cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Celticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Celticisms
Etymology: From Celtic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The latter [Rollright Stones], which has every signature of Celticism, I conceive to be coeval and perhaps of a class with Stone - henge .
ref: 1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington:
glosses: A Celtic custom or idiom.
Celticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Celticism
tarsectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarsectomy
tarsectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: tarsectomies
Etymology: From tarsus + -ectomy.
Senses: examples: text: That no less than eleven different forms of tarsectomy have been described for the cure of club-foot would seem to show that surgeons have not found any one of these operations giving perfectly satisfactory results.
ref: 1890, Transactions of the American Surgical Association, volume 8, page 82:
text: In the rigid foot with fixed deformity, a wedge tarsectomy or triple arthrodesis with tibialis posterior transfer is necessary.
ref: 1995, J.P. Ivory, I.M. Nugent, A.C. Ross, Key Topics in Orthopaedic Surgery, published 2005, page 189:
text: Transverse incisions are used best for wedge tarsectomy.
ref: 2012, Piet deBoer, Richard Buckley, Stanley Hoppenfeld, Surgical Exposures in Foot & Ankle Surgery: The Anatomic Approach, page 170:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The operation of removing one or more of the bones of the tarsus (cluster of bones in the foot).
examples: text: An important advantage of using Whitnall's sling procedure or the superior tarsectomy modification is that the other alternatives are still available if these procedures should give unacceptable results.
ref: 1995, Bhupendra C. K. Patel, Richard L. Anderson, “Levator aponeurosis repair”, in Thomas C. Naugle, Jr., Richard J. Hesse, Constance L. Fry, editors, Diagnosis and Management of Oculoplastic and Orbital Disorders: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Symposium, page 25:
text: One of the more radical treatments, tarsectomy, removes the eyelid's cartilage plate and the result can be inability to fully elevate the lids, just as you feel now.
ref: 2005, Edwina A. McConnell, Teddy Jones, A Stone for Every Journey: Traveling the Life of Elinor Gregg, R.N., page 215:
text: As parents are often opposed to surgery on the normal eye, considerable improvement may be obtained and further surgery deferred or avoided if a maximal aponeurotic resection (Whitnall's sling) procedure with a superior tarsectomy is performed first.
ref: 2011, David T. Tse, Color Atlas of Oculoplastic Surgery, 2nd edition, page 94:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The operation of removing one or more tarsi (plates of connective tissue, one found in each eyelid).
Derived terms: inferior tarsectomy
superior tarsectomy
wedge tarsectomy
causee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: causees
Etymology: From cause + -ee.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The agent of the caused event in a causative construction.
causees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of causee
Parkinsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːkɪnˈsəʊnɪ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Parkinsonian
form: most Parkinsonian
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of parkinsonian.
Derived terms: antiparkinsonian
Parkinsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːkɪnˈsəʊnɪ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Parkinsonians
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of parkinsonian.
parkinsonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parkinsonian
dislimn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dislimns
form: dislimning
form: dislimned
form: dislimned
Etymology: From dis- + limn.
Senses: examples: text: That which is now a horse, even with a thought / The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, / As water is in water.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xiv]:
text: It was the weather when […] the distances dare assume the purple as the sunset dislimns.
ref: 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 78:
glosses: To remove the outlines of; to efface.
dislimning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dislimn
dislimns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dislimn
enaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enactions
Etymology: From enact + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: a wide spectrum of tics and compulsive movements […] which were enactions of sudden urges.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
text: Two important threads of this work are to design a representation formalism for describing software process models and to develop new mechanisms to support the enaction of instantiated software process models.
ref: 1991, Takuya Katayama, Support for the Software Process, page 151:
glosses: The process of enacting something.
examples: text: An appreciation of the power of enaction in our understandings of the mind will throw into relief the question of motivations and goals.
ref: 2005, Ralph D. Ellis, Natika Newton, Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception:
text: The processes that underlie the organization and honing of these skills operate over a wide range of timescales, which include the enaction of a particular perceptual act at one end and the lifetime development of perception-action capabilities at the other.
ref: 2017, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Thomas Buhrmann, Xabier E. Barandiaran, Sensorimotor Life: An Enactive Proposal, page 76:
text: The first mention of enaction as a history of couplings that bring forth a world referred to the activity of "sensorimotor networks". (Varela et al. 1991)
ref: 2018, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Elena Clare Cuffari, Hanne De Jaegher, Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity between Life and Language:
text: Third, drawing on enaction and embodiment gives us the means for considering actions taken in response to musical sounds as sufficient for cognition, and thus constitutive of listeners' musical understanding.
ref: 2019, Mariusz Kozak, Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music, page 54:
topics: computer
computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
science
sciences
qualifier: cognitive science
glosses: The interpretation of consciousness or understanding as a process of meaningfully engaging and interacting with the world in a hierarchy of actions that produce reactions.
Derived terms: reenaction
preenaction
Related terms: enactivism
enactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enaction
governors-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of governor-general
neuroticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neuroticizes
form: neuroticizing
form: neuroticized
form: neuroticized
Etymology: From neurotic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Her affects are never neuroticized, as her tics are never mannerized.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: To make neurotic; to convert into a neurosis.
neuroticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neuroticize
neuroticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of neuroticize
neuroticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of neuroticize
oedipalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oedipalizes
form: oedipalizing
form: oedipalized
form: oedipalized
Etymology: From Oedipal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Oedipal; to integrate into, or affect with, an Oedipus complex.
oedipalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oedipalize
oedipalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oedipalize
oedipalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oedipalize
manneristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manneristic
form: most manneristic
Etymology: From manner + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e seemed to gesticulate a good deal with his arm and showed a tic-like or manneristic tendency to adjust his spectacles every two or three minutes.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, mannerisms.
Derived terms: manneristically
Bleulerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bleulerian
form: most Bleulerian
Etymology: From Bleuler + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: His thinking and speaking became more and more splintered, and full of neologisms; words and even fragments of words broke up, re-assorted, and were given new meanings; he now spoke in a very accelerated Bleulerian 'word salad,' brilliant in a way, but very difficult to follow[…]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Of or relating to Paul Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939), Swiss psychiatrist who studied mental illness and coined the term schizophrenia.
as luck may have it
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of as luck would have it (“by chance, luckily”).
synonyms: word: as luck would have it
extra: by chance, luckily
jerkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jerking
jabbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæbɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of jabbing
swattings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swatting
cut both ways
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts both ways
form: cutting both ways
form: cut both ways
form: cut both ways
Senses: examples: text: A redundant observation about Ben Fouhy: It's not easy being him. "No, not really. But that cuts both ways you know, that affords me the opportunities, the highs and lows, the heights and depths that perhaps other people don't ... experience."
ref: March 10 2012, New Zealand Herald, Michele Hewitson interview: Ben Fouhyhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10791043
glosses: To have both benefits and drawbacks.
examples: text: Readers are invited at this point to listen to the pleasant sound of the recordings in LT [Lehman’s temperament], which can be found on this page. Together with the record value of MSS [Music Sameness of Scales], this makes a convincing case for Lehman’s hypothesis. But arguments, like a razor,(5) cut both ways: some lesser known temperament might achieve a better MSS than LT
ref: 2009 June, Emmanuel Amiot, “Discrete Fourier Transform and Bach’s Good Temperament”, in Music Theory Online, volume 15, number 2, →DOI:
text: And the findings could cut both ways. / "It's certainly possible that an intruder was responsible for the murder, but I don't think that the DNA evidence proves it," said William C. Thompson […] Similarly, the findings don't implicate or exonerate anyone in the family.
ref: 2016 October 27, Charlie Brennan, Kevin Vaughan, “DNA in doubt: New analysis challenges DA's exoneration of Ramseys”, in Loveland Reporter Herald, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2016:
text: […] It may be tempting to criticize my analogy because it assumes a case where one vote can actually influence the outcome. That would be fair, of course, but it would also cut both ways. / If you're vote can't be strategic because it is statistically meaningless, then neither can it be moral. / In which case both arguments - vote your conscience & vote your strategy - should be dumped in favor of a third: don't vote.
ref: 2016 November 4, Andrew Cohen, Sean II, “Time for Political Disruption”, in Bleeding Heart Libertarians, retrieved 09 Mar 2021, Comments:
text: This argument cuts both ways.
glosses: To have implications for something as well as its counterpart.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, both, ways.
Related terms: double-edged
two-edged
cruel mistress
dartings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darting
solenaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of solanaceous.
blepharoclonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blepharo- + clonus.
Senses: examples: text: He showed a rather unblinking, lizard-like stare, except when grimacing, or during his rare paroxysms of blepharoclonus.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An increase in the frequency or duration of blinking.
Pinterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pinterish
form: most Pinterish
Etymology: From Pinter + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Despite what Margie said, it was a very Pinterish play: his mind, his language, were everywhere apparent — no one but Pinter could have written the play.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
text: After yards of Pinterish dialogue they announce that I'm here, but since they don't know me, they might have had to lock me out of my room.
ref: 1996, Nora Sayre, Sixties going on seventies, page 85:
glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Harold Pinter; Pinteresque.
Pinterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pinterian
form: most Pinterian
Etymology: From Pinter + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Harold Pinter (1930–2008), English dramatist, or his works.
give something a try
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives something a try
form: giving something a try
form: gave something a try
form: given something a try
Senses: examples: text: I always wanted to give windsurfing a try. I reckon it could be fun.
glosses: To try or attempt something.
Synonyms: sense: try something
word: give something a whirl
sense: try something
word: give something a go
sense: try something
word: give something a shot
sense: try something
word: give it one's best shot
sense: try something
word: give something the old college try
sense: try something
word: have a go
sense: try something
word: have a stab
sense: try something
word: have a crack at
Related terms: have a try
try out
take for a spin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes for a spin
form: taking for a spin
form: took for a spin
form: taken for a spin
Senses: examples: text: I kicked the tires and then the salesperson invited me to take the car for a spin.
text: Well, not him exactly, but his car (a Bentley), his vacation homes (Monte Carlo and Corfu), his credit card (a black AmEx that he let her take for a spin on Rodeo Drive every weekend), […]
ref: 2009, J. Courtney Sullivan, Dating Up: Dump the Schlump and Find a Quality Man, Hachette, →ISBN:
text: Set up desktops, laptops, iPads, and all of your devices with new tools, apps, eBooks, and programs for patrons to take for a spin.
ref: 2013, Linda D. Behen, Recharge Your Library Programs with Pop Culture and Technology: Connect with Today's Teens, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: To test or try out something, especially an automobile.
examples: text: On Sunday, I took my family for a spin through the surrounding countryside.
text: Prince William takes new wife for a spin in father's Aston Martin [title]
ref: 2011 April 30, Stephen Bates, “Prince William takes new wife for a spin in father's Aston Martin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: ‘You couldn’t find a small area with more cycling history or more hospitality.’ Ahead of tomorrow’s big race, Wiggo takes us for a spin around his favourite hills, cafes and villages[.]
ref: 2019 April 6, Philip Malcolm, “Bradley Wiggins’ tour of Flanders”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To take, as a companion, for a drive in a motor vehicle.
raw_tags: of a person
thresh out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: threshes out
form: threshing out
form: threshed out
form: threshed out
Senses: glosses: To extract or remove by threshing.
glosses: To thrash out.
myelocoele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myelocoeles
Etymology: Ancient Greek marrow + hollow.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The central canal of the spinal cord.
glosses: myelocele
myelocoeles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myelocoele
forbearant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forbearant
form: most forbearant
Etymology: From forbear + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: Gay, gentle, frolicsome as a lamb, yet strong, forbearant and royally courageous as a lion, he worked along, amid the scouring of kettles, the hissing of frying-pans, the hum of his mother's wheel[.]
ref: 1830, Thomas Carlyle, Johann Paul Friedrich Richter:
glosses: forbearing; long-suffering
Derived terms: forbearantly
varvelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: varveled
form: vervelled
form: verveled
Etymology: From varvel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having varvels, or rings.
volcanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌvɒlkənaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: volcanizations
form: volcanisation
Etymology: From volcano + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Though they were anciently known to be volcanic,and therefore called vulcanian, it is only in modern times that their volcanization has been considered as an interesting object of the researches of the philosopher, who labours to promote the knowledge of nature.
ref: 1809, Abbé Lazzaro Spallanzani, “Travels in the Two Sicilies and Some Parts of the Apennines”, in John Pinkerton, editor, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages, page 93:
text: Finally, all minerals or metallic substances, different in their nature and composition, found either in stratas or in beds, or separated in isolated masses, and forming distinct bodies, are all accidental products, resulting entirely from the conflagration of the Universal forest, and the general volcanization of the superficy of the terrestial Globe, and from the lixivium mixture, reunion, or agglutination of the substances contained in the mass of ashes produced by these two great accidents, the conflagration and volcanization of the terrestial Globe.
ref: 1827, Regnault de Bécourt, The Grave of Human Philosophies, Ancient and Modern, page 65:
glosses: The process of undergoing volcanic activity and being affected by it.
examples: text: These particulars are the more deserving of attention, because the Alps have been very generally supposed to be destitute of all traces of volcanization.
ref: 1822, “Travels in the Maritime Alps”, in The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, page 505:
text: Previous to 1759 it appears that theplain from which Jorullo now rises, presented traces of former volcanization; its soil being composed of tufa; and the neighbouring mountains consisting of trachyte and basalt.
ref: 1825, G.Poulett Scrope, Considerations on Volcanos, page 261:
glosses: volcanic activity.
volcanizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volcanization
cottise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottises
form: cotise
Etymology: Compare French côté (“side”), Latin costa (“rib”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend: a thin line borne around another charge.
cottise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cottises
form: cottising
form: cottised
form: cottised
form: cotise
Etymology: Compare French côté (“side”), Latin costa (“rib”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: To border a bend, etc., with cottises, barrulets, etc.
cottises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cottise
vervelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of varvelled.
Cockneydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cockney + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The home or region of Cockneys i.e. London
examples: text: Then to win the hearts of his new subjects the King of Cockneydom would, doubtlessly, have spoken in the richest brogue he could manage.
ref: 1850, “The Lord Mayor in Ireland”, in The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities (2nd Series), London: John Camden Hotten, […]; New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Welford and Co., →OCLC, page 316:
glosses: Cockneys, collectively.
gnomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈnɒmɪkəl/
Senses: glosses: gnomic
examples: text: North Points of the Horizon , which could not be done with an ordinary gnomical Dial
ref: 1688, Robert Doyle, A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things:
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: gnomonic
whitflaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitflaws
Senses: examples: text: The nails faln off by VVhit-flavves: Art's / VViſe hand enchaſing here thoſe vvarts, / VVhich vve to others (from our ſelves) / Sell, and brought hither by the Elves.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “Oberons Palace”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 193:
glosses: Obsolete form of whitlow.
whitflaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitflaw
epiloguize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: epiloguizes
form: epiloguizing
form: epiloguized
form: epiloguized
Etymology: From epilogue + -ize.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epilogize.
epiloguized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of epiloguize
epiloguizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of epiloguize
epiloguizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of epiloguize
dismortgage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dismortgages
form: dismortgaging
form: dismortgaged
form: dismortgaged
Etymology: From dis- + mortgage.
Senses: examples: text: they have dismortgaged the aid Land, and cancelled the Deed of Mortgage
ref: February 7 1628, Tobias Matthew, "order against the Lady Pattington", transcribed in Journals of the House of Lords, Volume 4
glosses: To redeem from mortgage.
Synonyms: unmortgage
dismortgaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dismortgage
dismortgages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dismortgage
dismortgaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dismortgage
opisthotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From opisthotonus + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Her neck would be thrown back in an intense and sometimes agonizing opisthotonic posture.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Relating to opisthotonus.
sweatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweating
ticcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticcers
Etymology: From tic + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In the presence of excitement and perpetual contradiction, Miss A. has split into a dozen Miss A.'s — the drinker, the ticcer, the stamper, the yeller, the swinger, the gazer, the sleeper[…]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: One who exhibits tics.
ticcers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticcer
insectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insectations
Etymology: From Latin insectatio. See insectator.
Senses: examples: text: an insectation of the new Poets and Orators
ref: 1673, Barten Holiday, The Life of Persius:
glosses: pursuit; harassment; persecution
insectations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insectation
coallies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coally
coally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəʊˈælaɪ/
Forms: form: coallies
form: co-ally
Etymology: From co- + ally.
Senses: glosses: A joint ally.
emprosthotonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔμπροσθεν (émprosthen) + τόνος (tónos, “tension”). See further at opisthotonos.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
fiddlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiddling
motorneurone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorneurones
Senses: examples: text: Additionally — quite unusual among the post-encephalitic patients I have seen — Mr G. showed bilateral signs of upper motorneurone deficit and a mild mental dullness besides his 'queerness.'
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Alternative form of motor neuron.
motorneurones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motorneurone
providences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of providence
ticlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ticlike
form: most ticlike
Etymology: From tic + -like.
Senses: examples: a ticlike jerking motion
glosses: Resembling a tic.
warpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warping
chemopallidectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemopallidectomies
Etymology: From chemo- + pallidectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A pallidectomy that uses a chemical to destroy the globus pallidus.
pallidectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pallidectomy
chemopallidectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemopallidectomy
chemothalamectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemothalamectomies
Etymology: From chemo- + thalamectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A thalamectomy that uses a chemical to destroy a portion of the thalamus.
chemothalamectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemothalamectomy
cushingoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Cushingoid
Etymology: From Cushing + -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Presenting symptoms like those of Cushing's syndrome (weight gain, sweating, moon face, etc.).
razee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: razees
Etymology: From French vaisseau rasé, from raser (“to rase, to cut down ships”). See raze and rase (verbs).
Senses: examples: text: an old line-of-battle ship, (21 years of age,) cut down to a razee
ref: 1838, Edmund Fanning, Voyages to the South Seas […] :
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
razee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: razees
form: razeeing
form: razeed
form: razeed
Etymology: From French vaisseau rasé, from raser (“to rase, to cut down ships”). See raze and rase (verbs).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.
examples: text: to razee a book, or an article
text: "Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 36”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.
razees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of razee
platinochloric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chloroplatinous acid
forgettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forgetting
copper fasten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copper fastens
form: copper fastening
form: copper fastened
form: copper fastened
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copperfasten.
copper-fasten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copper-fastens
form: copper-fastening
form: copper-fastened
form: copper-fastened
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copperfasten.
copper fastens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copper fasten
copper fastened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copper fasten
copper fastening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copper fasten
copper-fastens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copper-fasten
copper-fastening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copper-fasten
copper-fastened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copper-fasten
overbulk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbulks
form: overbulking
form: overbulked
form: overbulked
Etymology: From over- + bulk.
Senses: examples: text: Achilles must or now be cropped
Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil
To overbulk us all.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To be more bulky than; to tower over.
examples: text: Fabricating this type of thin margin with a computer-aided designed and manufactured (CAD-CAM) restoration may be more challenging, overbulking the margins at CAD design and after adhesive cementation.
ref: 2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry:
glosses: To make bulky
overbulked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbulk
overbulking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbulk
overbulks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbulk
nondualistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dualistic.
Senses: glosses: Not dualistic.
postlitigation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + litigation.
Senses: glosses: After litigation.
collectorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collectorates
Etymology: From collector + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: qualifier: historical outside India
glosses: The district or seat of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
collectorates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collectorate
gestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛstɪk/
Etymology: From gest + -ic. See gest (“a deed”), gesture.
Senses: examples: text: Dames of ancient days / Have led their children through the mirthful maze, / And the gay grandſire, ſkill'd in gestic lore, / Has friſk'd beneath the burthen of threeſcore.
ref: 1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, pages 13–14:
glosses: Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary.
examples: text: Carried away by the enthusiasm of the gestic art [i.e. dancing].
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: gestual
glosses: Relating to the movement of the body, or consisting of gestures.
oorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oorials
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urial.
oorials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oorial
phaneroglossal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phanero- + Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: phaneroglossal reptiles.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a conspicuous tongue.
ladies' eardrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The small-flowered fuchsia (Fuchsia coccinea)
glosses: Other species that somewhat resemble earrings, such as Brunnichia ovata
hryvnya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hryvnyas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hryvnia.
hryvnyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hryvnya
subbasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + basal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Near or below the base.
cothurn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒθə(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: cothurns
Etymology: From Latin cothurnus, from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos). Compare cothurnus.
Senses: examples: text: The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might again be assumed with effect.
ref: 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A buskin anciently worn by tragic actors on the stage.
Related terms: cothurnate
cothurned
cothurnian
cothurnus
cothurns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cothurn
double-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-shots
form: double-shotting
form: double-shotted
form: double-shotted
Senses: examples: text: The Indomitable raked the frigate’s stern with double-shotted guns.
text: The boarding-nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls.
ref: 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XX, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 165–166:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To load (a cannon) with twice the shot, for increased damage at the expense of range.
double-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This keyboard has double-shot keycaps, to prevent the symbols from wearing off.
glosses: Made by molding a second layer of plastic around a plastic or metal base.
Coordinate terms: sense: mechanical keyboards
word: dye-sub
revestries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revestry
revestry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revestries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of revestiary.
frett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fretts
Etymology: See frit.
Senses: glosses: A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.
frett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fretts
Etymology: See fret.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The worn side of the bank of a river.
adiaphory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek [Term?].
Senses: glosses: indifference
enpierce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enpierces
form: enpiercing
form: enpierced
form: enpierced
Etymology: See empierce.
Senses: examples: text: I am too sore enpierced with his shaft.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
glosses: To pierce.
enpierced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enpierce
enpiercing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enpierce
dicacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicacities
Etymology: From Latin dicacitas. Compare French dicacité. See dicacious.
Senses: glosses: pertness; sauciness
fretts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frett
regulized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regulize
regulized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: regulized antimony
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Reduced to regulus; separated, as a metal from extraneous matter.
atimy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈætɪmi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀτιμία (atimía, “disgrace”).
Senses: examples: text: the decree of atimy, or deprivation of rights and honors, which had been passed against him on occasion of the mutilation of the Mercuries[…]
ref: 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: public disgrace or stigma; outlawry; loss of civil rights
deligation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deligations
Etymology: Compare French déligation.
Senses: examples: text: Deligation of the Part : and in this case Bandages are to be made of softer and broader Linen than we use in Fractures without a Wound
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A binding up; a bandaging.
Related terms: deligate
deligations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deligation
wecht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wechts
form: wehit
form: weight
Senses: glosses: A form of sieve used to winnow grain; the weight of its contents.
Derived terms: wechtful
wecht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wechts
form: wechting
form: wechted
form: wechted
form: wehit
form: weight
Senses: glosses: To winnow grain using such a device.
gyall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyalls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gayal.
gyalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyall
ajutage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ajutages
Etymology: Borrowed from French ajutage, from ajoutage, from ajouter (“to add”), from Latin adjuxtare, from ad + juxta (“near to, nigh”). Compare adjutage, adjustage, adjust.
Senses: examples: text: the ajutage of a fountain or reservoir
glosses: A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube.
ajutages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ajutage
tendries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tendry
tendry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendries
Senses: examples: text: you are gone astray from the paths of truth , and tendries of Antiquity
ref: 1613, Peter Heylyn, The History of the Sabbath:
glosses: A tender; an offer.
dubitancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dubitancy
dubitancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdjuːbɪtənsi/
/ˈduːbɪtənsi/
Forms: form: dubitancies
Etymology: Latin dubitantia.
Senses: examples: text: when they are most fully without all dubitancy resolved
ref: 1647, Henry Hammond, The Christian's obligations to peace & charity delivered in an advent sermon at Carisbrook-Castle:
text: He walks with the air of a minister of state on the eve of a vacant garter, hoping, wondering, fearing, and dignified even in his dubitancy.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, IV.1:
glosses: Doubt; uncertainty.
mandment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mandement.
mandments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandment
regrede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regredes
form: regreding
form: regreded
form: regreded
Etymology: From Latin regredi (“to go back”). Compare regrade, regress.
Senses: examples: text: […] the instantaneous parabola decreases in magnitude and descends in position throughout the entire motion, while its axis regredes during the ascent and progredes during the descent of the particle.
ref: 1878, The Educational Times, page 316:
glosses: To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit.
Related terms: progrede
regreded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regrede
regredes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regrede
regreding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regrede
sulphureity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sʌlfəˈɹiːɪti/
Etymology: From sulphureous + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The aqueity, Terreity, and sulphureity
Shall run together again, and all be annulled
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: The quality or state of being sulphureous.
sclerotical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sclerotical
form: most sclerotical
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: sclerotic
hederic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hedera + -ic + acid, apparently used for the first time in English in 1849 in Vol. VII of the Chemical Gazette published by Richard and John E. Taylor, London, England in an article titled "On the constituents of the seeds of ivy", written by German professor L. (Louis?) Posselt, who was the first to extract the substance from ivy (Hedera helix) seeds. Original article was published in Liebig's "Annalen der Chemie" in January 1849.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hederagenin
get-pennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of get-penny
get-penny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: get-pennies
form: getpenny
Senses: examples: text: thou and thy acts become the posies for hospitals; when thy name shall be written upon conduits, and thy deeds played i' thy lifetime by the best companies of actors, and be called their get-penny.
ref: 1605 August (first performance), Geo[rge] Chapman, Ben Ionson, Ioh[n] Marston, Eastward Hoe. […], London: […] [George Eld] for William Aspley, published September 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: if a pack of hackney scribblers shall attack me only by way of a get-penny, I shall not be provoked to answer them
ref: 1728, Daniel Defoe, Augusta Triumphans:
synonyms: money-spinner
moneymaker
glosses: Something that makes money; a financially successful affair.
presurmise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presurmises
Etymology: From pre- + surmise.
Senses: glosses: A surmise previously formed.
presurmise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presurmises
form: presurmising
form: presurmised
form: presurmised
Etymology: From pre- + surmise.
Senses: glosses: To surmise beforehand.
unseason
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈsiːzən/
Forms: form: unseasons
form: unseasoning
form: unseasoned
form: unseasoned
Etymology: From un- + season.
Senses: glosses: To make unseasoned; to deprive of seasoning.
unseasoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unseason
unseasons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unseason
Corinthiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Corinthiac
form: most Corinthiac
Etymology: Latin Corinthiacus.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Corinth; Corinthian.
roccellic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French roccellique, from roccelle (“archil”), from Italian roccella, from rocca (“a rock”), because archil grows on rock.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dibasic acid, C₁₇H₃₂O₄, of the oxalic series, found in archil (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), and other lichens.
bleds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bled
malaconotid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malaconotids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the family Malaconotidae of bushshrikes.
malaconotids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malaconotid
thamnophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thamnophiles
Etymology: From Ancient Greek, meaning "bush-loving"; see θάμνος (thámnos, “bush”) and -phile.
Senses: glosses: A grasshopper that lives in trees (as opposed to underbrush).
Related terms: Thamnophilus
thamnophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thamnophile
bush shrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush shrikes
Senses: glosses: An African passerine bird of the family Malaconotidae.
bushshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushshrike
buat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbuːət/
Forms: form: buats
form: bowat
Senses: examples: text: he muttered a Gaelic curse upon the unseasonable splendour of Mac-Farlane' s buat
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: A lantern.
glosses: The moon.
buats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buat
cubooctahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubooctahedron
cubooctahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubooctahedrons
form: cubooctahedra
Etymology: From cube + -o- + octahedron.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A combination of a cube and octahedron, especially one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.
lingams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lingam
cubooctahedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubooctahedron
exantlate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exantlates
form: exantlating
form: exantlated
form: exantlated
Etymology: From Latin exantlatus, past participle of exantlare, exanclare (“to endure”).
Senses: examples: text: seeds […] wearied or exantlated
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:
topics: sciences
glosses: To exhaust or wear out.
Derived terms: exantlation
exantlated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exantlate
exantlates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exantlate
exantlating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exantlate
phoronomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek a carrying, motion + a law.
Senses: examples: text: Several new paragraphs have been added to the analytical laws of phoronomics and aerostatics, and in hydraulics the pressure of water flowing through tubes occupies two new paragraphs […]
ref: 1869, Julius Ludwig Weisbach, Treatise on the mechanics of engineering and machinery:
glosses: The science of motion; kinematics.
cometographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cometography
cometography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cometographies
Etymology: From comet + -o- + -graphy. Compare French cométographie.
Senses: glosses: The scientific description of comets.
Derived terms: cometographic
Related terms: cometographer
cometographical