cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unpray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈpɹeɪ/
Forms: form: unprays
form: unpraying
form: unprayed
form: unprayed
Etymology: From un- + pray.
Senses: examples: text: he found himselfe overwhelmed in the injoying of his desire, and being enrich't with an intolerable commoditie, he must now unpray his prayers[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: That even vvhiles the infirmity of his [Jesus's] humane nature ſtarted at the apprehenſion of vvhat he vvas to ſuffer, and prayed againſt it, yet the freeneſs and purity of his obedience carried [him] on to it, and made him, as it vvere, un-pray vvhat he had before prayed: […]
ref: 1676, [Matthew Hale], “The Knowledge of Christ Crucified”, in Contemplations Moral and Divine. […], London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbury […], and John Leigh […], →OCLC, page 232:
glosses: To annul or revoke (something previously prayed for) by prayer.
unprays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpray
perofskite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perofskites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of perovskite.
perofskites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perofskite
overwalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overwalk
overwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overwalk
overwalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overwalk
overwalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overwalk
badigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bəˈdɪdʒən/
Forms: form: badigeons
Etymology: Borrowed from French badigeon.
Senses: glosses: A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors and builders to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.
badigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badigeon
Englishism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Englishisms
Etymology: From English + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: And this is the moment , when Englishism pure and simple , which with all its fine qualities managed always to make itself singularly unattractive , is losing that imperturbable faith in its untransformed self
ref: 1873, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature:
glosses: An expression or characteristic peculiar to the English language.
Synonyms: english: more common spelling
translation: more common spelling
word: Anglicism
word: anglicism
Hyponyms: Anglicism
anglicism
Briticism
Related terms: Americanism
Canadianism
Australianism
Englishisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Englishism
sorcering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorcerings
Senses: glosses: sorcery.
sorcerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorcering
unhived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhive
unhives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhive
unhiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhive
gromet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gromets
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of grommet.
gromets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gromet
wormling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormlings
Etymology: From worm + -ling. Compare Icelandic yrmlingur (“wormling”).
Senses: examples: text: O dusty wormling! dar'st thou strive and stand / With Heav'ns high Monarch?
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
glosses: A small or young worm.
examples: text: But I am a wormling, and not a man; the scorn of men, and derision of the people.
ref: 1797, Alexander Geddes, A New Translation of the Book of Psalms, published 1807:
glosses: Any weak, mean, or lowly creature.
wormlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wormling
despisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: despisements
Etymology: From despise + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Much feeding upon flesh and liberal drinking of wine, maketh (I must needs say) the body able and strong, but the mind feeble and weak. Likewise, the continual and excessive care both in getting and keeping goods, may well augment riches and increase our substance: but surely it is the contempt and despisement of worldly wealth that is a great help and means to learning and philosophy.
ref: 1603 [c. 100 CE], Philemon Holland, “Of the Tranquillity and Contentment of Mind”, in Plutarch's Moral Essays, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, translation of Moralia by Plutarch, published 1911, pages 172–173:
glosses: contempt, despisal
Synonyms: contempt
despisements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of despisement
asoak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈsoʊk/
Etymology: From a- + soak.
Senses: examples: text: apples asoak in juice
text: Put the chickpeas asoak.
glosses: soaking
palmigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin palma (“palm of the hand”) + -grade (“means of walking”).
Senses: examples: text: palmigrade posture
text: palmigrade stance
text: palmigrade walking
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Putting the whole foot on the ground when walking, like some mammals do.
Related terms: digitigrade
diffusibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diffusible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: diffusibility
suaviloquy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin suaviloquium.
Senses: glosses: sweetness of speech
weakishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weakish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being weakish; minor weakness.
overcredulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcredulous
form: most overcredulous
Etymology: From over- + credulous.
Senses: glosses: Too credulous; excessively gullible.
Derived terms: overcredulously
niggardous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more niggardous
form: most niggardous
Etymology: From niggard + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: covetous gathering and niggardous keeping
ref: c. 1522, Thomas More, The Four Last Things:
glosses: Niggardly.
driftweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driftweeds
Etymology: From drift + weed.
Senses: examples: text: the high-water mark of driftweed on a sea-beach
ref: 1860, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology […] :
glosses: Seaweed brought ashore by the wind or tide.
driftweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driftweed
biantheriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + antheriferous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two anthers.
mornward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈmɔː(ɹ)nwə(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From morn + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: And mornward now the starry hands move on.
ref: c. 1850?, James Russell Lowell, New Year's Eve, 1850
glosses: Toward the morning.
scaphia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaphium
fenne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fennes
Etymology: From Middle English fenne (“marsh, bog”). More at fen.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fen.
fenne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fennes
Etymology: From Middle English fende, fend (“enemy, fiend”). Doublet of fiend.
Senses: glosses: A dragon.
fenne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fanne, a blend of fan and femme, and fen, derived from fan by analogy with men (as the plural of man).
Senses: glosses: plural of fanne
Related terms: fen
ains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ain
allis
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: I ain't readin' allis garbage.
glosses: Contraction of all this
bokos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boko
gards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gard
inwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inwind
daur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daurs
form: dour
Senses: examples: text: I have just been out on a daur, in which I killed Murad Buksh, subahdar of the battery which fired on the boats at Cawnpore.
ref: 1888, The Life and Opinions of Major-General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, page 117:
glosses: A foray or hasty expedition.
allos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allo
dumba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumbas
form: doomba
form: doombur
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi दुम्बा (dumbā), itself from दुम्बक (dumbaka, “thick-tailed sheep”).
Senses: qualifier: Indian subcontinent
glosses: The fat-tailed sheep.
elfkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elfkins
Etymology: From elf + -kin.
Senses: glosses: A little elf.
implementing partner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implementing partners
Senses: glosses: Either an associate government or non-government entity or agency that supplements the works of a larger organization or agency by helping to carry out institutional arrangements in line with the larger organization's goals and objectives.
to've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /tuː.əv/
Etymology: to + 've
Senses: examples: text: Nine o'clock. He ought to've arrived by now.
text: "Lord, Paul! you ought to've sent an 'ailstone into that little black 'un."
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
text: I've met with some queer adventures, as you call them, in these woods too; some that I wouldn't have gone out arter if I'd known what they were to 've been afore I started.
ref: 1857, Samuel H. Hammond, Wild northern scenes, page 166:
text: The fireplace is supposed to've been there since about 1900, so in an ideal world, we'd have old-white panelling and a dado.
ref: 2006, Jane Stevenson, Good women: three novellas, page 25:
text: That damned thing had to've been fifteen hundred feet long by five hundred feet wide and over a hundred feet tall.
ref: 2010, Arlen Blumhagen, Mount: A Mountain Man's Adventures:
glosses: to have (with to as infinitive)
hogskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogskins
Etymology: From hog + skin.
Senses: examples: text: My spiritual backbone stiffened, and I held my head high, looking all men in the eyes. And I did these things, not that I was an egotist, not that I was impervious to the critical glances of my fellows, but because of a certain hogskin belt, plethoric and sweat-bewrinkled, which buckled next the skin above the hips.
ref: 1900, Jack London, The Dignity of Dollars:
synonyms: hoghide
pighide
pigskin
glosses: Leather tanned from the skin of a hog.
examples: text: Other Arabs were filling black hog-skins with water—skins which, well filled, and distended with water till the short legs projected painfully out of the proper line, looked like the corpses of hogs bloated by drowning.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain, chapter LI, in The Innocents Abroad, page 543:
glosses: The skin of a pig used as a bottle for water or wine.
hogskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogskin
fady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪdi/
Forms: form: more fady
form: most fady
Etymology: From fade + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A straight-lined avenue, that is widened in front, and planted there with yew trees, then firs, then with trees more and more fady, till they end in the almond-willow, or silver osier, will produce a very remarkable deception of the former kind […]
ref: 1764, William Shenstone, Unconnected Thoughts on Gardening (1764):
glosses: faded
fady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪdi/
/ˈfædi/
/ˈfɑːdi/
/ˈfeɪdi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Malagasy fady.
Senses: glosses: A system of taboos in the traditional culture of Madagascar.
fady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪdi/
/ˈfædi/
/ˈfɑːdi/
/ˈfeɪdi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Malagasy fady.
Senses: glosses: Taboo, or forbidden, under the fady system.
fallowist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallowists
Etymology: From fallow + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: a controversy has arisen between two sects, the fallowists, and anti-fallowists, which has been conducted with much keenness and ability
ref: 1817, John Sinclair, The Code of Agriculture:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Someone who fallows land, or believes in fallowing land.
fallowists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fallowist
lawny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːni/
rhymes: -ɔːni
Etymology: From lawn + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When a plum'd fanne may shade thy chalked face, / And lawny strips thy naked bosome grace.
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
text: 'Tis like a Lawnie-Firmament as yet / Quite diſpoſſeſt of either fray, or fret.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “To the Fever, Not to Trouble Julia”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 91:
glosses: Made of lawn or fine linen.
examples: text: Musing through the lawny park.
ref: 1777, Thomas Warton, The First of April:
glosses: Having or resembling a grass lawn.
obstriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obstrictions
Etymology: From Latin obstringere, obstrictum (“to bind to or about”).
Senses: glosses: The state of being constrained, bound, or obliged.
examples: text: Who made our Laws to bind us, not himſelf, / And hath full right to exempt / Who ſo it pleaſes him by choice / From National obſtriction, without taint / of ſin, or legal debt;
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 25, lines 311–314:
glosses: That which constrains or obliges; obligation; bond.
obstrictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obstriction
reprobater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reprobaters
Etymology: From reprobate + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who reprobates.
reprobaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reprobater
slipperness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slipper + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of slipperiness.
thymate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thymates
Etymology: From thymol + -ate (“derivative”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of thymol analogous to a salt.
unreprievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreprievable
form: most unreprievable
Etymology: From un- + reprievable.
Senses: examples: text: tyrannize
On unreprievable condemned blood
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, 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: Not capable of being reprieved.
derogately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more derogately
form: most derogately
Etymology: From derogate + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: derogatorily
glosses: In a derogatory manner.
sinapisin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin sinapis (“mustard”) + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance extracted from mustard seed, probably identical with sinalbin.
fortuneless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fortuneless
form: most fortuneless
Etymology: From fortune + -less.
Senses: glosses: Destitute of a fortune or portion; without money.
examples: text: manly limbs endur'd with little care / Against all hard mishaps and fortunelesse misfare.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Unlucky, unfortunate.
geotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + -ic. The OED claims that it was likely a mistaken form of goetic that gained some currency due to its presence in Samuel Johnson's 1755 dictionary.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: Part of or related to the earth; geological or terrestrial.
wikipedia: Samuel Johnson
jointfir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jointfirs
form: joint-fir
form: joint fir
Etymology: From joint + fir.
Senses: glosses: An ephedra (Ephedra distachya)
Derived terms: green jointfir
Nevada jointfir
jointfirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jointfir
unconformability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + conformability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being unconformable.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Lack of parallelism between one series of strata and another, especially when due to a disturbance of the position of the earlier strata before the latter were deposited.
T-balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-ball
asthenopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more asthenopic
form: most asthenopic
Etymology: From asthenopia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having, or pertaining to, asthenopia.
osteologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteologers
Etymology: From osteology + -er.
Senses: glosses: an osteologist.
osteologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteologer
stomachy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stomachy
form: most stomachy
Etymology: From stomach + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety.
ref: 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae, Chapter 2:
glosses: obstinate; sullen; haughty
BRUK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bɹʊk/
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
deceptivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deceptivity
deceptivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɛpˈtɪvɪti/
Forms: form: deceptivities
Etymology: From deceptive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: My few senses long ago revealed to me their imperfections and deceptivity.
ref: 1908, Helen Keller, chapter 4, in The World I Live In,, New York: The Century Co., page 50:
text: Company-wide totals take on an iceberg-like deceptivity—what isn’t shown may be more important than what is.
ref: 1971, Thayer C. Taylor, “Sales Analysis”, in Philip Kotler, Keith K. Cox, editors, Readings in Marketing Management, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, page 383:
synonyms: deceptiveness
glosses: The quality of being deceptive.
examples: text: Alas, if he look to the Seen Powers only, he may as well quit the business; his No-thing will never rightly issue as a Thing, but as a Deceptivity, a Sham-thing, — which it had better not do!
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Chapter 12”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker), page 176:
synonyms: deception
sham
glosses: Something that deceives.
wawaskeesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a Native American name.
Senses: glosses: The wapiti, or American elk.
gemelliparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin gemellipara f, from gemellus (“twin”) + parere (“to bear, produce”).
Senses: examples: text: The cow whale is not gemelliparous, and after incubation are supposed to carry the foetus twelve months ; some few have been found with twins, but it is rare ; the lacteal aliment is of a pure white colour.
ref: 1838, Joel Samuel Polack, New Zealand:
text: He further considers it probable that “specific polyembryony in the Dasypodidae began by the formation of a set of twins, perhaps at first a sporadic case of gemelliparous development such as probably occurs in the production of duplicate twins in the human species.
ref: 1915, The Biological Bulletin:
glosses: Producing twins
Related terms: gemelliparity
water gruel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water gruels
Senses: examples: text: [A]t the very time when he was so very humane to poor Richardson, he absolutely suffered his own uncle and aunt to sell their beds to support them in water-gruel […].
ref: 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 78:
glosses: A thin food made of water cooked with a small portion of oatmeal or similar substance, sometimes seasoned with other ingredients.
vacuist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacuists
Etymology: Compare French vacuiste.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A believer in vacuism; someone who holds the doctrine that there is a vacuum in the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter.
Related terms: plenist
vacuists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuist
assistless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assistless
form: most assistless
Etymology: From assist + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Stupid he stares, and all-assistless stands
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book 16”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
glosses: Without aid or help.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: without an assist
gentlemanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gentleman + -ship.
Senses: synonyms: gentlemanliness
glosses: The quality of being a gentleman, i.e. good manners.
incommutability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin incommutabilitas: compare French incommutabilité.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being incommutable.
loppard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loppard
form: most loppard
Senses: examples: text: loppard milk
glosses: Of milk: sour or rotten.
will've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: will + 've
Senses: glosses: will have (with have as auxiliary verb)
episcopant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: episcopants
Senses: examples: text: [T]he interceſſion of all theſe Apoſtolick Fathers could not prevaile vvith them to alter their reſolved decree of reducing into Order their uſurping, and over-provender'd Epiſcopants: […]
ref: 1641 June or July, [John Milton], Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whither It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Vertue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises: […], London: […] R[ichard] O[ulton] & G[regory] D[exter] for Thomas Underhill, […], →OCLC, page 21:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A bishop.
episcopants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of episcopant
gasalier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasaliers
form: gaselier
form: gasolier
Etymology: Blend of gas + chandelier
Senses: hypernyms: chandelier
coordinate_terms: electrolier
glosses: A gas-powered chandelier.
gasaliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasalier
gobets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gobet
oligosiderite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligosiderites
Etymology: From oligo- + siderite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A meteorite characterised by a small amount of metallic iron.
oligosiderites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligosiderite
semitransparencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semitransparency
semitransparency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semitransparencies
Etymology: From semi- + transparency.
Senses: synonyms: translucency
glosses: The state of being semitransparent; partial transparency
viceman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicemen
Etymology: From vice + -man.
Senses: glosses: a smith who worked at the vice instead of at the anvil.
vicemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viceman
blady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbleɪdi/
rhymes: -eɪdi
Forms: form: more blady
form: most blady
Etymology: From blade + -y.
Senses: examples: text: blady grass
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:
text: There are our shelters in stages of building, Ryan parading in a deer-hide loincloth, Nikki doing the hula in a blady grass skirt
ref: 2014, Claire Dunn, My Year Without Matches:
glosses: Consisting of blades, or having prominent blades.
monopetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + petalous, after New Latin monopetalus.
Senses: examples: text: The food of the bee is the nectar of flowers; a drop of syrup, lodged […] down the neck of a monopetalous glove.
ref: 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology, section XIX:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.
rebellow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈbɛləʊ/
Forms: form: rebellows
form: rebellowing
form: rebellowed
form: rebellowed
Etymology: From re- + bellow, after Latin reboāre.
Senses: examples: text: The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of a place: to re-echo to or with a sound.
examples: text: The Lyons rore; the Tygres loudly bray; / The raging Buls rebellow through the wood […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Of a bull (or similar animal): to bellow again, or as a reply.
rebellowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebellow
rebellowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebellow
rebellows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebellow
declarement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklɛəmənt/
Forms: form: declarements
Etymology: From declare + -ment.
Senses: glosses: declaration
declarements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of declarement
omnipresential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + presential.
Senses: examples: text: his omnipresential filling
ref: a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:
glosses: Omnipresent; present everywhere.
windbore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windbores
Etymology: From wind + bore.
Senses: examples: text: A large stone, 18 inches thick, is bedded at the bottom of the shaft, for the windbore of the bucket pump to rest upon. The remainder of the shaft bottom is filled in with hard burnt bricks and Barrow lime, forming a level bottom […]
ref: 1864, Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, volume 20, page 101:
glosses: The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.
windbores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windbore
dreariment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreariments
Etymology: From dreary + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: But for to tell the doleful dreariment
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: dreariness
bound water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bound waters
Senses: topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: Water that is bound to an inorganic surface.
immensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immensive
form: most immensive
Etymology: From Middle French immensif, from immense + -if. By surface analysis, immense + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Give vvay, give vvay, novv, novv my Charles ſhines here, / A Publike Light (in this immenſive Sphere.)
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “To the King”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 278:
glosses: Huge.
rhabdosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdospheres
Etymology: From rhabdo- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: A minute sphere composed of rhabdoliths.
Coordinate terms: coccosphere
rhabdospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhabdosphere
unportunate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unportunate
form: most unportunate
Senses: examples: The Golden Boke
so many unportunate wyndes
glosses: importunate; troublesome with requests
versual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: versual division
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a verse.
free water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free waters
Senses: topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: Water that is not bound to an inorganic surface and can flow freely.
gibbosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gibbosities
Etymology: Compare French gibbosité.
Senses: glosses: The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.
progressional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more progressional
form: most progressional
Etymology: From progression + -al.
Senses: examples: text: progressional overlap
text: progressional process
glosses: Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
hoggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoggery
hoggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒɡəɹi/
Forms: form: hoggeries
Etymology: From hog + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Crime and shame
 And all their hoggery.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “(please specify either |book=1 to 9 or the page)”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
glosses: A place where pigs are kept.
natantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more natantly
form: most natantly
Etymology: From natant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ignoring the fact that certain of the other twelve thousand white inhabitants of the town might be natantly inclined, she had sought to have the country club build a pool of its own where membership was more closely guarded .
ref: 1948, Edward Thompson, A Seed in Spring, page 97:
text: A second group, with the joing positioned more anteriorly and with shorter, less natantly-adapted antennules, became active (though not necessarily efficient) swimmers.
ref: 1980, The Irish Naturalists' Journal - Volume 20, page 84:
text: If the rat didn't move natantly, it was forced to swim by the stick.
ref: 2011, Xiaoting Luo, Shumei Li, Sisi Li, Liang Xiong, Minghua Dong, “Relationship between protective effect of hesperidin extraction on exercise fatigue and antioxidation”, in 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI):
glosses: In a floating manner; swimmingly.
reflorescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflorescences
Etymology: From re- + florescence. Alternatively, directly from Latin reflorescens, present active participle of refloresco (“I flower anew”), from re- + floresco (“I flower”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A new blossoming of a plant during the season.
glosses: Resurgence; reflourishing; revival.
Related terms: florescence
reflorescent
reflorescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflorescence
foreknowingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foreknowingly
form: most foreknowingly
Etymology: From foreknowing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He who […] foreknowingly loses his life
ref: 1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying:
glosses: With foreknowledge; knowing beforehand.
gaudful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gaudful
form: most gaudful
Etymology: From gaud + -ful.
Senses: glosses: joyful
glosses: gaudy or showy
Related terms: gaudy
recapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recappers
Etymology: From recap + -er.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A tool that applies a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.
examples: text: Partly television criticism, partly entertainment, recaps engendered discussion, and message boards were provided for readers to continue the criticism alongside the recapper.
ref: 2016, Sandra M. Falero, Digital Participatory Culture and the TV Audience: Everyone’s a Critic:
glosses: One who recapitulates; a summarizer.
recappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recapper
rhizophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹaɪˈzɑf.ə.ɡəs/
Etymology: From rhizo- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: Feeding on roots.
Related terms: Rhizophaga
hyposulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyposulphates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of hyposulfate.
hyposulphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyposulphate
indissolvableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indissolvable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: indissolvability
glosses: The quality of not being dissolvable.
ossiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more ossiferous
form: most ossiferous
Etymology: From Latin os, ossis (“bone”) + -ferous. Compare French ossifère.
Senses: examples: text: In the ossiferous caves we found many intact skeletons.
glosses: Containing or yielding bone.
nomarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomarchy
nomarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomarchies
Senses: glosses: nome
hearsecloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearsecloths
Etymology: From hearse + cloth.
Senses: examples: text: His body was stripped, laid out upon a table, and covered with a hearsecloth, when some of his attendants perceived symptoms of returning animation, and by the use of warm applications, internal and external, gradually restored him to life.
ref: 1857, John Eadie, John Francis Waller, William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography:
glosses: A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.
hearsecloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hearsecloth
gynobasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gynobase + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: gynobasic pattern
text: gynobasic style
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or having, a gynobase.
unbenevolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + benevolence.
Senses: glosses: Lack of benevolence; malevolence
backfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backfalls
Etymology: From back + fall.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A fall or throw on the back.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A lever in the coupler of an organ.
backfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backfall
extersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin extergere, extersum (“to wipe out”), from ex (“out”) + tergere (“to wipe or rub off”).
Senses: glosses: The act of wiping or rubbing out.
unionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unionistic
form: most unionistic
Etymology: From union + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to union or unionists, such as trade unions.
glosses: promoting or preserving union; unifying
distillatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distillatory
distillatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French distillatoire.
Senses: examples: text: distillatory vessels
glosses: Belonging to, or used in, distilling.
distillatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distillatories
Etymology: Compare French distillatoire.
Senses: glosses: A distillatory apparatus; a still.
reenvisionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reenvisioning
echometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echometers
Etymology: From echo- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: nothing would be more advantageous than the use of his general Echometer to determine precisely the duration of measures and of beats
ref: 1781, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music:
glosses: A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds and determining the relation of their intervals.
echometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echometer
grainfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grainfields
Etymology: From grain + field.
Senses: glosses: A field where grain is grown.
grainfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grainfield
furnishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furnishments
Etymology: From furnish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture.
examples: text: […]bring
One weapon more vnto your furnishment
ref: 1618, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England:
glosses: furniture
furnishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furnishment
turnably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From turnable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […]Consists of a member turnably connected with the saddle , either directly or indirectly
ref: 1919, The Australasian Saddler and Harness Maker:
glosses: So as to be able to turn.
undulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undulative
form: most undulative
Etymology: From undulate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: undulatory
draintile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draintiles
Etymology: From drain + tile.
Senses: glosses: A tile used in making drains, especially those beneath farm fields.
draintiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draintile
afoam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈfoʊm/
Etymology: From a- + foam.
Senses: examples: text: The sea is all afoam.
text: MacTurk, being summoned, came with steed afoam.
ref: 1849, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 15, in Shirley, volume 2, Leipzig: Tauchnitz, page 305:
text: “Well, this old great-grandfather [whale], with the white head and hump, runs all afoam into the pod, and goes to snapping furiously at my fast-line.”
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “'”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 487:
text: Sunday beer / Afoam in silver rumkins
ref: 1916, Aldous Huxley, “The Walk”, in Donald Watt, editor, The Collected Poetry of Aldous Huxley, New York: Harper & Row, published 1971, page 37:
text: a tugboat hauling barges, its bow afoam pushing its way through the ripples and waves
ref: 1998, J. P. Donleavy, Wrong Information Is Being Given Out at Princeton,, London: Little, Brown, page 73:
glosses: In a foaming state; producing foam.
examples: text: mighty horns of ale, and cups of gold afoam / With strong nut-coloured mead
ref: 1896, John Todhunter, “The Fate of the Sons of Usna”, in Three Irish Bardic Tales,, London: J.M.Dent, page 112:
text: The garden was afoam with starry white cosmos backed by the stately phalanx of the Prince’s Feather.
ref: 1933, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 32, in Pat of Silver Bush, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart:
text: 1988, Charlotte MacLeod (as Alisa Craig), The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke, New York: Avon, Chapter 6, p. 48,
[…] Minerva […] arrived with a huge armload of costumes, followed by Zilla and a couple more, all afoam with petticoats.
text: 2000, Jan Thornhill, “Extremes” in Drought & Other Stories, Dunvegan, ON: Cormorant Books, p. 126,
Margot’s thick black hair afoam with Spic and Span, swooshing back and forth across a grimy kitchen floor
glosses: Covered or filled (with something foaming or resembling foam).
afoam
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈfoʊm/
Etymology: From a- + foam.
Senses: glosses: In a foaming state.
prejudical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: prejudicial
form: prejudicall
Senses: examples: text: The brain of a FtM transsexual is virulized.^([sic]) They are often sexually attracted to women, they are invariably masculine in significant ways, the brain is NOT feminine. Subbornly^([sic]) insisting on calling them "women" is biased, bigoted, ignorant, prejudical, pointless.
ref: 2010 October 5, “Transgender Man Is On Women's Basketball Team, Sort Of”, in The Last Psychiatrist, retrieved 25 May 2021, comment:
text: Don't believe me? read^([sic]) up on "islam emirate project" it is completely prejudical against non-muslims.
ref: 2011 July 21, “The Muslim Response to Muslim Atrocities”, in Answering Muslims, Blogger, retrieved 25 May 2021, comment:
glosses: Alternative spelling of prejudicial.
impassibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impassible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: impassibility
libellulid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libellulids
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A dragonfly of the Libellulidae family.
libellulids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libellulid
mandelate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandelates
Etymology: From mandelic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of mandelic acid.
mandelates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandelate
nomarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomarchs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νομάρχης (nomárkhēs), νόμαρχος (nómarkhos), corresponding to nome + -arch.
Senses: glosses: The governor of an ancient Egyptian nome.
examples: text: The boys had made kokoretsi out of the intestines and offal of the goat they had taken from the resentful nomarch of the village, and were watching it sizzle in the cinders of the fire.
ref: 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 229:
glosses: The chief administrator of a modern Greek nomarchy.
nomarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomarch
subpolygonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + polygonal.
Senses: glosses: Approximately polygonal; somewhat or almost polygonal.
petitionee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petitionees
Etymology: From petition + -ee.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is petitioned.
petitionees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petitionee
orbicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɔː(ɹ)bɪkəl/
Forms: form: orbicles
Etymology: From Latin orbiculus, diminutive of orbis (“orb”).
Senses: examples: text: Such wat'ry orbicles young boys do blow
Out from their sopy shells
ref: 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death:
glosses: A small orb or sphere.
orbicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orbicle
wheatbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheatbirds
Etymology: From wheat + bird.
Senses: glosses: A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch or meadowlark.
wheatbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheatbird
hardfern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardferns
Etymology: From hard + fern.
Senses: glosses: Blechnum spicant, a species of fern of Europe and Northwestern America.
hardferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardfern
unilobar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + lobe + -ar; equivalent to uni- + lobar.
Senses: examples: text: unilobar tapering cirrhosis
text: unilobar persistent pneumonia
glosses: Consisting of a single lobe.
Related terms: bilobar
multilobar
lobsided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lobsided
form: most lobsided
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of lopsided.
negotiant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negotiants
Etymology: From French négociant, or its source, Latin negōtiant-, probably via Italian negoziante (“merchant”).
Senses: examples: text: Ambassadors, negotiants, and generally all other ministers of mean fortune, in conversation with princes and superiors, must use great respect
ref: 1658, Walter Raleigh, The Cabinet-Council:
glosses: Someone who conducts negotiations; a negotiator, an agent.
examples: text: Such was the scarcity of bread, that a French gentleman told me, that, the day preceding the taking of the Bastille, he was invited to dine with a Negotiant, and, when he went, was informed that a servant had been out five hours in search of bread, and had at last been able to purchase only one loaf.
ref: 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, Broadview Press, published 2002, page 75:
glosses: A trader or merchant; a businessman; a financier.
negotiants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negotiant
approachless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From approach + -less.
Senses: glosses: Impossible to approach; unapproachable.
epithite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epithites
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: And therefore wise men have alwaies applauded their own judgement, in the contradiction of that of the people; and their soberest adversaries, have ever afforded them the stile of fools and mad men; and to speak impartially, their actions have often made good these Epithites.
ref: 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant.
examples: text: Faire is too foule an Epithite for thee
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act V, scene ii:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of epithet.
epithites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epithite