cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
servicemark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servicemarks
Etymology: From service + mark.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of service mark.
servicemarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servicemark
managed code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Source code that will execute only under Microsoft's Common Language Runtime.
unmanaged code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: source code that is compiled into native code for execution, rather than executing only under Microsoft's Common Language Runtime.
native code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native codes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: source code written in a code readable by the processor
Synonyms: machine language
native codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of native code
MSIL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Microsoft Intermediate Language.
kokum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kokam
form: kokan
Etymology: From Gujarati કોકમ (kokam) and Marathi कोकम (kokam).
Senses: glosses: A plant (Garcinia indica) in the mangosteen family with culinary, pharmaceutical, and industrial uses.
Synonyms: wild mangosteen
P/Invoke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Platform Invocation Services.
housesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houseful
housefathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housefather
warehouseful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warehousefuls
form: warehousesful
Etymology: From warehouse + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The typical honest business bankruptcy might arise like this: A manufacturer decides that long skirts are going to sell big and makes up a warehouseful. The season comes and the girls want short skirts. He can't move his inventory[…]
ref: 1999, Sidney Rutberg, Ten cents on the dollar, or, The bankruptcy game, page 11:
glosses: As much as a warehouse can hold.
warehousesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warehouseful
warehousefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warehouseful
weredog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weredogs
Etymology: From were- + dog.
Senses: examples: text: Weredogs dread the same things which vampires, viscera suckers, and witches fear. But weredogs and witches are especially afraid of the sting ray's tail.
ref: 1968, California Folklore Society, Western folklore: Volumes 27-28:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A shapeshifter who can change between dog and human form.
weredogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weredog
werecat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪəkæt/
ipa: /ˈwɛəkæt/
ipa: /ˈwɛɹkæt/
ipa: /ˈwɪɹkæt/
Forms: form: werecats
Etymology: From were- + cat.
Senses: topics: fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A shapeshifter who can change between cat and human form.
Hyponyms: wereleopard
werelion
weretiger
werecats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of werecat
werelion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪəlaɪən/
ipa: /ˈwɛəlaɪən/
ipa: /ˈwɛɹlaɪən/
ipa: /ˈwɪɹlaɪən/
Forms: form: werelions
Etymology: From were- + lion.
Senses: examples: text: She dies before Anita can explain that it's unnecessary; but in a scuffle, one of the werelions is mortally wounded, and Anita uses his death to call up her power.
ref: 2011, Candace R. Benefiel, Reading Laurell K. Hamilton, page 60:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A shapeshifter who can change between lion and human form.
Hypernyms: werecat
Coordinate terms: werelioness
werelions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of werelion
astorperious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæstə(ɹ)ˈpɪəɹi.əs/
Forms: form: more astorperious
form: most astorperious
form: asterperious
Etymology: After the Astor family.
Senses: examples: text: Too blamed astorperious. I just don't pay you no mind. Lay de skin on me!
ref: 1942, Zora Neale Hurston, A story in Harlem slang:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: stuck up; haughty
wikipedia: Astor family
crazedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crazedly
form: most crazedly
Etymology: From crazed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a crazed manner.
astonishedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more astonishedly
form: most astonishedly
Etymology: From astonished + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "For the buttons?"—and "Uncle" stares astonishedly at me—"for these buttons?"
ref: 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part II”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 147:
glosses: In an astonished manner.
Related terms: astonish
astonished
astonishing
astonishment
astoundedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more astoundedly
form: most astoundedly
Etymology: From astounded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an astounded manner.
aesthetasc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aesthetascs
Senses: examples: text: As coconut crabs live on the land, the aesthetascs on their antennae are shorter and blunter than those of other crabs and look more like those of insects.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A specialized organ used to determine the concentration and direction of a smell.
aesthetascs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aesthetasc
biclique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicliques
Etymology: From bi- + clique.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A special kind of bipartite graph where every vertex of the first set is connected to every vertex of the second set.
Synonyms: complete bipartite graph
bicliques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biclique
decrypters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decrypter
decryptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decryption
lookaside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lookasides
Etymology: Deverbal from look aside.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The technique of searching for something in a precalculated cache before attempting a more time-consuming search elsewhere.
Related terms: lookahead
lookaround
lookbehind
nonproportionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + proportionate.
Senses: glosses: Not proportionate.
unproportionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnpɹəˈpɔːʃənət/
Forms: form: more unproportionate
form: most unproportionate
Etymology: From un- + proportionate.
Senses: examples: text: I […] mocke at those rash spirits, who from the braverie of their hearts offer themselves to so unproportionate [translating disproportionnées] quarrels.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.1:
glosses: Not proportionate; disproportionate.
unennobled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ennobled.
Senses: glosses: Not ennobled.
unreachableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unreachable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unreachable.
Greater Manchester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: John Stalker, Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, England, was asked to go to Northern Ireland to investigate killings by security forces of six unarmed men in three separate incidents in a five-week period in 1982.
ref: 1991, Human Rights Watch, Human rights in Northern Ireland, page 71:
text: For example, of the thousand or so textile factories that survive in Greater Manchester, among the most tangible reminders of the country's leading role in the Industrial Revolution, only 100 (10 percent) are listed.
ref: 2001, Ismail Serageldin et al., Historic cities and sacred sites: cultural roots for urban futures, page 251:
text: In the post-family phase, growth rates are less than the national average, with a degree of localised growth in the industrial towns of Greater Manchester, West Lancashire and districts of North Cheshire though not in Merseyside.
ref: 2004, K.K.Sharma, Tourism and Regional Development, page 166:
glosses: A metropolitan county in northwest England comprising the cities of Manchester and Salford, and the metropolitan boroughs of Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. Greater Manchester borders Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Derbyshire
metropolitan county
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metropolitan counties
Senses: glosses: A county-level administrative division that covers a large urban area
Related terms: metropolitan borough
metropolitan district
metropolitan borough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metropolitan boroughs
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of a metropolitan county, having the status of a borough.
Salford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɒlfərd/
Forms: form: Salfords
form: Sawford
Etymology: From Old English sealh (“willow, sallow”) + ford (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8098).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP2828).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Port Salford
Salford Priors
Related terms: Salfords
Bury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɹi/
homophone: berry
homophone: Berry
homophone: bury
Forms: form: Burys
Etymology: The place name means "fort," from Old English burg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and burgh.
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL2883).
glosses: A place in England:
A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester.
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Brompton Regis parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref SS9427).
glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0113).
glosses: A place in England:
Ellipsis of Bury St Edmunds.
glosses: A village in Péruwelz municipality, Hainaut province, Belgium.
glosses: A commune in Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A municipality in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Estrie region, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Bury St Edmunds
Oldham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒldəm/
Forms: form: Oldhams
Etymology: Recorded as Aldehulme in the Domesday Book, the English toponym is named with Old English eald (“old”) + Old Norse holmr (“holm, islet”). Or else, the first element may be Old English Alda, a male given name, or the Cumbric/Proto-Brythonic equivalent of Welsh allt (“cliff”).
Senses: glosses: A town and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD922053).
glosses: A community in the Regional Municipality of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Boone County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A minor city in Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname.
Derived terms: Oldham County
oldhamite
Rochdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒt͡ʃdeɪl/
Etymology: From the River Roch + dale, although recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) as Recedham (homestead with a hall), which became Rachedal by 1195 (valley of the River Roch).
Senses: glosses: A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.
Stockport
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒkpɔːt/
ipa: /ˈstɑkpɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɒkpɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: Stockports
Etymology: From Old English stoc (“house, dwelling; place”) + port (“port; market town”).
Senses: glosses: A market town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8990).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A town in Columbia County, New York.
glosses: A village in Morgan County, Ohio.
glosses: A town in South Australia.
glosses: A city in Van Buren County, Iowa.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Delaware County, Indiana.
Tameside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪmsaɪd/
Etymology: From Tame (“river”) + -side.
Senses: glosses: A metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.
Trafford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtræfəd/
ipa: /ˈtrafəd/
Forms: form: Traffords
Etymology: From Old English træppe (“(fish)-trap”) + ford.
Senses: glosses: A metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Related terms: Mickle Trafford
Old Trafford
Trafford Park
Layton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪtn̩/
Forms: form: Laytons
Etymology: * (perseonal names): Derived from various place names in England.
Senses: examples: text: Here it was the province of an electronic harpsichordlike timbre (presumably from a laptop) and an electric bass, played assertively by Zach Layton and supported by the drummer, David Justh.
ref: 2007 December 1, Allan Kozinn, “That Same Old Beat, With Brand-New Choices”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2018:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Blackpool, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3237).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city on Long Key, Monroe County, Florida.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fountain County, Indiana.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sandyston Township, Sussex County, New Jersey.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Davis County, Utah.
Related terms: Laytown
Leighton
Leyton
laytimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laytime
sedater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: 2008, 31 Dec, by Sam Jones, in The Guardian, on the New Years Honours List
Robert Plant, the former Led Zeppelin frontman who has gone on to enjoy a sedater breed of fame through his duets with US bluegrass singer Alison Krauss, also receives a CBE. John Martyn, who immortalised his fellow singer Nick Drake in the song Solid Air, gets an OBE.
glosses: comparative form of sedate: more sedate
blipsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blipster
molossi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molossus
netputs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netput
modificative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modificatives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
modificative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more modificative
form: most modificative
Senses: glosses: modificatory; tending to modify
axifugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more axifugal
form: most axifugal
Senses: glosses: Centrifugal.
suppling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of supple
suppled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of supple
sotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sot
sotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sotted
form: most sotted
Senses: glosses: Stupefied, especially with liquor.
reshoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + shoring, after offshoring.
Senses: examples: text: Sleek Audio is part of a trend called reshoring, in which primarily small businesses decide that China is a hassle and that they want to bring their operations closer to home, where the recession has lowered costs, created workers eager for jobs, and made it easier to justify U.S. manufacturing.
ref: 2011 June 29, Sheridan Prasso, “Why we left our factories in China”, in Fortune, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2011:
glosses: The transfer of a business operation back to its country of origin.
Related terms: word: reshore
word: repatriation
Hayekian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hayek + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Except to Hayekian fanatics, it seems obvious that the coordinated global stimulus of 2009 stopped the slide into another Great Depression.
ref: 2011, Robert Skidelsky, The Keynes-Hayek Rematch:
text: Although Keynes focused on investment, not pricing decisions, the beauty contest analogy implicitly refers to the same key elements that govern departures from the Hayekian benchmark: forward-looking investment decisions which require agents to forecast future market conditions, complementarities that introduce a need to forecast other investors’ expectations, and the focus on stock markets in which there tends to be a significant and persistent common value component.
ref: 2025, Christian Hellwig, Venky Venkateswaran, “Dispersed information, nominal rigidities and monetary business cycles: A Hayekian perspective”, in Journal of Monetary Economics, →DOI:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the economic theories of Friedrich Hayek.
Hayekian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hayekians
Etymology: From Hayek + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: One morning in April, the S&P 500 jumped 6% after a viral rumour that Trump’s tariff policy was being paused – a rumour the Financial Times traced back to a pseudonymous X user named Walter Bloomberg, based in Switzerland, with no offline credentials whatsoever. A Hayekian might point out that the error was quickly corrected – the market dropped 6% again within the hour – but this was a manifestly stupid turn of events.
ref: 2025 October 2, William Davies, “A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0”, in The Guardian:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A proponent of the economic theories of Friedrich Hayek.
convexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This remarkable transfer of the convexion is to be taken, of course, in relation to the sun’s declination and that again in relation to the transfer of air from the northern to the southern hemisphere which is expressed in the heading of chapter VI of volume II.
ref: 1942, Napier Shaw, Elaine Austin, Manual of Meteorology, volume III, page 413:
glosses: Dated form of convection.
anteflexions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anteflexion
deflexions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deflexion
HillaryCare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hillarycare
form: Hillary-care
form: Hillary Care
Etymology: Blend of Hillary + healthcare, after Hillary Rodham Clinton, chair of the task-force that developed the plan.
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: chiefly derisive
glosses: The Clinton health care plan of 1993.
Related terms: ObamaCare
RomneyCare
libratious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more libratious
form: most libratious
Etymology: From Latin lībrātiō (“a hurling, swinging”), from lībrō (“poise, cause to swing”).
Senses: glosses: Characterized by libration.
glosses: Oscillating between intense emotions, moods, or thought.
Related terms: libration
I'm scared
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is scared.
natal clefts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natal cleft
Morea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin and Italian Morea, from Byzantine Greek Μορέας (Moréas) and Μωριάς (Mōriás), from μορέα (moréa, “mulberry”) either from its presence in the area or from a supposed resemblance of the shape of the Peloponnese to its leaves, used in sericulture.
Senses: examples: text: [...] and south to the towns of Pyrgos, from which a branch runs to Olympia, and Kyparissia, on the west coast of Morea.
ref: 1941 February, Voyageur, “The Railways of Greece”, in Railway Magazine, page 63:
glosses: Synonym of Peloponnese, a peninsula in Greece, particularly under Turkish rule.
synonyms: word: Peloponnese
extra: a peninsula in Greece, particularly under Turkish rule
glosses: A former polity in Europe.
glosses: An eyalet in the Ottoman Empire.
Derived terms: Moreot
Related terms: Moria
basileolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: băsĭlĭŏʹlətri
ipa: /basɪlɪˈɒlətɹi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βασιλε(ύς) (basile(ús), “king”) + English -latry (from the Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “worship”); compare basilean, basileiolatry, and basilolatry.
Senses: examples: text: Against the Byzantine Basileolatry.
ref: 1850, Dr Augustus Neander, translated by Joseph Torrey, General History of the Christian Religion and Church, III, page xvii:
text: Before the Reform Bill anything resembling the neurosis of English Basileolatry was even more completely unknown.
ref: 1938, Robert Briffault, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, pages 114–115:
glosses: basileiolatry
Morgana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
qualifier: Arthurian legend
glosses: Morgaine (Morgan le Fay).
obscurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obscurists
Etymology: From obscure + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the dramatist's obituaries treated him as an intellectual obscurist who never quite broke through to the general public; but his plays for ITV in the 1960s were seen by dozens of millions, part of the democratisation of drama that the new medium achieved.
ref: 2009 January 2, The Guardian,, “Mark Lawson: Big Brother's grandpa”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who creates ambiguous works.
obscurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obscurist
Proto-Kartvelian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Kartvelian.
Senses: glosses: The reconstructed ancestor of the Kartvelian languages.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Kartvelian terms
perishingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perishingly
form: most perishingly
Etymology: * from perishing + -ly
Senses: examples: text: The party was short of water and rationed, and such water as they first found was salty, so that they got perishingly thirsty.
ref: 1926, Charles Francis Saunders, Trees and shrubs of California gardens:
text: There were low groans of pain as the field plunged into the perishingly cold water.
ref: 2009 January 5, Matthew Weaver, “Our man in the ... Annual mud race in Essex”, in The Guardian:
glosses: extremely
condenscend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of condescend.
Centrelink
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From centre + link.
Senses: glosses: The statutory authority responsible for providing social security payments.
condescendest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From condescend + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of condescend
condescendeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From condescend + -eth.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of condescend
poverty trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poverty traps
Senses: antonyms: generational wealth
glosses: A self-reinforcing cycle which allows poverty to persist.
Related terms: wage slavery
rubiaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Rubiaceae + -ous
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the large and diverse family of flowering plants known as Rubiaceae.
augurship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: augurships
Etymology: From augur + -ship.
Senses: examples: 1880, Anthony Trollope, Life of Cicero, 2004, Kessinger Publishing, page 5,
The augurship would have bought him. “So pitiful,” says the biographer, “was the bribe to which he would have sacrificed his honor, his opinions, and the commonwealth!”
1900, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Evelyn Shuckburgh (translator), Letters to Atticus, 2.5 (XXXI): To Atticus at Rome, Tusculum, April 59 BC,
What I am expecting to hear from you is, what Arrius says, and how he endures being left in the lurch, and who are intended to be consuls—is it Pompey and Crassus, or, as I am told in a letter, Servius Sulpicius with Gabinius?—and whether there are any new laws or anything new at all; and, since Nepos is leaving Rome, who is to have the augurship—the one bait by which those personages could catch me!
glosses: The office (or period of office) of an augur in ancient Rome.
sotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sot
spring-beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring-beetles
Senses: glosses: click beetle
culd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of could.
cispersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cisperson
necklined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neckline + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Jackie was in what Slim had told her to be in, a trim, neat, unrevealing dark suit, with a high-necklined lime blouse underneath the suit coat.
ref: 2008, Jim Lehrer, Mack to the Rescue, page 113:
glosses: Having a specified kind of neckline.
silicononane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silico- + nonane.
Senses: examples: text: Silicononane is not acted on by nitric acid or caustic alkalis[…]
ref: 1931, William Henry Perkin, Frederic Stanley Kipping, Frederic Barry Kipping, Organic chemistry: Volume 1:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Silicon tetraethyl.
siliconizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of siliconize
siliconizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of siliconize
silicoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicosis
nonsiliconized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + siliconized.
Senses: glosses: Not siliconized.
nonsilicotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + silicotic.
Senses: glosses: Not silicotic.
nonsilicone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + silicone.
Senses: glosses: Not silicone.
uncabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cabled.
Senses: examples: text: Optical waveguide fiber is sold in both cabled and uncabled form.
ref: 1967, Bureau of National Affairs, International trade reporter: Decisions: Volume 8:
glosses: Not cabled.
uncabled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncable
inkspot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkspots
Etymology: From ink + spot.
Senses: synonyms: inkblot
glosses: A spot of ink.
Related terms: inkpot
blotter
inkspots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkspot
inkball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkballs
form: ink-ball
form: ink ball
Etymology: From ink + ball.
Senses: examples: text: The first tree I knew was an oak under which I played as a small child and gathered large inkballs that I used as marbles.
ref: 1946, William A. Murrill, Familiar trees:
text: I said that ink made from pokeberries was better than that made from inkballs. I said that inkballs on oak trees were scarce. All the other students laughed. They bought commercial ink at the stores.
ref: 1975, Jesse Stuart, My world, page 8:
glosses: The gall of an oak tree, used to produce ink.
examples: text: […]consider that this perfect work was done on a wooden press, that the form was inked by hand with inkballs or "daubers,"[…]
ref: 1977, Maurice Annenberg, A Typographic journey through the Inland printer, 1883-1900:
text: He turns to the inkstone and picks up by the handles the two inkballs, rolling the leather facings together to freshen the ink. […] As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.
ref: 2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A leather-covered dauber, stuffed with soft, resilient wadding, with a wooden handle, used to ink type forms for printing. A predecessor of brayers and self-inking presses.
inkballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkball
one-time pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-time pads
Senses: examples: text: One-time pads have been proven to be impossible to crack if used correctly.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of encryption where each bit or character from the plaintext is encrypted by a modular addition with a bit or character from a secret random key (or pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
Hypernyms: pad
sidecuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidecut
sidedishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidedish
traitours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traitour
terrours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terrour
donours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donour
manours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manour
ancestours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancestour
subdialectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From subdialect + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It should also be pointed out that, while the western group as a whole enjoys more prestige than the eastern group, numerous subdialectal differences exist within the West.
ref: 1980, Lawrence M. Foley, Phonological variation in western Cherokee, →ISBN, page 206:
glosses: Relating to a subdialect.
Derived terms: subdialectally
anchours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchour
anchours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anchour
warriours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warriour
planetside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From planet + -side.
Senses: examples: text: For Kincaid, that planet represented the chance to finally take part in a planetside assault out of the Marine legends on which he'd been weaned—a chance this mass butchery misnamed a war had offered in all too short supply.
ref: 2002, David Weber, Steve White, The Shiva option:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: On a planet.
Derived terms: planetsider
planetside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From planet + -side.
Senses: examples: text: EOS (HNS) - Dead Coming Home
The remains of colonists who died in the first attempts to settle Eos are coming home. Remains from Sites 1 and 2 have finally been recovered, giving closure to numerous families aboard the Nexus. There are now calls for an inquiry into why the bodies were left planetside after two failed attempts to establish outposts.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020, PC, scene: Nexus:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: On or to a planet.
Related terms: earthside
spaceside
censours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of censour
censours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of censour
ambassadours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambassadour
superiours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superiour
inferiours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inferiour
belchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛlt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: more belchy
form: most belchy
Etymology: From belch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It is characteristically burning and has a belchy feel because belching and alkalies relieve it.
ref: 1944, Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association: Volume 41:
text: Suddenly it is stiller, except for a belchy groan. Then a high whiny sound, gradually diminishing, a sort of shush, and finally all is quiet.
ref: 1975, Jill Wilson Cohn, Writing: the personal voice:
glosses: Pertaining to, or characterised by, belching.
unbeleaguered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + beleaguered.
Senses: examples: text: We had but one gate unbeleaguered, the Chapel Gate, leading to Choisy and the north-east. Now were we straitened for provender, notably for fresh meat, and men were driven, as in a city beleaguered, to eat the flesh of dead horses, and even of rats and dogs[…]
ref: 1896, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife:
glosses: Not beleaguered.
mayours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mayour
survivours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of survivour
unstraying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + straying.
Senses: glosses: Not straying; constant.
monitours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monitour
liquours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquour
liquours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of liquour
favoureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of favour
commentatours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commentatour
commentatour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commentatours
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of commentator.
augurships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of augurship
basilolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: băsĭlŏʹlətri
ipa: /basɪlˈɒlətɹi/
Etymology: Ancient Greek βασιλ(εύς) (basil(eús), “king”) + English -latry (from the Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía), latreia, “worship”); compare basileiolatry, basileolatry, basilic, and basilisk
Senses: examples: text: [Bp Samuel] Parker has been more than usually offensive in his Basilolatry (if we may coin a word), and [Andrew] Marvell says, “His Majesty” (it would seem) “may lay by his Dieu, and make use only of his mon droit.”
ref: 1876, Henry Kingsley, Fireside Studies I, “The Old-Fashioned Member”, page 261
text: The fact is that there is not in the Roman liturgy…any of the extravagant basilolatry which we find in the Book of Common Prayer.
ref: 1902, The Month, C, page 89:
text: Individualism…was not quite at its best in the self-righteous era of George the Third, and under the Establishment which was regulated by a now almost obsolete basilolatry.
ref: 1904, Louise Imogen Guiney, Robert Emmet, page 68:
text: His animus…led him to handle as self-evident fallacies the darling predilections of centuries of British basilolatry.
ref: 1904, Louise Imogen Guiney, Hurrell Froude, page 214:
text: Why Thomas Cromwell himself should have contrasted his “mean parentage” with his “high estate,” except out of sheer servility of spirit, out of what has been called basilolatry, the saving dread of the Tudors, is not apparent.
ref: 1914, Wilfrid Ward, editor, The Dublin Review, CLIV, page 250:
text: The ‘basilolatry’ or king-worship which came to disfigure the Prayer Book stands in marked contrast to the sober intercessions of the Roman liturgy of the period for both emperor and king.
ref: 1993, Aidan Nichols, The Panther and the Hind, page 24:
text: The calling of the Sanhedrin raised Grégoire’s concern about what he called Basilolatry, the attempt to deify a ruler.
ref: 2000, Richard Henry Popkin, “Grégoire’s American Involvements”, essay 8 in The Abbé Grégoire and His World, eds. Jeremy D. Popkin and Richard Henry Popkin, page 159
glosses: basileiolatry
cursours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cursour
unspiritualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspiritualized
form: most unspiritualized
Etymology: From un- + spiritualized.
Senses: glosses: Not spiritualized.
spillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spillable
form: most spillable
Etymology: From spill + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being spilled.
allouing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of allou
paganish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paganish
form: most paganish
Etymology: From pagan + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Nor can he be so little acquainted with the paganish theology, as not to apprehend a vast disagreement between this and that, and a much greater agreement between the paganish notion of the Deity, and his own.
ref: 1846, John Howe, Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A., page 158:
glosses: Pagan.
examples: text: Actually Godsmack has a lot of paganish songs because the lead singer Sully is Wiccan.
ref: 2016, Michele Briere, My Pagan World:
glosses: Somewhat pagan.
Derived terms: paganishly
favourest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: favour + -est
Senses: examples: text: Thou favourest man with knowledge and teachest a human being understanding.
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of favour
unjudiciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unjudiciously
form: most unjudiciously
Etymology: From unjudicious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unjudicious manner.
olisboi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olisbos
juiceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more juiceable
form: most juiceable
Etymology: From juice + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The Norwalk juices everything that is juiceable, including wheat grass and all leafy greens. You will get 1/3 to many times more, much tastier, pulp-free juice with far more nutrients.
ref: 1997, Yoga Journal (number 132, Jan-Feb 1997, page 102)
glosses: Capable of being juiced.
præfer'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Secondly because lowlinesse, and vndervaluinge humilite in the judgement of yᵉ Sage haue bin̄e allwayes præfer’d before high pride & ouertoppinge arrogance, wee thinke it most reasonable, for yᵗ for yᵉ better freedome of all mens sight, […]
ref: 17th Century, Thomas Tucker, quoted in Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana, volume I, page 20
glosses: simple past and past participle of præfer
coloureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: colour + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of colour
colourest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: colour + -est
Senses: examples: text: And blessed is thy radiance, whether thou
Colourest the eastern heaven and night-mist cool,
Till the bright day-star vanish, or on high
Climbest, and streamest thy white splendours from mid-sky.
ref: 1836, William Cullen Bryant, Poems, page 241:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of colour
endeavourest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: endeavour + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of endeavour
harboureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of harbour
colourfastness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colour fastness
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of colorfastness.
colourfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From colourful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colorfulness.
clamoureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: clamour + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clamour
harbourest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: harbour + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of harbour
clamourest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: clamour + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of clamour
discoloureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: discolour + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discolour
harborfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harborfronts
Etymology: From harbor + front.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of harbourfront.
harborfronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harborfront
nonfetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fetal.
Senses: glosses: Not fetal.
labourest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: labour + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of labour
Kimball
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kimballs
Etymology: From Old Welsh Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from Old English Cynebeald.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
examples: text: The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter I, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A placename
A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A city in Minnesota.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Kimball County, Nebraska.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A town in South Dakota.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A town in Tennessee.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A town in West Virginia.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A town in Wisconsin.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Kimball County.
Derived terms: County of Kimball
Kimball County
Related terms: Cymbeline
competitours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of competitour
phosphinyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphinyl
replieth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reply
shunneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shun
clangorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clangorous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being clangorous.
languorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From languorous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being languorous.
cursest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: curse + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of curse
acceptest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From accept + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of accept
conductours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conductour
confessours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confessour
Lucilian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lucilian
form: most Lucilian
Etymology: From Latin lūciliānus, from Lūcīlius + -ānus.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ancient Roman poet Lucilius Junior.
contributours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contributour
debtours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debtour
Nashian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nashian
form: most Nashian
Etymology: From Nash + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John Forbes Nash, Jr. (1928–2015), American mathematician and Nobelist, or his work.
glosses: Of or relating to Ogden Nash (1902–1971), American poet known for light verse.
nasheeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasheed
directours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of directour
Lindberghian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lindberghian
form: most Lindberghian
Etymology: From Lindbergh + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Each of us would have stood humbly before Dick for his courage and Lindberghian lack of bombast about a flight that is fraught with unknowns.
ref: 1984 November, Flying Magazine, volume 111, number 11:
text: One also observes that Disney and his people made shrewd use of satire by giving Mickey's hair a Lindberghian ruffle when he stands in his plane taking bows for his achievements.
ref: 1997, Richard Schickel, The Disney version: the life, times, art, and commerce of Walt Disney:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), American aviator who was the first pilot to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean.
Lindelöf spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lindelöf space
guruji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gurujis
Etymology: From guru + -ji.
Senses: glosses: A guru or spiritual teacher.
gurujis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guruji
recongregate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recongregates
form: recongregating
form: recongregated
form: recongregated
Etymology: From re- + congregate.
Senses: examples: text: But liberated from school, and away from the watchful eyes of parents and teachers, many students simply recongregated elsewhere.
ref: 2009 May 21, Julie Bosman, “Flu Closings Failing to Keep Schoolchildren at Home”, in New York Times:
glosses: To congregate again.
Related terms: recongregation
recongregating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recongregate
recongregates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recongregate
recongregated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recongregate
distributours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distributour
taxidermize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: taxidermizes
form: taxidermizing
form: taxidermized
form: taxidermized
Etymology: From taxidermy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: ONE of Edward Gorey’s deathless illustrations features an author, Mr. Earbrass, gazing at a taxidermized beastie in an antiques shop, wondering “why anyone should have had a fantod stuffed and placed under a glass bell.”
ref: 2009 May 21, Cintra Wilson, “Luxury in a Bell Jar”, in New York Times:
glosses: To preserve by means of taxidermy.
taxidermizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of taxidermize
taxidermized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of taxidermize
executours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of executour
nonsymbolically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + symbolically.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not symbolic.
exteriours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exteriour