cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
discursory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Divinity , like some great lady , every day in several dresses : speculation interchanged with experience; positive theology with polemical; textual with discursory ; popular with scholastical
ref: 1615, Bishop Joseph Hall, Works: Volume I, Dedication:
glosses: argumentative; discursive; having the nature of a discourse
Derived terms: discursorily
stibialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stibial + -ism. See stibium.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: antimony intoxication or poisoning.
analogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analogists
Etymology: From analogy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: those analogists that determine from the Commands about the Mosaical Rites and usages what must be done or may not be done about the meer positive worship and Church-order of the New Testament
ref: 1654, John Tombes, Anti-pædobaptism:
glosses: Someone who makes an analogy, or represents something using an analogy.
examples: text: The analogist does not think that a bee, a flower and a human are the same in body nor in soul, but presupposes that all of them are affected by processes that are not only external to them, but frame and enable their possibilities of daily experience.
ref: 2021, Andrew M. Davis, Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Process Cosmology: New Integrations in Science and Philosophy, page 118:
text: This kind of practice, together with its extension in Chinese cosmology to everything from bodily organs to emotions to animal kinds to colours to flavours to kin relations to positions in the overall social hierarchy, suggests for Descola that the world is perceived by analogists as fundamentally being made up of myriad ontological singularities, defined in terms of discontinuities on the level of both physicality and interiority.
ref: 2021, William Matthews, Cosmic Coherence, page 38:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An adherent of analogism.
analogist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more analogist
form: most analogist
Etymology: From analogy + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to analogism, as opposed to anomalism.
examples: text: This is what characterises his 'analogist' mode, and indeed, he takes China as a paradigmatic example of an analogist society,
ref: 2021, William Matthews, Cosmic Coherence, page 38:
text: The analogist disposition treats difference not just as a demagogic commitment to "democratic diversity," but as a true metaphysical condition of things that needs to be a relevant factor for any epistemically virtuous philosophy.
ref: 2021, Andrew M. Davis, Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Process Cosmology: New Integrations in Science and Philosophy, page 118:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to analogism.
analogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analogist
creepingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more creepingly
form: most creepingly
Etymology: From creeping + -ly.
Senses: examples: a. 1712, Robert South, sermon
How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents.
glosses: By creeping, moving stealthily and slowly; insidiously; cunningly.
languishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From languish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: languishment
preappointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preappointments
Etymology: From pre- + appointment.
Senses: glosses: A previous appointment.
preappointment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + appointment.
Senses: glosses: Before or prior to an appointment.
Related terms: preappoint
bushet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushets
Etymology: See bosket.
Senses: glosses: A small bush.
bushets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushet
blirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blirts
Etymology: From a variation of blurt.
Senses: examples: text: […] and farther on he asks if the poet's resolve shall be
Struck through with the blirt
Of a goose breath?
ref: 1607, Marston, "What You Will", introduction; quoted in 1886, Alden's Cyclopedia of Universal Literature, page 98
text: [page 49:] The blirt was moving in, windy and wet. Somewhere out around the Forge Town headland, lightning broke over the Amnion and rain began to fall.
[page 122:] Cobbles of the traffic circus before the barbican were dry after the blirt rain, but blood smeared the stones or was draining away into the seams […]
ref: 1999, Brian Daley, To Waters' End: Book Four of GammaLAW, Lucia St. Clair Robson, →ISBN:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A gust, as of wind and rain.
glosses: A fit of crying.
Derived terms: blirty
blirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blirts
form: blirting
form: blirted
form: blirted
Etymology: From a variation of blurt.
Senses: glosses: To burst into tears.
blirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blirt
mnemonician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mnemonicians
Etymology: From mnemonic.
Senses: glosses: An instructor of mnemonics; someone who teaches how to improve or use the memory.
mnemonicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mnemonician
splanchnoskeleton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsplæŋknəʊˌskɛlɪtən/
Forms: form: splanchnoskeletons
Etymology: Ancient Greek σπλάγχνα (splánkhna, “viscera”) + English skeleton.
Senses: examples: text: the small petrosal , and the columelliform stapes , are intercalated portions of sense - capsules and appendages referable to the system of the splanchnoskeleton.
ref: 1848, Richard Owen, On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera.
splanchnoskeletons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splanchnoskeleton
tolane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolanes
Etymology: From toluene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrocarbon, C₁₄H₁₀, related to the acetylene and the aromatic series.
Synonyms: diphenyl acetylene
steepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steeper
banquetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banquetters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of banqueter.
banquetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banquetter
chirological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chirology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to chirology.
trothless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹəʊθləs/
Forms: form: more trothless
form: most trothless
Etymology: From troth + -less. Doublet of truthless.
Senses: examples: text: Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
glosses: untrustworthy, treacherous.
seamstressy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seamstress + -y?
Senses: glosses: The business of a seamstress.
supercarpal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + carpal.
Senses: examples: text: supercarpal bone
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated above, or in the upper part of, the carpus.
provincialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provincialists
Etymology: From provincial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary is an excellent work, but perhaps it will be of service only to such men as I have alluded to before: the provincialist will mis-pronounce even his leading sounds.
ref: 1809 September 1, “On the Pronunciation of the Londoners and Provincialist”, in The Monthly magazine, volume 28, page 173:
text: While if they attempt the impossible feat of placing before our eyes the every-day life of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, they make them speak with the accent of the educated nineteenth-century Londoner; instead of showing us, orthoepically, that their speech was akin to that of the modern Irish provincialist, and akin also to that of the existing provincialist in the district delineated —whether Warwickshire or Middlesex.
ref: 1884, David MacRitchie, Ancient and Modern Britons: A Retrospect - Volume 2, page 383:
text: As one newspaper in Civil Croatia reported in 1866: Our provincial peasant is some kind of strange, dreadful creature that frightens the krajišnik peasant to his bones; so that even if you were to lay all of the provincialist's property and wealth at the krajišnik's feet, if along with that you also mention the name peasant he will give it all up and flee in a panic; only to avoid this supposed seven-headed dragon that is the miserable peasant.
ref: 2005, Raymond Detrez, Pieter Plas, Developing Cultural Identity in the Balkans, page 119:
glosses: One who lives in a province; a provincial.
examples: text: When I termed him a provincialist the hon. and learned member said he was proud of it. The hon. member says I am a provincialist if I will not consent to a federation which will involve an undue sacrifice of the interests of New South Wales.
ref: 1897 August 12, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, volume 89, page 2909:
text: Others shifted ground on this key issue, Vogel for example, who began his political career as a provincialist and champion of the rights of Otago, only to become the chief architect of the destructions of the provinces in 1876,
ref: 2008, Richard Boast, Buying the Land, Selling the Land, page 125:
text: They maintain that the present Assembly should be dissolved, and that new elections should be made in reference to this special matter, so that each elector may have an opportunity of recording his vote either for a provincialist or a non-provincialist.
ref: 2023, Anthony Trollope, The Tireless Traveler, page 204:
glosses: One who supports rights of self-determination by provinces.
provincialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more provincialist
form: most provincialist
Etymology: From provincial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, within the common features discerned by Smith, it is obvious that the superficially similar prespectives of centralist v. provincialist versions of intrastate reform in fact postulated very different shaping purposes to the constitutional / institutional changes they sought .
ref: 1992, Alan Cairns, Charter Versus Federalism: The Dilemmas of Constitutional Reform, page 47:
text: It was in Santiago de Compostela in 1800 that the first Galician newspaper, El Catón compostelano (The Compostelan reader), was set up and where, from 1840 onwards, thanks to the decisive action of a group of university students led by Antolín Faraldo, a prolific period began in which the pro-Galician discourse was consolidated and a number of newspapers established, enabling the dissemination of the main tenets of the "provincialist.” movement .
ref: 2010, Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín Gonzalez, César Domínguez, A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, page 258:
text: Opposed to this provincialist group was a centrist strand, led by Ministry of Internal Affairs bureaucrat Nikolai Alekseevich Miliutin, who became the dominant force int eh preparations to end serfdom and argued that it should be uniform across the empire, with only a few tweaks due to regional differences, and that the central bureaucracy must keep firm control of the process at all times.
ref: 2017, Susan Smith-Peter, Imagining Russian Regions, page 175:
glosses: Supporting rights of self-determination by provinces.
provincialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provincialist
regrateries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regratery
regratery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regrateries
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman regraterie, corresponding to regrate + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Thei rychen þorw regraterye · and rentes hem buggen / With þat þe pore people · shulde put in here wombe.
ref: c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:
glosses: The act or practice of regrating; buying commodities in order to sell them.
imaginationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imaginational + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: disgusted with the vagueness of imaginationalism
ref: 1876, John Grote, A Treatise on the Moral Ideals:
glosses: idealism
spatangoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spatangoids
Senses: examples: text: The enlarged rear interambulacrum on the oral side of holasteroids and spatangoids is known as the plastron.
ref: 1983, Ulrich Lehmann, Fossil Invertebrates, page 292:
text: Spatangoids constitute a monophyletic group of heart urchins that appears in the early Cretaceous (145 M.Y. ago) and ranges to the Recent.
ref: 2003, Gunther J. Eble, “Developmental Morphospaces and Evolution”, in James P. Crutchfield, Peter Schuster, editors, Evolutionary Dynamics, page 47:
text: Oval tests with specific ventral morphology for efficient burrowing allowed spatangoids to burrow deeply in sand to avoid gastropod predation.
ref: 2010, Kenichi Kanazawa, “Adaptive evolution in Cenozoic spatangoid echinoids”, in Mike Reich, Joachim Reitner, Vanessa Roden, Ben Thuy, editors, Echinoderm Research 2010: 7th European Conference on Echinoderms, Göttingen, page 61:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, of heart urchins.
Synonyms: sense: any species of Spatangoida
word: heart urchin
spatangoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spatangoid
monocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocarps
Etymology: From mono- + -carp.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any monocarpic plant.
Coordinate terms: monocarpic
polycarp
polycarpic
Derived terms: monocarpous
monocarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monocarp
Tripersonalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tripersonalists
Etymology: From tripersonal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A Trinitarian (believer in the Trinity)
tripersonalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripersonalist
beeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: beeves
Etymology: Back-formation from beeves, plural of beef.
Senses: examples: text: They would knock down the first beeve they met with.
ref: 1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington:
glosses: A cow, a bovine
comptly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more comptly
form: most comptly
Etymology: From compt + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […]wilfully and comptly commit[…]
ref: 1581, An Abstract of all the penal Statutes ... Collected by Fardinando Pulton, etc. B.L., England, page 227:
glosses: neatly; tidily
taglock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taglocks
Etymology: From tag + lock.
Senses: examples: text: And others yet more injurious, who thinke that too much , would the law but allow them a paire of sheeres, they would clip the very taglocks off
ref: 1623, Nehemiah Rogers, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: An entangled lock, as of hair or wool.
taglocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taglock
grammates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: Ha , ha , ha ! These apish boys , when they but taste the grammates, And principles of theory, imagine
ref: 1633, John Ford, The Broken Heart:
glosses: The rudiments or first principles, as of grammar.
demibastion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demibastions
Etymology: Borrowed from French demi-bastion.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
demibastions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demibastion
siphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From siphon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a siphon.
crustaceological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crustaceology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to crustaceology.
dureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare endure, duration, etc. See -less.
Senses: examples: text: Unlasting passion, soon outworn conceit,
Whereon I built, and on so dureless trust!
ref: a. 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, The 21st and Last Book of the Ocean, to Cynthia:
glosses: Not lasting.
froppish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more froppish
form: most froppish
Etymology: Compare frap, frape, and see -ish.
Senses: examples: text: [H]is Enemies […] had still the same Power, and the same Malice, and a froppish Kind of Insolence, that delighted to deprive him of any Thing that pleased him, and manifestly pleased itself in vexing him.
ref: a. 1674, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, volume 1, page 510, published 1759
glosses: peevish; froward
inventible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From invent + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inventable (“capable of being invented”).
ministerialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ministerialists
Etymology: From ministerial + -ist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
Derived terms: antiministerialist
ministerialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ministerialist
flook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flooks
Senses: examples: text: Halberts differ very little from the bill, being like them conſtructed both for puſhing and cutting: a halbert conſiſts of three parts, the ſpear, or ſometimes a kind of ſvvord blade for puſhing, an ax, or hatchet for ſtriking and cutting, and a flook or hook for pulling down faſcines, in the attack of trenches, or temporary fortifications.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, “Morris Pikes”, in A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, […], London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC, pages 51–52:
glosses: Obsolete form of fluke (“blade at the end of an anchor”).
flooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flook
pectinibranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin pecten (“comb”), pectinis (“comb”) + English branchiate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having pectinated gills.
Synonyms: pectinibranchial
pectinibranchous
nonlimerence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + limerence.
Senses: glosses: Lack of limerence.
susurrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more susurrous
form: most susurrous
Etymology: Latin susurrus.
Senses: examples: text: there was a delicious, susurrous, rainbow swirl and billow of tulle and taffeta and chiffon
ref: 1922, Carl Van Vechten, Peter Whiffle, Chapter 4:
text: From every side as he passed came, low and elusive, the rhythmic cadences, a mournful litany from the susurrous grass
ref: 1927, Donald Wandrei, A Fragment of a Dream:
text: "I am here," resumed the dry, susurrous voice, issuing from amid the heaps of mortal remnants on the shelf close beside him.
ref: 1936, Clark Ashton Smith, The Black Abbot of Puthuum:
glosses: Having whispering or rustling sounds.
Derived terms: susurrously
electrotint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrotints
Etymology: From electro- + tint.
Senses: glosses: A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electrotyping, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.
electrotints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrotint
ringlestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringlestones
Senses: glosses: The ringed dotterel, or ringed plover.
ringlestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringlestone
corrovaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corroval + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.
anthropotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropotomies
Etymology: From anthropo- + -tomy, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: In many Mammalia we find the pterygoid processes of anthropotomy permanently distinct bones
ref: 1843, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals:
glosses: The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy.
Derived terms: anthropotomical
anthropotomist
consummative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consummative
form: most consummative
Etymology: From consummate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: the final, the consummative procedure of philosophy
ref: 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: Serving to consummate or complete.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a verb aspect that indicates the completion of an action.; perfect.
Derived terms: consummativeness
mordacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mordacities
Etymology: From Latin mordacitas. Compare French mordacité. See mordacious.
Senses: examples: text: such things as have very thin parts , yet notwithstanding are without all acrirumony or mordacity
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 of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality.
nonmycelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mycelial.
Senses: glosses: Not mycelial.
glairy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: more glairy
form: most glairy
Etymology: From glair + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I have in no case of stomach affection attended with discharge of white glairy fluid, whether depending upon a functional or organic cause, observed the colour to change to brown, or even in consistence to assume the completely watery character of the dark fluids vomited in scirrhus pylorus.
ref: 1841, Golding Bird, “Contributions to the chemical pathology of some forms of morbid digestion”, in London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, page 726:
text: Black vomit is nothing but a hœmorrhage from the stomach, and may exist in any degree, from a few particles of blood mixed, as it were, into a quantity of light glairy fluid, presenting the appearance of floating dark specks or flocculi, to that of a rapid and profuse discharge of pure red blood.
ref: 1854 May 24, Daniel Drake, The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, page 369:
text: When both lips were excoriated, and the cervical canal blocked with glairy mucus, the numbness and tingling was still confined to one thigh, most commonly the left, while there was pain on deep pressure in the pelvis confined to that side.
ref: 1876 June 1, Richard J. Halton, “Excoriations of the Os and Cervix Uteri, with some Observations on their Diagnosis, Causation, and Treatment”, in The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, volume 61, page 508:
glosses: Of or pertaining to glair; slimy, viscous and transparent.
Derived terms: glairiness
transcribbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹænˈskɹɪbələ(ɹ)/
/tɹænˈskɹɪblə(ɹ)/
/tɹɑːnˈskɹɪbələ(ɹ)/
/tɹɑːnˈskɹɪblə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: transcribblers
Etymology: Blend of transcriber + scribbler
Senses: examples: December 11, 1746, Thomas Gray, letter to Dr. Wharton
He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must.
glosses: A poor transcriber.
transcribblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transcribbler
infamousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infamous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
spurrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspʌɹiə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈspɜːɹiə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈspɝɹiɚ/
Forms: form: spurriers
Etymology: From Middle English sporier; equivalent to spur + -ier.
Senses: examples: text: Gods so; my Spurrier! put 'em on Boy, quickly
ref: 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: saddlers and spurriers would be ruined by hundreds.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in 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:
synonyms: spurmaker
glosses: A maker of spurs.
spurriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurrier
risorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more risorial
form: most risorial
Etymology: From Latin risorius + -al.
Senses: examples: the risorial muscles
glosses: Pertaining to, or producing, laughter.
Related terms: risible
risorius
farmsteading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmsteadings
Etymology: From farm + steading.
Senses: examples: text: Fig. 31 is a plan of an existing farmsteading.
ref: 1849, Robert Ritchie, The Farm Engineer:
text: 1891-92, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
All over the countryside, away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light green of the new foliage.
glosses: A farmstead.
Related terms: farmstead
farmsteadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmsteading
septangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sept- + angular.
Senses: glosses: heptagonal
expeditive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expeditive
form: most expeditive
Etymology: From Middle French expéditif.
Senses: examples: text: But I mean not to purchase the praise of expeditive in that kind ; but as one that hath a feeling of my duty
ref: 1617, Francis Bacon, speech on taking seat in Chancery:
glosses: Performing with speed.
Related terms: expeditious
discourageth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: discourage + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discourage
encourageth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: encourage + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encourage
encouragest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: encourage + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of encourage
frumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frumpers
Etymology: From frump + -er.
Senses: examples: text: These writhien - mouth'd Frumpers gullish flatterers
ref: 1600, John Weever, Faunus and Melliflora:
glosses: A mocker.
frumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frumper
sequestral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This was found lying loose in a perfect sequestral capsule […]
ref: 1860, Transactions of the Pathological Society of London, volume 11:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a sequestrum.
altometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altometers
Etymology: From Latin altus (“high”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A theodolite.
altometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altometer
cataphractic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cataphractic
form: most cataphractic
Etymology: From cataphract + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: cataphractic gladiators
text: cataphractic trunk
text: cataphractic combat
glosses: Of, pertaining to, wearing, or resembling a cataphract.
cinerulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cinerulent
form: most cinerulent
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cinerulentus, from cinis (“ashes”) (oblique stem ciner-) + -ulentus.
Senses: examples: text: The best [form of cadmia] is the botritis, thick, moderately heavy, smooth, of a racemose superficies, which being broken is cinerulent.
ref: 1661, Robert Lovell, “[ΠΑΝΟΡΤΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANORTKTOLOGIA] SIVE PAMMINERALOGICON. Or An Universal History of Minerals: […].], Geologia”, in ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, both Ancient and Modern, Galenicall and Chymicall, …, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall, for Jos[eph] Godwin, →OCLC, page 37:
text: The two chiefs of the Latin Muses have however shed a lustre over the cinerulent soil, the one by having had his abode upon it, the other by his sepulchre.
ref: 1831, Richard Burgess, The Topography and Antiquities of Rome: Including Recent Discoveries Made about the Forum and the Via Sacra, volume 1, page 31:
text: After some days lost in search of the mysterious Island of St Matthew,[…]we arrived, on the 29th July, at the Island of Ascension, a rugged, cinerulent congeries of tumuli, occupied by about four hundred individuals[…]
ref: 1833, Peter Leonard, Records of a voyage to the western coast of Africa, and of the service in that station for the suppression of the Slave Trade, in […] 1830-2, page 216:
glosses: Full of ashes; resembling ashes.
paradised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paradise
monocotyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocotyls
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: monocotyledon (any monocotyledonous plant).
monocotyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monocotyl
holidam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of halidom.
burgonets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burgonet
burganet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burganets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of burgonet.
burganets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burganet
diphyozooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphyozooids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διφυής (diphuḗs, “double”) + English zooid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophorae.
diphyozooids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diphyozooid
purple-fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple-fishes
Senses: glosses: A shellfish, probably of the genus Murex, the classical source of Tyrian purple
interlucation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlucations
Etymology: Latin interlucatio.
Senses: examples: text: halten the covering of the bark : besides , for Interlucation , remove exuberant branches[…]
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
topics: business
forestry
glosses: The thinning of a forest to let in light.
destructionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destructionists
Etymology: From destruction + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who delights in destroying that which is valuable, or whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions.
examples: text: The Destructionist and Annihilationist heretics have drawn their doctrines very fairly from the language of the Gospels and Epistles
ref: 1850, Reasoner:
glosses: One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; an annihilationist, a conditionalist (i.e., a believer in conditional immortality).
destructionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destructionist
quadrantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadrant + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affecting a quadrant.
Derived terms: quadrantic hemianopsia
quadrantic scotoma
quadricapsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + capsular.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having four capsules
constablewick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constablewicks
Etymology: From constable + wick.
Senses: examples: text: If directed to the constable of D. he is not bound to execute the warrant out of the precincts of his constablewick
ref: 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ:
glosses: The district to which a constable's power is limited.
constablewicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constablewick
epicondylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epicondyle + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: epicondylar axis
text: epicondylar width
text: epicondylar apophysis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: epicondylic
glosses: Pertaining to, or having, an epicondyle.
Derived terms: biepicondylar
entepicondylar
retroepicondylar
transepicondylar
insatiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin insatietas. Compare French insatieté, Portuguese insaciedade. See satiety.
Senses: examples: text: A confirmation of this insatiety, and consequently unprofitableness by a cause thereof: "When goods increase, they are increased that eat them."
ref: 1621, T. Granger, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: insatiableness
pelecan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelecans
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pelican.
pelecans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelecan
cameralistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French caméralistique, German kameralistik, from Latin camera (“vault, chamber, treasury”).
Senses: glosses: The science of finance, public administration, and economic policy.
ferular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferulars
Senses: examples: text: What advantage is it to be a man over a boy at school, if we have only escaped the ferular, to come under the fescu of an imprimatur
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: A ferule.
ferulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferular
rescriptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From rescriptive + -ly.
Senses: examples: February 11 1780, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on œconomical reform
the crown has (where they are not granted or rescriptively held) the dominion of the soil
glosses: By rescript.
quadricepsplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadricepsplasties
Etymology: From quadriceps + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: corrective surgery to the quadriceps muscle
arborary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin arborarius, from arbor (“tree”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal.
bell-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: having the striking surface convex.
raw_tags: of hammers
quadricepsplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadricepsplasty
schistosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schistosity
schistosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schistosities
Etymology: Compare French schistosité.
Senses: examples: text: It will become apparent from the following discussion that some of the various structures which are grouped together as cleavage may correspond to a schistosity and/or foliation. Accordingly, Wilson defines rock cleavage (and schistosity) as a planar structure, usually distinct from stratification, which permits rocks to be fractured or cleaved into thin slices.
ref: 1990, N[eville] J. Price, J[ohn] W. Cosgrove, “Rock Cleavage and Other Tectonic Fabrics”, in Analysis of Geological Structures, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 434:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The quality or state of being schistose; cleavage.
hornyhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornyheads
Etymology: From horny + head.
Senses: glosses: Any North American chubs of the genus Nocomis, especially Nocomis biguttatus.
hornyheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornyhead
monandric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monandry + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: monandric relationship
text: monandric fish
glosses: Of or pertaining to monandry.
picromel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?], meaning "bitter honey".
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless viscous substance having a bittersweet taste, formerly supposed to be the essential principle of bile, but later identified as a mixture, principally of salts of glycocholic acid and taurocholic acid.
quadricorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadricorns
Etymology: From quadri- + corn.
Senses: glosses: Any quadricornous (four-horned) animal
quadricornous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + corn + -ous.
Senses: glosses: having four horns
Related terms: quadricorn
insignificative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insignificative
form: most insignificative
Etymology: From Latin insignificativus. See in- (“not”) + significative.
Senses: synonyms: meaningless
glosses: Not expressing meaning
synonyms: insignificant
glosses: not significant.
trichiuriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trichiuriform
form: most trichiuriform
Etymology: Trichiurus + -iform
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridae, comprising the scabbardfishes and hairtails.
dishabited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dishabit
dishabited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dis- + habited.
Senses: examples: text: dishabited towns
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
text: a land thereafter deſcribed, altogether diſhabited and unplanted , though poſſeſt with Indians
ref: 1648, Beauchamp Plantagenet, A Deſcription of the province of New Albion […] :
text: If thou couldst empty all thyself of self,
Like to a shell dishabited,
Then might He find thee on the Ocean shelf
ref: 1875, T. E. Brown, Indwelling:
glosses: No longer inhabited.
peacebreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peacebreakers
Etymology: From peace + breaker.
Senses: glosses: Someone who disturbs the public peace.
Related terms: peacebreaking
peacebreakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peacebreaker
etherol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ether + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.
pronatalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronatalists
Etymology: From pro- + natalist.
Senses: examples: text: This won't be easy. The pronatalists combine conservative social nudges (get married, start a family) with liberal policy objectives (give parents more money, upzone the suburbs), which makes for tricky politics. At a time of increased abortion restrictions, many liberals find them creepy—busybodies at best and eugenicists at worst.
ref: 2025 February 23, Marc Novicoff, “The Loneliness of the Conservative Pronatalist”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: natalist
antonyms: antinatalist
glosses: One who believes in pronatalism.
pronatalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pronatalist
form: most pronatalist
Etymology: From pro- + natalist.
Senses: examples: text: Women in this country are reportedly hoarding contraceptives because they fear that the new Sandanista ^([sic]) government will discourage and possibly outlaw use of the "pill" and other birth control devices. According to Her Say […] Nicaraguan feminists say they believe the new government is adopting a "pronatalist" policy in order to populate sparsely populated areas, and to make up for the thousands killed during the Sandanista ^([sic]) Revolution that overthrew dictator Anastasio Somoza nine months ago.
ref: 1980 December 20, “Hoarding The Pill”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 2:
text: His acolytes seem to think it’s super-cute and a sign that the billionaire isn’t just the saviour of America and human civilisation, but also the world’s best dad – gallantly putting his pronatalist views into practice.
ref: 2025 February 18, Arwa Mahdawi, “Elon Musk keeps bringing his kids to work – and the reasons aren’t cute at all”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
antonyms: antinatalist
glosses: Promoting child-bearing.
metagraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metagraphies
Etymology: From meta- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: To represent letters like those of Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian, &c., by English characters, is, undoubtedly, a help to the scholar; a help with the special philologist often professes to contemn, but which the comparative philologist often misses. We will call this Metagraphy, or Transliteration.
ref: 1849, A. J. Ellis, “Phonetic Spelling”, in The Prospective Review, volume 5, page 306:
text: Considerable attention will be paid to metagrapnic methods, and to the application of metagraphy to foreign languages.
ref: 1899 September 9, Sir Isaac Pitman, “The Paris Shorthand Congress of 1900”, in The Phonetic Journal, volume 58, page 565:
glosses: Synonym of transliteration.
synonyms: word: transliteration
examples: text: The rich and free merging of visual arts and literature envisioned by Isou in 1949-1950 under the name of "metagraphy" appeared fertile to many more people than the one proposed earlier with Lettrist painting, left almost unnoticed.
ref: 1983, Stephen C. Foster, Lettrisme: into the present, page 29:
text: For all their energised glory, the graphic scores of the Cageans (like the metagraphies of the Lettrists, and thus exactly like pre-Futurist scores) demanded a priestcraft to ensure their authentic interpretation.
ref: 2002, Rob Young, Undercurrents: the hidden wiring of modern music, page 191:
text: In 1950 the Letterist, Maurice Lemaltre, had published Riff-raff, a ten-page "metagraphy," which included a sequence that zoomed from the solar system through a drawing of the earth to maps of Europe, France, and Paris, and Finally one of Saint Germain de Prés.
ref: 2006, Cartographic Perspectives: Bulletin of the North American Cartographic Information Society:
text: […] in an attempt to elaborate a sort of hypergraphy, or super-writing, produced to go beyond the limits of the preceding metagraphy, or post-writing.
ref: 2008, Adriano Spatola, Toward Total Poetry, page 58:
topics: art
arts
glosses: metagraphics; hypergraphy
examples: text: Pilico and Aztec's presence in Spanish ritual, through metagraphy, novelistic speech, and heteroglossia, marks their presence in a dialogue.
ref: 1987, Alfred Arteaga, Language, Discourse, Sign: Reading Dialogisms in the Texts of Shakespeare and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz:
text: Metagraphy: symbols understood even though they have no conventional counterpart in speech. For example, footprints to illustrate walking or sawing wood for snoring.
ref: 2002, Katherine Koppenhaver, Attorney's Guide to Document Examination, page 253:
text: Also frequent is the use of a 'key letter' which occurs in both the mathal and mamthūl (metagraphy).
ref: 2014, Farhad Daftary, editor, The Study of Shi‘i Islam: History, Theology and Law:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Symbolism that has no counterpart in speech.
Related terms: metagraphic
metagraphical
revocatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin revocatorius: compare French révocatoire.
Senses: examples: text: revocatory action
glosses: Of or pertaining to revocation; revocative; tending to revoke or recall.
soboliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From soboles + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: soboliferous palm
text: soboliferous plant
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Producing soboles.
bedewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedewers
Etymology: From bedew + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that bedews.
bedewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedewer
Hadean time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It may be that erosion or metamorphism destroyed traces of Hadean life, or that Hadean time preceded the evolution of life. In any case, Hadean time is not amenable to subdivision based on fossils.
ref: 1998, Graham R. Thompson, Jonathan Turk, Introduction to Physical Geology, page 150:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The geologic eon from about 4,600 to 3,800 million years ago, marked by the formation of the first rocks.
Synonyms: Hadean
aerohydrodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + hydrodynamic.
Senses: examples: an aerohydrodynamic wheel
glosses: Acting by the force of air and water.
workloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worklooms
Etymology: From Middle English workloom, equivalent to work + loom. Cognate with Scots warklum (“workloom”).
Senses: glosses: A tool or implement.
northernest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From northern + -est.
Senses: glosses: northernmost
blinkenlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blinkenlights
Etymology: A faux-Germanization of blinking lights, invoking German blinken (“blink, flash”).
Senses: examples: text: The ASC straightened in his chair, casting a blinkenlight shadow over them. "I think we can table this until further investigation is done into Agent Mukami's cognition, however we want to approach that. Yes?"
ref: 2023 October 8, HarryBlank, “Taking the Lead”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
glosses: A flashing light or beacon light.
glosses: A status light on an electronic or electric device, such as a modem, router, network hub, etc.
epitomistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɪt.əˌmɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more epitomistic
form: most epitomistic
Etymology: From epitome + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of an epitome.
Related terms: epitomize
epitomizer
epitomization
contact metamorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contact metamorphisms
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Change to rock in physical contact with molten lava
regional metamorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regional metamorphisms
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Widespread change in rock due to high pressure and temperature throughout an area
frontslash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontslashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of front slash.
front slash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front slashes
form: frontslash
Etymology: A retronym to distinguish slash from backslash, particularly in computing contexts.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
synonyms: word: slash
extra: /
Synonyms: slash