cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tolseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolsey
stadthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stadthouses
Etymology: Dutch stadhuis.
Senses: examples: text: Mean while, in order to divert his imagination, he went to see the stadthouse, park and arsenal […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A town hall in a Dutch-speaking country or (former) colony.
stadthouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadthouse
inspirationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inspirationists
Etymology: From inspiration + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: inspirationalist
glosses: One who holds to inspiration, especially divine inspiration.
inspirationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inspirationist
sluthhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sluthhounds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sleuthhound.
sluthhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sluthhound
sleevemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sleeve + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of sleeves for garments.
ditrichotomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + trichotomous.
Senses: glosses: Divided into twos or threes.
examples: text: Ditrichotomous, divided in twos or threes
ref: 1828, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Dividing into double or treble ramifications; said of a leaf or stem.
falding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faldings
Senses: glosses: A frieze or rough-napped cloth.
faldings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falding
microzoospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microzoospores
Etymology: From micro- + zoospore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A very small zoospore.
microzoospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microzoospore
taurylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin taurus (“bull”) + English phenylic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid found in the urine of cattle, horses, and humans, probably identical with cresol.
beguyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beguyles
form: beguyling
form: beguyled
form: beguyled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of beguile.
beguyling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beguyle
beguyled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beguyle
beguilingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beguiling + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being beguiling.
sinapic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sinapinic acid
coextensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From coextensive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: To the same extent.
hafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hafters
Etymology: From Middle English hafter, equivalent to haft + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I found it difficult to obtain a situation to my mind, so I engaged to work with a table-knife cutler, to learn the art and mystery of his trade as a hafter.
ref: 1850, Bernard Bird, The Perambulations of Barney the Irishman:
glosses: A maker of handles for knives and other tools
hafter
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of after.
hafter
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of have to.
hafters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hafter
obduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obductions
Etymology: Latin obductio; see Latin ob, ductio.
Senses: glosses: The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
qualifier: largely obsolete
glosses: An autopsy.
examples: text: Around Arabia - as well as in the Himalayas - these obductions completely obliterated the Neotethyan ocean, which in this time frame is represented only by a few exotic blocks and by Permo-Triassic pelagic sediments found at the sole of the Cretaceous ophiolites.
ref: 2004, Gérard M. Stampfli, Gilles D. Borel, “Chapter 3: The TRANSMED Transects in Space and Time”, in William Cavazza, François M. Roure, Wim Spakman, Gérard M. Stampfli, Peter A. Ziegler, editors, The TRANSMED Atlas: The Mediterranean Region from Crust to Mantle, Springer, page 73:
text: These frictional forces slowed the obduction of the ophiolite onto the continental margin and obduction ceased after the nappe was transported 100–200 km.
ref: 2011, Wolfgang Frisch, Martin Meschede, Ronald C. Blakey, Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building, Springer, page 72:
text: Ongoing accretion at a subduction zone, and the obduction of intact ophiolite slabs, are not considered to be collision.
ref: 2012, Joseph A. DiPietro, Landscape Evolution in the United States, →ISBN, page 340:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The overthrusting of continental crust by oceanic crust or rocks from the mantle, such that the oceanic crust is thrust onto the continental crust, as occurs at a convergent plate boundary when the continental crust is caught in a subduction zone.
Coordinate terms: subduction
Related terms: obduce
obduct
staphyline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σταφυλή (staphulḗ, “a bunch of grapes”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the uvula or the palate.
staphyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staphylines
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σταφυλή (staphulḗ, “a bunch of grapes”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the genus Staphylinus
Related terms: staphylo-
hamleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hamlet + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He is properly and pittiedly to be counted alone that is illiterate, and unactively lives, hamletted in some untravail'd village of the duller Country
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: Confined to a hamlet.
incrassative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incrassatives
Etymology: From incrassate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Incrassatives to thicken the blood.
ref: 1666, G. Harvey, Morbus Anglicus:
glosses: A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humours.
incrassative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incrassative
form: most incrassative
Etymology: From incrassate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Its juice is very congealing, incrassative, and desiccative.
ref: 1853, Edward Hamilton, The Flora Homoeopathica:
glosses: Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken.
incrassatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incrassative
subnotochordal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + notochordal.
Senses: examples: text: The hypochord is also known as the subnotochordal rod
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated on the ventral side of the notochord.
plenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plenists
Etymology: Latin plenus (“full”); compare French pléniste.
Senses: glosses: A believer in plenism; someone who believes that all space is full of matter.
plenists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plenist
plenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin plenus (“full”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief that all space is full of matter; horror vacui
Related terms: plenist
vacuism
devitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin devitare (“to avoid”), from de + vitare (“to shun, avoid”).
Senses: glosses: avoidable.
preterperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preterperfects
Etymology: From preter- + perfect.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: perfect
Related terms: preterimperfect
preterpluperfect
preterperfects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preterperfect
picklist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picklists
Etymology: From pick + list.
Senses: glosses: A list of items to be gathered from a warehouse.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A list from which the user can make a selection; a dropdown list.
picklists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picklist
convictism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From convict + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements, especially in Australia.
examples: text: So, in virtue of this last appeal, convictism had established a tacit right to converse in whispers, and to move about inside its oaken cage.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 51:
text: It was the simple expression of a necessity for clearing away from home a pressing amount of convictism, and of thus giving to this corrupt portion of society a means of regeneration
ref: 1865, William Howitt, The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand […] :
glosses: The convict system as embodied in its subjects; convicts as a group; the convict class.
Synonyms: transportation
supervolute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin supervolutus, past participle of supervolvere (“to roll over”), from super (“over”) + volvere (“to roll”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a plaited and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning glory.
perpendicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpendicles
Etymology: From Middle English perpendicle, from Latin perpendiculum, from per + pendere (“to hang”). Compare French perpendicule.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:perpendicle.
glosses: Something that hangs down, especially straight down, such as a plumb line.
forenenst
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: fornenst
form: fornent
form: forninst
form: foreninst
Etymology: See fore and anent.
Senses: examples: text: The land forenenst the Greekish shore.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, transl., Jerusalem Delivered:
glosses: Over against; opposite to.
bon ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French bon ton (literally “good tone”).
Senses: examples: text: This part of the proposition is very popular, particularly with the higher and middle classes, because it is the fashion, and a mark of bon ton, to enclose one's letter in an envelope, even though, or perhaps because, it subjects it to double postage.
ref: 1839, The Quarterly Review, volume 64, page 555:
glosses: The height of fashion; fashionable society.
Related terms: ton
dichotomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichotomists
Etymology: From dichotomy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: these Dichotomists […]would wrest all things to the Laws of their Method
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who dichotomizes.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: An advocate of dichotomism.
dichotomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dichotomist
meaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meaws
form: meawing
form: meawed
form: meawed
Senses: glosses: Dated form of meow.
meaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meaws
Senses: examples: text: Was it a meaw I heard, and a scratching, or was it only the wind[…]
ref: 1881, Belgravia, volume 45:
glosses: Dated form of meow.
meaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meaws
form: meawes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mew (“seagull”).
meawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meaw
meawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meaw
meaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meaw
Modoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Modoc
form: Modocs
Etymology: From Klamath-Modoc moatokni (“southerner”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American tribe formerly living in California and Oregon, and now in Oklahoma as well.
Derived terms: Modoc County
Modoc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Klamath-Modoc moatokni (“southerner”).
Senses: synonyms: Klamath-Modoc
glosses: The language of this tribe.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Klamath-Modoc terms
smokeshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smokeshops
form: smoke shop
Etymology: From smoke + shop.
Senses: glosses: A shop that sells tobacco and smoking supplies.
smokeshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smokeshop
Modocs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Modoc
actinostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinostomes
Etymology: From actino- + -stome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The mouth or anterior opening of a various marine animals, such as the starfish.
actinostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinostome
lysoplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysoplates
Etymology: From lyso- + plate.
Senses: glosses: An agarose gel, impregnated with substrate organisms, used to assay lysozyme activity
magnolol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magnolia + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diallyl biphenol, extracted from the bark of Magnolia officinalis, that has antifungal activity
morphonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpho- + -nomy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The laws of organic formation.
Pinkster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pingster
form: Pinxter
Etymology: From Dutch Pinkster, Pinksteren, from Ancient Greek πεντηκοστή (pentēkostḗ). See Pentecost.
Senses: glosses: Whitsuntide
Derived terms: Pinkster apple
Pinkster flower
Pinkster Monday
Pingster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pinkster.
Pinxter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pinkster.
Plow Monday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Plough Monday.
potentize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: potentizes
form: potentizing
form: potentized
form: potentized
Etymology: From potent + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make potent
potentized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of potentize
potentizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of potentize
potentizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of potentize
malonaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malonaldehydes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aldehyde CH₂(CHO)₂, related to malonic acid, formed in the body by oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids
papalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: papalizes
form: papalizing
form: papalized
form: papalized
Etymology: From papal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make papal; to introduce papal authority or Roman customs.
examples: 1783 April 20, William Cowper, letter to Rev. John Newton
papalizing is the crime with which he charges all of that denomination
glosses: To conform to popery.
Derived terms: papalizer
papalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of papalize
papalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of papalize
papalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of papalize
sarcotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sarcotic
form: most sarcotic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek [Term?]; compare French sarcotique. By surface analysis, sarc- + -otic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Producing or promoting the growth of flesh.
sarcotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcotics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek [Term?]; compare French sarcotique. By surface analysis, sarc- + -otic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any medicine that promotes the growth of flesh.
Related terms: sarcoid
sarcoma
sarcosis
sarcotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcotic
typocosmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “type”) + κόσμος (kósmos, “world”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: The representation of the world.
maltogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That breaks down starch into maltose.
maltooligosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltooligosaccharide
Hansonmania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hanson + -mania.
Senses: glosses: Enthusiasm for Hanson, a boy band popular in the 1990s.
maltooligosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltooligosaccharides
Etymology: From malto- + oligosaccharide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oligosaccharide derived from glucose monomers linked as in maltose.
Related terms: maltoheptaose
maltoheptose
maltohexaose
maltohexose
maltopentaose
maltopentose
maltotetraose
maltotetrose
maltotriose
maltopentaose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltopentaoses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maltopentose.
Derived terms: maltopentaoside
maltohexaose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltohexaoses
Etymology: From malto- + hexa- + -ose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A maltooligosaccharide consisting of six glucose units
Derived terms: cyclomaltohexaose
maltoheptaose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltoheptaoses
Etymology: From malto- + hepta- + -ose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A maltooligosaccharide consisting of seven glucose units.
microprojectile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microprojectiles
Etymology: From micro- + projectile.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic particle, typically composed of nucleic acid, that can be propelled into living cells at high velocity
microprojectiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microprojectile
mitochondrional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mitochondrion + -al.
Senses: glosses: mitochondrial
decurionate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkjʊəɹɪənət/
Forms: form: decurionates
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin decuriōnātus, from decuriō + -ātus. By surface analysis, decurion + -ate (making nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: glosses: The position or office of a decurion.
decurionates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decurionate
petaloideous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having some or all of the perianth petalous.
fulgury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin fulgur.
Senses: examples: text: As a picture unroll'd -
 And my age-spanning sight
Saw the time I had been there before flash like fulgury out of the night.
ref: c. 1918, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The House:
glosses: lightning
synangia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synangium
synangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪˈnænd͡ʒi.əm/
Forms: form: synangia
Etymology: From New Latin, from syn- + Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “a vessel”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The boat-shaped sorus of certain ferns.
Related terms: synangial
maxilloturbinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From maxillo- + turbinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
maxilloturbinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maxilloturbinals
Etymology: From maxillo- + turbinal.
Senses: glosses: The inferior turbinate bone
Synonyms: maxilloturbinate
maxilloturbinals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxilloturbinal
metrosideros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metrosideroses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Metrosideros of myrtaceous trees and shrubs, including many species called ironwood.
metrosideroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metrosideros
scrapingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scrapingly
form: most scrapingly
Etymology: From scraping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She pushed her chair back scrapingly.
glosses: With a scraping sound or motion.
red-tapism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-tapisms
Etymology: From red tape + -ism or red + tapism.
Senses: examples: text: Red-tapism is the biggest defect of bureaucracy. In a bureaucratic set-up, the files and papers move at a snail's pace and it takes inordinately long time to reach any decision on any matter.
ref: 2004, Ram Nath Sharma, S. S. Chandra, Advanced Industrial Psychology, volume 1, page 110:
synonyms: tapism
glosses: A strict adherence to official formalities.
red-tapisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-tapism
Linlithgowshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Linlithgow + -shire.
Senses: glosses: A former county of Scotland, now West Lothian.
snaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snape
snaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snape
aparithmesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπαρίθμησις (aparíthmēsis), from ἀπο- (apo-) + ἀριθμέω (arithméō).
Senses: glosses: The enumeration of parts or particulars.
glosses: An answer to a proposition.
opisthobranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Opisthobranchia.
opisthobranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opisthobranchiates
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: opisthobranch
glosses: One of the Opisthobranchia.
opisthobranchiates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opisthobranchiate
luthern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lutherns
Etymology: From French lucarne (“a dormer, dormer window, garret window”), Latin lucerna (“lamp”), from lucere (“to be light or clear”), from lux (“light”).
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: luthern-light
luthern window
glosses: A dormer-window.
lutherns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luthern
pseudosymmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + symmetric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting pseudosymmetry.
galah sessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galah session
galah session
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galah sessions
Etymology: From galah (“type of cockatoo”) + session.
Senses: examples: text: She also had an opportunity to talk to some of these schoolmates on the Galah Session. This is the unofficial session when, at allocated times, people on the network are free to chat to each other.
ref: 1986, Phyllis Gibb, Classrooms a World Apart: The Story of the Founding of the Broken Hill School of the Air, page 59:
text: If they headed out to investigate, Forklift and his mate, who listened to everything on the Galah session of the Flying Doctor network, would know the police were on their way and might get rid of Comet so as to have no evidence.
ref: 1992, Herb Wharton, Unbranded, unnumbered page:
text: Now, aligned to this online radio service, the Flying Doctor base also ran what us station hands called ‘galah sessions’. And these galah sessions were in part set up so that, after the business was concluded, the station women could have a good chat to each other and catch up on all the gossip and stuff.
ref: 2011, Bill Marsh, Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories, unnumbered page:
glosses: A period on an outback radio network, allocated for private conversation.
cockeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockeyes
form: cock-eye
form: cock eye
Etymology: From cock + eye. See cock (“to turn up”).
Senses: examples: text: How dared that miserable wretch cast his eye—his cock[-]eye, as Vroom had truly said—on Etta. It gave him a kind of grim pleasure to dwell on Looten's physical defect.
ref: 1894, Louis Zangwill, A Drama in Dutch, page 168:
text: “Fine day, gents,” said he, focusing his cockeye.
ref: 1920, William Patterson White, Lynch Lawyers, page 257:
text: The next time I saw Dave, he'd joined Deep Purple and had just got back from Sweden, where the band had sent their new lead singer to have his cock-eye straightened.
ref: 2006, Roy 'Chubby' Brown, Common As Muck!: The Autobiography of Roy 'Chubby' Brown:
text: His cockeye ogled the pile of food sitting on the table. “Delicious!” he said with glee. The cockeyed cricket licked his lips […]
ref: 2011, Bea L. Brown, Wally the Cockeyed Cricket:
text: As flies swarmed around a nearby outhouse, Molly B eyed him for a moment, looking him up and down with a cockeye that seemed to have a life of its own.
ref: 2019, Bill Bishop, Two Hearts, page 9:
glosses: An eye affected by strabismus.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.
Related terms: cockeyed
cockeyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockeye
superstitionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superstitionists
Etymology: From superstition + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Our Saviour certainly conceived high indignation and sorrow in his heart, while he observed that scorn and contempt those blind superstitionists, the Jews, bore against the poor despised Gentiles, in thus profaning their place of worship.
ref: 1660, Dr. H. More, Myst. of Godliness:
text: Whence it is evident, that the superstitionist must hate and fear the gods.
ref: 1851, William Chilton, The Library of Reason:
text: I think this is just Walker's way of reiterating the often-stated stereotype of the African as an ignorant "superstitionist".
ref: 2003, Muyiwa Falaiye, African Spirit and Black Nationalism, →ISBN:
text: Even if the superstitionists were right and there were signs, omens, portents eveywhere, you'd be none the wiser, because you wouldn't think for a moment that they were aimed at you.
ref: 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 129:
text: She probably even believed she was a Roman Catholic. But what she really was, deeply and devoutly, was a superstitionist.
ref: 2012, Nick Tosches, Me and the Devil: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: One who is highly superstitious.
superstitionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superstitionist
candlebomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candlebombs
Etymology: From candle + bomb.
Senses: glosses: A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.
examples: text: sounds of guns , trumpets , bells , drums , steam - blasts , whistles , flights of rockets , explosions of candlebombs, etc.
ref: 1879, Albert James Myer, A Manual of Signals:
glosses: A pasteboard shell used in signaling, filled with a substance which makes a brilliant light when it explodes.
candlebombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candlebomb
entomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entomeres
Etymology: From ento- + -mere.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, such as those of mammals.
entomeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entomere
goody goody
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goody goody
form: most goody goody
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goody-goody.
goody goody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goody goodies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goody-goody.
goody goodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goody goody
culturemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culturemakers
form: culture maker
Etymology: From culture + maker.
Senses: glosses: one involved in the formulation of culture and socialization, especially celebrities, artists and those involved in a medium.
Related terms: culturemaking
culturemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culturemaker
culture maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culture makers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of culturemaker.
culture makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culture maker
stereophotogrammetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to stereophotogrammetry
stereophotogrammetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stereo- + photogrammetry.
Senses: glosses: The construction of a three-dimensional model based on the positions of recognizable points or landmarks in several different photographs.
manstealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From man + stealing.
Senses: glosses: kidnapping human beings, especially with a view to their enslavement.
radication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radications
Etymology: From Middle English radicacyon, from Medieval Latin rādīcātio.
Senses: examples: text: the radication of habits
text: So that an essential increase of charity means nothing else but that it is yet more in its subject, which implies a greater radication in its subject.
ref: 1917, Fathers of the English Dominican Province (translation), Thomas Aquinas (original), Summa Theologiae, Second Part of the Second Part, Question 24:
synonyms: settlement
glosses: The process of taking root, or state of being rooted.
examples: text: radication of plants
text: They had a due diffuſion of their roots on all or both ſides, vvhereby they maintained ſome proportion to their height, in Trees of large radication.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter IIII.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, pages 161–162:
text: I recollect no instance at this moment of an 1-locular anther except in Canna, and from its mode of insertion as well as the analogy of other scitamineous anthers, that seems to me rather half an anther, than a whole one: however, the radication, and stipulation fix Sowerbæa immovably near Dianella, as well as the country it comes from
ref: 1806, Richard Salisbury, The Paradisus Londinensis, volume 1, part 2, section 98:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The disposition of the roots of a plant.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: The process of extracting a number's root.
Related terms: radicate
radications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radication
alcotest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.kəˌtɛst/
ipa: /-koʊ-/
Forms: form: alcotests
Etymology: Blend of alcohol + test
Senses: examples: text: These include provisions requiring the driver to submit to an alcotest or a breath analysis and provisions aiding proof of a positive result of the alcotest or breath analysis.
ref: 2002, Adelaide Law Review, Volumes 23-24:
glosses: An alcohol test; the measurement of the blood alcohol level.
suprapedal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + pedal.
Senses: examples: text: suprapedal gland
text: suprapedal groove
text: suprapedal lobe
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Situated above the foot of a mollusk.
protestantical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protestantical
form: most protestantical
Senses: glosses: Protestant
protervities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protervity
bragget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæɡɪt/
Forms: form: bracket
form: brackett
form: bragawd
form: braggett
form: braggot
form: bragot
Etymology: From Middle English bragot, braket, from Middle Welsh bragawt, bragaut, bragot, from brag (“malt”).
Senses: examples: text: You have in draughts of Darby drill'd your men,
And we have serv'd there, armed all in ale,
With the brown bowl, and charg'd in bragget stale […]
ref: 1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLC:
synonyms: Welsh ale
glosses: A liquor made of fermented ale and honey with spices.
Related terms: english: alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water
translation: alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water
word: mead
deauration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + Latin aurum (“gold”) + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of gold from an organogold compound.
glosses: The act of gilding.
Derived terms: protodeauration
recontinuance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + continuance.
Senses: glosses: The act or state of recontinuing.
reedling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reedlings
Etymology: From reed + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A bird, the bearded reedling or bearded tit.
Atticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atticism
leasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈliːzi/
Forms: form: more leasy
form: most leasy
Etymology: From Old English [Term?] (“void, loose, false”). Compare leasing.
Senses: examples: text: the Sense it self be left both loose, and leasy
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:
glosses: flimsy; vague; deceptive
mesorectum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesorectums
Etymology: From meso- + rectum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the rectum.
Related terms: mesorectal
mesorectums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesorectum
cerebralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebralists
Etymology: From cerebral + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who accepts cerebralism.
glosses: A cerebral person.
cerebralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerebralist
divinified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of divinify
divinifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of divinify
divinify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: divinifies
form: divinifying
form: divinified
form: divinified
Etymology: From Latin divinus (“divine”) + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: blessed and divinified soul
ref: 1633, Parth. Sacra, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To render divine; to deify.
divinifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of divinify
absurdisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absurdism
UCP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of United Conservative Party, a political party in Alberta.
topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: MARPAT
CADPAT
glosses: Initialism of universal camouflage pattern; The digital pixelated squared camouflage pattern used by the U.S. Army during the early 21st-century
UCP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UCPs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of uncoupling protein.
zero-one law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-one laws
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The fact that, in some circumstances, the probability of an event can only be zero or one and not any intermediate value.
Derived terms: Blumenthal's zero-one law
Hewitt-Savage zero-one law
Kolmogorov's zero-one law
Lévy's zero-one law
molybdovanadate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molybdovanadates
Etymology: From molybdo- + vanadate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex anion (and associated salts) containing both molybdate and vanadate species; the salts are used in the analysis of phosphate
monomethoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mono-methoxy
Etymology: From mono- + methoxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A single methoxy group in a molecule
monomyelocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + myelocytic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to monomyelocytes
myelocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myelocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to myelocytes
Derived terms: monomyelocytic
Related terms: premyelocytic
promyelocytic
monomyelocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monomyelocytes
Etymology: From mono- + myelocyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of monocyte found in bone marrow
multicohort
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + cohort.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple cohorts
multiploidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multiploid + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of becoming multiploid
multiploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + ploidy.
Senses: glosses: The state of being multiploid
multisubstrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + substrate.
Senses: glosses: involving multiple substrates
leucine zipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucine zippers
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A structural motif in proteins, especially those involved in transcription
multizipper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-zipper
Etymology: From multi- + zipper.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple zippers (zip fasteners)
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Involving multiple leucine zippers
muramidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muramidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: lysozyme
Derived terms: acetylmuramidase
sanguisuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanguisuges
Etymology: From Middle English sanguisuge, from Latin sanguisuga, from sanguis (“blood”) + sugere (“to suck”).
Senses: examples: text: For that blody judge
And mighty sanguisuge,
The Pope that is so huge,
Is ever ther refuge;
ref: a. 1529?, John Skelton [attributed], “The Image of Ipocrysy”, in The Political Works of Skelton and Donne, published 1879, page 408:
text: Proceede to more manifest diminishing of the humor, by bludletting, cupping, or sanguisuges
ref: 1585, Johann Jacob Wecker, translated by John Banister, A compendious chyrurgerie, book 3, chapter 14, page 452:
text: Can slice a veine, and by the trifid sluce
Of sanguisuge diminish peccant blood
ref: 1628, W. William Folkingham, Panala medica vel sanitatis et longævitatis alumna catholica = The fruitfull and frugall nourse of sound health and long life, page 116:
glosses: A leech (blood-sucking annelid).
sanguisuges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanguisuge
whitetop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitetops
Etymology: From white + top.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of covered wagon.
synonyms: word: covered wagon
examples: text: Whitetop is an invasive species in North America.
glosses: Lepidium draba (hoary cress, hoary peppercress, perennial peppergrass, tall whitetop), a perennial herb of family Brassicaceae that reproduces by seeds and by horizontal creeping roots.
glosses: Rhynchospora colorata (starrush whitetop, white star sedge, white-topped sedge), a plant from the family Cyperaceae.
whitetops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitetop
grindle-stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grindle-stones
form: grindlestone
Etymology: From Middle English gryndelston, alteration of Middle English grindston (“grindstone”).
Senses: glosses: A grindstone.
Related terms: grindletail
grindle-stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grindle-stone
panegyris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panegyreis
form: panegyry
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πανήγυρις (panḗguris), from παν- (pan-, “all”) + ἄγυρις (águris), Aeolic form of ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (ăgorā́, “assembly”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“to assemble, gather together”). See panegyric.
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: religious festival on a fixed day in honor of a god, often including prayers, games, and panegyrics.
examples: text: Will there not open a glorious Scene , when God (to use St. Paul's Words) shall celebrate the grand Panegyris?
ref: 1735, Samuel Harris, Observations, Critical and Miscellaneous, on Several Remarkable Texts of the Old Testament:
glosses: A festival; a public assembly.
sternage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy,
And leave your England as dead midnight still.
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, prologue], lines 18-19:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The stern of a vessel.
Rudolphine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Rudolfine
Etymology: From Rudolph + -ine, after Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Senses: examples: text: This hunt was both a classic Rudolfine conceit and at the heart of the mystery of Rudolf. Did he often go hunting with cheetahs?
ref: 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 134:
glosses: Pertaining to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612).
examples: text: Moreover, like Horrocks, Wendelin improved on the Rudolphine values of the mean solar distances of Mercury and Venus: 0.38711 and 0.72343 as compared with Kepler's 0.38808 and 0.72413 […].
ref: 2003, R. Taton, C. Wilson, editors, Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics, Part A, page 171:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Designating a set of astronomical calculations computed by Johannes Kepler in 1627, using data collected by Tycho Brahe (both of whom had Rudolf II as patron).
Derived terms: Rudolphine Tables
thornback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thornbacks
Etymology: From Middle English thornbak; equivalent to thorn + back.
Senses: glosses: Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as:
The thornback guitarfish (Platyrhinoidis triseriata), a species of ray in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean.
glosses: Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as:
The thornback ray or thornback skate (Raja clavata), a species of ray in the Atlantic Ocean.
glosses: Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as:
The thornback skate (Dentiraja lemprieri), a fish endemic to Australia.
examples: text: [A] society of honest gentlemen [is holding a lottery] for the benefit of all single ladies, widows, maids, or thornbacks […]
ref: 1710, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym), A Good husband for five shillings, or Esquire Bickerstaff's Lottery, quoted in 2016, Amy M. Froide, Silent Partners: Women As Public Investors During Britain's Financial Revolution, 1690-1750, Oxford University Press, page 46
text: Spinsters. — In a society where marriages were formed very early, girls often wedding at sixteen or under, […] At the age of thirty a spinster was called a "thornback ,” but bachelors and thornbacks were not the only people who […]
ref: 1920, Anna Mary Galbraith, The Family and the New Democracy: A Study in Social Hygiene, page 184:
text: "And I'll be a thornback spinster! Oh, I'd rather die of the pox than that!" She bolted away to spill her bitter tears out of doors in a place where no one could observe her. Her bold adventure had suddenly turned against her.
ref: 2009, Suzy Witten, The Afflicted Girls, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster.
thornbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thornback
nanocarrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocarriers
Etymology: From nano- + carrier.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale carrier (of drugs or biomolecules)
courtly love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The impression that courtly love is out of date, long superseded by modern manners, is a lure blinding us to how the logic of courtly love still defines the parameters within which the two sexes relate to each other.
ref: 2005, Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, Verso, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: A mediaeval European conception of noble and chivalrous love, generally secret and between members of the nobility.
courtiery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Little of the nicety, In the sprucer courtiery; As the rosary of kisses
ref: 1603, Ben Jonson, The Entertainment at Althorp:
synonyms: courtliness
glosses: The courtly manners of a courtier
nanocores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanocore
Chippeway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chippeways
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chippewa.
Chippeways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chippeway
nanocore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocores
Etymology: From nano- + core.
Senses: glosses: A nanosize core
neopullulanase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neopullulanases
Etymology: From neo- + pullulanase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of pullulanase that catalyzes the hydrolysis and transglycosylation of α-1,4 and α-1,6 linkages in polysaccharides
pullulanase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pullulanases
Etymology: From pullulan + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of enzyme that catalyze the hydrolysis and transglycosylation of α-1,4 or α-1,6 linkages in polysaccharides such as pullulan.