cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
n-gram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈɛŋˌɡɹæm/
homophone: engram
Forms: form: n-grams
form: ngram
Etymology: From n + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Hyland's study demonstrates how n-grams can reveal similarities and differences both between genres and between different sets of writers.
ref: 2012, Winnie Cheng, Exploring Corpus Linguistics: Language in Action, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A contiguous sequence of n items (usually characters or words) from a given sequence of text or speech, used in analysis.
Hyponyms: unigram
bigram
trigram
fourgram
Related terms: shingle
q-gram
fourgram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourgrams
Etymology: From four + -gram.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An n-gram consisting of four items from a sequence.
unmaintained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmaintained
form: most unmaintained
Etymology: From un- + maintained.
Senses: glosses: Not maintained
crotch critter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotch critters
Senses: examples: text: "Oh. Remember Monday I was complaining about Geneva Jones being in my health class? Wondering why bother since she's already got every crotch critter in the textbook?"
ref: 2008, Kristopher Reisz, Unleashed, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: A sexually transmitted pathogen, particularly pubic lice.
examples: text: If I want to watch NYPDBlue I don't want to hear whining about the swearing and nudity from some goddamn fundy. If you don't like it, DONT WATCH. If you don't want your little crotch critters to see/listen to something, DONT LET THEM!
ref: 2000 September 15, Jennifer Landry, “Re: NEWS:CDN Sex education promotes risky behaviour”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
glosses: A child.
Synonyms: sense: child
word: child
crotch critters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotch critter
haematoglobulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemoglobin.
intaminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intaminated
form: most intaminated
Etymology: From Latin intaminatus. See contaminate.
Senses: examples: text: intaminated Frisic language
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:
glosses: uncontaminated
ten-strike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten-strikes
Senses: examples: text: I started to tell him I warn't studying Jeff Middleton, but jest then a lot of whooping bust out in the bowling alley like somebody had made a ten-strike or something, and here come six men busting into the bar whooping and yelling and slapping one of 'em on the back.
ref: 1936, Robert E. Howard, Evil Deeds at Red Cougar:
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A strike; the knocking down of all ten pins with one delivery of the ball.
examples: text: At his lowest ebb, when his black suit was in pawn, he made a ten-strike—or so it seemed to him—in a prize contest arranged by the County Committee of the Republican Party. There were three branches of the contest, and he entered them all, laughing at himself bitterly the while in that he was driven to such straits to live.
ref: 1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter 29, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909, →OCLC:
text: GREYE LA SPINA werewolf serial, Invaders From the Dark, seems to have scored a ten-strike with the readers of Weird Tales, to judge by the letters that have poured in to The Eyrie
ref: 1925 July 24, Weird Tales, page 136:
glosses: Any quick, decisive stroke or act.
ten-strikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ten-strike
declaimant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkleɪmənt/
Forms: form: declaimants
Senses: glosses: A declaimer.
declaimants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of declaimant
rugine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹuːˈʒiːn/
/ˈɹuːʒiːn/
Forms: form: rugines
Etymology: French ruginer (“to scrape”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.
rugine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹuːˈʒiːn/
/ˈɹuːʒiːn/
Forms: form: rugines
form: rugining
form: rugined
form: rugined
Etymology: French ruginer (“to scrape”).
Senses: examples: text: if you do not rugine that away, the Callus will be flow in thrusting out; and if you do rugine it, the deeper you enter into it, the browner and softer the Bone will be.
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: To scrape or rasp (a bone etc.); to scale.
rugined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rugine
rugines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rugine
rugining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rugine
devexities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devexity
devexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devexities
Etymology: From Latin devexitas, from devexus. See devex (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: 'Twas the more surprizing upon this account, because since the Matter of thie Phaenomenon seem'd to be but a very Thin Vapour, it was necessary that That Vapour shou'd be either of a vast Extent to answer the Superficies of the Earth; or else of a vast Height, that the Devexity of the Subperficies of the Earth shou'd not hinder its being seen in the same Situation from Places so far distant;
ref: 1738, John Pointer, A Rational Account of the Weather, page 184:
text: The Governor of Pensacola says, that the etymology of Langue la Graisse originates from the Rivers forming an extensive Curve; where, upon the first Settlement of the Place, great Quantities of Bear-Meat were stored up for the Use of the Garrison and the French and Spanish Navigators up and down the Missisippi, which Meat is of a very oleose Quality ; though in my Opinion , the Greasiness of the Soil , with the Devexity of the River, sufficiently justify the Epithet.
ref: 1792, John Pope, A Tour Through the Southern and Western Territiries of the United States of North-America, page 22:
text: The hand of the merciless critic, will dash them, with violent devexity, into the sea of demerit, and there they will float upon the waters of dishonour;
ref: 1846, Thomas Pybus, Hymns:
text: And as this North Pole seemeth to be aloft to those that are situated directly under it, so to them that be removed so far as the other Devexity or Fall of the Earth, those abovesaid Stars rise up aloft there, while these decline downward which here were mounted on high.
ref: 1848, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, Pliny's Natural History. In Thirty-seven Books, volumes 1-3, page 114:
text: But while with such intensity he spouted on immensity, His wife with sweet devexity was cutting quite a dash; And with such ingenuity she monkeyed his annuity, He found to his perplexity she'd dressed away his cash.
ref: 1892, Tom Masson, “All Gone”, in Current Literature, volume 9, page 447:
glosses: A bending downward; declivity.
homomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homomorphies
Etymology: From homo- + -morphy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: similarity of form; resemblance in external character or in geometric ground form
Related terms: homophyly
homomorph
homomorphism
promorphology
supportment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supportments
Etymology: From support + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1639, Henry Wotton, a letter to Edmund Bacon
the Cardinal his uncle, who would first have illegitimated him, and that not taking effect by the supportment of Spain, he fell to other Roman Arts
glosses: support
supraloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + loral.
Senses: examples: the supraloral feathers of a bird
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Situated above the lores.
supraloral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supralorals
Etymology: From supra- + loral.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A feather or stripe situated above the lores.
supralorals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supraloral
carrancha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carranchas
Etymology: Apparently first attested in English in 1839, in the writings of Darwin, and usually said to be from a native name imitating the bird's cry. However, compare dialectal Spanish carrancha (“dog collar with spikes”) (from *carrancula), a form of carlanca (metathesized from *carcannula, from Late Latin carcannum): the birds' coloration does sometimes resemble a collar.
Senses: glosses: The Brazilian kite (Polyborus brasiliensis).
carranchas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrancha
soliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soliform
form: most soliform
Etymology: From Latin sol (“sun”) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: For as light , and sight , or the seeing faculty , may both of them rightly be said to be soliform things, or of kin to the sun , but neither of them to be the sun itself
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Like the sun in appearance or nature.
springhalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stringhalt
Senses: examples: text: They haue all new legs, / And lame ones; one would take it,
That neuer see 'em pace before, the Spauen
A Spring-halt rain'd among 'em.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Alternative form of stringhalt.
encoubert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encouberts
Etymology: From French encoubert, from Portuguese encorberto, encuberto (“covered”).
Senses: glosses: One of several species of armadillo of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, with five toes on both the fore and the hind feet.
encouberts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encoubert
squalodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squalodonts
Senses: examples: text: In squalodonts, the maxillae extend posteriorly over the parietals to reach the exoccipitals in adult specimens.
ref: 2002, A. Rus Hoelzel, Marine Mammal Biology:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the extinct genus Squalodon of whales.
Related terms: squalodontid
squalodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squalodont
rhinoscleroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinoscleromas
form: rhinoscleromata
Etymology: From rhino- + scleroma.
Senses: examples: text: The diagnosis of rhinoscleroma is often rendered very difficult, owing to the great resemblance between it and lupus […]
ref: 1909, John Vietch Shoemaker, A practical treatise on diseases of the skin:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare skin disease with very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, especially the lips, palate, and throat.
rhinoscleromas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinoscleroma
ensafe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ensafes
form: ensafing
form: ensafed
form: ensafed
Etymology: From en- + safe.
Senses: examples: text: Souls enſafe themselves and ſettle in a kind of Peace
ref: 1674, Anthony Palmer, The Gospel New-Creature:
glosses: To make safe; to secure.
ensafed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ensafe
pedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedion
glarney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glarneys
Etymology: Possibly from glass?
Senses: examples: text: As the word implies the glarneys were glass marbles, but no ball out of an old mineral-water bottle was ever dignified by receiving the name, though such balls were not despised possessions, and had the rank of twoers.
ref: 1953, Julian Franklyn, The Cockney: a survey of London life and language:
glosses: A kind of patterned glass marble in children's games.
glarneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glarney
diacodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diacodiums
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διά (diá, “out of”) + κώδεια (kṓdeia, “poppy head”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A syrup made from poppies.
diacodiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diacodium
wakerobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakerobins
form: wake-robin
form: wake robin
Etymology: From wake + robin.
Senses: glosses: Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Trillium, having flowers with three petals.
glosses: Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Trillium, having flowers with three petals.
Especially red trillium, Trillium erectum.
glosses: Cuckoopint, Arum maculatum.
Derived terms: nodding wakerobin
wakerobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wakerobin
countertime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌtaɪm/
Forms: form: countertimes
Etymology: From counter- + time. Compare contretemps.
Senses: examples: text: Let cheerfulneſs on happy Fortune wait, / And give not thus the Counter-time to Fate.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act IV, page 56:
glosses: Opposition; resistance.
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: The resistance of a horse that interrupts its cadence and the measure of its manège, caused by bad horsemanship or the bad temper of the horse.
countertimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countertime
orichalch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French orichalque.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orichalcum.
stewartries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stewartry
stewartry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stewartries
form: stewardry
Etymology: From Middle English stevardry, stevartry, stewartry, equivalent to steward + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: the stewartry of provisions
ref: 1799, William Tooke, A View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine II and to the close of the present Century:
glosses: An overseer or superintendent.
glosses: The role or office of a steward; stewardship.
glosses: The jurisdiction of a steward, or the lands under such jurisdiction.
preindisposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preindisposed
form: most preindisposed
Etymology: From pre- + indisposed.
Senses: examples: text: a mind preindisposed to its reception
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: Made indisposed beforehand.
anacoenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνακοίνωσις (anakoínōsis).
Senses: examples: text: The pronunciation of this speech will derive its greatest beauty from an attention to the Anacoenosis, beginning at the eleventh line.
ref: 1785, John Walker, A rhetorical grammar, or course of lessons in elocution, page 179:
text: Anacœnosis, sympathy to wake,
Bids us another's case our own to make.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Anacoenosis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: A rhetorical device by which a speaker appeals to their hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point or matter in debate.
Prutenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Prutenic
form: most Prutenic
Senses: examples: text: And I trust anon by the help of an infallible guide, to perfect such Prutenic tables, as shall mend the astronomy of our wide expositors.
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Prussian (applied to the Prussian Tables), published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus.
Prutenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prutenics
Senses: glosses: a Prussian
Yael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yaël
form: Jael
form: Jaël
Etymology: Rendering of the modern Israeli Hebrew יעל.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
sdeign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sdeigns
form: sdeigning
form: sdeigned
form: sdeigned
form: 'sdain
form: sdein
form: sdeigne
Etymology: From Italian sdegnare, aphetic form of disdegnare; later also taken as a shortening of disdain.
Senses: examples: text: Which when those knights beheld, with scornefull eye
 They sdeigned such lascivious disport,
 And loath'd the loose demeanure of that wanton sort.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To disdain.
sdeigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sdeign
sdeigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sdeign
sdeigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sdeign
planorbis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planorbises
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the freshwater air-breathing mollusks belonging to Planorbis and allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.
planorbises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planorbis
trenchmore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trenchmores
Senses: glosses: A lively, boisterous dance.
trenchmores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trenchmore
ribband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪbˌbænd/
/ˈɹɪbənd/
Forms: form: ribbands
Etymology: From rib + band.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position and give rigidity to the framework.
ribband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪbˌbænd/
/ˈɹɪbənd/
Forms: form: ribbands
Senses: examples: text: A Svveet diſorder in the dreſſe / Kindles in cloathes a vvantonneſſe: / […] / A Cuffe neglectfull, and thereby / Ribbands to flovv confuſedly: / […] / Do more bevvitch me, than vvhen Art / Is too preciſe in every part.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “Delight in Disorder”, 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 29:
text: I hope by this time the pink-coloured ribband in your hat is pulled off, and the pink-coloured gown put on
ref: c. 1716, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha and Teresa Blount
text: “Pray,” said Doctor Waldron, addressing Mrs. Green, “who is that little fubsy lady, with scarce a morsel of neck, and all covered with ribbands, pursued by that long ghost of a man in the Spanish dress?”
ref: 1833, anonymous author, Frank Orby, page 11:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ribbon.
ribbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribband
melligenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more melligenous
form: most melligenous
Etymology: From Latin mel, mellis + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: melligenous fliud
text: melligenous paste
text: melligenous sap
glosses: Having the qualities of honey.
circumcursation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumcursations
Etymology: From Latin circumcursare, circumcursatum (“to run round about”).
Senses: glosses: The act of running about.
examples: text: He allegeth the forementioned address of Felicissimus and Fortunatus to Pope Cornelius; the which was but a factious circumcursation of desperate wretches
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Pope's Supremacy”, 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: rambling language
circumcursations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumcursation
probabiliorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probabiliorists
Etymology: From Latin probabilior, comparative of probabilis (“probable”), + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, the theory of probabiliorism.
probabiliorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probabiliorist
paideutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek παιδευτικός (paideutikós).
Senses: glosses: The science or art of teaching.
Related terms: propaedeutic
espauliere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛs.poʊlˈjɛəɹ/
Forms: form: espaulieres
Etymology: From an Old French word corresponding to French épaulière or espalière. See espalier.
Senses: examples: text: Upon the espaulieres are placed pauldrons, also ridged, with the edges turned up, so as to form the prototypes of pass-guards.
ref: 1834, Matthew Holbeche Bloxam, A Glimpse at the Monumental Architecture and Sculpture of Great Britain from the Earliest Period to the Eighteenth Century:
glosses: A defence for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, especially as used in the fifteenth century: a pauldron.
Coordinate terms: spaulder
pauldron
epauliere
espaulieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of espauliere
chanceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃænsfəl/
/ˈt͡ʃɑːnsfəl/
Forms: form: more chanceful
form: most chanceful
Etymology: From chance + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: And, would ye not poor fellowship expel,
Myself would offer you t'accompany
In this adventure's chanceful jeopardy
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: hazardous; random
Derived terms: chancefully
anguineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anguineal
form: most anguineal
Senses: glosses: Like a snake; anguineous
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a certain type of hyperbola that has a snakelike form
peremption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peremptions
Etymology: Latin peremptio: compare French péremption.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A quashing (of law, or a lawsuit)
glosses: a defeating.
Related terms: perempt
peremptory
peremptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peremption
borough English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the great variety of customs affecting many of these tenements so held in ancient burgage, the principal and most remarkable of which is that called Borough English
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
text: The distribution of Borough English or ultimogeniture in England was roughly as follows. The custom extenhded along the whole line of the "Saxon Shore" from the Wash to the neighbourhood of the Solent, including the whole of the south-eastern counties.
ref: 1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 434:
topics: law
synonyms: junior right
glosses: Patrilineal ultimogeniture; inheritance by the youngest surviving male child.
haemony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhiːməni/
Forms: form: Hæmony
Etymology: Coined by John Milton for the play Comus around 1634 (see quotation below). Various scholars suggest that the word comes from a classical source such as Latin Haemonia (“Thessaly”, a place associated with magic), Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”), or Ancient Greek αἵμων (haímōn, “skillful”).
Senses: examples: text: He call’d it Hæmony, and gave it me / And bad me keepe it as of ſoveraine uſe / Gainſt all inchantments, mildew blaſt, or damp / Or gaſtly furies apparition; / […]
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, page 20, lines 638–641:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: It is not agreed whether Milton’s Hæmony is a real or poetical plant.
ref: 1809, Henry John Todd, The Poetical Works of John Milton, page 342:
text: In a recent study of Thyris' magical herb in Comus, John M. Steadman concludes that “haemony means knowledge” from Greek haimon “skillful.”
ref: 1970, Sacvan Bercovitch, “Milton's ‘Haemony’: Knowledge and Belief”, in Huntington Library Quarterly, page 351:
glosses: A magical plant mentioned by John Milton, said to be good against enchantments.
wikipedia: Comus (Milton)
prolicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolicides
Etymology: From Latin prōlēs (“offspring”) + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: PROLICIDE […] Admits of two divisions, fœticide or criminal abortion and infanticide or the destruction of the new born infant.
ref: 1827, Robley Dunglison, Syllabus of the Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence, page 93:
glosses: The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.
examples: text: Perhaps they had accommodated the foregoing statement to the casuistical axiom, non homo est, qui non futurus est, which is a very agreeable one to prolicides.
ref: 1836, Michael Ryan, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and State Medicine, page 283:
glosses: One who commits prolicide.
Related terms: filicide
infanticide
neonaticide
abortion
carolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carolins
form: caroliner
form: karolin
Etymology: Latin Carolus (“Charles”).
Senses: glosses: A former gold coin of Germany
glosses: A former gold coin of Sweden
carolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carolin
carrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəʊ/
Forms: form: carrows
Etymology: From Irish cearrbhach; compare Scottish Gaelic cearrach, from ceàrrbhag (“the left hand”), from ceàrr (“left”).
Senses: examples: text: Did you blame me even now for wishing of Kern Horse-Boys and Carrows to be clean cut off , as too violent a means; and do you yourself now prescribe the same Medicine?
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: A gambler in Ireland.
carrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrow
befortune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befortunes
form: befortuning
form: befortuned
form: befortuned
Etymology: From be- + fortune.
Senses: examples: text: I wish all good befortune you.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To befall; to happen to.
befortuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befortune
befortunes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befortune
befortuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befortune
disappreciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈpɹiːʃɪeɪt/
Forms: form: disappreciates
form: disappreciating
form: disappreciated
form: disappreciated
Etymology: From dis- + appreciate.
Senses: glosses: To undervalue; not to esteem.
Related terms: disappreciation
disappreciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disappreciate
disappreciates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disappreciate
disappreciating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disappreciate
pectosic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pectose + -ic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid that consists mainly of pectin.
calendulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calendula + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A gummy or mucilaginous substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.
flawter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flawters
form: flawtering
form: flawtered
form: flawtered
Etymology: Compare flay.
Senses: glosses: To scrape or pare (a skin, etc.).
flawtered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flawter
flawtering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flawter
flawters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flawter
lacert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacerts
Etymology: From French lacerte, from Late Latin lacertus (“muscle”), from Classical Latin lacertus (“upper arm”), of uncertain etymology but possibly related to lacerta (“lizard”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lacertus: a fleshy muscle of the human body.
lacerts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacert
incocted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incocted
form: most incocted
Etymology: Compare concoct.
Senses: examples: text: Meales, uſually ſavvced vvith a healthfull hunger, vvherein no incocted Crudities oppreſſe Nature, and cheriſh diſeaſe: […]
ref: 1645, Jos[eph] Hall, “Sect[ion] XII. Consideration of the Benefits of Poverty.”, in The Remedy of Discontentment: Or, A Treatise of Contentation in whatsoever Condition: […], London: […] J. G. for Nath[aniel] Brooks, […], published 1652, →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: Indigestible; also, raw.
signation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪɡˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: signations
Etymology: Latin signātiō. See sign (verb).
Senses: glosses: A sign given, especially of a cross
examples: text: Thus the Aſſe having a peculiar mark of a croſſe made by a black liſt down his back, and another athwart, or at right angles down his ſhoulders; common opinion aſcribes this figure unto a peculiar ſignation; ſince that beaſt had the honour to bear our Saviour on his back.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Same [i.e., the Blacknesse of Negroes]”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 6th book, page 282:
glosses: a marking.
signations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signation
triarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin triarii (plural), a class of Roman soldiers who formed the third rank from the front, from tres, tria (“three”).
Senses: examples: text: Let the brave Second and Triarian Band
Firm against all Impression stand
ref: 1660, Abraham Cowley, A Poem on his Majesty's happy Restoration:
glosses: Occupying the third post or rank.
raw_tags: of soldiers
triarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triarians
Etymology: Latin triarii (plural), a class of Roman soldiers who formed the third rank from the front, from tres, tria (“three”).
Senses: glosses: A soldier of the triarii
catchweight
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: They'll break from the gate in full tack with jockeys riding catchweight in silks.
ref: 1976 December 3, “Oldtimers race is well received”, in El Paso Herald-Post:
text: to ride catchweight
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: Without any weight restrictions; without being handicapped.
catchweight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There were also races for gentlemen-riders, in whch all the best performers of the day took part. Lord Glamis, afterwards Earl of Strathmore, rode his maiden race there—a catchweight match with Sir Watkin Wynn, a rare bit of fun got up by the officers of the 1st Life Guards.
ref: 1874, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes - Volume 25, page 225:
text: And— He reached the paddock and took up an unobtrusive position at the rail to watch the first race for which a mounted Police bugler had just sounded the “Boot and Saddle.” It was a catchweight sprint for local farmers' ponies.
ref: 1934, Ridgwell Cullum, The Flaming Wilderness, page 265:
text: In a “catchweight" race, no horse is required to carry a specific weight. Instead, each horse may carry what his trainer chooses.
ref: 1977, M. Eugene Ensminger, The Complete Encyclopedia of Horses, page 102:
text: If pressed he would call these catchweight fights, but they were really just demolition without a weigh-in or any formality beyond money changing hands.
ref: 2011, Sam Hawken, The Dead Women of Juárez, →ISBN:
text: At the time he took the pub on, Peter, aged twenty-five, was a catchweight wrestler.
ref: 2014, Mervyn Edwards, Stoke on Trent Pubs, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Without any weight restrictions; having no handicap.
examples: text: It is regular practice to furnish wire in catchweight coils.
ref: 1962, United States National Bureau of Standards, Simplified Practice Recommendation, page 50:
text: The scaler looks at the order ticket and selects a shipping container or containers of proper size to hold the catchweight items or those of 12 pounds or less. The catchweight items are weighed, marked, and placed in the containers.
ref: 1966, Donald S. MacKenzie, Prepared Meat Product Manufacturing, page 92:
text: The Department's main priorities have been goods sold loose — apples or herrings, to take two incompatible examples— and what are known as "catchweight" items. These are prepackaged products — cheese is one that immediately springs to mind — that by their nature are not normally made up in predetermined standard quantities.
ref: 1977, Great Britain Parliament House of Lords, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report:
text: For the retail market, kippers are available in either catchweight or fixed weight presentation.
ref: 1979, Food Flavourings, Ingredients & Processing - Volume 1, page 187:
text: Certain commodities, notably goods packed in variable (catchweight) quantities, continue to be subject to the "minimum quantity provisions" and are regularly monitored.
ref: 2007, Northern Ireland: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, Weights and measures report for the period 1 April 2002 to 31 March 2005, →ISBN:
glosses: Having no standard weight, but rather having weight determined when packaged for sale or shipping.
auletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈlɛtɪk/
ipa: /ɔˈlɛtɪk/
ipa: /ɑˈlɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: Latin auleticus, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: The tale of Midas's success would, in this case, be a kind of expression in extremis of the auletic nome's auditory poetics
ref: 2018, Sean Alexander Gurd, Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece:
glosses: Of or relating to a musical pipe or piper.
retchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retchless
form: most retchless
Etymology: From Middle English recche (“care, heed”) + -less. Compare English reckless.
Senses: examples: text: They are such retchless flies as you are, that blow cutpurses abroad in every corner; your foolish having of money makes 'em.
ref: 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholmew Fair:
text: Retchless of laws, affects to rule alone
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: For if so be that God justly do thus give to Satan and his seed to vex and molest Christ and his penitent people, O what and how justly may he and will he give to Satan to entreat the retchless and impenitent sinners!
ref: 1848, John Bradford, Aubrey Townsend, The Writings of John Bradford, M.A., page 409:
text: But this care and charity of Colonel Walrond's, lost him nothing in the conclusion; for he got such love of his servants; as they thought all too little they could do for him; and the love of the servants there, is of much concernment to the masters, not only in their diligent and painful labour, but in foreseeing and preventing mischiefs that often happen; by the carelessness and slothfulness of retchless servants; sometimes by laying fire so negligently, as whole lands of canes and houses too, are burnt down and consumed, to the utter ruin and undoing of their masters:
ref: 1999, Frank Felsenstein, English Trader, Indian Maid, page 61:
glosses: careless; reckless
Related terms: word: retch
word: retchlessly
word: retchlessness
pointrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointrels
Senses: examples: text: Lay the rough plan upon the clean paper, on which you intend to draw the fair copy, press them close together by weights, and keep them as flat as possible; then with a pointrel, or needle point, prick through all the corners of the plan to be copied.
ref: 1803, George Adams, Geometrical and Graphical Essays:
glosses: An engraving tool.
pointrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pointrel
stiff-backed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stiff-backed
form: most stiff-backed
Senses: examples: text: Do you fall in with some sour-visaged, stiff-backed worshipper of the Furies?
ref: 1855, John Henry Newman, Callista:
glosses: obstinate
reezed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reezed
form: most reezed
Senses: examples: Alternative form: reesed
1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.
glosses: Grown rank; rancid; rusty.
contentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contentations
Etymology: Latin contentatio.
Senses: examples: text: great applause and contentation in the hands of Misitheus
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: contentment; satisfaction
contentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contentation
lichwale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lichwales
Senses: glosses: A plant, the gromwell.
lichwales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lichwale
coestablishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + establishment.
Senses: examples: 1817, Richard Watson, Anecdotes of the life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff
humanity and policy , if not strict justice , require a coestablishment' of the religion of the minority
glosses: joint establishment
blencher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blenchers
Etymology: From blench + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer during a hunt.
glosses: One who flinches or shrinks back.
Related terms: blancher
blenchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blencher
plagiocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plagiocephalic
form: most plagiocephalic
Etymology: From plagio- + -cephalic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.
Related terms: plagiocephaly
flat-headed
plasterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈplæstə(ɹ)li/
/ˈplɑːstə(ɹ)li/
Forms: form: more plasterly
form: most plasterly
Etymology: From plaster + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: out of gypseous or plasterly ground
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:
glosses: Resembling plaster (plaster of Paris).
dogdraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dog + draw.
Senses: examples: text: Dogge draw is, where any man hath stricken or wounded a wild beast‥and is found with a Hound or other Dogge drawing after him, to recouer the same.
ref: 1598, John Manwood, Treatise of the Forest Laws:
glosses: The pursuit of deer with a dog.
speak ill of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speaks ill of
form: speaking ill of
form: spoke ill of
form: spoken ill of
Senses: examples: text: Jimmy Carter was the first former president to speak ill of a sitting president while on foreign soil
ref: 2010 March, R Emmett Tyrrell Jr, “The Lost Liberals”, in American Spectator, volume 43, number 2, page 70:
glosses: To vilify; to defame; to criticize.
Synonyms: sense: talk shit (slang, vulgar)
word: to vilify
doust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dust.
doust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dousts
form: dousting
form: dousted
form: dousted
Senses: examples: text: [...] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed forty thousand per year" (charitable supposition) had when formerly in office only about 3 or £4,000, and has not now, nor when the black list was printed, any office whatever -- (Much tumult, and cries of "shame" and "doust the liars")
ref: anonymous author (1831), The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend
text: Fussel, E.F. (1867), Medical Times and Gazette, page 420: “"[...] I wished the above system of drainage to be carried out, but I met with this response from an official, in many matters a man entitled to the greatest consideration:- "I found that sort of thing at a house the other day, and I soon dousted it."”
text: Havergal, Francis Tebbs (1887), Herefordshire words & phrases, colloquial and archaic, about 1300 in number, current in the county: “"Him hit Jack on his head, it nearly dousted him."”
text: Clynton, Richard (1889), The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer: “Look at me, mates! The glim of one of my skylights is dousted, and is battened down for ever.”
glosses: To extinguish, to destroy, to kill.
glosses: To dust.
examples: Lock, Charles George Warnford (1895), Economic mining: a practical handbook for the miner, the metallurgist and the merchant: “The ore is first cobbed and classed into (a) prile, (b) best dredge, and (c) crusher dredge; a is finished product; c is crushed, jigged, and huddled; b is dousted, or, after reducing in rolls to 8-mesh, dry-sifted in fine mesh hand sieves.”
topics: business
mining
glosses: To separate dust from ore.
marchman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marchmen
Etymology: From march + -man.
Senses: synonyms: borderer
glosses: A person living in the marchland (border regions) between England and Scotland or England and Wales.
marchmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marchman
pluviametrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pluviometrical.
demoniasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δαιμονιασμός (daimoniasmós), ultimately from δαίμων (daímōn).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demonianism.
PCASP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of passive cavity aerosol spectrometer probe.
glosses: Acronym of privately contracted armed security personnel.
dousting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doust
dousting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doustings
Senses: examples: Bottrell, William (1880), Stories and Folklore of West Cornwall: “"For they'll get a mayn dousting when ever they coam."”
glosses: A beating, a dusting.
examples: Lock, Charles George Warnford (1895), Economic mining: a practical handbook for the miner, the metallurgist and the merchant: “Dry winnowing or "dousting" is useful where the ore is more friable than the ganguo, eg the chalcopyrite and erubescite at the Capo copper-mines, Namaqualand.”
topics: business
mining
glosses: A process for separating the dust from ore.
hemipeptone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemipeptones
Etymology: From hemi- + peptone.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter, which (unlike antipeptone) is convertible into leucin and tyrosin by the continued action of pancreatic juice. It is also formed from hemialbumose and albumin by boiling dilute sulphuric acid.
hemipeptones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemipeptone
sorbefacient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sorbefacient
form: most sorbefacient
Etymology: From Latin sorbere (“to suck in, absorb”) + faciens, p.pr. of facere (“to make”).
Senses: examples: text: sorbefacient effects
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Producing absorption.
sorbefacient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorbefacients
Etymology: From Latin sorbere (“to suck in, absorb”) + faciens, p.pr. of facere (“to make”).
Senses: glosses: A medicine or substance that produces absorption.
sorbefacients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorbefacient
sherris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: Obsolete form of sherry.
gimmal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪməl/
Forms: form: gimmals
Etymology: Probably the same word as gemel. Compare gimbal.
Senses: glosses: Joined parts in machinery; a pair or series of interlocked links.
gimmals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gimmal