cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chopping block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chopping blocks
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: butcher block, butcher's block
coordinate_terms: chopping board
cutting board
glosses: A thick wooden slab used as a cutting surface for preparing food, splitting firewood or kindling, etc.
glosses: A block of wood against which a condemned person put their head prior to beheading.
examples: text: Jim really put his head on the chopping block when he started flirting with the boss's daughter.
glosses: A dangerous or precarious situation.
examples: text: Our team might be on the chopping block — the company seems to be finding excuses to avoid funding these operating expenses.
glosses: A dangerous or precarious situation.
The threat of an impending budget cut.
Related terms: chop down
chop up
slash
sword of Damocles
take an axe to
rosinweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosinweeds
Etymology: From rosin + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of various composite plants which secrete resins or have a resinous smell; for example, several species in the genus Silphium in the composite family.
rosinweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosinweed
rhachialgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rachialgia.
pleochroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pleo- (“more”) + -chroic (“color”).
Senses: examples: text: pleochroic mineral
text: pleochroic crystals
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having the property of pleochroism.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having various colours in the cell wall.
Derived terms: nonpleochroic
pleochroic halo
exinanition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛɡzɪnəˈnɪʃən/
Forms: form: exinanitions
Etymology: From Latin exinānitiō, from exināniō, from ex- (“out”) and ināniō (“I empty”).
Senses: examples: text: Fastings to the exinanition of spirits
ref: 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An emptying; an evacuation; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.
glosses: privation; loss; destitution
exinanitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exinanition
chirographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chirographists
form: chirographer
Senses: glosses: A chirographer; a writer or engrosser.
glosses: One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.
chirographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirographist
perichaeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perichaeths
Etymology: See perichaetium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: perichaetium
perichete
glosses: The leafy involucre surrounding the archegonium (fruit stalk) of mosses
Derived terms: perichaetial
perichaeths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perichaeth
procerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procerites
Etymology: From pro- + Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Merocerite or second joint also furnished with a few yellow hairs, like the carpocerite; terminal filament or procerite a little shorter than the carapace, multiarticulate and provided with long yellow verticilated hairs.
ref: 1881, Hermann Schlegel, Notes from the Leyden Museum - Volumes 3-4, page 133:
text: a third, fourth, and fifth joints, narrower than the preceding, and called respectively the ischiocerite, merocerite and carpocerite, and articulated with the last an extremely long many-jointed flagellum or procerite.
ref: 1882, William Aitcheson Haswell, Australian Museum, Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea, page ix:
text: In this genus, the basicerite, ischiocerite, and merocerite are much thicker and stronger than the corresponding joints of any of the other appendages; and in the closely allied Scyllarus, the facial region of which is, on the whole, similarly constructed, these joints become extremely expanded and flattened, and are succeeded by no procerite.
ref: 1888, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals:
text: There is a large tuft of tactile setæ at the base of the procerite, and a few are continued from that point down the outer margin of the carpocerite; but all the setæ below that point on the upper surface are fringing setæ, as that part is covered by the antennules and the squame.
ref: 1888, G. Lovell Gulland, “The Sense of Touch in Astacus”, in Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, volume 9, page 162:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The segment next to the flagellum of the antennae of crustaceans.
procerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procerite
parapleura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parapleuron
glosses: plural of parapleurum
storm drain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm drains
Etymology: An allusion to their usefulness in catching stormwater and therefore preventing floods.
Senses: glosses: An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without passing through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
storm drains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm drain
ooh-ah-ah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʔuːˌʔɑːˌʔɑː/
ipa: /ˈʔuˌʔɑˌʔɑ/
Forms: form: ooh ah ah
Etymology: Imitative of a monkey’s cry.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oo oo aa aa (“used to represent the sound of a monkey's cry”).
synonyms: word: oo oo aa aa
extra: used to represent the sound of a monkey's cry
ooh ah ah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ooh-ah-ah.
bakaw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈkɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Saying this in the nicest way possible.... BAKAW BUK BUK BACAW
ref: 2000 January 10, NetGuy [username], “Re: Hello Guys!!”, in alt.romance.teen (Usenet):
text: She's just a big chicken.
 Bawk, bawk, bakaw!
ref: 2002 April 27, Jim Larson, “Re: (spoilers ahoy!) okay well I've given up”, in alt.tv.farscape (Usenet):
text: The one-eyed butcher's stall, with its buckets of guts and crates of eggs, stood before me. I could see the one-eyed butcher perched behind a massive chopping block, swiftly hacking away.
BAWK! BAWK! BA-KAW!
ref: 2012, Wai Chin, Chook Chook: Mei's Secret Pets, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The cluck of a chicken.
bow wows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow wow
jukujikun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jukujikun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 熟字訓 (jukujikun, literally “compound character reading”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A Japanese word whose kanji spelling conveys the meaning based on the individual characters, but whose reading is not directly related to the spelling.
wikipedia: Tanabata
Related terms: alt: 当て字
word: ateji
alt: 義訓
word: gikun
pussymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pussyman
manslut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mansluts
Etymology: From man + slut.
Senses: examples: text: I'm raping you manslut." A smile of satisfaction on her lips as she rapes me with her phallus nightstick.
ref: 2000, Red Jordan Arobateau, Street of dreams, page 78:
text: 2004, Details: Volume 22, Issues 7-10, link
A zit, after all, isn't a cold sore on your lip, making you look like a diseased manslut.
text: The Tommy in the novel is a pansexual pill-popping manslut...
ref: 2006, Stefan G. Bucher, All Access: The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers, link:
text: You're right, before everything that happened this morning, I did plan on marrying you, having children with you, and starting a family, but that was all before I found out that I'm engaged to the world's biggest manslut.
ref: 2008, Ryan Spear, Mikey Jr.: A Script, page 32:
text: Tre is a manslut.
ref: 2010, Joshilyn Jackson, Backseat Saints, link:
text: 2011, Emma Forest, Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir, link
GH is an unwashed manslut.
text: For the Mike they knew, formerly known as the “manslut,” this behavior was incomprehensible.
ref: 2012, Lisa Marie Rice, Nightfire: A Protectors Novel: Marine Force Recon, link:
text: And he's a real manslut, too. He must pick up a different guy a week!
ref: 2012, Amy Lane, Super Sock Man, page 3:
glosses: A womanizer, lothario, or a promiscuous man.
Related terms: he-bitch
manwhore
mansluts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manslut
leechee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leechees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of litchi.
lose-lose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "It's a lose-lose situation. It can be turned into a win-win. We should be encouraging and supporting expensive bi-mode freight locomotives, especially where capacity is constrained.
ref: 2024 October 30, Paul Clifton, “How can freight be a major part of rail's future?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 57:
glosses: Having only negative outcomes.
Related terms: heads I win, tails you lose
cahincic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An acid derived from cahinca root,
sagene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sagenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sazhen (“old Russian length”).
sagenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sagene
cahinca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Chiococca alba, a flowering plant in the coffee family.
Derived terms: cahincic acid
pattemar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pattemars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of patamar.
pattemars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pattemar
sajene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sajenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sazhen.
sajenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sajene
hoddydoddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoddydoddy
hoddydoddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoddydoddies
Etymology: From hoddy-dod, an obsolete English regionalism meaning “periwinkle” or “snail”. Compare dodman.
Senses: examples: text: Well, good wife bawd, Cob’s wife, and you / That make your husband such a hoddy-doddy ; / And you, young apple-squire, and old cuckold-maker
ref: 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, act IV, scene viii:
text: Name my accuſer ſaith he, or I defye thee Kemp at the quart ſtaffe. I told him, & all his anger turned to laughter: ſwearing it did him good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy, a habber de hoy, a chicken, a ſquib, a ſquall: […]
ref: 1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder:
glosses: An awkward or foolish person.
examples: text: A River snail in Oxfordshire is “Hoddy-doddy”; in Northamptonshire the Wall snail is “Packman snail.”
ref: 1899, W.T. Fernie, Animal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, page 448:
glosses: A snail; a snail’s shell.
scarificator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarificators
Etymology: From Medieval Latin scarificātor.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
coordinate_terms: cupping glass
glosses: An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets that are moved simultaneously by a spring, used for making slight incisions on a body.
scarificators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarificator
poikilothermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poikilothermal.
tessular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tessular
form: most tessular
Etymology: From (assumed) New Latin tessula (diminutive of Latin tessera) + English -ar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tesseral
skiagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skiagraphs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative form of sciagraph.
skiagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skiagraphs
form: skiagraphing
form: skiagraphed
form: skiagraphed
Senses: examples: text: The target should, therefore, be adjusted so as to throw the rays as nearly as possible perpendicularly upon the parts to be skiagraphed.
ref: 1909, Herbert McIntosh, Practical handbook of medical electricity for students and practitioners:
text: She came over to me and I skiagraphed the tooth (without charge — I should hope).
ref: 1925, Charles Edmund Kells, The Dentist's Own Book:
text: By the end of September, X-ray equipment had been installed and 16 patients had been 'skiagraphed'.
ref: 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: Alternative form of sciagraph.
skiagraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skiagraph
skiagraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skiagraph
sciagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sciagraphs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + -graph.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A vertical section of a building; a sciagraphy.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A radiograph.
sciagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sciagraphs
form: sciagraphing
form: sciagraphed
form: sciagraphed
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: The lighting from above also had a specific function: providing an even legibility to those "shaded" or sciagraphed areas treated with the technique known as schiacciato as to those of high relief.
ref: 1996, Victor Horta (baron), Françoise Aubry, Jos Vandenbreeden, Horta: art nouveau to modernism, page 107:
text: This is a text centrally about a girl who is herself an illusionistic artwork: her white skin is the canvas upon which a wholly misleading cultural portrait is sciagraphed.
ref: 2002, Tim Whitmarsh, “Written on the Body: Ekphrasis, Perception and Deception in Heliodorus' Aethiopica”, in Ramus, volume 31, numbers 1-2:
text: Compared with the prior arts, the remote exposure control device of an embodiment can remotely control and monitor an FPD, facilitating realizing sciagraphing by one key and improving the work efficiency of users.
ref: 2017, Jianqiang Liu, Daming Ren, Xianguo Huang, Peng Gao, Remote exposure control device, digital radiography system and exposing method for the system (US patent US20170035383A1):
glosses: To create a sciagraph (radiograph) of; to look inside by this or a similar technique.
sciagraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sciagraph
sciagraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sciagraph
red-gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red gum
form: red gown
Etymology: Alteration (due to gum) of earlier red gown, reed gounde, from Middle English redgownd, redgound, radegound, radegund, equivalent to red + gound (“pus, matter”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: tooth rash
glosses: A rash in infants marked by red or sometimes whitish papules surrounded by reddish halos and popularly associated with teething distress; strophulus.
glosses: rust on grain
glosses: Alternative form of redgum.
glosses: Alternative form of red gum.
dipaschal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + paschal.
Senses: glosses: Including two Passovers.
Synonyms: bipaschal
stigmatose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stigmatose
form: most stigmatose
Senses: examples: text: stigmatose style
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a stigma; stigmatic.
monogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + -geny.
Senses: examples: text: If monogeny is determined exclusively by a cytoplasmic factor, then it is easy to see that the factor will either die out (if it causes arrhenogeny) or will become fixed and thereby sterilize the population (if it causes thelygeny).
ref: 1982, Graham Bell, The Masterpiece of Nature :: The Evolution and Genetics of Sexuality, page 441:
antonyms: amphogenic
glosses: Production of offspring of only one sex.
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that all of the members of the human race have a common origin.
glosses: Synonym of monogenesis.
synonyms: word: monogenesis
Hyponyms: sense: single-sex offspring
word: arrhenogeny
sense: single-sex offspring
word: thelygeny
Derived terms: monogenist
Cremonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cremona
cremulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cremulator
laemodipod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laemodipods
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Laemodipoda, a former group of crustaceans including the whale lice and caprellids.
laemodipods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laemodipod
diactinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From dia- + actinic.
Senses: examples: text: diactinic media
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Capable of transmitting actinic rays of light.
Derived terms: adiactinic
bird's-tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).
coelodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coelodonts
Etymology: From coelo- + -odont, from ὀδούς (odoús).
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of lizards with hollow teeth.
glosses: Any of Coelodonta, a genus of extinct rhinoceroses.
coelodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coelodont
calceolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkalsɪəleɪt/
Forms: form: more calceolate
form: most calceolate
Etymology: From Latin calceolus (“little shoe, slipper”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), from calceus (“calceus, footwear”) + -olus (diminutive noun-forming suffix), from calx (“heel”) + -eus (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Slipper-shaped, shaped like a slipper.
Hypernyms: calceiform
Derived terms: calceolately
solemness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From solemn + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of solemnness.
daedalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːdələs/
Forms: form: more daedalous
form: most daedalous
form: daedaleous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of leaves: having a variously cut or incised margin; irregularly jagged, though not arcuate.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Wavy and irregularly plaited, like the hymenium of some agarics.
Saanen goats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saanen goat
assythment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsʌɪðmənt/
ipa: /əˈsaɪðmənt/
ipa: /əˈsaɪθmənt/
ipa: /əˈsɛθmənt/
Forms: form: assythments
form: assythement
form: assithment
Etymology: From assyth + -ment, from Old French aset, asez, originally meaning "enough". See assets.
Senses: examples: text: It may be observed that assythment is not due to the next of kin of a person slain where the offender hath by the exertion of public justice suffered the punishment due to his crime; but whether it can be demanded from the king's donatary where the criminal hath fled from justice and forfeited his movable estate upon a sentence of fugitation, may be doubted.
ref: 1871, John Erskine, An Institute of the Law of Scotland, volume 2, page 1235:
text: I, Fergus and my Heirs and Assignies, against all deadly the foresaid Three Daughs, and the forenamed Land of Ardendraught, with their pertinents, liberties and assythments and other privileges as aforesaid.
ref: 1894 February 24, Scottish Notes and Queries, volume 7, page 140:
text: Although there is no precise statistical analysis of assythments, bonds of manrent were only very rarely used in such circumstances.
ref: 2003, Christine Peters, Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640, page 25:
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: Compensation or reparation for a criminal offence.
pertusate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See pertuse.
Senses: examples: text: We have not accepted the genus Trematosphaeria as distinct from Melanomma. The basing of a genus upon size and pertusate apex seems insufficient. The latter character is often a condition of age and consequent deciduousness of the neck or ostiolum.
ref: 1921, Charles E. Fairman, The fungi of our common nuts and pits, page 102:
text: The perithecia are not typical of the genus. They are nearly twice as long as wide at the base and although pertusate, are not circularly so. The asci are eight-spored, […]
ref: 1925, New York State Museum bulletin, page 73:
text: Unexpanded basidiocarps (peridia) 1.5-3 x 1-1.5 cm, white, globose, then ovate, splitting irregularly at apex into several lobes, attached by a white, branched, cord-like mycelium. Pileus Chinese writing brush shaped to narrow campanulate, rutilous, externally finely to coarsely rugulose; lower margin even to irregular; apex becoming truncate at maturity, pertusate at center, 1.5-3.3 cm high, 1-1.5 cm wide, and surface again with greenish brown, mucilaginous, stinking gleba.
ref: 1984, Po Liu, The Gasteromycetes of China, page 41
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pierced (at the apex); perforated.
tractoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tractor + -ation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Perkinism.
elaeolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elaeolites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil, oil”) + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of nepheline, usually massive and of a greasy lustre and grey to reddish colour.
elaeolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elaeolite
dissyllabize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dissyllabizes
form: dissyllabizing
form: dissyllabized
form: dissyllabized
Etymology: From dis- + syllabize.
Senses: glosses: To form or split into two syllables.
dissyllabized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dissyllabize
dissyllabizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dissyllabize
dissyllabizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dissyllabize
peonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peon + -ism.
Senses: examples: March 7 1850, Daniel Webster, speech delivered in the Senate
I understand that peonism, a sort of penal servitude, exists there, or rather a sort of voluntary sale of a man and his offspring for debt
glosses: peonage
synteretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synteretic
form: most synteretic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συντηρητικός (suntērētikós, “preservative”). See synteresis for more.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Preserving health; prophylactic.
Related terms: synteresis
countwheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countwheels
Etymology: From count + wheel.
Senses: synonyms: pattern wheel
glosses: The wheel in a clock that regulates the number of strokes.
countwheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countwheel
stomapod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomapods
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Stomapoda, a formerly used order of crustaceans corresponding to order Stomatopoda of mantis shrimp.
stomapods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomapod
substruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: substructs
form: substructing
form: substructed
form: substructed
Etymology: See substruction.
Senses: examples: text: He substructs the religion of Asia as the base.
ref: 1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, s:Representative Men/Plato; or, the Philosopher:
qualifier: literal
glosses: To build beneath something; to lay as the foundation.
substructed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of substruct
substructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of substruct
substructs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of substruct
apanthropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apo- + -anthropy. See also apanthropinisation.
Senses: glosses: A dislike of human company; love of solitude.
Related terms: apanthrope
apanthropic
Tyburn ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tyburn tickets
Etymology: Tyburn was formerly a place of execution in England.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A certificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting them from certain parish and ward offices.
wikipedia: Tyburn
Tyburn tickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tyburn ticket
speiskobalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Speiskobalt.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of smaltite.
synonyms: word: smaltite
clinanthia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clinanthium
clinanthium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clinanthia
Etymology: From clino- (“bed”) + Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos) + -ium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; the clinium.
branglement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brangle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: hold a branglement with someone
glosses: a squabble, a tiff
switchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɪtʃi
Forms: form: more switchy
form: switchier
form: most switchy
form: switchiest
Etymology: From switch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And now, perhaps, her switchy tail
Hangs on a barn-door, from a nail
ref: 1812, William Coombe, The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque:
glosses: Having a whisking or wagging motion.
examples: text: I'm switchier than my boyfriend; I'm fine with either topping or bottoming, whereas he's only comfortable with bottoming.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sex
sexuality
synonyms: versatile
vers
glosses: Versatile; not exclusively a top or a bottom, or inclined to switch between sadistic and masochistic roles.
switchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɪtʃi
Forms: form: switchies
Etymology: From switch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, this shit gettin wicked now
Hit his ass with the switchy now
My net worth 'bout a ticket now
I ain't never put my glizzy down
ref: 2023 September 18, “It’s Nothing / Spiritual Outro” (track 15, 0:20 from the start), in Summrs (lyrics), What We Didn’t Have:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A Glock switch.
papyrography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From papyro- + -graphy and papyrograph + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Papyrotype, Papyrography, or Papyrotint, modifications of photo-lithography, in which paper is used as material on which the original transfer is made.
ref: 1897, Edward J. Wall, Dictionary of Photography, 7th ed., p. 435
glosses: Synonym of papyrotype, a form of photolithography using paper.
synonyms: word: papyrotype
extra: a form of photolithography using paper
glosses: Synonym of mimeography by means of a stencil called a papyrograph.
synonyms: word: mimeography by means of a stencil called a papyrograph
Related terms: papyrograph
papyrographer
papyrographic
overpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overposts
Etymology: From over- + post.
Senses: examples: text: On Feb. 1, 1879, I discover that, though the Ledger of 1878 had been closed and balanced, the amount brought forward as due by W. Tarn should have been £52 14s. id. (not £32 15s. id.); and this is found to have been caused by an overpost to his credit from a correct Journal entry.
ref: 1883, John Hunter, Supplementary book-keeping by double entry, page 28:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: An entry that has been posted more than once to a journal.
examples: text: Mapping programs such as SACM have automatic overpost deletion routines but useful data often are eliminated.
ref: 1980, Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, Petroleum exploration:
text: Even when the plot scale allows sufficient space for posting, overposts can occur because of the orientation of the lines.
ref: 1985, William R. Green, Computer-Aided Data Analysis: A Practical Guide, page 124:
text: Figure 1 shows the use of the overpost environment to reposition text.
ref: 1995, Cartography and Geographic Information Systems:
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: An overlap of two graphic elements.
overposted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpost
overposting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpost
overposts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpost
overposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overpost
volumenometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volumenometer
stereometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereometers
Etymology: From stereo- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the solid contents of a body, or the capacity of a vessel; a volumenometer.
glosses: An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid or porous bodies or powders, as well as solids.
stereometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereometer
theophanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theophany + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to theophany.
taenidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taenidium
taenidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taenidia
Etymology: From Latin taenia (“ribbon”) + -idium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The chitinous fibre forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects
Derived terms: taenidial
mouillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mouillé + -ation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The act of uttering the sound of a mouillé letter.
Sclavonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skləˈvəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /skləˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Sclavonian
form: most Sclavonian
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Slavonian.
Sclavonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skləˈvəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /skləˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Sclavonians
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Slavonian.
Sclavonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sclavonian
parochian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parochian
form: most parochian
Etymology: Latin parochianus.
Senses: examples: text: parochian churches
ref: 1604, Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the better pacification and Edification of the Church of England:
glosses: parochial
parochian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parochians
Etymology: Latin parochianus.
Senses: examples: text: If the Lord of a Mannor claim the Tythes of such Lands in D. to finde a Chaplain in D. and the Parochians claim them also for the same purpose , ' tis said for Law, that the Lay Court shall have jurisdiction betwixt them, and not the Spiritual Court
ref: 1578, Robert Brooke, New Cases in the time of Henry VIII:
glosses: A parishioner.
parochians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parochian
chrysophanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chrysophanic
form: most chrysophanic
Etymology: From chrysophane + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: chrysophanic reaction
glosses: Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling chrysophane.
Derived terms: chrysophanic acid
by-view
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-views
Etymology: From by- + view.
Senses: examples: text: [N]o Man's Importunities ſhall weary him, no Man's Flattery ſhall bribe him, no By-views of his own ſhall miſlead him: He will arm himſelf perfectly in his Integrity; […]
ref: 1706 October 9 (Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Sermon Preach’d in the Guild-Hall Chapel, London, Sept. 28. 1706. Being the Day of the Election of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 415:
glosses: A private or selfish view; a self-interested aim or purpose.
by-views
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of by-view
belly-god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belly-gods
Senses: examples: text: The deck-hands were Cantonese, and, as is well known to worshippers of the belly-god, they eat their rice seasoned.
ref: 1936 January 1, The World's New, Sydney, page 19, column 2:
text: For the moment speech failed him, so active were his gastric Juices. The belly god in him was passionately aroused.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 181:
glosses: A supposed god of appetite, food, and eating.
glosses: A lover of food; a glutton; an epicure. See Thesaurus:glutton
belly-gods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belly-god
pharmacognosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φάρμακον (phármakon, “drug”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”).
Senses: glosses: pharmacognosy
Synonyms: pharmacography
pharmacomathy
anthraconite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthraconites
Etymology: See anthracite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A coal-black variety of calcite or dolomite, usually emitting a foetid smell when rubbed.
Synonyms: stinkstone
swinestone
anthraconites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthraconite
elodian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elodians
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of tortoises (Elodites obs.) including the terrapins, in which the head and neck can be withdrawn.
Synonyms: marsh tortoise
elodians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elodian
sarcasmous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sɑː(ɹ)ˈkæzməs/
Forms: form: more sarcasmous
form: most sarcasmous
Etymology: From sarcasm + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: sarcasmous scandal
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: sarcastic
fetation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetations
form: foetation
Senses: glosses: The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.
Derived terms: exfetation
multifetation
multifoetation
superfetation
fetations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetation
parethmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛθmɔɪd
Etymology: From para- + ethmoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals.
parethmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛθmɔɪd
Forms: form: parethmoids
Etymology: From para- + ethmoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A parethmoid bone.
parethmoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parethmoid
egrimonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egrimony
egrimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egrimonies
Etymology: Latin aegrimonia.
Senses: examples: text: They could not help themselves, being so slow-blooded, and hard to stir even by their own egrimonies).
ref: 1895, R. D. Blackmore, Slain By The Doones, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 1:
glosses: sorrow
glosses: Obsolete spelling of agrimony.
peterel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peterels
Senses: examples: text: The great peterel is as large as the common albatross, and is carnivorous.
ref: 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of petrel.
peterels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peterel
mutacism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mytacism.
standgale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standgales
Senses: glosses: the kestrel
standgales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standgale
elaolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of elaeolite.
argutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argutations
Etymology: From Latin argutatio. See argue.
Senses: glosses: nitpicking; arguing about trivialities
argutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argutation
bordland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bordlands
Etymology: bordar (or perhaps bord (“a board”)) + land.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The land held by a bordar.
topics: law
glosses: The land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.
bordlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bordland
perisoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perisomata
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A perisome.
perisomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perisoma
momot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: momots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of motmot.
momots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of momot
equisetaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Equisetaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Belonging to the Equisetaceae, or horsetails.
whirlwig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whirlwigs
Etymology: Compare earwig.
Senses: glosses: A whirligig beetle.
whirlwigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whirlwig
Grayan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Grayan
form: most Grayan
Etymology: From Gray + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Asa Gray (1810–1888), American botanist.
faule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: faules
Senses: examples: text: To guild thy Tombe; beſides, theſe Caules, / Theſe Laces, Ribbands, and theſe Faules, / Theſe Veiles, vvherevvith vve uſe to hide / The Baſhfull Bride, / VVhen vve conduct her to her Groome: / All, all vve lay upon thy Tombe.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “[His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, […].] The Dirge of Jephthahs Daughter: Sung by the Virgins.”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, stanza 8, page 27:
glosses: A fall or falling band.
faules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faule
neoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoplasty
neoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoplasties
Etymology: From neo- + -plasty. See neoplasia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty.
encharge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encharges
form: encharging
form: encharged
form: encharged
Etymology: Old French enchargier.
Senses: examples: text: he had the art of setting them express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with
ref: 1806, Francis Jeffrey, “Memoirs of Cumberland”, in The Edinburgh Review April 1806:
glosses: To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
Related terms: in charge
encharged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encharge
encharges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encharge
encharging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encharge
astroite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astroites
Etymology: Latin astroites: compare French astroite.
Senses: examples: text: The true Aſtroites, vvhich in the ſun-ſhine throvvs out a briſk light radiating from one certain point, belongs to the claſs of Pellucids.
ref: [1735?], Herman Boerhaave, “Being a Delineation of the Theory. [Of Stones.]”, in [anonymous], transl., Elements of Chemistry. Being the Annual Lectures of Hermann Boerhaave, M.D. […], volume I, London: […] J. Clarke […], and S. Austen […]; and sold by J. Roberts […], →OCLC, page 33:
synonyms: astrion
astrite
glosses: A radiated fossil or stone; a starstone.
astroites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astroite
homodynamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homodynamies
Etymology: From homo- + Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”).
Senses: examples: text: 2 ) Homodynamy (equivalent to the general homology of Owen, and partly also to his serial homology) subsists between parts of the body which are affected by a general morphological phaenomenon serially expressed in the organism.
ref: 1878, Carl Gegenbaur, Elements of comparative anatomy:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The homology of metameres.
Derived terms: homodynamic
homodynamous
Related terms: homodyne
isodynamic
isodynamous
homonomy
homomorphism
campanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campane
gauffre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gauffres
Etymology: See gopher.
Senses: examples: text: There, too, may be seen the “barking-wolf” and the “swift fox.” It is the favourite home of the marmots, and the gauffres or sand-rats; and there, too, the noblest of animals, the horse, runs wild.
ref: 1854, Thomas Mayne Reid, chapter 1, in The Young Voyageurs:
glosses: A gopher, especially the pocket gopher.
examples: text: It had the same laxness in texture that all organic structures seem to have upon the moon; it tasted rather like a gauffre or a damp meringue, but in no way was it disagreeable.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter XIII, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 150:
glosses: A waffle.
gauffres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gauffre
alcalimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcalimeters
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of alkalimeter.
alcalimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcalimeter
dentize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dentizes
form: dentizing
form: dentized
form: dentized
Etymology: From Latin dens, dentis (“tooth”).
Senses: examples: text: The old countess […] did dentize twice or thrice.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To teethe.
Synonyms: cut new teeth
breed teeth
dentized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dentize
dentizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dentize
dentizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dentize
écrémage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French écrémage
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A surrealist automatic art technique in which paint or ink is floated on water and then skimmed off by passing stiff paper or cardboard just under the surface.
spuilzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spuilzies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spulzie.
spuilzie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spuilzies
form: spuilzieing
form: spuilzied
form: spuilzied
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spulzie.
spuilzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spuilzie
catalogize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catalogizes
form: catalogizing
form: catalogized
form: catalogized
Senses: examples: 1696, Samuel Jeake (the Younger), Λογιστολογία, or Arithmetick surveighed and reviewed
Nor shall I undertake to exhibit a Narrative of the rise, growth, production or propagation of Arithmetick, nor yet to catalogize so much as the Englih Authors thereof
glosses: To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue.
catalogized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catalogize
catalogizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catalogize
catalogizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catalogize
scholion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skōʹlĭŏn
ipa: /ˈskəʊlɪɒn/
homophone: scolion
Forms: form: scholia
form: scholions
Etymology: From New Latin scholion, from Ancient Greek σχόλῐον (skhólĭon, “interpretation, comment”).
Senses: examples: text: Hereunto haue I added a certain Glosse, or scholion, for thexposition of old wordes.
ref: 1579, E. K., Spenser’s Sheph. Cal., Dedication:
ref: 1616, T. Brightman, The Revelation of S. Iohn illustrated with an Analysis and scholions., main title
ref: 1706, Phillips, edited by Kersey, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
text: A judgment which follows immediately from another, is sometimes called a Corollary or Consectary. One which does not belong to the science in which it appears, but is taken from another, is called a Lemma. One which illustrates in some way the science where it appears, but is not an integrant part of it, is a Scholion.
ref: 1842, William Thomson, Outline of the Laws of Thought, London · Oxford: William Pickering · William Graham, PART II. — JUDGMENTS. (pages 53–80), § 39. — Corollary or Consectary, Lemma, Scholion., page 80:
text: An ancient Scholion, recently discovered, names four poets who worked under that prince [Pisistratus].
ref: 1858, Gladstone, Homer, volume I, page 53:
text: The opinion that the Lady is a Church is mentioned…by an ancient scholion.
ref: 1882, Farrar, Early Chr., volume II, page 487, note:
glosses: A scholium.
infaust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infaust
form: most infaust
Etymology: From Latin īnfaustus, from in- (“not”) + faustus (“fortunate, lucky”).
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, it was an infaust and sinister augury for Austin Caxton[.]
ref: 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons: A Family Picture:
text: While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give.
ref: 1989, François Rabelais, “An Epistle by Pantagruel's Limosin”, in The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais:
glosses: Unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a prognosis: Poor, grim.