cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mazeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mazeful
form: most mazeful
Etymology: From maze + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: A precious memory is the mazeful notes of Dr. Brodsky's interpretation of the romantic cadenza; […]
ref: 1929, The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular, page 174:
text: He could not quite draw from the New York Philharmonic the mazeful shadelike world into which Schubert recedes at times in this wonderful masterpiece, where risks are taken so hazardous that only genius as innocent as Schubert's could […]
ref: 1951, The Manchester Guardian Weekly, volume 65, page 30:
text: The old enchanter who laid down his head In woman's mazeful lap was not betrayed By love or doting, though he gave a maid His rod and book and lies now like the dead.
ref: 1964, Milton Thomas Wilson, Poetry of Midcentury, 1940–1960, page 204:
glosses: Causing amazement; wonderful.
examples: text: In both a mazefull ſolitarineſſe: / In night of ſprites the gaſtly powers to ſtur, / In thee or ſprites or ſprited gaſtlineſſe: […]
ref: c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 96, page 564:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: It was a mazeful wonder; / Thrice three times it was enwalled / With an emerald— / Sealèd so asunder.
ref: 1897, Francis Thompson, “[Sight and Insight.] The Mistress of Vision.”, in New Poems, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Co., →OCLC, stanza II, page 3:
text: Within this 'mazeful wonder', all things are suspended in trance, the birds hang a-dream, the sun swings like a thurible, and, at the garden's heart, in the Land of Luthany, is the Lady of fair weeping, whose sorrowful song the poet would capture in verse.
ref: 1959, John Cowie Reid, Francis Thompson: Man and Poet, page 141:
text: It is as if Spenser is eroding our usual distinction between the Gorgon's mazeful head and - the beneficent effects of other women's beauty.
ref: 1992, Dorothy Anne Stephens, Into Others Arms: Spenser’s Feminine Wanderings, page 59:
text: He watched with desperate eyes as she moved sensually to shut windows and return to the hidden passages of her mazeful mind.
ref: 2002, Jeffrey K. Hill, The Last Courtesan, page 49:
text: The door bell rang and Martha went to answer the door, stepping through the mazeful crowd.
ref: 2010, Clair V. Quinnine Jr., The Ghetto Oscar:
glosses: Mazy.
mazeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazefuls
Etymology: From maze + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: There will be another four waiting to be gobbled there, as well as a whole new mazeful of cheese bits.
ref: 1982, Len Albin, Secrets of the video game super stars, page 36:
text: When you were young and fell in love for the first time with a stranger, the emotional involvement and novelty being so strong that you did not have a chance to judge it with a cool head and normally get entangled in a mazeful of false sentiments.
ref: 2011, Durlabh Singh, In the Days of Love, page 98:
glosses: A quantity that fills or forms a maze.
medicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more medicable
form: most medicable
Etymology: Latin medicabilis, from medicare, medicari, to heal, from medicus physician. See medical.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being medicated
examples: text: medicable wound
text: medicable bruise
text: medicable pathology
glosses: Capable of being cured or healed.
Derived terms: unmedicable
medicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more medicative
form: most medicative
Etymology: From medicate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Medicinal; acting like a medicine.
Derived terms: self-medicative
mellifluently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mellifluently
form: most mellifluently
Etymology: From mellifluent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mellifluent manner.
mercurammonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercurammoniums
form: mercuryammonium
form: mercury ammonium
Etymology: Blend of mercuric + ammonium
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation Hg(NH₄)₂⁴⁺
microphytal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From microphyte + -al.
Senses: examples: text: microphytal earth
text: microphytal growth
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes.
middler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middlers
Etymology: From middle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
glosses: A pupil at middle school.
glosses: Someone or something in the middle.
mimically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mimically
form: most mimically
Etymology: From mimical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: mimically represented emotions
text: In the last place, he argues, that if it be lawful to baptize infants without understanding, baptism may be mimically and jocularly administered by boys in play.
ref: 1844, Jean Calvin, John Allen, Institutes of the Christian Religion - Volume 2, page 463:
text: Be neither mimically in , nor ridiculously out of the fashion ; let your apparel be neat , not chargeable , fitted as well to your estate, years, and profession, as to your person.
ref: 1900, James Puckle, The Club: Or, A Grey Cap for a Green Head, page 129:
text: The script of Stroheim's Greed (1924), despite the encumbrance of inter-titles, demonstrates how much psychology could indeed be portrayed mimically and through a proliferation of perspectival close-ups and reaction shots;
ref: 2007, Christiane Schönfeld, Hermann Rasche, Processes of Transposition: German Literature and Film, page 128:
glosses: In a mimicking or imitative manner.
examples: text: Allochems and preexisting cements may be unreplaced, partially replaced, replaced mimically, or replaced nonmimically.
ref: 1987, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology - Volume 57, page 967:
text: The overgrowths have been mimically dolomitized.
ref: 1990, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, page 504:
text: The echinoid fragments are mimically replaced by silica.
ref: 1994, Preliminary Analysis of Integrated Stratigraphic Data from the South Venice Corehole, Sarasota County, Florida, page 124:
text: If carbonate grains are completely replaced, they may be replaced mimically or nonmimically .
ref: 2003, Sam Boggs, Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks, page 490:
glosses: In a manner that preserves the form and internal structure of an organic substance.
misallied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misallied
form: most misallied
Etymology: From mis- + allied.
Senses: glosses: Wrongly allied or associated.
misregard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsɹɪˈɡɑːd/
ipa: /ˌmɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Etymology: From mis- + regard.
Senses: examples: text: Here well I weene , whenas these rimes be red With misregard
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Wrong understanding; misconstruction.
examples: text: As to the duke's misregard of her offer, they did remit the truth of that to the report of the persons employed by herself.
ref: 1801, Bannatyne Club, Publications - Volume 93, Issue 1 - Page 297:
text: […] poem does a turnabout as the narrator justifies that "misregard" by telling the golden-age story from the Censor's standpoint: […]
ref: 1988, Harry Berger, Revisionary Play:
glosses: Disregard; failure to heed or consider; contempt; neglect.
Derived terms: misregardful
misregard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsɹɪˈɡɑːd/
ipa: /ˌmɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: misregards
form: misregarding
form: misregarded
form: misregarded
Etymology: From mis- + regard.
Senses: examples: text: To misregard the Word is in the account of Paul, to misregard ones own Salvation, he does not prise his own Soul, as he should do: […]
ref: 1655, William Lyford, The plain mans senses exercised to discern both good and evil:
text: […] yet such being their resolution, that in they would, and be worshipful upon any terms, they misregarded all formerly-used steps of promotion, accounting them but unnecessary, and most rudely rushing into the very sanctuary, they immediately hung out the orange colours to testifie their conquest of the honour of knights-baronet.
ref: 1870, William Alexander, The Poetical Works:
text: Both minister and session were 'highly offended that he should have so far misregarded his pastor and provoked him to ire.'
ref: 2002, Margo Todd, The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland:
glosses: To disregard; fail to heed; ignore; neglect.
Synonyms: misheed
fail to notice
ignore
Derived terms: misregarder
misspeech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + speech.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: speako (countable)
synonyms: misspeaking#Noun
glosses: Incorrect speech.
Related terms: word: misspeak
misterm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misterms
form: misterming
form: mistermed
form: mistermed
Etymology: From mis- + term.
Senses: glosses: To call by a wrong name; to misname or give a misnomer
monopodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A birch twig or a cornstalk is monopodial.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis of growth; of or pertaining to a monopodium.
Derived terms: monopodially
moonblind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moonblind
form: most moonblind
Etymology: From moon + blind.
Senses: glosses: Dim-sighted; purblind.
glosses: Alternative form of moon-blind.
moreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moreens
Etymology: Compare mohair.
Senses: examples: text: I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter I, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Briggs cried, and Becky laughed a great deal and kissed the gentlewoman as soon as they got into the passage; and thence into Mrs. Bowls's front parlour, with the red moreen curtains, and the round looking-glass […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Ready-money Mortiboy's parlour is a gaunt, cold room, with long, narrow windows, wire blinds, horsehair chairs, a horsehair sofa, red moreen curtains, and a round table with a red cover reaching to the floor.
ref: 1872, [Walter Besant, James Rice], chapter 1, in Ready-money Mortiboy. A Matter-of-fact Story. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: A thick woollen fabric, watered or with embossed figures, once used in upholstery, for curtains, etc. It is a variety of camlet.
muckiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mucky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being mucky; dirtiness.
glosses: muck; dirt
multicapsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multicapsular
form: most multicapsular
Etymology: From multi- + capsular: compare French multicapsulaire.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having several capsules.
naphthalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthalates
Etymology: From naphthalic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of naphthalic acid; a phthalate.
nauseative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nauseative
form: most nauseative
Etymology: From nauseate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Causing nausea; nauseous.
neossine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: The salivary secretion various swift species use to make their nests.
Synonyms: cubilose
neoterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːˈɒtəɹɪzəm/
ipa: /niˈɑtəˌɹɪzəm/
Forms: form: neoterisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νεότερος (neóteros) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An innovation or novelty
synonyms: neologism
glosses: a neoteric (newly coined) word or phrase.
nervimotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nerve + -i- + motion.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves.
newfangly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more newfangly
form: most newfangly
Senses: examples: text: He had alſo ſet a prieſt of his and a ſeculer ſeruaunt of his beſyde to by [buy] many of the ſame ſuyte [of books], & double and treble of one ſorte, whiche were by thẽ [them] vttred to diuers yonge ſcholers ſuch as thei founde properly witted, feately lerned, and newfangly mynded.
ref: 1528, Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion […]. Chapter IIII.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book III, page 213, column 2:
text: Sounds like one o' them newfangly things they come up with since '87 …
ref: 2000 April 24, Walt Brand, “Sell-out of Focus 2000?”, in alt.autos.ford.focus (Usenet):
text: You whippersnappers are sumpin else, what with yer newfangly com-poo-ters and compyserve accounts … why, when I was a boy, we had to walk 10 miles in the snow to post to ROFF, and that was in the summer, […]
ref: 2002 August 29, Scratch my ass to reply, “Roff, Claves, and Aa”, in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly (Usenet):
glosses: Newfangled.
nobilify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nobilifies
form: nobilifying
form: nobilified
form: nobilified
Etymology: From Latin nobilis (“noble”) + -fy.
Senses: glosses: To make noble
novelry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novelries
Etymology: Old French novelerie.
Senses: glosses: Novelty; new things.
novenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novenaries
Etymology: From Latin novenarius, from novem (“nine”).
Senses: glosses: A group of nine.
novenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more novenary
form: most novenary
Etymology: From Latin novenarius, from novem (“nine”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the number nine.
nummulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nummulations
Etymology: From Latin nummulus (“money”).
Senses: examples: text: A marked peculiarity of these bodies is their tendency to cohere immediately after the blood is drawn, thus forming Schultze's grannule-masses, and this process is analogous to the nummulation of the red corpuscules.
ref: 1886 William Osler, “Cartwright Lectures on Certain Problems in the Physiology of the Blood,” Lecture 1, in Gaillard’s Medical Journal Volume 42
text: Examples of the other blood coagulation system measurement items include coagulation of blood (blood clotting), …, nummulation of red blood cells, blood aggregation, …, and fibrinolysis.
ref: 2019, Aya Murata et al., United States Patent Application Pub. No. 2019/0049428 A1
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope.
Related terms: nummular
oceloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oceloid
form: most oceloid
Etymology: From ocelot + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: oceloid cat
text: oceloid leopard
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling the ocelot.
officiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more officiary
form: most officiary
Senses: examples: text: the Title as it were meerly Officiary and Personal
ref: 1697, James Tyrrell, The General History of England:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an office or an officer; official.
officiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: officiaries
Senses: glosses: A Scottish land division, part of a large estate.
onocerin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onocerins
Etymology: Latin Ononis, the generic name of the plant + Latin cera (“wax”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline waxy substance extracted from the root of the leguminous plant spiny restharrow (Ononis spinosa).
Related terms: onocerane
ontologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ontologic
form: most ontologic
Senses: glosses: ontological
onwardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onward + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Progress; advancement.
examples: text: the burbling onwardness of the river itself
ref: 2013, Mary Ellen Hannibal, Spine of the Continent:
glosses: Forward motion
ophidious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ophidious
form: most ophidious
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ophidian.
ophiomorphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophiomorphites
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: An ammonite.
opinionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opinionists
Etymology: Compare French opinioniste.
Senses: examples: text: every conceited Opinionist sets up an infallible Chair in his own brain
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions.
glosses: One whose unusual or heretical belief or opinion contrasts with the dominant view.
Derived terms: co-opinionist
orthotomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthotomous
form: most orthotomous
Etymology: From orthotomy + -ous or ortho- + -tomous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two cleavages at right angles with one another.
oscule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oscules
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of osculum.
Derived terms: pseudoscule
osteogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: osteogenetic fibre
text: the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum
text: osteogenetic sarcoma
text: osteogenetic cell
text: osteogenetic tissue
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of bone.
ostreaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɒstɹiˈeɪʃəs/
Etymology: From Latin ostrea (“an oyster”). See oyster.
Senses: examples: text: the crustaceous or ostreaceous body
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to an oyster, or to a shell.
examples: text: ostreaceous psoriais
glosses: shaped like an oyster
Ovidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin Ovidianus, equivalent to Ovid + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.
pamprodactylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Having forward-facing toes.
paraboliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paraboliform
form: most paraboliform
Etymology: From parabola + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a parabola; parabolic.
permitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permitters
Etymology: From permit + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who permits.
philologian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philologians
Etymology: From philology + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A philologist.
pinnigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinnigrades
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A pinniped.
pluteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pluteus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: pluteal arms
text: pluteal larvae
text: pluteal stage
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to a pluteus.
poeticule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poeticules
Etymology: From poet + -i- + -cule.
Senses: examples: text: […] the rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules who decompose into criticasters.
ref: 1872, Algernon Swinburne, Under the Microscope:
glosses: A poetaster; a bad poet.
potale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot ale
Etymology: From pot + ale.
Senses: glosses: A liquid byproduct from a grain distillery, consisting of the liquid portion of draff after the spent grain is removed, plus washings from tuns (spent wash). Over time its disposition has varied: mostly as dumped waste, sometimes sold for part of the ration for pigs and cattle, when such a market is available.
preconsent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + consent.
Senses: glosses: Consent given in advance.
preconsent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + consent.
Senses: glosses: Before being given consent.
predatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more predatorily
form: most predatorily
Etymology: From predatory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: While the more peaceable part of the tribe are to be found among those who possess large herds of cattle, and are frequently connected with some of the principal people in the Arab towns, to whom in times of disturbance they afford protection, among the wandering or nomadic population, are to be found the poorest and most predatorily inclined […]
ref: 1848, James Bird, A Discourse on the Object and Progress of Investigation:
glosses: In a predatory manner.
prefigurative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prefigurative
form: most prefigurative
Senses: examples: text: The whole of this process seems to be typical or prefigurative of the grand atonement to be made for the sins of the whole world by Jesus Christ
ref: 1818, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures:
glosses: Related to prefiguration; that prefigures.
prolegomenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prolegomenary
form: most prolegomenary
Senses: glosses: Acting as a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.
proscriber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proscribers
Etymology: From proscribe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In a period of quiet, he had acquired the name of a man of worth; in darker days, he left the renown of a pitiless proscriber.
ref: 1848, Alphonse de Lamartine, History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution, volume 3:
text: “In principle,” he declared, “proscription is not only a crime, but a fault; history is full of instances, showing how proscribers have in their turn been forced into the ranks of the proscribed."
ref: 1888, “The Four Presidents of the French Republic”, in The American Magazine, volume 25, page 156:
text: I made no connection to the fact that the other proscribers of books were Hitler and the Catholic Church.
ref: 2003, Betsy Blair, The Memory of All that: Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris:
glosses: One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.
rangership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rangerships
Etymology: From ranger + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of keeper of a forest or park.
raveler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravelers
form: raveller
Etymology: From ravel + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There are no trimmers or ravelers on the machine.
ref: 1910, Textile world record: Volume 38, Issue 4:
glosses: Someone or something that ravels.
rebaptizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebaptizers
Etymology: From rebaptize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who rebaptizes.
refractable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From refract + -able.
Senses: synonyms: refrangible
glosses: Able to be refracted.
rejoicement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejoicements
Etymology: From rejoice + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Rejoicing; glee; celebration.
rejournment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejournments
Etymology: From rejourn + -ment.
Senses: glosses: adjournment
repealability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From repeal + -ability.
Senses: synonyms: irrepealability
glosses: The quality of being repealable.
represser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repressers
Etymology: From repress + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that represses.
resonancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resonancies
Senses: glosses: resonance
rheumatismal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rheumatism + -al.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of rheumatic.
rhomboganoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhomboganoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A fish of the obsolete suborder Rhomboganoidei, roughly corresponding to the gars (Holostei).
rough-grained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rough-grained
form: most rough-grained
Senses: glosses: Having a rough grain or fiber.
synonyms: rough around the edges
glosses: coarse of character; not polished or refined.
ruffleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ruffle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no ruffle.
rufiopin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin rufus (“reddish”) + opianic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellowish-red crystalline substance related to anthracene and obtained from opianic acid.
scraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scraws
Etymology: From Irish scrath (“a turf”), sgraith (“a turf, green sod”), akin to Scottish Gaelic sgrath, sgroth (“the outer skin of anything, a turf, a green sod”).
Senses: glosses: A sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field.
glosses: A turf covering the roof of a cottage beneath the thatch.
sedimental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sediment + -al.
Senses: examples: text: sedimental samples
glosses: sedimentary
semispheroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + spheroidal.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a half spheroid.
sensificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sensificatory
form: most sensificatory
Senses: examples: text: the sensificatory part of a nervous system
glosses: Susceptible of, or converting into, sensation; sensory.
southerliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From southerly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward (or from) the south.
spherosiderite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherosiderites
Etymology: From sphero- + siderite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A spheroidal variety of siderite.
spicenut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spicenuts
Etymology: From spice + nut.
Senses: examples: text: “Good-night, Captain, many thanks. You did it uncommonly well; how kindly the old un swallowed the spice-nut, to be sure; and it is only one of many others he has swallowed within these two days. I am afraid in about another four-and-twenty hours they will begin to disagree with him unless his stomach is a very strong one.”
ref: 1862, Wyndham Smith, Once a Week:
glosses: A small, crisp cake containing strong spices.
subconformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + conformable.
Senses: glosses: Partially conformable.
subnascent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sʌbˈnæsənt/
Etymology: Latin subnascens, present participle of subnasci (“to grow under”), from sub (“under”) + nasci (“to be born”).
Senses: examples: text: subnascent seedling
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Growing underneath.
subspherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subspherical
form: most subspherical
Etymology: From sub- + spherical.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat spherical; having a figure resembling that of a sphere.
succorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more succorable
form: most succorable
Etymology: From succor + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being succored or assisted; admitting of relief.
sumpitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumpitans
form: sumpitan
Etymology: From Malay sumpitan.
Senses: glosses: The sumpit.
sumptuosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumptuosities
Etymology: From sumptuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin sumptuositas: compare French somptuosité.
Senses: examples: text: Macedon may justly be called to witness, who found more cities and sumptuosity in that little kingdom of Porus[…] than in all his other travels and undertakings.
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: The state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price
supersacral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + sacral.
Senses: examples: text: supersacral foramina
text: supersacral region
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the sacrum.
supertuberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + tuber + -ation.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The production of young tubers from the old while still growing.
Related terms: tuberization
swinery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swineries
Etymology: From swine + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A piggery.
synochal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synochal
form: most synochal
Etymology: From synocha + -al.
Senses: examples: text: synochal fever
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to synocha; like synocha.
tephrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tephrites
Etymology: From Latin tephrītis and Ancient Greek τεφρῖτις (tephrîtis). By surface analysis, tephro- + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both.
Derived terms: tephritic
thaumaturgics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Feats of legerdemain, or magical tricks.
Related terms: thaumaturgist
theftbote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From theft + bote.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The receiving of a person's goods back from a thief, or a compensation for them, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment.
Related terms: possession of stolen goods
theomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek; theo- + -mancy
Senses: glosses: A kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles.
thickskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thickskins
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From thick + skin.
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sensitiveness; a dullard.
thickskin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thick + skin.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Applied to various creatures having a thick skin.
Derived terms: thickskin robber frog
thickskin shark
thickskin snailfish
tidology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tide + -ology, Coined by English polymath William Whewell.
Senses: examples: text: He referred mainly to his tidology when he applied for the Lowndean professorship of astronomy, which had become vacant that fall.
ref: 2009, Michael S. Reidy, Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy, page 269:
glosses: The science of tides.
Derived terms: tidological
tidologist
tintinnabulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɪntɪˈnæbjʊləs/
Forms: form: more tintinnabulous
form: most tintinnabulous
Senses: examples: text: The persecution of the chapel-bell, sounding its unwelcome summons to six o'clock matins, interrupts my slumbers no longer: the porter who rang it, […] is dead, and has ceased to disturb any body: and I, and many others, who suffered much from his tintinnabulous propensities, have now agreed to overlook his errors, and have forgiven him.
ref: 1821 September–October, [Thomas De Quincey], “[Part II.] Introduction to the Pains of Opium.”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 2nd edition, London: […] [J. Moyes] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1823, →OCLC, page 118:
glosses: tintinnabular.
tuberiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more tuberiferous
form: most tuberiferous
Etymology: From tuber + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: tuberiferous crop
text: tuberiferous plant
text: tuberiferous species
glosses: Producing or bearing tubers.
tulipist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tulipists
Etymology: From tulip + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Ingenuous delight of Tulipiſts, ſtands ſaluted vvith hard language, even by their ovvn Profeſſors.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “To My Worthy and Honored Friend Nicholas Bacon of Gillingham [i.e., Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Gillingham] Esquire”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC:
glosses: A cultivator of tulips.
tutoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tutoresses
form: tutress
Etymology: From tutor + -ess; compare tutress.
Senses: examples: text: I offer ſubſcription; but always vnder reformation of that moſt honored Tutreſſes Pupils, which ſhall (omitting fabulous traſh) iudiciouſly inſtruct otherwiſe.
ref: 1612, [John Selden], “The Eleuenth Song. Illustrations.”, in Michael Drayton, edited by [John Selden], Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 192:
text: Fidelia shall be your tutoress.
ref: 1748, Edward Moore, The Foundling:
synonyms: instructress
tutrix
glosses: A female tutor.
tympanitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tympanitic
form: most tympanitic
Etymology: Latin tympaniticus (“one afflicted with tympanites”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suffering from, tympany.
tyny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tyny
form: most tyny
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tiny.
typifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typifiers
Etymology: From typify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […]some better Authority at least than a modern Typifier
ref: 1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who, or that which, typifies.
ubiquitariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ubiquitary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being ubiquitary, or ubiquitous.
uglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌɡəlsəm/
Forms: form: more uglesome
form: most uglesome
Etymology: See ugly and -some.
Senses: glosses: Ugly.
ulmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Formed from the root of Latin ulmus (“an elm”), with the suffix -ic: compare French ulmique.
Senses: examples: text: ulmic acid
text: ulmic precipitate
text: ulmic substance
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to ulmin; designating an acid obtained from ulmin.
ultrazodiacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + zodiacal.
Senses: examples: text: ultrazodiacal planets
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Outside the zodiac; being in that part of the skies that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic.
umbery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more umbery
form: most umbery
Etymology: From umber + -y.
Senses: examples: text: umbery gold
text: umbery silver
glosses: Of or pertaining to umber; like umber.
umbilication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbilications
Etymology: From Latin umbilicatus. By surface analysis, umbilic- + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: papillary umbilications
text: the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle
text: umbilication of a pustule
glosses: A small, navel-shaped depression, or dimple, at the centre of a rounded body.
Related terms: umbilicate
umbilicated
pock
pockmark
umbrosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From umbrose + -ity, or borrowed from Latin umbrōsitās.
Senses: examples: text: the interstitial divisions being continuated by the accession of oil, it becometh more transparent, and admits the visible rays with less umbrosity
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: Shrubberies.[…]The judicious introduction of views of more distant scenery; which is most frequently desirable, unless in such parts as, by way of contrast, are preserved in umbrosity.
ref: 1806, John Claudius Loudon, A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences, page 352:
text: Cotton is grown here as an annual, yet in some strong lands it is allowed to remain in the ground for two seasons[…]from the umbrosity of its foliage, and its hoeings, it leaves the land, in a fit and open state to receive a winter crop.
ref: 1839, Thomas MacGill, A hand book, or guide, for strangers visiting Malta, page 20:
text: The architecture of winecellar-cum-dungeon prohibited a smooth transition from illumination to umbrosity. Lasse's logic was sound: Concentrate on the penumbral areas; any useful item in the deep shadow cannot be seen and any such object in the light will have been removed.
ref: 2007, Michael J. A. Speyer, The Chronicles of Samuel Sassodoro, Book Two, page 30:
glosses: Shade, shadiness.
unguentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unguentary
form: most unguentary
Etymology: Latin unguentarius.
Senses: glosses: Like, or containing, an unguent.
unguentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unguentous
form: most unguentous
Etymology: From unguent + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Unguentary.
upshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈʃuːt/
ipa: /ˈʌpʃuːt/
Forms: form: upshoots
form: upshooting
form: upshot
form: upshot
Etymology: From up- + shoot.
Senses: examples: text: trees upshooting high
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: All round a hedge upshoots, and shows / At distance like a little wood.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 151:
glosses: To shoot upward.
upshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈʃuːt/
ipa: /ˈʌpʃuːt/
Forms: form: upshoots
Etymology: From up- + shoot.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An involuntary upward movement of the eye
Related terms: downshoot
upspearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upspear
upwaft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upwafts
form: upwafting
form: upwafted
form: upwafted
Etymology: From up- + waft.
Senses: examples: text: from the plain
Upwafted by the winds the smoke aspired
ref: 1791, Homer, translated by W[illiam] Cowper, The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To waft upward.
uranometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uranometries
Etymology: From urano- + -metry.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The measurement of the constellations.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star chart.
urceolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more urceolar
form: most urceolar
Senses: glosses: urceolate
urechitoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Urechites + toxin
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A poisonous glucoside found accompanying urechitin.
uredospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uredospores
Etymology: From uredo + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: urediniospore
Related terms: uredosporous
urethrotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urethrotomes
Etymology: From urethro- + -tome.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An instrument for cutting a urethral stricture.
Related terms: urethrotomy
urochordal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Urochorda + -al
Senses: examples: text: urochordal animal
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Urochorda.
uromere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uromeres
Etymology: From uro- + -mere.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the abdominal segments of an arthropod.
uroxanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uric, alloxan, -ic, acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, C₅H₈N₄O₆, which is obtained by the slow oxidation of uric acid in alkaline solution.
Derived terms: uroxanate
usherance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From usher + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Nor had it ever risen again in its more decent form, but for the accidental publication of our author's first letter, which, by a necessary train of consequences occasioned the revival of this abortive, piece, and gave usherance to its companions
ref: 1711, [Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury], Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times:
glosses: The act of ushering.
usurpature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: usurpatures
Senses: examples: text: God's gold just shining its last where that lodges, / Palled beneath Man's usurpature!
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, “Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 23, page 201:
glosses: Usurpation.
V-moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: V-moths
form: V moth
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A common grey European moth, Macaria wauaria, with a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each forewing.
vallation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vallations
Etymology: From Latin vallatio, from vallare (“to surround with a rampart”), from vallum (“rampart”). See wall.
Senses: glosses: A rampart or entrenchment.
vetchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vetchy
form: most vetchy
Etymology: From vetch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There mayst thou ligge in a vetchy bed
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, “September”, in The Shepheardes Calender:
glosses: Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, vetches.
vibratility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French vibratilité.
Senses: examples: text: high vibratility
text: rhythmic vibratility
text: this vibratility , or disposition to preternatural motion in animal matter , is the predisposing cause of fevers
ref: 1789, Benjamin Rush, Medical Inquiries and Observations:
glosses: The quality or state of being vibratile; tendency to vibrate or oscillate.
vineyardist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vineyardists
Etymology: From vineyard + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the vineyardists prepare for market their own grapes, the wife and children, after due training, packing the bloomful clusters in layers with excellent skill.
ref: 1888, John Muir, editor, Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope; […], New York, N.Y.; San Francisco, Calif.: J. Dewing Publishing Company, page 126:
glosses: Someone who cultivates a vineyard.
violous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪələs/
Forms: form: more violous
form: most violous
Senses: examples: text: You are so violous: This I'm resolv'd, If she be a Whore once, I'll renounce her
ref: 1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: violent
virtuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: virtuates
form: virtuating
form: virtuated
form: virtuated
Senses: examples: text: to lead the Purgative to the diseaſed Part , and to virtuate it by that to purge[…]
ref: 1699, Gideon Harvey, The vanities of philosophy and physick:
glosses: To make efficacious; to give virtue of efficacy.
visionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visionists
Etymology: From vision + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A visionary.
vulpinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vulpine + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: He was without guile, and had no vulpinism at all.
ref: 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: slyness; fox-like cunning; artfulness.
vulpinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Costa Volpino (“a place name in Italy”) + -ite (“a mineral”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish-white colour, used for ornamental purposes.
waftage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɒftɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: waftages
Etymology: From waft + -age.
Senses: examples: text: […] I ſtalke about her doore / Like a ſtrange ſoule upon the Stigian bankes / Staying for waftage.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], column 2:
text: The Ships appointed vvherein they ſhould goe, / And Boats prepar'd for vvaftage to and fro.
ref: 1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “The Battaile of Agincourt”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: Conveyance, transportation on a buoyant medium, such as air or water. The act of being wafted.
water sapphire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water sapphires
Etymology: Equivalent to French saphir d'eau.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem.
waywodeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waywodeships
Etymology: From waywode + -ship.
Senses: glosses: voivodeship
wealdish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Wealdish.
weatherglass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weatherglasses
Etymology: From weather + glass.
Senses: glosses: A barometer.
Derived terms: poor man's weatherglass
wekau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori whēkau.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An extinct small New Zealand owl with short wings and long legs that lived chiefly on the ground (†Sceloglaux albifacies).
whimwham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whimwhams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whim-wham.