cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
derivement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derivements
Etymology: From derive + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: I offer these derivements from these subjects, to rise our affections upward.
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, Miscellanea Spiritualia:
text: So that lay presbyteries under the gospel can have no agreement with the synedrical courts of Moses, much less any derivement from them; unless they will tie all Christian kingdoms to the tribunals and judicials of Moses' law, and give their elders the sword instead of the word, which God hath assigned to princes and not to presbyters.
ref: 1842, Thomas Bilson, The Perpetual Government of Christ's Church, page 6:
text: Surely, I thought, there must be a record of these quaint and fascinationg old public-house signs which so richly reflect the thought, manners, and history of a people, and surely the indefatigable Dr. Brewer could never have passed up such intriguing derivements (obsolete but such a lovely word) .
ref: 1942, Otto C. Lightner, Pearl Ann Reeder, Hobbies - Volume 47, Part 1, page 34:
text: The toxic effect of EtOH is caused by the following metabolites: MeCHO, MeCOCO₂H, and “CPF," a derivement of MeCOCO₂H , that potentiates the effect of the acid.
ref: 1954, Journal of Mental Science - Volume 100, page 333:
text: Artificial derivements are provided in the Malaysian Income Tax Act and broadly fall under five concepts:
ref: 2006, Malaysian Master Tax Guide - Volume 23, page 147:
glosses: Something derived; a deduction, inference, or derivative.
examples: text: The features of refinement are as important as the mechanical development for the derivement of continued pleasure.
ref: 1914, The Haynes Pioneer - Volume 2:
text: These correlations should be particularly high, say in the .6 to .8 range because of the common variance attributed to the derivement of all the measures from paper and pencil techniques...”
ref: 2003, Aaron Cohen, Multiple Commitments in the Workplace, page 58:
text: The core methodology is conceptually the same as in our previous work on the derivement of labels for sentences by similarity-based clustering of sentence contents.
ref: 2005, Asuncion Gómez-Pérez, Jerome Euzenat, The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, page 610:
text: She had also participated with the derivement of certain laws to make the world a safer place.
ref: 2010, Pastor Edwards, Beef Up My What?, page 42:
glosses: The act or process of deriving; derivation.
derivements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derivement
episkeletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + skeletal.
Senses: examples: text: episkeletal muscles
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above or outside the skeleton or endoskeleton
arraigner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arraigners
Etymology: From arraign + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This having been premised, I replied to the assertion above stated, by asserting the direct contrary; namely, that were a similar case conceived between man and man, the severest arraigners of the measure would, on their grounds, find nothing to blame in it.
ref: 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
topics: law
glosses: One who arraigns.
arraigners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arraigner
untent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untents
form: untenting
form: untented
form: untented
Etymology: From un- + tent.
Senses: examples: text: Why, will he not, upon our fair request,
Untent his person, and share the air with us?
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: To bring out of a tent.
untented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untent
untented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an untented soldier; an untented field
glosses: Having no tent or tents.
untenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untent
untents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untent
philomusical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more philomusical
form: most philomusical
Etymology: From philo- + musical.
Senses: examples: text: The opera being now arrived at its summit of glory in this philomusical city, we shall be less minute in our account of its progress, and only mention the principal persons […]
ref: 1789, Charles Burney, A General History of Music:
glosses: Loving music.
cudgeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cudgelers
form: cudgeller
Etymology: From cudgel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who beats with a cudgel.
cudgelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cudgeler
tairn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tairns
Senses: examples: text: Thou Wind, that ravest without, / Bare craig, or mountain-tairn, or blasted tree, / Or pine-grove whither woodman never clomb, / Or lonely house, long held the witches' home, / Methinks were fitter instruments for thee, / Mad Lutanist! [footnote: Tairn is a small lake, generally if not always applied to the lakes up in the mountains, and which are the feeders of those in the valleys.[…]]
ref: 1802 October 4, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Dejection: An Ode”, in The Morning Post; republished in Henry Nelson Coleridge, editor, The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume I (Juvenile Poems; Sibylline Leaves), London: William Pickering, 1834, →OCLC, stanza VII, page 239:
glosses: Alternative form of tarn.
tairns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tairn
machine pistols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machine pistol
lacwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacworks
Etymology: From lac + work.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lacquerwork.
synonyms: word: lacquerwork
lacworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacwork
heathenesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhiːðənəs/
Etymology: From Middle English hethenesse, hethenes, from Old English hǣþenes, hǣþennes. Equivalent to heathen + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of heathenness.
examples: text: as interesting to the lovers of the as any king in Christendom or Heathenesse
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: heathendom
histographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: histographic
bivalvous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + valve + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Having two valves; bivalvular.
nash
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nash
form: most nash
Etymology: Dialectal variant of gnash.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nesh.
semilenticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + lenticular.
Senses: examples: text: A dark blue limestone, of a conchoidal or semilenticular form
ref: 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy:
glosses: Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens.
uncombine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: uncombines
form: uncombining
form: uncombined
form: uncombined
Etymology: From un- + combine.
Senses: examples: text: when out-breaking Vengeance uncombines
The ill - join'd Plots, to fairly over-cast
ref: 1599, Samuel Daniel, Musophilus:
glosses: To separate (things previously combined).
glosses: To cease to be combined; to become separate.
uncombines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncombine
uncombining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncombine
myositides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myositis
corneocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corneocytes
Etymology: From corneo- + -cyte.
Senses: examples: text: The cells at the surface of our skin have undergone a major ‘remodelling’ (differentiation) to become corneocytes, which are flattened polygonal plates made mainly of keratin (the same protein that makes nails, hair, and also feathers in birds).
ref: 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 10:
glosses: An outer skin cell.
Derived terms: intercorneocyte
corneocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corneocyte
actuosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the time present being urgent and raging like a Lion through its instant actuosity
ref: 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC:
text: As soon as the religious leaves the existential present, where it is sheer actuosity, it immediately becomes milder. The process of religion's becoming milder and thereby less true is directly recognizable by its becoming a doctrine. As soon as it becomes doctrine, the religious does not have absolute urgency.
ref: 1975, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong (translators), Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers, volume 4, page 296:
glosses: Abundant activity.
bibacities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibacity
bibacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibacities
Senses: examples: text: Concerning this Sinne of Bibacity and Vinosity , Infinite are the Examples
ref: 1648, Thomas Beard, Thomas Taylor, The Theatre of Gods Judgements:
glosses: The practice or habit of drinking too much alcohol.
repleviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From replevy + -able.
Senses: examples: text: repleviable fruit
text: repleviable person
topics: law
glosses: Capable of being replevied.
replevying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replevy
replevies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of replevy
replevied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replevy
bivaulted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + vaulted.
Senses: glosses: Having two vaults or arches.
humulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Humulus + -in.
Senses: glosses: An oleoresin extract of hops.
hopsacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopsack
eyespotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eyespot + -ed.
Senses: examples: the eyespotted bud moth
glosses: Marked with eyespots.
clemence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklɛməns/
Etymology: From Middle English clemence, from Old French clemence, from Latin clēmentia. Doublet of clemency.
Senses: examples: text: shew that clemence oft, in things amis
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of clemency.
synonyms: word: clemency
turbinaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turbinaceous
form: most turbinaceous
Etymology: See turbary, + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: The real turbinaceous flavour no sooner reached the nose of the Captain, than the beverage was turned down his throat with symptoms of most unequivocal applause.
ref: 1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], St Ronan’s Well. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Resembling or relating to peat or turf.
benthal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: benthic
hypnogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypno- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Inducing sleep.
examples: text: In order to illustrate further the intimate connection between certain morbid forms of sleep and the hysterical state, I shall briefly allude to the so-called "hysterogenic" and "hypnogenic" pressure-points […]
ref: 1887, The Popular Science Monthly:
glosses: Inducing hypnosis.
Synonyms: hypnogenous
Romanizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romanizers
Etymology: From Romanize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who Romanizes.
Romanizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romanizer
ferede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrede
form: ferhede
Etymology: From Middle English ferrede, ferreden, from Old English *fērrǣden, ġefērrǣden (“companionship, fellowship, friendship, society, fraternity, congregation”), equivalent to fere + -red.
Senses: glosses: Companionship.
glosses: People; companions.
glosses: Company.
unconvenient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconvenient
form: most unconvenient
Etymology: From un- + convenient.
Senses: examples: text: For it were an unconvenient thinge that the blessed shoulde not be at libertie to goo whether they woulde.
ref: 1516, Thomas More, Utopia:
glosses: Archaic form of inconvenient.
Related terms: unconvenience
unconveniently
cataractous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cataract + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a cataract in the eye.
glosses: Affected with cataracts.
tomosynthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to tomosynthesis.
squames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squame
tetrakaidecahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrakaidecahedrons
form: tetrakaidecahedra
Etymology: From tetrakaideca- + -hedron.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tetrakaidekahedron.
one swallow does not make a spring
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one swallow does not a summer make.
one swallow doesn't make a spring
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one swallow does not a summer make.
sortilegious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔɹt.ɪˈliːd͡ʒəs/
rhymes: -iːdʒəs
Forms: form: more sortilegious
form: most sortilegious
Etymology: From French sortilègeux.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the sortilegious lighting, this is not a traditional witches' brew but a turtle soup being tested for her cookbook.
ref: 1970 April 10, “The Good Witch Of The West”, in Life, page 69:
glosses: Pertaining to sortilege, sorcerous
annihilative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annihilative
form: most annihilative
Etymology: From annihilate + -ive.
Senses: examples: In the 21st century, almost all leading countries of the world possess annihilative atomic weapons.
glosses: Serving to annihilate; radically destructive.
granitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more granitical
form: most granitical
Etymology: From granite + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of granitic.
hyperaspist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperaspists
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: I appeal to any indifferent reader, whether C. M. be not by his Hyperaspist forsaken in the plain field, and the point in question granted to D. Potter, […]
ref: 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants:
glosses: One who holds a shield over another; a defender.
hyperaspists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperaspist
intolerating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intolerating
form: most intolerating
Etymology: From in- + tolerating.
Senses: glosses: intolerant
encurtain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encurtains
form: encurtaining
form: encurtained
form: encurtained
Etymology: From en- + curtain.
Senses: synonyms: incurtain
glosses: To enclose with, or as if with, curtains.
encurtained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encurtain
encurtaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encurtain
encurtains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encurtain
liquidamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquidambers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of liquidambar.
liquidambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquidamber
protectingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more protectingly
form: most protectingly
Etymology: From protecting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: protectively; in a protective manner.
liquidambars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquidambar
fineer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fineers
form: fineering
form: fineered
form: fineered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of veneer.
fineer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fineers
form: fineering
form: fineered
form: fineered
Senses: glosses: To acquire goods fraudulently by having them specially made so as to be unsuitable for other customers, and then threatening not to take them except on credit.
fineered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fineer
fineering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fineer
fineers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fineer
one swallow does not a spring make
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one swallow does not a summer make.
cyriologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kyriological.
maleficial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmælɪˈfɪʃəl/
Forms: form: more maleficial
form: most maleficial
Etymology: From malefice + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: The late mention of the prelates' advice, in passing a law so maleficial unto them, giveth me just occasion to name some, the principal persons of the clergy, present thereat […]
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: injurious, damaging
figurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figurists
Etymology: From figure + -ist.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A proponent of figurism.
examples: text: the whole Church of Egypt condemned the Figurist's Doctrine in Origen whom they through Mistake supposed did hold it
ref: 1740, Daniel Waterland, A brief historical account of the primitive invocation […] :
glosses: One who uses or interprets figurative expressions.
topics: art
arts
glosses: An artist who produces figures (representations of people, animals, etc.).
figurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figurist
indignly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdaɪnli/
Forms: form: more indignly
form: most indignly
Etymology: From indign + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unworthy manner.
deconcentration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌkɒnsənˈtɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: deconcentrations
Etymology: From de- + concentration.
Senses: glosses: The act of deconcentrating; decentralization.
disculpatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disculpatory
form: most disculpatory
Senses: glosses: exculpatory.
gallooned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From galloon + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Decorated with galloon.
one swallow doesn't a spring make
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one swallow does not a summer make.
one swallow doesn't a summer make
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one swallow does not a summer make.
Fowler's solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after an English chemist, Thomas Fowler (1736–1801). First mentioned in 1786.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aqueous solution (containing arsenite and potassium), containing 1% arsenic trioxide. It was historically used in treatment of leukemia, but has since been discredited.
dissettlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissettlements
Etymology: From dis- + settlement.
Senses: examples: text: Never was so much sense contained in so few words. No conveyancer could ever in more compendious or binding terms have drawn a dissettlement of the whole birth-right of England.
ref: 1677, Andrew Marvell, An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England:
text: 'Tis an instrument of mischief and dissettlement to be courted by those who would have change
ref: 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.
distractful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distractful
form: most distractful
Etymology: From distract + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: thank thy sisters, they apparrel'd thee
In that distractful state
ref: 1636, Thomas Heywood, Love's Mistress:
glosses: distracting
dentirostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From denti- + rostral.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a toothed or dentate bill (said of a former tribe of birds Dentirostres)
manred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmænɹɪd/
/ˈmænɹɛd/
Forms: form: manreds
form: mandred
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English manrede, manred, from Old English manrǣden (“dependence, homage, service, tribute, due”), equivalent to man + -red and a doublet of manrent.
The expected Modern English form would be mandred (like kindred < Middle English kynrede), but the loss of the term from the spoken vernacular has arrested its normal phonological development (this also accounts for the pronunciation /ˈmænɹɛd/).
Senses: examples: text: There he was joined by his sons and addition troops, almost certainly more of the Dudley manred from the Midlands.
ref: 2009, Eric William Ives, “The March on Framlingham”, in Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Vassals collectively; the men a feudal lord can call upon in wartime.
glosses: Homage, allegiance; support of one's feudal superior.
glosses: The leader of a troop or retinue.
manred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmænɹɪd/
/ˈmænɹɛd/
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh manred (“atom, mote”), formed from mân (“small”) + rhed (“course, flow”) in the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: They were made of the manred, that is, of the elements in the extremities of their particles and smallest atom … God was in each of the particles of the manred, […]
ref: 2003, Kennth Morris, “Druidism”, in G. De Purucker, editor, Theosophical Path Magazine, January to June 1930, Kessinger Publishing, →ISBN, page 131:
text: God pronounce his ineffable name, and Manred, the primal substance of the Universe, was formed. Manred was composed of thousands of teeming atoms in each of which God was present, and each was part of God.
ref: 2004, Lewis Spence, “The Celtic Idea of the Origin of Man”, in An Introduction to Mythology, Cosimo, Inc, →ISBN, page 169:
qualifier: Celtic paganism
glosses: The primal substance of the Universe
indocibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin indocibilitas.
Senses: glosses: The state of being indocible; untameability.
stockinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockingers
Etymology: From stocking + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes stockings.
stockingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stockinger
Zzyzx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪ.zɪks/
Etymology: Invented (along with its pronunciation) by Curtis Howe Springer in 1944.
Senses: glosses: A settlement in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
miascite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miascites
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:miascite.
glosses: Alternative form of miaskite, or sometimes miassite.
Derived terms: miascitic
spangler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋɡ(ə)lɚ/
Forms: form: spanglers
Etymology: From spangle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that spangles.
spanglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spangler
maleficiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A witching; a bewitchment.
populacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: How many Imperial Heads did the populacy of the Romans tread upon?
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: Obsolete form of populace.
bewitchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bewitching
lookout towers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lookout tower
ewe-necked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ewe-necked
form: most ewe-necked
Etymology: From ewe + necked.
Senses: examples: text: A ewe-necked horse is exceedingly unpleasant either to ride or drive, for the neck, low set on, instead of being nicely arched, and thus affording a proper resting-place for the bit on the bars of the mouth, is carried straight out, and the head high, and such horses are in the habit of throwing up their heads suddenly […]
ref: 1831, William Youatt, The Horse:
glosses: Having a neck like a ewe's; said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficient, being somewhat hollowed out.
amarantaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amarantaceous
form: most amarantaceous
Senses: examples: text: amarantaceous host plant
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family Amaranthaceae of plants, including the amaranth.
discerptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discerptive
form: most discerptive
Senses: examples: text: The Christology of Eutyches he deemed to be discerptive, because it did not concede to the humanity the capability of possessing the divine as its own
ref: 1861, Isaak August Dorne, History of the development of the doctrine of the Person of Christ:
glosses: Tending to separate or disunite parts.
illicitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illicitous
form: most illicitous
Senses: examples: text: illicitous contracts
ref: 1679, Les Provinciales:
glosses: illicit
incurtain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incurtains
form: incurtaining
form: incurtained
form: incurtained
Etymology: From in- + curtain.
Senses: synonyms: encurtain
glosses: To curtain.
incurtained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incurtain
incurtaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incurtain
incurtains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incurtain
saccharize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saccharizes
form: saccharizing
form: saccharized
form: saccharized
Senses: glosses: To convert into, or impregnate with, sugar
Related terms: saccharization
saccharized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of saccharize
saccharizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of saccharize
saccharizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saccharize
geognost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geognosts
Etymology: Compare French géognoste.
Senses: glosses: Someone versed in geognosy; a geologist.
geognosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geognost
miscitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscitations
Etymology: From mis- + citation.
Senses: examples: text: There are unfortunately dozens of similar miscitations in the medical literature on guns and violence. They include authors
1. citing studies for support when the studies in fact contained no relevant information[…]
ref: 2017, Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control:
glosses: incorrect citation
Related terms: miscite
miscitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscitation
orbitosphenoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: orbitosphenoidal band
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone.
apostatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæpəsˈtætɪkəl/
Forms: form: more apostatical
form: most apostatical
form: apostatic
Senses: examples: text: an heretical and apostatical church
ref: 1629, Joseph Hall, The Reconciler:
text: a brawler and a slanderer, and guilty of innocent blood, who calls the church of God a conspiracy; the regenerated children of God, apostatical anabaptists
ref: 1871, John F. Funk, transl., A Reply to a Publication of Gellius Faber:
glosses: Apostate.
Derived terms: apostatically
vizcacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vizcachas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of viscacha.
vizcachas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vizcacha
retailment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retail + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: This blending of artistic and fashion talent is currently being adopted by several luxury brands and extended to other aspects to form an integrated luxury retailment offering.
ref: 2007, U. Okonkwo, Luxury Fashion Branding: Trends, Tactics, Techniques, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: The act of retailing.
fluxive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fluxive
form: most fluxive
Etymology: From flux + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Their arguments are as fluxive as liquor spilt upon a table, which with your finger you may drain as you will.
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter:
text: These often bath'd she in her fluxiue eies
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint:
glosses: flowing; lacking solidity
Synonyms: fluent
flowing
runny
paragrapher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paragraphers
Etymology: From paragraph + -er.
Senses: glosses: A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.
examples: text: a three-paragrapher
glosses: Something having a certain number, or type, of paragraphs.
raw_tags: in combinations
paragraphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paragrapher
paragraphless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paragraph + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without paragraphs; written as a solid mass of text without paragraph breaks.
newishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From newish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being newish.
Bonacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bonackers
Etymology: From the place name Accabonac Harbor + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native of the Springs area of East Hampton, New York, USA.
Related terms: Bonac
Bonackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bonacker
hydropically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hydropically
form: most hydropically
Etymology: From hydropical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hydropical (dropsical) manner.
glosses: thirstily, unquenchably
faldistories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faldistory
faldistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faldistories
Etymology: From Latin faldistōrium, faldestōrium, from Old High German faldstuol, faldan, faltan (“to fold”) (German falten) + stuol (“stool”), so called because it could be folded or laid together. See fold and stool. Doublet of faldstool, fauteuil, and foldstool.
Senses: glosses: A movable seat place in the chancel, where the bishop sat.
stirious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stirious
form: most stirious
Etymology: Latin stiria (“an icicle”).
Senses: examples: 1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errors
Chrystal is found sometimes in rocks, and in some places not much unlike the stirrious or stillicidious dependencies of ice.
synonyms: stiriated
glosses: Resembling icicles.
Related terms: stillicidious
clatterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clatterers
Etymology: From clatter + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who clatters.
clatterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clatterer
blosmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And gaily now me seems serene earth wears
The blosmy spring’s star-bright investiture,
A vision which aught sad from sadness might allure.
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 232:
glosses: Alternative form of blossomy.
powerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more powerable
form: most powerable
Etymology: From power + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This toy is powerable by batteries.
glosses: Capable of being powered.
examples: text: The infinite God, He who is strictly, properly infinite, knows all the knowable and can effect all the powerable.
ref: 1860, John Young, The Province of Reason:
glosses: Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible.
examples: text: you may see how powerable Time is in altering tongues
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of exerting power; powerful.
basylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbæsɪləs/
Forms: form: more basylous
form: most basylous
Etymology: From basyle + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: But suppose the hydrochloric acid to be mixed with a solution of sulphate of copper (the component atoms of which are likewise undergoing a change of place), the basylous elements, hydrogen and copper, then no longer limit their change of place to the circle of atoms with which they were at first combined[…]
ref: 1850, Thomas Graham, Elements of Chemistry, volume 2:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electropositive; basic.
natchnee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: ragi
finger millet
nachani
glosses: An annual grass, Eleusine coracana, native to Africa. It is cultivated in India for grain.
gadsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadsmen
Etymology: From gad + -s- + man.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goadman.
gadsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadsman
wilderment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wilderments
Etymology: From wilder + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: And snatched her breathless from beneath this wilderment of wreck and death.
ref: 1817, Thomas Moore, “The Fire-Worshippers”, in Lalla Rookh […] , London: Longman […] :
text: Too glad for smiling, having bent
In angelic wilderment
O'er the depths of God
ref: a. 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Isobel's Child:
glosses: bewilderment.
metalexicographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + lexicographical.
Senses: examples: text: In doing so, this paper makes a contribution to the history of lexicography and to the criticism of dictionaries, both primary metalexicographical concerns.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 54:
glosses: Relating to metalexicography.
Derived terms: metalexicographically
metalexicographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalexicographers
Etymology: From meta- + lexicographer.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, it is hoped that the close qualitative and quantitative examination will provide metalexicographers a model of analysis that may be profitably applied to other dictionaries.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 486:
glosses: One who studies metalexicography.
metalexicographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalexicographer
gauntletted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: No instance can be given of any considerable length of narrow-gauge track gauntletted with metre or broad gauge, though at several places all three gauges converge, as at Bangalore City.
ref: 1953 December, “Mixed Gauge in India”, in Railway Magazine, page 839:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gauntleted.
metoposcopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metoposcopists
Etymology: From metoposcopy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One versed in metoposcopy.
metoposcopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metoposcopist
influxive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more influxive
form: most influxive
Etymology: From influx + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Having a tendency to flow inward.
examples: text: He is the influxive head, who both governs the whole body, and every member which is in any way serviceable to the body.
ref: 1642, Richard Holdsworth, A Sermon Preached in St. Maries in Cambridge:
glosses: Having influence; influential.
flexuose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flexuose
form: most flexuose
Senses: examples: text: It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.
ref: 1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain, page 329:
glosses: Alternative form of flexuous.
chartometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chartometers
Etymology: From chart + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring distances of charts or maps.
chartometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chartometer
mammilliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mammilliform
form: most mammilliform
Etymology: From mammilla + -iform.
Senses: synonyms: mammilloid
glosses: Having the form of a nipple.
grandity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin granditas. Compare Old French granité. See grand.
Senses: examples: text: according to the argument excell in grandity and gravity
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: grandness
toluenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toluene + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tolyl
shily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shily
form: most shily
Etymology: From shy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There are nations whose commodities are looked shily upon by merchants....
ref: 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, vol. 1, p. 138:
glosses: Archaic form of shyly.
fairer sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the fairer sex
Senses: examples: text: "In these enlightened times, one wonders why the fairer sex was banned from operating the apparatus?"
ref: 2021 November 17, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 944, page 71:
glosses: Synonym of fair sex.
synonyms: word: fair sex
toluols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toluol
endoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoplasts
Etymology: From endo- + -plast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A nucleus.
Related terms: endoplastule
endoplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoplast
sectarianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sectarianizes
form: sectarianizing
form: sectarianized
form: sectarianized
Etymology: From sectarian + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To render sectarian; to put into a sect.
sectarianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sectarianize
sectarianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sectarianize
sectarianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sectarianize
fungilliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fungilliform
form: most fungilliform
Etymology: From Latin fungus (“mushroom”) + -illus (diminutive suffix) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a small fungus.
Fehmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vehmic.
gigantean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gigantean
form: most gigantean
Etymology: From Latin giganteus. See giant.
Senses: examples: text: When the strong Fates with Gigantean force , Bear thee in iron arms without remorse
ref: a. 1687, Henry More, Out of the Anthologie a Distick:
text: [Y]our Mercuriall wit hath mangonized a Gigantean fury with an humble hue.
ref: 1642, Thomas Barton, “Section II”, in ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΤΕΙΧΙΣΜΑΤΟΣ. [APODEIXIS TOU ANTITEICHISMATOS.] Or, A Tryall of the Covnter-scarfe, Made 1642. […], London: Printed by Thomas Purslow, for Andrew Crooke, […], published 1643, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: giant-like; gigantic, mighty.
graffage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæfɪd͡ʒ/
/ˈɡɹɑːfɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: graffages
Etymology: Compare grave (noun).
Senses: examples: text: […] to keep in repair the long line of boundary fence, to clean the graffages, clear out the moat-like ditches, and see that the hollow-sounding wooden bridges, which formed the sole communication by which the hay wagons could pass to and from the distant meadows, were in proper order to sustain their ponderous annual load.
ref: 1837, Mary Russell Mitford, Country Stories:
glosses: The scarp of a ditch or moat.
graffages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graffage
steatopyga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin steatopyga, from Ancient Greek στέᾱτος (stéātos). See steato-, pygo-.
Senses: glosses: steatopygia
viled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more viled
form: most viled
Etymology: See vild.
Senses: glosses: repugnant or vile
Ebionitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ebionitic
form: most Ebionitic
Etymology: From Ebionite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Ebionites.
recomforture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈkʌmfɚt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkʌmfətjʊə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkʌmfət͡ʃə/
Senses: examples: text: QUEEN ELIZABETH. Yet thou didst kill my children.
KING RICHARD. But in your daughter's womb I bury them;
Where, in that nest of spicery, they will breed
Selves of themselves, to your recomforture.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort.
preadmonish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preadmonishes
form: preadmonishing
form: preadmonished
form: preadmonished
Etymology: From pre- + admonish.
Senses: glosses: To admonish in advance.
preadmonished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preadmonish
preadmonishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preadmonish
preadmonishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preadmonish
twilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twilts
Etymology: See quilt.
Senses: glosses: A quilt.
twilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twilts
form: twilting
form: twilted
form: twilted
Etymology: See quilt.
Senses: glosses: To cross-stitch in quincunx fashion so as to connect two thicknesses together.
twilts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twilt
bicyclism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bicycle + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Here we have the ninth number of the fourth volume of a journal devoted to the great and noble art of Bicyclism. A modern art, unknown utterly to our forefathers, it has sprung into existence with intense velocity […]
ref: 1879, The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated:
text: One result of bicyclism is that many retired nooks and corners of our beautiful island are now more effectually explored than they ever were before; the grass-grown turnpike roads are no longer peopled only by farmers' manure-carts […]
ref: 1882, Ward and Lock's home book, page 1041:
glosses: The art of riding a bicycle.
genethlialogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: natal astrology
Derived terms: genethlialogic
genethlialogical
diprismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + prismatic.
Senses: glosses: Doubly prismatic.
glandulosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glandulosity
glandulosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glandulosities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being glandulous.
examples: text: In the upper parts of worms, there are likewise found certaine white and ovall glandulosities which authors terme egs
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A collection of glands.
Universalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Universalian
form: most Universalian
Etymology: From universal + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Universalism.
Universalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Universalians
Etymology: From universal + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A Universalist.
Universalians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Universalian
Wiltons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wilton
horometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: horometric
Etymology: From horometry + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or calculated by, horometry.
fedaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fedary
fedary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fedaries
Senses: examples: text: Else let my brother die, / If not a fedary, but only he / Owe and succeed thy weakness.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Obsolete form of feodary.
bowelless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bowelless
form: most bowelless
Etymology: From bowel + -less.
Senses: examples: text: If avarice be thy vice, yet make it not thy punishment. Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.
ref: 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, pages 49–50:
text: 1792, “Louis XIV,” The European Magazine and London Review, Volume 22, July 1792, p. 8,
On his coffin at St. Denis, by the side of which stands the urn that contains his bowels, some one wrote,
C’y gyst sans entrailles,
Comme il etoit à Versailles.
What little change in men by death is made!
Louis the Great here bowelless is laid;
Such as he play’d the tyrant’s lofty part
At proud Versailles, and liv’d without a heart.
glosses: Without pity.
Related terms: bowels