cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pommage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In a certain locality, however, it is not all the varieties included in the regional pommage that are traditionally grown, and that locality might have a pommage which is a subset of the regionl one.
ref: 2022, Claude Jolicoeur, Cider Planet, page 17:
glosses: The set of apple and/or pear varieties grown in a region or location.
examples: text: In grinding the apples for this use into pommage, several methods are practised; but the two most chiefly in use are, the bruising-stone with a circular trough, and the apple-mill.
ref: 1807, The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry:
text: This is effected by placing clear sweet straw, or hair cloths, between the layers of pommage, till there is a pile of ten or twelve layers. This pile is then subjected to different degrees of pressure in succession, till all the must or juice is squeezed from the pommage.
ref: 1823, Colin MacKenzie, Five Thousand Receipts in all the useful and domestic arts, page 220:
text: After the apples are gathered from the trees, they are ground into what is called pommage, either by means of a common pressing stone, with a circular trough, or by a cider mill, which is either driven by hand or by horse power.
ref: 1841, Arnold James Cooley, The Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts in All the Useful and Domestic Arts, page 53:
glosses: The ground-up apples from which cider is pressed.
glosses: pomace
thussock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thussocks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tussock.
thussocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thussock
cirrhous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cirrhose.
crowstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowsteps
Etymology: From crow + step.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: corbiestep
Derived terms: crowstepped
crowsteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowstep
tolypeutine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolypeutines
Etymology: From Tolypeutes + -ine?
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The apar, a kind of armadillo.
glosses: Any armadillo of the Tolypeutinae subfamily
tolypeutines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolypeutine
assessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assession
dispeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpiːd/
Forms: form: dispeeds
form: dispeeding
form: dispeeded
form: dispeeded
form: disped
form: disped
Etymology: From dis- + speed.
Senses: examples: text: Then they dispeeded themselves of the Cid and of their mother-in-law.
ref: 1808, Robert Southey, Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish:
text: a Detachment of four thousand Horse were dispeeded under Covert of the Hills
ref: 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: To send off with speed; to dispatch.
dispeeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispeed
dispeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispeed
dispeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispeed
ditation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ditare (“to enrich”), from dis, ditis, same as dives (“rich”).
Senses: examples: text: Late at night, and early in the morning, did I give myself to me ditation in thy word
ref: 1633, Joseph Hall, A paraphrase upon the hard texts of Scripture:
glosses: The act of making rich; enrichment.
skreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skreens
Senses: examples: text: “All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?” “Yes, all of them, I think. They all paint tables, cover skreens, and net purses. I scarcely know any one who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being informed that she was very accomplished.” “Your list of the common extent of accomplishments,” said Darcy, “has too much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse, or covering a skreen.[…]”
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 84:
text: [The banksman] also puts the full tubs to the weighing machine, and thence to the skreens, upon which he teems the coals. It is also his duty to keep an account of the quantity of coals and stones drawn each day.
ref: 1849, G. C. Greenwell, A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham:
glosses: Obsolete form of screen.
skreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skreens
form: skreening
form: skreened
form: skreened
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of screen.
skreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skreen
skreening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skreen
skreened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skreen
hemaphaein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haemaphaein.
subarration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + Latin arra, arrha (“earnest money”). See earnest (“a pledge”).
Senses: glosses: The custom of betrothing by the bestowal, on the part of the man, of marriage gifts or tokens, such as money or rings, upon the woman.
Mischnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mischnic
form: most Mischnic
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Mishnaic.
bog rosemary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any shrub in the genus Andromeda, especially Andromeda polifolia.
e-statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-statements
Etymology: From e- + statement.
Senses: examples: text: In most instances, e-statements contain all the information a traditional statement contains such as account transaction dates and amounts and any fees assessed.
ref: 2010, Tamsen Butler, The Complete Guide to Your Personal Finances Online, page 99:
glosses: A financial statement transmitted electronically.
Related terms: e-account
e-bill
e-billing
e-statements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-statement
reyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reyses
form: reysing
form: reysed
form: reysed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of raise.
reyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rāz
ipa: /ɹeɪz/
homophone: raise
homophone: rays
homophone: raze
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: reyses
form: reysing
form: reysed
form: reysed
Etymology: From Middle English reysen (“to travel, journey, go on a military expedition”), probably from Middle Dutch reisen, resen (compare Old English rāsian (“to explore”)), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *raisōn (“to set out, depart, journey”). Cognate with Danish rejse (“to travel”), Dutch reizen (“to travel”), German reisen (“to travel”), Norwegian reise (“to travel”), Swedish resa (“to travel”). See also reys.
Senses: glosses: To go on a military expedition.
glosses: To journey or travel.
reysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reyse
reyses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reyse
reysing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reyse
microsthene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsthenes
Etymology: From micro- + Ancient Greek σθένος (sthénos, “might, strength”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of mammals characteristically of small size, including various rodents (used in the 19th century by James Dana to classify animals, but not adopted thereafter)
microsthenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsthene
stoccade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoccades
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of stockade.
stoccade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stoccades
form: stoccading
form: stoccaded
form: stoccaded
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of stockade.
stoccade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoccades
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of stoccado.
stoccades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stoccade
stoccading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stoccade
stoccaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stoccade
sizeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From size + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A point is considered a sizeless entity in geometry.
glosses: Without a size.
Derived terms: sizelessness
mislen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of maslin.
peritropous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peritropal.
collodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collodium
collodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collodia
Senses: glosses: Dated form of collodion.
encoach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encoaches
form: encoaching
form: encoached
form: encoached
Etymology: From en- + coach.
Senses: examples: text: When, with my Minds right Eye, I do behold
(From nought, made nothing lesse) great Tamburaline,
(Like Phaeton) drawne, encoach in burnisht Gold,
ref: c. 1605, John Davies of Hereford, Wittes Pilgrimage:
glosses: To place or carry in a coach.
encoached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encoach
encoaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encoach
encoaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encoach
bleareyedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bleareyed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being bleareyed.
prefeudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + feudal.
Senses: glosses: Before feudalism.
Phalangists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Phalangist
intuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intuses
Etymology: From Latin intundere (“to bruise”), from in- (“in”) + tundere, tusum (“to beat, bruise”).
Senses: examples: text: The flesh therewith she suppled and did steepe, To abate all spasm and soke the swelling bruzé; And, after having searcht the intuse deepe, She with her scarf did bind the wound.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book), Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33:
glosses: A bruise; a contusion.
brezilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of brazilin.
sortment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sortments
Senses: glosses: assortment
glosses: The process of sorting something.
sortments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sortment
defoamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defoamers
Etymology: From defoam + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Nowadays silicone-free defoamers are used moreand more in many applications.
ref: 2007, Theo Mang, Wilfried Dresel, Lubricants and Lubrication, page 106:
glosses: Any chemical agent used for defoaming.
defoamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defoamer
defoam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊm
Forms: form: defoams
form: defoaming
form: defoamed
form: defoamed
Etymology: From de- + foam.
Senses: glosses: To remove the foam from.
Derived terms: defoamer
defoaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defoam
defoams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defoam
defoamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defoam
corvorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corvorants
Etymology: A modification, due to folk etymology, of cormorant by combining it with Latin vorantem, the accusative masculine or feminine singular of vorāns (“devouring; swallowing up”), the present active participle of vorō (“to devour, eat greedily; to swallow up”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour, eat; to swallow”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cormorant.
synonyms: word: cormorant
corvorants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corvorant
empyroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empyrosis
empyrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empyroses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek in + to burn.
Senses: examples: text: the former Opinion that held these Cataclysms and Empyroses universal
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: A general fire; a conflagration.
allmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allmouths
Etymology: From all + mouth.
Senses: glosses: Any of the order Lophiiformes of anglerfish, such as Lophius piscatorius.
allmouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allmouth
chlorimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chlorometric.
chlorimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chlorometry.
forcible-feeble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forcible-feeble
form: most forcible-feeble
form: forcible-Feeble
Etymology: From Francis Feeble, a character in William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2, to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet forcible.
Senses: examples: text: He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school.
ref: 1850, The North British Review, volumes 13-14, page 2:
text: But [allegory] is apt to spoil two good things—a story and a moral, a meaning and a form; and the taste for it is responsible for a large part of the forcible feeble writing that has been inflicted on the world.
ref: 1879, Henry James, chapter III, in Hawthorne, London: Macmillan & Co., page 63:
text: Skin-the-Goat, assuming he was he, evidently with an axe to grind, was airing his grievances in a forcible-feeble philippic anent the natural resources of Ireland or something of that sort which he described in his lengthy dissertation as the richest country bar none on the face of God's earth […]
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, part III:
glosses: Having a vigorous appearance, but in reality weak or insipid.
wikipedia: Henry IV, Part 2
William Shakespeare
diruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌpʃən
Etymology: From Latin diruptio, from dirumpere. See disrupt (adjective).
Senses: glosses: disruption
enfreeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɹiːz/
Forms: form: enfreezes
form: enfreezing
form: enfroze
form: enfrozen
Etymology: From en- + freeze.
Senses: examples: text: Yet to augment the anguish of my smart, Thou hast enfrozen her disdainful brest , That no one drop of pity there doth rest.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Hymne in Honour of Love:
text: It is to bee seene in some notorious malefactors, whose hearts, a long continnance in prophane villanies, a furious pursuit of bloud and outrages, and the just curse of God upon them, has so enfrozen and emmarbled, that they are senslesse & fearlesse of whatsoever can befall them.
ref: 1634, Robert Bolton, The Saints Selfe-enriching Examination, page 193:
text: Eternal night Enfreezes, crushes souls, made strong to gaze On God's most holy light!
ref: 1870, Emily Bayne, Sighs of Hope, page 40:
glosses: To freeze; to congeal.
Related terms: enfrozen
enfrozen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From en- + frozen.
Senses: examples: text: From her poetic heat Harmonious flows, and taught by her oft paints The visionary scene, and touches all The Springs of Passion; her's each winning Grace, And comely Gesture her's: enfrozen'd age, Bending to earth beneath the weight of years, With wrinkled front, and venerable hair, Melts at her fair approach;
ref: 1766, James Grainger, The sugar-cane: a poem. In four books, page 158:
text: My sad despair, enfrozen soul, Yields to joy's false but fond control.
ref: 1853 May, Lewis Lewellyn, “Memory's Dreams”, in Godey's Lady's Book, volume 47, page 453:
text: Then my world-enfrozen heart Faster beat, and faster; As I looked upon the Man, I beheld the Master
ref: 1854, Julia Ward Howe, “The Master”, in Passion-flowers, page 174:
text: Where towering icebergs ever reign Upon the wild enfrozen main; And man lives not, the temperature Too keen for him ere to endure.
ref: 1858, Mrs. Dring ·, “Who Redeemeth Thy Life”, in Poems, Sacred & Miscellaneous, page 66:
text: They saw the second temple rise, But far less fair and bright; And e'en their age-enfrozen eyes, Dropt sorrow at the sight.
ref: 1859, H Rogers, “The Weeping Patriots”, in Lays of the Holy Land, page 233:
text: Even the ice-bound shores of Spitzbergen, and the frozen mouths of northern Siberian rivers, have furnished proofs of ocean-borne drifts of carcases of animals of ancient type having been swept from land surfaces to their now enfrozen beds in drift formations.
ref: 1883, J Wood Beilby, Eureka, an elucidation of mysteries in nature, page 24:
text: Was landscape from the mountain side, To painter's eye more grand? Enfrozen winter wreathed in snow, A glimpse from fairy land.
ref: 1915, Mrs. Athel Sayce, “Night”, in Poems, page 23:
glosses: Frozen.
enfrozen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From en- + frozen.
Senses: glosses: past participle of enfreeze
silvate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silvates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sylvate.
silvates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silvate
protectorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: Compare Latin protectorius.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of protectoral.
Grothendieck group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grothendieck groups
Etymology: After Alexander Grothendieck.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An abelian group constructed from a commutative monoid in a universal way.
wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck
groupoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From groupoid + -al.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to groupoids.
soutage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: Take soutage or hair (that covers the kel) set like to a manger, and fastened wel
ref: 1822, Henry Phillips, History of Cultivated Vegetables:
glosses: That in which anything is packed; bagging, as for hops.
epicoene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Epicoene, or The ſilent VVoman. A comœdie. [title page]
ref: [1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, page 525:
text: In many names of animals, the same word with the same gender is used for both sexes: ἡ ἁλὠπηξ the fox, male or female. These are said to be epicoene.
ref: 1862, James Hadley, “Nouns”, in A Greek Grammar, for Schools and Colleges, New York, N.Y.; London: D. Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC, part second (Inflection), paragraph 118, page 32:
glosses: Obsolete form of epicene.
rattlewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English *ratelwort (attested only as Middle English ratele), from Old English hrætelwyrt (“rattlewort”), equivalent to rattle + wort (“plant, herb”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Rattlebox.
psychopolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psychopolitical
form: most psychopolitical
Etymology: From psycho- + political.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to psychopolitics.
stoneblower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoneblowers
Etymology: From stone + blower.
Senses: examples: text: NR also plans to display a stoneblower from its track treatment fleet at the show. [...] They are known as stoneblowers because they use compressed air to 'blow' extra stones under the sleepers where required, to correct the level of the track.
ref: 2021 April 21, Stefanie Foster, “Network Rail pledges major contribution to Rail Live 2021”, in RAIL, number 929, page 19:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A machine that automatically lifts and packs the sleepers of a railway with small-grade ballast, which is blown under the sleepers to level the track.
stoneblowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stoneblower
stoneblowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stone + blowing.
Senses: glosses: The use of a stoneblower to level the sleepers of a railway track.
stonecasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonecast
embellishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more embellishable
form: most embellishable
Etymology: From embellish + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being embellished.
numberwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From number + work.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: mathematical work done with numbers
groupwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From group + work.
Senses: topics: education
qualifier: therapy
glosses: Work done in groups.
pairwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pair + work.
Senses: topics: education
qualifier: therapy
glosses: work done in pairs
groupworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groupworkers
Senses: glosses: The leader of a groupwork session.
groupworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groupworker
sourcework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From source + work.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A historical work that emphasizes the use of sources.
carbonate of potash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: potassium carbonate
Zipfian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈzɪpfiːən/
/ˈzɪf-/
Forms: form: more Zipfian
form: most Zipfian
Etymology: From Zipf + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950), American linguist who studied statistical occurrences in different languages and proposed the Zipfian distribution, codified as Zipf's Law, one of a family of discrete power law probability distributions.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Zipf's law or its Zipfian distribution.
Derived terms: Zipfian distribution
Related terms: Zipf's law
uudecode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊd
Forms: form: uudecodes
form: uudecoding
form: uudecoded
form: uudecoded
Etymology: After the Unix program uudecode (Unix-to-Unix decoding), for decoding binary data for transmission over the UUCP mail system.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To decode (previously uuencoded data) back into its original binary form.
uudecoding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uudecode
uudecodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uudecode
uudecoded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uudecode
amianth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: amianthus
e-distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + distribution.
Senses: glosses: Distribution by electronic means, such as transmission over the Internet.
Related terms: e-distributor
moelline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French moelle, from Latin medulla (“marrow”).
Senses: glosses: An unguent for the hair.
skeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skean
prodromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Prodromous Clouds whose edges are fringed with Gold, comfort us with the hopes of an approaching greater Light, which when the Sun is up, do but darken the Horizon.
ref: 1678, Vincent Alsop, Melius Inquirendum, page 123:
text: Thus we have a Day-star to tell us that day is at hand; something prodromous concerning almost all the great things promised, and looked for, as might be more largely showne, if that were my proper work.
ref: 2023, Manasseh ben Israel, Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell, page 92:
text: Altogether the Lists given int he present Chapter should be accepted as they are offered, simply in a prodromous character .
ref: 2023, Thomas Twining, Technical Training, page 205:
glosses: precursory.
examples: text: Where the second eye was quite free from prodromous symptoms, Græfe has seen it frequently affected shortly after operation on the first, somewhere about 10 per cent.
ref: 1865, Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society, page 46:
text: They were characterized in the prodromous period by the severity of the pain in the head and back, great prostration of strength, anxiety, agitation, stupor, and sometimes by delirium.
ref: 1873, Armand Trousseau, Lectures on Clinical Medicine - Volume 1, page 72:
text: This constitutes its first stage; one from which recovery is the genral rule, —so general, in fact, that I have never known of its being considered by any one as a condition antecedent to alveolar necrosis, and still it is uniformly prodromous to it in all except its traumatic or purely organic types.
ref: 1900, Transactions of the New York Odontological Society, page 174:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to signs or symptoms that precede the onset of a disease.
examples: text: Whichever view is taken, it is equally antagonistic to the rule of prodromous catheterism in forceps-delivery.
ref: 1881 September, James More, “Edinburgh Medical Journal”, in The Use of the Catheter before Forceps-Delivery, volume 21, page 250:
text: Prodromous irrigation
ref: 1928, Japanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, page 244:
glosses: Prophylactic.
prodromous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The neglect of this has led to much difference of opinion, and a great deal of vain and idle discussion: one party affirming that the disease consists essentially in the direct and immediate impression of the morbific cause upon the susceptibilities of the living organization; the other, that this should be merely regarded as a kind of prelude, or prodromous, and that the disease is not developed , until the influence of the cause has concentrated itself upon some tissue or organ, so as to give rise to some molecular modification of its structure, by impressing upon its vitalism certain abnormal or perverted actions, by which its nutrition becomes changed.
ref: 1833, Eli Geddings, “Phjysiologico-Pathological Observations on Follicular Gastro-enteritis”, in Baltimore Medical and Surgical Journal and Review, page 70:
text: The prodromous had rung for Oliver and was giving him a most pleasant message, as well as a promise.
ref: 2013, John K. Sutherland, The Elusive Miss Wakefield, page 92:
glosses: A sign of something to come; a harbinger.
Related terms: prodrome
cessible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cessible
form: most cessible
Etymology: Compare French cessible. See cession.
Senses: examples: text: they are bound to flesh , and to other part of the body ; which being cessible , must needs dull the stroke , and not permit it to be carried far
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
glosses: Giving way; yielding.
Related terms: cessibility
ostein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ossein.
minislice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minislices
Etymology: From mini- + slice.
Senses: examples: a hippocampal minislice
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very thin slice of biological material.
minislices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minislice
airbreathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airbreather
afurolol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A beta blocker.
non-crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of noncrossing.
adafenoxate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A compound related to centrophenoxine, with nootropic activity in rats.
amdoxovir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From (di)am(ino) + d(i)oxo(lane) + -vir (“antiviral”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) undergoing research for the treatment of HIV.
amifampridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: 3,4-diaminopyridine, an organic compound used in the treatment of a number of rare muscle diseases.
switch hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switch hooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of switchhook.
switch hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of switch hook
altanserin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Contains -anserin (“serotonin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: glosses: A compound that binds to the 5-HT_(2A) receptor in the brain, used as a radioligand when labelled with fluorine-18.
DOS extender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DOS extenders
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An application which allows software to run in protected mode, even though the host operating system runs only in real mode.
iridotases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iridotasis
altincar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: tincal
knot spans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knot span
protopope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protopopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρωτόπαπας (prōtópapas); see proto- + pope.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A protopresbyter
protopopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protopope
disturn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disturns
form: disturning
form: disturned
form: disturned
Etymology: From Old French destourner, French détourner. See detour.
Senses: examples: text: And glad was to diſturn that furious
Stream Of War on us
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: To turn aside.
disturned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disturn
disturning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disturn
disturns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disturn
peraeopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peraeopods
form: peraeopoda
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pereiopod.
peraeopoda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peraeopod
munnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: munnions
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mullion.
munnions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of munnion
peraeopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peraeopod
match-cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A coarse cloth made from wool, formerly used in the United States to make coats.
perfectionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: perfectionates
form: perfectionating
form: perfectionated
form: perfectionated
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French perfectionner (with common translation of French -er to English -ate; as in assassinate). Equivalent to perfection + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: [P]ainters and sculptors, cjoosing the most elegant natural beauties, perfectionate the idea, and advance their art above Nature itself in her individual productions; which is the utmost mastery of human performance.
ref: 1695, John Dryden, Parallel of Poetry and Painting:
text: ‘I agree with you,’ replied the stranger; ‘we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves—such a friend ought to be—do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.’
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: If interrupted, he remonstrated pathetically with his little maid. Every great artist, he said, had need of solitude to perfectionate his works.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: To make perfect or complete; to perfect.
perfectionated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perfectionate
perfectionates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perfectionate
perfectionating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perfectionate
rotchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒt͡ʃɪt/
Forms: form: rotchets
Senses: glosses: A fish, the European red gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).
rotchets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotchet
searedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seared + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He wonders at my extreme prodigality of credit, and searedness of conscience, in citing an epistle so convicted by Bellarmine!
ref: 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:
glosses: The state of being seared or callous; insensibility.
cactus cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæk.tɘs kæts/
Senses: glosses: plural of cactus cat
bobkitten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobkittens
Etymology: From bob + kitten.
Senses: glosses: A young bobcat.
veal crates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veal crate
bobkittens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobkitten
slippery nipple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slippery nipples
Senses: glosses: A layered cocktail shooter most commonly made with Baileys Irish Cream and sambuca.
UX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UXes
Senses: coordinate_terms: CX
DX
DevEx
EX
glosses: Initialism of user experience.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: POSIX
Multics
glosses: Initialism of Unix.
Synonyms: sense: user experience
word: UE
Hyponyms: word: A/UX
word: DG/UX
word: HP-UX
Derived terms: sense: user experience
word: UI/UX
sense: user experience
word: UXD
word: A/UX
word: DG/UX
word: HP-UX
Related terms: sense: user experience
word: UI
word: *nix
word: UN*X
word: unix
word: Unix
word: UNIX
multiasset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + asset.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to more than one asset.
heteroflexible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + flexible, probably for the near-rhyme with heterosexual.
Senses: examples: text: We are living at a time when youthful attitudes toward casual sexual encounters and pliable sexual boundaries have spawned a whole new vocabulary of sexuality ("pansexual," "ambisexual," "polysexual," and "heteroflexible," according to a
ref: 2000, United Synagogue Review, Volumes 53-59, page 17:
text: It is a rejection of bisexuality since the inevitable question that comes up in bisexuality is one of preference, and the preference of the heteroflexible is quite clear. Here postmodern heterosexuals can envision indulging in homosexual sex.
ref: 2002, Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up, page 232:
text: A “boi” describes a boyish gay guy or abiological female with a male presentation; and “heteroflexible” refers to a straight person with a queer mindset
ref: 2003, The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today, page 31:
text: Dery describes Bowie as "a reverse-drag queen: a heteroflexible straight man playing an exquisitely androgynous gay."
ref: 2013 June 5, Richard Metzger, “Growing Up Bowie: Mark Dery's "All The Young Dudes: Why Glam Rock Matters”, in Boing Boing:
text: Let me start by saying that yes, people can be heteroflexible, homoflexible and bisexual.
ref: 2014 August 1, Joe Kort, “Are "heteroflexible" and "homoflexible" shades of bisexual?”, in San Diego Gay & Lesbian News:
text: If you know me, you might know I've bounced around a lot with my sexual orientation — from straight to heteroflexible to queer to "I'm not going to label myself as anything, and I’ll just take things as they come" — pun intended.
ref: 2014 September 25, Robyn Smith, “Bisexuality is real, not just indecision”, in The Independent Florida Alligator:
glosses: Primarily heterosexual, but open to taking part in a limited amount of homosexual activity.
Synonyms: word: Kinsey 1
word: bi-curious
word: heteroflexible
word: open-minded
Related terms: word: bisexual person
heteroflexible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroflexibles
Etymology: From hetero- + flexible, probably for the near-rhyme with heterosexual.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is heteroflexible.
Related terms: heteroflexibility
overstudies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overstudy
overstudied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overstudy
homoflexible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + flexible.
Senses: examples: text: Another student, who identified himself as “homoflexible,” said,“I live with straight guys now,and I definitely see the sexual tensions, which have made me very uncomfortable"
ref: 2003, The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today, page 97:
text: opposite sex, it is said, but are not averse to exploring their 'gay side'. 'Homoflexible' suggests the reverse. Some men and women enjoy an even more fluid set of desires and see themselves as 'flexi-sexual'. 'pansexual', 'omnisexual'
ref: 2008, Mates and lovers: a history of gay New Zealand, page 370:
text: Many adolescents and young adults prefer terms such as: bi-curi- ous, fluid, hetero- or homo-flexible, open, omni- or pan-sexual, polyamorous, questioning, or queer (Driver, 2007, pp. 42-A3; Meyer, 2008).
ref: 2009, Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader, page 179:
text: I have many gay friends whom are homoflexible and many of them have had adventures with members of the opposite sex solely because they wanted kids.
ref: 2012, Jed La Lumiere, Patience: A Gay Man's Virtue, FriesenPress, published 2012, →ISBN, page 80:
text: Hunter was a man who was bi-curious about women, rather than a man who was bi-curious about other men. Hunter was homoflexible.
ref: 2012, Aaron Overfield, Veil, →ISBN:
text: In my experience, some heteroflexible men do not test bisexual. (I should note that I have also met a few homoflexible men.)
ref: 2014, Joe Kort, Is My Husband Gay, Straight, or Bi?: A Guide for Women Concerned about Their Men, Rowman & Littlefield, published 2014, →ISBN, page 187:
glosses: Primarily homosexual, but with a limited amount of attraction to other genders, or willingness to take part in a heterosexual activity.
Related terms: homoflexibility
men-about-town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-about-town
homoeroticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoeroticism
men about town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man about town
heliotheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helio- + theism.
Senses: examples: text: Sun-worship (solarism, or heliotheism) seems to the modern scientist to be the best of all forms of theism, and the one which may be most easily reconciled with modern monism.
ref: 1905, Ernst Haeckel, translated by Joseph McCabe, The Riddle of the Universe: At the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 280:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The worship of the Sun; the belief that the Sun is a god.
Synonyms: sense: worship of the Sun
word: solarism
sense: worship of the Sun
word: sun worship
sense: worship of the Sun
word: heliolatry
Derived terms: heliotheist
heliotheistic
sarcophagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcophagans
Etymology: Sarcophaga + -an
Senses: examples: text: In the Sarcophagans, or flesh-eaters, as the name implies, the bristles on the antennæ are feathered.
ref: 1841, Thaddeus William Harris, A Report on the Insects of Massachusetts: Injurious to Vegetation, volume 3, page 412:
text: This could prove a very important experiment: our difficulty is that there is no precise homology between the sarcophagan cuticle and that of other orders of insect; from the work of Wolfe (1954) and Dennell (1946) the dipteran epicuticle cannot be treated as having separate laminae of cuticulin and free lipid, such as we believe to be the state of affairs in other insects.
ref: 1964, Advances in Insect Physiology, volume 2:
text: Other insects, including a sarcophagan fly, a gnat, a sciarid fly, and two harmless mosquitoes dwell in the pitchers.
ref: 1968, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, page 155:
text: See Chapters 2–5, and reduce the number of your Drosophila dissections to Sarcophagan levels!
ref: 2004, Daryl S. Henderson, Drosophila Cytogenetics Protocols, page 4:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.
sarcophagans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcophagan
cladophylls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cladophyll
turnip heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnip head
dapperling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dapperlings
Etymology: From dapper + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A dwarf, or small dapper person.
glosses: Any of various mushrooms in the Agaricaceae
raw_tags: with modifier
Derived terms: blushing dapperling
chestnut dapperling
deadly dapperling
dune dapperling
fatal dapperling
fragile dapperling
freckled dapperling
greenspored dapperling
plantpot dapperling
shield dapperling
skullcap dapperling
smoky dapperling
star dapperling
stinking dapperling
white dapperling
dapperlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dapperling
kiss-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiss-up
mephitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈfaɪtɪzm̩/
Forms: form: mephitisms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mephitis.
synonyms: word: mephitis
mephitisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mephitism
heliotheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliotheists
Etymology: From helio- + theist.
Senses: synonyms: heliolater
glosses: One who practices heliotheism; a sun worshiper; one who believes the sun to be a god.
heliotheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliotheist
presidaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presidary
presidary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presidaries
form: presidiary
Etymology: Latin praesidiarium.
Senses: examples: text: heavenly presidiaries
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: A guard.
duse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duses
Etymology: See deuce.
Senses: glosses: A demon or spirit
shelter dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shelter dog
rescue dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescue dog
heliotheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heliotheistic
form: most heliotheistic
Etymology: From helio- + theistic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to heliotheism; worshipping the sun as a god.
metapterygia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metapterygium
glaver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡlævə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: glavers
form: glavering
form: glavered
form: glavered
Etymology: Of Celtic origin. Compare Welsh glafr (“flattery”).
Senses: examples: text: Some slavish, glavering, flattering parasite.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
text: Luke. Item, that the Honourable Ms. Gloriana Strut is ſo fantaſtical in her Dreſs, and trifles away ſo many Hours in admiring herſelf, and being glavered by her Maid, that ſhe always comes into Church, when the reſt of the Congregation are intent upon their Devotions;
ref: 1745, The trial of the Honourable Mrs. Gloriana Strut, before Lord Peter, chairman of the committee, held in the council-chamber, near the gates of paradise, page 10:
text: No doubt the users of hackney-coaches “glavered” on the users of glass-coaches. To glaver, need we say, was to fawn — with words of glozing courtesy, to flatter deceitfully.
ref: 1900 January 20, “In a Glass Coach”, in The Academy, page 48:
glosses: To flatter; to wheedle.
Derived terms: glaverer
glavered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glaver
glavering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glaver
glavers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glaver
femur heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femur head
cargeese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cargoose
cargoose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargeese
Etymology: Perhaps from Gaulish and Irish cir, cior (“(pronounced kir, kior), crest, comb”) + English goose.
Senses: glosses: A species of grebe (Podiceps cristatus); the great crested grebe.
seynt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seynts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of saint.
seynts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seynt
wrythen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of writhen.
whoop-dee-do
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whoop-de-doo.
sinoper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinopers
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sinople.
sinopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinoper
ratchet wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratchet wheel
Prussianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prussianisms
Etymology: From Prussian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The character or policies of the Prussians.
Prussianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Prussianism