cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fantoccini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian fantoccini, diminutive from fante (“child”).
Senses: examples: text: A man of the name of Flocton from Birmingham was, to the best of my knowledge, the first that ever had a fantoccini exhibition in England; but he was only for theatres[…]
ref: 1861, Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London poor, page 61:
glosses: Puppets caused to enact dramatic scenes by means of machinery.
glosses: The puppet shows in which they are used.
transcorporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + corporate.
Senses: glosses: across or involving different corporations
transcorporate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transcorporates
form: transcorporating
form: transcorporated
form: transcorporated
Etymology: From trans- + corporate.
Senses: examples: text: The Stoicks who thought the souls of wise men had their habitation about the moon, might make slight account of subterraneous deposition; whereas the Pythagoreans and transcorporating Philosophers, who were to be often buried, held great care of their enterrment.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC:
glosses: To transmigrate (transport the soul into another body).
transcorporated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transcorporate
transcorporates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transcorporate
transcorporating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transcorporate
unnestle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unnestles
form: unnestling
form: unnestled
form: unnestled
Etymology: From un- + nestle.
Senses: examples: text: And lest any man should think her intent was to unnestle ill neighbours, and not to aid good neighbours, or that she was readier to restore what was invaded by others than to render what was in her own hands; see if the time provided not a new occasion afterwards, when through their own division, without the intermise of strangers, her forces were again sought and required; she forsook them not, prevailed so far as to be possessed of the castle of Edinburgh, the principal strength of that kingdom, with peace, incontinently, without cunctations or cavillations, the preambles of a wavering faith, she rendered with all honour and security; and his person to safe and faithful hands; and so ever after during his minority continued his principal guardian and protector.
ref: a. 1603, Francis Bacon, Discourse in the Praise of Queen Elizabeth:
text: For I find, that is the only way to unnestle his lordship.
ref: 1846, John Hill Burton, Life and Correspondence of David Hume, page 159:
text: But Ædituus cried to him, Hold, hold, honest friend! strike, wound, poison, kill, and murder all the kings and princes in the world, by treachery or how thou wilt, and as soon as thou wouldst unnestle the angels from their cockloft.
ref: 1849, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart and Motteux, The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel:
glosses: To eject from a comfortable situation; to unnest or drive out.
unnestled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unnestle
unnestles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unnestle
unnestling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unnestle
momental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more momental
form: most momental
Etymology: From moment + -al. Compare Old French momental.
Senses: examples: text: Not one momentall minute doth ſhe ſwerue, […]
ref: 1606, N[athaniel] B[axter], Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia, That Is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, Containing All Philosophie, London: […] Ed. Allde, for Edward White, […], →OCLC, signature D, recto:
text: Self-immolation was momental suffering but widowhood was a lifelong
ref: 1994, Sandhya, Widowhood: A Socio-psychiatric Study:
glosses: Lasting only for a moment; brief.
glosses: important; momentous
examples: text: momental ellipsoid
ref: 1877, Edward John Routh, An Elementary Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to moment or momentum.
Derived terms: equimomental
momentally
amygdalectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amygdalectomy
fortunize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fortunizes
form: fortunizing
form: fortunized
form: fortunized
Etymology: From fortune + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: For wisedome is most riches: fooles therefore / They are which fortunes doe by vowes devize, / Sith each unto himselfe his life may fortunize.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: I am going out to fortunize my own life; and you are staying at home to fortunize yours.
ref: 1871, Mark Hardcastle, ‘Hamilton Brothers’, The Argosy, volume 12, page 64:
glosses: To make fortunate or wealthy.
geneagenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to geneagenesis.
geneagenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, “generation”) + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of metagenesis.
synonyms: word: metagenesis
Related terms: geneagenetic
drengage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drengages
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The tenure by which a drench held land
Related terms: thegnage
drengages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drengage
skirlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skirling
unsuffering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + suffering.
Senses: glosses: Not suffering.
haematachometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haematachometers
Etymology: From haema- + tachometer.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for measuring the velocity of the blood; a kind of flowmeter.
haematachometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haematachometer
hardbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardbeams
Etymology: From hard + beam?
Senses: glosses: A hornbeam tree (Carpinus spp.)
hardbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardbeam
hinderling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hinderlings
form: hinderlin
Etymology: "Worthless person" sense: from Middle English hinderling (“a laggard, coward”), from Old English hinderling (“a mean wretch, a sneak”), equivalent to hinder + -ling. Compare hilding.
Senses: examples: text: How say you, my lusty compeers; shall we permit a hinderlin to sit at board with us, and brand us with the name of cowards?
ref: 1808, Joseph Strutt, [Walter Scott], “Section VII. Chapter II.”, in [Walter Scott], editor, Queenhoo-Hall, a Romance: And Ancient Times, a Drama. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for John Murray, […]; and Archibald Constable & Co. […], →OCLC, page 155:
text: An animal you deem good for nothing, you may term a hinderling.
ref: 1813, Joseph Neef, The Method of Instructing Children Rationally in the Arts of Writing and Reading:
text: […] from which the West Saxons, namely the men of Exeter have a saying of the greatest contempt, in that when moved by the highest wrath they call one another a hinderling, that is, one sunk down from all honor.
ref: 1889, John Milton Stearns, The germs and developments of the laws of England:
text: "How? How do I know? Know that you are there or know that you are a rossamünderling? An ouranin? A manikin? A hinderling? A pink-lips? A fake-foe? […]"
ref: 2010, D. M. Cornish, Factotum:
glosses: A worthless, degenerate person or animal.
glosses: The buttocks; the posterior.
hinderlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hinderling
misraise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misraises
form: misraising
form: misraised
form: misraised
Etymology: From mis- + raise.
Senses: examples: text: misraised children
text: to misraise one's offspring
text: mis-raised fury
ref: 1658, Joseph Hall, The Devout Soul, Or, Rules of Heavenly Devotion Also the Free Prisoner, Or, the Comfort of Restraint:
glosses: To raise unreasonably.
misraised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misraise
misraises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misraise
misraising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misraise
Cyrenaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cyrenaic
form: most Cyrenaic
Etymology: From Latin Cyrenaicus, from Ancient Greek Κῡρηνᾰῐ̈κός (Kūrēnăĭ̈kós), from Κῡρηναῖος (Kūrēnaîos, “Cyrenian, n.”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”), from Κυρήνη (Kurḗnē, “Cyrene”) + -ιος (-ios, “-y: forming demonyms”), q.v. Equivalent to Cyrene + -ic or a backformation from Cyrenaica.
Senses: synonyms: Aristippan
Aristippian
Cyrenian
Cyrenean
hypernyms: hedonistic
glosses: Of or related to Cyrenaicism, the philosophical school founded by Aristippus of Cyrene and codified by Aristippus the Younger.
glosses: Synonym of Cyrenian, of or related to Cyrene.
synonyms: word: Cyrenian
word: of or related to Cyrene
synonyms: word: Cyrenaican
word: Cyrenian
word: Cyrenean
word: Barcan
word: Barqan
word: Cyrenaican
extra: the area around Cyrene in northeastern Libya
word: of or related to Cyrenaica
extra: the area around Cyrene in northeastern Libya
glosses: Synonym of Cyrenaican, of or related to Cyrenaica, the area around Cyrene in northeastern Libya.
Cyrenaic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cyrenaics
Etymology: From Latin Cyrenaicus, from Ancient Greek Κῡρηνᾰῐ̈κός (Kūrēnăĭ̈kós), from Κῡρηναῖος (Kūrēnaîos, “Cyrenian, n.”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”), from Κυρήνη (Kurḗnē, “Cyrene”) + -ιος (-ios, “-y: forming demonyms”), q.v. Equivalent to Cyrene + -ic or a backformation from Cyrenaica.
Senses: synonyms: Aristippan
Aristippian
Cyrenian
Cyrenean
hypernyms: word: person
word: wanton
glosses: A member or adherent of Cyrenaicism, the philosophical school founded by Aristippus of Cyrene and codified by Aristippus the Younger.
glosses: Synonym of Cyrenian, a person of or from Cyrene.
synonyms: word: Cyrenian
extra: a person of or from Cyrene
synonyms: word: Cyrenaican
word: Cyrenian
word: Cyrenean
word: Barcan
word: Barqan
word: Cyrenaican
extra: a person of or from Cyrenaica, the area around Cyrene in northeastern Libya
glosses: Synonym of Cyrenaican, a person of or from Cyrenaica, the area around Cyrene in northeastern Libya.
Derived terms: Sirenaic
Cyrenaics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cyrenaic
landlouping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more landlouping
form: most landlouping
Senses: examples: text: "Like enough — like enough," answered another citizen, shaking his head. "It's a shame the breaches in our walls are not repaired, and that these landlouping Highland scoundrels are left at liberty to take honest men and women out of their beds any night that is dark enough."
ref: 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC:
glosses: vagrant; wandering about
Related terms: landlouper
bemoisten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭmoiʹsn
ipa: /bɪˈmɔɪsn̩/
Forms: form: bemoistens
form: bemoistening
form: bemoist'ning
form: bemoistened
form: bemoistened
form: bemoisten'd
form: bemoisten'd
form: bemoysten
Etymology: From be- + moisten.
Senses: glosses: Make moist.
glosses: Become moist.
Derived terms: word: bemoistened
bemoysten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemoystens
form: bemoystening
form: bemoystened
form: bemoystened
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of bemoisten.
bemoist'ning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bemoisten
bemoistened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bemoisten
bemoistened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bemoistened
form: most bemoistened
Senses: qualifier: past participial
glosses: Made or having become moist.
bemoisten'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bemoisten
bemoistens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bemoisten
bemoistening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bemoisten
differentiatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From differentiate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: differentiating; serving to differentiate
feminicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Beautiful are both those women in their graceful feminicity.
ref: 1843, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 27, February issue, page 226:
text: Perhaps it may be pardoned here (on account of the feminicity of the writer), if we insert some descriptions of noted visitors who were received about this time at the Capitol of the Nation.
ref: 1882, Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, page 237:
glosses: Feminineness; femininity.
gynecomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gyneco- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: satyriasis
ideographic comma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideographic commas
Senses: hyponyms: dun comma
glosses: A punctuation mark, ⟨、⟩, used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other languages that use Chinese-derived ideographs, and which has a similar function to the comma in languages that use the Roman alphabet.
densifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of densifier
concertinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concertino
hare lip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hare lips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of harelip.
fusteric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The wood of the Rhus cotinus , a shrub which grows principally in the south of France and in Italy , called also Venetian sumach . This wood contains a large quantity of yellow colouring matter , named fusteric.
ref: 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:
glosses: The colouring matter of fustet.
introsusception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: introsusceptions
Senses: examples: c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor
The person is corrupted by the introsusception of a nature which becomes evil thereby.
glosses: The act or process of receiving within.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: intussusception
trochleary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: trochlear
interamnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + Latin amnis (“river”). Compare Latin interamnus.
Senses: examples: text: interamnian plain
text: […]interamnian country[…]
ref: 1767, Jacob Bryant, Observations and Inquiries […] :
glosses: Situated between rivers.
cobiron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobirons
Etymology: From cob + iron, from cob (“the top”).
Senses: examples: text: the implements of the kitchen ; as spits , ranges , cobirons , pots , etc
ref: a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Inquisitions touching the compounding of metals:
glosses: An andiron with a knob at the top.
cobirons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobiron
verbenaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Verbenaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Verbenaceae of mainly tropical flowering plants.
propulsation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin propulsatio. See propulse.
Senses: examples: text: The just cause of war is the propulsation of public injuries.
ref: 1649, Bishop Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience:
glosses: The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance.
classman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classmen
Etymology: From class + -man.
Senses: glosses: A member of a class
glosses: A classmate.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: A candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an honour class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified.
Derived terms: classmanship
Related terms: lowerclassman
underclassman
upperclassman
classmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of classman
favose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more favose
form: most favose
Etymology: From Latin favus (“honeycomb”) + -ose.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Honeycombed.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the disease favus.
Derived terms: favosely
Related terms: faveolate
proximious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proximious
form: most proximious
Senses: glosses: proximate
dokimastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dokimastic
form: most dokimastic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of docimastic.
textuarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textuarists
Senses: glosses: A textuary.
textuarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of textuarist
pregage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pregages
form: pregaging
form: pregaged
form: pregaged
Senses: examples: text: by oath pregaged to the pope
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
text: Ninthly, that the members of that Council of Trent, both Bishops and Abbots, were by Oath pregaged to the Pope, "to defend and maintain his authority against all the world."
ref: 1670, Peter Heylyn, Ecclesia Restavrata: Or, the History of the Reformation of the Church of England, page 148:
text: Say to parliament that, as they have retained a part of their senses, and did not seek to force upon me, their rightful queen, a husband by name, nor yet so far forget themselves as to fix a date which, in their great minds, should be the limit of my singleness, I do answer to their broad address, that I will take the matter, of which you speak to freely, into my mind for reflection, and, if I can be made to feel the need of this which you have pregaged to deliver to me, I will inform your honorable body.
ref: 1892, Aldémah, The Queens, page 53:
glosses: To preengage.
examples: text: At the outset, however, he either failed utterly to pregage the possibilities of the method, or else through modesty declined to let his imagination take wings; for we find him, in an interview published in McClure's Magazine in 1897, when a considerable measure of success had been attained, declaring that it would be possible by the perfection of his method to send signals to a distance of at least twenty miles.
ref: 1923, Henry Smith Williams, The Story of Modern Science- Volume 9, page 39:
text: As in most rail renewal operations, a plate setting device is used to pregage the tie plates for the DUN-RITE GAGING MACHINE.
ref: 1952, Railway Engineering and Maintenance - Volume 48, page 1029:
text: The upper rolls pregage the plastics sheet and the lower ones widen it and produce the desired thickness.
ref: 1953, SPE Journal - Volumes 9-10, page 34:
text: Still others have a series of psychological tests to pregage the likelihood of success of the joint venture.
ref: 1970, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Urban and Rural Economic Development, The Impact of Franchising on Small Business, page 482:
glosses: To gauge beforehand; to make an initial estimate of size, magnitude or position.
pregage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: removes parts one at a time from the bottom of the loading tray and cycles them to a probe station for a pregage check to ensure that they are within the required size.
ref: 1982, Production Engineering - Volume 29, page 55:
text: When a gaging machine is used, the pregage setting is 1/8 to 1/4 in. tighter than the desired gage.
ref: 1985, The Track Cyclopedia, page 181:
glosses: Before gauging.
pregaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pregage
pregages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pregage
pregaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pregage
unlaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlaughs
form: unlaughing
form: unlaughed
form: unlaughed
Etymology: From un- + laugh.
Senses: examples: text: you must unlaugh again this foolish Laughter
ref: 1637, John Williams, The Holy Table Name and Thing:
glosses: To recall (former laughter).
unlaughed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unlaugh
unlaughs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unlaugh
suitress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suitresses
Etymology: From suitor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Beshrew me, but 'twere pity of his heart,
That could refuse a boon to such a suitress.
ref: 1714, Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore, act III:
glosses: A female supplicant or suitor.
suitresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suitress
disinteressment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French désintéressement.
Senses: examples: 1709, Matthew Prior, Preface to Poems on Several Occasions
he has managed some of the charges of the kingdom with known ability ; and laid them down with entire disinteressment
glosses: disinterest
nesslerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nesslerizes
form: nesslerizing
form: nesslerized
form: nesslerized
Etymology: From Nessler + -ize, after the name of a German chemist, Julius Neßler.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To treat or test (a liquid) with a solution of mercuric iodide in potassium iodide and potassium hydroxide (Nessler's reagent) in order to detect the presence of ammonia.
wikipedia: Julius Neßler
Derived terms: nesslerization
nesslerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nesslerize
nesslerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nesslerize
nesslerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nesslerize
flipping Nora
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bloody Nora (slightly milder than it).
synonyms: word: bloody Nora
extra: slightly milder than it
subversioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + versioning.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The keeping track of changes in a file over time.
forethoughtfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forethoughtful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being forethoughtful
retrograde neurotransmitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrograde neurotransmitters
Senses: glosses: A neurotransmitter that is released from a postsynaptic neuron to the axon of a presynaptic neuron.
golazo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golazos
form: golazoes
form: goalazo
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish golazo.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A spectacular goal
unisus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unisi
Etymology: Blend of unicorn + Pegasus
Senses: examples: text: Unisi are unicorns with pegasi wings, the result of crossbreeding between the two species. A single such creature is called a unisus.
ref: 1993 February, Michael John II Wybo, “Unique Unicorns”, in Dragon Magazine, number 190, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OL, page 92:
text: As for her horse, it was Spirit when she was Adora, and Swift Wind the flying unicorn (unisus?) when she was She-Ra.
ref: 1995 July 30, pteryx, “He-man. she-ra's horse's”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet), message-ID <9507301040.0EZSC00@acornbbs.com>:
text: Heat was a unisus and Mich's best friend. He had once belonged to a huge herd of unisi that lived in the sky, above the clouds.
ref: 1998 November 15, Piers Anthony with Julie Brady, Dream a Little Dream: A tale of myth and moonshine, Tor, →ISBN, →OL, page 19:
text: The beauty of the Unisus was simply extraordinary. Its silver-feathered wings stretched across the room, fifteen feet in length. Its glorious, glowing white fur was so pure that it would be invisible in the snow.
ref: 2006 September 8, Jacob Cortez, The Legend of the Teenage Sages, Central Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OL, page 267:
glosses: A winged unicorn.
Synonyms: sense: winged unicorn
word: pegasus
sense: winged unicorn
word: pegacorn
sense: winged unicorn
word: unipeg
sense: winged unicorn
word: alicorn
Related terms: english: horn of a unicorn
translation: horn of a unicorn
word: alicorn
unisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unisus
anthropophagies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropophagy
anything else
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Would you like anything else?
text: "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." / "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.["]
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “In the Bay of Biscay”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: Any other thing. (This entry is a translation hub.)
digitalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digitalin
Ofsted
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɒf.stɛd/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills: the non-ministerial government department of His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England (HMCI).
antipoison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipoisons
Etymology: From anti- + poison.
Senses: examples: text: In venemous natures something may be amiable: poisons afford antipoisons: nothing is totally, or altogether uselessly bad.
ref: 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 42:
text: 1849, Golding Bird, “Lectures on Materia Medica,” Lecture III, “The Materia Medica of the 17th Century” in Medical Times, Volume 19, 2 June, 1849, p. 617,
In consideration of the high value attached to some of the bezoars, it was very common for them to be adulterated—some good—some bad imitations,—for instance, the goa antipoison, the prescription for which in the first Pharmacopœia was—Hyacinth, jasper, sapphire, and topaz.
glosses: An antidote for a poison.
antipoisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipoison
reverify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reverifies
form: reverifying
form: reverified
form: reverified
form: re-verify
Etymology: From re- + verify.
Senses: glosses: To verify again.
header files
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of header file
ambreic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.
Derived terms: ambreate
plethories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plethory
plethory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plethories
Etymology: Alteration of Latin plethora after + -y.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he appetite falls down like a horseleech, when it is ready to burst with putrefaction and an unwholesome plethory […].
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC:
text: The disease of the state is a plethory, / Who so fit to reduce it as I?
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A plethora.
examples: text: ‘It is, indeed, owing to a plethory of matter that his style is so faulty.’
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 921:
glosses: A plethora; a dangerous excess of something.
Thunderbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌndə(ɹ).bɜː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: Thunderbirds
Etymology: The railway sense is derived from the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, about a secretive high-tech rescue organization, ultimately from thunderbird.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of thunderbird.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A locomotive stored at a strategic point on the network so as to be available to quickly rescue a failed train.
Thunderbird
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌndə(ɹ).bɜː(ɹ)d/
Etymology: The railway sense is derived from the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, about a secretive high-tech rescue organization, ultimately from thunderbird.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Mozilla Thunderbird.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Ford Thunderbird.
Thunderbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thunderbird
Noetian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Noetians
Etymology: From Noetus + -ian.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A follower of Noetus, a presbyter of the church of Asia Minor about AD 230, who believed that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in the Holy Trinity were not distinct.
Noetians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Noetian
edder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈɛdɚ/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈɛðɚ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈɛdə/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈɛðə/
Forms: form: edders
form: yedder
form: ether
Etymology: From Middle English *edre, *eder, from Old English eder, edor (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *edaraz, *eduraz (“hedge, border”). Cognate with Old High German etar.
Senses: examples: text: […] including the making [of] a stake and edder hedge. I had a large quantity of excellent manure out of this ditch, consisting of rotten wood, leaves, &c. &c. &c. But in this experiment I found that our stake and edder hedges are little more to be depended on than the fet ones.
ref: 1771, Arthur Young, A Course of Experimental Agriculture: Containing an Exact Register of All the Business Transacted During Five Years on Near Three Hundred Acres of Various Soils ... The Whole Stated in Near Two Thousand Original Experiments ..., page 318:
text: The stake-and-edder hedge prevails in this district.
ref: 1796, William Marshall, Rural Economy, I, page 196:
text: The scouring of the ditch is thrown up, a very thin stake and edder hedge is formed, and the rest of the wood made into bavins, and sold principally to bakers, at about a guinea per hundred delivered.
ref: 1802, John Lawrence, The New Farmer's Calendar; Or, Monthly Remembrancer, page 254:
glosses: A long flexible stick, rod or other piece of wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.
edder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈɛdɚ/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈɛðɚ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈɛdə/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈɛðə/
Forms: form: edders
form: eddering
form: eddered
form: eddered
form: yedder
form: ether
Etymology: From Middle English *edre, *eder, from Old English eder, edor (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *edaraz, *eduraz (“hedge, border”). Cognate with Old High German etar.
Senses: examples: text: to edder a hedge
text: […] hedge, with live stakes and layers cut half in two, near the ground, and intertwisted among the stakes sufficiently to maintain their position without eddering the top. The sides of the hedge are cut alternately; […]
ref: 1813, Thomas Batchelor, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford, page 274:
text: Hazel and ash saplings make good switches, and there are many of these by the roadside, spraying like the forks of a fan. Later they will be used for "eddering" the other side of the lane.
ref: 1950, Alison Uttley, Buckinghamshire, page 5:
glosses: To bind the top of, interweaving edder.
edder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈɛdɚ/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈɛðɚ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈɛdə/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈɛðə/
Forms: form: edders
Etymology: Variant of adder.
Senses: examples: text: winges like a bird she hase,
Fete as an edder, a mayden's face,
Her kinde I'll take
ref: 1816, J. H. Hansall, The Stranger in Chester:
glosses: An adder or snake.
edders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edder
squamaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squamaceous
form: most squamaceous
Senses: glosses: squamous
eddered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of edder
eddering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of edder
cowhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cowhearted
form: most cowhearted
form: cow-hearted
Etymology: From cow + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: The Lady Powis […] patted him with her fan, and called him a cowhearted fellow.
ref: a. 1734, Roger North, Examen:
text: Pfhaw, I Cow-hearted! I'm as bold as a Lyon!
ref: 1718, Laurence Echard (translator), Terence (original), Eunuch:
text: “You're a cowhearted rascal, that's sure, but you didn't try to use anything that belonged to me. So you can go. That's what I wouldn't ever want to happen,” he continued, speaking very slowly
ref: 2017, Donald Barr Chidsey, Captain Crossbones:
glosses: cowardly
leucoplastid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucoplastids
form: leukoplastid
Etymology: From leuco- + plastid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A kind of unpigmented plastid involved in a wide range of essential biosynthetic functions.
Hyponyms: amyloplast
elaioplast
proteinoplast
leucoplastids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucoplastid
stromule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stromules
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microscopic stroma-filled tubule found in plant cells such as chloroplasts
Related terms: matrixule
stromules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stromule
salebrosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salebrosity
salebrosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salebrosities
Senses: examples: text: there is a blaze of Honor gilding the Bryers, and inticing the Mind; yet is not this without its Thorns and Salebrosity
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: roughness; ruggedness
diaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: diasters
form: dyaster
Etymology: From di- + Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A double star; applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei.
Related terms: karyokinesis
diasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaster
suicidical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suicidical
form: most suicidical
Etymology: From suicide + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of suicidal.
platonizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platonizers
Etymology: From platonize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who platonizes.
platonizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platonizer
shandrydan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shandrydans
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: The odd-man gardener has brought the Rectory shandrydan round to the front door — it was a long elongated open vehicle drawn by a mild old mare named Lucy.
ref: 1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, page 134 (1968 edition):
glosses: A hooded chaise; any similar horse-drawn vehicle with no definite name.
glosses: A vehicle; a carriage or cart.
Synonyms: shandry
shandrydans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shandrydan
verditer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verditers
Etymology: French vert-de-terre, literally "green of earth".
Senses: glosses: verdigris
glosses: Either of two pigments (blue verditer and green verditer) made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate.
mugiloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mugiloid
form: most mugiloid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Like or pertaining to the genus Mugil or family Mugilidae — the mullets.
Synonyms: mulletlike
mugiloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mugiloids
Senses: glosses: A fish of the genus Mugil or family Mugilidae — the mullets
tharf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɑː(ɹ)f/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: more tharf
form: most tharf
Etymology: From Middle English therf, from Old English þeorf (“unleavened, fresh, skim”), from Proto-West Germanic *þerb, from Proto-Germanic *þerbaz (“unleavened, simple”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terbh-, *(s)trebh- (“rigid, stiff, tight”).
Cognate with German derb (“rough, coarse, rude”), Old Frisian therve, Middle Dutch derf, Middle High German derp, Icelandic þjarfur (“unleavened”) and Ancient Greek τέρπω (térpō).
Senses: examples: text: a tharf person
glosses: Stiff, unsocial, rough in manner.
Derived terms: tharf-cake
tharcake
tharfish
Swick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pterygoquadrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pterygo- + quadrate.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages.
occupy oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: occupies oneself
form: occupying oneself
form: occupied oneself
form: occupied oneself
Senses: glosses: To keep busy by doing something
glosses: To masturbate
Toowoomba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncertain; see History of Toowoomba, Queensland.
Senses: glosses: A mid-sized inland city in Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A local government area in south Queensland; in full, the Toowoomba Region.
matweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matweeds
Etymology: From mat + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of several maritime grasses.
Nardus stricta
glosses: Any of several maritime grasses.
Axonopus fissifolius (common carpetgrass)
glosses: Amaranthus blitoides (prostate amaranth, mat amaranth)
glosses: Guilleminea spp.
Synonyms: sense: Axonopus fissifolius
word: common carpetgrass
sense: Axonopus fissifolius
word: caratao grass
sense: Axonopus fissifolius
word: Louisiana grass
sense: Axonopus fissifolius
word: mat grass
sense: Axonopus fissifolius
word: narrow-leaved carpet grass
sense: Axonopus fissifolius
word: Durringtion grass
Derived terms: taxonomic: Guilleminea densa
word: small matweed
matweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matweed
doum palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doum palms
form: dom palm
form: doom palm
form: dum palm
Etymology: From Arabic دوم (dawm) + palm.
Senses: examples: text: The country to the east of Derudeb [Sudan] was bleached and sere, and there were long grey cliffs and dom palms growing in the wadis.
ref: 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 18:
glosses: A palm tree of species Hyphaene thebaica, with edible oval fruit, native to northern Africa and some countries of the Levant.
Synonyms: doum
gingerbread palm
gingerbread tree
doum palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doum palm
stormwind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stormwinds
form: storm-wind
Etymology: From storm + wind.
Senses: examples: text: Also know, that it is as possible to see the winde as the aire, their substances being too tenuous to be perceived; unlesse in a storm-winde, whose matter is an exhalation so thick that it darkens the aire:
ref: 1635, John Swan, Speculum Mundi, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 5, Section 2, p. 177:
text: 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, New York: Samuel Colman, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 146,
[…] the stormwind smites the wall of the mountain cliff […]
text: 1872, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, London: Macmillan, prefatory poem,
Without, the frost, the blinding snow,
The storm-wind’s moody madness—
Within, the firelight’s ruddy glow,
And childhood’s nest of gladness.
text: That spell of sea-safety which they set much store by in the Northern Archipelago never saved a man from storm-wind or storm-wave, but, cast by one who knows the local seas and the ways of a boat and the skills of the sailor, it weaves some daily safety about the fisherman.
ref: 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 8, in A Wizard of Earthsea, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012, page 155:
text: He slashed right and left as the fallen banner was ripped apart, the thousand ragged pieces swirling away like crimson leaves in a stormwind.
ref: 1998, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, New York: Bantam, published 1999, page 447:
glosses: A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm.
stormwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stormwind
doum fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doum fruits
Senses: glosses: The fruit of the doum palm.
Ashby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ashbee
form: Ashbey
Etymology: From Old English æsċ (“ashtree”) + Old Norse býr (“farm, town”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: Clipping of Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
glosses: A southern suburb of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE8908).
glosses: A locality and former civil parish, now in Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet parish, East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM4899).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Grant County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Grant County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Warren County, Virginia.
glosses: Former name of Geelong West, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Perth in the City of Wanneroo, Western Australia.
Derived terms: Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Ashby Magna
Ashby plot
Ashby St Ledgers
Ashby Woulds
Castle Ashby
Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet
sexlocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sex- + locular: compare French sexloculaire.
Senses: examples: text: a sexlocular pericarp
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having six cells for seeds.
scalenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalene
crouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crouse
form: most crouse
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: Thence mystic knots mak great abuse / On young guidmen, fond, keen, an' crouse;
ref: 1785, Robert Burns, Address to the Deil:
glosses: brisk; lively; bold
Derived terms: croshabell
crousely
tharcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tharcakes
form: tharf-cake
form: thardcake
Etymology: From Middle English þerf cake; equivalent to tharf (“unleavened”) + cake.
Senses: glosses: A cake made from meal, treacle, and butter, eaten on the night of the fifth of November.
gourdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gourdy
form: most gourdy
Etymology: Either from gourd, or less likely from French gourd (“benumbed”).
Senses: topics: farriery
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: Having swollen legs
raw_tags: of a horse
Derived terms: gourdiness
tharm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: tharms
form: thairm
form: therm
Etymology: From Middle English tharm, therm, from Old English þearm (“gut, entrail, intestine”), from Proto-West Germanic *þarm (“guts”), from Proto-Germanic *þarmaz (“guts”), from Proto-Indo-European *tórmos, *torh₂mo- (“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“to rub, bore, twist”).
Cognate with Scots thairm (“gut, bowel, intestine”), North Frisian teerm (“bowel”), West Frisian term (“bowel”), Dutch darm (“bowel, gut, intestine”), German Darm (“gut, intestine, bowel”), Danish tarm (“bowel, gut, intestine”), Norwegian tarm (“intestine”), Norwegian Nynorsk tarm (“intestine”), Swedish tarm (“bowel, gut”), Icelandic þarmur (“bowel”), Latin trāmes (“way, path, track”), Ancient Greek τράμις (trámis, “tharm, gut”), τόρμος (tórmos, “socket, peg”). Doublet of derm.
Senses: glosses: An intestine; an entrail; gut.
tharms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tharm
winesop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪnˌsɒp/
Forms: form: winesops
Etymology: From Middle English wyne soppe, wynesoppe; equivalent to wine + sop.
Senses: examples: text: Hence the proverb […] "to reduce one whose meal is a winesop to a dry crust."
ref: 1877, Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art, volume 43, page 649:
text: Beatriz, for all her seeming frailty, had borne the long strain better, and presently came, offering winesops, the recognised restorative; small pieces of fine white bread soaked in wine.
ref: 1974, Norah Lofts, Crown of aloes:
text: His wife gave her a winesop to eat and after, undressing her, put her to bed; and they contrived that night to have her and her maid carried to Florence.
ref: circa 1982, John Payne, Decameron (translated from Giovanni Boccaccio's Italian)
text: Winesops
1 cup butter
1 1.2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup molasses
[…]
1 cup currants
ref: 2006, Rae Katherine Eighmey, How creative cooks fed the soul and spirit of America's heartland, page 23:
glosses: A piece of bread soaked in wine; a small cake made with grapes or wine.
examples: text: "I'm going to give you Mr. Whish — or the winesop that remains of him," continued Attwater.
ref: 1913, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, The ebb-tide: A trio and a quartette, page 214:
text: […] "we're being maneuvered into providing a gala State funeral for that reprobate winesop."
ref: 2000, Stephen Lawhead, Avalon: The Return of King Arthur, page 61:
text: "Aye, he was good at skulking around and acting like a winesop or an idiot."
ref: 2003, Sagas of Conan, page 293:
glosses: A drunkard, a wino.
Synonyms: sense: drunkard
word: alcoholic
word: souse
word: suck-pint
Related terms: milksop