cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
polyoptrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + -optrum (compare Ancient Greek εἴσ-οπτρον (eís-optron), ἔσ-οπτρον (és-optron, “mirror”)).
Senses: glosses: A glass through which objects appear multiplied, but diminished in size.
multispectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multispectrum
form: most multispectrum
Etymology: From multi- + spectrum.
Senses: glosses: Having or employing multiple spectra.
bruhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bruh
laquears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laquear
sendling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sendlings
Etymology: From send + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: […] when the hour fixed for his liberation struck, he was conducted from the prison-house like a conqueror in triumph and the proudest nations of the earth rivalled each other in receiving the pennyless fugitive gloriously, like a sendling of God.
ref: 1852, Charles A Dana, Meyer's Universum:
text: Such a man is a Predicant, or minister; but a man of inferior fitness aud qualities is allowed to preach to blacks or low whites, and he is called a "sendling," or missionary.
ref: 1881, EVANGELICAL CHRISTENDOM, page 153:
glosses: One who is sent; an emissary; missionary; messenger.
mebles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of moveables (“furniture”).
sassoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sassolin
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sassoline
sassolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sassoline.
coaltit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaltits
form: coletit
Etymology: From coal + tit, from its black colour.
Senses: glosses: A small European titmouse, Parus ater. Alternative form of coal tit.
Synonyms: coalmouse
colemouse
coaltits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coaltit
coletit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coletits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coaltit.
coletits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coletit
unchoose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unchooses
form: unchoosing
form: unchose
form: unchosen
Etymology: From un- + choose.
Senses: examples: text: At the point where a goal is perceived as too easy to be worth investment of effort, effort is reduced as we “unchoose” the goal.
ref: 2006, Richard Allen Wainess, The Effect of Navigation Maps on Problem Solving Tasks:
text: One glory of a family is you'd never choose your kin and can't unchoose your daddy's hazel eyes — no more than you could unchoose your hand.
ref: 2010, Andrew Hudgins, American Rendering:
text: In other words, if the depression is a survival mechanism chosen by the woman when she was a child, then it is within her power to unchoose depression and to heal.
ref: 2011, Brad Fern, Tom Lutz, From Ashes to Gold:
glosses: To not choose; choose against; deselect; reject.
sunn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun
Etymology: Hindi सुनई (sunaī)
Senses: synonyms: sunn hemp
glosses: An East Indian leguminous plant of species Crotalaria juncea, yielding a fiber.
unchoosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unchoose
unchose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of unchoose
unchooses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unchoose
choogled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of choogle
choogling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of choogle
ponties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ponty
spulzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspʌlji/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈspʌlzi/
Forms: form: spulzies
form: spuilzie
form: spulye
form: spulyie
form: spuilyie
Etymology: Compare spoil.
Senses: examples: text: Captain Waverley, I must request your favourable construction of her grief, which may, or ought to proceed, solely from seeing her father's estate exposed to spulzie and depredation from common thieves and sorners
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: plunder; booty
spulzie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspʌlji/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈspʌlzi/
Forms: form: spulzies
form: spulzieing
form: spulzied
form: spulzied
form: spuilzie
form: spulye
form: spulyie
form: spuilyie
Etymology: Compare spoil.
Senses: glosses: To plunder.
spulzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spulzie
scomm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scomms
Etymology: Latin scomma (“a taunt, jeer, scoff”), from Ancient Greek σκῶμμα (skômma, “jest, gibe”).
Senses: examples: text: If the Wife was heartily angry before, This Scomm made her Stark Mad
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A buffoon.
examples: 1622, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix clearing foure truthes, against atheists and infidels
His vain ostentation is worthily scoffed with [the] scomme of the orator.
glosses: A flout; a jeer; a gibe; a taunt.
scomms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scomm
phycite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phycites
Etymology: From phyco- + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The elementary composition of phycite is as follows: — Carbon 39.33 Hydrogen 8.25 Oxygen 52.46 which is represented by the formula C¹² H¹⁵O¹², in consequence of its relations...
ref: 1853, William Francis, The Chemical Gazette, page 200:
text: Phycite is a saccharine substance obtained from an Alga, the Protococcus vulgaris, known under the name “Phycie.”
ref: 1853, American Journal of Science:
text: Although this new substance, phycite, (as he calls it) is very sweet, M. Lamy objects to its being called a sugar.
ref: 1854, Annual of Scientific Discovery, page 266:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Erythritol, C₄H₆(OH)₄, that has been obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris.
inraptured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inraptured
form: most inraptured
Senses: glosses: enraptured
shist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schist.
shistose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shistose
form: most shistose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schistose.
shists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shist
songtext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: songtexts
form: song-text
Etymology: From song + text. Compare Dutch songtekst (“lyrics”).
Senses: examples: text: The use of songtext, therefore, was important as a literary medium and as a means of recording oral traditions and events of historical ... Songtext may also be considered as an important factor in determining emotional effect of musical sound.
ref: 1986, Ultimate reality and meaning, volumes 9-10, page 47:
text: Next to this is a separate column for the songtext — which does not always give the words of the text, at the most a few catchwords, headed by the word: [...]
ref: 1992, Clara Brakel-Papenhuijzen, The Bedhaya Court Dances of Central Java:
text: “No doubt,” writes LèviStrauss (in his analysis which ignores the performative, social, colonial and microhistorical contexts of the song-text), “the purpose of such an alteration in the details of the myth is to elicit the corresponding organic reaction, [...]”
ref: 2012, Michael Taussig, The Nervous System:
text: The songtexts are in rhymed verses, and each line is repeated once.
ref: 2013, The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music - Volume 2 - Page 859
glosses: The written words to a song; lyrics.
songtexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of songtext
mancuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mancus
digs into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dig into
digging into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dig into
dug into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dig into
bitchling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitchlings
Etymology: From bitch + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: “I like your defiance, but it would go easier on you and your bitchling if you didn't resist me.”
ref: 2004, Andrew Burke, Defiance:
text: Such feelings are normal, but don't let them paralyze you. Few things are as tragic as a quivering, hesitant bitchling!
ref: 2007, Kaaronica Evans-Ware, The Art of Bitchcraft:
text: You, my sweet bitchling, will have a bruise whose evolution I shall trace day by day.
ref: 2010, Wendy Swanscombe, Disciplined Skin:
glosses: A small, young, or diminutive bitch (all senses).
bitchlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitchling
bitchcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bitch + -craft, perhaps as a pun on witchcraft.
Senses: examples: text: Bitchcraft, as I understand it, is not immorality in the conventional sense
ref: 1950, Colwyn Edward Vulliamy, Henry Plundew:
text: Where did you hide your knitting needle? You are the poison in our nation's vein! Bitchcraft! Bitchcraft! Bitchcraft! Someone's gotta stop it!
ref: 2006, Sabrina P. Ramet, The Three Yugoslavias:
glosses: The art, skill, or practice of being a bitch.
dickling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicklings
Etymology: From dick (“penis”) + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A penis before circumcision.
glosses: A small or diminutive penis.
whineling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whineling
form: most whineling
Etymology: From whine + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: If she be sluttish, pieuish, and vntoward, Wilful,and wanton, lazie, curst,and sullen, Franticke, and foolish, whineling, and froward, And scarce can make a threed of russet wollen, But must be taught how to put vp her pullen: To haue a wench well followed with such fits, Would make a poore man halie beside his wits.
ref: 1600, Nicholas Breton, Pasquils Mistresse, Or The Worthie and Unworthie Woman:
text: Half swells, then sinks, like fails of ships becalm'd, A dry, dead, sweet — man's mummied voice embalm'd. Shame on the whineling, sleep-inducive, tone!
ref: 1753, Aaron Hill, Works - Volume 3 - Page 406:
glosses: Whiny; plaintive.
Morgannwg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh Morgannwg.
Senses: glosses: Glamorgan and Glamorganshire
Berner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝnɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
homophone: burner
Forms: form: Berners
Etymology: From Bernie + -er. Named after American politician Bernie Sanders.
Senses: examples: text: Leaving City Hall with a smile, he mirrored the Berner’s excitement, but for Hillary. “She has the strongest record,” he said.
ref: 2016 June 6, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, “As SF ‘feels the Bern’ and touts #ImWithHer, turnout numbers strong”, in SF Examiner:
text: Nick Merrill, Clinton’s press secretary, issued this response on Twitter, citing the words of Mike Casca, Sanders’ deputy communications director and a “die-hard” Berner.
ref: 2016 October 1, Reena Flores, “Hillary Clinton comments on Bernie Sanders supporters in leaked recording”, in CBS News:
text: Some, like the Indivisible network that has spawned more than 5,000 chapters nationwide, have tapped into the same organizational formula the Berners did.
ref: 2017 April 11, Joe Garofoli, “Fueled by Trump resistance, Sanders’ influence grows with Dems”, in San Francisco Chronicle:
text: "We have almost enough Berners to hold the majority. It's real close," he said.
ref: 2017 July 21, Eric Bradner, Gregory Krieg, “Sanders' Iowa roots continue to bloom -- whether or not he runs in 2020”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: Bernista
Sanderista
glosses: A supporter of Bernie Sanders.
Related terms: feel the Bern
Berner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝnɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
homophone: burner
Forms: form: Berners
Etymology: Diminutives
* From Bern(ard) (“m”), Bern(adette) (“f”), Bern(ice) (“f”), and -er
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name, variant of Bernie.
A diminutive of the male given name Bernard, variant of Bernie.
glosses: A unisex given name, variant of Bernie.
A diminutive of the female given names Bernadette or Bernice, variant of Bernie.
Berner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝnɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
homophone: burner
Forms: form: Berners
Senses: glosses: A surname
snow-blow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snow-blows
form: snow-blowing
form: snow-blew
form: snow-blown
Senses: glosses: to clear snow away using a snowblower
snow blower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow blowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snowblower.
snowthrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowthrowers
form: snow thrower
form: snow-thrower
Etymology: From snow + thrower.
Senses: glosses: A snowblower.
syth
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sith (“since”).
bond angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bond angles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The angle between two bonds that have a common atom.
Berners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Berner
snow thrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow throwers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snowthrower.
snow-thrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow-throwers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snowthrower.
come to time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to time
form: coming to time
form: came to time
form: come to time
Etymology: The expression was used in prizefighting (boxing).
Senses: examples: text: We fights for ten minutes or so, and then I hits him a round blow on the ear, and he falls down on the hard, and couldn't come to time. No wonder, poor fellow ! for he had gone to eternity.
ref: 1834, Frederick Marryat, Jacob Faithful:
glosses: To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and time is called.
glosses: To maintain an appointment; to meet expectations.
clary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛəɹi/
Forms: form: claries
Etymology: From Middle English clarie, from Anglo-Norman sclaree, from Late or Medieval Latin sclarēia.
Senses: glosses: clary sage (Salvia sclarea)
Derived terms: clary water
meadow clary
wild clary
rayograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rayographs
Etymology: From Ray + -o- + -graph, coined by Man Ray (1890–1976), American modernist artist, based on his own name.
Senses: examples: text: Man Ray developed a similar procedure for photography — montage and suggested the working of the unconscious mind by dropping objects randomly onto a light-sensitive surface in his rayograph process.
ref: 2000, Lynn Gamwell, Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind:
text: The artist constructed this rayograph by placing disparate objects — a notched collar and a strip of folded paper — on photographic paper.
ref: 2004, Barbara Beth Zabel, Assembling Art: The Machine and the American Avant-Garde:
glosses: A photogram of the kind produced by Man Ray.
wikipedia: Man Ray
rayographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rayograph
pleurites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleurite
dorsimeson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dorsi- + meson.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The line in which the meson meets the dorsal surface.
Leibniz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪbnɪts/
ipa: /ˈlaɪpnɪts/
Etymology: From German Leibniz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German — famously held by
glosses: A surname from German — famously held by:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), German mathematician, philosopher, and polymath
Derived terms: Leibnizian
Leibniz’s law
dossel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dossels
Etymology: Old French dossel.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dorsal (“a hanging or canopy”).
dossels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dossel
scaurie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scauries
form: scaury
form: scorie
form: scorey
Senses: glosses: The young of any gull.
scauries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaurie
funambuloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funambulo
misintend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misintends
form: misintending
form: misintended
form: misintended
Etymology: From mis- + intend.
Senses: examples: text: Come therefore, gentle death, and ease my griefe; Cut short what malice Fortune misintends.
ref: 1967, Arthur Freeman, Thomas Kyd: facts and problems - Page 145:
text: He is now misintending: he has a false intention.
ref: 1992, Samuel Charles Coval, Peter G. Campbell, Agency in action: the practical rational agency machine - Page 114:
glosses: To intend, purpose, or direct amiss or wrongfully; mismean.
Derived terms: misintended
misintending
misintention
misintention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misintentions
Etymology: From mis- + intention. Compare misintend.
Senses: examples: text: If the person under consideration suffers error in the matter of his volitional activities he may be said to have misintcnded when his act of will turns out to be ill-advised. The act is called a misintention.
ref: 1914, Granville Stanley Hall, The Pedagogical seminary - Volume 21 - Page 508:
text: For instance, some psychological studies show that people who have had plenty of physical relations end up by hardly feeling any climax in intercourse. We also know that the failure of many marriages stems from an original misintention that the conjoints had about love.
ref: 1973, Kahlil Gibran, Andrew Dib Sherfan, A Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran, published 2011:
glosses: A wrong intention.
darlinger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of darling: more darling
meerkitten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪəkɪtən/
Forms: form: meerkittens
Etymology: Formed by the compounding of meer- (the first element of meerkat) with kitten (“young cat”). The analysis of the -kat element of meerkat as cat is supported by meerkat’s ultimate derivation from the Middle Dutch meercatte, believed to have been formed from mere (“lake”, “sea”) + catte (“cat”).
Senses: examples: text: Meerkats were jumping up and down in a state of great ferment. Suddenly, by the hundreds, they began diving into the pond. There was much pushing and shoving as the meerkats behind vied to reach the pond’s edge. The frenzy was collective; even tiny meerkittens were making for the water, barely being held back by mothers and guardians.
ref: 2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi, Canongate, published 2003, →ISBN, page 267:
text: I woke up at dawn covered from head to toe in a living fur blanket. Some meerkittens had discovered the warmer parts of my body.
ref: ibidem, page 276
glosses: An infant or juvenile meerkat.
La-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: text: La- + Keisha → Lakeisha
text: La- + Toya → Latoya
text: La- + Tanya → Latanya
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Used in African-American female given names.
Coordinate terms: english: m - male equivalent
translation: m - male equivalent
word: Le-
alt: m or f - unisex equivalent
word: De-
Related terms: english: the
translation: the
word: la
english: the
translation: the
word: la
feeder school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feeder schools
Senses: glosses: A school or college, many of whose graduates continue their education at another specific school or college, or enter a specific profession
flautando
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian flautato.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: flutelike.
flautando
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flautando
form: most flautando
Etymology: From Italian flautato.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In the manner of a flute.
dry wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry walls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drywall.
dry walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry wall
gyprock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyprocks
Etymology: Blend of gypsum + rock
Senses: examples: text: Some high quality white or variously tinted fine-grained gyprocks, usually referred to as alabaster, were used as interior facing stones and for small statues and carved decorative objects found in Egyptian pyramids
ref: 1979, Richard Vincent Dietrich, Brian J. Skinner, Rocks and rock minerals, page 215:
text: The world distribution of gyprock outcrops and the solubility of gypsum restrict the extensive occurrence of gypsic soils to the dry regions
ref: 2006, R. Lal, Encyclopedia of soil science 1, page 796:
glosses: Rock rich in gypsum; gypsic soil.
examples: text: Cinder blocks were more durable, however, and soon gypsum was redirected for “gyprock” drywall, a wallboard...
ref: 2012, Richard Harris, Building a Market: The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, page 55:
glosses: Drywall.
Synonyms: sense: drywall
word: drywall
gyprock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gyprocks
form: gyprocking
form: gyprocked
form: gyprocked
Etymology: Blend of gypsum + rock
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: To drywall.
Derived terms: gyprocker
gyprocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyprock
gypsic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gypsic
form: most gypsic
Etymology: From gypsum + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The world distribution of gyprock outcrops and the solubility of gypsum restrict the extensive occurrence of gypsic soils to the dry regions
ref: 2006, R. Lal, Encyclopedia of soil science 1, page 796:
glosses: Of, or having to do with gypsum.
Derived terms: hypergypsic
lukewarmish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lukewarmish
form: most lukewarmish
Etymology: From lukewarm + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat lukewarm; tepid.
zeolitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zeolitize
zeolitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zeolitize
zeolitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zeolitize
disincentivizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disincentivize
destroying angels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destroying angel
thioctic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: lipoic acid
playframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playframes
Etymology: From play + frame.
Senses: glosses: A children's climbing frame incorporating other elements, such as roofed sections, a slide and/or swings.
playframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playframe
overoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overoils
form: overoiling
form: overoiled
form: overoiled
Etymology: From over- + oil.
Senses: antonyms: underoil#Verb
hypernyms: overlubricate#Verb
;
oil#Verb
oil up#Verb
<
lubricate#Verb
glosses: To oil too much.
Related terms: oily
well-oiled
overoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: hypernyms: overlubricated
glosses: simple past and past participle of overoil
overoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overoil
overoils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overoil
malodourousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From malodourous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of malodorousness.
valourousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valourousnesses
Etymology: From valourous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of valorousness.
tidefall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidefalls
Etymology: From tide + fall.
Senses: glosses: A waterfall that empties directly into the sea; a coastal waterfall
glosses: The transition of tides to or from high tide and low tide
dolourousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of dolorousness.
odourousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From odourous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of odorousness.
sgraffitoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sgraffitoing is probably as popular as any method of surface texturing.
ref: 1955, Craft Horizons, volumes 15–16, New York, N.Y.: American Craft Council, →ISSN, page 27:
topics: art
arts
glosses: The act or process of creating a sgraffito design.
sgraffitoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sgraffito
sgraffitoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sgraffito
sgraffitoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sgraffitoed
form: most sgraffitoed
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: That has been decorated with sgraffito.
scraffito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scraffiti
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sgraffito.
rancourousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rancourous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of rancorousness.
tidefalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tidefall
papabiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papabile
rigourism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigourisms
Etymology: From rigour + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rigorism.
papable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more papable
form: most papable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of papabile.
papable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of papabile.
rigourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigourists
Etymology: From rigour + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rigorist.
papables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papable
rigouristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rigouristic
form: most rigouristic
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of rigoristic.
rigourisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rigour + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of rigorization.
rigourization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rigour + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of rigorization.
rigorisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rigor + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of rigorization.
rigorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rigorises
form: rigorising
form: rigorised
form: rigorised
Etymology: From rigor + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of rigorize.
rigourise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rigourises
form: rigourising
form: rigourised
form: rigourised
Etymology: From rigour + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of rigorize.
rigourize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rigourizes
form: rigourizing
form: rigourized
form: rigourized
Etymology: From rigour + -ize.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of rigorize.
plish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plishes
Etymology: Imitative; compare splash, plash.
Senses: glosses: A light splashing sound.
vigorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vigorless
form: most vigorless
form: vigourless
Etymology: From vigor + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] the rays of the moon were only reflected from the shattered armor, and the useless weapons, which those gallant warriors, so full of hope and ardor, had that day wielded, and which their vigorless hands still grasped even in death!
ref: An Episode in the Life of Dom Sebastian, King of Portugal (in The Southern Literary Messenger)
glosses: With an absence of vigor.
vigourless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vigourless
form: most vigourless
Etymology: From vigour + -less.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vigorless.
vigourlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vigourless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of vigorlessness.
interbehavioural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + behavioural.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of interbehavioral.
interbehaviour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interbehaviours
Etymology: From inter- + behaviour.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of interbehavior.
ashcoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ashcoloured
form: most ashcoloured
Senses: examples: text: FRUTEX GLOBULORUM. Rumph. v. 89. t. 48. Seeds ashcoloured, with very fine circles.
ref: 1812, Jonathan Stokes, A Botanical Materia Medica, page 464:
text: Among the items of apparel, his "Parliament robes of scarlet; […] a cloak of ashcoloured velvet uncut, embroidered and tissued with gold and silver, and lined with plush of gold and silver."
ref: 1836, Alfred John Kempe, The Loseley Manuscripts, page 408:
text: Occurrence of the Great Ashcoloured Shrike (Lanius Excubitor) in Cambridgeshire. — Cambridgeshire has once more been visited by a fine male specimen of the great ashcoloured shirke; it was shot at Histon, on the 5th of November; it was accompanied by a female.
ref: 1860, S.P. Saville, Zoologist, page 6808:
text: Thallus more or less ashcoloured.
ref: 1882, Edward Tuckerman, Henry Willey, A Synopsis of the North American Lichens - Volumes 1-2, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of ash-colored.
aurora-coloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aurora-coloured
form: most aurora-coloured
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aurora-colored.
brickcoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brickcoloured
form: most brickcoloured
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brickcolored.
cherrycoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cherrycoloured
form: most cherrycoloured
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cherrycolored.
right whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right whale
arbourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of arborous.
flabella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Senses: glosses: plural of flabellum
subcinctoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcinctorium
gouvernor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gouvernors
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of governor.
gratiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gratiously
form: most gratiously
Etymology: From gratious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of graciously.
gratious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gratious
form: most gratious
Senses: examples: text: Soone into other fits he was transmewed, / Till she to him her gratious speach renewed […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of gracious.
Derived terms: gratiously
mantum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mantum. Doublet of manto.
Senses: glosses: The mantle worn by the pope, which is very similar to a cope, but longer and fastened in the front by an elaborate morse.
wikipedia: Pope Pius XII
cappa magna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cappae magnae
Etymology: From Latin cappa (“cape”) + magna (“great”).
Senses: glosses: A voluminous mantle worn by clergymen: in the Roman Catholic church, bishops wear violet, cardinals wear red.
wafflehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wafflehouses
form: waffle house
Etymology: From waffle + house.
Senses: glosses: A restaurant specializing in waffles, breakfast, chicken, and soul food.
Derived terms: Waffle House Index
wafflehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wafflehouse
camauro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ultimately related to the word camel.
Senses: glosses: A cap, of crimson velvet, trimmed with ermine, worn by the pope.
triregnum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triregnums
form: triregna
Senses: glosses: The three-tiered triple crown worn by popes.
triple crowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triple crown
cappae magnae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cappa magna
zosterophyllophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zosterophyllophytes
Etymology: After division †Zosterophyllophyta, from †Zosterophyllum + -phyte.
Senses: glosses: Any of the extinct class †Zosterophyllopsida of plants.
Synonyms: zosterophyll
zosterophyllophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zosterophyllophyte
ferraiolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferraiolos
form: ferraioli
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ferraiolo.
Senses: synonyms: ferraiolone
glosses: A kind of cape worn by Catholic clergy over the shoulders, extending down to the ankles and tied in the front.
ferraiolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ferraiolo.
Jase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: Jases
form: Jace
Etymology: Shortening of Jason.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Jason.
Jases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jase
feminility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feminile + -ity.
Senses: glosses: femininity.
Buddhic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊdɪk/
Forms: form: more Buddhic
form: most Buddhic
form: Buddhaic
Etymology: From Buddha + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Buddhist.
cassie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cassies
Etymology: From French cassie. Doublet of acacia.
Senses: glosses: A thorny shrub with fragrant yellow flowers, Vachellia farnesiana; the needle bush.
glosses: A perfume obtained from this plant.
cassies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cassie
molybdenum blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex oxide derived from a heteropoly acid of molybdenum and another element, typically phosphorus
light painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light paintings
Senses: glosses: The artistic technique of moving a light source to selectively illuminate parts of the subject or scene a camera is recording (at a slow shutter speed), or to shine directly into the camera and in this way sketch.
glosses: Camera painting, the artistic technique of moving a camera (while it records at a low shutter speed) such that light sources appear in multiple places or as streaks in the resulting photograph, the "painting".
glosses: A painting created using one of these techniques.
examples: text: This key has slightly more midtone but is still a light painting.
ref: 2011, Jo Taylor, Watercolour Wisdom, page 92:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see light, painting.
light paintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light painting
kookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊkiː/
rhymes: -ʊki
Forms: form: kookies
Etymology: Clipping of kookaburra + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae).
kookie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊkiː/
rhymes: -ʊki
Forms: form: more kookie
form: most kookie
form: kooky
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kooky.
smoke grenade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke grenades
Senses: synonyms: smoke bomb
glosses: A bomb that generates thick smoke when it explodes; used especially to produce a smokescreen.
Related terms: tear gas
peroxodiphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peroxodiphosphates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion P₂O₈⁴⁻ ,derived from peroxodiphosphoric acid, which is a powerful oxidizing agent
peroxodiphosphoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The strong oxidizing agent H₄P₂O₈
Related terms: peroxodiphosphate
peroxophosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peroxophosphates
Etymology: From peroxophosphoric acid + -ate (“derivative”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion PO₅³⁻, derived from peroxophosphoric acid, which is a powerful oxidizing agent.
peroxophosphoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The strong oxidizing agent H₃PO₅
Related terms: peroxodiphosphoric acid
peroxophosphate
Inglefield clip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Inglefield clips
Etymology: After the person who invented it in the 1890s, Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A double chain-link clip which is opened and closed by alignment of the chamfered gaps in each. Often used for flag halyards and jib sheets.
Synonyms: Brummel hook
sister clip
musk deer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musk deers
form: musk deer
Senses: glosses: A small deer-like animal mostly inhabiting south Asia, in which neither sex has antlers, and males secrete musk and possess fangs, of the genus Moschus.
Inglefield clips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Inglefield clip
Brummel hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brummel hooks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Inglefield clip.
synonyms: word: Inglefield clip
Brummel hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brummel hook
sister clip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sister clips
Senses: glosses: The Inglefield clip.
sister clips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sister clip
asymmetrical spinnaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asymmetrical spinnakers
form: asymmetric spinnaker
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: yachts
glosses: A headsail which, like ordinary spinnaker is attached to the boat only in its corners, but is asymmetrically shaped. The shape makes is suitable for winds from beam reach to broad reach whereas ordinary symmetrical spinnaker is best suited for winds from run to broad reach. The tack of the asymmetrical spinnaker is usually attached to a bowsprit instead of a spinnaker pole.
Synonyms: A-sail
aspin
asym
gennaker
asymmetrical spinnakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asymmetrical spinnaker
footguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footguards
Etymology: From foot + guard.
Senses: glosses: A soldier who goes on foot, without a horse.
glosses: A device to prevent injury to a person's feet.
Related terms: 1st Regiment of Footguards
footguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footguard
grubstaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grubstake
unvirility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + virility.
Senses: glosses: Absence of virility; the quality of being unvirile.
fingernailful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingernailfuls
form: fingernailsful
Etymology: From fingernail + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He hurried up the back stairs with the hot water, scooping up a fingernailful of frost off the window in the back hall where there wasn't any register.
ref: 1952, Meredith Willson, Who did what to Fedalia?, page 27:
text: He said, “A bag of heroin is about two little fingernailsful.[…]”
ref: 1971 March 4, Pam Goldstein, “Students: Marijuana ‘Prevalent’ at Eastern”, in The Hartford Courant, volume CXXXIV, number 63, Hartford, Conn., page 50:
text: Clara gave me salts and bath oil and I continued examining the day in fingernailfuls.
ref: 1974, Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 167:
text: He scraped up a fingernailful and, holding it to a nostril, slowly inhaled it. He waited for another minute or two for it to take effect, then he scraped up another fingernailful and put it in his mouth and tasted it.
ref: 1987, William Diehl, Thai horse, page 307:
text: In the past, I would have eaten nine full-to-the-brim plates of her scrumptious savories — but just fingernailfuls this time.
ref: 1988 December 29, Sandra Duveau, “Sneaking foods at holiday buffets”, in The Press-Tribune, page B-5:
text: Timing in the offered fingernailful of cocaine, well cut and loose dropped into the hollow between my collarbones.
ref: 2011, Stella Duffy, Singling Out The Couples:
glosses: Enough to be stored under one's fingernail.
letterheading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letterheadings
Etymology: From letter + heading.
Senses: examples: text: That printers might produce letterheadings equal in quality to Parsons Papers is the reason the Parsons Handbook of Letterheadings was published.
ref: 1917, American printer and lithographer, volume 65, page 14:
glosses: letterhead
letterheadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letterheading
antihepatotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + hepatotoxicity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being antihepatotoxic.
tobiano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təʊbiˈɑːnəʊ/
Forms: form: tobianos
Senses: glosses: A pinto horse with a spotted colour pattern consisting of white-haired, pink-skinned patches on a base coat colour.
Related terms: overo
sabino
tobianos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tobiano
overo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overos
Etymology: From Spanish overo (“piebald”).
Senses: examples: text: The dark overo cropouts often have wide blazes on the face and do not have the bald or apron faces that are associated with the overo color pattern.
ref: 1988, Glynn W. Haynes, The American Paint Horse, page 92:
glosses: A pinto horse with white-over-dark body markings.
Derived terms: tovero
Related terms: sabino
tobiano
overos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overo
sabinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sabino
sparth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparths
Etymology: From Middle English sparthe, from Old Norse sparða.
Senses: examples: text: Sparthe an inſtrument.
ref: 1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 66; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:
text: […]betweene whom was a cruell fight, the one part giuing a fierce onſet with ſtones and ſpaths^([sic]), & the other defending themſelues with bowes and weapons.
ref: 1587, Raphaell Holinshed, Iohn Hooker, “The Second Book of the Conqueſt of Ireland”, in The firſt and ſecond volumes of Chronicles […] , volume II, London: Henry Denham, page 33:
text: […]how that the Englſshmen not being able to ſtand in fight, turned backe to backe, with ſparthes and two handed swords, untill the laſt man was ſlaine.
ref: 1633, Edmund Campion, Meredith Hamner, Tvvo Histories of Ireland […] , Dublin: Society of Stationers, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2021, page 66:
glosses: A battle-axe or halberd.
sparths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparth
soras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sora
soree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorees
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sora (the bird).
sorees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soree
sarsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarsas
form: sarza
Senses: glosses: Clipping of sarsaparilla.
sarsas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarsa
sarza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarzas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sarsa.
sarzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarza
phosphorus cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphorus cycles
Senses: glosses: The cyclic movement of phosphorus through the biogeochemical environment
light-horseman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light-horsemen
form: lighthorseman
Etymology: From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + horseman (noun).
Senses: glosses: A soldier who serves in the light cavalry.
glosses: A member of species Chaetodipterus faber of West Indian fish with a high dorsal fin and brilliant colours.
glosses: A member of species Pagrus auratus of snapper, whose skull is shaped in the front like a cap worn by light-horsemen.
light-horsemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light-horseman
boulework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: Archaic form of buhl work.
chaja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chajas
Etymology: Native Brazilian name chajá, imitative of its cry.
Senses: glosses: A South American bird, the crested screamer (Chauna torquata), which can be used as guard animals.
chajas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaja
bedrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedrite
bedright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedrights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bedrite.
bedrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedright
sparterie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)təɹi
Etymology: French sparterie, from Spanish esparto (“esparto”), Latin spartum from Ancient Greek σπάρτον (spárton, “rope, cable”).
Senses: examples: text: Some of these hats are of straw and silk, or sparterie and silk, striped on the sides[…]
ref: 1804, The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 35:
glosses: Articles made from esparto.
Bipont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See bi- and Latin pōns (“bridge”). Zweibrücken means "two bridges".
Senses: glosses: Relating to books printed at Zweibrücken in Bavaria.
Synonyms: Bipontine
Bipontine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Bipont
sea loach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea loaches
Senses: glosses: A fish, the three-bearded rockling (Gaidropsarus vulgaris).
sea loaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea loach