cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pourcuttle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pourcuttles
form: pourcontrell
form: pourcontrel
form: pourcoutrel
Etymology: Uncertain first element + cuttle. The OED takes the forms with con to be easy misreadings of the earlier-attested cou (compare e.g. ouarine, a misreading of ouariue), but says pour- "can hardly stand for an earlier poul-" as on poulpe, polyp (compare polwygle, porwiggle as variants of pollywog).
Senses: examples: text: The fish called a Pourcontrell [translating poulpe], or Manie-feet, changeth himselfe into what colour he lists, as occasion offereth it selfe; that so he may hide himselfe from what he feareth, and catch what he seeketh for.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A cephalopod with tentacles; an octopus or cuttlefish.
pourcuttles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pourcuttle
cuttle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtəl/
Forms: form: cuttles
Etymology: From Middle English cutil, codel, codul, from Old English cudele (“cuttlefish”), a diminutive from Proto-Germanic *kudilǭ, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô + -ilǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Equivalent to cod + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare dialectal German Kudele (“cuttlefish”), Norwegian kaule (“cuttlefish”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cuttlefish.
synonyms: word: cuttlefish
Derived terms: cuttlebone
cuttle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtəl/
Forms: form: cuttles
Etymology: From Middle English coutel, from Old French coutel, coltel, cultel, from Latin cultellus. Doublet of couteau. See cutlass.
Senses: examples: text: a sharpe cuttle
ref: 1546, John Bale, The Actes of Englysh Votaries:
glosses: A knife.
cuttle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtəl/
Forms: form: cuttles
Senses: examples: text: An you play the saucy cuttle me.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: A foul-mouthed fellow.
cuttles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuttle
oceanwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ocean + -wide.
Senses: glosses: Spanning the whole ocean
skin worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin worms
Etymology: From skin + worm, in later use partly after German Hautwurm.
Senses: examples: text: Alike desires perturbe both a skinne-worme [translating ciron], and an Elephant.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small worm or other parasite which infects the skin.
skin worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skin worm
völvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of völva
bestream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bestreams
form: bestreaming
form: bestreamed
form: bestreamed
Etymology: From be- + stream. Cognate with German beströmen (“to pervade”).
Senses: examples: text: His eyes bestreamed with tears, his large heart quaking [...]
ref: 1858, Henry Green, A Manchester book:
glosses: To stream around, about, or all over; flood.
examples: text: Merchant plays you with a smile beguiling, Wife beguiles you with her tears bestreaming, [...]
ref: 1925, Milivoy Stoyan Stanoyevich, Slavonic nations of yesterday and today:
text: Tears bestreamed her face, and the Elder of Midpoint was somewhat bemused at this reception.
ref: 2010, Sally Odgers, Shadowdancers:
glosses: To flow in a stream; stream down.
examples: text: [...] and, from using only moderate exercise, I am so bestreamed with perspiration as to make it necessary to change my clothes four or five times in the course of the day: [...]
ref: 1816, George Pinckard, Notes on the West Indies:
text: [...] it is easy to conceive her terror when she saw my friend in this predicament, lying in my arms, and both of us bestreamed with blood.
ref: 1824, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel:
text: The collars of his serge jacket were pulled up high above his ears, making a fantastic setting for his grimy, tear-bestreamed countenance, [...]
ref: 1868, Every Saturday: a journal of choice reading:
text: Will ye dwell in houses artificially adorned, not so milch for use as for delight, and shall My dwelling-place, wherein was the Holy of holies, and the Cherubim, and the table of shew-brend, be bestreamed with rains, [...]
ref: 1885, Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor prophets:
text: I do remember a poor Negro, Under the torrid sun by parching thirst Oppress'd; with sweat-bestreamed brow he slaved, Planting of sugar-canes; [...]
ref: 2004, Marcus Wood, The poetry of slavery:
glosses: To drench; mark by streams of.
examples: text: Gear, such as Orchomenus bestreams or Thebae of Egypt, Where lies in palace-hall most wealth, whose gates are an hundred, And steeds, and chariots, and fivescore troops are in each one [...]
ref: 1899, Homer, Alexander Pope, Philip Gentner, The Iliad of Homer:
text: They were about the business of repair so that in a way fire did remain an enemy of water, as they caulked the longboat and disappeared below deck, carrying leather-bestreamed poles of steaming pitch.
ref: 1995, C. W. E. Bigsby, Hester:
glosses: To cover or be covered in; adorn; wear.
mandamuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandamus
Australo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Australian.
Derived terms: Australasian
Australo-Melanesian
Australo-Papuan
Austro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin Austria, a Latinization of Old High German Ostarrîchi.
Senses: glosses: Austrian
Belgo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: text: the Belgo-Dutch frontier
glosses: Belgian; of or pertaining to Belgium or its people.
Cypro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Cyprus; Cypriot.
Derived terms: Cypro-Greek
Cypro-Minoan
Czecho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Alteration of Czech.
Senses: glosses: Czech Republic.
glosses: Czech.
glosses: Czechoslovakia.
Derived terms: Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakian
Ægypto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Egypt, particularly ancient Egypt.
glosses: Egyptian.
Derived terms: Ægyptology
Ægyptologist
Fenno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: Finno-
Etymology: From Latin Fennus + -o-. Doublet of Finno-.
Senses: glosses: Finland; Finnish.
Derived terms: Fennoscandia
Fennomania
Fenno-Swedish
Finno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: Fenno-
Etymology: From Latin Finnus + -o-. Doublet of Fenno-.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Finland, the Finnish language, or Finns.
Serbo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Serbia.
glosses: Serbian.
Turco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: Turko-
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Turcus.
Senses: glosses: Turkey; Turk.
glosses: Turkic.
Turko-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: Turco-
Senses: glosses: Turkey.
glosses: Turkish.
glosses: Turk.
glosses: Ottoman Empire.
Derived terms: Turkophone
Turkoman
Turkomania
Turkologist
Kurdophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: kurdophone
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Kurdish languages or the speakers of these languages.
Kurdophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kurdophones
form: kurdophone
Senses: glosses: Someone who speaks a Kurdish language.
Miller of Dee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Millers of Dee
Etymology: From the traditional English folk song Miller of Dee, in which the eponymous miller sings "I care for nobody, no not I, if nobody cares for me."
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Wallace, although fortified with a letter bearing the mitred seal of the Bishop the diocese, feels that he is about to come in contact with a great power; an awful something that is not to be trifled with; one of the noblest institutions of our land, who is a very Miller of Dee, and accountable to nobody.
ref: 1852, Samuel Warren, The Experiences of a Barrister, page 209:
text: He was a regular "Miller of Dee," caring for nobody; and yet he was likeable, that humorous old stoic, who suffered from gall-stone, and bore horrible bouts of pain like a hero.
ref: 1920, John Galsworthy, Tatterdemalion, →ISBN, page 82:
text: "None at all? No parents, no wives, no children of your own?" "Not one, thank God. Miller of Dee, that's me."
ref: 1992, Claire Rayner, The Strand, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Someone who lives independently and unattached to others, especially for selfish reasons.
Miller of the Dee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Millers of the Dee
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Miller of Dee.
toll-like receptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toll-like receptors
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins that are single, membrane-spanning, non-catalytic receptors that identify structurally preserved molecules acquired from microbes.
Synonyms: TLR
forebring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forebrings
form: forebringing
form: forebrought
form: forebrought
Etymology: From fore- + bring.
Senses: examples: text: A lovely little maid of Kiev Hath been my Spring! Your winter scarce intended to forebring The gift of days I grieve To part from, but only summer sadness Attends your briefer Spring. — to vex my year of gladness.
ref: 1918, Ivan Swift, The blue crane: and shore songs:
glosses: To bring before; bring beforehand.
proemium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proemia
form: proemiums
form: prooemium
form: proœmium
Etymology: From Latin prooemium, from Ancient Greek προοίμιον (prooímion).
Senses: examples: text: […] That, Whereas your ſpacious Proemiums, and ſpecious Introductions of premis’d Perſpicuity in Prædication, both inveigle our Affections for the Meliorating of our Minds; […]
ref: 1702, H. D., A Pacquet from Parnassus: or, A Collection of Papers, volume I, number II, London: […] J. How, […], page 13:
glosses: Synonym of proem.
synonyms: word: proem
Synonyms: foretale
prologue
foreword
Related terms: proemion
prooemion
proœmion
proemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proemium
glosses: plural of proemion
parabular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parabular
form: most parabular
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or in the form of, a parable.
ribbok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribboks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rhebok.
ribboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribbok
Tripehound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tripehounds
Etymology: From tripehound, from the similar sound to triplane. Referring to the informal name given by British and allied WW1 airmen to the German Fokker triplane.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A Sopwith Triplane.
intershow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intershows
form: intershowing
form: intershowed
form: intershowed
Etymology: From inter- + show.
Senses: examples: text: it was to all beholders a singular pleasure to observe the love, the joy, and blandishments, each endeavored to enter-shew [translating entrefaisoyent] one another.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Master Lenehan at this made return that he had heard of those nefarious deeds and how, as he heard hereof counted, he had besmirched the lily virtue of a confiding female which was corruption of minors and they all intershowed it too, waxing merry and toasting to his fathership.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To show mutually; to show among or between two or more people.
intershowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intershow
turfgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turfgrasses
Etymology: From turf + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any grass used to make turf.
turfgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turfgrass
textism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textisms
Etymology: From text + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An abbreviation used in text messaging.
textisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of textism
tack claw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tack claws
Senses: glosses: A forked tool with a handle, used for removing tacks.
retrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retraps
form: retrapping
form: retrapped
form: retrapped
Etymology: From re- + trap.
Senses: glosses: To trap again.
retrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrap
retraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrap
retrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrap
untrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untraps
form: untrapping
form: untrapped
form: untrapped
Etymology: From un- + trap.
Senses: examples: to untrap an animal
glosses: To free from a trap; to release.
examples: text: This area is pretty linear, so travel onwards killing Draugr until you see a chest in a wall recess. The chest is trapped, so untrap it and loot it […]
ref: 2015, GamerGuides.com, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Strategy Guide:
glosses: To remove a trap from, so as to make safe.
untraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untrap
untrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untrap
jeerleader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jeerleaders
Etymology: Blend of jeer + cheerleader.
Senses: examples: text: There are, it seems, too few cheerleaders in life — and too many jeerleaders.
ref: 1999, D. James Kennedy, Led by the Carpenter: Finding God's Purpose for Your Life!, Thomas Nelson,, →ISBN:
glosses: One who criticizes, disparages, or mocks.
jeerleaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jeerleader
whale's guide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: it is in shape like a Gudgeon, and both the Latines and we, call it the Whales-guide; for, she doth ever follow him, suffering her selfe, as easily to be led and turned by him, as a ship is directed and turned by a sterne[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: This tiny Creature is the Whale's Guide, and therefore protected by him, while all the finny Race besides are his Prey.
ref: 1730, Matthew Concanen, The Speculatist, page 267:
glosses: A type of small fish thought to accompany the whale.
pengest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of peng: most peng
troctolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more troctolitic
form: most troctolitic
Etymology: From troctolite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to troctolite.
veridiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veridictions
Etymology: Coined by Michel Foucault. Compare veridical, diction.
Senses: glosses: A statement that is true according to the worldview of a particular subject, rather than objectively true.
wikipedia: Michel Foucault
veridictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veridiction
shallowpate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shallowpates
Etymology: From shallow + pate.
Senses: examples: text: There were Mr. and Mrs. Merriman, a pretty, vivacious little woman in the thirties; her husband, a jovial fellow, something of a shallow-pate, who laughed a good deal at other people's witticisms, and had thereby made himself extremely popular.
ref: 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
glosses: One whose thinking is shallow or superficial.
shallowpates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shallowpate
synthesism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synthesisms
Etymology: From synthesis + -ism.
Senses: glosses: synthesis anarchism
synthesisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synthesism
Jimmy Woodsers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jimmy Woodser
jetiquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of jet + etiquette.
Senses: examples: text: A nice sense of when to speak, if ever, to the person beside one is a good part of airplane manners, or jetiquette.
ref: 1973, Peg Bracken, But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 251:
glosses: The standard of acceptable behavior to be observed by passengers of an airplane.
superresolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superresolutions
Etymology: From super- + resolution.
Senses: examples: text: We conclude that, either superoscillations really can beat the bandlimit and achieve superresolution (`kinematic superresolution') or the superoscillating high frequency is absorbed and we gain dynamical access to the physics of high frequency processes with low frequency signals (`dynamical superresolution')..
ref: 2015, Achim Kempf, Angus Prain, “Driving Quantum Systems with Superoscillations”, in arXiv:
glosses: Any of a class of techniques that enhance the resolution of an imaging system.
Related terms: superresolve
superresolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superresolution
famil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: famils
Etymology: Shortened from familiarisation.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A free or low cost trip for travel agents or consultants, provided by a travel wholesaler or airline as a means of promoting their service.
famils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of famil
supersaga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersagas
Etymology: From super- + saga.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A literary work composed of a number of discrete narratives.
supersagas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersaga
entrelac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French entrelac.
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A knitting technique used to create a textured diamond pattern, comprising interconnected squares on two different orientations.
Pshavian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pshavi + -an.
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the Georgian language spoken in Pshavi.
Xevsurian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain dialect of the Georgian language.
hypospray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyposprays
Etymology: Blend of hypodermic + spray
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A kind of jet injector.
hyposprays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypospray
jet injector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet injectors
Senses: glosses: A kind of medical syringe that uses a narrow, high-pressure jet of liquid instead of a hypodermic needle to penetrate the epidermis.
Related terms: hypospray
cheiropompholyx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkaɪɹəʊˈpɒmfəlɪks/
Etymology: From cheiro- + pompholyx.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: pompholyx affecting the hand
podopompholyx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From podo- + pompholyx.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: pompholyx affecting the foot
dyshidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyshidroses
Etymology: From dys- + hidrosis, although the name is a misnomer; it was formed by a physician who thought that sweat gland dysfunction was involved, which turned out to be incorrect (for more, see Wikipedia).
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A skin condition characterized by small blisters on the hands or feet.
lichenifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lichenification
dyshidroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyshidrosis
dysgraphias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysgraphia
dysglycemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysglycemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dysglycaemia.
Derived terms: dysglycemic
dysglycemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysglycemia
follicly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: follically
Etymology: From follicle + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With respect to hair.
Derived terms: follicly challenged
follically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of follicly.
forehalsen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forehalsens
form: forehalsening
form: forehalsened
form: forehalsened
Etymology: From fore- + halsen.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] One day, perhaps, my pen forehalsening Will dare what now of thee 'tis purposing."
ref: 1899, Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne, The World's Great Classics:
glosses: To presage; predict.
cynanche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cynanches
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cynanchē, from Ancient Greek κῠνᾰ́γχη (kŭnắnkhē, “a dog's collar, a bad kind of sore throat”). Doublet of quinsy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty in breathing and swallowing.
cynanches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cynanche
sipunculoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sipunculoid
form: most sipunculoid
Etymology: Sipunculus + -oid, from the typical genus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to the Sipunculidea.
sipunculoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sipunculoids
Etymology: Sipunculus + -oid, from the typical genus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: sipunculan
sipunculid
peanut worm
glosses: Any of the Sipunculidea.
sipunculoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sipunculoid
foreguard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreguards
form: foreguarding
form: foreguarded
form: foreguarded
Etymology: From fore- + guard.
Senses: glosses: To guard beforehand.
glosses: To guard in front.
foreguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreguards
Etymology: From fore- + guard.
Senses: examples: text: The surviving quillon is recurved horizontally and terminates in a small knob, but has adjacent to it a loop-shaped foreguard almost exactly like that on the Montagu sword.
ref: 1981, David H. Caldwell, Scottish weapons and fortifications:
text: "[...] Rear guard to river-side, river to foreguard, foreguard to land-side, land-side to rear."
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Moon, Kings of the North:
glosses: A forward guard, or guard placed out front.
lychnoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lychnoscopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λύχνος (lúkhnos) + -scope.
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: leper window
glosses: A low side window in a church.
lychnoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lychnoscope
Chalybean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chalybean
form: most Chalybean
Senses: examples: text: Chalybean steel
glosses: Of or relating to the Chalybes, an ancient people from Pontus, famed for working in iron and steel.
Chalybean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chalybeans
Senses: glosses: A member of this ancient group of people.
pastillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pastille + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The formation of material into pastilles.
semaphorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semaphorists
Etymology: From semaphore + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who controls or operates a semaphore.
semaphorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semaphorist
frambaesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French framboisie, from framboise (“raspberry”).
Senses: glosses: yaws
treponematosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treponematoses
Etymology: Treponema + -osis
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the diseases caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, including syphilis, yaws, bejel, and pinta.
treponematoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treponematosis
stave-rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stave-rhyme
stave-rhymes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stave-rhyme
stave-rhymed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stave-rhyme
droyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: droyles
form: droyling
form: droyled
form: droyled
Senses: examples: text: Drudge in the world, and for their living droyle
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of droil.
droyled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of droyle
foregain
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From Middle English *foregayn, *foreȝein, *foreȝeȝn, foregane, from Old English foran ongean (“opposite”), equivalent to fore- + gain. Compare German vorentgegen.
Senses: glosses: Directly opposite to; in the opposite scale to.
Related terms: foregainst
tide locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tide lock
contrayerva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrayervas
Etymology: From Spanish contrayerba (“literally, a counter-herb, hence an antidote for poison”), from Latin contra + herba (“herb”).
Senses: glosses: Dorstenia contrajerva, a South American plant whose aromatic root is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.
glosses: The root of the plant.
contrayervas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contrayerva
foregainst
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From Middle English *foregaynst, foreagenis, foragenis, foreganis, from Old English fōran onġēan (“opposite”), equivalent to fore- + gainst. Compare German vorentgegen.
Senses: glosses: Directly opposite to; in the opposite scale to.
Related terms: foregain
borele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɔɹ.əˌleɪ/
Forms: form: boreles
Etymology: Probably from Tswana bodile (“black rhinoceros”).
Senses: glosses: A black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis).
boreles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borele
induement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: induements
Etymology: From indue + -ment. Compare indument and enduement.
Senses: examples: text: His [Solomon's] ſo ſingular induement vvith the holy Spirit vvas not ſecurity againſt the danger of this preſumption: vve are vvarned by the Apoſtle, not to extinguiſh the Spirit, and nothing puts it out ſo ſoon as the bodyes being ſet on fire, […]
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Thirteenth Treatise. Handling whether to be in Love, and to be Devout, are Inconsistent. §. VI. Presumption upon Our Vertue Discussed, and the Danger thereof Remonstrated.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 170:
glosses: The act of induing, or state of being indued; endowment, investment.
induements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of induement
sphaerulite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphaerulites
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of spherulite.
sphaerulites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphaerulite
enchylemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enchyma + Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma, “anything received”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are embedded.
stenoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stenoderms
Etymology: From steno- + -derm.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the bats resembling that of the genus Stenoderma.
stenoderms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stenoderm
prickwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prickwoods
Etymology: From prick + wood, so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs.
Senses: glosses: A shrub (Euonymus europaeus), the spindle tree.
prickwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prickwood
peagrit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peagrits
Etymology: From pea + grit.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A coarse pisolitic limestone.
peagrits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peagrit
chain stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain stitches
Senses: glosses: A stitch like the links of a chain, used in crocheting.
glosses: An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain, used in sewing and embroidery.
qualifier: machine sewing
glosses: A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads forms a chain on the underside of the work; the loop stitch, as distinguished from the lock stitch.
chain stitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chain stitch
proctotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proctotomy
proctotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proctotomies
Etymology: From procto- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An incision into the rectum, such as for the division of a stricture
Coordinate terms: colotomy
rectotomy
neocosmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + cosmic.
Senses: examples: text: Let it also be noted that there are other caves in Belgium, to which we shall return later, which show how the neocosmic men contemporary with the present fauna succeeded the men of the mammoth age.
ref: 1894, Sir John William Dawson, The Meeting Place of Geology and History, page 17:
glosses: Of or relating to the universe in its present state; specifically, relating to the races of human beings known to history.
examples: text: If one response to the Realist posture—a 'neocosmic' response is to put forward the uncustomary at the level of the story, and thereby perhaps to signal that new constructions of signification are in order, then another response is to institute the uncustomary at the level of discourse broadly speaking, to signal among other things that orderly signification itself is subject to question. If in neocosmic narrative departures from Realist norms are —with extraordinary freedom from inhibition in their choices of rationale internally accounted for by the erection of alternative cosmically ordered fictional systems, there is an equally powerful movement in another direction, in which the possibility of a meaningfully complete integrating system is largely repulsed.
ref: 2024, Cristopher Nash, World-Games: The Tradition of Anti-Realist Revolt:
glosses: Going beyond traditional or realistic representations of reality.
examples: text: Thus, biblical history ends with a new creation that merges macro- and neocosmic reenactments of the original creation.
ref: 2022, Michael Eberhardt-Sturm, Two Testaments, One Story: The Journey to a Panbiblical Theology:
glosses: Pertaining to a new cosmic order.
Hermogenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hermogenians
Senses: glosses: A disciple of Hermogenes.
Hermogenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hermogenian
counterfaisance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of counterfesance.
shug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌɡ/
Forms: form: shugs
form: shugging
form: shugged
form: shugged
Etymology: From Middle English shuggen, shoggen, schoggen (“to shake, shake off, mix by shaking, tremble, shake loose from one's clothing”), probably a variant of Middle English schokken (“to move rapidly, shake, push”), from Middle Low German schocken (“to shake, tremble”). See schokken.
Senses: examples: text: the Comtesse Leinsengen again shugged her shoulders , drew her shawl around her , and was preparing to depart
ref: 1830, Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury, The Exclusives:
glosses: To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.
examples: text: There I'll shug in and get a noble countenance.
ref: 1621, John Ford, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton:
glosses: To crawl; to sneak.
shug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌɡ/
ipa: /ʃʊɡ/
ipa: /ʃʌɡ/
Forms: form: shugs
form: sug
form: shoog
Etymology: Shortening of sugar.
Senses: examples: text: I'll be with you in a moment, shug.
synonyms: word: babber
word: babe
word: precious
word: bae
word: baby
word: babycakes
word: bubba
word: bully
word: buttercup
word: cabbage
word: chickabiddy
word: chickadee
word: chuck
word: cupcake
word: cutie
word: dag
word: darling
word: dear
word: dear heart
word: dearest
word: dearie
word: dearling
word: doll
word: doodlebug
word: dove
word: duck
word: ducky
word: dumpling
word: fam
word: heart
word: heartface
word: heartling
word: heartmate
word: hinny
word: hon
word: honey
word: honey bun
word: honeybunch
word: honeybug
word: honeybunny
word: honeycakes
word: honeypie
word: jewel
word: jo
word: kidder
word: lambchop
word: lambkin
word: lass (archaic except UK
word: dialectal (chiefly Geordie
word: Wearside)
word: informal or poetic)
word: liefling
word: little one
word: love
word: lovebug
word: loveling
word: lovie
word: luvvy
word: m'dear
word: miting
word: moppet
word: mopsy
word: mouse
word: muffin
word: muss
word: old bean
word: old sport
word: pally
word: pet
word: petal
word: poppet
word: pug
word: pumpkin
word: pussums
word: pussy
word: sausage
word: schnookums
word: shug
word: snicklefritz
word: snookums
word: snuggums
word: squishy
word: sug
word: sugar
word: sugar baby
word: sugar beet
word: sugar-plum
word: sugarpie
word: sweet pea
word: sweetcheeks
word: sweetheart
word: sweetie
word: sweetie pie
word: sweets
word: sweetling
word: treasure
word: woobie
glosses: A term of endearment.
shugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shug
shugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shug
shugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shug
sectarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectarisms
Senses: glosses: sectarianism
sectarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sectarism
hyperapophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperapophysis
hyperapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperapophyses
Etymology: From hyper- + apophysis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra.
Related terms: hyperapophysial
cutwal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutwals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kotwal.
cutwals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutwal
police services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police service
police departments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police department
exutories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exutory
exutory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exutories
Etymology: Compare French exutoire.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An issue, or artificial ulcer.
porite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porites
Etymology: From pore + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any coral of the genus Porites or family Poritidae.
porites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porite
sycoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sycosis
repletory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repletory
form: most repletory
Senses: examples: text: repletory task
glosses: Serving to replete; repletive.
skimback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skimbacks
Senses: glosses: A fish, the quillback (Carpioides cyprinus).
skimbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skimback
replevingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replevinger
sorner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːnə/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹnɚ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sorners
Etymology: From sorn + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is our old friend the poet, but with a new face; he is now a soldier, a sailor, a king, and, in case of necessity, a very fair boxer, or "fistic artist," for the abatement of masterful beggars, "sorners," and other nuisances.
ref: 1841 October, Thomas De Quincey, “Homer and the Homeridæ”, in Sketches: Critical and Biographic (De Quincey’s Works; VI), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 303:
glosses: One who obtrudes themselves on another for bed and board.
sorners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorner
afforciament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afforciaments
Etymology: From Latin affōrciamentum, from Latinization of Anglo-Norman afforcement, from Old French afforcer, aforcer + -ment, from Latin exfortiāre, from ex- + fortis (“strong”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of afforcement.
afforciaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afforciament
becurled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of becurl
tampoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tampoes
Senses: glosses: The edible fruit from a tree from Southeast Asia (Baccaurea malayana, Baccaurea macrocarpa or related species).
tampoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tampoe
strategetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Colonel Ahdant, of the Engineers, and a Member also of the Chamber of Deputies, shews, in his Considerations Politiques et Militaires, that the defences which the German Powers have constructed on the Rhine, during the last thirty years, will effectually prevent a repetition of the strategetics, by which French Commanders, ever since the days of Turenne, have so often established the seat of war on German soil […]
ref: 1847, The United Service Magazine, page 287:
ref: 1900, Franklin Knowles Young, Chess Strategetics: Illustrated:
glosses: Strategy.
imber-goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imber-geese
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ember-goose.
invious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnviəs/
Etymology: From Latin invius, from in- (“not”) + via (“way”).
Senses: examples: text: If nothing can oppugne love,
And virtue invious ways can prove,
What may not he confide to do
That brings both love and virtue too?
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: untrodden
glosses: impassable
successiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From successive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being successive.
aptote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aptotes
Etymology: From Latin aptotum, from Ancient Greek ἄπτωτος (áptōtos, “without cases”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun (broadly speaking) which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun.
Coordinate terms: monoptote
diptote
triptote
tetraptote
pentaptote
Derived terms: aptotic
aptotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aptote
hip tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip trees
Senses: glosses: A dog rose (Rosa canina).
Related terms: rose hip
hip trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hip tree
dogrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogroses
Senses: examples: text: Martha studied the hedgerows. They were threaded with the curved thorns and pallid pinks of dogrose, like untidy stitching on a patchwork quilt.
ref: 2024, Susie Dent, Guilty By Definition, Zaffre, page 111:
glosses: Alternative form of dog rose.
dogroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogrose
ǁXegwi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: anglicised pronunciation
ipa: /kɛ.ɡwi/
Etymology: Borrowed from ǁXegwi.
Senses: examples: text: They also occur in ǁxegwi but not in other "Bush" languages.
ref: 1980, Jannie Winston Snyman, Bushman and Hottentot linguistic studies, page 75:
text: […] variety known as ǁXegwi was spoken. In the 1950s there were fewer than 36 speakers left. They were described as still knowing their language 'fairly well' and being bilingual in 'Swazi-Zulu' and Afrikaans (Potgieter 1955), […]
ref: 1995, Rajend Mesthrie, Language and social history: studies in South African sociolinguistics, page 13:
text: TABLE 11.2 Loss of ancestral ! clicks in ǁXegwi.
ref: 2009, Rudolf P. Botha, Chris Knight, The Cradle of Language, page 216:
glosses: An extinct language formerly spoken in South Africa near the Swazi border.
photogalvanography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + galvanography.
Senses: glosses: The art or process of making photoelectrotypes.
Related terms: photogalvanographic
photogalvanographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + galvanographic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to photogalvanography.
council houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of council house
photodissociative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + dissociative.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to photodissociation.
Gcwi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: anglicised
ipa: /ɡwi/
Senses: examples: text: Previously flexible relations of production were transformed into ethnic categories defined by criteria of race, language, and economic status. Although self-referent names of Khoisan-speaking peoples (Zhu, Gcwi, Gxana, Deti, Qoo, and a dozen others) continue […]
ref: 1995, Articulating hidden histories: exploring the influence of Eric R. Wolf (Jane Schneider, Rayna Rapp), page 318
text: Again, these Gcwi are supposed to speak a different language. It is very interesting that on the western edge of the Kalahari, in Great Namaqualand, a Bushman tribe called 'Nasenstocktrager' is said to live who also carry a piece of […]
ref: 1997, Edwin N. Wilmsen, The Kalahari ethnographies (1896-1898) of Siegfried Passarge:
text: […] Wayeyi, Hambukushu, Naro and Gcwi Bushmen, and many others—have been striving for greater recognition, […]
ref: 2001, Thomas J. Larson, Alec Campbell, Dibebe of the Okavango: The Thrilling, Amazing Adventures, page ix:
glosses: A certain ethnic group in Africa.
Gcwi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: anglicised
ipa: /ɡwi/
Senses: examples: text: […] about 12000 speakers; Gcwi and Gxana (Botswana), with about 6000 speakers; the Zhu language (Namibia and Botswana), with about 11000 speakers; […]
ref: 1997, Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara (John Middleton), volume 2
glosses: The lect spoken by this group.
jumbrella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumbrellas
Etymology: Blend of jumbo + umbrella.
Senses: examples: text: More pleasing - though hardly groundbreaking - is a small, decked beer garden out back, about half the size of the inside space, fringed by planting, covered by a jumbrella and scattered liberally with ashtrays, tables and chairs.
ref: 2008 August 7, Alex Eyre, “Bars & Pubs: Cask”, in Manchester Evening News:
glosses: A broad, canopy-like umbrella, generally used to cover the outdoor patio of a restaurant or bar, either on its own (if it is of sufficient size) or in combination with others.
jumbrellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumbrella
Klüver-Bucy syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Heinrich Klüver and Paul Bucy.
Senses: examples: text: In Klüver-Bucy syndrome the victim develops urges to eat and fornicate indiscriminately.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 81:
glosses: A syndrome caused by bilateral lesions of the medial temporal lobe, characterized by hypersexuality, hyperorality, dietary changes, docility, and visual agnosia.
wikipedia: Heinrich Klüver
Paul Bucy
hyperorality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + orality.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hyperoral.
hyperoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: more hyperoral
form: most hyperoral
Etymology: From hyper- + oral.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having excessive compulsions to place things in the mouth.
delactation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌlækˈteɪʃən/
Etymology: From de- + Latin lactāre (“to suck milk”), lactātiō (see lactation), from lac (“milk”).
Senses: examples: text: The treatment can also be used to suppress lactation completely when rapid delactation is necessary, as in the case of the death of a premature infant for whom the mother was pumping.
ref: 1993, Bonnie S. Worthington-Roberts, Sue Rodwell Williams, chapter 11, in Nutrition in Pregnancy and Lactation, 5th edition, St. Louis: Mosby, page 438:
glosses: The act of weaning.
Related terms: delactate
rope bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rope bridges
form: ropebridge
Senses: glosses: A suspension bridge constructed chiefly of rope.
by-wash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-washes
Senses: glosses: The outlet from a dam or reservoir.
glosses: A cut to divert the flow of water.
by-washes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of by-wash
feazings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See feaze (verb).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The unlaid or ragged end of a rope.