cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hangmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hangman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office, character, or state of being of a hangman.
nucleiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nucleiform
form: most nucleiform
Etymology: From Latin nucleus (“kernel”) + -form.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form of a kernel
nunchion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nunchions
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of nuncheon.
nunchions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nunchion
adhortation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adhortations
Etymology: From Latin adhortatio, from adhortari (“to advise”).
Senses: examples: text: The use of this figure is great, and often necessarie and needfull to be used, the vertue and power whereof is worthie of high praise and commendation, for when commanding cannot force, nor promises allure, nor commination terrifie, as alone by themselves working in their single strengthes: yet Adhortation having al these conjoyned with it, and also sundry reasons of mightie power, as helping hands to force and move the mind forward, to a willing consent, doth prevaile in his purpose.
ref: 1577, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence:
glosses: advice; exhortation
adhortations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adhortation
myceloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myceloid
form: most myceloid
Etymology: From mycelium + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: myceloid filament
text: myceloid appendages
text: myceloid layer
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: mycelioid
glosses: Resembling or pertaining to mycelium.
violantin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See violuric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex nitrogenous substance derived from barbituric acid.
enamorment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enamorments
form: enamourment
Etymology: From enamor + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: But I warn you: In the battle of self against self that is golf, you will likely find your greatest enemy to be your own enamorment with par. Your enamorment with score and superior performance.
ref: 2009, M. Scott Peck, Golf and the Spirit: Lessons for the Journey:
glosses: The state of being enamored; a falling in love.
enamorments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enamorment
revivingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more revivingly
form: most revivingly
Etymology: From reviving + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The air blew as freshly and revivingly upon me as it had ever blown.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 36, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: So as to revive.
septulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more septulate
form: most septulate
Etymology: Diminutive from septum.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having imperfect or spurious septa.
versable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more versable
form: most versable
Etymology: From Latin versabilis. Compare French versable. See versatile.
Senses: examples: text: Hence they are naturally led to relinquish the firmness of an upright character, for that supple and versable turn, which accommodates itself to the times, and assumes whatever appearance seems most convenient for interest.
ref: 1814, Hugh Blair ·, Sermons - Volume 2, page 230:
text: The classic statement by Judge Holmes, " [t]he law does not define fraud; it needs no definition; it is as old as falsehood and as versable as human ingenuity.
ref: 1977, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations, Staff Study of Computer Security in Federal Programs, page 215:
text: The goal of the prosecution will be to cast before the judge and jury a vision of the case as one reflecting the versable ingenuity of the human mind in loosing the larceny residing in us.
ref: 1997 April, Tomas A Withers, Frederick Kramer, Christopher L Varner, “The Tao of the Health Care Fraud Trial”, in United States Attorneys Bulletin, volume 45, number 2, page 19:
text: Different from his Scottish predecessor, the German novelist wanted to develop a "versable" hero/ine: socially typical, but also uniquely complex and receptive to change; the kind of hero/ine that would foster ambiguity and polysemy, not stymie them.
ref: 2020, Gabriela Stoicea, Fictions of Legibility: The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin, page 129:
glosses: Capable of being turned; flexible, changeable, or inconsistent.
Derived terms: versability
verticillaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: verticillasters
Etymology: Latin verticillus (“a whirl”) + aster (“a star”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint.
verticillasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verticillaster
disobeisance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs.əˈbeɪ.zəns/
Forms: form: disobeisances
Etymology: French désobéissance.
Senses: examples: text: Canceled owte of the masse boke, as heresye to God and disobeysaunce to the King.
ref: 1548, Edmund Gest, A treatise againste the preuee masse […] :
glosses: disobedience
ulmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ulmins
form: ulmine
Etymology: Latin ulmus (“elm”), + -in: compare French ulmine.
Senses: examples: text: The biological features of perennial grasses involve the decomposition of their residues during the period of domination of anaerobic processes, capable of producing active humus (ulminic acid and ulmin).
ref: 1966, NASA Technical Translation, page 10:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation.
Related terms: ulminic acid
humin
humus
ulmins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ulmin
haloxyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: glosses: An explosive compound of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and potassium ferrocyanide, formerly used as a substitute for gunpowder.
egriot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛɡɹi.ət/
Forms: form: egriots
Etymology: From French aigrette, griotte, formerly agriote. Compare aigre (“sour”).
Senses: examples: text: the cœur-cherry, which inclineth more to white, is sweeter than the red; but the egriot is more sour
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VI. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of agriot (“sour cherry”).
egriots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egriot
galvanograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galvanographs
Etymology: From galvano- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A copperplate produced by galvanography.
glosses: A picture printed from a plate of this kind.
galvanographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galvanograph
feminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feminate
form: most feminate
Etymology: First attested circa 1533; borrowed from Latin fēminātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: a feminate authority
ref: 1629, John Ford, The Broken Heart, act 5 acene 3:
glosses: Feminine; (also) effeminate, womanish.
acinote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: actinolite.
globulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more globulous
form: most globulous
Etymology: Compare French globuleux.
Senses: examples: text: globulous chromoplasts
text: globulous chamber
text: globulous particles
glosses: globular; spherical
Related terms: globulousness
kruller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krullers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cruller.
krullers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kruller
ungear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ungears
form: ungearing
form: ungeared
form: ungeared
Etymology: From un- + gear.
Senses: examples: text: ungear horses
glosses: To strip of gear; to unharness.
examples: text: ungear wheels
glosses: To become, or throw out of gear.
ungeared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ungear
ungearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ungear
ungears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ungear
inexhaustive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexhaustive
form: most inexhaustive
Etymology: From in- + exhaustive.
Senses: examples: text: Can feeble words thy vivid colours paint, / Or ſhow the ſweets which inexhauſtive flow?
ref: a. 1749, James Thomson, “To Dr. Delacour, in Ireland; on His Prospect of Poetry”, in The Poetical Works of James Thomson, […], Edinburgh: […] Mundell and Son, […], published 1794, →OCLC; republished in Robert Anderson, editor, The Works of the British Poets. […], volume IX, London: […] [Mundell and Son] for John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Co. […], 1795, →OCLC, page 273, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of inexhaustible.
synonyms: word: inexhaustible
unheedy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unheedy
form: most unheedy
Etymology: From un- + heedy.
Senses: examples: text: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
And therefore is love said to be a child
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: So have I seen some tender slip,
Saved with care from winter's nip,
The pride of her carnation train,
Plucked up by some unheedy swain
Who only thought to crop the flower
ref: 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
antonyms: heedy
glosses: Incautious; precipitate; heedless.
Derived terms: unheedily
unheediness
undé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ondé
form: ondy
form: oundy
form: undee
form: undy
Etymology: French ondé.
Senses: examples: text: The achievement of the Lord Maderty is, or, three bars undé gules, and, on a canton argent, a lion's head erased, within a double tressure counter-flowered gules;[…]
ref: 1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry, page 66:
text: Argent, a fesse undé gules; […]
ref: 1898, Edward Singleton Holden, A Primer of Heraldry for Americans, page 109:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Waving or wavy; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.
nemathecia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nemathecium
nemathecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nemathecia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νῆμα (nêma, “thread”) (compare nemato-) + θήκη (thḗkē, “sheath”) + -ium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments that separate into tetraspores.
debellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin dēbellātiō (“total defeat”), from dēbellō (“conquer, subjugate”).
Senses: glosses: The act of conquering or subjugation in war.
examples: text: Strupp goes on to speak of transfer of territory ‘by annexation after debellation’.
ref: 1951, Hersch Lauterpacht, editor, Annual Digest and Reports of Public International Law Cases […] Year 1946, →ISBN, page 189:
text: This time, the arguments of those who favored the total debellation of the defeated adversary were again defeated […]
ref: 2009, Michael Howard, “Preface”, in The Making of Peace: Rulers, States, and the Aftermath of War, →ISBN, page xii:
text: They exclude […] wars that resulted in surrender or “debellation,” in which one side is completely vanquished […]
ref: 2017, Michael J. Glennon, “How Not To End War”, in The Lawfare Book Review, page 7:
synonyms: debellatio
qualifier: international law
glosses: The annihilation of a sovereign state through its complete destruction in a war.
unlap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlaps
form: unlapping
form: unlapped
form: unlapped
Etymology: From un- + lap.
Senses: glosses: To unfold or unroll.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
antonyms: lap
glosses: To overtake the leader in a race in order to no longer be lapped (one or more complete laps behind the leader).
unlapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unlap
unlapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the cat's unlapped saucer of milk
glosses: Not having been lapped or licked at.
examples: the last remaining unlapped driver
glosses: Not having been overtaken by a lap in a race.
unlapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unlap
unlaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unlap
unshaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shaked.
Senses: examples: text: […] The heavens hold firm
The walls of thy dear honour, keep unshaked
That temple, thy fair mind, that thou mayst stand,
To enjoy thy banish’d lord and this great land!
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: 1620, John Donne, Fifty Sermons, Volume 2, London: M.F., J. Marriot and R. Royston, 1649, Sermon 30, “Preached to the Countesse of Bedford […] , January 7, 1620,” p. 264,
[…] he hath digested the worst, he hath considered Death it selfe, and therefore his resolution stands unshak’d […] Though he dy for it, yet he will trust in God.
glosses: Unshaken.
defigure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: defigures
form: defiguring
form: defigured
form: defigured
Etymology: From de- + figure.
Senses: examples: text: These two stones as they are here defigured.
ref: 1631, John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments:
glosses: To delineate, to depict.
glosses: to disfigure
defigured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defigure
defigures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defigure
defiguring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defigure
encarnalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encarnalizes
form: encarnalizing
form: encarnalized
form: encarnalized
Senses: examples: text: encarnalize their spirits
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To carnalize
encarnalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encarnalize
encarnalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encarnalize
encarnalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encarnalize
factioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factioners
Etymology: From faction + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] as if all the Factioners had entered into such a seditious Conspiracy […]
ref: 1593, Richard Bancroft, Dangerous Positions and Proceedings...:
glosses: A member of a faction.
factioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factioner
niellist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niellists
Etymology: From niello + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who makes niello ornaments.
niellists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niellist
phocacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phocaceans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any species of Phoca; seal.
Hypernyms: phocid
phocaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phocacean
compunct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpʌŋkt/
Forms: form: more compunct
form: most compunct
Etymology: Latin compunctus, past participle.
Senses: glosses: Affected with compunction; regretful, remorseful.
fodderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fodderers
Etymology: From fodder + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who fodders cattle.
fodderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fodderer
intreatance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: courteous intreatance
ref: 1600, Chalres Estienne, Maison Rustique, Or The Covntrie Farme:
glosses: Alternative form of entreatance.
stratagemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stratagemical
form: most stratagemical
Etymology: From stratagem + -ical.
Senses: examples: July 11 1688, Jonathan Swift, A Tripos
stratagemical epistle
glosses: strategic; involving stratagem
unpleat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpleats
form: unpleating
form: unpleated
form: unpleated
Etymology: From un- + pleat.
Senses: examples: text: twist a lock of hair , or take a corner of your sleeve and pleat , unpleat , pleat , unpleat
ref: 1988, Miriam Arad, Randomalia:
glosses: To remove the plaits of; to smooth.
unpleated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpleat
unpleated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an unpleated skirt
glosses: Without pleats.
unpleating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpleat
unpleats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpleat
vicarship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicarships
Etymology: From vicar + -ship.
Senses: synonyms: vicarage
coordinate_terms: curateship
curacy
parsonship
parsonhood
rectorship
rectorate
priestship
priesthood
glosses: The office, position, or dignity of a vicar.
coordinate_terms: mentorship
proctorage
preceptorship
glosses: Government; guidance.
Related terms: vicarate
benefice
curatage
glebe
glebe-farm
glebe-house
parsonage
rectory
vicarships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicarship
isagogics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: That part of theological science directly preliminary to actual exegesis, or interpretation of Scripture.
disponers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disponer
incompliant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incompliant
form: most incompliant
Etymology: From in- + compliant.
Senses: synonyms: uncompliant
glosses: Not compliant.
Related terms: incompliantly
Jemlah goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jemlah goats
Senses: glosses: jharal.
augurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more augurial
form: most augurial
Etymology: Latin augurialis.
Senses: examples: text: That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:
glosses: Relating to augurs or to augury.
uncamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncamps
form: uncamping
form: uncamped
form: uncamped
Etymology: From un- (reversive prefix) + camp.
Senses: examples: text: If they could but now uncamp their enemies […]
ref: 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:
glosses: To break up the camp of; to dislodge from camp.
glosses: To pack up, and leave a camp
uncamp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncamp
form: most uncamp
Etymology: From un- (not) + camp (“effeminate”).
Senses: examples: text: As I write, big changes are in the offing for this long-established, uncamp, uncomplicated gay local.
ref: 2000, Edward Sullivan, Evening Standard London Pub Bar Guide 1999:
glosses: Not camp.
uncamped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] for this land of the north, outside of a few centers, has hardly been touched by the resorters, so vast are the uncamped and uncottaged stretches.
ref: 1933, William Henry Phelps, Ye Lakes and Hills of Michigan "We're with You Once Again", page 18:
glosses: Not camped upon; not having a camp.
uncamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncamp
uncamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncamp
uncamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncamp
elastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elastical
form: most elastical
Senses: examples: text: the Ferment was expanded to the extremities of the Arteries, if it still had any elastical force remaining
ref: 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
glosses: Archaic form of elastic.
Normanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Normanisms
Etymology: From Norman + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: But now we have Germanism enough to make us Philistines, and Normanism enough to make us imperious
ref: 1873, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature:
glosses: A Norman idiom; a custom or expression peculiar to the Normans.
antonyms: anti-Normanism
glosses: The (mainstream) belief that Kievan Rus was established by the Varangians.
Related terms: Normanist
Normanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Normanism
oppositifolious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See opposite, folious.
Senses: examples: text: an oppositifolious peduncle
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem.
overflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + flux.
Senses: glosses: an overflow; an overflowing or exuberance
unreformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + reformation.
Senses: examples: text: Yea, have not too many amongst us added to their unreformation an impudence in sinning?
ref: c. 1652, Joseph Hall, The Mourner in Sion (sermon)
glosses: Lack of reformation; state of being unreformed.
acrosporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acrospore + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: acrosporous fruit
glosses: having acrospores
Related terms: acrospore
disaccommodate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disaccommodates
form: disaccommodating
form: disaccommodated
form: disaccommodated
Etymology: From dis- + accommodate.
Senses: examples: March 19 1767, William Warburton, letter to Richard Hurd
I hope this will not disaccommodate you , for you may make an ample compensation for Trinity - term , by coming to town a Sunday or two earlier than you intended […]
glosses: To put to inconvenience; to incommode.
disaccommodated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disaccommodate
disaccommodates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disaccommodate
disaccommodating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disaccommodate
prewarn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prewarns
form: prewarning
form: prewarned
form: prewarned
Etymology: From pre- + warn.
Senses: examples: text: The credited testimony of Borden shows that Adams on October 12 prewarned him about the discharge and told him that the ground for the discharge would be the misshading of materials ( i.e. selecting materials for manufacture into a batch of shirts which were not of matching shades).
ref: 1971, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 889:
glosses: To warn beforehand; to forewarn.
prewarned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prewarn
prewarning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prewarn
prewarns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prewarn
spacially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spacial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Things, spacially, are either inclusive, thus originating the relation of containing and contained; or co-exclusive, thus determining the relation of position or situation
ref: a. 1856, William Hamilton, Philosophy:
glosses: Archaic form of spatially.
glosses: Misspelling of spatially.
inimicalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inimicality
inimicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inimicalities
Etymology: From inimical + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: So far, then, as this measure is concerned, I want to acquit myself of any charge of inimicality to the interests of this Territory, in favor of which the gentleman who is conducting this bill for the Committee of Ways and Means invokes the sympathy of the committee.
ref: 1854 March 17, The Congressional Globe, page 668:
text: What was at stake in this turf battle was more than personal inimicalities and nothing short of the possibility of subsuming politics under a general social science; for Duroselle as for American realists, this was a delusional prospect.
ref: 2016, Wiebke Keim, Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences:
text: The random outrages of the still at large anthrax letter mailer, or the now imprisoned John Allen Muhammed and John Lee Malvino, in and around Washington, DC during 2001 and 2002, show the ease with which individual inimicality virtually can paralyze numerous urban law enforcement agencies as well as monopolize the attention of the local and national mass media.
ref: 2008, Stephen Graham, Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics, page 128:
glosses: The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; unfriendliness.
nitroleum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nitrum (“natron”) + oleum (“oil”).
Senses: glosses: Nitroglycerine.
dotish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdəʊtɪʃ/
Forms: form: more dotish
form: most dotish
Etymology: From dote + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Right! why I think the man's dotiſh, or mad, you talk ſo plainly, ſure any one that is not out of their ſenſes may underſtand you.
ref: 1801, The jealous man convinced that he is no cuckold:
glosses: foolish
Derived terms: dotishness
premosaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more premosaic
form: most premosaic
form: Premosaic
form: pre-Mosaic
Etymology: From pre- + Mosaic.
Senses: glosses: Before the time of Moses.
trimorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimorphs
Etymology: From tri- + -morph.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance which crystallizes in three distinct forms, or which has three distinct physical states.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the three forms of such a substance.
Related terms: trimorphism
trimorphous
trimorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trimorph
elocutio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ēlocūtiō. Doublet of elocution.
Senses: glosses: One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the mastery of stylistic elements.
Related terms: dispositio
inventio
memoria
pronuntiatio
optical drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optical drives
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A drive that reads optical media.
Synonyms: optical disc drive
optical disk drive
Hyponyms: WORM drive
MO drive
MD drive
CD drive
DVD drive
HD DVD drive
Blu-ray drive
Coordinate terms: hard disc
hard disk
fixed disc
fixed disk
floppy disc
floppy disk
diskette
minifloppy
microfloppy
minidiskette
microdiskette
optical disc
optical disk
Related terms: floppy drive
floppy disk drive
floppy disc drive
hard drive
hard disc drive
hard disk drive
fixed drive
fixed disc drive
fixed disk drive
antiscorbutical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of antiscorbutic.
balancement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From balance + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The elder Geoffroy and Goethe propounded, at about the same period, their law of compensation or balancement of growth; […]
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Laws of Variation”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 147:
glosses: The act or result of balancing or adjusting; balance.
fiants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French fientes, plural of fiente (“dung”).
Senses: examples: text: [If] they aske him how hee calleth the ordure of an Hart, Raindeare, Gote, or fallow Deare, he shall answere that they are to be called the fewmet or fewmishings[…]Of other vermine or stinking chases, as Foxes, Badgers and such like, they are called the feance[…]
ref: 1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “Of the words and termes of hunting […] Chap. 37.”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, pages 97-98:
text: [Badgers] cast their fiants longer somewhat like a Fox[…]
ref: 1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “Of the nature and properties of a Foxe and a Badgerd. Chap. 66”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, page 184:
text: A man may know a dogge-wolfe from a bitch[…]the Bitche casteth hyr fiants commonly in the middest of an high way, whereas the dog casteth them on the one or other side of the path.
ref: 1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “How to hunt them [wolves]. Chap. 76”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, pages 215-6:
text: […]a Deeres Fewmets, a Bore, or Beares Leasses, a Hare or Conneys Crottores, a Foxe or a Badgers Feance, and an Otters aintes[…]
ref: 1630, John Taylor, “The Huntsmans-SHIP; or Woodman-SHIP, with her Squadron or Regiment”, in All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet […] , page 93:
text: And these sort of Badgers where they have their Earths, use to cast their Fiants or Dung in a small hole, and cover it, whereas the Dog-Badgers make their Fiants at a good distance from their Burrows, which are deep, with variety of Chambers, Holes and Angles.
ref: 1686, Richard Blome, “Hunting, part III, chapter XI, Hunting the BADGER.”, in The gentlemans recreation, page 89:
text: He seldom travels above a mile or two from home, and generally to open pastures, and feeding grounds, in which the dung of the Cattle being turned over, is a sign the Badger has been there; or when heaps of moss appear collected in Cover, the fiants of the Animal being also observed.
ref: 1818, John Lawrence, British Field Sports: Embracing Practical Instructions in Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Racing, Cocking, Fishing, &c., page 448:
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: The dung of the wolf, fox or badger.
misedition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miseditions
Etymology: From mis- + edition.
Senses: examples: text: […] a misedition of the Vulgar, which perverts the sense by making a wrong stop in the sentence […]
ref: 1649, Bishop Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience:
glosses: An incorrect or spurious edition.
Related terms: misedit
miseditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misedition
sanguifluous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sanguifluous
form: most sanguifluous
Etymology: From Latin sanguis (“blood”) + fluere (“to flow”).
Senses: glosses: Flowing with blood or bloodshed.
undeserver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undeservers
Etymology: From un- + deserve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself
Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm;
To sell and mart your offices for gold
To undeservers.
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 IV, scene iii]:
glosses: Someone who is not worthy.
Related terms: undeserving
undeservers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undeserver
emblemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emblema
water pox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of water + pox. Attested from the nineteenth century.
Senses: examples: text: Water pox. Varicella.
ref: 1801, Philipp Andreas Nemnich, Lexicon Nosologicum Polygloton:
text: Varicella (water-pox, stone-pox, wind-pox,) is said to be often epidemic at the period of the public vaccinations...
ref: 1839, “Heim on small-pox and vaccination in the Kingdom of Wirtemberg”, in British and Foreign Medical Review, volume 7:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A common childhood disease caused by virus; chickenpox, varicella.
kittlish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪtəlɪʃ/
Forms: form: more kittlish
form: most kittlish
Etymology: From kittle + -ish.
Senses: glosses: ticklish
glosses: bothersome; hard to deal with
misground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misgrounds
form: misgrounding
form: misgrounded
form: misgrounded
Etymology: From mis- + ground.
Senses: examples: text: a misgrounded conceit of greater holiness
ref: 1640, Bishop Hall, Christian Moderation:
glosses: To found erroneously; to base on invalid grounds.
glosses: simple past and past participle of misgrind
Derived terms: misgrounded
misground
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misground
form: most misground
Etymology: From mis- + ground.
Senses: examples: text: The storm broke on June 27, when the space agency disclosed that its multi-billion-dollar Hubble Space telescope, launched amid much hoopla in April, can't see straight thanks to a misground mirror.
ref: 1990, National Journal - Volume 22, Pages 1637-2042, page 1777:
text: According to Riordan the matter was subsequently resolved by returning the misground or unground products back to the grinders.
ref: 1994, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1078:
text: It is like claiming that the misground Hubble mirror with its correcting lenses is the “best possible design” because it gives clear pictures.
ref: 2007, Bora Zivkovic, The Open Laboratory: Best Science Writing on Blogs 2006, page 304:
glosses: Having been ground improperly.
misgrounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misground
misgrounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misground
misgrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misground
oxygon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxygons
Etymology: From oxy- + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An acute triangle.
oxygons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxygon
rubiretin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin rubeus (“red”) + Ancient Greek ῥητίνη (rhētínē, “resin”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the red dye products extracted from madder root, probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.
Related terms: english: possibly the same thing
translation: possibly the same thing
word: rubiacin
imbitterment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbitterments
Etymology: From imbitter + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of embitterment.
imbitterments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbitterment
forerank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreranks
Etymology: From fore- + rank.
Senses: examples: text: He was in the forerank of a crowd that gathered when Burke, a surfman, plunged from the east pier and dragged out a drowning boy
ref: 1925, Harold Titus, Age:
text: the forerank launched their spears, which Conor easily avoided.
ref: 2018, Stephen R. Lawhead, In the Region of the Summer Stars:
glosses: The first rank; the front row.
foreranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forerank
jubae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juba
neuropodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropodium
neuropodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropodia
Etymology: From neuro- + -podium, due to the nerve located on the ventral side of the parapodium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium
Related terms: neuropodial
notopodium
hemapodium
virgulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like a little twig or rod.
Related terms: virgate
whirlpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whirlpits
Etymology: From Middle English whirl-pit, whorllepyte, equivalent to whirl + pit.
Senses: examples: text: raging whirlpits
ref: 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:
glosses: A whirlpool.
whirlpits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whirlpit
wimbrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wimbrels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whimbrel.
wimbrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wimbrel
nagor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪɡɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈneɪɡɔː/
Forms: form: nagors
Etymology: From French [Term?], said to have been named by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, from earlier nanguer; compare Nanger.
Senses: glosses: The bohor reedbuck, Redunca redunca.
wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
nagors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nagor
fumigatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French fumigatoire.
Senses: glosses: Having the quality of fumigating.
fumigatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumigatories
Etymology: Compare French fumigatoire.
Senses: synonyms: fumigatorium
glosses: A consruction, such as a building or another contraption, that deals with fumigation.
vermiparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /vɜː(ɹ)ˈmɪpəɹəs/
Forms: form: more vermiparous
form: most vermiparous
Etymology: From Latin vermis (“a worm”) + parere (“to bring forth”), + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: vermiparous animals
ref: 1862, Richard Cresswell, Aristotle's History of Animals:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Giving birth to worms or grubs, such as various insects.
Jesuited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jesuited
form: most Jesuited
Etymology: From Jesuit + -ed.
Senses: examples: 1650, [John Milton], [Eikonoklastes]. […], A New Edition, Reprinted as Select Prose Works of Milton; Vol. II, London, Edinburgh, Dublin.: J. Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly et. al., page 113.
… [T]he pope's nuncio, and her jesuited mother here, may not be found in sight of God far greater hinderances to her conversion.
glosses: Conforming to the principles of the Jesuits; Jesuitised.
knight banneret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knights bannerets
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead troops under his own banner.
Synonyms: banneret
Hypernyms: mesne lord
knight
knights bannerets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knight banneret
brandisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brandishers
Etymology: From brandish + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who brandishes (e.g. a weapon)
brandishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brandisher
forfalture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forfaltures
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of forfeiture.
forfaltures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forfalture
nosopoetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nosopoetic
form: most nosopoetic
form: nosopoietic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) + ποιητικός (poiētikós, “producing”).
Senses: examples: text: I shall make a few Obſervations upon the Qualities of the Air , as far as they are Nosopoetick, that is , have a Power of producing Diseases
ref: 1712, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies:
glosses: Producing disease.
johannes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: johanneses
form: joannes
Senses: examples: 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. lxviii,
The current coins of Jamaica are Portugal pieces of gold, called the half johannes, valued at about 55s. currency each […]
glosses: An old Portuguese gold coin bearing a figure of John V of Portugal, in circulation 1722–1835.
Synonyms: joe
johanneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of johannes
debtee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛˈtiː/
Forms: form: debtees
Etymology: From debt + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: If a person indebted to another makes his creditor or debtee his executor , or if such a creditor obtains letters of administration to his debtor ; in these cases the law gives him a remedy for his debt by allowing him to retain so much as will pay himself
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
text: The debtee also relies on the debtor to be financially successful themselves to pay the instalments of the debt as necessary.
ref: 2022, Richard J. Britton, Romans and the Power of the Believer:
topics: law
glosses: One who is owed a debt; a creditor.
debtees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debtee
lego-literary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌliːɡəʊˈlɪtəɹəɹi/
Etymology: See legal and literary.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the literature of law.
water speedwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water speedwells
Senses: synonyms: blue water-speedwell
brook pimpernel
sessile water-speedwell
glosses: A kind of speedwell found in wet places in Europe and America, Veronica anagallis-aquatica.
jouk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jouks
form: jouking
form: jouked
form: jouked
form: jook
form: juke
Etymology: From Scots jouk.
Senses: examples: text: Dry stream channels descend the bare slopes into the valley floor, jouking this way and that to dodge tall extrusions of rock.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 205:
glosses: To duck, dodge; to evade; to swerve.
jouked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jouk
jouking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jouk
jouks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jouk
resinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From resin + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: resinic acids
glosses: Dated form of resinous.
tradeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tradeful
form: most tradeful
Etymology: From trade + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Ye tradefull Merchants that with vveary toyle, / Do ſeeke moſt pretious things to make your gain: […]
ref: 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XV”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, recto:
glosses: Full of trade; busy with commerce or involved in a large amount of business.
VPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of virtual private server.
glosses: Initialism of victim personal statement.
VPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The 12 teams in the Veikkausliiga are separated by 11 points, ascending perfectly in increments of one from last-placed VPS up to leaders HJK, giving the division the appearance of perhaps being the world’s most orderly league.
ref: 2015 May 5, Matias Frez, “Finland: The world’s most orderly football league?”, in CNN:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Vaasan Palloseura; a Finnish football club.
virtual private server
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virtual private servers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A virtualized server cohosted with other virtual server instances on the same hardware.
insalutary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insalutary
form: most insalutary
Etymology: From Latin insaluteris. Compare French insalutaire. See in- (“not”) + salutary.
Senses: glosses: Not salutary or wholesome; bad for health.
glosses: Not tending to safety; productive of evil.
omniscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin omniscius.
Senses: examples: text: I doubt not but Adam in the ſtate of integrity knevv more than Solomon, and yet I dare not pronounce him omniſcious, that being an attribute, (as is likevviſe Omnipotencie, ubiquity & eternity) individually proper to the Godhead, & incommunicable to any created ſubſtance, though meerely incorporeall, vvhether they bee the damned or the bleſſed ſpirits.
ref: 1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], “Touching Diverse Artificial Workes and Vsefull Inventions, […]”, in An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, […], →OCLC, book III, section 4 (Of the Use and Invention of the Marriners Compasse […]), page 265:
glosses: Omniscient; all-knowing.
epexegetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epexegetical
form: most epexegetical
Senses: examples: text: An epexegetical infinitive is an infinitive which depends on and limits an adjective. Example: difficult to imagine.
ref: 1974, Floyd L. Moreland, Rita M. Fleischer, Latin: An Intensive Course, University of California Press, page 12:
glosses: Relating to epexegesis.
hariali grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haryali grass
Senses: glosses: Cynodon dactylon, a kind of grass.
Synonyms: Bermuda grass