cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
disconvenience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disconveniences
Etymology: From dis- + convenience.
Senses: examples: text: Carta Articulorum. [...] The convenience or disconvenience which motion hath with heat and tenuity, and how these three meet, sever, and vary.
ref: 1608 July, Francis Bacon, “Filum Labyrinthi; sive Inquisitio Legitima de Motu”, in James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, editors, The Works of Francis Bacon, […], volume III, London: Longman and Co.; […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 627:
glosses: Incongruity; unsuitableness.
factorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factorships
Etymology: From factor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The business of a factor (the agent).
incession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɛʃən/
homophone: insession
Etymology: From Latin incedere, incessum (“to walk”).
fiddlestring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiddlestrings
Etymology: From fiddle + string.
Senses: examples: text: Fiddlestrings used to be made of catgut.
glosses: One of the strings of a fiddle.
fiddlestrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiddlestring
picturer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picturers
Etymology: From picture + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Zeuxis the curious picturer painted a boy holding a dish full of grapes in his hand
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who makes pictures; a painter.
examples: text: picturer of reality
glosses: Someone who pictures, or depicts
picturers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picturer
contestingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contestingly
form: most contestingly
Etymology: From contesting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: she stared contestingly at her rebellious student
glosses: In a contesting or contending manner.
hexdecylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexdecyl + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: hexdecylic alcohol
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or derived from, hexdecyl or hexadecane.
overhappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overhappy
form: most overhappy
Etymology: From over- + happy.
Senses: examples: text: Happy, in that we are not overhappy; / On fortune's cap we are not the very button.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Exceedingly happy.
foreworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See forworn.
Senses: examples: 1805-1809, Samuel Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria, Titles and Opinions of Old English Books
old foreworn stories almost forgotten
glosses: Synonym of forworn.
synonyms: word: forworn
indirected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indirected
form: most indirected
Etymology: From in- + directed.
Senses: glosses: Lacking direction; aimless.
indirected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indirect
sexisyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sexasyllabic
Senses: examples: text: If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]
ref: 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination:
glosses: Having six syllables; hexasyllabic.
exotical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exotical
form: most exotical
Senses: glosses: exotic
Derived terms: exoticalness
goldcup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldcups
Etymology: From gold + cup.
Senses: examples: text: Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
Are lying in field and lane,
With dandelions to tell the hours
That never are told again.
ref: 1896, Alfred Edward Housman, A Shropshire Lad, Chapter V:
glosses: The buttercup.
Related terms: goldcup oak
goldcups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldcup
imperforation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French imperforation.
Senses: glosses: The state of being without perforation.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: atresia
impatency
glosses: Absence of perforation in a normally patent structure.
Related terms: imperforate
beggarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beggar + -ism.
Senses: glosses: beggary (the state of being a beggar)
misproportion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + proportion.
Senses: glosses: A deviation from proper proportions.
misproportion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misproportions
form: misproportioning
form: misproportioned
form: misproportioned
Etymology: From mis- + proportion.
Senses: glosses: To give the wrong proportions to.
misproportioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misproportion
misproportions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misproportion
epulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epulations
Etymology: Latin epulatio.
Senses: examples: text: he would dine with Jove, and pretend unto epulation, he desired no other addition than a piece of Cytheridian cheese
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A feast or banquet.
smilingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From smiling + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […]Had made despair a smilingness assume.
ref: 1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: The quality or state of being smiling.
vilipendency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The mighty Goliaths of Rome, by this way of vilipendency hope to give our clergy's flesh to be food for the fowls of the air.
ref: 1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men, page 149:
glosses: disesteem; slight; disparagement or hate
Related terms: vilipend
ascertainably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ascertainably
form: most ascertainably
Etymology: From ascertainable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: an ascertainably false statement
glosses: In a way that can be ascertained.
lodgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French logeable.
Senses: examples: text: The masses of refugees are not easily lodgeable in the small border town.
glosses: Capable of being lodged.
examples: text: the lodgeable area of the earth
ref: 1819, Francis Jeffrey, “Campbell's Specimens of the Poets”, in The Edinburgh Review March 1819:
glosses: Capable of affording lodging; habitable.
lung-grown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.
mitties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitty
mitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitties
Senses: glosses: The storm petrel.
consumptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consumptive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being consumptive.
dracontine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δρᾰ́κοντ- (drắkont-, “dragon”) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: There with malignant patience
He sate in fell despite,
Till this dracontine cockatrice
Should break its way to light.
ref: 1830 July, Robert Southey, “The Young Dragon. Part I.”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Southey. […], volume VI, London: […] [Andrew Spottiswoode] for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], published 1838, →OCLC, page 263:
synonyms: draconine
glosses: of, related to, or depicting a dragon.
excerptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excerptors
Etymology: From excerpt + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who makes/writes excerpts.
excerptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excerptor
fixidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the bodies mingled by the fire are differing enough as to fixidity and volatility , and yet are so combined by the first operation of the fire , that itself does scarce afterwards separate them
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:
text: Among the baſe metals, Copper retains its fixidity the longeſt in the fire next to Iron
ref: 1762, Anton Friedrich Buesching, A New System of Geography:
glosses: The quality of being fixed.
Related terms: fixity
rattlebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattleboxes
Etymology: From rattle + box.
Senses: glosses: A toy or instrument that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.
glosses: An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), whose ripe seeds rattle in the inflated pod.
glosses: Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
glosses: An ornamental shrub (Sesbania punicea) native to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
glosses: Any species of Rhinanthus, a genus of annual hemiparasitic herbaceous plants.
glosses: Senna covesii, a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico.
glosses: A species of moth, (Utetheisa ornatrix), that feeds on Crotalaria.
rattleboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rattlebox
buckish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buckish
form: most buckish
Etymology: From buck + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: word: stinky
word: lustful
word: bad
word: buckish
word: cacodorous
word: fetid
word: foul-smelling
word: funky
word: graveolent
word: malodorous
word: niffy
word: noisome
word: nonaromatic
word: nonfragrant
word: olid
word: on the nose
word: pongy
word: putredinous
word: reeking
word: reeky
word: ripe
word: smelly
word: stank
word: stenchy
word: stinking
word: stinksome
word: stinky
word: unaromatic
word: unfragrant
word: whiff
word: whiffy
word: ablaze
word: amorous
word: aroused
word: buckish
word: concupiscent
word: desirous
word: DTF
word: excited
word: frisky
word: fuckish
word: gagging for it
word: hard
word: horny
word: hot
word: hot and bothered
word: hot to trot
word: in heat
word: lascivious
word: lewd
word: libidinous
word: lickerish
word: lustful
word: lusty
word: prurient
word: randy
word: ravenous
word: rock hard
word: ruttish
word: rutty
word: sexed up
word: stimulated
word: thirsty
word: toey
word: toey as a Roman sandal
word: turned on
word: unchaste
word: venereal
word: venereous
word: wanton
glosses: Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.
examples: text: Not to detail the history minutely, there was a pretty numerous company, two genteelish ladies and their husbands, one a clergyman of buckish cast […] .
ref: 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 97
synonyms: word: dandiacal
word: buckish
word: beauish
word: buckish
word: coxcombical
word: dandiacal
word: dandified
word: dandy
word: dandyish
word: dandyistic
word: dudish
word: foppish
word: foppy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: lily-handed
word: macaronic
word: swellish
word: Woosterian
glosses: Like a dandy; foppish.
Derived terms: buckishly
buckishness
torturingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more torturingly
form: most torturingly
Etymology: From torturing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The ground soon becomes torturingly hard, and she is bitten all over by insects. The worst thing is the cold. It creeps in upon her, and she cringes into a ball to escape from it.
ref: 2015, Michael Frayn, A Very Private Life:
text: An host of furies Could not have baited me more torturingly , More rudely , or more most unnaturally!
ref: c. 1619–1623, John Ford, “The Lawes of Candy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii:
glosses: So as to torture.
glosses: Extremely; painfully
prosiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosinesses
Etymology: From prosy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness.
animalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From animal (adjective) + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves […]
ref: 2014, Christopher Watts, Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things, page 101:
glosses: The quality of being animal; animality.
creeky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːki/
rhymes: -iːki
homophone: creaky
Forms: form: creekier
form: creekiest
Etymology: From creek + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Nowadays it's a lovely little place of pebble-covered cottages sloping up from the creekiest of harbours.
ref: 2016, The Rough Guide to Norfolk & Suffolk:
glosses: Containing, or abounding in, creeks.
glosses: Like a creek; winding.
readorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: readorns
form: readorning
form: readorned
form: readorned
Etymology: From re- + adorn.
Senses: glosses: To adorn again.
readorned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of readorn
readorning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of readorn
readorns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of readorn
ferrocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrocyanates
Etymology: From ferrocyanic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ferrocyanide.
ferrocyanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferrocyanate
indifuscin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indican + Latin fuscus (“dusky”) + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A brown amorphous powder obtained from indican.
lasciviency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See lascivient.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being lascivious or wanton.
metamorphist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The deductions, in the works of Professor Keilhau, with which I have become acquainted since the publication of the first part of this work; the passages of the granite, which this geologist points out, to the stratified forms, considered together with the obscurity in which he confesses that the origin of the great mass of crystalline rocks is still involved, can only strengthen me in the opinion, that the theory of an igneous stratification of crystalline schists offers the only guide which can direct the geologist throught the labyrinth of difficulties with which a too limited interpretation of the general principle of stratification had encircled science, leaving it entirely to the speculations of the metamorphist geologists.
ref: 1847, Antoine Claude Gabriel Jobert, The Philosophy of Geology, page 108:
text: This strict identity of feldspars (and other crystals) has been for us, then for some other authors such as H.H. Read, a base for the metamorphist conception of the genesis of granites.
ref: 1953, Report of the Session - Volume 19, page 5554:
text: Such was still the case a few years ago when authors of a metamorphist tendency, such as Read (1943, 1944) still seemed to think that the intrusive appearance was consistent with a liquid intrusion only.
ref: 1954, American Journal of Science and Arts, page 450:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Believing in the metamorphic formation of nonsedimentary rocks and minerals.
metamorphists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metamorphist
furacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more furacious
form: most furacious
Etymology: From Latin furax, furacis (“thievish”), from fur (“thief”).
Senses: glosses: Prone to stealing; thieving.
puppetish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puppetish
form: most puppetish
Etymology: From puppet + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; puppetlike.
agaty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agaty
form: most agaty
Etymology: From agate + -y.
Senses: examples: text: agaty rock
text: agaty stone
glosses: Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.
limitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪm.ɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlɪ.mɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more limitarian
form: most limitarian
Etymology: From limit + -arian.
Senses: glosses: Tending to limit, or supporting limitarianism.
Derived terms: limitarianism
limitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪm.ɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlɪ.mɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: limitarians
Etymology: From limit + -arian.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to the doctrine of limitarianism.
phraseologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phraseologist
fairhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fair + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: I was loth to interrupt the thoughts that played over her fairhood like a summer's cloud athwart the morning sky.
ref: 1897, Hulbert Fuller, Vivian of Virginia: Being the Memoirs of Our First Rebellion, page 217:
text: The tuneful cricket in the latter math
Sings of her fairhood to the passing breeze.
ref: 1918, John Duncan Quackenbos, Magnhild: A Tale of Psychic Love, page 104:
glosses: fairness; beauty
lampate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lampates
Etymology: From lampic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A (supposed?) salt of lampic acid.
lampates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lampate
copulatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From copulative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: stand copulatively
text: take a verb copulatively
text: copulatively analytical
glosses: In a copulative manner.
orthographize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: orthographizes
form: orthographizing
form: orthographized
form: orthographized
Etymology: From orthography + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To spell correctly or according to usage or pronunciation.
examples: text: "In the" coalesced into "ith", which modern reaction has orthographized to "i' th".
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
glosses: To correct in regard to spelling.
glosses: To devise a writing system for a language.
orthographized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orthographize
orthographizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of orthographize
orthographizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of orthographize
cobswan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒbswɒn/
Forms: form: cobswans
Etymology: From cob (“one who is eminent or great”) + swan.
Senses: examples: text: I'am not taken / With a Cob-Swan, or a high-mounting Bull / As fooliſh Leda and Europa were.
ref: 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, Act II:
text: [T]here's plenty hint / Your pinions have received of late a shock— / Out-soar them, cobswan of the silver flock!
ref: 1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Second”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: A large male swan.
cobswans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobswan
louchettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: Goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting vision only directly in front.
recision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recisions
Etymology: From Latin recisio, from recidere, recisum (“to cut off”).
Senses: examples: text: recision of debts
ref: 1658, James Harrington, The Prerogative of Popular Government:
glosses: The act of cutting off.
branglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brangling
noonflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noonflowers
form: noon-flower
Etymology: From noon + flower.
Senses: examples: text: Noon-flower, or Noon-tide, from its closing at midday, and marking the hour of noon, / Tragopogon pratensis, L.
ref: 1863, R. C. A. Prior, On the Popular Names of British Plants, Being an Explanation of the Origin and Meaning of the Names of Our Indigenous and Most Commonly Cultivated Species, London: Williams and Norgate, page 163:
text: ... especially the sultriness between noonflower and the four-o'clock's opening
ref: 2009, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, page 84:
glosses: Referring to various species of flowers.
Tragopogon, a type of aster that closes at midday.
synonyms: goat's-beard
Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon
salsify
examples: text: Along the seacoast from San Francisco to Patagonia, the trailing juicy stems and leaves of the noonflower hang curtains of vivid green over the sea cliffs or spread soft mats on the bare earth.
ref: 1927, “The National Geographic Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 51, page 607:
text: A more spectacular plant is the noonflower, which often forms huge swards of mauve flowers, from coastal salt marshes through to inland deserts. This is a more delicate-looking version of the pigface.
ref: 1972, Vincent Serventy, The Singing Land: 22 Natural Environments of Australia from Surging Ocean to Arid Desert, page 37:
text: I find little low creeping things as in the hills: variable groundsel, small-leaved clematis, magenta noonflower that Nan calls pig's-face
ref: 1993, Barbara Hanrahan, The Scent of Eucalyptus, page 135:
text: Karkalla belongs to the noonflower or pigface family, Aizoaceae.
ref: 2001, David Meagher, Michele Kohout, A Field Guide to Wilson's Promontory, page 208:
text: Coastal noonflower (Carpobrotus glaucescens) is a succulent groundcover with deep-red fruit that has a refreshing taste.
ref: 2008, Robin Stewart, From Seeds to Leaves:
glosses: Referring to various species of flowers.
Flowers of the family Aizoaceae, especially those of the genus Carpobrotus.
synonyms: ice plant
pigface
examples: text: For isolated shrubs , and not too many at that, the lack of all appearance of striving after there would be the spreading noonflower, bauhinia, dracaumas with their warm-hued leaves, […]
ref: 1916, “The Homestead (So. Africa)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), numbers 23-48, page 7:
glosses: Referring to various species of flowers.
Flowers of the genus Bauhinia.
noonflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noonflower
imbursement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbursements
Etymology: From imburse + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
glosses: Money laid up in stock.
Related terms: reimbursement
seminification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Seminification and propagation from the feed or seminal parts
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: propagation from seed
Related terms: semen
seminal
Turcoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turcomans
form: Turcomen
form: Turkeman
form: Turkoman
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Turcomannus, from Classical Persian ترکمان (turkamān). Doublet of Turkman and Turkmen.
Senses: examples: text: Apart from hostile Turcoman tribesmen who roamed this desolate region, the principal obstacle facing Bekovich was a dangerous stretch of desert […]
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 18:
glosses: A member of a mainly nomadic Turkic people inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea; a Turkmen.
glosses: A kind of carpet or rug supposed to be made by the Turcomans.
Derived terms: Black Sheep Turcoman
White Sheep Turcoman
Turcoman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Turkeman
form: Turkoman
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Turcomannus, from Classical Persian ترکمان (turkamān). Doublet of Turkman and Turkmen.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to these people.
Turcoman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Turkeman
form: Turkoman
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Turcomannus, from Classical Persian ترکمان (turkamān). Doublet of Turkman and Turkmen.
Senses: glosses: The Turkmen language.
Related terms: Turcomanic
Turkomanic
Turcomans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turcoman
hectostere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hectosteres
Etymology: French hectostère.
Senses: glosses: An old measure of volume equal to one hundred cubic metres.
hectosteres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hectostere
multiversant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiversant
form: most multiversant
Etymology: From multi- + Latin versans, present participle. See versant.
Senses: examples: text: The effect of these methods upon the physical constitution is very deleterious, and the system has never been recognised as part of Theosophy, which is neither "theological dilettantism" nor Hatha Yoga, but the wisdom-religion of the ancient Sages, which underlies, as a basic truth, all the multiversant creeds and theologies of the past and present.
ref: 1890 November 1, Walter Gorn Old, “letter”, in The Globe:
text: That succinct statement reminds us that high frequency of vegetative reproduction in multiversant species and low densities of pauciversant species populations may protect each against what Muller (1950) called load of mutations (which in general depresses the adaptive ability of the population).
ref: 1960, Benninghoff, Special Publication - Issue 14, page 73:
glosses: Turning into many shapes; assuming many forms; protean.
tramroad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tramroads
Etymology: From tram + road.
Senses: examples: text: About two hundred and fifty years ago, some genius, as unknown as the inventor of the lathe, laid the first wooden tramroad, to enable a horse to draw forty-two cwt. instead of seventeen.
ref: 1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash:
text: It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.
ref: 1926, James A.H. Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume X, part I, page 248, column 1:
text: Immediately to the west of Coleorton, an important system of tramroads was built in connection with the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.
ref: 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 4:
text: The company arranged for access to a Blackpool terminus […] over a street tramway to be constructed by, and leased for 21 years from, the Corporation. The distance between termini was about eight miles, of which 6 miles 22 ch. was to be tramroad on private right-of-way.
ref: 1955 September, Donald F. Phillips, “From Blackpool to Fleetwood by Tramroad”, in Railway Magazine, page 641:
glosses: A road designed for use by trams or wagons.
Related terms: plateway
tramroads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tramroad
fluxionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluxionists
Etymology: From fluxion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: a fluxionist writing about momentums
ref: 1735, George Berkeley, A Defence of Free-thinking in Mathematics:
glosses: One skilled in fluxions.
fluxionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluxionist
inductile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inductile
form: most inductile
Etymology: From in- + ductile.
Senses: examples: text: modally inductile
text: inductile material
glosses: Not ductile
Derived terms: inductility
triedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of trihedral.
irregeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ir- + regeneration.
Senses: glosses: An unregenerate state.
prelateship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛlətʃɪp/
Forms: form: prelateships
Etymology: From prelate + -ship. Compare prelacy.
Senses: examples: text: Heliodorus that good Bishop of Tricea, loved rather to lose the dignity, profit and devotion of so venerable a Prelateship, than to for-goe his daughter […].
ref: , II.8
glosses: The rank or office of prelate.
prelateships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelateship
petaliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more petaliferous
form: most petaliferous
Etymology: From petal + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: petaliferous flowers
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: petalous
glosses: Bearing petals.
embottle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embottles
form: embottling
form: embottled
form: embottled
Etymology: From em- + bottle.
Senses: examples: text: What did you teach these Cubs the World to burn,
Or to embottle London in its Urn ?
ref: 1670, Thomas Brooks, London's Lamentations:
text: Here might you see
Barons, and Peasants on th'embottled Field
ref: 1708, [John Philips], “(please specify the page)”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To bottle; to place in a bottle.
embottled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embottle
embottles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embottle
embottling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embottle
retrovaccination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrovaccinations
Etymology: From retro- + vaccination.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus.
retrovaccinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrovaccination
vernant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vernant
form: most vernant
Etymology: From Latin vernans, present participle vernare (“to flourish”), from ver (“spring”).
Senses: examples: text: to bring in change / Of seasons to each clime; else had the spring / Perpetual smil'd on earth with vernant flowers, / Equal in days and nights
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: [T]he penetrative Sun […] sets the steaming Power / At large, to wander o'er the vernant Earth, / In various Hues […].
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
alfet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alfets
Etymology: From Medieval Latin alfetum, from Old English alfæt (“fire-vat”), from āl (“fire”) + fæt (“vat”).
Senses: examples: text: ALFET, antiently ſignified the Cauldron in which boiling Water was put, for the Accuſed to plunge his Hand in up to the Elbow, by way of Trial of Purgation.
ref: [1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “Alfet”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–H), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 59, column 2:
text: Miss Twig, head bowed at the far end of the table, continued to eat placidly, but Jacko fixed her with a hard look. "His rooms, huh? Eh, Twigs," he said, "'tis the alfet for a ewbrice." ¶ Dimple gurgled, swallowed, and said, "And what, Jacko boy, might an alfet be?" ¶ Jacko grinned. "Yer tub a boilin' water. For duckin' class offenders."
ref: 1981, Edmund Apffel, The Last Days at St. Saturn's, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: A cauldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm, used as a form of trial in Medieval England.
alfets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alfet
semiflosculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + flosculous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: semifloscular
glosses: Having all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion.
disclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkluːʒən/
Forms: form: disclusions
Etymology: From Latin disclusio, from discludere, disclusum (“to separate”). See disclose.
Senses: examples: text: impressed in the Brain, the composition of them, and disclusion and various disposal of them, is plainly an arbitrarious act,
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: A shutting off; exclusion.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A separation of the teeth when the jaw is slightly opened.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Especially, a separation of posterior teeth when the lower jaw moves forward, as a natural result of the alignment of the anterior teeth.
Related terms: disclude
disprepare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disprepares
form: dispreparing
form: disprepared
form: disprepared
Etymology: From dis- + prepare.
Senses: examples: text: obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavour by dark and erroneous doctrines to extinguish in them the light, both of nature and of the gospel, and so to disprepare them for the kingdom of God to come
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To render unprepared.
disprepared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disprepare
disprepares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disprepare
dispreparing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disprepare
replyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replyers
Etymology: From reply + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The replyer, who was a dissolute man, did tax him that being a private bred man, he would give a question of state.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of replier.
replyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replyer
criticisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more criticisable
form: most criticisable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of criticizable.
lopeared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lopeared
form: most lopeared
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lop-eared.
sloat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sloats
Etymology: See slot (“a bar”).
Senses: examples: text: the sloats of a cart
text: sloats in a theatre
glosses: A narrow piece of timber that holds together large pieces; a slat.
sloats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sloat
disinfector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disinfectors
form: disinfecter
Etymology: From disinfect + -or.
Senses: synonyms: disinfecter
glosses: Someone or something that disinfects.
synonyms: disinfecter
glosses: An apparatus for applying disinfectants.
disinfectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disinfector
amateurship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amateurships
Etymology: From amateur + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: This, perhaps, is the most valuable part of the collection to a student either in art or amateurship: but it would altogether shock our English taste, the modishest of any modern, which relishes nothing half so much as portraits of Right Honourables and Dishonourables […]
ref: 1837, The Athenaeum, page 863:
glosses: The quality or character of an amateur.
amateurships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amateurship
occasionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəbəl/
Etymology: From occasion + -able.
Senses: examples: text: this practice will fence us against immoderate displeasure occasionable by men's hard opinions
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Keep thy Heart with all Diligence”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being occasioned or caused
examples: text: occasionable table
text: Having listened attentively to the statement of Wandle Schoonhoven, giving an occasionable grunt, as he shovelled a mighty spoonful of Indian pudding into his mouth […]
ref: 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:
glosses: occasional
Derived terms: occasionably
pinguidinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinguidinous
form: most pinguidinous
Etymology: From Latin pinguedo (“fatness”), from pinguis (“fat”).
Senses: glosses: Containing fat; fatty.
rattlemice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rattlemouse
rattlemouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattlemice
Senses: examples: text: the tale of the Rattlemouſe who in the warres proclaimed betweene - the foure footed beaſts , and the birdes, beyng ſent for by Lyon to be at his muſters, excuſed himself for that he was a foule and flew with winges : and beyng ſent for by the Eagle to serue him, sayd that he was a foure footed beaſt[…]
ref: 1588, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie:
glosses: A bat (the animal).
septinsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sept- + insular.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of seven islands.
Derived terms: Septinsular Republic
ticpolonga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticpolongas
Etymology: Native name.
Senses: synonyms: Russell's viper
glosses: A very venomous viper (Daboia russelii), native to Sri Lanka and India.
ticpolongas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticpolonga
sulfocyanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulphocyanic.
begore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begores
form: begoring
form: begored
form: begored
Etymology: From be- + gore.
Senses: glosses: To make gory.
begored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of begore
begores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begore
begoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of begore
depulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin depulsio.
Senses: examples: text: Shee [Margaret of Anjou] vvas his vvife tvventie ſixe yeeres, and tvventie nine daies: and (after her husbands depulſion from his regall throne) her forces being vanquiſhed at the battell of Tevvksburie, in a poore religious houſe, vvhether ſhee had fled for the ſafetie of her life, vvas taken priſoner, […]
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Henrie the Sixth, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 94, page 672, column 2:
glosses: expulsion or repulsion.
Related terms: depulse
depulsive
glomuliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin glomus (“a ball”) + -iferous.
Senses: examples: text: The bright green and glomuliferous parmelia , and the resupinate nephroma , will be found on the rocks and trees in the immediate neighbourhood
ref: 1848, Samuel Rowe, A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
childed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From child + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a child.
examples: text: one-childed
text: multi-childed
glosses: Having a certain type or number of children
childed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From child + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of child
niopo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: yopo
glosses: A kind of snuff prepared by some indigenous peoples of Venezuela and Colombia, from the roasted seeds of a leguminous tree, Anadenanthera peregrina.
glosses: The tree Anadenanthera peregrina.
individuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: individuities
Etymology: From Latin individuitas.
Senses: examples: text: Instinctual suppression and repression has only a bearing on the mass - psyche of the individual in so far as his actual individuity is affected by it.
ref: 1945, Samuel Lowy, New Directions in Psychology:
glosses: Separate existence; individuality; oneness.
mesorchia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesorchium
mesorchium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesorchia
Etymology: From New Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek [Term?], literally "between the testicles".
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The fold of peritoneum that attaches the testis to the dorsal wall of the body cavity or scrotum.
impressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impressors
Etymology: From Latin [Term?] (“printer”).
Senses: examples: September 29 1663, Robert Boyle, a letter
fancy is the receiver and impressor
glosses: One who, or that which, impresses.
impressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impressor
tentaculite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentaculites
Etymology: From the genus name, from Latin tentaculum + -ites.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of numerous species of small, conical shells found in Paleozoic rocks, fossils from the extinct genus †Tentaculites.
wikipedia: Devonian
Maryland
tentaculites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tentaculite
acuteangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 1734, James Jurin, George Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), Geometry no friend to infidelity
Now, we know that the several compound Ideas of a rectangled, an oblique, and an acuteangled Triangle are different and inconsistent one with another. No two of them can be put together so as jointly to exist or be conceived in the mind.
glosses: Alternative form of acute-angled.
langate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: langates
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A linen roller used in dressing wounds.
langates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of langate
recordance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recordances
Senses: glosses: remembrance
ericolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glucoside found in the bearberry (and other ericaceous plants).
poundkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poundkeepers
Etymology: From pound + keeper.
Senses: glosses: The keeper of a pound.(place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.)
poundkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poundkeeper
bibble-babble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibble-babbles
Etymology: Reduplication of babble.
Senses: examples: text: Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the / heavens restore! Endeavour thyself to sleep and leave / thy vain bibble-babble.
ref: c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 4, scene 2, lines 95–97:
glosses: Idle talk; babble.
Synonyms: chatter
bibble-babbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibble-babble
mockage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mockages
Etymology: From mock + -age.
Senses: examples: text: a mockage of marriage
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
text: I [...] say the Apocrypha be all lying works or Ironies: mockages of fools.
ref: 1662, The Works of the Great Albionean Divine ... Mr Hugh Broughton, page 409:
glosses: Mockery; mocking.
opinionatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opinionatists
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of opinionist.
opinionatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opinionatist
parochialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parochializes
form: parochializing
form: parochialized
form: parochialized
Etymology: From parochial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To render parochial; to form into parishes.
Related terms: deparochialize
parochialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parochialize
parochializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parochialize
parochializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parochialize
guttated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of guttate.
guttated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of guttate
subreligion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subreligions
Etymology: From sub- + religion.
Senses: examples: text: Loyalty is in the English a sub-religion.
ref: 1856, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “(please specify the chapter or essay name)”, in English Traits, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A secondary or subordinate religion.
subreligions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subreligion