cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
headmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headmarks
Etymology: From head (“uppermost part of the body”, noun) + mark.
Senses: examples: text: He may be recognized by his headmark. You can tell him by the lounging style in which he shuffles along the leading streets, his face deformed by patches of filthy hair, and his garments cut after a rakish pattern.
ref: 1858, Robert Jackson MacGeorge, Tales, Sketches and Lyrics, page 240:
glosses: The distinction or peculiarity of the head, face, or features used in distinguishing each individual of a given species; personal appearance; facial features.
headmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headmarks
Etymology: From head (“positioned at the head, primary, main”, adjective) + mark.
Senses: glosses: A headland marking the limit of a field.
glosses: A credit (as toward a prize to be awarded) given to a pupil for reaching the head position in an examination conducted with the pupils lined up and each pupil advancing toward the head of the line according to the proportionate number of his or her correct answers.
undisabused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + disabused.
Senses: examples: text: If our students do not learn these things from us they will continue undisabused in the misconceptions widely believed and propagated in the Australian society at large.
ref: 1977 J. F. Hausfeld & M. W. Jackson "On 'political education'" Australian journal of political science (Vol.13 No.1, doi:10.1080/00323267808401651) p.162
text: I do not look to the White House for irony, but the extent to which the Obama bliss is premised upon such undisabused belief vexes me. Credulity is a poor foundation for conviction.
ref: 2009 February 18, Washington Diarist, “Network Nation”, in The New Republic:
glosses: not disabused, still labouring under an illusion
beglamor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beglamors
form: beglamoring
form: beglamored
form: beglamored
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beglamour.
longicaudate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
antonyms: brevicaudate
glosses: Having a long tail.
subsessile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + sessile.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Not quite sessile
hen hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hen hearted
form: most hen hearted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hen-hearted.
white livered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more white livered
form: most white livered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of white-livered.
pachyphyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pachyphyllous
form: most pachyphyllous
Etymology: From pachy- + phyllo- + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: thick-leafed
bih
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɪ(ː)/
Forms: form: bihs
Senses: examples: text: You don't want no problem, want no problem with me, bih!
ref: 2016, Chancelor Bennett, Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., Tauheed Epps, Ivan Jackson, “No Problem” (track 2), in Coloring Book, performed by Chance the Rapper:
text: Shoulda vaselined that bih. Forgot to vaseline that bih.
ref: 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A bitch.
planetary body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetary bodies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of planetary object.
synonyms: word: planetary object
satellite planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satellite planets
Senses: examples: text: The Motions of the ſix Primary Planets round the Sun is So adjuſted, that the Square of the Times of their peroidical [sic] Revolutions are as the Cubes of their Diſtances from the Sun : And the ſame thing is found by all Aſtronomers to be true, with Regard to the Motions of the Secondary Planets or Satellites round their primary ones. [...] But if the Orbit of the Satellite Planet, inſtead of being a Circle be an Ellipſis, in whoſe Focus the Primary Planet is ſuppoſed to be placed, then will the greater Axis of this Elliptical Orbit, twice advance forward, viz. in the 2 Quadratures, and twice recede backward, viz. in the 2 Syzygies, of every Revolution of the Satellite round the Planet.
ref: 1723, John Harris, “Planets”, in Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of a planet besides Earth; a secondary planet; a natural planetary satellite.
examples: text: It is possible that supernovae occur in conjunction with either a satellite planet or binary star.
ref: 1970 January 17, Stirling Colgate, “Ejection of Companion Objects by Supernovae”, in Nature, volume 225, Letters, pages 247–248:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A planet viewed as a satellite of another object, such as another star; an exoplanet.
examples: text: it's only been in recent years that astronomers and planetary scientists have been willing to think of planets, like they've long thought of stars and galaxies, as capable of orbiting one another. And of course those objects are the satellite planets.
ref: ca. 2009, Challenger Center, “Satellite Planets with Dr. Alan Stern”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of planetary mass; a natural satellite which would be considered a planet or dwarf planet if it were in direct orbit of the Sun.
craftable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more craftable
form: most craftable
Etymology: From craft + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Just like Whisper of the Worm last month, Outbreak Perfected now has a craftable variant with a refreshed perk pool that makes it better than ever.
ref: 2024 May 14, Kurt Perry, “Destiny 2 Exotic’s new craftable variant has made it a primary powerhouse”, in Dexerto:
glosses: Able to be crafted.
craftable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craftables
Etymology: From craft + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Pokemon Legends Arceus has tons of craftables that trainers can unlock throughout their journey through the Hisui region.
ref: 2022 May 28, Philip Trahan, “How to make Swap Snacks & complete Request 54 in Pokemon Legends Arceus”, in Dexerto:
glosses: Something that can be crafted.
charman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charmen
Senses: glosses: A man who does the work of a charwoman.
Orestes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈɹɛstiːz/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρέστης (Oréstēs).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who killed his mother, avenging his father's death, and was then pursued by the Furies.
glosses: A region of Macedonia.
glosses: A town in Indiana.
lomilomi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hawaiian lomilomi, reduplication of lomi (“to rub with the hand”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional form of Hawaiian massage.
lomilomi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lomilomis
form: lomilomiing
form: lomilomied
form: lomilomied
Etymology: From Hawaiian lomilomi, reduplication of lomi (“to rub with the hand”).
Senses: examples: text: During a church service at Kawaiaha‘o, she once walked to the rear of the church, lay on her back, and called a native Hawaiian boy of about eight years old over to her, commanding him to lomilomi her abdomen with his feet.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 99:
glosses: To massage.
Derived terms: lomilomi salmon
trivializingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more trivializingly
form: most trivializingly
Etymology: From trivializing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Naturalists, often trivializingly dubbed “botanists,” hunted, fished, shot, trapped, caught, cut, or uprooted any species on mere suspicion of its being unknown.
ref: 2008, Regine I. Heberlein, Writing a national colony, page 104:
glosses: So as to trivialize.
othermother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: othermothers
Etymology: From other + mother.
Senses: glosses: A woman who cares for a child that is not biologically her own.
othermothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of othermother
coaccused
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaccuseds
Etymology: From co- + accused.
Senses: examples: text: If the government's theory is that the accuseds all engaged in forcible sexual intercourse and one of the coaccuseds is willing to testify about the prior consensual intercourse, defense counsel should offer such evidence to support an argument of consent and mistake of fact.
ref: 1975, The Army Lawyer, page 40:
topics: law
glosses: One of two or more people accused of the same offence
coaccuseds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coaccused
candlepin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candlepins
Etymology: From candle + pin, from its shape.
Senses: topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A kind of cylindrical tenpin used in a North American regional form of bowling.
Derived terms: candlepin bowling
candlepins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candlepin
wheelbarrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wheelbarrow + -ing.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The loss of control caused by excessive forward pressure on the elevator control of an aeroplane with a nosewheel during takeoff or landing.
wheelbarrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From wheelbarrow + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle of wheelbarrow
atchieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atchieves
form: atchieving
form: atchieved
form: atchieved
Senses: examples: text: [U]s hitherto this Corner and ſecret receſſe hath defended, novv the Vttermoſt point of our Land is laid open: and things the leſſe they haue beene vvithin knovvledge, the greater the glorie is to atchieue them.
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Flavius Domitian”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book VI ([The Romans] […]), paragraph 8, page 214, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of achieve.
Related terms: atchievement
atchieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of atchieve
atchieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of atchieve
atchieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of atchieve
superaltar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsupɚˌɔltɚ/
ipa: /ˈsupɚˌɑltɚ/
ipa: /ˈs(j)uːpəɹˌɔːltə/
Forms: form: superaltars
Etymology: From super- + altar.
Senses: glosses: Within the Christian Church, a portable altar consecrated for use on unconsecrated surfaces.
topics: architecture
glosses: A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, suitable for holding objects; a predella or gradino.
superaltars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superaltar
vibex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪbɛks/
Forms: form: vibices
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vībex (“the mark of a blow”).
Senses: examples: text: During the last winter, the child was again brought to me, but in a dying state, and the mother could not be persuaded to allow it to come into the hospital: it was as well-grown as children of its age, very anæmic, but with several purpurous spots, or rather vibices, upon the body; […] The poor mother afterwards came in great distress, because a medical practitioner, who had been called in to see the child, not recognising the nature of the malady, said there must be a coroner's inquest; the purpurous vibices upon the body being mistaken for the bruises of ill treatment.
ref: 1865, S[amuel] O[sborne] Habershon, “Clinical Remarks on Diseases of the Skin”, in Samuel Wilks, editor, Guy's Hospital Reports (Third Series), volume XI, London: John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington Street, →OCLC, page 233:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An extensive patch of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.
vibices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibex
devilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devilisms
Etymology: From devil + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: This is not heresy, but mere devilism; wherewith yet, it seems, some ungrounded souls are woefully tainted.
ref: 1652, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Sons of God Led by the Spirit of God (sermon)
glosses: The character or doctrines of the Devil or devils; devilry.
devilisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devilism
roundheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roundheaded
form: most roundheaded
Etymology: From round + headed.
Senses: glosses: Having a round head or top.
stypticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French stypticité.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.
dowst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dowsts
Senses: examples: text: How sweetly does this fellow take his dowst
ref: c. 1615–1616, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, “The Nice Valour, or, The Passionate Mad-man”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Obsolete form of dowse.
dowsts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dowst
injoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: injoins
form: injoining
form: injoined
form: injoined
Senses: examples: text: When theſe Favours were beſtowed, the Sentences were read over, by which Penances were injoined the Criminals.
The firſt Sentences were those of the Croſs-Bearers, who were injoined to wear Croſſes on their Breaſt and Back, and if their Crimes were very heinous, they were condemned to wear two.
ref: 1731, Philippus van Limborch, The History of the Inquisition, volumes 1-2, page 307:
text: 1751, George Buchanan, unnamed translator, History of Scotland [1582, Rerum Scoticarum Historia], Volume 1, page 238,
Neither did the King omit to perform all that they injoined him, thinking to be healed in his Conſcience by theſe Expiations.
text: And our blessed Lord injoins all his disciples to be “wise” as well as “harmless.” Matt. x. 16.
ref: 1823, The Family Prayer-Book, Or The Book of Common Prayer, page 639:
glosses: Obsolete form of enjoin.
injoined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of injoin
injoining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of injoin
injoins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of injoin
inaquation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The solution to the second reason is almost as fondly handled, alluding from impanation to inaquation.
ref: 1550, Bishop Stephen Gardiner, quoted in Writings and Disputations of Thomas Cranmer Relative to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, Volume 15 of Publications (Parker Society (Great Britain)), John Edmund Cox (editor), published 1844
glosses: The state of being inaquate.
triplasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: the triplasian (that is , the threefold or triplicated) Mithras
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: threefold; triple; treble
farding-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farding-bags
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fardingbag.
farding-bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farding-bag
platycnemism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: platycnemia (Lateral flattening of the tibia.)
altiscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altiscopes
Etymology: From Latin altus (“high”) + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A periscope
altiscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altiscope
compunctiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compunctiously
form: most compunctiously
Etymology: From compunctious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With compunction; guiltily or regretfully.
pseudomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːdəˈmɔː(ɹ)fəs/
ipa: /ˌsjuːdəˈmɔː(ɹ)fəs/
Etymology: From pseudo- + -morphous.
Senses: examples: text: A pseudomorphous crystal has a form that does not result from its own powers of crystallization.
glosses: Not having the true form.
Related terms: pseudomorph
roundure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundures
Etymology: Compare rondure.
Senses: glosses: roundness
examples: text: Tis not the roundure of your old-fac'd walls
Can hide you from our messengers of war
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: A round or circle.
roundures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roundure
scarry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈskɑːɹi/
Forms: form: scarrier
form: scarriest
Etymology: From Middle English scarri, equivalent to scar (“rocky eminence”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When it [the aurochs] is come to Maſham, it receyueth the Burne, by ſouth weſt (as it dyd the wile, from very déepe ſcarry rockes, befoꝛe at Aſkaran) and dyuers other wild rilles not woꝛthy to be remẽbꝛed, […]
ref: 1577, William Harrison, “[An Historicall Description of the Islande of Britayne, […].] Of such Riuers as fall into the Sea, betweene Humber to the Thames.”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, folio 31, verso, column 1:
glosses: Like a scar, or rocky eminence.
scarry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈskɑːɹi/
Forms: form: scarrier
form: scarriest
Etymology: From scar (“mark of wound”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The biggest, scariest, scarriest man in the room said, “It’s about time, Jones.”
ref: 2020, Lesley L. Smith, A Jack For All Seasons, page 45:
glosses: Bearing scars, or marks of wounds.
indigenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigene
incyst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incysts
form: incysting
form: incysted
form: incysted
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of encyst.
incysted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incyst
incysting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incyst
incysts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incyst
surveyance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surveyances
Etymology: From survey + -ance.
Senses: glosses: surveying; polling; inspection
surveyances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surveyance
chondrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondrins
Etymology: From chondro- + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance resembling gelatin, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water.
Derived terms: chondrigenous
contradistinctive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contradistinctive
form: most contradistinctive
Etymology: From contra- + distinctive.
Senses: glosses: contrasting, opposing, different
Derived terms: contradistinctively
contradistinctiveness
contradistinguish
Related terms: distinctive
tributer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tributers
Etymology: From tribute + -er.
Senses: examples: 1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering
Tributers generally work in gangs, and have a limited portion of a lode set them, called a tribute pitch, beyond which they are not permitted to work, and for which they receive a certain portion of the ore, or so much per pound, as agreed upon, of the value of what they raise.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A miner who is paid in a certain portion of the ore, or its value.
examples: text: She saw neither room nor dancers, but a vast theatre filled with homage tributers, and for her, though for what rare attribute was not clear.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 242:
glosses: One who pays tribute.
tributers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tributer
bitumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bitumed
form: most bitumed
Etymology: From bitume + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Sir, we haue a Chiſt beneath the hatches, / Caulkt and bittumed ready.
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: The basket of bulrushes for the infant Moses, when thoroughly bitumed, was well adapted for the object for which it was made.
ref: 1878 August 1, “Lesson LXXXVI”, in The Sabbath School Magazine, volume XXX, number viii, page 191:
glosses: Smeared or covered with bitumen.
fudder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fudders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fodder (“a weight”).
fudders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fudder
toftman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toftmen
Etymology: From toft + -man.
Senses: glosses: The owner of a toft, or homestead.
toftmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toftman
laniaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laniary
faqeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faqeers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of faqir.
Derived terms: faqeerism
faqeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faqeer
antibullet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bullet.
Senses: examples: text: […] routed by spear-toting Simbas believed to have been rendered invincible by their antibullet concoctions.
ref: 1994, Sandra W. Meditz, Tim Merrill, Zaïre: a country study:
text: Nobody in his right mind would spend billions on developing an antibullet gun to stop bullets in midair.
ref: 2008, Alan F. Kay, Militarist Millionaire Peacenik: Memoir of a Serial Entrepreneur, page 137:
glosses: Countering bullets.
glottochronologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glottochronologists
Etymology: From glotto- + chronologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies glottochronology.
glottochronologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glottochronologist
glareous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˈɡlɛɚi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more glareous
form: most glareous
Etymology: Compare French glaireux. See glair.
Senses: examples: text: There is a glareous liquor contained in the bowels of Infants and many other Animals when they are born , which it is necessary to carry off
ref: 1766, John Gregory, A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with Those of the Animal World:
glosses: glairy
glottologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glottologists
Etymology: From glottology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies glottology; a linguist or philologist.
glottologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glottologist
interaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interaxis
myograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myographs
Etymology: From myo- + -graph.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: An instrument for determining and recording the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction.
Derived terms: acceleromyograph
electromyograph
myographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myograph
scuddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: scuddles
form: scuddling
form: scuddled
form: scuddled
Etymology: From scud + -le (frequentative). Compare scuttle (“to hurry”).
Senses: examples: text: A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.
ref: 1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:
text: around 1900, O. Henry, Lost on Dress Parade
Just then a girl scuddled lightly around the corner, slipped on a patch of icy snow and fell plump upon the sidewalk.
glosses: To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.
glosses: To drudge.
glosses: To wash or cleanse.
scuddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scuddle
scuddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scuddle
scuddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scuddle
swanny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: swannier
form: swanniest
Etymology: From swan + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a swanny glossiness of the neck
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a swan.
swanny
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swannies
form: swannying
form: swannied
form: swannied
Etymology: From “(I) shall warrant ye”; later re-interpreted as a minced oath of swear. Compare swan.
Senses: examples: text: I swanny if I ever felt so in my life ! I was so anxious about that long letter that I sent to them to get printed for you, that I was dreadful loth to go in, and eenamost made up my mind to turn about and make tracks for the sloop agin !
ref: 1843, Ann Sophia Stephens, High Life in New York, page 7:
text: I swanny! but that was a warm time for me, Miss—it sure was. There was that ol' she b'ar with her mouth as wide open as a church door or, so it looked to Jerry Todd.
ref: 1913, Alice B. Emerson, Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, Start Classics, →ISBN:
text: Here I was, with Miss Marie looking at me, expecting me to say what she wanted me to say, and I knew the Good Lord was looking down on me, too, expecting me to tell the truth. I swanny, I didn't know what to do.
ref: 2004, Ann Roscopf Allen, A Serpent Cherished, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: Alternative form of swan (“declare, swear”).
hellbred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hell + bred.
Senses: examples: text: With fowle enfouldred smoake and flashing fire ,
The hell-bred Beast threw forth unto the skies
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
synonyms: hell-born
glosses: Produced in Hell.
sensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sensive
form: most sensive
Etymology: From sense + -ive?
Senses: examples: text: shall sensive things be so sencelesse as to resist sence?
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: Having sense or sensibility; sensitive or sensory.
shriftfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shriftfathers
Etymology: From shrift + father.
Senses: glosses: A confessor; a priest who hears confessions.
earshrift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ear + shrift.
Senses: examples: text: In this earshrift (auricular confession) are wrought their malicious mysteries. In it the poor simple creatures are taught to delight in ignorance, and to beware of the reading or hearing of the Scripture in the English tongue, contrary to Christ.
ref: 1827, Henry Soames, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England:
glosses: auricular confession; shrift
Vizier Azem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vizier Azems
Etymology: From Arabic أَعْظَم (ʔaʕẓam, “great”). See vizier.
Senses: glosses: A grand vizier.
altarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altarists
Etymology: From altar + -ist. Compare Latin altarista, French altariste.
Senses: glosses: Someone responsible for or at a church's altar
A chaplain.
glosses: Someone responsible for or at a church's altar
The vicar or priest.
altarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altarist
punishableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From punishable + -ness.
Senses: antonyms: unpunishableness
glosses: punishability; liability to be punished.
Derived terms: unpunishableness
gallimatia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galimatias
Senses: glosses: Senseless talk.
longspun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longspun
form: most longspun
form: long-spun
Etymology: From long + spun.
Senses: glosses: long-winded; tedious; excessively long
boyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boyisms
Etymology: From boy + -ism.
Senses: glosses: boyhood
examples: a. 1700, John Dryden, Preface to Poems on Various Occasions
He had complain'd he was farther off from Possession, by being so near, and a thousand such Boyisms, which Chaucer rejected as below the Dignity of the Subject
glosses: The nature of a boy; childishness.
Related terms: good old boyism
indiligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin indiligentia: compare French indiligence.
Senses: examples: text: conceit and capacity, by the indiligence of an idle tongue
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter:
glosses: Lack of diligence.
billboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of billboard
billboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a heavily billboarded street
glosses: Lined with billboards.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Displayed using the billboarding technique.
schoolmaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolmaids
Etymology: From school + maid.
Senses: examples: text: LUCIO: Is she your cousin?
ISABELLA: Adoptedly, as schoolmaids change their names / By vain though apt affection.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
glosses: A schoolgirl.
schoolmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolmaid
cowpock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowpocks
Etymology: From cow + pock.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cowpox.
cowpocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowpock
colliquament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colliquaments
Etymology: Latin colliquāre
Senses: examples: text: out of the Colliquament, or White, made more thin and fluid, the Chick is generated
ref: 1659, Walter Charleton, Natural History of Nutrition, Life, and Voluntary Motion:
glosses: The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.
colliquaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colliquament
pluripartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pluripartite
form: most pluripartite
Etymology: From pluri- + partite.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Deeply divided into several portions.
synonyms: multipartite
glosses: divided into multiple parts
spine-tingler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spine-tinglers
Senses: glosses: Something spine-tingling; a frightening book, film, etc.
hectocotyli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hectocotylus
hectocotylized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hectocotylus + -ize + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Changed into a hectocotylus.
glosses: Having a hectocotylus.
semimute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + mute.
Senses: glosses: Having the faculty of speech either imperfectly developed or partially lost.
semimute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semimutes
Etymology: From semi- + mute.
Senses: glosses: One who has the faculty of speech either imperfectly developed or partially lost.
petioled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petiole + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a petiole.
glosses: Growing on a petiole.
prearm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prearms
form: prearming
form: prearmed
form: prearmed
Etymology: From pre- + arm.
Senses: glosses: To forearm.
prearmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prearm
prearming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prearm
prearms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prearm
scrimpingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scrimpingly
form: most scrimpingly
Etymology: From scrimping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Chivalry is essentially protective. It is rooted in the consciousness of superior strength. It is expansively generous and scrimpingly just. It will not assure to women a fair field and no favours, which is the salvation of all humanity; but it will protect them from the consequences of their own deeds, and that way lies perdition.
ref: 1920, Agnes Repplier, Points of friction, Woman Enthroned:
glosses: In a scrimping or miserly manner.
curculionidous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Curculionidae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to the weevil family Curculionidae.
amblygonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amblygonal
form: most amblygonal
Etymology: From amblygon + -al.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: obtuse-angled
obtusenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obtuseness
umboes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbo
umbonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the umbo.
contaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For the act of laughter, which is evidenced by a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely voluntary, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves, but, as it may be constrained by corporal contaction in any, and hath been enforced in some even in their death, so the new, unusual, or unexpected, jucundities which present themselves to any man in his life, at some time or other, will have activity enough to excitate the earthiest soul, and raise a smile from the most composed tempers.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: For ſphærical bodies move by fives, and every globular figure placed upon a plane, in direct volutation, returns to the firſt point of contaction in the firſt touch, accounting by the Axes of the Diameters or Cardinall points of the four quarters thereof.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 141:
glosses: An act of touching.
Related terms: contact
inroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inrolls
form: inrolling
form: inrolled
form: inrolled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enroll.
Derived terms: inrollment
inrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inroll
inrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inroll
pudding-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pudding-headed
form: most pudding-headed
Senses: synonyms: word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
glosses: stupid
bilinguous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin bilinguis.
Senses: glosses: bilingual.
agazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Related to aghast and agaze.
Senses: examples: text: All the whole army stood agazed on him.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: whereatt this dreadfull Conquerour / theratt was sore agazed, / & most in perill when he thought / all perills had beene past.
ref: a. 1600, Thomas Deloney, “William the Conquerour”, in John W. Hales, Frederick J. Furnivall, editors, Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances, volume 3, published 1868, page 154, lines 71–2:
text: A huge bulk of purple and ebony vapor, preceded by a surging wave of pallid smoke, blots out the sky. Birds and insects disappear, and cattle abruptly stand agazed.
ref: 1872 September, John James Ingalls, “Blue Grass”, in The Kansas Magazine, volume 2, number 3, page 275:
glosses: Gazing with astonishment; amazed.
idiotry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From idiot + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: But ſo great vvas his love of ſacred amity at the ſame time, that he ſays, I ſtill keep up any correſpondence vvith him, notvvithſtanding his Idiotry, for it is my principle to be contſant in my friendſhips— […]
ref: 1752, William Warburton, “Epistle to Dr. [John] Arbuthnot, Being the Prologue to the Satires”, in Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope Esq., volume IV, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton […], →OCLC, footnote, page 22:
glosses: Idiocy
regnative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: ruling; governing
Related terms: regent
regnant
reign
chromatherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of chromotherapy.
emetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of emetic.
Related terms: emetically
carbineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: carbineers
Etymology: From carbine + -eer - French carabinier.
Senses: examples: text: The prisoner flung him off with a force scarcely to be expected from one of his slight figure, and, turning quickly, said, "Let me die like a man!—whatever is my death, let me face it!" No further effort was made to blindfold him; but the carbineers formed their deadly rank, looking, however, towards their commander for the signal.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 76:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A soldier armed with a carbine.
carbineers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbineer
soothered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soother
soothering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soother
parascientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + scientific.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or involving, parascience.
Derived terms: parascientifically
parascience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasciences
Etymology: From para- + science.
Senses: glosses: Science that is non-mainstream or carried out in a subsidiary capacity.
Related terms: parascientific
parascientist
pseudoscience
parasciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parascience
parascientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parascientists
Etymology: From para- + scientist.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out parascience.
parascientists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parascientist
Unas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oenas
form: Ounas
form: Wenis
form: Wnis
form: Unis
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian wnjs, wn:n-i-s
Senses: examples: 2004: "The passages were eventually separated and categorized, as well as illustrated and eventually evolved into the Book of the Dead, or more properly, 'The Book of the Coming forth by Day'. The oldest of these text come from that Pyramid of Wenis, or more popularly these days, Unas at Saqqara." — Ancient Egyptian Texts
2005: "Unas (Wenis) reigned at the end of Dynasty V, for a period of up to 30 years." — Pyramid and mortuary temple of Unas
glosses: An Egyptian pharaoh of the fifth dynasty
uncontoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + contoured.
Senses: glosses: Not contoured.
noncontoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + contoured.
Senses: glosses: Not contoured.
contourless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contour + -less. Cognate with Swedish konturlös.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs Lackersteen was a woman of about thirty-five, handsome in a contourless, elongated way, like a fashion plate.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days:
text: 1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, London: Heinemann, Section One, p. 112,
They would carry their private grief on their faces for a few weeks more before hiding it inside and resuming the communal, contourless monotony of prison life.
glosses: Without a contour or contours.
Derived terms: contourlessness
craftables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craftable
terbic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From terbium + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: terbic formate
text: terbic ion
text: terbic oxide
text: terbic salt
text: terbic sulphate
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium.
toparchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toparchy
toparchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒpɑː(ɹ)ki/
/ˈtɒpə(ɹ)ki/
Forms: form: toparchies
Etymology: From Latin toparchia, from Ancient Greek τοπαρχία (toparkhía), from τόπος (tópos, “place”) + ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule”).
Senses: examples: text: Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.
text: confining the monarchy of Christ in the Gospel unto their own toparchy, and having a quarrel to the words in the Creed
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch.
erraticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erratical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being erratical.
erraticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erratic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being erratic.
isatide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isatides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline substance obtained by the partial reduction of isatin.
isatides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isatide
regnancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regnancy
regnancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regnancies
Senses: examples: c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Henry More
The third and last cause, and especially operative in the writings of this author, is the presence and regnancy of a false and fantastic philosophy, yet shot through with refracted light from the not risen but rising truth […]
glosses: The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule.
softner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softners
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of softener.
softners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softner
intermutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermutations
Etymology: From inter- + mutation.
Senses: examples: text: Schnabl, Stadler, Frost, and Schuster recently showed that error, expressed as mutual intermutation between reactive molecular species significantly affects the ability of a system to bifurcate into complex, chaotic oscillations.
ref: 1992, Lynn Nadel, Daniel L. Stein, 1991 Lectures In Complex Systems, page 91:
text: Although Plato follows his pre-Socratic predecessors in their attempt to bring the four element theory into greater accord with empirical phenomena and agrees with them that these bodies are transformed one into the other, his general theory, unfortunately, does not allow him to account for the intermutation of all four of these primary bodies. His failure to incorporate earth within the cycle of intermutation leads him to suggest that its transformation is purely illusory.
ref: 2013, James Longrigg, Greek Rational Medicine, page 126:
glosses: interchange; mutual or reciprocal change