cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
well-favoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-favoured
form: most well-favoured
form: well-favored
Senses: examples: text: Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, & cryes, Do you see
Yonder well favoured youth? Which? Oh, 'tis hee
That dances so divinely; […]
ref: a. 1631, John Donne, Satire I:
text: Children in whom was no blemish, but well fauoured, and skilfull in all wisedome, and cunning in knowledge, and vnderstanding science, […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 1:4:
text: ‘‘The name is entered on the list as a woman,’’ replied the secretary. ‘‘I think she is the tall spare female of whom you spoke just now, my lord, as not being well-favoured, who sometimes comes to hear the speeches—along with Tappertit and Mrs Varden.’’
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 36.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 143:
text: E.g., there were two young lady-performers alleged by the programme to be "Serios and Bone Soloists," whereas they were the reverse of lugubrious; nor were their physiognomies fleshless or osseous; but, on the contrary, so shapely and well-favoured that Jessie did remonstrate with me upon the perseverance with which I gazed at them.
ref: 1897, Thomas Anstey Guthrie, Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A., New York: D. Appleton and Company, Chapter XIII, pages 97–98:
antonyms: ill-favored
glosses: Good-looking or pleasing to the eye; handsome.
infiltrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infiltrants
Senses: glosses: An infiltrator; a spy who covertly enters a territory or organisation.
glosses: A substance that penetrates an object to give it some property, such as waterproofing.
istle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: istles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ixtle.
istles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of istle
rhetoricalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhetorical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being rhetorical.
wayleway
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of wellaway.
meeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meed
osseter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osseters
form: osetr
Etymology: From Russian осётр (osjótr, “sturgeon”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, the Russian sturgeon.
Related terms: osetra
osseters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osseter
unnapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + napped.
Senses: examples: text: Did I attempt her with a thred-bare name—unnapt with meritorious actions, [...]
ref: 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Knight of Malta”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 71, column 1:
text: Napping permits a more permeable cake on the fabric surface but, in some cases, is more difficult to clean than unnapped cloth.
ref: 1952, Louis C. McCabe, Air Pollution: Proceedings, page 284:
text: Pigment prints are better applied to the unnapped side of a fabric as the print will matt down the raised fibers.
ref: 1995, Pigment Printing Handbook, page 118:
glosses: Finished without a nap (in fabric).
examples: text: However wolverine-like an unnapped child, he's a cherub compared to one roused from a short sleep.
ref: 2006, C. R. Yeager, Breakfast at Noon: Backwards in the "Burbs", page 52:
text: A newborn baby Left unnapped so carelessly Takes this time to pee
ref: 2008, Robert R. Jones, “Haiku”, in Harold J. Ellner, editor, The Best of Wits End: Medical Humor at Its Brainiest, page 333:
text: If your unnapped child is fairly civil, composed, and not too cranky at bed- time, he probably doesn't need naps anymore.
ref: 2009, Michelle Nicholasen, Barbara O'Neal, I Brake for Meltdowns, page 100:
glosses: Not having napped (slept for a short time)
foyson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foysons
Senses: examples: text: ...but Nature should bring forth / Of it own kind, all foyzon, all abundance / To feed my innocent people
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Obsolete form of foison.
foysons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foyson
fluidounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluidounces
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fluid ounce.
fluidounces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluidounce
Kimmerian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kimmerians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cimmerian.
Kimmerians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kimmerian
hesperetin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound obtained from the decomposition of hesperidin, regarded as a complex derivative of caffeic acid.
lyam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪəm/
Forms: form: lyams
Etymology: See leam.
Senses: examples: text: My Hound then in my Lyam, I by the Woodmans art
Forecast, where I may lodge the goodly Hie-palm'd Hart,
ref: 1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, The Sixt Nimphall, page 60:
text: Bob Munchy, as a forlorn hope, once threw his clodding leister at a drowning man, floating down the Yarrow in a high flood, and hauled him out with the lyams unharmed.
ref: 1896 June 13, “Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing”, in The Fishing Gazette, page 459:
glosses: A leash.
Derived terms: lyam-hound
lyams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyam
nasoturbinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From naso- + turbinal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nasoturbinate.
nasoturbinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasoturbinals
Etymology: From naso- + turbinal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nasoturbinate.
nasoturbinals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasoturbinal
pintailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pin + tailed.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest.
nasoturbinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nasoturbinal
Etymology: From naso- + turbinate.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the nasal bones and turbinate bone.
nasoturbinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasoturbinates
form: nasoturbinal
Etymology: From naso- + turbinate.
Senses: glosses: A nasoturbinate bone.
nasoturbinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasoturbinate
phantasmatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phantasmatical
form: most phantasmatical
Etymology: Latin phantasmaticus.
Senses: examples: text: whether this preparation be made by Grammar and Criticisme, or else by Phantasmatical or real and crue Notion
ref: 1662, Henry More, The Defence of the Moral Cabbala:
glosses: phantasmal
triableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From triable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being triable.
deline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delines
form: delining
form: delined
form: delined
Etymology: From de- + line.
Senses: examples: text: A certain Plan had been delined out for a farther Proceeding.
ref: a. 1734, Roger North, Examen:
glosses: To delineate or mark out.
delined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deline
delines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deline
delining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deline
bucentaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucentaurs
Etymology: Supposedly from Ancient Greek, but perhaps invented later. See remarks at Wikipedia.
Senses: glosses: A supposed mythical monster, half ox, half man.
glosses: A Venetian barge modelled on the state barge (called Bucentaur) used annually on Ascension Day in the ancient ceremony of the marriage of the state with the Adriatic.
bucentaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucentaur
homotaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homotaxis.
veratria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: veratrine
killesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killesses
form: killese
Etymology: Compare coulisse.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A gutter, groove, or channel.
glosses: A hip roof.
killesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killesse
reprimander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reprimanders
Etymology: From reprimand + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who reprimands.
reprimanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reprimander
tutories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutory
tutory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːtəɹi/
rhymes: -uːtəɹi
Forms: form: tutories
Etymology: By surface analysis, tutor + -y.
Senses: glosses: tutorage
examples: text: the guardianship or tutorie of a king expired
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: A wandering; a vagary.
collodionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: collodionizes
form: collodionizing
form: collodionized
form: collodionized
Etymology: From collodion + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I put the collodionized glass horizontally on a copper fork, the prongs of which are bent in such a way that only the ends of the glass are supported.
ref: 1853, Robert Hunt, A Manual of Photography:
glosses: To prepare or treat with collodion.
collodionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collodionize
collodionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collodionize
collodionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collodionize
fructuaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fructuary
fructuary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fructuaries
Etymology: Latin fructuarius.
Senses: examples: text: Kings are not proprietors nor fructuaries.
ref: 1643, William Prynne, “(please specify |part=1 to 4, or Appendix)”, in The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes: […], London: […] Michael Sparke Senior, →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of usufructuary.
synonyms: word: usufructuary
meandrina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meandrinas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: synonyms: brain coral
glosses: Any of the genus Meandrina of corals with meandering grooves and ridges.
meandrinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meandrina
evanish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evanishes
form: evanishing
form: evanished
form: evanished
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old French esvanir, compare Latin evanescere. See evanesce, vanish.
Senses: examples: text: Or like the rainbow's lovely form,
Evanishing amid the storm.
ref: 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o'Shanter:
text: So does hope spring from the burning passions, which consume their home and themselves—so does it wander through the future, making its own charmed path—and so does it evanish away: lost in the horizon, it grows at last too faint for outline.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 271:
glosses: To vanish.
Derived terms: evanishment
evanished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evanish
evanishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evanish
evanishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evanish
karroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karroos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of karoo.
Derived terms: karroid
karroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karroo
Celticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Celticizes
form: Celticizing
form: Celticized
form: Celticized
form: celticize
Etymology: From Celtic + -ize.
Senses: synonyms: Celtify
glosses: To render Celtic; to assimilate into the Celts.
Celticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Celticize
Celticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Celticize
Celticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Celticize
weazeny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwiːzəni/
Forms: form: more weazeny
form: most weazeny
Etymology: From weazen + -y.
Senses: examples: text: weazeny baked pears
ref: 1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC:
text: The head was supported by a neck, long, pinched, and weazeny, and was surmounted by a somewhat worn and ragged puggree, from the sides of which a few straggling grey hairs escaped
ref: 1867, J. T. Newell, Hog Hunting in the East: And Other Sports:
glosses: Somewhat weazen; shrivelled.
misconstruable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misconstruable
form: most misconstruable
Etymology: From misconstrue + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being misconstrued.
outsentries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outsentry
outsentry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outsentries
Etymology: From out + sentry.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A sentry who guards the entrance or approach to a place.
Synonyms: outguard
leaviness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leavy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of leafiness.
noctambulo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noctambuloes
Senses: glosses: A sleepwalker at night.
Synonyms: noctambulist
noctambuloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noctambulo
trapstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trapsticks
Etymology: From trap + stick.
Senses: glosses: A stick used in playing the game of trapball.
examples: text: These had made a foolish swop between a couple of thick bandy legs and two long trapsticks that had no calves to them
ref: 1714 July 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, June 25, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 559; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A slender leg.
trapsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trapstick
writative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more writative
form: most writative
Etymology: From write, possibly modelled on talkative.
Senses: examples: text: I Find, tho’ I have leſs experience than you, the truth of what you told me ſome time ago, that increaſe of years makes men more talkative but leſs writative: to that degree, that I now write no letters but of plain buſineſs, or plain how-d’ye’s, to thoſe few I am forced to correſpond with, either out of neceſſity, or love: And I grow Laconic even beyond Laconiciſme; for ſometimes I return only Yes, or No, to queſtionary or petitionary Epiſtles of half a yard long.
ref: 1736, August 17, Alexander Pope, letter LXXXII to Jonathan Swift, pages 247–248
glosses: Inclined to much writing.
kennel coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kennel coals
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: cannel
flaxweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flaxweeds
Etymology: From flax + weed.
Senses: glosses: toadflax
flaxweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flaxweed
imperturbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imperturbed
form: most imperturbed
Etymology: From im- + perturbed.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unperturbed.
synonyms: word: unperturbed
Novatianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˈveɪʃəˌnɪzəm/
ipa: /noʊˈveɪʃəˌnɪzəm/
Etymology: From Novatian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Novatianism still retained a measure of the Divine Spirit , and was honoured with furnishing those who suffered for Jesus
ref: 1794, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A rigorist Christian sect that opposed re-admitting baptised Christians who had previously renounced their faith under persecution and by extension all those who had committed a mortal sin, founded by the priest and antipope Novatian in the third century.
tibio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: tibia
overpeer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: overpeers
form: overpeering
form: overpeered
form: overpeered
Etymology: From over- + peer.
Senses: examples: text: […] the English, in the suburbs close intrench’d,
Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars
In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,
And thence discover how with most advantage
They may vex us with shot, or with assault.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First 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 I, scene iv]:
text: 1906, Arthur Quiller-Couch (under the pseudonym “Q”), The Mayor of Troy, London: Methuen, Chapter 1, p. 16,
In Admirals’ Row […] Miss Sally Tregentil would overpeer her blind and draw back in a flutter lest the Major had observed her.
glosses: To peer over; to overlook.
examples: text: The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than Young Laertes, in a riotous head,
O’erbears Your offices.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: 1896, Charles G. D. Roberts, The Forge in the Forest, Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co., Part I, Foreward, p. 12,
These patches are but meagre second growth, with here and there a gnarled birch or overpeering pine, lonely survivor of the primeval brotherhood.
glosses: To rise above.
overpeered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpeer
overpeering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpeer
overpeers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpeer
bywalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bywalk
chideress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chideresses
Etymology: From chider + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A woman who chides.
chideresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chideress
Laputan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ləˈpjuːtən/
Forms: form: more Laputan
form: most Laputan
Etymology: From Laputa + -an, after Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).
Senses: examples: text: He could not, they observed, want all his various knowledge and Laputan ideas for his periodical writing which brought him most of his bread, and he would do well to use his talents in getting a speciality that would fit him for a post.
ref: [1879], George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “[Impressions of Theophrastus Such.] How We Encourage Research.”, in Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Essays and Leaves from a Note-book, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Fanciful; preposterous; absurd in philosophy or science.
Laputan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ləˈpjuːtən/
Forms: form: Laputans
Etymology: From Laputa + -an, after Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the fictional island of Laputa.
Related terms: Lagadan
ascendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ascendable
form: most ascendable
Etymology: From ascend + -able.
Senses: examples: text: ascendable hill
text: ascendable mechanism
synonyms: ascendible
glosses: Capable of being ascended.
Derived terms: unascendable
meleagrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛl.iˈeɪ.ɡɹaɪn/
Etymology: From Latin meleagris (“turkey”) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Having disposed of such records as we have of the extinct ancestors of the American turkeys — the so-to-speak meleagrine records — we can now pass to what is, comparatively speaking, the modern history of these famous birds, although some of this history is already several centuries old.
ref: 1914, Edward A. McIlhenny, The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting, Doubleday, page 39:
text: To use the district court's meleagrine analogy, one may add an additional step to the recipe: "continuing to cook the turkey until the skin is burned to a crisp."
ref: 2003, United States Patents Quarterly, volume 65, page 1968:
text: The sad incident with the turkeys is hardly the first case of an improper response to wild animals that have wandered out of their natural habitat. […] Perhaps this aquiline newspaper would like to memorialize its late meleagrine friends by publishing posters or essays from Berkshire schoolchildren and scout troops.
ref: 11 October 2005, “Henpecking is not the solution”, in The Berkshire Eagle:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the genus Meleagris, including turkeys.
overtitle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtitles
form: overtitling
form: overtitled
form: overtitled
Etymology: From over- + title.
Senses: glosses: To give too high a title or status to.
overtitle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overtitles
Etymology: From over- + title.
Senses: glosses: One of a set of lines displayed above a stage and manually synchronized with the speech of the actors, rather like television subtitles.
overtitles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overtitle
overtitling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtitle
overtitled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtitle
hemitrope
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + -trope.
Senses: glosses: Half turned round; half inverted; (crystallography) having a twinned structure.
hemitrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemitropes
Etymology: From hemi- + -trope.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.
Related terms: hemitropal
hemitropic
hemitropism
hemitropy
hemitropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemitrope
supermaterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermaterial
form: most supermaterial
Etymology: From super- + material.
Senses: glosses: Above, or superior to, matter.
supermaterial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermaterials
Etymology: From super- + material.
Senses: glosses: Any material with remarkable physical properties.
telegrammic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more telegrammic
form: most telegrammic
Etymology: From telegram + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of telegrammatic.
telegnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + gnostic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to telegnosis.
supermaterials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermaterial
nifle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nifles
Etymology: From Middle English nifle, possibly from Anglo-Norman. Compare Scots niffle (“to trifle”).
Senses: examples: text: THE great Galees of Venice and Florence
Be well laden with things of complacence,
All spicery and of grossers ware:
With sweete wines all maner of chaffare,
Apes, and Japes, and marmusets tayled,
Nifles and trifles that little have avayled:
And things with which they fetely blere our eye:
With things not induring that we bye.
ref: 1599, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation, […], 2nd edition, London: […] George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, →OCLC, page 193:
text: […]but if they be greeued, let their toad-swolne galls burst in sunder for me, with puffing choler: let them turne the buckle of their dudgeon anger behinde, lest the toung of it catch their owne dottril skins, I waigh them not a nifle.
ref: 1607, Thomas Walkington, The optick glasse of humors. Or The touchstone of a golden temperature, […] , page 83:
text: If I should say, that either Duke Medus, or Prince Olanus built this Mediolanum of ours, and those Cities of the same name in Gaule, or that whiles they were a building Sus mediatim Lanata, that is, That a Sow halfe fleeced with wooll, was digged up, might I not be thought (thinke you) to catch at Clouds, and fish for Nifles?
ref: 1610, William Camden, “Montgomery-shire”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, pages 662-663:
glosses: A trifle; something small and insignificant.
nifles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nifle
unpope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈpəʊp/
Forms: form: unpopes
form: unpoping
form: unpoped
form: unpoped
Etymology: From un- + pope.
Senses: glosses: To divest of the character, office, or authority of a pope.
examples: text: Rome will never so far un-pope herself as to part with her pretended supremacy.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To deprive of a pope.
unpoped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpope
unpopes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpope
unpoping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpope
detusk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detusks
form: detusking
form: detusked
form: detusked
Etymology: From de- + tusk.
Senses: glosses: To remove the tusks from (an elephant, a boar, etc.).
detusked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detusk
detusking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detusk
detusks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detusk
millesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin millesimus, from mille (“a thousand”).
Senses: examples: text: millesimal fineness
text: millesimal fractions
glosses: thousandth; consisting of or divided into thousandth parts
Derived terms: millesimally
millesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millesimals
Etymology: From Latin millesimus, from mille (“a thousand”).
Senses: glosses: A thousandth part.
mineralogize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪnəˈɹæləd͡ʒaɪz/
Forms: form: mineralogizes
form: mineralogizing
form: mineralogized
form: mineralogized
Etymology: From mineralogy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: When he was not studying, he was botanizing or mineralogizing with O'Toole's chaplain.
ref: 1809, Maria Edgeworth, Ennui:
glosses: To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
mineralogized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mineralogize
mineralogizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mineralogize
mineralogizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mineralogize
Huronian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjʊˈɹəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /h(j)ʊˈɹoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Huron + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Lake Huron
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the Huronian glaciation, evidence for which came from Lake Huron
giffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giffies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of jiffy (“brief moment”).
alomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Her talent was alomancy, the ability to analyze the grains of salt as they were tossed into the air and the patterns they made as they fell on the mirror.
ref: 2018, Cheyenne McCray, The Wicked, Cheyenne McCray LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of halomancy.
balneatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin balneatorius.
Senses: examples: text: […] and bestir themselves accordingly to fit up suitable balneatory establishments, with all due appliances for douching and illutation, or, in plainer language, spout and mud baths.
ref: 1855, John Bell, The mineral and thermal springs of the United States and Canada:
glosses: Pertaining to a bath
distractile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distractile
form: most distractile
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Tending or serving to draw apart.
vinagrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vinagrous
form: most vinagrous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vinaigrous.
Barnabite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barnabites
Etymology: From Barnabas + -ite.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A member of a religious order originally associated with the church of St. Barnabas in Milan.
Barnabites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barnabite
bar out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bars out
form: barring out
form: barred out
form: barred out
Senses: glosses: To keep (someone or something) from entering.
examples: text: Not schoolboys at a barring out
Rais’d ever such incessant rout
ref: 1728, The Journal of a Modern Lady, Jonathan Swift:
text: We feel that it is a disgrace to a man like Tennyson, when he talks of the French revolutions, the huge crusades that had recreated the whole of his civilisation, as being "no graver than a schoolboy's barring out."
ref: 1913, G. K. Chesterton, “chapter 3”, in The Victorian Age in Literature:
synonyms: outbar
glosses: To shut a teacher out of the classroom as a prank.
intermandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From inter- + mandibular.
Senses: examples: text: intermandibular muscles
text: intermandibular space
text: intermandibular width
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the mandibles.
Synonyms: interramal
rubytail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubytails
Etymology: From ruby + tail.
Senses: synonyms: ruby-tailed wasp
glosses: A European wasp, Chrysis ignita, with a bright red underside of the abdomen.
Boodha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Buddha.
Boodha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boodhas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Buddha.
Boodhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boodha
rubytails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubytail
funkis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more funkis
form: most funkis
Senses: examples: text: Funkis buildings can be identified by their flat roofs, large, flat surfaces, curved walls, geometric shapes, horizontal bands of windows, flexible interiors, and lack of excess decorations.
ref: 2010, Margaret Hayford O'Leary, Culture and Customs of Norway, page 191:
text: It moves on next month to include two further nesting boxes, both fitted out in Scandinavia's trademark Funkis architectural style, where Klann hopes the show's feathered stars will hatch and rear their young.
ref: 2014 March 18, Richard Orange, The Guardian:
text: A two-story house, so strictly funkis that he named it monkish, and earned top points from his girlfriend for it.
ref: 2016, Steinumm Sigurðardóttir, translated by Philip Roughton, The Good Lover, World Editions, page 19:
glosses: Pertaining to a Scandinavian style of functionalist architecture.
agamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From agamic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an agamic manner.
Hellenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hellenian
form: most Hellenian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἑλλήνιος (Hellḗnios) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Hellenic.
Hellenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hellenians
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἑλλήνιος (Hellḗnios) + -an.
Senses: glosses: A Greek.
mulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin mulsum (vinum), from mulsus (“mixed with honey, honey-sweet”), past participle of mulcere (“sweeten, soften”).
Senses: examples: text: Rome's herdfolk, […] Leaned on their elbows; drinking mulse and milk, In yewen cups, […]
ref: 1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The Dawn in Britain, page 135:
glosses: Wine or water boiled and mixed with honey.
bookfell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookfells
Etymology: From Middle English bocfel (“parchment”), from Old English bōcfell (“parchment, vellum”), equivalent to book + fell. Cognate with Old High German buohfel, puohfell (“parchment”), Middle High German buohvël (“parchment”), Old Norse bókfell (“parchment”).
Senses: glosses: A skin prepared for writing upon; a sheet of vellum or parchment; paper.
examples: text: Write this on a bookfell or parchment so long that it may embrace the head on the outside, and hang it on the neck of the man who needs it; it will soon be well with him.
ref: 1866, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Apuleius (Barbarus), Dioscorides Pedanius (of Anazarbos), Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England
text: I cannot refer to any facsimile of this bookfell.
ref: 1878, George Stephens, Thunor the Thunderer:
glosses: A vellum or parchment manuscript.
bookhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From book + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: In case of a book, however, mutilation can go much farther without destroying bookhood.
ref: 1902, The Metallographist:
glosses: Knowledge of books; scholarship.
glosses: The state or dignity of a book.
eunuchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin eunuchismus (“act of unmanning”), equivalent to eunuch + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Again, that Eunuchism (not in itself, but) for the Kingdom of Heaven, is better than it, we doubt not.
ref: 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:
text: A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 123:
glosses: The condition of being a eunuch.
Synonyms: eunuchry
Related terms: eunuch
urrhodin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uro- + rhodo- + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: indigrubin
urorosein
glosses: Indigo red, a product of the decomposition or oxidation of indican, sometimes found in the sediment of pathological urines.
Related terms: uroglaucin
fluxilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluxility
fluxility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluxilities
Senses: synonyms: fluxibleness
glosses: The state of being fluxile.
indigrubin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indigorubin
Senses: glosses: urrhodin
beany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːni
Forms: form: beanier
form: more beany
form: beaniest
form: most beany
Etymology: From bean + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Those who like the beany taste in baked beans, will like the Pea bean better than the Blue Pod […]
ref: 1863, The country gentleman, volume 21, page 331:
text: He kept whoever it was waiting while he wiped up the beany mess.
ref: 1977, Pat Flower, Cobweb:
text: Some producers even add powdered soymilk or soy flour, but the latter can give an objectionable beany flavor.
ref: 1985, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, Tofutti and Other Soy Ice Creams, page 221:
text: the little plates / in the sink / and the big spoon / and the baked beany pan
ref: 1988, Angie Gilligan, “Household Dilemma”, in The New British Poetry 1968-88:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of beans.
kaffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaffles
Senses: examples: text: A kaffle of 10 or 12 camels were here met, having with them two maherries laden with trona or soda from Fezzan.
ref: October 1821, George Francis Lyon, Travels in North Africa:
glosses: Alternative form of coffle.
kaffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaffle
linener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lineners
Etymology: From linen + -er.
Senses: examples: text: all the dames at court by a fortnight, have her counsel of tailors, lineners, lace-women, embroiderers[…]
ref: 1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A dealer in linen; a linen draper.
lineners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linener
unrumple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrumples
form: unrumpling
form: unrumpled
form: unrumpled
Etymology: From un- + rumple.
Senses: glosses: To free from rumples; to spread or lay even; to uncrumple
unrumples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrumple
unrumpling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrumple
odible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈəʊdɪbəl/
Forms: form: more odible
form: most odible
Etymology: From Latin odibilis. See odium.
Senses: examples: text: dragons, ostriches, dancing apes, owlets, mermaids, and other odible monsters
ref: 1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches:
glosses: Fit to excite hatred; hateful, odious.
plumbagoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumbago
aircar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aircars
Etymology: From air + car.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: aerocar
glosses: A car capable of flight.
Related terms: hovercar
aircars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aircar
poperatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poperatic
form: most poperatic
Etymology: Blend of pop + operatic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to popera.
cafilas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cafila
railbuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railbus
theatricalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theatricality
prebreaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + breaded.
Senses: examples: prebreaded chicken pieces
glosses: Breaded in advance, or at the time of manufacture.
reptiloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reptiloids
Etymology: From reptile + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the colour blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms.
ref: 1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 15, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A reptilian humanoid creature.
Related terms: lizardman
reptiloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reptiloid
unpungent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpungent
form: most unpungent
Etymology: From un- + pungent.
Senses: glosses: Not pungent.
siestaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of siesta
siestaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of siesta
passuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passus
fellowlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fellowlike
form: most fellowlike
form: fellow-like
Etymology: From fellow + -like. Compare fellowly.
Senses: glosses: Like a comrade; companionable; on equal terms.
neguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negus
fellowly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fellowly
form: most fellowly
Etymology: From Middle English felowly, felawely, felaly, feleyly, feolahlich, equivalent to fellow + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Pro. […] Holy Gonzallo, Honourable man, / Mine eyes ev'n ſociable to the ſhew of thine / Fall fellowly drops :[…]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 16:
glosses: Fellowlike; companionable, sociable or sympathetic.
Derived terms: unfellowly
fellowly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fellowly
form: most fellowly
Etymology: From Middle English felowly, felawly, feolahliche, equivalent to fellow + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fellowly manner.
fissionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fission + -less.
Senses: examples: a fissionless ignition system
a fissionless bomb
glosses: Without fission.
nonlitigable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + litigable.
Senses: glosses: Not litigable.
nonstealing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stealing.
Senses: glosses: Not stealing; not committing theft.
nonstealth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stealth.
Senses: examples: a nonstealth aircraft
glosses: Not employing stealth.
technosocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From techno- + social.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to technosociety.
railbuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railbuffs
Etymology: From rail + buff.
Senses: glosses: A railway enthusiast.
Synonyms: word: gunzel
word: railfan
word: railway buff
word: trainiac
railbuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railbuff
cycloplegics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloplegic
purvue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purvues
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of purview.
charcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹklɔθ/
Etymology: From char + cloth.
Senses: glosses: A swatch of fabric made from vegetable fibre (such as linen or cotton) that has been converted via pyrolysis into a slow-burning fuel of very low ignition temperature, historically used as tinder.
indeliberately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indeliberately
form: most indeliberately
Etymology: From indeliberate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an indeliberate manner.
Synonyms: non-deliberately
undeliberately
singleleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From single + leaf.
Senses: glosses: Having individual leaves that are not grouped into fascicles.
raw_tags: in plant names
beanhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beanholes
Etymology: From bean + hole.
Senses: glosses: A hole dug for the purpose of cooking beans underground on hot coals.
beanholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beanhole
Cudworthian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cudworthian
form: most Cudworthian
Etymology: From Cudworth + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688), English philosopher.
nonstopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stopped.
Senses: glosses: Not stopped (in various senses).
nonstopping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-stopping
Etymology: From non- + stopping.
Senses: glosses: That does not stop.
snakewhip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakewhips
Etymology: From snake + whip.
Senses: glosses: A kind of single-tailed whip with no handle, capable of being coiled up.
Hypernyms: whip
Related terms: blacksnake
snakewhips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snakewhip
brotherred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brothered
Etymology: From Middle English brotherrede, from Old English brōþorrǣden (“fellowship, brotherhood, membership of a brotherhood”), equivalent to brother + -red. Same as brotherhood.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. and Brothern of the fraternitie or Brotherhed of the Assumption of our blessed Ladie uppon the Bridge of Bristol, which fraternity or brothered is a ffrateraitie or Brothered of Temporal persons not incorporated, [...]
ref: 1881, James Fawckner Nicholls, John Taylor, Bristol past and present:
glosses: Brotherhood; fraternity.
retractables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retractable
fingerwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From finger + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: In this way alone too, it seems to me, can one gain a clear and consistent idea of the valley itself as an organic whole, with the various lateral glens which open out fingerwise on every side of it as its component members.
ref: 1889, The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 6:
text: The valleys make natural and not ill-graded highways from the prairie to the Wisconsin River, while the ranges of bluffs separating them appear like promontories running out fingerwise from the main plateau[…]
ref: 1921, Wisconsin magazine of history, volume 4:
glosses: In the manner of fingers from a hand; spreading out in several narrow parts.
boswellic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boswellic acids
Etymology: From Boswellia + -ic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of pentacyclic triterpene molecules produced by plants in the genus Boswellia.
precisenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preciseness
Arbuthnotian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Arbuthnotian
form: most Arbuthnotian
Etymology: From Arbuthnot + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to John Arbuthnot (1667?-1735), English physician and satirist.
arboviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
virology
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or caused by an arbovirus.
herpesviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From herpes + viral.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to herpesvirus
Derived terms: antiherpesviral