cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
windsled
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windsleds
Etymology: From wind + sled.
Senses: glosses: A fan-powered enclosed vehicle for travelling over ice.
windsleds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windsled
divestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From divest + -ive.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Serving or tending to divest, or strip of a right or possession.
investive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From invest + -ive.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Serving or tending to invest, or endow with a right or possession.
Whitean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Whitean
form: most Whitean
Etymology: From White + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Patrick White (1912–1990), Australian author.
glosses: Of or relating to Hayden White (1928–2018), American historian in the tradition of literary criticism.
Related terms: whiteanity
tremp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tremps
form: tremping
form: tremped
form: tremped
Etymology: From Hebrew טרמפ from German trampen. Doublet of tramp.
Senses: glosses: To hitchhike.
tremping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tremp
tremps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tremp
tremped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tremp
batz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batzes
form: batzen
Etymology: From German Batz, Batze, Batzen (“a coin bearing the image of a bear”).
Senses: examples: text: In old times, if a Coniston peasant had any business at Ulverstone, he walked to Ulverstone; spent nothing but shoe-leather on the road, drank at the streams, and if he spent a couple of batz when he got to Ulverstone, "it was the end of the world." But now, he would never think of doing such a thing! He first walks three miles in a contrary direction, to a railroad station, and then travels by railroad twenty-four miles to Ulverstone, paying two shillings fare.
ref: 1874 June 6, John Ruskin, “Letter XLIV”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, volume IV, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, pages 166–167:
glosses: A batzen (former small copper coin from Germany and Switzerland).
batzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batz
Zil lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zil lanes
Etymology: ZiL (Zavod imeni Likhachova; Russian: Завод имени Лихачёва), Russian vehicle manufacturer which also produced armoured cars for most Soviet leaders. There were special lanes for these officials in the former Soviet Union.
Senses: examples: ref: 2011, Harry Mount, “The Olympic Zil Lanes are disgusting - we must all ignore them”, in The Telegraph:
ref: 2012 February 15, London Evening Standard, Boris must ensure Zil lanes are not abused, says Assembly:
glosses: Any of the road lanes in London, England, dedicated for vehicles transporting VIPs during the 2012 London Olympics.
wikipedia: ZiL
calambac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French calambac, from Malay kalambaq (“a kind of fragrant wood”).
Senses: glosses: A fragrant wood; agalloch.
Zil lanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zil lane
Florida bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Florida beans
Senses: glosses: The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens.
glosses: The large seed of Entada scandens.
Florida beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Florida bean
allective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allectives
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin allectīvus (“that allures”).
Senses: examples: text: disease that will not yield to the allectives of cordials and perfumes
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC:
glosses: An allurement, enticement.
allective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allective
form: most allective
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin allectīvus (“that allures”).
Senses: examples: text: Magnes and many thinges attractive are, / But nothing ſo allective under ſkyes, / As that ſame dainty amiable ſtarre, / That none but griſly mouth of hell defyes.
ref: 1588, G[abriel] H[arvey], “[Greenes Memoriall; Or Certaine Funerall Sonnets.] Sonnet XVII. His Exhortation to Atonement and Love.”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets, […] (Miscellaneous Tracts Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London]: [s.n.], published [1870], →OCLC, page 77:
glosses: Alluring.
allectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allective
entosterna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entosternum
entosternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəm
Forms: form: entosterna
Etymology: From ento- + sternum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The entoplastron.
Related terms: entosternal
cubebic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cubeb + -ic + acid.
Senses: glosses: A soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs.
parostoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parostosis
parostosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parostoses
Etymology: From para- + ostosis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum
alloquies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloquy
alloquy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alloquies
Etymology: From Latin alloquium, from alloqui.
Senses: glosses: Act of speaking to another; an address to another person.
batement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batements
Etymology: For abatement. See bate.
Senses: examples: text: Batement, To abate or waste a piece of Stuff, by forming of it to a designed purpose
ref: 1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678–1683, →OCLC:
glosses: abatement; diminution
Derived terms: batement light
batements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batement
nereidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nereidians
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: nereidid
nereidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nereidian
pinacolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinacolins
form: pinacoline
Etymology: From pinacone + Latin oleum (“oil”) + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacone.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type.
Derived terms: pivalic
pinacolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinacolin
stethometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stethometers
Etymology: From stetho- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration.
Synonyms: thoracometer
stethometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stethometer
orchanet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French orcanète.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alkanet (“Alkanna tinctoria”).
antistrophon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀντίστροφος (antístrophos, “turned towards each other”), from στρέφω (stréphō).
Senses: examples: text: Now that he may know what it is to be a Childe, and yet to meddle with edg'd tooles, I turn his Antiſtrophon upon his own head;
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 175:
glosses: An argument retorted on an opponent.
Related terms: antistrophe
erythrochroism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek red + colour.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: erythrism
Chromium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: An open source web browser developed by Google
sihr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sihrs
form: seer
Senses: glosses: A unit of mass or volume in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent.
sihrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sihr
parathyroid hormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parathyroid hormones
form: PTH
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polypeptide hormone that is released by the chief cells of the parathyroid glands and is involved in raising the levels of calcium ions in the blood.
Synonyms: parathormone
parathyrin
class warfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To end this class warfare is the conscious aim of the Socialist movement.
ref: 1906, John Spargo, The Socialists, page 71:
text: There's been a marked increase lately in Limbaugh's rhetoric about, of all things, class warfare.
ref: 1994, Charles M. Kelly, The Great Limbaugh Con: and other right-wing assaults on common sense, page 79:
text: It is class warfare under the theory of 'let's get the rich guy, the richest 1 percent. ... Once again, we are engaging in classic class warfare.
ref: 2004, Paula S. Rothenberg, Race, class, and gender in the United States: an integrated study, page 590:
text: It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.
ref: 2005 June 19, Lou Dobbs, quoting Warren Buffett, “Buffett: 'There are lots of loose nukes around the world'”, in CNN:
synonyms: class struggle
class war
glosses: Conflict between sociopolitical classes.
edjamacation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ...a high class guy with a college edjamacation, married a broad with no tits, snorts coke and his dick goes limp when the Russians fart.
ref: 1980, G. Gordon Liddy, Out of Control, link:
text: Good ole traditional "edjamacation", Educating disturbed adolescents: theory and practice, link
ref: 1981, Peyton Towns:
text: He says things like edjamacation.
ref: 2007, Gary Stromberg, Jame Merrill, The Harder They Fall, page 85:
glosses: Education.
primary education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From primary + education.
Senses: coordinate_terms: secondary education
glosses: The basic schooling given to children up to the age of puberty, including reading, writing, and basic mathematics.
Related terms: first school
primary school
secondary education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From secondary + education.
Senses: coordinate_terms: primary education
glosses: Education that follows primary education and leads to either employment or college / university education.
Related terms: secondary school
hens' nights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hens’ nights
Senses: glosses: plural of hens' night
discophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discophiles
Etymology: From disc + -o- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: record collector
hit-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hit-out
disert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disert
form: most disert
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin disertus or French disert.
Senses: examples: text: To John Foxe, his honoured Father, the faithfull Martyrologian[…]a most disert searcher into the Antiquities of Histories[…]
ref: 1637, Jacob Verheiden, translated by Donald Lupton, The history of the moderne protestant divines, page 282:
text: […]not that they are better, or more disert and eloquent than those [sc. books] of this learned Scotchman[…]
ref: 1661, Gabriel Naudé, translated by John Evelyn, Instructions concerning erecting of a library presented to my lord, the President De Mesme, page 45:
text: […]for whence[…]can they better derive the Principles of that Science, than from this most Disert Poet[…]
ref: 1675, Edward Sherburne, quoting Joseph Scaliger, “Preface”, in The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem with annotations and an astronomical appendix:
glosses: Eloquent.
Derived terms: disertly
disert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diserts
Etymology: Alternative spellings.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of desert.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dessert.
disert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diserts
form: diserting
form: diserted
form: diserted
Etymology: Alternative spellings.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of desert.
pussyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussymen
Etymology: From pussy + -man.
Senses: examples: text: She told me about her family problems and her "honey" (boyfriend) who "shot blanks" (was infertile) but was a real "pussyman" (good lover).
ref: 1990, Douglas E. Foley, Learning capitalist culture: deep in the heart of Tejas, page 75
text: Clinton — affectionately described as a "pussyman" by his friend and confidant Vernon Jordan — survived the resulting impeachment
ref: 2008, Dana Milbank, Homo politicus: the strange and barbaric tribes of the beltway, link:
text: “Don't you mean your husband, the pussyman?
ref: 2009, Richard C. Russell, An Old Man's Obsession, page 231:
glosses: A great male lover.
Related terms: casanova
lothario
ostitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of osteitis.
procoelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procoelians
Etymology: Procoelia + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Procoelia, a former suborder of Crocodilia.
Related terms: procoelous
procoelians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procoelian
olusatrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin holusatrum, olusatrum, from olus (“garden herb”) + ater (“black”).
Senses: synonyms: alisander
glosses: An umbelliferous plant, the common alexanders, found in Western Europe (Smyrnium olusatrum).
Azawad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Azaouad
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic, Derived from Tamasheq.
Senses: glosses: An unrecognized unilaterally declared de facto sovereign state in northwest Africa.
Related terms: Azawakh
disquaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɛə/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: disquaires
form: discaire
Etymology: Borrowed, with a change in meaning, from French disquaire (“record dealer; record shop”).
Senses: examples: text: Some discothèques allow their patrons to suggest tunes to the disquaire, but at many such an impertinence would be unthinkable—like asking Pablo Casals to play Melancholy Baby.
ref: 1963 July 5, “The Compleat Virtuosi”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2008:
text: In fact, [Harry] Meyerson had Slim Hyatt, the "disquaire" (disk jockey) at Shepheards, assist him in programming the album.
ref: 1964 May 30, Mike Gross, “Deccareques Put Out for Discothequeniks”, in Billboard: The International Music-record Newsweekly, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 1, column 3:
text: In France, clubs found they didn't need live musicians to get people to dance – just a disquaire who "programmed" dance records and moods for the evening. Such a place had a name too, a discotheque.
ref: 2010, Robert Milliken, “Lillian Roxon: Selected Writings”, in Mother of Rock: The Lillian Roxon Story, 2nd edition, U.S.A.: ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, pages 408–409:
text: He'd given the albums to the disquaire affiliated with Chez Castel, the popular Parisian discotheque.
ref: 2012, William J. Mann, “Spring 1964”, in Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, section 7, page 487:
topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
glosses: A disc jockey, especially one in a French-speaking country.
Azaouad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Azawad.
doura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹə
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of durra.
colluctancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin collū̆ctārī (“to struggle with”) + -ancy.
Senses: examples: text: Thirdly, the Spirits are in their third ſtate of Volatility, when after a colluctancy with the groſſer Particles they have ſo ſubjugated and overcome them, that they are juſt upon wings, and ready to fly away; as in Wine when it is in the height of its fermentation, and in ſome part of our arterial bloud alwayes.
ref: 1664, Henry Power, “Microſcopical Obſervations: A Digreßion of the Animal Spirits”, in Experimental Philosophy, in Three Books […], London: Printed by T. Roycroft, for John Martin, and James Alleſtry […], page 61:
text: After struggling along with the difficulties and embarrassments occasioned by this immense loss of patronage, and enduring the colluctancy of the Boston anti-tariff committee, and the N. Y. Evening Post, just as the heart was ready to sink within us, help springs up where it was least expected, even in the city of New York, where this British “Satan’s throne is.”
ref: 1828 April 29, “Domestic News: British Influence”, in Rutland Herald, volume 34, number 18, Rutland, Vt., page [2]:
text: They may be such as to raise Madame [Pauline] Viardot to a very exalted positiion; but we can only say that an idea of colluctancy with Mdlle. [Jenny] Lind—at all events in the character of Amina—must be abandoned, as outrageously ridiculous.
ref: 1848 May 14, “Theatres, etc.: Royal Italian Opera, Covent-Garden”, in The Era, volume 10, number 503, page 11:
glosses: Synonym of colluctation: struggling, conflict, strife.
synonyms: word: colluctation
extra: struggling, conflict, strife
swelltoad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swelltoads
Etymology: From swell + toad.
Senses: synonyms: swellfish
glosses: Any of the genus Cyclichthys of blowfishes.
swelltoads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swelltoad
extrastapedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + stapedial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Projecting beyond the stapes; applied to part of the columella of the ear.
lavoisium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lavoisier + -ium, named after the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (obsolete) A supposed silvery-white, malleable, metallic chemical element, said to have been discovered in pyrites and some other minerals.
Jakes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒeɪks/
Etymology: From Jake + -s (patronymic suffix).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
erethistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erethistic
form: most erethistic
Senses: examples: text: erethistic power
glosses: Relating to erethism.
postillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postillations
Etymology: From Latin postillatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.
postillations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postillation
conspurcating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conspurcate
conspurcates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conspurcate
conspurcated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conspurcate
praemuniring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of praemunire
praemunired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of praemunire
mulloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mulloid
form: most mulloid
Etymology: Mullus + -oid
Senses: examples: text: mulloid fishes
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Like or pertaining to the genus Mullus, the red mullets or goatfish
mulloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mulloids
Etymology: Mullus + -oid
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the genus Mullus
porphyrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porphyrites
Senses: examples: text: augite porphyrite
glosses: Any porphyritic rock.
porphyrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porphyrite
phenetol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenetols
Etymology: From phenyl + ethyl + Latin oleum (“oil”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ethyl ether of phenol, obtained as an aromatic liquid, C₆H₅.O.C₂H₅.
Related terms: phenetole
phenetols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenetol
divinises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of divinise
psylla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psyllas
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Psylla.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllidae.
Derived terms: pear psylla
psyllas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psylla
tolutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin tolutim (“on a trot, properly, lifting up the feet”), akin to tollere (“to lift up”). Compare Icelandic tölt.
Senses: examples: text: whether they move per latera, that is, two legs of one side together, which is tolutation or ambling, or per diametrum, lifting one foot before, and the cross foot behind
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A pacing or ambling.
moothill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moothills
Etymology: From moot + hill.
Senses: examples: text: The life, the sovereignty of the settlement resided solely in the body of the freeman whose holdings lay round the moothill or the sacred tree where the community met from time to time to deal out its own justice or make its own laws.
ref: 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People:
topics: law
glosses: A hill or elevated place where a meeting or council took place in Saxon England.
moothills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moothill
a-mornings
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amornings.
rhabdocoelous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Rhabdocoela + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Rhabdocoela.
Related terms: rhabdocoel
mislive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈlɪv/
Forms: form: mislives
form: misliving
form: mislived
form: mislived
Etymology: From Middle English misliven, from Old English mislibban (“to lead a bad life”), equivalent to mis- + live.
Senses: glosses: To lead a wrong, corrupt, or evil life; to live wrongly.
Derived terms: mislived
misliver
misliving
mislived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislive
mislives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mislive
prosopopoeiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosopopoeia
prosopopoeias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosopopoeia
Shavians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shavian
divertise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: divertises
form: divertising
form: divertised
form: divertised
Etymology: From French divertir, present participle divertissant.
Senses: examples: text: let them instruct, let them divertise, and let them move us
ref: 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
text: company to divertise my cousin in his loneliness (iii)
ref: 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer:
glosses: To divert; to entertain.
divertised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of divertise
divertises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of divertise
divertising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of divertise
styrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From styrax + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: styrene
splining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spline
coagment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coagments
form: coagmenting
form: coagmented
form: coagmented
Etymology: From Latin coagmentare, from coagmentum (“a joining together”), from cogere. See cogent.
Senses: examples: text: Had the world been coagmented from that supposed fortuitous jumble, this hypothesis had been tolerable.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: To join together; to fuse.
Related terms: coagmentation
coagmented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coagment
coagmenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coagment
coagments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coagment
bullen-bullen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Native Australian name, from its cry.
Senses: glosses: The lyrebird.
Pierian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /paɪˈɪəɹiən/
Forms: form: more Pierian
form: most Pierian
Etymology: Latin Pierius, from Mount Pierus in Thessaly, sacred to the Muses.
Senses: examples: text: Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ref: 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to Pierides or Muses.
Derived terms: Pierian spring
undisclose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undiscloses
form: undisclosing
form: undisclosed
form: undisclosed
Etymology: From un- + disclose.
Senses: examples: text: her tender Bud doth undisclose
That Full of Beauty
ref: 1592, Samuel Daniel, Delia:
glosses: To keep close or secret; to refrain from disclosing.
undiscloses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undisclose
saturability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saturabilities
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being saturable.
saturabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saturability
portulacaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Portulacaceae + -ous
Senses: examples: text: portulacaceous plant
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Portulacaceae of plants (purslanes)
swipples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swipple
swiple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swiples
Senses: examples: text: 1851, "Flail", entry in Cuthbert William Johnson, The Farmer's and Planter's Encyclopaedia of Rural Affairs, Lippincott, page 482,
It anciently was truly a whip, and sometimes had two or more lashes: the modern flail consists of the handle or handstaff, which the labourer holds in his hand, and uses as a lever, to raise up and bring down the swiple, or part which strikes the corn, and beats out the chaff and grain from the straw.
text: The flail consisted of two parts, a six foot wooden staff attached by a sheepskin thong to a four foot buailtean, swiple of wood, thick tarry cable, or dried tangle.
ref: 1978, Donald Macdonald, Lewis: A history of the island, page 76:
text: 2011, Craig Williamson (editor & translator), A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs, University of Pennsylvania Press, page 195,
The two hard captives bound together as one punishing creature, wielded by a Welshwoman and slave, are probably the handle and swiple of a threshing flail.
glosses: Alternative form of swipple.
swiples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swiple
tergeminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪnəs
Etymology: From Latin tergeminus, from ter (“thrice”) + geminus (“doubled at birth, twin-born”). Compare trigeminous.
Senses: examples: text: My servant-maid has discovered tergeminous proof of the perpetrator.
ref: 1823, James Hogg, “Peril Second. Leasing. Circle II.”, in The Three Perils of Woman; or, Love, Leasing, and Jealousy. […], volume III, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 100:
text: I've often viewed in early life's bright dream, Thy arch tergeminous which spanned the stream; Upon the rocks greywacke oft I've stood, And upward scanned thy classic pulchritude.
ref: 1851, “Lines in commemoration of the Auld Brig”, in Competing and Other Poems on the Auld Brig, page 4:
text: The reader will also observe that in the example just cited 'justice' is rendered by 'equality and justice;' on the same page he will find carelessness and inadvertency' where the original has only neglect; and so he will find throughout the book such geminous and even tergeminous renderings to the number of at least two hundred.
ref: 1861 March, “Critical Notices of Works on India and the East”, in Calcutta Review, volume 36, page v:
text: Chappies like Junius Henri, whose sidewheel whiskers and tergeminous titles are giving them spinal curvature, may fancy hysterical maids; but a sure-enough American, competent to raise a crop of world-compellers all bearing his trade-mark, prefers a Grace Darling or a Molly Pitcher.
ref: 1906, William Cowper Brann, Brann, the Iconoclast, page 451:
glosses: Threefold.
petulcity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See petulcous.
Senses: examples: text: I do, therefore, much blame the petulcity of whatsoever author, that should dare to impute a Popish affection to him […]
ref: 1629, Joseph Hall, The Reconciler:
glosses: wantonness; friskiness
kreatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kreatines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of creatine.
creatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creatins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of creatine.
kreatines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kreatine
stable-stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I'll keep my stable-stand where I lodge my wife, I'll go in couples with her.
ref: 1623, Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale:
text: The four indications of offence against Vert and Venison, in like manner arrange themselves in rhyme - Dog draw, stable stand, Backberinde, and bloody hand;-and this formed the precept of the Forester, and instructed him to seize the trespasser who was taken with the mayneer whilst roaming in the green-wood shade.
ref: 1818 December, “The Gothic Laws of Spain”, in Edinburgh Review, volume 31, number 61, page 96:
text: Ah, honest Will Rufus! You were the king for my money – ill betide the fool who shot thee; —you had a halter for every rogue; there was STABLESTAND, when the knave was found in the forest with his bow bent; DOGDRAW, when he was drawing with a hound after the hurt deer; BACKBEAR, when he had killed, and was carrying off, his venison; and BLOODYHAND, when he was seen coursing with blood upon his hands.
ref: 1834, George Soane, The Frolics of Puck - Volume 3, page 87:
text: The Law further provides that the Forester may take a man if he be found either at “Dog-draw," "Stable-stand," "Back-bear,” or “Bloody-hand."
ref: 1868, Thomas Newbigging, History of the Forest of Rossendale, page 63:
text: although it is usually known in common parlance as hunting, is not properly such, but comes under one of three heads, — "stalking," which is here generally termed still-hunting, where the animal is followed by his sign, left on the soil, or on the trees and coppice which he may have frayed, by the aid of the eye and experience in woodcraft and the habits of the quarry alone, without the assistance of hounds— "stable-stand," where the sportsman, taking his station at the intersection of deer-paths, at a haunted salt-lick, or at a well-ascertained watering place, awaits the voluntary advent of the animal, when he shall be impelled to move by the solicitation of his own instincts—or, lastly, "dog-draw," where, posting himself, as before, in such place as he judges likely to be passed by the fugitive, the shooter expects its coming when driven by slow hounds, who have drawn for it, and aroused it from its lair, under the guidance of his servants or companions.
ref: 1868, Frank Forester, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen, page 37:
text: These dogs were used to hunt up the game also when the deer was to be shot with the bow. The sportsmen would be standing at their trysts or stable-stand in some alley or glade of the wood, and the hounds be put into the covert or park "to tease them forth."
ref: 2013, Edward of Norwich, William A. Baillie-Grohman, F. N. Baillie-Grohman, The Master of Game, page 261:
topics: law
glosses: The position of a person found standing in the forest with a crossbow or longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; one of the four presumptions that a person intended to steal the king's deer.
piketail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piketails
Senses: glosses: The pintail duck.
homoioptota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoioptoton
homoioptoton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoioptota
form: homoeoptoton
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁμοιóπτωτον (homoióptōton, “in a like case”).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A rhetorical figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.
cultriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cultriform
form: most cultriform
Etymology: From Latin culter, cultri (“knife”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: cultriform beak
text: cultriform process of the parasphenoid
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
pythonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pythonists
Senses: glosses: An enchanter, conjurer, charmer or similar diviner.
pythonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pythonist
cope chisel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cope chisels
Senses: glosses: A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove.
cope chisels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cope chisel
spermule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermules
Etymology: From New Latin spermulum, diminutive of sperma (“seed”). By surface analysis, sperm + -ule.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A spermatozoon.
spermules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermule
panshon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panshons
Etymology: Related to pancheon?
Senses: examples: text: Tom struck at tratten wit beesom, an't heead floid intoo a panshon ful a watter, an nok't soide haht
ref: 1839, Abel Bywater, The Sheffield Dialect:
glosses: An earthen vessel, wider at the top than at the bottom, used for holding milk etc.
panshons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panshon
ramnification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ramification.
poutings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊtɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of pouting
veerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veering
gaggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæɡɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of gagging
rhinencephalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinencephala
Etymology: From rhin- + encephalon.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the brain involved with olfaction.
Derived terms: rhinencephalic
rhinencephala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinencephalon
contactual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contactual
form: most contactual
Etymology: From contact + -ual.
Senses: examples: text: Now imagine—for greater perspicuity—the Microcosm as a nether wheel consisting of 360 interstices (degrees), the revolutions of which ingroove themselves with twin projections from the Great Mechanism, thus effecting contactual points of attraction that resolve themselves into channels through which specific influences from the Macrocosm descend or are drawn into the reservoirs of cognate effluences awaiting them in the minutum mundum, or lesser world.
ref: 1917, American Academy of Astrologians, Year Book, page 162:
text: We see that the contactual is essentially musical — as the musical is essentially contactual. One must be 'touched' before one can move.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Of or relating to contact.
uninhibitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninhibitable
form: most uninhibitable
Etymology: From un- + inhibitable.
Senses: examples: text: Tapping on the glabellum, just above the nose, which can elicit uninhibitable blinking in Parkinsonism.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: That cannot be inhibited.
tactually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tactually
form: most tactually
Etymology: From tactual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We have seen, again and again, that patients’ own kinetic melodies can be given back to them, albeit briefly, by the use of an appropriate flow of music […]. Other ‘natural’ motions of Nature and Art are equally potent if experienced visually or tactually.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, “Parkinsonian Space and Time”, in Awakenings, Penguin, published 1976, page 348:
glosses: In a tactual manner; by, or relating to, the sense of touch.
Synonyms: tactilely
tachykinesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tachy- + -kinesia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: speeded-up movement
tortipelvic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to tortipelvis.
tortipelvis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: distortion of the pelvis caused by muscular contractions
Related terms: torticollis
tortipelvic
actorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From actor + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: It constituted, I came to think, the first step in his actorial investigation; the one which provided an intense and minute sensory and motor corporeal image, which he could then scan internally and analyse, and then finally imbue with himself, deepen, subjectivise.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Relating to an actor, or one who performs an action.
semionarrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semio- + narrative.
Senses: glosses: Relating to narrative in semiotics.
relatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relating
insulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insulable
form: most insulable
Senses: examples: text: Thus the atmosphere of the ward, its mood, became all-important — I did not have fifty isolated, insulable patients; I had a community which was like a single living organism.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Capable of being isolated.
skimmings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skimming
hastenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hastening
hastenest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: hasten + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of hasten
inapparency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + apparency.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: absence of visible symptoms
formicatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more formicatory
form: most formicatory
Senses: examples: text: It was clear that the action of the drug was, in a sense, unpredictable, in that it might call forth a variety of behaviours: given the initial form of behaviour — whether tongue-pulsing, therapeutic, catatonic, ticcy-palilalic, formicatory, or hallucinatory — the rest of the reaction would follow this form.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Of or relating to formication.
offscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offscapes
form: offskip
Etymology: From off- + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: The Snowdonia rises with vast Dignity in the Offskip, while a blue Expanse of Ocean leads the Eye on our right hand to immeasurable Distance.
ref: 1794 September, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:
glosses: The distant part of a view, garden etc.; the background.
megaphonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mega- + -phonia.
Senses: examples: text: His initial symptom was megaphonia — a tendency to bellow and raise his voice — which was followed by the development of grunting, and a tendency to clench and grind the teeth.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of excessive shouting or raising the voice.
Related terms: megaphone
offscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offscape
urolagnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urolagnia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to urolagnia.
pseudophilosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudophilosophical
form: most pseudophilosophical
Etymology: From pseudo- + philosophical.
Senses: glosses: Apparently, but not actually, philosophical; having pretensions to philosophy.
algolagnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From algolagnia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to algolagnia.
pacings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪsɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of pacing
pulsivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pulsive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Tonality or pulsivity makes a source better audible.
ref: 1991, D. C. Quarton, V. C. Fenton, Wind energy conversion 1991:
text: The complex connection between the two figures, the mother and the cry, is established in Duras' narratives through a certain oral pulsivity of the text.
ref: 1998, Bettina Liebowitz Knapp, Critical essays on Marguerite Duras:
glosses: The quality of being pulsive.
discophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discophile
disquaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disquaire
insuccation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnsəˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: insuccations
Etymology: From Latin insucare, insucatum (“to soak in”), from in- + succus, sucus (“sap”).
Senses: examples: text: The medicating and insuccation of seeds
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs.
insuccations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insuccation
diserts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disert
distinctives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distinctive
Bizantian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bizantian
form: most Bizantian
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Byzantine.
difform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɔː(ɹ)m/
homophone: deform
Forms: form: more difform
form: most difform
Etymology: From Old French difforme, from Latin dif- = dis- + forma (“form”). Compare deform.
Senses: examples: text: difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion
text: the unequal refractions of difform rays
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: irregular in form; not uniform; anomalous or dissimilar
amimia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amimias
Etymology: From a- + German Mimik (“facial expressions”) + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: inability to express oneself using facial expressions
Related terms: mime
mimic
dysmimia
echomimia
hypomimia
amimias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amimia
amimic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + mimic.
Senses: examples: text: Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: unable to express oneself using gestures
Tourettism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tourettisms
Etymology: From Tourette syndrome + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A tic or other behaviour associated with Tourette syndrome.
Tourettisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tourettism
Touretty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Touretty
form: most Touretty
Etymology: From Tourette syndrome + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Sacks (1995) describes an actor who is violently Touretty offstage, but instantly becomes totally free of Tourettisms when in character and performing.
ref: 2002, Jeffrey J. Marotta, Judy A. Cornelius, William R. Eadington, The downside: problem and pathological gambling, page 101:
text: The patient observes and analyses the situation, and firmly identifies with the Touretty state as being natural to him, and also the source of his vivacity.
ref: 2010, Peter Manley Scott, Celia Deane-Drummond, Future Perfect?: God, Medicine and Human Identity, page 101:
glosses: Of or relating to Tourette syndrome.
Tourettic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tourettic
form: most Tourettic
Etymology: From Tourette syndrome + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to these Tourettic surgeons, I now know of three Tourettic internists, two Tourettic neurologists, but only one Tourettic psychiatrist.
ref: 1995, Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales:
glosses: Of or relating to Tourette syndrome.
Tourettish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tourettish
form: most Tourettish
Etymology: From Tourette syndrome + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: She readily accommodates Tourettish excitement, finding room for it in the outskirts of a commodious personality, and even gaining a certain advantage and pleasure from the extraordinary swiftness of thought and invention which goes with it.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Of or relating to Tourette syndrome.