cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bodeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bodeful
form: most bodeful
Etymology: From bode + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: It is a voice bodeful of death or of life.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book VI (Thermidor), page 383:
text: They came ungraciously, but after his dark, bodeful hints as to the necessity of their attending service at the grazier's homestead next day, he was invited inside and a place was cleared for him at the table.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 66:
synonyms: word: inauspicious
word: portentous
word: augurous
word: baleful
word: bodeful
word: boding
word: dire
word: disastrous
word: fatal
word: foreboding
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-omened
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicate
word: inauspicious
word: nefastous
word: omenic
word: ominous
word: brooding
word: portentous
word: presageful
word: presagious
word: prodigious
word: sinister
word: star-crossed
word: sullen
glosses: Portentous; ominous; foreboding.
gonakie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonakies
Senses: glosses: An African timber tree, Vachellia nilotica subsp. adstringens, formerly Acacia adansonii.
gonakies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonakie
untenant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untenants
form: untenanting
form: untenanted
form: untenanted
Etymology: From un- + tenant.
Senses: examples: text: These are the Ignorant Omniscients to make place for whom we are exhorted by modern sages to exclude our God and Untenant the Universe.
ref: 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations:
glosses: To remove a tenant from.
untenanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untenant
untenants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untenant
wawe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wawes
Etymology: From Middle English wawe, waghe. Not the same word as wave.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waw (“wave”).
wawes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wawe
readjourn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: readjourns
form: readjourning
form: readjourned
form: readjourned
Etymology: From re- + adjourn.
Senses: glosses: To adjourn again.
Related terms: readjournment
readjourned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of readjourn
readjourning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of readjourn
readjourns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of readjourn
Bonapartist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bonapartists
Etymology: From Bonaparte + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter or kin of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Bonapartist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bonapartist
form: most Bonapartist
Etymology: From Bonaparte + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or supporting, Bonapartism.
Bonapartists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bonapartist
frigefactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frigefactive
form: most frigefactive
Senses: examples: text: In order to the diſcovery of ſome hints of the account, upon which the above mentioned mixtures were more intenſely frigefactive than ſnow alone, we ſealed up a ſingle vial of ſnow unmingled with any other ingredient, and found it to thaw much more ſlowly than any of thoſe parcels of ſnow, which we had mixt with ſalts or ſpirits.
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, “Title I. Experiments Touching Bodies Capable of Freezing Others.”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC, paragraph 13, page 49:
text: […]Saturn hinders the warm influence of the other Stars, and is in a high degree frigefactive, as also exſiccative
ref: 1681, Henry More, Tetractys Anti-Astrologica:
antonyms: calefactive
calefactory
glosses: Cooling.
Related terms: frigid
refrigerate
unstarch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstarches
form: unstarching
form: unstarched
form: unstarched
Etymology: From un- + starch.
Senses: glosses: To remove starch from
glosses: to make limp, weak, soft or pliable.
unstarches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstarch
unstarching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstarch
uncessant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more uncessant
form: most uncessant
Senses: examples: text: With uncessant industry persist.
ref: 1647, Henry More, Praeexistency of the Soul:
glosses: Obsolete form of incessant.
Derived terms: uncessantly
whisket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiskets
form: wisket
Senses: glosses: A basket; especially, a straw provender basket.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A small lathe for turning wooden pins.
whiskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whisket
overneat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overneat
form: most overneat
Etymology: From over- + neat.
Senses: examples: text: A woman who from being a flattern becomes over-neat, or from being over-neat becomes a flattern, is most certainly in love.
ref: 1714 September 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, September 1, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 591; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Excessively neat.
overslow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/
Forms: form: more overslow
form: most overslow
Etymology: From over- + slow.
Senses: glosses: Too slow.
overslow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/
Forms: form: overslows
form: overslowing
form: overslowed
form: overslowed
Etymology: From over- + slow.
Senses: examples: text: overſlow this furious driver
ref: a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:
glosses: To render slow; to check; to curb.
prosobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosobranchs
Etymology: From French prosobranche, from Ancient Greek πρόσω (prósō, “forwards”) + βράγχια (bránkhia, “gills”). By surface analysis, proso- + -branch.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A gastropod with gills in front of the heart, formerly thought to belong to a single group, Prosobranchia.
prosobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French prosobranche, from Ancient Greek πρόσω (prósō, “forwards”) + βράγχια (bránkhia, “gills”). By surface analysis, proso- + -branch.
Senses: glosses: Placed in front of the heart.
raw_tags: of gills
glosses: Having gills placed in front of the heart.
raw_tags: of a gastropod
Related terms: prosobranchiate
prosobranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosobranch
bicalcarate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + calcarate.
Senses: examples: text: the bicalcarate wing or leg of certain birds
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having two spurs.
herbaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbary
herbary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɜː(ɹ)bəɹi/
/ˈɜː(ɹ)bəɹi/
Forms: form: herbaries
Etymology: See herbarium.
Senses: examples: text: An Herbary, for furnishing domestic medicines, always made a part of our ancient gardens
ref: 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
glosses: A garden of herbs; a cottage garden.
manifoldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manifoldnesses
Etymology: From manifold + -ness.
Senses: examples: 1579, Isaac RABBOTENU (pseud. [i.e. Philips van Marnix, Heer van St. Aldegonde.]), The Bee Hive of the Romishe Churche. Wherein the Authour (Isaac Rabbotenu) a Zealous Protestant, Under the Person of a Superstitious Papist, Doth So Driely Refell the Grose Opinions of Popery, and So Divinely Defend the Articles of Christianitie, that ... There is Not a Booke to be Founde ... Sweeter for Thy Comforte. [In Answer to G. Hervet's “Missive ... Aen de Verdoolde Van Den Christen Geloove.”] Translated Out of Dutch Into Englisshe by George Gilpin the Elder. MS. Notes. B.L.
[…] this most profitable and true christian worke : which though by reason of the manifoldnesse of the matter it be wearisome to reade […]
glosses: The quality of being manifold, diversity.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: multiplicity
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A generalized concept of magnitude.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being manifold
word: multipleness
word: nonunity
word: manyness
decrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɹaʊn/
Forms: form: decrowns
form: decrowning
form: decrowned
form: decrowned
form: de-crown
Etymology: From de- + crown, or French découronner.
Senses: examples: text: the Popes […] authority to decrowne Kings
ref: 1630, Thomas Adams, “The Contagion of Sinne”, in The Workes of Thomas Adams:
synonyms: discrown
uncrown
glosses: To deprive of a crown; to discrown.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: To decoronate (a tooth).
glosses: To remove the crown of a pineapple, strawberry, etc.
examples: text: Laughter for laughter's sake and the allied mocking of social values and decrowning of all dogmatic forms of authority this entails.
ref: 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 70:
glosses: To deprive of supremacy or exaltedness.
decrowned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decrown
decrowning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decrown
decrowns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decrown
donary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donaries
Etymology: From Latin donarium, from donare.
Senses: examples: text: ...those hospitals so built and maintained, not by collections, benevolences, donaries...
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: A thing given to a sacred use.
extoller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: extollers
Etymology: From extol + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who extols.
extollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extoller
foreremembered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + remembered.
Senses: examples: text: that Earldom devolved, and the later, our foreremembered Philip, who left her inheritance to her only daughter Jone
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Called to mind previously; aforementioned.
James's powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Dr. Robert James, an English physician.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A powder consisting of one part oxide of antimony and two parts calcium phosphate, once falsely claimed to have medical benefits.
wikipedia: Robert James (physician)
Synonyms: antimonial powder
fever powder
nectared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nectared
form: most nectared
Etymology: From nectar + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: How charming is divine Philoſophy! / Not harſh, and crabbed as dull fools ſuppoſe, / But muſical as is Apollo's lute, / And a perpetual feaſt of nectar'd ſweets, / Where no crude ſurfet raigns.
ref: 1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Caſtle, 1634.”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC, page 96:
glosses: containing nectar.
withholdment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withholdments
Etymology: From withhold + -ment.
Senses: glosses: withholding; the act of withholding.
withholdments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of withholdment
authorcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From author + -craft.
Senses: glosses: The craft of an author; the writing of books.
bibliopolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪblɪˈəʊpəlɪz(ə)m/
Etymology: From bibliopole + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The author re[f]rains perhaps from introducing his production to the world with all the pomp of empirical bibliopolism.
ref: 1886 [1814], Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Thomas J. Wise, Review of Hogg's 'Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff', London: Reeves and Turner, page 16:
glosses: bookselling
astromantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astro- + -mantic. See astromancy.
Senses: examples: text: astromantic chart
text: astromantic predictions
text: And methinks it is a trim fight to see these three busy sticklers against Christianity, like three fine Fools so goodly gay in their Astromantick disguises
ref: 1681, Henry More, Tetractys anti-astrologica:
glosses: Of or pertaining to divination by means of the stars; astrological.
orarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔˈɹɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From Latin orarius, from ora coast.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a coast.
orarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔˈɹɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: orarians
Etymology: From Latin orarius, from ora coast.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of a coast.
spiroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiroscopes
Etymology: From Latin spirare (“to breathe”) + -scope.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A wet meter used to determine the breathing capacity of the lungs.
spiroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiroscope
evulgate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌlɡeɪt
Forms: form: evulgates
form: evulgating
form: evulgated
form: evulgated
Etymology: From Latin evulgatus, past participle of evulgare (“to publish”).
Senses: examples: text: evulgating secrets
glosses: To publish or divulge.
Related terms: evulgation
evulge
evulgated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evulgate
evulgates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evulgate
evulgating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evulgate
guttulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌtjʊləs/
Forms: form: more guttulous
form: most guttulous
Etymology: From Latin guttula (“a little drop”), diminutive of gutta (“drop”).
Senses: examples: text: In its guttulous descent from the air
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In drop-like form.
Related terms: guttulatus
insipience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɪp.i.əns/
Etymology: From Latin insipientia: compare Old French insipience.Equivalent to in- + sapience.
Senses: examples: text: the Insipience of the Many of the Age
ref: a. 1696, Thomas Beverley, Treatise:
glosses: stupidity; folly
gentianic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gentian + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Only used in gentianic acid
interequinoctial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + equinoctial.
Senses: examples: text: Summer and winter I have called inter-equinoctial intervals.
ref: 1790, Francis Balfour, Treatise on Putrid Intestinal Remitting Fevers:
glosses: Occurring between equinoxes.
theogonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theogonists
Etymology: From theogony + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A writer on theogony.
theogonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theogonist
disaffectionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disaffectionate
form: most disaffectionate
Etymology: From dis- + affectionate.
Senses: examples: text: It's the lot of the servants of God to be liable to the quarrels of disaffectionate men
ref: 1661, Ralph Browning, A Sermon preach'd on the Coronation Day of K. Charles I.:
glosses: Not disposed to affection; unfriendly.
hierogrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French hiérogrammatique.
Senses: examples: text: The third EPISTOLIC , so called , as we shall see , from its being first applied to civil matters : and the fourth and last , HIEROGRAMMATIC , from its being only used in religious
ref: 1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Written in, or pertaining to, hierograms; expressive of sacred writing.
incircumspect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incircumspect
form: most incircumspect
Etymology: From in- + circumspect.
Senses: examples: text: Our fashions of eating make us slothful, and unlusty to labour and study; unstable, inconstant, and light-mannered; full of wits, after-witted (as we call it), incircumspect, inconsiderate, heady, rash, and hasty to begin unadvisedly, […]
ref: 1532 (reprinted 1573), William Tyndale, “An Exposition uppon the V. VI. VII. Chapters of Mathew, […]. The Sixth Chapter.”, in Henry Walter, editor, Expositions and Notes on Sundry Portions of the Holy Scriptures, together with The Practice of Prelates. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] The University Press, published 1849, →OCLC, page 93:
glosses: Not circumspect; careless, reckless.
Derived terms: incircumspectly
insensibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insensible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: O thou that art the great Phyſitian in Heaven, firſt cure our inſenſibleneſs; make thou us as ſick of our ſins, as vve have made our ſelves ſick by ſin, and then ſpeak the vvord, and vve ſhall be vvhole.
ref: 1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter LI, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, page 150:
glosses: Insensibility.
overpolish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpolishes
form: overpolishing
form: overpolished
form: overpolished
Etymology: From over- + polish.
Senses: glosses: To polish too much.
overpolished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpolish
overpolishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpolish
overpolishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpolish
uniradiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + radiated.
Senses: glosses: Having only one ray.
glosses: Misspelling of unirradiated.
-type
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: impressed form; stamp; print
glosses: typical form
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Used to form words referring to groups of organisms characterized by the presence of a specific feature
glosses: -like
disruly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disruly
form: most disruly
Etymology: From dis- + ruly.
Senses: glosses: Unruly; disorderly.
unproficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + proficiency.
Senses: examples: text: One is sick of the pleuritical stitches of envy; one of the contracting cramp of covetousness; another of the atrophy of unproficiency.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: Lack of proficiency.
unpenetrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpenetrable
form: most unpenetrable
Etymology: From un- + penetrable.
Senses: glosses: impenetrable
dreave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dreaves
form: dreaving
form: dreft
form: dreft
form: dreaved
form: dreaved
form: dreve
Etymology: From Middle English dreven, from Old English drǣfan (“to drive, drive out, expel”), from Proto-Germanic *draibijaną (“to cause to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Icelandic dreifa (“to spread out, disperse”). More at drive.
Senses: glosses: To drive; drive out; drive away; expel.
dreave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreaves
form: drave
form: draif
form: dreef
Etymology: From Middle English draf, from Old English drāf (“a drove, herd”). More at drove.
Senses: glosses: A drove.
glosses: A crowd or throng of people.
glosses: The yearly herring fishing.
glosses: A shoal of fish; a catch.
mid-term
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of midterm.
mid-term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-terms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of midterm.
go hang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes hang
form: going hang
form: went hang
form: gone hang
Senses: examples: text: You can go hang for all I care.
text: For she had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a sailor, 'Go hang!'
She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch.
Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang!
ref: 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, act II, scene II:
text: When Love is kind, cheerful, and free,
Love's sure to find welcome from me;
But when Love brings heartache and pang,
Tears and such things, Love may go hang!
ref: 1898, Margaret Georgina Todd, Mona Maclean, Medical Student: A Novel, page 449:
text: "And your advice was to let the family go hang and to insure the dog heavily against accidents?"
ref: 1958, Macdonald Hastings, Cork in the Doghouse, page 97:
glosses: To be cursed; to be unworthy of notice or bother.
atwixt
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: But with outrageous strokes did him restraine,
And with his body bard the way atwixt them twaine.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 108:
text: Whate’er ye are, be sure an’ fix’t;
Opinions ne’er haltin’ atwixt;
ref: 1789, David Sillar, “Epistle to J. W****N, Student of Divinity, Edinburgh”, in Poems, Kilmarnock, page 59:
text: […] the boat’s drove tight by the tide ’atwixt two tiers of barges.
ref: 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, book the, page 139:
text: “I kin take him from right here ’atwixt his eyes,” said Jenks softly, and tapped his rifle significantly.
ref: 1909, Zane Grey, chapter 18, in The Last Trail, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 218:
synonyms: betwixt
glosses: Between.
bardling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bardlings
Etymology: From bard + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Faith! let him scape, let Love and Fame survive, / With your kind sanction keep his scenes alive; / Try to approve (applaud we will exempt), / Nor crush the bardling in this hard attempt.
ref: a. 1773, John Cunningham, A Prologue to Love and Fame:
glosses: An inferior bard.
bardlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bardling
utriculoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more utriculoid
form: most utriculoid
Etymology: From Latin utriculus (“a little womb, a calycle”) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a bladder .
Synonyms: utricular
utriculate
wileful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wileful
form: most wileful
Etymology: From wile + -ful.
Senses: glosses: artful, wily, deceitful.
bladebone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bladebones
Etymology: From blade + bone.
Senses: glosses: The scapula.
glosses: a meat cut from the scapula.
bladebones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bladebone
overrich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrich
form: most overrich
Etymology: From over- + rich.
Senses: examples: text: overrich fudge; an overrich man
glosses: Excessively rich.
Derived terms: overrichness
afflictionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more afflictionless
form: most afflictionless
Etymology: From affliction + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] he always had a loosened tooth or a cut finger to show to particular friends, which he did with a complacent air of being thereby elevated above the common herd of afflictionless humanity […]
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 9, in Far from the Madding Crowd, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, pages 124–125:
text: […] unearthly cries as if spirits clustered in every clod of earth, feeling and needing those cries, that expiation, as though from it[,] all would be resolved into a bright, afflictionless paradise.
ref: 1996, Edna O’Brien, Down by the River,, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 216:
synonyms: unafflicted
glosses: Free from affliction.
camonflet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camonflets
Etymology: French
Senses: examples: text: the French were throwing camonflets or stink-pots into the city as a means of annoyance to its defenders.
ref: 1855, The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners.
camonflets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camonflet
ciderist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciderists
Etymology: From cider + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen the Cyderiſts have taken care for the beſt Fruit, and ordered them after the beſt manner they could, yet hath their Cyder generally proved pale, ſharp, and ill-taſted, &c. and all from the too early ſtopping of it.
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, “Of Cyder”, in The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC, page 578:
glosses: A maker of cider.
ciderists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ciderist
fructiculose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fructiculose
form: most fructiculose
Senses: glosses: fruitful; full of fruit.
examples: text: fructiculose lichen
glosses: growing on fruit trees
ingracious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ingracious
form: most ingracious
Etymology: From in- + gracious.
Senses: examples: text: thy poore creature, moſt […]vnworthie, most graceles, and ingracious
ref: 1621, Archibald Simson, Heptameron:
glosses: ungracious; unkind.
lapideous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lapideous
form: most lapideous
Etymology: From Latin lapideus, from lapis (“stone”).
Senses: examples: text: Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon […] a Chilifactory menstruum or digestive preparation drawn from species or individuals, whose stomacks peculiarly dissolve lapideous bodies.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
glosses: Of the nature of stone; stony.
subpeduncular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + peduncular.
Senses: examples: text: the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum
text: the subpeduncular pigmented nucleus
text: subpeduncular lesion
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated beneath the peduncle.
unkle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unkles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of uncle.
unkles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unkle
evenhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of evenhood.
biglandular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ændjʊlə(ɹ)
-ændʒʊlə(ɹ)
-ænʒʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From bi- + glandular.
Senses: glosses: Having two glands
intoxicatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intoxicated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being intoxicated; drunkenness.
relade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relades
form: relading
form: reladed
form: reladed
form: reladen
Etymology: From re- + lade.
Senses: glosses: To lade again; to reload, especially a ship with goods.
reladed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relade
relades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relade
relading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relade
entophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entophyte + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: entophytic bacteria
text: entophytic disease
text: entophytic fungus
glosses: Of or pertaining to entophytes.
guidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guidable
form: most guidable
Etymology: From guide + -able.
Senses: examples: December 24 1676, Thomas Sprat, A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall
a submissive and guidable spirit
glosses: Capable of being or willing to be guided
Derived terms: unguidable
Related terms: guidably
outroot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outroots
form: outrooting
form: outrooted
form: outrooted
Etymology: From out- + root.
Senses: glosses: To eradicate
glosses: to extirpate, to uproot
outrooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outroot
outrooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outroot
outroots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outroot
unattire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unattires
form: unattiring
form: unattired
form: unattired
Etymology: From un- + attire.
Senses: glosses: to undress.
unattired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English un-atired, equivalent to un- + attired.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unattire
unattired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English un-atired, equivalent to un- + attired.
Senses: glosses: Not attired; unclothed
unattires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unattire
unattiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unattire
babbitry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis, + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: When I worked in state government, babbitry was the only thing we excelled at. We communicated with the media a certain way, because we always had.
ref: 2011, Erik Deckers, Avoid Babbitry and Stand Out From the Crowd:
glosses: Alternative form of babbittry.
endurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Old French endurement.
Senses: examples: a. 1716, Robert South, a sermon on Matthew x. 28.
how much more did he prefer it before the endurement of those eternal miseries of the world to come!
glosses: endurance
turbants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbant
vitellogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitellogenes
Etymology: From vitello- + -gene.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: vitelline gland
glosses: A gland secreting the yolk of the eggs in various flatworm species.
wikipedia: Taenia hydatigena
Related terms: vitelligene
vitellogenin
vitellogenesis
vitellogenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitellogene
well-seen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-seen
form: most well-seen
Senses: examples: text: All sixe well seene in armes, and prou'd in many a fight
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5:
text: May it please your grace to take note of a gentleman, well seen, deeply read, and throughly grounded in the hidden knowledge of all sallads and pot-herbs whatsoever.
ref: 1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:
glosses: Having seen a lot; accomplished, experienced.
dudderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duddery
duddery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dudderies
Senses: glosses: A place where cloth and rags are traded and kept for sale.
Related terms: word: duds
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: fuddy-duddery
outground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outgrounds
Etymology: From out- + ground.
Senses: glosses: Ground situated at a distance from the house; outlying land.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative spelling of out ground.
outgrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outground
manhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] now therfoꝛ ſyth his māhead is a creature, it cābnot haue this gloꝛy onely whiche is appꝛopꝛied to the Godhead.
ref: 1573 [1530], William Tyndall, “The Supper of the Lord”, in The Whole Workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and R. Barnes […] , London: Iohn Daye, page 461:
glosses: Obsolete form of manhood.
misgrowth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misgrowths
Etymology: From mis- + growth.
Senses: examples: c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Henry More
[…] their physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic and a misgrowth of entia rationalia, that is, substantiated abstractions […]
glosses: An unnatural or abnormal growth.
misgrowths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misgrowth
backshadowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backshadowings
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A literary device in which an author shows how an event that already occurred affects the future.
backshadowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backshadow
Related terms: foreshadowing
sideshadowing
metamorphoser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metamorphosers
Etymology: From metamorphose + -er.
Senses: examples: ref: 1576, George Gascoigne, A Delicate Diet for daintie mouthde Droonkardes:
text: what shall I name this man , but a beastly Metamorphoser, both of himself & of others?
glosses: One who metamorphoses.
metamorphosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metamorphoser
nominately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nominate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Locus religioſus is that which is aſſigned to ſome Office of Religion, and nominately where the Body of a dead Perſon hath been buried
ref: 1641, Henry Spelman, De Sepultura:
glosses: By name; by definition
preyful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪfʊl
Forms: form: more preyful
form: most preyful
Etymology: From prey + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: the preyful brood of savage beasts
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: Disposed to take prey, or hunting for prey.
examples: text: The preyful Princess pierc'd and prick'd a pretty pleasing pricket
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: full of, or abounding in, prey.
universological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more universological
form: most universological
Etymology: From universology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to universology.
blushing bride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blushing brides
Etymology: Originally a reference to a virgin bride who, lacking sexual experience, might be nervous about her wedding night.
Senses: examples: text: My beautiful blushing bride, Sheila here, and I - We have come all the way up here to god’s green country to... Kill you. Clean you. And eat you.
ref: 2009, Benjamin Gilton, The Missing Dinner Guests:
text: Dana Jackson was not your average blushing bride. You see, she went down the aisle on her 100th birthday.
ref: 2012, Melissa Locker, “Bride Ties the Knot on Her 100th Birthday”, in Time:
glosses: A bride.
glossographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glossography + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to glossography.
unreputable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreputable
form: most unreputable
Etymology: From un- + reputable.
Senses: glosses: disreputable
haloscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloscopes
Etymology: From halo + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.
haloscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haloscope
lockmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockman
refurnishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refurnishments
Etymology: From refurnish + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The refurnishment was in a style richer than before.
ref: 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ:
glosses: The act of refurnishing.
refurnishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refurnishment
uniovulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + ovulate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: uniovular
glosses: Containing only one ovule.
unpower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- (lack of) + power.
Senses: examples: text: Paradoxically, it is this unpower that proceeds to produce the suppressive superpower of metaphysics and that inscribes in Sallis' s work or in his "deconstructive" strategy — I would even say, in his hyperdeconstructive strategy — [...]
ref: 1995, Kenneth Maly, The Path of Archaic Thinking:
text: I have referred to Makbara 's (lost) inspiration as 'unpower', a term that I take from Derrida's reading of Artaud. As Derrida explains, unpower is not simply a lack of power, not merely impotence or verbal sterility; unpower is actually inspiration [...]
ref: 1996, Bradley S. Epps, Significant violence:
text: But what does it mean to question the question of the principle of reason? Here, it seems to me, we may risk introducing the concept (but is it a concept?) of unpower.
ref: 2015, Hent de Vries, Nils F. Schott, Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World:
glosses: Lack of power; weakness.
unpower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpowers
form: unpowering
form: unpowered
form: unpowered
Etymology: From un- (reversive prefix) + power.
Senses: examples: text: “Desperate to retrieve the webscrolls and unpower the staff, which could only be done by tossing it into The Saline Sea, [...]”
ref: 2010, Deron Rennick, The Webscrolls of Dim Sorcery:
glosses: To remove the power from; power down or power off
jetson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetsons
Etymology: Compare Old French getaison (“a throwing”).
Senses: glosses: jetsam
mispassion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + passion.
Senses: examples: text: But I say unto you, that not only the outward act of murder is a breach of the law, but the inward mispassion of the heart also: […]
ref: a. 1657 (date written), Joseph Hall, “St. Matthew.”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume IV (Paraphrase on Hard Texts, […]), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC, page 121:
text: I thought back to my father’s manual and the line drawings of body parts. I thought of my bosses and lost boyfriends, of passion and mispassion. Then I told her the truth, about penises and where they fit into women, about eggs and sperm and embryos.
ref: 1994, Julia Whitty, “The Daguerreotype”, in Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, volume 15, number 2, page 93:
text: Hill believes that people do things either from a good set of motives like serving the customer fairly or a bad set of motives (which includes the motive of greed). Hill also tends to believe in a valid passion for business vs a fanatical mispassion which some business dictators tend to radiate.
ref: 1999 August 11, c_thom...@my-deja.com, “Re: Napoleon Hill”, in alt.neo-tech (Usenet):
glosses: Wrong passion or feeling.
mistrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈtɹeɪn/
Forms: form: mistrains
form: mistraining
form: mistrained
form: mistrained
Etymology: From mis- + train.
Senses: examples: text: For she by force is still fro me detayned, / And with corruptfull brybes is to untruth mis-trayned.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To draw (something) badly or in the wrong direction.
mistrained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistrain
mistraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistrain
mistrains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistrain
redeliverance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + deliverance.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent deliverance.
uroxanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uroxanates
Etymology: From uroxanic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of uroxanic acid.
uroxanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uroxanate
allwhere
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From all + where.
Senses: glosses: everywhere
boviform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boviform
form: most boviform
Etymology: From Latin bos, bovis (“ox”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like an ox.
overmellow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overmellow
form: most overmellow
Etymology: From over- + mellow.
Senses: glosses: Too mellow
kalendarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkælənˈdɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌkælənˈdɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calendarial.
textorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin textorius, from textor (“a weaver”), from texere, textum (“to weave”).
Senses: examples: text: From the cultivation of the textorial arts among the orientals came Darius's wonderful cloth above mentioned
ref: 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
glosses: Of or pertaining to weaving.
wingmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wingman + -ship; in the flight sense, coined in imitation of horsemanship.
Senses: examples: 1867', George Campbell, The Reign of Law
To stand still in the air is not indeed impossible to a flying Bird, for reasons to be presently explained, but it is one of the most difficult feats of wingmanship
glosses: Power or skill in flying.
glosses: Friendship in the form of being a wingman.
glossological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glossology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The treatise De Vulgari Eloquio. Though we have doubts whether we possess this book as Dante [Alighieri] wrote it, inclining rather to think that it is a copy in some parts textually exact, in others an abstract, there can be no question either of its great glossological value, or that it conveys the opinions of Dante.
ref: 1859, “DANTE (Durante, by contraction Dante) DEGLI ALIGHIERI”, in George Ripley, Charles A[nderson] Dana, editors, The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, volumes VI (Cough–Education), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 346 & 348 Broadway; London: 16 Little Britain, →OCLC, page 255, column 1:
glosses: Of or pertaining to glossology (any of the meanings).
overgorge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overgorges
form: overgorging
form: overgorged
form: overgorged
Etymology: From over- + gorge.
Senses: examples: text: ambitious Sylla, overgorged
With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: To gorge to excess.
overgorged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overgorge
overgorges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overgorge
overgorging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overgorge
verecundity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From verecund + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being verecund; modesty.
chalybeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chalybeous
form: most chalybeous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χάλυψ (khálups, “steel”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: steel blue; of the colour of tempered steel.
unreverend
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreverend
form: most unreverend
Etymology: From un- + reverend.
Senses: glosses: Not reverend.
examples: text: unreverend tongue
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: disrespectful; irreverent.
vinegarette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinegarettes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of vinaigrette.
vinegarettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinegarette
instrumentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more instrumentary
form: most instrumentary
Etymology: From instrument + -ary.
Senses: glosses: instrumental
examples: text: The nearest relations of a party by whom a deed is granted, or in whose favour it is conceived, are good instrumentary witnesses; and although it has been generally laid down by the text writers, that women cannot be instrumentary witness, it is extremely doubtful how far this is correct.
ref: 1832, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, page 23:
topics: law
glosses: Pertaining to a legal instrument.