cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unmasque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmasques
form: unmasquing
form: unmasqued
form: unmasqued
Etymology: From un- + masque.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of unmask.
bungy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bungies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bungee.
bungy jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bungy jump
bungy jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bungee jumping.
pacquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pacquets
Senses: examples: text: Dear Bethel, I here broke off, on receiving intelligence that a meſſenger from Marſeilles had a pacquet to deliver to me.
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter XIV. To Mr. Bethel.”, in Desmond. […], volume I, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 276:
text: My maid was inquired for below, and the pacquet delivered into her hands, with an injunction that she should give it me when I was alone, and say it came from a lady at Marseilles.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: Obsolete form of packet.
pacquet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pacquets
form: pacquetting
form: pacquetted
form: pacquetted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of packet.
mocque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mocques
form: mocquing
form: mocqued
form: mocqued
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mock.
mountain biking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
related: word: MTB
word: mountain-biking
word: mountainbiking
glosses: Off-road cycling using a mountain bike.
cryptick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cryptick
form: most cryptick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cryptic.
tabularium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabularia
Senses: examples: text: The unusually long minor septa and the restricted tabularia are features that I have not seen in any other species of Prismatophyllum.
ref: 1940 January, Erwin C. Stumm, “Upper Devonian Rugose Corals of the Nevada Limestone”, in Journal of Paleontology, volume 14, number 1, page 64, column 1:
text: Tabulae are transverse plates which may be flat, convex or concave. They usually occupy a central space or tabularium, and if there is an axial complex they join with it. […] Dissepiments, the small plates usually found towards the edge of the corallum, lie peripheral to the tabularium and like the tabulae are constructed of fibro-normal tissue.
ref: 1979, E[uan] N[eilson] K[err] Clarkson, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, London; Boston, Mass.; Sydney, N.S.W.: George Allen & Unwin, published 1983, →ISBN, page 74, columns 1–2:
text: If further investigation shows that clinotabulae are absent from the Geyerophyllidae and biform tabularia are developed, then the Geyerophyllidae should be placed in synonymy with the Petalaxidae.
ref: 2007, Jerzy Fedorowski, E. Wayne Bamber, Calvin H. Stevens, Lower Permian Colonial Rugose Corals, Western and Northwestern Pangaea: Taxonomy and Distribution, Ottawa, Ont.: NRC Research Press, →ISBN, page 149, column 1:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A central calicle of a coral or hydroid.
venefice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venefices
Etymology: From Latin venēficium.
Senses: glosses: The act or practice of poisoning.
Related terms: veneficial
algarroba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algarrobas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of algaroba.
falcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falcations
Etymology: From falcate + -ion?
Senses: examples: text: the Locuſs have Antenna or long horns before, with a long falcation or forcipated tail behind
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle.
falcations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falcation
mythologian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythologians
Etymology: From mythology + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A mythologist.
mythologians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythologian
predominancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predominancy
predominancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predominancies
Etymology: From predominant + -cy or predominance + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I am not treating of the Predominancy of motions or virtues , but of the Predominancy of parts in bodies
ref: 1620, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum:
glosses: Predominance.
remord
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭmôrdʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈmɔːd/
Forms: form: remords
form: remording
form: remorded
form: remorded
Etymology: From the Middle English remorden, from the Anglo-Norman and Middle French remordre and its etymon the Latin remordeō, from re- + mordeō; compare the Catalan remordir, remordre, the French remordre, the Italian rimordere, the Old Occitan remordre, the Portuguese remorder, and the Spanish remorder.
Senses: examples: text: Beyng meued either with loue or pitie, or other wyse his conscience remording against the destruction of so noble a prince.
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
glosses: To feel remorse.
examples: text: Dyvers People That Remord This Rymyng
Agaynst the Scot
ref: a. 1529, John Skelton, Agaynstethe Scottes:
glosses: To excite to remorse; to rebuke.
remording
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remord
trichinoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichinoscopes
Etymology: From trichina + -o- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for the detection of trichinae or trichinella in the flesh of animals.
Related terms: trichinoscopic
trichinoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichinoscope
triplicostate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See triple and costate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having three ribs.
Synonyms: tricostate
fermionically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fermionic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The topological charge of families of lattice gauge fields is defined fermionically via families index theory for the overlap Dirac operator.
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, fermions.
nightertale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English nyghtertale, alteration of Old Norse náttarþel.
Senses: examples: text: A person (as their books make her) raised up by power divine, only for succour to the French estate, then deeply in distress, in whom, for planting a credit the rather, first the company that towards the Dauphin did conduct her, through all dangerous, as held by the English, where she never was afore, all the way and by nightertale safely did she lead; […]
ref: 1867, Charles Knight, editor, The Pictoral Works of Shakspere: Histories — Volume II, George Routledge & Sons, pages 21–22:
text: All through the nightertale I longed for thee, […]
ref: 1926, Arthur Mache, Notes and Queries, Spurr & Swift, page 14:
text: And since Thomas of Gloucester was Arundel's friend, and only God and His Saints knew which way the redeless King would jump, the future was so dangerful that Edmund of York could neither relish his meat nor sleep sound at nightertale.
ref: 1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John, Arrow Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 44:
text: 'Did I offend thee in my japishness, my son? Or did slumber forsake thee a nightertale last?'
ref: 2011, Arthur D Bardswell, The Poor Preachers: The Adventures of the First Lollards, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 288:
glosses: The period of night; nighttime.
Synonyms: night
nighttide
nighttime
subdiaconate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdiaconates
Etymology: From sub- + diaconate.
Senses: glosses: The office or rank of a subdeacon.
subdiaconate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + diaconate.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a subdeacon, or their office or rank.
subdiaconates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdiaconate
polymitotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + mitotic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to polymitosis.
right now
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ræʔˈnɒ/
Senses: examples: text: I'm not feeling very good right now.
text: May I see the studio? - Um, maybe another time? Right now I am busy.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: At the present moment.
examples: text: You'd better get out of here right now!
glosses: Immediately.
Synonyms: sense: at this precise moment
word: at the moment
word: currently
sense: immediately
word: this instant
word: immediately
word: RN
word: rn
Related terms: right here
antitruncated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitruncated
form: most antitruncated
Etymology: From anti- + truncated.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting antitruncation.
antitruncation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitruncations
Etymology: From anti- + truncation.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The presence of an outer radial surface brightness profile that is distinctly shallower in scope than the main disk profile.
raw_tags: of the disk of a spiral galaxy
Related terms: antitruncated
antitruncations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitruncation
rhomboidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rhomboidally
form: most rhomboidally
Etymology: From rhomboidal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the shape of a rhomboid.
toothbrushings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothbrushing
barehandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: bare-handedly
Etymology: From barehanded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With one's bare hands; without any tool or weapon.
subunitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + unitary.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a subunit.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a magnitude of less than one unit.
ciboria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ciborium
ciboriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ciborium
amplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amplex
nonbronchitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bronchitic.
Senses: glosses: Not bronchitic.
byssinotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with, or pertaining to, byssinosis.
desmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mineral stilbite.
lacerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlæsəɹətɪv/
Forms: form: more lacerative
form: most lacerative
Etymology: From lacerate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: the continual afflux of lacerative humours
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
glosses: Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate.
ketmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketmias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ketmie.
Derived terms: bladder ketmia
Syrian ketmia
ketmias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketmia
ketmie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketmies
form: ketmia
Senses: glosses: A variety of African hibiscus, cultivated for the acid of its mucilage, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
glosses: Other species of hibiscus
ketmies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketmie
hamble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hambles
form: hambling
form: hambled
form: hambled
form: hammel
form: hamel
form: hammle
Etymology: From Middle English hamelen, from Old English hamelian (“to hamstring, mutilate”), from Proto-Germanic *hamalōną, *hamlōną (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Cognate with German hammeln, hämmeln (“to geld”), Icelandic hamla (“to mutilate, maim”), Dutch hamel (“wether”).
Senses: glosses: To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
glosses: To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs) so as to render them unfit for hunting.
glosses: To walk lame; limp.
hambled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hamble
hambles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hamble
hambling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hamble
Smollettian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Smollettian
form: most Smollettian
Etymology: From Smollett + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), Scottish poet and author best known for picaresque novels.
exertment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exertments
Etymology: From exert + -ment.
Senses: glosses: exertion
exertments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exertment
undomesticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undomesticates
form: undomesticating
form: undomesticated
form: undomesticated
Etymology: From un- + domesticate.
Senses: glosses: To undo domestication; to make wild after having been domesticated.
undomesticates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undomesticate
undomesticating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undomesticate
edgelong
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Alteration of edgeling, equivalent to edge + -long.
Senses: examples: text: Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck edgelong into the ground.
ref: 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
text: In the one there was nothing but some ashes; the other was full of Medals, set edgelong as full as it could be thrust: […]
ref: 1914, William Holden Hutton, Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country, page 302:
glosses: Towards the edge; along the edge.
genian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɪˈnʌɪən/
ipa: /-ˈniːən/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈnaɪən/
ipa: /-ˈni.ən/
Etymology: From French génien, from Latin genianus, from Ancient Greek γένειον (géneion, “chin”) + Latin -ānus (“-an”).
Senses: examples: text: the genian prominence
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the chin.
Synonyms: mental
Derived terms: nasogenian
Medicean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛdɪˈtʃiːən/
Forms: form: more Medicean
form: most Medicean
Etymology: From post-classical Latin Mediceus (16th century; from the family name Medici) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Four Medicean stars dance about Jupiter, two Austrian about Saturn, etc., and all (belike) to the music of the spheres.
ref: 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III.2.2.iv:
text: Evelyn recorded a suggestion that the Society might take as its coat of arms a representation of a pair of crossed telescopes surmounted by the Medicean planets.
ref: 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 296:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Designating the four largest moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), as named by Galileo in honour of his future patron Cosimo II de' Medici.
glosses: Pertaining to the Medici family.
green leek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green leeks
form: green-leek
Senses: glosses: Polytelis swainsonii, a mostly bright green parrot of southeastern Australia.
green leeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green leek
unglorify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unglorifies
form: unglorifying
form: unglorified
form: unglorified
Etymology: From un- + glorify.
Senses: examples: text: Forbid it , O my God , that ever I should be so unhappy as to unglorify my Father , my Saviour , or my Sanctifier
ref: 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To deprive of glory.
unglorifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unglorify
breath test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breath tests
Senses: glosses: An official test to determine if someone has taken alcohol or drugs by testing a sample of their exhaled breath.
microgeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + geological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microgeology.
purpureal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːˈpjʊə.ɹɪ.əl/
ipa: /pɝˈp(j)ʊ.ɹi.əl/
Forms: form: more purpureal
form: most purpureal
Etymology: From Latin purpureus (“purple, violet; brown, reddish; clothed in purple; (figurative) brilliant, shining; beautiful”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Purpureus is either derived:
* from purpura (“the colour purple; purple-fish (Hexaplex trunculus)”) (from Ancient Greek πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphŭ́rā, “purple-fish; purple dye obtained from it; purple-dyed cloth; purple stripe or other adornment of a garment”), from πορφύρω (porphúrō, “to redden”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); or
* from Ancient Greek πορφύρεος (porphúreos, “of a purple colour”), from πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphŭ́rā) (see above) + -εος (-eos).
Senses: examples: text: [G]liding thro' his daughter's honour'd ſhades, / The ſmooth Penéus from his glaſſy flood / Reflects purpureal Tempe's pleaſant ſcene?
ref: 1744, [Mark Akenside], “Book the First”, in The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem. In Three Books, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 16, lines 296–298:
text: [T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.
ref: 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 6:
text: Of all that is most beauteous—imaged there / In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, / An ampler ether, a diviner air, / And fields invested with purpureal gleams; [...]
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, “[Poems Founded on the Affections.] Laodamia.”, in Poems […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], published 1815, →OCLC, page 229:
text: But not ere him who summoneth / I first have seen, enwound / With glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned; [...]
ref: 1893, Francis Thompson, “The Hound of Heaven”, in The Works of Francis Thompson, volume I (Poems), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons […], published 1913, →OCLC, page 112:
text: Above the altar-lace / he mounted a triptych of the Assumption / with coarse, purpureal clouds, a prescient Madonna / drawn from Leonardo's "Our Lady of the Rocks."
ref: 1973, Derek Walcott, “[Homage to Gregorias] Chapter 10”, in Another Life, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 63:
synonyms: word: purple
word: purpuraceous
word: purpurate
word: purpure
word: purpurean
word: purpureous
word: purpurine
glosses: Of a purple colour.
Related terms: word: purple
word: purply
word: purpura
word: purpuraceous
word: purpurare
word: purpurascent
word: purpurescent
word: purpurate
word: purpurated
english: some senses obsolete
translation: some senses obsolete
word: purpure
word: purpurean
word: purpured
word: purpurein
word: purpureous
word: purpureously
word: purpuress
word: purpuric
word: purpuriferous
word: purpurin
word: purpurine
word: purpuriparous
word: purpurisse
word: purpurissum
word: purpurite
word: purpurize
word: purpurogallin
word: purpuroid
word: purpurous
wrawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: wrawls
form: wrawling
form: wrawled
form: wrawled
Etymology: From Middle English wrawlen. Compare Danish vråle.
Senses: examples: text: Some were of dogs, that barked day and night, And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Such successours [of Peter] yben to bolde, In winning all ther witte thei wral.
ref: mid 15th century, Thomas Hoccleve, The Plowman's Tale, part 1:
text: The fog horns groaned and groaned again, and siren whistled and wrawled.
ref: 1908, Will Sparks, Philopolis, volume 3, page 139:
text: Man alone, poore wretch, she hath laid all naked upon the bare earth, even on his birth-day, to cry and wraule presently from the very first houre that he is borne into this worlde.
ref: 1601, Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, Book VII:
text: Howbeit, crying and wrawling as like as possibly might be to an infant new come into the world.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, Plutarch's Moralia:
glosses: To cry like a cat; to waul.
Derived terms: word: wrawling
wrawled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wrawl
wrawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wrawl
wrawling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrawlings
Senses: examples: text: […] a mighty huge hole or gulf all round, in manner of a hollow globe cut through the midst, exceeding deep and horrible to see to, full of much darkness, and the same not quiet and still, but turbulent and oftentimes boiling and walming upward, out of which there might be heard innumerable roarings and groanings of beasts, cries and wrawlings of an infinite number of children, […]
ref: 1905, The Myths of Plato, page 442:
glosses: Crying, wauling.
wrawls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wrawl
Lancasterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lancasterian
form: most Lancasterian
Etymology: From Lancaster + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: These semipublic, philanthropic organizations later came to regard the so-called Lancasterian system as ideal, since it offered mass education at low cost.
ref: 2004, Paul Seattler, The Evolution of American Educational Technology, page 33:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), in which the advanced pupils in a school teach the pupils below them.
Related terms: Lancastrian
retractive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retractives
Etymology: From retract + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That which retracts or withdraws.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb that serves to cancel or retract a previously established obligation.
retractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retractive
form: most retractive
Etymology: From retract + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Mapping from a space onto a subset of that space.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Serving to distance or alienate.
Derived terms: retractively
retractives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retractive
gentleship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gentle + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: men will […]have more gentleship in their hat than in their head
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:
glosses: The deportment or conduct of a gentleman.
superintellectual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superintellectual
form: most superintellectual
Etymology: From super- + intellectual.
Senses: glosses: Very highly intellectual.
glosses: Above or beyond the intellect.
superintellectual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superintellectuals
Etymology: From super- + intellectual.
Senses: glosses: A very highly intellectual person.
child neglect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of child abuse caused by the denial of basic needs like proper nutrition, care, and love.
estate sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estate sales
Senses: examples: text: She told him she’d gotten the guitar from an estate sale she’d seen on her route. When he asked what that was, she said it was when some old rich parent died at home and that parent’s children wanted to sell all their stuff.
ref: 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 121:
glosses: The sale of a person's possessions after their death, normally formalised by the executor of the estate.
lobeliaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Lobeliaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the former plant family Lobeliaceae (now subfamily Lobelioideae in family Campanulaceae), including the lobelia.
meteorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmiːtiˈɒɹɪkəl/
Etymology: From meteor + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of meteoric.
bombylious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /bɒmˈbɪliəs/
Forms: form: more bombylious
form: most bombylious
Etymology: From Latin bombyx (“bumblebee”) + English -ious.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he VVhame or Burrel-fly, vvhich is vexatious to Horſes in Summer, not by ſtinging them, but only by their bombylious Noiſe, or tickling them in laying their Nits, or Eggs on the Hair; […]
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, “[A Survey of the Terraqueous Globe.] Of the Generation of Animals.”, in Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of Animals in General), footnote 10, page 249:
glosses: Buzzing like a bumblebee.
Related terms: bombyx
knosp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒsp/
rhymes: -ɒsp
Forms: form: knosps
Etymology: Compare German knospe (“bud”), English knop, knar.
Senses: examples: text: The gem-knosp'd diadem
ref: 1818, Henry Hart Milman, Samor, the Lord of The Bright City:
topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative form of knop (“a knob”).
glosses: The unopened bud of a flower.
Derived terms: knosped
knosps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knosp
thirster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thirsters
Etymology: From thirst + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Let’s cheere our ſouldiers to incounter him,
That grieuous image of ingratitude:
That fiery thirſter after Soueraigntie:
And burne him in the fury of that flame,
That none can quench but blood and Empery.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
glosses: Someone who thirsts.
thirsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thirster
erasement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erasements
Etymology: From erase + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Miller informed the Committee , That the Rates ought to be fair , without Erasement
ref: 1742, Great Britain House of Commons, The Report of the Committee:
glosses: erasure; obliteration
erasements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erasement
disconsolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disconsolated
form: most disconsolated
Senses: examples: text: a poor, disconsolated, drooping creature
ref: a. 1768, Laurence Sterne, Humility (sermon)
glosses: Obsolete form of disconsolate.
demicadence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛmɪˈkeɪdəns/
Forms: form: demicadences
Etymology: Borrowed from French demi-cadence, demi- + cadence.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the keynote.
demicadences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demicadence
verdingale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verdingales
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of farthingale.
verdingales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verdingale
verdingall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)dɪŋˌɡɔːl/
Senses: examples: text: Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelical.
ref: 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of farthingale.
tetraptote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraptotes
Etymology: From Latin tetraptōtum, from Ancient Greek τετράπτωτος (tetráptōtos).
Senses: examples: text: A noun which is found in one case only, is called a Monoptote; if found in two cases, a Diptote; if in three, a Triptote; if in four, a Tetraptote; and if in five, a Pentaptote.
ref: 1836, Ethan Allen Andrews, A Grammar of the Latin Language for Use of Schools and Colleges:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun that has four cases.
Coordinate terms: aptote
monoptote
diptote
triptote
pentaptote
tetraptotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraptote
armoniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ammoniac.
floriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflɔːɹi.əd͡ʒ/
Senses: examples: text: And where the trees unfold their bloom,
And where the banks their floriage bear,
And all effuse a rich perfume
That hovers in the soft calm air […]
ref: a. 1783, John Scott, Ode XX:
glosses: bloom; blossom
Related terms: floriated
astarboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + starboard.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Over to the starboard side.
Related terms: aport
biscotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biscotins
Etymology: From French biscotin.
Senses: glosses: A sweet kind of biscuit.
Related terms: biscuit
biscotins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biscotin
spermophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: seedbearing (capable of producing seeds).
oleometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oleometers
Etymology: From oleo- + -meter.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instrument for determining the weight and purity of oil.
Synonyms: eleometer
elaiometer
oilometer
oleometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oleometer
usself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: case of we
Etymology: From Middle English. Equivalent to us + -self.
Senses: glosses: ourselves
aminoadipates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminoadipate
emollition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emollitions
Senses: examples: text: The cause of the sweetness by rolling and pressing , is emollition, which they properly induce
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. 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: The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation.
Related terms: emollient
mollify
emollitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emollition
peziza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pezizas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Peziza of saprophytic fungi.
Related terms: pezizaceous
pezizas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peziza
floorheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floorhead
cartwhippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartwhipping
antispatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + spatial.
Senses: examples: text: Such antispatial, incorporeal, and fragmented modes of communication make physical proximity less important.
ref: 1996, Frank Northen Magill, Magill's Literary Annual 1996, volume 1:
glosses: Going against traditional notions of physical space.
orchestra hit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchestra hits
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A sampled sound consisting of a number of different orchestral instruments playing a single staccato note or chord at the same time.
chinampas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinampa
fucate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fucate
form: most fucate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fūcātus, perfect passive participle of fucō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: virtue and honesty are great motives, and give as fair a lustre as the rest, especially if they be sincere and right, not fucate, but proceeding from true form and an incorrupt judgment […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection iii:
glosses: Artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.
bespattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespattles
form: bespattling
form: bespattled
form: bespattled
Etymology: From be- + spattle.
Senses: glosses: To spit on.
shepard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepards
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of shepherd.
shepard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shepards
form: sheparding
form: sheparded
form: sheparded
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of shepherd.
antholite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antholites
Etymology: From antho- + -lite.
Senses: examples: text: He considers this Antholite from the coal to be "the spike of a very highly organised flowering plant in full flower,", p. 20.
ref: 1858, Charles Lyell, “Supplement to the Fifth Edition of a Manual of Elementary Geology”, in The British Review, volume 28:
text: Göppert , in his Permian Flora , figures an Antholite (pl. xxi., fig. 1-3), which he considers to be teh inflorescence of Nöggerathia, a genus placed by him among the monocotyledons; while Ettingshausen, on the other hand, believes teh forms he found in the Coal-Measures at Stradonitz to be the fruits of Calamites ("Steinkohlenflora Stradonitz," pl. v. fig. 1-3).
ref: 1872 February, William Carruthers, “Notes on some Fossil Plants”, in Geological Magazine, volume 9, page 53:
text: It is not, as you have perhaps surmised, a work of sculpture, but it is an antholite, or fossil blossom, brought, with others of the same kind, from the world to which I am native.
ref: 1948, Clark Ashton Smith ·, Genius Loci, and Other Tales, page 65:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil plant resembling a petrified flower.
examples: text: Antholite is fibrous or asbestiform, grey to brown; […] Cummingtonite is much like antholite, gey to brown; fibrous;
ref: 1878, Joseph Henry Collins, Mineralogy - Volume 2, page 188:
text: In thin section, the radiated variety of amphibole, antholite ( possibly true anthophyllite ) , predominates in closely matted groups, made up of colorless to brownish ( ochreous ) fibres, which polarize strongly between the crossed nicols.
ref: 1880, Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 - Volume 3, page 559:
text: It seems to correspond most nearly in chemical composition to some of the fibrous forms of monoclinic amphibole, e.g. antholite or kuppferite.
ref: 1894, A. P. Coleman, “Antholite from Elzivir, Ontario”, in The American Journal of Science, volume 148, page 272:
text: Antholite is found in irregular bundles of strong fibres associated with altered enstatite, calcite, dolomite etc
ref: 1915, Memoir - Issue 74, page 22:
glosses: A fibrous form of amphibole.
antholites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antholite
boteless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boteless
form: most boteless
Senses: examples: text: boteless offence
glosses: Alternative spelling of profitless, useless.
conjurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjurements
Etymology: From conjure + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: I had not yet at this time been induc'd , but by your earnest intreaties and serious conjurements
ref: 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty.
incognoscible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incognoscible
form: most incognoscible
Etymology: From in- + cognoscible.
Senses: examples: text: 6. The state of the law rendered more and more incognoscible. By wrapping up the real dispositions of the law in a covering of nonsense, the knowledge of it is rendered impossible to the bulk of the people.
ref: 1827, Jeremy Bentham, Rationale of Judicial Evidence, vol. 4, book 8, ch. 18:
text: Regarded in this light, the idea of Polarity . . . has nothing to do with the fancy of Terrestrial Magnets, with Hypotheses concerning impalpable and incognoscible Fluids, with Atoms having Poles, or with doctrines concerning Ethereal vibrations.
ref: 1860, John Pringle Nichol, A Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences, Charles Griffin and Co., page 671:
text: I freely admit the existence of a poisoned condition of the system from without by an invisible and hitherto incognoscible something.
ref: 1868, Thomas Skinner, “How Shall We Treat Cholera?”, in British Medical Journal, volume 2, page 235:
text: The still small voice of conscience and the sense of beauty are direct messages from the incognoscible Beyond.
ref: 1926, Burnett Hillman Streeter, Reality: A New Correlation of Science and Religion, Macmillan, page 113:
text: [W]e agree that certain aspects, which appear in our material world, have their origin from some incognoscible transcendence.
ref: 2010, Constantin Portelli, A Unique God, A Universal Religion, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Not capable of being known; incomprehensible.
Synonyms: unknowable
Derived terms: incognoscibility
Related terms: incognoscent
incognoscenti
conjurements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjurement
craterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: more craterous
form: most craterous
Etymology: From crater + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: That June-day, / Too deeply sunk in craterous sunsets now / For you or me to dig it up alive […]
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater.
demonomagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demono- + Ancient Greek μαγεία (mageía).
Senses: examples: text: Many declare that the prevalent beliefs and practices of great numbers of these "worshipers" are for the most part animistic superstitions, ancient fetishism, pagan demonolatry and demonomagy, thinly disguised […]
ref: 1945, Wade Crawford Barclay, Greater Good Neighbor Policy, page 157:
text: Demonomagy (black magic) manifests itself in various forms. Its exact recognition seems possible only to the initiated.
ref: 1960, Albert Niedermeyer, Compendium of pastoral medicine, page 410:
text: Turning away from this demonomagy, Boyd produced "unquestioning" pictures of the lushly verdant countryside around Berwick in 1948, before discovering the purifying atmosphere of the Wimmera (1949-51) […]
ref: 1979, Humphrey McQueen, The black swan of trespass, page 135:
glosses: Magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black magic.
elaidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elaidates
form: elaïdate
Etymology: From elaidic + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of elaidic acid.
elaidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elaidate
ephemerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ephemerists
Senses: examples: text: The true ephemerist is as committed to the smallest neglected fragment as to the spectacular 'collector's piece'.
ref: 1988, Maurice Rickards, Collecting printed ephemera, page 30:
glosses: One who collects or studies ephemera.
examples: text: the night immediately before he was discoursing of, and lighting the art of those foolish Astrologers, and Genethliacall Ephemerists
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets.
glosses: One who keeps an ephemeris; a diarist.
ephemerists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ephemerist
ethmovomerine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethmo- + vomerine.
Senses: examples: text: ethmovomerine plate
text: ethmovomerine crest
text: ethmovomerine teeth
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull.
galvanoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From galvano- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: The use of galvanism in physiological experiments.
habilatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /həˈbɪlətəɹi/
/həˈbɪlətɹi/
Senses: examples: text: a small French hat, which might not have been much too large for my lord of set jauntily in the centre of a system of long black curls , which my eye, long accustomed to penetrate the arcana of habilatory art, discovered at once to be a wig.
ref: 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham, Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman:
glosses: Of or pertaining to clothing.
Related terms: habiliment
harpsichon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harpsichons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of harpsichord.
harpsichons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harpsichon
interagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interagents
Etymology: From inter- + agent.
Senses: glosses: An intermediate agent or middleman; intermediary.
interagent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + agent.
Senses: glosses: Between agents.
Related terms: interagentive
interagents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interagent
misnumber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misnumbers
form: misnumbering
form: misnumbered
form: misnumbered
Etymology: From mis- + number.
Senses: examples: text: The pages in this report are misnumbered. There are two "page 7"s, and there is no "page 6"!
glosses: To number incorrectly.
To assign numbers nonsequentially where sequential numbering was due.
hypernyms: misidentify
coordinate_terms: miscall
misname
misdate
glosses: To number incorrectly.
To ascribe singular where plural was due, or vice versa.
hypernyms: misinflect
;
misconjugate
misdecline
coordinate_terms: misgender
misnumbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misnumber
misnumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misnumber
misnumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misnumberings
Senses: glosses: An incorrect numbering.
misnumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misnumber
mucamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of mucic + amide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid amide of mucic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Derived terms: pyromucamide
omnipercipient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + percipient.
Senses: examples: text: An omnipercipient Omnipreſence, which does hear and ſee what-ever is ſaid or tranſacted in the World, […]
ref: 1669, Henry More, “[An Antidote against Idolatry: […].] What is Idolatry According to the Determination of Clear and Free Reason.”, in An Exposition of the Seven Epistles to the Seven Churches; […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph 5, page 20:
synonyms: all-seeing
glosses: Perceiving everything.
glosses: Able to fully understand the perspectives and feelings of everybody.
Related terms: omnipercipience
ossean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osseans
Senses: glosses: A fish with a bony skeleton.
Related terms: osseous
teleost
osseans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ossean
overscrupulousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overscrupulous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being overscrupulous.
portmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portmotes
Etymology: From Middle English portemot, portemote, portmot, portmote; equivalent to port + mote; compare Anglo-Latin portimōtus.
Senses: examples: text: And in England it hath always been held, that the king is lord of the whole shore, and particularly is the guardian of the ports and havens, which are the inlets and gates of the realm: and therefore, so early as the reign of king John, we find ships seised by the king's officers for putting in at a place that was not a legal port. These legal ports were undoubtedly at first assigned by the crown; since to each of them a court of portmote is incident, the jurisdiction of which must flow from the royal authority: the great ports of the sea are also referred to, as well known and established, by statute 4 Hen. IV. c. 20. which prohibits the landing elsewhere under pain of confiscation: and the statute 1 Eliz. c. 11. recites that the franchise of landing and discharging had been frequently granted by the crown.
ref: 1771, William, Sir Blackstone, “Of the King's Prerogative”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 1, page 264:
topics: law
glosses: A court, or mote, held in a port town.
portmotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portmote
remiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remiform
form: most remiform
Etymology: From Latin remus (“oar”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: ramiform hair
text: ramiform leaf
text: ramiform radiole
glosses: Shaped like an oar or paddle.
showerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more showerful
form: most showerful
Etymology: From shower + -ful. Likely coined by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Senses: examples: text: The last tall son of Lot and Bellicent, And tallest, Gareth, in a showerful spring Stared at the spate.
ref: 1872, Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette:
text: Why so woe-begone ? and why, Philaenis, these reckless tearings of hair, and suffusion of showerful eyes ?
ref: 1938, John William Mackail, Select epigrams from the Greek anthology, page 24:
text: It was warm there too in the last icy spasms of winter. The spring was showerful.
ref: 1967, New South African Writing - Issue 4, page 50:
glosses: Full of showers; rainy, teary, etc.