cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
without-door
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From without (“outside of, beyond”) + door.
Senses: examples: text: Prayſe her but for this her without-dore-Forme,
(Which on my faith deſerues high ſpeech) and ſtraight
The Shrug, the Hum, or Ha, (theſe Petty-brands
That Calumnie doth vſe; […]
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 282, column 1:
glosses: outdoor; exterior
Related terms: withoutdoors
rebarbarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebarbarizes
form: rebarbarizing
form: rebarbarized
form: rebarbarized
Etymology: From re- + barbarize.
Senses: examples: text: Germany […] rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars.
ref: 1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform:
glosses: To barbarize again; to reduce again to a state of barbarism.
Related terms: rebarbarization
rebarbarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebarbarize
rebarbarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebarbarize
rebarbarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebarbarize
holyday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holydays
Senses: examples: text: Having obtained the loan of a horse one holyday, he rode into a "faire forest," where, overcome by the heat, he lay down under the shade of a tree and meditated on his wretched state.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 55:
text: […] they were soon on the beautiful common leading to Roehampton, where villas, which seem, like Beatrice's idea of King Pedro for a husband, made only for holydays […]
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 261–262:
glosses: Obsolete form of holiday.
holydays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holyday
overgrownness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overgrown + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being overgrown.
apogean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apogee + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Apogean tides, or neap tides, occur when the Moon has passed its apogee.
glosses: Connected with the apogee.
anticonstitutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticonstitutional
form: most anticonstitutional
Etymology: From anti- + constitutional.
Senses: glosses: Opposing a constitution.
Synonyms: unconstitutional
Derived terms: anticonstitutionally
fitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fitch
fitched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fiched
Senses: examples: text: Argent, two bars wavy sable, and on a chief of the second three crosses patée fitched or, to the name of Hurbey
ref: (Can we date this quote?), William Newton, Display of Heraldry:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of fitchy.
chessil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛsəl/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛzəl/
homophone: chessel
Forms: form: chesil
Etymology: From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ċeosel, ċisel (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (“gravel, pebble”).
Senses: examples: text: It might seem probable that such masses as chessil bank, and the beds about Brighton, &c. were lodged, prior to the Deluge, upon the sea shore, and thrown into their present situation by that catastrophe
ref: 1827, Georges Baron Cuvier, Scriptural Geology:
glosses: gravel or pebbles
amissibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˌmɪsɪˈbɪlɪti/
Etymology: Compare French amissibilité. See amit.
Senses: examples: text: In the sixteenth century, we have seen that notions of popular rights, and of the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct, were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe, according to the necessity in which they stood for such weapons against their adversaries.
ref: 1837–1839, Henry Hallam, “History of Moral and Political Philosophy, and of Jurisprudence from 1600 to 1650”, in Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, volume III, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, paragraph 41, page 351:
glosses: The quality of being amissible; likelihood of being lost.
confessionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confessionists
Etymology: Compare French confessioniste.
Senses: examples: text: […]contrary Confessionists in Christianity
ref: 1642, Richard Montagu, Acts and Monuments of the Church:
glosses: One professing a certain faith.
confessionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confessionist
envault
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: envaults
form: envaulting
form: envaulted
form: envaulted
Etymology: From en- + vault.
Senses: examples: text: I wonder, good man, that you are not envaulted;
Prithee go, and be dead, and be doubly exalted
ref: 1732, Jonathan Swift, Conclusion From These Epigrams, With Dr. Swift's Answer:
glosses: To enclose in a vault, or as if in one, i.e. to entomb.
envaulted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of envault
terrorist fist jab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terrorist fist jabs
Etymology: terrorist + fist + jab, coined by Fox anchor E. D. Hill upon seeing US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama perform the gesture.
Senses: examples: text: A commentator on Fox described it as a “terrorist fist jab.” Around the same time, Fox, in its crawl at the bottom of the screen, referred to Michelle as Obama's “baby mama,” as if this accomplished woman and committed parent were no more than a ghetto girlfriend.
ref: 2008, Liza Mundy, Michelle: A Biography, Simon & Schuster, page 194:
text: In hindsight, I regret not giving him a terrorist fist jab or the Islamist secret handshake. I hear he's quite adept at those.
ref: 2009, Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture, Scribner, page 222:
text: Obama and Robert Gibbs had a ritual after every debate. When Obama came off the stage at the end, Gibbs would give him a fist bump to signify that he had done well, not "the terrorist fist jab" of Fox News's fevered imagination, just a nice tap. After the Nevada and New Hampshire primary debates, where Obama had not done well, there was no bump. But when Obama finished his first debate with John McCain at Ole Miss, Gibbs was so happy that he gave him a two-fisted bump.
ref: 2010, Jonathan Alter, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Simon & Schuster, page 34:
text: Before introducing an expert on body language, Hill would imply that viewing this as a "terrorist fist-jab" was as reasonable an interpretation as any other.
ref: 2011, Michael Waltman, John Haas, The Communication of Hate, Peter Lang Publishing, page 119:
text: Later, during the presidential campaign, one Fox commentator flippantly suggested Barack and wife Michelle had greeted each other with a "terrorist fist jab". The commentator later apologised, as did another Fox commentator who had joked about assassinating Obama and Osama bin Laden after supposedly muddling their names.
ref: 2012 January 28, David McKnight, “How an unpretentious charmer became fixated on a conspiracy of liberals”, in The Age, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2012:
glosses: The touching together of two people's fists, often in celebration of an accomplishment; more commonly known as a fist bump.
Related terms: fist bump
Fo' Knucks
knuckle bump
knuckle touch
ellisizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ellisize
ellisizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ellisize
ellisized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ellisize
chamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chammas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shamma.
seceed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: seceeds
form: seceeding
form: seceeded
form: seceeded
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of secede.
Sorbonne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Sorbonne.
Senses: glosses: A building in Paris that houses several universities and schools.
glosses: The historic University of Paris that was previously located there.
soro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soros
Senses: examples: text: soro girls won't talk to me, even when they're drunk.
ref: 1997 February 2, john lowe, “i am *not* a frat boy wannabe!”, in alt.punk (Usenet):
text: We work frat/soro parties at several major universities such as USC and UCLA, clubs, concerts, raves, parties, weddings, movie premiers, any special events and even the MTV Music Awards.
ref: 1998 September 24, UTOYPIA, “Special Event Security in Los Angeles”, in alt.security (Usenet):
text: So for all the new comers, you should NOT bother to spend hefty amount of money to join a soro or a frat!
ref: 1999 November 26, lamb...@my-deja.com, “why frats are BUYING friends.”, in alt.college.sororities (Usenet):
text: Surrounded by frats and soros. and USC housing. So one of the safest area to live.
ref: 2005 January 9, balkr...@yahoo.com, “studio apt for sublease”, in usc.forsale (Usenet):
text: Meaning that if a frat's sister soro is the fat soro on campus, the frat becomes the fat frat. They identify themselves, and get perspective rush candidates by how good their partner frat/soro is, because put simply, not alot^([sic]) of frat guys want to hook up with ugly girls. So the frats with the best sister soro will usually have people lining up to rush them, meaning they have the "cream of the crop".
ref: 2013 April 22, “Michael Shannon with a dramatic reading of the sorority letter - this is spectacular.”, in Reddit, r/videos, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2023:
glosses: Clipping of sorority.
Sorrento
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹɛntəʊ/
ipa: /səˈɹɛntoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛntəʊ
Etymology: From Italian Sorrento, from Latin Surrentum, of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: A town and comune of the province of Naples, Campania, Italy.
Derived terms: Sorrentine
Sorrento Peninsula
Sorrento work
Sorrento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹɛntəʊ/
ipa: /səˈɹɛntoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛntəʊ
Forms: form: Sorrentos
Etymology: From Italian Sorrento, from Latin Surrentum, of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: A kind of Italian walnut.
evestigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evestigates
form: evestigating
form: evestigated
form: evestigated
Etymology: From Latin evestigatus (“traced out”), from e (“out”) + vestigatus, past participle of vestigare. See vestigate.
Senses: examples: text: It is then highly probable, that the doctrine of the Metempsychosis, which so particularly distinguished Pythagoras, was derived from them, with many other articles and modes of worship, and opinion, which from certain resemblances might be evestigated from the same spring-head.
ref: 1757, John H. Grose, A Voyage to the East-Indies:
glosses: To investigate.
evestigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evestigate
evestigates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evestigate
evestigating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evestigate
impester
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impesters
form: impestering
form: impestered
form: impestered
Senses: glosses: To pester; to annoy
impestered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impester
impestering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impester
impesters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impester
Hindley's screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Henry Hindley.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into whose teeth the screw is intended to work.
wikipedia: Henry Hindley
corneter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corneters
Etymology: From cornet + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who plays a cornet.
corneters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corneter
symposiarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symposiarchs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συμποσίαρχος (sumposíarkhos). By surface analysis, symposium + -arch.
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The master of a feast.
symposiarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symposiarch
electrosurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + surgical.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Relating to electrosurgery.
Derived terms: electrosurgically
antiwart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + wart.
Senses: examples: an antiwart cream
glosses: Acting against warts.
podophyllin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podophyllins
Etymology: Podophyllum + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A resinous powder obtained by precipitating an alcoholic tincture of the rhizome of Podophyllum by means of water acidified with hydrochloric acid.
traduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈdʌkt/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Forms: form: traducts
Etymology: From Latin traductus, past participle of traduco.
Senses: examples: text: a paraphrastical Version be permitted; and then the Traduct may exceed the Original
ref: 1655, James Howell, “to Mr. S. B.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: That which is traduced or translated.
traduct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈdʌkt/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Forms: form: traducts
form: traducting
form: traducted
form: traducted
Etymology: From Latin traductus, past participle of traduco.
Senses: glosses: To derive or deduce.
glosses: To transmit; to transfer.
traducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traduct
traducts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of traduct
disseat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disseats
form: disseating
form: disseated
form: disseated
Etymology: From dis- + seat.
Senses: examples: text: When I behold—Seyton, I say!—This push
Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, 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: To unseat.
disseated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disseat
disseating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disseat
disseats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disseat
Batavians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Batavian
Irish waterfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the stereotype of the Irish as stupid, and the fact that smoke rises, unlike a proper waterfall.
Senses: glosses: French inhale; inhaling smoke that has just been expelled from the mouth or inhaling smoke through the nose while simultaneously expelling it from the mouth.
ascidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascidia
Etymology: From New Latin ascidium, from Ancient Greek ἀσκίδιον (askídion), from ἀσκός (askós, “leather bag”) + -ιδιον (-idion, “diminutive ending”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pitcher-shaped or flask-shaped organ or appendage of a plant.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the former genus Ascidium of simple ascidians, which included most of the known species; sometimes used as a name for the family Ascidiidae or for all the Tunicata, or Ascidiacea.
Derived terms: ascidiozooid
Related terms: Ascidia
levitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more levitically
form: most levitically
Etymology: From levitical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: levitically unclean
text: levitically impure
glosses: After the manner of the Levites; accordance to Levitic law or customs
bo-peep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bo-peeps
form: bo peep
form: bopeep
Senses: examples: text: That such a king should play bo-peep, / And go the fools among.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
text: 1881, Geneva Gazette - Jul 8, 1881, page 2, "Official Paper Of The Village"
They have not employed spies, nor been voluntary or involuntary witnesses of misdeeds or played "bopeep" through key-holes or from step-ladders through transom windows, upon the privacy of their political adversaries.
glosses: The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle someone (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
qualifier: British Virgin Islands
glosses: Any whistling frog.
examples: text: Well, come on, boys. You've got to push off now. I'm going to read me linen and then get some Bo-Peep.
ref: 1976, Ron Barnes, Coronation Cups and Jam Jars, page 164:
glosses: Sleep.
Synonyms: sense: children's game
word: peek-a-boo
sense: children's game
word: peep bo
Derived terms: bo peepers
bo-peepers
bo-peep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bo-peeps
form: bo-peeping
form: bo-peeped
form: bo-peeped
form: bo peep
form: bopeep
Senses: glosses: To play the game of bo-peep; to peek out suddenly.
prehnitic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹeɪˈnɪtɪk ˈæsɪd/
Etymology: Probably from the resemblance of its wart-like crystals to prehnite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,2,3,5-benzenetetracarboxylic acid (a tetrabasic acid of benzene).
closeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: close + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of close
needfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needful
octogenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑkˈtɑ.d͡ʒəˌnɛr.i/
ipa: /ɒkˈtɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.nə.ri/
Etymology: From Latin octōgēnārius (“containing 80”) either directly or via French octogénaire, from Latin octōgēnus (“80 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from octōgintā (“eight tens, 80”). Cognate with octogenarian.
Senses: coordinate_terms: unary
binary
ternary
trinary
tetranary
quintenary
hexanary
septenary
octonary
nonary
decenary
vicenary
tricenary
quadragenary
quinquagenary
semicentenary
sexagenary
septuagenary
glosses: Of or related to the number 80, particularly
examples: text: […] he went to visit him, being then octogenary, and very decrepid with the gowt, but had his sight and understanding.
ref: a. 1697, John Aubrey, “......De Laune”, in Brief Lives:
coordinate_terms: unary
binary
ternary
trinary
tetranary
quintenary
hexanary
septenary
octonary
nonary
decenary
vicenary
tricenary
quadragenary
quinquagenary
semicentenary
sexagenary
septuagenary
glosses: Of or related to the number 80, particularly
Synonym of octogenarian: lasting or aged 80 years; 80-year-old.
synonyms: word: octogenarian
extra: lasting or aged 80 years; 80-year-old
octogenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑkˈtɑ.d͡ʒəˌnɛr.i/
ipa: /ɒkˈtɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.nə.ri/
Forms: form: octogenaries
Etymology: From Latin octōgēnārius (“containing 80”) either directly or via French octogénaire, from Latin octōgēnus (“80 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from octōgintā (“eight tens, 80”). Cognate with octogenarian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eightysomething: a person 80 to 89 years old.
synonyms: word: eightysomething
extra: a person 80 to 89 years old
disobliger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disobligers
Etymology: From disoblige + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high-church, high-flyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tip-top-gallon-men, jaocobites, tantivys, anti-hanoverians, friends to popery and the pretender and to arbitrary power, disobligers of England, breakers of DEPENDENCY, inflamers of quarrels between the two nations, public incendiaries, enemies to the king and kingdoms, haters of TRUE protestants, laurel-men, annists, complainers of the nation's poverty, ormondians, iconoclasts, anti-glorious-memorists, anti-revolutioners, white-rosalists, tenth-a-junians, and the like; when, by a fair state of the account, the balance, I conceive, seems to lie on the other side.
ref: 1784, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, page 256:
glosses: One who disobliges.
disobligers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disobliger
swan hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A corrupted form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swan upping.
silverbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silverbills
Etymology: From silver + bill.
Senses: glosses: A kind of estrildid finch, most in genus Lonchura, some in Euodice.
Related terms: mannikin
minia
munia
silverbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silverbill
soam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soams
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from a variant of seam.
Senses: examples: text: In this mode of yoking, the horses work in unicorn-team, the middle horse pulling by the soam- chain, instead of the swingtree
ref: 1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines:
glosses: A chain by which a leading horse draws a plough.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A short rope used to pull the tram in a coal-mine.
glosses: A horse-lead.
soams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soam
senectitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin senectus (“aged, old age”), senex (“old”). Compare senescent.
Senses: examples: text: Three-and-twenty years form a large portion of the short life of man,—one-third as nearly as can be expressed in unbroken numbers, of the entire term fixed by the psalmist, and full one-half, if we strike off the twilight of childhood and immature youth, and of senectitude weary of its toils.
ref: 1857, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey, Or, a Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides:
synonyms: word: agedness
word: elderliness
word: oldness
word: age
word: chair days
word: codgerhood
word: eld
word: elderliness
word: fogeydom
word: geezerdom
word: golden years
word: old age
word: oldhood
word: senescence
word: senectitude
word: twilight years
word: sunset years
word: vetustity
glosses: old age
Indianeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Indianeers
Etymology: From Indian + -eer.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An Indiaman (vessel).
Indianeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indianeer
Qu'ran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Qur'an.
paraptera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parapterum
glosses: plural of parapteron
parapterum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraptera
Etymology: From New Latin parapteron. See para-, and pteron.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In certain insects, a parapteron
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In birds, the scapular and adjoining feathers of the wing.
Derived terms: parapteral
overprovoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overprovokes
form: overprovoking
form: overprovoked
form: overprovoked
Etymology: From over- + provoke.
Senses: examples: text: It grieves him [God], to be over-provoked to our punishment. Then doth he account the cart to crack, yea to break, when he is urged to break forth into just vengeance.
ref: 1630–1634, Joseph Hall, “[Occasional Meditations, […]] On the Sight of a Loaded Cart.”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC, page 222:
glosses: To provoke excessively.
overprovoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overprovoke
overprovokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overprovoke
overprovoking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overprovoke
regrant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɹɑːnt/
Forms: form: regrants
form: regranting
form: regranted
form: regranted
Etymology: From re- + grant.
Senses: examples: text: It was regranted to one of the new faces of the regime, a man now basking in the favour of Richard Fox and the young king: Thomas Wolsey.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 371:
glosses: To grant (something) again or in a different way.
regrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɹɑːnt/
Forms: form: regrants
Etymology: From re- + grant.
Senses: glosses: The act of granting back to a former proprietor.
examples: text: the regrant of a monopoly
glosses: A renewal of a grant.
regrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regrant
regranted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regrant
regranting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regrant
detractious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more detractious
form: most detractious
Senses: examples: text: His hypocritical and detractious aduise
ref: 1602, Anthony Copley, Another letter […] :
glosses: Containing detraction; detractory.
geostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + static.
Senses: examples: text: geostatic load
text: geostatic burden
text: geostatic pressure
text: geostatic stress
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to the pressure exerted by earth or similar substance.
examples: text: In contrast, the moon, since it shares the earth's heliocentric motion, does not have a component of its geostatic motion that mirrors the earth's orbit and thereby yields retrogression, as does the epicycle of a superior planet.
ref: 1983, John Earman, Testing Scientific Theories, page 257:
text: If heliostatic astronomy has no technical advantages, if thoroughly modern astronomy is not heliostatic, and if the arguments adduced by Copernicus were unconvincing, why were the early geostatic astronomies, Ptolemy's in particular, superseded?
ref: 1993, Hugh Thurston, Early Astronomy, Spriner-Verlag Ch 10, page 207:
text: If we make a scale model in a flat box of a geostatic solar system , driven perhaps by an electric motor , place it on a smooth table , and hold the sun still, allowing the box to slide around on the table, we obtain a heliostatic system.
ref: 1996, Hugh Thurston, Early Astronomy, page 206:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Based on a model in which the Earth does not move and all other motion is described relative to the Earth's fixed position.
Derived terms: geostatic arch
cherishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃmənt/
Forms: form: cherishments
Etymology: From cherish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: the act of cherishing
examples: text: rich bounty and dear cherishment
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Teares of the Muses”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: encouragement; comfort
cherishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherishment
warrantise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɒɹəntaɪz/
Etymology: From Middle English warantise, warantyse, from Old Northern French warentise, warandise. Compare Old French garantise. See warrant, guarantee.
Senses: examples: text: There is such strength and warrantise of skill
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 150”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: authority; security; warranty
warrantise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈwɒɹəntaɪz/
Forms: form: warrantises
form: warrantising
form: warrantised
form: warrantised
Etymology: From Middle English warantise, warantyse, from Old Northern French warentise, warandise. Compare Old French garantise. See warrant, guarantee.
Senses: examples: text: hoping your worships wil not onely accept this my labour, but protect and warrantise the same against all men
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To warrant.
warrantised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of warrantise
warrantises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of warrantise
warrantising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of warrantise
opalesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊpəˈlɛs/
ipa: /oʊpəˈlɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: opalesces
form: opalescing
form: opalesced
form: opalesced
Etymology: From opal + -esce.
Senses: glosses: To be opalescent; to produce or show a play of colors, like an opal.
opalesced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of opalesce
opalesces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of opalesce
opalescing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of opalesce
bournless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bourn + -less.
Senses: synonyms: boundless
limitless
unbounded
glosses: Without a bourne or limit.
sachems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sachem
sachemdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sachemdoms
Etymology: From sachem + -dom.
Senses: examples: 1821-1822, Timothy Dwight, Travels in New-England and New-York
Alexander , the eldest son of Massasoit , died a young man , and left the Sachemdom to Philip
glosses: The government or jurisdiction of a sachem.
sachemdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sachemdom
bicipitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It is not denied there have been bicipitous Serpents with the head at each extream, for an example hereof we finde in Aristotle, and of the like form in Aldrovandus we meet with the Icon of a Lizzard; which double formations do often happen unto multiparous generations, more especially that of Serpents […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having two heads; bicipital.
rejuvenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rejuvenizes
form: rejuvenizing
form: rejuvenized
form: rejuvenized
Senses: glosses: To rejuvenate.
rejuvenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rejuvenize
rejuvenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rejuvenize
rejuvenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rejuvenize
lactalbumins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactalbumin
lactoalbumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactoalbumins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lactalbumin.
lactoalbumins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactoalbumin
Belgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛld͡ʒɪk/
Forms: form: more Belgic
form: most Belgic
Etymology: From Latin Belgicus, from Belgae (“the Belgians”).
Senses: examples: text: How unlike their Belgic sires of old.
ref: 1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a Germanic tribe.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.
Frue vanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frue vanners
Etymology: From its inventor W. B. Frue, Superintendent of the Silver Islet Mine, Ontario, Canada.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A kind of conveyor belt on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.
Related terms: vanning
Frue vanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frue vanner
cowhided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cowhide
cowhiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cowhide
cowhiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowhidings
Senses: examples: text: The apprenticeship of the Prussian Crown Princes has always consisted in receiving fisticuffs and cowhidings from their progenitor, the king.
ref: 2021, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:
glosses: A flogging with a cowhide.
cowhidings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowhiding
hydrogode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydrogen + Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “way, path”).
Senses: glosses: The negative pole or cathode.
suprahepatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + hepatic.
Senses: examples: text: supraethmoid branch
text: supraethmoid vena cava
text: supraethmoid vein
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the liver
roentgenologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roentgenologists
Etymology: From roentgenology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who works in roentgenology.
roentgenologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roentgenologist
roentgenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From roentgenology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to roentgenology.
oligist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligists
Etymology: Ancient Greek, probably in allusion to its weak magnetism, as compared with magnetite. See oligo-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Hematite
Derived terms: oligistic
oligists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligist
roentgenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: röntgenology
Etymology: From roentgen + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: The meager X-ray facts are woefully inadequate and there is nothing upon modern roentgen-cardiography. And this book comes out of Boston where Holmes and George practice the art of roentgenology? Oh, well—Prophets without honor, etc.
ref: 1924 November, “Physical Diagnosis by Richard C. Cabot, M.D., Professor of Medicine in Harvard University, Formerly Chief of the West Medical Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Eighth Edition, Revised and Enlarged with Six Plates and 279 Figures in the Text. New York, William Wood and Company, MDCCCCXXIII. Price, $5.00. [book review]”, in The Medical Herald and Physiotherapist: Incorporating The Medical Fortnightly & Laboratory News, St. Louis Clinique, General Practitioner and The Kansas City Medical Index-Lancet, volume XLIII, number 11, Kansas City, Mo.: Medical Herald Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 265, column 2:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Radiography.
Related terms: roentgen
roentgenium
roentgenography
gynography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From gyno- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: radiography of the female genital organs
gynoroentgenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gyno- + roentgenology.
Senses: glosses: The radiography of the female human body.
drinkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinking
tipplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tippling
bibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: bibitory pleasure
glosses: Of or pertaining to drinking.
hardock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardocks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hordock.
hardocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardock
ethereous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethereous
form: most ethereous
Etymology: Latin aethereus, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: this ethereous mould whereon we stand
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Formed of ether; ethereal.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or resembling ether.
assamar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin assare (“to roast”) + amarus (“bitter”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: melanoidin.
trithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trithings
Etymology: From Middle English trithing, tridinge, from Old English *þriðing, from Old Norse þriðjungr (“third part”).
Senses: examples: text: Where a county is divided into three of these intermediate jurisdictions, they are called trithings, which were antiently governed by a trithing-reeve. These trithings still subsist in the large county of York, where by an easy corruption they are denominated ridings; the north, the east, and the west-riding.
ref: 1771, William, Sir Blackstone, “Of the Countries Subject to the Laws of England”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 1, page 116:
glosses: a riding (one of three ancient divisions of a county in England)
Derived terms: english: administrative division
translation: administrative division
word: riding
word: trithing-mote
word: trithing-reeve
trithings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trithing
pseudologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudologists
Etymology: From pseudologue + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who says falsehoods; a liar; a pseudologue.
pseudologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudologist
metecorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A quantity of corn formerly given out by the lord to his customary tenants, as encouragement or reward for their labour and/or service.
barmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barmotes
form: barghmote
form: berghmote
form: bergmote
Etymology: From earlier barghmote, berghmote. Compare barmaster.
Senses: examples: text: The Barmoot Court, kept at Wirksworth, to judge Controversies among the Miners, and adjust subterranean Quarrels and Disputes.
ref: 1732, Daniel Defoe, A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain:
glosses: A court held in Derbyshire, England, for deciding controversies between miners.
barmotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barmote
siegework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siegeworks
Etymology: From siege + work.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A temporary fort where siege guns were mounted.
siegeworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siegework
exampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: examplers
Etymology: See exemplar, example, and compare sampler.
Senses: glosses: A pattern; an exemplar.
examplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exampler
sarcosepta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcoseptum
sarcoseptum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛptəm
Forms: form: sarcosepta
Etymology: From sarco- + septum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A mesentery of an anthozoan.
anthophyllites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthophyllite
nonbosonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bosonic.
Senses: glosses: Not bosonic.
monasticon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monasticons
Etymology: From New Latin monasticus. See monastic.
Senses: glosses: A book describing or giving an account of monasteries.
monasticons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monasticon
roughhewn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roughhewn
form: most roughhewn
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rough-hewn.
aldermancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldermancy
aldermancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldermancies
Etymology: From alderman + -cy.
Senses: synonyms: aldermanry
aldermanship
glosses: The office or position of an alderman.
anticontagious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + contagious.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Opposing or destroying contagion.
irreducibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irreducibility
irreducibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irreducible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being irreducible.
envolume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: envolumes
form: envoluming
form: envolumed
form: envolumed
Etymology: From en- + volume.
Senses: glosses: To form into, or incorporate with, a volume.
envolumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of envolume
envolumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of envolume
envoluming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of envolume
atramentarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more atramentarious
form: most atramentarious
Etymology: From Latin ātrāmentārius (“pertaining to ink”), from ātrāmentārium (“inkstand”) + -ius. Compare French atramentaire.
Senses: examples: text: Sulphate of iron is atramentarious.
glosses: Like ink; suitable for making ink.
Related terms: atrament
atramentaceous
ferrichrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrichromes
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cyclic hexapeptide siderophore produced by some fungi.
examples: text: A cassette containing the new ferrichrome tape came with the unit, and we used this as well as a standard cassette (Maxell) […]
ref: 1975, Consumer Guide, page 197:
text: Sony's was the only deck to accept ferrichrome tape, which has now become rare. Most decks have ceased to cater for it since the advent of metal tape.
ref: 1984, Hi-fi News & Record Review, volume 29, numbers 1-6, page 59:
glosses: An audio cassette tape formulation having a five-micron ferric base coated with one micron of chromium dioxide pigment.
hydrachnid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrachnids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna or of its relatives in Hydrachnidiae or similar groups.
hydrachnids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrachnid
ferricytochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferricytochromes
Etymology: From ferri- + cytochrome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The form of a cytochrome containing oxidized (ferric) iron
Related terms: ferrocytochrome
ferrihaemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferri- + haemoglobin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of haemoglobin containing oxidized (ferric) iron
Synonyms: methaemoglobin
nonmilitarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + militarily.
Senses: glosses: In a nonmilitary way.
ferriheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferri- + heme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of heme containing oxidized (ferric) iron
Synonyms: haematin
Related terms: ferroheme
narcomilitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From narco- + military.
Senses: examples: the Garcia Meza narcomilitary coup in Bolivia
glosses: Relating to military actions by drug traffickers.
ferrihemoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrihemoproteins
Etymology: From ferri- + hemoprotein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any form of a hemoprotein containing oxidized (ferric) iron.
ferriporphyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferriporphyrins
Etymology: From ferri- + porphyrin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any porphyrin containing ferric iron.
Related terms: ferroporphyrin
ferriprive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ferriprive
form: most ferriprive
Etymology: Borrowed from French ferriprive.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Suffering from a deficiency of iron
ferriprussiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ferricyanate, ferricyanide
ferripyoverdine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferri- + pyoverdine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The complex formed from the siderophore pyoverdine and ferric iron
twinleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twinleafs
Etymology: From twin + leaf.
Senses: glosses: Jeffersonia, rheumatism root (Jeffersonia diphylla)
glosses: Any of various species within the genus Zygophyllum.
glosses: Senna roemariana, a legume with yellow flowers found in Texas
twinleafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twinleaf
jeffersonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jeffersonia
inamissible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inamissible
form: most inamissible
Etymology: From Latin inamissibilis.
Senses: examples: text: an inamissible consonant
text: the dogma of inamissible grace
text: as this is irremediable and irrecoverable, so is the other inamissible
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: Incapable of being lost.
Related terms: inamissibleness