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysochlores
Etymology: From chryso- + Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”). compare French chrysochlore.
Senses: glosses: The golden mole.
Related terms: chloro-
chrysochlores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrysochlore
blackmoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackmoors
Senses: examples: text: […] to unspot the Leopard, and whiten the Blackmoor […]
ref: 1709, Rev. Michael Pope (the Elder), Life and Death considered (page 83)
glosses: Alternative form of blackamoor.
blackmoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackmoor
renable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛnəbəl/
Forms: form: more renable
form: most renable
Etymology: From Old French resnable. Doublet of reasonable.
Senses: glosses: Reasonable.
examples: c. 1370–90, William Langland, Piers Plowman
most renable of tonge
glosses: Loquacious; talkative.
Related terms: renably
flotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flotages
form: floatage
Etymology: From Old French flotage (modern French flottage).
Senses: glosses: The state of floating.
glosses: Something which floats on the sea or in rivers; flotsam.
glosses: The floating capacity of a thing, especially a vessel.
inust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin inurere, inustus (“to burn in”), from in- (“in”) + urere (“to burn”).
Senses: glosses: burnt in
misaffection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misaffections
Etymology: From mis- + affection.
Senses: examples: text: It is not only ignorance that is to be removed, but misaffection.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected.
misaffections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misaffection
morglay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɔː(ɹ)ɡleɪ/
Forms: form: morglays
Etymology: Compare claymore.
Senses: examples: text: carrying Their morglays in their hands
ref: 1612–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A sword.
morglays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morglay
coctile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒktɪl/
ipa: /ˈkɒktaɪl/
Etymology: Borrowed from the Latin coctilis (“burned, built of burned bricks”), from coquō (“I cook, I roast or dry”).
Senses: examples: text: Coctive…Made by baking or exposing to heat, as a brick; coctile.
ref: 1885, Samuel Fallows, The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language, Coctive, page 130/3:
glosses: Made by baking, or exposure to heat.
examples: text: Theſe Corals…are made of a ſort of pale red Coctile Earth or Stone.
ref: 1705, translator unknown, A New and Accurate Deſcription of the Coaſt of Guinea, translation of original by Willem Bosman, letter XXI, page 437:
text: The excavations continued, and soon a most singularly shaped coctile vessel, or terra cotta urn…was brought to light.
ref: 1851, “The Age of Honesty”, in The Dublin Review, volume XXXI, number lxii, article VIII, page 599:
text: Now, these tiles are of the coctile kind, or which have been baked red like bricks or common red “roofing tiles.”
ref: 1874, J.D. Beglar, A.C.L. Carlleyle, Delhi, page 189:
text: An oval platform of stone…stands out inside a perimeter frame of beige coctile brick with a fishbone formation.
ref: 1995, Paolo Favole, Squares in Contemporary Architecture, page 71:
glosses: Made by baking, or exposure to heat.
of earthenware
examples: text: Was ever coctile product more appetizing to hungry mortals! The good Dr. Talmage…acknowledges a heavy debt to good bread as a stimulant to an overdrained brain.
ref: 1887, “Wallace’s Monthly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume XIII, page 365:
glosses: Made by baking, or exposure to heat.
of bread
examples: text: From the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice.
ref: 1842, “Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume IX, page 682:
text: Beyond this region spread dead levels, which…resembled the sea. From the city’s lofty walls stretched on all sides…flatness and luxuriance. What, then, could taste divine and power accomplish…to transport thither a primeval forest, and to pile up coctile mountains to place it on. Such was the design of the Hanging Gardens.
ref: 1850, David Urquhart, chapter 2, in The Pillars of Hercules, volume II, book iv, page 145:
text: The “coctile” texture of the wall is visible where there are lacks of plaster and elements of stone appear too.
ref: 1996, Douglas D. Burleigh and Jane W.M. Spicer, Proceedings of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers MMDCCLXVI: Thermosense XVIII, page 58
glosses: Built of baked bricks.
Related terms: coct
coctible
coctillation
coction
coctive
cocture
concoct
coque
coquicide
coquinate
coquination
decoction
Pyrrhonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pyrrhonists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πύρρων (Púrrhōn, “Pyrrho”) + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Pyrrho or Pyrrhonism; a philosophical skeptic.
Related terms: Pyrrhonism
Pyrrhonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pyrrhonist
portfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portfires
Senses: glosses: A fuse for cannons or other artillery, consisting of strong paper filled with a nitre, sulphur, and mealed powder, used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.
portfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portfire
blanch holding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanch holdings
Senses: examples: text: And be it enacted, That all Tenures of any Lands or Heretages in Scotland, that are now held or liable or be held of his Majesty by Ward Holding, whether simple or taxed Ward, are hereby enacted to be turned into Blanch Holding […]
ref: 1876, Hugh Cowan, The Land Rights of Scotland: Being a Collection of the Entail, Conveyancing, and Other Statutes Relating to Land:
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.
blanch holdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blanch holding
dissentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissentations
Senses: examples: text: their strifes, dissentations, and all civill warres
ref: 1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals:
glosses: dissension; disagreement
dissentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissentation
intensate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛnseɪt/
Forms: form: intensates
form: intensating
form: intensated
form: intensated
Etymology: From intense + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: Again, as if to intensate the influences that are not of race, what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.
ref: 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits:
glosses: To intensify.
intensated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intensate
intensates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intensate
intensating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intensate
cholecystotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cholecystotomy
cholecystotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholecystotomies
Etymology: From cholecystis + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of cholecystostomy.
synonyms: word: cholecystostomy
presidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English presydence, from Middle French presidence and Medieval Latin prēsidentia.
Senses: examples: text: THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s.
[...] The autocratic presidence at Crewe of Webb is kindly and gently observed and the author also throws a more tolerant light upon several other features, including the "Claughtons".
ref: 1960 October, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 640:
glosses: Obsolete form of presidency.
moya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moyas
Etymology: Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.
Senses: examples: text: These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden.
ref: 1832, Samuel Hibbert, History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine, page 40:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption.
Synonyms: mud lava
volcanic mud
tufaceous mud
scalder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalders
Etymology: From scald + -er.
Senses: glosses: A heated tub for softening the skin of slaughtered pigs, poultry, etc.
scalder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalders
Senses: glosses: An ancient Nordic poet; a skald.
scalders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalder
subjunction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See subjunctive.
Senses: examples: text: In this case the degree of diffuseness of the interface of the M-InP junction and violation of stoichiometry of the InP subjunction region is diminished in the series Ag, Au, Cu, Ni, Al and is in direct correspondence with structural perfection of the starting surface of InP, the heat of interaction at the interface and the heat of the oxide formation by the contacting metal.
ref: 1987, Poverkhnost, page 74:
text: The original USAF Tower structure was an open air stairway design with an enclosed equipment maintenance area at the junction level below the cab and a small general purpose area at the subjunction level.
ref: 1992, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations, Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1993, page 309:
text: The junction is guaranteed by the presence of a quasiperiodic subjunction dislocation structure with an average distance between defects of 2.5 nm.
ref: 2012, Kh.S. Bagdasarov, E.L. Lube, Growth of Crystals: Volume 16, page 239:
glosses: Below a junction
Related terms: subjunctive
subjunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subjunction
bitter spar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because it contains magnesia, which has bitter soluble salts.
Senses: glosses: dolomite
marketlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marketlike
form: most marketlike
Etymology: From market + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a market.
copiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copyability
Etymology: From copy + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: But, for business purposes, the process was impracticable on account of its non-copiability, while its manipulation was complicated and unsanitary, and the low sensitiveness of the plates required long exposure time.
ref: 1913, “The Development of Portrait-Photography.”, in Bulletin of Photography, volume 13, page 521:
text: Then you can tell what your signals sound like to the operator who must copy them. Speed needs to be held in check. "Copiability" is what we want. Repeats waste valuable time.
ref: 1927, Francis Edward Handy, The Radio Amateur's Handbook, page 9:
text: The copiability of a particular structure into another code is determined in part by the prestige of the model code and in part by 'attractive' structural properties" (Johanson 1999:60).
ref: 2003, Carina Jahani, The Baloch and their neighbours:
glosses: The quality of being copiable; ability to be copied.
semiweak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + weak.
Senses: examples: text: There are 2⁵⁶ (7.21 × 10¹⁶, about 72 quadrillion) possible keys for DES, of which four are weak and twelve are semiweak.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Data Encryption Standard
glosses: Producing only two different subkeys.
examples: semiweak verbs
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having only some of the characteristics of a weak verb.
vivency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin vivens, present participle of vivere (“to live”).
Senses: examples: text: although not in a distinct and indisputable way of vivency, or answering in all points the properties or affections of plants
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: liveliness, vitality, or manner of living.
diureide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diureides
Etymology: From di- + ureide.
Senses: examples: text: Uric acid and allantoin are diureides.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals.
diureides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diureide
lintonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lintonites
Etymology: From Linton + -ite, after Laura Linton, chemistry student who analysed the mineral in the late 19th century.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare zeolite mineral.
lintonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lintonite
lapidist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapidists
Etymology: From Latin lapis, lapidis (“a stone”).
Senses: examples: text: the factitious Stones of Chymists in invitation being easily detected by any ordinary Lapidist
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A lapidary (“person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones; expert in gems and precious stones”).
lapidists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lapidist
subterranities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subterranity
subterranity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subterranities
Etymology: Apparently from subterrany + -ity. Compare subterraneity.
Senses: examples: text: […] as we may conceive in ſtones and gems, as Diamonds, Beryls, Saphires and the like, whoſe generation we cannot with ſatisfaction confine unto the remote activity of the Sun, or the common operation of coldneſſe in the earth, but may more ſafely referre it unto a lapidificall ſuccity, and congelitive principle which determines prepared materials unto ſpecificall concretions. And therefore I feare we commonly conſider ſubterranities not in contemplations ſufficiently reſpective unto the creation.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of Crystall”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, pages 54–55:
synonyms: subterrany
glosses: An underground place
drogher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droghers
form: droger
form: drogger
Etymology: From Middle French drogueur (“ship for catching and drying fish”), from Dutch drogher, droogher, from droogen (“to dry”).
Senses: examples: text: He had besides many vessels and droggers, of different sizes, which used to go about the island; and others to collect rum, sugar, and other goods.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 5, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
glosses: A West Indian coasting vessel, with long masts and lateen sails.
examples: a lumber drogher
glosses: Any small, slow craft, especially for transporting goods to or from shore.
Related terms: drog
droghers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drogher
purpre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French pourpre (“purple”).
Senses: glosses: purple
purpre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purpre
form: most purpre
Etymology: Compare French pourpre (“purple”).
Senses: glosses: purple
dition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ditiō, diciō. Compare French dition.
Senses: examples: text: [B]y those many kings mentioned in the Old Testament, "thirty and one" in the little land of Canaan, (Joshua xii. 24,) is meant only toparchs, not great kings, but lords of a little dition and dominion; […]
ref: 1640, Thomas Fuller, “A Comment on 1 Cor. XI. 18, &c.”, in Ioseph’s Partie-coloured Coat: Containing, a Comment on Part of the II. Chapter of the I. Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians. […], London: […] Iohn Dawson, for Iohn Williams, […], →OCLC, page 16:
text: Henry the Eight add[ed] the portcluse to his current money, as a character of his peculiar title to this dition
ref: 1674, John Evelyn, Navigation and Commerce:
glosses: Dominion; rule or power.
metapectic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + pectic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A supposed acid obtained from pectin.
extimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extimulates
form: extimulating
form: extimulated
form: extimulated
Etymology: From Latin extimulatus, exstimulatus, past participle of extimulare, exstimulare (“to goad”). See stimulate.
Senses: examples: text: Opium itſelf is conceived to extimulate unto venery, and for that intent is ſometimes uſed by Turks, Perſians, and most oriental Nations
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To stimulate.
extimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of extimulate
extimulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of extimulate
extimulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of extimulate
stimulateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stimulate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stimulate
tritovum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritova
Etymology: From trit- + Latin ovum (“egg”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An embryonic insect which has twice cast its skin before hatching from the egg, such as some mites of Myobia
Related terms: deutovum
conscienced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conscience + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: what he hath done famously he did it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be content to say it was for his country
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Having a conscience (of a particular kind).
blench holding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blench holdings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blanch holding.
blench holdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blench holding
exterplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exterplex
monesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monesia + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acrid principle of monesia, sometimes used as a medicine.
impacable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impacable
form: most impacable
Etymology: From Latin im- (“not”) + pacare (“to quiet”). See pacate.
Senses: examples: text: But those two other, which beside them stoode,
Were Britomart and gentle Scudamour;
Who all the while beheld their wrathfull moode,
And wondred at their impacable stoure,
Whose like they never saw till that same houre
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
synonyms: unpacable
glosses: implacable (unable to be appeased)
Related terms: impacability
impacably
noematachograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noematachographs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νόημα (nóēma, “the understanding”) + tacho- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A precise timing instrument, used to measure the duration of various cognitive tasks.
balize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balizes
Etymology: From French balise; compare Spanish balisa.
Senses: glosses: A pole or frame raised as a sea beacon or landmark.
balizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balize
twin-engined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twin-engine.
biscornu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biscornus
Etymology: Borrowed from French biscornu.
Senses: glosses: A kind of ornamental pincushion, usually made out of Aida cloth or linen, and decorated with embroidery.
gittith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gittiths
Etymology: A transliteration of Biblical Hebrew גתית.
Senses: examples: text: To the chief Musician upon Git'tith, A Psalm of David.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 8::
glosses: A musical term of uncertain meaning (possibly the name of an instrument), found in the Bible.
gittiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gittith
peptogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pepto- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Capable of yielding, or being converted into, peptone.
Related terms: peptogen
splenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splenoid
form: most splenoid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: splenoid cells
text: splenoid metaplasia
text: splenoid tissue
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, related to, or resembling the spleen.
spleenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spleenlike
form: most spleenlike
Etymology: From spleen + -like.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling the spleen; splenoid.
overwrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overwrests
form: overwresting
form: overwrested
form: overwrested
Etymology: From over- + wrest.
Senses: examples: text: Such ... o'erwrested seeming
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 I, scene iii]:
glosses: To wrest or force from the natural or proper position.
overwrested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overwrest
coafforest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coafforests
form: coafforesting
form: coafforested
form: coafforested
Etymology: From co- + afforest.
Senses: examples: text: Henry Fitz-Empresse (viz. , the Second) did coafforest much Land
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To the Earl of Lindsey”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To convert into, or add to, a forest.
coafforested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coafforest
cataclysmist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cataclysmists
Etymology: From cataclysm + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who believes that the most important geological phenomena were produced by cataclysms.
Related terms: cataclysmism
cataclysmists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cataclysmist
aluminiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aluminiform
form: most aluminiform
Etymology: From alumina + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of alumina.
borsholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borsholders
Etymology: From Old English borsolder, probably from borges (“pledge's”) + ealdor (“elder”). Compare borrow and elder.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of tithingman: the head of a tithing.
synonyms: word: tithingman
extra: the head of a tithing
topics: law
glosses: Synonym of tithingman: a peace officer or underconstable.
synonyms: word: tithingman
extra: a peace officer or underconstable
borsholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borsholder
dusken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: duskens
form: duskening
form: duskened
form: duskened
Etymology: From dusk + -en.
Senses: examples: text: It was last seen and heard of by some macgillic-cuddies above a lonely valley of their reeks, duskening the greylight as it flew, its cry echechohoing among the anfractuosities: pour la dernière fois,' The blackbulled ones, stampeding, drew in their horns, all appailed and much upset, which explaints the guttermilk on their overcoats.
ref: 1932, James Joyce, “From a Banned Writer to a Banned Singer”, in The Complete Works of James Joyce, published 2016:
text: Twilight began to dusken the quiet of the house.
ref: 1906, George Banghart Henry Swayze, Yarb and Cretine, page 123:
text: The sayd epigrame was not utterly defaced, but only duskened or rased.
ref: 1550, Thucydides, translated by Thomas Nichols, The hystory writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan of the warre, translation of History of the Peloponnesian War (in Ancient Greek):
glosses: To make dusky or obscure.
examples: text: Noble you must be: noble too am I / If true the tale that Danewulf loves to tell / When twilight duskens round the crackling logs
ref: 1801, Henry James Pye, Alfred:
text: He vanished so quickly that she looked down the duskening street in vain to see a stalwart officer, whom she had fully intended to accompany on his way to get a little better acquainted with him.
ref: 1945, Grace Livingston Hill, All Through the Night:
text: When in a meadow, or, as now, in a quiet, already duskening wood, he would involuntarily begin to wonder if, through this silence, he might perhaps hear the entire, enormous world traversing space with a melodious whistle, the bustle of distant cities, the pounding of sea waves, the singing of telegraph wires above the deserts.
ref: 1995 [1924], Dmitri Nabokov, “La Veneziana”, in The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, translation of original by Vladimir Nabokov:
glosses: To grow or become dusky.
duskened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dusken
duskening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dusken
duskens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dusken
biscornus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biscornu
intermell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intermells
form: intermelling
form: intermelled
form: intermelled
Etymology: From Old French entremeller.
Senses: examples: text: The lyfe of this wretched world whiche is alway entermelled with moche bitternes.
ref: 1509, John Fisher, The Funeral Sermon of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby:
text: When Fame, / Ubiquitous, to Dejaneira came— / Fame, who her facts with fictions intermells, / And falsifies the very truths she tells, / And whispered her—"Amphitryonides / Loved Iöle."
ref: 1866, J. B. Rose, The Metamorphoses of Ovid. [Translated in Verse.]:
glosses: To mix together, intermeddle, intermix.
examples: text: As for the reſt, to ſnort in belly cheere, / To bite, to gnaw, and boldly intermell / With ſacred things, in which thou doſt excell, / Vnforc'd he'le doe.
ref: 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie:
glosses: To concern oneself with; to interfere.
intermelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intermell
intermelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intermell
intermells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intermell
assecure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: assecures
form: assecuring
form: assecured
form: assecured
Etymology: Latin assecurare. Doublet of assure.
Senses: examples: text: assecure the right they have given
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To make safe or sure; to assure.
assecured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assecure
assecures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assecure
assecuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assecure
landamman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landammans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Landammann.
landammans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landamman
disinherison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disinherisons
Etymology: See disinherit, and compare disherison.
Senses: examples: text: On the other side, if he stood upon his own title of the house of Lancaster, inherent in his person, he knew it was a title condemned by parliament, and generally prejudged in the common opinion of the realm, and that it tended directly to the disinherison of the line of York, held then the indubitate heirs of the crown.
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
text: One went so far as to propose herself to him as An Uncorrupted Eve: and there is no knowing what a disinherison of Posterity may have sprung from his persistent evasion of their pointed flatteries.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 1, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
glosses: disherison
disinherisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disinherison
effund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈfʌnd/
Forms: form: effunds
form: effunding
form: effunded
form: effunded
Etymology: From Latin effundō. See effuse.
Senses: examples: text: If he his life effund To utmost death, the high God hath design'd That we both live.
ref: 1642, Henry More, The Life of the Soul:
text: However, later discoveries prove, that it is not peculiar to one species only, but that several kinds, nay, different families, afford and effund this purple juice : indeed a whole family of Shells still retain the name of Purpuræ, or purples, from this property.
ref: 1776, Emanuel Mendes da Costa, Elements Of Conchology:
glosses: To pour out.
effunded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of effund
effunding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of effund
effunds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of effund
sagenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sagenites
Etymology: From French sagénite, from Latin sagena (“a large net”). See saine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms embedded in quartz
sagenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sagenite
superhive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superhives
Etymology: From super- + hive.
Senses: topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
glosses: An empty box placed above the existing boxes of the beehive in order to allow the colony to expand or store additional honey.
Synonyms: duplet
super
superhive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: superhives
form: superhiving
form: superhived
form: superhived
Etymology: From super- + hive.
Senses: topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
glosses: To add or to place a superhive atop the existing boxes of the beehive.
superhives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superhive
superhives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of superhive
supershedders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supershedder
superring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superrings
Etymology: From super- + ring.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A superalgebra over a ring.
superrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superring
mesotartaric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + tartaric acid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: erythraric acid
glosses: inactive tartaric acid
ganoidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdiən
Forms: form: more ganoidian
form: most ganoidian
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: ganoid
ganoidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdiən
Forms: form: ganoidians
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: ganoid
ganoidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganoidian
digladiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˌɡlædiˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: digladiations
Senses: examples: text: sore digladiations and contests
ref: 1674, John Evelyn, Navigation and Commerce, in which his Majesties title to the Dominion of the Sea is asserted against the Novel and later Pretenders:
glosses: Act of digladiating; violent dispute or combat.
digladiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digladiation
Mahrati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Marathi.
kacemic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: paratartaric acid
dextrogyrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dextro- + gyrate.
Senses: glosses: dextrorotatory
tourneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tournery
tournery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tourneries
Senses: examples: text: In another roome are such rare tourneries in ivory as are not to be described for their curiosity
ref: 1644 November 1 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for October 22 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of turnery (“work turned on a lathe”).
imbricative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: imbricated
dermohaemal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dermo- + haemal.
Senses: examples: the dermohæmal spines or ventral fin rays of fishes
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and haemal structures.
overventilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overventilated
form: most overventilated
Etymology: From over- + ventilated.
Senses: glosses: Having excessive ventilation.
nonventilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ventilated.
Senses: glosses: Not ventilated.
aflaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈflɔːnt/
Etymology: From a- + flaunt.
Senses: examples: text: Hee that of himself doth bragge, boast, and vaunt,
 Hath ill neighbours about him to set him aflaunt.
ref: 1614, Copley, Wits, Fits, and Fancies:
glosses: In a flaunting state or position.
croceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more croceous
form: most croceous
Etymology: From Latin croceus, from crocus (“saffron”). See crocus.
Senses: glosses: Of a deep reddish yellow, like that of saffron.
slipskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipskins
Etymology: From slip + skin.
Senses: glosses: A grape with a loose skin that can easily be slipped off.
Related terms: slipskin snailfish
slipskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slipskin
paintership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: painterships
Etymology: From painter + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Admit also a curious cunning painter, to be chief painter, let him strive also to continue still in his chief paintership, lest another pass him in cunning, and so have the name of chief painter from him, because he is more worthy than he.
ref: 1535, Stephen Gardiner, De vera obedientia:
glosses: The state or position of being a painter.
painterships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paintership
bay yarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bay yarns
Senses: examples: text: subsidy was granted on the importation of woollen or bay yarn in proportion to the said rate
ref: 1739, some UK law statute:
glosses: woollen yarn
bay yarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bay yarn
internection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internections
Etymology: From Latin internectere (“to bind together”), from inter (“between”) + nectere (“to fasten”).
Senses: examples: text: The faulty internections of the bladder, vagina, rectum, uterus, oviducts, and ovaries, indicate certain relations that are invariably attended with either dyspareunia, dysmenorrhæa, sterility, or dystocia
ref: 1881, Montrose A. Pallen, “The Reparative Surgery of the Genital Tracts”, in Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th congress. International congress of medicine:
glosses: intimate connection
internections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internection
monologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monology
monology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈnɒləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: monologies
Etymology: From mono- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: It was not, therefore, by an insolent usurpation that [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life, but in virtue of a concession from the kindness and respect of his friends.
ref: 1860, Thomas De Quincey, “Conversation”, in Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected; and Other Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XIV), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 171:
text: Miriam would only speed up in her speech when she 'forgot' the presence of others, when she was, as it were, enveloped in monology.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: The act of habit of soliloquizing, or of dominating conversation.
glosses: A work consisting of a single part (as opposed to a dilogy, trilogy, etc.)
untidinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of untidiness
bonibell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonibells
Senses: examples: text: I saw the bouncing Bellibone , Hey , ho , Bonibell !
Tripping over the dale alone
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Ægloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of bonnibel.
bonibells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonibell
deckel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deckels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deckle (instrument in paper-making)
deckels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deckel
ourali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wourali.
discession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin discessio, from discedere, discessum. See discede.
Senses: glosses: departure
urali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wourali.
ship money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ship moneys
form: ship monies
Senses: examples: text: The imposition of ship money without Parliamentary consent was one of the causes of the English Civil War.
text: When I stood by the side of Hampden, contending against a heavy oppression, and for an undeniable right, who could have thought that his refusal to pay that twenty shillings ship-money would be the first act of a resistance that was destined to arouse a whole nation, and kindle civil war from one end of our island to the other?
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 30–31:
glosses: A tax applied to coastal towns for their defence in wartime.
tubman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubmen
Etymology: From tub + -man.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One of the two most experienced barristers in the Exchequer of Pleas (the other being the postman).
tubmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubman