cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chiquera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiqueras
Senses: examples: text: Falco chicquera, the chiquera falcon. This small bird of prey has the lower mandible formed like the two preceding.
ref: 1810, John Wiles, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, volume 7, page 194:
text: But these slight differences will not justify us in considering the West African chiquera as a true species distinct from the Indian true chiquera; it is only a subspecies of the latter true species.
ref: 1852, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology, page 452:
text: should have entirely escaped observation until the close of 1871, when specimens were received both by Lord Walden and myself. I considered it nearly allied to the Merlins — in fact, a link between the Merlins and the Chiqueras — and this is the situation which I should still assign to it.
ref: 1875, Stray Feathers, volume 3:
glosses: The red-necked falcon (Falco chicquera).
ex-official
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ex officio + -al, influenced by official.
Senses: examples: an ex-official model of religion
glosses: Proceeding from office or authority.
pissmire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissmires
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pismire.
pissmires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pissmire
intail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intails
form: intailing
form: intailed
form: intailed
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of entail.
Derived terms: intailment
intailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intail
intailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intail
intails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intail
coupee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coupees
Etymology: French coupée, past participle of couper (“to cut”). Compare coupé, coopee.
Senses: examples: text: One, two, and a coupee.
ref: 1673, William Wycherley, The Gentleman Dancing-Master:
glosses: A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.
coupees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coupee
chiropracteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French chiropracteur.
Senses: examples: text: I dislocated something in my spine when I was head banging. I had to goto a chiropracteur (sp) dude.... man THAT hurt... and that dance was no fun.
ref: 1994 December 24, Jason Gorski, “Dances”, in k12.chat.junior (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
text: Come forward some 20 odd years and Osteopaths, and their equally outcast at the time cousins Chiropracteurs, are now likely to be situated in your Doctor's surgery - or at least you can get a referral. Back then it was akin to going to a witch doctor.
ref: 2002 August 19, Claire, “Disturbing...”, in uk.misc (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
text: Hope you both recover quickly (that back and tingling arm ought to go to a chiropracteur!!).
ref: 2007 July 5, Elaine Jones, “What will they nick next?!!”, in uk.business.agriculture (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Misspelling of chiropractor.
acrotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin acrotismus, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, privative a) + κρότος (krótos, “a rattling, beating”) + -ismus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lack or defect of the pulse.
Synonyms: pulselessness
Arax
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Araks.
aortoarteritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aorto- + arteritis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition involving inflammation of the aorta and arteries.
colloidalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colloidality
colloidality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colloidalities
Etymology: From colloidal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being colloidal.
doryphoroi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doryphoros
doryphoros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doryphoroi
Etymology: From Latin doryphoros, from Ancient Greek [Term?], literally "spear-bearing".
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A spear-bearing soldier (nowadays, a statue of a man holding a spear, or appearing to do so).
Related terms: spear carrier
diminutival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Etymology: From Latin dīminutīvus + -al. By surface analysis, diminutive + -al.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Diminutive.
twight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twights
form: twighting
form: twight
form: twight
Etymology: From Middle English twight, past tense of twicchen. See twitch.
Senses: glosses: To twitch; to cause to twitch; to touch.
bimastism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós, “breast”) + -ism.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: bimastia
glosses: The condition of having two mammae or teats.
merry-meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merry-meetings
Etymology: From merry + meeting.
Senses: glosses: A fun meeting, a laughfest.
merrymeetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merrymeeting
scirrhosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scirrhosity
scirrhosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scirrhosities
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A morbid induration, as of a gland
glosses: The state of being scirrhous.
rimau dahan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Malay harimau dahan (“clouded leopard”).
Senses: glosses: The Sunda clouded leopard.
thallious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thallious
form: most thallious
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of thallous.
extreat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extreats
Etymology: Variant form of estreat.
Senses: glosses: Estreat.
examples: text: Whether this heavenly thing whereof I treat, / To weeten Mercie, be of Justice part, / Or drawne forth from her by divine extreate […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Extraction.
extreat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extreats
form: extreating
form: extreated
form: extreated
Etymology: Variant form of estreat.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of estreat.
extreats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extreat
extreats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of extreat
archical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)kɪkəl/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀρχικός (arkhikós, “able to govern”). See arch-.
Senses: examples: text: these three archical hypostases of the Platonic trinity, though looked upon as substances distinct from each other, and subordinate , yet are they frequently taken all together by them for the whole supreme Deity.
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: chief; primary; primordial
instillment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instillments
form: instilment
Etymology: From instill + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of instilling
glosses: Something which is instilled.
Synonyms: instillation
instillments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instillment
bow net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow nets
Senses: glosses: A trap for lobsters, consisting of a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel-shaped entrance at one end.
examples: text: HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced
ref: 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports:
glosses: A net for catching birds.
bow nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow net
hydrofluosilicic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: silicofluoric acid
hexafluorosilicic acid
glosses: A very corrosive compound, with the chemical formula H₂SiF₆, produced in volcanoes.
unmark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmarks
form: unmarking
form: unmarked
form: unmarked
Etymology: From un- + mark.
Senses: examples: to unmark text
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove marks from.
Ruhmkorff coil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ruhmkorff coils
form: Ruhmkorff's coil
Etymology: Named after its inventor, Heinrich Ruhmkorff.
Senses: glosses: An induction coil.
wikipedia: Heinrich Ruhmkorff
Related terms: Ruhmkorff's apparatus
Ruhmkorff coils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ruhmkorff coil
phlogisticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phlogisticates
form: phlogisticating
form: phlogisticated
form: phlogisticated
Etymology: From phlogistic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To combine phlogiston with (something).
Derived terms: phlogisticated
dephlogisticate
Related terms: phlogiston
phlogisticates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phlogisticate
phlogisticating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phlogisticate
traulism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traulisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τραυλός (traulós, “a lisping”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: c. 1660-1680, George Dalgarno, A Discourse of the Nature and Number of Double Consonants
I know not what other censure to pass on them, but that they are childish and ridiculous traulisms.
glosses: A stammering or stuttering.
traulisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traulism
CSTO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: During a “family” photograph of leaders of countries in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in Yerevan on Wednesday, Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, stepped away from Putin, who had been standing to his left.
ref: 2022 November 25, Daniel Boffey, “Putin’s grip on regional allies loosens again after Armenia snub”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of Collective Security Treaty Organisation.
entastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔντασις (éntasis, “tension, straining”) + -tic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.
Related terms: entasia
sultanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sultany
sultany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sultanies
Senses: examples: text: Whileſt the Turks thus lorded it in Syria and the leſſer Aſia, the Saracen Caliph commanded in Egypt; under whom, two great Lords, Dargan and Sanar, fell out about the Sultanie or Vice-royſhip of that land.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Dargan and Sanar Two Egyptian Lords, Contending about the Sultanie, Sanar Calleth in the Turks to Help Him. Of the Danger of Mercenary Souldiers; yet How, Well Qualified, They may be Serviceable”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 89:
glosses: Obsolete form of sultanry.
apertness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apert + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And in general, the Freedom or Apertneſs and vigour of pronuncing (as is particularly obſerved in the Bocca Romana) and giving ſomevvhat more of Aſpiration; And on the other ſide, the cloſeneſs and Mufling, and (as I may ſay) Lazineſs of ſpeaking […] render the ſound of their Speech conſiderably different, though they all ſhould uſe the ſame Alphabet.
ref: 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC, page 79:
glosses: Openness; frankness.
circuition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səːkjʊˈɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: circuitions
Etymology: From Latin circuitiōnem, from circuīre. Compare circuit.
Senses: examples: text: Democritus would sometimes say, that the images and their circuitions were Gods, and othertimes this Nature, which disperseth these images; and then our knowledge and intelligence.
ref: , II.12
glosses: The act of going round; a circuit, an encircling.
circuitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circuition
pustulant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pustulant
form: most pustulant
Etymology: From Latin pustulans, present participle. See pustulate (verb).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Producing, or covered in, pustules.
pustulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pustulants
Etymology: From Latin pustulans, present participle. See pustulate (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Croton oil is a pustulant.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any medicine that produces pustules.
pustulants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pustulant
crotonamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotonamide
crotonaldehydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotonaldehyde
frisée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹi.zeɪ/
/fɹiˈzeɪ/
/fɹɪˈzeɪ/
Forms: form: frisées
form: frisé
form: frisée
form: frisse
Senses: glosses: Curly endive, a variety of endive, Cichorium endivia var. crispum.
frisées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frisée
Collective Security Treaty Organisation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An intergovernmental military alliance of several post-Soviet countries.
Synonyms: CSTO
responsal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: responsals
Etymology: Compare Latin responsalis.
Senses: examples: text: Anatolius being put into that See in the room of Flavianus, by the influence of Dioſcorus, (vvhoſe Reſponſal he had been) and having favoured the Eutychian Faction, Pope Leo might thence have had a fair colour to diſavovv him as uncapable of that Function and Dignity, he being ſo obnoxious; […]
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The VI. [Supposition] that in Fact the Roman Bishops Continually from Saint Peter’s Time have Enjoyed and Exercised this Sovereign Power]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 334:
glosses: One who is answerable or responsible.
examples: text: After some short prayers and responsals, the mass-priest begs,
ref: 1674, Daniel Brevint, Saul and Samuel at Endor:
glosses: A liturgical response.
glosses: A proctor for a monastery.
responsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more responsal
form: most responsal
Etymology: Compare Latin responsalis.
Senses: glosses: answerable; responsible
responsals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of responsal
huisache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huisaches
Etymology: From Spanish huisache.
Senses: glosses: The needle bush or sweet acacia (Vachellia farnesiana), a thorny tree of the genus Vachellia, native to Mexico and Central America.
charbonniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charbonnier
chauffeuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chauffeuse
Erdogan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has purged thousands of judges from the judiciary as part of a broader effort to consolidate power in his own hands. But that required decades of effort and multiple constitutional changes, Levitsky said. It only became fully successful after a failed 2016 coup provided a political justification for the purge.
ref: 2025 March 20, Amanda Taub, “‘This is worse’: Trump’s judicial defiance veers beyond the autocrat playbook”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of Erdoğan.
huisaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huisache
utility model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utility models
Senses: topics: intellectual-property
law
patent-law
glosses: An intellectual property right in certain legal systems, to protect invention, very similar to the patent, but usually with shorter term and less stringent patentability requirements.
Synonyms: petty patent
milled peat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milled peats
Senses: glosses: Peat processed for power plant fuel by scraping it off the surface of bog and drying in situ.
adward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ədˈwɔː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: adwards
Senses: examples: text: faint-heart-fooles, whom shew of perill hard / Could terrifie from Fortunes faire adward:
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17:
glosses: Obsolete form of award.
adward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ədˈwɔː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: adwards
form: adwarding
form: adwarded
form: adwarded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of award.
trichite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichites
Etymology: From tricho- + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A delicate, hair-like siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A needle-shaped crystal of amylose in starch grains.
trichites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichite
taxology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”) + -logy. Analyzable as taxo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: taxonomy
Ségou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Segou
form: Segu
Etymology: Loan from French Ségou, which is transcription of Bambara Segu.
Senses: glosses: A city in south-central Mali, lying 235 kilometres (146 mi) northeast of Bamako on the River Niger.
glosses: A region in south-central Mali.
phyllome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllomes
Etymology: From phyllo- + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A leaf, leaflike part of a plant, or part derived from a leaf, such as a petal.
Derived terms: phyllomic
phyllomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllome
enchisel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enchisels
form: enchiseling
form: enchiselling
form: enchiseled
form: enchiseled
form: enchiselled
form: enchiselled
Etymology: From en- + chisel.
Senses: synonyms: chisel
glosses: To cut or engrave with a chisel.
enchiselled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enchisel
enchiselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enchisel
enchisels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enchisel
Foos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fooses
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Fuss.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Foos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Foos
Senses: glosses: The Foo Fighters, an American rock band.
NBG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: von Neumann-Bernays-Gödel (axiomatic) set theory
NBG
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no bloody good.
Related terms: ZF
ZFC
simial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more simial
form: most simial
Senses: examples: text: It is these leaping tree-snakes probably which have given to monkeys their frantic terror at sight of a snake; and if in the anthropoid period any superior monkey and monkeyess had gained a securer place, defended by precipices from quadrupedal beasts, they might still have found one of these Leapers in their simial Eden.
ref: 1878 July 20, “African Magnates in London: The King of Bonny and the Liberian Premier Seeing European Civilization”, in The Daily Gazette, volume LXXXVI, number 292, Wilmington, Del., page [3], column 4:
glosses: simian; apelike
ideasthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʌɪˈdɪəɛsˈθiːʒə/
Forms: form: ideæsthesia
form: ideaesthesia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”) + -aesthesia, modeled after synaesthesia, and introduced by Danko Nikolić in.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
neurology
neuroscience
psychology
sciences
glosses: A neurological or cognitive phenomenon in which activation of a particular concept triggers a sensory-like experience.
Related terms: synaesthesia
idea
gnomologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnomology
gnomology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nəʊˈmɒləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: gnomologies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γνωμολογία (gnōmología) from γνώμη (gnṓmē, “judgement, maxim”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”) (from λέγω (légō, “gather, pick up”), see anthology). Compare French gnomologie.
Senses: examples: text: wisest men have also taught in their ethical precepts and Gnomologies
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections.
Derived terms: gnomological
pickapack
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Dated form of pickaback.
inshelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inshell
ideæsthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From idea + -æsthesia.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ideasthesia.
entogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ento- + -genous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of endogenous.
dissociabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissociability
dissociability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissociabilities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being dissociable; ability to be dissociated or separated.
examples: text: universal prejudice had made men regard a refusal of this intercommunity as the most brutal of all dissociability.
ref: 1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Lack of sociability; unsociableness.
Derived terms: nondissociability
undissociability
denegation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːnɪˈɡeɪʃən/
Forms: form: denegations
Etymology: Compare French dénégation.
Senses: examples: text: [B]y the same token to see Horton's straight denegation. I see Horton say emphatically No—and this for reasons quite conceivable in him, once one apprehends their connection with his wishing above all, beyond anything else that he at this moment wishes, to keep well with Gray. His denegation is plausible; Gray believes it and accepts it all the more that at the moment in question he wants to, in the interest of his own freedom of action.
ref: 1917, Henry James, Notes for the Ivory Tower:
glosses: A denial, refusal or contradiction.
Related terms: denegate
denegations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denegation
secretage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French secrétage, from secréter + -age.
Senses: examples: text: This defect in the straight filaments he supposed to be removed by secretage, or the application of a solution of nitrate of mercury to the tips of the fur on the skin , which caused these to curl
ref: 1836, Andrew Ure, The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain:
synonyms: carroting#Noun
glosses: A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs.
agamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + -gamous.
Senses: examples: text: First culture people are strictly monogamous, not agamous or polygamous. Incidentally, it is reasonable to suppose that sex behavior is of much greater importance in the life of the people of advanced culture, owing to the large number of […]
ref: 1935, Edward Lee Thorndike, Adult Interests:
text: Divandu albimarginatus is a maternal mouthbrooder (latest observations demonstrated larvophilic), that does without pair-bonding (agamous or polygamous). Incubation lasted for approximately fourteen days, […]
ref: 2004, Anton Lamboj, The Cichlid Fishes of Western Africa:
text: There is of course no universal pattern: families may be nuclear or extended with agamous, monogamous or polygamous individuals.
ref: 1998, Mallarapu Muni Krishna Reddy, Population and Society in India: Some Selected Readings Based on Qualitative Studies, Kanishka Publishers Distributors
text: Among cichlid species, there are monogamous as well as polygamous breeders. […] Cichlids exhibit monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, and agamy. […] In agamous relationships, there is no bond formed at all. They separate from each other immediately after spawning.
ref: 2012, David Oconner, Cichlid Fish: The Fascinationg World of Cichlid Care, David Oc, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Having no marital partner or pair-bonded mate; being neither monogamous (pair-bonded) nor polygamous.
examples: text: It is now a hundred years since the celebrated observations of O. F. Müller on agamous reproduction (gemmiparity) of the Naiades was published, and although there is no reason to question their perfect accuracy on all essential points, […]
ref: 1872, The American Naturalist: A Bi-monthly Journal Devoted to the Advancement and Correlation of the Biological Sciences, page 507:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of agamic: asexual (of reproduction: occurring without union of male and female gametes).
synonyms: word: agamic
extra: asexual (of reproduction: occurring without union of male and female gametes)
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous.
Related terms: agamy
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synartesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek a fastening together.
Senses: examples: text: It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.
ref: 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
glosses: A fastening or knitting together; close union.
donorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donorships
Etymology: From donor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: the state of being a donor
sea cabbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea cabbages
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sea kale
synonyms: word: sea kale
glosses: Synonym of green laver.
synonyms: word: green laver
sea cabbages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea cabbage
sandwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandworts
Etymology: From sand + wort.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants in the genera Arenaria, Minuartia, and Moehringia.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Honckenya peploides
word: sea sandwort
sandworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandwort
chippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chippable
form: most chippable
Etymology: From chip + -able.
Senses: examples: chippable rock
glosses: Capable of being removed by chipping.
profection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See proficient.
Senses: examples: text: profection of the horoscope
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A setting out; going forward; advance; progression.
squamula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squamulas
form: squamulae
Etymology: From Latin squamula, diminutive of squama (“a scale”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.
squamulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squamula
cottonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cottonous
form: most cottonous
Etymology: From cotton + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: the fulus bears a thick Cottonous Substance
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: cottony
cottonish
cottonlike
glosses: Resembling cotton.
penhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penhouses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of penthouse.
penhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penhouse
shiesty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃaɪsti/
Forms: form: shiestier
form: more shiesty
form: shiestiest
form: most shiesty
form: sheisty
form: shystie
form: shysty
Etymology: Probably from shyst(er) + -y. Green's Dictionary of Slang suggests that the word is a blend of shit + feisty or shicer (“a worthless person”) + feisty. The noun sense is a reference to the rapper Pooh Shiesty, known for wearing ski masks on stage.
Senses: examples: text: The same sheisty cats that you hang with and do your thang with / Could set you up and wet you up nigga, peep the language
ref: 1998, “Moment of Truth”, in Moment of Truth, performed by Gang Starr:
text: Muddah had been smart to warn me to flip my bank. My baby had never trusted his ass. I knew she would die before she let this shiesty niggah get his grimy fingers on a single dime of my money.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 301:
glosses: Shifty, untrustworthy, unscrupulous.
shiesty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃaɪsti/
Forms: form: shiesties
form: sheisty
form: shystie
form: shysty
Etymology: Probably from shyst(er) + -y. Green's Dictionary of Slang suggests that the word is a blend of shit + feisty or shicer (“a worthless person”) + feisty. The noun sense is a reference to the rapper Pooh Shiesty, known for wearing ski masks on stage.
Senses: examples: text: In Shiesty's hometown of Memphis, the ski masks are nicknamed "Shiestys" and one store has gone as far as banning the wearing of them inside of their store. ¶ "Please remove all Shiesty's^([sic]) before entering," reads the sign on the door of the establishment.
ref: 2022 January 7, Sha Be Allah, “Pooh Shiesty Incites Ski Mask Trend, Prompts "Shiesty Mask" Ban”, in The Source, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2023:
text: Similar rhetoric made its way into our mayoral race as candidates and community members also began to conflate masks and violent crime. Some public-policy wonks in the region have argued that City Council should ban the shiesty because "we see young men committing violent crimes while wearing these masks."
ref: 2023 June 1, Ernest Owens, “Banning "Shiesty" Ski Masks on SEPTA Won't Reduce Crime”, in Philadelphia, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2023:
text: Clearly, there is a lot of support for a ski mask ban. "If I see a guy with a Shiesty, I assume he's got a gun," David Fisher, president of the National Black Police Association, Greater Philadelphia chapter, an advocacy organization for Black officers, told me recently.
ref: 2023 July 6, Jenice Armstrong, quoting David Fisher, “SEPTA and stores are banning ski masks. But will that have any affect on crime?”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, P.A.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2023:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A black ski mask or balaclava.
corneule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔː(ɹ)nijuːl/
Forms: form: corneules
Etymology: From French cornéule, from New Latin corneola, diminutive of cornea. By surface analysis, cornea + ule.
Senses: examples: text: Behind each “corneule" is a layer of dark pigment, which takes the place, and serves the purpose, of the “iris” in the eyes of Vertebrate animals.
ref: 1856, William Benjamin Carpenter, The Microscope: and its revelations:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the corneas of a compound eye in certain invertebrates.
corneules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corneule
crowstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowstones
Etymology: From crow + stone?
Senses: examples: text: Yoredale Sandstones […] Large quarries in the "crowstone," as the rock is locally calld, may also be seen in Ratcliffe Wood. […] along Hollin Lane, where the crowstone is again largely quarried.
ref: 1866, Memoirs, page 67:
glosses: Ganister, a kind of sandstone.
crowstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowstone
hagdon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hagdons
form: hag
form: hagdown
form: haglin
form: hagden
Etymology: Unknown. Compare later haglet (“shearwater, petrel”). Attested (as hagden) from the 17th century.
Senses: glosses: One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus, especially, Ardenna gravis (syn. Puffinus gravis, Puffinus major), the great shearwater, and Puffinus stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater.
hagdons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hagdon
alhenna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic الحِنَّاء (al-ḥinnāʔ), preserving the Arabic article اَل (al-).
Senses: glosses: henna (Lawsonia inermis)
empawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empawns
form: empawning
form: empawned
form: empawned
Senses: examples: text: to sell, empawn, and alienate the estates
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: Archaic form of impawn.
empawned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empawn
empawning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of empawn
empawns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of empawn
trawlnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trawlnets
Etymology: From trawl + net.
Senses: glosses: A kind of fishing net for trawling; a trawl.
trawlnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trawlnet
ecphractic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐκφράσσω (ekphrássō, “to open or unblock”), from φράσσω (phrássō). Compare French ecphractique.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so remove obstructions; deobstruent.
ecphractic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecphractics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐκφράσσω (ekphrássō, “to open or unblock”), from φράσσω (phrássō). Compare French ecphractique.
Senses: glosses: Any medicine of this kind.
disenclose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disencloses
form: disenclosing
form: disenclosed
form: disenclosed
form: disinclose
Etymology: From dis- + enclose.
Senses: glosses: To free from being enclosed.
disenclosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disenclose
disencloses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disenclose
disenclosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disenclose
entomolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entomolites
Etymology: From entomo- + -lite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil insect.
entomolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entomolite
subventionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subventionizes
form: subventionizing
form: subventionized
form: subventionized
Etymology: From subvention + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To come to the aid of; to subsidize or support.
subventionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subventionize
subventionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subventionize
subventionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subventionize
ichorhaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichorhemia
Etymology: From ichor + haemo- + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances
spitroasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spitroast
spitroasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spitroast
surance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But thenne were they accorded with Merlyn that kynge Arthur shold come oute and speke with the kynges / and to come sauf and to goo sauf / suche suraunce ther was made.
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum 8”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book 1, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
english: Modern spelling: But then were they accorded with Merlin, that King Arthur should come out and speak with the kings, and to come safe and to go safe, such surance there was made.
translation: Modern spelling: But then were they accorded with Merlin, that King Arthur should come out and speak with the kings, and to come safe and to go safe, such surance there was made.
bold_translation_offsets: 155
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glosses: assurance; guarantee
heartswelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)tˌswɛlɪŋ/
Forms: form: more heartswelling
form: most heartswelling
Etymology: From heart + swelling.
Senses: examples: text: powerful, heartswelling music
text: heartswelling hate
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
text: but her happiness was of a quiet, deep, heart-swelling sort; and though never a great talker, she was always more inclined to silence when feeling most strongly
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XXXVII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: He writes weird, heartswelling movies like Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, none of which follow McKee's principles.
ref: 2022, Chris Jones, The Eye Test:
glosses: heartwrenching
phyllostomid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɪˈlɒstəmɪd/
Forms: form: phyllostomids
Etymology: From translingual Phyllostomidae.
Senses: examples: text: As I mentioned previously, pteropodid bats have been much less studied than phyllostomids
ref: 1988, Theodore H. Fleming, The Short-Tailed Fruit Bat:
synonyms: phyllostome
nose-leaf bat
glosses: Any bat of the family Phyllostomidae, having large, lance-shaped noses; a leaf-nosed bat.
phyllostomids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllostomid
reviction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin revivere, revictum (“to live again”), from re- (“re-”) + vivere (“to live”).
Senses: examples: c. 1682, Thomas Browne, letter to a friend
to arise from the grave to return again into it, is but an uncomfortable reviction
glosses: revival (return to life, usually figuratively)
owl light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From owl + light.
Senses: examples: text: obscurely seen by Owl Light
ref: 1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC:
glosses: glimmering or imperfect light
submittable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From submit + -able.
Senses: synonyms: submissible
glosses: Capable of being submitted, or eligible to be submitted.
Related terms: resubmittable
Goliath beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goliath beetles
Etymology: After the Biblical giant Goliath.
Senses: glosses: A very large cetoniid beetle of the genus Goliathus.
cetoniid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cetoniids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the beetle subfamily Cetoniinae (family Scarabaeidae).
cetoniids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cetoniid
sponsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒnsəl
Etymology: From Latin sponsalis, from sponsus (“a betrothal”), from spondere, sponsum (“to betroth”). See spouse, and compare espousal, spousal.
Senses: examples: text: 1870, Lorenzo Altisonant [Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour], Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, 4th Edition, page 64,
The sponsal munities I claim are the postnate: To be autocratix in the culinary department, synarchist in other departments of the domicile, and adespotic alibi; and to commonstrate the bairns not to be solifidians, nor nullifidians.
text: Boniface Llamera, St. Joseph (Herder, 1961), better preserves the primary character of the sponsal relationship when he writes: "The entire theology of St. Joseph (Josephology) has one first and principal basis: the marriage which united him to Mary."
ref: 1963 January, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, volume 25, Catholic Biblical Association of America, page 455:
text: This leads to diversity in the types of sponsal relationships.
ref: 1993, Liam Gavin, transl., edited by Michel Forsé, Jean-Pierre Jaslin, Yannick Lemel, Henri Mendras, Denis Stoclet, and Jean-Hugues Déchaux, Recent Social Trends in France, 1960-1990, McGill-Queen's University Press, page 70:
glosses: Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to marriage
word: nuptial
tetrinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See tetra- (“four”). It was once supposed to contain a peculiar radical of four carbon atoms.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex ketonic acid, C₅H₆O₃.
Synonyms: acetylacrylic acid
Related terms: tetronic acid
Aristarchian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aristarchian
form: most Aristarchian
Etymology: From Aristarch + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Ariatarchian symbols
glosses: Of or relating to Aristarch.
spondylolistheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spondylolisthesis
spondylolisthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spondylolisthesis + -etic.
Senses: examples: text: In the spondylolisthetic pelvis, the body of the last lumbar vertebra is dislocated forward and downward over the anterior surface of the sacrum.
ref: 1910, Alfred Lewis Galabin, George Blacker, The Practice of Midwifery, page 785:
text: We aim to determine the incidence of this non-spondylolisthetic cause of instability in conservatively managed patients and operated groups of patients.
ref: 2018 April 4, Ashok K Rathod, Rakesh P Dhake, “Radiographic Incidence of Lumbar Spinal Instability in Patients with Non-spondylolisthetic Low Backache.”, in Cureus Journal of Medical Science, →DOI:
text: Our findings imply that the Caudad insertion of pedicle screws facilitated interbody distraction during the restoration of spondylolisthetic vertebrae.
ref: 2021 September 15, Xin Xi et al., “Caudad Insertion of Pedicle Screws Facilitates Interbody Distraction During Spondylolisthetic Vertebrae Restoration: A Retrospective Study”, in Pain and Therapy, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or affected by the spine condition spondylolisthesis.
unobservables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unobservable
exacerbescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin exacerbescens, exacerbescentis, present participle of exacerbescere, inchoate of exacerbare. See exacerbate.
Senses: glosses: exacerbation (particularly of a fever or disease)
Clumber spaniel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Clumber spaniels
Etymology: Named from the estate of the Duke of Newcastle.
Senses: glosses: A spaniel of a British breed, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.
Clumber spaniels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Clumber spaniel
paralactic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + lactic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: sarcolactic acid
Related terms: paralactate
unbuxom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbʌksəm/
Forms: form: more unbuxom
form: most unbuxom
Etymology: From un- + buxom.
Senses: examples: text: With clothes or without she is, in a slender, graceful and most unbuxom way, quite beautiful.
ref: 1964, Eric Ambler, A Kind of Anger, page 20:
text: […] the ersatz-French cafes, the ramen-ya, the robatayaki, the Brazilian/Israeli/Ethiopian curiosities, the beer cellars (where unbuxom waitresses masquerade hopefully as buxom Bavarian bar maids), […]
ref: 1998, Gavin Kramer, Shopping, page 140:
text: I tried not to grin, but his enthusiasm over my notably unbuxom chest was endearing.
ref: 2009, Chloe Neill, Some Girls Bite, page 80:
synonyms: flat-chested
glosses: Having small breasts; not buxom.
Related terms: unbuxomly
unbuxomness
discumbency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin discumbens, present participle of discumbere. See discubitory.
Senses: examples: text: among the Insticutionary rules of youth , he adviseth they might not be permitted to hear Iambicks and Tragedies before they were admitted unto discumbency or lying along with others at their meals
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A reclining position at a meal table, as was apparently the manner in old times such as in Ancient Rome.
thimblerigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: thimbleriggers
form: thimble-rigger
Etymology: From thimblerig + -er or thimble + rigger.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”
ref: 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
text: "Mrs Kane has been filling us in on some background information on Owen." The woman nodded, drumming her nicotined fingers. "And I have been assuring her that the boys who arrive here thimbleriggers and termagants are the least of our worries. But we do not send them out that way. Do we, Brother?"
ref: 1980, Bernard MacLaverty, chapter 6, in Lamb, paperback edition, King Penguin, published 1981, page 50:
glosses: Someone who cheats by thimblerigging, or similar tricks involving sleight of hand.