cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
subpyriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪɹɪfɔː(ɹ)m
Etymology: From sub- + pyriform.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat pyriform.
verificative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verificative
form: most verificative
Senses: examples: text: verificative analysis
text: verificative problem
glosses: Serving to verify or authenticate.
woolman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolmen
Etymology: From wool + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who deals in wool.
woolmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolman
hektograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hektographs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hectograph.
hektograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hektographs
form: hektographing
form: hektographed
form: hektographed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hectograph.
hektographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hektograph
hektographs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hektograph
hydrometeorological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + meteorological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hydrometeorology.
Jane-of-apes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Poliph. […] And, if you wish us joy, join with us in / A dance at our wedding. / Grac. Agreed; for I have thought of / A most triumphant one, which shall express / We are lords, and these our slaves. / Poliph. But we shall want / A woman. / Grac. No, here's Jane-of-apes shall serve; / Carry your body swimming.
ref: 1624, Phillip [i.e., Philip] Massinger, The Bond-man: An Antient Storie. […], London: […] Edw[ard] Allde, for Iohn Harison and Edward Blackmore, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A silly, pert girl; a female jackanapes.
paradoxologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradoxology
appulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: the appulsive influence of the planets
glosses: Striking against; impinging.
asphyctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He was forthwith conveyed to the nearest hospital, and there pronounced to be still living, although in an asphyctic condition.
ref: 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:
glosses: Pertaining to asphyxia.
unbonnet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbonnets
form: unbonneting
form: unbonnetting
form: unbonneted
form: unbonneted
form: unbonnetted
form: unbonnetted
Etymology: From un- + bonnet.
Senses: examples: text: Jacob received them with much gallantry, uncloaking and unbonnetting the ladies, assisted by his two staring and awkward auxiliaries, welcoming their husbands and fathers, and apologizing, as best he might, for the absence of his helpmate;
ref: 1827, “A Christmas Party”, in The Atheneum; or, Spirit of the English Magazines, volume VII, second series, Boston: John Cotton, page 73:
text: "Do nothing but rise, unbonnet yourself, and be silent"
ref: 1829 May 2, [Walter Scott], Anne of Geierstein; or, The Maiden of the Mist. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Cadell and Co., […]; London: Simpkin and Marshall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To remove a bonnet from.
examples: text: He cast his penetrating glance around, and then unbonneting to the Duke, he said respectfully, […]
ref: 1830, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 115:
text: Mrs. Bobaline looked curiously at the shrinking girl, as she unbonneted, and was secretly pleased to see only a meek little face […]
ref: 1877, Jeannie H. Grey, Flirtation, Or, Cupid's Shoulder-strap Tactics: A West Point Love Story:
text: Unbonnetting before their betters might be more pleasant than having greatness thrust upon them;
ref: 1881, Annie Raine Ellis, chapter XXIII, in Sylvestra, Studies of Manners in England from 1770 to 1800, volume II, London: George Bell and Sons, page 15:
glosses: To take off one's bonnet.
unbonneted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bonneted.
Senses: examples: text: This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,
The lion and the belly-pinched wolf
Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,
And bids what will take all.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: The effect on entrance is very striking: a crowd, where the majority are females, with gay-coloured dresses, and their heads unbonneted, always gives the idea of festival:...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 234:
text: They walked in in the middle of the sermon in their wash dresses, sweaty and unbonneted […]
ref: 2004, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, Virago, published 2005, page 220:
glosses: Not wearing a bonnet.
examples: text: But I was, myself, far from being pleas'd with his having too much regarded my tender exclaims; for now, more and more fired with the object before me, as it still stood with the fiercest erection, unbonnetted, and displaying its broad vermilion head, I first gave the youth a re-encouraging kiss, which he repaid me with a fervour that seem'd at once to thank me, and bribe my farther compliance
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: Circumcised.
Synonyms: sense: circumcised
word: circumcised
unbonneted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + bonneted.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbonnet.
unbonneting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbonnet
unbonnets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbonnet
socialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From social + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being social.
vouchsafement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vouchsafements
Etymology: From vouchsafe + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of vouchsafing.
examples: text: the Belief of any such happy Vouchsafement
ref: 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus:
synonyms: vouchsafe
glosses: Something which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant.
vouchsafements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vouchsafement
latticing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latticings
Etymology: From lattice + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making a lattice of, or of fitting a lattice to.
glosses: The lattice, or all the lattices of a place, building etc.
qualifier: bridge-building
glosses: A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut.
latticing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From lattice + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lattice
latticings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latticing
navarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The office or state of a navarch.
Related terms: -archy
naval
navy
unexpedient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexpedient
form: most unexpedient
Etymology: From un- + expedient.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of inexpedient.
intertangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intertangles
form: intertangling
form: intertangled
form: intertangled
Etymology: From inter- + tangle.
Senses: synonyms: tangle
tangle up
glosses: To entangle; to intertwine.
intertangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intertangled
form: most intertangled
Etymology: From intertangle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: [F]rom a cavern's mouth, o'ergrown / With moss and intertangled vines, / A streamlet leaps into the light / And murmurs over root and stone / In a melodious undertone; […]
ref: 1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Tales of a Wayside Inn. The Second Day.] Interlude.”, in Three Books of Song, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC, book first, page 20:
glosses: Entangled, intertwined.
intertangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From intertangle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intertangle
intertangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intertangle
intertangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intertangle
Longfellowian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Longfellowian
form: most Longfellowian
Etymology: From Longfellow + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), American poet and professor.
underfurrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underfurrows
form: underfurrowing
form: underfurrowed
form: underfurrowed
Etymology: From under- + furrow.
Senses: examples: text: to underfurrow seed or manure
glosses: To cover as if under a furrow; to plow in.
underfurrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + furrow.
Senses: glosses: Under a furrow.
underfurrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underfurrow
underfurrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underfurrow
underfurrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underfurrow
titulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of titular.
titulary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titularies
Senses: glosses: A person invested with a title.
examples: text: The Kushite titularies are characterised from the earliest preserved titulary (1/4, 5) through the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty till the 5th century BC by a strong reliance on Egyptian titularies of the Old-, Middle- and New Kingdoms.
ref: 1997, László Török, The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization, page 207:
glosses: The set of titles or names held by a person.
unswear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unswears
form: unswearing
form: unswore
form: unsworn
Etymology: From un- + swear.
Senses: examples: text: The Ape was glad to end the strife so light ,
And there - to swore ; for who would not oft swear ,
And oft unswear , a diadem to bear ?
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
text: unswear that oath again, I'll tell you all;
ref: 1626 February 13 (licensing date), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, 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: To recall a previously sworn oath.
unswearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unswear
unswears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unswear
unswore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of unswear
bridler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridlers
Etymology: From bridle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that bridles (puts a bridle on).
examples: text: The Prelats which boaſt themſelves the only bridlers of Schiſm, God knows have been ſo cold and backward both there and with us to repreſs Hereſie and idolatry, that either through their careleſſneſs or their craft all this miſchief is befaln.
ref: 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 218:
synonyms: restrainer
checker
glosses: Someone or something that restrains and governs, like with a bridle.
bridlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridler
moonling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonlings
Etymology: From moon + -ling. Compare moon-related origins of lunacy and lunatic.
Senses: examples: text: I have a husband, and a two-legg'd one, But such a moonling, as no wit of man, Or roses can redeem from being an ass.
ref: 1616, The Devil is an Ass:
text: Of the members composing this household, there are but two of whom it will be necessary to speak in this connection; and these are the moonling, or simpleton, and the sister of the wife.
ref: 1854, The Bride of the Wilderness, page 13:
text: But allow me to say that you were standing like a moonling on that road.
ref: 2009, Sylvia Andrew, Francesca, page 18:
text: "Jack is n-not a moonling," Catherine said. "His m-mother became ill before his birth. He c-cannot be blamed for any mental deficiency."
ref: 2018, Carolyn Miller, Winning Miss Winthrop:
glosses: A simpleton; a lunatic.
examples: text: The sky was not quite as blue as her—Thunderation, he was no moonling!
ref: 2011, Barbara Metzger, A Suspicious Affair:
text: Remaining there long enough to hear Those words that moonling longs to hear...I love you
ref: 2013, Zara Borthwick, Nicholas Arnold, Wonderful, page 55:
text: Here he was, reputed to be a rake among rakes, but he discovered, where Thea was concerned, he was as vulnerable and uncertain as the greenest moonling in love for the first time.
ref: 2017, Shirlee Busbee, Swear by Moonlight:
glosses: One who is lovesick; one who moons over a beloved.
examples: text: "I see. He's a black man. But Jacob Millhaven is not black. Eldridge was left on his doorstep as a baby, and the philosopher adopted him." "Oh! Then he's a moonling! He doesn't seem to suffer from any stigma."
ref: 2011, M. P. Rogers, Oona Paraselene, page 140:
glosses: A changeling.
examples: text: A shy moonling hangs on the suit of an astronaut and is taken back to earth.
ref: 1981, Ruth Beall Heinig, Lyda Stillwell, Creative Drama for the Classroom Teacher, page 248:
text: For a given walking speed, will an earthling astronaut or a moonling do less, equal, or more work when taking a stroll on the Moon, and by what factor?
ref: 2010, Michael M. Domach, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, page 204:
text: This, together with the 'balloon manufactured entirely of dirty newspaper' in which the dwarf/moonling descends at the tale's opening, points to some self-referential satire on behalf of Poe, a newspaperman himself.
ref: 2016, Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction, page 142:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Someone from the Moon.
moonlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonling
nuisancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuisancers
Etymology: From nuisance + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes or causes a nuisance.
nuisancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuisancer
Raphaelism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Raphael + -ism.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The principles, or style of painting introduced by the Italian painter Raphael
stinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stinters
Etymology: From stint + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that stints.
stinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stinter
vicenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪsən(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈvaɪ-/
ipa: /ˈvɪsəˌnɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈvaɪ-/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
rhymes: -ɪsənəɹi
rhymes: -aɪsənəɹi
Forms: form: vicenarie
Etymology: From Latin vīcēnārius, from vīcēnus (“twenty each”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming adjectives and related nouns”). Doublet of vicenarious. Ultimately cognate with English vigenary.
Senses: examples: text: vicenary scale
text: vicenary numeration
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or based on the number twenty.
Synonyms: vigesimal
Related terms: sense: Of, pertaining to, or based on the number twenty.
word: primary
word: secondary
word: tertiary
word: quaternary
word: quinary
word: senary
word: septenary
word: octonary
word: nonary
word: denary
word: undenary
word: duodenary
word: quindenary
word: centenary (100)
word: millenary (1000)
vicenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪsən(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈvaɪ-/
ipa: /ˈvɪsəˌnɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈvaɪ-/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
rhymes: -ɪsənəɹi
rhymes: -aɪsənəɹi
Forms: form: vicenaries
form: vicenarie
Etymology: From Latin vīcēnārius, from vīcēnus (“twenty each”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming adjectives and related nouns”). Doublet of vicenarious. Ultimately cognate with English vigenary.
Senses: examples: text: Delicat, another Captaine, or vicenarie in Sara, hauing vnder him twenty assistants.
ref: 1603, S. Harsnett, Declaration of Popish Impostures, page 49:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An officer in command of twenty men.
unowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + owed.
Senses: examples: text: to pay money unowed
glosses: Not owed.
examples: text: The unowed interest of proud - swelling state
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, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: ownerless
hierourgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hiero- + -urgy.
Senses: examples: text: consummating the spiritual hierourgy
ref: 1740, Daniel Waterland, Distinctions of Sacrifice:
glosses: A sacred or holy work or worship.
inimicous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inimicous
form: most inimicous
Etymology: Latin inimicus.
Senses: examples: text: Hemlock and Rue are said to be inimicous
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of inimical.
multiformous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiformous
form: most multiformous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of multiform.
unicapsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + capsular.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having only one capsule to each flower.
leachy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leachy
form: most leachy
form: leechy
Etymology: From leach + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Gravelly and sandy soils may be leachy.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous.
Derived terms: leachiness
mythologizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪˈθɒləd͡ʒaɪzə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: mythologizers
Etymology: From mythologize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer; […]
ref: 1870, James Russell Lowell, “Witchcraft”, in Among My Books, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: Someone or something that mythologizes.
mythologizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythologizer
arcograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcographs
Etymology: From Latin arcus (“arc”) + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point.
Synonyms: curvograph
cyclograph
arcographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arcograph
squadroned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squadron
squadroned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They gladly thither haste, and, by a quire
Of squadroned Angels, hear his carol sung
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Formed into squadrons.
ushership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: usherships
Etymology: From usher + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or position of an usher.
usherships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ushership
dihexagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + hexagonal.
Senses: examples: text: A dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base.
glosses: Consisting of two hexagonal parts united.
examples: text: a dihexagonal prism
glosses: Having twelve similar faces.
firebare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firebares
Etymology: From Old English fȳrbǣr, fȳrbǣre (“fire-bearing; fiery”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: A beacon or lighthouse
firebares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firebare
unanimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unanimous.
unguinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unguinous
form: most unguinous
Etymology: From Latin unguinosus, from unguinis, from unguen (“fat, ointment”).
Senses: glosses: Consisting of, or resembling, fat or oil; unctuous; oleaginous.
unifoliolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + foliolate.
Senses: examples: text: The leaves of the orange tree are unifoliolate.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: bifoliolate
trifoliolate
quadrifoliolate
glosses: Having only one leaflet.
unifoliolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unifoliolates
Etymology: From uni- + foliolate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant of this kind.
untimeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untimeous
form: most untimeous
form: untimous
Etymology: From un- + timeous.
Senses: examples: text: restrain his irreverent and untimeous jocularity
ref: 1823, [Walter Scott], Quentin Durward. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Untimely.
Synonyms: ill-timed
inopportune
untimely
vitriolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitriolates
Etymology: From vitriol + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulfate.
vitriolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vitriolates
form: vitriolating
form: vitriolated
form: vitriolated
Etymology: From vitriol + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To convert into, or change to, a vitriol; to make into sulphuric acid or a sulphate.
glosses: To subject to the action of, or impregnate with, vitriol.
vitriolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitriolate
disaffirmance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disaffirmances
Etymology: From dis- + affirmance.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of disaffirming; denial.
examples: text: disaffirmance of judgement
topics: law
glosses: Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal.
disaffirmances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disaffirmance
fevery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fevery
form: most fevery
Etymology: From fever + -y.
Senses: glosses: Similar to a fever; feverlike.
examples: text: O Rome, in vvhat a ſickneſſe art thou fall'n! / Hovv dangerous, and deadly! vvhen thy head / Is drovvn'd in ſleepe, and all thy body feu'ry!
ref: 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, Act III, signature G, verso:
text: And that there be no fevery heats nor colds
ref: a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: Feverish.
unsimplicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + simplicity.
Senses: examples: text: [Eustace] then went home flattering himself that he had taken in parson, clerk, and people; not knowing in his simple unsimplicity, and cunning foolishness, that each good wife in the parish was saying to the other, "He turned Protestant? The devil turned monk! He's only after Mistress Salterne, the young hypocrite."
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, “The Two Ways of Being Crost in Love”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 113:
glosses: Absence of simplicity; complication or complexity.
mopstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mopsticks
form: mop stick
form: mop-stick
Etymology: From mop + stick.
Senses: examples: text: THE TWITCH is a short stick of strong ash, about the size of a mopstick,
ref: 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse in the Stable and in the Field:
glosses: The long handle of a mop.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In an old pianoforte movement, a rod that raises the damper as the key is depressed.
mopsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mopstick
regentess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regentesses
Etymology: From regent + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female regent.
regentesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regentess
bifronted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + fronted.
Senses: examples: text: The condition / Of our affaires exacts a double care, / And like bifronted Ianus, vvee muſt looke / Backvvard, as forvvard: […]
ref: c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, signature E2, recto:
synonyms: bifrontal
glosses: Having two fronts.
Massingerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Massingerian
form: most Massingerian
Etymology: From Massinger + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Philip Massinger (1583–1640), English dramatist.
inofficiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inofficiously
form: most inofficiously
Etymology: From inofficious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inofficious manner; without officiousness.
tricostate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + costate.
Senses: glosses: Having three ribs or three costae
binucleolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + nucleolate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two nucleoli.
fittable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fittable
form: most fittable
Etymology: From fit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: easily fittable spare parts
glosses: Capable of being fitted.
glosses: suitable; fit
Derived terms: unfittable
palacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palacious
form: most palacious
Etymology: From palace + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: great Palacious Houses
ref: 1662-1663, John Graunt, Natural and Political Observations Made Upon the Bills of Mortality:
glosses: Obsolete form of palatial.
weighage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighages
Etymology: From weigh + -age.
Senses: examples: text: If Goods are to be brought Home to your own House, there are Charges for Weighage, Cranage, Porterage, Wharfage, Cartage, Lighterage, &c.
ref: 1738, William Markham, A General Introduction to Trade and Business:
glosses: A duty or toll paid for weighing merchandise.
weighages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weighage
decharm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈtʃɑːm/
Forms: form: decharms
form: decharming
form: decharmed
form: decharmed
Etymology: From de- + charm. Compare French décharmer.
Senses: glosses: To free from a charm, or charm (charisma); to disenchant.
decharmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decharm
decharming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decharm
decharms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decharm
ludificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ludificatory
form: most ludificatory
Etymology: Latin ludificatorius.
Senses: glosses: enjoyable; fun
metamerically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From metameric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: metamerically arranged muscles
text: metamerically segmented animals
text: metamerically paired digestive glands
glosses: In a metameric manner, by metamerism.
omegoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more omegoid
form: most omegoid
Etymology: From omega + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of the Greek capital letter omega, Ω.
Derived terms: obomegoid
vesbium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin Vesuvius, contracted to Vesbius, -ium.
Senses: synonyms: vesbine
glosses: A supposed rare metallic element extracted from Vesuvian lava. Later tests showed it to be a composite.
janizarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But notwithstanding this resemblance , which I allow , I never shall so far injure the janizarian republic of Algiers as to put it in comparison for every sort of crime , turpitude , and oppression , with the Jacobin republic of Paris.
ref: 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the janizaries or their government.
undulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undulous
form: most undulous
Senses: glosses: undulating, wavy
exanimous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzænɪməs/
/ɛkˈsænɪməs/
Forms: form: more exanimous
form: most exanimous
Etymology: From Latin exanimus, exanimis; ex (“out, without”) + anima (“life”).
Senses: examples: text: those exanimous and moribund bodies
ref: 1805, Samuel Latham Mitchill, editor, The Medical Repository:
glosses: lifeless; dead
oversprang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of overspring
overspring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversprings
form: overspringing
form: oversprang
form: oversprung
Etymology: From Middle English overspringen, equivalent to over- + spring. Compare Dutch overspringen, German überspringen.
Senses: glosses: To overtop; overclimb; rise above; spring or leap over.
overspringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overspring
oversprings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overspring
oversprung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of overspring
peastone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peastones
Etymology: From pea + stone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: pisolite
glosses: pea gravel
peastones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peastone
engagedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more engagedly
form: most engagedly
Etymology: From engaged + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an engaged, interested or involved way.
Related terms: engagingly
knarl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knarls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gnarl (“A knot in wood”).
Derived terms: knarled
knarly
knarls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knarl
misaventure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misaventures
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of misadventure.
misaventures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misaventure
Hollandish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hollandish
form: most Hollandish
Etymology: From Holland + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Dutch.
oxamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxamates
Etymology: From oxamic acid + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The carboxylate anion of oxamic acid.
oxamates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxamate
uncautious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncautious
form: most uncautious
Etymology: From un- + cautious.
Senses: glosses: Not cautious.
Synonyms: incautious
uncongeal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncongeals
form: uncongealing
form: uncongealed
form: uncongealed
Etymology: From un- + congeal.
Senses: examples: text: Like soften'd airs that blowing steal, / When meres begin to uncongeal, / The sweet church bells began to peal.
ref: 1833–1834 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “The Two Voices”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: To become liquid again; to thaw.
glosses: To make less rigid
glosses: To become less rigid
uncongealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncongeal
uncongeals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncongeal
vehiculary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vehicular.
wastorel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wastorels
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of wastrel.
wastorels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wastorel
antiperistatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + peristatic.
Senses: examples: text: antiperistatic cycle
text: antiperistatic effect
text: antiperistatic movement
glosses: Pertaining to antiperistasis.
have a snootful
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a snootful
form: having a snootful
form: had a snootful
form: had a snootful
Senses: examples: text: Billy usually didn’t drink much, because the war had ruined his stomach, but he certainly had a snootful now, and he was being unfaithful to his wife Valencia for the first and only time.
ref: 1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., chapter 2 (pages 19–42), in Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Vintage edition (1991 paperback), London: Vintage Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 37:
text: “It strikes me as a dish invented by men in a hunt camp,” he added, “men who have a snootful, who say, ‘What would happen if we took this bird and put it in this bird?’”
ref: 2002 November 20th, Amanda Hesser, “Turkey Finds Its Inner Duck (and Chicken)”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Nov 2011:
glosses: To be drunk.
forevouched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fore- + vouched.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forevouch
forevouched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + vouched.
Senses: examples: text: I meane hereafter to make a more liberall discourse of them in the forevouched booke of their liues, to be opened at large with all suche worthye actions as they haue performed.
ref: 1598, Francis Thynne, Animaduersions, page civ:
text: Sure her offence Must be of such unnatural degree, That monsters it, or your forevouched affection Fall into taint,
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: As a prophecy, it wins our deep admiration, in acarrying far back the distince representment and hope of the forevouched Messiah, having been delivered fourteen hundred years before, He came, in whom this and all ancient pre-announcements are fulfilled and remote antiquity, in such a record, is a high test of the genuineness of seership.
ref: 1855 August, “Moses and Christ”, in The Churchman's Monthly Magazine, volume 2, number 8, page 479:
glosses: Avowed or affirmed in advance.
lampoonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lampoon + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lampoonery.
opiniated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opiniated
form: most opiniated
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of opinionated.
assentment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assentments
Etymology: From assent + -ment.
Senses: glosses: assent; agreement
assentments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assentment
untrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌst
Forms: form: untrusts
Etymology: From Middle English untrust, untrost, untrist, likely from un- + trust. Cognate with Icelandic útraust (“untrust”). Compare also Swedish otro (“lack of faith, disbelief”).
Senses: examples: text: Alternatively, untrust corresponds to the space between distrust and trust, in which an agent is positively trusted, but not sufficiently to cooperate with.
ref: 2006, Matthias Klusch, Michael Rovatsos, Terry R. Payne, Cooperative Information Agents X:
text: The absence of trust is sometimes called untrust (Marsh and Dibben, 2005). As most of the trust literature focuses on the positive aspect of trust, it is restricted to the simple dichotomy between trust and untrust.
ref: 2009, Kai Rannenberg, Denis Royer, André Deuker, The Future of Identity in the Information Society:
text: I would like to remind you that it is untrust not distrust, that it is fear and, in a way, natural.
ref: 2013, Osho International Foundation, I Say Unto You: Jesus: Son of God or Mystic?:
text: I almost have a feeling of trust, and then have an untrust feeling; she is only happy when I pay something for her.
ref: 2023, Derward Rollison, The Ups and Downs in Life:
glosses: Lack or absence of trust; mistrust.
examples: text: You have only two zones (admins and untrust), so there are two intra-zone policy contexts (admins to admins and untrust to untrust ) and two inter-zone policy contexts ( admins to untrust and untrust to admins ) .
ref: 2011, Walter J. Goralski, Cathy Gadecki, Michael Bushong, JUNOS OS For Dummies, page 219:
text: The untrust zone is designed typically for the Internet or other undesirable places.
ref: 2011, Thomas W Shinder, The Best Damn Firewall Book Period, page 974:
text: In this example, we enable AppTrack in the trust and untrust zone, along with a syslog server to send the logs to our STRM at 192.168.1.20.
ref: 2013, Brad Woodberg, Rob Cameron, Juniper SRX Series, page 872:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: The zone representing everything that originates outside of the firewall.
Synonyms: word: distrust
word: mistrust
word: wantrust
untrust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌst
Forms: form: more untrust
form: most untrust
Etymology: From Middle English untrust, untriste, probably from Old Norse útraustr (“untrustworthy”). Cognate with Icelandic útraustur.
Senses: glosses: Faithless; distrustful.
untrust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌst
Forms: form: untrusts
form: untrusting
form: untrusted
form: untrusted
Etymology: From Middle English untrust, untriste, probably from Old Norse útraustr (“untrustworthy”). Cognate with Icelandic útraustur.
Senses: examples: text: As to pray and not to trust, so to trust and not to expect, to trust and then to murmur, to trust and to untrust, whiles we are speaking, to get the soul to put it selfe upon Christ , and before we have done speaking, to pluck of the soul againe, to deface our own fealing, to cast away our confidence, this is ill, very ill .
ref: 1656, Obadiah Sedgwick, The Humbled Sinner Resolved what He Should Do to be Saved, page 228:
text: upon the verity thereof I am content to die, and ready to lay down my life; and hope your charity to me a dying man, will be such as not to untrust me therein; especially since it is notoriously adminiculate by act of secret Council , and yet denied upon oath by the principal officers of state present in Council at the making of said act, and whom the act bears to have been present;
ref: 1874, John Howie, The Scots Worthies, page 277:
text: Material or labor trusted in one State would have to untrust itself at crossing into the next .
ref: 1897, William Louis Bass, The Force of Circumstances, page 10:
glosses: To fail to trust; to distrust.
examples: text: To untrust one document, you have to untrust them all.·
ref: 2010, Bill Jelen, Rev Up to Excel 2010: Upgraders Guide to Excel 2010, page 27:
text: […] to untrust (if delete is not possible) a certificate from macOS using Keychain Access.
ref: 2019, Herong Yang, PKI Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples, page 152:
text: Indeed, when a node catches a malicious one, it will try to untrust it, and so the others who did not identify the malicious nodes as wicked will be more and more suspicious.
ref: 2022, Emilien Bourdy, Marwane Ayaida, Hace\ne Fouchal, “Misbehavior Verification on Cooperative Intelligent Transpor System”, in Frank Phillipson, Gerald Eichler, Christian Erfurth, editor, Innovations for Community Services, page 193:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: To mark or flag (something) as untrustworthy.
geothermometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geothermometers
Etymology: From geo- + thermometer.
Senses: examples: text: The geothermometer is often used to calculate the deep temperatures of geothermal reservoirs on the basis of water-rock equilibrium in the exploration of geothermal resources.
ref: 1966, Zheng Xilai, Liu Hongjun, “STUDY OF THE WATER-ROCK EQUILIBRIUM STATE IN THE APPLICATION OF GEOTHERMOMETER”, in Journal of Xi'An Engineering, volume 1:
text: The sulphate-water geothermometer indicates that the deep hot water is at 250°C.
ref: 1986 January, B.W. Robinson, D.S. Sheppard, “A chemical and isotopic study of the Tokaanu-Waihi geothermal area, New Zealand”, in Journal of volcanology and geothermal research, volume 27, numbers 1-2:
text: The Na-K-Ca geothermometer and silica geothermometer are discussed as tools for locating and evaluating the areas prospectively valuable for geothermal development.
ref: 1979 December, Wook Han, “A Preliminary Evaluation of Geothermal Potential of Korea with Emphasis on Geothermometer and Mixing Model”, in The Journal of the Geological Society of Korea, volume 15, number 4:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A proxy that allows for geothermometry, the determination of the temperature of a geological material from the past or existing at great depth.
examples: text: Walferdin's registering thermometer and the geothermometer of Magnus are constructed on this principle.
ref: 1880 July, “The Interior of the Earth”, in Popular Science, volume 17, number 19:
text: It is most important to notice that the experiment at Sperenberg shews that there is no regular, uninterrupted increase of temperature corresponding to the increase of depth, but that the increase of heat occurs more slowly at very great depths; in other words, that the degrees of the geothermometer grow longer as it descends.
ref: 1881, Hermann Joseph Klein, Land, sea and sky; or, Wonders of life and nature, page 291:
text: In England about this time the problem of constructing maximum and minimum thermometers was actively taken up. Lord Charles Cavendish first solved this question in 1757, and later in a similar way Magnus, in Berlin, for the geothermometer, and Walferdin, in Paris, by the metastatischen thermometer.”
ref: 1896, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Report - Volume 3, page 697:
text: For the determination of the geothermal gradient, that is, the depths that must be reached in order to find increments of 1° C. in the temperature, the geothermometer is employed.
ref: 1902, Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, page 402:
glosses: A thermometer designed for measuring extremely high temperatures below ground level.
Related terms: geothermometric
geothermometry
geothermometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geothermometer
anemonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anemone + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acrid toxic substance obtained from some species of anemone.
Derived terms: protoanemonin
uropodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uropod + -al.
Senses: examples: text: uropodal exopod
text: uropodal plate
text: uropodal sympod
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to a uropod.
monoxylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɒk.sɪ.ləs/
ipa: /məˈnɑk.sɪ.ləs/
Etymology: See monoxylon.
Senses: examples: text: a monoxylous canoe
text: monoxylous coffins
glosses: Made from a single piece of wood.
quintilliard
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: quintilliards
Etymology: From French quintilliard, equivalent to quint- + -illiard.
Senses: examples: text: A second computator, taking up the inquiry at the point at which it has been left by the first proposer of the query, has shown that the number of “ascendants” increasing in geometrical ratio with each generation back, the number of forbears computed to the 37th degree, exceeds the total population of the earth from that time downwards; while, counted up to half the time from Adam, we come to a number of quintilliards probably large enough to people all the planets of our system; proving, according to the judicious reflection of this novel inquirer, that the entire human race must have had the same grandfathers and grandmothers over and over again, and that, consequently, so far from priding themselves on imaginary superiority of pedigree, all men should regard one another as cousins.
ref: 1883 December 29, “Stella” (correspondent), “Continental Gossip”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 14,276, Sydney, N.S.W., page 6, column 2:
text: With the Triple DES implementation of DES, there are 5 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 (5.1 quintilliard) or more possible encryption keys that can be used.
ref: 2000 September 1, Furqan Syed, “Children of DES: A Look at the Advanced Encryption Standard”, in Network Security, →DOI, pages 11–12:
text: Taking into account practical implications, storing all responses would occupy 2.3 × 10⁵⁰ bits with an average of 10 kb per response. It would take several quintilliard years on a Gigabit internet connection to transfer everything without considering possible network instabilities and congestion.
ref: 2019, Pierre Laperdrix, Gildas Avoine, Benoit Baudry, Nick Nikiforakis, “Morellian Analysis for Browsers: Making Web Authentication Stronger with Canvas Fingerprinting”, in Roberto Perdisci, Clémentine Maurice, Giorgio Giacinto, Magnus Almgren, editors, Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment: 16th International Conference, DIMVA 2019; Gothenburg, Sweden, June 19–20, 2019; Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer Nature Switzerland AG, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 58:
glosses: A thousand million million million million million: 1 followed by thirty-three zeros, 10³³.
Synonyms: a short scale decillion
Related terms: Previous: quintillion. Next: sextillion.