cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blear eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blear + eye.
Senses: examples: text: LIPPITU′DO, Ophthal′mia chron′ica of some. Lippitude, Blear eye, Lappa, Lipa, Xerophthal′mia, Lema, Lemē, Glama, Gramia.
ref: [1839, Robley Dunglison, “LIPPITUDO”, in Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, […], 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, successors to Carey and Co., →OCLC, page 362:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A disease of the eyelids, involving chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.
complimenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complimenters
Etymology: From compliment + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who compliments.
complimenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complimenter
haplostemonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: isostemonous.
reprobateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reprobate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being reprobate.
reputatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From reputative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: reputedly.
Synonyms: reputedly
tufthunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tufthunters
Etymology: From tuft + hunter.
Senses: examples: text: The earl seeing the ecclesiastic abase himself before mere rank , clearly took him for a toady and a tufthunter
ref: 1840, The Westminster Review:
glosses: A hanger-on to noblemen or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady.
tufthunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tufthunter
uncourtliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncourtly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: notwithstanding the uncourtliness of their phrases , the sense was very honest
ref: 1710, John Dryden, The Whig-Examiner, number 5:
synonyms: rudeness
rusticity
coarseness
glosses: Lack of courtliness
uralitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uralitisation
Etymology: From uralite + -ization.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism.
Related terms: uralitize
bibliopegic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bibliopegy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bookbinding.
naphthalenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From naphthalene + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or derived from, naphthalene
Related terms: naphthalenic acid
onliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English onlinesse, equivalent to only + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: aloneness
word: onlyhood
word: uniquity
word: aloneness
word: isolation
word: loneliness
word: loneness
word: onehead
word: oneship
word: onlyhood
word: onliness
word: seclusion
word: solitariness
word: solitude
word: distinctiveness
word: onlyhood
word: onliness
word: unicity
word: uniqueness
word: uniquity
glosses: The state of being alone or unique.
unparented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + parented.
Senses: glosses: Having no parent, or no acknowledged parent; orphaned.
tricamera
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + camera.
Senses: glosses: Involving three cameras.
Related terms: tri-camera photography
encloud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enclouds
form: enclouding
form: enclouded
form: enclouded
form: incloud
Etymology: From en- + cloud.
Senses: examples: text: The heavens on every side enclouded be:
Black storms and fogs are blowen up from far
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgil's Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cloud up.
enclouded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encloud
enclouding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encloud
enclouds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encloud
laminable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laminable
form: most laminable
Etymology: From lamina + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Mica and gold are laminable.
glosses: Capable of being split into laminae (thin plates).
peristerion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Late Latin peristerion, from Ancient Greek περιστέριον (peristérion).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The herb vervain (Verbena officinalis).
unresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + resistance.
Senses: examples: text: [H]ovv doe they [animals] beare our ſtripes vvith a trembling unreſiſtance?
ref: 1651, Jos[eph] Hall, “Soliloq[uy] LXVI. Dumbe Homage.”, in Susurrium cum Deo. Soliloquies: Or, Holy Self-conferences of the Devout Soul, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Will[iam] Hunt, and are to be sold by George Lathum junior, […], →OCLC, page 242:
glosses: Lack of resistance; [[passive#Adjective|]] submission.
urogastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uro- + gastric.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Behind the stomach; said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.
examples: text: urogastric lobe
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Associated with both the urinary and digestive systems.
cipherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cipherers
Etymology: From cipher + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that ciphers.
cipherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cipherer
kibed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kibed
form: most kibed
Etymology: From kibe + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: kibed heels
ref: c. 1612–1615?, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, revised by Philip Massinger, “Loves Cure or, The Martial Maid”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:
glosses: chapped; cracked from cold; affected with chilblains.
leverwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leverwoods
Senses: glosses: The American hophornbeam, Ostrya virginiana, a small tree with very resilient wood.
leverwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leverwood
nauseation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nauseations
Senses: glosses: The act of nauseating.
glosses: The state of being nauseated; nausea.
nauseations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nauseation
upswarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upswarms
form: upswarming
form: upswarmed
form: upswarmed
Etymology: From up- + swarm.
Senses: glosses: To rise in a swarm.
examples: text: And both against the Peace of Heauen, and him,
Haue here vp-swarmed them.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: Such was his exhortation; they his voice
All hearing, with close-order'd ranks direct
Bore on the barrier, and upswarming show'd
On the high battlement their glittering spears
ref: 1791, Homer, translated by W[illiam] Cowper, The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cause to rise in a swarm.
upswarmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upswarm
upswarming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upswarm
upswarms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upswarm
gashful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gashful
form: most gashful
Etymology: From gash + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: gashfull, horrid, meagre, terrible, ugly shape
ref: 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot:
text: This premised, up the gashful horror sprang,
Like a tall pyramid of fire, belch'd from
The entrails of Hawaiian hills
ref: 1859, John Delavan Bryant, Redpemtion, A Poem:
text: a gashful sight met our gaze! There was that poor woman stretched out on the kitchen floor, her face covered with blood, where she'd fainted, and hit her forehead against the sharp edge of the table
ref: 1882, Sophie May, Janet, a Poor Heiress:
glosses: ghastly; hideous; frightful.
knitster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knitsters
Etymology: From knit + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Welch KNITSTERS curse the weaving company
ref: 1775, Charles Hutton, The Diarian Miscellany:
glosses: A woman who knits.
knitsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knitster
revokingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From revoking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By way of revocation; so as to revoke.
frivolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frivolisms
Senses: examples: text: I am almost ashamed to mention our enormous excesses—that riot and debauchery, that effeminacy and frivolism[…]
ref: 1815, Samuel Clapham, “A Fast Sermon (preached in 1793 by Dr. Scott)”, in Sermons:
glosses: frivolity
frivolisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frivolism
overstudious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈstuː.di.əs/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈstjuː.di.əs/
Forms: form: more overstudious
form: most overstudious
Etymology: From over- + studious.
Senses: glosses: Too studious.
Derived terms: overstudiously
unfrangible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɹænd͡ʒɪbl̩/
ipa: /ʌnˈfɹænd͡ʒɪbəl/
rhymes: -ændʒɪbəl
Forms: form: more unfrangible
form: most unfrangible
Etymology: From un- + frangible.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e say it is unreasonable, that this [the bread or host of the Eucharist] should be changed into flesh, […] into that body of Christ, which is in heaven; he remaining there, and being whole and impassible, and unfrangible, this, we say, is unreasonable and impossible: […]
ref: 1653 (indicated as 1654), Jeremy Taylor, “The Real Presence and Spiritual of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, Proved against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation. Section XI. The Doctrine of Transubstantiation is Wholly Without, and against, Reason.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume X, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, paragraph 5, page 21:
glosses: Obsolete form of infrangible.
ennuyée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ennuyées
form: ennuyee
Etymology: French
Senses: examples: ref: 1826, Anna Brownell Jameson, Diary of an Ennuyée:
glosses: A woman affected with ennui.
ennuyées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ennuyée
nunciate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnʌn.si.ət/
Forms: form: nunciates
Senses: examples: text: a faithful nunciate from the throne above
ref: 1763, Torquato Tasso, John Hoole, Jerusalem Delivered:
glosses: One who announces; a messenger or nuncio.
nunciates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nunciate
opprobries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opprobry
opprobry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opprobries
Etymology: From Middle English opprobry, from Latin opprobrium.
Senses: examples: text: So the Lord may justly object to many of us that we build our owne houses, but suffer the house of the Lord to lye waste, it was an opprobry in Israel, when a man or woman wanted children, [...] and therefore they said when they had children, deus abstulit opprobrium meum. Luc. I. 25. The Lord hath taken away my opprobry; the Lord take away that opprobry and shame from the ministry, that they stand not up as barren and unfruitfull [...]
ref: 1632, An Exposition of the Lawes of Moses, page 201:
glosses: Opprobrium.
prefixion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈfɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: prefixions
Etymology: From Latin praefīxiō. Compare Old French prefixion. By surface analysis, prefix + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: […]Sheriffe which shall not so appeare at his said day of prefixion before the Treasurer and Barons
ref: 1642, Christopher Vernon, Considerations for regulating the Exchequer:
glosses: The act of prefixing: synonym of prefixation.
prefixions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefixion
plastic surgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plastic surgeon
deplantation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deplantations
Etymology: Compare French déplantation.
Senses: glosses: The removal of plants from beds; uprooting
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: transplantation
Related terms: deplant
deplantations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deplantation
globularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more globularly
form: most globularly
Etymology: From globular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: spherically
glosses: in a globular manner
goracco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गुड़ाकू (guṛākū).
Senses: synonyms: guraku
glosses: A paste prepared with tobacco and jaggery, smoked in hookahs in western India.
jadish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jadish
form: most jadish
Etymology: From jade + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Vicious and ill-tempered, like a jade.
raw_tags: of a horse
examples: text: A skilful rider brings his horse to obedience by mingling fair means with foul ; whereas to be perpetually switching and spurring , makes him vicious and jadish
ref: c. 1700, Roger L'Estrange, Seneca's Morals:
glosses: unchaste
raw_tags: of a woman
glosses: Somewhat jade in color.
Derived terms: jadishly
jadishness
lucrific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /l(j)uːˈkɹɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more lucrific
form: most lucrific
Etymology: From Latin lucrificus, from lucrum (“gain”) + facere (“to make”).
Senses: synonyms: gainful
glosses: Producing profit
top-drain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: top-drains
form: top-draining
form: top-drained
form: top-drained
Etymology: From top + drain.
Senses: glosses: To drain the surface of (a field, farm, etc.).
glosses: To drain water or fluid from the top of a water heater or heating system, rather than from the bottom.
top-drained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of top-drain
top-draining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of top-drain
top-drains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of top-drain
untimeously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untimeously
form: most untimeously
Etymology: From untimeous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "By my faith, this bodes us no good!" said Blount; "it must be some perilous cause puts her grace in motion thus untimeously"
ref: 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: In an untimely way
Synonyms: inopportunely
aesthetic surgeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aesthetic surgery
underput
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underputs
form: underputting
form: underput
form: underput
Etymology: From under- + put.
Senses: glosses: To put or place under.
underputs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underput
underputting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underput
unsurety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + surety.
Senses: examples: text: the unsurety of never so sure hope
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: Lack of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt.
inexterminable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexterminable
form: most inexterminable
Etymology: From Latin inexterminabilis. See in- (“not”) + exterminable.
Senses: examples: text: duelling has become a fashionable vice in our country, and it is therefore to be feared , inexterminable
ref: 1803, Jacob Rush, Charges, and Extracts of Charges, on Moral and Religious Subjects:
synonyms: inexterminable
glosses: Impossible to exterminate.
kippernut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kippernuts
Senses: glosses: Any of several kinds of earthnut.
Bunium bulbocastanum (black cumin) of the Apiaceae.
glosses: Any of several kinds of earthnut.
Conopodium majus of the Apiaceae.
kippernuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kippernut
renowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renowners
Etymology: From renown + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gives renown.
who gives fame
glosses: One who gives renown.
who lavishes praise
renowners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renowner
Crow Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area of Hingham, Massachusetts, United States.
aesthetic surgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aesthetic surgeons
Senses: glosses: A surgeon who performs aesthetic surgery
Synonyms: cosmetic surgeon
Related terms: plastic surgeon
aesthetic surgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aesthetic surgeon
aspermatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aspermous.
inspersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inspersions
Etymology: Latin inspersio.
Senses: examples: text: With sweet inspersion of fit balms
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book XI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
text: Nor was it till after a few enjoyments had numb'd and blunted the sense of the smart, and given me to feel the titillating inspersion of balsamic sweets, drew from me the delicious return, and brought down all my passion, that I arriv'd at excess of pleasure, through excess of pain
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 113:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: The act of sprinkling.
inspersions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inspersion
prosternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosterna
Etymology: From Latin. See pro- and sternum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The ventral sclerite (plate) of the prothorax of an insect.
Related terms: prosternal
Hingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0202).
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, named after Hingham, Norfolk.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A small town in Hill County, Montana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in the town of Lima, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, named after Hingham, Mass.
cosmetic surgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmetic surgeons
Senses: glosses: A surgeon who performs cosmetic surgery
Synonyms: aesthetic surgeon
Related terms: plastic surgeon
cosmetic surgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmetic surgeon
Liberty Pole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area of Hingham, Massachusetts, USA.
discolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discoliths
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A kind of coccolith with an oval discoidal body, a thick strongly refracting rim and a thinner central portion.
discoliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discolith
unprison
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unprisons
form: unprisoning
form: unprisoned
form: unprisoned
Etymology: From un- + prison.
Senses: glosses: To liberate from prison.
unprisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unprison
unprisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unprison
unprisons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unprison
luteo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Latin luteus
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: orange-yellow; brownish yellow
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the corpus luteum
tombless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tomb + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] or there we’ll sit,
Ruling in large and ample empery
O’er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,
Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,
Tombless, with no remembrance over them.
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 I, scene ii]:
text: But when all is past, it is humbling to tread
O’er the weltering field of the tombless dead,
ref: 1816 February 13, [Lord Byron], “The Siege of Corinth”, in The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem, London: […] [T[homas] Davison] for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XVII, page 27, lines 444-445:
glosses: Without a tomb.
unconstancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unconstancy
unconstancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkɒnstənsi/
Forms: form: unconstancies
Senses: examples: text: At their landing the moon was almoſt totally eclipſed: whence the Chriſtians conceited (gheſſe the frailneſſe of the building by the unconſtancy of the foundation) that the overthrow of the Mahometanes (whoſe enſigne was the Half-moon) was portended.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Damiata Besieged and Taken; the Christians Unadvisedly Refuse Honourable Conditions”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book III, page 154:
glosses: Obsolete form of inconstancy.
woolgrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolgrowers
Etymology: From wool + grower.
Senses: glosses: One who raises sheep for the production of wool.
Related terms: woolgrowing
woolgrowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolgrower
aliturgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + liturgical.
Senses: examples: text: In the Byzantine rite, for instance, all weekdays of Lent except Saturdays and Maundy Thursday are aliturgical
ref: 1950, A. Fortescue, The Mass:
glosses: On which the Eucharist is not offered.
raw_tags: of a day in the Christian calendar
jerquing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Verbal noun from jerque.
Senses: glosses: The searching of a ship for undocumented goods.
Related terms: jerquer
rumbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rumblers
Etymology: From rumble + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, rumbles.
synonyms: bounder
growler
glosses: A four-wheeled horse-drawn cab.
rumblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumbler
wrappage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrappages
Etymology: From wrap + -age.
Senses: glosses: The act of wrapping.
glosses: Something which wraps; wrapping such as an envelope or casing
wrappages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrappage
Maglite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maglites
Etymology: Maglica (“the company founder's surname”) + light
Senses: examples: text: Had the guards seen the flash of their Maglites in the office? It didn't matter. What did matter was getting the hell out of here in one piece.
ref: 2006, Lindsay McKenna, Sisters of the Ark Trilogy, page 153:
text: They tested it with their feet, gingerly, making sure the wood wasn't rotten, then stepped onto it and shone their Maglites out into the void.
ref: 2008, Paul Sussman, The Last Secret Of The Temple, page 622:
text: They unloaded what luggage she'd not bothered to unpack at her apartment in Old Town, and, taking a Maglite from the cabin, treaded down the backside of the hill, Kris bundling the fresh set of clothes Matt had brought for her.
ref: 2010, Greg Haas with Robert Loss, The Butcher's Thumb, page 150:
glosses: A kind of flashlight with a variable-focus beam.
Maglites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maglite
overspans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overspan
overspanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overspan
specializer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specializers
Etymology: From specialize + -er.
Senses: synonyms: specialist
glosses: One who, or that which, specializes.
specializers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specializer
fourfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of four-footed.
doctorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctorer
delating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delate
delated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delate
diagnosticates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diagnosticate
under the rose
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Calque of Latin sub rosā.
Senses: examples: text: ‘If you become the purchaser of the East Lynne estate, Mr Carlyle, it must be under the rose.’
ref: 1860, Ellen Wood, East Lynne, Penguin 2005, page 10:
text: We are organising (but this is quite under the rose as yet) a company for the production of furniture and decoration of all kinds, for the sale of which we are going to open an actual shop!
ref: 1861, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, quoted by Fiona MacCarthy (2011) in The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Faber, page 130
glosses: In secret; secretly, privately.
moeurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɜː/
Etymology: From the French mœurs (“ways, character, morals”), from Latin mōrēs (“ways, character, morals”), the plural of mōs. Doublet of mores.
Senses: examples: text: Georgie was already becoming a little bit bohemian, absorbed into the moeurs of the Pre-Raphaelite world.
ref: 2011, Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Faber, →ISBN, page 117:
text: The historiography suggests the eighteenth century peninsular reformers saw a separation between the state as part of the European realm of moeurs and civilisation, and the Empire as the vast swathes of land that belonged to the monarchy.
ref: 2017, Eduardo Corredera, “Legacies of Conquest: Transnational perspectives on the conquest and colonization of Latin America”, in CRASSH:
glosses: Alternative form of mores, a set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices.
greatcoated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From greatcoat + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a greatcoat.
insufflators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insufflator
caelatura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Caelatura (toreuma, τορευτική), however, in its commonest acceptation, is goldsmith's work applied to the decoration of vessels either in intaglio, relief, or the flat.
ref: 1898, A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 125:
text: A branch of art allied to the cælatura is that of die-sinking and gem-engraving.
ref: 1880, Americanized Encyclopedia Britannica, Revised and Amended:
glosses: The art of producing decorative metalwork other than statuary, such as reliefs, intaglios, engravings, and chasing.
neo-creo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-creos
Senses: examples: text: That's why there's no scientific controversy about common descent, the "fact of evolution." When pressed, even neo-creos (such as Michael Behe, the author of Darwin's Black Box) admit this (although, under other circumstances they're inclined to hedge and fudge).
ref: 1999 August 17, Phillip E. Johnson with Philip Kitcher, “Should Evolution Be Taught in Schools?”, in Slate Magazine, →ISSN:
text: In the early 1990's, however, a new breed of creationists appeared. These "neo-creos," as they have been called, are no Dogpatch hayseeds. They have Ph.D.'s and occupy positions at some of the better universities. The case they make against Darwinism does not rest on the authority of Scripture; rather, it proceeds from premises that are scientific and philosophical, invoking esoteric ideas in molecular biology, information theory and the logic of hypothesis testing.
ref: 2002 April 14, Jim Holt, “Supernatural Selection”, in New York Times, →ISSN:
text: To counter the "sophisticated branding experts" who flummoxed establishmentarian evolutionaries with intelligent design, opponents of classroom debate over Darwin's theory have come up with a catchily derisive neologism that lumps the modern I.D. advocates with religious fundamentalists: neo-creo.
ref: 2005 August 21, William Safire, “Neo-Creo”, in New York Times Magazine, →ISSN:
text: That makes it all the more important for the layman to distinguish the various gradations between evolutionists, serious scientists who are interested in ID, "neo-Creos," and Biblical literalists.
ref: 2005 August 28, Sally Jenkins, “Just Check the ID”, in Washington Post, →ISSN:
glosses: Clipping of neo-creationist.
Hypernyms: creo
neo-creo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neo-creo
form: most neo-creo
Senses: examples: text: I come at last to the most basic difficulty with the neo-creo attack, it's dim suggestions that the scientific world needs a shot of supernaturalism.
ref: 2003, Phillip Kitcher, “Born-Again Creationism”, in In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC QH331.K6145 2003, page 373:
glosses: Clipping of neo-creationist.
neo-creos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neo-creo
noësis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noëses
Senses: examples: text: A noëtic society is a society based on noësis.
ref: 2005, Paul Hanly Furfey, Three Theories of Society, chapter VIII: “Noëtic Society”, page 65
glosses: Alternative spelling of noesis.
noêsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noêses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of noesis.
noēsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noēses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of noesis.
inwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inwalls
Etymology: From in- + wall.
Senses: glosses: The refractory lining of the stack of a blast furnace; or the interior walls or lining of a shaft furnace.
inwall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inwalls
form: inwalling
form: inwalled
form: inwalled
form: enwall
Etymology: From in- + wall.
Senses: examples: text: in short space would be so augmented , as they would be able with little to inwall themselves strongly
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
text: O change my state, unthrall my soule enthralled: / Of my escape then will I tell the story, / And with a crown enwalled / Of godly men, will glory in thy glory.
ref: a. 1599 (date written), Mary Sidney, “Psalm CXLII. Voce mea ad Dominum.”, in The Psalmes of David […], London: From the Chiswick Press by C[harles] Whittingham, for Robert Triphook, […], published 1823, →OCLC, page 272:
glosses: To shut in or enclose with walls.
inwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inwall
rine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: rines
form: rining
form: rined
form: rined
Etymology: From Middle English rinen, from Old English hrīnan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hrīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to strip, touch”).
Senses: glosses: To touch.
glosses: To concern; affect.
glosses: To pertain to; fall to.
glosses: To tend to a certain effect or outcome.
Derived terms: arine
atrine
berine
rine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: rines
form: rhine
form: rone
form: rune
Etymology: From Middle English rune, from Old English ryne (“a course, run, running, orbit, a flow, flux, period of time, cycle, luster, expanse, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *runiz (“course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to cause to move, grow”). Cognate with German Ronne (“a channel”), Icelandic ryne (“a flow, stream”). See runnel.
Senses: glosses: A watercourse or ditch.
rine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: rines
Etymology: Variation of rind.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rind.
lofthead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loftheads
Etymology: From loft + head.
Senses: examples: text: If a certain vacant space is left above the timbering of a road, it often affords a lodgment for gas, and it is by no means easy to ventilate such a space, or, as it is often called, a "lofthead," in all cases.
ref: 1880, Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society:
glosses: An overhead cavity in a cave or mineshaft caused by a fall of roof.
loftheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lofthead
creos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creo
nablock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nablocks
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rounded mass, as of flint in chalk, or of ironstone in coal.
nablocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nablock
monstery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monstery
form: most monstery
Etymology: From monster + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a monster.
Synonyms: monsterlike
Hyponyms: vampirey
vampirey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vampirey
form: most vampirey
form: vampiry
Etymology: From vampire + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Even though virtually every character in the novel, besides Cody, is a vampire, Vampire High is not at all a vampirey novel. Rees's vampires are born as vampires who marry and produce little vampires. Justin explains that they no longer kill for ...
ref: 2006, Deborah Wilson Overstreet, Not Your Mother's Vampire: Vampires in Young Adult Fiction, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 44:
text: I'd gotten fed up before, tired of the vampirey stuff I had to learn to accommodate, frightened of getting in deeper. Sometimes, I just wanted to see humans for a while. So for over three weeks, that was what I did. I didn't call Bill; he didn't call me.
ref: 2009, Charlaine Harris, Living Dead In Dallas: A True Blood Novel, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: (Too vampirey.) Yield to the forbidden music of my soul. (Way too vampirey.) Dear Chloe, please can I sink my teeth into your neck and drink your blood? (One step at a time, Nigel.)
ref: 2010, Tim Collins, Notes from a Totally Lame Vampire: Because the Undead Have Feelings Too!, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: “Last week,” he says, “I sent 'The Winning Shot' to Temple Bar—a very ghastly Animal Magnetism vampirey sort of tale. It came back again but with a very complimentary letter, & Hogg says he should like to see it.”
ref: 2013, Arthur Conan Doyle, Vampire Stories, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of vampires.
Synonyms: vampiric
vampirical
vampirine
Hypernyms: monstery
Derived terms: vampireyness
vampirize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vampirizes
form: vampirizing
form: vampirized
form: vampirized
form: vampirise
Etymology: From vampire + -ize.
Senses: synonyms: sire
turn
glosses: To make into a vampire.
glosses: To drain the resources or life force of.
vampirisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampirisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vampirization.
vampirization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampirizations
form: vampirisation
Etymology: From vampirize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of turning someone into a vampire.
examples: text: Nowhere is Rice's revision of these gender politics more evident than in the scenes surrounding the vampirization of Claudia, the orphan child.
ref: 1996, Gary Hoppenstand, Ray Broadus Browne, The Gothic World of Anne Rice, page 98:
glosses: Vampiric behaviour; the predatory draining of blood or (figurative) energy etc.
monsterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monsterizes
form: monsterizing
form: monsterized
form: monsterized
form: monsterise
Etymology: From monster + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: "IRON-ON" MONSTERS Itie newest way to "Monsterize" your shirts. T-shirts, sweat shirts, jeans, jackets, notebooks-any tiling
ref: 2010, Forrest J Ackerman, Vampirella Archives, volume 1, page 331:
glosses: To make something or someone into a monster.
examples: text: Vilification/monsterization denies agency by insisting upon the evil nature of the murderess, thus causing her to lose
ref: 2003, Belinda Morrissey, When women kill: questions of agency and subjectivity, page 25:
text: The particular conjunction of politics and 'monsters' in Richard III 'monsterizes' an already 'monstrous' language and institution, a reflection of the level of anxiety generated by the succession crisis in the 1590s.
ref: 2002, Mark Thornton Burnett, Constructing 'monsters' in Shakespearean drama and early modern culture, page 93:
text: “I'd admit the past & monsterize myself in the eyes of the jury,” he wrote. “I would try to be emotionless, to add credibility to that monsterization.
ref: 2006, Michael Finkel, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa:
glosses: To give someone a very bad reputation; demonize, vilify.
Hyponyms: vampirize
vampirise
zombify
Related terms: monsterization
werewolfism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From werewolf + -ism.
Senses: glosses: lycanthropy; the transformation of a person into a wolf
monsterdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monster + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a monster.
monsterlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monsterlets
Etymology: From monster + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small monster
bone-shaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bone-shaking
form: most bone-shaking
Senses: glosses: rattly, unsteady, rickety
Derived terms: bone-shakingly
bone-shaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bone-shakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boneshaker.
evenin'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of evening.
Halloweener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Halloweeners
form: Hallowe'ener
Etymology: From Halloween + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who takes part in Halloween, particularly a trick-or-treater
puncht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of punch
walkt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of walk
pitcht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pitch
gaspt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gasp
flapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flap
dismist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dismiss
croud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crouds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of crowd.
croud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crouds
form: crouding
form: crouded
form: crouded
Senses: examples: text: They all quit their ranks, and croud eagerly around him. Basil waving them off with his hands.
ref: 1798, Joanna Baillie, Count Basil, act 4, scene 2, p.150:
glosses: Obsolete form of crowd.
tapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tap
ript
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rip
untapt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untapt
form: most untapt
Etymology: From un- + tapt.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of untapped.
Waheguru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Punjabi ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ (Vāhēgurū).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: God as conceived by Sikhism.
exemplifie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exemplifies
form: exemplifying
form: exemplified
form: exemplified
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of exemplify.
prairie dogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prairie-dogging
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prairie dog
prairie-dogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prairie-dog
revers'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reverse
prairie doggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prairie dogging
prairie-doggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prairie-dogging
obey'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obey
summ'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sum
raz'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raze
dispos'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispose
temper'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The first feeling was disappointment; he had hoped better things; he had thought that an hour’s intreaty from a young man like Crawford could not have worked so little change on a gentle temper’d girl like Fanny; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: Obsolete form of tempered.
temper'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of temper
bipunctual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + punctual.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, a study by Verhoeff indicates the possibility of the occurrence of visual apparent movement in the absence of serial bipunctual stimulation of the visual cortex.
ref: 1948, The American Journal of Psychology - Volume 61, page 74:
text: We limit this paper to the bipunctual case : the signal is transmitted from a point A to a point B.
ref: 2012, G. Jourdain, “Characterization of the Underwater Channel Application to Communication”, in C. H. Chen, editor, Issues in Acoustic Signal — Image Processing and Recognition:
glosses: Having two points.
examples: text: The two systems are, in fact, practically identical; whatever can be proved for or with the one can be proved for or with the other; and it is only their relations to the bipunctual and bilinear systems that the distinction between the tripunctual and the trilinear systems comes into play: tripunctual coordinates standing in the same relation to bipunctual coordinates as trilinear to bilinear .
ref: 1878, F. Franklin, “Bipunctual Coordinates”, in American Journal of Mathematics, volume 1, page 156:
text: If X, Y, Z be a self-polar triad in regard to a conic, and O be any point, and XO, YO, and ZO meet YZ, ZX, XY, respectively, in A, B, C, then the conic is bipunctual in regard to A , B , C.
ref: 1922, Henry Frederick Baker, Principles of geometry: Foundations - Volume 1, page 123:
text: There are only two rectangular hyperbolas circumscribed to a given triangle and inpolar to a Bipunctual circle, namely those passing respectively through the points for which the circle is Bipunctual .
ref: 1944, The Mathematics Student - Volumes 11-17, page 54:
glosses: Relative to two distinct reference points.
Johnsonianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Johnsonianisms
Etymology: From Johnsonian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A manner of acting or writing characteristic of, Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English writer and lexicographer.
Synonyms: Johnsonism
Johnsonianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Johnsonianism
willowish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more willowish
form: most willowish
Etymology: From willow + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: First for a May-fly : you may make his body with greenish colored crewel or willowish color
ref: 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling a willow; willowy.
post-op
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: postop
Etymology: From post- + op.
Senses: examples: text: a postop consultation
text: When Randi Wright got a Brazilian butt lift in 2020 — a complex surgery in which fat is liposuctioned from the abdomen or lower back or other fleshy parts and used to enlarge and shape the buttocks — she knew she couldn’t afford the most expensive post-op care.
ref: 2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: Happening after an operation.
examples: text: As stated earlier all post-op transsexuals live in a parallel world where it is prudent to keep information regarding one's transsexual status limited to only those who need to know.
ref: 2010, Anne M. Vitale, The Gendered Self:
glosses: Having been operated on.
Synonyms: postoperational
postoperative
post-op
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-ops
form: postop
Etymology: From post- + op.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A postoperative patient or procedure.
glosses: A postoperative trans man or trans woman.
post-ops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-op