cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
thimbleriggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thimblerigger
hypapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypapophyses
Etymology: From hyp- + apophysis.
Senses: examples: text: Haemal spines and chevron bones are examples of hypapophysis.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A process, or other element, of a vertebra developed from the ventral side of the centrum.
Related terms: hypapophysial
distream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːm
Forms: form: distreams
form: distreaming
form: distreamed
form: distreamed
Etymology: From dis- + stream (with dis- as intensifier).
Senses: examples: text: Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear.
ref: 1743, William Shenstone, Elegy XIX:
glosses: To flow.
distreamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of distream
distreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of distream
distreams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of distream
mestee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mestees
Etymology: See mestizo and mustee.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mustee.
synonyms: word: mustee
Coordinate terms: sense: person of mixed race
word: list in mulatto
mestees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mestee
Thibetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Thibetian
form: most Thibetian
Etymology: From Thibet + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Tibetan.
Thibetian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thibetians
Etymology: From Thibet + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Tibetan.
Thibetians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thibetian
seirospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seirospores
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σειρά (seirá, “cord”) + English spore.
Senses: glosses: One of several spores arranged in a chain, as in certain algae.
Derived terms: seirosporic
seirospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seirospore
plagiostomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Plagiostomi + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to fish of the former order Plagiostomi, generally corresponding to the sharks, rays, and skates.
larmier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larmiers
Etymology: From French larme (“tear, drop”), from Latin lacrima. See lachrymose.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A tearpit.
topics: architecture
glosses: A horizontal stringcourse for preventing rain from trickling down a wall.
larmiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larmier
tut-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tut-mouthed
form: most tut-mouthed
Senses: examples: text: That hath his chin and neather iawe more sticking out than the upper jaw: tutmouthed
ref: 1585, John Higins, The Nomenclator, Or Remembrancer of A. J:
glosses: Having a projecting under jaw; prognathous.
ostosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of osteosis.
synonyms: word: osteosis
Hyponyms: ectostosis
endostosis
hyperostosis
Derived terms: dermostosis
pachyostosis
parostosis
pycnodysostosis
Related terms: osteosis
ostotic
pelecaniform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelecaniforms
Senses: glosses: Any bird of the order Pelecaniformes.
Related terms: pelican
choak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: choaks
form: choaking
form: choaked
form: choaked
Senses: examples: text: At that time, the interior was choaked up with rubbish, several feet above the present surface, and overspread with ashlings, alders, and trees, the growth of such situations, to a very considerable height.
ref: 1806, Charles Heath, Monmouthshire:
text: The worm will of course be at the bottom, for no float is to be used, and when the barbel takes the bait, the bullet will lay on the ground and not choak him.
ref: 1807, Thomas Best, A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling, 4th edition:
glosses: Obsolete form of choke.
choaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of choak
choaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of choak
choaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of choak
pressirostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the order Pressirostres, a group of wading birds with flattened beaks, including bustards, plovers, and cariamas.
parcity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)sɪti
Etymology: From Latin parcitas, from parcus (“sparing”).
Senses: glosses: sparingness; thrift
Giffard injector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Giffard injectors
Etymology: Invented by Henri Giffard (1825–1882), French engineer.
Senses: glosses: A steam ejector.
wikipedia: Henri Giffard
Giffard injectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Giffard injector
hyemal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪəməl/
Forms: form: more hyemal
form: most hyemal
Etymology: From Latin hiemalis, from hiems (“winter”). Compare French hyémal.
Senses: examples: text: But, beside vernal, æstival and autumnal, made of flowers, the ancients had also the hyemal garlands; contenting themselves at first with such as were made of horn dyed into several colours, and shaped into the figure of flowers
ref: c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
text: "Break a hunk of ice off the land, crack off a chunk the same proportions as Manhattan Island, then slab Aar's emberous body on out, the winds floating a hyemal pyre melting toward the Pole."
ref: 2015, Joshua Cohen, The Book of Numbers, page 519:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hiemal.
skaldic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skaldic
form: most skaldic
form: scaldic
Etymology: From skald + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: skaldic poetry
text: … he could hardly hear an old bit of skaldic verse without it devolving into "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B."
ref: 2009, Greg van Eekhout, Norse Code, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or relating to the skalds (Norse poets).
diageotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diageotropic
form: most diageotropic
Etymology: From dia- + geo- + -tropic.
Senses: examples: text: diageotropic growth
text: diageotropic roots
text: diageotropic species
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism.
conder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: conders
Etymology: From cond + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who conns (conds) a ship; a conning officer.
glosses: Synonym of balker (“one who signals to fishing boats the location of shoals of fish”).
synonyms: word: balker
extra: one who signals to fishing boats the location of shoals of fish
conders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conder
anatomizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anatomizers
Etymology: From anatomize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The physician is a direct anatomizer of the human body.
ref: 1978, Alan Hager, Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric:
synonyms: dissector
glosses: One who carries out dissection.
anatomizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anatomizer
toluric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toluric acids
Etymology: Blend of toluic + uric + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric crystalline acids, C₉H₁₀ON.CO₂H, which are toluyl derivatives of glycocoll.
toluric acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toluric acid
carbonatation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonatations
Etymology: From carbonate + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Carbonatation is used in refining sugar from sugar beet.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical reaction in which calcium hydroxide reacts with carbon dioxide to form insoluble calcium carbonate.
Synonyms: carbonation
carbonatations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbonatation
pearch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearches
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of perch, a unit of measurement.
pearches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearch
forepossessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forepossessed
form: most forepossessed
Etymology: From fore- + possessed.
Senses: glosses: Holding or held formerly in possession.
examples: text: VVherein I doubt not by Gods help, but to make clear to the judgment of any man, that it is not either uncapable through ignorance, or fore-poſſeſſed with prejudice, theſe three things.
ref: 1641 October 18 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Sanderson, “[Ad Clerum.] A Sermon Preached at a Visitation Holden at Grantham, Lincoln: Octob. 8. 1641.”, in XXXIV Sermons. […], 5th edition, London: […] [A. Clark] for A. Seil, and are to be sold by G. Sawbridge, […], published 1671, →OCLC, paragraph 12, page 5:
glosses: Preengaged; preoccupied; prepossessed.
timaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the genus Timalia or family Timaliidae, which formerly included some thrushes and bulbuls, but now only the babblers.
similitudinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more similitudinary
form: most similitudinary
Etymology: From similitude + -in- + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: this tearme ( hotchpot ) is but a tearme similitudinary , and is as much to say , as to put the lands in frankmarriage and the other lands in fee simple together
ref: 1628, Edw[ard] Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for the Societe of Stationers, →OCLC:
glosses: Involving or expressing similitude.
pummace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Next to the VVhite is the Black Thorne and the Crab, vvhich make a very good Fence, and is raiſed as the VVhite Thorne, only if you ſovv the Pummace vvith them, they vvill come up the firſt Year.
ref: 1708, J[ohn] Mortimer, “Of Inclosing of Land”, in The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC, book I, page 3:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pomace.
caffre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caffres
Senses: examples: text: A boat, with only caffres in her, having fruit to sell, came off, and we purchased pines, oranges, plantains, guavas, star apples, etc.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 165
glosses: Obsolete form of kaffir.
caffres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caffre
thirdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thirding
optography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From opto- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The production of an optogram on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple; the fixation of an image in the eye.
Derived terms: optographic
photobleaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photobleach
balistoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balistoids
Etymology: Balistes + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fish of the genus Balistes
epichorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpɪˈkɔːɹiəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more epichorial
form: most epichorial
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + χώρα (khṓra, “countryside”) + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Epichorial superstitions from every district of Europe.
ref: 1840, Thomas De Quincey, Modern Superstition:
text: Later ages contributed their own epichorial and distinctive manner to these universal delights in the erotic. In China, The Golden Lotus is an amazing sustained achievement.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 88:
glosses: In or of the country; rural.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the epichorion
putrefactiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From putrefactive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being putrefactive.
manutenencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manutenency
manutenency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manutenencies
Etymology: From Latin manus (“hand”) + tenere (“to hold”).
Senses: examples: text: Mercy first, that God spar'd us, and preserv'd us so long. For without his Divine Manutenency, our strongest Fabrics had fallen immediately upon their very Builders.
ref: 1666, William Sancroft, Lex Ignea: or, the School of Righteousness:
glosses: maintenance
nursehound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nursehounds
Etymology: From nurse + hound.
Senses: synonyms: large-spotted dogfish
greater spotted dogfish
bull huss
glosses: Scyliorhinus stellaris, a species of catshark.
nursehounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nursehound
slurringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slurringly
form: most slurringly
Etymology: From slurring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a slurring manner; with a slurred voice.
perthiocyanogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: persulphocyanogen
discovert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discoverts
Etymology: Old French descovert, past participle of descovrir (“to uncover”).
Senses: glosses: An uncovered place or part.
Derived terms: at discovert
discovert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Old French descovert, past participle of descovrir (“to uncover”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
discoverts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discovert
imparsonee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imparsonees
Etymology: From Old French empersone. See in- and parson.
Senses: glosses: Only used in parson imparsonee.
imparsonees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imparsonee
perceptibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perceptible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being perceptible.
forthby
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From forth + by.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of forby.
proditory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑdɪtɔɹi/
Forms: form: more proditory
form: most proditory
Senses: glosses: Treacherous, traitorous.
Related terms: prodition
preacquaint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preacquaints
form: preacquainting
form: preacquainted
form: preacquainted
form: pre-acquaint
Etymology: From pre- + acquaint.
Senses: examples: text: 1633, James Shirley, The Witty Fair One, London: William Cooke, Act I, Scene 1,
Wor[thy]. […] You haue not made your loue knowne to my Neece yet.
Aym[well]. No, my intention was to preacquaint you.
text: [S]he inadvertently confirmed many Hints, vvith vvhich Slipſlop, vvhoſe Gallant he vvas, had pre-acquainted him; […]
ref: 1742, Henry Fielding, “What Past between the Lady and Lawyer Scout”, in The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. […], volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, pages 188–189:
text: Those things which have been previously stated, or which are necessarily implied, or with which we presume our hearers to have been preacquainted, we pronounce with such a subordination of stress as is suitable to the small importance of things already understood […]
ref: 1878, Alexander Melville Bell, The Principles of Elocution, Salem, Massachusetts: James P. Burbank, Introduction, p. xx:
text: 1969, Tibor Agoston, Insight Therapy, State of Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction, Part 4, Chapter 110, p. 215,
[…] we may describe differential dynamics as a gallery of disease patterns that may preacquaint the therapist with the picture which is likely to emerge when all the pieces are fitted together.
glosses: To acquaint beforehand.
Related terms: preacquaintance
preacquainted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preacquaint
preacquainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preacquaint
preacquaints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preacquaint
perplexedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perplexed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: –Why do you wish to marry him? he persisted.
She picked little strips of wood from the box, smiling in her perplexedness. He is my husband, she said, with the word that does not quite mean husband.
ref: 1948, Alan Paton, chapter 16, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, page 112:
glosses: The quality of being perplexed; bafflement; confusion.
examples: 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Awnsham & John Churchil, 4th edition, 1700, Book 4, Chapter 8, Section 11, p. 317,
[…] most Writers are so far from instructing us in the Nature and Knowledge of Things, that they use their Words loosly and uncertainly, and do not, by using them constantly and steadily in the same signification, make plain and clear deductions of Words one from another, and make their Discourses coherent and clear, (how little soever it were instructive), which were not difficult to do, did they not find it convenient to shelter their Ignorance or Obstinacy, under the Obscurity and perplexedness of their Terms […]
glosses: The quality of being intricate, complicated or entangled.
Synonyms: perplexity
ethal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aethal
Etymology: From ether + alcohol. Compare French éthal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cetyl alcohol
Derived terms: stethal
Related terms: ethalic
hemastatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Forms: form: haemastatics
Senses: glosses: The laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
haemangiomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemangioma
hemangiomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemangioma
outpeer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outpeers
form: outpeering
form: outpeered
form: outpeered
Etymology: From out- + peer.
Senses: examples: text: Which their own conscience sealed them, laying by
That nothing gift of differing multitudes,
Could not outpeer these twain
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:
glosses: To excel or surpass.
outpeered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outpeer
outpeering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outpeer
outpeers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outpeer
debeige
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debeiges
form: debage
Etymology: From French de (“of”) + beige, the natural color of wool.
Senses: glosses: A kind of woollen or mixed-fabric (e.g. wool and cotton) cloth.
debeiges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debeige
Haggada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haggadas
form: Haggadot
form: Haggadoth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aggadah.
glosses: Alternative form of Haggadah.
stibious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stibious
form: most stibious
Etymology: From stibium (“antimony”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: antimonious
basihyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /beɪ.sɪˈhaɪ.əl/
Forms: form: basihyals
Etymology: From basi- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).
Senses: examples: text: Coburn (1982) used a posterior extension of the basihyal to group many taxa in Notropis (s. l.) (93).
ref: 1992, M. M. Coburn, T. M. Cavender, “Phylogenetics of North American Cyprinidae”, in Richard L. Mayden, editor, Systematics, Historical Ecology, and North American Freshwater Fishes, page 362:
text: The hyoid cartilage is formed of a series of skeletal elements: entoglossum (or paraglossals), basihyal (basihyoid), basibranchial (or urohyal), ceratobranchial, and epibranchial (Fig. 3.21), the most anterior of which (entoglossum and basihyal) constitute the tongue skeleton.
ref: 1999, Nicole Le Douarin, Chaya Kalcheim, The Neural Crest, page 111:
text: In most mammals, the hyoid apparatus lies at or above the entrance to the larynx and consists of two basic parts: inferiorly, the unpaired basihyal and paired thyrohyal “horns” which connect the basihyal to the thyroid cartilage and superiorly, the paired suspensory stylohyoid chains which are made up of four cartilaginous or ossified links, the ceratohyal, epihyal, stylohyal, and tympanohyal, that connect the basihyal to the temporal bone (e.g., Howes 1896; Negus 1949).
ref: 2015, Dionisios Yoloutas, Sébastien Couette, Lauren B. Halenar, “6: Morphology of Howler Monkeys: A Review and Quantitative Analyses”, in Martín M. Kowalewski, Paul A. Garber, Liliana Cortes-Ortiz, Bernardo Urbani, Dionisios Youlatos, editors, Howler Monkeys: Adaptive Radiation, Systematics, and Morphology, page 144:
topics: anatomy
biology
fish
ichthyology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
qualifier: vertebrate anatomy
glosses: Either of two small bones that form the body of the inverted hyoid arch.
Related terms: basihyoid
basihyals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basihyal
civilité
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French (caractères de) civilité.
Senses: glosses: A typeface formerly used in parts of Western Europe which imitates cursive script.
leatherwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leatherwomen
Etymology: From leather + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: Leatherwomen tend to be somewhat separatist, often preferring women-only (or primarily female) parties and events. They have their own traditions, roles, and styles of dress[…]
ref: 2000, Gloria G. Brame, Come hither: a commonsense guide to kinky sex:
glosses: A member of a female sexual subculture characterized by a fetish for leather clothing.
Related terms: leatherman
leatherwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leatherwoman
semitransept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semitransepts
Etymology: From semi- + transept.
Senses: examples: the north semitransept of a church
topics: architecture
glosses: One half of a transept.
semitransepts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semitransept
torteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torteaus
form: torteaux
Etymology: From Old French torteau, tortel, from Latin tortus (“twisted”). See tort.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A roundel of a red colour (gules).
torteaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torteau
wallwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English walwort, from Old English wealhwyrt.
Senses: glosses: danewort
cloisonnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloisonne
isis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isises
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: […] the numerous families of coral, which, under the form of tubular, starry, or stony stems, are denominated tubipores, madrepores, and isises.
ref: 1834, John Mason Good, The Book of Nature:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isididae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints.
isises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isis
cocarde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocardes
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French cocarde.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of cockade, an emblem on an airplane's wing indicating its nationality.
clowneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clownery
cocardes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocarde
New World vulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New World vultures
Senses: glosses: Any of the large scavenging birds in the family Cathartidae.
Coordinate terms: Old World vulture
zamindarship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zamindarships
Etymology: From zamindar + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or office of zamindar.
zemindarship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zemindarships
Etymology: From zemindar + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or office of zemindar.
zamindarships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zamindarship
zemindarships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zemindarship
gardenwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From garden + work.
Senses: glosses: work done in a garden; gardening
life and soul of the party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of life of the party.
synonyms: word: life of the party
Klallam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klallams
form: Klallam
form: Clallam
Etymology: From the North Straits Salish name for the Klallam people, [xʷsˈtɬæləm].
Senses: synonyms: S'Klallam
glosses: A member of a group of related Native American communities from the Pacific Northwest of North America.
Klallam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clallam
Etymology: From the North Straits Salish name for the Klallam people, [xʷsˈtɬæləm].
Senses: synonyms: S'Klallam
glosses: The now-extinct language of these people.
Klallams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klallam
pulpatoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulpatoons
form: poupeton
form: pupton
Etymology: From French poulpeton, poupeton (“a sort of ragout”).
Senses: examples: text: To make a Pulpatoon of Pigeons. Take Muſhrooms, Palates, Oyſters, Svveetbreads, and fry them in Butter; then put all theſe into a ſtrong Gravy; give them a heat over the Fire, and thicken up vvith an Egg and a bit of Butter: Then half roaſt ſix or eight Pigeons, and lay them in a Cruſt of Forc'd-meat as follovvs: […]
ref: 1729, E[liza] S[mith], “Cookery, &c. [To Make a Pulpatoon of Pigeons.]”, in The Compleat Housewife: Or, Accomplished Gentlewoman’s Companion: […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[ohn] Pemberton, […], →OCLC, page 41:
glosses: A fruit or meat pie with the crust made of forcemeat.
pulpatoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulpatoon
diaminophenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaminophenol
piation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin piatio. See piacle.
Senses: glosses: atonement or expiation.
scaphocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scaphocephaly + -ic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affected by scaphocephaly.
scaphocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaphocephalics
Etymology: From scaphocephaly + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has scaphocephaly.
advoutrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advoutrers
form: avouterer
form: avoutrer
Etymology: From Middle English advouterer, advoutrer, advowtrer, from Old French avoutrier, from Latin adulterō or adulter, noun use of an adjective.
Senses: glosses: An adulterer.
Related terms: advouterous
advoutress
advoutry
advowtry
avowtry
advoutrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advoutrer
downlying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downlyings
Etymology: From down + lying.
Senses: examples: text: […]him in his house, down-lying and up-rising
ref: 1641, George Cavendish, Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe:
glosses: The time of retiring to rest.
glosses: The travail in childbirth.
downlyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downlying
birthroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthroots
form: bethroot
Etymology: From birth + root.
Senses: glosses: Trillium erectum, a perennial plant of North America with deep-red flowers.
birthroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birthroot
infrastapedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + stapedial.
Senses: examples: text: infrastapedial process
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which in many animals projects below the connection with the stapes.
diluviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diluviates
form: diluviating
form: diluviated
form: diluviated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dīluviātus, perfect passive participle of dīluviō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To run as a flood.
diluviated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diluviate
diluviates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diluviate
diluviating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diluviate
Turley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɜ(ɹ)li/
Forms: form: Turleys
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Toirdealbhaigh (“son of Toirdealbhach”), a personal name composed of the elements Tor (“Thor”) + dealbhach (“-like, in the shape of”). Compare McCurley.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
princified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more princified
form: most princified
Etymology: From prince + -ify + -ed.
Senses: glosses: imitative of a prince; princely
examples: text: the English girls at the Kensington Academy […]teased and tortured the little American stranger, and laughed at the princified airs which she gave herself from a very early age
ref: 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:
glosses: haughty
pithful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pithful
form: most pithful
Etymology: From pith + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: For as in tracing / Theſe pithfull Ruſhes, ſuch as are aloft, / By thoſe that rais'd them preſently are brought / Beneath vnſeene: […]
ref: 1616, William Browne, “The Fifth Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. The Second Booke, London: […] Thomas Snodham for George Norton, […], →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: Full of pith.
elinguid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin elinguis (“deprived of a tongue, tongueless; speechless”), from e + lingua (“tongue”).
Senses: glosses: tongue-tied, dumb or speechless
Adlett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
trimesitic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + mesitylene + -ic.
Senses: glosses: 2,4,6-pyridinetricarboxylic acid.
glosses: Synonym of trimesic acid.
synonyms: word: trimesic acid
diatomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dia- + -tomous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; said of crystals.
Garnett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Anderson County, Kansas, United States.
mudir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mudirs
form: moodir
form: moodeer
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish مدیر (müdir, “local administrator, governor”), from Arabic مُدِير (mudīr, “directing one, governor, boss”), from أَدَارَ (ʔadāra, “to direct”).
Senses: glosses: A local official of the Ottoman Empire who oversaw a nahiye.
glosses: A regional official of the Ottoman Empire who oversaw a province of Egypt or Sudan.
Coordinate terms: wali
sanjakbey
mutasarrif
kaymakam
Derived terms: mudirate
Related terms: mudirate
mudiriyah
nahiyah
mudirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudir
destemper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destempers
Etymology: Compare French détrempe, from détremper.
Senses: examples: text: The Sick Man visited, and furnish'd with Instructions, Meditations, and Prayers, suitable to his Condition, for putting him in Mind of his Change, for supporting him under his Destemper, and for preparing him for, and carrying him through his last Conflict with Death.
ref: 1719, Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe:
glosses: Obsolete form of distemper.
destempers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destemper
occecation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɒksɪˈkeɪʃən/
Etymology: From Latin occaecatio, from occaecare (“to make blind”), from ob + caecare (“to blind”), from caecus (“blind”).
Senses: synonyms: blinding
glosses: The act of making blind
examples: text: It is an addition to the misery of this inward occecation.
ref: 17th century, Joseph Hall, Meditations (possibly?)
synonyms: blindness
glosses: The state of being blind.
Mandela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mænˈdɛlə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Xhosa Mandela.
Senses: examples: text: Our common room, thanks to a morally rectitudinous constitutional change some time previously, was known as the Nelson Mandela Room.
ref: 2008 December 30, Libby Brooks, “Let heroes be unsung”, in The Guardian:
text: This scenario would hark back to the post-apartheid era when South Africa operated under a GNU to oversee the new constitution, led by Mandela as president and FW de Klerk and Thabo Mbeki as deputy presidents, between April 1994 and February 1997.
ref: 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from Xhosa, notably borne by Nelson Mandela.
Derived terms: Mandela effect
Mandelian
Mandela
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mænˈdɛlə/
Forms: form: Mandelas
form: Mandelaing
form: Mandelaed
form: Mandelaed
Etymology: Borrowed from Xhosa Mandela.
Senses: glosses: To experience the Mandela effect.
disavouch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disavouches
form: disavouching
form: disavouched
form: disavouched
Etymology: From dis- + avouch. Compare disavow.
Senses: examples: text: And thereupon they flatly disavouch
Te yield him more Obedience
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: To disavow.
disavouched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disavouch
disavouches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disavouch
disavouching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disavouch
distraughted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distraughted
form: most distraughted
Senses: examples: text: which in my weake distraughted mynd I see
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Hymne of Heavenly Beauty:
glosses: Obsolete form of distracted.
swob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swobs
Senses: glosses: Dated form of swab.
swob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swobs
form: swobbing
form: swobbed
form: swobbed
Senses: glosses: Dated form of swab.
swobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swob
swobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swob
coextension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coextensions
Etymology: From co- + extension.
Senses: glosses: The act of extending equally or jointly, or the state of being equally extended
coextensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coextension
curlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more curlingly
form: most curlingly
Etymology: From curling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a curl or curls.
glosses: In such a way to curl, or make something curl
Related terms: toe-curlingly
petrohyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪɔɪd
Etymology: From petro- + hyoid.
Senses: examples: text: the petrohyoid muscles of the frog
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the petrous, or periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch.
petrohyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪɔɪd
Forms: form: petrohyoids
Etymology: From petro- + hyoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A petrohyoid muscle.
petrohyoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrohyoid
buansuah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bu.ænˈsu.ə/
Forms: form: buansuahs
Etymology: From a native name.
Senses: glosses: The wild dog of northern India and Nepal (Cuon primaevus, now Cuon alpinus); the dhole.
Related terms: buansu
buansuahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buansuah
Kármán line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karman line
form: von Karman line
form: von Kármán line
Etymology: Named after Hungarian-American engineer Theodore von Kármán (1881–1963), who calculated this limit.
Senses: examples: text: As well as being important for aircraft and spacecraft, the Kármán line is useful for lawyers—the laws that govern space are not the same as the laws that govern Earth's atmosphere!
ref: 2020, Stephen Hawking, Lucy Hawking, Unlocking the Universe, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: The boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space, known as the Kármán line, has been a source of controversy for years.
ref: 2021 July 11, Sarah Betancourt, “Virgin Galactic to launch space plane with Richard Branson onboard”, in The Guardian:
text: As for what was worn during the Paris festivities, the dress code wasn’t specifically themed as Marie Antoinette – necklines did plunge deep, in the late 18th-century style, but hemlines had been guillotined somewhere near the Kármán line.
ref: 2025 May 20, Marina Hyde, “Was this a hen do or a humanitarian mission to liberate Paris? Either way, give Lauren Sánchez an award”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
astronomy
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The altitude at which the atmosphere becomes too thin to support aerodynamic flight.
Synonyms: Gabrielli-von Karman limit
Karman limit
von Karman limit
Coordinate terms: McDowell limit
McDowell line
Related terms: Armstrong line
death zone
mesopause
detrect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɹɛkt/
Forms: form: detrects
form: detrecting
form: detrected
form: detrected
Etymology: From Latin dētrectō, from dē + tractō, frequentative of trahō (“to draw”).
Senses: examples: text: detrect to do something
text: the Danes hearing that the Scottes were come, detrected no time, but forthwith prepared to give battayle
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Scotlande, […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC:
glosses: To refuse; to decline.
Related terms: detrectation
detrected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detrect
detrecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detrect
detrects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detrect
monogenistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: monogenic
caducean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caducean
form: most caducean
Senses: examples: text: The scene was unchanged; and even in winter the soul of beauty hovered over it, ready again to reanimate the corpse, when the caducean wand of spring should touch it.
ref: 1997, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Stuart Curran, Valperga, Or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca, page 413:
text: He loved "Simplicissimus" as his nom de main—often simplified to S-s or simply s, which he called The Snake, the savior of woman: his caducean sign of a mental health and guilelessness somewhat inconsonant with his equally sincere claim to be "the Hermes of good news who teaches knowledge of good and evil!"
ref: 2015, Jonathan Bayliss, Gloucesterbook:
text: This is apparent in her relationship with the caducean snakes, Mack and Mike ( 'macrocosm' and 'microcosm' respectively ) in which she takes the role of disciple to their teacher as her journey unfolds.
ref: 2016, Simon Locke, Re-crafting Rationalization, page 119:
text: In fact, this hieroglypic was eliminated from Salmon's editions, which substituted a caducean image of two serpents devouring each other (illustrated sixth from the left in Salmon's diagram, fig. 2) for the original virgin-dragon picture.
ref: 2019, Laurinda Dixon, Nicolas Flamel:
glosses: Of or relating to the caduceus, Mercury's wand, and symbol of medicine.
Malagash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæləˈɡæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Malagasy.
Malagash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæləˈɡæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: Malagashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Malagasy.
Malagashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malagash
cow parsnip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow parsnips
Senses: synonyms: pig's cole
pigweed
hogweed
pig's parsnip
clogweed
cadweed
glosses: Any of genus Heracleum of umbelliferous plants.
cow parsnips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow parsnip
gricing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grice
griced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grice
dismastment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + mast + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The loss or removal of a ship's mast.
grices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grice
grices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grice
harrage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɹɪd͡ʒ/
homophone: Harwich
Forms: form: harrages
form: harraging
form: harraged
form: harraged
Etymology: See harry.
Senses: examples: text: The Danes […]had harraged all this country
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:
glosses: To harass; to plunder from.
harraged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of harrage
harrages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of harrage
harraging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harrage
cretaceously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cretaceously
form: most cretaceously
Etymology: From cretaceous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a chalky manner; as or like chalk.
enarration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enarrations
Etymology: From the Latin ēnarrātiō, from ēnarrō (“I explain in detail”, “I expound”).
Senses: examples: text: S. Augustine in his Enarration vpon this Psalme, according to his wont, betakes him to an Allegorical Exposition
ref: 1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A detailed exposition; relation.
enarrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enarration
entomostracous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Entomostraca + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Entomostraca, a former subclass of crustaceans.
stellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stellular
form: most stellular
Etymology: From Latin stellula, diminutive of stella (“a star”).
Senses: glosses: Having the shape or appearance of little stars; stellate; stellated; radiated.
glosses: Marked with star-like spots of colour; star-spangled.
exestuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛɡˌzɛstjuˈeɪʃən/
/ɛɡˌzɛst͡ʃuˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: exestuations
Etymology: Latin exaestuatio.
Senses: examples: text: The exestuation of the Waters of the Sea
ref: 1695, Lucretius, translated by Thomas Creech, Of the Nature of Things:
glosses: A boiling up; effervescence.
Monsel's solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
protactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προτακτικός (protaktikós, “placed in front”), from πρό (pró) + τάσσω (tássō) + -τός (-tós) + -ικός (-ikós).
Senses: synonyms: protatic
coordinate_terms: prefatory
;
expository
glosses: Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory.
Related terms: word: protasis
sense: personages
word: dramatis personae
prevenancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: La Fleur's prevenancy (for there was a passport in his very looks) soon set every servant in the kitchen at ease with him
ref: 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
glosses: The act of anticipating another's wishes, desires, etc., by way of favour or courtesy; obligingness.
monodimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + dimetric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dimetric
mawmet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mawmets
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mammet.
mawmets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mawmet
decistere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decisteres
Etymology: Borrowed from French décistère.
Senses: glosses: One tenth of a stere or cubic metre.
decisteres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decistere
scelestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scelestic
form: most scelestic
Etymology: From Latin scelestus, from scelus (“wickedness”).
Senses: examples: text: scelestic villainies
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: evil; wicked; atrocious