cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
loop invariant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loop invariants
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: an invariant that should be true on entry into a loop and is guaranteed to remain true on every iteration of the loop
gun fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌŋ ˈfuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: gun-fu
form: gunfu
Etymology: Blend of gun + kung fu.
Senses: examples: text: The Rev. Hugh Dalton runs a different kind of drive-in, one with no kung fu, bimbo fu, gun fu or any kind of violence. His establishment: The Gospel Film Drive-In.
ref: 1985 July 2, Mike Pesarchick, “Clean Fun”, in Orlando Sentinel, page A.12:
text: The gun-fu employed by the daintily fanged Jovovich seems like a development of the equally silly martial arts practised by Christian Bale in Wimmer's last dystopian action picture, Equilibrium (2002), but the director's vision has devolved from cod Orwell to riffing off bad girl art comic books and generally feeble posing.
ref: 2006 July, Kim Newman, “Ultraviolet”, in Sight and Sound, volume 16, page 78:
glosses: A style of sophisticated gunplay at close quarters, originating in Hong Kong action films.
Derived terms: word: gun-fu
english: a fictional martial arts resembling this type of gunplay
translation: a fictional martial arts resembling this type of gunplay
word: gun kata
gun fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌŋ ˈfuː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From Chinese 功夫 (gōngfu) through phonetic spelling.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kung fu.
drollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of droller
jesteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: jest + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jest
jestest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: jest + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of jest
indiscernibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indiscernible
electrotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electrotype
electrotransfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrotransfer
tabernariae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: All his plays bear Latin titles and their plots prove them to have been tabernariae. The fragments show a broad and popular tone, a bold, lively and fresh manner reminding one of Plautus, […]
ref: 1900, Wilhelm Sigmund Teuffel, Ludwig von Schwabe, Teuffel's History of Roman Literature, volume 1, page 167:
text: These Atellane plays were not praetextatae, i.e. comedies in which magistrates and persons of rank were introduced, nor tabernariae, the characters in which were taken from low life; they rather seem to have been a union of high comedy and its parody.
ref: 2022, William Smith, A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
glosses: Ancient Roman comedies dealing with the life of the lower classes.
cleverishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cleverish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being cleverish.
clevernesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleverness
admittingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From admitting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This with a small fraction of sulphur, which is of no materiality, is the combination made use of by the defendant, who thus admittingly infringe, if the patent is valid.
ref: 1912, The Metal Industry, volume 4, numbers 1-3:
glosses: By one's own admission; admittedly.
earneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: earn + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of earn
loadeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: load + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of load
whippeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: whip + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whip
spiritlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spiritlessly
form: most spiritlessly
Etymology: From spiritless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spiritless manner.
rootballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rootball
gaddeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: gad + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gad
gaddest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: gad + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of gad
bitterwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitterwoods
Etymology: From bitter + wood.
Senses: glosses: quassia (Quassia amara)
glosses: Jamaica quassia Picrasma excelsa, native to the Caribbean
glosses: paradise tree Simarouba glauca, native to Florida, the Caribbean and Central America
Synonyms: sense: Quassia amara
word: quassia wood
sense: Quassia amara
word: Surinam quassia
sense: Picrasma excelsa
word: bitter ash
sense: Picrasma excelsa
word: Jamaica quassiawood
bitterwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitterwood
waygoose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waygooses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wayzgoose.
lophine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?], referring to the long white crystalline tufts in which it is obtained.
Senses: examples: text: If we regard lophine as an ammono compound then the conversion of formula III into formula II is an example of the Cannizzaro reaction […]
ref: 1927, Harold Henry Strain, Ammono Aldehydes and Ketones, page 62:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde.
depredatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more depredatory
form: most depredatory
Senses: examples: a depredatory incursion
glosses: Tending or designed to depredate.
glosses: predatory
intermetatarsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + metatarsal.
Senses: examples: text: intermetatarsal angle
text: intermetatarsal ligament
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the metatarsal bones.
preaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹiˈækʃən/
Forms: form: preactions
Etymology: From pre- + action.
Senses: examples: text: Now, if an iron be touched before, it varieth not in this manner; for then it admits not this magnetical impression, as being already informed by the loadstone, and polarily determined by its preaction.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: previous action
preactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preaction
alveated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alveated
form: most alveated
form: alveate
Etymology: From Latin alveātus (“hollowed out”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: alveated portia
text: alveated stroma
text: alveated gland
glosses: Formed or vaulted like a beehive.
chondrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chondrigen.
horse-drench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse-drenches
Senses: examples: text: The most soueraigne Prescription in Galen, is but Emperickqutique; and to this Preseruatiue, of no better report
then a Horse-drench.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, 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 dose of medicine for a horse.
glosses: The appliance by which the dose is administered.
horse-drenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse-drench
improlific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more improlific
form: most improlific
Etymology: From im- + prolific.
Senses: examples: text: […]though he had so strong a brain and body, yet he lived and died childless, inter-commoning therein with many Worthies, who are, according to Elius Spartianus, either improlific, or have children in genitorum vituperium et famarum Icesuram.
ref: 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England:
glosses: not prolific
vegetality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vegetal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being vegetal.
backband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backbands
Etymology: From back + band.
Senses: examples: text: The first "Troy" coach put on the road came in 1829. It was a great novelty, but some hundreds of them were soon throwing the dust of Maryland and Pennsylvania into the air. Their cost then was between four and six hundred dollars. The harness used on the road was of giant proportions. The backbands were often fifteen inches wide, and the hip bands, ten. The traces were chains with short thick links and very heavy.
ref: 1904, Archer Butler Hulbert, “Volume 10, Chapter 4, STAGECOACHES AND FREIGHTERS”, in Historic Highways of America/Volume 10/Chapter 4:
glosses: A strap that passes over the back of a horse, used to hold up the shafts of a carriage.
backbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backband
idolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more idolous
form: most idolous
Etymology: From idol + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: O idolous shepherd ! saith Zachary ; thou seekest not to heal the wounded , but to eat the flesh of the fat
ref: a. 1563, John Bale, The Examinations of Lord Cobham, William Thorpe and Anne Askewe, &c:
glosses: idolatrous
sibilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sibilous
form: most sibilous
Etymology: Latin sibilus.
Senses: examples: text: a sibilous rattle
text: In the height of summer it [the grasshopper warbler] chirps the whole night: its sibilous note is observed to cease about the latter end of Jul
ref: 1812, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology:
glosses: Having a hissing sound; sibilant.
annumeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin annumeratio.
Senses: examples: text: they do not only replenish the world with a new annumeration of others, but also maintain the former account in themselves
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: addition to a former number
omnispective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + Latin spectus, past participle of specere, spicere (“to view”).
Senses: examples: text: Thee, great omniscient omnispective Power!
Thee first and last , —thee only I adore!
ref: a. 1749, Samuel Boyse, The Only Wish:
glosses: Beholding everything; all-seeing.
flavol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin flavus (“yellow”) + -ol.
Senses: examples: text: The phenol character, both of flavol and of anthrolsulphonic acid, is shown by the fact that with diazo compounds they yield azo colouring matters.
ref: 1882 October 29, J. J. H.·, “On Dioxyanthraquinone from a-Anthraquinondi-sulphonic Acid”, in Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, volume 1, page 401:
text: Of the many Derivatives of Anthracene, the following may be mentioned: […] (three isomerides: chrysazol, rufol, and flavol); anthracenesulphonic and disulphonic acids; […]
ref: 1913, Ettore Molinari, Treatise on general and industrial organic chemistry, page 616:
text: In fact, flavanoids include flavonoe and flavol, which are yellow and anthocyanines are may be red, blue, or purple, depending on pH Saffron flower is divided into three main parts; namely, stigma, petal and anther.
ref: 2021, Rabia Wani, Splendid Kashmir:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flavonoid obtained from anthraquinone.
ripplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripplets
Etymology: From ripple + -et? ripple + -let?
Senses: glosses: A small ripple.
ripplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripplet
biofluidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + fluidic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to biofluid
Related terms: biofluidics
flunkydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flunky + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Can you deny that you've been off and on lately between flunkydom and The Cause, like a donkey between two bottles of hay?
ref: 1850, [Charles Kingsley], Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being a flunkey.
vauntmure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vauntmures
form: vaimure
form: vamure
Etymology: From French avant-mur. See vanguard and mure.
Senses: examples: text: another Engine , named the Warwolf , pierced with one stone , and cut as even as a thread two vauntmures, as he did before at the siege of Brehin
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: A false wall raised in front of the main wall as a fortification.
vauntmures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vauntmure
glossopharyngeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glossopharyngeal
crantara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crantaras
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic crann-tara.
Senses: glosses: A fiery cross used as a rallying cry in the Scottish Highlands.
annuloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Annuloida, an obsolete classification of various annelids and similar animals.
depredable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more depredable
form: most depredable
Senses: examples: text: The resistence of both is two-fold , either when the Agents become less Predatory ; or the Patients are made less depredable
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Liable to depredation.
lapidification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapidifications
Etymology: Compare French lapidification.
Senses: examples: text: For anybody, though, not part of it all (which was obviously Ishmail's plight), that world was nothing but a smooth, cyclical continuum, without a fold in it, without any form of articulation, as compact as stucco or staff, as putty or portland; an imbrication of nights without adjoining days, a total lapidification, a flat, hard, constant, monotonous uniformity in which all things, big or small, smooth or lumpish, living or not, form a solitary, global unit.
ref: 1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void:
glosses: The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction, turning to stone
lapidifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lapidification
organical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more organical
form: most organical
Senses: examples: text: the organical structure of human bodies, whereby they are fitted to live and move
ref: 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
glosses: Archaic form of organic.
Derived terms: organicalness
unorganical
carlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːlɒk/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹlɑk/
Etymology: From French carlock, from Russian карлу́к (karlúk).
Senses: glosses: A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon. Among its uses is clarifying wine, restoration, and making gelatin.
reception center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reception centers
form: reception centre
Senses: glosses: Place or institution for temporary accommodation of vagrants, refugees, disaster victims and others.
imbannered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From im- + banner + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The armies of the saints imbannered stood
ref: 1827, Robert Pollok, The Course of Time:
glosses: Having banners.
nationalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From national + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being national.
irreversibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irreversible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being irreversible; irreversibility.
lenslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lenslike
form: most lenslike
Etymology: From lens + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lens.
perichondrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: perichondrial cell
text: perichondrial graft
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the perichondrium; situated around cartilage.
Derived terms: mucoperichondrial
perichondrial hematoma
subperichondrial
vitrella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitrellae
Etymology: Diminutive of Latin vitrum (“glass”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the transparent lens-like cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods.
vitrellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitrella
oricalche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: quocostly oricalche from strange Phœnice
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of orichalchum.
Anglians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anglian
bismuthal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bismuthal
form: most bismuthal
Etymology: From bismuth + -al.
Senses: glosses: Containing bismuth.
weism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From we + -ism.
Senses: glosses: wegotism
nonzodiacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + zodiacal.
Senses: glosses: Not zodiacal.
margarone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: margarones
Etymology: Older than acetone so not technically containing the -one extracted from it. The margar- comes from margaric acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ketone of margaric acid.
margarones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of margarone
lamellary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lamellary
form: most lamellary
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lamellar.
organicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From organical + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: organicness
glosses: The quality or state of being organic
thanehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thane + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: times when England had a King and a People , a Clergy and a Thanehood[…]
ref: 1849, The Theologian:
text: Thanehood (Thegnhood) is the personal following of a great man whether he be the king, the ealdorman or the bishop
ref: 1907, Anthony Guggenberger, A general history of the Christian era:
glosses: The character or rank of a thane.
creeping Charlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: moneywort, Lysimachia nummularia
glosses: ground ivy, Glechoma hederacea
glosses: Swedish ivy (Plectranthus verticillatus), in the mint family, a popular houseplant
glosses: Pilea nummulariifolia, a houseplant in the nettle family
deoxygenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deoxygenizes
form: deoxygenizing
form: deoxygenized
form: deoxygenized
Etymology: From de- + oxygenize.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To deoxidize.
deoxygenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deoxygenize
deoxygenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deoxygenize
deoxygenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deoxygenize
lated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lated
form: most lated
Etymology: From late + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Now spurs the lated traveller apace / To gain the timely inn […]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: I am so lated in the world, that I / Have lost my way for ever:
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene xi]:
text: Come when my lated Sheep, at night return; / And crown the silent Hours, and stop the rosy Morn.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Pastoral. Or, Melibœus.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 33:
text: Long ere the first loud trumpet’s note is heard, / Ne vacant space for lated wight is found: […]
ref: 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza 72:
glosses: Belated; too late; also, overtaken by night; delayed.
moration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin moratio.
Senses: examples: text: we ſhall ballance the ſame with the concernment of it motion, and time of revolution, and ſay he is more powerful in the Northern Hemisphere, and in the Apogeum, for therein his moration is ſlower
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A delay.
Benthamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Benthamic
form: most Benthamic
Etymology: From Bentham + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Benthamic law
text: Benthamic rule
text: Benthamic argument
glosses: Of or pertaining to Jeremy Bentham or Benthamism.
embasement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embasements
Etymology: From embase + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: 1664, Richard Davis, “The Publisher to the Reader” in Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford, 2nd edition,
It is true that now and then, in all Centuries from the Beginning of the World, there have appear’d some Persons of a Nature more refin’d, as if indeed (according to that Phancy of the Old Poets) some Prometheus had made them either of another Metall, or of another Temper, from the Vulgar, utterly above all Mixture with, or Embasement by the common Fashions of this World; who did make it the End of their Lives, by […] multiplying Variety of Experiments on all Bodies, to discover their hidden Vertues, and so to enlarge the Power and Empire of Man.
text: There is dross, alloy, and embasement in all human tempers; and he flieth without wings, who thinks to find ophir or pure metal in any.
ref: 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 43:
text: 1744, Robert South, Posthumous Sermons, Sermon XIX in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, Oxford: Clarendon, 1823, Volume 5, p. 360,
[…] if the very condition of the creature gives it such a shortness, and hollowness, and disproportion to the desires of a rational soul, even in the most innocent and allowed pleasures; what shall we think of the pleasures of sin, which receive a further embasement and diminution from the superaddition of a curse?
glosses: The act of bringing down; lowering or deterioration.
Synonyms: debasement
embasements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embasement
knight marshal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knights marshal
Senses: examples: text: ye must understand, that sir Adrian Poinings, being knight marshall vpon his returne into England, was otherwise emploied
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: An officer in the royal household, responsible for maintaining order in the royal court.
knights marshal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knight marshal
estrich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estriches
form: estridge
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ostrich.
estriches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estrich
rindy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪndi/
rhymes: -aɪndi
Forms: form: more rindy
form: most rindy
Etymology: From rind + -y.
Senses: examples: text: If you graff upon a large Stock that may pinch your Graff, let the inner and woody Part of your Graff bear the Pressure, by being a little thicker than the rindy Part
ref: 1717, Giles Jacob, The Country Gentleman's Vade Mecum:
glosses: Having a rind or skin.
moonwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːnwəːt/
Forms: form: moonworts
Etymology: From moon + wort.
Senses: examples: text: Moonwort is an herb which they say will open locks, and unshoe such horses as tread upon it.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 194:
glosses: A small fern, Botrychium lunaria (lesser moonwort); later, any member of the genus.
glosses: Lunaria annua (greater moonwort); also known as honesty and annual honesty.
moonworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonwort
leucosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leuco- + -sphere.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The inner corona.
rooteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rootery
rootery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːtəɹi/
rhymes: -uːtəɹi
Forms: form: rooteries
Etymology: From root + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A stumpery
historiographership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From historiographer + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Davenant, the last holder of the laureateship, had died two years previously, and Howell, the well known author of the Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, and the late holder of the historiographership, four years before.
ref: 1881, George Saintsbury, “Dryden”, in English Men of Letters:
glosses: The position or office of historiographer.
tripersonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + personal.
Senses: examples: text: one tripersonal Godhead
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: Consisting of three people.
Derived terms: tripersonalism
tripersonality
overliver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈlɪvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: overlivers
Etymology: From overlive + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Hereupon a Peace was concluded, which was publiſhed a little before Chriſtmaſſe, in the Fourteenth yeare of the Kings Raigne, to continue for both the Kings liues, and the ouer-liuer of them, and a yeare after.
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC, page 191:
glosses: A survivor.
overlivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overliver
gliff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
homophone: glyph
Forms: form: gliffs
form: glift
Etymology: Compare Middle English glyffen (“to give a glancing look; to become startled or frightened”).
Senses: glosses: A quick glance.
glosses: An unexpected view of something startling.
glosses: A sudden fright.
examples: text: [W]ill ye come out and speak just a gliff to ane that has mony thanks to gi'e ye?— […] Wad ye but come out a gliff, man, or but say ye're listening?— […]
ref: 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume I (The Black Dwarf), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 207:
glosses: A short moment.
Related terms: word: giffle
gliff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
homophone: glyph
Forms: form: gliffs
form: gliffing
form: gliffed
form: gliffed
form: glift
Etymology: Compare Middle English glyffen (“to give a glancing look; to become startled or frightened”).
Senses: glosses: To glimpse.
gliffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gliff
incomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incomplex
form: most incomplex
Etymology: From in- + complex.
Senses: examples: text: And as the Ear is in Birds the most simple and incomplex of any Animals Ear; so we may from it make an easy and rational Judgment how Hearing is performed […]
ref: 1742, William Derham, Physico-theology; Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation:
text: […] for otherwise, it is unintelligible how any incomplex thing, as they speak, can be the complete or immediate object of belief.
ref: 1831, Isaac Barrow, “Sermon IV. Of Justifying Faith”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow: Sermons on the Apostles' creed:
text: There are two kinds of simple apprehension, incomplex and complex. This appears to us very much like saying, there are two kinds of raspberry tart, raspberry and raspberry and red current tart; simple incomplex being faintly tautologous, and simple complex hopelessly bewildering.
ref: 1853, Ignoratio Elenchi, A Treatise on Logic, Not Exactly on the Basis of Aldrich, page 2:
text: The number which expresses units only is called a whole, a simple, or an incomplex number. That which expresses units and parts of units taken together, is called a fractionary, a compound, or a complex number.
ref: 1861, Bewich Bridge, “On the different kinds of numbers”, in An elementary treatise on algebra, page 125:
text: And from this difference there follow all others which are usually said, such as that the what of the name may be of complex non-beings, by accidental, common, or extraneous characteristics; while the what of the thing is of an incomplex being known properly and essentially.
ref: 2010, Joshua P. Hochschild, The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan's De Nominum Analogia:
text: For Ockham, all acts are either incomplex or complex. Incomplex acts of the intellect are for instance acts of intuitive cognition, that is, of intellectually grasping particular things in their very presence or acts of merely tokening concepts, whereas an act of entertaining a thought that p or an act of judging that p are complex.
ref: 2018, Jenny Pelletier, Magali Roques, editors, The Language of Thought in Late Medieval Philosophy:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Not complex; simple.
Related terms: incomplexity
incomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incomplexes
Etymology: From in- + complex.
Senses: examples: text: The source of Duns's error is to regard virtual knowledge as the property of something simple, so that knowledge of one incomplex can engender knowledge of another incomplex.
ref: 1975, Gordon Leff, William of Ockham: The Metamorphosis of Scholastic Discourse:
text: For a question may concern either incomplexes or complexes. If it concerns incomplexes, one first asks whether some incomplex is—and this is the whether-question—and then what it is—and this is the what-question.
ref: 2012, Gabriele Galluzzo, The Medieval Reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle’s Metaphysics:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An item or thing, as opposed to a relationship between items.
myriologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myriologists
Senses: glosses: A singer or composer of a myriologue.
myriologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myriologist
cherimoyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherimoyers
Etymology: French chérimolier.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cherimoya.
cherimoyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherimoyer
redfin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redfins
Etymology: From red + fin, having a red dorsal fin, especially males in the breeding season.
Senses: synonyms: roughhead
glosses: A common shiner, a small North American dace of species Luxilus cornutus.
glosses: A redfin shiner (Lythrurus umbratilis), of the central US.
synonyms: redhorse
glosses: Any of certain species of genus Moxostoma of large suckers of North America, the males having red tail fins during mating season.
Synonyms: shiner
Derived terms: alt: Pseudaspius hakonensis
word: big-scaled redfin
taxonomic: Pseudobarbus afer
word: Eastern Cape redfin
taxonomic: Pseudobarbus phlegethon
word: fiery redfin
taxonomic: Pseudobarbus skeltoni
word: giant redfin
taxonomic: Pseudobarbus quathlambae
word: Maluti redfin
taxonomic: Chanodichthys mongolicus
word: Mongolian redfin
alt: Pseudaspius brandtii
word: Pacific redfin
taxonomic: Gobiomorphus huttoni
word: redfin bully
taxonomic: Perca fluviatilis
word: redfin perch
taxonomic: Esox americanus americanus
word: redfin pickerel
alt: Brachyalestes affinis
word: redfin robber
word: redfin shark
alt: Lythrurus umbratilis
word: redfin shiner
taxonomic: Scolecenchelys laticaudata
word: redfin worm-eel
taxonomic: Pseudobarbus asper
word: smallscale redfin
taxonomic: Pseudobarbus verloreni
word: Verlorenvlei redfin
redfins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redfin
cetene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin cētus (“whale”) + -ene
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oily hydrocarbon of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.
lightwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightwood
mouse-ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊsɪə/
Forms: form: mouse-ears
Etymology: From Middle English mousere, musere, equivalent to mouse + ear, in reference to the shape of the leaves.
Senses: examples: text: Mouse-ear is a low herb creeping upon the ground by small strings like the Strawberry plant, whereby it shoots forth small roots […]
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 195:
glosses: A type of small hawkweed native to Eurasia (mouse-ear hawkweed, Pilosella officinarum), commonly found on dry grasslands.
glosses: A plant of the genus Cerastium (mouse-ear chickweed).
glosses: A forget-me-not (genus Myosotis).
Derived terms: Arctic mouse-ear
Related terms: mouse-eared
mouse-ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouse-ear
dentiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin dens, dentis (“tooth”) + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: dentiferous cyst
text: dentiferous plate
glosses: Bearing teeth or tooth-like structures.
Synonyms: dentigerous
enforcible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enforcible
form: most enforcible
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of enforceable.
Derived terms: unenforcible
bivalved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + valved.
Senses: examples: text: a bivalved seed pod
text: Oysters are bivalved.
glosses: Having two valves.
Synonyms: bivalve
felwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felworts
form: fellwort
form: felwoort
Etymology: Probably a corruption of fieldwort.
Senses: glosses: A European herb, Swertia perennis (star swertia), of the gentian family.
glosses: Any member of any species in genus Swertia.
examples: ref: 1597, John Gerard, Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, Chapter 100: Of Felwoort, or Baldmoney, pages 350–352:
text: On 31st July 1990 seven plants of a small felwort, Gentianella amarella (L.) Boerner, were discovered by the writer growing in short, sheep-grazed Festuca – Sesleria grassland at Kettlewell. Unlike our usual felwort which has blue flowers, these plants had the corolla white on the inside with a maroon outer surface and fitted exactly the description of Gentianella amarella ssp. septentrionalis (Druce) N. Pritch. This determination was subsequently confirmed by Dr Noel Pritchard, BSBI referee for Gentianaceae.
ref: 1994, Phil Abbott, The Naturalist, volume 119, number 1010, Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, page 125:
glosses: Any member of any species in the tribe Gentianeae
felworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of felwort
rubefaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubefactions
form: rubifaction
Senses: synonyms: rubification
glosses: reddening, the act or process of making red.
rubefactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubefaction
vicontiels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See vicontiel.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Things belonging to the sheriff, especially farms (also called "vicontiel rents") for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.
feculencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feculency
feculency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feculencies
Etymology: From Latin faeculentia. Doublet of feculence.
Senses: examples: text: […] Adam vvas thus abſtracted from humane feculencies, and carryed above the perch and flight of the narrovv and dvvarfie proſpect of mortality; […]
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter XLII, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 487:
glosses: Obsolete form of feculence.
amphibial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /æmˈfɪbi.əl/
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of amphibian.
feculences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feculence
ordainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɔː(ɹ)ˈdeɪnəbəl/
Forms: form: more ordainable
form: most ordainable
Etymology: From ordain + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The nature of man is ordainable to life.
ref: 1619, Joseph Hall, Via media, The Way of Peace:
glosses: Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed.
Derived terms: unordainable
vamose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vamoses
form: vamosing
form: vamosed
form: vamosed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vamoose.
vamosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vamose
vamoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vamose
vamosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vamose
centrolineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin centrum + linea (“line”).
Senses: examples: text: centrolineal design
text: centrolineal sulcus spermaticus
text: centrolineal style
glosses: Having line converging to a centre.
ryal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ryals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rial (old English coin)
Related terms: spur-ryal
ryals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ryal
ten-dollar word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten-dollar words
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes it pays to overcomplicate your simple messages. Make a list of ten-dollar words, scientific terms, and obscure niblets of jargon and find ways to use them. Your reputation and authority will soar.
ref: 2018 June 13, Michael Schein, “Author Simon Sinek Is Full Of Hot Air (And Other Reasons You Should Follow His Lead)”, in Forbes:
synonyms: twenty-five cent word
two-dollar word
five-dollar word
antonyms: ten-cent word
glosses: A long and uncommon word used in place of a shorter and simpler one with the intent to appear sophisticated.
Anglomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: Anglomaniacs
Etymology: From Anglo- + -maniac.
Senses: synonyms: Anglophile
glosses: One affected with Anglomania; one who loves England or English people or things.
Anglomaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anglomaniac
burrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌɹəl/
Forms: form: burrels
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bharal (“blue sheep”).
burrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌɹəl/
Forms: form: burrels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of borrel
Derived terms: burrel fly
burrel shot
burrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burrel
Anglocentrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Anglocentrically
form: most Anglocentrically
Etymology: From Anglocentric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an Anglocentric manner; focused on England or the English.
muffish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muffish
form: most muffish
Etymology: From muff + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Placed in a tumultuous community, where obedience and study are deemed "muffish," and reckless mischief passes for "pluck," a high-spirited, impulsive boy needs aid from without to bear up against the temptations which assail him.
ref: 1859, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review - Volume 89, page 257:
text: I wouldn't be so muffish as to choose anything else.
ref: 1860, Florence Wilford, Play and Earnest. A Tale, page 327:
text: Nothing looks so cocktail and muffish on a coach as to see a man learning to catch his whip, and after many futile efforts taking it upside down for this purpose, and twisting the thong round and round with the point downwards, as if he was stirring porridge for a pack of hounds.
ref: 1875, Charles Thomas Samuel Birch Reynardson, 'Down the Road': Or, Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman:
text: 'In my opinion,' he added, recovering himself, 'it's you who are muffish if you can't manage your tricks by yourself. You were always better at that kind of thing than I was.'
ref: 1882, “A Little Blue Skye”, in Sunday: Reading for the Young:
text: He might assure his red cheeks and sprouting moustache in the looking-glass that that fellow, St. Denis, had muffish ways, and that girls, especially spirited girls like Peggy, would infinitely prefer a more manly chap.
ref: 1903, Katharine Tynan, A Red, Red Rose, page 150:
text: "Is that what's the matter with you? You look awfully muffish."
ref: 1914, Charles Egbert Craddock, The Story of Duciehurst, page 208:
glosses: lackluster or timid; effeminate; without spirit.
Derived terms: muffishness
rubstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubstones
Etymology: From rub + stone.
Senses: glosses: a whetstone (stone for scouring or rubbing).
rubstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubstone
antiradiation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + radiation.
Senses: glosses: Countering radiation.
auncestour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auncestours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ancestor.
actinochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From actino- + chemistry.
Senses: examples: text: This view, which by a mass of evidence may be shown to be erroneous, is exerting a very prejudicial effect on the progress of actinochemistry.
ref: 1872, John William Draper, “Researches in Actino-Chemistry […] ”, in Philosophical Magazine:
glosses: The science of chemistry and actinism.
hooklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ho͝okʹlĭt
ipa: /ˈhʊklɪt/
Forms: form: hooklets
Etymology: From hook + -let; compare háček.
Senses: glosses: A small or minute hook.
raw_tags: in natural history
hooklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooklet
sacramentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin sacramentarium; compare French sacramentaire.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sacramental (“of or pertaining a sacrament or the sacraments”).
glosses: Alternative form of Sacramentary (“Sacramentarian”).
sacramentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacramentaries
Etymology: Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin sacramentarium; compare French sacramentaire.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, containing the rites for Mass, the sacraments, etc.
auncestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auncestors
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ancestor.
auncestors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auncestor
auncestours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auncestour
lithophotography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From litho- + photography.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: photolithography
ETAAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee.
ancestrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancestries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ancestry.
horseknop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseknops
Etymology: From horse + knop.
Senses: glosses: knapweed
horseknops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horseknop
QR code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QR codes
form: QR-code
Etymology: Short for Quick Response Code, introduced as a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.
ref: 2023 December 13, “Network News: £13,000 stolen via car park QR”, in RAIL, number 998, page 11:
text: New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny QR codes glued onto their backs. […] The team, made up of entomologists and electrical engineers, attached AprilTags, a kind of QR code that is smaller than the nail on your little finger, to the bees using glue.
ref: 2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN:
glosses: A two-dimensional barcode, typically used to link to a website.
Oneida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈnaɪdə/
rhymes: -aɪdə
Forms: form: Oneidas
form: Oneida
Etymology: Derived from Oneida Onyota'a꞉ka (“men of upright stones”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a tribe of Native Americans formerly inhabiting the region near Oneida Lake in New York, now often found in modern New York, Wisconsin, or Canada.
Oneida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈnaɪdə/
rhymes: -aɪdə
Etymology: Derived from Oneida Onyota'a꞉ka (“men of upright stones”).
Senses: examples: text: “taktsiʼkwáni” is Oneida for “kiss me”.
glosses: Their Iroquoian language.
glosses: A lake and river in New York.
glosses: A city in Madison County, New York.
Derived terms: Oneida County
Onida
Oneidas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oneida
awncient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more awncient
form: most awncient
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ancient.
awntient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more awntient
form: most awntient
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ancient.