cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ecbole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛkbəliː/
Forms: form: ecboles
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκβολή (ekbolḗ, “a digression”), from ἐκβάλλω (ekbállō, “to throw out”).
Senses: glosses: A digression, (especially) one in which a person is introduced speaking his or her own words.
examples: text: Ecbole: a […] change in the enharmonic genus, by the accidental elevation of a chord, or string, five dieses above its ordinary pitch.
ref: 1813, J.M. Good & al., Pantologia, s.v. "Ecbole"
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The raising or sharping of a tone, especially (historical) in relation to Ancient Greek music.
ecboles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecbole
viroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From viroid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a viroid
exclamative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exclamative
form: most exclamative
Etymology: Compare French exclamatif.
Senses: examples: text: This was the admirative or exclamative power, like the French quel, quelle!
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
glosses: In the form of an exclamation; exclamatory.
Derived terms: exclamatively
exclamative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclamatives
Etymology: Compare French exclamatif.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A clause type used to make an exclamation, such as "What a mess they made!" or "How stupid I was!"
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of exclamative marker.
brassart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəˈsɑɹt/
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.ɑɹt/
Forms: form: brassarts
Senses: examples: text: Itobad, always surprised at the disgraces that happened to such a man as he, was obliged to yield to Zadig, who took from him with great composure his magnificent helmet, his superb cuirass, his fine brassarts, his shining cuishes […]
ref: 1762, T. Smollett, T. Franklin and others (translators), "Zadig", in The Works of M. de Voltaire, page 222
text: […] cross-bow glanced away from the well rivetted plates, and the stroke of the sword rang harmlessly upon the helmet, the brassarts and the cuisses of proof. While infantry were powerless and destitute of physical solidity […]
ref: 1779, Miscellanea Critica: Essays & Comment on Current Topics, page 228:
glosses: Alternative form of brassard.
brassarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brassart
pilular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pilular
form: most pilular
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pills.
examples: text: a pilular mass
glosses: Resembling a pill or pills.
volutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volutation
semiflexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + flexed.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Half bent.
cheliped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːlɪpɛd/
Forms: form: chelipeds
Etymology: From cheli- + -ped.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A leg bearing a chela, or pincer-like claw.
chelipeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheliped
figaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figary
figary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪɡəɹi/
Forms: form: figaries
form: fegary
form: figairey
Etymology: By sound change from vagary.
Senses: examples: text: is she not a woman, and subject to those mad figaries her whole sex is infected with?
ref: c. 1607–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Cupid’s Revenge”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: These women think that all the business of the world must stand still for their figaries (a good female word, Jack!) […].
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCXLII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: A whim or eccentricity.
unwonder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwonders
form: unwondering
form: unwondered
form: unwondered
Etymology: From un- + wonder.
Senses: examples: text: Unwonder me this wonder
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:
glosses: To divest of wonder or mystery, as by interpreting or explaining.
unwonder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unwonders
Etymology: From un- + wonder.
Senses: glosses: a lack of wonder; something not wonderful
unwondered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unwonder
unwondering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unwonder
unwondering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwondering
form: most unwondering
Senses: examples: gazing with unwondering eyes
glosses: Without wonder.
unwonders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unwonder
conchospiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conchospirals
Senses: examples: text: the constant angle according to which each traces its conchospiral.
ref: 1842, The Philosophical Magazine:
glosses: A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells.
conchospirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conchospiral
wonderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wonderless
form: most wonderless
Etymology: From wonder + -less.
Senses: examples: text: But if we inhabited such a world, men themselves would have been wonderless things, unable ever to spin myths.
ref: 1987, George Charles Roche, A world without heroes: the modern tragedy:
glosses: Devoid of wonder.
Related terms: wonderlessness
photogenicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photogenic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being photogenic.
chylopoetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chylo- + -poetic, from Ancient Greek χυλός (khulós, “juice of an animal”) + ποιητικός (poiētikós, “making, producing”).
Senses: examples: the chylopoetic organs
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Involved in the formation of chyle; chyle-producing.
sanguineless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sanguineless
form: most sanguineless
Etymology: From sanguine + -less.
Senses: glosses: destitute of blood; pale
crippleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cripple + -ness.
Senses: glosses: lameness
stenophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stenophyllous
form: most stenophyllous
Etymology: From steno- + phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having narrow leaves.
demurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˈmjʊəɹɪti/
Etymology: From demure + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: of late they pretend to ſuch Demurity as to form a Society for the Regulation of Manners
ref: 1702, Thomas Browne, Letters from the Dead to the Living:
glosses: The state or quality of being demure; demureness.
sightfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sightful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Let vs not wincke, thoughe voyde of pureſt ſightfullnes.
ref: Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The Second Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version […] (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 143
english: The Old Arcadia
translation: The Old Arcadia
text: It makes sense, then, to reconsider nostalgia not as blindness but as sightfulness
ref: 2001, Peter Fritzsche, Specters of History: On Nostalgia, Exile, and Modernity:
glosses: The state of being sightful; perspicuity.
dick cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dickcheese.
metanephroi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metanephros
metanephros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metanephroi
form: metanephroses
Etymology: From meta- + nephros.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.
Derived terms: metanephric
metanephritic
metanephrogenic
metanephroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metanephros
retroperistaltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + peristaltic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to retroperistalsis.
interprofessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + professional.
Senses: examples: interprofessional collaboration
glosses: Between professionals.
interparoxysmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + paroxysmal.
Senses: glosses: Between paroxysms.
intervaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
-ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From inter- + vaginal.
Senses: glosses: Between vaginae or sheaths.
intervenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːnəs
Etymology: From inter- + venous.
Senses: examples: intervenous yellowing in leaves
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Between veins.
intercoccygeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + coccygeal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between segments of the coccyx.
interbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interbrains
Etymology: From inter- + brain.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The diencephalon.
interbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interbrain
intergemmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + gemmal.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Between gemmae.
intercuspal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + cuspal.
Senses: glosses: Between cusps.
interwave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + wave.
Senses: examples: interwave latency
glosses: Between waves.
cuspal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cusp + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a cusp or cusps.
Derived terms: intercuspal
tricuspal
interdigit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + digit.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Between digits (as when dialling a number)
interdigit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interdigits
Etymology: From inter- + digit.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The area of a hand or foot between adjacent fingers or toes
interbud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + bud.
Senses: examples: interbud compartments
glosses: Between buds.
nonbudding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + budding.
Senses: examples: nonbudding hydra
glosses: That does not bud.
intercapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + capillary.
Senses: examples: intercapillary connective tissue
glosses: Between capillaries.
intergene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + gene.
Senses: examples: an intergene region of viral genome
glosses: Between genes.
dorsiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From dorsi- + -ferous; compare French dorsifère.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: dorsigerous
glosses: Bearing, or producing, on the back; applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain frogs, whose ova become attached to the skin of the parent's back, where they develop.
palpebrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Latin palpebratus (“eyebrowed”), from Latin palpebra (“an eyelid”) + -atus.
Senses: examples: text: Lateral canthoplasty to reduce the size of the palpebrate fissure.
ref: 1979, Kirk N. Gelatt, Robert L. Peiffer, R. M. Gwin, Manual of External Ophthalmic Surgery, page 98:
text: These data have encouraged us to apply some of the procedures used for correcting blepharoespasm(10,11,12) to palpebrate aesthetic surgery, by changing some of the existing techniques, moderately resecting the orbicular muscle on the external lateral portion of the palpebral commissure, attenuating its contraction, and thus diminishing skin wrinkles at this site ("crow's feet").
ref: 2002, Antenor Bonatto Júnior, André Gonçalves de Freitas, José Marcos Mélega, “Myectomy of the Orbicularis Oculi Muscle: A New Procedure Associated to Bleroplasty”, in Brazilian Journal of Plastic Surgery, volume 17, number 1:
text: The vesicles on his palpebrate conjunctivae and the Tzanck stain (or smear) revealing multinucleated giant cells are almost pathognomonic for a herpes simplex infection.
ref: 2011, Pamela Scott, Cases in Clinical Medicine, page 162:
text: There were also observed double, triple and palpebrate movements that differed by brief returns to the inspiratory phase during the expiratory phase.
ref: 2015, GV Fedynchuk, VV Malyar, VA Malyar, “Haemodynamic changes in utero-placental-fetal complex on the background of the complex therapy of preeclampsia in combination with hypothyroidism”, in The Pharma Innovation Journal, volume 4, number 7:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the eyelids.
Derived terms: epalpebrate
palpebrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: palpebrates
form: palpebrating
form: palpebrated
form: palpebrated
Etymology: From New Latin palpebratus (“eyebrowed”), from Latin palpebra (“an eyelid”) + -atus.
Senses: examples: text: Without your eyelid, you could not palpebrate.
ref: 2013, Faith Hickman Brynie, 101 Questions about Muscles, 2nd Edition, page 58:
text: Respiratory viruses damage palpebrating epithelium of mucous membrane of the respiratory tract,
ref: 2018, TO Kryuchko, IA Golovanova, OY Tkachenko, MO Melnyk, KV Pocheniuk, “Prevalence of risk factors of allergic diseases among children aged 8-9 years in Poltava region (the results of the first stage of the research)”, in Poltava State Medical University:
text: "But I wanted to pull you into my dimples whenever you touch them. It's a feel and I really don't know why I say so,” she looked into my eyes and her palpebrating eyes didn't wink for a few seconds.
ref: 2018, Venkatraman Nagarajan, Should I meet her?:
glosses: To wink or blink.
gemmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gemma + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to gemmae.
Derived terms: extragemmal
intergemmal
intragemmal
perigemmal
subgemmal
Sofism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sufism.
prioritizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prioritize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being prioritized.
phantasmascope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantasmascopes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phantascope.
phantasmascopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantasmascope
deposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deposals
Etymology: From depose + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne.
deposals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deposal
couzeranite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A scapolite mineral.
dipyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipyres
Etymology: From di- + Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”); so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it and rendering it phosphorescent.
Senses: glosses: A scapolite mineral.
dipyres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipyre
painture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paintures
Etymology: French peinture. See paint and compare picture.
Senses: examples: text: To the next realm she stretched her sway,
For Painture I near adjoining lay
ref: 1694, John Dryden, Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew:
glosses: The art of painting.
examples: text: And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.
ref: 1900, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (version in modern spelling)
glosses: A painting.
saxicavous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪvəs
Etymology: Latin saxum (“rock”) + cavare (“to make hollow”), from cavus (“hollow”): compare French saxicave.
Senses: examples: a saxicavous mollusk
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Boring or hollowing out rocks.
pamperingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pamperingly
form: most pamperingly
Etymology: From pampering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Now Joseph, like the psalmist, was profane enough to find a divinity in his digestive organs; and it was only natural that she who tended so pamperingly what was his god, should become his goddess.
ref: 1846, Catherine Grace F. Gore, Sketches of English character, page 276:
glosses: So as to pamper; with indulgent attentions.
conyrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A fluorescent blue oily base obtained from coniine, regarded as a derivative of pyridine.
camphogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From camphor + -gen, formerly so called as derived from camphor. Compare French camphogène.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cymene, or (possibly) similar compounds
preservatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preservatory
preservatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preservatories
Senses: examples: text: How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy Name, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine; […]
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
glosses: A preservative.
glosses: A room or apparatus in which perishable things can be preserved without decay.
preservatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preservatory
form: most preservatory
Senses: examples: text: But, all this while, the intentions and endeavours must be no other than preservatory; however it pleaseth God to order the events
ref: 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:
glosses: preservative
preopercular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + opercular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated in front of the operculum.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the preoperculum.
preopercular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preoperculars
Etymology: From pre- + opercular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The preoperculum.
preoperculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preopercular
steve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: steeve
Forms: form: steves
form: steving
form: steved
form: steved
Etymology: Clipping of stevedore.
Senses: glosses: To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.
steve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: steeve
Forms: form: steves
Etymology: Decapitalization of STEVE.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of STEVE.
steved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of steve
steves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of steve
steves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steve
steving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steve
linguidental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: linguidentals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of linguadental.
linguidentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linguidental
ticktack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And that those pretended Tumults were chastiz'd by thir own Army for new Tumults, is not prov'd by a Game at Tictack with words
ref: 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes, archived from the original on 31 May 2020, Part XXVI, Upon the Armies surprisall of the King at Holmeby:
synonyms: tricktrack
trictrac
glosses: A kind of backgammon played with both men and pegs.
ticktack
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: A wild young fellow coming home late one night, heard, while he was putting the key into the lock, something on the ground that continually went ticktack, ticktack, ticktack. Stooping down he found it was a silver watch[…]
ref: 1852, Northern Mythology: Volume 3, page 206:
text: Damn the thing, why didn't it stop – with its monotonous ticktack; ticktack; ticktack – he could feel it inside his head where it seemed to strike innumerable little blows, on a strained chord it was bent on snapping.
ref: 1901, George Brown, The House With the Green Shutters:
glosses: Dated form of tick tock.
ticktack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticktacks
Senses: glosses: A repeated ticking noise like that made by a clock or a watch.
ticktack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ticktacks
form: ticktacking
form: ticktacked
form: ticktacked
Senses: glosses: To make that kind of noise.
glosses: To play a prank that involves making noise outside a person's house by various means.
mercar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mercall.
unscalped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + scalped.
Senses: examples: unscalped ore
glosses: Not scalped.
microcrith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcriths
Etymology: From micro- + crith.
Senses: examples: text: An atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths.
text: 1872, Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.), Principles of Chemical Philosophy
It will perhaps serve to give greater definiteness to our conceptions if , even at the risk of coining a new word , we call the unit of molecular weights a microcrith .
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements.
microcriths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcrith
tick tack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tick tacks
Senses: examples: text: But come to the clock, Mary. Remember, our lives are short, and they contain only a certain number of "tick tacks;" we cannot, therefore, afford to waste them.
ref: 1870, Charles Bilton, “The household friend”, in The Class and Standard Series of Reading Books, Book IV, Special lessons for girls, page 199:
text: Nancy took Tacoma to a cow. Nancy went in first and cut his bag full. He told Tacoma not to cut the thing that went "tick, tack," but Tacoma cut it and the cow fell down dead.
ref: 1992, William Russell Bascom, African Folktales in the New World, page 98:
glosses: The sound of repeated tapping, knocking, or clicking.
examples: text: I got me a hammer and nails with the heavy lead sinker offen my fishnet, and it wasn't long before the finest tick-tack you ever saw was working against the Spiegelnails' parlor window, with me in a lilac-bush operating the string that kept the weight a-swinging.
ref: 1907, Nelson Lloyd, “The last ghost in Harmony”, in Scribner's Magazine, volume 41:
glosses: A device used to tap on a window or door from a distance.
glosses: Alternative form of tic-tac, a sign language used by bookmakers.
traveler's diarrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travelers' diarrhea
form: traveller's diarrhoea
form: travellers' diarrhoea
form: traveller's diarrhea
form: travellers' diarrhea
form: traveler's diarrhoea
form: travelers' diarrhoea
Senses: examples: text: Contaminated salads remain the most common cause of traveler's diarrhea in countries where the climate is hot.
ref: 2010, The Digestive System, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: Diarrhea contracted by someone visiting from another country or region via food or water contaminated with microbes to which their gut microbiota is unaccustomed.
Synonyms: word: TD
word: turista
Hypernyms: food-borne disease
water-borne disease
Hyponyms: word: Delhi belly
word: Montezuma's revenge
word: tourista
cottised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cottise + -ed.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
qualifier: bar; etc; bar; etc
glosses: Set between two thin lines (cottises).
raw_tags: of a bend
bubble gums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble gum
hoddengray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoddengrey
Etymology: Perhaps related to English hoiden (“rustic, clownish”) and gray.
Senses: examples: text: coat/suit of hoddengray
glosses: A coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scottish peasants.
overperch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overperches
form: overperching
form: overperched
form: overperched
Etymology: From over- + perch.
Senses: examples: text: With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To perch upon; to fly over.
glosses: To tower over
overperched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overperch
overperches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overperch
overperching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overperch
Panslavonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæn.sləˈvəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌpæn.sləˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From pan- + Slavonian.
Senses: glosses: Panslavic
chauldron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chauldrons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chawdron.
chauldrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chauldron
ex-voto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex-votos
Etymology: From Latin ex (“out of, in accordance with”) + voto, ablative of votum (“a vow”).
Senses: glosses: An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.
ex-votos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ex-voto
pressurage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressurages
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: pressure
glosses: The juice of the grape extracted by the press.
glosses: A fee paid for the use of a winepress.
pressurages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressurage
Egean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aegean.
discous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discous
form: most discous
Etymology: From Latin discus (“disk”). See disk.
Senses: glosses: Like a disk/disc
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: discoid.
monoptote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoptotes
Etymology: From Latin monoptotum, from Ancient Greek μονόπτωτος (monóptōtos).
Senses: examples: text: A noun which is found in one case only, is called a Monoptote; if found in two cases, a Diptote; if in three, a Triptote; if in four, a Tetraptote; and if in five, a Pentaptote.
ref: 1836, Ethan Allen Andrews, A Grammar of the Latin Language for Use of Schools and Colleges:
text: What is meant by monoptote, diptote, and triptote nouns? Give examples.
A monoptote is a noun which has only one case, as natu; a diptote two, as fors, forte; a triptote three, as opis, opem, ope.
ref: 1882, Edward Henslowe Bedford, A digest of the […] questions in Latin grammar, page 18:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun which only occurs in one case.
Coordinate terms: aptote
diptote
triptote
tetraptote
pentaptote
monoptotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoptote
hypocleidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypocleidium
hypocleidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypocleidia
Etymology: From hypo- + Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “clavicle”) + -ium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A median process on the furculum of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum.
Related terms: epicleidium
playgame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪɡeɪm/
Forms: form: playgames
Etymology: From play + game.
Senses: examples: text: And it is that liberty alone, which gives the true relish and delight to their ordinary play-games.
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§76”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
text: Then fall they to cry, to weep, and to torment themselves, as little children that have lost their playgame.
ref: 1592, Philippe de Mornay, translated by Mary Sidney, A Discourse of Life and Death:
text: It is a part of their playgame. They have everything they ask.
ref: 1922, Lady Gregory, Wonder and the Supernatural:
glosses: The play of children.
fingerbanged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fingerbang
male circumcision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: male circumcisions
Senses: synonyms: posthectomy
glosses: An operation involving the surgical removal of all or most of the foreskin (prepuce) and frenulum of the male genitalia.
Hypernyms: word: circumcision
word: male genital cutting
english: or MGM
translation: or MGM
word: sometimes included under male genital mutilation
word: male genital mutilator
Coordinate terms: female circumcision
Related terms: circumcise
Coriolanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Coriolanian
form: most Coriolanian
Etymology: From Coriolanus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Roman general said to have lived in the 5th century BC, famed for exceptional valour.
pansexually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pansexual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The pansexually perverse bisexuals who cruised everybody, eliminating only the illiterate, were probably the only people there who really "got" the queerness of our party.
ref: 1999, Out, volume 7, number 9, page 46:
glosses: In a pansexual manner.
begnawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: begnawn with the bots
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: They are as a class, dyspeptics, — begnawn by indigestion, — and they try a new kind of patent medicine every week[…]
ref: 1897, Maine Academy of Medicine and Science, Journal of medicine and science: Volume 4:
text: penitent or fear-begnawn rogues
ref: 1896, Charles Whitehead, Richard Savage, a romance of real life:
glosses: past participle of begnaw
gobbety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gobbety
form: most gobbety
Etymology: From gobbet + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] that's the way the roundworm feels when a big gobbety mess of half-digested steak or moo goo gai pan comes sloshing down to him.
ref: 1984, John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick:
text: […] the pen had made a grinding sound against the bone of the old man's eyesocket when it finally let go, and there had been a loose, gobbety plopping sound as something fell from the bent tip of the pen's steel nib onto the blotter.
ref: 2006, Stephen King, Cell:
glosses: Like gobbets; having the texture of gobbets.
purulently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more purulently
form: most purulently
Etymology: From purulent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a purulent manner; involving, or resembling pus.
Phrygians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Phrygian
phrontisteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phrontistery
argumentum ad fidem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹ.ɡjuˈmɛn.təm æd ˈfɪ.dɛm/
note: emulating Classical Latin
ipa: /-tum-/
ipa: /-ˈfi.dɛm/
enpr: ärgyo͞omĕnʹtəm ăd fĭʹdĕm
ipa: /ɑːɡjuːˈmɛntəm æd ˈfɪdɛm/
note: emulating Classical Latin
ipa: /-ɡuː-/
note: emulating Classical Latin
ipa: /-ˈfi.dɛm/
Forms: form: argumenta ad fidem
Etymology: Latin: argūmentum (“argument”, “proof”) + ad (“to”, “toward”) + fidem (accusative singular of fidēs, “faith”, “belief”) ≈ “appeal to faith”
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:argumentum ad fidem.
glosses: A fallacious argument that asserts the truth of a proposition by an appeal to pious testimony or religious revelation.
argumenta ad fidem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹ.ɡjuˈmɛn.tə æd ˈfɪ.dɛm/
note: emulating Classical Latin
ipa: /-ˈfi.dɛm/
enpr: ärgyo͞omĕnʹtə ăd fĭʹdĕm
ipa: /ɑːɡjuːˈmɛntə æd ˈfɪdɛm/
note: emulating Classical Latin
ipa: /-ɡuː-/
Etymology: Latin: argūmenta (“arguments”, “proofs”; nominative plural of argūmentum) + ad + fidem (accusative singular of fidēs) ≈ “appeals to faith”
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:argumenta ad fidem.
glosses: plural of argumentum ad fidem
make due
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes due
form: making due
form: made due
form: made due
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of make do.
hazelwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hazel + wort.
Senses: glosses: asarabacca
peristrephic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περιστρέφω (peristréphō, “to turn round”).
Senses: examples: text: a peristrephic panorama
qualifier: almost always of a panorama (set of moving pictures)
glosses: Turning around; rotatory; revolving.
raw_tags: of battles
scabredity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin scabrēdō (“roughness of the skin, scabbiness”) + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: concavities about the eyes, wrinkles, pimples, red streaks, freckles, hairs, warts, næves, inequalities, roughness, scabredity, paleness, yellowness, and as many colours as are in a turkeycock's neck
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
text: The scabredity of the pedicels may possibly be of some mechanical assistance in the splitting of the spathe.
ref: 1909 May 24, James E. McDonald, “The Broad-Leaved Wood Garlic or Ramsons”, in The Naturalist, number 628, page 199:
text: In the description the lemma is described as „exceeding the glumes“, which is often the case in A. adscensionis, the awns are described as „barbatae“, an unusual denotation of the scabredity of the awns.
ref: 1927, Jan Theodoor Henrard, “A Critical Revision of the Genus Aristida”, in Mededeelingen van's Rijks Herbarium, volume 54A, number 1, page 265:
glosses: Roughness (of a surface).
intermean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermeans
Etymology: From inter- + mean.
Senses: examples: text: The fourth Intermean after the fourth Act
ref: 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Something done in the meantime; interlude.
intermean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + mean.
Senses: examples: text: intermean distance
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Between mean averages.
intermeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermean
southsayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southsayers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of soothsayer.
southsayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southsayer
exostema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exostemas
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Exostema.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the flowering plant genus Exostema.
exostemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exostema
princewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prince + wood.
Senses: glosses: The wood of various rubiaceous trees, including those of species Hamelia ventricosa, Cordia gerascanthus, and Exostema caribaeum.
Princetonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪnsˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /pɹɪnsˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Princetonians
Etymology: From Princeton + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A student or alumnus of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Princetonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Princetonian
unenviability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + enviability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unenviable.
unenviableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unenviable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unenviable.
putredinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more putredinous
form: most putredinous
Etymology: From Latin putredo (“rottenness”), from putrere (“to be rotten”). See putrid.
Senses: glosses: Resulting from putrefaction, or partaking in the putrefactive process
glosses: having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.
reestate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reestates
form: reestating
form: reestated
form: reestated
Etymology: From re- + estate.
Senses: examples: text: the salve is that which will free us from this horrible condition: and restore, and re-estate us into the favour of the Lord
ref: 1640, John Stoughton, Choice Sermons:
glosses: To reestablish.
reestated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reestate
reestates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reestate
reestating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reestate
interopercula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interoperculum
interoperculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interopercula
Etymology: From inter- + operculum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
ichthyology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: interopercle
demonries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonry
demonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonries
Etymology: From demon + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Were he in Parthia, our great god, the sun,
Or rather he who in that star resides,
Would not permit his power to be so thwarted,
For all the demonry that e'er exerted
Its baleful influence on wretched men
ref: 1826, Joanna Baillie, The Martyr:
glosses: demonic activity, influence, or possession
sergeancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sergeancy
sergeancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sergeancies
form: sergeantcy
form: serjeancy
Etymology: From Middle English sergeancie, from Anglo-Norman serjancie and Medieval Latin serjantia, sergantia. Compare sergeanty.
Senses: glosses: The role, rank or office of a sergeant; sergeantship.
salicylite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salicylites
Etymology: From salicylal + -ite?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of salicylal.
salicylites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salicylite
moggan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moggans
Senses: glosses: A closely-fitting knitted removable sleeve.
glosses: A knitted legging.
moggans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moggan
seerhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seerhands
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.
meconidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meconidium
meconidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meconidia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”, due to a resemblance to poppy-capsules) + -idium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyraea (Campanulariidae), having tentacles, and otherwise resembling a free medusa, but remaining attached by a pedicel.
sorbile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sorbile
form: most sorbile
Etymology: From Latin sorbilis, from sorbere (“to suck in, to drink down”).
Senses: examples: text: […] he rejects, also, Lavoisier's hypothesis, who supposes that metallic substances calcined, contain dephlogisticated air; whereas, according to Mr. Lubbock, they contain only the basis of dephlogisticated air, that is the sorbile principle.
ref: 1784, Paul Henry Maty, A New Review: Volume 6, page 439:
text: By dint, however, of some puzzling, and cross-examination of the garçon, I discovered that la soupe is school French, and that the proper appellation of sorbile esculents is potage.
ref: 1835, Adam Waldie, The select circulating library: Volume 5, Part 1, page 190:
glosses: Fit to be drunk or sipped.
condescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɒndɪˈsɛnt/
Forms: form: condescents
Etymology: Compare condescend, descent.
Senses: examples: text: it is a condescent and debasement for the present
ref: 1662, Henry More, The Defence of the Moral Cabbala:
glosses: An act of condescending, or acting in a condescending manner.
condescents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condescent
bushboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushboys
Etymology: From bush + boy.
Senses: glosses: A young bushman; a boy who lives or camps in the bush.
bushboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushboy
Panislamism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pan-Islamism
Etymology: From pan- + Islamism.
Senses: glosses: A political movement advocating the unity of Muslims under one Islamic state or organization.
Related terms: ummah
caliphate
gayne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gaynes
form: gayning
form: gayned
form: gayned
Etymology: See gain.
Senses: glosses: To gain; to avail.
gayned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gayne
gaynes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gayne
gayning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gayne
rhodophane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhodo- + -phane.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The red pigment in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals.
Related terms: word: chromophane
english: possible synonym??
translation: possible synonym??
word: iodopsin
parapherna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Late Latin parapherna, from Ancient Greek παράφερνα (parápherna, “things additional to a dowry”), from παρα- (para-, “beside”) + φερνή (phernḗ, “dowry”). In the propertied classes, a dowry was placed under the control of the husband, while the 'paraphernalia' which she brought with her remained the wife’s property.
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: paraphernalia
peculium
glosses: A woman's property which was not made a part of her marriage dower, but remained her own.
Related terms: paraphernal
paraphernalia
paraphasias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraphasia
paraphenylenediamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraphenylenediamine
Delphian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Delphian
form: most Delphian
Etymology: From Delphi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Delphi in Greece; Delphic.
Delphian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Delphians
Etymology: From Delphi + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Delphi.
Delphian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Delphi + -an.
Senses: glosses: A dialect of Ancient Greek.
Delphians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Delphian
overrunneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: overrun + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overrun
native sons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of native son
oxycaproic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: leucic acid; leucinic acid
scutellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scutellations
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Collectively, the covering or arrangement of scales or scutella, such as on a reptile, or the legs and feet of a bird
Related terms: scutellum
scutellate
scutellations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutellation
parasphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasphenoids
Etymology: From para- + sphenoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many vertebrates.
Derived terms: parasphenoidal
parasphenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + sphenoid.
Senses: glosses: Lying under or alongside the sphenoid.
parasphenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasphenoid
nitrosalicylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nitro- + salicylic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitro derivative of salicylic acid.
Synonyms: anilic acid
columniations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of columniation
supercolumniation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercolumniations
Etymology: From super- + columniation.
Senses: examples: text: An example of supercolumniation would be the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above that.
topics: architecture
glosses: The putting of one order above another.
topics: architecture
glosses: An architectural work produced by this method.
supercolumniations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercolumniation
leucopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucopathy
leucopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucopathies
form: leukopathy
Etymology: From leuco- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: albinism
unitarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unitard + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Clad in a unitard.