cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
plicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plicated
form: most plicated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plicate.
plicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plicate
obtected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obtected
form: most obtected
Etymology: From Latin obtectus, past participle of obtegere (“to cover over”).
Senses: glosses: covered; protected
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Covered with a hard chitinous case, like the pupa of certain files.
crabeaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crabeater
fuars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuar
contrabands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contraband
contrabands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contraband
contrabanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contraband
contrabanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contraband
contrabander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrabanders
Etymology: From contraband + -er.
Senses: glosses: A smuggler; a contrabandist.
contrabanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contrabander
affeerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affeerers
form: affurer
form: affearer
Etymology: Formed in English as affeer + -er, after the Anglo-Norman afferour, affoerour. Compare affeeror.
Senses: examples: text: They shal be amerced and their amercement shall be affeared by affearers there.
ref: 1615, John Manwood, Treatise of the Forest Laws:
topics: law
glosses: One who affeers.
Synonyms: affeeror
affeerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affeerer
everlastings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of everlasting
Cretes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crete
resplendencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resplendency
resplendences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resplendence
muckering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mucker
muckered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mucker
auspicing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auspice + -ing.
Senses: glosses: administration of a grant by one group on behalf of another
Related terms: auspiced
deflour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deflours
form: deflouring
form: defloured
form: defloured
Etymology: From French déflorer, Late Latin deflorare, from Latin de- + flos, floris (“flower”). See flower, and compare deflorate.
Senses: examples: text: He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of deflower.
Derived terms: deflourer
defloured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deflour
deflouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deflour
deflours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deflour
nectosac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nectosacs
Etymology: From necto- + sac.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The cavity of a nectocalyx.
nectosacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nectosac
hedge-hop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hedge-hops
form: hedge-hopping
form: hedge-hopped
form: hedge-hopped
Senses: examples: text: ‘He said he embarked on his journey for the Mainland, chickened out and hedge-hopped home over Laos ducking the radar screens.’
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 248:
glosses: Alternative form of hedgehop.
droneflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dronefly
dronefly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droneflies
form: drone fly
Etymology: From drone + fly.
Senses: examples: text: I took a large grey Drone-Fly, that had a large head, but a small a slender body in proportion to it, and cutting off its head, I fix'd it with the forepart or face upwards upon my Object Plate […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXIX:
glosses: A European hoverfly, Eristalis tenax.
Derived terms: orange-spotted drone fly
bed screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed screws
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A form of jackscrew for lifting large bodies and assisting in launching.
glosses: A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.
bed screws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bed screw
whistling hare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistling hares
Senses: glosses: The pika.
whistling hares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whistling hare
mousefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mousefishes
Etymology: From mouse + fish.
Senses: glosses: The sargassum fish, Histrio histrio.
glosses: Gonorynchus gonorynchus, a kind of beaked salmon.
mousefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mousefish
chowter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chowters
form: chowtering
form: chowtered
form: chowtered
form: jowter
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare dialectal chowre (“to complain”), and English dialect chow (“to grumble”).
Senses: examples: text: Chuk poured out the coffee , and handed him the sugar and milk ; and while Richard was eating , the boy tended his master , and chowtered about the room . “ There is not a boom on the river like that , ” he said , " and there'll never be[…]"
ref: 1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family:
glosses: To grumble or mutter sulkily.
chowtered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chowter
chowtering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chowter
chowters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chowter
plethorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plethorical
form: most plethorical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plethoric.
Derived terms: plethorically
bellcrank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellcranks
head_nr: 1
form: bell crank
Etymology: From bell + crank, because of its original use in changing the vertical pull on a rope to a horizontal pull on the striker of a bell.
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: A type of crank that changes motion through an angle, typically 90 or 180 degrees.
bellcranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellcrank
almendron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almendrons
Etymology: From Spanish almendrón, augmentative of almendro (“almond tree”).
Senses: glosses: The brazil nut tree.
almendrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almendron
Candiot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Candiot
form: most Candiot
Etymology: Compare English Cypriot and French candiote.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Candia (now called Heraklion).
Candiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Candiots
Etymology: Compare English Cypriot and French candiote.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Candia.
silicatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silicate + -ization.
Senses: glosses: silicification
cagmag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cagmags
form: kegmeg
Senses: glosses: A tough old goose.
examples: text: when a man pays for the price of a good wholesome dinner, and finds that all the dishes are filled with cagmag, it is no particular satisfaction to him to know that he is not forced to touch a second morsel
ref: 1837, William Rae Wilson, Notes Abroad and Rhapsodies at Home:
glosses: Coarse, bad food of any kind.
cagmags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cagmag
rathripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɑːðɹaɪp/
Forms: form: rathripes
Senses: examples: text: such who delight on rath-ripe fruits
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: Alternative form of rareripe.
rathripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rathripe
labrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labrids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Labridae of marine fishes.
labrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labrid
odacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odacids
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Odacidae of perciform fishes
Related terms: odacine
odacids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odacid
scarid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarids
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Scaridae; parrotfishes.
scarids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarid
aplodactylid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aplodactylids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any marblefish in the family Aplodactylidae.
aplodactylids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aplodactylid
marblefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marblefishes
form: marblefish
Etymology: From marble + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Aplodactylidae of perciform fishes.
Synonyms: aplodactylid
marblefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marblefish
two-edged sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-edged swords
Senses: glosses: Synonym of double-edged sword: a benefit that is also a liability.
synonyms: word: double-edged sword
extra: a benefit that is also a liability
examples: text: For the word of God is quicke and powerfull, and sharper then any two edged sword, pearcing euen to the diuiding asunder of soule and spirit, and of the ioynts and marrowe, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 4:12:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see two, edged, sword.
plitt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plitts
Etymology: From Russian плеть (pletʹ, “whip”).
Senses: examples: text: Not a few of these carry with them the germ of inevitable death, their frames being enfeebled, and their constitutions broken by having undergone the cruel sentence of the plitt.
ref: 1846, Charles Frederick Henningsen, Revelations of Russia in 1846:
glosses: An instrument of punishment resembling the knout, formerly used in Russia.
plitts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plitt
sensigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sensigenous
form: most sensigenous
Etymology: From sense + -i- + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: it is becoming clear that the more perfect the sensory apparatus, the more completely do these sensigenous cells take on the form of delicate rods or filaments
ref: 1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals:
glosses: Causing or exciting sensation.
pertinacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pertinacies
Etymology: From Latin pertinacia, from pertinax. See pertinacious.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pertinacity.
pertinacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin pertinere.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being pertinent; pertinence.
misbegot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misbegot
form: most misbegot
Etymology: From mis- + begot.
Senses: examples: text: Your words have took such pains as if they labour’d
To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling
Upon the head of valour; which indeed
Is valour misbegot and came into the world
When sects and factions were newly born:
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
text: 1661, George Wither, Vox Vulgi: A Poem in Censure of the Parliament of 1661, edited by W. Dunn Macray, Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1880, p. 28, lines 537-538,
A Man defective born or misbegot
To be therfor a Man deny wee not,
Nor thinck wee those defects deprive him can
Of attributes essentiall to a Man.
text: 1992, Jack Hardy, “Forget-Me-Not” in the album Two of Swords,
but who’s to say this love was misbegot
with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots
glosses: Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin
misbegot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From mis- + begot.
Senses: glosses: simple past of misbeget
fig-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fig-eaters
form: figeater
Etymology: From fig + eater.
Senses: synonyms: green June beetle
June bug
glosses: A large beetle (Cotinis nitida) which has elytra that are velvety green with pale borders, which ranges from eastern Canada to central Texas, and which in the southern United States destroys figs.
synonyms: figeater beetle
green fruit beetle
glosses: A beetle (Cotinis mutabilis) which ranges from central Texas across the southwestern United States and Mexico.
synonyms: figpecker
beccafico
pettychaps
glosses: A bird (Sylvia hortensis) that feeds on figs and grapes, and that people eat as a delicacy.
figeaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figeater
capsicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of capsicine.
berlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [bɚˈlɪn]
ipa: /bəˈlɪn/
Forms: form: berlins
form: berline
Etymology: From the name of the German capital city Berlin, where it was invented in the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: I was then giving some instructions about the forwarding my trunk, and was just going to mount my new purchase in the yard of the inn; when a berlin, apparently belonging to a foreigner of distinction, attended by three French or Swiss servants, drove to the door […].
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 261:
text: I passed her in his berlin the other day, and just caught a glimpse of very pretty features, with an interesting and sad expression. I believe that she is his wife, because I always believe for the best.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith. Courtiers.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 263:
coordinate_terms: calèche
landau
glosses: A four-wheeled carriage with a separate sheltered seat behind the body.
berlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berlin
fusulinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusulinids
Senses: glosses: Any of the Fusulinidae., an extinct family of fusulinacean Foraminifera.
fusulinids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fusulinid
verbeekinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbeekinids
Senses: glosses: Any of the Verbeekinidae, a group of large fusulinaceans characterized by subspherical to cylindral, planispirally coiled tests.
verbeekinids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbeekinid
tectonicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tectonicists
Etymology: From tectonic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A geologist who studies tectonics.
tectonicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tectonicist
slumpage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slump + -age.
Senses: examples: text: The soil slumpage due to fluid removal and to explosives used in seismic exploration cannot always be mitigated.
ref: 1974, United States. Dept. of the Interior. Office of Economic Analysis, Deregulation of natural gas prices:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The act or result of slumping or sinking down.
earthflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthflows
Etymology: From earth + flow.
Senses: examples: text: [A] rockflow involving at least 1.5 million m3 of material moved down the Uchau-Su river valley into the sea within a day. Some mudflows are so viscous that they come to a halt in the stream channel. On slopes, soilflow or earthflow depend[…]
ref: 2020 May 11, Alistair F. Pitty, Introduction to Geomorphology, Routledge, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: soilflow
glosses: A downslope viscous flow of fine-grained materials that have been saturated with water, moving under the pull of gravity.
Related terms: mudflow
lahar
limoniad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limoniads
form: leimoniad
form: limnade
form: limniad
Etymology: Latin limoniades, plural, Ancient Greek λειμωνιάδες (leimōniádes), from λειμών (leimṓn, “meadow”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A meadow nymph.
limoniads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limoniad
slab-sided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slab-sided
form: most slab-sided
Senses: glosses: having flat sides
examples: text: "Oh! Cousin Clarence," he exclaimed, "there is a Yankee peddler here; the longest, lathiest, queerest slab-sided being you ever saw in all your life."
ref: 1859, James Hungerford, The Old Plantation: And what I Gathered There in an Autumn Month:
glosses: tall, or long and lank
wapp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wapps
Etymology: From wap (“to wrap up”, dialectal).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A fairleader.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.
wapp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wapps
Senses: glosses: Clipping of web application
wapps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wapp
colotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colotomy
colotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colotomies
Etymology: From colo- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
hyponyms: coloplasty
coordinate_terms: colectomy
colostomy
proctotomy
glosses: Any incisional operation on the colon.
colotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The rhythmic and metric patterns of gamelan music, involving the use of specific instruments to mark off nested time intervals.
Related terms: colotomic
purrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purrocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paddock.
glosses: Alternative form of parrock.
purrocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purrock
post-tympanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + tympanic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posttympanic.
molebut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molebuts
form: molebat
Senses: glosses: The sunfish.
molebuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molebut
phlegmasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /flɛɡˈmeɪzi.ə/
/flɛɡˈmeɪʒə/
Forms: form: phlegmasiae
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek φλεγμᾰσία (phlegmăsía, “inflammation”), from φλέγμα (phlégma, “flame”) (whence also phlegm).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An inflammation, especially of the internal organs.
Derived terms: phlegmasia alba dolens
phlegmasia cerulea dolens
phlegmasia dolens
epinikian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epinikian
form: most epinikian
Etymology: See epinicion.
Senses: glosses: Relating to victory.
epinikian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epinikians
Etymology: See epinicion.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epinicion.
scleriasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sclero- + -iasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: induration of any part, including scleroderma
mallee bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mallee birds
Senses: glosses: malleefowl
mallee birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mallee bird
synanthrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, found in the tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke, in the dahlia, and in other Compositae.
derne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dernes
form: derning
form: derned
form: derned
Etymology: From Old English dyrnan (“to hide”). See dern, dearn (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth.
ref: 1854, Hugh Miller, My schools and schoolmasters:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dern (“hide, skulk”).
unfortunateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfortunate + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: misfortune
word: mishap
word: adverseness
word: adversity
word: bad luck
word: hard luck
word: ill luck
word: mischance
word: misfortune
word: mishap
word: misluck
word: tough luck
word: unfortunateness
word: unluck
word: unluckiness
glosses: The quality of being unfortunate; bad luck; mischance.
matico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Peruvian plant (Piper aduncum) allied to the pepper, whose leaves are used as a styptic and astringent.
shram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shrams
form: shramming
form: shrammed
form: shrammed
Etymology: Compare shrink.
Senses: examples: text: the shramming cold
glosses: To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to numb.
transcur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transcurs
form: transcurring
form: transcurred
form: transcurred
Etymology: From Latin transcurrere, transcursum, from trans (“across, over”) + currere (“to run”).
Senses: examples: text: For astonishment , it is caused by the fixing of the mind upon one object of cogitation , whereby it doth not spatiate and transcur, as it useth ; for in wonder the spirits fly not , as in fear ; but only settle , and are made less apt to move
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To run or rove to and fro, to flit
qualifier: probably nonstandard
glosses: To transpire, to occur
Related terms: transcurrence
transcurrent
transcurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transcur
transcurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transcur
transcurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transcur
tapoa tafa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapoa tafas
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small carnivorous marsupial, the brush-tailed phascogale.
chokestrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chokestraps
Etymology: From choke + strap.
Senses: glosses: A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
chokestraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chokestrap
strappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strapping
tyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tying
eariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪəɹɪnəs/
homophone: eeriness
Senses: examples: text: [T]he eldest sister, little Agnes, though sadly alarmed, and feeling the sensation of eariness as twilight came on, and she looked out from the cottage door to the dreadful fells, […]
ref: 1839 September, [Thomas De Quincey], “Sketches of Life and Manners; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater.—Continued. Recollections of Grasmere.”, in William Tait, editor, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume VI, number LXIX, Edinburgh: William Tait […], →OCLC, pages 573–574:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of eeriness.
erythrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erythro- + -gen.
Senses: glosses: carbon disulfide
glosses: A substance reddened by acids, supposed to be contained in flowers.
glosses: A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia.
odyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of odyle.
reducents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reducent
spiritual incest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The crime of cohabitation between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other.
extraditee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extraditees
Etymology: From extradite + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is extradited.
extraditees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extraditee
loches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loche
nothing but
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: nothing less than; nothing if not (in some usages)
text: Do you solemnly swear that you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
text: In an attempt to lose weight and improve his relationship with food, Andrew Taylor has decided to eat nothing but potatoes for a year.
ref: 2016 February 18, Jennie Jackson, “What would happen if you only ate potatoes?”, in The Independent:
text: "It's because they're hos," she told Owens. "If you don't run out of the room and go, 'Excuse me, you don't do that to me,' and leave, but you stayed around because you're like, 'Well, I thought maybe he was going to give me a writing job,' well, you aren't nothing but a ho."
ref: 2019 March 3, Lena Grossman, quoting Roseanne Barr, “Roseanne Barr Goes After #MeToo Movement in Scathing Interview: "They're Nothing But Hos"”, in E! Online:
synonyms: word: absolutely
word: all-out
word: all the way
word: altogether
word: at large
word: at length
word: cap-a-pie
word: categorically
word: completely
word: detailly
word: downright
word: entirely
word: exhaustively
word: finally
word: first and last
word: flat-out
word: flat out
word: from aardvark to zymurgy
word: from A to Z
word: from head to toe
word: from soup to nuts
word: from stem to stern
word: from the rooter to the tooter
word: from top to bottom
word: from top to toe
word: fully
word: handsomely
word: heartily
word: head to foot
word: head to tail
word: head to toe
word: hook
word: line
word: and sinker
word: in detail
word: in full
word: lock
word: stock
word: and barrel
word: one hundred percent
word: out-and-out
word: out and out
word: outright
word: particularly
word: perfectly
word: plumb
word: purely
word: quite
word: right
word: root and branch
word: soundly
word: soup-to-nuts
word: straight up
word: through and through
word: top to tail
word: top to toe
word: totally
word: totes
word: to the bone
word: to the core
word: to the full
word: utterly
word: well and truly
word: whole
word: whole cloth
word: wholly
word: ;
word: but
word: just
word: literally
word: merely
word: no more than
word: nothing but
word: only
word: simply
glosses: Only.
Derived terms: nothing but net
nothing-buttery
lutings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luting
additional accompaniment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: additional accompaniments
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The practice of enlarging and revising the orchestration of an earlier work, usually a Baroque piece, to accommodate the larger contemporary orchestras and tastes of the time.
Adonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adonic
stromb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strombs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any marine univalve mollusk of Strombus and allied genera.
strombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stromb
principiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of principiate
principiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of principiate
poluria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A persistent excessive flow of watery urine.
hieromnemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hieromnemons
form: hieromnemones
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἱερομνήμων (hieromnḗmōn), from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred”) + μνήμων (mnḗmōn, “mindful, remembering”, from μνήμη (mnḗmē)).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister.
glosses: A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium.
hieromnemons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hieromnemon
rossel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After lining the parietes , or walls of the belly , it is reflected from them , giving covering to the different viscera , and their rossels.
ref: 1842, William MORTIMER, A Manual of Anatomy, with the elements of Physiology and Pathology, etc. Second edition, page 175:
glosses: Light land; rosland.
titter-totter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titter-totters
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of teeter-totter.
meach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meaches
form: meaching
form: meached
form: meached
Etymology: See mich.
Senses: glosses: To skulk; to cower.
spoom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spooms
form: spooming
form: spoomed
form: spoomed
form: spoon
Etymology: Probably a variant of spume (“foam”).
Senses: examples: 17th century: Samuel Pepys
We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
17th century: John Dryden
When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, / My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.
spoom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spooms
form: spoon
Etymology: Probably a variant of spume (“foam”).
Senses: glosses: A sorbet containing fruit juice
spoomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spoom
spooming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spoom
spooms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spoom
spooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoom
cinque-pace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinque-paces
Senses: examples: text: For, hear me, Hero: wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes Repentance, and with his bad legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: A lively dance, the galliard, whose steps were regulated by the number five.
cinque-paces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinque-pace
strainless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strainless
form: most strainless
Etymology: From strain + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without strain.
seity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːɪti/
Forms: form: seities
Etymology: Latin se (“oneself”).
Senses: examples: text: 1709-1711, The Tatler
The learned Scotus , to distinguish the race of mankind, gives every individual of that species what he calls a Seity, something peculiar to himself, which makes him different from all other persons in the world
text: He was […] affected with trepidation, partial surdity, and most perceptible seity.
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 32:
glosses: Something peculiar to oneself; personal peculiarity; individuality.
sarplier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarpliers
form: sarpelere
Etymology: French serpillière.
Senses: examples: text: In Merchandice na Merchant sall passe over the sea, except he haue thrie Serplaiths of wooll, of hiw awin proper gudes.
ref: 1609, John Skene, Regiam Majestatem:
glosses: A coarse cloth made of hemp, used for packing goods, such as wool, hops etc.
sarpliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarplier
aspersoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspersoirs
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: aspergillum
aspersoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspersoir
coquilla nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coquilla nuts
Etymology: From Portuguese coquilho, Spanish coquillo, diminutive of coco (“a coconut”).
Senses: synonyms: coquilla
glosses: The hard-shelled fruit of a Brazilian palm (Attalea funifera), which is used to make ornamental articles.
coquilla nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coquilla nut
bobac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobacs
Etymology: From Polish bobak.
Senses: glosses: The bobak marmot (Marmota bobak).
bird's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birds' mouths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of birdsmouth.
protopapas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protopapases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + πάπας (pápas, “father”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
qualifier: Greek Orthodoxy
glosses: A protopope.
protopapases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protopapas
exect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exects
form: execting
form: exected
form: exected
Etymology: See exsect.
Senses: examples: text: the Office of the Spleen is of great importance, though it may be ſupplyed by other parts, in caſe it be diſeaſed, obſtructed, or exected
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
glosses: To cut off or out.
exected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exect
execting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exect
exects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exect
survivency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of survival.
foggage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foggages
Etymology: From fog + -age; see fog (etymology 2).
Senses: synonyms: fog
glosses: Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the (autumn and) winter.
foggage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foggages
form: foggaging
form: foggaged
form: foggaged
Etymology: From fog + -age; see fog (etymology 2).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:foggage.
glosses: To leave (dead or decaying grass) on land (in the autumn or winter) as foggage.
bark lice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bark louse
bark louse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bark lice
form: bark-louse
Senses: examples: text: Housed plants are considerably injured by an oval bark-louse, the Coccus Hesperidum of Linnæus, which has been introduced from abroad.
ref: 1833 January 20, The New England Farmer and Horticultural Journal, volume 11, page 226:
glosses: Any insect of the family Coccidae, that infest the bark of trees and vines.
examples: text: Another group of insects that tend to be very secretive in their habits and were very well represented in the ancient forest are the bark lice, or psocids.⁶⁸ Bark lice (90) are usually solitary, but sometimes the adults and nymphs live together under webs spun out of silk emitted from head glands. They are found not only in litter but, as their name implies, on and under bark.
ref: 1999, George O. Poinar, Roberta Poinar, The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World, page 84:
text: These include springtails (order Collembola), bark lice (order Ps[o]coptera),[…].
ref: 2002, Lance A. Durden, Gary R. Mullen, “1: Introduction”, in Gary R. Mullen, Lance A. Durden, editors, Medical and Veterinary Entomology, page 8:
text: When present the wings are membranous, with reduced venation, with the hind wing coupled to the larger fore wing in flight and at rest, when the wings are held roof-like over the abdomen (as shown here for the bark louse Amphigerontia contaminata (Psocidae); after Badonnel 1951).
ref: 2010, P. J. Gullan, P. S. Cranston, editors, The Insects: An Outline of Entomology, 4th edition, page 479:
glosses: Any insect of the order Psocoptera, that live on or near trees and feed on algae and lichen.
Synonyms: sense: any species of order Psocoptera
word: bark fly
sense: any species of order Psocoptera
word: psocid
Related terms: book louse
scale insect
drabble-tail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From drabble (“to make wet and dirty by dragging through the mud”) + tail.
Senses: examples: text: What was ailing this ordinarily competent musical flock that they should have languished into such a straggly, drabbletail gathering of barnyard fowl?
ref: 1993, Nancy Kay Webb, “Community Concert”, in Ridge Review, volume 10, page 42:
text: Most of the inhabitants were white women, noted Tom Osborn, with lots of dirty, half-naked children hanging onto their skirts. When Osborn asked a drabbletail group gathered in front of a stick-chimney shanty to account for their husbands, two or three acknowledged the men were away soldiering; another claimed to be an old maid.
ref: 1999, Michael Golay, A Ruined Land: The End of the Civil War, page 101:
glosses: Ragtag.
drabble-tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drabble-tail
cadencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cadency
cadency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadencies
Etymology: From Latin *cadentia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cadence.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Any systematic way of distinguishing similar coats of arms belonging to members of the same family.
TRGB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TRGBs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Tip of the Red Giant Branch; A classification of stars on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram for all stellar populations or of a given sample set, the end of the plot for stars existing on the red giant branch as it branches off from the main sequence.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of TRGB star (“a star in this classification”).
Coordinate terms: AGB
Cepheid
Cepheid variable
distance ladder
Hertzsprung-Russell
H-R diagram
standard candle
type I supernova
Derived terms: TRGB population
TRGB star
Related terms: giant star
red giant
red giant branch
red giant star
star
blue John
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluː dʒɒn/
Forms: form: bluejohn
form: blue john
form: blue-john
form: blue-John
form: Blue John
Etymology: From blue + John.
Senses: topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: Afterwort, partially fermented wort.
glosses: A semiprecious mineral mined in Derbyshire, a form of fluorite with bands of a purple-blue or yellowish colour.
examples: text: Lee went up front to his icebox and brought back a jar of milk. The cream had been skimmed from it. I said, “This tastes like blue-john to me.”
ref: 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
glosses: Skimmed milk.
Related terms: sky blue
stayedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stayedly
form: most stayedly
Etymology: From stayed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of staidly.
anorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anorns
form: anorning
form: anorned
form: anorned
Etymology: From variant forms of Old French aorner, aourner (whence also enurny), from Latin adornare (“to adorn”).
Senses: examples: text: proclamation anorned the walls
ref: 1882, Thomas Ainge Devyr, The Odd Book of the Nineteenth Century:
glosses: To adorn.
anorned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anorn
alew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alews
Etymology: Imitative. Compare halloo.
Senses: examples: text: Yet did she not lament with loude alew, / As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singults few.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A cry of despair.
tiger's-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of morning glory with the leaves lobed in pedate fashion, especially Ipomoea pes-tigridis.
eyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: âr
ipa: /ɛəɹ/
ipa: /ɛɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: air
homophone: Ayr
homophone: ere
homophone: heir
homophone: are stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: err stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: e'er.
Forms: form: eyres
Etymology: From Middle English eire, from Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue.
Senses: examples: text: The fact that the Surrey veredicta are uncancelled, and indeed their very survival, can doubtless be explained by the suspension of the eyre in June 1294, when consideration of the crown pleas had barely begun;
ref: 1982, Public Record Office Handbooks, page 35:
text: None of the original veredicta survive for this eyre, but one of the best surviving examples, and the only one so far to be printed, comes from the Wiltshire eyre which began in the southern eyre circuit at Wilton on the same day as the 1281 Derbyshire eyre began at Derb, and which provides a valuable insight into the nature and contents of the lost Derbyshire veredicta.
ref: 2000, Aileen Hopkinson, editor, The Rolls of the 1281 Derbyshire Eyre, Derbyshire Record Society, →ISBN, page xvi:
topics: law
glosses: A journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre)
eyres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyre
roosa oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Grass oil.
sea feather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea feathers
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of gorgonians (corals) that branch out in a plume-like form.
sea feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea feather
tetradont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetradonts
Senses: glosses: Dated form of tetrodon.
tetradonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetradont
bishop's-weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bishop's weed.
bear's-paw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: bear paw clam
horse's hoof clam
strawberry clam
glosses: A large bivalve mollusc of the East Indies (Hippopus hippopis).
synonyms: bear paw
glosses: A succulent plant native to South Africa (Cotyledon tomentosa).
Related terms: Bearspaw
metavolcanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + volcanic.
Senses: examples: text: Metavolcanic rock is commonly found in greenstone belts.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Being or relating to a type of metamorphic rock originally produced by a volcano, either as lava or tephra, then buried and subjected to high pressures and temperatures, causing it to recrystallize.
tephras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tephra
Songhai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sɒŋˈɡaɪ/
Forms: form: Songai
form: Songhay
form: Songoi
form: Sonrai
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of closely related languages or dialects centred on the middle stretches of the Niger River in West Africa, and used as a lingua franca in that region.
glosses: The Songhai Empire.
Songhai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɒŋˈɡaɪ/
Forms: form: Songhais
form: Songhai
form: Songai
form: Songhay
form: Songoi
form: Sonrai
Senses: glosses: Any member of a West African people who speak the Songhai languages.
Songhais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Songhai
beaked salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaked salmon
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of long, thin ray-finned fish in genus Gonorynchus (family Gonorynchidae) that live on sandy bottoms near shorelines.
Synonyms: sense: Gonorhynchus
word: beaked sandfish
coyoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coyote
coyoteing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coyote
coyoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coyote
plutonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plutonisms
form: Plutonism
Etymology: From Pluto + -ism, after the classical ruler of the underworld.
Senses: glosses: The old geological theory that the rocks forming the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again.
wikipedia: plutonism
Synonyms: vulcanism
Coordinate terms: Neptunism
Related terms: Plutonist
plutonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plutonism
trachearies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracheary
tracheary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: tracheary elements
text: tracheary cells
glosses: tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae
tracheary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trachearies
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Trachearia, an former division of arachnids that breathe through their trachea.
palinspastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more palinspastically
form: most palinspastically
Etymology: From palinspastic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: If reconstructed palinspastically for 300 km of right lateral movement on the San Andreas fault, these strata would lie west to northwest of Paleozoic to Lower Mesozoic strata in Sonora.
ref: 2005, Thomas Howard Anderson, The Mojave-Sonora Megashear Hypothesis, page 211:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: In a palinspastic fashion.
megashear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megashears
Etymology: From mega- + shear.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very large shear, typically tens to hundreds of kilometres in length.