cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
recognosce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɒs/
Forms: form: recognosces
form: recognoscing
form: recognosced
form: recognosced
Etymology: From Latin recognoscere. See recognizance.
Senses: examples: text: the enemie must palle to come unto him , having timely recognosced the same
ref: 1637, Robert Monro, Monro, His Expedition With the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys:
glosses: To recognise.
advehent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In Nautilus this vena cava gives off at the level of the gills four branchial advehent veins, which pass into the four gills without dilating.
ref: 1891, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, Zoological Articles Contributed to the "Encyclop Dia Britannica", page 141:
text: The posterior renal advehent vein is formed by the union of a number of small branches bringing blood from the muscles of the pelvis, the caudal region and cloaca with its closely related organs.
ref: 1925, Studies in Natural History - Volume 11, page 15:
text: After birth, when the placental blood is cut off, blood is distributed in the liver by branches of the portal vein, which represent the advehent hepatic veins; it is collected again by branches which unite to form the revehent hepatic veins, or hepatic veins proper, and the latter open into the inferior vena cava.
ref: 1929, Frederick Randolph Bailey, Adam Marion Miller, Text-book of Embryology, page 231:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Carrying towards an organ or structure.
hoofless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hoof + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without hooves.
flickerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flickerers
Etymology: From flicker + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which flickers.
nonfuneral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + funeral.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a funeral.
flickerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flickerer
fleshlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fleshless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being fleshless; absence of flesh.
multibed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + bed.
Senses: glosses: Having or pertaining to more than one bed.
bums on seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "What's for sure is we've got to make sure people do take it up because it's only experimental and the funding for the evening service at least from Sirius Minerals is only for three years so we've got to make sure there are bums on seats within three years."
ref: 2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teeside rails”, in Rail, pages 60–61:
glosses: Alternative form of bums in seats.
nonkinky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + kinky.
Senses: examples: text: A Creole is expected to be light-skinned, if not nearly Caucasian in appearance, have dark but nonkinky hair, medium height, and a look of self-confidence.
ref: 1986, Virginia R. Domínguez, White by definition: social classification in creole Louisiana, page 207:
text: We saw the first glimpses of this during the feminist Sex Wars when nonkinky sex was sometimes disparaged as "vanilla."
ref: 2002, Alice Echols, Shaky ground: the '60s and its aftershocks, page 144:
glosses: Not kinky (in various senses).
lahmacuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lahmacun
cladists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cladist
wintersports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From winter + sports.
Senses: glosses: The sports that are traditionally played in winter, such as those involving snow.
snowbear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowbears
Etymology: From snow + bear.
Senses: examples: text: In the library a little girl reads about Little Bear and her adventure with a snowball that grows from being tiny to very big. She and her friends build a snowbear and snowhouse and then watch them melt down to a tiny size.
ref: 1995, Barbara Barstow, Judith Riggle, Beyond picture books: a guide to first readers, page 152:
text: “I think I'll just make a snowbear.” Betsy carefully kneeled down on the ground, making sure that her skirt was fanned out. She carefully piled the snow into a little mound.
ref: 2002, Sheila Gayle Fleming, A Very Berra Holiday, page 7:
text: I really like to build snowbears during winter. And celebrating the birth of Jesus is the very best part of all!
ref: 2007, Cindy Kenney, God's World & Me: Boz the Bear's Big Book of Bible Fun, page 33:
glosses: A figure of a bear made from snow in the style of a snowman.
snowbears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowbear
noncrumbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + crumbly.
Senses: glosses: Not crumbly.
pangas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panga
could be written on the back of a postage stamp
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Due to the very small size of a postage stamp. First use appears c. 1905. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: "That's the answer," he announced gleefully. "What you don't know about chickens could be written on the back of a postage stamp.
ref: 1905, “The Bird And The Bride”, in Poultry, volume 2, page 32:
text: Something classical that Annie couldn't immediately place, which was hardly surprising given that what Annie knew about symphonies could be written on the back of a postage stamp.
ref: 2008, Sam Baker, Deadly Beautiful:
synonyms: could fit on the back of a postage stamp
glosses: Something that is very small or limited.
bytalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-talk
Etymology: From by- + talk.
Senses: glosses: incidental conversation, chit-chat; small talk
lahmajo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lahmajos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lahmacun.
lahmajou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lahmajous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lahmacun.
lahmajoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lahmajouns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lahmacun.
pangi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The tree Pangium edule, which bears the football fruit.
lahmajos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lahmajo
lahmajous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lahmajou
lahmajouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lahmajoun
halfwittery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From halfwit + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Please don't judge others by your own halfwittery.
ref: 2007, Dr.H@l0nf1r£$, “Ping Sharron (youre going to love this one !)”, in alt.atheism.holysmoke (Usenet):
glosses: halfwittedness
bystreet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bystreets
form: by-street
form: bye-street
Etymology: From by- + street.
Senses: glosses: An obscure, private, or secondary street; a byroad or byway.
could fit on the back of a postage stamp
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of could be written on the back of a postage stamp.
synonyms: word: could be written on the back of a postage stamp
draughtsboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draughtsboards
Etymology: From draughts + board.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of draughtboard.
draughtsboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draughtsboard
bytown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bytowns
form: by-town
Etymology: From by- + town.
Senses: glosses: A subsidiary or subordinate town
glosses: A town that has its own name and postal code, but which is governed by another town
bytowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bytown
couchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From couch + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a couch.
jumperless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jumper + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without jumpers
garment
examples: text: Other integrated features you may want to look for in a motherboard are system monitoring and jumperless configurations.
ref: 2005, Chris Wolf, Erick M. Halter, Virtualization: from the desktop to the enterprise, page 44:
glosses: Without jumpers
.
qualifier: short lengths of electrical conductor for making temporary connections
occular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "Has it?" said Arthur, his eyes not wavering for a moment. "It has," said Ford with a similar degree of occular immobility.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 16:
glosses: Misspelling of ocular.
gurgler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gurglers
Etymology: From gurgle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, gurgles.
glosses: A toilet.
Derived terms: down the gurgler
gurglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gurgler
giggliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From giggly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Giggliness is really a form of nervousness, and who wouldn't be a little nervous when first moving into unfamiliar territory?
ref: 1978, Eleanor Hamilton, Sex, with love: a guide for young people, page 5:
glosses: The quality of being giggly.
nonposted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + posted.
Senses: glosses: Not having been posted (in various senses).
nonxenophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + xenophobic.
Senses: examples: text: We first select a reference level of racism prer that will be considered as the nonracist, nonxenophobic threshold.
ref: 2007, John E. Roemer, Woojin Lee, Karine van der Straeten, Racism, xenophobia, and distribution, page 38:
glosses: Not xenophobic.
nonterrorism
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + terrorism.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to terrorism.
noneditable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + editable.
Senses: glosses: Not editable.
nonedited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + edited.
Senses: glosses: unedited
nonamended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + amended.
Senses: glosses: unamended
torchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From torch + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking torches; (by extension) unlighted.
sealless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seal + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a seal (mechanism for closing off).
caveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cave + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without caves.
sealess
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sea + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a sea.
rotodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From roto- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: In which energy is continuously imparted to the pumped fluid by means of a rotating impeller, propeller, or rotor (unlike a positive displacement pump, in which a fluid is moved by trapping a fixed amount of fluid and forcing the trapped volume into the pump's discharge)
raw_tags: of a pump
bywork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byworks
form: by-work
Etymology: From by- + work.
Senses: glosses: Work done in addition to one's normal duties; subordinate or secondary business; work done on the side.
Related terms: bework
byworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bywork
sweaterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sweater + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Bundled up in this way I used to sit beside Katherine — in a silk blouse, sweaterless often, and the wind blowing over her in a steady stream.
ref: 1919, Mary Hallock Foote, The Ground-Swell:
glosses: Without a sweater.
bonfirelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bonfirelike
form: most bonfirelike
Etymology: From bonfire + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Changing firing practices — perhaps simply by placing the vessel facedown in the outdoor bonfirelike kiln — allowed the paint to fire black in a reduced atmosphere.
ref: 2003, Harry J. Shafer, Mimbres archaeology at the NAN Ranch Ruin, page 38:
text: He could see the men in the bonfirelike glow of the second Kiowa, which had slammed to earth just beyond the inner perimeter fence.
ref: 2006, Don Pendleton, Slaughter House, page 81:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bonfire.
montantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of montante
nonhilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hilly.
Senses: glosses: Not hilly.
bylane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bylanes
form: bye-lane
form: by-lane
Etymology: From by- + lane.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: back lane
hypernyms: byway
<
lane
way
coordinate_terms: bystreet
byroad
;
back street
back road
glosses: A secondary lane.
hypernyms: byway
<
lane
way
coordinate_terms: bystreet
byroad
;
back lane
back street
back road
glosses: A side lane or alley extending off a main road.
rumness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rum + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Oddness, strangeness.
rummies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rummy
byland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪlənd/
Forms: form: bylands
form: by-land
form: biland
Etymology: From by- + land.
Senses: examples: text: […] the "byland or peninsula" of Selsey.
ref: 1930, The Sussex County Magazine, volume 4, page 887
glosses: A peninsula.
Derived terms: forbyland
byblow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byblows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of by-blow.
attackee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attackees
Etymology: From attack + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: A realistic appraisal of the attackers shows that at least some of their arguments were just as emotional and "unscientific" as those of their attackees.
ref: 2001, John Willner, Leigh Westin, Edgar Cayce, The Perfect Horoscope, page 45:
glosses: One who is attacked.
assaultee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assaultees
Etymology: From assault + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is assaulted; the victim of an assault.
assaultees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assaultee
attackees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attackee
craquelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craquelins
Senses: glosses: A kind of Belgian brioche filled with flavoured nib sugar.
bybidder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bybidders
form: by-bidder
Etymology: From by- + bidder.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to bid at an auction in order to raise the prices for the auctioneer or seller.
Related terms: bybidding
craquelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craquelin.
bybidders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bybidder
by-blows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of by-blow
rumly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌmli/
rhymes: -ʌmli
Forms: form: more rumly
form: most rumly
Etymology: From rum + -ly.
Senses: examples: c. 1840–1850, Virgil's Aeneid, book v., translated by Thomas Moore
Thus rumly floor'd, the kind Acestes ran, / And pitying, raised from earth the game old man.
glosses: In a rum manner; oddly, strangely.
byblows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of byblow
bye-blows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bye-blow
oceanless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ocean + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an ocean.
Synonyms: sealess
shuttable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shut + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being shut.
Synonyms: closeable
offendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more offendable
form: most offendable
Etymology: From offend + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being offended.
Derived terms: unoffendable
insultable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insultable
form: most insultable
Etymology: From insult + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being insulted.
Derived terms: uninsultable
nonurea
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + urea.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to urea.
nonurgency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + urgency.
Senses: glosses: Absence of urgency; the quality of being nonurgent.
uncompostable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + compostable.
Senses: glosses: Not compostable.
postable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being posted (in various senses).
moonshees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonshee
nonexploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + exploitation.
Senses: glosses: Absence of exploitation.
antimanufacturing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimanufacturing
form: most antimanufacturing
Etymology: From anti- + manufacturing.
Senses: glosses: Opposing manufacturing.
lifecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From life + casting.
Senses: glosses: The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
lifecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of life + broadcasting
Senses: glosses: The broadcasting of events in one's life to the Internet, especially by means of a webcam.
Related terms: livecast
bizjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bizjets
Etymology: From biz + jet, from business jet.
Senses: glosses: A relatively small jet aircraft designed for transporting groups of businesspeople or wealthy individuals.
bizjets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bizjet
dorps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorp
Gift Aid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A policy that enables charities to reclaim the income tax on donations from taxpayers.
meerschaums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meerschaum
white knight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white knights
form: white-knight
form: whiteknight
Senses: examples: text: Forget about one possible white knight for Potash. Vale, the big Brazilian mining company, denied on Monday afternoon that it was in talks to acquire the giant Canadian fertilizer company.
ref: 2010 August 23, “Vale Denies It Is Potash's White Knight”, in NY Times DealBook:
topics: business
coordinate_terms: black knight
grey knight
glosses: An individual or corporation that intends to acquire another company in order to avert a hostile takeover.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
antonyms: black knight
glosses: A hero, savior, or righteous individual.
examples: text: After hearing her version of events, Lt. Wright assumed the role of white knight. He demanded that she file a formal complaint. She demurred, so the next day, over her objection, he alerted the academy.
ref: 2013 July 26, James Taranto, “A Strange Sort of Justice at West Point”, in The Wall Street Journal:
glosses: Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.
glosses: Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.
A man who defends a woman in debate etc. in an attempt to gain her favour.
synonyms: doormat
simp
glosses: A mushroom of species Tricholoma album.
examples: text: The white knight is attacking the pawn on e4.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, knight.
white knight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: white knights
form: white knighting
form: white knighted
form: white knighted
form: white-knight
form: whiteknight
Senses: glosses: To unnecessarily defend someone, especially in an attempt to gain favour.
Related terms: black knight
knight in shining armor
♘
Kurdishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kurdish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Kurdish.
dysfunctionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dysfunctionally
form: most dysfunctionally
Etymology: From dysfunctional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “I’m hoping I can be strong enough not to be hit by that ton of bricks, not to become dysfunctionally sad,” said Ms. Cafritz, 62, as she sat on a couch in her temporary home this week.
ref: 2009 August 8, Rachel L. Swarns, “In Collection’s Ashes, a Heritage’s Seeds”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a dysfunctional manner.
Visigothic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪz.ɪˈɡɒθ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌvɪz.ɪˈɡɑ.θɪk/
rhymes: -ɒθɪk
Etymology: From Visigoth + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Visigoths.
cordlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cordless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being cordless; absence of a cord.
metalworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalwork
metalworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalworks
Etymology: From metal + works.
Senses: glosses: A factory where metal is processed.
Hyponyms: brassworks
bronzeworks
copperworks
ironworks
steelworks
Coordinate terms: sense: type of works
word: works § Hyponyms
supersexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersexed
form: most supersexed
Etymology: From super- + sexed.
Senses: glosses: Having a high sex drive.
supermodelesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermodelesque
form: most supermodelesque
Etymology: From supermodel + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: The supermodelesque mulatto woman licked her lips and smiled invitingly.
ref: 2004, Arthur Herzog, Jr, Icetopia, page 78:
glosses: Looking like a supermodel.
Related terms: modelesque
diamantaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdiːəmɒnˈtɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: diamantaires
Etymology: Borrowed from French diamantaire.
Senses: glosses: An expert in the cutting of diamonds into gems.
glosses: A member of a successful diamond-dealing family or group.
diamantaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamantaire
sheroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shero
fundis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundi
booster cables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booster cable
book-learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book learning
Senses: examples: text: They are like some wise men, who, learning to know each planet by its Latin name, have quite forgotten such small heavenly constellations as Charity, Forbearance, Universal Love, and Mercy, […] and who, looking upward at the spangled sky, see nothing there but the reflection of their own great wisdom and book-learning.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 29.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 97:
text: What you needed, I reckon, was less book learning and more bread-and-butter learning.
ref: 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XI, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, page 117:
text: That's what college ought to be for, instead of for turning out a lot of B.A.s, so chock full of book-learning and vanity that there ain't room for anything else.
ref: 1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “A Wedding at the Stone House”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC, page 359:
glosses: Theoretical or academic knowledge acquired by reading books or through formal education, as opposed to practical or empirical knowledge of real life and the real world, gained through experience, or natively as street smarts, common sense, or intuition.
Synonyms: book knowledge
booklore
reading knowledge
Related terms: book smart
book-teaching
book learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What you needed, I reckon, was less book learning and more bread-and-butter learning.
ref: 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XI, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, page 117:
text: Harry's education has included book learning and practical learning, but he's been absorbing the lessons of the heart as well—kindness, courage, loyalty, and the virtue that Dumbledore places above all others: love.
ref: 2005 July 18, Alexandra Mullen, “Book Review: Harry, Conquering Hero”, in New York Sun, retrieved 31 Aug 2010:
glosses: Alternative form of book-learning.
booklore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book lore
form: book-lore
Etymology: From Middle English boclore, from Old English bōclār (“booklore, learning”), equivalent to book + lore.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of book-learning.
synonyms: word: book-learning
glosses: Factual information concerning books, for example regarding such matters as authors and the history of publication and printing.
book lore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of booklore.
book-lore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of booklore.
misocapnist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misocapnists
Etymology: From miso- + capno- (stem of Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”)) + ist.
Senses: examples: text: He was followed by a disputatious gentleman, who had the temerity to maintain before the royal misocapnist (the Counterblast had not as yet issued from the monarch's lips, but his anti-nicotian prejudices were well known,) the thesis, that "tobacco must needs be good;" proceeding to his proof "by enumeration or induction, because Kings, Princes, Nobles, Earles, Lords, Knights, Gentlemen of all Countries and Nations, reckoning a number, loved it."
ref: 1864, “Visit of King James to Oxford in 1605: Tobacologia: Date of "Macbeth"”, in Notes and Queries:
text: The frontispiece to the first of these books, engraved on steel with much delicacy by Davenport, is so carefully drawn, and displays such refinement of humour, that it might be ascribed to Wilkie or Smirke; and in Knickerbocker, George could hardly then have become a misocapnist when he limned with such intense gusto the "Pipe-Plot," with its group of smoke-compelling burghers, or the "Death of Walter the Doubter," where his lymphatic Excellency, lungs and pipe exhausted together, exhales his peaceful soul in the last whiff of canaster!
ref: 1972, William Bates, George Cruikshank: the artist, the humorist, and the man, with some account of his brother Robert, →ISBN:
glosses: One who hates tobacco smoke.
misocapnist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misocapnist
form: most misocapnist
Etymology: From miso- + capno- (stem of Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”)) + ist.
Senses: examples: text: As smoking in misocapnist North America is declining, cigarettes are cheap and plentiful in Korea.
ref: 2003, K. Lee Washington, A Jewel Amid the Yellow Dust - K.O.R.E.A., →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Hating tobacco smoke.
Synonyms: misocapnic
canaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æstə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Dutch kanaster, from Spanish canastro (“basket”). Doublet of canister and knaster.
Senses: examples: text: The frontispiece to the first of these books, engraved on steel with much delicacy by Davenport, is so carefully drawn, and displays such refinement of humour, that it might be ascribed to Wilkie or Smirke; and in Knickerbocker, George could hardly then have become a misocapnist when he limned with such intense gusto the "Pipe-Plot," with its group of smoke-compelling burghers, or the "Death of Walter the Doubter," where his lymphatic Excellency, lungs and pipe exhausted together, exhales his peaceful soul in the last whiff of canaster!
ref: 1972, William Bates, George Cruikshank: the artist, the humorist, and the man, with some account of his brother Robert, →ISBN:
synonyms: knaster
qualifier: tobacco
glosses: Coarse, dried tobacco leaves.
misocapnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misocapnic
form: most misocapnic
Etymology: From miso- + capno- (stem of Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”)) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: After dinner the party adjourned to the drawing-room, where "the Doctor began to feel certain cravings for the stimulating fumes of his beloved pipe." The lady of the house, on the alert, caught the half whispered word, and at once interposed her veto. . . . This was not the only occasion, it may be imagined, on which the doctor suffered from the misocapnic prejudices of a fair hostess.
ref: 1860, Notes & Queries, July-December, "Dr. Parr and Tobacco", page 12:
text: All the civilised world is behindhand touching tobacco. It has, like the Quaker's historical dog, gotten a bad name. One-idea'd hygeists, followers of the "Misocapnic Solomon," have persuaded the world that it is a slow poison.
ref: 1863, Sir Richard Francis Burton, chapter 2, in Wanderings in West Africa:
glosses: Disliking smoking and tobacco smoke.
Related terms: misocapnist
plexi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plexis
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A Plexiglas guitar.
plexure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plexures
Etymology: See plexus.
Senses: examples: text: Their social branch the wedded plexures rear
ref: 1735, Henry Brooke, Universal Beauty:
glosses: The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together.
plexis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plexi
vagabondism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vagabondisms
Etymology: From vagabond + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Vagabondage.
obvolves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obvolve
obvolvent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɑbˈvɑl.vənt/
Forms: form: more obvolvent
form: most obvolvent
Etymology: From Latin obvolvēns/obvolvō.
Senses: examples: text: Hypopygium of ♂♂ remarkably and conspicuously large, in form of an oval, box-like structure, with tergite 9 and anal lobes constituting the lid, but the tergite itself immovably united on each side basally to sternite 9; latter sternite enormously developed and also as described for this species, boat-like, shell-like, keeled below, with a projecting process or prong on each side postero-dorsally, posteriorly vertically deeply incised (V-shaped), the upper angles or corners of the incision (or posterior angles of sides of sternite 9) prominent, rounded, or broadly projecting upwards under the apical part of posterior lateral lobes of lid-like tergite 9 (this latter condition described by me for the type-species gaerdesi (Hesse 1972: 162, fig. 6 right) as an obvolvent structure connected or fused to tergite 9 may probably not be united to tergite 9 at all, for it could not be seen as an unconnected structure in the old dried ♂ holotype)
ref: 1974 May 24, A. J. Hesse, “A NEW SOUTH AFRICAN REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SOUTH WEST AFRICAN GENUS NAMIBIMYDAS HESSE (DIPTERA: MYDAIDAE), WITH SOME ECOLOGICAL NOTES ON THE HABITS OF THE SPECIES”, in Annals of the South African Museum, volume 66:
text: […] Intervals weakly convex, deeply, rugose with coarse contiguous punctures; sutural costae raised, smooth, glabrous, very finely, sparsely punctate; humeral calla noticeably tumid, glabrous, anteriorly abruptly obvolvent […] Humeri glabrous, smooth, abruptly obvolvent
ref: 2007, DA La Rue, “A New Species of Pleocoma Leconte from California (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Pleocomidae)”, in The Coleopterists Bulletin, BioOne:
text: Eggs mainly locate at the inside of leaf sheaths of the second and third segments near the ground of the corn plants of which the haulm is slimmer and the obvolvent of the leaf sheath is not tight, which can account for more than 80% of oviposition amount.
ref: 2014, Method for Controlling Pests, Derong Ding, Jie Pang, Chao Han, US Patent application 20140242048A1
glosses: Curved downward or inward.
obvolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒbˈvɒlv/
ipa: /ɑbˈvɑlv/
rhymes: -ɒlv
Forms: form: obvolves
form: obvolving
form: obvolved
form: obvolved
Etymology: From Latin obvolvō.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To enfold or wrap around; to cover by wrapping.
circumduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of circumduce
circumduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circumduces
form: circumducing
form: circumduced
form: circumduced
Etymology: See circumduct.
Senses: examples: text: But come, Dominie, I have allowed you a competent space to express your feelings. I must circumduce the term; you must let me proceed in my examination.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.
Derived terms: circumduction
diduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diduces
form: diducing
form: diduced
form: diduced
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: diduce
form: diduce
form: diduced
form: diduce
form: diducest
form: diduced
form: diducedst
form: diduces
form: diduceth
form: diduced
form: diduce
form: diduced
form: diduce
form: diduced
form: diduce
form: -
form: diducing
form: diduced
Senses: examples: text: [T]hoſe principles or firſt poſitions, have no diſcordance with that reaſon, which draweth downe and diduceth the inferiour poſitions.
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 110, verso:
text: Laſtly, One way more there may be of miſtake, at that not unuſuall among us, grounded upon a double compute of the year; the one beginning from the 25 of March, the other from the day of our birth unto the ſame again, which is the naturall account. Now hereupon many men frequently miſcaſt their daies; for in their age they diduce the account not from the day of their birth, but the year of our Lord, wherein they were born.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Great Climactericall Year, that is, Sixty Three”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 4th book, page 187:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of deduce.
accumbant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: reclining (at meals)
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: lying against the radicle of a seed
obduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obduces
form: obducing
form: obduced
form: obduced
Etymology: From Latin obducere, obductum; ob (see ob-) + ducere (“to lead”).
Senses: examples: text: Animal exhibits its Face in the native colour of its Skin but Man; all others are covered with Feathers, or Hair, or a Cortex that is obduced over the Cutis as in Elephants and some sort of Indian Dogs.
ref: 1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind:
glosses: To cover.
subduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subduce
subduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /səbˈdjuːs/
/səbˈduːs/
Forms: form: subduces
form: subducing
form: subduced
form: subduced
Etymology: Latin subdūcō (“I remove; I withdraw”).
Senses: examples: text: But Suetonins Paulinus , who next was sent hither , esteem'd a Souldier equall to the best in that age , for two years together went on prosperoully ; both confirming what was got , and subducing onward
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 withdraw; to take away.
examples: text: If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should by the Operation of the Understanding subduce ten.
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct, to subtract
Related terms: subduct
superduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: superduces
form: superducing
form: superduced
form: superduced
Senses: examples: text: Their will has had no part in the matter but that of meeting the necessities of the moment by the contrivances of the moment, which contrivances, if in sufficient conformity to the national feelings and character, commonly last, and by successive aggregation constitute a polity, suited to the people who possess it, but which it would be vain to attempt to superduce upon any people whose nature and circumstances had not spontaneously evolved it.
ref: 1787, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, The Federalist Papers, page 328:
text: Two opposite states superduce the same passioning—sadness of emotion, satedness of enjoyment, weariness of thought.
ref: 1846, Social Influences; or Villiers. [Signed, Proteus.], Vol. 2, page 131:
text: […]As Augustine therefore believed that to superduce a second wife, was to take a second wife whilst the first was still alive […]
ref: 1869, A Vindication of the law prohibiting Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister, page 51:
glosses: to superinduce
attrahent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăʹtrəhənt
ipa: /ˈætɹəhənt/
Etymology: From attrahent-, the stem of the Latin attrahēns (“drawing, pulling, or dragging to or toward with force”; “drawing”, “alluring”, “leading”, “bringing”, “moving”, “attracting”), the present active participle of attrahō (“I draw, pull, or drag to or toward with force”; “I draw, allure, lead, bring, move, attract”), on whose perfect passive participial stem the English verb attract is modelled.
Senses: examples: text: The humours, which easily follow the attrahent medicament.
ref: 1661, Robert Lovell, A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page 518:
glosses: That attracts; drawing, attracting.
attrahent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăʹtrəhənt
ipa: /ˈætɹəhənt/
Forms: form: attrahents
Etymology: From attrahent-, the stem of the Latin attrahēns (“drawing, pulling, or dragging to or toward with force”; “drawing”, “alluring”, “leading”, “bringing”, “moving”, “attracting”), the present active participle of attrahō (“I draw, pull, or drag to or toward with force”; “I draw, allure, lead, bring, move, attract”), on whose perfect passive participial stem the English verb attract is modelled.
Senses: examples: text: The motion of steel to its attrahent.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica, or Confest Ignorance the Way to Science (2nd ed. of The Vanity of Dogmatizing, 1661), chapter 15, page 127
text: Attrahents are the same with what we otherwise call drawers, ripeners, maturantia, etc.
ref: 1786, Ephraim Chambers, “Rees”, in Cyclopædia; or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences:
glosses: An attrahent agent; something that attracts.
fulmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfʌlmən/
Forms: form: fulmina
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fulmen.
Senses: glosses: A thunderbolt.
glosses: An artistic or graphic representation of a thunderbolt.
Related terms: brutum fulmen
contrahent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin contrahens.
Senses: examples: a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon
the one suiting with the one party contrahent ; the other with the other
glosses: Entering into covenant; contracting.
contrahent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrahents
Etymology: From Latin contrahens.
Senses: glosses: One of the parties entering into a contract.
retrahent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Serving to draw something backward.
Related terms: retrahens
retraxit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retraxits
Etymology: From Latin retraxit (“[he] has withdrawn”), inflection of retraho (“[I] withdraw”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A dismissal with prejudice based on a plaintiff's withdrawal of the suit.
Synonyms: withdraught
Hypernyms: dismissal
ruling
Related terms: nonsuit
solidum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solidums
form: solida
Etymology: From Latin solidum. Doublet of solid.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The die of a pedestal.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A complete sum.
Related terms: singuli in solidum
conquire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conquires
form: conquiring
form: conquired
form: conquired
Etymology: From Latin conquiro.
Senses: examples: text: But here is one, of whom ich will conquire, Whilk way che might attain to my desire.
ref: 1567, Unknown, Liberality and Prodigality:
text: R.: The U.S. wants to conquire the whole world. U.S.: That is not so, we do not want to conquire the world
ref: 1969, The Association of Social Studies Teachers in the City of New York, Handbook for Social Studies Teaching, 3rd edition:
glosses: Obsolete form of conquer.
systema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪsˈteɪmə/
rhymes: -eɪmə
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian систе́ма (sistéma), with spelling likely influenced by system. Doublet of system.
Senses: glosses: A Russian martial art, first appearing in the 1990s, involving a wide variety of fighting styles, including hand-to-hand combat, grappling, knife-fighting and firearms (with the specific elements usually dictated by the individual school).
evertor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evertors
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle that everts or turns outward.
feverously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more feverously
form: most feverously
Etymology: From feverous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a feverous way.
Synonyms: feverishly
flatshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatshares
Etymology: From flat + share.
Senses: glosses: An arrangement in which two or more people share a flat (apartment building).
flatshares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatshare
flattenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flatten + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being flattened.
Derived terms: unflattenable
aphrodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.fɹəʊ.daɪt/
Forms: form: afrodite
Etymology: From stem of Ancient Greek ἀφρός (aphrós, “sea foam, froth”) (for its supposed resemblance) + -ite. This coining matches not only the name of the goddess, but also the popular folk etymology for her by the Ancient Greeks.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft and earthy mineral of a white or yellowish color, and with a waxy lustre, found at Langbanshytta in Sweden. It is a hydrated silicate of magnesia, and resembles meerschaum.
Synonyms: stevensite
Hypernyms: smectite
pimelite
reinform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinforms
form: reinforming
form: reinformed
form: reinformed
form: re-inform
Etymology: From re- + inform.
Senses: glosses: To inform again.
reinforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinform
reinforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinform
reinformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinform
postscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: postscribes
form: postscribing
form: postscribed
form: postscribed
Etymology: From Latin postscribere.
Senses: examples: text: It was but mannerly in Bellarmine to postscribe two of his tomes with Laus Deo
ref: 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:
glosses: To make or add a postscript.
shaftless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shaft + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a shaft.
evolvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evolver
batterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more batterlike
form: most batterlike
Etymology: From batter + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of batter (flour-liquid mixture).
otterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more otterlike
form: most otterlike
Etymology: From otter + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an otter (animal).
Synonyms: lutrine
otterish
ottery
Derived terms: unotterlike
zootherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo- + therapeutic.
Senses: examples: text: Zootherapeutic uses of the cockroach, many still current and treated as folk medicine by most modern practitioners, are found worldwide.
ref: 2003, Marion Copeland, Cockroach, page 82:
glosses: Of or pertaining to zootherapy
zootherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zootherapeutics
Etymology: From zoo- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Any organism used therapeutically
ABC Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From their initial letters.
Senses: glosses: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean.
Related terms: BES Islands
Phillipines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Philippines.
unbriefed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + briefed.
Senses: glosses: Not having been briefed.
nonbriefed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + briefed.
Senses: glosses: Not having been briefed.
cute hoorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cute hoor + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the articles in this volume point to a culture of individusalism and ‘cute hoorism’ – where people try to get the political system to work for their own individual desires rather than for broad policy changes.
ref: 2007, McGrath & O'Malley, Irish Political Studies Reader, page 7:
text: On a positive note, the Rechthaberei culture has bred a society of remarkable, dogged fairness – the opposite of cute hoorism.
ref: 2010 August 21, Irish Times:
glosses: Cunning, trickery, cleverness, especially in negative sense: finagling, cynical self-interest.
mesen
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: /mɪˈsɛn/
Etymology: From Middle English myselven, my-selven, my-selvene, my selfen, variants of Middle English myself, mi-selfe. More at myself.
Senses: glosses: Myself.
Leibnizian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Leibnizian
form: most Leibnizian
Etymology: From Leibniz + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
exophoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exophorias
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: A form of heterophoria in which there is a tendency of the eyes to deviate outward.
Derived terms: exophoric