cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
circumferenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circumference
littérateur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: littérateurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of litterateur.
suburbial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suburbial
form: most suburbial
Etymology: From suburb + -ial.
Senses: glosses: suburban
bootables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootable
sanctificating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sanctificate
sanctificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sanctificate
xanthides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xanthide
camphorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of camphorate
pleuronectiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Pleuronectiformes, or flatfish.
pleuronectiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleuronectiforms
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the order Pleuronectiformes (flatfishes).
sprogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sprog
sprogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sprog
AIVD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch AIVD, an abbreviation of Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst.
Senses: glosses: The General Intelligence and Security Service: the secret service of the Netherlands.
thieves in law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thief in law
oathbreach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈoʊθbɹiːt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: oathbreaches
form: oath-breach
form: oath breach
Etymology: From Middle English othbreche, from Old English āþbriċe, āþbryċe (“the breaking of an oath, perjury”), equivalent to oath + breach. Compare West Frisian eedbrek (“perjury”), Dutch eedbreuk (“breach of an oath”), German Low German Eedbröök (“the breach of an oath”), German Eidbruch (“the breaking of an oath”).
Senses: examples: text: To this list of deadly crimes, naming house-breaking, arson or fire-raising, open theft (ran), and clear murder and treason to one's lord, the Northmen seem to have added unnatural crime (arg-scap), witchcraft, blasphemy, and oath-breach, [...]
ref: 1886, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, F York Powell, Sigfred-Arminius and other papers:
text: Yet he calls him also a son of Constantine of Dunmonia, which is odd, seeing that the only direct reference of this primitive and melancholy father of British history to the West of England is the declaration with regard to oath-breach — [...]
ref: 1891, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and transactions:
text: This, like other regulations, was enforced by means of the oath which all members of the University were required to take,2 and any violation of which was oathbreach or perjury, and involved very serious consequences.
ref: 1927, David Murray, Memories of the old college of Glasgow:
text: As Wulfstan said, It is oathbreach, faithbreach, lovebreach Bring the invaders into the estuaries.
ref: 1963, Richard Wilbur, The poems of Richard Wilbur:
text: It is also interesting because of the litany in which the word appears, giving it a rhetorical prominence to which only a culture founded on the oath would give it, for adbrice means, simply, "oath breach," or "oath breaking."
ref: 2004, Jane Chance, Tolkien and the Invention of Myth:
text: Queen Elithe intervened in a sweet sing song voice 'Sire don't you think that the Oath breach can wait until the troll and goblin issue has been solved and put to rest, I'm sure Daffyd has a very good and sound reason for the Oath breach.
ref: 2006, Francis Dolan, Meg and Jen's Other World Adventures:
glosses: Breach or breaking of an oath; perjury.
Semipelagianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From semi- + Pelagianism.
Senses: glosses: A Christian theological and soteriological school of thought on salvation, holding that the beginning of faith (and therefore salvation) is an act of free will, while the increase of faith is the work of God.
Semipelagian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Semipelagians
Etymology: From semi- + Pelagian.
Senses: glosses: A believer in Semipelagianism.
Semipelagians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Semipelagian
Augustinism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Augustine + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The religious philosophy of Augustine of Hippo.
faithbreach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From faith + breach.
Senses: glosses: Breach of honour, faith, or loyalty; disloyalty.
metaproperty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaproperties
Etymology: From meta- + property.
Senses: examples: text: The metaproperties allow you to extract more information (such as relative position and namespace information) about XML nodes than is visible in the textual representation.
ref: 2002, Rahul Sharma, Microsoft SQL Server 2000: A Guide to Enhancements and New Features:
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A property of a property.
metaproperties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaproperty
propertying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of property
thioantimonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sulphantimonic acid
sulphantimonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical sulphacid of antimony, analogous to sulpharsenic acid.
Synonyms: thioantimonic acid
heretog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heretogs
form: heretoch
Etymology: From Middle English heretogh, heretoȝe, from Old English heretoga, heretoha (“commander, general”), from Proto-West Germanic *harjatogō, equivalent to here (“army”) + tow. Doublet of heretoga (borrowed from Old English) and herzog (borrowed from the German cognate Herzog (“duke”)).
Senses: glosses: The leader or commander of an army in Saxon times.
examples: text: In the time of our Saxon ancestors, as appears from Edward the Confessor’s laws, the military force of this kingdom was in the hands of the dukes or heretochs, who were constituted through every province and county in the kingdom.
ref: William Blackstone, volume 1
glosses: A marshal in Anglo-Saxon times
Related terms: heretoga
heretogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heretog
sorance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sore + -ance?
Senses: glosses: soreness; pain
conquassated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conquassate
succinuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid amide, analogous to succinamic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance by heating urea with succinic anhydride.
scutibranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scutibranchs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Scutibranchiata.
scutibranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutibranch
madrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madrone
madroña
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madroñas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of madrone.
pictoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pictoric
form: most pictoric
Senses: glosses: pictorial
Synonyms: pictorical
mental midget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mental midgets
Senses: examples: text: This mental midget was constantly blowing things up around the dorm.
ref: 2004, Dan Peek, An American Band, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: A stupid person.
mental midgets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mental midget
Aveiro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district in northern Portugal.
glosses: A city and municipality in Aveiro district, Portugal.
glosses: A municipality in Pará, Brazil.
Avis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A particular car rental company
tipitiwitchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipitiwitchets
Etymology: From Lenape titipiwitshik.
Senses: examples: text: He saw character in wasps, volition in tipitiwitchets, excitement in pine trees, order in bird migrations and glory in the heavens.
ref: 1978, David Scofield Wilson, In the Presence of Nature, page 100:
glosses: Venus flytrap.
Barcelos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barceloses
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Barcelos.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
Barreiro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barreiros
Etymology: Borrowed from Galician and Portuguese Barreiro.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city and municipality in Setúbal district, Portugal, on the south side of the Tagus opposite Lisbon.
glosses: A town on Maio, Cape Verde.
premediate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: premediates
form: premediating
form: premediated
form: premediated
Etymology: From pre- + mediate.
Senses: glosses: To advocate.
examples: text: Just as remediation insists on the inseparabiilty of reality and mediation — the reality of media, their materiality as objects of circulation within the world of humans and non-humans, of society and of things — so the concept of premediation insists on the reality of premediated futures, or, as I argue later in this chapter, on the reality of these virtual futures.
ref: 2010, R. Grusin, Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11, page 46:
text: But the cueing of atrocity memory through substitutional representation can also be deployed to premediate events– in other words to frame the story before the event even begins .
ref: 2013, Andrew Hoskins, Ben O'Loughlin, War and Media, page 1882:
text: Rather, by trying to premediate as many of the possible worlds, or possible paths, as the future could be imagined to take, premediation bears some affinities to the logic of designing a video game..
ref: 2019, W. Kang, G. H. Mead’s Concept of Rationality, page 86:
text: Both, however, premediate the future by naming the migration effects of climate change in advance of their occurring and, in doing so, at least partially ensure that, should such futures materialise, they will not register as unanticipated political emergencies but as fully anticipated outcomes of climate change.
ref: 2022, Andrew Baldwin, The Other of Climate Change, page 129:
glosses: To frame or mediate beforehand.
premediated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of premediate
premediates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of premediate
premediating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of premediate
calamistrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin calamistratus (“curled with a curling iron”), from calamistrum (“curling iron”).
Senses: examples: text: Webs of calamistrated silk are common in every house and shed in England, where spiders of the genus Ciniflo spin them in cellars, in the corners of windows, in crevices of gateposts and so on.
ref: 1952, Theodore Horace Savory, The Spider's Web:
glosses: curled or frizzed
boss rush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boss rushes
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:boss rush.
topics: video-games
glosses: A situation (sometimes an extra stage) in which the player faces all of the bosses of the game, one after another.
breakthru
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkθɹuː/
Etymology: From break + thru.
Senses: examples: text: a breakthru technological advance
text: The Breakthru Battalion
ref: 2010, Voris Weldon McBurnette, editor, The 108th Training Command, Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Alternative spelling of breakthrough.
breakthru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkθɹuː/
Forms: form: breakthrus
Etymology: From break + thru.
Senses: examples: text: The curfew decree comes as the latest of a list of steadily tightening home front controls ordered since the German breakthru in Belgium.
ref: 1945 February 20, “Byrnes Clamps War Curfew on Amusement”, in Tribune, Tribune:
text: A successful breakthru opens a "window of opportunity" to perform a variety of tactical maneuvers, many of which can leave the enemy at a disadvantage.
ref: 2012, “Breakthru”, in Axis and Allies, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2012:
glosses: Alternative spelling of breakthrough (advance through enemy lines).
examples: text: The role of aluminum native oxide breakthru was studied.
ref: 1998, Michael Engelhard, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Thin Film Materials, Processes (Technology and Engineering), The Electrochemical Society, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Tenuous breakthrus were made in the U.S.
ref: 2007, Stuart Ward, Strange Days Indeed: Memories of the Old World (Fiction), →ISBN, page 202:
text: New ZPE Breakthru—Magnetic Resonance Amplifier
ref: 2008, Paul A. LaViolette, Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion, Inner Traditions, →ISBN, page 477:
text: The have made the desert bloom … they have achieved more breakthrus in technology and in agriculture.
ref: 2008, Franz Ucko, My God Works Miracles for Me, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 201:
glosses: Alternative spelling of breakthrough (major progress, great innovation).
pieplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieplants
Etymology: From pie + plant.
Senses: glosses: A rhubarb of species Rheum rhaponticum, garden rhubarb.
pieplants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pieplant
ohunkakan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lakota ohúŋkakaŋ (“myth, story of the distant (mythic) past”).
Senses: glosses: Traditional Sioux evening stories.
pimbina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pimbinas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pembina.
pembina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pembinas
form: pimbina
Etymology: Likely from Canadian French pembina, pimbina, from Cree nîpiminâna or Ojibwe niibiminaa, an earlier form of aniibimin (“high-bush cranberry”).
Senses: glosses: Squashberry, lowbush cranberry (Viburnum edule).
examples: text: And so, from that time, whenever a woman went out to gather June berries or wild cherries, or raspberries, or wild plums or pembinas or tipsin, or wild rice; or to their cultivated fields to gather corn or beans, she was not obliged to carry the load home.
ref: 1922, Melvin Randolph Gilmore, Prairie Smoke, page 25:
glosses: One of the edible berries of this plant, from which jam may be produced.
shaganappi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaganappis
Etymology: From Cree ᐲᓵᑲᓈᐱᕀ (piisaakanaapiy, “rawhide thong, rope”) or a related word.
Senses: glosses: A rawhide strap, e.g. as used to hold together Red River carts.
Cascadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cascadian
form: most Cascadian
Etymology: From Cascadia + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: All the evidence, starting with the layer of sand, points to a Cascadian earthquake during the night of January 26, potentially as big as the Sumatran one of 2004.
ref: 2009, Michael Welland, Sand: The Never-Ending Story, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 194:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Cascadia region of North America.
Cascadian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cascadians
Etymology: From Cascadia + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Cascadians gathered enough political strength in Congress to defeat proposed border-crossing fees, and they got approval for dedicated commuter lanes and smart cards to speed transit at the Peace Arch crossing.
ref: 2007, Reginald C. Stuart, Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, →ISBN, page 270:
glosses: A resident of the Cascadia bioregion of North America.
Synonyms: Pacific Northwesterner
Cascadians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cascadian
take a run at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a run at
form: taking a run at
form: took a run at
form: taken a run at
Senses: examples: text: "No one else has achieved the right knit of polyester Dacron fibers—lots of mills have taken a run at it."
ref: 1989 November 26, Deborah Hofmann, “Fashion: Fluffy Outerwear Invades City Streets”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Sep 2012:
text: Cisco Chief Executive Officer John Chambers has scarcely hid the fact that his company is actively eyeing a number of acquisitions. At a luncheon in Toronto he felt compelled to deny recent speculation that Cisco would take a run at Canada's Nortel Networks.
ref: 2001 October 3, “Faces In The News”, in forbes.com, retrieved 24 Sep 2012:
text: Dean told me that he understood he would have to grow as a candidate in order to succeed, that it was time to move his campaign beyond attacks and anger, to take a run at the vision thing.
ref: 2003 November 9, Joe Klein, “Hectoring Is Not Leadership”, in Time:
text: Through Monday, Honolulu has set record highs 8 days straight and could again take a run at a record today.
ref: 2009 June 16, Bob Swanson, “Weather headlines”, in USA Today, retrieved 24 Sep 2012:
glosses: To attempt to achieve or acquire.
examples: text: Like a tall dog who attacks a bear to remind himself he is still a tall dog, Ted Turner took a run at Rupert Murdoch last week.
ref: 1998 March 22, Robert Lipsyte, “Backtalk: New Sign Of Spring—Murdoch”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Sep 2012:
text: Only one guy was brave enough to take a run at Tiger Woods at the British Open yesterday. . . . DiMarco finished two shots behind Woods.
ref: 2006 July 24, Hank Gola, "Dimarco Eases Own Pain Eases Own Pain," New York Daily News (retrieved 24 2012)
glosses: To attack or challenge or to try to attack or challenge.
Synonyms: sense: attempt to achieve or acquire
word: have a go at
sense: attempt to achieve or acquire
word: take a stab at
sense: attack or challenge
word: have a go at
come-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of come-on
Pacific Northwesterner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pacific Northwesterners
Etymology: From Pacific Northwest + -ern + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Shaken and upset, Esther did what any Pacific Northwesterner would: she drove directly to a coffee shop and ordered a latte.
ref: 2001, Patricia K. Lichen, Passionate Slugs and Hollywood Frogs: An Uncommon Field Guide to Northwest Backyards, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: A resident of the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
Synonyms: Cascadian
Pacific Northwesterners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pacific Northwesterner
pooquaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooquaws
Etymology: Shortening of the earlier spelling pequaock, from Narragansett poquauhock.
Senses: examples: text: 'Pooquaws,' says he, 'I'm hunting for pooquaws for a shearing pie, but they seems to be so scarce I guess I'll go off and drive up my sheep.'
ref: 1881, Harriet B. Worron, "Trustum" and his grandchildren, page 89:
text: "And a mess o' pooquaws in case your auntie fancies a bit o' fish. Is she any better today?"
ref: 1999, Joan Aiken, Nightbirds on Nantucket:
qualifier: Nantucket dialect
glosses: Hard-shelled clam.
pooquaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pooquaw
R. S. V. P.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of RSVP.
r.s.v.p.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of RSVP.
r. s. v. p.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of RSVP.
littérateurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of littérateur
makeup remover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makeup removers
form: make-up remover
form: makeup-remover
Senses: examples: text: To cleanse your face at night, use cold cream (I like it better than liquid makeup removers).
ref: 1980, Lois Wyse, Blonde, Beautiful Blonde: How to Look, Live, Work, and Think Blonde, New York, N.Y.: M. Evans and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 72:
text: The medicine cabinet here has a bottle of contact lens solution, nasal spray, a light blue bottle of makeup remover, a container of Vaseline.
ref: 2014, Carla Buckley, The Deepest Secret, Bantam Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A product used to remove makeup, typically a solvent.
megadisaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megadisasters
Etymology: From mega- + disaster.
Senses: examples: text: This chapter uses case studies along with a new data set focused on Kobe's nine wards after the city's 1995 megadisaster, the earthquake known in Japanese as the Hanshin Awaji Daishinsai (the Great Hanshin—Awaji Earthquake), […]
ref: 2012, Daniel P. Aldrich, Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of exceptional magnitude, causing unusually severe or unprecedented damage.
examples: text: After the initial shock of discovering my scheduling megadisaster, I forced myself to take a deep breath.
ref: 2009, Andrew Attaway, Daily Guideposts 2009: A Spirit-Lifting Devotional, Guideposts, published 2008, →ISBN, page 311:
glosses: An unforeseen event of any kind with exceptionally unpleasant, distressing, or unfortunate results.
megadisasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megadisaster
recurve bows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recurve bow
rebleach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebleaches
form: rebleaching
form: rebleached
form: rebleached
Etymology: From re- + bleach.
Senses: examples: text: It was well washed, however, and properly rebleached, it acquired its former snowy whiteness, and was the softest and best linen I ever saw.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: To bleach again.
rebleaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebleach
rebleaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebleach
rebleached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebleach
catagory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of category.
villian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villians
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vaudevillian.
synonyms: word: vaudevillian
villian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of villain.
déjeûner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: déjeûners
form: déjeûnering
form: déjeûnered
form: déjeûnered
Etymology: From French déjeûner.
Senses: examples: text: The “Hôtel des Haricots,” so called because the recalcitrant members of the National Guard who were imprisoned there had to déjeûner and dine upon haricots, has been levelled to the ground, in imitation of the Bastille; […]
ref: 1867, “The French Almanacks for 1868. The Year of the Great Exposition.”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume LXII, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 608:
text: Now then coffee and cigar. This, I explain to Chilvern is the real delight of déjeûnering abroad in any café—you can always smoke immediately.
ref: 1869 December 11, [Francis Cowley Burnand], “More Happy Thoughts”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume LVII, London: […] Bradbury, Evans, and Co., […], page 235, column 2:
text: To culinary connoisseurs there are just two places on the Continong that may rival each other in a reputation for cuisine, […] Mr. Punch’s special traveller in the Déjeûnering business always likes to do a good turn to all who deserve to benefit by a brief holiday, […]
ref: 1897 July 31, “There and Back with a Card”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXIII, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ld., […], page 41, column 1:
text: At Fontes Villa, a little town built on piles, at present the railway headquarters, we déjeûnered with the manager of the line in a beautifully green verandah.
ref: 1900, R[obert] S[tephenson] S[myth] Baden-Powell, The Matabele Campaign, 1896: Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, London: Methuen & Co. […], page 141:
glosses: Alternative form of déjeuner.
apocolypse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of apocalypse.
propoganda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of propaganda.
undertowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undertow
heresay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hearsay.
fat link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat links
Senses: glosses: A hyperlink that leads to multiple endpoints.
fat links
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fat link
deferents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deferent
pengoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pengo
minaudière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪnəʊˈdjɛː/
ipa: /ˌminoʊˈdjɝ/
Forms: form: minaudières
Etymology: Borrowed from French minaudière (“coquettish woman; type of bag”), from minauder (“to simper”) + -ière (feminine form of -ier).
Senses: examples: text: The Saxon ladies reſemble the Auſtrian no more, than the Chineſe do thoſe of London; they are very genteelly dreſſed after the Engliſh and French modes, and have, generally, pretty faces, but they are the moſt determined Minaudieres in the whole world.
ref: 1716 December 2, M[ar]y W[ortle]y M[ontagu]e, “Letter XV. To the Countess of ——. Leipzig, Nov. 21, O.S. 1716.”, in Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M——y W———y M———e: … In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, in the Strand, published 1763, →OCLC, page 85:
text: Not the English of the salons of Paris or London, or the English of Lady B———'s drawing-room, or of Lady C———'s coterie, or the language talked at D——— Castle, or the minaudière phrases used in certain societies; but the language of truth: […]
ref: 1850, [Marianne Talbot?], “Past. Chapter I.”, in Past, Present, and Future. … In Two Volumes., volume I, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers' Hall Court, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: A woman who is exaggeratedly affected or coquettish.
examples: text: Another gift—the Minaudiere—from Paris, costly because it is wrought from gold, or silver, is a flat case with all those requisites which ensure the feminine peace of mind on all elaborate or special occasions—even to a lighter for those who smoke—and alternately a case for those who do not—fitted with other delightful accessories.
ref: 1936, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, volume LXXXIII, London: Ward, Lock and Bowden, →OCLC, page 166, column 1:
text: The collection here includes a minaudiere with a sapphire clasp; a gold basket-bag, much like the ones French school children carry; a cigarette case emblazoned with a single sapphire; a lipstick case capped with another sapphire; a round compact with a sapphire imbedded in the center of the lid.
ref: 1957, Harper’s Bazaar, volume XC, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corp., →OCLC, page 145:
glosses: A type of formal, decorative women's clutch bag without handles or a strap.
Related terms: english: affectation
translation: affectation
word: minauderie
shenans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Contraction of shenanigans.
plasmators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasmator
proboscidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proboscidial
form: most proboscidial
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: proboscidate
spumous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈspjuːməs/
Forms: form: more spumous
form: most spumous
Etymology: From Middle English spumous, from Latin spūmōsus.
Senses: examples: text: The spumous and florid State which the Blood acquires in passing through the Lungs.
ref: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: frothy or foamy; spumy
magnetochemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From magnetochemical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The reaction was measured magnetochemically.
glosses: By magnetochemical means.
cryospray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryosprays
Etymology: From cryo- + spray.
Senses: glosses: A liquid nitrogen spray used in cryosurgery.
cryosprays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryospray
cryovials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryovial
marshalsea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marshalseas
Etymology: marshal + Old English word for "seat".
Senses: glosses: The court or seat of a marshal.
Related terms: Marshalsea
a historic prison in England
marshalseas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marshalsea
Petrobrusian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Petrobrusians
Senses: glosses: A religious supporter of Peter of Bruys.
Derived terms: Petrobrusianism
Petrobrusians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Petrobrusian
subulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subulated
form: most subulated
Etymology: From subulate + -d.
Senses: glosses: subulate
societary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: societarian
practicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: practicers
Etymology: Equivalent to practice + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of practiser.
practicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of practicer
retrodden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of retread
retrod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of retread
retraversal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retraversals
Etymology: From re- + traversal.
Senses: glosses: A traversal again; act of retraversing.
retraversals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retraversal
retraversed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retraverse
retraversing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retraverse
tread-softly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Cnidoscolus stimulosus, the spurge nettle.
glosses: Solanum carolinense, the Carolina horsenettle.
horsenettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsenettles
Etymology: From horse + nettle.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain plants in the genus Solanum.
Hyponyms: sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: heartleaf horsenettle
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Solanum cardiophyllum
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Carolina horsenettle
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Solanum carolinense
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Solanum pumilum
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Florida horsenettle
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Solanum carolinense var. floridanum
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Davis horsenettle
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Solanum davisense
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: western horsenettle
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Solanum dimidiatum
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Fendler's horsenettle
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Solanum fendleri
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Texan horsenettle
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Solanum fendleri var. texense
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Nelson's horsenettle
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Solanum nelsonii
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Hawaii horsenettle
sense: certain plants in Solanum
word: Solanum sandwicense
horsenettles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsenettle
Fala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Xalimego
glosses: A Romance language of Spain mostly spoken in Valverde del Fresno, Eljas and San Martín de Trevejo within the valley of Jálama.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Fala terms
strategetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strategetical
form: most strategetical
Senses: glosses: Strategic.
scutch grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scutch grasses
Senses: examples: text: I found down at the side of the house the remains of what must have once been a kitchen garden. Everything was choked with weeds and scutch grass, but the outlines of bed and drill were still there.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: couch grass (Elymus repens)
glosses: Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon)
scutch grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutch grass
strategetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹatəˈdʒɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more strategetic
form: most strategetic
Etymology: Functionally strategy + -etic, rendering στρατηγητικός (stratēgētikós), a rare variant of στρατηγικός (stratēgikós) (whence the more common English word strategic).
Senses: examples: text: The importance of having these great strategetic points fortified has been demonstrated by scientific gentlemen conversant with these subjects.
ref: 1847, J. D. B. De Bow, Commercial Review of the South and West, page 261:
text: He […] entertained an idea that Cairo was the nucleus or pivot of all really strategetic movements in this terrible national struggle.
ref: 1862, Anthony Trollope, North America:
text: This line must have immense strategetic importance to Turkey, since it guards against possible Serbian aggression.
ref: 1872, Elodie Lawton Mijatović, The History of Modern Serbia, page 258:
glosses: Strategic.
Sorbonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sorbonical
form: most Sorbonical
Etymology: From Sorbonne + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Iohn Langeie a Scot borne, following his studie in Paris became a Sorbonicall doctor, who liuing in the yere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred thrée score and ten, did write a booke of the life, doctrine, and death of Martin Luther and Iohn Caluin […]
ref: 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., “A generall catalog of the writers of Scotland, with the times in which they liued, as well of the yeare of Christ, as of the reigne of Scotish kings”, in Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, volume 2, page 463:
text: 1607, Richard Carew (translator), A World of Wonders (Apologia pro Herodoto) by Henri Estienne, Chapter 39, p. 341,
This question (to say the truth) is more then Sorbonicall: for many of no greater moment haue bene debated in Councels.
glosses: Belonging or relating to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist.
alexiterical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alexiterical
form: most alexiterical
Senses: glosses: alexiteric
cephalopode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalopodes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cephalopod.
cephalopodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalopode
rhinaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinasters
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥινός (rhinós) (genitive of ῥίς (rhís, “nose”)) + ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”).
Senses: glosses: the black rhinoceros
sices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sice
glossotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glosso- + -type.
Senses: examples: text: Of course for publication in a newspaper, my palaeotype would not answer, but my glossotype would enable the author to give his Pennsylvania German in an English form and much more intelligibly.
ref: 1889, Alexander Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation:
glosses: A particular phonetic writing system.
palaeotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeotypes
form: paleotype
Etymology: From New Latin palaeotypus (“which dates from the early days of printing; incunabulum, paleotype”), synchronically palaeo- + type.
Senses: examples: text: The library of the British Museum is […] rich in manuscripts, rich in palaeotypes, rich in the science, history, and literature of every age and nation.
ref: 1854, Jos. C. Coswell, The Astor Library:
text: The identification of this edition as an incunabulum, and not an early palaeotype, evokes doubts in a number of scholars (for example, it was not included in the Census).
ref: 2000, Manuscripta Orientalia: International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research, Volumes 6-7, page 22:
glosses: An old book printed between 1500 and 1550.
examples: text: Of course for publication in a newspaper, my palaeotype would not answer, but my glossotype would enable the author to give his Pennsylvania German in an English form and much more intelligibly.
ref: 1889, Alexander Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation:
glosses: A phonetic alphabet developed by Alexander John Ellis to represent all spoken sounds of English by means of the printing types that were in common use in the mid-19th century, one of the predecessors of IPA.
Related terms: palaeotypical
palaeotypically
palaeotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeotype
clapbread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clapbreads
Etymology: From clap + bread.
Senses: glosses: clapcake
clapcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clapcakes
Etymology: From clap + cake.
Senses: glosses: Oatmeal cake or bread squashed or beaten until it is thin.
Synonyms: clapbread
clapcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clapcake
pneumatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pneumatical
form: most pneumatical
Senses: examples: text: the pneumatical substance being, in some bodies, the native spirit of the body
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: pneumatic
pneumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneuma
pneumata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneuma
tortest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of tort: most tort
Trotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trotter
Brahmanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brahmanists
form: Brahminist
Etymology: From Brahman + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.
Brahmanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brahmanist
Brahminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brahminists
Etymology: From Brahmin + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Brahmanist.
Brahminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brahminist
scringe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: scringes
Etymology: Compare cringe and shrink.
Senses: examples: text: Any teenager who, like myself, has ever got the gooseflesh at the flush and scringe of Hopkins's assonances and alliterations proves this upon his or her pulses .
ref: 1990, Field - Issues 42-45, page 7:
text: […] to the scringe of bedsprings as the old landlady shook herself awake and reached for her false teeth,
ref: 1994, Briege Duffaud, Nothing Like Beirut, page 41:
text: But Bill would have none of this: it grated upon his sensibility, like the scringe of chalk upon a slate in the schoolroom, or like our collie dog at home in Garvaghey, who, when Aunt Freda played the piano, would raise his noble nose and howl derisively.
ref: 2014, John Montague, The Pear is Ripe: A Memoir:
glosses: The act or sound of scratching or scraping.
examples: text: Well, on that June day I embraced her with a slight scringe, and, seating her in my armchair, threw myself down upon the floor, out of reach of her arms, with my hands clasped around my knees.
ref: 1859 March, “My "Intimate Enemy"”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 18, number 106, page 511:
text: Take courage, brother: you are making better progress than we are, for I cannot even get a scringe.
ref: 1882, Richard Brodhead Westbrook, The Bible, Whence and what?, page 228:
text: A scringe of pain brought the German back to the present .
ref: 1918, Heave Together:
glosses: A cringe.
examples: text: Trawling, or scringing, for salmon trout is, in some respects, similar to splashing, and is also carried on between the hours of sunset and sunrise, in the nooks, bays, and other suitable places along the sore of either the coast or of the sea-water loch, into which rivulets and streams empty themselves, although there are many places in which the splash net can be advantageously used where the scringe cannot be employed, as the latter requires a clear bottom, without any impediments, otherwise it cannot be drawn to the shore.
ref: 1859 October, “Trawling, or Scringing, For Salmon Trout and Other Fish”, in The Knapsack, volume 1, page 258:
text: The scringe decidedly takes the precedence of the splash, provided sufficient strength as well as skill be employed for its effective management — because, if the net is not drawn equally and continuously towards the shore, many fish will escape.
ref: 1867, Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox, Facts and Useful Hints Relating to Fishing and Shooting, page 24:
text: Of course, with surface-swimming fish the scringe or ground seine need not touch the bottom.
ref: 1895, John Bickerdyke, Sea Fishing, page 282:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A type of dragnet with a bag in the center and a very fine mesh.
scringe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: scringes
form: scringing
form: scringed
form: scringed
Etymology: Compare cringe and shrink.
Senses: examples: text: It made me scringe to hear her, Sir, " said she, adding, with a change of tone, " but I must scringe for myself yet; for , oh dear! how can I talk about other people's sins, and I such a sinner!
ref: 1854 December, “Real Scenes of Gipsy Life”, in The Two-penny post:
text: Yes, if you put your hand on him he might scringe around a little .
ref: 1907, Supreme Court Appellate Division, page 94:
text: It allus made him scringe to have me speak of the Banty woman in the tone I used when I wanted to make him scringe, and I had a notion that flauntin ' his full name wouldn't soothe him much;
ref: 1914, Robert Alexander Wason, Happy Hawkins in the Panhandle, page 369:
text: But scringe from him, an' as Shakespeare says, clad in a little brief authority, that houn' dawg'll bite you when you ain't a-watchin' out.
ref: 1926, Rose Wilder Lane, Hill-Billy, page 15:
glosses: To cringe or shrink.
examples: text: When a boy sharpens his slate-pencil with a knife, he says it makes his teeth 'scringe'.
ref: 1893, English Dialect Society, Publications - Volume 36, page 40:
text: Knee joints were beginning to scringe.
ref: 2010, Bernard MacLaverty, Matters of Life & Death, page 56:
text: All her life Gert Kavanaugh had had to scringe and scrape to make ends meet while Marta May — a spoiled brat if Gert had ever seen one — had been the darling of the countryside.
ref: 2012, Nelson Nye, Desert of the Damned:
glosses: To scrape.
examples: text: Trawling, or scringing, for salmon trout is, in some respects, similar to splashing, and is also carried on between the hours of sunset and sunrise, in the nooks, bays, and other suitable places along the sore of either the coast or of the sea-water loch, into which rivulets and streams empty themselves, although there are many places in which the splash net can be advantageously used where the scringe cannot be employed, as the latter requires a clear bottom, without any impediments, otherwise it cannot be drawn to the shore.
ref: 1859 October, “Trawling, or Scringing, For Salmon Trout and Other Fish”, in The Knapsack, volume 1, page 258:
text: The evil complained of, so far from having decreased, has been greater than before, as the men engaged in this lawless pursuit, finding that they scringe with impunity, have become emboldened, and are more industrious than ever.
ref: 1874, Archibald Young, Notes on the Scotch Salmon Fishery Acts of 1862 and 1868, page 30:
text: But in spite of their watchfulness, sometimes a black-looking boat slips over in the dead of night from somewhere in the neighbourhood of Oban, catches the keepers napping, and 'scringes' the mouth of a river, clearing off every salmon and sea-trout in the bay.
ref: 1918, Poor Law Magazine and Local Government Journal, page 349:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To fish using a scringe.
scringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scringe
scringes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scringe
scringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scringe
planchered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plancher
planchering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plancher
sax tuba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sax tubas
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: saxhorn
sax tubas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sax tuba
concinnated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of concinnate
concinnating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of concinnate
horror flick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horror flicks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of horror movie.
synonyms: word: horror movie
beroe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beroes
Etymology: Latin Beroe (“one of the Oceanidae”).
Senses: glosses: A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, of genus Beroe (phylum Ctenophora).
beroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beroe
peucil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peucyl
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πεύκη (peúkē, “pine tree”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime.
dadyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance (of unknown composition) derived from turpentine
Related terms: peucil
peucyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peucil.
snowfleck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowflecks
form: snowflake
form: snow fleck
form: snowflect
form: snaw fleck
Etymology: From snow + fleck.
Senses: glosses: snowbird
Synonyms: snow bunting
snowflecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowfleck
pipistrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipistrels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pipistrelle.
pipistrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipistrel
prorenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + renal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: pronephric
cunctators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunctator