cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stepfatherhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stepfather + -hood.
Senses: hypernyms: fatherhood
<
parenthood
coordinate_terms: stepmotherhood
<
motherhood
glosses: The state or relationship of being a stepfather.
stepchildhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stepchild + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or relationship of being a stepchild.
equipmentman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equipmentmen
Etymology: From equipment + -man.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An equipment operator.
equipmentmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equipmentman
equipartitionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equipartitioning
s/p
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Following TBI, bcl-2 and bax bands intensities reduce 2 hrs after injury (P<0.05) more importantly the bax:bcl-2 ration increases at 2 hrs and remains elevated at 7 days s/p injury (P<0.05) (Raghupathi et al., 2003).
ref: 2008, Nicole Zangrilli Hoh, “Bcl-2 Genotypes and Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury” (Ph.D. dissertation), ProQuest, page 43
text: 63-year-old woman, s/p 30-foot fall 3 weeks previously
ref: 2011, Alexander Vaccaro et al., Spine and Spinal Cord Trauma: Evidence-Based Management, Thieme, unnumbered page
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of status post: after.
equipartitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of equipartition
equipartitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equipartition
equipartitions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of equipartition
misdealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdealer
capillations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capillation
Argand lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Argand lamps
form: argand lamp
Etymology: Named after inventor Ami Argand of Geneva.
Senses: examples: text: Never was a more lovely thought than that of the astral lamp. I mean, of course, the astral lamp proper, and do not wish to be misunderstood — the lamp of Argand with its original plain ground-glass shade, and its tempered and uniform moonlight rays.
ref: 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Furniture:
text: It is probable that Loutherbourg used Argand lamps to achieve his startling effects of meteorology in the Eidophusikon in the mid 1780s.
ref: 2007, Christopher Baugh, edited by Moody & O'Quinn, The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre 1730-1830, page 52:
glosses: A type of oil lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame.
Synonyms: Argand burner
astral lamp
Argand lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Argand lamp
antikissing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antikissing
form: most antikissing
Etymology: From anti- + kissing.
Senses: examples: text: An antikissing backlash has also been gathering some momentum.
ref: 1977, Sexology: Volume 44:
text: The only clarification Alice was forced to make later concerned her apparent antikissing stance. She assured everyone she was not predicting its end when women became equal.
ref: 1994, Jean L. Kling, Alice Pike Barney: her life and art:
text: Most of the girls belong to an antikissing sorority[…]
ref: 2007, Jeffery P. Dennis, We boys together: teenagers in love before girl-craziness:
glosses: Opposing kissing.
antitea
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitea
form: most antitea
Etymology: From anti- + tea.
Senses: examples: text: The continued, admiring gloating over this act of rebellion in American schoolrooms, he concluded, has over the centuries imbued young Americans with an antitea attitude.
ref: 1980, Vance Oakley Packard, The hidden persuaders:
text: Physicians, recruited to the antitea cause, stated that the drink weakened "the tone of the stomach, and therefore of the whole system, inducing' tremors and spasmodic affections."
ref: 1989, Page Smith, A new age now begins: a people's history of the American Revolution:
glosses: Opposing tea (the drink).
anticoffee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticoffee
form: most anticoffee
Etymology: From anti- + coffee.
Senses: examples: text: He further commented that "there is a day coming when there will be a campaign against coffee drinking, and it will assume the same importance as against alcohol." As he was wont to do, he delivered his anticoffee remarks at the invitation of the National Coffee Roaster's Association.
ref: 2003, W. Steven Pray, A history of nonprescription product regulation, page 72:
text: In contrast, his essay on coffee offered no more than a rambling and trite presentation of the arguments against anticoffee legislation.
ref: 2012, Robert Liberles, Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany, page 32:
glosses: Opposing coffee (the drink).
agistator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agistators
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Rare form of agistor.
agistators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agistator
agister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agisters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agistor.
agisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agister
hematocrystallin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: hemoglobin
dzong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dzongs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jong (“Tibetan building”).
curiet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curiets
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cuirass.
curiets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curiet
dzongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dzong
constupration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constuprations
Senses: examples: text: Had not that constupration been partly violent, their punishment had not been so easy
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:
text: constupration of Nuns
ref: 1817, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, British Monarchism:
text: I will neither see my native city demolished and burnt, nor the matrons, virgins, and free-born youths of Campania dragged to constupration.
ref: 1868, D. Spillan and Cyrus Edmonds (translators), Titus Livius (author), The History of Rome, books 9–26
glosses: The act of ravishing; violation or defilement.
constuprations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constupration
hurr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜː/
ipa: /ˈhɝ/
ipa: /hʌr/
ipa: /høː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /heː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /hɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /hɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: her (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: hair
homophone: hare (both fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: hurrs
form: hurring
form: hurred
form: hurred
form: hur
Etymology: From Middle English hurren (“to buzz”). Cognate with German hurren, Danish hurre (“to buzz, hum”), Swedish hurra. More at hurry.
Senses: glosses: To hum or buzz.
examples: text: R is the dog's letter, and hurreth in the sound.
ref: 1640, Ben Jonson, English Grammar:
text: Speak again, she hurred, making mouth movements with her paws.
ref: 2010, Chris d'Lacey, The Last Dragon Chronicles: Dark Fire:
synonyms: gnarl
glosses: To make a rolling, trilling, or burring sound.
Related terms: english: unrelated
translation: unrelated
word: hurr durr
hurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hurr
syncategorematically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From syncategorematic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a syncategorematic fashion.
bilsted
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪlstəd/
Forms: form: bilsteds
Senses: examples: text: There were scrub oaks, pines, persimmons and a group of bilsteds, or gum trees.
ref: 1892 August, Samuel Lockwood, “Why the Mocking Birds Left New Jersey—A Geological Reason”, in The American Naturalist:
text: Willow oak and bilsted are plentiful in Cape May and Atlantic counties .
ref: 1896, Geological Survey of New Jersey, Annual Report of the State Geologist for the year 1894, page 260:
text: In general appearance it resembled mahogany, being but slightly lighter in color and grain, and many old bilsted pieces are commonly mistaken for mahogany.
ref: 1916 December, Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Abbot McClure, “Mahogany”, in Suburban Life, the Countryside Magazine, page 278:
text: The primary wood is bilsted (gum wood), and was often used by the Dutch craftsmen of early New York.
ref: 1966, Antiques - Volume 89, page 498:
glosses: The sweet gum.
bilsteds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilsted
pittle-pattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pittle-pattles
form: pittle-pattling
form: pittle-pattled
form: pittle-pattled
Senses: examples: text: The world and the devil hath so bewitched us, that we in our deeds, I fear me, too many of us, deny God to be God, whatsoever we pittle-pattle with our tongues.
ref: 1549, Hugh Latimer, “The Second Sermon of Master Hugh Latimer, which He Preached before the King’s Majesty [Edward VI], within His Grace’s Palace at Westminster, the Fifteenth Day of March, 1549. To the Reader.”, in George Elwes Corrie, editor, Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Sometime Bishop of Worcester, Martyr, 1555 (The Parker Society for the Publication of the Works of the Fathers and Early Writers of the Reformed English Church; 27), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] University Press, published 1844, →OCLC, page 106:
glosses: To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle.
categorematically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From categorematic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a categorematic fashion.
antidebate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidebate
form: most antidebate
Etymology: From anti- + debate.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or stifling debate.
frateries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fratery
fratery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frateries
form: fratry
Etymology: From Latin frater (“brother”) + -y. Compare Italian frateria (“a brotherhood of monks”). See friar.
Senses: glosses: A frater house; an apartment in a convent used as a dining room.
rescowe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rescowes
form: rescowing
form: rescowed
form: rescowed
Senses: examples: text: it wylle be best ye hold yow stylle with this / And yf ye see that as to morne they wylle put me vnto the dethe / thenne may ye rescowe me as ye thynke best.
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of rescue.
rescowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rescowe
rescowes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rescowe
rescowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rescowe
secundine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secundines
Etymology: From Late Latin secundinae (“afterbirth”), from Latin secundae (“the afterbirth”), shortened from secundae membranae "the second membranes", from secundus (“following, coming next”). See second.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.
glosses: The afterbirth, or placenta and membranes.
secundines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secundine
denizenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denizenations
Etymology: From denizen + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: By the first he was impowered to grant letters patents of denizenation to be made out, under the Great Seal , to such person or persons as should at any time sue to him for the same , without any other warrant
ref: 1766, Joseph Towers, British Biography:
glosses: The act of making a denizen; naturalization.
denizenations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denizenation
epipolized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: epipolized light
ref: 1852, George Stokes, “On the change of refrangibility of light”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London:
glosses: Made fluorescent.
Related terms: epipolic
epipolism
ptilopaedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: English ptilo- + Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs, “child”, stem: παιδ- (paid-), Latinised paed-) + English -ic
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Having down on the ventral and dorsal side.
raw_tags: of bird chicks
Synonyms: dasypaedic
Related terms: psilopaedic
scioptric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scioptic.
herborization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herborizations
Etymology: French herborisation.
Senses: glosses: The act of herborizing.
glosses: The figure of plants in minerals or fossils.
Related terms: herborize
herborizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herborization
sulfhydric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphydric acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hydrogen sulfide when considered as an acid (e.g., in solution)
myocomma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myocommas
form: myocommata
Etymology: From myo- + comma.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A myotome
Derived terms: myocommatal
myocommata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myocomma
myocommas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myocomma
hypodermatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypodermic.
Related terms: hypodermatically
overtilde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overtildes
Etymology: From over- + tilde.
Senses: examples: text: Quantities with overtildes denote complex disturbances[…]
ref: 1992, Physics of fluids: Fluid dynamics: Volume 4, Issues 4-6, American Institute of Physics:
glosses: A tilde placed over another character.
overtildes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overtilde
stackage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stackages
Etymology: From stack + -age.
Senses: glosses: Hay, grain, etc. in stacks; things stacked.
examples: text: His Prædia in like maner were tributes, tolles, portage, bankage, stackage, coinage, profits by saltpits, milles , water-courses[…]
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 tax on things stacked.
stackages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stackage
ecbasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔκβασις (ékbasis, “way out, event”), ultimately from βαίνω (baínō, “go”).
Senses: glosses: A figure in which the orator treats things according to their events or consequences.
Related terms: ecbatic
syntomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
Aich's metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the inventor, Mr. Nathan Aich.
Senses: glosses: A kind of gunmetal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin or lead.
doctrinarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctrinarianisms
Etymology: From doctrinarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principles or practices of doctrinaires.
doctrinarianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctrinarianism
raven's duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravenduck
Etymology: Compare German Ravenstuch.
Senses: glosses: A kind of high-quality sailcloth.
nonlimitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + limitative.
Senses: glosses: Not limitative.
Koyukon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koyukons
form: Koyukon
Senses: glosses: A member of an Athabascan people of northern Alaska, whose traditional home is along the Koyukuk and Yukon rivers.
Koyukon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of these people.
Koyukons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koyukon
nacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of nacre.
choultries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choultry
choultry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choultries
form: choltry
form: choultery
Senses: glosses: A Hindu caravanserai.
can hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: can hooks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: timber industry
glosses: A hoisting device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.
can hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of can hook
mather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of madder (“plant”).
garbel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare garble (transitive verb).
Senses: glosses: Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken.
garbel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of garboard.
concubinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concubinates
Etymology: Latin concubinatus.
Senses: examples: text: Polygamy was never desired, nor Divorces, or Concubinate practised .
ref: 1696, Stephen Nye, A Discourse concerning Natural and Revealed Religion:
glosses: A concubinage.
concubinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concubinate
tuch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See touchstone.
Senses: examples: text: The Porch was all of Porpherie and Tuch.
ref: 1591, John Harington, Orlando Furioso:
glosses: A dark-coloured kind of marble; touchstone.
geckotian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geckotians
Senses: examples: text: The Geckotians, is composed of nocturnal lizards, so much resembling each other that they might be left in one genus.
ref: 1831, Georges Cuvier, The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, page 140:
text: It proved to be nothing more that a lizard of the geckotian family, hideously ugly, but, in common with all of his kind, perfectly harmless.
ref: 1871, Arthur Morelet, Travels in Central America: Including Accounts of Some Regions Unexplored Since the Conquest, page 278:
text: Other saurians have folds of skin along the flanks; but in no other of them is this disposition so developed as in a curious geckotian, the Ptychozoon homacephalum of Java and other Sunda Islands.
ref: 1890, M. Maurice Maindron, “Dragons, fabled and real”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume 36:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A gecko.
geckotians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geckotian
waterboatman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterboatmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water boatman.
waterboatmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterboatman
boat bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boat bugs
Senses: glosses: A water boatman.
boat bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boat bug
unspiritualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unspiritualizes
form: unspiritualizing
form: unspiritualized
form: unspiritualized
Etymology: From un- + spiritualize.
Senses: examples: text: Now there are several enjoyments in themselves very lawful, and yet such as, upon a free unwary use of them, will by degrees certainly indispose and unspiritualize the mind, dulling its appetite[…]
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To deprive of spirituality.
unspiritualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unspiritualize
unspiritualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unspiritualize
provect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more provect
form: most provect
Etymology: From Latin provectus, past participle of provehere (“to carry forward”).
Senses: examples: text: provect in yeres
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
glosses: mature; advanced (in age)
provect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: provects
form: provecting
form: provected
form: provected
Etymology: From Latin provectus, past participle of provehere (“to carry forward”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To modify by provection
mesotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesotypes
Etymology: From meso- + -type: compare French mésotype.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various minerals, including natrolite (soda mesotype), scolecite (lime mesotype), and mesolite (lime-soda mesotype)
glosses: Any moth of the genus Mesotype
Related terms: mesotypic
scolecites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scolecite
mesolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesolite
ostiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostiary
ostiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒsti.əɹi/
/ˈɒst͡ʃəɹi/
Forms: form: ostiaries
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ostiārius, from ostium (“door, entrance”). See usher, which may be a doublet.
Senses: examples: text: the river of Nilus hath seven ostiaries, that is, by seven channels disburdened itself into the sea
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The mouth of a river; an estuary.
examples: text: Ostiaries; which used to ring the bells, and open and shut the Church-doors.
ref: 1647, Nathaniel Bacon, An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England:
text: So arrayed I stepped at last from my door and was saluted as before by my monstrous ostiaries.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXV, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149:
synonyms: ostiarius
glosses: One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
Derived terms: ostiariate
Suleah fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Indian threadfin (Leptomelanosoma indicum). .
limecrete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of lime + concrete
Senses: glosses: A form of concrete in which lime is used in place of cement.
geopolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geopolymers
Etymology: From geo- + polymer.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of synthetic aluminosilicate materials with potential use in construction and other areas
Related terms: geopolymeric
geopolymerization
geopolymers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geopolymer
point release
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point releases
Senses: examples: text: Between 2.0 and 3.0, there were four point releases, called 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4.
text: The company will fix the crashing issue in an upcoming point release.
text: No one is 100 percent sure how long Leopard took, since Apple whispered its name only just last year, but if it is "just a point release," then it should have been much easier to Q/A.
ref: 2007 November 29, Oliver Rist, “Leopard is the New Vista, and It's Pissing Me Off”, in PC Mag:
text: Recent data from their own Developer Support Site shows 87% of iOS devices are now running a version of iOS 7, and 58% of devices are running the latest point release of iOS 7.1.
ref: 2014 April 11, Ewan Spence, “Apple Loop: iOS 7 Adoption, The $350 iWatch, US Market Share, MacBook Air Predictions, And Jony Ive”, in Forbes:
text: VMware confirmed the bug to us yesterday and said it will not be fixed in the initial version going out to customers today. It will be fixed in a point release later on.
ref: 2015 August 26, Jon Brodkin, “VMware brings Windows 10 and graphics boost to Fusion and Workstation”, in Ars Technica:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A software release that is only slightly different from a previous version and thus having the same major version number, only differing in minor version number (after the decimal point).
Synonyms: dot release
point releases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point release
ohed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oh
craber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪbə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: crabers
Senses: examples: text: the craber, which some call the water-rat[…]
ref: 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:
glosses: The water rat.
crabers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craber
stayedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stayed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: That is it which works up into patience, into innocency, into soberness, into stillness, into stayedness , into quietness up to God with his power.
ref: 1892, R. W. Ramsey, “Elizabeth Claypole”, in The English Historical Review:
glosses: staidness
examples: text: When substantialness combineth with delightfulness, and currentness with stayedness, how can the language sound other than most full of sweetness?
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: solidity; weight
stackstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stackstands
Etymology: From stack + stand.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A stand for supporting a haystack or grain stack; a rickstand.
stackstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stackstand
punese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːniːz/
Forms: form: puneses
form: punice
Etymology: From French punaise, from punais (“stinking”), from Latin putere.
Senses: examples: text: His Flea, his Morpion, and Punese,
He 'ad gotten for his proper Ease
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: A bedbug.
puneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punese
trugging-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trugging-houses
Etymology: See trug.
Senses: examples: text: one of those houses of good hospitality whereunto persons resort, commonly called a trugging-house, or to be plain, a whorehouse
ref: 1592, Robert Greene, A Disputation Between a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher:
glosses: A brothel.
trugging-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trugging-house
thwittle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thwittles
form: thwittling
form: thwittled
form: thwittled
Etymology: From Middle English thwitel, equivalent to thwite + -le.
Senses: examples: text: your Absolute Certainty would be thwittled into sufficient Certainty
ref: 1688, John Sergeant, Five Catholick Letters […] :
glosses: To cut or whittle.
thwittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thwittles
Etymology: From Middle English thwitel, equivalent to thwite + -le.
Senses: examples: text: Merc.
[…]And that in Jove's great dining Room,
We were with each one a good thwittle
Again set down to swill, and vittle,
Provided (Signior) do you see,
That you should not the Carver be[…]
ref: 1675, Lucian of Samosata, translated by Charles Cotton, Burlesque upon burlesque, page 32:
text: “Marry, what is't?” cried one fellow[…]“Is't a thwittle shaft?”
“Ay, or it may be the half of a shuttle,” said another; “dost note, it tapers to the end, and is biggest i' the middle? I warrant Saint Dunstan was a clothier, and made many an ell of stout broella.”
“'Tis more like he was a butcher,” cried one of that fraternity, “if ye go by likes; for 'tis the very model of a thwittle shaft, and white ash to boot.”
ref: 1822, William Bennett, Malpas, volume 1, pages 300–301:
text: The butcher stood in the door-way, beating time with his thwittle, and humming[…]
ref: 1879, Edwin Waugh, “The Swallowed Sixpence”, in The Chimney Corner, page 44:
glosses: A small knife; a whittle.
Related terms: whittle
thwittles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thwittle
staffman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staffmen
Etymology: From staff + -man.
Senses: glosses: A workman employed in silk throwing.
staffmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staffman
sperage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspɛɹɪdʒ/
Forms: form: sperages
Senses: examples: text: Sperage and the Rush
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of asparagus.
sperages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sperage
kitchen cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchen cakes
Etymology: So called because it is kept in the kitchen until cut and served.
Senses: glosses: An undecorated wedding cake (or similar) designed to be cut into slices for distribution, with the individual servings matching those cut from the decorated cake (unless the decorated cake is a dummy cake).
seabeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sea + beard.
Senses: glosses: A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.
stonebow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstəʊnbəʊ/
Forms: form: stonebows
form: stone-bow
Etymology: From stone + bow.
Senses: examples: text: O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye!
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
synonyms: word: bullet-shooting crossbow
word: goolail
glosses: A kind of crossbow used for shooting stones.
examples: text: Children will shortly take him for a wall,
 And set their stone-bowes in his forhead
ref: 1612 January 5 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Francis Beaumont, Iohn Fletcher, A King and No King. […], London: […] [John Beale] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1619, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: A toy catapult.
stonebows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonebow
perpession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpessions
Etymology: From Latin perpessio, from perpeti, perpessus (“to bear steadfastly”), from per- + pati (“to bear”).
Senses: examples: text: The eternity of destruction in the language of scripture signifies a perpetual perpession and duration in misery.
ref: 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
glosses: suffering; endurance
perpessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perpession
estuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: estuates
form: estuating
form: estuated
form: estuated
form: aestuate
form: æstuate
Etymology: From Latin aestuāt-, past participial stem of aestuō (“to be in violent motion, to boil up, burn”), from aestus (“boiling or undulating motion, fire, glow, heat”). See ether.
Senses: examples: text: it is onely profitable to a ſtomacke that eſtuateth with heat
ref: 1620, Tobias Venner, Via Recta ad Vitam Longam:
text: 1614, Francis Bacon, speech […] [about the] Undertakers
these vapours were not gone up to the head, howsoever they might glow and estuate in the body
text: And how darest thou pray, whilst wrath estuates and rankles in thy breast?
ref: a. 1690, Ezekiel Hopkins, Expositions of the Ten Commandments:
glosses: To swell up or rage; to be agitated
Related terms: estuation
estuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of estuate
estuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of estuate
estuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of estuate
portise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portises
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of portass.
portises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portise
conciator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conciators
Etymology: From Italian conciatore, from conciare (“to adjust, dress”), from Latin comptus, past participle. See compt (adjective).
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.
vatman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vatmen
Etymology: From vat + -man.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
papermaking
glosses: The employee responsible for gathering pulp from the vat on the mould in papermaking.
vatmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vatman
netherling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netherlings
Etymology: From nether- + -ling.
Senses: glosses: Articles of clothing worn underneath; nethergarments; stockings.
examples: text: The demon cat of Losanne was indeed a vile netherling, grown to unearthly hugeness by the spirit of the demon [...]
ref: 1995, Richard Gilliam, Martin Harry Greenberg, Edward E Kramer, Excalibur:
text: It found flesh and drove deep into the netherling's hip.
ref: 2010, Samuel Sykes, Tome of the Undergates:
glosses: A creature, dweller, or inhabitant of the netherworld.
nethergarment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nethergarments
Etymology: From nether- + garment.
Senses: examples: text: Much too conscientious a Musician, to omit a note of his part, he patiently waited for the pauses, to pull up his nethergarment again.
ref: 1865, Louis Spohr, Louis Spohr's autobiography:
text: With this form of nethergarment the stockings are tied just below the knees, and often hanging over the garter like the tops of boots.
ref: 2000, Iris Brooke, James Laver, English Costume from the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Centuries:
text: [...] a narrow nethergarment, leaves more than you might think to the imagination.
ref: 2011, Roy Blount Jr., Alphabetter Juice: Or, the Joy of Text:
glosses: An article of clothing worn underneath; undergarment.
nethergarments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nethergarment
polemarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑləˌmɑɹk/
Forms: form: polemarchs
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολέμαρχος (polémarkhos).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece; originally; Ancient Greece; originally
glosses: The military commander in chief in Athens, one of the nine archonts.
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A civil magistrate in Athens who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners.
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: In other Greek (city) states, a high military and civil officer.
diploes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diploe
diploic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diploe + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: diploic veins
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the diploe.
Derived terms: intradiploic
oleoptene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oleoptenes
Etymology: Latin oleum oil + Ancient Greek fleeting.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of elaeoptene.
oleoptenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oleoptene
naenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naenias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nenia.
naenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naenia
rhomboides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhomboides
Etymology: From the Latin rhomboīdēs.
Senses: examples: text: they would request us to endure still the rustling of their silken cassocks, and that we would burst our Midriffs, rather than laugh to see them under sail in all their lawn and sarcenet, their shrouds and tackle, with a Geometrical Rhomboides upon their heads
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
text: In the firſt Courſe there was a Shoulder of Mutton, cut into an Æquilateral Triangle, a Piece of Beef into a Rhomboides, and a Pudding into a Cycloid.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Humours and Dispositions of the Laputians Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 20:
text: Let the Square A, and the Rhomboides B, Fig. 47. serve for an Example of this, which I suppose at the Height D, equal to E, the same with d the Height of the Square A […]
ref: 1763, Noël Antoine Pluche, Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd, page 169:
glosses: A rhomboid.
hemerobian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hemerobius + -an.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to the lacewings of the genus Hemerobius.
hemerobian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemerobians
Etymology: From Hemerobius + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the genus Hemerobius of lacewings.
hemerobians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemerobian
petre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːtə(ɹ)/
homophone: peter
homophone: Peter
Senses: examples: text: Oats are much assisted by the application of petre[…]
ref: 1841, The Farmer's Magazine, page 282:
glosses: saltpetre
Derived terms: oil of petre
petre oil
netherhose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netherhose
form: netherhosen
Etymology: From nether- + hose.
Senses: examples: text: Men's linen netherhose or under-breeches were still tied at her waist, covering her down to just above the knee.
ref: 2005, Mary Gentle, A sundial in a grave:
text: Catherine smoothed her dress back down in the silence, and Gregory straightened his netherhose, raking a hand through his hair before he looked at her again.
ref: 2009, Diane Haeger, The Queen's Mistake:
text: Sir Thomas frowned at the mud on his fine netherhose.
ref: 2010, C. J. Sansom, Revelation:
glosses: Underpants; underbreeches.
netherhosen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netherhose
netherwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netherwears
Etymology: From nether- + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: The campaign obviously caused havoc with the soldiers' netherwear, [...]
ref: 1987, Michael Barthorp, Pierre Turner, The British Army on Campaign:
text: 'I see. Well, I wonder if I might ask you a very big favour.' 'You might, Mr ... er ...' 'Acheson,' the salesman aid. 'Bless you,' said Lestrade. 'What favour?' 'Well, I'm in ladies' netherwear ...' Acheson confessed.
ref: 2000, M. J. Trow, Lestrade and the Gift of the Prince:
text: In Scottish regiments the Glengarry bonnet was worn by all, while the highland regiments still maintained the kilt as a suitable netherwear for active service.
ref: 2003, Mike Chappell, The British Army in World War I:
text: [...] spas where you take off your bra but wear disposable netherwear; [...]
ref: 2008, Outlook Traveller, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Clothing worn underneath; underwear; nethergarments.
myotatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to myotasis
netherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nethermen
Etymology: From nether- + man.
Senses: examples: text: […] and it is as difficult to persuade such persons that there is dawning on us a better system, as it is to convince an ancient highlander that there is a garment for the netherman which possesses advantages over the national kilt.
ref: 1866, George Hamilton, An appeal for the horse:
glosses: An inhabitant of a lowland region; lowlander.
examples: text: Perhaps the Socialism Nietzsche had in mind would have degraded the race, as surely as Christianity was already threatening to change man into Netherman.
ref: 1915, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New age: a weekly review of politics, literature and art:
text: Too much the redest bloody Cadillacs caught cryptic on the air, luring another netherman with California Rugelo and too much the rigid enterprising caterwauling!
ref: 1986, Ray Bremser, Poems of madness:
text: “I've told you,” a man's voice was insisting, “You've been given it all— every strip.” The portable lamps, clipped to the overhead beams, revealed three figures. The two shabby nethermen moved like clumsy predators; […]
ref: 2001, Sarah Pierzchala, Rain On A Dark Mirror:
text: […] the Roman Empire, the Goths, Genghis Khan, epics of discord, governments lusting to rule the world, nethermen long gone to their graves—[…]
ref: 2011, Bradford Morrow, Trinity Fields:
glosses: An inferior man or inferior status of mankind, as opposed to superman.
examples: text: […] while customary rents of tenants called 'nethermen' and 'overmen' were worth respectively […]
ref: 1975, Ralph Bernard Pugh, Elizabeth Crittall, D. A. Crowley, A History of Wiltshire:
glosses: An underling; subordinate.
swagger portrait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swagger portraits
Senses: examples: text: Louis had adopted the same dainty stance – left leg forward, toes pointed, foot arched – in Rigaud's justly famous swagger portrait of the monarch in full ceremonial regalia.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 2:
glosses: A grand, impressive portrait commissioned by someone rich or famous to emphasize their status, importance etc.
swagger portraits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swagger portrait
netherverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netherverses
Etymology: From blend of nether + universe.
Senses: examples: text: His death "created a netherverse, one which has temporarily absorbed your two universes."
ref: 2006, Mark Voger, Kathy Voglesong, The Dark Age:
text: The council believes whoever it is has been active for quite sometime mucking up the netherverse.
ref: 2007, Arthur Roberts, The Sorcerer's Song and the Cat's Meow:
text: When death seems to be grinning back at us from the netherverse, most meet his stare with fear, in their eyes.
ref: 2010, Feroz, Fabutron:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A lower universe, realm, or region; underworld.
netherverses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netherverse
netherwears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netherwear
Nethersaxon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nether-Saxon.
Nethersaxon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nethersaxon
form: most Nethersaxon
Senses: examples: text: Much of the conservative rationality of the Nethersaxon Duke, the Braunschweiger of the basin between the Elbe and Weser north of the Harz mountains, is reflected in this Fool, a fact which Mr. Knight might better substitute for his [...]
ref: 1949, Johns Hopkins University, Modern language notes:
glosses: Alternative form of Nether-Saxon.
hod carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hod carrier
netherward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more netherward
form: most netherward
Etymology: From Middle English nitherward, from Old English niþerweard (“downward, directed downwards, turned downwards”), equivalent to nether + -ward. Cognate with Dutch neerwaarts (“netherward”), German niederwärts (“netherward”).
Senses: examples: text: For the ears a noble drink, take the netherward part of radish and elecampane, the broad bishop-wort and hassuck leaves, rue and rose, savine, fever-fue; beat all together, pour over them a sextarius full of ale, ere thou touch meat.
ref: 1866, Cockayne, Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the downward or lower part of something; lower; bottom.
examples: text: But celestial imperiousness, love, wrath, and fervour, had proved to be somewhat thrown away on netherward Egdon.
ref: 1878, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Belgravia:
glosses: Lowly.
netherward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more netherward
form: most netherward
Etymology: From Middle English nitherward, from Old English niþerweard (“downward, directed downwards, turned downwards”), equivalent to nether + -ward. Cognate with Dutch neerwaarts (“netherward”), German niederwärts (“netherward”).
Senses: glosses: Downward.
nether-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English nither-, neother-, from Old English niþer- (prefix), from niþer (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”). Cognate with Dutch neder-, neer- (“down”), German nieder- (“down”). More at nether.
Senses: examples: nethergarment, netherling, netherlook, nethermind, netherverse, netherworld
glosses: low, lower, below, under, beneath.
examples: netherman
glosses: inferiority or baseness.
nethermind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netherminds
Etymology: From nether- + mind.
Senses: examples: text: The truth perhaps - the true truth - is not so much that the mask is hollow as that I don't care to look behind it at the nystagmic flicker of image image image that the nethermind is broadcasting to the faulty receptor of the overmind.
ref: 1969, Thomas M. Disch, Camp concentration:
text: This is how he does it as a writer: he runs everything past his innocence, his nethermind, his first soul. He runs everything past his soul.
ref: 2001, Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir:
text: While the mesmerists were uncovering the ethereum through their patients' netherminds, measurable electromagnetism was also beginning to radically reconfigure the official scientific picture of the cosmos.
ref: 2004, Erik Davis, TechGnosis:
glosses: The lower or subconscious mind.
netherminds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nethermind