cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
suffossion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suffossions
Etymology: From Latin suffossio, from suffodere, suffossum (“to dig under”), from sub (“under”) + fodere (“to dig”).
Senses: examples: text: O the vvoful deſolations of that ſelect people [Israel]! VVhat is it, to tell of the ſuffoſſion of her vineyards? vaſtation of her tents? the devouring of her land?
ref: 1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XXXI, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, pages 98–99:
glosses: A digging underneath; an undermining.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Internal erosion by liquid percolating through clay, sand, or silt.
suffossions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suffossion
aneutronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aneutronic
form: most aneutronic
Etymology: From a- + neutronic.
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: That does not involve or radiate neutrons
neutronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neutron + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to neutrons or to neutronics
Derived terms: aneutronic
stramazoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /stɹɑ.ma.zuːn/
Forms: form: stramazouns
form: stramazon
Etymology: From Italian stramazzone.
Senses: examples: text: But I (being loth to take the deadly advauntage that lay before mee of his left ſide) made a kind of stramazoun, ran him vp to the hilts, through the Doublet, through the Shirt, and yet miſt the skin.
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii, signature N, recto:
text: Thy fincture, carricade, and sly passata,
Thy stramazon, and resolute stoccata.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 96:
text: There were others that made it their glory to pass for Hectors, sons of Priam, brothers of the blade; and talked of nothing but attacks, combats, reverses, stramazons, stoccados;[…]
ref: 1947, Francisco de Quevedo, “The Visions: The Lovers' Madhouse”, in Roger L'Estrange et al., transl., Quevedo: the choice humorous and satirical works, page 250:
synonyms: estramacon
glosses: A direct descending blow with the sword edge.
stramazouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stramazoun
subreption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sʌbˈɹɛpʃən/
Forms: form: subreptions
Etymology: From Latin subreptio, from subripere, subreptum (“to snatch or take away secretly”). Compare French subreption. See surreptitious, surreptition.
Senses: glosses: Under Roman law, the act of giving false testimony.
examples: text: lest there should be any subreption in this sacred business, it is ordered, that these Ordinations should be no other than solemn
ref: 1644, Bishop Joseph Hall, A Modest Offer:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: The act of obtaining a favour or grant by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: The act of obtaining a gift or favor by concealing the truth.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The conflation of a condition under which it is possible to intuitively understand an object, and a condition under which an object can possibly exist; the confusion of knowing with experiencing.
Coordinate terms: obreption
surreptition
Related terms: subreptive
subreptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subreption
anodisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anodization.
mineful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minefuls
Etymology: From mine + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The Americans abandoned what had become a more than useless concession, and to-day a mineful of water, colored with copper sulphates and lapping undetermined streaks of ore, remains the property of the Virgin of Cobre.
ref: 1920, Harry A. Frank, Roaming through the West Indies, Blue Ribbon Books, unnumbered page:
glosses: An amount sufficient to fill a mine.
examples: text: Oh this earth is a mineful of treasure,
A goblet, that's full to the brim,
ref: 1892, Horace Smith, “My Boating Song”, in Interludes: Being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses, Macmillan and Co, page 117:
text: I had taken all this with a mineful of salt and had not been calling Violet more often.
ref: 1990, Judith Rossner, His Little Women, Pocket Books, published 1991, →ISBN, page 185:
text: Next came a glittering cloud, all wisps and sparkles, which eventually revealed itself to be Miss Daisy Athensasy in a swansdown-trimmed gown and a mineful of diamonds.
ref: 2008, James Lear, The Secret Tunnel, Cleis Press, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: A large amount, particularly of something obtained through mining.
wolf's-milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wolf's milk.
minefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mineful
anodiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anodisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anodizer.
Yezidis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yezidi
Yezidees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yezidee
Yezdis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yezdi
Izedis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Izedi
Yazidis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yazidi
jumball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumballs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of jumble (“kind of sugared cake”).
jumballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumball
cronel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cronels
form: coronal
form: coronel
form: coronell
form: cronal
form: cronall
form: cronell
Etymology: Originally a variant of coronal.
Senses: examples: text: The follovving deſcription of the coronels or coronets, is given by [John] Guillim in his diſplay of heraldry.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, “The Sling”, in A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, […], London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC, footnote x, page 47:
glosses: The metal head of a tilting spear or lance, which could be blunt or consist of many small points (to grip armor), designed not to penetrate or wound.
cronels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cronel
agnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agnations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin agnatio. Compare French agnation.
Senses: examples: text: Between an uncle and his sister's son, therefore, there is no agnation, but only kinship
ref: 1803, William Alexander Hunter, A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code:
text: Furthermore, for reasons that will by now be obvious, interhouse relations represent a paradigm for the politics of agnation at large: any competition for influence or position among patrilateral kin is, in essence, a rivalry between houses produced by a shared ancestor and reproduced across the generations, and particular units, whether or not they take the initiative in such processes, are ultimately drawn into their purview (see chap. 2).
ref: 1986, John L. Comaroff, Simon Roberts, Rules and Processes, →ISBN, page 226:
glosses: consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of being agnate.
cryptographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptograph
coryphene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coryphenes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κορυφή (koruphḗ, “head, summit, peak”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: dolphinfish
glosses: A fish of the genus Coryphaena.
coryphenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coryphene
chondre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondres
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chondrule.
synonyms: word: chondrule
pigmean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pigmean
form: most pigmean
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pygmean.
trough-shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trough-shells
Senses: glosses: Any bivalve mollusc of the genus Mactra.
trough-shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trough-shell
chowchow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chowchows
form: chow-chow
form: chow chow
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow (“food”). Compare Macanese chau-cháu.
Senses: glosses: A Chinese preserve.
glosses: An American relish, containing pickled green tomatoes, cabbage, and often other vegetables.
glosses: A fruit ketchup
glosses: Gossip.
glosses: Alternative form of Chow Chow (“type of dog”).
Synonyms: word: India relish
word: piccalilli
sense: ketchup
word: catsup
sense: ketchup
word: ketchup
chowchow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chowchows
form: chowchowing
form: chowchowed
form: chowchowed
form: chow-chow
form: chow chow
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow (“food”). Compare Macanese chau-cháu.
Senses: examples: text: […] some ten or twelve fellows were chow chowing and drinking, playing at the Chinese game with their fingers, shouting and yelling like demons.
ref: 1861, The London and China Telegraph, page 316:
glosses: To gossip.
chowchow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: chow-chow
form: chow chow
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow (“food”). Compare Macanese chau-cháu.
Senses: examples: chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together)
glosses: Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed.
Derived terms: chowchow chop
chowchows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chowchow
Parma ham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parma hams
Etymology: From Parma (“city in Italy”) + ham.
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, the Panel's reasoning appears to be based on an implicit similarity between the products at issue, on the one hand—that is, frozen and salted chicken cuts—and products such as Parma ham, prosciutto, and jamón serrano, on the other hand.
ref: 2007, World Trade Organization, chapter IC, in Dispute Settlement Reports 2005, volume XIX, page 9228:
text: If you want a more substantial meal, we recommend you start with the seasonal green salad with melon and summer herbs, or cured Parma ham slices in a roulade with walnut-oil vinaigrette.
ref: 2010, Darwin Porter, Mark Baker, Danforth Prince, Frommer′s Europe, page 1021:
text: For instance, in the case of Parma hams, the amount of salt to be added is proportional to the weight of the ham.
ref: 2010, Fidel Toldrá, M. Concepción Aristoy, “Chapter 20: Dry-Cured Ham”, in Fidel Toldrá, editor, Handbook of Meat Processing, Wiley (Wiley-Blackwell), page 354:
text: Since hardly any Parma ham sold in England was actually sliced in the presence of the consumer as Italian law required, it would have been difficult or impossible to say of any Italian Parma ham producer that he had goodwill at the retail level in England at all.
ref: 2011, Christopher Wadlow, chapter IC, in The Law of Passing-off: Unfair Competition by Misrepresentation, page 310:
text: 2015, Craig Whitson, Tore Gjesteland, Mats Widén, Kenneth Hansen, Passion for Pizza: A Journey Through Thick and Thin to Find the Pizza Elite, Agate Publishing (Surrey Books), unnumbered page,
Also, the feed that is given to the pigs destined to be Parma hams is different.
glosses: Prosciutto di Parma, a type of dry-cured ham from the Parma region of Italy.
curcumine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curcumines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curcumin.
Related terms: curcumene
tickbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tickbites
Senses: examples: text: You may wish to consult a physician about a tickbite, because ticks in this region carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which is transmittable to humans.
ref: 1991, Ron Russo, Mountan State Mammals: A guide to mammals of the Rocky Mountain region, Nature Study Guild Publishers, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Lyme serology is useful in the evaluation of a patient with uveitis only in the setting of other findings to support this diagnosis, e.g. the history of a tickbite, a characteristic rash or a persistent knee arthritis.
ref: 1999, M.D. Becker and J.T. Rosenbaum, “Essential Laboratory Tests in Uveitis”, David BenEzra (editor), Uveitis Update, Volume 31 of W. Behrens-Baumann (editor), Developments in Ophthalmology, Karger Publishers, page 99
glosses: Alternative form of tick bite.
pity party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pity parties
Senses: examples: text: […] I was having a pity party today and needed to whine a little, that's all. I'm over it now. All I needed was someone to listen.
ref: 1995, Judy Baer, Sarah's Dilemma, Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: An instance of feeling sorry for oneself or seeking pity from other people.
Related terms: pity pot
pity potty
self-pity
pity parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pity party
taxbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxbites
Senses: examples: text: The taxbite on an income of $6498 in 1969, if tax rates had been exactly the same as in 1965
ref: 1970, United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations, Impact of the war in southeast Asia on the U.S. economy:
text: In a recent survey, The Roper Organization found that only 2 per cent of those polled cited the social-security taxbite as one of their top concerns.
ref: 1980, Newsweek, volume 95, numbers 1-8:
text: Rather than getting sidetracked discussing the true worth of $540000, 10 years in the future after the taxbite is taken out, the $540000 will simply be the benchmark for determining the break-even insurance premium.
ref: 2004, Roy L. Nersesian, Corporate Financial Risk Management, page 225:
glosses: Alternative form of tax bite.
tax bite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax bites
form: taxbite
Senses: glosses: The amount or rate of taxes.
mosquito bite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosquito bites
Senses: examples: text: Well, Adam didn't seem to have a problem with the size of her breasts. Paige had found that if a guy was thrown by her mosquito bites, he'd do one of two things.
ref: 2008, Kate Willoughby, A Wolf at Her Door, Akron, Oh.: Ellora's Cave Publishing, →ISBN, page 46:
synonyms: beesting
fried egg
glosses: A small breast of a woman.
examples: text: Half your bones are busted, your body is swollen like one huge mosquito bite, and you're nearly starved to death. Believe me, Champ, you're not okay.
ref: 2001, Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-073400-8; republished New York, N.Y.: HarperTrophy, 2005, ISBN 978-0-06-073400-8, page 121
text: From there, the cycle may be initiated once again when the sporozoites are released into the blood stream during a mosquito bite.
ref: 2002, Jacqueline Stanley, Essentials of Immunology & Serology, Albany, N.Y.: Delmar Thomson Learning, →ISBN, page 403:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mosquito, bite.
exportations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exportation
of the century
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The break-in became the crime of the century, at least in the newspapers.
text: The "Thrilla in Manilla" was promoted as the fight of the century.
glosses: Used to indicate the most remarkable example of its kind in recent history.
Related terms: of all time
of a lifetime
ordinales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordinale
parmesans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parmesan
poseuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poseuse
ASBMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ASBM
sauba ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sauba ants
Senses: glosses: A South American leaf-cutter ant (Atta cephalotes).
sauba ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sauba ant
noises off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A separate section is given to this subject because as a rule the importance of noises off is badly underestimated in the amateur theatre.
ref: 1934, Alfred Kenneth Boyd, The Technique of Play Production:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Sound effects produced offstage.
examples: text: The political situation after the Year V elections developed into a war of position between rival factions, with muffled insurrectionary noises off supplied by bellicose neo-Jacobins and sabre-rattling royalists.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 515:
text: Amazing, given the gravity of those, that noises-off to the main event continue to be bleatings by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries […] who have now put five times more effort into greasing up to Boris Johnson than they ever did into public service.
ref: 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Something occurring on the margins or periphery of a given event, situation etc.
Related terms: sound off
waterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waterly
form: most waterly
Etymology: From Middle English watirly, from Old English wæterlīċ (“aquatic”), equivalent to water + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Firstly, a set of waterly elements which may not be able to assimilate to a simple thickness line. These objects have some certain width, for example, lakes, swamps, ponds, and so on.
ref: 1981, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, Technical papers of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping:
text: Bottom or land boundaries constitute wall boundaries for waterly flow, while for air flow similar wall boundaries are represented by land/ground and sea surface.
ref: 2007, Geir Hasle, Knut-Andreas Lie, Ewald Quak, Geometric Modelling, Numerical Simulation, and Optimization:
glosses: Of or relating to water; aquatic.
constitutional monarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constitutional monarchists
Senses: examples: text: Many moderate constitutional monarchists still urged a waiting game, with the electoral tide flowing so strongly in their favour.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 515:
glosses: A supporter of a constitutional monarchy.
constitutional monarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constitutional monarchist
unabolishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + abolishable.
Senses: glosses: not abolishable
unabstract
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + abstract.
Senses: glosses: not abstract
unamalgamable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + amalgamable.
Senses: glosses: not amalgamable
amalgamable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amalgamable
form: most amalgamable
Etymology: From amalgam + -able.
Senses: glosses: capable of being amalgamated
Derived terms: nonamalgamable
unamalgamable
dry guillotine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: As an alternative (and bloodless) punishment to the guillotine.
Senses: examples: text: Nor could they forget the 200-odd priests massacred in the Paris prisons in September 1792, [...] or the 118 who never came back from the dry guillotine that was French Guiana.
ref: 1989, Ralph Gibson, A Social History of French Catholicism, Routledge, page 52:
text: It disposed of political opponents mainly through the ‘dry guillotine’ of deportation rather than by physical liquidation.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 517:
glosses: Forced deportation to a penal colony, especially as a punishment during the French Revolution.
Fructidorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fructidorians
Etymology: From Fructidor + -ian, calque of French fructidorien.
Senses: examples: text: Having stepped outside the charmed circle of constitutionality, moreover, the Fructidorians found it difficult to step back in, especially as it was soon apparent that they had far from depleted the strength of royalist opinion in the country as a whole.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 517:
glosses: A member or supporter of the group which took power in the coup d'état during the month of Fructidor 1797.
Related terms: Brumairian
Thermidorian
Fructidorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fructidorian
thooid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek θώς (thṓs, “jackal”) + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to an obsolete group of carnivores, including wolves and dogs.
pâtissiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pâtissier
pâtissières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pâtissière
accus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of accusative.
gueparde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guepardes
Etymology: Compare French guépard.
Senses: glosses: A cheetah.
guepardes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gueparde
turpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turpins
Etymology: From Old French [Term?], of Germanic origin: Tur (“god or divine”) + pin (“evergreen tree”).
Senses: glosses: Any terrestrial tortoise.
turpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turpin
communicatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of communicatrix
Feuillant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Feuillants
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A member of a reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.
glosses: A member of a certain political group during the French Revolution.
Feuillants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Feuillant
eliquation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eliquations
Etymology: From Latin eliquatio, from eliquare (“to clarify, strain”), from e + liquare (“to make liquid, melt”).
Senses: examples: text: Simultaneously with the desilvering, goes on the eliquation of the rich scum in the first, and afterwards in the second, eliquation pan.
ref: 1904, Johannes Rudolf Wagner, Manual of Chemical Technology, page 183:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation.
Related terms: eliquate
eliquations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eliquation
surview
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sə(ɹ)ˈvjuː/
ipa: /ˈsɜː(ɹ)vjuː/
Forms: form: surviews
form: surviewing
form: surviewed
form: surviewed
Etymology: From Middle English survewe, from Old French surveoir, sorveoir (“to look (down) at, look upon, notice; guard, watch”); equivalent to sur- + view.
Senses: examples: text: to surview his ground
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: pervise
glosses: To survey; to make a survey of.
surview
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sə(ɹ)ˈvjuː/
ipa: /ˈsɜː(ɹ)vjuː/
Forms: form: surviews
Etymology: From Middle English survewe, from Old French surveoir, sorveoir (“to look (down) at, look upon, notice; guard, watch”); equivalent to sur- + view.
Senses: examples: text: But if you vvill pleaſe to take a ſecond ſurvievv of the foure ſeverall particulars, vvherein the Caſes ſeemed to agree; you ſhall find very much diſparitie and diſproportion betvvixt the tvvo Caſes in each of the foure reſpects.
ref: 1619 April 27 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Saunderson [i.e., Robert Sanderson], “[Ad Clerum.] The First Sermon. At a Visitation at Boston, Linc[olnshire] 17. April. 1619.”, in Twelve Sermons, […], [new] edition, London: […] Aug[ustine] Math[ews], for Robert Dawlman, and are to be sold by Robert Allet, […], published 1632, →OCLC, §. 19, page 23:
glosses: A survey.
surviews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surview
overlabour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈleɪbə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: overlabor
Etymology: From over- + labour (noun).
Senses: examples: text: a disease which he had brought upon himself, by his over-labour at a Siege
ref: 1684, John Dryden, The History of the League, translation of Histoire de la Ligue by Louis Maimbourg:
glosses: Excessive labour.
overlabour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈleɪbə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: overlabours
form: overlabouring
form: overlaboured
form: overlaboured
form: overlabor
Etymology: From Middle English over-labouren, equivalent to over- + labour (verb).
Senses: examples: text: But over labour'd with ſo long a Courſe,
Tis time to ſet at eaſe the ſmoaking Horſe.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 95:
glosses: To cause to labour excessively; to overwork.
glosses: To labour upon excessively; to refine unduly.
overlabouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overlabour
overlabours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overlabour
cariopses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cariopsis
cariopsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cariopses
Senses: glosses: Dated form of caryopsis.
augmentatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of augmentative
pauxi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pauxis
Etymology: From Spanish paují, pauxí, perhaps from a native name and/or imitative of its call.
Senses: glosses: A curassow.
pauxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pauxi
solutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solutive
form: most solutive
Etymology: From Medieval Latin solutivus, from Latin solutus (the past participle of solvere) + -ive (from the Latin suffix -ivus). Compare French solutif.
Senses: glosses: Tending to produce relaxation (as of the bowels); having laxative properties.
examples: text: so abstersive , and opening , and solutive a drink as mead
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: loosening (of strictness of contractual terms), through gradual dissolution of binding obligations (as of a previously agreed-upon contract)
solutive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solutives
Etymology: From Medieval Latin solutivus, from Latin solutus (the past participle of solvere) + -ive (from the Latin suffix -ivus). Compare French solutif.
Senses: glosses: A laxative medicine.
swaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɒɡi/
Forms: form: swaggier
form: swaggiest
Etymology: From swag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: swaggy and prominent belly
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: There was leather everywhere—the soft stuff that would make good gloves—and gilt everything, and the crystal chandeliers were even bigger than in the front of the house, the rugs even fancier, and the drapes even swaggier.
ref: 2015, Faith Hunter, Dark Heir: A Jane Yellowrock Novel, page 237:
glosses: Inclined to swag; saggy.
swaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɒɡi/
Forms: form: swaggies
Etymology: From swag + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swaggie.
swaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɒɡi/
Forms: form: swaggier
form: swaggiest
Etymology: From swag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His psongs^([sic]) grew more #confident, his swag swaggier, and his skin became something like unto a gallery at the Skeevetown Museum of Art.
ref: 2014, David Javerbaum, The Book of Bieb:
glosses: Characteristic of swag; stylish
patacoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patacoons
Etymology: From Spanish patacón.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pataca.
synonyms: word: pataca
patacoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patacoon
Stentoronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Stentoronic
form: most Stentoronic
Senses: synonyms: stentorian
glosses: Loud, powerful, booming.
raw_tags: of avoice
conspiratrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conspiratrix
singing flame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singing flames
Senses: glosses: A flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, burning within a tube and so adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration, causing sound; a chemical harmonicon.
singing fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singing fishes
form: singing fish
Senses: glosses: A California toadfish (Porichthys porosissimus), noted for the humming sound it produces during the breeding season.
pretorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretoriums
form: praetorium
form: prætorium
Etymology: From Latin praetorium, from praetor.
Senses: glosses: The general's tent in an Ancient Roman camp.
glosses: A council of war.
glosses: The official residence of the Ancient Roman praetor, proconsul, or governor in a province.
glosses: A splendid country seat.
pretoriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretorium
synaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synaxis
synaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪˈnæksɪs/
Forms: form: synaxes
Etymology: Latin, from Ancient Greek σύναξις (súnaxis, “gathering”), from συνάγω (sunágō, “I gather”). See synagogue.
Senses: examples: text: Thus we find the bishops in the primitive church indicting of fasts , proclaiming assemblies , calling synods , gathering synaxes
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
glosses: A congregation.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A day following a Great Feast in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches, on which a person related to the events is remembered. For example, the Synaxis of John the Baptist follows the Theophany (Baptism of Christ), the Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel follows the Annunciation, and the Synaxis of the Theotokos follows Christmas Day.
synaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sɪˈnæksɪs/
Etymology: Latin, from Ancient Greek σύναξις (súnaxis, “gathering”), from συνάγω (sunágō, “I gather”). See synagogue.
Senses: glosses: The Lord's Supper.
incapacitants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incapacitant
coursey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courseys
Etymology: Compare Old French corsie, coursie (“passageway to the stern”). See course (noun).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.
courseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coursey
sea fan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea fans
Senses: glosses: Any gorgonian (in order Alcyonacea) which branches in a fan-like form, especially of species Gorgonia ventalina (common sea fan, purple sea fan) and Gorgonia flabellum (Venus fan, Venus sea fan, West Indian sea fan, purple gorgonian seafan) of Florida and the West Indies.
sea fans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea fan
crossette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French crossette, diminutive of crosse. See crosier.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window.
glosses: The shoulder of a joggled keystone.
glosses: A kind of firework that produces a starburst in four directions, resembling a cross.
Synonyms: sense: return in corner of an architrave
word: ancon
sense: return in corner of an architrave
word: ear
sense: return in corner of an architrave
word: elbow
crossettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossette
calcedon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcedons
Etymology: See chalcedony.
Senses: examples: text: Merchandise invoiced as calcedon, classified at 60 per cent ad valorem under paragraph 1528, tariff act of 1930, is claimed to consist of imitation semiprecious stones, faceted, dutiable at 20 per cent under the same paragraph.
ref: 1932, United States. Department of the Treasury, Treasury Decisions Under Tariff and Internal Revenue Laws, page 1673:
text: A yellowish-red carnelian is a calcedon. Is found–among other places–in India. […] Like carnelian, agate is a calcedon.
ref: 1941, Nationalmuseets skrifter: Etnografisk raekke - Volumes 7-8, page 196:
text: It consisted of small, rounded rock-boulders with calcedon and pieces of jasper.
ref: 1980, Carl Heinrich Merck, Richard Austin Pierce, Siberia and Northwestern America, 1788-1792:
text: No part besides must of they selfe be known. But by the topaz, Opal, Calcedon.
ref: 2005, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, page 30:
glosses: Any common mineral, such as chalcedony or calcite, that is found as an intrusion or vein in another stone, especially in a precious stone.
examples: text: In this, the final chapter of the "Calc." saga, it can be stated that the that the abbreviation in question really does stand for calcedon, a theorbo-type instrument.
ref: 1985, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Music Library, “The Plot Thickens”, in Notes from the Hill, page 14:
text: Indeed, the calcedon seems principally intended as a reinforcement to the cello: where the cello and keyboard parts differ from one another, the calcedon goes with the bowed instrument.
ref: 1995, Daniel R. Melamed, “Performance questions in Bach's Trauerode”, in Bach Studies 2, page 139:
text: At another private concert at Count Caldarinii's house in Bologna (1715), Caldarinii played alternately the lute and the calcedon.
ref: 2000, Per Kjetil Farstad, German Galant Lute Music in the 18th Century, page 354:
text: Christus is um unsrer Missetat willen, TVWV 1:151, 1721, scored for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, two violins, viola, cello, organ, two oboes, two D clarinets, calcedon (bass lute), and organ.
ref: 2020, Albert R. Rice, The Baroque Clarinet and Chalumeau, page 143:
glosses: The bass lute, an instrument used by baroque composers (notably Telemann).
calcedons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcedon
aromatases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aromatase
ketotestosterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From keto- + testosterone.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxidized form of testosterone containing a keto group; it is a sex hormone in fish.
printaniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of printanier
exocrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exocrine
porphyrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porphyrines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of porphyrin.
reprotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹipɹoʊˈtɑksɪk/
ipa: /ˌɹiːpɹəʊˈtɒksɪk/
rhymes: -ɒksɪk
Forms: form: more reprotoxic
form: most reprotoxic
Etymology: Blend of reproduction + toxic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
toxicology
glosses: Having a toxic effect on the process of reproduction
Derived terms: reprotoxicant
reprotoxicity
reprotoxicological
unamicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + amicable.
Senses: glosses: not amicable
nonoptimality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + optimality.
Senses: glosses: The state of being nonoptimal.
unamorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + amorous.
Senses: glosses: not amorous
rosocyanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A red compound, formed by the reaction of curcumin and borates, that is used in the analysis of borates in food
unacademical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + academical.
Senses: glosses: not academical
unaccordable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + accordable.
Senses: glosses: not accordable
unamalgamated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + amalgamated.
Senses: glosses: not amalgamated
coloratures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colorature
unamalgamating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + amalgamating.
Senses: glosses: not amalgamating
unamassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + amassed.
Senses: glosses: not amassed
cisternography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: cisternographies
Etymology: From cistern + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: radiography of the basal cisterns of the brain
Derived terms: scinticisternography
Related terms: cisternographic
scinticisternography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Senses: glosses: cisternography performed using a radiopharmaceutical
adrogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adrogations
Etymology: From Latin adrogatio, arrogatio, from adrogare. See arrogate.
Senses: examples: text: There were certain sacred rites (sacra gentilitia) which belonged to a gens, to the observance of which all the members of a gens, as such, were bound, whether they were members by birth, adoption, or adrogation. A person was freed from the observance of such sacra, and lost the privileges connected with his gentile rites, when he lost his gens, that is, when he was adrogated, adopted, or even emancipated; for adrogation, adoption, and emancipation were accompanied by a diminutio capitis.
ref: 1848, G[eorge] L[ong], “GENS”, in William Smith, editor, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 2nd improved and enlarged edition, London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, Upper Gower Street; and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street, →OCLC, page 568, column 2:
glosses: A kind of adoption in Ancient Rome.
Related terms: adrogate
adrogator
adrogations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adrogation
suwarrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suwarrows
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of saguaro.
suwarrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suwarrow
damassés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damassé
crisscross-row
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crisscross-rows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Christcross-row.
crisscross-rows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crisscross-row
Strelitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Strelitzes
form: Strelitzi
form: Strelitz
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of strelets
Strelitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Strelitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Strelitz
scintigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scintigraphy + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to scintigraphy.
snap pizzicato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snap pizzicatos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: stringed instruments
glosses: The act of plucking a string in a way that makes it hit the fingerboard.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: stringed instruments
glosses: A note played in such a way.
noctambules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noctambule
seltzogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seltzogenes
Etymology: From seltzer + -o- + -gene.
Senses: examples: text: Robert drew himself a glass of soda water from the seltzogene on the sideboard.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 69:
glosses: A gasogene.
Related terms: seltzer
seltzogenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seltzogene
shrivalties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrivalty
shrivalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrivalties
Senses: examples: text: The Question indeed was, upon the validity of a Grant made by King Edward the Fourth, of the Shrivalty of Northumberland to the Earl of that County
ref: 1689, Robert Washington, Some Observations Upon the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Kings of England:
glosses: Archaic form of shrievalty.
pronities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronity
pronity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronities
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōnitās.
Senses: examples: text: For I have very much vvondred at the devotedneſs of ſome Mens Spirits to the pretence of pure Mechaniſm in the ſolving of the Phænomena of the Univerſe, vvho yet othervviſe have not been of leſs Pretenſions to Piety and Vertue. Of vvhich Mechanick pronity I do not ſee any good tendency at all.
ref: 1713, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The First Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Joseph Downing […], →OCLC, paragraph XII, page 23:
glosses: Proneness to do something; propensity.
arbor Dianae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin, the tree of Diana, or silver.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A precipitation of silver in a striking arborescent form.
Synonyms: silver tree
snivelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snivelly
form: most snivelly
Etymology: From snivel + -y.
Senses: glosses: having a runny nose
glosses: pitiful; whining
shijo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shijos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sijo.
tinkalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: borax
frumple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌmpəl/
Forms: form: frumples
form: frumpling
form: frumpled
form: frumpled
Etymology: From Middle English frumplen, cognate with Dutch frommelen (“to wrinkle”). Related to frump, frumpy, frumpish.
Senses: glosses: To wrinkle; crumple; ruffle; disorder.
frumple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌmpəl/
Forms: form: frumples
Etymology: From Middle English frumpil, frumpylle, from the verb (above).
Senses: glosses: A wrinkle.
vocalizational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vocalization + -al.
Senses: examples: text: By the age of one year the child is babbling with varying intonation patterns, accompanied by extensive kinesic and vocalizational activity.
ref: 1929, The Encyclopaedia Britannica:
glosses: Relating to vocalization.
datives of purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dative of purpose
frontwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frontwise
form: most frontwise
Etymology: From front + -wise.
Senses: glosses: Toward the front; in the direction of the front; frontward.
taillie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taillies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tailzie.
taillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taillie
fromward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fromward
form: most fromward
form: frammard
form: fromard
form: frommard
form: frommart
form: frommet
form: frommud
form: vrammard
form: vrammerd
Etymology: From Middle English fromward, framward, from Old English framweard (“about to depart, departing, doomed to die; with his back turned”, adjective) and framweardes (“away from”, adverb), equivalent to from + -ward. Compare froward.
Senses: glosses: Turned away; averse.
glosses: Leaning or listing away from; distant from; on the right-hand side; on the opposite side.
fromward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fromward
form: most fromward
form: frammard
form: fromard
form: frommard
form: frommart
form: frommet
form: frommud
form: vrammard
form: vrammerd
Etymology: From Middle English fromward, framward, from Old English framweard (“about to depart, departing, doomed to die; with his back turned”, adjective) and framweardes (“away from”, adverb), equivalent to from + -ward. Compare froward.
Senses: glosses: Forth; forward.
fromward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fromwards
form: frammard
form: fromard
form: frommard
form: frommart
form: frommet
form: frommud
form: vrammard
form: vrammerd
Etymology: From Middle English fromward, framward, from Old English framweard (“about to depart, departing, doomed to die; with his back turned”, adjective) and framweardes (“away from”, adverb), equivalent to from + -ward. Compare froward.
Senses: glosses: A cleaving tool; an iron instrument with a blade set at right angles on a short handle, used for splitting laths or rails.
Synonyms: frower
froe
frow
fromward
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: frammard
form: fromard
form: frommard
form: frommart
form: frommet
form: frommud
form: vrammard
form: vrammerd
Etymology: From Middle English fromward, framward, from Old English framweard (“about to depart, departing, doomed to die; with his back turned”, adjective) and framweardes (“away from”, adverb), equivalent to from + -ward. Compare froward.
Senses: glosses: From; away from.
Synonyms: fromwards
Derived terms: frommarding
little bustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little bustards
Senses: glosses: Tetrax tetrax, a migratory bird of the family Otididae (bustards) found in parts of Europe and Central Asia
Coordinate terms: houbara bustard
triethylgallium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From triethyl + gallium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organometallic compound, (CH₃CH₂)₃Ga, used in vapour-phase epitaxy for the manufacture of semiconductors
ultraviolets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultraviolet
chondres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondre
curcumines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curcumine
porphyrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porphyrine
Molech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Moloch.
Molekh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Moloch.
Molok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Moloch.
Molek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Moloch.
Molock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Molocks
Etymology: Unidentified.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Molock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Moloch.