cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
oleandrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oleander + -ine?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: One of several alkaloids found in the leaves of the oleander.
Related terms: oleandrin
nomologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomology
vallums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vallum
Beechtree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beechtrees
Etymology: From beech + tree.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States.
deflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin defluxus, from defluere, defluxum.
Senses: examples: text: The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much
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:
text: By the first deflux the ridges of the waves will dilate themselves this way and that way, and be propagated towards KL and NO. And because the motion of the waves from A towards PQ is carried on by a continual deflux from the ridges of the waves into the hollows next to them, and therefore cannot be swifter than in proportion to the celerity of the descent; and the descent of the water on each side towards KL and NO must be performed with the same velocity
ref: 1846, Isaac Newton, translated by Andrew Motte, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Mathematical_Principles_of_Natural_Philosophy_(1846)/BookII-VIII):
glosses: downward flow
babirusas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babirusa
fetwah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetwahs
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of fatwa.
fetwahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetwah
perditionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perditionable
form: most perditionable
Etymology: From perdition + -able.
Senses: glosses: damnable.
fatuousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatuousness
graspt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grasp
jadding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Holing or undercutting (something, such as a bed of coal, or stone).
knarred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
homophone: nard
Forms: form: more knarred
form: most knarred
Etymology: From knar + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: the knarred and crooked cedar knees
ref: 1850, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Seaside and the Fireside:
text: Regilus looked down at [his] knarred hands, contemplating.
ref: 2021, Betty Smith Meischen, Return to Tara:
synonyms: knarry
gnarly
glosses: knotty; gnarled
unboy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unboys
form: unboying
form: unboyed
form: unboyed
Etymology: From un- + boy.
Senses: examples: text: it was now time to unboy him, by putting him into some action and acquaintance of business
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: To divest of the traits of a boy.
unboyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unboy
recogniz'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recogniz'd
form: most recogniz'd
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of recognized.
recogniz'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recognize
tenné
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛni/
/ˈtɛneɪ/
Forms: form: tenny
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: word: tawny
glosses: A rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown.
tenné
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛni/
/ˈtɛneɪ/
Senses: examples: text: Arms : Quarterly of eight , I or a lion rampant tenné, on a chief sable three escallops or, 2 azure a tower domed argent, 3 barry or and gules,[…]
ref: 1985, Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Corpus Vitrearum Checklist:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Orange or bright brown.
vegetous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vegetous
form: most vegetous
Etymology: Latin vegetus. See vegete.
Senses: examples: text: If she be fair, young, and vegetous, no sweetmeats ever drew more flies.
ref: 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The Silent Woman:
synonyms: vegete
glosses: vigorous; lively; active; energetic.
tenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tenné.
tenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tennies
Senses: glosses: singular of tennies
fragmentist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fragmentists
Etymology: From fragment + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A writer of fragments of text.
fragmentists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fragmentist
oneiroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oneiro- + -scopy.
Senses: synonyms: oneirocritics
oneirocriticism
glosses: dream interpretation
neogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + -gen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alloy resembling silver, consisting chiefly of copper, zinc, and nickel, with small proportions of tin, aluminium, and bismuth.
preinstruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preinstructs
form: preinstructing
form: preinstructed
form: preinstructed
Etymology: From pre- + instruct.
Senses: examples: text: as if Plato had been pre-instructed by men of the same Spirit with the Apostle
ref: 1662, Henry More, The Defence of the Moral Cabbala:
glosses: To instruct previously; to preteach.
Related terms: preinstruction
preinstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preinstruct
preinstructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preinstruct
preinstructs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preinstruct
exheredate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exheredates
form: exheredating
form: exheredated
form: exheredated
Etymology: From Latin exheredatus, past participle of exheredare (“to disinherit”), from ex (“out”) + heres, heredis (“heir”).
Senses: glosses: To disinherit.
Related terms: exheredation
overheal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overheals
form: overhealing
form: overhealed
form: overhealed
Etymology: From over- + heal.
Senses: glosses: To heal over.
examples: text: First, the tissues can heal slowly and inadequately. Second, the tissues can overheal and deposit and overabundance of fibrotic wound matrix […]
ref: 2011, Song Li, Nicolas L'Heureux, Jennifer Elisseeff, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering:
glosses: To heal excessively or beyond the point of normal healing, usually resulting in the formation of scar tissue.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: To heal (a character) beyond the usual maximum level of health.
overheal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overheals
form: overhealing
form: overhole
form: overholen
Etymology: From Middle English overhelen, equivalent to over- + heal (“to cover”).
Senses: glosses: To cover over.
demonologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonologers
Etymology: From demono- + -loger. First attested in the 17th century.
Senses: synonyms: demonologist
glosses: One versed in demonology.
demonologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonologer
desertness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desert + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The desertnesse of the countrey lying waste and saluage
ref: 1549, Erasmus, “(please specify the book of the Bible, or other title)”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall; et al.], transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche:
glosses: The condition of being deserted.
downlooked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downlooked
form: most downlooked
Etymology: From down + looked.
Senses: examples: text: Discolouring all she view'd, in Tawney dress'd; / Down-look'd, and with a Cuckow on her Fist
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: He was downlooked, embarrassed , and avoided the eyes of those who looked hard at him.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen.
firmity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin firmitas.
Senses: examples: text: the firmity and ſledfaſtnes of the Church
ref: 1586, William Perkins, A right godly and learned exposition, vpon the whole booke of Psalmes:
text: the strength and firmity of my assent must rise and fall together with the apparent credibility of the object
ref: 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants:
glosses: strength; firmness; stability
firmity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of frumenty.
forechosen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English forechosen, forchosen, equivalent to fore- + chosen.
Senses: glosses: Chosen beforehand.
Related terms: forechoose
immatureness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immature + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tvvas eaſie for me to repreſent to You hovv unfiniſhed and unpoliſhed the Trifles you called for, vvere, eſpecially conſidering that the Immatureneſs of ſome of them vvould not probably be the Chief thing that vvould make many think they come forth Vnſeaſonably, ſince they avovvedly Aim at the Perſuading and Teaching men to Improve their Thoughts, […]
ref: 1665, Robert Boyle, “To Sophronia”, in Occasional Reflections upon Several Subiects. Whereto is Premis’d a Discourse about Such Kind of Thoughts, London: […] W. Wilson for Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality or state of being immature; immaturity.
invertebrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: ref: 1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals:
glosses: invertebrate; without a backbone
jacobinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jacobinizes
form: jacobinizing
form: jacobinized
form: jacobinized
Senses: examples: text: Great efforts will be made to jacobinize Massachusetts, and to elect Gerry, though many think Mr. A. will be the jacobin candidate.
ref: 1854, Fisher Ames, Seth Amers, John Thornton Kirkland, Works of Fisher Ames:
text: They assume an attitude towards the government of distrust, if not of hostility, and exert their influence to jacobinize the church instead of destroying her, as the revolution would do if it could.
ref: 1884, Orestes Augustus Brownson, The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Civilization, page 189:
text: Such unwarrantable steps could not make proselytes of the Catholic military ; it might, in time, make them indifferent to all forms of worship, and thereby jacobinize them upon the French scale, and, perhaps, in the hour of danger, induce them to forget their duty and their loyalty, in order to be revenged of their persecutors.
ref: 1895, John Healy, Maynooth College: Its Centenary History, page 694:
glosses: Alternative form of Jacobinize.
jacobinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jacobinize
jacobinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jacobinize
jacobinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jacobinize
nestful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nestfuls
form: nestsful
Etymology: From nest + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: a nestful of eggs
glosses: As much or many as will fill a nest.
nestsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nestful
rhinologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinologists
Etymology: From rhin- + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: One skilled in rhinology; an expert of the nose.
rhinologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinologist
unpatience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + patience.
Senses: glosses: impatience
unruliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unruly + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: They breaking forth with rude unruliment / From all foure parts of heaven doe rage full sore […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Unruliness.
windowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more windowy
form: most windowy
Etymology: From window + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Let others freeze with angling reeds,
And cut their legges, with shells and weeds,
Or treacherously poore fish beset,
With strangling snare, or windowie net […]
ref: a. 1631, John Donne, “The Baite”, in Poems, published 1633:
glosses: Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.
glosses: Having many windows.
overkeep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overkeeps
form: overkeeping
form: overkept
form: overkept
Etymology: From over- + keep.
Senses: glosses: To keep or observe too strictly.
glosses: To keep too long.
overkind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overkind
form: most overkind
Etymology: From over- + kind.
Senses: glosses: Excessively kind; kind beyond deserts; unnecessarily kind.
Derived terms: overkindness
overlade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overlades
form: overlading
form: overladed
form: overladed
form: overladen
Etymology: From Middle English overladen, equivalent to over- + lade. Cognate with Dutch overladen (“to overlade, overload”), German überladen (“to overload, overburden”), Swedish överladda (“to overload, overcharge”).
Senses: glosses: To load with too great a cargo or other burden; overburden; overload.
base isolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A collection of a building’s structural elements resting on its foundation to provide partial separation of the building from shaking ground thus upgrading the building's seismic fitness. For video demonstration, click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/vshustov#p/f/11/ZqlXp3czrrM
apportioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apportioners
Etymology: From apportion + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who apportions; an allocator.
apportioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apportioner
depravers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depraver
narcoterrorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcoterrorists
Etymology: From narco- + terrorist.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out narcoterrorism.
narcoterrorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narcoterrorist
overlead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overleads
form: overleading
form: overled
form: overled
Etymology: From Middle English overleden, from Old English oferlǣdan (“to oppress, translate”), equivalent to over- + lead.
Senses: examples: text: If you overlead this question with too binding absoluteness requirements I am afraid that a satisfactory and not dogmatic answer will be rather difficult to find.
ref: 1981, Evandro Agazzi, Modern logic:
glosses: To lead excessively or too much.
examples: text: I believe it well, false recreant knight, said Sir Gawaine, for thou hast many long days overled me, and us all, and destroyed many of our good knights.
ref: 1891, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Edward Strachey, William Caxton, Le morte D'arthur:
glosses: To dominate; domineer over; oppress.
glosses: To affront; treat with indignity.
begrimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: begrimers
Etymology: From begrime + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that begrimes.
begrimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of begrimer
literalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: literalizers
Etymology: From literalize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A literalist (someone who takes something literally)
glosses: A literalist (someone who translates literally)
literalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of literalizer
woesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwəʊsəm/
Forms: form: more woesome
form: most woesome
Etymology: From woe + -some.
Senses: examples: text: 'But it will make thee much bewail, / And it will make thy fair eye swell—' / She said, and told the woesome tale, / As sooth as shepherdess might tell.
ref: c. 1765, John Langhorne, Owen of Carron:
text: I could not help seeing a woesome picture. “Poor little soul, with the blood pouring from her heart and her brown hair spread over her dead father's breast!”
ref: 2008, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The White People:
text: Nicole caught her breath at the muffled, woesome sighs: Douanier-Lieutenant Peder LaMotte, Acting Capitaine of Concarneau, her love and her father's nemesis, was weeping.
ref: 2011, Jan Tucker Mulligan, Smuggler's Legacy:
text: To dissect my thoughts is a woesome tale [...]
ref: 2014, Glenda Paisley, My Life in Poetry:
text: But here comes woesome old me and my maw down the yard with battered suitcases arriving almost like phantoms dripping from the sea.
ref: 2016, Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels:
glosses: Characterised or marked by woe; woeful
overinfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overinfluences
form: overinfluencing
form: overinfluenced
form: overinfluenced
Etymology: From over- + influence.
Senses: glosses: To influence unduly or excessively.
overinfluenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overinfluence
overinfluences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overinfluence
overinfluencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overinfluence
reaccuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaccuses
form: reaccusing
form: reaccused
form: reaccused
Etymology: From re- + accuse.
Senses: glosses: To accuse again.
reaccused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reaccuse
reaccuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reaccuse
reaccusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reaccuse
power hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A drinking game in which players are challenged to drink a specified large number of shots of alcoholic drink within one hour.
stylotypite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative name for tetrahedrite.
ecclesiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecclesiologists
Etymology: From ecclesiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A specialist in ecclesiology.
ecclesiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecclesiologist
unisonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unison + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Hitherto all the singing in the American churches had been unisonous, the melody only having been sung; but in 1720 a book of tunes in threo parts, "Cantus," "Medius" and "Basus," was published by Rev. Thomas Walter.
ref: 1860, Lowell Mason, Edwards Amasa Park, Austin Phelps, The Sabbath hymn and tune book, page iii:
synonyms: unisonant
unisonal
glosses: Being in unison; unisonant.
viridness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From virid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: viridity; greenness
synchronal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synchronal
form: most synchronal
Senses: examples: text: That the VVhore of Babylon alſo and the Tvvo-horned Beaſt are the ſelf-ſame Thing, is made evident in the ſame Expoſition; and therefore they muſt be Synchronal, unleſs one and the ſame thing can begin to be after it has continued in Being, and continue after it ceaſes to be.
ref: 1664, H[enry] More, chapter VI, in Synopsis Prophetica; or, The Second Part of the Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity: […], London: […] James Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, book II, page 370:
glosses: Synchronous; simultaneous.
edgingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From edging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I backed edgingly out of the darkened room.
glosses: While edging; with short, timid steps.
survey meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survey meters
Senses: glosses: An instrument sensitive to ionizing radiations used in prospecting for radioactive deposits.
survey meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of survey meter
opinionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opinionable
form: most opinionable
Etymology: From opinion + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] a time like the present, when there is such a distinct tendency to consider everything as opinionable […]
ref: 1876, Charles John Ellicott, “The Causes of Unbelief”, in Modern Unbelief:
glosses: Being a matter of opinion; not positively settled.
repace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repaces
form: repacing
form: repaced
form: repaced
Etymology: From re- + pace.
Senses: glosses: To pace again; to walk over again in the opposite direction, backtrack.
repaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repace
repaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repace
repacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repace
triperies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripery
tripery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triperies
Etymology: Compare French triperie.
Senses: examples: text: The tripery is a room devoted to the cleaning of tripe
ref: 1913, Hugh A. Macewen, Food Inspection: A Practical Handbook:
glosses: A place where tripe is prepared or sold.
vertebrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vertebral + -ly.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: At, within, or related to a vertebra or vertebrae.
Related terms: interverterbrally
binominous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: binominous bishops
glosses: Having two names
unabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unable + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Utterly unabled in nature, by reason of frigidity, to perform the duties, or any the least office of a husband
ref: 1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Made unable.
hermitaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hermitary
hermitary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hermitaries
Etymology: Compare Latin hermitorium, eremitorium.
Senses: examples: text: Chappels , Monasteries , Hermitaries , Nunneries , and other Religious Houses were us'd lo in the time of old King Henry.
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Sir K. D. at Rome”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit.
parabolist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parabolists
Senses: glosses: A teller of parables.
parabolists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parabolist
vertilinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vertilinear
form: most vertilinear
Etymology: Blend of vertical + linear
Senses: synonyms: rectilinear
glosses: straight; in a straight line
barkeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barkery
barkery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barkeries
Etymology: From bark + -ery, from the use of bark in the process.
Senses: glosses: A tannery.
barkery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barkeries
Etymology: Blend of bark + bakery.
Senses: examples: text: Doggie bakeries (or “barkeries”) and cafés are also an excellent locale for a “destination” dog pawty. Many dog barkeries will not only cater the function but will also provide a pawty area and staff to host and move the pawty along.
ref: 2007, Barbara Burg, Good Treats Cookbook for Dogs: 50 Home-Cooked Treats for Special Occasions Plus Everything You Need to Know to Throw a Dog Party!, Quarry Books, →ISBN, page 14:
text: She has truly been a gift. So now I get it: Dogs on the family Christmas card. Dogs with jeweled collars. Thousand–dollar vet bills. Dogs on vacation. Doggie barkeries. Dogs riding shotgun on a trip to the bank. Dogs in the bed. Thanks to Buffy, I now understand it all.
ref: 2009, Maryann McCullough, “The Convert”, in Colleen Sell, editor, A Cup of Comfort for Dog Lovers II, Adams Media, →ISBN:
text: The ATL prides itself on a hot evening social scene for pampered pets, ample al fresco dining options, a slew of doggie barkeries, and loads of dog-friendly hotels, making it a terrier-rific destination.
ref: 2014, Kelly E. Carter, The Dog Lover’s Guide to Travel: Best Destinations, Hotels, Events, and Advice to Please Your Pet—and You, National Geographic Society, →ISBN:
glosses: A bakery that makes treats for pet dogs.
nervomuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From nervo- + muscular.
Senses: examples: nervomuscular energy
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
nubiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more nubiferous
form: most nubiferous
Etymology: From Latin nubifer, from nūbēs (“cloud”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French nubifère.
Senses: examples: text: These preludes [to auroral beams or streamers] consist of certain arrangements of thin streaks of nubiferous matter, floating at high altitudes, and often stretching quite across the heavens, and appearing to converge at two opposite points near the horizon […]
ref: 1849, The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, page 225:
glosses: Bringing, or producing, clouds; cloudy.
overweak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overweak
form: most overweak
Etymology: From over- + weak.
Senses: glosses: Excessively weak; too feeble.
retinophoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retinophora + -al.
Senses: examples: text: retinophoral cell
text: retinophoral rod
glosses: Of or pertaining to retinophorae.
wariment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wary + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: the whiles were enterchaunged twixt them two ;
Yet they were all with so good wariment
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: He is slow and full of wariment, and not without a mixture of fear[…]
ref: a. 1650, James Howell, Familiar letters; or Epistolae Ho-Elianae^(https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=File:Familiar_letters;_or_Epistolae_Ho-Elianae_(IA_familiarletterso01howe).pdf&page=48), published 1903, page 22:
text: Our primary matter is this: specialist Awkin analysts have pioneered such capability in cloning and cistron-devised therapies such that no-one today envisions a cessation of wariment or affect before 300 years of age.
ref: 2022, Michael Lamb, Joshua's Dream:
glosses: Wariness.
harbour porpoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harbour porpoises
Senses: examples: text: Smaller than a human being at roughly 1.5m in length, the harbour porpoise is not easy to spot.
ref: 2019, James Proctor, Faroe Islands, 5th edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 7:
glosses: A porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, that inhabits coastal areas and river estuaries.
allomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allomerisms
Etymology: From allomer + -ism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form.
Related terms: allomeric
allomerous
barpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barposts
Etymology: From bar + post.
Senses: glosses: A post sunk in the ground to hold the bars closing a passage into a field.
barposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barpost
disreverence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disreverences
form: disreverencing
form: disreverenced
form: disreverenced
Etymology: From dis- + reverence.
Senses: examples: text: disreverence the Name God
ref: 1650, William Sclater, A Brief and Plain Commentary, with Notes […] :
glosses: To treat irreverently or with disrespect.
disreverenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disreverence
disreverences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disreverence
disreverencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disreverence
ergotized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ergotize
intrunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intrunks
form: intrunking
form: intrunked
form: intrunked
Etymology: From in- + trunk.
Senses: examples: text: Had eager lust intrunk'd my conquer'd soul
ref: 1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To enclose as if in a trunk.
intrunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intrunk
intrunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intrunk
intrunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intrunk
heterogenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterogenists
Senses: examples: text: M. Pouchet did not believe in what we term Archebiosis , ' and he quite legitimately called himself a heterogenist
ref: 1872, Henry Charlton Bastian, The Beginnings of Life […] :
glosses: One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis.
heterogenists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterogenist
unsorrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsorrowed
form: most unsorrowed
Etymology: From un- + sorrowed.
Senses: examples: text: Die like a fool unsorrow'd, So will I lose the name of Valentine
ref: 1610–1616, John Fletcher, “Monsieur Thomas. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Not sorrowed for; unlamented.
waggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwæɡi/
Forms: form: waggies
Etymology: From wag + -ie, from wagtail.
Senses: glosses: The pied wagtail, a small passerine bird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, a subspecies of the white wagtail, found in Britain and Ireland.
waggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waggie
widdies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of widdy
widdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: widdies
Etymology: Compare withy.
Senses: glosses: A rope or halter made of flexible twigs or withes or such
widdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: widdies
Senses: examples: text: I'm no saucy minx and giddy—
Hussies such as them abound—
But a clean and tidy widdy
Well be-known for miles around.
ref: 1877, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Sorcerer:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of widow.
Related terms: kiddy widdy
diamylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamylenes
Etymology: From di- + amylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A liquid hydrocarbon, C₁₀H₂₀, of the ethylene series, regarded as a polymeric form of amylene.
diamylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamylene
outworth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outworths
form: outworthing
form: outworthed
form: outworthed
Etymology: From out- + worth.
Senses: glosses: To exceed in worth.
outworthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outworth
outworthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outworth
outworths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outworth
consortship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consortships
Etymology: From consort + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Consider , There is more Majesty, terrour and security too, in the presence and consortship of a few good men then in the presence of a great number of profane men.
ref: 1632, Alexander Grosse, Svveet And Soule-Perswading Indvcements Leading Unto Christ:
glosses: The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership.
consortships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consortship
overbounteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overbounteous
form: most overbounteous
Etymology: From over- + bounteous.
Senses: glosses: Excessively bounteous.
sateless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sateless
form: most sateless
Etymology: From sate + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Happy he that ſips Eternally ſuch Nectar dovvn, that unconfin'd may Lave, and VVanton there in ſateleſs Draughts of ever ſpringing Beauty— […]
ref: 1700 (date written), Colley Cibber, Love Makes a Man: Or, The Fop’s Fortune. A Comedy. […], London: […] Richard Parker […], Hugh Newman […], and E. Rumbal […], published 1701, →OCLC, Act II, page 19:
text: His sateless thirst of pleasure, gold, and fame […]
ref: 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
synonyms: unsated
unsating
glosses: Insatiable.
hypotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypotactic
form: most hypotactic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hypotaxis.
Derived terms: hypotactically
censorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From censor + -less.
Senses: examples: the present concern over a censorless, free and unhindered American stage
glosses: Without a censor.
uncorrigible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncorrigible
form: most uncorrigible
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of incorrigible.
volitient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /vəˈlɪʃənt/
Forms: form: more volitient
form: most volitient
Etymology: See volition.
Senses: examples: text: What I do, I do volitient, not obedient.
ref: 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile:
synonyms: volitional
glosses: wilful; acting out of choice.
kinglihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kingly + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: But since he neither wore on helm or shield The golden symbol of his kinglihood
ref: 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “The Coming of Arthur”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 15:
text: The King at length hath raised
The standard of his sires, in all kinglihood, on high!
ref: 1844, George Sydney Smythe, Historic Fancies:
glosses: kingliness; majesty
trilocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + locular.
Senses: examples: text: a trilocular capsule
text: a trilocular heart
glosses: Having three cells or cavities.
esteemable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more esteemable
form: most esteemable
Etymology: From esteem + -able.
Senses: glosses: Worthy of esteem; esteemed or estimable.
nimbose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nimbose
form: most nimbose
Etymology: From Latin nimbosus, from nimbus (“cloud”).
Senses: glosses: cloudy
examples: text: nimbous clouds
glosses: stormy; foreboding storms
unlawlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlawlike
form: most unlawlike
Etymology: From un- + lawlike.
Senses: examples: text: It being therefore most unlike a law , to ordain a remedy so slender and unlawlike , to be the utmost means of all public safety or prevention , as advice is , which may at any time be rejected by the sole judgment of one man
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: unlawful
glosses: Not according to law; illegal.
venulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more venulose
form: most venulose
Etymology: From venule + -ose.
Senses: examples: text: venulose leaves
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Full of venules (small veins).
mesologarithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesologarithms
Etymology: From meso- + logarithm.
Senses: examples: text: […] the antilogarithm of the greatest inclination is added to the mesologarithm of the argument, and thus the sum will be the mesologarithm of the argument of the reduction.
ref: 1939, Johannes Kepler, translated by Charles Glenn Wallis, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A logarithm of the cosine or cotangent.
mesologarithms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesologarithm
nitraniline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitranilines
Etymology: Blend of nitro + aniline
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of nitro derivatives of aniline.
nitranilines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitraniline
numberful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more numberful
form: most numberful
Etymology: From number + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He continued in this tone, noting that lands well ungifted in toneart—we know that altho the Jews are the most numberful of all the mindtilthed ((educated)) races in Europe (races lacking in mindtilth may birth lovelier toneart than mindtilled [...]
ref: 2006, David Pear, Facing Percy Grainger:
text: Birdless, faunaless moons were inhabited, and these bottomful, endful, numberful, and limitful moons were artificially frozen, only, in the 6000's. Moonless, sunless, starless, cometless, and blackholeless galaxies were mostly the fact, after the [...]
ref: 2012, Willis Bryant, Cold Blood - Page 89:
glosses: Many in number; numerous.
examples: text: [...] would recite the grave, tribulationary instructions on just how every numberful sheet was to be folded untilitwas a contrivementjust shyof becoming aweakbodied box, and then eachwas tobe walked singlefile up tothe deskso that the teacher [...]
ref: 2013, Gary Lutz, “The Least Sneaky of Things”, in Peter Conners, editor, PP/FF: An Anthology:
glosses: Full of numbers.
overleaven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overleavens
form: overleavening
form: overleavened
form: overleavened
Etymology: From over- + leaven.
Senses: glosses: To leaven too much.
glosses: To change excessively; to spoil.
overleavened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overleaven
overleavening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overleaven
overleavens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overleaven
jerid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerids
Senses: glosses: Dated form of jereed.
jerids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jerid
knor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knors
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of knur.
knors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knor
Ogygian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əʊˈdʒɪdʒi.ən/
Forms: form: more Ogygian
form: most Ogygian
Etymology: From Ogyges + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or during the reign of Ogyges, a mythical king of Attica
glosses: Relating to a great deluge in Attica during the rule of Ogyges
glosses: Of or pertaining to Ogygia, an island mentioned in Homer's Odyssey,
examples: text: Brainstuff is not lean stuff;—the brainstuff of fiction is internal history, and to suppose it dull is the profoundest of errors; how deep, you will understand when I tell you that it is the very football of the holiday-afternoon imps below. They kick it for pastime; they are intelligences perverted. The comic of it, the adventurous, the tragic, they make devilish, to kindle their Ogygian hilarity.
ref: 1885, George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways, Chapter 1:
synonyms: age-old
glosses: primeval; of obscure antiquity.
unestablish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unestablishes
form: unestablishing
form: unestablished
form: unestablished
Etymology: From un- + establish.
Senses: examples: text: The Parliament demanded of the king to unestablish that prelatical government.
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To disestablish.
unestablishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unestablish
unestablishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unestablish
sipt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sip
seismic performance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Measure of recorded or expected ability of a building structure to sustain its due functions during and after earthquakes
strapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strap
pickt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pick
disseizee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disseizees
form: disseisee
Etymology: From disseize + -ee.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Someone who is disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully.
disseizees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disseizee
effumability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˌfjuːməˈbɪlɪti/
Etymology: From effume + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: And some of them ascribe to Mercury, Colours; as all of them do effumability, as they speak
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The capability of flying off in fumes or vapour.
scaleback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalebacks
Etymology: From scale + back.
Senses: synonyms: scale worm
glosses: Any member of numerous species of marine annelids of the Polynoidae family, with two rows of scale-like elytra along the back
scaleback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalebacks
Etymology: Deverbal from scale back.
Senses: examples: text: Budgetary constraints led to a scaleback in quality.
synonyms: scaledown
glosses: An operation by which something is scaled back or reduced.
scalebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaleback
antichronism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antichronisms
Etymology: From anti- + chrono- + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] many grosse absurdities in our Chronologies, which are by transcribing, interpolation, misprinting, and creeping in of antichronismes now and then strangely disordered.
ref: 1612, John Selden, notes upon Poly-Olbion 4http://poly-olbion.exeter.ac.uk/the-text/words/antichronism/
glosses: Deviation from the true order of time; anachronism.
Related terms: antichronical
antichronisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antichronism
disentwine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs.ɪnˈtwaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: disentwines
form: disentwining
form: disentwined
form: disentwined
Etymology: From dis- + entwine.
Senses: examples: text: To disentwine the tangled skein of thought which was thus presented, was her task by day and night.
ref: 1833 (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in Lodore. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […] (successor to Henry Colburn), published 1835, →OCLC, page 140:
glosses: To free (someone or something) from being entwined or twisted; to untwine.
glosses: to unfree from something complicated
disentwined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disentwine
disentwines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disentwine
disentwining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disentwine
Elamite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.lə.maɪt/
Etymology: From Elam + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to, Elam.
Elamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.lə.maɪt/
Forms: form: Elamites
Etymology: From Elam + -ite.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of ancient Elam.
Elamite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.lə.maɪt/
Etymology: From Elam + -ite.
Senses: glosses: The language of ancient Elam.
Elamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Elamite
elaiosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elaiosome
disseisee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disseisees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disseizee.
disseisees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disseisee
switchability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From switch + -ability.
Senses: glosses: capability of being switched
broadcastable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broadcastable
form: most broadcastable
Etymology: From broadcast + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The time ProtectNZ chose, five o'clock, put time pressure on the TV journalists to get broadcastable content they could run in the evening news.
ref: 2023, Riley Chance, The Democracy Game, page 91:
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being broadcast.
Derived terms: unbroadcastable
Kingston's metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kingston metal
Etymology: After inventor James Pole Kingston (flourished mid-1800s).
Senses: examples: text: so remarkable was the difference between wood and brass; and Babbitt's soft metal, Kingston's metal, and other mixtures[…]
ref: 1856, The Franklin Journal, and American Mechanics' Magazine:
glosses: An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes formerly used for the bearings and packings of machinery.