cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
neck up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: necks up
form: necking up
form: necked up
form: necked up
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: to increase the size of a cartridge's chamber and calibre.
Related terms: neck down
fireform
lightning never strikes twice in the same place
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: lightning never strikes the same place twice
Senses: glosses: Something is not affected in the same way twice.
glosses: Opportunities never appear recurrently.
Derived terms: lightning never strikes twice
dorylines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doryline
quenouilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quenouille
boothman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boothmen
Etymology: From booth + -man. Cognate with Scots buthman (“a shop-keeper”). In some cases, such as translations of Norse sagas, use of the word (to mean "one who mans a booth") was probably reinforced by the cognate Old Norse búðarmaðr (Icelandic búðarmaður).
Senses: examples: text: A little later a man came running and he called urgently for Leif Ossursson, bade him go in haste to Gilli lawspeaker's booth: — Sigurd Thorlaksson ran in through the doorflap there and he wounded one of his boothmen to the death.
ref: 1994, George Johnston, Thrand of Gotu: two Icelandic sagas from the Flat Island book, page 108:
text: He had seen the boothmen and horse dealers at fairs playing brightly colored cards, and gentlemen at Shea's with their cards, cigars, and brandies.
ref: 2007, Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams, page 186:
text: […] an illusionist, a wrestler offering to take on all comers. Children ran among the booths, and couples strolled arm in arm. Fiddlers and drummers played, boothmen bawled out their wares, animals for sale bleated or lowed or clucked.
ref: 2010, Anna Kendall, Crossing Over:
glosses: One who mans a booth, such as at a fair or (historically) a Thing.
examples: text: He was not a native of Newcastle, but bad apparently come from the country in youth to serve his apprenticeship as a boothman, or corn merchant; had gone, when out of his time, to gain experience of commercial life in Germany; and […]
ref: 1890, Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, volume 4, page 540:
text: He served his time to a boothman or corn-merchant of Newcastle, and married Elizabeth, daughter of John Stephenson of Newcastle and Knaresdale. Through the death of both of his brothers, he inherited the patrimonial estates […]
ref: 1894, Maberly Phillips, A History of Banks, Bankers, & Banking in Northumberland, Durham, & North Yorkshire, page 395:
text: John Fenwick was apprenticed on 31 May 1612 to Robert Bewick of Newcastle upon Tyne, boothman.
ref: 2008, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:
glosses: A corn merchant, especially one in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
examples: text: Two veteran eastern Connecticut boothmen died recently: Irwin Dawley, 55, projectionist at the Stanley Warner Garde, […]
ref: 1958, Motion Picture Herald, volumes 212-213, page 23:
glosses: A projectionist at a movie theater.
coyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɪ.ɪʃ/
Forms: form: more coyish
form: most coyish
Etymology: From coy + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He tooke her in his armes, as yet ſo coyiſh to be kiſt / As Mayds that knovv themſelues belou'd and yeeldingly reſiſt.
ref: 1602, William Warner, “The Eight Booke. Chapter XLII.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 202:
glosses: Somewhat coy.
Derived terms: coyishly
coyishness
postscapular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + scapular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the postscapula
heroess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heroesses
Etymology: From hero + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A heroine; a female hero.
heroesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heroess
boarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boarish
form: most boarish
Etymology: From boar + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Because I would not see thy cruel nails
Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister
In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: swinish; brutal; cruel
Derived terms: boarishly
boarishness
imploratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imploratory
form: most imploratory
Etymology: From Latin implōrātus + English -atory (suffix forming adjectives of, relating to, or connected with [the specified thing]). Implōrātus is the perfect passive participle of implōrō (“to beseech, entreat, implore; to appeal to, pray to”): see further at implore.
Senses: examples: text: On the 21st of March goes off that long exculpatory imploratory Letter: it is the first Letter that went off from Cardinal to Queen[.]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The Diamond Necklace:
glosses: Entreating, supplicatory.
dialypetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διαλύω (dialúō, “separate”) + Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon, “leaf”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having separate petals; polypetalous.
sylviculturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sylviculturists
form: silviculturist
Etymology: From sylviculture + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who cultivates forest trees, especially as a business; a forester.
sylviculturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sylviculturist
snow-apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow-apples
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snow apple.
snow-apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow-apple
snow apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow apples
form: snow-apple
Senses: examples: text: In color and form the Shiawassee Beauty mostly resembles the Snow apple, but attains a larger size and is more tart, hence better for culinary purposes.
ref: 1873, “The Shiawassee Beauty”, in Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society, page 461:
text: Hundreds of thousands of the snow apple seeds have been planted, giving hundreds of thousands of first-rate exemplar apples with an occasional superman, like the McIntosh red.
ref: 1915, Robert Tuttle Morris, Microbes and Men, page 478:
glosses: An heirloom variety of apple, with white flesh.
snow apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow apple
Alberton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.bɚ.tən/
rhymes: -ælbə(ɹ)tən
Etymology: From Albert + -ton.
The town in Prince Edward Island is named after then-prince Edward VII (1841 - 1910).
Senses: glosses: A town in Montana.
glosses: A township in Ontario.
synonyms: Cross Roads
glosses: A town in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
glosses: A town in Gauteng Province, South Africa.
glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
Zelig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛlɪɡ/
Forms: form: Zeligs
Etymology: From the surname of the character Leonard Zelig from the 1983 film Zelig who meets many famous people in the 1920s and 1930s and, apparently out of his desire to fit in and be liked, unwittingly takes on the characteristics of the strong personalities around him.
Senses: synonyms: chameleon
glosses: An ordinary person who can change their appearance or behavior to suit their surroundings, especially one who is unexpectedly associated with important events or people.
glosses: An unimportant person who appears at multiple important events.
Derived terms: Zeligesque
Zelig-like
Zelig-like syndrome
Zelig syndrome
herborise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: herborises
form: herborising
form: herborised
form: herborised
Senses: examples: text: At the end of September in the year 1829, Ehrenberg and myself also herborised on the Samara, during our journey from Orenburg and Uralsk to Saratow and the Caspian Sea.
ref: 1850, Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander Humboldt, Views of nature:
text: Whilst Dr Weddell herborised, adding nearly a hundred species of plants to his collection, the engineer studied the Lancha with other views, and at last resolved to sound it.
ref: 1853, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 74, page 147:
glosses: Alternative form of herborize.
herborises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of herborise
capitatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: os capitatum
glosses: The capitate bone of the wrist.
Anahita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Anaïtis
form: Anahit
form: Nahid
Etymology: From Old Persian 𐎠𐎴𐏃𐎡𐎫 (a-n-h-i-t /⁠anahita⁠/).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An Iranian goddess associated with fertility, healing and wisdom.
negative crystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative crystals
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A uniaxial crystal, such as one of calcite, in which the extraordinary wave travels faster than the ordinary wave
glosses: A crystal that contains a cavity
Artaxerxes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːtə(ɡ)ˈzɜːksiːz/
Forms: form: Artaxerxeses
Etymology: From Latin Artaxerxēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀρταξέρξης (Artaxérxēs), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐎫𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎠 (a-r-t-x-š-ç-a /⁠R̥taxšaçāʰ⁠/, “whose rule is through truth”). Akin to Old Armenian Արտաշէս (Artašēs) and Persian اردشیر (ardašir).
Senses: glosses: The name of several Achaemenid kings of Persia.
Related terms: word: Ardashir
word: Ardeshir
word: Artaxias
word: Artashes
word: Ardashes
analyzis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of analysis.
paralyzis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralyzes
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of paralysis.
aukwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aukwardly
form: most aukwardly
Etymology: From aukward + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of awkwardly.
aukwardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aukwardnesses
Etymology: From aukward + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural aukwardness.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 220:
glosses: Obsolete form of awkwardness.
maukish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maukish
form: most maukish
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mawkish.
clowd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clowds
Senses: glosses: Early Modern form of cloud.
clowd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clowds
form: clowding
form: clowded
form: clowded
Senses: glosses: Early Modern form of cloud.
intemperaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intemperance.
respiratory rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respiratory rates
Senses: glosses: The number of breaths taken in a specified time (usually a minute)
Related terms: bradypnea
eupnea
tachypnea
appointor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appointors
Etymology: From appoint + -or.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: appointer, the person who appoints.
appointors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appointor
catechetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin catēchēticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κατηχητικός (katēkhētikós), from κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “catechize”).
Senses: glosses: Religious teaching, especially that given to children before confirmation.
glosses: The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers.
Related terms: catechism
endable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From end + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be ended; terminable.
modist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modists
Etymology: From French modiste.
Senses: glosses: A follower of fashion.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A supporter of modism.
Related terms: modiste
modists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modist
secondariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From secondary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To follow all his movements and thoughts as well as she could with wistful secondariness
ref: 1884, Margaret Oliphant, The Wizard's Son:
glosses: The state of being secondary.
succiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more succiferous
form: most succiferous
Etymology: From Latin sūcus + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: succiferous vessels
glosses: Producing or conveying sap.
hystrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: ichthyosis hystrix
& ux.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of et ux..
comp stomp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comp stomps
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A competitive game against one or more computer-controlled players.
anniversarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anniversary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1617-1618, Joseph Hall, Letter to Mr. William Struthers
[…] a day was appointed by public authority, next before Mardokee's feast, to be kept anniversarily sacred unto the memory of that deliverance and victory […]
text: I might have gone farther back than that fatal seventh ; which , for the future , I will never see anniversarily revolve but in sables
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: annually
bruisewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bruiseworts
Etymology: From bruise + wort.
Senses: glosses: Any plant supposed to heal bruises, such as soapwort, comfrey, or the common daisy
bruiseworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bruisewort
electrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrographs
Etymology: From electro- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A machine used in gravure printing
coordinate_terms: electrogram
glosses: A recording electrometer; also, the graph produced by such a device.
glosses: An instrument for the reproduction at a distance of pictures, maps, etc., by means of electricity.
glosses: A sciagraph.
glosses: A cinematograph using the arclight.
Derived terms: electrographic
electrography
photoelectrograph
electrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrograph
intreatful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intreatful
form: most intreatful
Senses: examples: text: With humble Prayers and intreatfull Tears
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 6:
glosses: Obsolete form of entreatful.
sulphaurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphaurates
Etymology: From sulphauric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of sulphauric acid.
sulphaurates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphaurate
tarsalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarsale
despotist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: despotists
Etymology: From despot + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of despotism, or a despotic ruler.
despotists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of despotist
oratorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oratorizes
form: oratorizing
form: oratorized
form: oratorized
Etymology: From orator + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: In this order they reached the magistrate's house; the chairmen trotting, the prisoners following, Mr. Pickwick oratorizing, and the crowd shouting.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: To play the orator.
oratorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oratorize
oratorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oratorize
oratorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oratorize
terminalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The terminalia consist of the terminal complex of modified genital and anal segments, plus any adjacent segments that show modifications for copulation and oviposition.
ref: 1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Part of the documentation includes the first detailed illustrations and descriptions of structures of the male terminalia.
ref: 2005, “Revision of New World Species of Shore Fly Genus Discomyza Meigen (Diptera: Ephydridae)”, in Annals of the Entomological Society of America^(http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2005)098%5B0431:RONWSO%5D2.0.CO;2), volume 98, number 4, page 431:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The hindmost segments of the abdomen of an insect, modified for reproduction.
Synonyms: postabdomen
hypopygium
bisaccate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + saccate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches.
examples: bisaccate pollen
glosses: Having two sacci.
bisaccate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisaccates
Etymology: From bi- + saccate.
Senses: glosses: Such an organism
shopboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopboards
Etymology: From shop + board.
Senses: glosses: A tradesman's counter or table where goods for sale are displayed.
examples: text: [N]or is there any place to let your legs hang down in, passengers sitting upon a platform like tailors on their shopboard.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206
glosses: A workbench or platform on which a tradesman, especially a tailor, sits to work.
shopboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopboard
hydrofluate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrofluates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A supposed compound of hydrofluoric acid and a base; a fluoride.
hydrofluates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrofluate
teemless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From teem + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a teemless earth
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: unfruitful, unprolific, or barren.
subdilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + dilated.
Senses: glosses: Partially dilated.
isodimorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + dimorphism.
Senses: glosses: isomorphism between the two forms of two dimorphous substances, in which each form of one is isomorphic with a form of the other.
futurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From future + -able. Compare Spanish futurible.
Senses: examples: text: But what the issue of this conference concluded would have been, is only known to Him, who knew what the men of Keilah would do (1 Sam. xxiii. 12), and whose prescience extends not only to things future, but futurable […]
ref: 1845, John Nicholas Bennett, The Church History of Britain:
text: Man projects the future as futurable (possible).
ref: 1979, Parviz Morewedge, Islamic Philosophical Theology, page 78:
text: By contrast to his crystal-clear, futurable insights, however, the 'furious reporter' leaves us very much in the dark with regard to what's going on right now.
ref: 1985, Jacob L. Mey, Whose Language?: A study in Linguistic Pragmatics, page 319:
glosses: Capable of existing or occurring in the future: possible.
Synonyms: possible
saltmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltmouths
Etymology: From salt + mouth.
Senses: glosses: A wide-mouthed bottle with glass bung for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.
saltmouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltmouth
inalimental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From in- + alimental.
Senses: examples: text: The dulcoration of things is worthy to be tried to the full ; for that dulcoration importeth a degree to nourishment : and the making of things inalimental , to become alimental , may be an experiment of great profit for making new victual
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not nourishing.
spoonworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoonworms
Etymology: From spoon + worm.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spoon worm.
glosses: Alternative form of spoon worm.
A worm of the genus Thalassema, with a spoon-like proboscis.
spoonworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoonworm
rinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rinkers
Etymology: From rink + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who skates at a rink.
rinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rinker
unhumourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhumourous
form: most unhumourous
Etymology: From un- + humourous.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of unhumorous.
inheritour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inheritours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of inheritor.
sailours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sailour
Flysch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The lower part of the rock section over which you have just climbed is the Flysch: dark grey slaty rocks that come out in small shards if you pick at them with your fingers.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 84:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A set of tertiary strata in the Alps.
indecence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indecences
Senses: examples: text: an indecence of barbarity
ref: 1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]:
glosses: Obsolete form of indecency.
inframundane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + mundane.
Senses: glosses: Lying or situated beneath the world.
glosses: Of or relating to the underworld
disvouch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disvouches
form: disvouching
form: disvouched
form: disvouched
Etymology: From dis- + vouch.
Senses: examples: text: Every letter he hath writ hath disvouch'd other
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: To discredit or contradict.
disvouched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disvouch
disvouches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disvouch
disvouching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disvouch
gardenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gardenly
form: most gardenly
Etymology: From garden + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Pulse […] are, in the ordinary practice of the district, planted by women, and hoed by women and children, once, twice, and sometimes thrice; giving the crop, when the soil is sufficiently free from root weeds, a gardenly appearance; which is beautiful to the eye, in the former part of the summer […]
ref: 1796, William Marshall, The Rural Economy of Glocestershire:
glosses: Like a garden.
taverning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tavernings
Etymology: From tavern + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the misrule of our tavernings
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: A frequenting at taverns.
tavernings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taverning
bogsucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bogsuckers
Etymology: From bog + sucker, from its habit of feeding among bogs.
Senses: glosses: The American woodcock.
bogsuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bogsucker
broadish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From broad + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat broad.
gypsoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypsoplasts
Senses: glosses: A cast produced with plaster of Paris, or in white lime.
Related terms: gypsum
gypsoplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gypsoplast
apprenticeage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apprentisage
Etymology: From French apprentissage.
Senses: examples: text: We betray our apprentisage.
ref: , II.27
glosses: Apprenticeship.
cerotene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerotenes
Etymology: From Latin cerotum (“a pomade”). See cerate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.
inevidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + evidence.
Senses: examples: text: in the obscurity, or inevidence of riches
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Duty and Reward of Bounty to the Poor”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Lack of evidence; obscurity or unclarity
pinule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinules
Etymology: Compare pinnule.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the sights of an astrolabe.
pinules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinule
corymbiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more corymbiferous
form: most corymbiferous
Etymology: Latin corymbifer.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.
dragoonade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragoonades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dragonnade.
dragoonades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragoonade
misexposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misexpositions
Etymology: From mis- + exposition.
Senses: examples: text: misexposition from the gospel
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: Wrong exposition.
Morphean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːˈfiːən/
ipa: /ˈmɔːfi.ən/
Forms: form: more Morphean
form: most Morphean
Etymology: From Morpheus + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Then by the bed-side, where the faded moon / Made a dim, silver twilight, soft he set / A table, and, half anguish'd, threw thereon / A cloth of woven crimson, gold and jet:— / O for some drowsy Morphean amulet!
ref: 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXIX, page 97:
text: The laird did not awake in any reasonable time; for, he being overcome with fatigue and wassail, his sleep became sounder, and his Morphean measures more intense.
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 8:
glosses: Pertaining to Morpheus; sleepy, soporific, oneiric.
divorcible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divorcible
form: most divorcible
Etymology: From divorce + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: If therfore the minde cannot have that due society by mariage , that it may reasonably and humanly desire , it can bee no human society , and so not without reason divorcible
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of divorceable.
disinthrallment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disenthrallment
form: disenthralment
Senses: glosses: liberation from thralldom or slavery.
innumerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin innumerabilitas.
Senses: examples: text: Thus he reiecteth this innumerability of Causes
ref: 1622, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix:
glosses: The state of being innumerable.
furriery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜɹ.i.əɹ.i/
Forms: form: furrieries
Senses: examples: text: For smaller furrieries and edgings, the skins of the MARTEN, the SQUIRREL, the ERMINE, the RABBIT and the MARMOTTE are the choicest
ref: 1799, William Tooke, A View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine II and to the close of the present Century:
glosses: Furs in general.
examples: text: hide unfit for furriery
glosses: The business of a furrier; the fur trade.
turnbroach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnbroaches
Etymology: From turn + broach.
Senses: examples: text: Has not a deputy married his cook-maid? An alderman's widow, one that was her turnbroach?
ref: c. 1613, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene i:
glosses: A turnspit.
turnbroaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnbroach
dispansion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dispand + -sion.
Senses: examples: text: A pleasing variety is produced in the third (in the second part particularly), by the dispansion of the leading feature of this variation between the treble and base, beginning at the 9th bar.
ref: 1814 June, “Review of Maience Waltz, with Variations for the Piano-Forte, by Gelinek”, in The London Review and Literary Journal, page 508:
text: The Mutiny Acts, since our armies have been more numerous […] and liable, from their magnitude and dispansion, to increased danger, from secret abuses, have furnished new clauses from time to time […]
ref: 1816, E. Samuel, An Historical Account of the British Army, and of the Law Military, […], page 514:
text: Volumes might be written on the necessity of commencing aright, by one who feels that a thorough and Christian reform is needed in the early education of children; one who has himself labored patiently and untiringly for the dispansion of true and just principles; […]
ref: 1843 October, D. H. G——h, “Education”, in The Millennial Harbinger […], volume 7, number 10, page 449:
glosses: Act of dispanding, i.e. spreading out, or state of being dispanded.
vendibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vendibilities
Senses: examples: text: Their cost price is also the measure of the marginal vendibility of the commodity. Marginal cost and marginal vendibility thus coincide; and when they coincide, there is equilibrium.
ref: 2013, Frank W. Taussig, Principles of Economics, volume I:
synonyms: sellability
antonyms: invendibility
glosses: The quality or state of being vendible, or salable.
hexdecyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hex- + decyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The essential radical, C₁₆H₃₃, of hecdecane.
Derived terms: hexdecylic
infestuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infestuous
form: most infestuous
Etymology: From Latin infestus. See infest (adjective).
Senses: examples: 1593, Thomas Nashe, Christs Teares over Jerusalem, London: Andrewe Wise, Ronald B. McKerrow (editor), The Works of Thomas Nashe, London: A.H. Bullen, 1904, Volume 2, p. 69,
The Store-houses burnt, the siege harde plyed, the waste of victuals great, the husbanding of them none at all, there fell such an infestuous unsaciable famine amongst them, that if all the stones of Jerusalem had been bread, and they should have tyred on them, yet woulde they have beene behind hand with their appetite.
1691, Arthur Gorges (translator), The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1609), London, “Perseus, or War,” p. 24,
Perseus is said to have been employed by Pallas for the destroying of Medusa, who was very infestuous to the Western Parts of the World, and especially about the utmost Coasts of Hiberia.
1919, Frederick Palmer, Our Greatest Battle (The Meuse-Argonne), New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., Chapter 11, p. 185,
Both division reports speak of having taken Varennes, which is well spread on the river banks. There was room enough for the troops of both to operate, with plenty of work for both to do before their common efforts had cleared the ruins of their infestuous occupants.
1996, Jim Wright, Balance of Power: Presidents and Congress from the Era of McCarthy to the Age of Gingrich, Turner Publications, p. 308,
The PLO, egged on by Khadafi of Libya and Saddam Hussein of Iraq, became an infestuous thorn in Jordanian King Hussein’s side, and virtually overran Lebanon.
glosses: Mischievous; harmful; dangerous.
inordinacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inordinacies
Senses: examples: text: crucify all inordinacy and irregularity
ref: 1644, Jeremy Taylor, Devotions for the Help and Assistance of all Christian People:
glosses: The state or quality of being inordinate; excessiveness.
dispeopler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispeoplers
Etymology: From dispeople + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I, nor chuſe to bear / The thieviſh nightly net, not barbed ſpear: / Nor drain I ponds the golden carp to take, / Nor trovvle for pikes, diſpeoplers of the lake.
ref: 1713, John Gay, “Rural Sports. A Georgic. Inscribed to Mr. [Alexander] Pope.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, volume I, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], and Bernard Lintot, […], published 1720, →OCLC, page 16, lines 261–264:
glosses: One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.
dispeoplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispeopler
reinstallment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinstallments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reinstalment.
reinstallments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinstallment
unpopularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpopularly
form: most unpopularly
Etymology: From unpopular + -ly.
Senses: antonyms: popularly
glosses: In a manner which is not popular.
brainsickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more brainsickly
form: most brainsickly
Etymology: From brainsick + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: LADY MACBETH. […] You do unbend your noble strength, to think
So brainsickly of things.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: In a brainsick manner.
poisonsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poisonsome
form: most poisonsome
Etymology: From poison + -some.
Senses: examples: text: of a poisonsome qualitie , very neere to that of Hemlockes
ref: 1597, John Gerard, The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes:
glosses: poisonous
subcentral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + central.
Senses: examples: text: subcentral point
glosses: Under the centre.
examples: text: subcentral coverage
text: subcentral power
text: subcentral government
glosses: Nearly central; not quite central.
wave the bloody shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waves the bloody shirt
form: waving the bloody shirt
form: waved the bloody shirt
form: waved the bloody shirt
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: To mention the fallen and wars (especially the American Civil War) in an effort to draw empathy.
revengefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From revengeful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being revengeful.
extemporally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more extemporally
form: most extemporally
Etymology: From extemporal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an extemporal manner.
commutableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From commutable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: commutability
glosses: The quality of being commutable or interchangeable.
chloridic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chloride + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: chloridic rocks
text: chloridic compounds
glosses: Of, containing, or relating to a chloride.
indeciduous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪndɪˈsɪdjuəs/
Etymology: From in- + deciduous.
Senses: examples: text: the indeciduous and unshaven locks of Apollo
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: undeciduous
glosses: Not deciduous; evergreen; permanent; perennial.
bulblet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulblets
Etymology: From bulb + -let.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of bulbil.
synonyms: word: bulbil
Derived terms: bulblet fern
bulblets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulblet
adjournal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjournals
Etymology: From adjourn + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Availing themselves of an adjournal of the Diet for the Easter holidays
ref: 1827, [Walter Scott], The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), Edinburgh: […] Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, […]; and Cadell & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: adjournment; postponement
Derived terms: act of adjournal
adjournals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjournal
individuator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: individuators
Etymology: From individuate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: it hath the same distinguisher and individuator
ref: 1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:
glosses: Someone or something that individuates.
individuators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of individuator
ISWYDT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: ICWYDT
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I see what you did there.
Related terms: DYSWIDT
powderflask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powderflasks
Etymology: From powder + flask.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of powder flask.
powderflasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powderflask
plainant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plainants
Etymology: See plain (verb).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: someone who makes complaint; the plaintiff.
plainants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plainant
howadji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howadjis
form: howaji
form: howajji
Etymology: From Arabic خَوَاجَا (ḵawājā, “gentleman”), from Persian خواجه (xvâje, “gentleman”). The term came to be applied to merchants because they were formerly the chief travellers. Doublet of hodja.
Senses: examples: text: "O fisherman, have you any fish?" And he held up a string of them and made answer: "O Howadji, I have."
ref: 1854, Bayard Taylor, A Journey to Central Africa; or, Life and Landscapes...:
glosses: A traveller or merchant from the Middle East
howadjis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of howadji
flaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flaily
form: most flaily
Etymology: From flail + -y.
Senses: examples: text: At once all furrows plow, the strugling streams
O're all the main gape wide, boile foamie streams,
With flaly-oares and slicing foredecks fierce,
Which through the bustling billows proudly pierce.
ref: 1632, Virgil, translated by John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil, Book 5:
text: “I hardly think someone as flaily as you can complain about anything.”
“Flaily? That's not even a word,” I huffed, enjoying his arms around me more than I wanted to admit.
“Flaily, as in, one who flails. […] ”
ref: 2016, Alice Clayton, The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered:
glosses: Acting like a flail; flailing.
barway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barways
Etymology: From bar + way.
Senses: examples: text: Through the very middle of the tangle ran the naked trunk of a fallen chestnut, showing just above the barbed vines. As the pack scrambled through the barway at the foot of the hill, the little fox ran along the log, and with all his last remaining strength sprang far out across the interlaced tangle of vine and thorn, where the smooth needles under a little white pine made a tiny island in the thicket.
ref: 1922, Samuel Scoville, Jr., “Blackcross”, in Wild Folk:
text: Something must be done, and his sharp fox wits never stood him in better stead than they did on this memorable chase, for when the hounds came up to the stone wall they followed it for about thirty rods northward and then at a barway, an artificial break in the stone wall, the trail suddenly ended.
ref: 1927, Clarence Hawkes, “Chapter 11”, in Redcoat:
glosses: A passage into a field or yard between a fence or wall, closed by bars that can be lifted out of the posts.
barways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more barways
form: most barways
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: barwise
glosses: Horizontally.
barways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barway
hairen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛəɹən/
Forms: form: more hairen
form: most hairen
Etymology: From Middle English heeren, from Old English hǣren (“made of hair”), from Proto-West Germanic *hārīn, equivalent to hair + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots hairen, hairn, herin (“made of hair”), German hären (“made of hair”).
Senses: examples: text: His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet.
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: Consisting or made of hair
weaponeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weaponeer
intolerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + tolerated.
Senses: examples: May 5, 1767 Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to his son
I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.
glosses: Not tolerated.
stinkball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stinkballs
Etymology: From stink + ball.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odour, formerly used in naval warfare.
glosses: A foul-smelling person or object (often used as an insult)
stinkballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stinkball
athalamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek θάλαμος (thálamos, “bedroom”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, like the thallus of certain lichens.
lieutenantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lieutenant + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: You say true; 'tis so, indeed: if such tricks as
these strip you out of your lieutenantry
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: lieutenancy
imperfectibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of imperfectability.
startingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more startingly
form: most startingly
Etymology: From starting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 57:
glosses: By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
sapiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sapiently
form: most sapiently
Etymology: From sapient + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Sunday, as the Midland timetable sapiently observed, was a dies non in Scotland, yet the N.B.R. [North British Railway], though a Scots company, had a Sunday train; true, it did not work on Scottish soil, as it only ran over the 22 miles of Cumbrian track that connected Carlisle and Silloth.
ref: 1953 August, Basil M. Bazley, “Carlisle in 1905”, in Railway Magazine, page 519:
glosses: In a sapient manner.
subtilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbtɪlɪzəm/
Forms: form: subtilisms
Senses: examples: text: the high orthodox subtilism of Duns Scotus
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: The quality or state of being subtile.
Synonyms: subtility
subtlety
subtilisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtilism
astroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astroscope
brutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more brutely
form: most brutely
Etymology: From brute + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: McDowell's paradigm for such a coercive relationship of world to mind is any account in which the world's impact upon us is brutely causal and that brute causal relationship is taken to have epistemic significance.
ref: 2002, William P. Alston, Realism and antirealism:
synonyms: brutishly
glosses: In a rude or violent manner.
lepid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛpɪd/
Forms: form: more lepid
form: most lepid
Etymology: Latin lepidus.
Senses: examples: 1807-1808, Sydney Smith, Peter Plymley's Letters
the joyous and lepid consul
glosses: pleasant; amusing
defectibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defectibility
defectibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defectibilities
Senses: examples: c. 1660, Henry Jeanes, letter to Jeremy Taylor
opposed unto mutability and defectibility of being
1638-1639, George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, letter to Kenelm Digby
The sufficiency and perfection of Scripture having been been shewed, & likewise the defectibility of that kinde of tradition.
glosses: deficiency; imperfection
earreach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ear + reach.
Senses: examples: text: Hence, Zanthia; Not thou shalt hear; all stand without ear-reach
Of the soft cries
ref: 1606, John Marston, The Wonder of Women:
glosses: earshot