cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
festoony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more festoony
form: most festoony
Etymology: From festoon + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Your account of it throws on it the only ray of elucidation I have yet seen , in the festoony or ripply waves of the sand
ref: 1843, John Herschel, “letter to Lieut. Newbold”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society:
text: Sally and Jim were all in tasteless, garish, festoony Christmas jumpers
ref: 2020, Fran Hill, Miss, What Does Incomprehensible Mean?:
glosses: Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling festoons.
rhime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhimes
Senses: examples: text: these Rhimes were made at in dorso
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of rhyme.
rhime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rhimes
form: rhiming
form: rhimed
form: rhimed
Senses: examples: text: I ſhould have ſaid, her thoughts of Mind, / My Readers they will think, / But I like Hudibraſs muſt find, / A rhiming Word to chink.
ref: 1766, Thomas Sadler, “Old Samon. A Tale”, in Poems on various subjects. To which is added, The merry miller: or, The country-man's ramble to London, a farce, page 110:
glosses: Obsolete form of rhyme.
rhimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhime
rhimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rhime
revolvement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revolvements
Etymology: From revolve + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: In the Arab World, an area considered by Western powers as their preserve, nonalignment meant the termination of revolvement in their orbit .
ref: 1975, Nejla M. Abu Izzeddin, Nasser of the Arabs:
text: You will see them but not before your own world intensifies its outer eccentric movement or revolvement.
ref: 2011, Elwood Babbitt, Wisdom from the Master Forces, page 165:
text: This angular revolvement shows the parallax movement of sun.
ref: 2024, P. Kandasubbu, The Great Indian Astrology, page 192:
glosses: The act of revolving.
examples: text: In case of a non-automatic revolving credit, the issuing bank must amend the credit each time a revolvement is due.
ref: 2016, Kim Sindberg, From A to UCP: Key Documentary Credit concepts explained, page 194:
text: When the revolvement is automatic there is no requirement for any amendment from the issuing bank.
ref: 2017, Nisha S Koshal, Understanding Letters of Credit:
text: A revolving credit may also be cumulative. In such instances, any undrawn balance in one revolvement is carried forward to the next.
ref: 2020, Rupnarayan Bose, Letters of Credit: Theory and Practice:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The time period from when credit in a revolving credit account is granted until the point when it is due or up for renewal.
examples: text: Mid-America Dairymen Inc, Springfield, MO, has announced revolvement of nearly $3.1 million in equity capital to its 13,000 member families, brining total equity returned to members in 1992 to more than $11.6 million.
ref: 1992, Farmer Cooperatives, page 15:
text: The bylaws of the institution clearly provide that there is no express or implied right for such capital to be retired at the end of the revolvement cycle or at any other time ;
ref: 2001, Code of Federal Regulations, page 163:
text: Unfortunately, the Cooperative will not keep pace with its growing mound of allocated equity, in which case the board of directors must either lengthen the revolvement cycle or borrow long term debt to shore-up and maintain the Cooperative's liquidity position, both of which weaken value proposition for patrons .
ref: 2007, The Cooperative Accountant - Volume 60, page 16:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The distribution of equity capital to members of a cooperative, based on their participation.
revolvements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revolvement
canonistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From canonist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: canonistic ideas
text: this canonistic exposition
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a canonist.
canonistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From canon + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or composed of, canons.
inquirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inquirable
form: most inquirable
form: enquirable
Etymology: From Middle English enquirable, equivalent to inquire + -able.
Senses: examples: c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
There be many more things inquirable by you throughout all the former parts , which it were overlong in particular to recite
glosses: Capable of being inquired into; subject or liable to inquisition or inquest.
bespew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespews
form: bespewing
form: bespewed
form: bespewed
form: bespue
Etymology: From be- + spew.
Senses: examples: text: In that a Snayl or Dodman, vvhich is not only not vvarm, but to our feeling, very cold, is fain to brood its as cold svveatty eggs, neſted upon a cold vvet earth, beſpievving them about vvith the fuzze of a cold clammy froth, in coldish [d]raughty vveather, and all making vvay to a kind and timely hatching of them: […] I dare undertake to light ſooner of that vvarmth and reek and air, that vvill hatch an hens egge, than that cold and devv and clammineſs, that goes to the hatching of a ſnails.
ref: 1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, chapter V, in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. Wherein the Greatness, Littleness and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled. […], London: […] Robert Boulter, […], →OCLC, pages 125–126:
text: [...] he does nothing but lye snoring all Night long by my Side, and sometimes bespues the Bed too, to say nothing more.
ref: 1725 [1518], Nathan, transl. Bailey, “The Uneasy Wife”, in All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, translation of Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, page 160:
text: Time was when we used to bespew the whole floor of the hut three or four times a day, but now we can do it but rarely even once a day.
ref: 1885, Fritz Schultze, Fetichism : a contribution to anthropology and the history of religion, page 12:
glosses: To stain with spew; vomit on; foul with sick.
bespewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bespew
bespewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bespew
bespews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bespew
glead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gleads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glede (“live coal”).
gleads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glead
ordinability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: a. 1710, Bishop George Bull, sermon
Our obedience to God ought to be such, as that it may have, tho' not a merit of condignity to deserve everlasting bliss, (that being, as I have shewn you, utterly impossible) yet an ordinability, as a great doctor of our church expresseth it, that is, a meetness, fitness, and due disposition toward the obtaining it.
glosses: Capability of being ordained or appointed.
amphiuma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphiumas
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Amphiuma, from Latin amphi- (“around, both”), and an alteration of Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma, “breath”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: Congo snake
conger eel
Congo eel
glosses: Any of the genus Amphiuma of aquatic salamanders.
amphiumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphiuma
mesitylol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mesitylene + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystalline substance obtained from mesitylene.
Mussulmanish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mussulmanish
form: most Mussulmanish
Etymology: From Mussulman + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Muslim
tendron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛndɹən/
Forms: form: tendrons
Etymology: From Middle French tendron.
Senses: examples: text: So soon as new buds and tendrons appeare aboue ground from the root.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: A young, tender plant shoot; a bud.
glosses: The gristle or cartilage of the ribs.
convexoconcave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more convexoconcave
form: most convexoconcave
Etymology: From convex + -o- + concave.
Senses: glosses: Concavo-convex.
viraginity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state, qualities or characteristics of a virago.
ominate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɒmɪneɪt/
Forms: form: ominates
form: ominating
form: ominated
form: ominated
Etymology: From Latin ominatus, past participle of ominari (“to presage”), from omen.
Senses: examples: text: A King thou art by name, and a King of good fellovvſhippe by nature, vvhereby I ominate this Encomion of the king of fiſhes vvas predeſtinate to thee from thy ſvvadling clothes.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC:
text: I vviſh Philotheus no vvorſe ſucceſs then he had yesterday. But I cannot ominate ſo vvell touching this Congreſs.
ref: 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Second Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph I, page 171:
glosses: To be an omen for (something); to foreshow, to presage.
Related terms: abominate
omination
preominate
ominated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ominate
ominates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ominate
ominating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ominate
rupial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rupia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: rupial bulla
text: rupial eruption
text: rupial spots
glosses: Of or pertaining to rupia (the ulcer).
dispensableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dispensable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: dispensability
glosses: The quality of being dispensable.
resublime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resublimes
form: resubliming
form: resublimed
form: resublimed
Etymology: From re- + sublime.
Senses: examples: text: When Mercury sublimate is resublimed with fresh Mercury, and becomes Mercurius dulcis
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To sublime again.
Related terms: resublimation
resublimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resublime
resublimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resublime
resubliming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resublime
footstall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footstalls
Etymology: From foot + stall. Compare pedestal.
Senses: glosses: A type of stirrup, predominantly found on saddles designed for women.
topics: architecture
glosses: The plinth or base of a pillar.
footstalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footstall
problematist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: problematists
Senses: examples: August 17 1668, John Evelyn, letter to Doctor Beale
this learned problematist was brother to him
glosses: One who proposes problems (questions or puzzles).
Related terms: problemist
problematists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of problematist
ennew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ennews
form: ennewing
form: ennewed
form: ennewed
form: innew
Etymology: From en- + new. Compare innovate.
Senses: examples: text: The Indy saphyre blew / Her vaynes doth ennew
ref: c. 1545, John Skelton, Philip Sparrow:
glosses: To make new.
ennewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ennew
ennewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ennew
ennews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ennew
recomfortless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recomfortless
form: most recomfortless
Etymology: From recomfort + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There all that night remained Britomart, / Restlesse, recomfortlesse, with heart deepe grieved […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Without comfort, unconsoled.
cetological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cetology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: cetological data
glosses: Of or pertaining to cetology.
deambulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːæmbjuːˈleɪʃən/
Etymology: Latin deambulatio.
Senses: examples: text: Touching suche exercises, as many be used within the house, or in the shadowe, (as is the olde maner of speking), as deambulations, laborynge with poyses made of leadde or other metall
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
glosses: A walking abroad; a promenading.
examples: text: Then, declaring that, according to his recollection, a very long wait would be necessary before the next automatic deambulation [la prochaine déambulation automatique] could be witnessed, Canterel, with measured steps, led us to another part of the vast establishment.
ref: 1970 [1914], Raymond Roussel, translated by Rupert Copeland Cunningham, Locus Solus:
glosses: An instance of deambulation; a trip, journey, peregrination, itineration, or pilgrimage.
Related terms: deambulate
deambulatory
undersaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undersay
undersay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndə(ɹ)ˈseɪ/
Forms: form: undersays
form: undersaying
form: undersaid
form: undersaid
Etymology: From under- + say.
Senses: examples: text: They say, they con to heaven the highway; But by my soul I dare undersay, They never set foot on that same troad, But balke their right way, and strayen abroad.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Ægloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To say by way of derogation or contradiction.
examples: text: My words undersay it, of course; I mean something rarer than critical, something better than ethical, and perhaps I had better retreat upon such a word as spiritual.
ref: 1899, W.D. Howells, “The New Poetry”, in The North American Review, volume 168, page 586:
text: How to undersay things when so many oversay them is one thing learnt.
ref: 1913, Laurence Jerrold, The French and the English, page 60:
text: Try not to overqualify or undersay what you have to say.
ref: 1981, Patricia A. Moody, Writing Today: A Rhetoric and Handbook, page 120:
glosses: To understate.
undersaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undersay
undersays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undersay
dregginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dreggy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being dreggy; foulness or grossness.
deergrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deergrasses
Etymology: From deer + grass.
Senses: glosses: A species of grass native to the southwestern United States, Muhlenbergia rigens
glosses: American perennial herbs with showy flowers in the genus Rhexia.
deergrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deergrass
epicureous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epicureous
form: most epicureous
Etymology: From epicure + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: word: epicureal
word: epicurean
word: epicurish
word: Babylonian
word: decadent
word: epicureal
word: epicurean
word: epicureous
word: epicurish
word: hedonic
word: hedonistic
word: intemperate
word: lotus-eating
word: luxurious
word: self-indulgent
word: sensualistic
word: sinful
word: sybarite
word: sybaritic
word: sybaritical
word: voluptuarian
word: voluptuary
glosses: Obsolete form of epicurean.
felspathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more felspathic
form: most felspathic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feldspathic.
sanctionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sanction + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: have no sanctionary power
text: sanctionary instruments
text: sanctionary penalties
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or giving sanction.
unfalcated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + falcated.
Senses: glosses: Not falcated, or hooked.
cyanopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyano- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
telodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: teledynamic
Etymology: From telo- + dynamic.
Senses: examples: text: telodynamic system
text: telodynamic transmission
glosses: Relating to a system for transmitting power by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter. With this technology, power could be transmitted over various miles, but with the onset of electricity, the system came into disuse.
lingoa wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: amboyna wood
pegmatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pegmatite + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Resembling pegmatite
pegmatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pegmatoids
Etymology: From pegmatite + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Such a mineral
Illuminee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Illuminees
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: One of the Illuminati (various groups).
Illuminees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Illuminee
evesdrop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evesdrops
form: evesdropping
form: evesdropped
form: evesdropped
Senses: examples: text: Princes, they say, have many ears,[…] These hangings may evesdrop us
ref: a. 1667 (date written), James Shirley, “The Humorous Courtier”, in William Gifford, Alexander Dyce, editors, The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, […], volume IV, London: John Murray, […], published 1833, →OCLC, page 532:
text: Some who "evesdrop'd the meeting"
ref: 1850, Robert Southey, “[Historical Memoirs.]”, in John Wood Warter, editor, Southey’s Common-place Book. Third Series. Analytical Readings […], London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 456, column 1:
glosses: Archaic form of eavesdrop.
evesdropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evesdrop
evesdropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evesdrop
evesdrops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evesdrop
sudoriparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sudoriparous
form: most sudoriparous
Etymology: Latin sudor (“sweat”) + parere (“to produce”).
Senses: glosses: sudoriferous
Derived terms: sudoriparous gland
welldoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more welldoing
form: most welldoing
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-doing.
welldoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-doing.
inisle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inisles
form: inisling
form: inisled
form: inisled
Etymology: From in- + isle.
Senses: examples: text: So Scardale tow'rds the same, that lovely Iddle sends, / That helps the fertile seat of Axholme to in-isle
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion:
text: It begins with Rother, whose running through the woods, in inisling Oxney, and such like, poetically here described is plain enough to any apprehending conceit […]
ref: 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, volume 3:
text: The wondrous 'World of Glass', wherein inisled / All long'd for things their beings did repeat
ref: 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Pang More Sharp Than All”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published 1854:
glosses: Obsolete form of enisle.
inisled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inisle
inisles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inisle
inisling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inisle
semifable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semifables
Etymology: From semi- + fable.
Senses: examples: 1839, Thomas De Quincey, "William Wordsworth"", in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
some snatches of tragical story , which , after all , might be an idle semi-fable, improved out of slight materials
glosses: That which is part fable and part truth.
semifables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semifable
treddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛdɫ/
homophone: treadle
Forms: form: treddles
Etymology: From Middle English tridel, tyrdel, from Old English tyrdel (“dropping, small piece of excrement”), diminutive of Old English tord (“piece of excrement, dung”), equivalent to turd + -le.
Senses: glosses: The dung of sheep or hares.
glosses: A prostitute; strumpet.
treddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛdɫ/
homophone: treadle
Forms: form: treddles
Etymology: Variation of treadle.
Senses: examples: text: In the animal or soul-world (anima, psyche) beginning with the oviparous orders, or rather with the bird-class among these, the above germal speck is, as is well known, visible, being a diminutive flake, rag or shred of skin, commonly called treddle, a pellicle floating between the yolk and the white of the egg, where it has been deposited by the male parent.
ref: 1871, J. Filmer Emmett, The Theory of Germs, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of treadle.
treddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛdɫ/
homophone: treadle
Forms: form: treddles
form: treddling
form: treddled
form: treddled
Etymology: Variation of treadle.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of treadle.
cetologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cetologists
Etymology: From cetology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A biologist who studies cetaceans.
Related terms: cetology
cetologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cetologist
roscid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roscid
form: most roscid
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin roscidus, from ros, roris (“dew”).
Senses: examples: text: The differences of earths and the trial of them, are worthy to be diligently inquired […] It is thought by some, that the ends of low rainbows fall more upon one kind of earth than upon another; as it may well be; for that that earth is most roscid: and therefore it is commended for a sign of good earth.
ref: 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: Or, A Natural History, century 7; republished in The Works of Lord Bacon, volume 1, London: William Ball, 1837, page 156:
text: For all the while her purged ashes rest / These rellicks dry suck in the heavenly dew, / And roscid Manna rains upon her breast, / And fills with sacred milk sweet fresh and new, / Where all take life and doth the world renew;
ref: 1646, Henry More, Democritus Platonissans, verse 100, page 26:
text: But in that expression, “the lilies drop forth myrrh,” neither proper lilies nor proper myrrh can be apprehended, the one not proceeding from the other, but may be received in a metaphorical sense: and in some latitude may be made out from the roscid and honey drops observable in the flowers of martagon, and inverted flowered lilies, and, 'tis like, is the standing sweet dew on the white eyes of the crown imperial, now common among us.
ref: 1683, Sir Thomas Browne, Observation on Several Plants Mentioned in Scripture; republished as “Tract 1”, in Samuel Johnson, Simon Wilkin, editors, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, volume 3, 1852, page 163:
glosses: Containing or consisting of dew; dewy.
Synonyms: bedewed
rorid
intuitivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intuitive + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Without however going to any such extent as the above, almost all philosophers who are jealous of intuitivism are more or less driven to Hobbistic views on this part of moral philosophy[…]
ref: 1876, John Grote, A Treatise on the Moral Ideals:
glosses: The doctrine that the ideas of right and wrong are intuitive.
hysteranthous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hystero- + -anthous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the leaves emerge before the flowers have opened. It typically refers to geophytes that flower when the plant is dormant and without leaves during a dry season. This contrasts with synanthous plants that flower at the same time as the leaves are present.
Related terms: hysteranthy
synanthous
proteranthous
gentianose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gentian + -ose.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystallizable, sugar-like substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.
lucullite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucullites
Etymology: From Lucullus (“a Roman consul, famous for his great wealth and luxury”) + -ite. Compare French lucullite.
Senses: examples: text: He next characterized the different British limestones, with reference to the qualities peculiar to each, in the composition of mortars and cements, dividing them into the soft white limestones, such as chalk and oolite, the grey limestones, the bituminous limestones or lucullites, the magnesian limestones, and lastly those fitted for water cements, such as the grey chalk of Dorking, and the blue limestone of Aberthaw and Barrow, and the septaria of the London clay from which Roman cement is prepared, exhibiting specimens of each kind.
ref: 1835, The Athenaeum:
text: Compact lucullite is subdivided into common or black marble; and stinkstone.
ref: 1875, A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences, volume 3, page 698:
text: Lucullite, which also yields the odour of sulphuretted hydrogen on being rubbed, is found in Derbyshire and other parts of England, as also in Cork, Galway, and Kilkenny, in Ireland.
ref: 1883, Alexander Watt, The History of a Lump of Chalk: Its Family Circle, and Their Uses, page 37:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.
Synonyms: Lucullan
lucullites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucullite
futuritial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more futuritial
form: most futuritial
Etymology: From futurity + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of futural: of or relating to the future.
synonyms: word: futural
extra: of or relating to the future
tossily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tossily
form: most tossily
Etymology: From tossy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Harry in the flesh, in his baggy, black designer jeans with their stupid overgrown turn-ups, in his big-heeled boots and his Indiana Jones rip-off battered leather coat, sitting there, trowel stuck Freudianly through his belt, dramatically half lit in his poshy university office, with his tossily clever PostModern collection of artefacts behind him: […]
ref: 2000, James Hawes, “Among the Dead, Live”, in Dead Long Enough, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: In a tossy manner.
immensurability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being immensurable.
livelode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livelodes
Etymology: See livelihood.
Senses: examples: text: My mothers maydes when they did ſowe & ſpyñ
they ſang ſometyme a ſong of the feld mowſe
that forbicauſe her lyvelood was but thyñ
Would nedes goo ſeke her townyſſh ſyſters howſe
ref: c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “My mothers maydes when they did ſowe & ſpyñ”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 50v:
glosses: Course of life; means of support; livelihood.
reprize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reprizes
form: reprizing
form: reprized
form: reprized
Senses: examples: text: and from her womb new spirits to reprize
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of reprise.
reprized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reprize
reprizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reprize
reprizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reprize
inveiglement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inveiglements
Etymology: From inveigle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: the Inveiglements of the World
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
synonyms: enticement
seduction
glosses: The act of inveigling, or the state of being inveigled
inveiglements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inveiglement
guttler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guttlers
Etymology: From guttle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Here it was the generosity of men of property contributing to the means of giving pleasure to meritorious labourers; and there it is a set of impudent guzzlers and guttlers, swallowing the earnings of working people, which they have no more right to swallow then they have to take the skins off our bodies.
ref: 1832 July 8, William Cobbett, Political Register:
glosses: One who guttles; a greedy eater; a glutton.
guttlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guttler
odontophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From odontophore + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: odontophoral.
agreeingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more agreeingly
form: most agreeingly
Etymology: From agreeing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that agrees or corresponds; in agreement.
lobelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lobelia + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A yellowish-green resin from the lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.
ichthyodorulite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthyodorulites
Etymology: From ichthyo- + Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru) + -lite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the spiny plates found on the back and tail of certain skates.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fossil fish-spine found in stratified rock.
ichthyodorulites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichthyodorulite
decalogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decalogists
Etymology: From decalogue + -ist.
Senses: examples: 1649', John Gurgany, "a short Account of the Author's Life and Death", in Gregorii Posthuma : or certain learned Tracts: written by John Gregorie
Mr. Dod the Decalogist; whose society, and Directions for the Hebrew Tongue, he enjoyed one Vacation near Banbury
glosses: One who explains the Decalogue.
decalogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decalogist
frightment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fright + -ment.
Senses: glosses: fear, the feeling of being afraid
examples: text: All these frightments are but idle dreames.
ref: 1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: terror, something frightening
tamburin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamburins
Senses: examples: text: Soone as thy Oaten pype began to sounde ,
Their yuorie Luites and Tamburins forgoe
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of tambourine.
tamburins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamburin
flabellinerved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin flabellum a fan + English nerve.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base.
raw_tags: of a leaf
serenitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serenitudes
Senses: examples: text: Love of the Picturesque prefers adornment to plainness, and serenitude to tempest
ref: 1871, Nicholas Morgan, Phrenology:
text: in the calm serenitude of glen
ref: 1862, T. P. Bell, The Young Hero:
glosses: serenity
rarefiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French raréfiable.
Senses: examples: text: […] Hovv the Air comes to be rarefiable ſo many times more vvithout Heat, than hitherto vve have found it to be by Heat.
ref: 1671, Robert Boyle, “A Discovery of the Admirable Rarefaction of Air”, in Tracts […]. Of a Discovery of the Admirable Rarefaction of the Air. […], London: […] T. N. for Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, experiment III, page 10:
glosses: Capable of being rarefied.
gourdiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gourdy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being gourdy.
technicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From technical + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Because this is incredibly technical […] any examples I do will take up roughly a page, and another page of incredible technicalness will no doubt cause you all to flee screaming into the night.
ref: 1993, Simon Hindle, “Dial Hard”, in Your Sinclair, number 93, page 19:
glosses: The quality or state of being technical; technicality.
lappaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lappaceous
form: most lappaceous
Etymology: From Latin lappaceus (“burlike”), from lappa (“a bur”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.
electrotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: electrotyping
Derived terms: electrotypic
repugnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repugnable
form: most repugnable
Etymology: From repugn + -able.
Senses: examples: text: prouing it so exquisitely , with wonderfull reason and facilitie, as it is not repugnable
ref: 1579, Thomas North, Plutarch's Lives:
glosses: Capable of being repugned or resisted.
ballatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreation and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. […] The villages also must have their visitors to inquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebeck reads, even to the ballatry and the gamut of every municipal fiddler […]
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
glosses: Obsolete form of balladry.
ingravidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + gravid + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: the triangular cavity of the fundus disappears after complete ingravidation
ref: 1849, London Journal of Medicine:
glosses: The state of being pregnant.
wamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wamps
Etymology: Probably from Massachusett wompi (“white”).
Senses: glosses: The common American eider.
wamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wamp
sunproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sunproof
form: most sunproof
Etymology: From sun + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: There once a charnel-house, now a vast cave,
Over whose brow a pale and untrod grove
Throws out her heavy shade, the mouth thick arms
Of darksome yew, sun-proof, for ever choke
ref: 1606, John Marston, The Wonder of Women:
glosses: impervious to the rays of the sun
sottery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɒtəɹi/
Forms: form: sotteries
Etymology: From sot + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: A large door will turn on a small hinge, and the experience of one night had done more to disgust Phœbe with her unruly lover than all the sottery she had witnessed under her father's roof for months. In general Matthew's drinking-bouts had followed some wayward and tyrannical caprice of hers, […]
ref: 1865, Isabella Banks, God's Providence House, volume 2, page 72:
glosses: Drunkenness.
examples: text: […] heathenish Sottery
ref: 1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes:
glosses: Folly.
montiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒntɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more montiform
form: most montiform
Etymology: From Latin mōns, montis (“mountain”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: a montiform pyramid
text: a montiform temple
glosses: Resembling a mountain in form.
essoiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essoiners
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman essoigniour, from Old French essoignier. By surface analysis, essoin + -er.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.
essoiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of essoiner
hypochondriasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hypochondriasis.
immantle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immantles
form: immantling
form: immantled
form: immantled
Etymology: From im- + mantle.
Senses: examples: text: O joy to him in this retreat,
⁠Immantled in ambrosial dark,
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto LXXXVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cover; to mantle.
immantled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immantle
immantles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of immantle
immantling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immantle
ambrosiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ambrosiac
form: most ambrosiac
Etymology: Either from ambrosia + -ac or Latin ambrosiacus; compare French ambrosiaque.
Senses: examples: text: I reliſh not theſe philoſophicall feaſts; / Giue me a banquet o’ ſenſe, like that of Ovid: / A forme, to take the eye; a voyce, mine eare; / Pure aromatiques, to my ſent; a ſoft, / Smooth, deinty hand, to touch; and, for my taſte, / Ambroſiack kiſſes, to melt downe the palat.
ref: 1629 (first performance), B[en] Jonson, The New Inne. Or, The Light Heart. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Thomas Alchorne, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, signature E3, verso:
synonyms: ambrosial
ambrosian
glosses: Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.
permanable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more permanable
form: most permanable
Senses: examples: text: This was[…]was by masounrye bilt[…]for which, whilom parmanable, it was tabide the mor stable
ref: 1426, John Langland, The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man:
glosses: permanent; durable
scatterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scatterlings
Etymology: From scatter + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Long time in peace his realm establishd, / Yet oft annoyd with sundry bordragings / Of neighbour Scots, and forrein scatterlings.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 63:
text: But ah! her fatal vengeance Struck to my heart. A banished scatterling I wandered on the earth.
ref: 1839, Benjamin Disraeli, The Tragedy of Count Alarcos, published 1910, page 388:
text: He is surrounded by the sound, the sound / Cattle in the marketplace / Scatterlings and orphanages
ref: 1986, Paul Simon, “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland:
synonyms: word: bum
word: casual
word: clochard
raw_tags: in France
word: derelict
word: dero
word: down-and-out
word: down-and-outer
word: drifter
word: epithite
word: floater
word: gadling
word: hobo
word: Jack out of doors
word: knight of the road
word: landleaper
word: landloper
word: landlouper
word: nomad
word: paker
word: palliard
word: pike
word: piker
word: ranger
word: rogue
word: rolling stone
word: rough sleeper
word: scatterling
word: skelder
word: skell
word: stroller
word: stumblebum
word: swagman
word: swaggie
word: toerag
word: tramp
word: truant
word: vagabond
word: vagrant
word: wanderer
word: waif
word: yagger
glosses: One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond.
scatterlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scatterling
constructer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constructers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of constructor.
constructers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constructer
bettermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: better + -most
Senses: examples: text: Most all the bettermost folks in these parts are axed, and the doctor, the lawyer, and the minister is invited; it's no skim-milk story, I do assure-you, but upper crust, real jam.
ref: 1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker, Or Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville:
text: The "universal fermentation," which Mr. Hume (Chap. xlv.) describes as about the beginning of the seventeenth century, occasioned by the revival of letters, then first became operative in the diffusion of knowledge among the people, at least among the bettermost classes, enlarged men's ideas, and by a necessary consequence led to discussions of political rights, and dissatisfaction with abuses of all kinds […]
ref: 1861, Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux, “Revolting Doctrines of the Stuart Princes”, in The British Constitution:
text: Not from smaller men, mind you, nor yet from our equals ; but what's simple impidence an' sauce not to be borne from the common sort, be just greatness of mind in the bettermost.
ref: 1904, Eden Phillpotts, The American Prisoner: A Romance of the West Country, page 183:
text: The bettermost bread in three counties, Pa used to say.
ref: 2014, Rose Lerner, Sweet Disorder, page 76:
glosses: best, superior
hortulan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)tjʊlən/
/ˈhɔː(ɹ)t͡ʃələn/
Etymology: From Latin hortulanus, from hortus (“garden”). Doublet of ortolan.
Senses: examples: text: Of the Hortulan Elaboratory, and of distilling and extracting of Waters
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
text: The remaining heavenly bodies also, though situated for the most part at a great distance, poured down on Watt, and on the hortulan beauties through which he moved, […] a light so strong, so pure, so steady and so white, that his progress, though painful, and uncertain, was less painful, less uncertain, than he had apprehended, when setting out.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Belonging to a garden.
mangcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mongcorn
form: muncorn
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old English menġan (“to mix”). See mingle, and corn.
Senses: examples: text: Even in other parts of the country mangcorn, and rye, not pure wheat, were the chief products.
ref: 1910, Henrik Marczali, Hungary in the Eighteenth Century, page 55:
text: Mangcorn (mixed grains, especially wheat and rye) in 1916, 438,128 tons; in 1917, 395.988 tons; […]
ref: 1918, Commerce Reports of the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, page 1183
text: Mangcorn is utilized partly as human food, and partly as fodder for cattle, especially for fattening swine, for which purpose it is considered peculiarly adapted.
ref: 1923, Norwegian Trade Review, numbers 6-8, page 39:
glosses: A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain, sown together as one crop.
impatiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin impatientia + -ency.
Senses: examples: text: I am a most unhappy creature, proceeded he; unhappy from a strange impatiency of spirit, which I cannot conquer.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Impatience.
tanagrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the tanagers.
chromoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromoblasts
Etymology: From chromo- + -blast.
Senses: glosses: An embryonic cell that develops into a pigment cell.
chromoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromoblast
gladiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gladiate
form: most gladiate
Etymology: From Latin gladius (“sword”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The leaves of the iris and gladiolus are gladiate.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Sword-shaped.
gladiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gladiates
form: gladiating
form: gladiated
form: gladiated
Etymology: Back-formation from gladiator with -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: You could try and take us (oh, oh),
but we're the gladiators (oh, oh)
[…]
We gladiate, but I guess we're really fighting ourselves […]
ref: 2013, Lorde, Glory and Gore: Pure Heroine:
glosses: To fight as a gladiator, to digladiate.
clearstarcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearstarchers
Etymology: From clearstarch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who clearstarches.
clearstarchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearstarcher
oxyacetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxy- + acetic.
Senses: glosses: hydroxyacetic
combability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From comb + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being combable; the extent to which something is combable.
raw_tags: of hair