cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
organ of Rosenmüller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organs of Rosenmüller
Etymology: Named after the German anatomist Johann Christian Rosenmüller.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The epoophoron.
wikipedia: Johann Christian Rosenmüller
Synonyms: epoophoron
parovarium
lock-weir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock-weirs
Etymology: From lock + weir.
Senses: glosses: A wasteweir for a canal, discharging into a lockchamber.
lock-weirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lock-weir
malmag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malmags
Etymology: Perhaps from Boholano Cebuano malmag (“tarsier”) (possibly via French).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The tarsier; any of several tarsiers found in the Philippines, Malaysia, and adjacent areas.
wikipedia: Boholano dialect
malmags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malmag
tarsiiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarsiiforms
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any primate of the infraorder Tarsiiformes
portigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portigues
Senses: examples: text: Here is a pestle of a portigue, sir, 'Tis excellent meat with sour sauce
ref: c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Sea-Voyage. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Alternative form of portague.
portigues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portigue
bothrenchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏthrĕngʹkĭmə
ipa: /bɒθˈɹɛŋkɪmə/
Forms: form: bothrenchym
Etymology: A compound of the Ancient Greek words βόθρος (bóthros, “pit”) + ἔγχῠμᾰ (énkhŭmă, “infusion”), whence enchyma and -enchyma. Compare parenchyma.
Senses: examples: text: Sect. II. — Of Pitted Tissue, or Bothrenchym.*
* Βοθρος, a little pit.
ref: 1848, John Lindley, An Introduction to Botany, fourth edition, volume I, page 56:
text: Pitted or Dotted Vessels. — These constitute by their combination Pitted Tissue, the Porous Tissue of some authors, or the Vasiform Tissue, Bothrenchyma, Taphrenchyma of others; the two latter names being derived from Greek words signifying pits.
ref: 1870, Robert Bentley, A Manual of Botany, second edition, page 40:
text: The names of bothrenchyma and taphrenchyma have been given to a tissue composed of such cells.
ref: 1876, John Hutton Balfour, in Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, volume IV, page 87/1:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: taphrenchyma
glosses: Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.
Derived terms: bothrenchymatous
swagbellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swagbelly
swagbelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swagbellies
form: swag belly
Etymology: From swag (“to droop; to sag”) + belly.
Senses: examples: text: Sancho Zancas […] in the picture, was represented as a person of a short stature, swag belly, and long spindle shanks […].
ref: 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, II.1:
text: He swept his gaze over the short, squat throat, the hairy swagbelly, and the mighty breast, swelling in giant arches like twin shields.
ref: 1935, Robert Ervin Howard, “The Haunter of the Pits”, in The Hour of the Dragon:
glosses: A prominent, overhanging belly.
examples: text: However, so many swagbellies and puff-bags will hardly go to St Hiacco, as there did in the year 524
ref: 1694, Peter, transl. Motteux, chapter V, in Gargantua and Pantagruel, translation of La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel by Rabelais, François, published c. 1564:
glosses: Hence, a person with such a belly.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A distended abdomen, especially caused by a tumour or enlarged organ; a physconia.
Synonyms: sense: prominent belly
word: paunch
word: fat person
raw_tags: with prominent belly
Derived terms: swagbellied
swaggy
arrach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orach (“plant”).
stallation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: installation (as of a person into office)
controversor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: controversors
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of controverser.
controversors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of controversor
Americanitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From American + -itis, because Americans were said to be particularly prone to the condition. Popularised by William James.
Senses: glosses: neurasthenia
wikipedia: William James
parelcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρέλκων (parélkōn), from παρέλκω (parélkō, “to draw aside, to be redundant”), from ἕλκω (hélkō).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The addition of a syllable or particle to the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb.
Related terms: paragoge
patterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patterers
Etymology: From patter + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who patters, or talks glibly.
examples: text: The running patterer cares less than other street-sellers for bad weather, for if he "work" on a wet and gloomy evening, and if the work be "a cock," which is a fictitious statement or even a pretended fictitious statement, there is the less chance of any one detecting the ruse.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor:
glosses: A street peddler.
patterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patterer
premonstration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premonstrations
Etymology: Latin praemonstratio.
Senses: glosses: A showing beforehand; foreshowing.
premonstrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premonstration
subministration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subministrations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin subministratio.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1639, Henry Wotton, a letter
Mentz and Colen have broken by permission of Spinola ; nay , divers ways , by subministration of commodities to his Army
glosses: The act of subministering.
subministrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subministration
Oblomovitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Oblomov + -itis, after the nobleman who rarely leaves his bed in Ivan Goncharov's novel Oblomov (1859).
Senses: glosses: Indolent apathy.
wikipedia: Oblomov
Related terms: Oblomovian
Oblomovism
Oblomovist
e-health
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eHealth
Etymology: From e- + health.
Senses: glosses: Healthcare facilitated by electronic technology.
Related terms: telecare
telehealth
telemedicine
metostea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metosteon
metosteon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metostea
Etymology: From New Latin metosteon, from Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-, “after”) + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The posterolateral ossification in the sternum of birds.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part resulting from such ossification.
corticine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corticines
Etymology: Borrowed from French corticine, from Latin cortex, corticis (“bark”).
Senses: glosses: A material used for floor covering, made of ground cork and india rubber.
corticines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corticine
wire-heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A deformation in the feet of a horse, in which one is most curved than the other.
Derived terms: wire-heeled
sharewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From share + wort?
Senses: glosses: A plant (Tripolium pannonicum subsp. tripolium) native to Eurasia and Africa.
spinaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinaceous
form: most spinaceous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling spinach, or plants in family Amaranthaceae (syn. Spinaciaceae).
unplighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + plighted.
Senses: glosses: Not plighted or pledged.
overwing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)wɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈwɪŋ/
Etymology: From over- + wing.
Senses: examples: text: overwing exits
glosses: Over the wing of an aircraft.
overwing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)wɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈwɪŋ/
Forms: form: overwings
form: overwinging
form: overwinged
form: overwinged
Etymology: From over- + wing.
Senses: examples: text: Souldiers therabout , which gather'd to him , were neer upon ten thousand ; and purposing with those not to deferr Battel , had chos'n a place narrow , and not to be overwing'd, on his rear a Wood
ref: 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:
glosses: To outflank.
overwinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overwing
overwinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overwing
overwings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overwing
maltalent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mælˈtælənt/
Etymology: From Middle English maltalent, from Anglo-Norman maltalent and Middle French maltalent, maltalant, from mal (“evil”) + talent (“disposition”).
Senses: examples: text: So forth he vvent, / VVith heauy looke and lumpiſh pace, that plaine / In him bevvraid great grudge and maltalent; / His ſteed eke ſeemd t'apply his ſteps to his intent.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 61, page 461:
glosses: Ill will; malice, malevolence.
trippant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tripping
Etymology: From trip + -ant, alteration of tripping, present participle of trip. Compare Scots trippand (“tripping”), present participle of trip (“to skip, go nimbly, trip”).
Senses: examples: text: [Borne by the late 1737.] Richard Davies, Esq. of Kent, 1833.] Davison, gu. a stag, trippant, or.
ref: 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:
text: Crest, a buck roe-bucks, trippant, or, as many quatrefoils gu.
ref: 1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald, page 82:
text: a buck trippant within an orle […] three bucks trippant […]
ref: 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, page 349:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground.
Derived terms: countertrippant
trippant-counter
merluce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɜː(ɹ)luːs/
Forms: form: merluce
form: merluces
Etymology: From French merluche, merlus. Compare Spanish merluza.
Senses: synonyms: sea-luce
glosses: The European hake.
wild and woolly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wilder and woollier
form: wildest and woolliest
Senses: glosses: Uncultured and without laws.
beasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beasties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beastie.
beasty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beasty
form: most beasty
Senses: examples: text: Such beasty, shameless transformation, By those Welshwomen done, as may not be, Without much shame, retold or spoken of.
ref: 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I:
text: The remnants of extensive mangling of the tender body of the child would reflect the possibility of more than one rapist subjecting the child to such beasty ravishment.
ref: 2007, Fawzia Karim Firoze, Landmark Judgements on Violence Against Women of Bangladesh, page 256:
text: I approached him and felt my legs begin to wobble and my confidence wear thin, doubt with each step as I became locked into his very beasty eyes.
ref: 2022, Mckayla Chinyama Queen, Mated to the Golden Dragon 3:
glosses: Synonym of beastly.
synonyms: word: beastly
Derived terms: beastily
foamflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foamflowers
Etymology: From foam + flower.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Tiarella of wildflowers and garden plants in the saxifrage family.
foamflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foamflower
riotless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From riot + -less.
Senses: examples: a riotless revolution
glosses: Without riots or rioting.
alco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcos
Senses: examples: 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. lxxviii-lxxix,
[…] the alco, a mute little dog, caressing and sequacious, once loved and cherished by its poor Indian masters, is like them exterminated.
glosses: A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives, now thought to be extinct.
alco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcos
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic.
Synonyms: word: alkie
alcos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alco
copartners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copartner
compartner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compartners
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of copartner.
compartners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compartner
colemouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coalmouse.
Apotactite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Apotactites
form: Apotactic
Etymology: From Latin plural Apotactitae.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: One of an ancient sect of Christians in Asia Minor, originating in the third century AD, who renounced all their possessions.
Apotactites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Apotactite
inglut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ingluts
form: inglutting
form: inglutted
form: inglutted
Etymology: From in- + glut?
Senses: examples: text: if a man inglut himself joined and expounded . with vanity , or welter in filthiness like a swine , all learning , all goodness , is soon forgotten
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:
glosses: To glut.
ingluts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inglut
inglutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inglut
inglutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inglut
fragmenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fragmenters
Etymology: From fragment + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device that causes fragmentation
paum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːm/
ipa: /pɑːm/
rhymes: -ɔːm
rhymes: -ɑːm
Forms: form: paums
form: pauming
form: paumed
form: paumed
Etymology: See palm (“to cheat”).
Senses: examples: text: A Rogue that lock'd up his drink, turn'd away our Wives , cheated us of our Fortunes ; paum'd his damn'd Crufts upon us for Mutton
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To palm off by fraud; to cheat or swindle
paumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paum
pauming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paum
paums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paum
concettism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concettisms
Senses: examples: text: There are those who think that, if mere concettism be a part of poetry, Quarles is as great a poet as Cowley or George Herbert, Vaughan or Withers.
ref: 1873, Charles Kingsley, Plays and Puritans:
glosses: The use of concetti (witty turns of phrase).
concettisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concettism
miliolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miliolites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A building stone, one of the group of the Paris basin, almost entirely made up of many-chambered microscopic shells.
Related terms: miliolite limestone
miliolitic
miliolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miliolite
contemningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contemningly
form: most contemningly
Etymology: From contemning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With contempt.
Mesogothic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Corruption of Moesogothic, replacing Moeso- (“of Moesia”) with meso- (“middle”) by incorrect analysis of the term as meso- + Gothic; or a common English simplification as in encyclopædia/encyclopaedia > encyclopedia, cœnobite/coenobite > cenobite
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Moesogothic.
Synonyms: Gothic
Moesogothic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Mesogothic
form: Mœsogothic
form: Moeso-Gothic
Etymology: From Moeso- + Gothic or Moesogoth + -ic, from Moesia.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to the Moesogoths.
Moesogothic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mesogothic
form: Mœsogothic
form: Moeso-Gothic
Etymology: From Moeso- + Gothic or Moesogoth + -ic, from Moesia.
Senses: glosses: The language of the Moesogoths.
Coordinate terms: Suio-Gothic
Related terms: Moesogoth
melopoeias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melopoeia
skatol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skatols
Senses: glosses: Dated form of skatole.
skatols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skatol
methylketol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylketols
Etymology: From methyl + ketol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 2-methylindole, a mildly toxic and slightly flammable organic compound which occurs as a white solid and turns brown over time.
methylindole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylindoles
Etymology: From methyl + indole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of related compounds, including skatole.
methylindoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methylindole
bufagin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bufagins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of toxic steroids found in bufotoxin.
Derived terms: arenobufagin
cinobufagin
desacetylcinobufagin
gamabufagin
marinobufagin
quercicobufagin
regularobufagin
telocinobufagin
vallicepobufagin
viridibufagin
bufagins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bufagin
methylketols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methylketol
bufotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bufotoxins
Etymology: Bufo + toxin
Senses: examples: text: The substance bufotoxin is the chief extract of the toad's venom.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 50:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of toxic substances found in toads, other amphibians, and some plants and mushrooms.
Related terms: bufadienolide
bufagin
bufidin
bufonin
bufogenine
bufosteroid
bufotalin
bufotaline
bufotenine
bufothionine
phrynin
bufotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bufotoxin
cauchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cauchies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of causey.
conditories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conditory
glosses: plural of conditorie
conditory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conditories
Etymology: From Latin conditorium, from condere (“to hide”). See recondite and reconditory. The cake shop is from German Konditorei
Senses: glosses: A repository for holding things; a hiding place or relicary.
glosses: A cake shop
siskiwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siskiwits
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of siscowet.
siskiwits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siskiwit
siscowets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siscowet
profitablest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of profitable: most profitable
astringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astringers
Senses: examples: text: Enter a GENTLE ASTRINGER.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete form of austringer.
astringers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astringer
choriamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choriambs
Senses: glosses: A choriambus.
choriambs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choriamb
outlabour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outlabours
form: outlabouring
form: outlaboured
form: outlaboured
form: outlabor
Etymology: From out- + labour.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in labouring; to outwork.
outlaboured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outlabour
outlabouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outlabour
outlabours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outlabour
starchly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more starchly
form: most starchly
Etymology: From starch + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Starchly Crisp; hole cancelled
ref: 1969, The Numismatist, volume 82, page 1496:
text: I did not see that quilting made me a Jake, and I replied starchly, "Madam, I purchased these fabrics on my walk just now."
ref: 2001, Sandra Dallas, Alice's Tulips: A Novel, page 116:
text: But then, as Bell told Kunta later, from the moment the first carriage arrived, Missy Anne suddenly had acted as if she didn't even know the starchly uniformed aproned Kizzy, who kept circulating among the guests bearing trays of refreshments, “till de po' chile come bustin' in de kitchen cryin' her eyes out.”
ref: 2007, Alex Haley, Roots-Thirtieth Anniversary Edition: The Saga of an American Family:
glosses: In a starched or starchy manner; stiffly, formally
molly-mawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molly-mawks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mollymawk.
molly-mawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molly-mawk
witch-elm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witch-elms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wych elm.
witch-elms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witch-elm
sinapoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Sinapis + Latin oleum (“oil”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrogenous base, CO.(NH.C₃H₅)₂, related to urea, and extracted from mustard oil; diallyl urea.
diallylurea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diallyl + urea.
Senses: glosses: sinapoline
caird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cairds
Etymology: From Irish ceard (“a tinker”).
Senses: glosses: A travelling tinker or a tramp.
cairds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caird
foreconceived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreconceive
callithumpian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more callithumpian
form: most callithumpian
form: calathumpian
Etymology: From callithump + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: callithumpian band
text: callithumpian procession
text: There was never a tutor's windows to be broken in, or a callithumpian frolic, (which were in vogue in those days,) but Maverick bore a hand in both; […]
ref: 1865 March, “Doctor Johns”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 15, number 89:
text: He had been entertaining a regular callithumpian parade of Red Cross commissioners from America, and he probably felt that he had seen the worst and that this was just another cross.
ref: 1918, William Allen White, The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me, page 66:
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling a callithump; riotous.
beshadow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beshadows
form: beshadowing
form: beshadowed
form: beshadowed
Etymology: From Middle English bischadewen, bischadwen (also beschaden, bescheaden), from Old English besċeaduwian, besċeadan (“to overshadow”), equivalent to be- + shadow. Cognate with Dutch beschaduwen (“to shade, adumbrate, shadow”), German beschatten (“to shade, shadow, overshadow”).
Senses: glosses: To cast a shadow around, about, or over; overshadow.
Synonyms: beshade
revulsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revulsion
counterirritation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterirritations
Etymology: From counter- + irritation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere.
Synonyms: revulsion
counterirritations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterirritation
licenceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From licence + -less.
Senses: examples: licenceless drivers
glosses: Without a licence.
counterguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterguards
Etymology: From counter- + guard.
Senses: topics: fortification
fortifications
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
counterguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterguard
mesoscuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesoscutum
mesoscutum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoscuta
Etymology: From meso- + scutum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect.
Derived terms: anteromesoscutum
plastidule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastidules
Etymology: From plastid + -ule.
Senses: examples: text: The plastidule movements of the cytula are therefore the resultant of the united plastidule movements of the female egg-cell and of the male sperm-cell
ref: 1874, Ernst Haeckel, The Evolution of Man:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the small particles or organic molecules of protoplasm.
plastidules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plastidule
interduce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interduces
Etymology: Compare French entre-deux, literally "between two".
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: An intertie.
interduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interduces
form: interducing
form: interduced
form: interduced
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of introduce.
interduces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interduce
blastocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blastoceles
Etymology: From blasto- + -cele.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blastocoele.
blastoceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastocele
tiring-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiring-rooms
Etymology: For attiring + room.
Senses: synonyms: green room
tiring-house
glosses: The room or place where actors dress for the stage.
tiring-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiring-room
trior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triors
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of trier.
triors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trior
blastoconidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastoconidium
blastoconidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blastoconidia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to blastoconidia.
gainstay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gainstays
form: gainstaying
form: gainstayed
form: gainstayed
Etymology: From gain- + stay (“to stand”). Compare gainstand.
Senses: examples: text: Among the diversity of opinions that are entertained in regard to physical resistance, there are but a few found to gainstay that stern delcaration.
ref: 1983, Bill McAdoo, Pre-Civil War Black Nationalism:
text: But this stance informs the way I regard the student essays I surveyed earlier, my belief that however challenging I may be in provoking interpretations of Thoreau, I ought not to gainstay my students' own Thoreauvian productions, […]
ref: 1998, Randall Roorda, Dramas of solitude: narratives of retreat in American nature writing:
text: " [...] Then I dare not gainstay you, Devin. I just wish to bring out the best in such a noble son of Zenn-Ra."
ref: 2004, William Hill, Wizard Sword:
glosses: To stand against or in opposition to; resist; oppose.
examples: text: … it was intended to be, a living fire of force in the world that cannot be gainstayed and which no storms can shake.
ref: 1926, Theosophical Society (Madras, India), The Theosophist
text: An illiterate woman, Mai-ch'en's wife is not gainstayed the benefit of the doubt.
ref: 1998, Nancy Ann Watanabe, Love eclipsed: Joyce Carol Oates's Faustian moral vision:
glosses: To deny (the right to); deprive (of).
Synonyms: gainstand
withset
withsit
chulan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: charan
chulan tree
glosses: The plant Chloranthus spicatus (formerly Chloranthus inconspicuus).
glosses: The fragrant flowers of Chloranthus spicatus, used in China for perfuming tea.
demonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Apparently formed within English, from demono- + -nomy.
Senses: examples: text: But these Iavans are drunck in their demonomy
ref: T. Herbert, London 1638, Some Yeares Travels Into Africa & Asia the Great. Especially Describing the Famous Empire of Persia and Hindustan. As also Divers other Kingdoms in the Orientall Indies, and Iles Adjacent, page 325
glosses: The dominion of demons.
Derived terms: demonomist
frower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frowers
Etymology: Compare frow and British dialect frommard.
Senses: examples: text: A frower of iron, for cleauing of lath
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: A froe or frow (cleaving tool).
docquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docquets
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of docket.
docquet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: docquets
form: docqueting
form: docquetting
form: docqueted
form: docqueted
form: docquetted
form: docquetted
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of docket.
docquets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of docquet
docqueting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of docquet
docqueted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of docquet
docquetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of docquet
docquetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of docquet
infarce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: infarces
form: infarcing
form: infarced
form: infarced
Etymology: From Latin infarcire, from in- (“in”) + farcire, fartum, farctum (“to stuff, cram”).
Senses: examples: text: every place is so infarced with profitable counsaile , joyned with honestie
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
glosses: To stuff or to swell.
infarced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of infarce
almeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almehs
form: almeh
form: awalim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of almah.
almehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almeh
almes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almes
Senses: examples: text: […] the which being of too ancient breede among vs, were of late yeeres ſo mightily increaſed, that by their licencious and vniuſt, yea verie ſturdy and ſhameleſſe vagring and begging, all mercie of almes-giuing was ſo violently catched vp and deuoured at euery rich mans gate, and alſo at euery meane mans doore, that mercie was degenerated, to the cruell and waſtfull feeding and foſtering of ſuch an idle and wicked rout, as by the rule of the holy Apoſtle, were altogether vnworthy of any almes, in ſo much as they were ſuch, as vtterly refuſed to work.
ref: 1600, Robert Allen, A Treatise of Christian Beneficence, […], Iohn Hariſon […], unnumbered page:
glosses: Obsolete form of alms.
almes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alme
pluviameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluviameters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pluviometer.
pluviameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluviameter
chylothorax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chylothoraces
Etymology: From chylo- + thorax.
Senses: glosses: An accumulation of chyle in the pleural cavity.
chylothoraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chylothorax
pertusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pertusions
Etymology: Latin pertusio.
Senses: examples: text: pertusion of a vein
text: the manner of opening a vein at that time, was by ſtabbing or pertusion, as it is performed in horses.
ref: 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:
glosses: The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument.
examples: text: many of the more subtle passages , pores , and pertusions appear not in anatomical dissections , because they are shut and latent in dead bodies
ref: 1623, Francis Bacon, De augmentis scientiarum:
glosses: A punched hole; a perforation.
pertusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pertusion
permixtion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of permission.
Alumu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Alumu.
glosses: A Plateau language spoken in Nassarawa State, Nigeria.
unparryable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unparryable
form: most unparryable
Etymology: From un- + parry + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It is your fault, and I believe arises either from an ill-judged idea of smoothing matters to me — as if I were not behind the curtain — or a general reluctance to allow that any danger is near, until it is almost unparryable.
ref: 1900, John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott: Volume 2, page 279:
text: It sliced through shields and swords vainly raised in an attempt to parry an unparryable blow as if it were light, yet when it struck, it was hard as forged iron.
ref: 2003, Bill Pottle, DreamQuest, page 117:
glosses: not able to be parried or dodged
peitrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ.tɹəl/
Forms: form: peitrels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poitrel.
peitrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peitrel
nowd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊd/
homophone: nowed
Forms: form: nowds
form: knoud
Etymology: Derived from Irish cnúdán.
Senses: glosses: A grey gurnard (Trigla gurnardus, now Eutrigla gurnadus), a fish of European waters.
nowds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nowd
unparriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unparriable
form: most unparriable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unparryable.
parentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parentations
Etymology: From Latin parentātiō, from parentō (“I offer a solemn sacrifice in honor of deceased parents”). See parent.
Senses: examples: 1697-1698, John Potter, Archæologia Græca
Children and Heirs shall perform the accustom'd Rites of Parentation.
glosses: Something done or said in honour of the dead; obsequies.
parentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parentation
blatteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blatterations
Etymology: Latin blateratio (“a babbling”).
Senses: glosses: blather; foolish talk
Related terms: blatter
blatterations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blatteration
embrocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embrocates
form: embrocating
form: embrocated
form: embrocated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin embrocatus, past participle of Late Latin embrocare, from embrocha, from Ancient Greek ἐμβροχή (embrokhḗ, “lotion, fomentation”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.
Related terms: embrocation
embrocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embrocate
embrocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embrocate
embrocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embrocate
dorhawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dorhawks
Etymology: From dor + hawk. So called because it eats the dorbeetle.
Senses: examples: text: September 13 1668, Thomas Browne, letter to Dr. Merritt
A dorhawk, a bird not full so big as a pigeon, somewhat of a woodcock colour, and paned somewhat like a hawk, with a bill not much bigger than that of a titmouse, and a very wide throat[…]
glosses: A European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
dorbeetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorbeetle
obsecrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obsecration
lapsus plumæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lăpʹsəs.plo͞oʹmē
ipa: /ˌlæpsəsˈpluːmiː/
enpr: lăpʹso͞os.plo͞oʹmē
ipa: /ˌlæpsuːsˈpluːmiː/
Forms: form: lapsus plumæ
form: lapsus plumae
Etymology: First attested in 1844; Latin: lāpsus (“a slipping”; in the plural lāpsūs, “slippings”, the nominative plural form of lāpsus) + plūmae (“of the feather or plume”, the genitive singular form of plūma, “feather”, “plume”) = “a slipping of the feather” ≈ “a lapse of the plume” ≈ “a slip of the quill”; compare lapsus linguae and the English-coined French phrase nom de plume.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: writo; miswriting; misprint; typo
text: When he came to a word like believe, he was cunning enough to write two ees, and put a dot just over the middle of them, leaving the reader to imagine that his error was the result of a mere lapsus plumæ.
ref: 1844, Suum Cuique [pseud.: Joseph Hewlett], “The Nice Young Man” in Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany I, page 552
synonyms: word: lapsus calami
word: slip of the pen
coordinate_terms: lapsus digiti
lapsus digitorum
;
lapsus linguae
slip of the tongue
speako
glosses: Synonym of slip of the pen.
lapsus plumae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapsus plumae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lapsus plumæ.
backset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backsets
Etymology: From back + set.
Senses: glosses: A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
examples: text: Slackwater, or the backset caused by the overflow.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Harper's Magazine:
glosses: Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water.
backset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backsets
form: backsetting
form: backset
form: backset
Etymology: From back + set.
Senses: glosses: To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
backsets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backset
backsetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backset
slutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare sludge.
Senses: glosses: Slush.
sphyraenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sphyraenoid
form: most sphyraenoid
Etymology: Latin sphyraena a kind of sea fish, + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Sphyraenidae, a family of marine fishes, the barracudas.
Related terms: sphyraenid
cystidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystideans
Etymology: †Cystidea + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the †Cystidea, a class of extinct echinoderms, now known as the †Cystoidea.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A stage in the development of many crinoids after the free-swimming larva attaches to a surface, but before it develops the structures necessary to feed.
cystideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystidean
Saxonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saxonists
Etymology: From Saxon + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One versed in the Anglo-Saxon language (Old English).
Related terms: english: may be a synonym
translation: may be a synonym
word: Anglo-Saxonist
Saxonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saxonist
Randall grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis, syn. Festuca elatior).
Culdee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kʌlˈdiː/
Forms: form: Culdees
Etymology: From Old Irish céile Dé (“servant of God”), a calque of Latin servus Deī.
Senses: examples: text: The pure Culdees were Albyn's earliest priests of God.
ref: 1824, Thomas Campbell, Reullura:
glosses: One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales in the Middle Ages.
Culdees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Culdee
gainward
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From gain- + -ward, or from an apheretic variant of Middle English agaynward, aȝenward, aȝeinward.
Senses: glosses: Toward; facing; over against.
catbutt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catbutts
Etymology: From cat + butt.
Senses: examples: text: who must now go and prevent her 9 pound cat from kicking the catbutts of two 23+ pound cats.
ref: 1996 May 29, Julia A. M. Hayden, “Re: GH:All Alone”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet):
text: > Probably for the same reason people stare at cats' assholes.
oh i don't know. catbutts are kinda cute, don't you think?
ref: 1998 June 3, Erik, “Re: My FINAL reply to Lisa”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet):
text: I have been very conscious of the fact that by declawing her, I rendered her defenseless. However, she has kicked some catbutt when we had intact kitty boarders, not drawing blood, but winning by intimidation.
ref: 1998 September 29, Blake, “Re: declawing”, in alt.cats (Usenet):
text: Hey now, my cats are always sticking their butts in my face to show me what a good job they did cleaning them. I'd rather look at a catbutt than troll leavings any day.
ref: 2000 July 1, Noelle, “Re: Oh Hell..Wonder pill lets women conceive at sixty”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
text: EVERY SINGLE CAT IN THIS HOUSE HAS STUCK HIS BUTT IN MY FACE!! Do I look depressed? <various Patrons shake their heads> Do I look like I NEED a catbutt in my face?
ref: 2001 October 7, Kat & Kent [username], “semiRANT! Catbutts!”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):
text: Within a nanosecond of the book becoming a horizontal surface, there was a catbutt firmly planted upon it.
ref: 2002 January 13, Yowie [username], “Considerate [BW][Long]”, in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes (Usenet):
text: You can buy catbutt refrigerator magnets, clever cards, and fun jewelry and T-shirts by local artists.
ref: 2011, Beth Taylor, Frommer's Seattle Day by Day, page 76:
text: 2011, Alan Scherstuhl, Studies in Crap, SF Weekly, 1951 Planned Parenthood Pamphlet Pretty Much Says Life Begins at Conception, link
Junior got mom's brown hair and dad's catbutt eyes!
glosses: The backside of a cat.
paramalic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + malic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic acid metameric with malic acid.
psellism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψελλισμός (psellismós), from ψελλός (psellós, “faltering”).
Senses: glosses: stammering; stuttering
Fresnel lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fresnel lenses
Etymology: Originally developed by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
Senses: glosses: The hollow cylindrical lens used in the Fresnel lantern.
Fresnel lenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fresnel lens
peterero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petereros
form: petereroes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pederero.
petereroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peterero
cohorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cohorns
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of coehorn.
cohorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohorn
domifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of domify
domified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of domify
selvagee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selvagees
Senses: examples: text: As the cable enters the hawse-hole, therefore, something must be constantly used, to keep this travelling chain attached to this travelling messenger; something that may be rapidly wound round both, so as to bind them together. The article used is called a selvagee. And what could be better adapted to the purpose? It is a slender, tapering, unstranded piece of rope prepared with much solicitude; peculiarly flexible; and wreathes and serpentines round the cable and messenger like an elegantly-modeled garter-snake round the twisted stalks of a vine.
ref: 1850, Herman Melville, White-Jacket:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, used for stoppers, straps, etc.
selvagees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selvagee
blickey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪki
Forms: form: blickeys
form: blicky
Etymology: From Dutch blikje, diminutive of blik (“can; tinplate”).
Senses: glosses: A canister or dinner pail usually of tin.
blickies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blickey