cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
redlight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redlights
form: redlighting
form: redlit
form: redlit
form: redlighted
form: redlighted
form: red-light
Etymology: From red light.
Senses: glosses: To deny, reject, or disapprove; to prohibit from proceeding.
glosses: To stop or cancel.
Synonyms: sense: disapprove
word: deny
sense: disapprove
word: disapprove
sense: disapprove
word: forbid
sense: disapprove
word: give the red light
sense: disapprove
word: prohibit
arrivisme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæ.ɹɪˈvɪzəm/
Senses: examples: text: This was hardly arrivisme on my part: I was “down” with my fellow American radicals, not conspiring with a bunch of aristos and expats.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 226:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The state or behaviour of an arriviste.
emblic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emblics
Etymology: From Medieval Latin emblicus, from Arabic أَمْلَج (ʔamlaj), from Sanskrit आमलक (āmalaka). Doublet of amla.
Senses: glosses: The fruit of Emblica officinalis (now Phyllanthus emblica, the Indian gooseberry, once used as a remedy against dysentery)
Synonyms: amla
Indian gooseberry
Derived terms: emblic myrobalan
emblica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emblicas
Etymology: From the taxonomic name Emblica (genus name).
Senses: examples: text: Avicenna, thirteenth century Arab philosopher and physician, recommends honey of emblica as an aphrodisiac.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 82:
glosses: emblic
drivellingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪvəlɪŋli/
Forms: form: more drivellingly
form: most drivellingly
Etymology: From drivelling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He also speculated drivellingly that the jury might yet return an open verdict on the theory of evolution.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 233:
glosses: In a drivelling manner; idiotically, foolishly.
CHT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of congenital hypothyroidism.
CHT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Chittagong Hill Tracts.
pet peeves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pet peeve
polyanthi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyanthus
bushwalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bushwalk
bushwalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bushwalk
bushwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushwalks
Etymology: From bush + walk.
Senses: examples: text: There are also bushwalks in Sassafras Gully.
ref: 2003, Margo Daly, Rough Guide to Australia, page 225:
text: The 24-sq-km Porongurup National Park is 12km long and has 1100-million-year-old granite outcrops, panoramic views, beautiful scenery, large karri trees and excellent bushwalks.
ref: 2007, Terry Carter, Lara Dunston, Perth & Western Australia, page 138:
text: Some offer a guided coach tour during which you just stretch your legs, while others let you get your circulation going with a couple of longish bushwalks.
ref: 2008, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Australia for Dummies, page 176:
glosses: A hike; an off-road walk in the countryside, possibly wearing a backpack, undertaken as a leisure activity.
bushwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bushwalks
form: bushwalking
form: bushwalked
form: bushwalked
Etymology: From bush + walk.
Senses: examples: text: In 1913, Myles Dunphy and Bert Gallop had bushwalked through the area when it was still a wilderness, its paths and depths known only to the locals.
ref: 1999, Drew Hutton, Libby Connors, A History of the Australian Environment Movement, page 115:
text: When he′d grown tall and lanky, he bushwalked on Magnetic Island, with its secluded bays and hiking trails to Mt. Cook through groves of coconut palms and tamarinds and mangoes.
ref: 2002, Patricia McCune Irvine, A Tinkling Cymbal, page 30:
text: 2008, Alan Murphy, Justin Flynn, Paul Harding, Olivia Pozzan, Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef, Lonely Planet, page 61,
Throughout the state you can also go bushwalking in rainforests, camping on isolated tropical islands, horseriding along coastal beaches, and wildlife-spotting in the plethora of national parks and reserves.
glosses: To undertake an off-road walk in the countryside.
Quaker guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quaker gun
owly-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more owly-eyed
form: most owly-eyed
form: owly eied
Etymology: From owly + eyed.
Senses: examples: text: […] And he doesn't do no riding after dark near Dishpan Flats. Them poor misguided sodbusters ain't much account in most ways, but they're owly-eyed at night."
ref: 2005, Leslie Ernenwein, High Gun, Wheeler Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Seeing better in darkness than light; day-blind or photosensitive.
examples: text: Gabe looked owly-eyed at the fellow and then prissed his mouth.
ref: 1961, John Myers Myers, I, Jack Swilling, Founder of Phoenix, Arizona, Hastings House, published 1961, page 118:
glosses: Wide-eyed, naturally or from an expression of fear, shock, surprise, or excitement.
examples: text: Paul was owly-eyed by then, and he tried to hide it by saying, "Must've lost m' balance," but we noticed that when he clapped a fresh holt on, he was using both his graspers.
ref: 1951, John Sanford, A Man Without Shoes, Black Sparrow Press, published 1982, →ISBN, page 252:
glosses: Extremely drunk.
Synonyms: sense: wide-eyed
word: moon-eyed
sense: wide-eyed
word: saucer-eyed
sense: wide-eyed
word: wide-eyed
sense: extremely drunk
word: paralytic
word: wasted
word: drunk
owly eied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more owly eied
form: most owly eied
Senses: examples: text: […] (for thus did their wicked mindes blind to the light of vertue, & owly eied in the night of wickedness interpret of it) […]
ref: 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Book III, Chapter 21:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of owly-eyed.
pollum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollums
Senses: examples: text: For this kind of work, and for the quantity of lime above mentioned, about ten pollums (the pollum ten pagodas weight) of sugar is commonly used.
ref: 1799 April 1, James Anderson, Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-History, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature, page 6:
text: In the District south of Quilon to Tavallay, a Five Pollum weight is used for weighing cotton, thread, tamarinds, jagherry, &c. which weight answers to 5848.3 gr. and is thus divided […]
ref: 1831, P. Kelly, The Universal Cambist and Commercial Instructor:
topics: metrology
glosses: A historic unit of weight used in India, equal to 1 ounce plus 3.25 drams.
nome sane
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: nomesane
Senses: examples: text: Others showed that their creators were hip to the dialect, as does the cartoon by Jeff Fanzinger (see the photo and cartoon inser following page 160), in which he exploits authentic Ebonics lingo - chillin, main man, dat's whuzzup, and nome sane (a condensed version of "Know what I'm saying?") that has become popular in the black community.
ref: 2000, John R. Rickford, Russell John Rickford, Spoken soul: the story of Black English, John Wiley and Sons, page 206:
text: "Nome sane?" This is not a real question, and there is no answer. Do not reply, "Yes, I know what you are saying."
ref: 2004, Molly Katz, New York as a second language: haddabea Neyawka, Andrews McMeel Publishing, page 28:
text: I am your goddam triumph, nome sane? Most ashamed son of a bitch you're ever going to meet.
ref: 2004, Spider Robinson, Very Bad Deaths, Baen, page 213:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of know what I'm saying.
Related terms: namsayin'
nomsayin'
nawmsayin
gnomesayin
talmbout
ufeelme
Agustus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Rare variant of Augustus.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
devisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devisals
Etymology: From devise + -al.
Senses: examples: text: 19th century, Francis Thompson, To a Snow-flake
What heart could have thought you?—
Past our devisal
(O filigree petal!)
text: Each word may be not unfitly compared to an invention; it has its own place, mode, and circumstances of devisal, its preparation in the previous habits of speech […]
ref: 1875, William Dwight Whitney, The Life and Growth of Language: An Outline of Linguistic Science:
glosses: An act of devising.
devisals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devisal
drapet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹeɪpɪt/
Forms: form: drapets
Etymology: From drap + -et.
Senses: examples: text: many tables fayre dispred,
And ready dight with drapets festivall
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: cloth or drape
drapets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drapet
hamamelis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamamelises
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἁμαμηλίς (hamamēlís, “medlar”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the flowering plant genus Hamamelis, the witch hazels.
hamamelises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamamelis
spermaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermary
spermary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermaries
Etymology: From sperm + -ary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An organ in which spermatozoa are developed; a sperm gland; a testicle.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of pollen tube.
synonyms: word: pollen tube
riggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more riggish
form: most riggish
Etymology: From rig (“a wanton girl”) + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies; for vilest things Become themselves in her: that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, 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):
text: The wanton gesticulations of a virgin in a wild assembly of gallants warmed with wine, could be no other than riggish, and unmaidenly.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
text: Dr Quintal saw them to the door, giving Rita a shrug and a sardonic grimace as she went, implying that he was not the dupe of her riggish rejection of a casual love affair.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 180:
text: “The matchmaker agrees that your having a position at Court will improve your chances, but she warned that you must be exceedingly careful of your reputation. Court society is known to be riggish.”
ref: 2008, Sandra Gulland, Mistress of the Sun, page 126:
glosses: Wanton, lewd, or tomboyish
isochronon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isochronons
Etymology: See isochronous.
Senses: examples: text: A bedside isochronon diffused a soft-light 9:30
ref: 1980, Felix C. Gotschalk, “The Wishes of Maidens”, in George R. R. Martin, editor, New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees, page 175:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A clock designed to keep very accurate time.
isochronons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isochronon
reducement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reducements
Etymology: From reduce + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: reducement of law to arbitrary power
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
glosses: reduction
reducements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reducement
mysterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mysterizes
form: mysterizing
form: mysterized
form: mysterized
Etymology: From mystery + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make mysterious; to make a mystery of.
mysterized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mysterize
mysterizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mysterize
mysterizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mysterize
playtoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playtoys
Etymology: From play + toy.
Senses: examples: text: 1724, William Burkitt, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament, London, 1739, "Hebrews" Chapter 11, p. 742,
[Moses] did not only […] at three Years old cast a Crown, [given] him for a Play-toy, to the Ground, and trample it under his Feet; but as the Apostle says here, when he came to be a Man, he treated it with no more Respect, but refused to be called the Son of Pharaoh’s Daughter.
text: 'A nice play-toy that for a respectable girl' said the shocked parson, his lean fingers indicating the naked, maimed doll and its unabashed mother.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 167:
text: It took some time for the singers to come off their level of exaltation, but the minister stood resolute until the song unwound like a child’s playtoy and lay quieted in the aisles.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 18, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 104:
text: To blacks, adds Editor-Publisher Ida Lewis, Women’s Lib is merely “a playtoy for middle-class white women.”
ref: 1973 March 26, “Blacks v. Feminists”, in Time:
glosses: A plaything.
playtoys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playtoy
psychovisually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From psychovisual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a psychovisual manner or context.
punkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From punky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being punky (in various senses).
see coming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees coming
form: seeing coming
form: saw coming
form: seen coming
Senses: examples: text: You're a perfect hitman; you look like a regular guy. Nobody sees you coming.
text: My pension plan went broke. I didn't see that development coming.
text: I should've seen it coming / It should've sent me running / That's what I get for loving you-oo-oo...
ref: 2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee, “Time Machine”, in Lights Out, performed by Ingrid Michaelson:
text: And tech-savvy propagandists could use the technology to churn out targeted misinformation on a vast scale, distorting the political process in ways we won't see coming.
ref: 2022 August 24, Kevin Roose, “We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: "'Effectively accelerates your own healing'... yeah, I should've seen this coming." "So I'm not burnt out?! I can use my magic again?!" "Um, I think so, but..."
ref: 2022 September 23, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Sep 23, 2022:
qualifier: or occurrence
glosses: To notice in advance, especially to recognise as a threat or problem; to foresee.
raw_tags: of a thing
examples: text: You were charged $1,000 for a car wash? They must have seen you coming!
glosses: To recognise (someone) as a potential victim to swindle or otherwise deceive.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: The foul ball hit me on the head. I didn't see it coming.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coming.
quasipsychotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + psychotic.
Senses: glosses: Apparently, but not actually, psychotic; suggesting psychosis.
segregative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more segregative
form: most segregative
Etymology: From segregate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to segregation; serving to segregate.
nonsegregative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + segregative.
Senses: glosses: Not segregative.
sweetcure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sweet + cure.
Senses: examples: sweetcure bacon
sweetcure mackerel
glosses: A method of curing meat or fish using relative low salt and a certain amount of sugar.
unremixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + remixed.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Not remixed; not having been remixed.
ausferrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A special type of microstructure that occurs when ductile iron is austempered, consisting of acicular ferrite in carbon-enriched austenite.
angiokeratoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angiokeratomas
form: angiokeratomata
Etymology: From angio- + keratoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A benign cutaneous lesion of capillaries, resulting in small marks of red to blue colour and characterized by hyperkeratosis.
angiokeratomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiokeratoma
angiokeratomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiokeratoma
spasmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈspæz.mɔɪd/
Etymology: From spasm + -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a spasm.
spanky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋki/
rhymes: -æŋki
Etymology: From spank + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Soon a spanky new house had arisen from the rubble of the old one.
ref: 2011, Victoria Twead, Two Old Fools - Olé!, page 169:
glosses: brand spanking new
Related terms: spanky pants
eat-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Designed for dining in as well as food preparation.
raw_tags: of a kitchen
glosses: Featuring seating to allow patrons to stay and eat their food on site.
raw_tags: of a restaurant
examples: text: Would you prefer an eat-in meal or just a takeaway?
synonyms: for here
have here
antonyms: takeaway
takeout
glosses: Eaten on the premises at which it is bought.
raw_tags: of food
turquoize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turquoizes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of turquoise.
turquoizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turquoize
unstow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstows
form: unstowing
form: unstowed
form: unstowed
Etymology: From un- + stow.
Senses: glosses: To unload (stowed cargo) from a ship, etc.
unstowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstow
unstows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstow
unstowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unstow
unstowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Howsomever, I should have remembered the old saying, every hog his own apple: for when they found my hold unstowed, they went all hands to shooling and begging; and, because I would not take a spell at the same duty, refused to give me the least assistance; […]
ref: 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random:
glosses: Not stowed.
treatize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treatizes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of treatise.
treatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treatize
spiegeleisen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃpiːɡəlˌaɪzən/
Forms: form: spiegeleisens
Etymology: From German Spiegeleisen (literally “mirror iron”).
Senses: examples: text: Historically, spiegeleisen was the standard form in which manganese was traded and used in steelmaking.
glosses: A ferromanganese alloy containing approximately 15% manganese and small quantities of carbon and silicon.
Related terms: manganeisen
Travancore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam തിരുവിതാംകൂർ (tiruvitāṅkūṟ).
Senses: glosses: A former Indian feudal kingdom.
malvalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malvalates
Etymology: From malvalic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of malvalic acid.
malvalates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malvalate
leucous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From leuco- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: albino (having an uncharacteristically white skin color)
Derived terms: ochroleucous
cowardie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English cowardie, from Old French coardie.
Senses: glosses: cowardice
lisne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /lɪn/
Forms: form: lisnes
Senses: examples: text: And I remember in my youth, in the Lisne of a Rock at Kingſcote in Gloceſtershire, I found at least a Bushel of Petrified Cockles actually distinct one from another, each near as big as my Fist.
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of lissen.
lisnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lisne
grievancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːvənsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: grievancers
Etymology: From grievance + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Petition […] against the bishops as grand grievancers.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: One who gives grievance, a complainer.
grievancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grievancer
nundination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌnʌn.dəˈneɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: nundinations
Etymology: From Latin nundinatio.
Senses: examples: text: But the practice of dispensations was much more foul: witness their Penitentiary Tax, wherein a man might see the price of his sin before-hand; their common nundination of pardons, their absolving subjects from their oaths of allegiance […]
ref: 1654, John Bramhall, A Just Vindication of the Church of England from the Unjust Aspersion of Criminal Schism:
glosses: Traffic at fairs; buying and selling.
rensselaerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Stephen Van Rensselaer, founder in 1824 of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Senses: examples: 1840, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OrqB7elAQrwC&pg=PA321&lpg=PA321&dq=%22rensselaerite%22&source=bl&ots=pj8PiIHqLW&sig=TtiKA3EELWApIeKjjdL3aE3kX0E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfx4SR_p7TAhULD8AKHfJxAOA4FBDoAQhAMAk#v=onepage&q=%22rensselaerite%22&f=false ("Assembly: State of New York, Issue 50", published 1840, digitised 2010).
To this I may subjoin Rensselaerite, which frequently occurs in thick, heavy beds in connexion with the above.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft, compact variety of talc, being an altered pyroxene, sometimes worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles, found in New York and Canada.
wikipedia: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stephen Van Rensselaer
chasmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chasm + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having large gaps or a chasm.
mesovaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesovarium
mesovarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesovaria
Etymology: From meso- + New Latin ovarium. See ovary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The portion of the broad ligament of the uterus that covers the ovaries.
enterdeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of interdeal.
anteportico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ante- + portico.
Senses: topics: architecture
ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An outer porch or vestibule.
Related terms: anteport
requisitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There are two ſorts of these dreames, the one which are called curious or requisitory, to which are referred the drcames sought out[…]
ref: 1621, Thomas Lodge, A Learned Summary upon the famous poeme of William of Saluste Lord of Bartas:
glosses: Sought for; demanded.
examples: text: As the design of a requisitory sentence is , to require or obtain the performance of some action , propriety M seems to require that this action be early represented in the sentence.
ref: 1823, John Kigan, Remarks on the Practice of Grammarians, page 135:
text: This act granted requisitory powers relating to "food, feeds, fuels, and other supplies necessary to the support of the Army or the maintenance of the Navy, or any other public use connected with the common defense."
ref: 1933, United States. Joint Army and Navy Munitions Board, Industrial Mobilization Plan, page 85:
glosses: Seeking or demanding; requisitive.
Derived terms: letters requisitory
requisitory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: requisitories
Senses: examples: text: Marchangy, a poetic rather than forensic genius, was charged with drawing out the requisitory; and the little information which he acquired respecting the Carbonari, he swelled out into a pompous and detailed history of these secret associations, more with a view to produce an effect than to establish either truth or the guilt of the accused.
ref: 1854, Eyre Evans Crowe, History of the Reigns of Louis XVIII. and Charles X.:
text: After him followed a requisitory from the Audencia of Lima that he be taken and remanded to that city. This Real Audiencia ordered the requisitory to be carried out.
ref: 1999, Nueva Granada, “A Deal with Juana García”, in The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories, page 51:
glosses: Synonym of letters requisitory.
synonyms: word: letters requisitory
endolymphangial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + lymphangial.
Senses: examples: text: endolymphangial nodules
text: endolymphangial therapy
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Archaic form of endolymphatic (“within a lymphatic vessel”).
temporomalar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From temporo- + malar.
Senses: examples: text: the temporomalar nerve
text: temporomalar branch
text: temporomalar foramen
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone.
preengage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpriː.ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: preengages
form: preengaging
form: preengaged
form: preengaged
Etymology: From pre- + engage.
Senses: examples: text: A deed of gift is when I do freely befow ſomewhat upon another without preengaging so to do
ref: 1676, Abraham Clifford, Methodus Evangelica:
text: But he was preengaged by former ties.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: Because the gear pinion of the preengaged motor is both drawn into the ring gear and is spinning at the moment of engagement, over time both the flywheel ring gear and the starter gear pinion wear.
ref: 2017, Daniel Stapleton, The MG Midget & Austin-Healey Sprite:
glosses: To engage previously.
Related terms: preengagement
preengaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preengage
preengages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preengage
preengaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preengage
armgaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more armgaunt
form: most armgaunt
Etymology: Perhaps arm + gaunt.
Senses: examples: text: And soberly did mount an armgaunt steed.
ref: 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:
text: Quixote comes, in battered mail, Armgaunt, with eyes of some keen haggard hawk Far from his eyrie
ref: 1951, Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Chateau: And Other Poems, page 25:
text: SERVANT (Imitating the style of his master) The awful armgaunt knight who wields the Gorgon, shaking three shadowy plumes.
ref: 1979, William Joseph Myles Starkie, The Acharnians of Aristophanes, page 195:
glosses: Of uncertain meaning; perhaps describing gaunt or slender limbs.
tripinnatifid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + pinnatifid.
Senses: examples: text: tripinnatifid frond
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: triply pinnately cleft; said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.
untackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untackles
form: untackling
form: untackled
form: untackled
Etymology: From un- + tackle.
Senses: examples: text: For charges so little much quiet is won,
If strongly and handsomely all things be done;
But use to untackle them once in a day,
To rub and to lick them , to drink and to play
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: To unhitch; to unharness.
untackled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untackle
untackled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not having been tackled.
untackles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untackle
untackling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untackle
unsting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstings
form: unstinging
form: unstinged
form: unstinged
Etymology: From un- + sting.
Senses: examples: text: Elegant dissertations on virtue and vice […] will not unsting calamity.
ref: a. 1829, John Mitchell Mason, a sermon:
text: It unstinged the king of terrors, and filled his soul with humble confidence and joy.
ref: 1822, Samuel Stearns, A Sermon [on 2 Tim. iv. 7, 8] delivered at the funeral of the Reverend Eliab Stone, page 3:
glosses: To remove the sting of
unstinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsting
unstinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsting
unstinging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] the unstinging little native bees.
ref: 1872, Norman Macleod, editor, Good Words for the Young, volume 4, page 79:
glosses: That does not sting.
unstings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsting
ouvreur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ouvreurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French ouvreur
Senses: glosses: An usher
chaliced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chalice + -ed.
Senses: glosses: having a chalice
examples: text: chaliced flowers
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: Having a calyx or cup; cup-shaped.
etym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etyms
Senses: examples: text: A curious etym from the same root
ref: 1847, William Henry Fox Talbot, English Etymologies:
glosses: An etymon.
glosses: Clipping of etymology.
etyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etym
inceration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incerations
Etymology: From Latin incerare (“to smear with wax”), from in- (“in”) + cerare (“to wax”), from cera (“wax”). Compare French incération.
Senses: examples: text: - He has his white shirt on?
- Yes, sir,
He's ripe for inceration: he stands warm
In his ash-fire.
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: The act of smearing or covering with wax.
incerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inceration
historionomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhɪstəɹiˈɒnəmə(ɹ)/
/hɪˌstɔːɹiˈɒnəmə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: historionomers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἱστωριονόμος (histōrionómos), from ἱστορία (historía, “history”) + -νόμος (-nómos), from νέμω (némō, “tend to something”).
Senses: examples: text: And historionomers will have measured accurately the sidereal years of races.
ref: 1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC:
glosses: One versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them.
historionomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of historionomer
malesub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malesubs
Etymology: From male + sub.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A male submissive.
malesubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malesub
capsicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capsicin
Etymology: From German Capsicin, from New Latin Capsicum + German -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A volatile alkaloid extracted from Capsicum annuum or from capsaicin.
Derived terms: capsaicin
resorters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resorter
amethodist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amethodists
Etymology: From a- + methodist.
Senses: glosses: Someone without a method; a quack.
amethodists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amethodist
compellatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compellatory
form: most compellatory
Senses: glosses: Serving to compel; compulsory.
examples: text: It is therefore the shallowest sophistry to contend, that because this quality is personified, or used in a compellatory form, it is therefore used as an honorary title. And as, in the same age, the existence of honorary titles is without example or proof, and the form of compellation by characteristic qualities thus generally prevalent; it is palpably to oppose every sound principle of logic, to dispute, that the contested term is not used as a quality, but employed as a title.
ref: 1830, Frederick Nolan, An inquiry into the integrity of the Greek vulgate, page 84:
glosses: Being or relating to a compellation; addressing somebody by name.
milreis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milreis
Etymology: From Portuguese mil réis (“one thousand reis”), from mil (“a thousand”) + réis, plural of real (“a rei”).
Senses: glosses: A former currency of Portugal (until 1911).
glosses: A former currency of Brazil (until 1942).
milreis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Portuguese mil réis (“one thousand reis”), from mil (“a thousand”) + réis, plural of real (“a rei”).
Senses: glosses: plural of milrei
welfaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of welfare
nonconcur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nonconcurs
form: nonconcurring
form: nonconcurred
form: nonconcurred
Etymology: From non- + concur.
Senses: examples: text: MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE Announcing, the House nonconcurs in Senate amendments to HB 2464 and requests a conference and has appointed Representatives Matlack, Baker and Duncan as conferees on the part of the House.
ref: 1978, Kansas. Legislature. Senate, Senate and House Journals:
glosses: To dissent or refuse to concur.
nonconcurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nonconcur
nonconcurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nonconcur
arshine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arshines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arshin.
arshines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arshine
midmain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + main.
Senses: examples: text: The shore his harbour , but the mid-main swum.
ref: c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624:
glosses: The middle part of the sea.
penpushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penpusher
desmoglein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desmogleins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of cadherins involved in the formation of desmosomes.
Derived terms: antidesmoglein
desmogleins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmoglein
Castleman's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Benjamin Castleman.
Senses: glosses: A rare lymphoproliferative disorder involving hyperproliferation of certain B cells that often produce cytokines.
wikipedia: Benjamin Castleman
imphee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imphees
form: imfe
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: African sugar cane (Sorghum bicolor, syn. Holcus saccharatus and Andropogon saccharatus).
imphees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imphee
inlumine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inlumines
form: inlumining
form: inlumined
form: inlumined
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of illumine.
inlumined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inlumine
inlumining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inlumine
etheriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ether + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of ether.
flysch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪʃ/
Forms: form: flysches
Etymology: From German fließen (“to flow, to melt”).
Senses: examples: text: Most of the structures and textures observed at Ponkapoag section have been noted in turbitite and flysch sequences.
ref: 1934, Gerald E. Schultz, Geology and Paleontology of a Late Pleistocene Basin in Southwest Kansas, page 232:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.
Derived terms: cryptoflysch
flysches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flysch
rompish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rompish
form: most rompish
Etymology: From romp + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Given to boisterous play; inclined to romp.
Related terms: rompishly
rompishness
injellied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + jelly + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Placed in jelly.
incogitativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪŋˌkɒd͡ʒɪtəˈtɪvɪti/
Etymology: From incogitative + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: God may superadd a faculty of thinking to incogitativity, of acting freely to necesity
ref: 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:
glosses: The quality of being incogitative; lack of thought or of the power of thinking.
heptine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of heptyne.
heptines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptine
antheriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænθəˈɹɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From anther + -iferous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Producing anthers, as plants.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower.
Derived terms: biantheriferous
episcopize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: episcopizes
form: episcopizing
form: episcopized
form: episcopized
Senses: glosses: To perform the duties of a bishop.
examples: text: An inclination to episcopize was evidently shown in this language; but Wesley did not yet venture upon the act
ref: 1820, Robert Southey, The Life of John Wesley:
glosses: To consecrate as a bishop.
Related terms: episcopal
episcopized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of episcopize
episcopizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of episcopize
episcopizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of episcopize
mazedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪzɪdnɪs/
Etymology: From Middle English mazednesse, mazidnesse; equivalent to mazed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I knew not the cause of your mazedness, but 'twas all I could do to keep those stones going.
ref: 1957, Karl V. Eiker, Star of Macedon:
text: Llwyd, insulated by his mazedness, dwells inwardly in a realm of feminine imagination: his mind is a region of "diamond-like" lucidity across which move the Ellyllon, three fairies whom he knows from folk-legend.
ref: 1986, Richard Poole, Richard Hughes: Novelist, page 112:
glosses: The condition of being mazed; confusion; astonishment.
arcubalister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcubalisters
Etymology: From Latin arcuballistarius. Compare arbalister.
Senses: examples: text: he was eſpied by a very good Arcubaliſter, who told the Earle thereof , and ſaid , that hee would ſoone diſpatch the cruell tyrant
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist.
arcubalisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arcubalister
apicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apicular
form: most apicular
Etymology: From Latin apiculus, diminutive of Latin apex, apicis.
Senses: glosses: Situated at, or near, the apex; apical.
Derived terms: subapicular
hydrobilirubin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + bilirubin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A body formed from bilirubin, identical with urobilin.
bowldery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bowldery
form: most bowldery
Etymology: From bowlder + -y.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bouldery.
renownedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more renownedly
form: most renownedly
Etymology: From renowned + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With renown.
examples: text: He was renownedly, even recklessly, brave, winning for himself the nickname "Mad Jack."
ref: 2006, Penny Coleman, Flashback:
glosses: famously
inosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.əs.ʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪn.əˌsaɪt/
Forms: form: inosites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰνός (inós, genitive singular of ἴς (ís, “sinew, tendon”)) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Former name of inositol.
inosites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inosite
squamoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squamoid
form: most squamoid
Etymology: From Latin squama (“scale”) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a scale.
glosses: Covered with scales; scaly.
Synonyms: sense: resembling a scale
word: scalelike
sense: resembling a scale
word: squamiform
sense: covered with scales
word: squamose
word: scaly
squamoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squamoids
Etymology: From Latin squama (“scale”) + -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
miko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mikos
form: miko
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 巫女 (miko, “shrine maiden”).
Senses: glosses: A Shinto shrine maiden.
supermedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + medial.
Senses: examples: text: supermedial class
text: supermedial rock
text: supermedial order
glosses: Above the middle.
interlacement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlacements
Etymology: Compare French entrelacement.
Senses: glosses: The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced.
glosses: Something which is interlaced.
interlacements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlacement
antiblister
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + blister.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or countering blisters.
antispread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + spread.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or countering the spread of something.
saccholactate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccholactates
form: saccholate
Etymology: From saccholactic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: examples: text: saccholactate of potash
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of saccholactactic acid.
Related terms: mucate
saccholactates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saccholactate
finaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finary
finary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finaries
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
ironworking
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of finery.
warproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warproof
form: most warproof
Etymology: From war + proof.
Senses: glosses: Immune to being degraded or destroyed by war.
warproof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From war + proof.
Senses: examples: text: On, on, you noblest English, / Whose blood is fet from fathers of warproof.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: Valour tried by war.
burnproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more burnproof
form: most burnproof
Etymology: From burn + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to burning.
laserproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laserproof
form: most laserproof
Etymology: From laser + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to lasers.
anasarcous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anasarca + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The Anasarcous Hydrocele may be known by the splendour, softness and thickness of the Scrotum
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Belonging to, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.