cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
undislocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undislocates
form: undislocating
form: undislocated
form: undislocated
Etymology: From un- + dislocate.
Senses: examples: text: I need to undislocate my finger.
glosses: To restore to position after a dislocation.
electric soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Strong fortified wine.
undislocated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dislocated.
Senses: glosses: Not dislocated.
undislocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undislocate
electric blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric blues
Senses: glosses: A bright, metallic blue colour.
prehydrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prehydrate
unencased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + encased.
Senses: glosses: Not encased.
unenchanting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenchanting
form: most unenchanting
Etymology: From un- + enchanting.
Senses: examples: text: Not surprisingly, Bierce found fatherhood as unenchanting as marriage.
glosses: Far from enchanting; repellent.
mythered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of myther
undislocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undislocate
mythlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mythlike
form: most mythlike
Etymology: From myth + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a myth.
referenceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reference + -less.
Senses: examples: text: So sentences in which a referenceless name occurs have no sense, either.
ref: 1999, Bob Hale, Crispin Wright, A companion to the philosophy of language:
glosses: Without a reference.
referentless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From referent + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In our criticism of referentless scientific nouns, like force and utility, we have gone far beyond the orthodox logical positivist position.
ref: 1957, Burnham Putnam Beckwith, Religion, philosophy, and science: an introduction to logical positivism:
glosses: Without a referent.
for-profits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of for-profit
lesquerolic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lesquerolic acid is the C₂₀ homologue of ricinoleic acid and attempts are being made to develop Lesquerella fondleri as a new crop.
ref: 1996, F.D. Gunstone, Fatty Acid and Lipid Chemistry, page 13:
text: Several species of the genus Lesquerella produce as major hydroxy fatty acids either densipolic acid (12-hydroxyoctadeca-9,15-dienoic acid), lesquerolic acid (14-hydroxyeicosa-11-enoic acid) or auricolic acid (14-hydroxyeicosa-11,17-dienoic acid).
ref: 2004, Christian Möllers, “8: Potential and future prospects for rapeseed oil”, in F. D. Gunstone, editor, Rapeseed and Canola Oil: Production, Processing, Properties and Uses, page 201:
text: Species of Lesquerella contain up to 55% lesquerolic acid, the 20-carbon analogue of ricinoleate, and some species contain up to 80% hydroxy fatty acid content.
ref: 2009, Thomas A. McKeon, “Chapter 6: Engineering Plants for Industrial Uses”, in Ching T. Hou, Jei-Fu Shaw, editors, Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, page 92:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxy acid found in the oil of most species of Lesquerella (= Physaria; the bladderpods).
acts of God
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of act of God
turkeyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From turkey + -less.
Senses: examples: text: With three vegetarians in the house, it seemed simplest to have a turkeyless Christmas.
glosses: Without turkeys or their meat.
Act of God
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Acts of God
Senses: examples: text: Heavy rainfall is not the kind of exceptional phenomenon to which the Act of God exception applies.
text: In road and rail traffic liability is excluded for accidents which are due to circumstances amounting to an Act of God.
text: “Pardon me,” I said, preserving with an effort the polished suavity demanded from an English gentleman when chewing the rag with one of the other sex, “you're talking through the back of your fatheaded little neck. I did not trip over my flat feet. I was hurled into the depths by an Act of God, to wit, a totally unexpected dachshund getting between my legs.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
topics: law
qualifier: usually "an"
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of act of God.
Acts of God
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As regards “famines and floods,” these have long been considered “Acts of God.”
text: Why floods, earthquakes and storms were considered Acts of God is unclear, especially since by this time less than 22 percent of Toronto-dwellers attended church.
text: Examples of some unusual circumstances, such as insects (eg, grasshoppers), mid-late season drought, or hail, where the crop may not be totaled but is adversely affected, are often considered Acts of God.
glosses: plural of Act of God
stage-whisper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stage-whispers
form: stage-whispering
form: stage-whispered
form: stage-whispered
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stage whisper.
stage-whispers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stage-whisper
stage-whispering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stage-whisper
stage-whispered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stage-whisper
stage whispering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stage whisper Alternative spelling of stage-whispering.
stage whispered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stage whisper Alternative spelling of stage-whispered.
baylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baylike
form: most baylike
Etymology: From bay + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bay (body of water mostly surrounded by land).
garageless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From garage + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a garage.
unstrong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstrong
form: most unstrong
Etymology: From un- + strong.
Senses: glosses: Not strong; weak.
unexerted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + exerted.
Senses: glosses: Not exerted.
chinkerinchee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinkerinchees
form: chinkerichee
Senses: glosses: Ornithogalum thyrsoides, a flowering plant endemic to the Cape Province in South Africa.
chinkerinchees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinkerinchee
incorporeality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incorporealities
Etymology: From incorporeal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The tax payer does not know, and has no means of knowing, who the particular individuals are who compose "the government." To him "the government" is a myth, an abstraction, an incorporeality, with which he can make no contract, and to which he can give no consent, and make no pledge.
ref: 1870, Lysander Spooner, No Treason, Number 6, page 15:
text: God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied.
ref: 2003, James Porter Moreland, William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, →ISBN, page 507:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being incorporeal.
Synonyms: disembodiedness
incorporeity
lyrelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lyrelike
form: most lyrelike
Etymology: From lyre + -like.
Senses: examples: text: R. Judah said that the lyrelike instrument of the sanctuary had seven strings; in messianic days it will have eight strings; and in the world-to-come it will have ten strings, as written in Ps. 33:2, 3.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 272:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lyre.
tuberless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tuber + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without tubers.
lithotriptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithotriptors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lithotripter.
lithotriptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithotriptor
tubless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tub + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a tub.
acceleratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acceleratable
form: most acceleratable
Etymology: From accelerate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being accelerated.
Synonyms: accelerable
noncard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + card.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to card or cards.
palpitatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more palpitatingly
form: most palpitatingly
Etymology: From palpitating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a palpitating manner.
nonbattered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + battered.
Senses: glosses: Not battered (abused by a spouse etc.).
unbattered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + battered.
Senses: glosses: Not battered or beaten.
examples: unbattered fish
glosses: Not cooked in batter.
nonbattery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + battery.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to a battery (power source).
nonfinanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + financed.
Senses: glosses: Not financed.
unfinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + finned.
Senses: glosses: Not finned.
nonfinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + finned.
Senses: glosses: Not finned.
nonlaying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + laying.
Senses: glosses: Not laying eggs.
noninquisitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + inquisitive.
Senses: glosses: Not inquisitive.
nongraphics
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + graphics.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to computer graphics.
unpalatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpalatial
form: most unpalatial
Etymology: From un- + palatial.
Senses: glosses: Not palatial.
nonfurnace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + furnace.
Senses: examples: text: Considerable efforts are being made in Soviet ferrous metallurgy to expand the application of refinement of steel through nonfurnace processing — through vacuum, inert gases, and synthetic slag...
ref: 1989, Boris Z. Rumer, Soviet steel: the challenge of industrial modernization in the USSR:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a furnace.
shove off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoves off
form: shoving off
form: shoved off
form: shoved off
Etymology: From shove + off.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To set a boat in motion by pushing with an oar or boathook.
examples: text: Well, it looks like it's time to go. Let's shove off.
text: Well– Now, don't think you can get around me like that. He's not coming out, and that's my final word. Now, shove off!
ref: 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Mandy Cohen (Terry Jones):
glosses: To leave.
conjacency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: compactness
conjectory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conjectory
form: most conjectory
Senses: glosses: conjectural
conjecturably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conjecturably
form: most conjecturably
Etymology: From conjecturable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conjecturable manner
conjecturer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjecturers
Etymology: From conjecture + -er.
Senses: glosses: a person who conjectures
conjoinedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conjoinedly
form: most conjoinedly
Etymology: From conjoined + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conjoined manner; conjointly
conjointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjointments
Etymology: From conjoint + -ment.
Senses: glosses: conjunction (state of being conjoined)
fluat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluats
Etymology: Compare French fluate. See fluor.
Senses: examples: text: Pure fluoric acid causes a flocculent precipitate in barytic water, which an excess of the same acid or of the nitric or muriatic acids, will redissolve. […] Fluoric acid diluted with six or seven parts of water dissolves zinc rapidly, and with disengagement of much hydrogen. The solution at first remains clear owing to the excess of acid, but after a time the fluat of zinc separates almost totally in white flocculi. The same salt is made immediately by adding fluat of potash to sulphat of zinc. This fluat is tasteless, insoluble in water, but readily dissolves in nitric, muriatic, or its own acid. It cannot be crystallized. The habitudes of iron with fluoric acid much resemble those of zinc, only the fluat of iron is much less easily soluble in an excess of its own acid. Fluoric acid moderately concentrated, does not act upon metallic tin cold or hot, but it readily dissolves the peroxyd of this metal. This salt may be evaporated to dryness without being sublimed, in which it differs from the muriat of tin.
ref: 1807, Arthur Aikin, Charles Rochemont Aikin, “Alkaline and Earthy Fluats”, in A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy , with an Account of the Processes Employed in Many of the Most Important Chemical Manufactures: To which are Added a Description of Chemical Apparatus, and Various Useful Tables of Weights and Measures, Chemical Instruments, &c. &c. Illustrated with Fifteen Engravings, volume 1, London, England: John and Arthur Arch, page 104:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of fluate.
daybook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪˌbʊk/
Forms: form: daybooks
form: day book
Etymology: From day + book. Cognate with Dutch dagboek (“diary, journal, logbook”), German Tagebuch (“diary, journal, daybook”), Danish dagbog (“diary”), Swedish dagbok (“diary, logbook, journal, daybook”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a working document, a sort of lab notebook, and since I have called it a daybook, it has become the most valuable resource I have It takes me about six weeks to fill a daybook, and when I'm finished with one I go back through it and pick out anything that I need to work on in the next book.
ref: 1992, Cinthia Gannett, Gender and the journal: diaries and academic discourse:
text: I try to get up thirty minutes before anyone else in my house in order to have my daybook writing time.
ref: 2001, Janice Elsheimer, The Creative Call: An Artist's Response to the Way of the Spirit:
text: Why is it called a Daybook? A Daybook traditionally is "a book in which daily transactions are recorded," but nowadays it is being used to mean "a journal."
ref: 2001, Vicki Spandel, Ruth G. Nathan, Laura Robb, Daybook of critical reading and writing:
text: This is how I use my Daybook: I sit down on Sunday and think about the week ahead. I begin by identifying the major ... When I get home on Monday, I revisit my Daybook, consider what happened that day and what I want to happen the rest [...]
ref: 2003, Jim Burke, The Teacher's Daybook 2003–2004:
glosses: A daily chronicle; a diary.
examples: text: Since these memoranda were marked down from day to day and the entries followed one another day by day, this first book of accounts was called a "daybook."
ref: 1920, George Edward Bennett, Accounting: principles and practice:
qualifier: bookkeeping
glosses: An accounting journal.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A logbook.
Synonyms: sense: daily chronicle
word: diary
sense: daily chronicle
word: journal
sense: bookkeeping
word: book of original entry
sense: bookkeeping
english: securities industry
translation: securities industry
word: blotter
declarator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkləɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: declarators
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal declaration.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A construct in source code that declares something, such as a variable.
declaredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklɛəɹədli/
Forms: form: more declaredly
form: most declaredly
Etymology: From declared + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a formal declaration; avowedly, explicitly, professedly
deedy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: deedier
form: deediest
Etymology: From deed + -y. Cognate with Scots deedie, deedy (“active”). Compare also German tätig (“active”).
Senses: examples: text: The novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, asked by the London Times to give a brief account of her life, replied: "There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy." Deedy! This is one of those words that, once you have seen it, makes you wonder why it isn't in everyday use. The job interviewer, going through a pile of submitted résumés: "This one's all right, but … no, not deedy enough." The biographer or obituarist: "The next few years were his deediest …" The self-improvement guru: "Deediness depends on a positive attitude!" The psychiatrist's patient: "I married George because he seemed so deedy, but …"
ref: 2004 December 31, John Derbyshire, “Yes, Un-Deedy”, in National Review:
glosses: Industrious; active.
glosses: Earnest; serious.
glosses: Genuine, authentic; actual, real.
Derived terms: deedily
deediness
demodectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or caused by parasitic mites of the genus Demodex.
Derived terms: demodectic mange
demonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonisms
form: daemonism
form: dæmonism
Etymology: From demon + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: 1699, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Of Virtue, and the Belief of a Deity, in An Inquiry Concerning Virtue in Two Discourses, London: A. Bell et al., p. 10,
[…] if he believes more of the prevalency of an ill designing Principle than of a good one, he is then more a Daemonist than he is a Theist, and may be called a Daemonist from the side to which the balance most inclines. ¶ All these sorts both of Daemonism, Polytheism, Atheism, and Theism, may be mixed […]
text: It is very much to be doubted if Mervyn Hogarth had ever in his life given more than a passing thought to any black art or occult science. Certainly he was innocent of prolonged interest in, let alone any practice of, diabolism, witchcraft, demonism, or such cult.
ref: 1957, Muriel Spark, The Comforters, New York: Avon, published 1965, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 171:
glosses: Belief in, or worship of demons or devils.
examples: text: 1915, Henry James, letter to Evan Charteris dated 22 January, 1915 in Percy Lubbock (ed.), The Letters of Henry James, London: Macmillan, Volume 2, p. 453,
What a pitiful horror indeed must that Ypres desolation and desecration be—a baseness of demonism.
text: What significant illustration of the demonism of the wind does a fallen palm present!
ref: 1925, Edmund James Banfield, Last Leaves from Dunk Island, Part 1, Chapter 1:
text: Almost alone among contemporary conductors, he avoids the path of demonism; he takes music in his stride and does not press it with febrile intensity.
ref: 1953, Roland Gelatt, “Sir Thomas Beecham”, in Music Makers: Some Outstanding Musical Performers of Our Day, New York: Knopf, page 31:
glosses: The quality of being demonic.
examples: text: All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 41”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: So many boys, so many places have disappeared. Blue Gate Fields, scene of many an Asiatic demonism, is gone.
ref: 1919, Thomas Burke, “Chinatown Revisited”, in Out and About: A Note-Book of London in War-Time, London: George Allen & Unwin, page 47:
glosses: An act or event attributed to demons or devils; an evil act.
gray whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray whales
form: grey whale
Etymology: Disputed. Either from the whale’s coloration, or after British zoologist John Edward Gray, who first recognized it as a distinct genus in 1864.
Senses: synonyms: word: grayback whale
word: grayback
word: California gray whale
word: Pacific gray whale
word: Korean gray whale
word: desert whale
word: scrag whale
word: ripsack
word: mussel digger
word: devilfish
glosses: A baleen whale, Eschrichtius robustus, from the north Pacific
wikipedia: John Edward Gray
Mark Carwardine
devilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devil
devilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The pupillage of a prospective advocate or barrister.
pupillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pupillages
Etymology: From pupil + -age.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A form of apprenticeship for prospective barristers
Related terms: pupilage
distraints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distraint
devilfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devilfish
demonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonism
latiumite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare phyllosilicate mineral.
inflationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inflation + -ism.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A policy or belief that encourages inflation.
inflationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inflationists
Etymology: From inflation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of inflationism.
inflationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inflationist
superbusiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + business.
Senses: glosses: Business that takes place on a large scale.
septillionths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septillionth
sextillionths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sextillionth
electron configurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electron configuration
soda fountains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soda fountain
social democracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social democracy
cornett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːnɪt/
ipa: /kɔːˈnɛt/
ipa: /kɔɹˈnɛt/
Forms: form: cornetts
Etymology: Old French cornet, a diminutive of corne (“horn”), from Latin cornū.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An early horn wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Not to be confused with later brass instrument.
Synonyms: cornetto
Derived terms: cornet
cornettist
mute cornett
by the ears
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: they heard Cursell confesse what had formerly passed; and that how in the dividing that they had stolne from him, they fell by the ears amongst themselves, that were actors in it […]
ref: 1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 38:
text: For, if (ſaid he) you throw among five Yahoos as much Food as would be ſufficient for fifty, they will, inſtead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each ſingle one impatient to have all to itſelf; […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Great Love of His Native Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 258:
text: In spite of the recent falls in the value of the Nasdaq index and the value of Amazon stock, the new technology had the city by the ears: the talk was still of start-ups, IPOs, interactivity, the unimaginable future that had just begun to begin.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, pages 3–4:
glosses: In a state of conflict; fighting, scuffling.
Derived terms: set by the ears
Related terms: have by the ears
circumbendibus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɝkm̩ˈbɛndɪbəs/
Forms: form: more circumbendibus
form: most circumbendibus
Etymology: * From Latin circum (“round about”) (compare English circum-) + English bend + Latin -ibus
Senses: examples: text: “We’re all circumbendibus, / Wherever we may be, / We’re all circumbendibus, / On land or on sea. / Rich or poor or middling, / Wherever we are found, / We’re all circumbendibus, / We’re all going round.”
ref: 1918, Sidney Watson, In the Twinkling of an Eye, Bible institute of Los Angeles, page 66:
text: The only irresistible inference that can be deduced from a bare perusal of this judgment is that it is circumbendibus in its tenor vague and conjectural in its logic and in fine it is a remarkable piece of a political document.
ref: 1987 Syed Tassadque Hussain, Reflections on Kashmir politics,Rima Pub. House, p59
glosses: indirect or roundabout
circumbendibus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɝkm̩ˈbɛndɪbəs/
Forms: form: circumbendibuses
form: circumbendibi
Etymology: * From Latin circum (“round about”) (compare English circum-) + English bend + Latin -ibus
Senses: examples: text: If, as Coleridge says, “a knave is a fool with a circumbendibus,” then by instructing the knave you do but make the circumbendibus a wider one.
ref: 1899, Herbert Spencer, Social Statics; Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed, D. Appleton and company, page 383:
text: After he had moved into the house and repaired it Mrs. Mary L. Bacon remembers standing with him one day and looking over the winding flag stones leading up to his front door. “And what is this,” he said, “a circumbendibus?”
ref: 1907 Albert Temple Swing, James Harris Fairchild; Or Sixty-Eight Years with a Christian College, F. H. Revell company, p155
text: Before tea-time my circumbendibus brought me to the hospitable residence of Tommy’s chief supporter, whom we will call Mr Goodhart.
ref: 1968, George William Erskine Russell, Afterthoughts, Ayer Publishing, page 152:
glosses: A roundabout route or process
glosses: A roundabout, indirect, or confusing manner of speech or writing
pyaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyasters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of piastre.
circumbendibuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And do others like it if you will take circumbendibuses for sound's sake!
ref: 1846 Thomas Carlyle, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 18 Dec 1846, collected in The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Volume II, p127
text: Such roads you never did see— there is no road to any place but several running in all manner of circumbendibuses amongst the trees, just so as to avoid this stump or that rut.
ref: 1962, Weston Bate, A History of Brighton, Melbourne University Press, page 79:
glosses: plural of circumbendibus
ambagitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ambagitory
form: most ambagitory
Senses: examples: text: But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn’s essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me.
ref: 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley,, page 151:
text: He read, long and attentively, various tedious and embarrassed letters, in which the writers, placing before him the glory of God, and the freedom and liberties of England, as their supreme ends, could not, by all the ambigatory expressions they made use of, prevent the shrewd eye of Markham Everard from seeing, that self-interest and views of ambitions were the principal moving-springs at the bottom of their plots.
ref: 1826, Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock or the cavalier: a tale of the year sixteen hundred and fifty-one, Archibald Constable and Co., page 75:
text: Comment on the interpretation clause would be superfluous; its ambigatory phraseology, and all the difficulties of the subsequent registration, are the necessary result of the attempt to register the quacks with the regular practitioners of the country [...]
ref: 1841 November 14, “Useless Machinery of the Registration Bill”, in The Lancet, volume 1, page 268:
text: He multiplied allusions to serious romance predecessors, introduced romantic poems and songs both as quotations and as intrafictional events, explicitly followed an "ambagitory" narrative method, and continually emphasized the romantic character of landscapes …
ref: 1979 Alastair Fowler, "Genre and the Literary Canon," New Literary History, Vol. 11, No. 1, Anniversary Issue: II (Autumn, 1979), pp. 97-119
glosses: periphrastic or circumlocutory
ulexites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ulexite
ulosonic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ulosonic acid
ketoaldonic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketoaldonic acid
ultramarines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultramarine
umbilical hernias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbilical hernia
undecagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undecagon
undecillionths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undecillionth
undersuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersuit
undulated antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undulated antshrike
uniform antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uniform antshrike
unit intervals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unit interval
universal algebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of universal algebra
primogenitures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primogeniture
up antiquarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of up antiquark
uphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upher
upland antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upland antshrike
Paint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paints
Senses: glosses: A paint horse.
Paint
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Paintsville
Paints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paint
uranium hexafluorides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uranium hexafluoride
uranium nitrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uranium nitride
uranologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uranology
urban sanitary districts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urban sanitary district
paint horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paint horses
Senses: glosses: A horse of a breed that combines the conformational characteristics of a western stock horse with a pinto spotting pattern of white and dark coat colours.
Urds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Urd
urination stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urination station
ursolic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ursolic acid
utility functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utility function
utility programs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utility program
utility rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utility room
vacaturs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacatur
vagina dentatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vagina dentata
valve oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valve oil
vanadic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanadic acid
vanadium pentoxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanadium pentoxide
Van Allen belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Van Allen belt
Van Allen radiation belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Van Allen radiation belt
Van de Graaff generators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Van de Graaff generator
Vandenberg catalysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vandenberg catalyst
Vandyke browns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vandyke brown
vapour densities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vapour density
variation ratios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variation ratio
varicellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varicella
vaulting horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaulting horse
veeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veery
vegetable oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegetable oil
veggos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veggo
veletas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veleta
ask me one on sport
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: ask me one about sport
Senses: glosses: a sarcastic reply given when a person does not know the correct answer.
fluxure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflʌkʃʊə(ɹ)/
/ˈflʌkʃə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Latin flūxūra (“a flowing”).
Senses: examples: text: Humor […] in it ſelfe holds theſe two properties, Moiſture and Fluxure: […]
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Inductio”, in The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, signature B ij, verso:
glosses: The quality of being fluid; fluidity.
examples: text: Call'd Barnacles by us, which like a Jelly first / To the beholder seeme, then by the fluxure nurst.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “Song 27”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 136:
glosses: Fluid matter.
vena cavae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vena cava
venerealees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venerealee
Venetian reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Venetian red
ventral fins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ventral fin
vernal equinoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vernal equinox
versers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verser
victoriati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victoriatus
video conferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video conference
video projectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video projector
vigintillionths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vigintillionth
vinyasas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinyasa
violet reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violet red
Virgin Marys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Virgin Mary
Virgin Marys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Virgin Mary
virtual private networks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virtual private network
vitiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitiation
Vereinsthalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vereinsthaler
allative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allative case
vocative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vocative case
voluntary muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voluntary muscle
voms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vom
von Kármán vortex streets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of von Kármán vortex street
Kármán vortex streets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kármán vortex street
voting systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voting system
V signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of V sign
wagonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wagonette
walking patients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walking patient
wandering spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wandering spider
war brides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war bride
warfares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warfare
warm fuzzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warm fuzzy
washing-up liquids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washing-up liquid
water picks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water pick
wave packets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wave packet
wayes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waye
W-bosons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of W-boson
weakest links
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weakest link
weather shores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather shore
webbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webbing
Wedgwood blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wedgwood blue
weedwhackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weedwhacker
welfare states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welfare state
buckjumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From buck + jumping.
Senses: examples: text: But, after a little preliminary buckjumping, Pyrrhus falsified his keeper′s prediction by behaving well and obediently.
ref: 1863, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 299:
glosses: The action (of a horse) of aggressively attempting to buck a rider.
examples: text: The well-known Australian horse-play, called buckjumping, — the like of which I do not remember seeing in any other part of the world, — is not only very disagreeable but extremely dangerous even to the good horseman.
ref: 1857, Godfrey Charles Mundy, Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies, page 57:
text: “How well you ride, Mr. McIntyre!” said Miss Webster in the course of the dinner. “I must confess I like to see a bit of good buckjumping.”
Duncan smiled. “I nearly came to grief under that low brigalow though,” he said.
ref: 1893, Ernest Favenc, Tales of the Austral Tropics, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0600691h:
glosses: A rodeo event in which the rider attempts to stay in the saddle of a bucking horse for a set period.
western slaty antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of western slaty antshrike
contrasty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contrasty
form: most contrasty
Etymology: From contrast + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His inherently less contrasty and detailed paper negative work, toward the end of his life, is at least more ambivalent and not so cold.
ref: 1982 February 6, Martin Krieger, “Stark/Erotic”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 10:
text: The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.
ref: 2004, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 25:
topics: arts
broadcasting
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
glosses: Having great contrast between light and dark areas (of a subject or photograph).
wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer
wetting agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wetting agent
whares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whare
whatdoyoucallits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whatdoyoucallit
deadlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadlights
form: dead-light
form: dead light
Etymology: From dead + light.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A strong (often wooden) shutter fitted over a porthole, that can be closed in bad weather to keep water out and discourage the glass windows from breaking.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A deck prism, a device to allow light into the cabin of boat through the deck.
examples: text: Here you comes and tells me of it plain; and here I let him give us all the slip before my blessed deadlights!
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: An eye.
examples: text: He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An eyelid.
wheatears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheatear
echograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echographs
Etymology: From echo + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument that uses ultrasound to produce an echogram as a diagnostic aid.
whipper snippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipper snipper
whirlybirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whirlybird
whitebaits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitebait
whitebaits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whitebait
white-bearded antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-bearded antshrike
white-billed divers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-billed diver
enarthrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enarthroses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A ball-and-socket joint.
white horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white horse
wicketkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wicketkeeper
widgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of widgie
encyclopedism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encyclopaedism
form: encyclopædism
Senses: glosses: Encyclopedic knowledge or learning.
wild purslanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild purslane
windles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪndəlz/
Etymology: See windle.
Senses: glosses: plural of windle
windles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪndəlz/
Etymology: From slurred pronunciation of windlass.
Senses: examples: text: God's sake, speak her fair and canny, or we will have a raveled hasp on the yarn-windles!
ref: 1821, Walter Scott, Kenilworth, page 50:
text: his boate fitted with Sayle, Oares, thoughts, tholes danyd, windles and rother
ref: 1906, Samuel Purchas, edited by Hakluyt Society, Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others, number 30:
glosses: A winch, a windlass.
endarteritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endarteritides
Etymology: From end- + arteritis or end- + arter(io)- + -itis or endarter(ium) + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the inner lining (tunica intima) of an artery
wine coopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wine cooper
wing attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wing attack
wingbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingback
wing defences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wing defence
winkle-pickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winkle-picker
entamoeba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entamoebas
form: entamoebae
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of entameba.
Derived terms: entamoebiasis
winter solstices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winter solstice
wire recorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wire recorder
woads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woad
entameba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entamebas
form: entamebae
Senses: glosses: Any of many parasitic amoebas, of the genus Entamoeba, that cause dysentery etc.
Derived terms: entamebiasis
women's libbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: women’s libbers
Senses: glosses: plural of women's libber
wooden mares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wooden mare
woodwind instruments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodwind instrument
work houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of work house
working majorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of working majority
working sails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of working sail
worm burners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worm burner
entelodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entelodonts
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Oligocene's signature species were an unsavoury group of pigs and pig-like creatures, foremost among which were the entelodonts, more popularly known as hell pigs, or terminator pigs.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 85:
glosses: Any extinct pig-like omnivore in the family †Entelodontidae, from the Eocene and Miocene epochs.
wrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrasse
Wyandottes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wyandotte
xanthamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xanthamide
xeromorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xeromorph
X-linked traits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X-linked trait