cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pectize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pectizes
form: pectizing
form: pectized
form: pectized
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: examples: 1864-1898, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology
Graham has shown, matter in this state often “pectizes” almost instantaneously — a touch will transform an entire mass.
glosses: To congeal; to change into a gelatinous mass; to gel.
Derived terms: pectization
Related terms: pectin
pectized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pectize
pectizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pectize
pectizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pectize
torvous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɔː(ɹ)vəs/
Forms: form: more torvous
form: most torvous
Etymology: From Latin torvus. See torvid.
Senses: examples: text: that torvous, sour look produced by anger
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of a severe countenance; stern, grim, grave.
chilostomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma, a genus of land snails.
do-all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: do-alls
Senses: examples: text: Under him, Dunstan was the do-all at court, being the king's treasurer, councilor, chancellor, confessor, all things.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: A general manager or factotum.
do-alls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of do-all
tricksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trĭk'səm
ipa: /ˈtɹɪksəm/
rhymes: -ɪksəm
Forms: form: more tricksome
form: most tricksome
Etymology: From trick + -some.
Senses: examples: text: “Tricksome,” she muttered. “Very tricksome.”
ref: 2012, Lilith Saintcrow, The Iron Wyrm Affair:
glosses: Characterised by tricks or trickery; cunning, tricksy.
totalitarianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: totalitarianists
Etymology: From totalitarian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of totalitarianism.
totalitarianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of totalitarianist
technostalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of techno- + nostalgia
Senses: examples: text: This isn't just technostalgia or a diatribe against what Nicholas Negroponte calls "digital obesity." The upbeat message is that the search for simplicity is a golden opportunity for IS managers.
ref: 1997 June 16, Computerworld, volume 31, number 24:
text: Technostalgia is about the ways in which, in the past, the future was imagined.
ref: 2006, David Bell, Science, technology and culture:
glosses: Fond reminiscence of, or longing for, outdated technology.
Hyponyms: retrocomputing
technorealist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technorealists
Etymology: From techno- + realist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of technorealism.
technorealists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technorealist
timesuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timesucks
form: time-suck
form: time suck
Etymology: From time + suck.
Senses: examples: text: Give it a try and explore some of the Paint Shop Pro Web rings. You never know what you'll find. Be careful, though, because this can be a huge timesuck and you might find the afternoon slipping away unnoticed.
ref: 2006, T. Michael Clark, Corel Paint Shop Pro X Digital Darkroom, page 244:
text: the old-fashioned timesuck of housework
ref: 2007, Jennifer Niesslein, Practically Perfect (in Every Way):
glosses: Synonym of time sink.
synonyms: word: time sink
timesucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timesuck
thronal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From throne + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a throne.
tripartisanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tripartisan + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Cooperation between three competing political parties; governing in a tripartisan manner.
testosteronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more testosteronic
form: most testosteronic
Etymology: From testosterone + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: While men are depleting themselves in testosteronic warfare, snarling and staring and playing their mind games, the ladies are saving their energy to play poker games, keeping their cool and using their brainpower to win pots rather than intimidate opponents.
ref: 2009, Deborah K. Phillips, Vicki A. Wilson, Gambling and Gender: Men and Women at Play (page 41), quoting Navarro & Karlins (2006)
text: He has resisted all society's attempts to feminize him: he is a triumph of testosteronic impulse. He was always the bad boy of the class, the one who fought in the playground[…]
ref: 2010, Fay Weldon, Chalcot Crescent, page 15:
text: Lester went testosteronic; his chest-pounding aggression could not be calmed.
ref: 2013, Mark Matousek, Ethical Wisdom for Friends:
glosses: Relating to testosterone; characterized by aggressive masculinity.
lumberjack breakfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumberjack breakfasts
Senses: glosses: A large breakfast of eggs, ham, bacon, sausages, and pancakes.
persillades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persillade
antiskeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiskeptics
Etymology: From anti- + skeptic.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes a skeptical viewpoint.
Related terms: antiskepticism
antiskeptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiskeptic
confitents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confitent
angiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angiyas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani انگیا / अंगिया (aṅgiyā), from Sanskrit अङ्गिका (aṅgikā).
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A bodice traditionally worn by Muslim women in India.
angiyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiya
antigram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæntɪˌɡræm/
Forms: form: antigrams
Etymology: Blend of anti- + anagram, equivalent to anti- + -gram.
Senses: antonyms: synanagram
hypernyms: antonym
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glosses: Either of a pair of anagrams with opposite meanings.
antigrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antigram
antigerm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + germ.
Senses: examples: text: Derived from a bacillus commonly found in soil and water, a new antigerm chemical, polymyxin, is 25 times more effective than streptomycin in treating one severe skin infection.
ref: 1948 November, Popular Mechanics, volume 90, number 5, page 140:
glosses: Countering germs.
mattacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular polymyxin antibiotic.
Chana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew חַנָּה (chaná).
Senses: glosses: Hannah
anatocism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνατοκισμός (anatokismós), from ἀνα- (ana-) + τοκισμός (tokismós, “usury”).
Senses: examples: text: Of Anatocism, or Compound Interest; wherein is shewed how by the Logarithms to answer all Questions concerning the Increase or present Worth of any Sum of Money or Annuity
ref: 1729, Edward Cocker, Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick:
topics: law
glosses: compound interest
nodosarine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nodosarine
form: most nodosarine
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus Nodosaria.
nodosarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nodosarines
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any foraminifer of the genus Nodosaria or allied genera.
nodosarines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nodosarine
mostwhat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From most + what.
Senses: examples: text: All the rest do mostwhat far amiss.
ref: 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: mostly; for the most part
rakestale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rakestales
form: rakestele
Etymology: From rake + stale (“handle”).
Senses: examples: text: a. 1892, Bliss Perry, Salem Kittredge and Other Stories, page 138,
"You don't say! Ain't bought it yet, have ye? Set still, Jocko!" He tapped the dog's back with the rakestale.
text: Linseed oil was scattered over it, and then what sport they had as with sticks, rakestales and broom handles they mixed up the wool, making it fly in every direction, while the rafters of the barn echoed their merry, shouts and laughter.
ref: 1911, Galusha Anderson, When Neighbors Were Neighbors: A Story of Love and Life in Olden Days, page 68:
glosses: The handle of a rake.
rakestales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rakestale
pissabeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pissabed
postanthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-anthesis
Etymology: From post- + anthesis.
Senses: glosses: occurring after the opening of a flower
preanthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-anthesis
Etymology: From pre- + anthesis.
Senses: glosses: occurring before the opening of a flower
prestructured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + structured.
Senses: glosses: structured in advance
tellurhydric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: hydrotelluric acid
glosses: hydrogen telluride in solution
procarboxypeptidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procarboxypeptidases
Etymology: From pro- + carboxypeptidase.
Senses: glosses: Any inactive precursor of a carboxypeptidase
postanthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See postanthesis.
Senses: glosses: After the opening of a flower.
anallantoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + allantoic.
Senses: examples: text: anallantoic embryos
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Without an allantois.
promonocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + monocytic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a promonocyte
procarboxypeptidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procarboxypeptidase
promonocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promonocytes
Etymology: From pro- + monocyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cell, arising from a monoblast, that develops into a monocyte
Synonyms: premonocyte
omnibi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: O ships, on lock, or frith, or ocean, propelled by engines of three hundred horse-power! cabs and cars, omnibi and stages, wayside rests and fishing-taverns[…]
ref: 1841, The Christian Examiner and General Review, page 185:
text: All hats are waving; pretty girls in carriages shake the victorious colours, that flutter also from Hansom cab whips, and from the tops of omnibi.
ref: 1862, London Society: Volume 1, page 468:
glosses: plural of omnibus
prophenoloxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prophenoloxidases
Etymology: From pro- + phenoloxidase.
Senses: glosses: An inactive precursor of phenoloxidase
bisulcous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈsʌl.kəs/
Etymology: From Latin bisulcus, from bis (“twice”) + sulcus (“furrow”).
Senses: examples: text: the swine, although multiparous, yet being bisulcous, and only cloven-hoofed, is not excluded in this manner, but farrowed with open eyes as other bisulcous animals
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: bisulcate
disassiduity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + assiduity.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1639, Henry Wotton, a letter to Edmund Bacon
some argue upon it, that disassiduity in a Favorite, is a degree of declination, but of this there is no appearance
glosses: Lack of assiduity or care.
prophenoloxidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prophenoloxidase
spyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spy + -ism.
Senses: glosses: spying; espionage
protegrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protegrins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of polypeptides, first discovered in porcine leukocytes, that have antimicrobial activity
proteogenomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to proteogenomics
proteogenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proteo- + genomics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A field of study that encompasses proteomics and genomics.
Related terms: metaproteogenomics
proteogenome
proteogenomic
proteolytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: proteolytic
protophloem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protophloems
Etymology: From proto- + phloem.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The form of phloem that is initially formed, composed of narrow, thin-walled cells.
carbonitride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carbonitrides
form: carbonitriding
form: carbonitrided
form: carbonitrided
Etymology: From carbo- + nitride.
Senses: glosses: To harden the surface of a metal using carbon and nitrogen
Related terms: nitrocarburize
carbonitride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonitrides
Etymology: From carbo- + nitride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixed carbide and nitride
carbonitriding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carbonitride
carbonitrided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carbonitride
relaxase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relaxases
Etymology: From relax + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A single-stranded DNA transesterase produced by some prokaryotes and viruses.
transesterase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transesterases
Etymology: From trans- + ester + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes a transesterification reaction
rhamnogalacturonan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhamnogalacturonans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polysaccharide, consisting mostly of rhamnose and galacturonic acid, that is found in plant cell walls
sequons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sequon
sequon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequons
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sequence of three consecutive amino acids in a protein that can serve as the attachment site for a glycan
Oswego tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oswego teas
Etymology: Oswego (from an Iroquoian language) + tea.
Senses: glosses: An American aromatic herb (Monarda didyma) with bright red labiate flowers; also called bee balm or bergamot.
Oswego teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oswego tea
somatodendritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: somatodentritic
Etymology: From somato- + dendritic.
Senses: glosses: located together, even at the ends of a dendrite
raw_tags: in a neuron
Related terms: somatodendrite
chatelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatelets
Etymology: From Old French chastelet, diminutive of chastel. Compare castle.
Senses: glosses: A little castle.
chatelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chatelet
opponencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opponency
opponency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opponencies
Etymology: From opponent + -cy?
Senses: examples: text: This is only a Trick to turn off the Opponency
ref: 1699, Mr. Chandler, A True Narrative of the Portsmouth Disputation:
text: The chairman of the committee will be very glad to give you the opportunity to express your views, whether of proponency or opponency.
ref: 1935, “letter”, in Department of science, art and literature: Hearings before the Committee on Patents, page 112:
glosses: The act of opening an academic disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree.
substractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of subtractive.
assonantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assonantal
form: most assonantal
Senses: examples: text: How often on the contemporary poetry scene do we come across so relentlessly assonantal a hum as in these lines from "Later Meeting": Tying your hair/for our long walk, you carom in your new/room arms akimbo, hips adrift, miming/all our enemies.
ref: 1975 December 20, Rudy Kikel, “The Closed Closet Policy and the Poetry of Paul Monette”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 9:
glosses: assonant
meteorolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meteorolites
Etymology: From meteor + -lite. Compare French météorolithe.
Senses: glosses: A rock from space, such as an aerolite or meteorite.
meteorolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meteorolite
synaptoneurosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synaptoneurosomes
Senses: glosses: A synaptosome with attached resealed postsynaptic entities
Related terms: synaptoneurosomal
temporins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporin
lady's bedstraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lady's bedstraws
form: ladies' bedstraws
Senses: synonyms: yellow bedstraw
Our Lady's bedstraw
glosses: A herbaceous perennial flowering plant, Galium verum, used in the Middle Ages for bedding and for making red dye.
glosses: Carpetweed (Mollugo verticillata, syn. Pharnaceum mollugo), a slender-leaved East Indian shrub with white flowers in umbels.
martext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: martexts
Etymology: From mar + text.
Senses: glosses: A blundering preacher.
martexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martext
emblanch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emblanches
form: emblanching
form: emblanched
form: emblanched
Etymology: From em- + blanch.
Senses: examples: text: it was impossible that a spot of so deep a dye should be emblanched
ref: 1668, Peter Heylyn, Cyprianus Anglicus:
glosses: To whiten.
emblanched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emblanch
emblanching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emblanch
thiopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiopeptides
Etymology: From thio- + peptide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of antibiotics composed of a ring structure containing highly modified amino acids and a linear peptide containing dehydroalanines extending from the ring at a pyridyl group
transcripted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: transcribed
transcripted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transcript
depilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + pilous. Compare Latin depilis.
Senses: examples: text: […] they mistake the condition of this animal (which is a kind of lizard, a quadruped corticated and depilous, that is, without wool, fur, or hair) […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: hairless
Related terms: depilate
transcriptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcriptors
Senses: glosses: transcriber
translin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translins
Etymology: From translocation + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of DNA-binding proteins that specifically recognise consensus sequences at the breakpoint junctions in chromosomal translocations
translocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translocalizations
Etymology: From trans- + localization.
Senses: glosses: translocation
thiopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiopeptide
triptolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A diterpenoid triepoxide lactone that is immunosuppressive with antiinflammatory and antitumor activity
Related terms: triptonide
triptriolide
mino bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mino birds
Senses: glosses: A myna.
mino birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mino bird
Cadmean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cadmean
form: most Cadmean
Etymology: Latin.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Cadmus, a mythical prince of Thebes, said to have introduced the Phoenician alphabet into Greece.
glosses: Of or from Cadmea.
Related terms: Cadmean victory
Cadmean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cadmeans
Etymology: Latin.
Senses: glosses: A person from Cadmea.
prosopalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosopalgias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face”) + -algia. By surface analysis, prosop- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Facial neuralgia.
prosopalgias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosopalgia
caveator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caveators
Etymology: From caveat + -or.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Someone who enters a caveat.
caveators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caveator
stichomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sticho- + -mancy. First used to translate French stichomantie in Rabelais.
Senses: synonyms: bibliomancy
glosses: Divination by randomly selecting lines or passages from books.
dartle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɑː(ɹ)təl/
Forms: form: dartles
Etymology: From dart + -le.
dartle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɑː(ɹ)təl/
Forms: form: dartles
form: dartling
form: dartled
form: dartled
Etymology: From dart + -le.
Senses: examples: text: my star that dartles the red and the blue
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, My Star:
glosses: To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly.
dartled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dartle
dartles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dartle
dartling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dartle
upyield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upyields
form: upyielding
form: upyielded
form: upyielded
Etymology: From up- + yield.
Senses: glosses: To yield up; to give or surrender.
upyielding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upyield
upyielded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upyield
numeronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numeronym
tetrylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrylenes
Etymology: From tetr- + ethylene, because of the four carbon atoms in the molecule.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: butylene
tetrylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrylene
encrinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encrinites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-, “in”) + κρίνον (krínon, “lily”): compare French encrinite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil crinoid, especially one belonging to, or resembling, the genus †Encrinus.
glosses: A type of grain-supported bioclastic sedimentary rock in which all or most of the grains are crinoid ossicles.
Derived terms: encrinital
encrinitic
encrinitical
encrinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encrinite
impedition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impeditions
Etymology: From Latin impeditio.
Senses: examples: text: VVhen God poſitively vvilleth the Poſitive hindering of a thing, he may morally be ſaid to Nill the thing, or to vill that it ſhall not be. That there are Poſitive Impeditions of God (by Dr. [William] Twisses leave) I have elſevvhere proved: […]
ref: 1675, Richard Baxter, “[The First Book.] The First Part: […]. Section XVI. Of the Order of the Decrees Called Reprobation. And of Election and Reprobation in Themselves.”, in Richard Baxter’s Catholick Theologie: […], London: […] Robert White, for Nevill Simmons […], →OCLC, paragraph 490, page 72:
glosses: That which impedes; a hindrance.
impeditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impedition
tical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈkɑːl/
ipa: /tɪˈkɔːl/
ipa: /ˈtiːk(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɑːl
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: ticals
Senses: glosses: An old Thai measurement of weight, the baht, of about 15 grams.
glosses: A Burmese measurement of weight, the kyattha, of about 16.3293 grams (0.576 ounces).
glosses: The baht, the currency of Siam (now Thailand).
glosses: A former currency of Cambodia.
Related terms: english: a Burmese unit of weight equal to 100 ticals
translation: a Burmese unit of weight equal to 100 ticals
word: viss
ticals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tical
stroy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: stroys
form: stroying
form: stroyed
form: stroyed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English stroyen, an aphetic form of destroyen (modern English destroy).
Senses: examples: text: How I convey my shame out of thine eyes
By looking back what I have left behind
Stroy'd in dishonour
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ix]:
text: Dig garden, stroy mallow,
Set willow and sallow
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: To destroy.
Derived terms: stroygood
stroyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stroy
stroying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stroy
stroys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stroy
etherin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ether + -in?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether.
Synonyms: concrete oil of wine
waly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪli/
other: /ˈweɪleɪ/
Etymology: Compare wellaway.
Senses: examples: text: O waly, waly, but love be bonnie
ref: 1724, Waly, Waly, Gin Love Be Bonny:
glosses: An exclamation of grief.
si quis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: si quises
Etymology: Latin siquis (“if anyone”), referring to the first words of the notice in Latin.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A notification by a candidate for Holy Orders of his intention to enquire whether any impediment may be alleged against him.
goutier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gouty: more gouty
goutiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gouty: most gouty
disimprovement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɪmˈpɹuːvm(ə)nt/
ipa: /dɪsɪmˈpɹuvmənt/
Forms: form: disimprovements
Etymology: From dis- + improvement.
Senses: examples: text: [...] '[T]is very reaſonable, that all ſhould be obliged to the Law of Justice. [...] And as to the Public, 'twould be all one as if there were no Property; and then for want of Encouragement and Security, the final iſſue of the matter would be, an utter neglect and diſimprovement of the Earth, and a continual diſturbance of the Public Peace.
ref: 1687, John Norris, “The Christian Law Asserted and Vindicated, or A General Apology for the Christian Religion, both as to the Obligativeness and Reasonableness of the Institution”, in A Collection of Miscellanies: Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses, and Letters Occasionally Written, Oxford: Printed […] for J. Crosley, bookseller, →OCLC; 3rd corrected edition, London: Printed for S[amuel] Manship, and are to be sold by Percivall Gilbourne, […], 1699, →OCLC, page 193:
text: From day to day the intelligent student can watch the course of the affection before him, notice the finest shades of improvement or disimprovement, test the results of treatment, and verify for himself the truth of both diagnosis and prognosis.
ref: 1884 November 1, H. M. J., “A Handbook of the Diseases of the Eye and Their Treatment. By Henry R[osborough] Swanzy, A.M., M.B., F.R.S.C.I; Surgeon to the National Eye and Ear Infirmary; Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, &c. 127 Illustrations. London: H. K. Lewis. 1884. 8vo. Pp. 442. [book review]”, in The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, volume LXXVIII, number CLV (Third Series), Dublin: Fannin and Company, […]; London: Longmans & Co.; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart; Paris: Hachette & Co., →OCLC, page 434:
text: There is an appeal to methods like simulated annealing and threshold acceptance that make no recourse to memory, but that operate simply by imposing a monotonically declining ceiling on objective function levels or degrees of disimprovement (treated probabilistically or deterministically).
ref: 1997, Fred [W.] Glover, Manuel Laguna, “Special Topics”, in Tabu Search, Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN; republished Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002 (5th printing), →ISBN, section 7.2 (Tabu Thresholding), page 231:
text: [Marina] Carr's transposition of Aeschylus into the twenty first century, somewhat removed from the tragedic forms of ancient Greek writing, reflects some of the disimprovements of contemporary Irish life brought about by power and greed.
ref: 2010, Rhona Trench, “Sacrificial Blood”, in Bloody Living: The Loss of Selfhood in the Plays of Marina Carr (Reimagining Ireland; 20), Bern: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 226:
synonyms: decline
deterioration
worsening
antonyms: amelioration
betterment
improvement
glosses: Reduction from a better to a worse state.
qualifier: influenced by the German noun Verschlimmbesserung
glosses: attempt to make something better while ending up worse than before.
disimprovements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disimprovement
miscollocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscollocations
Etymology: From mis- + collocation.
Senses: examples: text: Miscollocation or dislocation of related words disturbed the whole sense; its least effect was to give no sense, often it gave a dangerous sense.
ref: 1840, Thomas De Quincey, “Style”, in Critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric with German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XI), London: James Hogg & Sons, published 1859, →OCLC, part I, page 195:
glosses: Wrong collocation.
miscollocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscollocation
spiritist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiritists
Etymology: From spirit + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: People [with AIDS] who can afford it go to expensive private clinics. Those with little financial resources consult with bruxos, umbandists, spiritists, or they die at home.
ref: 1988 February 7, Ines Rieder, “Gay Murders in Brazil”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 1:
glosses: Spiritualist.
glosses: Alternative form of Spiritist.
spiritists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiritist
gugas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guga
providest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: provide + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of provide
Mailerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mailerian
form: most Mailerian
Etymology: From Mailer + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Norman Mailer (1923-2007), American writer and film director.
Related terms: Maileresque
lishey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃi
Forms: form: more lishey
form: most lishey
Etymology: From *lish, lush + -y. More at lush.
Senses: glosses: Flexible; limber; bendsome.
wingcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingcases
Etymology: From wing + case.
Senses: glosses: An elytron.
wingcases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingcase
unhealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhealable
form: most unhealable
Etymology: From un- + healable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be healed.
unforestallable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unforestallable
form: most unforestallable
Etymology: From un- + forestallable.
Senses: synonyms: word: unpreventable
word: avoidless
word: certain
word: fatal
word: foregone
word: impreventable
word: ineluctable
word: inescapable
word: inevitable
word: inexorable
word: irresistible
word: necessary
word: predictable
word: unavoidable
word: unforestallable
word: unescapable
word: unpreventable
glosses: That cannot be forestalled.
elytroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elytroid
form: most elytroid
Etymology: From elytra + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: elytriform
glosses: Resembling a beetle's elytron (wingcase).
featherfew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of feverfew.
lottery ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lottery tickets
Senses: glosses: A slip of paper drawn in a lottery, possibly redeemable for a prize.
Hyponyms: scratch card
Related terms: lotologist
bims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bim
like heck
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: You'd better run like heck!
glosses: minced form of like hell.
vab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæb/
Forms: form: vabs
form: vabbing
form: vabbed
form: vabbed
Etymology: Blend of vagina + dab.
Senses: examples: text: So yall be #vabbing like seriously?
ref: 2022 July 9, Eurelda Nneka (@Eurelda29), Twitter, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2022:
text: In one of the first videos detailing the trend – which has since been deleted – TikTok user and influencer Mandy Lee hailed vabbing as the latest dating hack for women, purporting that it helped her to land dates.
ref: 2022 August 7, Olivia Petter, “The disgust over ‘vabbing’ is just another way to demonise women’s bodies”, in The Independent:
glosses: To wear one's own vaginal fluid as perfume, as a purported aphrodisiac.
ditokous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “twice”) + τόκος (tókos, “a bringing forth, offspring”).
Senses: examples: text: Certain annelids are ditokous.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having two kinds of young, such as offspring from asexual reproduction versus those from sexual reproduction.
examples: text: Some birds are ditokous.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Producing only two offspring per reproductive cycle or gestation, such as two eggs in a clutch.
trochilics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: For setting wheels within wheels, you cannot match Fortune. After all, she has made trochilics her hobby through all the ages.
ref: 1921, Dornford Yates, Anthony Lyveden:
text: But for the better conceiving of this invention, it is requisite that we rightly understand some principles in trochilics, or the art of wheel-instruments
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
glosses: The science of rotary motion, or work done with wheels.
thricecock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thricecocks
Senses: synonyms: stormcock
glosses: the mistle thrush
misframe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misframes
form: misframing
form: misframed
form: misframed
Etymology: From mis- + frame.
Senses: glosses: To frame wrongly.
misframed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English mysframed, equivalent to misframe + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misframe
misframes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misframe
misframing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misframe
misframing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misframings
Senses: glosses: The act of framing something incorrectly.
garefowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garefowls
form: gairfowl
form: gare-fowl
form: gurfel
Etymology: From Icelandic geirfugl, from Old Norse geirfugl (“great auk”), related to Swedish garfågel, Danish geirfugl, Faroese geirfuglur, gorfuglur, French gorfou.
Senses: examples: text: The Faroese men were able to catch more than a dozen gare-fowl along with 200 guillemots and numerous gannets, collecting them from rocks which the Icelanders were not brave enough to climb.
ref: 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 81:
glosses: The great auk.
glosses: The razorbill
garefowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garefowl
prociduous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin prociduus.
Senses: glosses: droopy
dastardize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dastardizes
form: dastardizing
form: dastardized
form: dastardized
Etymology: From dastard + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: dastardize my courage
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: To make cowardly; to intimidate or weaken the spirits of.
dastardized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dastardize
dastardizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dastardize
dastardizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dastardize
pillau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillaus
Senses: examples: text: [H]aving performed his devotions, dinner was served in a most splendid style — pillaus of many kinds, the most delicious quails, and pyramids of rice and saffron.
ref: 1859, William Beckford, Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill":
glosses: Dated form of pilau.
pillaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillau
wadies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: My companions are undependable as a wadi,
as watercourses that run dry in the wadies;
ref: 2011, Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Job;nbsp￶6:15, New American Bible Revised Edition:
glosses: plural of wadi
glosses: plural of wady
wady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wadies
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of wadi.
traditive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more traditive
form: most traditive
Etymology: From tradere, traditum (“to transmit, give up”). Compare French traditif.
Senses: examples: text: it is said there are traditive interprétations , as well as traditive propositions , but these have not much distinct consideration in them
ref: 1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying:
text: Suppose we on things traditive divide.
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Transmitted or transmissible from parent to child, or from older to younger generations, by oral communication; traditional.
cilicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin cilicium (“a covering, originally made of Cilician goat hair”), from Cilicious (“Cilician”), from Cilicia (“a province of Asia Minor”).
Senses: examples: text: a cilicious or sackcloth habit
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Made, or consisting, of hair.
prodigence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒdɪd͡ʒəns/
Etymology: From Latin prodigentia, from prodigens, present participle of prodigere. See prodigal.
Senses: examples: text: Herod, this pastime is overpaid for; there is no proportion in this remuneration; this is not bounty, it is prodigence
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
synonyms: prodigality
glosses: wastefulness; profusion
undescried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + descried.
Senses: glosses: Not having been descried.
archpresbyteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archpresbytery
archpresbytery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archpresbyteries
Etymology: From arch- + presbytery.
Senses: examples: text: “The government of their kirk we despised” not, but their imposing of that government upon us; not presbytery, but archpresbytery, classical, provincial, and diocesan presbytery, claiming to itself a lordly power and superintendency both over flocks and pastors, over persons and congregations no way their own.
ref: 1649 October, John Milton, chapter XIII, in Eikonoklastes. In Answer to a Book Intitled, Eikon Basilike, The PORTRAITURE of his SACRED MAJESTY in his Solitudes and Sufferings:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The absolute dominion of presbytery.
surfeiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːfɪtə/
ipa: /ˈsɝːfɪtɚ/
Forms: form: surfeiters
Etymology: From surfeit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] I did not thinke / This amorous Surfetter would haue donn’d his Helme / For such a petty Warre:
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 345:
text: Surfetters, and Cormorants he compared to beasts voyd of reason.
ref: 1637, attributed to Walter Raleigh, The Life and Death of Mahomet, the Conquest of Spaine, together with the Rysing and Ruine of the Sarazen Empire, London: […] R[alph] H[odgkinson] for Daniel Frere, […], →OCLC, page 145:
text: 1954, uncredited translator, Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Chapter 10, p. 148,
[…] the spontaneous reaction against the crying social inequalities, against the contrast between rich and poor, the feudal lords and their serfs, the surfeiters and the starving;
glosses: A person who surfeits or overeats.
surfeiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surfeiter
barwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barwoods
Etymology: From bar + wood, since it was imported from Africa in bars.
Senses: synonyms: camwood
glosses: Red wood of a leguminous African tree, Baphia nitida, used as a dyewood and for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.
synonyms: African kino tree
glosses: A tree of species Pterocarpus erinaceus.
Synonyms: camwood
filletable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filletable
form: most filletable
Etymology: From fillet + -able.
Senses: examples: a filletable fish
glosses: Suitable for filleting.
connusor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connusors
form: conusor
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A cognizor.
Related terms: connusee
connusors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connusor
lingence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lingences
Etymology: Latin lingere (“to lick”).
Senses: examples: text: Great the use thereof in Physick, it being found very pectoral and soveraign for several diseases. A Stick hereof is commonly the Spoon prescribed to Patients, to use, in any Lingences or Loaches.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: A linctus.
lingences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lingence
pledgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pledgery
pledgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pledgeries
Etymology: Compare Old French pleigerie.
Senses: glosses: A pledging; suretyship.
pinguitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin pinguitudo, from pinguis (“fat”).
Senses: glosses: fatness; obesity
Related terms: pinguid
Oddfellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒdfɛləʊ/
Forms: form: Oddfellows
form: Odd Fellow
Etymology: From odd + fellow.
Senses: examples: text: He said I ought to join the Oddfellows. He belonged.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 215:
glosses: A member of a secret order or fraternity established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
Oddfellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oddfellow
savement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English savement, from Old French sauvement. Equivalent to save + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of saving; salvation.
dephlegm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dephlegms
form: dephlegming
form: dephlegmed
form: dephlegmed
Etymology: From de- + phlegm; compare French déphlegmer, déflegmer.
Senses: examples: text: Having almost filled a vial, capable of containing near a pound of human blood, with a mixture of that, and some rectify'd spirit of wine, by guess a fourth, or an eighth part; at the end of above three years, looking upon the same glass, stopt with nothing but a cork, we found it coagulated, or of a consistent form: when the vessel being unstopp'd, there appeared no sign of putrefaction in the blood; and having smelt to it, we could not perceive that it was fetid: so balsamic a vertue has dephlegmed spirit of wine to preserve it.
ref: 1684, Robert Boyle, Memoirs for the Natural History of the Human Blood:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.