cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
misinterpretable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misinterpretable
form: most misinterpretable
Etymology: From misinterpret + -able.
Senses: examples: text: misinterpretable sign
glosses: Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
Derived terms: unmisinterpretable
bulbaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌlˈbeɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more bulbaceous
form: most bulbaceous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bulbāceus. See bulb.
Senses: glosses: bulbous
deploredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deplored + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But for thee, O blessed Jesu, so ardent was thy love to us, that it was not in the power of our extreme misery to abate it; yea, so as that the deploredness of our condition did but heighten that holy flame.
ref: 1647, Joseph Hall, An Holy Rapture; or, A Pathetical Meditation of the Love of Christ:
glosses: The state of being deplored or deplorable.
revengeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From revenge + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Who did beſeech your loues, for our ſucceſſion, / Cannot ſo lightly ouer-iumpe his death / As leaue his woes revengeleſſe: […]
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:
glosses: Unrevenged.
sclerotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclerotome
rectovesical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recto- + vesic- + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of vesicorectal.
synonyms: word: vesicorectal
Mahratta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mahrattas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maratha.
Mahratta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maratha.
Mahrattas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mahratta
syncotyledonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syn- + cotyledonous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having cotyledons joined together.
hemistichal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemistich + -al.
Senses: examples: text: a hemistichal division of a verse
text: hemistichal pattern
text: hemistichal segmentation
glosses: Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs.
gyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyse
bragless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brag + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Diomedes. The bruit is, Hector's slain, and by Achilles.
Ajax. If it be so, yet bragless let it be;
Great Hector was a man as good as he.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ix]:
glosses: Without bragging.
recountment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recountments
Etymology: From recount + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: When from the first to last betwixt us two / Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed, / As how I came into that desert place:
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: recital or utterance
recountments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recountment
venary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin venarius, from Latin venari, past participle venatus (“to hunt”).
Senses: examples: text: there are oil-experts guaranteed to place their hands on petroleum with that unfailing energy with which the venary pig dives his nose above where the shy and shuddering truffle lurks in terror.
ref: 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 17:
glosses: Of or pertaining to hunting.
venary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin venarius, from Latin venari, past participle venatus (“to hunt”).
Senses: examples: text: Beasts of forest are properly hart, hind, buck, hare, boar, and wolf; but legally all wild beasts of venary.
ref: 1797, Richard Burn, The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, page 362:
text: Cosmo, thus sadly musing, was little affected by the din of the beaters, the rush and crashing of the invisible deer, the crack of rifles, the silences, so full of mystery and suspense, and all the other incidents and phases of sylvan venary.
ref: 1878 March, Laurence William Maxwell Lockhart, “Mine is Thine”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 123, number 749, page 265:
text: A forest (in the legal sense) is the right of keeping for the purpose of venary and hunting, the wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, park, and warren, (which means in effect all animals pursued in field sports), in a certain territory or precinct of woody ground and pasture set apart for the purpose, with laws and officers of its own, established for protection of the game(i).
ref: 1979, Henry John Stephen, New Commentaries on the Laws of England - Volume 2, page 17:
glosses: The sport of hunting.
nittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably from nit.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The refuse from good ore.
totemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: totemists
Etymology: From totem + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone in a clan or tribe having a totem.
Related terms: totemism
totemistic
totemists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of totemist
deltidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deltidium
deltidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛlˈtɪdɪəm/
Forms: form: deltidiums
form: deltidia
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin deltidium. By surface analysis, delta + -idium.
Senses: topics: biology
conchology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.
Related terms: delta
cometic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒˈmɛtɪk/
ipa: /kɑˈmɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From comet + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: cometic orbit
glosses: cometary; relating to a comet.
deltidiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deltidium
unoriginated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + originated.
Senses: examples: text: the Father is unoriginated and unbegotten
ref: 1833, Francis William Newman, The Arians of the Fourth Century:
glosses: Not originated; having existed through all eternity.
examples: text: possible inventions still unoriginated
glosses: Not yet made or brought into existence.
disgrade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disgrades
form: disgrading
form: disgraded
form: disgraded
Etymology: From dis- + grade.
Senses: examples: text: disgrade him from his first tonsure
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To degrade.
glosses: To deprive of rank or status.
Related terms: disgradation
disgraded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disgrade
disgrades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disgrade
disgrading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disgrade
mundivagant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mundivagant
form: most mundivagant
Etymology: From Latin mundus (“world”) + vagans (“wandering”), p.pr. of vagari. See vagary.
Senses: glosses: Wandering across the world; globetrotting
Related terms: noctivagant
solivagant
leptomeningitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptomeningitis
overruler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overrulers
Etymology: From overrule + -er? over- + ruler?
Senses: examples: text: But necessity, the only overruler of affections, did force her then gently to unfold herself from those sweet embracements
ref: a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:
glosses: Someone or something thay controls, governs, or determines.
glosses: Someone who overrules.
overrulers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overruler
escutcheoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From escutcheon + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: escutcheoned world
ref: 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
glosses: Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign.
Derived terms: unescutcheoned
reexportation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reexportations
Etymology: From re- + exportation.
Senses: examples: text: They were subjected, indeed, to a small poundage duty, amounting only to threepence in the hundredweight upon their reexportation
ref: 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations:
glosses: The exportation of something again or anew.
reexportations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reexportation
scraggedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scragged + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being scragged.
wicke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wicke
form: most wicke
Etymology: From Middle English wikke, from Old English wicca (“witch”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of wicked.
mischristen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mischristens
form: mischristening
form: mischristened
form: mischristened
Etymology: From mis- + christen.
Senses: glosses: To christen wrongly, for example giving the wrong name.
mischristened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mischristen
mischristening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mischristen
mischristens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mischristen
withdrawment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withdrawments
Etymology: From withdraw + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Withdrawment from the place of their legal habitation has been regarded as a sort of crime in the poor.
ref: 1799, William Belsham, Essays philosophical, historical and literary:
glosses: The act of withdrawing; withdrawal; recall.
withdrawments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of withdrawment
bedrug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedrugs
form: bedrugging
form: bedrugged
form: bedrugged
Etymology: From be- + drug.
Senses: glosses: To drug.
bedrugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedrug
bedrugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedrug
bedrugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedrug
vitrescible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitrescible
form: most vitrescible
Etymology: Compare French vitrescible.
Senses: glosses: That can be vitrified; vitrifiable.
Hawaiianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hawaiian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality, state or characteristics of being Hawaiian.
killikinick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
resiniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more resiniferous
form: most resiniferous
Etymology: From resin + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: resiniferous cell
text: resiniferous duct
text: resiniferous tree
glosses: Yielding resin.
shory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shore + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And that as firme as any brazen wall / And more then rocks vpon the shorie sandes
ref: 1598, Jorge de Montemayor, translated by Bartholomew Yong, Diana of George of Montemayor, part 2, chapter 7, page 363:
text: […]at the same time were made the shory Rocks and Mountains which are the bars and boundaries of the Sea.
ref: 1697, Thomas Burnet, The theory of the earth containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things, page 60:
text: The marsh was purpled with his clotted blood / He lay outstretched upon the shory mud
ref: 1821 October, “Leisure Hours. No. II. The Battle of the Frogs and Mice.”, in The London Magazine, page 392:
glosses: Lying near the shore.
pursuantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pursuantly
form: most pursuantly
Etymology: From pursuant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: consequently; in consequence
unequities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unequity
unequity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unequities
Etymology: From un- + equity.
Senses: examples: text: Forsoth if oure wickidnesse, or unequyte, comende the riȝtwysnesse of God, what schulen we seie?
ref: c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Romans 3:5, page 309, column 1:
english: But if our wickedness, or unequity, commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say?
translation: But if our wickedness, or unequity, commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say?
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glosses: Lack of equity; iniquity.
individed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + divided.
Senses: examples: text: St. Cyril, in his first book against Julian, thinks there was a representation of the blessed individed Trinity.
ref: 1695, Bishop Patrick, A Commentary Upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis:
glosses: Not divided.
prelusory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈluːzəɹi/
Senses: examples: text: prelusory judgment
ref: 1604, Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the better pacification and Edification of the Church of England:
glosses: introductory; prelusive
examples: text: prelusory goal
glosses: Involving some but not necessarily all of the characteristics of a game
Related terms: lusory
chrysophane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chryso- + -phane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of clintonite.
synonyms: word: clintonite
Derived terms: chrysophanic
chrysophanol
tubeform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tubeform
form: most tubeform
Etymology: From tube + -form.
Senses: glosses: In the form of a tube.
Synonyms: tubiform
tubular
Asmonean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asmoneans
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Hasmonean.
Asmonean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Hasmonean.
Asmoneans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asmonean
electroballistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + ballistic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to electroballistics.
foistiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foisty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: mouldiness; mustiness
crosiered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crosier + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a crosiered abbot
glosses: Bearing a crosier.
furfurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A base obtained indirectly from furfurol.
oncometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncometers
Etymology: From onco- + -meter.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: An instrument for measuring the variations in size of the internal organs of the body.
oncometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncometer
leucosoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leucosoid
form: most leucosoid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling or pertaining to the Leucosiidae, a family of marine crabs, and possibly the Leucosioidea (superfamily) too.
leucosoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucosoids
Senses: glosses: Any crab of Leucosiidae or (possibly) Leucosioidea
nomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: nomographies
Etymology: From nomo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A treatise on laws.
reminiscencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reminiscency
reminiscency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reminiscencies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of reminiscence.
underpitched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underpitched
form: most underpitched
Senses: glosses: Given too low a pitch.
frustrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frustrable
form: most frustrable
Etymology: Latin frustrabilis: compare French frustable.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being frustrated or defeated
kedger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kedgers
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: kedge anchor
glosses: A small anchor; a kedge.
kedgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kedger
misworship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈwɜː(ɹ)ʃɪp/
Forms: form: misworships
form: misworshiping
form: misworshipping
form: misworshiped
form: misworshiped
form: misworshipped
form: misworshipped
Etymology: From mis- + worship.
Senses: examples: text: The Israelites misworshipped the true God; the Syrians worshipped a false.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: To worship (a deity, etc.) wrongly.
misworship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈwɜː(ɹ)ʃɪp/
Forms: form: misworships
Etymology: From mis- + worship.
Senses: examples: text: Might men be their own judges, there would be no heresy in the world, no misworship.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
text: Such hideous inextricable jungle of misworships, misbeliefs, men, made as we are, did actually hold by, and live at home in.
ref: 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: False or wrong worship; mistaken practices in religion.
misworshipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misworship
misworshipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misworship
misworships
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misworship
collusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From collusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being collusive.
nidorose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nidorose
form: most nidorose
Senses: examples: text: Acid Eructations , upon taking vegetable Food , or Nidorose upon taking Animal, is a Sign of weak Organs of Digestion
ref: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of nidorous.
unknight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unknights
form: unknighting
form: unknighted
form: unknighted
Etymology: From un- + knight.
Senses: examples: text: [I cannot believe] he was unknighted so long, besides the improbability that he would condescend to such an office.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: To deprive of knighthood.
unknighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unknight
unknights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unknight
geoselenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + selenic.
Senses: examples: text: geoselenic phenomena
glosses: Pertaining to the Earth and Moon.
formful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formfuls
Etymology: From form + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: In order to keep themselves awake, each formful of people appoints a watchman — (and they take this office in turns each hour' throughout the night), — whose duty it is, with a small stick, if necessary, to give a smart rap to the poor exhausted creature who may be dozing off to sleep.
ref: 1846, Thomas Campbell Foster, Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland, page 83:
text: For this reason, it is important to score the center rod with marks at four-inch intervals to that Slip Form walls will progress upward uniformly, coinciding with the structure's various floor levels and window sill heights; that is, so that floors and sills will be level with layers of wall, dispensing with the need to cast half a formful of mortar to make up for any difference in levels of the various building components.
ref: 1984, The Green Revolution - Volumes 41-46:
text: This fits in with Hudson's (1966) observation that 'a knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys' (p. 127), and with the idea that personality and motivational factors may well be more important than cognitive abilities in promoting real-life creativity.
ref: 1986, David J. Hargreaves, The Developmental Psychology of Music, page 169:
text: Pausing under a tree, picking and sniffing through the Gravensteins, yellow skins splashed with magenta drip, firm formfuls of breathtaking smells, a dull thud draws me to the next.
ref: 2008, Nomi Rowe, In Celebration of Cecil Collins: Visionary Artist and Educator, page 74:
glosses: The amount that makes up a form (any sense).
veniable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more veniable
form: most veniable
Etymology: From Latin veniabilis, from venia (“forgiveness, pardon”).
Senses: examples: text: More veniable is a dependance upon the Philosophers stone, potable gold, or any of those Arcana's whereby Paracelsus that died himself at forty seven, gloried that he could make other men immortal.
ref: 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 6th edition, book 3, chapter 12:
glosses: venial; pardonable
Related terms: veniably
glumaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glumaceous
form: most glumaceous
Etymology: Compare French glumancé. See glume and -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: glumaceous bracts
text: glumaceous perianth
text: glumaceous valves
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: glumal
glosses: Having or consisting of glumes.
Derived terms: subglumaceous
elong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: elongs
form: elonging
form: elonged
form: elonged
Etymology: See eloign, elongate.
Senses: glosses: To lengthen out; to prolong.
examples: text: By Sees & hilles elonged from thy ſight
ref: c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Though this port: and I thy ſeruaunt true”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 53v:
glosses: To put away; to separate; to keep off.
elonged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of elong
elonging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of elong
elongs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of elong
demersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /diˈmɜː(ɹ)ʒən/
Forms: form: demersions
Etymology: Latin demersio.
Senses: glosses: The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
examples: text: [T]his Sinking and Demerſion of Buildings into the Earth is a manifeſt Sign of their Antiquity, vvhich is ſo much the greater, by hovv much the deeper they are ſunk.
ref: 1692, John Ray, “The First Question Concerning the World’s Dissolution, Whether there be Any Thing in Nature that may Probably Cause or Argue a Future Dissolution? Three Probable Means propounded and Discussed.”, in Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC, page 360:
glosses: The state of being overwhelmed in, or as if in, water.
demersions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demersion
heresiarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heresiarchy
heresiarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heresiarchies
Senses: examples: text: The book it-self […]consists of Heresiarchies against our blessed Savior.
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
glosses: A major or great heresy.
refracture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refractures
form: refracturing
form: refractured
form: refractured
Etymology: From re- + fracture.
Senses: glosses: To fracture again.
refracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refractures
Etymology: From re- + fracture.
Senses: glosses: A second fracture
refractured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refracture
refractures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refracture
refracturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refracture
water cavy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water cavies
Senses: glosses: The capybara.
water cavies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water cavy
Biscayan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Biscay + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the province of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain.
Synonyms: Biscayne
Derived terms: Biscayan right whale
Biscayan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Biscayans
Etymology: From Biscay + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Biscayneer
Biscayner
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the province of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain.
glosses: The westernmost of the modern varieties of the Basque language, spoken in Biscay and neighbouring parts of Álava and Gipuzkoa.
glosses: A long heavy musket.
glosses: The bullet fired by a musket of this kind.
Biscayans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Biscayan
vibrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌɪbɹətɪv/
Forms: form: more vibrative
form: most vibrative
Etymology: From vibrate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: [B]y this means, each sand becomes to have a vibrative or dancing motion, so as no other heavier body can rest on it, unless sustein'd by some other on either side […]
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
glosses: Involving vibration; vibrating, vibratory.
gutwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gut + wort.
Senses: synonyms: globe daisy
glosses: A plant, Globularia alypum, which has purgative properties and is found in Africa.
disangelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disangelical
form: most disangelical
Etymology: From dis- + angelical.
Senses: examples: text: disangelical nature
ref: 1737, Henry Coventry, Philemon to Hydaspes:
glosses: Not angelical.
Italianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italianism
folliful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folliful
form: most folliful
Etymology: From folly + -ful.
Senses: glosses: foolish.
variolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variolites
Etymology: Latin varius (“various”) + -lite: compare French variolite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rock containing centimeter-scale spherical or globular structures (varioles) in a fine-grained matrix.
Derived terms: variolitic
variolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variolite
interstratification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interstratifications
Etymology: From inter- + stratification.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: stratification among or between other layers or strata
glosses: the classification or arrangement of things between different classifications
interstratifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interstratification
pneumony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French pneumonie.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pneumonia.
mousekin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmaʊskɪn/
Forms: form: mousekins
Etymology: From mouse + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: “Frisk about, pretty little mousekin,” says grey Grimalkin, purring in the corner, and keeping watch with her green eyes.
ref: 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:
text: Dufleur blinked at the stuffed oblong bit of gray cloth that had originally been a mousekin for Fairyfoot. The ears and tail were all gone. The fabric was nubby and snagged, with a couple of bits gone, showing the padding.
ref: 2008, Robin D. Owens, Heart Dance:
synonyms: mouselet
mouseling
mousy
glosses: A little mouse.
synonyms: mouselet
mouseling
mousy
glosses: A baby mouse.
mousekins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mousekin
intratropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + tropical.
Senses: examples: text: intratropical migration
text: intratropical movement
text: intratropical zone
glosses: Within the tropics.
valetudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌvælɪˈt(j)uːdɪnəs/
Forms: form: more valetudinous
form: most valetudinous
Etymology: From valetude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: the valetudinous condition of King Edward
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:
text: Symptoms pointing to mild hepatic and gastrointestinal derangement have thus recurred for several years. The family declined an operation until finally the youth, becoming weary of his valetudinous condition, took the matter into his own hands and went to the hospital.
ref: 1906, California State Journal of Medicine, volume 4, page 169:
glosses: valetudinarian; ill, sick
overpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpeoples
form: overpeopling
form: overpeopled
form: overpeopled
Etymology: From over- + people.
Senses: examples: text: The drones are killed at the end of summer, but the queen and great part of the workers remain ; and when, in the summer, they increase so much as to overpeople the hive, colonies are sent forth with young queens, in search of another habitation.
ref: 1868, David Meredith Reese, Fundamentals of Zoology, page 349:
text: At breakfast James made request to his father that he might be allowed to make of a certain little-used loft a room for Isy and himself, so as not to overpeople the house.
ref: 1897, George MacDonald, Salted with Fire: A Story of a Minister, page 304:
glosses: To people too densely; overpopulate.
overpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + people.
Senses: glosses: plural of overperson
overpeopled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpeople
overpeoples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpeople
overpeopling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpeople
divulgater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divulgaters
form: divulgator
Etymology: From divulgate + -er.
Senses: synonyms: divulger
glosses: One who divulges.
divulgaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divulgater
planispheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From planisphere + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: planispheric astrolabes
text: planispheric coordinates
glosses: Of or pertaining to a planisphere.
redressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more redressive
form: most redressive
Etymology: From redress + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: And here can I forget the generous band
Who touch'd with human woe, redressive search'd
Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ?
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Tending to redress.
warine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warines
Etymology: Anglicization of French ouarine, a misreading of ouariue (i.e. ouarive), ultimately from the same source as guariba.
Senses: glosses: A guariba: a South American monkey (sapajou).
warines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warine
dictatorie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dictatorie
form: most dictatorie
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of dictatory.
dietine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dietines
Etymology: Compare French diétine.
Senses: glosses: A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.
dietines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dietine
parvoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parvolines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A base of the pyridine group, found in coal tar.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the series of isometric substances of which parvoline is the type.
parvolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parvoline
operameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operameters
Etymology: From Latin opera (“work”) (plural of operis), opus + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument or machine for measuring work done, especially the number of rotations by a machine or wheel in manufacturing cloth.
unsoul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsouls
form: unsouling
form: unsouled
form: unsouled
Etymology: From un- + soul.
Senses: examples: text: unsouled folk
ref: 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To deprive of soul, spirit, or principle.
Related terms: desoul
unsouled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsoul
unsouling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsoul
unsouls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsoul
wourali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oorali
form: ourali
Senses: glosses: curare
woodrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wood + rock.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compact wood-like variety of asbestos.
omniprevalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒmniˈpɹɛvələnt/
Etymology: From omni- + prevalent.
Senses: examples: text: The slightest deviations from the true proportion—and these deviations were omni-prevalent—affected me just as violations of abstract truth were wont, on earth, to affect the moral sense.
ref: 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Colloquy of Monos and Una:
glosses: Prevalent everywhere or in all things.
incivilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incivilly
form: most incivilly
Etymology: From incivil + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of uncivilly.
evanid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈvænɪd/
Forms: form: more evanid
form: most evanid
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēvānidus, from ēvānēscere. See evanesce.
Senses: examples: text: where there is heat and strength enough in the plant to make the leaves odorate , there the smell of the flower is rather evanid and weaker than that of the leaves
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IV. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: all present enjoyments are transient and evanid; and of any future thing , in this kingdom of change
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Profitableness of Godliness”, 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: Liable to vanish; faint; weak; evanescent.
annunciative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: we ſee Christs words ran not in an Annunciative, but an exhortatory stile
ref: 1660, Richard Allestree, The Gentlemans Calling:
glosses: Pertaining to annunciation; announcing.
sepic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːpɪk/
Etymology: From sepia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: a sepic drawing
glosses: Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia.
kneejoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneejoints
Etymology: From knee + joint.
Senses: glosses: The joint of the knee.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A toggle joint; so called because it consists of two pieces jointed to each other end to end, making an angle like the knee when bent.
kneejoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kneejoint
antipathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ænˈtɪpəθəs/
Forms: form: more antipathous
form: most antipathous
Etymology: Irregularly from either antipathy or Ancient Greek ἀντιπαθής (antipathḗs) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: What ſublunary miſchief can predominate a wiſe man thus? or doth thy friendſhip play (in this antipathous extreme) with mine, leſt gladneſſe ſuffocate me?
ref: c. 1608–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, “Four Playes, or Morall Representations, in One”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, [The Triumph of Love, scene ii], page 34, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of antipathic.
synonyms: word: antipathic
impartialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impartial + -ness.
Senses: examples: January 9 1675, William Temple, letter to the King
He spoke of it as a thing that would give him assurance of your Majesty's impartialness in the general affair
glosses: The quality of being impartial.
Synonyms: impartiality
keblah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keblahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qibla.
keblahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keblah
kibla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiblas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qibla.
kiblah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiblahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qibla.
kiblahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiblah
kiblas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kibla
denaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denary
funiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more funiculate
form: most funiculate
Senses: examples: text: funiculate apex
text: funiculate callus
glosses: Forming a narrow ridge.
Related terms: funicular
impunctual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impunctual
form: most impunctual
Etymology: From im- + punctual.
Senses: synonyms: unpunctual
glosses: Not punctual.
inusitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The mammæ of the male have not vanished by inusitation ; nec curtorum , per multa sæcula
ref: 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology:
glosses: Lack of use; disuse.
Girondist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Girondists
Etymology: From French Girondiste; so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of Gironde.
Senses: synonyms: Girondin
Brissotin
Brissotine
glosses: A member of a moderate political faction in France during the French Revolution.
Girondists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Girondist
trichromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + chromic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing three atoms of chromium.
glosses: Having three colours; trichromatic.
seismometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seismometry + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: seismometric measurements
text: seismometric observations
text: seismometric monitoring
glosses: Of or pertaining to seismometry, or using a seismometer.
Synonyms: seismometrical
nitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: knitter
Forms: form: nitters
Etymology: From nit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [The bots] were hatched, into (what is called in the country) a horse-bee or nitter.
ref: 1809, Medical Repository of Original Essays and Intelligence Relative to Physic, Surgery, Chemistry, and Natural History, volume 12, page 124:
text: The last three species are the nitters so well known in this country; particularly the leg and throat nitters. It is the received opinion that the nits on the legs of horses, are taken into the mouth of the horse, conveyed into the intestines, and at length become the bot larva.
ref: 1826, Amos Eaton, Zoological Text-book Comprising Cuvier's Four Grand Divisions of Animals, page 226:
text: If the "throat nitter" (Œ veterinus) is the true bot however, […] it must be evident that the remedy proposed […] is at least doubtful […]
ref: 1835, The Genesee Farmer, page 90:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: word: horse-bee
glosses: A louse that deposits nits on horses.
nitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitter
formedon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formedons
Etymology: From Old French [Term?], from Latin [Term?], so called because the plaintiff claimed “by the form of the gift”: per formam doni.
Senses: examples: text: So, if Lands be given to Father and Son, and to the heirs of their two bodies begotten, the remainder over in fee, and afterwards the Father dieth without any Iſſue but the Son, and afterwards the Son dieth without Iſſue, and a Stranger abateth, he in the remainder ſhall have one Formedon in the remainder, although the Eſtate tails were ſeveral, […]
ref: 1680, Edward Coke, “Mich. 7 Jacobi. In the Common Pleas. Buckmere’s Case.”, in The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt. […], 2nd edition, London: […] H. Twyford, […], →OCLC, part VI, pages 570–571:
topics: law
glosses: A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail.
formedons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formedon
oryctere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orycteres
form: orycterope
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρυκτήρ (oruktḗr, “miner”).
Senses: glosses: The aardvark.
orycteres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oryctere
pareu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pareus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pareo (“type of garment”).
rosefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosefishes
form: rosefish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rose fish.
rosefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosefish
tallis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tallises
form: talleisim
form: tallisim
form: tallism
Senses: examples: text: […] the congregants struggle to touch their lips to some part of my new blue Ohrbach’s suit, while the old men press forward to touch their tallises to my sparkling London Character shoes.
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, “The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life”, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 202:
text: “The twins hid their bodies under their father's tallis, like ghosts.”
ref: 2002, Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of tallit.
presentoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presentoirs
Etymology: Compare French présentoir, from present + French -oir.
Senses: glosses: An ornamental tray, dish, etc. used as a salver.
presentoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presentoir
discriminatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkɹɪmɪnətɪvli/
/dɪsˈkɹɪmɪˌneɪtɪvli/
Forms: form: more discriminatively
form: most discriminatively
Etymology: From discriminative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] acquiring an understanding of its leading principles, so as to be able to give them forth discriminatively in language of his own […]
ref: 1804, John Foster, Essays in a Series of Letters:
glosses: With discrimination or distinction.
hoidenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hoidenish
form: most hoidenish
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of hoydenish
unconsonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconsonant
form: most unconsonant
Etymology: From un- + consonant.
Senses: examples: text: a thing unconsonant
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Incongruous; inconsistent.