cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chiliarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪlɪɑːki/
ipa: /ˈkɪlɪɑɹki/
Forms: form: chiliarchies
Etymology: From Latin chiliarchia, from Ancient Greek χιλιαρχία (khiliarkhía), from χῑ́λιοι (khī́lioi, “1000”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “-archy: rule by”). Equivalent to chilia- + -archy.
Senses: glosses: A regiment of 1000 soldiers, typically commanded by a chiliarch.
glosses: The office or position of a chiliarch.
glosses: A government of 1000 rulers.
Coordinate terms: sense: rule
word: government
mesostates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesostate
pulverate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulverates
Etymology: From Latin pulveratus, past participle of pulverare (“to pulverize”). See pulverize.
Senses: examples: text: From 1957, aerial dusting was widely applied, water reservoirs were treated with 12% gammexane (hexachlorocyclohexane) pulverate and large areas were smoked with NBC smoke generators.
ref: 1960, Abstracts of Soviet Medicine: Clinical medicine, page 1256:
text: Soy flour, its defatted form and except for its fiber content, has more resemblance in physical and chemical properties to nonfat dry milk solids, and more properly might be called "defatted soy solids," or "soy powder," or "soy pulverate;" however, the defatted soy flour has nearly 20% more protein than the nonfat milk solids .
ref: 1972, Allan Kay Smith, Sidney Joseph Circle, Soybeans: Chemistry and Technology: Proteins, page 310:
text: His instinct was sure: anchoring on his left foot and balancing poised over the talclike pulverate, testingly he put his right foot in.
ref: 1984, National Lampoon - Volume 2, Issues 66-77:
text: Although we know that digitalis leaf was prescribed by Bedford, we do not know which of the two most likely preparations available (digitalis folia BP/ digitalis USP; digitalis pulverate BP and USP) on the market were given as Moran obtained supplies from the US Army in Tunis.
ref: 2020, Allister Vale, John Scadding, Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill's Illnesses, 1886–1965:
glosses: A powdered preparation of some substance.
pulverate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulverate
form: most pulverate
Etymology: From Latin pulveratus, past participle of pulverare (“to pulverize”). See pulverize.
Senses: examples: text: interior tube extends until its diameter attains the size of the interior peridium . It is constant yellowish white , pulverate .
ref: 1878 March, Prof. Hazslinszky, “On Geaster Orientalis”, in Grevillea, number 39, page 108:
text: of the lower plane suberect, imbricate, ovate, acuminate, keeled, piloso-denticulate; macrospores whitish with yellow contents, pulverate, soon smooth;
ref: 1915, Cornelis Rugier Willem Karel Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, Malayan Fern Allies, page 168:
text: Have recorded over a dozen specimens in which the macronucleus is unquestionably double. Not lobed, not pulverate, as in Oxytricha, but double!
ref: 2016, Francis Stevens, “Elf Trap”, in Nightmares! And other stories, page 56:
glosses: Having a powdery or granular texture;
pulverated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pulverate
pulverates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pulverate
pulverating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pulverate
roseine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roseines
Senses: glosses: magenta (dyestuff).
roseines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roseine
tireling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tireling
form: most tireling
Etymology: From tire + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: But most the former villaine, which did lead / Her tyreling jade, was bent to her abuse […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Tired; fatigued.
curviform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curviform
form: most curviform
Etymology: From Latin curvus + -form.
Senses: examples: text: curviform letters
text: curviform numbers
text: curviform symbols
glosses: Having a curved shape.
beaverteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaverteens
Etymology: Blend of beaver + velveteen
Senses: glosses: A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.
beaverteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beaverteen
tentacula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tentaculum
tentaculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentacula
Etymology: From New Latin tentāculum. See the doublet tentacle.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A tentacle.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A feeler or whisker.
conchometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conch + -o- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of shells.
Synonyms: conchyliometry
mesal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mesial.
Derived terms: admesal
basomesal
mesally
posteromesal
sternomesal
tergomesal
ventromesal
ten-pounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten-pounders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tenpounder (“ladyfish”).
hypernyms: cannon
gun
artillery
coordinate_terms: three-pounder
nine-pounder
twelve-pounder
glosses: A cannon of a certain bore size (caliber) that was named for an iron cannonball that weighed ten pounds in a certain outdated system of weights and measures.
hypernyms: shot
ball#Noun
ammunition
coordinate_terms: three-pounder
nine-pounder
twelve-pounder
glosses: A cannonball of the type that gave such a cannon its name.
ten-pounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ten-pounder
elopid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elopids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the family Elopidae of ray-finned fishes (ladyfishes or tenpounders).
elopids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elopid
alembroth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alebrot
form: allabrot
Etymology: From post-classical Latin alembrottus, likely derived from an Arabic term; further etymology uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: 1802–1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature
It contains about 2500 inhabitants, parations of alembroth salt, given by the old writers of is a marquisate, and has 13 parishes belonging to its district
glosses: The "salt of wisdom" of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury, formerly used as a stimulant.
Derived terms: sal alembroth
protovertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From proto- + vertebral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the protovertebrae.
gigeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigerium
gigerium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigeria
Etymology: Latin gigeria (“(plural) the cooked entrails of poultry”).
Senses: examples: text: The gigerium, in situ, is far back in the abdomen, its middle about opposite the last rib and to the left side, lying nearly apposed to the abdominal parietes
ref: 1874, Elliott Coues, Birds of the Northwest, LARUS ARGENTATUS, page 650:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The gizzard of some birds.
septicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From septic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: A septic quality.
dumetose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dumetose
form: most dumetose
Etymology: From Latin dumetum (“a thicket”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: dumous
ramage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæmɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æmɪd͡ʒ
Etymology: Borrowed from French ramage, from Middle French and Old French ramage, from ram (“branch”) + -age. by surface analysis, rame + -age.
Senses: glosses: of a person or thing: wild; untamed
glosses: of a place or terrain: scrubby, thicketed, rough
ramage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæmɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æmɪd͡ʒ
Forms: form: ramages
Etymology: Borrowed from French ramage, from Middle French and Old French ramage, from ram (“branch”) + -age. by surface analysis, rame + -age.
Senses: glosses: wildness, spirit, courage, ferocity
examples: text: Ramages as such do not enter into alliances, either marital or political. They do, however, provide a basis for the allocation of political authority[…]
ref: 1993, Geoffroy Benjamin, “Temiar”, in Paul Hockings, editor, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, volumes V: East and Southeast Asia, New York: G.K. Hall & Co., pages 265–273:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cognatic descent group.
examples: text: That beneficent stem[…]
From leaf and ramage sheddeth cool bright showers.
ref: 1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic:
glosses: Boughs or branches.
examples: text: And birds on thee their ramage did bestow
ref: 1616, William Drummond of Hawthornden, “Sonnet”, in Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains:
glosses: The warbling of birds in trees.
mastax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastaxes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “mouth, jaws”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The pharynx of a rotifer. It usually contains four horny pieces. The two central ones form the incus, against which the mallei, or lateral ones, work so as to crush the food.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The lore of a bird.
mastaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastax
drazel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drazels
Etymology: Compare dross, drossel.
Senses: examples: text: As the devil uses witches, / To be their cully for a space, / That, when the time's expir'd, the drazels / For ever may become his vassals.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: A prostitute.
drazels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drazel
vulpinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: vulpic acid
semiopal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiopals
Etymology: From semi- + opal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: common opal
glosses: A translucent variety of opal
semiopals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiopal
kermesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kermess
glosses: plural of kermesse
metacetone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + acetone, because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a colourless liquid obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; a mixture of propionaldehyde and other materials
methylpentynol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sedative drug with anticonvulsant effects, formerly used to treat insomnia.
tralatition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tralatitions
Etymology: See tralatitious.
Senses: glosses: A metaphor.
tralatitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tralatition
dimble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪm(b)l̩/
rhymes: -ɪməl
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Forms: form: dimbles
Etymology: Probably originally a cavity, and the same word as dimple.
Senses: examples: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, London: M. Lownes et al., Song 2, p. 27,
And Satyres, that in stades and gloomy dimbles dwell,
Runne whooting to the hills to clappe their rude[r] hands.
c. 1637, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd (unfinished play), Act II, Scene 1, in W. Gifford (editor), The Works of Ben Jonson, London: G. & W. Nicol et al., 1816, Volume 6, p. 274,
The Forest as before. The Witch’s Dimble, cottage, oak, well, &c.
glosses: A bower; a dingle.
dimbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimble
scapeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scape + -less.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Without a scape.
insignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insignments
Etymology: See insignia and -ment.
Senses: glosses: A token, mark, or explanation.
insignments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insignment
tenderoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛndəˈɹəʊni/
ipa: /ˌtɛndəˈɹoʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: tenderonis
Etymology: Blend of tender + macaroni, a former trademark in the United States for a brand of quick-cooking macaroni introduced in the 1930s.
Senses: examples: text: Sweet tenderoni, a man should never be lonely / Sweet tenderoni, girl if I could only / I got my eye, I got my eye on you, ah you
ref: 1976 September, Allan Felder, “Sweet Tenderoni”, in Goin’ Up in Smoke, performed by Eddie Kendricks:
text: Tenderoni, you've got to be / Spark my nature, sugar, fly with me
ref: 1983 September 19, James Ingram, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)”, in Thriller, performed by Michael Jackson:
text: Only tenderonis can give a special love / A special kind of love that makes you feel good inside
ref: 1988 December 27, Babyface, Darnell Bristol, “Roni”, in Don’t Be Cruel, performed by Bobby Brown:
text: I must admit to having been somewhat taken back by the question posed to me by the young tenderoni. "Are you desperately lonely?" he had asked a few minutes after we had pulled up in front of his dwelling, after having shared an intimate spell together and then grabbing a fast-food combo.
ref: 2008 June, Nina Tracy, “Prologue: Lonely?”, in Twenty-Eight Days, West Babylon, N.Y.: Urban Soul, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: A younger (often female) love interest.
wikipedia: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Related terms: jailbait
May-September romance
sugar daddy
tenderonis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenderoni
tenderometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenderometer
bdellatomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Irregularly formed as Ancient Greek βδέλλᾰ (bdéllă, “leech”) + -tomy (from -τοµία (-toµía, “a cutting”); from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”); the etymological spelling is bdellotomy.
Senses: glosses: The snipping off the tail of a leech engaged in sucking human blood, in order to let the blood run out of it and so increase its powers of drawing blood.
alife
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Compare lief (“dear”).
Senses: examples: text: Saffron loueth a-life to be trampled and trod vpon.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
text: A busie fellow loveth a-life to step secretly into a house.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:
text: Fla[via]. Come, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come, you and I'll go play at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match i'faith. I love that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use it for fear of putting my arm out of joint.
ref: c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry [William] Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington; […], published 1812, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 50:
glosses: with all one's heart; dearly.
alife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of artificial life.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of A-life.
sceneman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scenemen
Etymology: From scene + -man.
Senses: examples: Holonym: stage crew
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
hypernyms: stagehand
glosses: A man who is a sceneshifter; any sceneshifter.
scenemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sceneman
subspecialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subspecializations
Etymology: From sub- + specialization.
Senses: glosses: The further specialization of something already specialized.
subspecializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subspecialization
thyroideal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdiəl
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: thyroid
subspecialises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subspecialise
subspecialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subspecialise
superdiscipline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superdisciplines
Etymology: From super- + discipline.
Senses: glosses: An academic discipline comprising several subdisciplines.
superdisciplines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superdiscipline
premerit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: premerits
form: premeriting
form: premerited
form: premerited
Etymology: From pre- + merit.
Senses: glosses: To merit or deserve beforehand.
premerited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of premerit
premeriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of premerit
premerits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of premerit
dispauper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dispaupers
form: dispaupering
form: dispaupered
form: dispaupered
Etymology: From dis- + pauper.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis.
dispaupered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispauper
dispaupering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispauper
dispaupers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispauper
tithonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin Tithonius (“belonging to Tithonus, the consort of Aurora”), from Ancient Greek.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or denoting those rays of light which produce chemical effects; actinic.
midward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English midward, middeward, from Old English middeweard, equivalent to mid + -ward.
Senses: glosses: In or toward the middle.
compatient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin compatients, present participle of compati. See compassion.
Senses: examples: text: the same compatient and commorient fates and times
ref: 1619, George Buck, The History of King Richard the Third:
glosses: Suffering or enduring together.
silicofluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicofluorides
Etymology: From silico- + fluoride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.
silicofluorides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicofluoride
deplorement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deplore + -ment.
Senses: glosses: deploration
pebblestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pebblestones
Etymology: From Middle English pibleston, from Old English papolstān; equivalent to pebble + stone.
Senses: glosses: A pebble.
examples: text: About her necke hung chaines of peble ſtone, / Which lightned by her neck, like Diamonds ſhone.
ref: 1598, Christopher Marlowe, “First Sestyad”, in Christopher Marlo[w]e, George Chapman, Hero and Leander: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Richard Hawkins: […], published 1629, →OCLC:
glosses: Pebbles collectively.
pebblestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pebblestone
froterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I curl his perriwig, paint his cheeks, perfume his breath; I am his froterer or rubber in a hot-house
ref: 1601 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], What You Will, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes.
Southern Wakashan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The branch of the Wakashan language family composed of Ditidaht, Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth.
Related terms: Northern Wakashan
shamanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shamanists
Etymology: From shaman + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An adherent of shamanism.
shamanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shamanist
presidentship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presidentships
Etymology: From president + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Is it at all probable, that there will ever be a civil war in America, about the presidentship of the United States?
ref: 1791, Joseph Priestley, Letters to Burke, section XIII:
glosses: The office and dignity of president; presidency.
presidentships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presidentship
drupal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From drupe + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: drupaceous
Northern Wakashan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The branch of the Wakashan language family composed of Haisla, Heiltsuk, Kwak'wala and Oowekyala.
Related terms: Southern Wakashan
good turns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of good turn
Wakashan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A family of languages spoken in Western Canada, composed of the Northern and Southern Wakashan language groups.
paynym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paynyms
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paynim.
paynyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paynym
staree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starees
Etymology: From stare + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: So at first the starer sat right behind the staree; then the starer sat behind a one-way mirror, to eliminate the possibility of subtle sound clues created when the starer looked either at or away from the staree.
ref: 2003, Jay Ingram, The Velocity of Honey and More Science of Everyday Life:
glosses: One who is stared at.
starees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staree
observee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: observees
Etymology: From observe + -ee.
Senses: antonyms: observer
glosses: One who is observed.
Related terms: observable
observation
observees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of observee
marcottages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marcottage
catstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catstitches
form: catstitching
form: catstitched
form: catstitched
Etymology: From cat + stitch?
Senses: glosses: To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.
catstitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catstitch
catstitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catstitch
catstitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catstitch
plaintless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plaintless
form: most plaintless
Etymology: From plaint + -less.
Senses: examples: text: plaintless patience
ref: 1729, Richard Savage, The Wanderer:
glosses: Without complaint; uncomplaining.
hominine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hominine
form: most hominine
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Homininae, a subfamily of Hominidae that includes humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and some extinct relatives.
hominine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hominines
Senses: examples: text: To judge from its sinuses, Hispanopithecus crusafonti is the earliest known hominine (the group including all great apes except orangs).
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 115:
glosses: Any member of the subfamily Homininae.
subauditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subaudition
subaverages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subaverage
bisensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnsəɹi
Etymology: From bi- + sensory.
Senses: examples: bisensory hallucinations
glosses: Affecting or relating to two senses.
trisensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnsəɹi
Etymology: From tri- + sensory.
Senses: examples: trisensory hallucinations
glosses: Affecting or relating to three senses.
remberge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remberges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ramberge.
remberges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remberge
contradicter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contradicters
form: contradictor
Etymology: From contradict + -er.
Senses: examples: c. 1699-1736, Jonathan Swift, Hints on Good Manners
arguers, perpetual contradicters, long talkers, those who are absent in company, interrupters, not listeners, loud laughers
glosses: One who contradicts.
contradicters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contradicter
venefical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more venefical
form: most venefical
Etymology: Latin veneficus.
Senses: examples: Ben Jonson, 1616, The Masque of Queens, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, p.946: These witches … came forth from thence. … all with spindles, timbrels, rattles, or other veneficall instruments.
glosses: Obsolete form of veneficial.
caddow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caddows
Etymology: From Old English cadāwe, probably from ċēo, ċeahhe (“chough”) + *dāwe (“jackdaw”). Compare Scottish Gaelic cadhag, cathag. Compare chough, daw.
Senses: glosses: A jackdaw.
caddows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caddow
scrupler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scruplers
Etymology: From scruple + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who scruples.
scruplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrupler
broché
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French broché.
Senses: examples: text: broché goods
glosses: Woven with a figure.
glosses: Stitched; said of a book with no cover or only a paper one.
unbodies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbody
unbody
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbɒdi/
Forms: form: unbodies
form: unbodying
form: unbodied
form: unbodied
Etymology: From un- + body.
Senses: glosses: To leave the body; to be disembodied.
raw_tags: of the soul or spirit
examples: text: her soul unbodied of the burdenous cors
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To free from the body; to disembody.
unbodying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbody
envermeil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: envermeils
form: envermeiling
form: envermeiled
form: envermeiled
Etymology: From en- + vermeil: compare Old French envermeiller.
Senses: examples: 1625, On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough, by John Milton
For he being amorous on that lovely die / That did thy cheek envermeil, thought to kiss / But kill'd alas, and then bewayl'd his fatal bliss.
glosses: To colour with, or as if with, vermilion; to dye red.
envermeiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of envermeil
envermeiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of envermeil
envermeils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of envermeil
tailblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailblocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tail block.
tailblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailblock
appropinquity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ad- + propinquity.
Senses: examples: text: By Presence, Power and Essence, the Doctors generally mean by the first, an Appropinquity of Vision, that all things are open and naked unto his sight; by the second, an Approximation of Power, that he worketh in and ruleth over all; by the third, an Indistance of his Being to all things whatsoever, of actual or possible existence.
ref: 1671, John Gregory, chapter XXXI, in Shecinah, or God's Dwelling Presence:
text: The Captain thought so, and raved about her in uncouth convulsions. The barbed shaft of love had penetrated his dull hide. Six weeks—appropinquity—opportunity—had victimised him completely.
ref: 1847, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:
text: Some marvelous psychological results have been noted in consequence of the appropinquity, for a period of several hours, of two healthy bodies such as Eva's and Andy's.
ref: 1911, Henry C. Hansbrough, The Second Amendment, page 111:
glosses: nearness; propinquity
brouilleur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brouilleurs
Senses: glosses: A lid- or bowl-like device used in preparing absinthe, allowing water to trickle gradually into the glass.
haemoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemoscopes
form: haematoscope
form: hemoscope
form: hematoscope
Etymology: From haemo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination.
haemoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemoscope
copyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copyers
Etymology: From copy + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Upon the whole, a careful and critical examination of these differences makes it evident that they could not have arisen from the mistake of the copyer; […]
ref: 1825, Robert R. Beale, A Report of the Trial of Commodore David Porter, page 44:
glosses: Archaic form of copier.
copyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copyer
Syra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Syros (“Greek island”).
Derived terms: Heliopolis in Syra
Red Book
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: One company claimed to have the rights to putting hidden tracks in that position, but it's not permitted by the Red Book standard, and many plants will not press CDs with a hidden track in the pregap.
ref: 2013, Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, editor, From Demo to Delivery, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
holonyms: Rainbow Books
coordinate_terms: Yellow Book
glosses: The official technical standard for audio CDs.
audio CD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audio CDs
Senses: glosses: A CD containing digital audio data according to the Red Book standard.
shehe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shehes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of she-he.
shehes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shehe
A20 gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A20 gates
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A gate on x86 microprocessors restricting access to the memory beyond 1 MB.
upper memory area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The area of memory between 640 kB and 1 MB in an IBM-compatible PC.
high memory area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɪˌmɛm(ə)riˌɛːrɪə/
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The first 64 kilobytes of the area of memory beyond 1 MB in an PC-compatible machine.
misandrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misandrous
form: most misandrous
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to misandry: hating or prejudiced against men.
Synonyms: misandristic
misandrist
misandric
Related terms: misogynous
cuntboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌntbɔɪ/
Forms: form: cuntboys
Etymology: From cunt + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Do your dance for the man, cuntboy.
ref: 1993, Aaron Travis, Big Shots:
text: And now he is an initiate in the sect of the clean-shaven cuntboy.
ref: 2000, P.P. Hartnett, The Gay Times book of short stories: new century, new writing:
topics: LGBT
synonyms: pussyboy
glosses: An extremely submissive or dominated bottom; a pussyboy.
synonyms: pussyboy
glosses: A man, masculine-presenting, nonbinary, or intersex person who has a vulva or related genitalia. The term is used by some individuals within transgender, nonbinary, and intersex communities as a form of self-identification, reclamation, or body positivity. It may express comfort with one’s body while affirming a masculine or mixed-gender identity. Outside these contexts, the word is considered explicit and may be offensive if not used with consent and respect.
kernel panic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kernel panics
Senses: examples: text: If the timer doesn't get updated, watchdog will notice and force a kernel panic.
ref: 2005, Karl Kopper, The Linux Enterprise Cluster, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 178:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: panic
glosses: On Unix-derived operating systems, an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error.
cuntboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuntboy
goldsinnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldsinny
goldsinny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldsinnies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of goldfinny.
synonyms: word: goldfinny
six-shooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of six-shooter
withed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of withe
gossan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒsən/
ipa: /ˈɡɑsən/
Forms: form: gossans
Etymology: Borrowed in the 1770s from Cornish gossen, from gōs (“blood”), from Old Cornish guit (compare Proto-Celtic *wolis).
Senses: examples: text: Despite being comprised largely of a multiply deformed amphibolite and granulite facies metagranitoid terrain, the region includes supracrustal belts of three different ages, all hosting gossans that signal base- and precious metal prospectivity.
ref: 2008, L. Nadeau, J.J. Ryan, P. Brouillette, D.T. James, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5907, page 1:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Rust-coloured (weatherized and oxidized) rock or mineral deposits, forming the upper part or outcrop of a metallic vein.
Derived terms: gossaniferous
gossans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gossan
prehallux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prehalluxes
Etymology: From pre- + hallux.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An extra first toe, or rudiment of a toe, on the preaxial side of the big toe.
prehalluxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prehallux
Sotadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sotadic
form: most Sotadic
Etymology: From Sotades + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Sotadic meter
text: Sotadic verse
synonyms: Sotadean
glosses: Relating to, or resembling, the compositions of the Ancient Greek poet Sotades, often of an obscene or satirical nature.
Derived terms: Sotadic Zone
Sotadic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sotadics
Etymology: From Sotades + -ic.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A Sotadic verse or poem.
glosses: A verse comprising six trochees, a trochaic trimeter.
Sotadics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sotadic
squirehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirehoods
Etymology: From squire + -hood.
Senses: examples: November 18, 1721, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to the King at Arms
I am not yet qualified to keep a greyhound. If this should be the test of squirehood, it will go hard with a great number of my fraternity, as well as myself, who must all be unsquired, because a greyhound will not be allowed to keep us company
glosses: The rank or state of a squire; squireship.
squirehoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squirehood
commentatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more commentatorial
form: most commentatorial
Senses: examples: text: HE COMMENTATORIAL SPIRIT OF THE MIDDLE AGES [chapter name]
ref: 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:
glosses: Relating to the making of commentaries.
sportal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɔː(ɹ)təl/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təl
Forms: form: more sportal
form: most sportal
Etymology: From sport + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The youths to sportal arms he led.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fifth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to sports.
sterrink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sterrinks
form: sterrinck
Senses: glosses: The crab-eater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) of the Antarctic Ocean.
sterrinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sterrink
stertorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stertorous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being stertorous.
sustentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: sustentative citations or quotations
glosses: Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate.
examples: text: sustentative selection
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to those functions of the body which affect its material composition and thus determine its mass.
hetchel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hetchels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hatchel.
hetchels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hetchel
struck juries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of struck jury
struck jury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: struck juries
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A special jury, composed of persons having special knowledge or qualifications, selected by striking from the panel of jurors a certain number for each party, leaving the number required by law to try the cause.
small nuclear ribonucleoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small nuclear ribonucleoprotein
offboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: offboards
form: offboarding
form: offboarded
form: offboarded
Etymology: From off + board.
Senses: glosses: To alight, especially from public transit or an aircraft.
examples: text: It's easiest to onboard and offboard employees if you have a checklist to follow.
ref: 2022, Audrey O'Shea, Jeff T. Parker, CompTIA A+ Complete Practice Tests […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: There were memes about divorce rates spiking in San Francisco, about “offboarding” one’s wife and about requiring your partner to submit a “purchase order approval form” to spend money.
ref: 2024 May 12, Erin Griffith, “Honey, I Love You. Didn’t You See My Slack About It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
antonyms: onboard
glosses: To prepare someone's departure from a group.
Related terms: exit interview
public transit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public transits
Senses: examples: text: Can we take public transit? Sure, we'll travel by rapid transit.
glosses: Public transport.
public transits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public transit
rhodosperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhodosperms
Etymology: From rhodo- + Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”).
Senses: glosses: Any seaweed with red spores, in the former class Rhodospermeae.
rhodosperms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhodosperm
clancularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clancularly
form: most clancularly
Etymology: From clancular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: privately; secretly
mesole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “middle”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: thomsonite
earal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ear + -al.
Senses: glosses: Receiving by the ear, or related to the ear; aural.
pesterment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pesterments
Etymology: From pester + -ment.
Senses: examples: 1729, Benjamin Franklin, "The Busy-Body" series, from The American Weekly Mercury
the trouble and pesterment of children
synonyms: vexation
worry
pest
glosses: The act of pestering
glosses: An annoyance; something that pesters
pesterments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pesterment
sexradiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sex- + radiate.
Senses: examples: text: Certain sponge spicules are sexradiate.
text: sexradiate organs
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having six rays.
skrim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skrims
Senses: examples: text: A fiberglass skrim insulator was layed^([sic]) on.
• The aluminum honeycomb was layed on each surface of the rhombus.
• A second fiberglass skrim cloth was layed on.
ref: 1983, Belvoir Research and Development Center (U.S.), Historical Review, page 34:
text: The complete jacket is a lamination of kraft paper, fiberglass cloth (skrim) and either aluminum foil or metalized film.
ref: 1988, Plumbing Engineer - Volume 16, page 52:
text: Venetian blinds and a blind made of skrim (a loose-weave fabric with small perforations) can be closed in winter and at night to make a warm cavity.
ref: 2000, RIBA Journal - Volume 107, page 39:
glosses: A loose-weave fabric made of fiberglass, used for insulation.
examples: text: AN IDEA for achieving a dramatic feet in some of your school plays at Christmas or other time's is a skrim curtain such as that used in the Northern Illinois State Teachers College production, "It is Written in the Code."
ref: 1950, Illinois Education - Volumes 39-40, page 121:
text: JOEY tosses the fallen rope into the wings and examines the curtain. lt is a painted skrim and across its center is the large, lettered sign, "ASBESTOS."
ref: 1974, Dick Poston, There Goes The Old Ball Game, page 1:
text: A skrim which has been placed in front of the players becomes visible.
ref: 2008, Daniel Sloate, I is Another: Plays, page 44:
glosses: Alternative form of scrim.
Theater drop
examples: text: Now nearly all tufted carpeting is made with an extra "skrim" backing of jute, which has eliminated the problem. Some inexpensive carpeting, however, is still made without a skrim back.
ref: 1989, Harris Mitchell, You wanted to know, →ISBN:
text: ...laminating a precut article having an upper surface and a lower surface bwtween a clear polyester coating on the upper surface of said article and an adhesive skrim backing on the lower surface of said article...
ref: 1991, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 1500.:
glosses: Alternative form of scrim.
Canvas backing to prevent slipping or shrinkage.
sycee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌɪˈsiː/
ipa: /ˈsaɪsiː/
ipa: /saɪˈsiː/
Forms: form: sycees
Etymology: From Cantonese 細絲 /细丝 (sai³ si¹, “fine silk”), variously explained as owing to the bullion's ability to be worked into fine strands or from the resemblance of its luster.
Senses: synonyms: yuanbao
glosses: Any of various gold or silver ingots used as currency in imperial China.
glosses: Imitation ingots made of paper, burnt as an offering in ancestral veneration on Tomb Sweeping Day or during the Ghost Festival.
sycees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sycee
photoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoscopes
Etymology: From photo- + -scope. Possibly originally a trademark in some cases.
Senses: glosses: Any of various instruments employed for the observation of light, luminous effects, or photographs.
examples: text: Herr Korzel, without the knowledge of the postal authorities, connected his photoscope to a telephone, and had the central office connect him with a business friend in Potsdam, who likewise was provided with a photoscope.
ref: 1889 July 13, “Another Wonder”, in The Deseret Weekly, volume 39, page 75:
text: On another occasion a physician who was present at a demonstration of the photoscope wrote the following concerning an appendicectomy performed by Dr. Marshall W. McDuffie : - " From the moment the anesthesia was begun until the patient was ready to be removed to the ward, every movement of the surgeon and his assistants was plainly visible.
ref: 1910 January, Charles H. Duncan, “A Further Report on the Use of the Photoscope for Demonstrating Operations to a Large Number of Visitors”, in The American Journal of Surgery, volume 24:
text: By means of this photoscope, which is so simple that a child can operate it, any picture of about post-card size is magnified and thrown upon the screen, the colors and other details being fairly well reflected.
ref: 1911, “Illustrative Work in the Schools”, in The Utah Educational Review, volume 5, page 24:
text: There cried Collin, and sure enough, there were live viruses just big enough to be seen with the image taken at the highest power the photoscope could go to of .001 microns.
ref: 2000, Kenneth E. Smith, And Then There Were None - Volume 1, page 42:
glosses: Any of various devices to aid in vision.
Derived terms: photoscopic
photoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoscope
tahil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tahils
Etymology: From Malay tahil.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tael.
tahils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tahil
wep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weep
robotises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of robotise
cornercap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornercaps
Etymology: From corner + cap.
Senses: glosses: A priest's or academic's hat.
examples: text: Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: The chief ornament.
cornercaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornercap
subderivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subderivations
Etymology: From sub- + derivation.
Senses: glosses: A derivation from something previously derived.
Related terms: subderivative