cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
yanno
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəˈnoʊ/
Senses: examples: text: Have you, yanno, told her yet?
ref: 2022, Ivy Noelle Weir, Anne of West Philly: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Anne of Green Gables, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 217:
text: But he's still my friend and I don't want him to be, yanno... sad.
ref: 2025, S.E. Case, chapter 1, in Rigsby WI, volume 1: Foothold, →ISBN, retrieved 28 Aug 2025, page 40:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of you know, representing US English.
minor triads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor triad
diminished triad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diminished triads
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a triad that has a diminished fifth between the bottom note and the top note
diminished triads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diminished triad
augmented triad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: augmented triads
Senses: examples: text: C major augmented triad:
1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a triad with an augmented fifth between the bottom note and the top note
augmented triads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of augmented triad
extramatrimonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + matrimonial.
Senses: glosses: extramarital
Derived terms: extramatrimonially
national security
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: natsec
glosses: The safety of a country as managed through the exercise of economic and political power, intelligence agencies and diplomacy.
sobornost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sobornost'
Etymology: From Russian собо́рность (sobórnostʹ).
Senses: examples: text: Some post-Soviet writers see sobornost’ as a – if not the – defining element in giving distinctiveness to Russian civilization.
ref: 2004, James H Billington, Russia in Search of Itself, page 146:
text: Sobornost signifies the essentially extrapersonal (supra-personal) and a-temporal nature of aesthetic consciousness.
ref: 2007, Paul Haffner, Mystery of the Church, page 132:
text: Key to his thought was a concept which has become central to modern Russian Orthodox thinking, Sobornost’, the proposition that freedom is inseparable from unity, communion or community.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 851:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
glosses: A unity of people in loving fellowship.
sobornost'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sobornost.
thought-form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thought-forms
form: thoughtform
Senses: examples: text: The search had begun for a ‘historical Jesus’, a figure in whom the Church could believe despite the huge gap separating thought-forms and assumptions of the first Christians from those of the nineteenth century.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 859:
glosses: Any of a set of presuppositions or fundamental ideas which define the thinking of people of a given region, time period etc.
examples: text: Two people can have the same idea at the same time because they felt the same thought-forms.
text: One can feel the threatening energy of the thought-forms left in the room after a tense fight.
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: A manifestation of the thoughts, ideas or emotions of someone. It is believed to be able to be sensed by people and take physical form within the spirit world.
thought-forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thought-form
penal substitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As part of that literal reading, concentrating on a line of thought on salvation pursued by St Paul, came the penal substitution theory, and Fundamentalists rightly concluded that these were the aspects of Christianity most vulnerable to attack from nineteenth-century intellectual developments.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 863:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The theory of atonement which holds that Jesus died on the Cross in place of human sinners.
Synonyms: vicarious atonement
coggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coggles
form: coggling
form: coggled
form: coggled
Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps from cog (“small boat”) + -le (frequentative suffix), in reference to the rocking or swaying motion of the sea; or perhaps an alteration of cockle (“to move up and down”).
Senses: glosses: To move or walk unsteadily
Derived terms: coggly
coggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coggles
Etymology: See cog (“small boat”).
Senses: glosses: A small fishing boat.
coggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coggles
Etymology: From cock (“a roundish heap”) + -le (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”). Compare also Dutch kogel, German Kugel (“ball”).
Senses: glosses: cobble (all senses)
Derived terms: Burton Coggles
indultos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indulto
inflexure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inflexures
Senses: examples: text: [T]he contrivance of nature is ſingular in the opening and ſhutting of Bindvveeds performed by five inflexures, diſtinguiſhable by pyramidcall figures, and alſo different colours.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 139:
glosses: A flexion, a bend or fold.
intervisit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + visit.
Senses: glosses: Between visits (e.g. to a medical clinic).
intervisit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intervisits
form: intervisiting
form: intervisited
form: intervisited
Etymology: From inter- + visit.
Senses: examples: text: Here we trifled and bathed , and intervisited with the company who frequent the place for health[…]
ref: 1654 July 7 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for June 27 1654]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: To exchange visits; to visit each other.
ambulants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambulant
endorsation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endorsations
form: indorsation
Etymology: From endorse + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Every Endorsation of the examination of any permit shall be made on the back thereof, and every permit shall be defaced by writing the word " Cancelled " across the face of it on the expiration of the period for which it has been granted.
ref: 1868, Governor General of Canada, Order-in-Council:
text: As an alumnus of the University of Virginia, a gallant Confederate soldier, and since the war a devoted, useful minister of the gospel, Mr. Nelson is widely known and needs no endorsation from us.
ref: 1876, Rev. John William Jones, Prison Life of Rev. Geo. W. Nelson:
text: The following article which gives an able and reliable account of the invention has my entire endorsation.
ref: 1894, Thomas Edison, Introduction to Edison's Invention of the Kineto-Phonograph (Century Magazine)
text: The only peculiarities of deposit-receipts consist in the consideration of how far endorsation of the deposit-receipt is equivalent to the money alleged to be donated.
ref: 1908, The Scottish Law Reporter, volume 45:
text: Endorsation of the policy followed is a matter to be determined by the Executive
ref: 1952, Journals of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada, volume 94:
glosses: An endorsement.
endorsations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endorsation
indorsation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indorsations
form: endorsation
Etymology: From indorse + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: That na indorſation ſall haue faith, nor be admitted, bot they that ar ſigned with the ſaids ſignettes.
ref: 1540, Parliament of Scotland (James V), The indorſation of letters ſuld be ſtamped (from The Laws And Acts Of Parliament Made by King James the First, and his Royal Successors, Kings and Queens Of Scotland, 1682)
text: The indorser remits it to his correspondent, with an indorsation or transference of property.
ref: 1766, William Gordon, The General Counting-house, and Man of Business:
text: Should we say indorsement or indorsation? In England, we always use the word indorsement. In Scotland, the term more generally used is indorsation.
ref: 1849, James William Gilbart, A Practical Treatise on Banking, 5th edition:
text: As regards the indorser, the effect of a full indorsation is precisely the same as of a blank indorsation.
ref: 1862, Alexander Montgomerie Bell, Lectures on Conveyancing, volume 1:
text: 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. 2, Letter to Charles Baxter
You succeeded Mr. Macbrair's firm; the Durrisdeers are extinct; and last year, in an old green box, you found these papers with Macbrair's indorsation.
text: There is, however, much confusion among these authorities; the English are still unable to agree as to which American spellings they will adopt and which they will keep under the ban for a while longer...Both have abandoned enquire for inquire, but they remain faithful to encumbrance, endorse and enclose, though they list indorsation and the Oxford also gives indorsee.
ref: [1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 33, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: An endorsement.
indorsations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indorsation
frickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: frickles
Etymology: Blend of fried + pickle
Senses: examples: text: Frickles (fried pickles) are inspired and served with a blue cheese dipping sauce (see page 20).
ref: 2013, Lisa Faulkner, The Way I Cook..., page 41:
text: Raise your hand if you love fried pickies (both my hands are raised). There is no stopping my love for pickle-anything, but frickles take it to a whole new level.
ref: 2020, Rachel Mansfield, Just the Good Stuff, page 116:
text: Using the deep-fryer's wire basket, a slotted spoon, or a spider, remove the frickles to paper towels to absorb extra oil or drain on a wire rack.
ref: 2013, Josh Lebowitz, Eva Pesantez, Sean Evans, Brother Jimmy's BBQ:
glosses: A fried pickle.
frickle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɪkəl
Senses: examples: text: "Frickle frackle,” she said, stomping out.
ref: 2008, Sarah Thyre, Dark at the Roots: A Memoir:
text: I know that they loved me and all that frickle-feely stuff, surely wanted the best but I didn't care too much for love—at least not now.
ref: 2013, Charles Raymond, Inspiration:
text: Finally, I though of something with survival value: I need to get the frickle out of here before anyone sees this tattoo!
ref: 2016, Adam Bradley, Matt Leyshon, Stuart Hughes, Morpheus Tales, page 146:
glosses: a minced oath
frickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: frickles
Senses: examples: text: After all, creative positioning during the venereal act (“frickle-frackle!”) can cause fungal growth, cancer, and death.
ref: 2016, Therese Oneill, Unmentionable:
text: "A frickle is for a boy and a frackle is for a girl,” Belle explains with a shrug, like it's the most normal thing in the world.
ref: 2018, Tara Sivec, At the Stroke of Midnight:
text: But looking at the above, we can start to understand why when we say "virgin," we mean virgin in the sense that we know virgin today—that she didn't do the old frickle-frackle with Joseph.
ref: 2020, Scott Douglas, Bethlehem, the Year Jesus Was Born:
glosses: A penis.
frickle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: more frickle
form: most frickle
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”).
Senses: examples: text: Vpon this fain and frickle foundation of two false and contrary opinions was that leage of Smalcaldium stroken: whereof ensued that lamentable and cruell warre, to the greate waste and destruction of Germany, with the murder of infinit thousands of men.
ref: 1565, English Recusant Literature:
text: it is extremely frickle in the limestone formation;
ref: 1888 March 3, “The New Emma Silver Mining Company”, in Mining Journal, Railway & Commercial Gazette, volume 58, page 234:
text: The land which is kept loose and frickle offers opportunity for the plants to grow — then it prevents evaporation and the moisture is stored up for the plants use when the dry season comes.
ref: 1894, Proceedings of the New York State Agricultural Society, page 551:
glosses: Not solid or firm; loose; friable.
examples: text: Yvette Guilbert, a greater favourite than ever with the generally frickle and changeable Parisians, has been singing for three nights at Lyons, where she received 1000 francs an evening—that is, ₤40.
ref: 1893 September 20, “Last Week's Paris”, in The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 3, number 34, page 430:
text: And thither Jeanne set out, in March 1557, accompanied by the frickle, wayward, sinning Antoine and the boy who was his living image.
ref: 1911, P. F. William Ryan, Queen Jeanne of Navarre, page 57:
text: And now most of our warriors have forgotten us, and the frickle nation bellows: 'Long live King Absalom!'
ref: 1935, Saul Saphire, Lew Earl Winburg, A Tale of Two Kings, page 330:
text: Is the hon. Member also aware that Opposition Members are frickle minded, even though they are not here
ref: 1969, Parliamentary Debates of the National Assembly (Hansard)., page 128:
text: It is perhaps the perfect paradox of contemporary liquid life: all the trends in today’s work-life quite clearly suggest a rapid destabilization of social bonds corresponding with increasingly disempowering effects of a frickle and uncertain global high-tech information economy, yet those workers caught in the epicenter of this bewildering shift express a sense of mastery over their lives, interpreting their professional identity in this context in terms of indvidual-level control and empowering agency (du Gay, 1996; Storey et al, 2005).
ref: 2006, M Deuze, Liquid Life, Convergence Culture and Media Work:
text: It's only because our mind is frickle and so they easily bounce back at times.
ref: 2022, Vikas Soni, The Black Heart:
text: The making of friends by that man is not certain, who is of an unsteady mind, or who does not serve old men, or who is not constant in his opinions, or who is of a frickle disposition.
ref: 2022, Kausiki Books, Mahabharata Udyoga Parva Part 1 in English:
glosses: Changeable; undependable; fickle.
frickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: frickles
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”).
Senses: examples: text: at the frickle of apprehension ( real or imaginary ) on any issue.
ref: 1988, The OtherSide - Issues 72-83, page 23:
text: As I slowly open my eyes, I get that somefeeli's-watching-me frickle.
ref: 2018, Fin J Ross, A.K.A. Fudgepuddle:
glosses: A prickling, shivery sensation; frisson.
frickle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: frickles
form: frickling
form: frickled
form: frickled
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”).
Senses: examples: text: In his own Yorkshire words, they made him 'reet frickled', and any senior officers who came to inspect us never got their messages correctly delivered if poor Thompson was on duty.
ref: 1988, Olga Pyne Clarke, A Horse in My Kit Bag, page 49:
text: Linda, at the Deli in Anchorage and the Cup in Tucson, has had spirited run-ins with cooks who did not attack their work with the same ferocity she did. Just last Sunday, a Cup cook "freaked" and got "real frickled” when she put up tickets faster than he liked.
ref: 2004, Alison Owings, Hey, Waitress!: The USA from the Other Side of the Tray, page 181:
text: Sometimes the noise changed pitch and made my scales frickle, sounding like the moan of a doomed wooden ship when it runs aground.
ref: 2011, David Brin, Infinity's Shore:
text: Meagre flees can't frickle this mad villany
ref: 2021, Shubham Srivastava, Retribution: Collection of Rage Poetry:
glosses: To upset or discombobulate.
examples: text: The ball took a lucky bounce for JSU and frickled away from the goal before a Panther player could capitalize on the rebound, and the game remained scoreless.
ref: 2006 September 21, Chris Lundy, “Gamecocks Dominate in Home Opener”, in Chanticleer, volume 55, number 4:
text: I got the porridge going – in the right saucepan mind, while Johnny frickled round my feet and the constant threat of Felix climbing out of his basket, desperate to copy.
ref: 2022, Beatrice Parvin, Captain Swing and the Blacksmith:
text: Mood became frickled from sudden smile to very rude.
ref: 2022, Deblina Bhattacharya, Mindscape, page 95:
glosses: To move, act, or change randomly.
examples: text: I was roused from my abstraction, and lo and behold! my stockings were all frickled with blood, and God knows how many lives I had to answer for.
ref: 1833, John Galt, The Autobiography of John Galt - Volume 1, page 153:
text: Striped like a zebra, frickled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd;
ref: 1921, La Rassegna nazionale, page 39:
text: Blood frickled from the holes.
ref: 2002, James E. Frazier, Transformation of a Common Man, page 205:
glosses: To speckle.
bridge loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridge loans
form: bridging loan
Senses: examples: text: The merger, however, depends upon Icahn's ability to provide a bridge loan to help Pan Am cover losses during the low-traffic season.
ref: 1990 December 31, “Airlines: Flocking Together”, in Time:
text: "It's not our fault that the economy is in the tank," he said. "What we need is a low interest bridge loan to get us through the difficult time."
ref: 2008 November 20, Poornima Gupta, Nick Care, “UAW chief: inaction not an option on U.S. auto bailout”, in forbes.com, retrieved 25 Oct 2011:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A sum of money loaned or borrowed for a short period of time in order to cover expenses until new expected funds become available.
Synonyms: caveat loan
swing loan
gablet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪb.lət/
Forms: form: gablets
Etymology: From gable + -let or gable + -et.
Senses: examples: text: The Pinnacles are numerous, and very fine. They are in general square, and not on diagonally; the sides are frequently panelled, and terminate in crocketed canopies, or gablets, from which rises the spire, which is also crocketed at the angles, and terminates in a finial.
ref: 1865, John Cassell, Cassell's Illustrated History of England, volume I, chapter 68:
text: Almost opposite Clarence House, and immediately adjoining the Swan Hotel, is a lofty and somewhat narrow structure of four storeys, whose twin gablets overhang and overbend the street in quite a serious manner.
ref: 1914, Francis B. Andrews, “The Old Houses of Tewkesbury”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the Birmingham Archaeological Society, volume 40, page 24:
topics: architecture
glosses: A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
Derived terms: gablet roof
gabel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪbəl/
Forms: form: gabels
Etymology: From French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (“tribute”).
Senses: examples: text: He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
Derived terms: gabeler
coregency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coregencies
Etymology: From co- + regency.
Senses: glosses: A monarchical position (such as king, queen, emperor or empress) held by two persons when normally held by only one.
Synonyms: co-principality
Related terms: coregent
bridging loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridging loans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bridge loan.
caveat loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caveat loans
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bridge loan.
synonyms: word: bridge loan
swing loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swing loans
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bridge loan.
synonyms: word: bridge loan
labes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Labia.
Oracle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A database management system (and its associated software) developed by the Oracle Corporation
labis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A spoon used in the Eucharist.
lodicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lodiculae
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of lodicule.
lodiculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lodicula
quack grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quackgrass.
quack-grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quackgrass.
water boiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water boilers
form: waterboiler
Senses: synonyms: geyser
glosses: An electric device which heats water up to boiling temperature.
waterboiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterboilers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of water boiler.
diamond carry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diamond + carry. The four people doing the carrying resemble the four points of a diamond shape.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: first aid
glosses: A very stable method of carrying a spine board with one carrier at the head end, one at the foot end and one at each side.
diamond carries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamond carry
firefighter's carry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firefighter's carries
Senses: examples: text: Firefighter's carry
ref: 2010, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Emergency care and transport of the sick and injured, Chapter 35, Section 9, Page 1302
glosses: Synonym of fireman's carry.
synonyms: word: fireman's carry
oral glucose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A medication high in glucose often given in a gel form to treat patients experiencing a diabetic crisis.
B-NICE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of biological, nuclear / radiological, incendiary, chemical, and explosive agents, used to remember the types of hazmat emergencies.
Synonyms: CBRN
affinitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affinitive
form: most affinitive
Etymology: From affinity + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Subjects were selected on the basis of 'affinitive' relationships, a notion which is defeined by Maisonneuve (1966; Maisonneuve & Lamy, 1993) as reciprocal choices associated with shared emotional satisfaction.
ref: 2005, Eric Grillo, Power Without Domination, page 181:
text: They also speak of the sun's forces roking on the earth's affinitive forces.
ref: 2011, Jack Churchward ·, Lifting the Veil on the Lost Continent of Mu:
glosses: Closely connected, as by affinity.
examples: text: The presence in the blood and fluids of the body of the dominant toxin, for which strophanthin is chemically affinitive, debilitiates the contractile force of muscle, and more especially unstriped muscle fibre.
ref: 1907, James Burke, “Strophanthin”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 98, page 604:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Tending to bond with.
Related terms: affinitative
amygdalaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin amygdala (“almond tree”) + -aceous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Akin to, or derived from, the almond.
bearhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearhounds
Etymology: From bear + hound.
Senses: examples: text: "For his amusement John the Terrible used to order a number of people to be sewed up in bear-skins, and then torn to death by bear-hounds. For tearing prisoners to pieces he ordered the tops of several trees to be bent down so that they came together; the limbs of the unfortunate victim were fastened to these tops, each limb to a different tree. When they were thus tied up, the release of the trees performed the work intended by the cruel Czar."
ref: 1887, Thomas Wallace Knox, The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire, Chapter 11:
ref: 1918, Melville Davisson Post, Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries, Chapter 5text=There seemed no overt reason, old Clayborne said, but presently Dabney began to act like a man in fear. He made friends with the dog, a big old bearhound. He got a fowling piece and set it up by the head of his bed, and finally took the dog into the room with him at night. He kept out of the house by day.:
glosses: A dog used for bearbaiting or bear hunting.
bearhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearhound
bergomask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bergomasks
form: bergamask
form: bergamesca
form: bergamasca
Etymology: So called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, Italy, formerly noted for their clownishness.
Senses: examples: text: Will it please you to see the epilogue, or to hear a bergomask dance between two of our company?
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (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: A kind of rustic dance.
wikipedia: Bergamo
bergomasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bergomask
chamberlainship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamberlainships
Etymology: From chamberlain + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or post of chamberlain.
chamberlainships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chamberlainship
defensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin defensorius.
Senses: examples: defensory preparations
glosses: Tending to defend; defensive.
defensory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defensories
Etymology: From Latin defensorius.
Senses: glosses: That which defends.
degenerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈdʒɛnəɹəs/
Forms: form: more degenerous
form: most degenerous
Etymology: From Latin degener, + -ous. See degenerate.
Senses: examples: text: degenerous passions
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Twelfth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: degenerous practices
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: Degenerate; base.
Derived terms: degenerously
diagnosticated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diagnosticate
diagnosticating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diagnosticate
diamantiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more diamantiferous
form: most diamantiferous
Etymology: From French diamant (“diamond”) + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Yielding diamonds.
Synonyms: diamondiferous
effascination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effascinations
Etymology: Latin effascinatio.
Senses: examples: text: If in myne eies there be effaſcination, / How comes it there is no ſuch alteration / In others I behold?
ref: 1637, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Procvs & Pvella”, in Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. […], London: […] R. O[ulton] for R. H[earne], and are to be sold by Thomas Slater […], →OCLC, page 23:
text: But what will not madneſs and effaſcination make a man phanſie to uphold his own Prejudices?
ref: 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC, book I, page 354:
glosses: A charm; bewitchment or delusion.
effascinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effascination
enwrapment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enwrapments
Etymology: From enwrap + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of enwrapping; wrapping.
examples: text: They wreathed together a foliature of the fig-tree, and made themselves enwrapments
ref: 1728, Samuel Shuckford, The Sacred and Profane History of the World:
glosses: A wrapper or envelope.
enwrapments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enwrapment
exchequership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exchequer + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or post of exchequer.
feudalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feudality
feudality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feudalities
Etymology: Compare French féodalité.
Senses: examples: text: This species of feudality is kept up to aggrandize the corporations at the ruin of the towns ; and the effect is visible
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
fireboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireboards
Etymology: From fire + board.
Senses: examples: text: I then glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table, could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: 1915, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Emancipation
A stovepipe had been fitted into an iron fireboard covering the great fireplace
text: The wind whopped and spat into the chimney; and now and then a puff of wood-smoke blew out and mounted up along the blackened fireboard.
ref: 1918, Melville Davisson Post, “chapter 2”, in Uncle Abner:
synonyms: chimney board
hearthboard
glosses: A board or screen placed over a fireplace when it is not in use.
glosses: A fireplace's mantel.
glosses: A piece of wood into which a fire drill is spun to create friction.
fireboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fireboard
forenotice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forenotices
Etymology: From fore- + notice.
Senses: examples: text: So strange a revolution never happens in poetry, but either heaven or earth give some forenotice of it.
ref: 1678, Thomas Rymer, The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd:
glosses: Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning.
forenotices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forenotice
havenage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haven + -age.
Senses: synonyms: portage
glosses: Dues paid for using a harbour or port.
hexapetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + petalous. Compare French hexapétale.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having six petals.
Hypernyms: polypetalous
horsenail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsenails
Etymology: From Middle English hors nayl'; equivalent to horse + nail.
Senses: glosses: A kind of nail, for fixing a horseshoe to the hoof; a horseshoe nail.
horsenails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsenail
hoveringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hovering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While hovering; so as to hover or appear to do so.
hypothecator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothecators
Etymology: From hypothecate + -or.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
Related terms: hypothecation
hypothecators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypothecator
impassionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impassionable
form: most impassionable
Etymology: From impassion + -able.
Senses: glosses: Excitable or sensitive or susceptible to strong emotion.
inburnt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inburnt
form: most inburnt
Etymology: From in + burnt.
Senses: examples: text: We have gone into the modern world with an inburnt knowledge of human limitations and with a sense of mystery which could not have developed in our first state of innocence
ref: 1969, Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose:
glosses: innate or hard-wired
inexcitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + excitability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being inexcitable.
intensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intensations
Etymology: From intense + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: And who will warrant us that, at the same time, he shall only be an intensation and continuation of the old, which in general, is what we long and look for?
ref: 1828, Thomas Carlyle, “Goethe”, in Foreign Review:
glosses: The act or process of intensifying; intensification.
intensations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intensation
intertubular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + tubular.
Senses: examples: text: intertubular cells
text: intertubular plexus
text: intertubular substance
text: intertubular space
glosses: Between tubes or tubules.
Jacobinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪ.nɪ.zəm/
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪ.nɪ.zm̩]
Forms: form: Jacobinisms
Etymology: From Jacobin + -ism, compare French jacobinisme.
Senses: examples: text: Under this new stimulus, Burns’s previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism.
ref: 1879, John Campbell Shairp, chapter 6, in Robert Burns, London: Macmillan, page 143:
glosses: The principles of the Jacobins; violent opposition to legitimate government.
Related terms: Jacobinical
jacobinize
Jacobinisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jacobinism
Jesuitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jesuitisms
Etymology: Compare French jésuitisme.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The principles and practices of the Jesuits.
glosses: Cunning; deceit; subtle argument.
Jesuitisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jesuitism
joculators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joculator
justicement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From justice + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice.
kathetometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kathetometers
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cathetometer.
kathetometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kathetometer
khaliff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khaliffs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of caliph.
khaliffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khaliff
knickknackatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knickknackatories
form: nick-nackatory
Senses: examples: text: But as I knovv he has judgment in nick-knackatories, and even as much as I wiſh him in what is called taſte, I intend to compliment him with leaving all to him, and reſolve to be ſatisfied with vvhatever he does.
ref: 1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXX. Lady G. In Continuation.”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], volume IV, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 194:
text: A great glass-fronted cabinet, reaching almost the ceiling, stored his knickknackatory, the objects of interest collected on his travels.
ref: 2014, Robert J. Lloyd, The Bloddless Boy:
glosses: A collection of knick-knacks.
longipennate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longipennate
form: most longipennate
Etymology: From Latin longus (“long”) + pennate, from penna (“a wing”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of longipinnate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having long wings or quills
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having long wings or quills
Having wings that, when folded, extend past the end of the tail.
metantimonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metantimonates
Etymology: From metantimonic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of metantimonic acid.
metantimonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metantimonate
mishappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mishappy
form: most mishappy
Etymology: From Middle English myshappy, equivalent to mis- + happy.
Senses: examples: text: I go home bewildered unt mishappy, to find that Herr Gabert has stole the score of mine opera unt run avay mit mine vife.
ref: 1911, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's nieces and Uncle John:
text: And my statement was if that is the fact I will wait until you are mishappy or unhappy with their services, and I am always available, and thanked them for the opportunity for giving that time to discuss the matter.
ref: 1963, United States Congress, Senate Hearings:
text: Two chairs are superimposed in such a way that they truly appear obscene, and immediately a couple will imitate the same position on them. These trivia become "mishappy," silly instruments; we have to see them in their awkward shapes and their usual application is lost.
ref: 1998, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art:
text: And the same saith Innocent in one of his books; he saith that sorrowful and mishappy is the condition of a poor beggar, for if he asks not his meat he dieth of hunger, and if he ask he dieth for shame; and dire necessity constraineth him to ask; […]
ref: 2009, Henry Cabot Lodge, editor, The Best of the World's Classics:
glosses: Unfortunate; unhappy.
Derived terms: mishappily
mishappiness
monochromies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monochromy
monochromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monochromies
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The art of painting or drawing in monochrome (shades of the same color).
nosesmart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nose + smart (verb). Calque of Latin nasturtium.
Senses: glosses: Watercress.
ozonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ozonations
Etymology: From ozone + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The act of treating with ozone.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The act of converting into, or producing, ozone.
Coordinate terms: ozonization
Related terms: -ation
-ion
ozonatant
ozonate
ozonator
ozone
ozonations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ozonation
protuberous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protuberous
form: most protuberous
Senses: glosses: protuberant
reciprocalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reciprocal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being reciprocal.
refundee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refundees
Etymology: From refund + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who receives a refund.
refundees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refundee
refunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refunders
Etymology: From refund + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who refunds.
refunders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refunder
relapser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relapsers
Etymology: From relapse + -er.
Senses: examples: text: those speculative relapsers, that have, out of policy, or guiltiness, abandoned a known and received truth
ref: 1626, Joseph Hall, Saint Paul's Combat:
glosses: One who relapses.
relapsers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relapser
rickstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rickstands
Etymology: From rick + stand.
Senses: glosses: A flooring or framework on which a hayrick is made.
rickstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rickstand
rotundifolious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rotundifolious
form: most rotundifolious
Etymology: From Latin rotundus (“round”) + folium (“a leaf”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having round leaves.
Synonyms: rotundifoliate
sequestrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sequestrable
form: most sequestrable
Etymology: From sequester + -able.
Senses: examples: text: sequestrable amount
text: sequestrable balance
glosses: Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.
starchedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From starched + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: the starchedness of linen
glosses: The quality or state of being starched
glosses: stiffness in manners; formality.
toilful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɔɪlfəl/
Forms: form: more toilful
form: most toilful
Etymology: From toil + -ful.
Senses: examples: 1751, William Julius Mickle, "Liberty", an elegy to Frederick, Prince of Wales
The fruitful lawns confess his toilful care
glosses: Producing or involving much toil; laborious.
Derived terms: toilfully
toilfulness
upwreath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upwreaths
form: upwreathing
form: upwreathed
form: upwreathed
form: upwreathe
Etymology: From up- + wreath.
Senses: examples: text: 1822, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Apologia pro Vita Sua” in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.), The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912, p. 345,
In unctuous cones of kindling coal,
Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe’s trim bole,
His [the poet’s] gifted ken can see
Phantoms of sublimity.
text: And around it columns of smoke, upwreathing,
Rose from the boiling, bubbling, seething
Caldron, that glowed,
And overflowed
With the black tar, heated for the sheathing.
ref: 1850, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Building of the Ship”, in The Seaside and the Fireside, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 18:
text: Ambrosial banquet for Olympus fit,
Whose savours with the sweetest incense breathed
Of youth, and hope, and energy, and wit,
And thoughts of love that with these fumes upwreathed.
ref: 1911, Arthur Lynch, Prince Azreel: A Poem with Prose Notes, London: Stephen Swift, page 41:
text: And a little off to the left, at about a mile’s distance, lay a large rubbish and garbage dump, from which coils of black and yellow smoke upwreathed into the peaceful Sunday morning air.
ref: 1979, Julian Moynahan, chapter 3, in Where the Land and Water Meet, New York: William Morrow, page 54:
glosses: To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does.
examples: text: 1830, Reginald Heber, “Morte d'Arthur: A Fragment,” Canto 2, stanza 14, in The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber, London: Frederick Warne, no date, p. 210,
[…] coiled around his crest, a dragon long
Upwreathed its golden spires the wavy plumes among.
text: By thy upwreathed locks that scent the wind,
O! hear my prayer, and aid; for Myrrha is unkind!
ref: 1861, Joseph Noel Paton, “Hymn to Aphrodite”, in Poems by a Painter, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 133:
glosses: To twist or entwine (something) upward.
examples: text: And your fair vestals, watchful, swing
Sweet incense for their welcoming,
The while our thuribles shall be
Upwreathing odorous thoughts to thee;
ref: 1911, C. G. Blanden, “Redwood”, in The Upper Trail, Chicago: The Alderbrink Press, page 200:
glosses: To send (something) upward in curls.
upwreathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upwreath
glosses: simple past and past participle of upwreathe
upwreathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upwreath
glosses: present participle and gerund of upwreathe
upwreaths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upwreath
uranoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From urano- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: Observation of the heavens or heavenly bodies; astronomy.
vaticinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /vəˈtɪsɪnəl/
Forms: form: more vaticinal
form: most vaticinal
Etymology: See vaticinate.
Senses: examples: text: He has left vaticinal rhymes, in which he predicted the union of Scotland with England, about the year 1279
ref: 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
glosses: Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.
vauty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: the haughty vauty welkin
ref: 1611, John Taylor, A Preamble:
glosses: vaulted
wontless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wontless
form: most wontless
Etymology: From wont + -less.
Senses: examples: text: What wontlesse fury dost thou now inspire
Into my feeble breast
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie:
glosses: unaccustomed
woodhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodholes
Etymology: From wood + hole.
Senses: glosses: A place where wood is stored, e.g. a woodshed.
woodholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodhole
wretchful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wretchful
form: most wretchful
Etymology: From Middle English wreccheful; equivalent to wretch + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The wretch had the pernicious habit of writing in Milanese dialect. He was doubly wretchful when he took the liberty of giving birth to parodies of the Divine Comedy.
ref: 2012, Rudolph Altrocchi, PhD; Edited by Paul and John Altrocchi, The Playful Spirit: Italian Humor - Page 130
qualifier: previously archaic or obsolete; now apparently used and back in fashion; previously archaic or obsolete; now apparently used and back in fashion
glosses: Wretched.
adorement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adore + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: literal and downright adorement of cats, lizards, and beetles
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of adoring; adoration.
flammiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more flammiferous
form: most flammiferous
Etymology: From Latin flammifer, from flamma (“flame”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare Italian fiammifero.
Senses: glosses: Producing flame; blazing.