cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
constructio ad sensum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏnstrŭkʹtĭō ăd sĕnʹsəm
ipa: /kɒnˈstɹʌktɪəʊ æd ˈsɛnsəm/
Forms: form: constructiones ad sensum
Etymology: From modern Latin cōnstrūctiō (“[grammatical] construction”) + ad (“toward, [according] to”) + sēnsum (accusative singular of sēnsus, abstractly “sense”, “notion”, “signification”): "grammatical construction according to [the] sense".
Senses: examples: text: St. John ſpeaks of her children, as if they were all of them ſons, and ſays nothing of daughters. For, though he uſes both ver. 1. and ver. 4. the neuter τεκνα, which when uſed by itſelf may include daughters as well as ſons, yet, ſince he adds in the former inſtance ȣ῾ς εγω αγαπω, and in the latter inſtance ϖεριπατȣντας εν αληθειᾳ, the maſculine relative and participle reſtrict the ſenſe to ſons aloneʰ.
ref: 1802, John David Michaelis (author) and Herbert Marsh (translator), Introduction to the New Teſtament, second edition (London: printed by Luke Hansard, for E. and C. Rivington, № 62, St. Paul’s Church-Yard), volume 4, chapter XXXII: “Of the two laſt Epiſtles of St. John”, § III: ‘Whether the ſecond Epiſtle was ſent to a particular perſon, or to a whole church’, page 450
roman: ʰ St. John here uſes, what is called conſtructio ad ſenſum.
text: Peculiarities in the order of words, occasional omissions of a word or words, constructiones ad sensum, carelessnesses, or roughness of style, and even positively bad writing, are faithfully reproduced.
ref: 1888, Hermathena (University of Dublin), issue 6, page 332
text: The violation of the rules of agreement is due chiefly to one of two causes; either the natural relation is preferred to the artificial (cōnstrūctiō ad sēnsum, per synesin, according to the sense), or the nearer is preferred to the more remote.
ref: 1895, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (revised with Gonzalez B. Lodge), Latin Grammar (third edition, 2003 reprint; →ISBN, 0865163537), part 1: “Etymology”, § 8: ‘Inflection of the Verb’, page 148
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical construction in which a word’s inflexion is determined by the semantics of the word or words with which it associates, in contravention of what is required by grammar.
hogchoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogchokers
Etymology: Said to be from hog + choker, because the scaly fish could get stuck in the throats of pigs when fed to them.
Senses: synonyms: hogchoke
glosses: Trinectes maculatus, a small flatfish found along the coast of parts of North America.
hogchokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogchoker
cockatoo farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockatoo farmers
Etymology: Probably refers to the practice of working a small patch of land for a short period before moving on, in the manner of a feeding cockatoo. Alternatively so called to compare the farmers with the common sulphur-crested cockatoo, which come down on the newly sown cornfields in myriads.
Senses: examples: text: The cockatoo farmer of South Australia lives a plentiful but not a picturesque life, and unless he gets hopelessly into debt is his own master.
ref: 1875, Anthony Trollope, edited by Bradford Allen Booth, The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury, page 177:
text: “ Does it pay to breed cockatoos ?” said Archie innocently.
“Don′t be the death o′ me, Johnnie. A cockatoo farmer is just a crofter.[…]”
ref: 1888, William Gordon Stables, From Squire to Squatter, page 182:
text: This is the dwelling of a cockatoo-farmer, the humble agriculturist who makes the most of his thirty or forty acres of land,[…]
ref: 1911, The Academy, volume 81, page 415:
glosses: A small-scale farmer.
consecrater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consecraters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of consecrator.
consecraters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consecrater
inchastities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inchastity
inchastity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈt͡ʃæstɪti/
Forms: form: inchastities
Etymology: From in- + chastity: compare French inchasteté.
Senses: examples: text: In pre-Christian Roman belief it might be held as better not to indulge in extramarital sex, as a courtesy more than a due to one’s partner, or because character was believed to derive from having the strength to resist vice […] but, such rationalisations aside, male inchastity did not matter as such. Female inchastity could threaten bloodlines and property transfer, and so from the earliest times very much did matter: […] in fact, Chrysostom refutes in detail the legal position that only women’s inchastity signified in marriage, in a passage so full of reproach and repetition […] that we may infer that he too is meeting a dead weight of inertia, if not active opposition, from his hearers.
ref: 2003, Gillian Cloke, This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, 350–450 AD, Routledge, →ISBN, page 66:
text: The relevant Qur’anic verse (Ayât) is very similar to the English law on slander per se and the imputation of inchastity for women.
ref: 2008, Eleanor Cashin-Ritaine, Laetitia Franck, Shaheeza Lalani, editors, Legal Engineering and Comparative Law/L’ingénierie juridique et le droit comparé, Schulthess, →ISBN, page 199:
text: Having found out about the wife’s inchastity, Geraldine does not need his father’s exhortations to stay away from Wincott’s house. […] He rebukes the wife for her inchastity – and she dies of shame, conveniently leaving a letter of confession.
ref: 2012, Tom MacFaul, Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: Absence of chastity; the quality of being unchaste.
Synonyms: unchastity
enanguished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enanguished
form: most enanguished
Etymology: From en- + anguish + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Filled with anguish.
enhorrored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enhorrored
form: most enhorrored
Etymology: From en- + horror + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Victoria advanced with furious looks—she shook the branches of the tree, that Lilia might fall headlong. Enhorrored at this terrible menace, the miserable girl quitted suddenly her hold […]
ref: 1806, Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya; or, The Moor:
glosses: Filled with horror.
smift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smifts
Senses: synonyms: snuff
glosses: A slow match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.
smifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smift
geolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiːˈɒlətɹi/
Etymology: From geo- + -latry.
Senses: examples: text: To this succeeded astrolatry in the East, and geolatry in the West, where the idea of the earth as a susceptible and productive agent led to the distinction of male and female divinities
ref: 1864, George William Cox, Tales of Thebes and Argos:
glosses: The worship of the Earth.
ringbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringbills
Etymology: From ring + bill.
Senses: glosses: Aythya collaris, a diving duck of North America with a white band around the bill.
ringbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringbill
retrovert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retroverts
form: retroverting
form: retroverted
form: retroverted
Etymology: From retro- + Latin vertere, versum (“to turn”). Compare retrorse.
Senses: glosses: To turn back; to return to a previous state.
retrovert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retroverts
Etymology: From retro- + Latin vertere, versum (“to turn”). Compare retrorse.
Senses: glosses: One who returns to their original creed.
retroverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrovert
retroverts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrovert
wallaba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallabas
Senses: examples: text: The wild red sage is also their favourite shrub, and they buzz like bees round the blossom of the wallaba tree.
ref: 1836, Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America:
glosses: A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves, reddish-brown wood, and clusters of red flowers.
wallabas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wallaba
shakefork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shakeforks
Etymology: From shake + fork.
Senses: glosses: A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.
examples: text: CUNNINGHAM of GLENGARNOCK, descended of a second Son of Henry Cuninghame of Kilmaures, and his Spouse Riddel Heiress of Glengarnock […] carry Argent, a Shakefork Sable, charged with a Cinque foil of the first: […]
ref: 1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 196:
text: CUNYNGHAME of Milneraig and Livingston (L. O., 1775). Argent, a shakefork sable between three fleurs-de-lis azure, one in chief and two in flank.
ref: 1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 403:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A pall, especially one which stops short of the edges of the shield and which has pointed ends.
shakeforks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shakefork
rubiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubiform
form: most rubiform
Etymology: Latin rubifōrmis, from ruber (“red”) + -fōrmis.
Senses: examples: text: the rubiform rays of the sun
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: reddish
gamashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gramashes
Etymology: French gamaches.
Senses: glosses: High boots or buskins.
glosses: Short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.
cropsick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cropsick
form: most cropsick
Etymology: From crop (“stomach”) + sick.
Senses: examples: text: By my soul, Jack, if I had not been taken thus egregiously cropsick, I would have been up with thee, and the lady too, before now.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CDX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: crop-sick drunkards
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, translated by Nahum Tate, Satire XV:
glosses: Sick in the stomach, especially from excess in eating or drinking.
Related terms: cropsickness
voltigeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voltigeurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French voltigeur, from voltiger (“to vault”), Italian volteggiare. See volt (“a tread”).
Senses: glosses: An acrobat; a leaper or vaulter.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: One of a picked company of skirmishers in each regiment of the French infantry during the Napoleonic Wars.
glosses: A ranger.
voltigeurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voltigeur
clancular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈklæŋkjʊlə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: more clancular
form: most clancular
Etymology: From Latin clanculārius, from clanculum (“secretly”), adverbial diminutive of clam (“secretly”).
Senses: examples: text: Not close and clancular, but frank and open.
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Was Crucified”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Conducted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed.
Derived terms: clancularly
corruptionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corruptionists
Etymology: From corruption + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The first effort of the corruptionist is to fix the epithet Speculative upon any scheme which he thinks may cherish the spirit of reform
ref: 1825, Sydney Smith, “Bentham's Book of Fallacies”, in Edinburgh Review:
glosses: Someone who corrupts, or who is prone to corruption.
Related terms: corruptionism
corruptionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corruptionist
pentacrostic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentacrostics
Etymology: From penta- + acrostic.
Senses: examples: text: There were also pentacrostics, where the name was repeated five times.
ref: 1863, Sophy Moody, What is Your Name?, page 176:
text: 1872, Crack (pseud.), Whetstones for wits; or, Double acrostics
There are instances […] of pentacrostics, i.e., of acrostics where the required letters form five columns in the poem. An average specimen of these is the Latin acrostic in hexameter verse, prefixed to the first volume of Father Bluteau's Portuguese Dictionary, in praise of the author.
text: Rojas […] has left us a pentacrostic from which we learn his name, and that he was a lawyer and a native of Montalvan in the province of Toledo.
ref: 1897, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 116:
glosses: A set of verses arranged so that the name of the subject occurs five times, the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.
pentacrostics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentacrostic
sterno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɜː.nə(ʊ)/
ipa: /stɝ.noʊ/
ipa: /stɝ.nə/
Forms: form: stern-
Etymology: From sternal + -o-.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the sternum.
Coordinate terms: english: bottom of sternum
translation: bottom of sternum
word: xipho-
glaringness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glaring + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being glaring.
panabase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + base, in allusion to the number of metals it contains.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tetrahedrite
hernani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hernanis
Etymology: From the town of Hernani in Spain.
Senses: examples: text: Hernani, silk and cotton […] Hernani, entirely of silk
ref: 1837, Joseph Blunt, The Shipmaster's Assistant and Commercial Digest, page 661:
text: A novelty this season is the wide mesh hernani in all colors; […]
ref: 1870, Godey's Lady's Book, volumes 80-81, page 493:
text: I wanted, you understand, to get an entire new waist and a trimmed skirt out of the two old hernani skirts, and discard the old waist altogether; […]
ref: 1881, Arthur's Home Magazine, volume 49, page 482:
glosses: A thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses.
hernanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hernani
irrision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹɪʒən/
Forms: form: irrisions
Etymology: From Latin irrīsiō, from irrīdēre (“to laugh at”); ir- (“in”) + rīdeō (“to laugh”): compare French irrision.
Senses: examples: text: This being spoken scopticè, or by way of irrision.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
text: From thence he was carried back to Jerusalem, first to Annas, then to Caiaphas, and (as late as it was) then he was examined and buffeted, and delivered over to the custody of those officers from whom he received all those irrisions […]
ref: 1630, John Donne, Sermon Preached at Whitehall:
glosses: The act of laughing at another; derision.
pertransient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin pertransiens, present participle of pertransire.
Senses: examples: text: I will not stick summarily to deliuer somewhat more concerning lines Armoriall: which, first, are either Entire, and Pertransient, or Entire and Pertingent, or parts of them.
ref: 1610, Edmund Bolton, The elements of armories, London, pages 88–89:
text: Interſecants, in Heraldry, are pertranſient Lines which croſs one another.
ref: 1719, Glossographia Anglicana nova: … second edition, page 313:
text: Thus is man fated to learn effectually from experience; the voice of the sage is, like all sublunary things, pertransient.
ref: 1843, John S. Murphy, The Somerby Family: A Total Abstinence Tale, Boston: Theodore Abbot, page 90:
text: And to move is active as to feel is passive, wherefore by greater heat; whether the faculty [of sensation combines] with the essence, viz., of the pertransient spirit [translating spiritus pertranseuntis], [according to] Galen when [he says the faculty is in the brain] without the essence.
ref: 1961, C. D. O'Malley, F. N. L. Poynter, K. F. Russell (trans.), Lectures on the whole of anatomy: an annotated translation of Prelectiones anatomiae universalis, Univ. of California Press, [Original in Latin by William Harvey, 1616], page 224:
glosses: Passing through.
bink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: binks
form: binking
form: binked
form: binked
Etymology: From Middle English bink, binke, variants of Middle English benk, benke, from Old English benc (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. More at bench.
Senses: examples: text: On June 2nd, the last day of this season, Bowman spent six hours extricating as many hounds who had got themselves binked on Catle Crag in Mardale.
ref: 1902, A. G. Bradley, “Fox-hunting in the Lake Country”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 86, page 196:
text: We peer over the edge—it is far more pleasant to kneel down on one knee and steady oneself with one hand, besides being safer, in the event of the edge being rotten or should a wind be blowing—we peer over the edge, and see the fox run lightly along a slightly projecting crag, from which with a sidelong scramble up a rough rock face, it reaching a narrow grassy "bink" ledge, and there it is binked as safe as the Church of England (just about).
ref: 1902, Claude Ernest Benson, Crag and Hound in Lakeland, page 240:
text: A fox gets 'binked,' as they call it, or banked, and some one must go up on an almost inaccessible crag to put in the terrier; and a man must know the country, and the probable run of every fox that gets up in front of the hounds .
ref: 1903, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, Lake Country Sketches, page 196:
text: The hounds drove him into Dead Crag, where he binked.
ref: 1903 January 10, West Cumberland Times, page 2:
glosses: To shelter or become trapped on a ledge or crag.
examples: text: On June last he caused his servants cast a number of "peittis for elding unto his hous in the mosse of belonging to him heritablie, and they having binked the same and left thame in the mosse , " returned home to their master's house at night .
ref: 1900, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland - Volume 2, page 516:
glosses: To cut a bink in peat moss.
bink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: binks
Etymology: Clipping of binky.
Senses: examples: text: Even though we don't agree with the practice of the use of the bink in our house, Gideon was an exception.
ref: 2011, Harrison Briner, Loni Briner, 13 Days With Gideon, page 18:
text: Of course, we create the problem to begin with by offering a bink to newborn babies.
ref: 2018, Justin Lind-Ayres, Is That Poop on My Arm?: Parenting While Christian, page 86:
text: I am now eighteen months old and some say it is time to take away my bink. I say for now , let it stay! I have my fun toys and my little red wagon; that is true; but taking bink away now will only make me sad and blue .
ref: 2018, Maureen Sky, Kennedy and Her Bink:
glosses: A pacifier.
bink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: binks
Etymology: Onomatopoeia
Senses: examples: text: The knob turned—.bink, bink, bink, on the treble keys .
ref: 1930, Richard Connell, “Pardon this Intrusion”, in Collier's, volume 86, page 12:
text: I was looking at the rack to wee what cam I could pop in when I heard this "bink! " sound , and I looked up and saw big loops of the rope falling toward me.
ref: 2000, Accidents in North American Mountaineering, page 49:
text: It was, I think, an Austin Avenger, and it made the most delicate and musical yet important noise,'bink-a-bink-a-bink-a', as he tilted the lever to navigate us round the busy seaside town.
ref: 2013, Richard Hammond, On the Road: Growing up in Eight Journeys - My Early Years:
text: You will know where it is immediately by the constant "bink, bink, bink, bink” sound that casts such a trance like spell over the players.
ref: 2021, Mr. Lucky, Loser: Thoughts and War Stories from Years of Casino Battles, page 12:
glosses: A musical, percussive noise; plink.
bink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: binks
form: binking
form: binked
form: binked
Etymology: Onomatopoeia
Senses: examples: text: My tinny typing binked.
ref: 2001, Geoff Cochrane, Acetylene, page 13:
text: From the palm of her hand, Farah's iPhone binked and chirped once every minute or so with calls or text messages, but she was ignoring them.
ref: 2011, Rod Kierkegaard, Vicki Keire, The Department of Magic:
text: The system "binked" acknowledgement.
ref: 2011, Jody Lynn Nye, View from the Imperium - Volume 1:
text: Some of the men at Cochiti made fine drums, big ones that boomed and smaller ones that "binked" with different pitches .
ref: 2014, Carol Paradise Decker, Pecos Pueblo People Through the Ages: Stories of Time and Place, page 160:
glosses: To make a bink noise.
examples: text: It didn't hurt, not at all, but at that moment, as that ballpoint binked my chest, something binked inside my head.
ref: 2005, David Gessner, Sick of Nature, page 89:
text: Carmen gave her a toothy grin and binked her on the nose with a forefinger.
ref: 2014, Hannah Alexander, Collateral Damage, page 188:
text: As we went to reengage, Mrs. Shore jumped in and got binked with an accidental elbow .
ref: 2024, Juan Vidal, A Second Chance on Earth:
glosses: To poke lightly.
binks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bink
corporally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more corporally
form: most corporally
Etymology: From corporal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: to be corporally present
text: although Christ be not corporally in the outward visible signs, yet he is corporally in the persons that duly receive them
ref: a. 1714, John Sharp, a sermon on John vi.53
glosses: In or with the body; bodily.
Derived terms: corporally punish
intracorporally
primatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more primatical
form: most primatical
Etymology: From primate + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Before I proceed any further I ſhall briefly dravv ſome Corollaries from this Hiſtorical account vvhich I have given of the original and grovvth of Metropolitical, Primatical, and Patriarchal Juriſdiction.
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The V. [Supposition] that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and Jurisdiction over the Christian Church]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 255:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or pertaining to a primate (the church thing, not the monkeys).
ycarried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: y- + carried
Senses: glosses: past participle of carry
Synonyms: carried
clustery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clustery
form: most clustery
Etymology: From cluster + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The green, clustery, Alpine Bryum
ref: 1751, John Hill, A General Natural History Or New and Accurate Description of the Animals, Vegetables and Minerals of the Various Parts of the World:
glosses: Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.
circ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɝk/
ipa: /sɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
homophone: cirque
Forms: form: circs
Etymology: See circus.
Senses: examples: text: It is remarkable, that circs of the same ſort are still to be seen in Cornwall
ref: 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
glosses: An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.
circ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɝk/
ipa: /sɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
homophone: cirque
Forms: form: circs
Etymology: Clipping of circumcision. Clipping of circumcise.
Senses: examples: text: During the pre-NHS 1930s, circumcision was as fashionable among the British middle class as confirmation. Breech deliveries were said to be popular with both obstetrician and anaesthetist, a boy assuring them early in the birth of 'a couple of guineas next week for the circ.'
ref: 2001, Richard Gordon, Great Medical Mysteries, House of Stratus, published 2001, →ISBN, page 65:
text: The circ is progressing apace when, without warning, one of the nurses bursts in from outside, and I mean bursts in, as opposed to entering soundlessly and unobtrusively as we all try to (with the exception of the attending surgeons, who always burst in), and tells us, "Someone just crashed a plane into one of the Twin Towers."
ref: 2011, Michelle Au, This Won't Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Ironically, our Japanese-born colleague Seiji, who came from a culture that did not circumcise, had no problem with it. In fact, he was amazing to behold. Seiji could finish a "slice and dice," as we called it, before I could even get my gloves on. Bob and I would change every poopy, slimy diaper in that nursery just to stall until Seiji finished the circs.
ref: 2011, Maggie Kozel, The Color of Atmosphere: One Doctor's Journey In and Out of Medicine, Chelsea Green Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: Circumcision.
Derived terms: anti-circ
pro-circ
circ
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɝk/
ipa: /sɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
homophone: cirque
Forms: form: circs
form: circing
form: circed
form: circed
Etymology: Clipping of circumcision. Clipping of circumcise.
Senses: examples: text: Again, I don't think I was *wrong* to circ my son, though some may choose to disagree quite loudly with that statement; I just think not circing is a better decision.
ref: 1998 May 18, Barbara Fraire, “Re: OT/formula moms love babies less??”, in misc.kids.breastfeeding (Usenet):
text: I'm not stating how i feel either way but i like it that my husband was circed.
ref: 2000 January 1, Wade & Litha, “Re: The dreaded circ issue rears its ugly head in my house!”, in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet):
text: If a person was circed they have to live with it, or attempt partial restoration, but on the whole IMO a whole penis is more beautiful than a mutilated one.
ref: 2007, Nick J. Myers III, Sex & Sensuality: Essays on Fun Stuff, iUniverse, published 2007, →ISBN:
glosses: To circumcise.
Related terms: english: circumstances
translation: circumstances
word: circs
irreconciliable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irreconciliable
form: most irreconciliable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of irreconcilable.
Derived terms: irreconciliableness
subsphenoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + sphenoidal.
Senses: examples: text: subsphenoidal canal
text: subsphenoidal confluent
text: subsphenoidal teeth
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
cléché
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cleché.
punctiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punctiform
form: most punctiform
Etymology: From Latin punctum (“point”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: pointed; pointy
glosses: Having the form of a tiny dot.
prillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Tin extracted from the slag.
powderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powdering
cibol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cibols
form: chibbal
form: chibol
form: ciboul
form: ciboule
Etymology: From French ciboule and Middle English chibolle, from Old Northern French chibole; both ultimately from Latin cepulla.
Senses: examples: text: SKATE WITH LIVER SAUCE: CRIMP or cut the skate into pieces, boil and serve on it a sauce made as follows: - Put into a sauce-pan, parsley, cibol, mushrooms, a clove of garlic, all finely minced, and a little butter; give it a turn or teo on the fire, and add a good dust of flour, then a bit of butter, capers, and a minced anchovy, the liver of the skate, first boiled and bruised, pepper, and salt; moisten it with gravy or water, and thicken it on the fire.
ref: 1842, Mrs. Dalgairns, The Practice of Cookery...Ninth Edition, with Additions, page 44:
text: The herbs generally employed in the fourniture are chervil, tarragon, chives, or cibol.
ref: 1906, Maria Parloa, Preparation of Vegetables for the Table, page 46:
text: Turnips, carrots, parsnips, celery, leeks, cibol, onions, etc., when used just as flavorers, should be tied in a bunch and cooked twenty or thirty minutes in the dish and then removed.
ref: 1906, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Experiment Station Work, XXXIV: American Sugar-beet Seed, […], Fertility of Eggs, page 44:
glosses: A perennial onion plant, Allium fistulosum, commonly called Welsh onion.
Derived terms: sybo
acrospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrospores
Etymology: From acro- + spore.
Senses: glosses: A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.
Derived terms: acrosporous
acrospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrospore
cachinnatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkakɪnəˌtəɹi/
Forms: form: more cachinnatory
form: most cachinnatory
Etymology: From cachinnate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: But these jests, and others of a similar nature, had evidently produced, at no time, any effect upon the cachinnatory muscles of the tar.
ref: 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest:
glosses: Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
dentigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin dentis (“genitive singular of dens”) + -gerous (“bearing”).
Senses: examples: text: They usually bear teeth on a dentigerous process or, occasionally, as in Hemiphractus, odontoids (projections of bone resembling teeth).
ref: 1986, William E. Duellman, Linda Trueb, Biology of Amphibians, page 317:
text: Occasionally dentigerous cysts may be lined partially or wholly by pseudostratified columnar epithelium with cilia and mucous cells.
ref: 2001, Ben Z. Pilch, Head and Neck Surgical Pathology, page 203:
text: Female with dentigerous plate of ovipositor moderately wide and bearing 8–12 teeth; anal appendages of female not particularly pointed (B).
ref: 2006, Gunther Theischinger, John Hawking, The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia, page 136:
glosses: Bearing teeth or tooth-like structures; of or pertaining to tissue from which teeth develop.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to tooth-generating tissue
word: follicular
dislikelihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + likelihood.
Senses: examples: text: “ But consider , Chiffie , the dislikelihood of her pleasing , ” said the noble courtier.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
synonyms: unlikelihood
glosses: improbability
holcad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒlkæd/
Forms: form: holcads
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁλκάς (holkás). Compare hulk.
Senses: examples: text: The storeships provided by the Athenian government , which carried also both sutlers and artificers , were thirty of large burden of the kind called holcads, and a hundred smaller[…]
ref: 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
glosses: A large merchantman ship in Ancient Greece.
holcads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holcad
postscapula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + scapula.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula.
profulgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈfʌld͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: more profulgent
form: most profulgent
Etymology: From pro- + Latin fulgeō (“to shine”).
Senses: examples: text: Truth may stand forth unmoved of change, / An image with profulgent brows, / And perfect limbs, […]
ref: 1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “[Juvenilia.] Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind”, in The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: Shining out; gleaming.
pearlash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æʃ
Forms: form: pearlashes
Etymology: From pearl + ash. Compare potash.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.
unconsecrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unconsecrates
form: unconsecrating
form: unconsecrated
form: unconsecrated
Etymology: From un- + consecrate.
Senses: examples: text: unconsecrated and profaned that sacred edifice
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To render not sacred; to remove sanctity.
Synonyms: deconsecrate
desecrate
unconsecrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unconsecrate
unconsecrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unconsecrate
prebookings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prebooking
disarmature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + armature.
Senses: glosses: The act of stripping of armor or defence.
terminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The Christian doctrine that there is a time limit for repentance from sin, after which God no longer wills the conversion and salvation of the sinner.
Related terms: terminal
terminist
terminus
steatomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From steatoma + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: steatomatous thickening
text: steatomatous tumor
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the nature of a steatoma.
terminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terminists
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: One who supports the doctrine of terminism.
terminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terminist
hell-brewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hellbrewed
Etymology: From Hell + brewed.
Senses: examples: text: hel-brew'd opiate
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: Prepared in Hell.
pistilliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more pistilliferous
form: most pistilliferous
Etymology: From pistil + -i- + -ferous; compare French pistillifère.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having pistils; pistillate.
empeople
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empeoples
form: empeopling
form: empeopled
form: empeopled
Etymology: From em- + people.
Senses: glosses: To form into a people or community.
examples: text: We now know 't is very well empeopled.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To fill with people; populate.
empeoples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of empeople
empeopling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of empeople
reeligible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: reëligible
Etymology: From re- + eligible.
Senses: examples: text: she is reeligible for the same office
glosses: Eligible again; capable of reelection.
Related terms: reeligibility
tylari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tylarus
tylarus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tylari
Etymology: From New Latin tylarus, from Ancient Greek τυλάριον (tulárion, “cushion”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the soft pads on the undersurface of the toes of some birds, such as owls and ospreys.
insaturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insaturable
form: most insaturable
Etymology: From Latin īnsaturābilis. Compare French insaturable, Portuguese insaturável. See in- (“not”) + saturable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being saturated.
forefence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forefences
Etymology: From fore- + fence.
Senses: glosses: A defense at the front.
forefences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forefence
primogenitureship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From primogeniture + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: [A]ll the younger branches of those families were disinherited, and the law of primogenitureship set up.
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
glosses: The right of the first-born child (especially a son) to inherit property or titles; primogeniture.
sunflowery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sunflowery
form: most sunflowery
Etymology: From sunflower + -y.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1877-1882, Algernon Charles Swinburne, letter
I am well into the second book or canto of your Tristram, containing the adventure illustrated by Morris on the walls of the Oxford Union in the sunflowery style which you may remember.
text: There is a way it seems to us to see sunflowers not just as some more shaped and colored things, but as what has a distinctively sunflowery look.
ref: 1998, Charles Siewert, The Significance of Consciousness:
text: It smelled sunflowery though, and when, during the initial application, some of it had dribbled into my mouth, its taste was not unpleasant.
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sunflower.
centrolinead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrolineads
Senses: glosses: An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a centre.
centrolineads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrolinead
haybird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haybirds
Etymology: From hay + bird.
Senses: glosses: The European spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata).
glosses: The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla).
haybirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haybird
connaturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more connaturally
form: most connaturally
Etymology: From connatural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a connatural manner.
nuthook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuthooks
form: nut-hook
Etymology: From nut + hook.
Senses: glosses: A hook on a pole to pull down boughs for gathering nuts.
glosses: A thief who steals by means of a hook.
examples: text: Nuthook, nuthook, you lie.
ref: c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, act 5, scene 4:
glosses: A bailiff who metaphorically hooks or seizes malefactors; a policeman; a constable.
Synonyms: sense: thief
word: angler
sense: thief
word: hooker
sense: policeman
word: police officer
Hypernyms: sense: thief
word: thief
Related terms: sense: hook on a pole
word: gaff
sense: hook on a pole
word: panking pole
nuthooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuthook
connately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more connately
form: most connately
Etymology: From connate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a connate fashion.
tenuirostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tenuirostral
form: most tenuirostral
Senses: examples: text: The tenuirostral birds included the hummingbirds.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a thin bill (said of birds belonging to the former group of birds Tenuirostres
enwind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enwinds
form: enwinding
form: enwound
form: enwound
Etymology: From en- + wind.
Senses: examples: text: Love, the third,
Between us, in the circle of his arms
Enwound us both; […]
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 29:
text: Prais’d be the fathomless universe,
For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious,
And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise!
For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
glosses: To wind around (something); to encircle or wrap up.
enwinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enwind
enwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enwind
enwound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enwind
ironwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironworts
Etymology: From iron + wort.
Senses: glosses: A herb of several species in the genus Sideritis, formerly believed to heal sword cuts.
glosses: Galeopsis ladanum, red hemp-nettle.
Derived terms: false ironwort
prolocutorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolocutorships
Etymology: From prolocutor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or office of a prolocutor.
prolocutorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolocutorship
alamodality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From à la mode + -ality.
Senses: examples: text: Doubtless it hath been selected for me because of its alamodality,- a good and pregnant word, on the fitness of which some German whose name appears to be erroneously as well as uncouthly written Geamoenus, is said to have composed a dissertation.
ref: 1847, Robert Southey, The doctor, page 189:
text: Gwendolyn Hackworth hadn't packed a parasol, but she was untroubled; she'd always had a kind of natural, unconscious alamodality.
ref: 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: The quality of being fashionable.
adipocerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adipocerous
form: most adipocerous
Etymology: From adipocere + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: adipocerous skin
text: adipocerous transformation
text: adipocerous matter
glosses: Like, or containing, adipocere.
privatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From privative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ordinary despair in our spiritual: then privatively, depriving us of that which is the mother and soul of our obedience and good works , I mean faith
ref: a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:
glosses: In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.
truttaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more truttaceous
form: most truttaceous
Etymology: Latin trutta (“trout”), Latin tructa. See trout.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trout.
prosecutorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosecutorships
Etymology: From prosecutor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or office of prosecutor.
prosecutorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosecutorship
prosecutorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prosecutorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a prosecutorial manner or context.
nonprosecutorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prosecutorial.
Senses: glosses: Not prosecutorial.
nonlate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + late.
Senses: glosses: Not late.
nonphased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + phased.
Senses: glosses: Not phased.
haematosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hematin
septicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From septum + Latin caedere (“to cut”). Compare French septicide.
Senses: examples: text: septicidal capsules
text: septicidal dehiscence
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.
Coordinate terms: loculicidal
parturitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to parturition; obstetric.
Derived terms: nonparturitive
spiralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiralizations
Etymology: From spiral + -ization.
Senses: glosses: the act of forming into a spiral
Related terms: spiralize
spiralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spiralizes
form: spiralizing
form: spiralized
form: spiralized
form: spiralise
Etymology: From spiral + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To form into a spiral.
Derived terms: spiralizer
carpetmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpetmongers
Etymology: From carpet + monger.
Senses: glosses: One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
Related terms: monger
carpetmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpetmonger
Hellenistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Hellenistically
form: most Hellenistically
Etymology: From Hellenistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: ſo Shakar moſt properly ſignifieth, but is often rendred by the Lxx ἀδικία which therefore may bear the same ſignification Helleniſtically in this place
ref: 1646, John Gregory, Notes and Observations upon some Passages of Scripture:
glosses: According to the Hellenistic manner or dialect.
democraty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: democraties
Senses: examples: text: I could name him who from his private house wrote that Discourse to the Parlament of Athens , that perswades them to change the forme of Democraty which was then establisht
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of democracy.