cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whirlpooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whirlpool + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It makes no sense to say that the whirlpool is “here” and the ocean “there.” Whirlpooling is a feature of the ocean.
ref: 2020, Seth Zuihō Segall, Buddhism and Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective, page 121:
glosses: The action of liquid swirling around, forming a whirlpool.
examples: text: "In dozens of separate 'whirlpooling' incidents, groups of teenage boys surrounded a girl in the water, tore off her swimsuit top and then grabbed her breasts."
ref: 2007, Jeff Wiltse, Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America, The University of North Carolina Press, page 212:
glosses: The assault, undressing and groping of a woman by men in an aquatic setting.
topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: A method of separating the trub from the wort, involving centrifugal force.
whirlpooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From whirlpool + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle of whirlpool
starter marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starter marriages
Senses: examples: text: A starter marriage is one where the couple marries young and gets divorced before the arrival of the first child—and usually before the arrival of the first wrinkle. Starter marriages are more common among overachievers.
ref: 2008, Cooper Lawrence, The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace with Your Inner Overachiever, Guilford, Connecticut: skirt!, →ISBN, page 212:
glosses: A first marriage for an individual or couple that either was short-lived or is expected to be unsuccessful, especially when viewed as serving as preparation for a subsequent marriage.
cronehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crone + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: It was a little vain, perhaps, but the notion of cronehood sent me immediately to my mirror.
ref: 1997, David, Leigh Eddings, Polgara the Sorceress, Del Ray, published 1999, →ISBN, pages 142–143:
glosses: The condition of being an elderly woman; the time during which a woman is elderly.
examples: text: Many circles create ceremonies to mark a woman's passage into cronehood and designate special status to crones
ref: 2000, Beverly Engel, Women Circling the Earth, page 34:
text: An archaic term, really, but I like it. crone: A menopausal or post-menopausal Wiccan. The time at which a woman assumes her cronehood is intensely individual.
ref: 2006, Ashleen O'Gaea, Family Wicca: practical paganism for parents and children, page 213:
text: Grant (name) the gifts of inspiration, and a clear and quick mind as he/she approaches the honored state of (Sagehood/Cronehood).
ref: 2007, Kevin M. Gardner, A Handbook for Wiccan Clergy, page 29
text: She speaks her commitment to herself as an elder and to the aspects of cronehood she will celebrate.
ref: 2007, Ruth Barrett, Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation, page 9:
topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The elderly stage of a female Wiccan witch (compared with the Crone aspect of the Goddess).
Synonyms: sense: condition or time of being an elderly woman
word: anility
Coordinate terms: topics: Wicca
religion
lifestyle
word: sagehood
unidentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + dentate.
Senses: glosses: single-toothed
glosses: monodentate
crosswordese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɒswɜː(ɹ)ˈdiːz/
Etymology: From crossword + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: "The Times puzzle is full of crosswordese – words nobody ever heard of," he said. "Take today March 10. He's got the clue 'corn mush.' The answer is 'samp.' Then there's 'dwarf buffalo.' The answer is 'anoa.' It's laughable. I know these words because I'm in the business. But why should you?"
ref: 20 March 1988, Sam Hodges, “Puzzlers Exchanging A Lot Of Cross Words”, in Orlando Sentinel:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: The jargon of crossword puzzle clues or answers, often consisting of rare, archaic, or dialectal words.
cutensil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutensils
Etymology: Blend of cute + utensil.
Senses: examples: text: Take the popularity of "cutensils" — kitchen utensils that have been given personality implants. Open the drawer in an American or European home and you'll likely find a bottle opener that looks like a smiling cat, a spaghetti spoon that grins at you and the pasta, or a vegetable brush with googly eyes and spindly legs.
ref: 2006, Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future, Riverhead Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: A functional object with a cute or novelty design.
cutensils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutensil
paccan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paccans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pecan (tree).
examples: text: … to send him some paccan nuts. … Jefferson in his reply wrote: "The Paccan nut is, as you conjecture the Illinois nut, ..., and enters into the Botanical name with is Juglans Paccan"
ref: 1944, Thomas Jefferson, edited by Edwin Morris Betts, Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, Reprint edition (Gardening), UNC Press Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 118:
text: A creamy liquid called powcohicoria or "hickory milk" was prepared by the Algonquins: paccan kernels were pounded into small pieces, cast into boiling water, strained and stirred.
ref: 1984, Frederic Rosengarten, Jr., “Pecans”, in The Book of Edible Nuts (Cooking), Walker and Company, →ISBN, page 172, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of pecan (nut).
peccan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peccans
form: paccan
form: pecan
Senses: examples: text: —where the oak and the pine give way to the cotton-wood and peccan—
ref: 1841, George Catlin, “Letter No. 9”, in The North American Indians, Reprint edition (History), Digital Scanning Inc., published 2001, →ISBN, page 68:
text: It's gone straight for that peccan tree, …
ref: 1866, Captain Flack, “Bee Hunting”, in A Hunter's Experiences in the Southern States of America, Reprint edition, Applewood Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 354:
glosses: Alternative form of pecan (tree).
examples: text: … the spicewood, the pawpaws and peccan-nuts, ...
ref: 1835, Charles Latrobe, “The Indian Mounds”, in Rambler in North America, Volume 2, Reprint edition, Applewood Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 239:
glosses: Alternative form of pecan (nut).
love goggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I've heard it put this way; they "wear love goggles". This means that this person you are falling in love with must be Mr. or Miss. Right.
ref: 2009, Paul T. Backlund, As Long as We Both Shall Give, page 58:
text: When you're several years into your relationship, the love goggles may come off, but they're replaced by new lenses that reveal another, fuller picture of your relationship.
ref: 2011, Andrea Syrtash, Cheat On Your Husband (with Your Husband): How to Date Your Spouse, page 11:
text: I had had love goggles on for many years, thinking that I wanted to marry Dennis and be a part of his family.
ref: 2011, Jennifer Thomas, Moving Forward: A True Inspirational Story of a Teen Mom, page 103:
glosses: Blindness to criticism or objectivity directed at a person with whom one is in love.
Related terms: beer goggles
love is blind
dBASE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: dBase
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An early database management system for microcomputers
dBFAST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dialect of dBASE for Microsoft Windows
dGlc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of deoxyglucose.
dTDP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of thymidine diphosphate.
dTMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of thymidine monophosphate.
Synonyms: TMP
TMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of thymidine monophosphate.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of trimethoprim.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Template metaprogramming.
Synonyms: dTMP
dThd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of thymidine.
amorpha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amorphas
Etymology: From the genus name, Amorpha, from Ancient Greek ἄμορφος (ámorphos, “shapeless, deformed”), because the flowers have only one petal rather than the three of other genera in the subfamily Faboideae.
Senses: examples: text: Billowy bays of grass ever rolling in shadow and sunshine,
Bright with luxuriant clusters of roses and purple amorphas
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
glosses: Any species of the genus Amorpha of leguminous shrubs.
amorphas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amorpha
retriment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retriments
Etymology: Latin retrimentum.
Senses: glosses: refuse; dregs
retriments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retriment
malambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malambos
Etymology: From Portuguese [Term?].
Senses: glosses: An old Argentine dance.
glosses: A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton malambo.
fulcrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See fulcrum.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Propped; supported by accessory organs
glosses: Furnished with fulcrums.
pathetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈθɛtɪkl̩/
Forms: form: more pathetical
form: most pathetical
Etymology: From Late Latin patheticus + -al.
Senses: glosses: Arousing sympathy; pathetic.
examples: text: Not Hermes Prolocutor to the Gods,
Could vſe perſwaſions more pathetical.
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 I, scene ii:
text: Theseus at the first sight of Helen was so besotted, that he esteemed himself the happiest man in the world if he might enjoy her, and to that purpose kneeled down, and made his pathetical prayers unto the gods.
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 2, member 2, subsection ii:
glosses: Arising from strong emotion; passionate.
Related terms: patheticalness
hoodman-blind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What devil was't
 That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?
ref: c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 4:
topics: games
glosses: The game of blind man's buff.
dimplement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪmpəlmənt/
Etymology: From dimple + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: the ground's most gentle dimplement
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “First Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions.
decussatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From decussative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And if it were clearly made out what is remarkably delivered from the Traditions of the Rabbins, that as the Oyle was powred coronally or circularly upon the head of Kings, so the High-Priest was anointed decussatively or in the form of a X […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
text: McClintock and Strong's Cyclopedia of Theological Literature Says: " […] The fathers, with their usual luxuriant imagination discover types of this kind of cross in Jacob's blessing of Joseph’s sons: in the annointing of priests ‘decussatively’; for the Rabbis say that priests were distinctively thus anointed ; and in the crossing of the hands over the head of the goat […] ."
ref: 1881, Mind and Matter, volume 3, number 44, page n3
text: Sir Thomas Browne thinks the oil was poured in a circle on the heads of Jewish kings, but decussatively on the heads of priests.
ref: 1898, William Wood Seymour, The Cross in tradition, history, and art, page 20:
glosses: Crosswise; in the form of an X.
surgeoncies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surgeoncy
surgeoncy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝ.d͡ʒən.si/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənsi
Forms: form: surgeoncies
Etymology: From surgeon + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: Before she is able to have her own practice, she has to complete her house surgeoncy.
text: 1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. J—W—E., in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, pp. 4-5,
[…] his abilities, address, good nature, and good sense, have got him a surgeoncy in the batalion of guards, which is reckoned a very good thing.
glosses: The office or employment of a surgeon, either in the naval or military service, or in a hospital as a resident or house officer.
Related terms: housemanship
residency
sleighest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sleigh: most sleigh
Iricism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iricisms
Senses: examples: May 1820, Francis Jeffrey, "Life of Curran", in Edinburgh Review
There is no more such nonsense in the book — nor any other Iricism so discreditable to the taste either of its hero or its author
glosses: Irishism
Iricisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Iricism
ensuable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ensue + -able.
Senses: glosses: ensuing, following, or likely to ensue.
impeccant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impeccant
form: most impeccant
Senses: synonyms: sinless
unsinning
antonyms: peccant
glosses: Without sin; impeccable
Related terms: impeccancy
impeccantly
watershoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watershoots
Etymology: From water + shoot.
Senses: glosses: A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
topics: architecture
glosses: That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.
glosses: A trough for discharging water.
watershoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watershoot
trebleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From treble + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: the trebleness of tones
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality or state of being treble.
metergram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metergrams
form: metergramme
Etymology: From meter + gram.
Senses: glosses: A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.
metergrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metergram
billethead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billetheads
form: billet head
form: billet-head
Etymology: From billet + head.
Senses: examples: text: we painted her on the outside, giving her open ports in her streak, and finishing off the nice work upon the stern, where sat Neptune in his car, holding his trident, drawn by sea-horses; and re-touched the gilding and coloring of the cornucopia which ornamented her billet-head.
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A carved wooden decoration, usually at the bow of a vessel, generally smaller than a figurehead
billetheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billethead
interclavicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ævɪkəl
Forms: form: interclavicles
Etymology: From inter- + clavicle.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The episternum.
Derived terms: interclavicular
interclavicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interclavicle
broadbrim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadbrims
Etymology: From broad + brim.
Senses: glosses: A hat with a very broad brim.
glosses: A Quaker.
glosses: A quiet, sedate, respectable old man.
Related terms: broadbrimmed
hatbrim
sunhat
broadbrims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broadbrim
broadbrimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broadbrimmed
form: most broadbrimmed
Etymology: From broad + brimmed.
Senses: examples: a broadbrimmed Panama hat
glosses: Having a broad brim.
Synonyms: wide-brimmed
nittily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪtɪli/
Forms: form: more nittily
form: most nittily
Etymology: From nitty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: hee was a man nittily needy and therefore aduentrous, esteemed, but an idel fellow
ref: a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
glosses: In a nitty manner; lousily.
nectarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nectarizes
form: nectarizing
form: nectarized
form: nectarized
Etymology: From nectar + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Gently assemble, delicacies all,
And sweetly nectarize this bitter gall!
ref: 1588, G[abriel] H[arvey], edited by J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets, […] (Miscellaneous Tracts Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London]: [s.n.], published [1870], →OCLC:
glosses: To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten.
nectarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nectarize
nectarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nectarize
nectarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nectarize
sweinmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweinmotes
Senses: examples: text: The court of sweinmote is to be holden before the verderors, as judges, by the steward of the sweinmote, thrice in every year, the sweins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury. The principal jurisdiction of this court is, first, to inquire into the oppressions and grievances committed by the officers of the forest; [...] and, secondly, to receive and try presentments certified from the court of attachments against offences in vert and venison.
ref: 1771, William, Sir Blackstone, “On the Courts of Special Jurisdiction”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 3, page 72:
glosses: Obsolete form of swainmote.
sweinmotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweinmote
stultiloquies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stultiloquy
stultiloquy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stultiloquium.
Senses: examples: text: concerning stultiloquy it is to be observed that the masters of spiritual life mean not the talk and useless babble of weak and ignorant persons
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
glosses: Foolish talk; babble.
spleened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From spleen + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spleen
envassal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: envassals
form: envassaling
form: envassalling
form: envassaled
form: envassaled
form: envassalled
form: envassalled
Etymology: From en- + vassal.
Senses: glosses: To make into a vassal.
envassaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of envassal
envassaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of envassal
envassals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of envassal
outmount
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outmounts
form: outmounting
form: outmounted
form: outmounted
Etymology: From out- + mount.
Senses: glosses: To mount above; to climb higher than or surpass.
glosses: to mount (a horse) quicker than
outmounted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outmount
outmounting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outmount
outmounts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outmount
sluggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌɡi/
rhymes: -ʌɡi
Forms: form: more sluggy
form: most sluggy
Etymology: From slug + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a slug (gastropod mollusk).
glosses: Sluggish.
compotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compotations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin compōtātiō. Equivalent to com- + potation.
Senses: examples: text: the fashion of compotation
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: The social act of drinking together.
compotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compotation
iodhydrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodhydrins
Etymology: Blend of iodine + chlorhydrin
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: One of a series of compounds containing iodine, and analogous to the chlorhydrins.
iodhydrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iodhydrin
fumishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fumish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: fretfulness; rage
rheomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheomotors
Etymology: From rheo- + motor.
Senses: glosses: A generator (apparatus that produces an electric current).
rheomotors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rheomotor
water lemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water lemons
Senses: synonyms: Jamaican honeysuckle
golden bellapple
glosses: Fruit of Passiflora laurifolia.
water lemons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water lemon
archchamberlain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archchamberlains
Etymology: From arch- + chamberlain.
Senses: glosses: A chief chamberlain; a secular royal officer of the Holy Roman Empire, whose was elected by the Elector of Brandenburg
archchamberlains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archchamberlain
complexionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From complexion + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Thus I perceive English Divines (for the most part) are as Boanerges , ſons of Thunder , againſt these complexionary Arts
ref: 1701, unknown author, Several letters between two ladies:
glosses: Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it.
cystose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cystose
form: most cystose
Etymology: From cyst + -ose.
Senses: glosses: Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.
pricky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: prickier
form: prickiest
Etymology: From prick + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Prickie moreover it [Soap-wort] is like a thorne.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XIX.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: Stiff and sharp; prickly.
unknowledged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + knowledged.
Senses: examples: text: For which bounty to us lent
Of him unknowledg'd or unsent.
ref: 1603, Ben Jonson, The Entertainment at Althorp:
glosses: Not acknowledged or recognised.
glosses: lacking knowledge
gurlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gurlets
Senses: glosses: A pickaxe with one sharp point and one cutting edge.
gurlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gurlet
crabfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crabfaced
form: most crabfaced
Etymology: From crab + faced, Relating to being sour in temper as a crab-apple is in taste.
Senses: examples: text: He that's sad, A crab-faced mistress cleave to him for this year!
ref: 1619-1623, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger (authors), The Little French Lawyer
glosses: Having a sour, disagreeable expression.
beeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English bith, from Old English biþ. See be + -eth.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be.
Synonyms: is
beeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Pluralization of booth on the pattern of Germanic strong declension nouns such as goose → geese, tooth → teeth, foot → feet, and the similarly jocularly-formed shoop → sheep.
Senses: glosses: plural of booth
penfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penfishes
form: penfish
Etymology: From pen + fish, since the squid's ink was formerly used for writing.
Senses: glosses: A squid.
glosses: Any of various porgies of the genus Calamus
penfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penfish
irenarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪɹɪnɑː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: irenarchs
form: eirenarch
Etymology: From Latin īrēnarcha, īrēnarchēs, from Ancient Greek εἰρηνάρχης (eirēnárkhēs), from εἰρήνη (eirḗnē, “peace”) + ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule”).
Senses: glosses: An officer in Ancient Greece having functions corresponding to those of a Justice of the Peace.
irenarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irenarch
diametrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diametral
indistinguishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + distinguishing.
Senses: examples: text: indistinguishing liberalities
text: It is from an attentive observation of his conduct, not from the exaggerated praise of the native or the indistinguishing censure of the foreign historians, that a true idea of his genius and abilities is to be collected.
ref: 1868, Specimen of printing types, borders, ornaments,&c. including old style founts. Octavo edition, page 40:
synonyms: word: disinterested
word: indifferent
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Making no difference; indiscriminate; impartial.
membraniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more membraniferous
form: most membraniferous
Etymology: From membrane + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Having or producing membranes.
plashet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plashets
Etymology: From plash + -et.
Senses: examples: text: Vetch'd a vege to thicka plashet.
ref: 1839, Mary Palmer, A Devonshire dialogue (by mrs. Palmer). Ed. by mrs. Gwatkin, page 4:
text: "Let's run down here, there's a plashet at the bottom." We were in the wildest spirit , nothing came amiss to us, and the black bread I had brought, with a bottle of milk, seemed delicious.
ref: 1880, Frances Mary Peard, Mother Molly, page 189:
glosses: A small pond or pool, a puddle.
plashets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plashet
phytotomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytotomists
Etymology: From phytotomy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone versed in phytotomy; a plant anatomist
phytotomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytotomist
cholericly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cholericly
form: most cholericly
Etymology: From choleric + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cholerically.
synonyms: word: cholerically
gargoulette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gargoulettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French gargoulette.
Senses: examples: text: in the centre of the arabesque crown described in the bowls; rarer still, are pieces of form such as a gargoulette, an elegant long-necked bottle, and an octagonal recipient
ref: 1873, Albert Jacquemart, translated by Mrs. Bury Palliser, History of the Ceramic Art:
glosses: A water-cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet.
gargoulettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gargoulette
dinoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinoxides
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of dioxide.
dinoxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinoxide
drabbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drabblers
form: drabler
Etymology: From drabble + -er.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth or more drop.
drabblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drabbler
incoexistence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + coexistence.
Senses: examples: text: a certain knowledge of the coexistence or incoexistence (if I may so say) of different ideas in the same subject
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state of not coexisting.
stronghand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strong + hand.
Senses: examples: text: It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand.
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: violence; force; power
flecker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fleckers
form: fleckering
form: fleckered
form: fleckered
Etymology: From fleck + -er.
Senses: glosses: To fleck; to speckle.
fleckered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flecker
fleckering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flecker
fleckers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flecker
respiratory practitioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respiratory practitioners
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A professional medical designation recognized in some jurisdictions, denoting a person who is fully qualified and licensed to evaluate, treat, and care for patients with breathing or other cardiopulmonary disorders.
respiratory practitioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of respiratory practitioner
riceburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riceburgers
Etymology: From rice + -burger.
Senses: glosses: An Asian snack food based on the hamburger, with rice patties instead of a bun.
riceburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riceburger
disprovide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪspɹəˈvaɪd/
Forms: form: disprovides
form: disproviding
form: disprovided
form: disprovided
Etymology: From dis- + provide.
Senses: examples: text: sea disprovided of sea-charts, and mariner's compasses
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in Some Considerations Touching the Vsefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, part I:
glosses: to fail to provide, or take away provisions.
disprovided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disprovide
disprovides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disprovide
disproviding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disprovide
euplectella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euplectellas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Euplectella of glass sponges.
euplectellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euplectella
young at heart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more young at heart
form: most young at heart
Senses: glosses: Having the joy and vitality associated with younger people, despite one's own advanced age.
psorosperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psorosperms
Etymology: Ancient Greek, meaning "itching seed".
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A minute parasite, usually the young of Gregarinae, in the pseudonavicula stage.
psorosperms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psorosperm
delayingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more delayingly
form: most delayingly
Etymology: From delaying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And Annie could have wept for pity of him;
And yet she held him on delayingly
With many a scarce-believable excuse,
Trying his truth and his long-sufferance,
Till half-another year had slipt away.
ref: 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden:
text: The mother glanced round at the bed, and said, glad to occupy herself delayingly with the minor care: “Why, you have been sitting up all night! You will kill yourself.”
ref: 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter VII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:
text: He was unpacking too, though as coyly and delayingly as he had undressed that day at the Highgate Ponds.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: So as to delay.
supramaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
-æksɪlɛəɹi
Etymology: From supra- + maxillary.
Senses: examples: the supramaxillary nerve
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated over the lower jaw.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.
supramaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
-æksɪlɛəɹi
Forms: form: supramaxillaries
Etymology: From supra- + maxillary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The superior maxillary, or upper jawbone.
dipyrenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + pyrena + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing two pyrenae.
postmastership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postmasterships
Etymology: From postmaster + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: In the meantime I had sold my country newspaper, had resigned a postmastership, and had but a weekly newspaper in Omaha devoted to the antileague cause.
ref: 1930, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 1082:
glosses: The office or position of postmaster.
postmasterships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postmastership
idealogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: idealogical
glosses: Of or pertaining to an idealogue, ideology or to idealization.
complimentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more complimentative
form: most complimentative
Etymology: From compliment (verb) + -ative.
Senses: examples: March 3 1778, James Boswell, letter to Edmund Burke
This may be perhaps a singular method of beginning a correspondence ; and in one sense may not be very complimentative. But I can sincerely assure you , dear sir , that I feel and mean a genuine compliment to Mr. Burke himself
glosses: complimentary
bramble net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bramble nets
Senses: examples: text: She is no Priapus to drive the birds away; but as if she was a bramble-net, their notes are caught in her ears, even if their feet are not seized by her fingers as they winnow the air, wheel, dive, and dally about her.
ref: 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a Tale of Real and Ideal:
glosses: A net to catch birds.
bramble nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bramble net
trigonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin trigonus, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: trigonous stems
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: trigonal; triangular
fancymonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancymongers
Etymology: From fancy + monger.
Senses: examples: text: If I could meet that fancy-monger, I would give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the quotidian of love upon him.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 1459:
glosses: A lovemonger; a whimsical lover.
fancymongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fancymonger
luxonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luxonic
form: most luxonic
Etymology: From luxon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a luxon or luxons.
glosses: Moving or capable of moving at the speed of light.
encyclopediacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encyclopediacal
form: most encyclopediacal
form: encyclopaediacal
form: encyclopædiacal
Etymology: From encyclopediac + -al.
Senses: glosses: encyclopedic
Synonyms: word: encyclopediac
word: encyclopedial
word: encyclopedian
word: encyclopedic
word: encyclopedical
idiophanous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more idiophanous
form: most idiophanous
Etymology: From idio- + -phanous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals do.
saloops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saloop
theosophistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more theosophistical
form: most theosophistical
Etymology: From theosophistic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: This is a volume of Theosophistical, and therefore nonsensical, essays.
ref: 1889 March 23, “Yearning reduced to absurdity”, in The Scots observer, volume 1, number 18, Edinburgh, London, →OCLC, page 500:
text: Any brain cells in there, apart from pseudo-intellectual, patently theosophistical clap trap.
ref: 1997 November 28, jc, “Re: Glamour”, in alt.meditation (Usenet), message-ID <347EB903.2202@bohm.anu.edu.au>:
glosses: Of or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.
transnature
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transnatures
form: transnaturing
form: transnatured
form: transnatured
Etymology: From trans- + nature.
Senses: examples: 1566-1567, John Jewel, Defence of the Apology
We are transelemented, or transnatured.
glosses: To transfer or transform the nature of.
transnatured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transnature
transnatures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transnature
transnaturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transnature
resorcin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resorcins
Etymology: Blend of resin + orcin, so called because in its higher homologue it resembles orcin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of resorcinol.
synonyms: word: resorcinol
discovenant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discovenants
form: discovenanting
form: discovenanted
form: discovenanted
Etymology: From dis- + covenant.
Senses: glosses: To dissolve a covenant with.
discovenanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discovenant
discovenanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discovenant
discovenants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discovenant
drevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drevils
Senses: glosses: A fool or drudge.
Related terms: drivel
drevils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drevil
senteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentery
sentery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senteries
Senses: examples: text: […] what evasion bear him safe / Through the strict senteries and stations thick / Of angels […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book XLI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 413:
glosses: Obsolete form of sentry.
psalterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: psalterial aperture
text: psalterial fibre
text: psalterial cords
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the psalterium.
galleot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galleots
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of galliot.
galleots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galleot
pterylographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pterylography
pterylography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: pterylographies
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The study or description of the arrangement of feathers, or of the pterylae, of birds.
detainder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detainders
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ.
Related terms: detinue
detainders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detainder
overlinger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overlingers
form: overlingering
form: overlingered
form: overlingered
Etymology: From over- + linger.
Senses: glosses: To linger or remain for too long.
overlingered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overlinger
overlingering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overlinger
overlingers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overlinger
fracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fract (“to break”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Chevron. (Stafford.) 4. Chevron ployé. (Moll.) 7. Chevronels. (Clare.) 10. Chevron fracted. (Rozier de Linage.) 2. Chevron checquy. (Sempill.) 5. Chevron reversed. (Bulgarini.) 8. Chevron cotised. (Clutton.)[…]
ref: 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 136:
text: […] gules a chevron raguly fracted in the centre argent (F.)
ref: 1902, Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms from Heraldic Rolls 1298-1418: Illustrated with 830 Zinco Etchings from Effigies, Brasses and Coats of Arms, page 83:
text: […] in base saltireways a pipe, bowl up, and a tomahawk, blade up and turned outward, the shaft fracted, all gules.
ref: 1908, Ralph Adams Cram, Christian Art: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to Current Church Building, American and Foreign, and the Allied Ecclesiological Arts, with Expert Discussions of All Topics Relating to Christian Archaeology, page 70:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having a part displaced or broken; said of an ordinary or other charge.
examples: text: Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees , is re-legitimate consequences of his false principles , fracted and distorted by a false medium of under cover of equally false history . passions and prejudices
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: Broken.
Related terms: fracture
fracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fract (“to break”) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fract
herisson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛɹɪsən/
Forms: form: herissons
Etymology: French hérisson, hedgehog. Doublet of urchin.
Senses: glosses: A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot, used to block up a passage.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A hedgehog.
herissons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herisson
medullin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French médulline.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants.
unnervate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + nervate.
Senses: glosses: enervate; weakened
ceryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin cera (“wax”) + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A radical, C₂₇H₅₅, supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from waxes.
spring peeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring peepers
Etymology: Because it peeps (makes a sound) in the spring (the season).
Senses: examples: text: It was May before the skunk cabbage began to push up through the ooze of the swamps, before the rhubarb reddened to the back corner of the garden and the spring peepers finally emerged and began abrading the edges of the night with their lovesick vibrato.
ref: 1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 297:
synonyms: pinkletink
glosses: A small chorus frog of North America (Pseudacris crucifer).
nerddom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nerdom.
spring peepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring peeper
inverted hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inverted hat
chipping sparrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chipping sparrow
chipping sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipping sparrows
Senses: glosses: A sparrow of species Spizella passerina, endemic to North America.
Synonyms: hairbird
electron volts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electron volt