cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
telangiectasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telangiectasies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of telangiectasia.
petticoating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From petticoat + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The mixture of jute and cotton in the manufacture of bags, petticoating, canvas for tents, or other similar articles[…]
ref: 1856, The mechanics' magazine, volume 64, page 43:
text: Pansy, as usual, was in pink and white – a very pretty pink satin dress with inches of frou-frou petticoating[…]
ref: 2010, Christina Shelly, Company Of Slaves:
glosses: Material for petticoats.
examples: text: Petticoating roleplay may include being forced to wear makeup and to carry dolls, purses, and other items associated with girls.
ref: 2013, Heinz Duthel, Kathoey Ladyboy: Thailand's Got Talent, page 437:
glosses: The dressing of a boy in girls' clothing as a form of humiliation.
transvestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transvest(ite) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Transvestic fetishism varies from the occasional wearing of a few articles of clothing of the opposite sex to complete cross-dressing.
ref: 1996, Michael G. Gelder, Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, page 499:
text: He occupies himself professionally with women's clothes as an outlet for his suppressed transvestic desires.
ref: 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 78:
text: Eighty-two percent (n = 23) of the paraphilic group declared fetishistic interests, 79% reported sadomasochistic interests, and 50% were transvestic.
ref: 2012, D. Richard Laws, William T. O'Donohue, Sexual Deviance, Second Edition: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment:
glosses: Relating to transvestism.
Derived terms: transvestic fetishism
cliffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cliffed
form: most cliffed
Etymology: From cliff + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The cliffed coasts are cut mostly in consolidated rock of somewhat uniform material, which usually results in straight coastlines.
ref: 1984, Gerald G. Kuhn, Francis Parker Shepard, Sea cliffs, beaches, and coastal valleys of San Diego County: some amazing histories and some horrifying implications, University of California Press, page 3:
text: The abundance of cliffed coasts around the world reflects the major changes that have taken place between relative levels of land and sea in recent geological times.
ref: 1985, United Nations Environment Programme, International Maritime Organization, Oil spills and shoreline clean-up on the coasts of the Eastern African region, UNEP, page 36
text: In the case of a cliffed marsh edge, wave heights increase at the edge but are dissipated rapidly in the first 10-20m landward of the cliff.
ref: 2003, J. McKee Smith, Coastal engineering 2002: solving coastal conundrums : proceedings of the 28th International Conference, 7-12 July 2002, Cardiff, Wales, World Scientific, page 662:
glosses: formed by cliffs
diamido-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: diamine
grooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groopers
Senses: examples: text: The water was clear as crystal, and floating in it were eight hundred groopers, of from five to fifteen pounds weight each.
ref: 1850, The Western Literary Messenger:
glosses: Archaic form of grouper (the fish).
groopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grooper
incenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incensers
Etymology: From incense + -er.
Senses: examples: text: the incenser puts fire in the incensary, and the acoliti takes the candlesticks with the wax candles lighted
ref: 1854, Antonio Gavin, The Great Red Dragon:
glosses: Someone who burns incense
glosses: One who instigates or incites.
incensers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incenser
belk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belks
form: belking
form: belked
form: belked
Etymology: See belch.
Senses: examples: text: And in beholding how he fed and belked up againe
His bloody vittells at his mouth, and uttred out amayne
ref: 1567, Ovid, “The Fourteenth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:
glosses: To vomit.
belked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belk
belking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belk
belks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belk
lithogenesy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of lithogenesis.
characteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charactery
charactery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹ.ək.təɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈkæɹ.ək.tɹi/
ipa: /kəˈɹæk.təɹ.i/
rhymes: -æktəɹi
Forms: form: characteries
Etymology: From character + -y or + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The art or means of characterizing.
glosses: a system of signs or characters, i.e. symbolism.
glosses: A distinctive mark.
examples: text: I will construe to thee
 All the charactery of my sad brows.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: Sometimes she looked at Raymond, as if to say—That it should be so! At others her countenance expressed—I will still do all I can to make you happy. But Adrian read with uncertain aim the charactery of her face, and might mistake.—Clara was always with her, and she seemed most at ease
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Something which has a meaning.
charactery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹ.ək.təɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈkæɹ.ək.tɹi/
ipa: /kəˈɹæk.təɹ.i/
rhymes: -æktəɹi
Forms: form: more charactery
form: most charactery
Etymology: character + -y
Senses: glosses: Characterful.
hermaphrodeities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hermaphrodeity
hermaphrodeity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hermaphrodeities
Senses: examples: text: Some do believe in hermaphrodeity / That both do act and suffer.
ref: 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, 2.3.164-5:
glosses: hermaphrodism
disvaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disvaluations
Etymology: From dis- + valuation.
Senses: examples: text: For what can be more strange , or more to the disvaluation of the power of the Spaniard upon the continent , than that with an army of eleven thousand English landsoldiers , and a fleet of twenty - six ships of war , besides some weak vessels[…]
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
glosses: disesteem; depreciation; disrepute
disvaluations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disvaluation
aminoshikimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminoshikimates
Etymology: From aminoshikimic + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of aminoshikimic acid
diacritical hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diacritical hooks
Senses: examples: text: The following misprints have been noticed: … lāru for lārum … and in hęre for as in hęre … miere for mīere … feorōe for feorðe … onliehtan for onlīehtan … the omission of the diacritical hook under the e or o in: dęhter … āsęcgan … cwęllan … swęre, swęriað … sęnde, sęnd … nęmde, nęmnode …gesęnded … sęcge … gǫngan … ęlne … forswęrian … wębbestre, wędlāc.
ref: 1898, Modern Language Notes, XIII, page 50:
glosses: Any specific, hamiform diacritic; variously:
An ogonek (˛).
examples: text: Such [r-coloring] may also be represented by adding a diacritical hook to a vowel letter [ᶒ, ɚ, ᶗ], or by making use of Kenyon’s “hooked schwa” [˞].
ref: 1958, Robert W. Albright, The International Phonetic Alphabet: Its Backgrounds and Development, page 61:
glosses: Any specific, hamiform diacritic; variously:
A retroflex hook (̢).
examples: text: In the new Turkish alphabet each sound is represented by a single letter, sometimes with diacritical hooks.
ref: 1981, Gyula Wojtilla, editor, Writings of Hungarian Islamologist Gyula Germanus, page 157:
glosses: Any specific, hamiform diacritic; variously:
A cedilla (¸).
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:diacritical hook.
glosses: Any specific, hamiform diacritic; variously:
other similar diacritics
diacritical hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diacritical hook
surchargement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surchargements
Etymology: From surcharge + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: […]that continuall ſurchargement of people, as they were forced to vnburthen themſelues on other countries[…]
ref: 1612, Samuel Danyel [i.e., Daniel], “The Second Booke of the Historie of England: The Life of William. I”, in The First Part of the Historie of England, London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, page 76:
glosses: The act of surcharging; a surcharge or surplus.
surchargements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surchargement
widow-wail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: spurge olive (Cneorum tricoccon)
awlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From awless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of awelessness.
aminoshikimic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound (3R,4S,5R)-5-amino-3,4-dihydroxycyclohex-1-enecarboxylic acid which is used in the synthesis of neuraminidase inhibitors, and is involved in the biosynthesis of ansamycins and mitomycins
furfuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furfurations
Etymology: Latin furfur bran, scurf, + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The falling of dandruff from the head.
Derived terms: defurfuration
furfurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furfuration
brans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɹænz/
Senses: glosses: plural of bran
brans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɹænz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bran
aminoshikimic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amino- + shikimic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to aminoshikimic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: aminoshikimate
eumycetoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eumycetomas
Senses: hypernyms: mycetoma#Noun
<
disease#Noun
disorder#Noun
<
condition#Noun
coordinate_terms: actinomycetoma#Noun
glosses: A granulomatous fungal disease mainly affecting the foot.
Derived terms: word: eumycetomic
Related terms: eumycete
eumycotic
eumycetomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eumycetoma
couranto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courantos
form: courantoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coranto.
courantoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of couranto
abiu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abius
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese abiu, borrowed from Nheengatu abiú, from Old Tupi amyîu.
Senses: glosses: A South American tropical fruit tree, Pouteria caimito.
glosses: The fruit of this tree.
erration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: errations
Etymology: From Latin errātiō (“wandering”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:erration.
glosses: Wandering or straying.
errations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erration
corantoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coranto
immorigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immorigerous
form: most immorigerous
Etymology: From im- + morigerous.
Senses: examples: text: As my nephew has nothing immorigerous or tetrical in his disposition, he indubitably would have gratefully profited of my advice.
ref: 1810, Alicia Tindal Palmer, The Daughters of Isenberg, volume 1, page 68:
glosses: rude; uncivil; disobedient; rebellious
Related terms: immorigerousness
calprotectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calcium + protect + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium-binding protein that also functions as a cell growth inhibitory factor; its measurement in faeces is a test for inflammatory bowel disease.
Derived terms: calprotectinemia
empyrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin empyricus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος (empúrios, “fiery”), from ἐν (en, “en-”) + πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Senses: examples: text: , if it be rich , they will not extend above five or six inches ; but of these and some other empyrical marks , I shall say no more , as they do not tell us the defects of the soils
ref: 1796, Richard Kirwan, The Manures Most Advantageously Applicable to the Various Sorts of Soils:
glosses: Containing the combustible principle of coal.
Related terms: empyrean
empyreal
semiproof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiproofs
Etymology: From semi- + proof.
Senses: examples: text: there are some things which being not able to pass for entire proofs, do pass for semiproofs
ref: 1662, George Pellisson, A Miscellany of divers Problems:
glosses: Half proof; evidence from the testimony of a single witness.
semiproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiproof
compensatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compensatively
form: most compensatively
Etymology: From compensative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a compensative manner; compensatorily
abius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abiu
caimito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caimitos
Etymology: From Spanish caimito, from Lokono.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of star apple, a tropical tree and its fruit
synonyms: word: star apple
extra: a tropical tree and its fruit
caimitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caimito
cliffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cliff + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Cliffing of this kind is repaired if there is an abundant supply of sediment to restore the profile, permitting mangroves to spread again, but if there is a sediment deficit a mangrove cliff will persist and recede until the mangrove terrace has been completely removed.
ref: 2005, Maurice L. Schwartz, Encyclopedia of coastal science, Springer, page 613:
text: When the alternate bands of hard and soft rock dip upstream in the longitudinal course of the river and if the caprock is resistant the underlying soft rocks are eroded more rapidly due to cliffing and thus the resistant rock beds form precipituous wall-like scarps which allow the river water to fall downstram vertically and ultimately a stupendous waterfall is formed.
ref: 2006, K. Bharatdwaj, Physical Geography: Hydrosphere, Discovery Publishing House, page 157:
text: Cliffing (scarping) of the seaward margins of coastal dunes and the absence of new fore dunes (or the formation of new fore dunes lasting at most a few years) is very widespread around the world’s coastline, a consequence of the modern prevalence of beach erosion (Figure 9.2).
ref: 2011, Eric C. F. Bird, Coastal Geomorphology: An Introduction, John Wiley and Sons:
glosses: The formation of cliffs.
Synonyms: scarping
powerbomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerbombs
Etymology: From power + bomb.
Senses: glosses: A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted up (usually so that they are sitting on the wrestler's shoulders) and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
Synonyms: Batista bomb
powerbomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powerbombs
form: powerbombing
form: powerbombed
form: powerbombed
Etymology: From power + bomb.
Senses: glosses: To perform a powerbomb on (an opponent).
powerbombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powerbomb
substyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substyles
form: substile
Etymology: From sub- + style.
Senses: examples: text: In this way, breakdancing, hardbeat, acidhouse, acidbeat, hip-hop, punk, rockabilly and streetmusic make up a plurality of substyles launched by the record companies which take over the national markets, […]
ref: 1997, Alison J. Ewbank, Fouli T. Papageorgiou, Whose Master's Voice?: The Development of Popular Music in Thirteen Cultures:
glosses: A secondary or subsidiary style.
examples: text: which is the distance of the Substyle from the Perpendicular[…]
ref: 1699, Joseph Moxon, A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography […] , page 168:
glosses: A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a sundial is erected, being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style.
substyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substyle
substile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of substyle (“part of a sundial”).
substiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substile
hare-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hare-hearted
form: most hare-hearted
Senses: examples: text: aft by night, bumbaze hare-hearted fools
ref: 1725, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd:
glosses: timorous; timid; easily frightened.
comprisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɹaɪzəl/
Forms: form: comprisals
Etymology: From comprise + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of comprising or comprehending
glosses: a compendium or epitome.
comprisals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comprisal
corncutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corncutters
Etymology: From corn + cutter.
Senses: glosses: A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for cattle feed.
glosses: A machine for harvesting corn.
glosses: An implement consisting of a long blade attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn.
glosses: A person who cuts corn
corncutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corncutter
selos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selo
progeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progenerations
Etymology: Latin progeneratio.
Senses: glosses: The act of begetting; propagation.
progenerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of progeneration
caudomedially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From caudomedial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a caudomedial fashion.
caudolaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From caudolateral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a caudolateral fashion.
wretchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wretchless
form: most wretchless
Etymology: Alteration of retchless, equivalent to retch (“reck; care; regard”) + -less. See reckless.
Senses: examples: text: That you should be so wretchless!
ref: 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:
text: wretchless neglect of religion
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: reckless
examples: c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia
Sleep you now
Upon the bench, when your deaf ears should listen
Unto the wretchless clamours of the poor?
glosses: disregarded
Related terms: wretchlessly
wretchlessness
royalet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɹɔɪəˈlɛt/
Forms: form: royalets
Etymology: From royal + -et.
Senses: examples: text: There were […]at this time two other royalets, as only kings by his leave.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: A minor or powerless king.
royalets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royalet
flyfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyfishes
form: flyfish
Etymology: From fly + fish?
Senses: glosses: Sebastes ensifer (the name given in most sources,Sebastichthys rhodochloris, seems to be a synonym for this), a brightly-coloured scorpaenoid fish of California.
flyfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyfish
corporalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporality
corporality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporalities
Etymology: From Latin corporālitās. By surface analysis, corporal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: there is one Mundane spright / And body, vitall corporality We have from hence.
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
synonyms: corporeality
antonyms: ethereality
glosses: The state of being or having a body (being corporal/corporeal); bodily existence.
examples: text: Whence may be guessed what their function was : was it to go about circled with a band of rooking officials , with cloakbags full of citations , and processes to be served by a corporality of griffonlike promoters and apparitors ?
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: A confraternity; a guild.
gunter rig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunter rigs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a rigging configuration consiting of a fore and aft sail set abaft (behind) the mast. The lower half of the luff (front) of the sail is attached to the mast, and the upper half is fastened to a spar which is approximately vertical and reaches above the top of the mast, in such a way that the yard can slide up and down the lower mast.
gunter rigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunter rig
nugifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nugifying
form: most nugifying
Etymology: From Latin nugae (“trifles”) + -fy + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Let any competent judge read Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, and then these Sermons, and so measure the stultifying, nugifying effect of a blind and uncritical study of the Fathers […]
ref: 1840, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit:
glosses: Rendering trifling or futile; making silly.
rockwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rock + wood.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ligniform asbestos
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: fossil wood
Sigaultian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sigaultian
form: most Sigaultian
Etymology: From Sigault + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jean-René Sigault, French physician.
Related terms: symphyseotomy
symphysiotomy
suint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪnt/
ipa: /swɪnt/
other: /ˈsu.ɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
rhymes: -uɪnt
Forms: form: suints
Etymology: Borrowed from French suint.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance obtained from the dried perspiration of sheep wool, it is of a fatty and earthy consistency and contains potassium salts.
Coordinate terms: lanolin
suints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suint
discernance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From discern + -ance.
Senses: glosses: discernment
microzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microzymes
Etymology: From micro- + zyme.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microorganism supposed to act like an enzyme in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.
microzymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microzyme
redition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin reditio, from redire. See redient.
Senses: examples: text: The selfe same way shee came doth make retreate,
And so effects the sounde reechoed
Onely in part, because shee weaker is
In that redition, then when first shee fled
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of returning; a return.
stillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stiller
mesodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + -odont.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having teeth of moderate size.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: of moderate size.
raw_tags: of a tooth
Coordinate terms: hypsodont
brachydont
Derived terms: submesodont
sustentacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See sustenance.
Senses: examples: text: A sustentacular tissue
text: 1998 [Kluwer Academic], Julian Lombardi, Comparative Vertebrate Reproduction, 1998, Softcover reprint, Springer, page 122,
During spermiogenesis, the highly specialized sustentacular cells provide support and protection during the transformative process.
text: Normal paraganglionic tissue contains two types of cell: chief or type I cells, which are neuroendocrine cells, and sustentacular or type II cells, which are not neuroendocrine, but contain S-100 protein.
ref: 2001, Leslie Michaels, Henrik B. Hellquist, Ear, Nose and Throat Histopathology, 2nd edition, Springer, page 72:
text: The sustentacular facet is anteroposteriorly elongate and, in some specimens, achieves very broad contact with the navicular facet, while in others only with the cuboid facet.
ref: 2008, Lilian P. Bergqvist, “6: Postcranial Skeleton of the Upper Paleocene (Itaboraian) "Condylarthra" (Mammalian) of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil”, in Eric J. Sargis, Marian Dagosto, editors, Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology, Springer, page 128:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Serving to support or sustain.
mesodonty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The presence of mesodont teeth
averageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From average + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being averaged.
Derived terms: averageable income
stitchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stitch + -less.
Senses: examples: stitchless garment manufacture
glosses: Without stitches.
sutureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From suture + -less.
Senses: examples: sutureless cataract surgery
glosses: Without sutures.
substrategic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + strategic.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: nuclear weapons
glosses: At a lesser level than full strategic nuclear warfare.
Related terms: prestrategic
pickage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piccage.
pickages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickage
pennage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕnʹĭj
ipa: /ˈpɛn.ɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: pennages
Etymology: From pen + -age.
Senses: glosses: The confining of animals in pens.
glosses: A fee paid for the accommodation of animals in pens.
pennage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕnʹĭj
ipa: /ˈpɛn.ɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: From penna + -age, from Latin penna, pinna (“wing, feather”). Perhaps analogous to French pennage, the same Latinate root and suffix elements having both entered at an earlier stage (cf. Middle English penne, -age).
Senses: examples: text: AND IN THIS REGARD eſpecially, namely for breeding after the ſummer Sunﬅeed, the Halcyones are of great name and much marked. The very ſeas, and they that ſaile thereupon, know well when they ſit and breed. This very bird ſo notable, is little bigger than a ſparrow: for the more part of her pennage, blew, intermingled yet among with white and purple feathers, having a thin ſmall neck and long withall.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book X.] CHAP. XXXII. Of the Halcyones, or Kings-fiſhers: and the daies good for navigation which they ſhew. Of the Sea-guls and Cormorants.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 287:
glosses: feathery covering; plumage
pennages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pennage
unhookable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unhook + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being taken down from hooks.
unhookable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hookable.
Senses: examples: text: The water was full of unhookable fish; they would strike savagely but quickly slip from the hook before I could even identify them.
ref: 2008, Paul Schullery, Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir, page 51:
glosses: Impossible to hook or catch hold of.
wrapperless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wrapper + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The majority of frozen retail seafood is now sold in wrapperless cartons with a tear strip opener.
ref: 1970, Food manufacture: Volume 45:
glosses: Without a wrapper.
unwrappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unwrap + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being unwrapped.
unwrappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwrappable
form: most unwrappable
Etymology: From un- + wrappable.
Senses: examples: text: Christmas presents have a habit of coming in almost unwrappable shapes.
ref: 1980, Gillian Cooke, A Celebration of Christmas, page 26:
glosses: Not capable of being wrapped.
unwrappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unwrapping
tottlish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tottlish
form: most tottlish
Etymology: From tottle + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; unsteady.
delirancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1659, John Gauden, The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England, Royston, page 208.
a Manichean dotage and delirancy seizeth upon them, before ever they are resolved
text: Will you compound ruin with delirancy?
ref: 2010, Stephen R. Donaldson, Against All Things Ending, Penguin Books, page 50:
glosses: delirium
Related terms: delirant adjective
opiniatre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˌpɪniˈeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: more opiniatre
form: most opiniatre
Etymology: From French opiniâtre; see opiniaster.
Senses: examples: text: you desire to have him an insignificant wrangler, opiniatre in discourse , and priding himself in contradicting others
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “(please specify the section number)”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of opiniaster.
adosculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin adosculari, adosculatum (“to kiss”). See osculate.
Senses: examples: text: in plants, adosculaton is when pollen falling on pistils.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: impregnation by external contact, without intromission
chlamydoselachid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlamydoselachids
Etymology: From Chlamydoselachus + -id.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae of frilled sharks, which comprises two extant species in genus Chlamydoselachus and several extinct species in the genera Chlamydoselachus and †Proteothrinax.
chlamydoselachids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlamydoselachid
toreutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τορευτικός (toreutikós, “belonging to work in relief”), from τορεύω (toreúō), from τορός (torós, “piercing”).
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Relating to toreutics.
woolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of woold
woolder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolders
Etymology: From woold + -er.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.
topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
ropemaking
transport
glosses: One of the handles of the top, formed by a wooden pin passing through it.
woolders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolder
embastardize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embastardizes
form: embastardizing
form: embastardized
form: embastardized
Etymology: From em- + bastardize.
Senses: glosses: To bastardize.
embastardized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embastardize
embastardizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embastardize
embastardizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embastardize
leathercrafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leather + crafting.
Senses: glosses: craftsmanship in leather; leatherworking
pseudoleather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + leather.
Senses: glosses: Any artificial material used as a substitute for leather.
Related terms: latex
nitrile
PVC
rubber
vinyl
antileather
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antileather
form: most antileather
Etymology: From anti- + leather.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to leather (as involving exploitation of animals).
kinkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kinkless
form: most kinkless
Etymology: From kink + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a kink or kinks; not curled or twisted.
examples: text: Fr. Greeley's specialty is robust, respectfully kinkless sex bathed in a rosy glow of soon-to-be-blessed romantic love.
ref: 1989, Kirkus Reviews, volume 57, numbers 7-13, page 859:
glosses: Not kinky; without unusual or deviant sexual behaviour.
antidairy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidairy
form: most antidairy
Etymology: From anti- + dairy.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to the dairy industry (as involving exploitation of animals).
antianimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + animal.
Senses: examples: text: Biological antianimal agents are those which could be employed against domestic animals to incapacitate or destroy them through disease.
glosses: Designed to kill animals.
antiplant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + plant.
Senses: glosses: Designed to kill plants; herbicidal.
postteen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + teen.
Senses: glosses: Beyond the teenage years.
postteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postteens
Etymology: From post- + teen.
Senses: glosses: One who is no longer a teenager.
postteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postteen
leathercraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛðə(ɹ)ˌkɹæft/
/ˈlɛðə(ɹ)ˌkɹɑːft/
Forms: form: leathercrafts
Etymology: From leather + -craft.
Senses: glosses: craftsmanship in leather; leatherworking
leathercrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leathercraft
discept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛpt/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Forms: form: discepts
form: discepting
form: discepted
form: discepted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin disceptō.
Senses: examples: text: MR.FLOSKY: Permit me to discept. They are the mediums of common forms combined and arranged into a common standard. The ideal beauty of the Helen of Zeuxis was the combined medium of the real beauty of the virgins of Crotona.
ref: 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 11, in Nightmare Abbey:
text: I love it with my heart : unsatisfied , I try it with my reason , nor discept / From any point I probe and pronounce sound.
ref: 1868–1869, Robert Browning, “(please specify the page)”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To debate; to discuss.
Related terms: disceptation
discepted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discept
discepting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discept
discepts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discept
uncustomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + custom + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Not subject to customs duties; uncustomable.
examples: text: […] with them came a great numbre of rascal & pedlers, & Iuellers, and brought ouer hattes and cappes, and diuerse merchaundise vncustomed, all vnder the coloure of the trussery of the Ambassadours.
ref: 1548, Edward Hall, “The triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the .VIII.”, in The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, page lxv:
text: In the Duchie of Millan, the Governour is very politike and severe, in searching after bookes and uncustomed wares, though it tend but to a paire of stockings […]
ref: 1630, Giovanni Botero, translated by Robert Johnson, Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world, London: John Haviland, page 102:
text: 1760, Tobias Smollett, Continuation of the Complete History of England, London: Richard Baldwin, Volume 3, p. 331,
[…] a bill was prepared […] importing a continuation of several laws, namely, the several clauses mentioned of the acts in the fifth and eighth of king George I. against the clandestine running of uncustomed goods […]
text: Every uncustomed spirit, every prohibited ware, physical and intellectual, there finds its mart; and the chief art that is practised is to cheat as cleverly as may be—the chief science learned, is how to defraud without being detected.
ref: 1845, George Payne Rainsford James, chapter 7, in The Smuggler, volume I, London: Smith, Elder, page 159:
glosses: On which no customs duties have been paid.
Gazzamania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Gazza + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, Gazzamania conceals a complex sub-text about three things: gender; the white male body; and the British working class (and its relations with other classes).
ref: 1995, Roger Horrocks, Male myths and icons: masculinity in popular culture, page 162:
text: Paul Gascoigne went from being the focal point of Gazzamania to sad, fat clown in a matter of months[…]
ref: 2009, Ben Carrington, Ian McDonald, Marxism, cultural studies and sport, page 78:
text: Gazzamania, that much is clear, took off after the World Cup semi-final between England and Germany in Turin.
ref: 2011, Simon Kuper, Football Against The Enemy:
glosses: Enthusiasm for the English footballer Paul Gascoigne (born 1967).
flannie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: 'flæni:
Forms: form: flannies
Etymology: From flannelette + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A button-down collared shirt made of flannelette.
Synonyms: flanno
Chinese white pears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese white pear
ambarella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌam.bəˈɹɛlə/
ipa: /ˌæm.bəˈɹɛlə/
ipa: /ˌæm.bɚˈɛlə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
homophone: amborella (most dialects)
Forms: form: ambarellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sinhalese ඇඹරැල්ලා (æᵐbarællā).
Senses: glosses: A tropical fruit tree native to the South Pacific (Spondias dulcis).
glosses: The fruit of this tree.
Synonyms: golden apple
vi-apple
June plum
Kythirian apple
Otaheite apple
pommecythere
babaco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babacos
Etymology: From Spanish babaco, from Old Tupi wawa'su.
Senses: glosses: A fruit tree, related to the papaya and native to mountainous areas of Ecuador, Vasconcellea × heilbornii
glosses: The fruit of this tree
babacos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babaco
bael
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛl/
ipa: /beɪ(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɛl
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: bell
homophone: belle
homophone: bail
homophone: bale
Forms: form: baels
form: bel
form: beli
form: bhel
Etymology: From Hindi बेल (bel), from Sanskrit बिल्व (bilva), विल्व (vilva), or बैल्व (bailva).
Senses: examples: text: In the courtyard there were fruit and flowering trees appropriate for the worship of Mahadev, as also a bel tree.
ref: 2015, Govardhanram Tripathi, translated by Tridip Suhrud, Sarasvatichandra, Orient Black Swan, page 2:
glosses: A tropical fruit tree from India, Aegle marmelos.
glosses: The fruit of the tree, also called the wood apple.
Synonyms: Bengal quince
marmelos
baels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bael
amating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amate
flies the coop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fly the coop
flying the coop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fly the coop
flew the coop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fly the coop
flown the coop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fly the coop
Homs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: hŏms
ipa: /hɒms/
Forms: form: Hems
form: Hums
Etymology: From a variant romanization of North Levantine Arabic حمص (Ḥumṣ), from Arabic حِمْص (Ḥims), ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἔμεσᾰ (Émesă), ultimately from Aramaic חֲמָת (Ḥamāth, “hindrance, frustration, fortress”) + צובָא (Ṣōwḇā, “near, surrounding, station”). Doublet of Emesa.
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of the governorate of Homs, in western Syria.
glosses: A governorate in western Syria.
Synonyms: word: Emesa
Derived terms: Homsi
multibureau
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + bureau.
Senses: examples: text: The General Board farmed out the study to Captain Washington Chambers, who, with a committee of several officers, came up with a complex, multibureau organization[…]
ref: 2000, William M. McBride, Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945:
text: Federal agencies then often further interpret government-wide information policy to fit their organizational context. In multibureau federal departments, each bureau may even localize the policy further.
ref: 2007, Leon Osterweil, Lynette I. Millett, Joan D. Winston, Social security administration electronic service provision:
glosses: Involving more than one bureau or office.
multiorganization
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + organization.
Senses: glosses: Involving or relating to more than one organization.
multiorganizational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multiorganisational
Etymology: From multi- + organizational.
Senses: glosses: Involving or relating to more than one organization.
Cowleyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cowleyan
form: most Cowleyan
Etymology: From Cowley + -an.
Senses: examples: a Cowleyan ode
glosses: Of or relating to Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), English poet.
multiusing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + using.
Senses: examples: text: I don't do much multitasking, let alone multiusing, and I already have an external 20MB hard disk attached to my PC.
ref: 1985, PC World, volume 3, numbers 10-12:
text: A special type of network can be created by using multiusing. In a multiusing environment, all users share the same central processing unit (a microprocessor if the central unit is a microcomputer). […] The capability for multiusing is part of the hardware and operating system. It is not found in all computers.
ref: 1991, Steven M. Zimmerman, Leo M. Conrad, Understanding and using microcomputers:
text: With the proper hardware and software, the BIOS might even be able to do multiusing functions, allowing several computers to access it and utilize its software and hardware.
ref: 1993, Aubrey Pilgrim, Upgrade or repair your PC & save a bundle:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: multiuser capability; the ability of a computer system to process requests from multiple users at the same time
hexanchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexanchids
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Hexanchidae
Senses: examples: text: Hexanchid sharks (Family Hexanchidae) are extremely rare in Lower Cretaceous deposits and are known only from isolated teeth.
ref: 1995, P.J.Smart, Hexanchid shark teeth (Chondrichthyes, Vertebrata) from the Lower Cretaceous Albian sediments of Leighton Buzzard, South-central England:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Hexanchidae, of cow sharks.
hexanchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexanchid
heterodontid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterodontids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Heterodontidae of bullhead sharks.
heterodontids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterodontid
pastwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From past + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Into the past; moving backwards in time.
futurewards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From future + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Into the future; moving forward in time.
futureward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more futureward
form: most futureward
Etymology: From future + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Into the future; moving forward in time.
futureward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From future + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Into the future; moving forward in time.
pastward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pastward
form: most pastward
Etymology: From past + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The real problem is that a true Wellsian time machine would run into itself. The time machine on its pastward journey just after you flip the switch and the time machine sitting there just before you flip the switch will run into each other […]
ref: 1982, Nicholas D. Smith, Philosophers look at science fiction, page 52:
glosses: Into the past; moving backwards in time.
pastward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From past + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Into the past; moving backwards in time.
chewstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chewsticks
Etymology: From chew + stick.
Senses: synonyms: toothstick
hyponyms: miswak
glosses: A twig with a frayed end, used for cleaning the teeth.
glosses: Any of various plants in the genus Gouania used for oral hygiene, especieally Gouania lupuloides, of the Caribbean.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Gouania meyenii
word: smoothfruit chewstick
taxonomic: Gouania vitifolia
word: O'ahu chewstick
taxonomic: Gouania hillebrandii
word: hairyfruit chewstick
chewsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chewstick
Amphitryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Amphitryonic
form: most Amphitryonic
Etymology: From Amphitryon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Amphitryon (Ἀμφιτρύων), a Theban general in Ancient Greek mythology who accidentally killed his father-in-law and was exiled.