cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
morisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morisks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of morisco (“morris dance”).
sputative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sputative
form: most sputative
Senses: examples: a. 1639, Henry Wotton, letter to Doctor C.
I could pick out any counsell to allay that sputative Symptome which yet remaineth upon me from my obstructions of the Splene
glosses: Inclined to spit; spitting very much.
theanthropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: theanthropism
subresource
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subresources
Etymology: From sub- + resource.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A resource making up part of a larger resource.
subresources
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subresource
dogeate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogeates
Senses: examples: text: it would appear well calculated to ensure the proper administration of the dogeate
ref: 1830, The London University Magazine:
glosses: Alternative form of dogate.
suctorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəs
Senses: examples: text: The two extremities of the body are sometimes dilated in the form of suckers (in the suctorious annelidans)
ref: 1836, Henri Milne-Edwards, “Annelida”, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology (ed. Robert Bentley Todd), page 166:
glosses: Archaic form of suctorial.
solecist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solecists
Senses: examples: text: Shall a noble writer, and an inspired noble writer, be called a solecist, and barbarian, for giving a new turn to a word so agreeable to the analogy and genius of the Greek tongue?
ref: 1725, Anthony Blackwall, The Sacred Classics Defended And Illustrated:
text: Let me, therefore, urge you, if you ever feel condemned by such yielding, to become a solecist and wilfully and determinately break those laws of society that your conscience can not approve.
ref: 1887, The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health:
text: Too often is the college graduate a solecist through her ignorance of the customs and usages of that class whose life is made up of the minutiae of politeness.
ref: 1890, The Alpha Phi Quarterly:
glosses: One who commits a solecism.
solecist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solecist
form: most solecist
Senses: examples: text: […] is another solecist quotation.
ref: 2001, Scripta Classica Israelica:
glosses: Having the characteristics of a solecism.
solecists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solecist
inconcoct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconcoct
form: most inconcoct
Etymology: From Latin in- (“not”) + concoctus, past participle of concoquere. See concoct.
Senses: examples: text: (whereby it reſiſteth and holdeth faſt in ſome degree the firſt Forme or Conſiſtence,) it is (all that while,) altogether Crude and Inconcoct
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. 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, pages 220–221:
glosses: inconcocted
anaerobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anaerobic.
synonyms: word: anaerobic
monandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + -andry.
Senses: glosses: The possession of only one husband at one time.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being monandrous.
examples: text: Yet monandry does exist in short-lived invertebrates (Shuster 1989a,b; Robinson and Allgeyer 1996; Fischer and Fiedler 2000; Jones 2001), in certain birds (Mauck et al. 1995) and mammals (Sever and Mendelssohn 1985; Brotherton et al. 1997), as well as in protistan species in which sexuality is achieved by the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another (Raikov 1995; Dacks and Roger 1999).
ref: 2019, Stephen M. Shuster, Michael J. Wade, Mating Systems and Strategies, page 233:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A mating system in which all of the eggs of a female are fertilized by sperm from the same male (over one breeding season or over a lifetime).
Derived terms: monandric
oneling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From one + -ling. Cognate with Dutch eenling, German Einling.
Senses: examples: text: Considering how she was humoured, when a oneling, I think her behaviour is extraordinary.
ref: 1823, John Cole, Herveiana:
glosses: A singleton; maverick; a single or only child.
sixling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixlings
Etymology: From six + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A compound or twin crystal consisting of six individuals.
endoss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endosses
form: endossing
form: endossed
form: endossed
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old French endosser. Doublet of endorse.
Senses: glosses: To write on the back of (a document); to endorse.
examples: text: he […] Gave me a shield, in which he did endosse / His deare Redeemers badge upon the bosse […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To inscribe; to depict on any surface.
endossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endoss
endossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of endoss
squinied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squiny
squinies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squiny
squiny
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squinies
form: squinying
form: squinied
form: squinied
Senses: examples: text: I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou / squiny at me?
ref: c. 1605–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 4, scene 6:
glosses: To squint.
squinying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squiny
scolytid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scolytids
Etymology: From translingual Scolytus + -id.
Senses: glosses: A bark beetle (of Scolytus)
scolytids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scolytid
premotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premotions
Etymology: From pre- + motion.
Senses: glosses: Previous motion or excitement to action, especially a divine impulse that precedes human action, guiding or enabling individuals to act in accordance with God's will.
sevenling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sevenlings
Etymology: From seven + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A poem consisting of seven lines, split into three stanzas.
pantisocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantisocrats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pantisocratist.
pantisocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantisocrat
dunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunters
Senses: examples: text: "Here an old woman, thinking to help her pastor out of a dead lift, cried out, 'Aiblins, Sir, it was a dunter.' (The vulgar name of a species of whale common to the Scotch coast.)
ref: 1845, Thomas Ingoldsby [pseudonym; Richard Barham], The Ingoldsby Legends, New York, N.Y.: W. J. Widdleton, published 1865, page 80:
text: Porpoises, it is true, and "dunters" may be seen gambolling along the coast of Durham, but even that royal fish, the sturgeon, often caught in the last century, as the files of the Newcastle Courant prove, is a rarity on the coast.
ref: 1883, “Local Records and Notes”, in Newcastle Courant, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, page 2:
text: The sperm whale is of course the best producer, but this species is not flagrant in the southern seas. The whale usually found is small in size and the head reservoir does not contain very large quantities of the oil. Among the smaller Cataceans, the porpoises, the puffy dunters, and grampuses, an excellent grade of oil is secured for commercial purposes by the natives who ply the waters many days and nights seeking the specie.^([sic])
ref: 1904, “South Sea Fish Oils”, in Pacific Oil Reporter, volume 6, number 1, San Francisco, C.A.: Pacific Oil Reporter, page 5:
qualifier: Northumberland
glosses: A porpoise.
synonyms: dunter goose
glosses: The common eider, Somateria mollissima.
Derived terms: dunter goose
dunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunter
momier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: momiers
Etymology: From French mômier, from Old French momer, mommer (“to mum, to mask oneself”).
Senses: glosses: A strict Calvinist in Switzerland, France, or some parts of Germany, in the early part of the 19th century.
momiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of momier
doub grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doob grass.
margaritic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French margaritique.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of margaric acid.
swordman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swordmen
Etymology: From Middle English swerdman; equivalent to sword + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Worthy fellows, and like to prove most sinewy swordmen
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: A swordsman.
swordmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordman
pompoleon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pompoleons
Senses: glosses: A pomelo, or grapefruit.
pompoleons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pompoleon
helodermin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Heloderma + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide in Gila monster venom.
exendin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exendins
Etymology: peptide found in an EXocrine secretion of Heloderma lizards which has ENDocrine activity" (J Biol Chem (1990) 265: 20259) + -in
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of peptide agonists found in Gila monster venom.
Derived terms: exenatide
exendins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exendin
helospectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Heloderma suspectum (taxonomic name for the Gila monster) + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide in Gila monster venom.
wobbly hedgehog syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease found in the African Pygmy domesticated hedgehog, characterized by vacuolization of the grey matter of the brain and spinal cord that leads to neurogenic muscle atrophy.
voblas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vobla
neurocysticercoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurocysticercosis
fluor albus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin, white flow.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: leukorrhea
leucorrheas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucorrhea
suretiship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suretiships
Senses: examples: text: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 11:15:
glosses: Alternative form of suretyship.
suretiships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suretiship
twistorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twistorians
Etymology: From twistor + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: This identification, using this resolution, first appeared in twistor theory in [30], before twistorians were aware of the full BGG resolution.
ref: 1989, Robert J. Baston, Michael G. Eastwood, The Penrose Transform: Its Interaction With Representation Theory:
text: It is noteworthy that the 'electro- weak' theory seems to offer so helpful a line of advance, and I would suggest that as well as taking twistor diagrams more seriously, twistorians might also take the 'standard model' of quantum field theory more seriously.
ref: 1981, Haim Brézis, Jacques-Louis Lions, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, →ISBN:
text: Twistorians were astounded that string theorists, of all people, had answers to the googly problem and other issues that had vexed them.
ref: 2015, George Musser, Spooky Action at a Distance, →ISBN:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mathematician who specializes in twistor theory.
twistorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twistorians
Etymology: Blend of twist + historian
Senses: examples: text: That is why the twistorians are now attempting to rewrite the founders' own words, most notably in a recent Associated Press (22d February, 1998, Charlottesville _Daily Progress_) article with the ludicrous lying headline "Jefferson sought integrated schools."
ref: 1998 March 9, Kevin Alfred Strom, “Western Imperative Network”, in alt.california (Usenet):
text: But, then, what else should we expect from the Ginsu Twistorian other than slicing and dicing?
ref: 2000 January 1, cont...@my-deja.com, “Why don't Mormons believe in the trinity?”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet):
text: The same guy who is provably a Twistorian, the same guy who is known as the "Ginsu Historian"?
ref: 2000 January 30, RocknRollm, “Blood Sacrifices to Satan”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet):
text: Muhaammed's followers (so-called) were talking of muhammed being a nabi.. a paigamber.. a saint.. not an avtaar og [sic] god homsef [sic]... and now these foolish-rascals are trying to start the new film... avtaar muhammed... what nonsense...evevn a madman or a child could say .. "oh the king is naked" .. heheh... so much for islaam [sic] and its twistorians... ( who rape and mutilatre [sic] and twist history to their own whims and satanic ends... and fantasies)....and what of Vishnu and allah?
ref: 2006 February 21, ravi...@yahoo.com, “ALLAH vis-à-vis VISHNU, THE HINDU GOD => IN => BISMILLAHIR- RAHMANIR - RAHIM'”, in alt.religion.islam.shia (Usenet):
text: The "gas vans" have been debunked years ago and not even the official holohoax twistorians talk of them anymore.
ref: 2008 September 1, halle, “Dr. Erhard Wetzel on Gassing Vans”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):
glosses: One who twists history to promote an agenda.
devocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devocations
Etymology: From Latin devocare (“to call off or away”), from de + vocare (“to call”).
Senses: examples: text: […]be freed and released from all its Blandishments and flattering Devocations
ref: 1681, Henry Hallywell, Melampronoea:
glosses: A calling off or away.
devocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devocation
capelan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capelans
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of capelin.
capelans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capelan
uncommandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncommandable
form: most uncommandable
Etymology: From un- + commandable.
Senses: glosses: Not commandable; unresponsive to commands.
cleardown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleardowns
Etymology: From clear + down.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The termination of a call.
cleardowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleardown
scriptlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scriptlets
Etymology: From script + -let. Compare applet.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small script, especially a section of Java code embedded in JavaServer Pages code.
scriptlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scriptlet
paviours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paviour
uncommendably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncommendably
form: most uncommendably
Etymology: From uncommendable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncommendable manner.
scotograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scotographs
Etymology: From scoto- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: Scotograph or writing-machine for use of the blind
ref: 1896 January 28, Thomas J. Bennett, Scotograph or writing-machine for use of the blind, US Patent 553504 (PDF version), title:
text: In some recent experiments with it at the Blind Asylum at Amsterdam, children of 6 learned very rapidly to write with the assistance of the scotograph, which is the invention of Dr. Nord, but it is especially designed for the use of scholars, etc., who have become blind late in life and still wish to continue their literary activity.
ref: 1897 January 16, The Journal of the American Medical Association:
glosses: An instrument for writing in the dark, or by the blind.
examples: text: "Scotograph" is likely to stick as the popular term for portraits taken by the Röntgen process. It means "shade picture," and its analogy with photograph, which is a "light picture," is sufficiently manifest to help on its vogue.
ref: 1896, Western Electrician, page 105:
text: You will be able to see radiographs, or scotographs, — referring to darkness and shadow ; you will see that shadowgraphs indicate to you any deformity of the roots of the teeth, or any teeth that have not come into position in the arch, or any osseous deformity which may take place in the jaw […]
ref: 1896, The International Dental Journal, volume 17, page 532:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An impression made on a photographic plate by a radioactive substance without the intervention of any opaque object other than the screen of the plate.
examples: text: The spirit-faces are sometimes obtained on ordinary paper without the aid of a camera and are called Scotographs.
ref: 1946, The Kalpaka, page 49:
text: What she did produce at times on her own were so-called scotographs, similar to Rorschach effects used in psychiatry; they were the result of briefly exposing sensitive photographic paper to light and then interpreting the resulting shapes.
ref: 1997, Hans Holzer, Ghosts of New England, page 223:
text: These images were called “scotographs” and sometimes contained messages allegedly written by the hands of the spirits themselves.
ref: 2008, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Ghosts and Haunted Places, page 88:
topics: lifestyle
occultism
religion
glosses: An image of a ghost or other apparition appearing on unexposed film.
Related terms: scotophobia
scotography
scotographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scotograph
torpedinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)ˈpɛdɪnəs/
Forms: form: more torpedinous
form: most torpedinous
Etymology: See torpedo (“a kind of fish”).
Senses: examples: text: Was he dull? Is a wooden spoon dull? Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner; […]
ref: 1845 January, Thomas De Quincey, “Coleridge and Opium-eating”, in Speculations Literary and Philosophic: With German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XII), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 92:
synonyms: word: languid
word: listless
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
glosses: stupefying; dull; torpid.
snowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowls
Senses: glosses: The hooded merganser.
misdight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪt
Etymology: From mis- + dight.
Senses: examples: text: Her heart gan grudge for very deepe despight / Of so unmanly maske in misery misdight.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Despised nature suit them once aright, / Their body to their coat, both now misdight. / Their body to their clothes might shapen be, / That nill their clothes shape to their bodie.
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: Arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.
prelatries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelatry
prelatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prelatries
Etymology: From prelate + -ry.
Senses: glosses: prelacy
reapplicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reapplicants
Etymology: From re- + applicant.
Senses: glosses: One who reapplies.
reapplicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reapplicant
daredn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From dared + -n't.
Senses: glosses: Contraction of dared not.
Synonyms: durstn't
dursn't
dursen't
scissil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scissel.
scotch-hoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The game of hopscotch.
Phenician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Phenician
form: most Phenician
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Phoenician.
Phenician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Phenicians
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Phoenician.
Phenicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Phenician
propugnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propugnations
Etymology: Latin propugnatio.
Senses: examples: text: What Propugnation is in one man's valour / To stand the push and enmity of those / This quarrel would excite?
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 II, scene ii], line 137:
glosses: means of defence; defence
propugnations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propugnation
usercentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more usercentric
form: most usercentric
form: user-centric
Etymology: From user + -centric.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a focus on the user.
multiseed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiseed
form: most multiseed
Etymology: From multi- + seed.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to more than one seed.
preemergence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + emergence.
Senses: glosses: Before the emergence of the plants being targeted.
raw_tags: of herbicide use
postemergence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + emergence.
Senses: glosses: After the emergence of the plants being targeted.
raw_tags: of herbicide use
burndown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burndowns
Etymology: Deverbal from burn down. In the software-development sense, perhaps suggesting a burning fuse.
Senses: examples: text: Controlling weeds prior to direct seeding or transplanting peppers can involve the use of burndown or stale seedbed weed control systems[…]
ref: 2012, Vincent M. Russo, Peppers: Botany, Production and Uses, page 193:
glosses: The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.
examples: arcing fault burndowns
glosses: A kind of destructive fault in electrical equipment.
examples: text: Avoid creating separate status reports for management; these reports duplicate information in the sprint burndowns[…]
ref: 2012, Mark C. Layton, Agile Project Management For Dummies, page 85:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: In agile software development, a chart showing how much work remains to be completed.
burndowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burndown
Burmillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Burmilla
stramoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stramonium
stramony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stramonies
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Stramonium; jimsonweed, thornapple.
Manicheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manicheists
Etymology: Compare French manichéiste.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Manichaean.
Manicheist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Manicheist
form: most Manicheist
Etymology: Compare French manichéiste.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Manichaean.
Manicheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manicheist
crossdisciplinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crossdisciplinary
form: most crossdisciplinary
Etymology: From cross- + disciplinary.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, pluridisciplinary, transdisciplinary
coordinate_terms: crossfunctional
glosses: Spanning several disciplines.
crossfunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crossfunctional
form: most crossfunctional
Etymology: From cross- + function + -al.
Senses: examples: text: the management of crossfunctional groups and project teams
coordinate_terms: crossdisciplinary
interdisciplinary
multidisciplinary
pluridisciplinary
transdisciplinary
glosses: Spanning several functions.
crossflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossflow
booklands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookland
bookkept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bookkeep
bockland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bocklands
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bookland.
bocklands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bockland
bookkeeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bookkeep
halcyonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halcyonoid
form: most halcyonoid
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alcyonoid.
halcyonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halcyonoids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alcyonoid.
halcyonoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halcyonoid
captainries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of captainry
captainry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captainries
Etymology: From Middle English capitainerie, from Middle French capitainerie; compare French capitainerie. By surface analysis, captain + -ry. Piecewise doublet of chieftainry.
Senses: glosses: Power or command over a district; chieftainship.
Banglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Bangla + English
Senses: glosses: Bangla interspersed with English; a blend of Bangla and English.
orgal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Obsolete form of argol.
cannel coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannel coals
Etymology: Corrupted from candle coal.
Senses: examples: text: Gerald was enthusiastic. After a while they shook hands, it being time to separate. And for a long time Selwyn sat there alone in the visitors’ room, absent-eyed, facing the blazing fire of cannel coal.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: cannel (type of coal)
antecians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antoeci.
coudee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coudees
Etymology: From French coudée, from coude (“elbow”).
Senses: glosses: a cubit (distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger)
coudees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coudee
enodation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enodations
Etymology: From Latin enodatio (“explanation”), from enodare (“to free from knots”). See enode.
Senses: glosses: An unknotting; the act or operation of clearing of knots, or untying.
examples: text: There is one thing then I apprehend will serve much for the enodation of many difficulties
ref: 1674, J. H., The Middle-Way:
glosses: The solution of a difficulty.
enodations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enodation
unknottings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unknotting
untyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of untying
sphragide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsfræd͡ʒaɪd/
Forms: form: sphragides
Etymology: From Latin sphragis, sphragidis (“Lemnian earth”), from Ancient Greek σφραγίς (sphragís, “a seal”), so called because sold in sealed packets.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Hawks says it is found in Lemnos, sometimes called Terra Lemnia, and used in medicine. It is sometimes called sphragide.
ref: 1860, Archaeologia Americana:
text: Lemnian earth (sphragide bole, a kind of fine clay)
ref: 1874, Reports on the Vienna Universal Exhibition of 1873, page 498:
text: The genuine Lemnian earth of the Greeks, or Sphragide, was a yellowish-grey earth or clay found in the Island of Stalimene (ancient Lemnos).
ref: 1906, The National Druggist - Volume 36, page 269:
text: Pb content is relatively elevated in the sphragides compared to some of the sediments, but not all (i.e. LE6-1.60).
ref: 2017, C.J. Duffin, C. Gardner-Thorpe, R.T.J. Moody, Geology and Medicine: Historical Connections, →ISBN, page 151:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aluminous earth of a grayish yellow color; a medicinal clay.
Synonyms: Lemnian earth
Lemnian bole
sphragides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphragide
glosses: plural of sphragis
sparhawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparhawks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sparrow hawk.
sparhawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparhawk
sparrowless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sparrowless
form: most sparrowless
Etymology: From sparrow + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without sparrows.
sparrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparring
tribunitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tribunitious
form: most tribunitious
Senses: examples: text: And let them not come in multitudes, or in a tribunitious manner; for that is to clamour counsels, not to inform them.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Counsel”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: tribunician
chinquapins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinquapin
chincapin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chincapins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chinquapin.
chincapins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chincapin
knottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knottles
Etymology: From Middle English knottil, cnottel (“little knot”), diminutive of knotte, cnotte (“knot”), equivalent to knot + -le. Cognate with Middle Dutch knuttel, Middle Low German knutel, Middle High German Knüttel (“little stick”). Compare also Old English cnyttels (“string, fiber, sinew”).
Senses: glosses: A knob.
tonsilotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonsilotomy
tonsilotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonsilotomies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tonsillotomy.
chinkapin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinkapins
Senses: examples: text: I was chased out of a chinkapin woods by a bull.
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 417:
glosses: Alternative form of chinquapin.
Derived terms: chinkapin oak
chinkapins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinkapin
Chinatowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinatowners
Etymology: From Chinatown + -er.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Chinatown.
Chinatowners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinatowner
bullpout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullpouts
Senses: glosses: Any of various bullheads (fish).
bullpouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullpout
palliament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpælɪəmənt/
Forms: form: palliaments
Etymology: Latin palliare (“to clothe”), from Latin pallium (“a mantle”). See pall, the garment.
Senses: examples: text: This palliament of white and spotless hue
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: A dress; a robe.
palliaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palliament
planer tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planer trees
Etymology: Named after J. S. Planer, a German botanist.
Senses: glosses: A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but bearing nuts without wings.
Hypernyms: tree
planer trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planer tree
donataries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donatary
donatary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donataries
Senses: examples: text: Hence, where the King had confirmed an heritable right granted by the rebel after denunciation, the donatary, who had by his gift acquired a right to the escheat previously to the confirmation, was preferred to the right confirmed, Feb. 10. 1710, Leslie.
ref: 1773, John Erskine, An Institute of the Law of Schotland, in Four Books, page 246:
text: But the king is now ultimus hæres taking (by his donatary) the fee, with all its burdens, and all real debts created by the vassal, to the extent of the fee (a).
ref: 1833, George Joseph Bell, Principles of the Law of Scotland, page 191:
text: It is quite plain that the statute annuls all rights flowing from the donatary. And I think that this puts an end to the whole case. Because, if the donatary's power to dispone was annulled, how can a disposition from him be the foundation of any title.
ref: 1847, Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, page 683:
glosses: Alternative form of donatory.
examples: text: Because of the massive threat to the very existence of the captaincy, old Duarte Coelho's two sons, Duarte Coelho de Albuquerque, the second donatary, and his brother Jorge de Albuquerque Coelho, the third donatary, interrupted their education in Lisbon at the command of the queen regent to return to Pernambuco (where they had both been born) in 1560 to restore order.
ref: 1981, David G. Sweet, Gary B. Nash, Struggle and Survival in Colonial America, page 158:
text: A third was established in 1611 in the newly created State of Maranhao, and a fourth in Pernambuco after the crown confiscated that captaincy from its donatary.
ref: 1984, Lyle N. McAlister, Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 - Volume 3, page 444:
text: Jorge Figueiredo Correia, a scribe of the Royal Treasury and a great businessman, became a donatary.
ref: 2014, Boris Fausto, Sergio Fausto, A Concise History of Brazil, page 12:
glosses: A donatary captain.
hebete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hebete
form: most hebete
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin hebes, hebetis (“dull, stupid”), from hebere (“to be dull”).
Senses: examples: text: the most hebete of created intelligences
ref: 1856, Marion Harland, Alone:
glosses: unintelligent; stupid.
scarefire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarefires
form: skarefire
Etymology: From scare + fire. In some senses, alteration of scathefire.
Senses: glosses: An alarm of fire.
examples: text: Scarefire of Purgatory
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A fire causing alarm.
glosses: A house-burning; conflagration; scathefire.
scarefires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarefire
scarey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scarey
form: most scarey
Senses: examples: text: Is it not lack of accurate knowledge that makes the average gas man scarey of the bugaboo High Bill Complaint?
ref: 1931, Gas age-record, volume 67:
glosses: Dated form of scary.
impaste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpeɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: impastes
form: impasting
form: impasted
form: impasted
Etymology: From im- (“in”) + paste. Compare Italian impastare, Old French empaster.
Senses: examples: text: With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
Baked and impasted with the parching streets
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.
topics: art
arts
glosses: To lay colours thickly on canvas by the impasto technique.
impasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impaste
impastes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impaste
epipolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπιπολή (epipolḗ, “surface”) (from τέλλω (téllō, “rise”)) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: You then examined it for epipolism or fluorescence , and you pronounced the opinion that it possessed this property only in a minor degree
ref: 1857, Chemical Gazette:
glosses: fluorescence
Related terms: epipolic
epipolized
pianette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pianettes
Etymology: From piano + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A small piano.
Synonyms: pianino
pianettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pianette
impasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impaste
parahuman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parahumans
Etymology: From para- + human.
Senses: glosses: A human-animal hybrid or chimera.
parahumans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parahuman
pansophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pansophical
form: most pansophical
Etymology: See pansophy.
Senses: examples: 1847-1886, James Crossley (editor), notes in The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington
His indefatigable adversary, who is the perfect model of an agile controversialist, had attacked him as a magniloquent Thraso, on account of his Pansophical promises.
glosses: All-wise; claiming universal knowledge.
prickmadam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French trique-madame. Compare Dutch tripmadam.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of stonecrop, such as Petrosedum rupestre, formerly used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines.
thoracometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoracometers
Etymology: From thoraco- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A stethometer.
thoracometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoracometer
Danicas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Danica
dretch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: dretches
form: dretching
form: dretched
form: dretched
Etymology: From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from Old English dreċċan (“to vex, irritate, trouble, torment, torture, oppress, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to torment”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrag-, *dʰragʰ- (“to bother, torment”). Cognate with Russian раздража́ть (razdražátʹ, “to irritate”), Sanskrit द्राघते (drāghate, “to exert oneself, be tired, torment”).
Senses: glosses: To vex; grill; trouble; oppress.
dretch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: dretches
form: dretching
form: dretched
form: dretched
form: draitch
form: drich
Etymology: From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from Old English *dreċċan (“to draw out, delay, linger”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ- (“to pull, drag, scratch”). Cognate with Scots dratch, dretch (“to dawdle”), Dutch trekken (“to draw, pull, tear, pluck, trek”), German trecken (“to draw, trek”), Danish trække (“to draw, pull”), Norwegian dråk (“stripe”), Swedish dialectal drakig (“striped, streaked”), Icelandic rák (“streak”).
Senses: glosses: To delay; linger; tarry.
glosses: To move slowly and heavily; dawdle; loiter.
dretch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: dretches
form: draitch
form: drich
Etymology: From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from Old English *dreċċan (“to draw out, delay, linger”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ- (“to pull, drag, scratch”). Cognate with Scots dratch, dretch (“to dawdle”), Dutch trekken (“to draw, pull, tear, pluck, trek”), German trecken (“to draw, trek”), Danish trække (“to draw, pull”), Norwegian dråk (“stripe”), Swedish dialectal drakig (“striped, streaked”), Icelandic rák (“streak”).
Senses: glosses: An idle wench; a slattern.
glosses: A person slow in the execution of a job; a dawdler.
schlockumentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schlockumentaries
form: shlockumentary
Etymology: Blend of schlock + documentary.
Senses: examples: text: The narrator of this 53-minute schlockumentary insists that "the public's appetite for seeing their favorite stars caught off guard... is insatiable."
ref: 1999 March 5, Troy Patterson, “Celebrities: Caught on Camera”, in Entertainment Weekly:
glosses: A documentary programme or film that is schlocky, typically due to its content being deemed sensationalistic, propagandistic, or factually inaccurate.
schlockumentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schlockumentary
shlockumentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shlockumentaries
Senses: examples: text: It's another shlockumentary from NBC, the network that brought you "Ancient Prophecies" and "Angels: The Mysterious Messengers."
ref: 1994 July 5, “Critic's Corner”, in The Washington Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of schlockumentary.
shlockumentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shlockumentary
deech
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deeches
form: deeching
form: deeched
form: deeched
form: ditch
form: deche
Etymology: From Middle English dechen, from Old English dēċan (“to smear, plaster, daub”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōkijan (“to apply with a rag or cloth, smear”), from *dōk (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz (“rag”); see duck (“canvas, cloth”). Cognate with Dutch doeken, German tuchen.
Senses: examples: text: The mud of Flanders clung to his boots and clothes. It was "deeched" into his skin, and round his eyes had left a stain so dark, it looked as if he had been painted for a theatrical make-up.
ref: 1917, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Brought Forward, page 60:
glosses: To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained.
deech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deeches
form: ditch
form: deche
Etymology: From Middle English dechen, from Old English dēċan (“to smear, plaster, daub”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōkijan (“to apply with a rag or cloth, smear”), from *dōk (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz (“rag”); see duck (“canvas, cloth”). Cognate with Dutch doeken, German tuchen.
Senses: glosses: Dirt (or grime) ingrained on the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc.
shockumentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shockumentary
Malfunction Junction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Attested in military publications from the early Cold War years; early uses are primarily for airports. Perhaps popularized, and widened in sense, by the 1973 Schoolhouse Rock! segment "Conjunction Junction".
Senses: examples: text: The center of the new city was on the Clark Fork River, one and one half miles from what would become Malfunction Junction, along the newly built military road (now an interstate highway) and what became a railroad line,[…]
ref: 2003, James Gifford, Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux, editors, Culture + the State: Landscape and Ecology, CRC Studio, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: A traffic jam, or any location noted for such congestion.
wikipedia: Schoolhouse Rock!
Acapulco gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of marijuana originating from Acapulco, Mexico.
Spitzbergen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Spitzbergen, a Germanised spelling of Dutch Spitsbergen.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Spitsbergen.
man date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man dates
form: mandate
form: man-date
Etymology: From man (“adult male”) + date (“meeting with a romantic partner”).
Senses: examples: text: Anyone who finds a date with a potential romantic partner to be a minefield of unspoken rules should consider the man date, a rendezvous between two straight men that is even more socially perilous.
ref: 2005 April 10, Jennifer 8. Lee, “The Man Date”, in The New York Times:
text: Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a man date with him.
Roy: It is not a man date. I am not a man-woman. We are not married. I am not your wife!
ref: 2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 2, episode 3:
text: We were set up on a man date, and the next thing you know we were cooking for our first competition!
ref: 2010, Jason Day, Aaron Chronister, BBQ Makes Everything Better, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Just three buddies having a Sunday afternoon man date at a faux dive bar.
ref: 2011, Tod Goldberg, The Bad Beat, Penguin, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: A platonic outing by two (typically straight) men, often in settings that would otherwise be reserved for romantic encounters.
standing committee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standing committees
Senses: glosses: An established parliamentary or congressional committee to which all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials and other matters regarding a defined scope of subjects get referred to and then returned to parliament or congress along with a recommended measure.
Synonyms: permanent committee
standing committees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standing committee