nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: brightsome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bright + -some. 1. Marked by brightness or brilliance; resplendent in appearance; shining. Labels: archaic Example: But rather let the brightsome heavens be dim, And nature's beauty choke with stifling clouds, Than my fair Abigail should frown on me. Example: [A]ll the shifts of cloud and sun, all the difference between black death and brightsome liveliness, scarcely may suggest or equal Lorna's transformation.
Word: icens Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of icen Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: human microphone Part of Speech: noun 1. A means of delivering a speech to a large group of people, wherein persons gathered around the speaker repeat the speaker's words, thus amplifying the voice of the speaker without the need for amplification equipment. Labels: no-plural Example: By linking the word to the body and the crowd, the human microphone transformed an obstacle into an important asset for the social movements in the street.
Word: people's microphone Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of human microphone.
Word: imaginator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin imāginātus (past participle of imāginārī) + English -or. Compare Middle English ymagynatourys (“?schemers or plotters”). 1. One who imagines. Example: Secondly, hee would teach, that hee was as hee ſeemed to bee, true very man, fleſh, bloud, and bone as wee truely are; which the Divell denyed in the Docitæ [read Docetæ] or Imaginators, who held nothing reall, what hee [Christ] was, what hee did, what hee ſuffered, but all onely ſeeming ſo and in appearance. Example: Suppose, if it be possible, that such a proposition had been made, or that such a prophecy had been ventured, in May 1834, as that in the spring of 1835 a Whig cabinet should be formed without thinking of Lord Brougham, and that some minor office should have been tossed to him, as you throw a bone to a dog! Would not the imaginator of such a thing have been treated as a maniac or a fool?
Word: imaginate Part of Speech: adj 1. imaginative Labels: obsolete
Word: people's mic Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipped compound of people's microphone. Labels: uncountable
Word: NBSP Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of nbsp. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: > I get the feeling that when you use the phrase "corporate criminals", > it's not actually a phrase, but a word that just happens to have a > NBSP in the middle. Example: (There was probably a bug before where an NBSP in Unicode text was treated as part of a word.)
Word: -nomics Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “law”). The addition of an English prefix thus indicates the "laws" of the discipline or area denoted by the prefix. By surface analysis, -nomy + -ics. 1. The rules of a discipline. Labels: morpheme
Word: -nomics Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Back-formation from economics. 1. Used to form nouns meaning the economics, economic practises, or economic philosophy of a specified person or state Labels: morpheme
Word: heigh Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English heigh, hey, hay, hei, heh, probably of imitative origin. Compare hey, eh. Pronunciation: /heɪ/ 1. An exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc. Example: Heigh, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts. Example: [T]he farmer and his family were following the last loads of furniture, when a neighbour named John Marshall came up - "Well, Georgey," said he, "and soa you're leaving t'ould hoose at last?" - "Heigh, Johnny, my lad, I'm forced tull it; for that damned Boggart torments us soa, we can neither rest neet nor day for't."
Word: improbate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1656; borrowed from Latin improbātus, perfect passive participle of improbō (“to disapprove”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“not”) + probō (“to approve”). 1. To disallow, disqualify, or annul. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: overween Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overwēnen (“to be presumptuous, be over-confident; presume”), from Old English oferwennan and oferwenian (“to be proud, become insolent, or presumptuous”), equivalent to over- + ween. 1. To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself). Labels: ergative Example: and they that overween, / And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen, Example: The clouds on Futurity Day bore out in a general way this prognostication. But he overweened himself. 2. To make or render arrogant and overweening. Example: There is, I suppose, the cheap drama of man sticking his nose into an area where it does little good except to expand his already overweened vanity. Example: Sometimes we manage to come up with original ways of viewing a world hardened, stratified, overweened by its own power, a world which believes itself as omnipotent as its technological achievements might seem to imply. 3. To overwhelm. Labels: proscribed Example: The invasion of a vast enemy host upon the unprepared is unstoppable; the huge phalanx of tanks overweens our small army of trucks and rifles; […]
Word: flushness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flush + -ness. 1. The state of being flush or well supplied; abundance Labels: dated, uncountable, usually Example: flushness of money 2. The state of being flush: smoothly aligned, not sticking out. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: godsib Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Middle English godsib; doublet of gossip; see those entries for more. 1. One's sibling or kin via a godfamily tie: one's or one's child's godparent, or one's godchild's parent, or one's godparent's child. Labels: historical Example: The fireplace also heated water for the godsibs to wash their hands with as they were instructed by the rubric to do before leaving the church. Example: […] the Bumgardners' maid, with Preston and Penelope in tow, was exchanging defamatory gossip with her godsib Ofelia Gomez, Luke Regan's scullion.
Word: jockeyship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jockey + -ship. 1. The art, character, or state, of a jockey; the personality of a jockey. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Go flatter Sawney for his jockeyship. Example: Where can at last his jockeyship retire?
Word: jockeyships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jockeyship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: landreeve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From land + reeve. 1. A subofficer overseeing an area of land, a kind of bailiff or steward. Labels: historical
Word: landreeves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of landreeve Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oliganthous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From oligo- + -anthous. 1. Having few flowers. Labels: not-comparable Example: oliganthous inflorescence Example: oliganthous raceme
Word: disgracious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French disgracieux. 1. Lacking grace; ungraceful Labels: archaic Example: If I be so disgracious in your fight, let me march on 2. disgraced. Labels: archaic
Word: metalepsy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μετάληψις (metálēpsis). Compare metalepsis. 1. Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: trilobitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From trilobite + -ic. 1. Of, pertaining to or containing, trilobites. Labels: not-comparable Example: trilobitic rocks
Word: assessorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From assessor + -ship. 1. The office or function of an assessor. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: assessorships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of assessorship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sycophantize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sycophant + -ize. 1. To act like a sycophant. Labels: archaic
Word: sycophantized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of sycophantize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sycophantizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sycophantize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: water pig Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of capybara (“a semiaquatic rodent”). 2. Synonym of gourami (“a fish”).
Word: water pigs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of water pig Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Wendic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Wend + -ic. 1. Synonym of Wendish.
Word: Wendic Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Wend + -ic. 1. Wendish (language)
Word: floatingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From floating + -ly. 1. In a floating manner; so as to float or to appear to float. Example: I closed my eyes, stood there, and had a remarkably relaxed and floatingly nice time, during which I dreamed.
Word: Jesuitries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Jesuitry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Jesuitry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Jesuit + -ry. 1. Synonym of Jesuitism, (Christianity) the work and beliefs of Jesuits, (derogatory, dated) casuistry, sophistry. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The poor Girondins, many of them, under such fierce bellowing of Patriotism, say Death; justifying, motivant, that most miserable word of theirs by some brief casuistry and jesuitry.
Word: knackish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From knack + -ish. 1. Trickish; artful. Labels: obsolete
Word: prejudicately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From prejudicate + -ly. 1. With prejudice. Labels: obsolete
Word: noviceship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From novice + -ship. 1. The state or position of being a novice. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: noviceships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of noviceship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: terminus ad quem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin terminus (“limit”) + ad (“up to”) + quem (“which”), the accusative of quī (“what”). Literally meaning “the limit up until which”. 1. the latest possible date of a non-punctual event (period, era, etc.) 2. an objective or goal Example: What I do regret is the non-intelligent and almost superstitious way in which baptism is still regarded by many of our people. They think of it too much as a mere terminus ad quem which should call forth their energies up till the time it is obtained, and then leaves them waiting to see what sort of substantial worldly good may afterwards come along.
Word: termini ad quem Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of terminus ad quem Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seventh chord Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The interval between the tonic and the top note is a seventh. 1. a chord that contains four notes that make three thirds Example: Four seventh chords (C7 F7 D7 G7): {2}
Word: seventh chords Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seventh chord Labels: form-of, plural
Word: major triad Part of Speech: noun 1. a triad that has a major third between the root and the third and a minor third between the third and the fifth
Word: major triads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of major triad Labels: form-of, plural
Word: minor triad Part of Speech: noun 1. a triad with a minor third between the root and the third, and a major third between the third and the fifth
Word: yanno Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /jəˈnoʊ/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of you know, representing US English. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Have you, yanno, told her yet? Example: But he's still my friend and I don't want him to be, yanno... sad.
Word: minor triads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minor triad Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diminished triad Part of Speech: noun 1. a triad that has a diminished fifth between the bottom note and the top note
Word: diminished triads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diminished triad Labels: form-of, plural
Word: augmented triad Part of Speech: noun 1. a triad with an augmented fifth between the bottom note and the top note Example: C major augmented triad: 1
Word: augmented triads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of augmented triad Labels: form-of, plural
Word: extramatrimonial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From extra- + matrimonial. 1. extramarital Labels: not-comparable
Word: national security Part of Speech: noun 1. The safety of a country as managed through the exercise of economic and political power, intelligence agencies and diplomacy. Labels: uncountable
Word: sobornost Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian собо́рность (sobórnostʹ). 1. A unity of people in loving fellowship. Labels: uncountable Example: Some post-Soviet writers see sobornost’ as a – if not the – defining element in giving distinctiveness to Russian civilization. Example: Sobornost signifies the essentially extrapersonal (supra-personal) and a-temporal nature of aesthetic consciousness.
Word: sobornost' Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sobornost. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: thought-form Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a set of presuppositions or fundamental ideas which define the thinking of people of a given region, time period etc. Example: The search had begun for a ‘historical Jesus’, a figure in whom the Church could believe despite the huge gap separating thought-forms and assumptions of the first Christians from those of the nineteenth century. 2. A manifestation of the thoughts, ideas or emotions of someone. It is believed to be able to be sensed by people and take physical form within the spirit world. Example: Two people can have the same idea at the same time because they felt the same thought-forms. Example: One can feel the threatening energy of the thought-forms left in the room after a tense fight.
Word: thought-forms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thought-form Labels: form-of, plural
Word: penal substitution Part of Speech: noun 1. The theory of atonement which holds that Jesus died on the Cross in place of human sinners. Labels: uncountable Example: As part of that literal reading, concentrating on a line of thought on salvation pursued by St Paul, came the penal substitution theory, and Fundamentalists rightly concluded that these were the aspects of Christianity most vulnerable to attack from nineteenth-century intellectual developments.
Word: coggle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps from cog (“small boat”) + -le (frequentative suffix), in reference to the rocking or swaying motion of the sea; or perhaps an alteration of cockle (“to move up and down”). 1. To move or walk unsteadily
Word: coggle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See cog (“small boat”). 1. A small fishing boat.
Word: coggle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cock (“a roundish heap”) + -le (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”). Compare also Dutch kogel, German Kugel (“ball”). 1. cobble (all senses)
Word: indultos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of indulto Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inflexure Part of Speech: noun 1. A flexion, a bend or fold. Labels: archaic Example: [T]he contrivance of nature is ſingular in the opening and ſhutting of Bindvveeds performed by five inflexures, diſtinguiſhable by pyramidcall figures, and alſo different colours.
Word: intervisit Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + visit. 1. Between visits (e.g. to a medical clinic). Labels: not-comparable
Word: intervisit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From inter- + visit. 1. To exchange visits; to visit each other. Labels: intransitive Example: Here we trifled and bathed , and intervisited with the company who frequent the place for health[…]
Word: ambulants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ambulant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: endorsation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From endorse + -ation. 1. An endorsement. Labels: Canada Example: Every Endorsation of the examination of any permit shall be made on the back thereof, and every permit shall be defaced by writing the word " Cancelled " across the face of it on the expiration of the period for which it has been granted. Example: As an alumnus of the University of Virginia, a gallant Confederate soldier, and since the war a devoted, useful minister of the gospel, Mr. Nelson is widely known and needs no endorsation from us.
Word: endorsations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of endorsation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: indorsation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From indorse + -ation. 1. Archaic spelling of endorsation. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: That na indorſation ſall haue faith, nor be admitted, bot they that ar ſigned with the ſaids ſignettes. Example: The indorser remits it to his correspondent, with an indorsation or transference of property.
Word: indorsations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of indorsation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: frickle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of fried + pickle. 1. A fried pickle. Labels: Canada, US Example: Frickles (fried pickles) are inspired and served with a blue cheese dipping sauce (see page 20). Example: Raise your hand if you love fried pickies (both my hands are raised). There is no stopping my love for pickle-anything, but frickles take it to a whole new level.
Word: frickle Part of Speech: intj 1. a minced oath Example: "Frickle frackle,” she said, stomping out. Example: I know that they loved me and all that frickle-feely stuff, surely wanted the best but I didn't care too much for love—at least not now.
Word: frickle Part of Speech: noun 1. A penis. Labels: euphemistic Example: After all, creative positioning during the venereal act (“frickle-frackle!”) can cause fungal growth, cancer, and death. Example: "A frickle is for a boy and a frackle is for a girl,” Belle explains with a shrug, like it's the most normal thing in the world.
Word: frickle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”). 1. Not solid or firm; loose; friable. Example: Vpon this fain and frickle foundation of two false and contrary opinions was that leage of Smalcaldium stroken: whereof ensued that lamentable and cruell warre, to the greate waste and destruction of Germany, with the murder of infinit thousands of men. Example: it is extremely frickle in the limestone formation; 2. Changeable; undependable; fickle. Example: Yvette Guilbert, a greater favourite than ever with the generally frickle and changeable Parisians, has been singing for three nights at Lyons, where she received 1000 francs an evening—that is, ₤40. Example: And thither Jeanne set out, in March 1557, accompanied by the frickle, wayward, sinning Antoine and the boy who was his living image.
Word: frickle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”). 1. A prickling, shivery sensation; frisson. Example: at the frickle of apprehension ( real or imaginary ) on any issue. Example: As I slowly open my eyes, I get that somefeeli's-watching-me frickle.
Word: frickle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”). 1. To upset or discombobulate. Example: In his own Yorkshire words, they made him 'reet frickled', and any senior officers who came to inspect us never got their messages correctly delivered if poor Thompson was on duty. Example: Linda, at the Deli in Anchorage and the Cup in Tucson, has had spirited run-ins with cooks who did not attack their work with the same ferocity she did. Just last Sunday, a Cup cook "freaked" and got "real frickled” when she put up tickets faster than he liked. 2. To move, act, or change randomly. Example: The ball took a lucky bounce for JSU and frickled away from the goal before a Panther player could capitalize on the rebound, and the game remained scoreless. Example: I got the porridge going – in the right saucepan mind, while Johnny frickled round my feet and the constant threat of Felix climbing out of his basket, desperate to copy. 3. To speckle. Example: I was roused from my abstraction, and lo and behold! my stockings were all frickled with blood, and God knows how many lives I had to answer for. Example: Striped like a zebra, frickled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd;
Word: bridge loan Part of Speech: noun 1. A sum of money loaned or borrowed for a short period of time in order to cover expenses until new expected funds become available. Example: The merger, however, depends upon Icahn's ability to provide a bridge loan to help Pan Am cover losses during the low-traffic season. Example: "It's not our fault that the economy is in the tank," he said. "What we need is a low interest bridge loan to get us through the difficult time."
Word: gablet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gable + -let or gable + -et. Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪb.lət/ 1. A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc. Example: The Pinnacles are numerous, and very fine. They are in general square, and not on diagonally; the sides are frequently panelled, and terminate in crocketed canopies, or gablets, from which rises the spire, which is also crocketed at the angles, and terminates in a finial. Example: Almost opposite Clarence House, and immediately adjoining the Swan Hotel, is a lofty and somewhat narrow structure of four storeys, whose twin gablets overhang and overbend the street in quite a serious manner.
Word: gabel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A form of gavel (“rent, tax”) influenced by Middle French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (“tribute”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪbəl/ 1. Any rent, charge, tribute, custom, tax, duty, excise etc. Labels: obsolete Example: He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish. Example: The same Imposition might also be made on the Tin spent at home, unless it be as impossible so to do, as for the King of France to impose the Gabel upon Salt in the very places where it is made.
Word: gabel Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪbəl/ 1. Obsolete spelling of gable Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: coregency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + regency. 1. A monarchical position (such as king, queen, emperor or empress) held by two persons when normally held by only one.
Word: bridging loan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bridge loan. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: caveat loan Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of bridge loan.
Word: swing loan Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of bridge loan.
Word: labes Part of Speech: noun 1. Labia. Labels: plural, plural-only, slang
Word: Oracle Part of Speech: name 1. A database management system (and its associated software) developed by the Oracle Corporation
Word: labis Part of Speech: noun 1. A spoon used in the Eucharist.
Word: lodicula Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of lodicule. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: lodiculae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lodicula Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quack grass Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of quackgrass. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: quack-grass Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of quackgrass. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: water boiler Part of Speech: noun 1. An electric device which heats water up to boiling temperature.
Word: waterboiler Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of water boiler. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: diamond carry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From diamond + carry. The four people doing the carrying resemble the four points of a diamond shape. 1. A very stable method of carrying a spine board with one carrier at the head end, one at the foot end and one at each side. Labels: uncountable
Word: diamond carries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diamond carry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: firefighter's carry Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of fireman's carry. Example: Firefighter's carry
Word: oral glucose Part of Speech: noun 1. A medication high in glucose often given in a gel form to treat patients experiencing a diabetic crisis. Labels: uncountable
Word: B-NICE Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of biological, nuclear / radiological, incendiary, chemical, and explosive agents, used to remember the types of hazmat emergencies. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: affinitive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From affinity + -ive. 1. Closely connected, as by affinity. Example: Subjects were selected on the basis of 'affinitive' relationships, a notion which is defeined by Maisonneuve (1966; Maisonneuve & Lamy, 1993) as reciprocal choices associated with shared emotional satisfaction. Example: They also speak of the sun's forces roking on the earth's affinitive forces. 2. Tending to bond with. Example: The presence in the blood and fluids of the body of the dominant toxin, for which strophanthin is chemically affinitive, debilitiates the contractile force of muscle, and more especially unstriped muscle fibre.
Word: amygdalaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin amygdala (“almond tree”) + -aceous. 1. Akin to, or derived from, the almond. Labels: dated, not-comparable
Word: bearhound Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bear + hound. 1. A dog used for bearbaiting or bear hunting. Example: "For his amusement John the Terrible used to order a number of people to be sewed up in bear-skins, and then torn to death by bear-hounds. For tearing prisoners to pieces he ordered the tops of several trees to be bent down so that they came together; the limbs of the unfortunate victim were fastened to these tops, each limb to a different tree. When they were thus tied up, the release of the trees performed the work intended by the cruel Czar."
Word: bearhounds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bearhound Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bergomask Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, Italy, formerly noted for their clownishness. 1. A kind of rustic dance. Labels: obsolete Example: Will it please you to see the epilogue, or to hear a bergomask dance between two of our company?
Word: bergomasks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bergomask Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chamberlainship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chamberlain + -ship. 1. The office or post of chamberlain. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chamberlainships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chamberlainship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: defensory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin defensorius. 1. Tending to defend; defensive. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: defensory preparations
Word: defensory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin defensorius. 1. That which defends. Labels: archaic
Word: degenerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin degener, + -ous. See degenerate. Pronunciation: /dɪˈdʒɛnəɹəs/ 1. Degenerate; base. Labels: obsolete Example: degenerous passions Example: degenerous practices
Word: diagnosticated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of diagnosticate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: diagnosticating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of diagnosticate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: diamantiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French diamant (“diamond”) + -iferous. 1. Yielding diamonds.
Word: effascination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin effascinatio. 1. A charm; bewitchment or delusion. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: If in myne eies there be effaſcination, / How comes it there is no ſuch alteration / In others I behold? Example: But what will not madneſs and effaſcination make a man phanſie to uphold his own Prejudices?
Word: effascinations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of effascination Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enwrapment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From enwrap + -ment. 1. The act of enwrapping; wrapping. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A wrapper or envelope. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They wreathed together a foliature of the fig-tree, and made themselves enwrapments
Word: enwrapments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enwrapment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exchequership Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exchequer + -ship. 1. The office or post of exchequer. Labels: uncountable
Word: feudalities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of feudality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: feudality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French féodalité. 1. The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This species of feudality is kept up to aggrandize the corporations at the ruin of the towns ; and the effect is visible
Word: fireboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fire + board. 1. A board or screen placed over a fireplace when it is not in use. Example: I then glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table, could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale. Example: 1915, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Emancipation A stovepipe had been fitted into an iron fireboard covering the great fireplace 2. A fireplace's mantel. Labels: Appalachia 3. A piece of wood into which a fire drill is spun to create friction.
Word: fireboards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fireboard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forenotice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore- + notice. 1. Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: So strange a revolution never happens in poetry, but either heaven or earth give some forenotice of it.
Word: forenotices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forenotice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: havenage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From haven + -age. 1. Dues paid for using a harbour or port. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: hexapetalous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hexa- + petalous. Compare French hexapétale. 1. Having six petals. Labels: not-comparable
Word: horsenail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hors nayl'; equivalent to horse + nail. 1. A kind of nail, for fixing a horseshoe to the hoof; a horseshoe nail.
Word: horsenails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of horsenail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hoveringly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hovering + -ly. 1. While hovering; so as to hover or appear to do so. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hypothecator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypothecate + -or. 1. Someone who hypothecates or pledges anything, as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
Word: hypothecators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hypothecator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: impassionable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From impassion + -able. 1. Excitable or sensitive or susceptible to strong emotion.
Word: inburnt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in + burnt. 1. innate or hard-wired Example: We have gone into the modern world with an inburnt knowledge of human limitations and with a sense of mystery which could not have developed in our first state of innocence
Word: inexcitability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + excitability. 1. The quality of being inexcitable. Labels: uncountable
Word: intensation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From intense + -ation. 1. The act or process of intensifying; intensification. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: And who will warrant us that, at the same time, he shall only be an intensation and continuation of the old, which in general, is what we long and look for?
Word: intensations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of intensation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intertubular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + tubular. 1. Between tubes or tubules. Labels: not-comparable Example: intertubular cells Example: intertubular plexus
Word: Jacobinism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Jacobin + -ism, compare French jacobinisme. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪ.nɪ.zəm/, [ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪ.nɪ.zm̩] 1. The principles of the Jacobins; especially the violent opposition to legitimate government. Labels: France, countable, historical, uncountable Example: Under this new stimulus, Burns’s previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism.
Word: Jacobinisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Jacobinism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Jesuitism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Jesuit Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Jesuitism From Jesuit + -ism. 1. The doctrine of the Jesuits and their followers. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Cunning; deceit; casuistry; sophistry. Labels: countable, dated, derogatory, uncountable
Word: Jesuitisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Jesuitism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: joculators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of joculator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: justicement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From justice + -ment. 1. Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: kathetometer Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of cathetometer. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: kathetometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kathetometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: khaliff Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of caliph. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: khaliffs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of khaliff Labels: form-of, plural
Word: knickknackatory Part of Speech: noun 1. A collection of knick-knacks. Labels: rare Example: But as I knovv he has judgment in nick-knackatories, and even as much as I wiſh him in what is called taſte, I intend to compliment him with leaving all to him, and reſolve to be ſatisfied with vvhatever he does. Example: A great glass-fronted cabinet, reaching almost the ceiling, stored his knickknackatory, the objects of interest collected on his travels.
Word: longipennate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin longus (“long”) + pennate, from penna (“a wing”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of longipinnate. 1. Having long wings or quills 2. Having long wings or quills
Word: metantimonate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From metantimonic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. A salt of metantimonic acid. Labels: obsolete
Word: metantimonates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metantimonate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mishappy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English myshappy, equivalent to mis- + happy. 1. Unfortunate; unhappy. Labels: nonstandard, rare Example: I go home bewildered unt mishappy, to find that Herr Gabert has stole the score of mine opera unt run avay mit mine vife. Example: And my statement was if that is the fact I will wait until you are mishappy or unhappy with their services, and I am always available, and thanked them for the opportunity for giving that time to discuss the matter.
Word: monochromies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monochromy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: monochromy Part of Speech: noun 1. The art of painting or drawing in monochrome (shades of the same color). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: nosesmart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nose + smart (verb). Calque of Latin nasturtium. 1. Watercress. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: ozonation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ozone + -ation. 1. The act of treating with ozone. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of converting into, or producing, ozone. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ozonations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ozonation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: protuberous Part of Speech: adj 1. protuberant
Word: reciprocalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reciprocal + -ness. 1. The quality of being reciprocal. Labels: uncountable
Word: refundee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From refund + -ee. 1. One who receives a refund.
Word: refundees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of refundee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: refunder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From refund + -er. 1. Someone who refunds.
Word: refunders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of refunder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: relapser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From relapse + -er. 1. One who relapses. Example: those speculative relapsers, that have, out of policy, or guiltiness, abandoned a known and received truth
Word: relapsers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of relapser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rickstand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rick + stand. 1. A flooring or framework on which a hayrick is made.
Word: rickstands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rickstand Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rotundifolious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin rotundus (“round”) + folium (“a leaf”). 1. Having round leaves.
Word: sequestrable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sequester + -able. 1. Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration. Example: sequestrable amount Example: sequestrable balance
Word: starchedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From starched + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being starched Labels: uncountable Example: the starchedness of linen 2. stiffness in manners; formality. Labels: uncountable
Word: toilful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From toil + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔɪlfəl/ 1. Producing or involving much toil; laborious. Example: 1751, William Julius Mickle, "Liberty", an elegy to Frederick, Prince of Wales The fruitful lawns confess his toilful care
Word: upwreath Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + wreath. 1. To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does. Labels: intransitive Example: 1822, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Apologia pro Vita Sua” in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.), The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912, p. 345, In unctuous cones of kindling coal, Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe’s trim bole, His [the poet’s] gifted ken can see Phantoms of sublimity. Example: And around it columns of smoke, upwreathing, Rose from the boiling, bubbling, seething Caldron, that glowed, And overflowed With the black tar, heated for the sheathing. 2. To twist or entwine (something) upward. Labels: transitive Example: 1830, Reginald Heber, “Morte d'Arthur: A Fragment,” Canto 2, stanza 14, in The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber, London: Frederick Warne, no date, p. 210, […] coiled around his crest, a dragon long Upwreathed its golden spires the wavy plumes among. Example: By thy upwreathed locks that scent the wind, O! hear my prayer, and aid; for Myrrha is unkind! 3. To send (something) upward in curls. Labels: transitive Example: And your fair vestals, watchful, swing Sweet incense for their welcoming, The while our thuribles shall be Upwreathing odorous thoughts to thee;
Word: upwreathed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of upwreath Labels: form-of, participle, past 2. simple past and past participle of upwreathe Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: upwreathing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of upwreath Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present 2. present participle and gerund of upwreathe Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: upwreaths Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of upwreath Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: uranoscopy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From urano- + -scopy. 1. Observation of the heavens or heavenly bodies; astronomy. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: vaticinal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See vaticinate. Pronunciation: /vəˈtɪsɪnəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic. Example: He has left vaticinal rhymes, in which he predicted the union of Scotland with England, about the year 1279
Word: vauty Part of Speech: adj 1. vaulted Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: the haughty vauty welkin
Word: wontless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wont + -less. 1. unaccustomed Labels: obsolete Example: What wontlesse fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast
Word: woodhole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wood + hole. 1. A place where wood is stored, e.g. a woodshed.
Word: woodholes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of woodhole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wretchful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wreccheful; equivalent to wretch + -ful. 1. Wretched. Example: The wretch had the pernicious habit of writing in Milanese dialect. He was doubly wretchful when he took the liberty of giving birth to parodies of the Divine Comedy.
Word: adorement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From adore + -ment. 1. The act of adoring; adoration. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: literal and downright adorement of cats, lizards, and beetles
Word: flammiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin flammifer, from flamma (“flame”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare Italian fiammifero. 1. Producing flame; blazing.
Word: hostilize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hostile + -ize. 1. To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy. Labels: archaic Example: 1794, Anna Seward, Letters of Anna Seward Letter 96, to Reverend T. S. Whalley. When England, Spain, Holland, and Russia united with the powers already hostilized against an impious nation, that had reduced robbery, murder, and profaneness to a cool and practical system, I thought there was the fairest prospect of their success . Example: March 4, 1815, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis C. Grey, Esq. if they go on checking, irritating, injuring and hostilizing us, they will force on us the motto “Carthago delenda est”.
Word: hostilized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hostilize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hostilizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hostilize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rivaless Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rival + -ess. 1. A female rival. Labels: obsolete Example: he should not […] make my ready rivaless […] wait for him
Word: rivalesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rivaless Labels: form-of, plural
Word: transplanters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of transplanter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: allegorization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From allegory + -ization. 1. The act of making into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: allegorizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of allegorization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jabberment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jabber + -ment. 1. jabber Labels: dialectal, obsolete, uncountable Example: At laſt and in good hour, we are come to his farewel, which is to be a concluding taſte of his Jabberment in Law, the flaſhieſt and fuſtieſt that ever corrupted in ſuch an unſwill'd Hogſhead.
Word: litigiously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From litigious + -ly. 1. In a litigious manner. 2. In a litigious manner.
Word: untasteable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + tasteable. 1. Unable to be tasted; having no flavor. 2. Having a repulsive taste, so as to make tasting too unpleasant an experience to attempt. Example: The residue, however, is extremely acid and bitter, practically untasteable.
Word: dog-weary Part of Speech: adj 1. Extremely weary. Example: O master, master, I have watched so long / That I am dog-weary, but at last I spied […] Example: "He is a very dog to the community", and I am grown quite "dog-weary" of hearing of his fame.
Word: nidulation Part of Speech: noun 1. The time of remaining in the nest, or the nest-building. Labels: uncountable Example: in the time of their [the birds'] nidulation and bringing forth their young
Word: ostentators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ostentator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sutural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French sutural. 1. Of or pertaining to a suture Labels: not-comparable Example: a sutural dehiscence Example: sutural elevation
Word: woundable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wound + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈwuːndəbəl/ 1. Capable of being wounded; vulnerable. Example: woundable is the dragon , under the left wing , when pinched in point of profit
Word: rejoicer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rejoice + -er. 1. One who rejoices. Example: Such souls can with assistance rise to better things, but it is a very arduous task and for the most part they remain rejoicers in evil.
Word: rejoicers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rejoicer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wealthful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wealth + -ful. 1. Full of wealth; prosperous. Example: that wealthful spoile
Word: mercature Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin mercatura (“commerce”). 1. commerce; trade Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: æonic Part of Speech: adj 1. Dated spelling of aeonic. Example: Suppose a man earnestly believed, as one of the Apostles, for instance, very well might have believed, that by continuing to live through all the centuries, he could give a witness to the facts of revelation such as would otherwise have been impossible, would he have been justified in praying for such an æonic life ?
Word: brevipen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin brevis (“short”) + penna (“wing”). Compare French brévipenne. 1. A brevipennate (short-winged) bird, in a former proposed classification, Brevipennes Labels: obsolete
Word: brevipens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brevipen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: halometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From halo- + -meter. 1. An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals. 2. An instrument for determining the size of blood cells by measuring the angular diameter of diffraction of light passing through the blood. Example: When a small source of light is viewed through a thin blood film on a glass slide, a circular coloured pattern, or halo, is seen. The angular diameter of this halo is inversely proportional to the diameter of the blood cell and it is this which the halometer measures.
Word: halometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of halometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prosodiacally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From prosodiacal + -ly. 1. prosodically Labels: not-comparable
Word: retractible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From retract + -ible. 1. Alternative form of retractable. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: tricliniary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin tricliniaris. See triclinium. 1. Of, pertaining to, or using a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining while eating. Labels: not-comparable Example: tricliniary beds Example: tricliniary posture
Word: vaporific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vapor + -ific. Pronunciation: /ˌveɪ.pəˈɹɪf.ɪk/ 1. Producing vapour Example: vaporific effect 2. Of pertaining to vapor. Example: vaporific phenomena Example: vaporific fluid
Word: wordsman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From words + -man. 1. A man who is a wordsmith. Example: This was the document which at long last defined the problem that had long nagged at the serge-clad shoulders of a score of wordsmen. 2. One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. Labels: archaic Example: Nor does it make any the least difference, except with some speculative wordsman, grubbing under space and time, whether death and prey and other like consequences of sin began to work, before the arrival here of man, or only after.
Word: wordsmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wordsman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: maneuvreability Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of manoeuvrability. Labels: alt-of, misspelling, uncountable
Word: brisky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From brisk + -y. 1. Somewhat brisk; lively; energetic. Labels: rare Example: Flute: Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue, Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier, Most brisky juvenal and eke most lovely Jew, As true as truest horse that yet would never tire Example: [H]e kept his eyes steadily fixed upon the ground, and walked at a brisky pace, as if desirous of getting out of the city as quickly as possible.