cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gabeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gabelers
form: gabeller
Etymology: From gabel + -er.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A collector of gabels or taxes.
gabelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabeler
gabeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gabellers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gabeler.
gabellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabeller
ungabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gabled.
Senses: examples: text: Unhappily, however, all that remains of Cherhill's claim to an old manor house is a rather cold ungabled building, blue-slated in hard ruled lines, and a porch which might have been transplanted from a late Victorian house.
ref: 1941, J. H. Blackford, The Manor and Village of Cherhill, page 188:
topics: architecture
glosses: Not gabled.
loculament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loculaments
Etymology: Frm Latin loculamentum (“case, box”), from loculus (“a compartment”), diminutive of locus (“place”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: locule; loculus (compartment of the ovary where the seed is placed)
Derived terms: loculamentous
loculaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loculament
proverbialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proverbializes
form: proverbializing
form: proverbialized
form: proverbialized
Etymology: From proverbial + -ize. Compare French proverbialiser.
Senses: glosses: To turn into a proverb.
glosses: To speak in proverbs.
proverbialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proverbialize
proverbializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proverbialize
proverbializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proverbialize
rejectment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejectments
Etymology: From reject + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of rejecting; rejection.
examples: text: the brilliant metallic lustre of their wings , the fine central line being the rejectments of the creature in the infant stages of its growth
ref: 1829, John Leonard Knapp, The Journal of a Naturalist:
glosses: Matter that is rejected, or thrown away.
rejectments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rejectment
devilet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devilets
Etymology: From devil + -et.
Senses: examples: text: the reeking devilet enters, bending beneath the first impression!
ref: 1877, Dalton Barham, The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook:
glosses: A little devil.
devilets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devilet
thermosystaltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + systaltic.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Influenced in its contraction by heat or cold.
raw_tags: said of muscles
autoconfirmation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoconfirmations
Etymology: From auto- + confirmation.
Senses: examples: text: It might be for a CGI application, sending out autoconfirmations, generating monthly email invoices, or sending reports to the payroll department.
ref: 2002, Jon Orwant, Computer science and Perl programming, page 464:
text: Unfortunately, he inadvertently set his destination for these largely useless messages to be all 2000 users on his network—and requested autoconfirmation of delivery of each autoreply, which generated yet another autoreply[…]
ref: 2002, Seymour Bosworth, Michel E. Kabay, Computer security handbook:
qualifier: An
glosses: automatic confirmation.
Related terms: autoconfirm
autoconfirmed
autoconfirmations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoconfirmation
ramiflorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin ramus (“branch”) + flos, floris (“flower”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having flowers on the branches.
Derived terms: ramiflory
retreatful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retreat + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Enabling vs to leape ashore for food, / And hide vs strait in our retreatfull flood
ref: c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624, page 4:
text: If ever there were a time when farmers were called from the slumbers of their fire sides, and from the honourable and retreatful occupations in the field, to the discussion of their grievances, it is now!
ref: 1832 May 1, Joseph Livesey, “Agriculture”, in The Moral Reformer, volume 2, number 5, page 153:
text: The sand and air under the boardwalk was cool and clammy, and there were smells of sea things and picnic garbage. But it was dark and, abruptly, retreatful for Elaine […]
ref: 1945, J. D. Salinger, “Elaine”, in Story, volume 26, page 45:
glosses: Furnishing or serving as a retreat.
Unwin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Unwins
Etymology: Patronymic surname, from the Old English personal name Hunwine, composed of the elements hun (“bear cub”) + wine (“friend”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Unwinese
Unwinesque
recoverees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recoveree
celliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛˈlɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more celliferous
form: most celliferous
Etymology: From cell + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: celliferous branch
text: celliferous organism
glosses: Bearing or producing cells.
incisory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incisory
form: most incisory
Senses: examples: text: an incisory tooth
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the quality of, or adapt t, cutting; incisive.
insonorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insonorous
form: most insonorous
Etymology: From in- + sonorous.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Allen, of Maine, says; "That tobacco is injurious to the voice, every one can testify, who has heard the harsh, thick, husky, mumbling, stammering, insonorous voice of the inveterate tobacco-chewer."
ref: 1848, Dr. William A. Alcott, The Use of Tobacco: Its Physical, Intellectual and Moral Effects on the Human System, 3rd edition, page 14:
glosses: Not clear or melodious.
immerit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From im- + merit.
Senses: examples: text: When I receive your lines, my dear Princess, and find there expressions of a passion; though reason and my own immerit tell me, it must not be for me; yet is the cozenage so pleasing to me […]
ref: a. 1641, John Suckling, a letter [to unknown]
glosses: Lack of worth; demerit.
ballister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballisters
Etymology: From Latin ballista. Compare balister.
Senses: examples: text: Their ramparts were armed with 3,000 ballisters to shoot javelins with and 500 catapults.
ref: 1872 June, H. H. Howorth, “Jingis Khan”, in The Phœnix, volume 2, number 24, page 198:
text: On their E. side are four round solid towers, at the top of wach of which is a slight depression, supposed to have contained a watch turret or some implement of warfare, such as a ballister.
ref: 1911, William Alfred Dutt, Norfolk, page 83:
text: He orderd that the crippled should be flung by a ballister and the blind should be dragged from Delhi to Daulatabad, a distance of 40 days .
ref: 1990, Abhai Maurya, India and World Literature, page 214:
glosses: A crossbow or ballista.
examples: text: The choir, which is separated from the body of the church by a ballister, is darkned by the great number of escutcheons affixed to it .
ref: 1756, Thomas Nugent, The grand tour, page 116:
text: In the fourth cavity, which is much the largest, and is in the centre of this upper surace, a ballister was in all likelihood inserted; its use was to support the tripod, and to give it that stability which its situation required .
ref: 1849, Minard Lafever, The Modern Builder's Guide, page 80:
text: Hooker billed Van Rensselaer $6.25 on 17 August 1820 for timber, dressing turning, carting, setting [and] painting a ballister for & setting a sun dial.
ref: 1993, Mary Raddant Tomlan, A Neat Plain Modern Stile, page 193:
text: It's a ballister shape with handles made of boxwood.
ref: 2024, Jenny Jina, Altaf Jina, Family, Entrepreneurship and Service, page 178:
glosses: Alternative form of baluster; a short pillar.
examples: text: Solid nickel silver ballisters and mouthpipe for longer wear, better tone, ease of blowing.
ref: 1940, Montgomery Ward Catalog, page 550:
text: Drills connecting tube holes in valve, taps internal and external threads in valve and ballisters, and cuts recess in top of valve or ballisters, using drill press. Fits ballisters onto valve and solders them into place with soft solder.
ref: 1991, Dictionary of Occupational Titles - Volume 2, page 747:
text: Typically, the location of ballister braces alternate so that the first and third valves have braces on one side of the trumpet, while the second valve has the ballister brace on the other side of the trumpet.
ref: 2009, Mark C. Ely, Amy E. Van Deuren, Wind Talk for Brass, pages 1-89:
glosses: A brace on a brass instrument that helps hold the valves in place.
ballisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballister
fistuca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fistucae
Etymology: From Latin fistūca.
Senses: glosses: A kind of pile driver.
fistucae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fistuca
annotatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an annotator or annotation.
glosses: Containing annotations; annotated.
examples: text: annotatory data
text: annotatory text
glosses: Serving to annotate
transudatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: transudatory lymph
text: transudatory fibre
text: transudatory fluid
glosses: Of or pertaining to transudation.
cobourg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobourgs
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Coburg (“worsted fabric”).
cobourgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobourg
albiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ælˈbaɪnɛs/
/ælˈbiːnɛs/
Forms: form: albinesses
Etymology: From albino + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: I saw an albiness in London once, for sixpence, (including the inspection of a stuffed boa-constrictor,) who looked as if she had been boiled in milk
ref: 1859, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table:
glosses: A female albino.
albinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albiness
companiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more companiable
form: most companiable
Senses: examples: text: Towards his Queene hee was nothing Vxorious, nor scarce Indulgent ; but Companiable , and Respectiue
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: companionable; sociable or social
Derived terms: uncompaniable
Mendelssohnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mendelssohnian
form: most Mendelssohnian
Etymology: From Mendelssohn + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Sultan Mansor became Anglophile, wore tweeds even in his own palace, was graciously received by Queen Victoria, adopted as his state anthem a Mendelssohnian salon piece composed by the late Prince Consort[.]
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 34:
glosses: Relating to, or in the style of, Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), noted early Romantic composer.
head crash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head crashes
form: headcrash
Senses: examples: text: This air passes through an internal filter to remove any leftover contaminants from manufacture, any particles that may have somehow entered the drive, and any particles generated by head crash.
ref: 2006, Rajmohan Joshi, Introduction To Computers, →ISBN, page 84:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A collision of the head of a hard drive with the platter, resulting in permanent damage to the hard drive.
wikipedia: head crash
bargainor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bargainors
Etymology: From bargain + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The conveyance called a bargain and sale of lands , whereby the bargainor bargains and sells the land to the bargainee , and becomes by such a bargain seised to the use of the bargainee
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: One who makes a bargain or contract with another, especially to sell property.
Related terms: bargain and sale
bargainer
bargainors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bargainor
cylinder-head-sector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An addressing system of hard drives where the hard drive is addressed by its cylinders, heads, and sectors.
CHS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cylinder-head-sector.
CHS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Simplified Chinese.
reguardant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of regardant.
unmartyred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + martyred.
Senses: glosses: Not martyred.
odontographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontography
odontography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontographies
Etymology: From odonto- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A scientific description of the teeth.
Derived terms: odontographic
roseocobaltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used to designate certain rose-red compounds of cobalt with ammonia.
purpureocobaltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From purpureo- + cobaltic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used to designate certain purple compounds of cobalt with ammonia.
tripartible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + partible.
Senses: examples: text: tripartible style
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Divisible into three parts.
villenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: villenous judgment
glosses: Of or pertaining to a villein.
epistolean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epistoleans
Senses: examples: text: it is also explicit in the self-consciousness with which every epistolean addresses the relationship between art and life
ref: 1998, Brian Edwards, Theories of Play and Postmodern Fiction:
glosses: One who writes epistles; a correspondent.
Synonyms: sense: writer of epistles
word: epistolist
sense: writer of epistles
word: epistolarian
epistoleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epistolean
remonstrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remonstrators
Etymology: From remonstrate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: orders were sent down for clapping up three of the chief remonstrators
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who remonstrates.
remonstrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remonstrator
misswear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misswears
form: misswearing
form: misswore
form: missworn
Etymology: From mis- + swear.
Senses: synonyms: forswear
perjure
manswear
glosses: To swear falsely or wrongly.
Related terms: minced oath
perjury
misswearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misswear
misswears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misswear
misswore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of misswear
missworn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of misswear
introreception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intro- + reception.
Senses: examples: text: Were but the love of Christ to us ever suffered to come into our hearts , -as species to the eye by introreception , -- had we but come to the least taste and relish of it
ref: a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:
glosses: The act of admitting into or within.
redressal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redressals
Etymology: From redress + -al.
Senses: qualifier: otherwise dated
glosses: Redress.
redressals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redressal
Zamboni pile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zamboni piles
Etymology: After its inventor Giuseppe Zamboni.
Senses: glosses: An early electric battery constructed from discs of silver foil, zinc foil, and paper.
wikipedia: Giuseppe Zamboni
mucilaginousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mucilaginous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being mucilaginous.
multisonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multisonous
form: most multisonous
Etymology: From Latin multisonus, from multus (“much, many”) + sonus (“sound”).
Senses: examples: text: multisonous chorus
text: multisonous clamor
text: multisonous voices
glosses: Having many sounds.
Lotophagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈtɒfəˌɡɑɪ/
ipa: /ləˈtɑfəˌɡɑɪ/
Etymology: Latin, from Ancient Greek Λωτοφάγος (Lōtophágos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The lotus eaters; a people visited by Ulysses who subsisted on the lotus.
Synonyms: lotus-eater
Related terms: lotophagous
adeptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adeptists
Etymology: From adept + -ist?
Senses: glosses: A skilled alchemist.
adeptists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adeptist
roomthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹʊmθi/
/ˈɹuːmθi/
Forms: form: more roomthy
form: most roomthy
Etymology: From roomth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: For he had a capacious head with angles winding, and roomthy enough to lodge all controversiall intricacies […]
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
text: The Beasts each other wooe, the Birds they bill
As they would say to Noe, they ment to fill
The roomthy earth, then altogether voyd
ref: 1630, Michael Drayton, “Noahs Floud”, in The Muses Elizium Lately Discouered, pages 116–117:
glosses: roomy; spacious
Zamboni piles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zamboni pile
cappeline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cappelines
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of capeline (“a hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb”).
cappelines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cappeline
sparklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparklets
Etymology: From spark + -let.
Senses: examples: text: A short time since, some friends drinking tea one summer evening at their residence near Maidenhead, with all the windows of the drawing-room open, there suddenly burst in a host of small flies, which covered the table and the furniture; every one of these emitted a sparklet of light, pure and intense like that of the glow-worm; and altogether they formed, for a few minutes, a spectacle as beautiful, as we should imagine it to be, in the British isles, uncommon.
ref: 1836, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction:
glosses: A small spark.
sparklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparklet
disrank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disranks
form: disranking
form: disranked
form: disranked
Etymology: From dis- + rank. Compare derange.
Senses: glosses: To degrade from rank.
examples: text: No girle, knovvſt thou not hovv to anſvver him? / VVhy then the field is loſt, and he rides home, / Like a great conquerour; not anſvver him? / Out of thy part already? foylde the Sceane? / Diſranckt the lynes? diſarm'd the action?
ref: 1601 (first performance), Thomas Dekker, Satiro-mastix. Or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet. […], London: […] [Edward Allde] for Edward White, […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature K2, recto:
glosses: To throw out of rank or into confusion.
disranked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disrank
disranking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disrank
disranks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disrank
ophiolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ophio- + -latry, from Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”) and λατρεία (latreía, “worship”).
Senses: examples: text: The serpent depicted on one of the food vessels is so close in its symbolism to this mythic being of Tusayan folklore that it is probable ophiolatry of a kindred sort was practiced in the ancient pueblo of Sikyatki where it was found.
ref: 1896, Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Board of Regents:
hyponyms: Ophism
glosses: snake worship
Derived terms: ophiolatrous
croslet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croslets
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of crosslet.
croslets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croslet
sacculocochlear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒkliə(ɹ)
-əʊkliə(ɹ)
Etymology: From sacculo- + cochlear.
Senses: examples: text: sacculocochlear duct
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the sacculus and cochlea of the ear.
ethenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethene + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: ethenicether
text: ethenic polymer
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling ethene or ethylene.
holostomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + -stomatous. Compare siphonostomatous.
Senses: examples: text: holostomatous shell
text: holostomatous mollusc
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having an entire aperture not interrupted by the siphonal canal, notch, or by any other extension
raw_tags: said of many shells
ranklingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ranklingly
form: most ranklingly
Etymology: From rankling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that rankles.
rankshifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rankshift
rankshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rankshift
rankshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rankshift
rankshifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rankshift
privativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From privative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being privative.
somnipathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somnipathists
Etymology: From somnipathy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person in a state of somnipathy.
somnipathists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somnipathist
remissful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remissful
form: most remissful
Etymology: From remiss (adjective) + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he heauens in their remisfull doome, / Tooke thoſe beſt lou'd from vvorſer dayes to come.
ref: 1630, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “The First Booke of the Barrons Warres”, in Poems: […], London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] Ling, →OCLC, stanza 11, page 5:
glosses: Inclined to remit punishment; clement, lenient.
isothermobathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From isothermobath + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: isothermobathic lines
glosses: Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; having or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, usually in the ocean.
refitment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refitments
Etymology: From refit + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: the refitment of a ship
text: the refitment of a tyre
glosses: The act of refitting, or the state of being refitted.
refitments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refitment
somnipathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somnipathy
mournest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: mourn + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of mourn
auriscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From auriscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to auriscopy.
embitterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embitterers
Etymology: From embitter + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who embitters.
embitterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embitterer
convivialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convivialists
Etymology: From convivial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person of convivial habits.
examples: Herman Melville (1857), chapter 2, in The Confidence-Man, page 10: “…there was no lack of variety. Natives of all sorts, and foreigners; men of business and men of pleasure;…teetotalers and convivialists…”
glosses: A person who drinks alcohol.
convivialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convivialist
perflable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin perflābilis. Compare perflate.
Senses: examples: text: Epicurus makes the Gods, bright-shining, transparent and perflable, placed as it were betweene two Forts, betweene two Worlds […].
ref: , II.12
glosses: Capable of being blown through; permeable to air currents.
insuccess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + success.
Senses: examples: text: The insuccess of an Affair
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: Lack of success.
carbolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carbolizes
form: carbolizing
form: carbolized
form: carbolized
Etymology: From carbolic + -ize.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To wash or treat with carbolic acid; to phenolize.
carbolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carbolize
carbolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carbolize
carbolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carbolize
hesitatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hesitatory
form: most hesitatory
Etymology: From hesitate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: His being suspicious, dubious, cautelous, and not soon determined, but hesitatory at unusual occurrences in his office
ref: a. 1734, Roger North, John Moore:
glosses: hesitating
gynobase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynobases
Etymology: From gyno- + base.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: a short conical or flat elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium
Derived terms: gynobasic
gynobases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynobase
glosses: plural of gynobasis
lordolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lord + -o- + -latry.
Senses: examples: text: But how should it be otherwise in a country where lordolatry is part of our creed?
ref: 1846, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs:
glosses: Worship of, or reverence for, lords (peers of the realm).
blancher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈblænt͡ʃɚ/
/ˈblɑːnt͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: blanchers
Etymology: From blanch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; especially, one who anneals and cleanses money, or a chemical preparation for this purpose.
glosses: A machine for blanching or whitening.
examples: text: And Gynecia, a blancher, which kept the dearest deer from her.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: 18 January 1549, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough
And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel.
glosses: One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.
Related terms: blencher
blanchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blancher
snaphead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snapheads
Etymology: From snap + head.
Senses: glosses: A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt.
glosses: A swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.
snapheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snaphead
twagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtwæɡə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: twaggers
Senses: examples: text: And I have brought a twagger for the nones,
 A bunting lamb; nay, pray, you feel no bones.
ref: 1581, George Peele, The Arraignment of Paris:
glosses: A lamb.
twaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twagger
van-courier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: van-couriers
Etymology: From French avant-courrier. See avant, van of an army, and courier, and compare avant-courier, vaunt-courier.
Senses: glosses: Someone sent in advance; an avant-courier, precursor, or scout.
van-couriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of van-courier
bipupillate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + pupil + -ate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having an eyespot on the wing, with two dots within it, as in some butterflies.
prezygapophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prezygapophysis
prezygapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹiːzaɪɡəˈpɒfɪsɪs/
Forms: form: prezygapophyses
form: praezygapophysis
form: præzygapophysis
Etymology: From pre- + zygapophysis.
Senses: glosses: An anterior or superior zygapophysis.
subcoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + coracoid.
Senses: examples: text: the subcoracoid dislocation of the humerus
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under the coracoid process of the scapula.
Derived terms: subcoracoid bursa
subcoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcoracoids
Etymology: From sub- + coracoid.
molluscans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molluscan
annularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more annularly
form: most annularly
Etymology: From annular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an annular manner.
discountenancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discountenancers
Etymology: From discountenance + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And it was not long ere these rumours of novelty had begotten others of scandal and murmur against the King and his government , taxing him for a great taxer of his people , and discountenancer of his nobility
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: One who discountenances.
discountenancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discountenancer
geodiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more geodiferous
form: most geodiferous
Etymology: From geode + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: geodiferous limestone
text: geodiferous rock
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Producing or containing geodes.
supplyment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supplyments
Etymology: From supply + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: You have me, rich; and I will never fail
Beginning nor supplyment
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: The act of supplying.
glosses: Something supplied; a supply
supplyments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supplyment
anthracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anthrax + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: an anthracoid bacilli
text: an anthracoid microbe
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling anthrax.
emeril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emerils
Senses: examples: text: Inferior nor to thee, thou Jernsey, bravelie crown’d
With rough-imbatteld rocks, whose venom-hating ground
The hardned Emerill hath, which thou abroad doost send:
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 1 p. 2:
glosses: emery
examples: text: a hard and sharp Stone called Emerill, which is used by Lapidaries for the cleansing , cutting , and burnishing their precious Stones
ref: 1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded:
glosses: A glazier's diamond.
emerils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emeril
nonadventurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + adventurous.
Senses: glosses: Not adventurous.
curvation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curvations
Etymology: From Latin curvatio, equivalent to curve + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Knowing, then, the conical form and the diameter of the wheels, as well as the average velocity of the motion and the breadth of the way, this expression will give the surplus of elevation y that suits the radius of curvation r.
ref: 1840, François Marie Guyonneau de Pambour, A Practical Treatise on Locomotive Engines Upon Railways:
text: According to the calculated rate of curvation of a spherical body of 25,000 miles in circumference, a straight line running at right angles with the perpendicular at the transmitting stations, Mount Uncompahgre, would run as a tangent from the line of curvation so that in the distance of 183 miles, the curvation would place Mount Ellen downward from the tangent line, below the line of vision nearly 3¾ miles!
ref: 1899, "Rectangle" (pseudonym of T. Winship.), Zetetic Cosmogony, page 125:
text: Imperfect curvation, or crookedness of the features, the head, the limbs, the organs, and body, producing malformations of the organs of speech, hearing, and sight.
ref: 1900, Mrs. Mary Olmstead Stanton, The Encyclopedia of Face and Form Reading, page 57:
text: Nephroptosia is the most fruitful cause of uro-ureter. It offers numerous opportunities for flexion, curvation and torsion of the ureter.
ref: 1909, Byron Robinson, “Conclusions in Regard to Uro-Ureter due to Nephroptosia”, in Henry G. Spooner, editor, The American Journal of Urology and Sexology, volume 5, page 182:
text: Note the curvation of the ankles. If spontaneous movement corrects curvation, then there is no problem.·
ref: 2011, Margaret R Colyar, Assessment Of The School-Age Child and Adolescent, page 120:
glosses: The act of curving or bending, or the shape of the resulting curve; curvature.
examples: text: Divide this angle by the degree of curvation and the result 2.6/4 = .65 is the length of the chord EV.
ref: 1850, Samuel Wright Mifflin, Methods of Location:
text: The ductility of a concrete cross-section will be defined as the ratio of the ultimate curvation and the yield curvation.
ref: 2001, M Y H Bangash, Manual of Numerical Methods in Concrete, page 872:
text: The curvation can also be considered as the angle enclosed by two tangents on the endpoints of an infinitesimal small interval of the polynomial.
ref: 2006, Günter Wilkening, Ludger Koenders, Nanoscale Calibration Standards and Methods:
glosses: A measure of how much a curve deviates from a straight line.
curvations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curvation
hommocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hommocky
form: most hommocky
Etymology: From hommock + -y.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hummocky.
tarso-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the tarsus.
Derived terms: tarsometatarsus
Franklin stove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Franklin stoves
Etymology: Named after its inventor, Benjamin Franklin.
Senses: examples: text: The furnishings have a quiet charm: an old Franklin stove and over it an octagonal wall clock, graceful saberleg chairs and a Victorian table, oil lamps converted for electricity.
ref: 1953, House & Garden, Complete Guide to Interior Decoration, page 223:
glosses: A metal-lined fireplace with a hollow baffle and a flue acting as an inverted siphon, intended to produce more heat and less smoke than an ordinary open fireplace.
wikipedia: Benjamin Franklin
Franklin stoves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Franklin stove
glycosidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycosidation
hommock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hommocks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hummock.
Derived terms: hommocky
hommocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hommock
menispermaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Menispermaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the family Menispermaceae of climbing plants (the moonseeds.
sonnetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sonnetizes
form: sonnetizing
form: sonnetized
form: sonnetized
Etymology: From sonnet + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To compose sonnets.
glosses: To convert into sonnet form.
glosses: To write a sonnet about.
sonnetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sonnetize
sonnetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sonnetize
sonnetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sonnetize
callipash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælɪpæʃ/
Forms: form: callipashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calipash.
rockered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rocker + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a rockered keel
text: a rockered skate
text: a rockered surfboard
glosses: Shaped like a rocker; curving upwards at the ends.
examples: text: Toning shoes have a rockered bottom to force you to roll up and over a hump under the foot, or in essence, fight up and over the shoe.
ref: 2013, Michael Sandler, Jessica Lee, Barefoot Walking: Free Your Feet to Minimize Impact, Maximize Efficiency, and Discover the Pleasure of Getting in Touch With the Earth, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 365:
glosses: Of footwear: having a rocker (a thicker-than-normal sole with a rounded heel).
examples: text: a rockered chair
glosses: Fitted with a rocker.
monticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monticulate
form: most monticulate
Senses: synonyms: monticulose
monticulous
glosses: Furnished with monticles or little elevations.
bijoutries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bijoutry
bijoutry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bijoutries
Senses: examples: text: […] and before you could say 'scissors' that customer had forgotten all about the genuine article, and was out of the shop with the bijoutry.
ref: 1906, Violet Tweedale, Lady Sarah's Son, page 141:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bijouterie.
disapprover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disapprovers
Etymology: From disapprove + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disapproves.
disapprovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disapprover
insatiately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insatiately
form: most insatiately
Etymology: From insatiate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […]he therefore thought fit to allow carnal liberty, the better to excuſe himſelf who was ſo inſatiately libidinous that he is not aſhamed to become a preſident[…]
ref: 1677, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. […], 4th edition, London: […] R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset, J[ohn] Wright, and R. Chiswell, →OCLC, page 321:
glosses: insatiably
basifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basifiers
Etymology: From basify + -er.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Something that basifies.
basifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basifier
unconfound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aʊnd
Forms: form: unconfounds
form: unconfounding
form: unconfounded
form: unconfounded
Etymology: From un- + confound.
Senses: examples: text: they boast to be the throne and scepter of Christ, abſolve him, unconfound him, though unconverted, unrepentant, unſenſible of all thir pretious Saints and Martyrs whose blood they have ſo oft laid upon his head
ref: 1649, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], published 1649 (2nd printing), →OCLC:
text: Perhaps the following material, taken from the "Technocracy Study Course" will serve to "unconfound" some of the utterances we hear, which surely must be intended to "confound."
ref: 1975, The Northwest Technocrat - Volumes 37-42, page 17:
text: But the greatest and most crucial help has come from my wife Lynn. Although not a mathematician, she managed to unconfound much of this mathematician's gibberish.
ref: 2004, Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs, page xix:
glosses: To free from a state of confusion.
examples: text: I reckon that my god-ſon now begins to chatter, and to confound two or three languages. No matter; they are ſo much clear gain to him, and in time he will unconfound them of himſelf .
ref: 1779, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Miscellaneous Works of Lord Chesterfield, page 161:
text: The most important question, however, is whether he can easily put those observations together and unconfound the effects of role and gender on trait ascriptions.
ref: 2005, David J. Schneider, The Psychology of Stereotyping:
text: What you need to do is unconfound the nicotine intake from the other smoking-associated stimuli.
ref: 2006, Gregory R. Bock, Jamie A. Goode, Understanding Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction, page 62:
text: There are several ways to unconfound correlated predictors, all of which use some variant of the subtractive method.
ref: 2012, Norman Frederiksen, Robert J. Mislevy, Test Theory for A New Generation of Tests, page 53:
text: In short, it is very hard to create test items that unconfound grammatically and fragment composition.
ref: 2013, Axel Cleeremans, Robert French, Implicit Learning and Consciousness, page 103:
glosses: To distinguish between things or situations that have been combined in a way that makes them indistinguishable.
unconfounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unconfound
unconfounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unconfound
sublibrarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublibrarians
Etymology: From sub- + librarian.
Senses: glosses: An assistant librarian.
sublibrarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublibrarian
clitelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clitellus
clitellus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clitelli
Etymology: From New Latin, from Latin clitella, clitellae (“packsaddle”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of clitellum.
synonyms: word: clitellum
heraldship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heraldships
Etymology: From herald + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Of the bards, their singing, heraldship, and more of that nature[…]
ref: 1612, John Selden, Notes upon, Poly-Olbion:
glosses: The status or office of a herald.
heraldships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heraldship
obtension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin obtentio. See obtend.
Senses: glosses: The act of obtending.
glosses: obtaining; obtainment
revibrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revibrates
form: revibrating
form: revibrated
form: revibrated
Etymology: From re- + vibrate.
Senses: glosses: To vibrate back or again.
Related terms: revibration
revibrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revibrate
revibrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revibrate
revibrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revibrate
auctionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin auctionarius.
Senses: examples: text: with auctionary hammer in thy hand
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Seventh Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an auction.
overlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overlanders
Etymology: From overland + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Overland Riders walked their horses after making the turn, there being no need for haste, as no one believed that the lumberjacks would follow, and further, the Overlanders were looking for a suitable camping place for the night.
ref: 1921, Josephine Chase, Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods:
text: Sarah was a nurse from Devon and an “overlander”, one of our group of 20 travelling across Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia in a Mercedes-Benz truck.
ref: 1995 October 14, Julia Llewellyn Smith, “The truck of revelations”, in The Times, page 18:
glosses: One who travels overland.
examples: text: The overlanders are, nearly all, men in the prime of youth, whose occupation it is to convey large herds of stock from market to market, and from colony to colony.
ref: 1862 July, “The Explorers of Australia”, in The Edinburgh Review, number 235:
text: The first overlander was Mr. Darcy Uhr, who arrived from Queensland with cattle in 1872.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 219:
glosses: A drover who herds large groups of sheep or cattle over long distances.
overlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overlander
playday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playdays
Etymology: From play + day.
Senses: examples: July 28 1728, Jonathan Swift, My Lady's Lamentation and Complaint against the Dean
To ease a poor lady,
And beg her a playday.
So may you be seen
No more in the spleen!
glosses: A day devoted to play or fun.
playdays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playday
playdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playdown