nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: foxship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fox + -ship. 1. The character or qualities of a fox; foxiness; craftiness; cunning. Labels: uncountable Example: Hadst thou foxship to banish him that struck more blows for Rome than thou hast spoken words. Example: "[…] 'Are we not Wasawahili?' men who obtain their ends by foxship?" 2. The fox. Labels: uncountable Example: The dingo, however, does not possess the cunning of his foxship; and, unlike the latter, he "gives himself away" by heralding his coming by a peculiar howl, the authorship of which it is impossible to mistake. Example: I caught a fleeting far-away glimpse of the quarry as he loped across an open field just before re-entering the big swamp-I thought a few things that were anything but complimentary to his foxship, and throwing myself on the ground, […]
Word: francolite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for type locality Wheal Franco (a former copper mine in Tavistock, in Devon, England) + -lite. 1. Synonym of lewistonite (“variety of fluorapatite”) Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: freshmanship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From freshman + -ship. 1. The state of being a freshman. Labels: uncountable
Word: frolicful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From frolic + -ful. 1. frolicsome Labels: archaic
Word: frondous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From frond + -ous. 1. frondose
Word: furniment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French fourniment. 1. Accoutrements, fittings. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: they spyde with speedie whirling pace, / One in a charet of straunge furniment / Towards them driving, like a storme out sent.
Word: furthersome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From further + -some. 1. Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous. Labels: archaic Example: you will find it a most handy and every way furthersome , blessed and felicitous world
Word: fuscine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fusc(us) + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌsin/, /-ɪn/ 1. A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil. Labels: uncountable
Word: gauntly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From gaunt + -ly. 1. In a gaunt manner. Example: gauntly beautiful Example: striding gauntly
Word: geomalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek 1. geotropism Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: girkin Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of gherkin. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: grammatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin grammaticus. Compare Old English grammatiċ. Piecewise doublet of grammar and its many doublets. 1. grammatical
Word: granitiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From granite + -form. 1. Resembling granite in structure or shape. Labels: not-comparable
Word: graphoscope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grapho- + -scope. 1. An optical instrument, invented in the 19th century, for magnifying, usually having one magnifying glass.
Word: groundage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ground + -age. 1. A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For every vessel with salt fish, for groundage eight pence per day
Word: guerdonless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From guerdon + -less. 1. Without reward or guerdon.
Word: guirland Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of garland. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: gymnocyte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gymno- + -cyte. 1. A cell without a proper cell wall, but with a nucleus. Labels: dated
Word: gypsiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gypsum + -i- + -ferous. 1. Containing gypsum
Word: hagiarchy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hagio- + -archy. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪdʒiˌɑː(ɹ)ki/, /ˈhædʒiˌɑː(ɹ)ki/ 1. A government run by holy or religious people. Example: St. Benedict and the Seraphic St. Francis, personages of the highest order in the hagiarchy, found it necessary to prescribe for themselves a roll among the briars
Word: harnesser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From harness + -er. 1. One who harnesses. Example: He is the harnesser of energy, the leader and organizer, the creator of order.
Word: hayrake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hay + rake. 1. A rake for collecting hay 2. A rake for collecting hay 3. A rake for collecting hay
Word: hayrake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hay + rake. 1. To collect hay with a rake of this kind.
Word: heartseed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From heart + seed. 1. Any plant of the genus Cardiospermum, climbing plants with round seeds marked with a spot like a heart. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The common Heartseed (C. Halicacabum), sometimes called also Winter cherry, or Heart-pea, is a widely distributed plant, found in all tropical countries.
Word: heavenly-minded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From heavenly + minded. 1. Devout; heavenly; pious; of pure mind. Example: Make them devout in their daily life, zealous, grave, heavenly-minded; not secular, not frivolous, but true pastors, in feeding, in watching, in praying.
Word: heptastich Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hepta- + stich. 1. A seven-lined or seven-versed poem.
Word: herbarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From herb + -arian. Pronunciation: /hɜːˈbɛəɹi.ən/, /(h)ɝˈbɛɹi.ən/ 1. A herbalist. Labels: archaic
Word: hexangular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hex- + -angular, after hexangle. Piecewise doublet of sexangular. 1. Synonym of hexagonal. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: hornwrack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From horn + wrack. 1. A bryozoan of the genus Flustra, especially species Flustra foliacea. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For the time being the tide was […] burying the hornwracks, which were easily mistaken for seaweed but which really were tiny bryozoans, or moss animals.
Word: horsepond Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From horse + pond. 1. A pond, or part of a river, for watering and cleaning horses.
Word: hydro-electric Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of hydroelectric. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: hypostasize Part of Speech: verb 1. To hypostatize. Labels: transitive Example: The pressed Newtonians […] refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether.
Word: idiosyncratical Part of Speech: adj 1. Rare spelling of idiosyncratic. Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: idolatrize Part of Speech: verb 1. To make an idol of; to idolize. Labels: transitive 2. To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship. Labels: intransitive
Word: illuminary Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɪˈlumɪnɛɹi/ 1. illuminative
Word: illuminary Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪˈlumɪnɛɹi/ 1. A luminary
Word: imband Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From im- + band. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbænd/ 1. To form into a band or bands Labels: archaic Example: Beneath full sails imbanded nations rise.
Word: imbargo Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of embargo. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: imbargo Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic form of embargo. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: imbase Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbeɪs/ 1. Obsolete spelling of embase (“to lower”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: by ambitiously heaping up the conceits and authorities of other men, increase much in the bulk, but do as much imbase in true value
Word: imbastardize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + bastardize. 1. to bastardize, debase Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: and partly becauſe in our times their order is indeed imbaſterdized, and nothing fo valourous and faithfull, as it hath beene heretofore. Example: But now with a beſotted and degenerate baſeneſs of ſpirit, except ſome few, [...], the reſt imbaſtardiz'd from the ancient nobleneſs of thir Anceſtors, are ready to fall flatt and give adoration to the Image and memory of this Man
Word: imblazon Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of emblazon. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: Impeyan pheasant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After English natural historian Lady Mary Impey, who established a menagerie in Calcutta. Named in 1790 by ornithologist John Latham, who described the species from a preserved corpse from the menagerie. 1. A species of pheasant, Lophophorus impejanus. Example: The Impeyan pheasant is an example in point : adapted for regions where the temperature is at the most only moderate, and often at a low degree, this noble bird soon dies when taken from its alpine home into the burning lowlands of India; and hence arises one of the difficulties in the way of our obtaining living specimens in Europe. Example: Fig. 13.3.[…]Impeyan pheasants (Lophophorus impejanus)(c) bow low before the hen, then peck vigorously.
Word: improportionate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From im- + proportionate. 1. Not proportionate. Labels: obsolete Example: an improportionate action
Word: improvidentially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From improvidential + -ly. 1. improvidently; not providentially Example: enter something improvidentially Example: improvidentially married
Word: incremation Part of Speech: noun 1. cremation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: indentment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From indent + -ment. 1. indenture or indentation Labels: obsolete
Word: indeprivable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + deprivable. 1. That one cannot be deprived of; inalienable. Labels: archaic Example: [P]erhaps Birth may be really the sole indeprivable Good, I can think of nothing else which one cannot lose by Folly or by Accident—Virtue excluded, and that is a Quality that Italians do not trouble themselves to think of.
Word: indistinctible Part of Speech: adj 1. indistinguishable Labels: obsolete Example: A favourite old romance is founded on the indistinctible likeness of two of Charlemagne's knights
Word: indivisibleness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From indivisible + -ness. 1. The state of being indivisible; indivisibility. Labels: uncountable Example: [T]he radiant beames of the VVord of God, […] is the perception (by this dazling light) of vvhat great dignity and excellence our humane nature may novv ovvn; in vvhich the intire Trinity doth reſide, the Son of God in Perſon, the holy Ghoſt or Spirit of God, by Character and impreſſion, and conſequently God the Father by the indiviſibleneſs of his eſſence from their preſences; […]
Word: indorsee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From indorse + -ee. 1. Archaic spelling of endorsee. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: inexhalable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + exhalable. 1. Incapable of being exhaled. Labels: obsolete Example: the heat can bring the inexhalable parts into consistence
Word: inexpertness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inexpert + -ness. 1. Lack of expertise or skill. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: inquisible Part of Speech: adj 1. admitting inquiry, capable of being inquired into Labels: obsolete Example: If body cannot be seen, death inquisible before justices of oyer and terminer, or peace Example: I decide to check the inquisible writings of Arnold Marcus
Word: integumentation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From integument + -ation. 1. The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered. Labels: uncountable Example: integumentation of plants Example: integumentation of the sporangium
Word: interfascicular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + fascicular. 1. Between fascicles or bundles. Labels: not-comparable Example: interfascicular spaces of connective tissue Example: interfascicular cells
Word: interstition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin interstitiō, or by confusion with interstitium. 1. An interstice or interstitium; an interstitial space.
Word: inthrone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + throne. 1. Archaic form of enthrone. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: THE INTHRONIZATION. The King ascended the Theatre, accompanied by the two Bishops his Supporters, the Great Officers of State, the Lords carrying the Swords, and the Lords who had borne Their Majesties' Regalia, and was Inthroned by the Archbishops, Bishops, and the other Peers, who then stood about the steps of the Throne.
Word: irrelievable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ir- + relievable. 1. unrelievable Labels: archaic
Word: irremittable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + remit + -able. 1. not capable of being remitted; irremissible Example: the fin against the Holie - Ghost , which they call irremittable or unto death
Word: irreparableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From irreparable + -ness. 1. The quality of being irreparable; irreparability. Labels: uncountable
Word: isolatedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From isolated + -ly. 1. In an isolated manner. Example: […] how could he fail to acknowledge the existence of that all-controlling and all-permeating wonderfulness, which, when imperfectly and isolatedly recognized by the generality, is so significantly denominated The Finger of God?
Word: janty Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of jaunty. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: jargonist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jargon + -ist. 1. Someone who overuses jargon; one who uses cant or slang. Example: Nothing in the language of those jargonists at whom Mr . Gosport laughed, nothing in the language of Sir Sedley Clarendel, approaches this new Euphuism
Word: jaspachate Part of Speech: noun 1. agate jasper Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: javel Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒævəl/ 1. A vagabond. Labels: obsolete Example: But the right gentle mind would bite his lip, To hear the javel: so good men to nip
Word: jessant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French gesant. Doublet of jacent. Pronunciation: /ˈdʒɛsənt/ 1. Describing a charge which appears over, or covers, another charge as well as the field. Labels: not-comparable Example: That night she finds a locket on her pillow. Gold, in the shape of a heart, Cupids jessant round the perimeter.
Word: joculary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin jocularius. Compare jocular. 1. jocular; jocose; joking Labels: obsolete Example: With arts voluptuary I couple practices joculary
Word: joculatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin joculatorius. 1. funny; witty Labels: obsolete Example: let me now answer your facetious Letter (of 10 August) with a joculatory line or two
Word: jolliment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jolly + -ment. 1. jollity; cheer Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Matter of mirth enough, though there were none, She could devise, and thousand ways invent To feed her foolish humour, and vain jolliment.
Word: jostlement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jostle + -ment. 1. crowding or bustle. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: Towards Soho, therefore, Mr. Stryver shouldered his way from the Temple, while the bloom of the Long Vacation's infancy was still upon it. Anybody who had seen him projecting himself into Soho while he was yet on Saint Dunstan's side of Temple Bar, bursting in his full-blown way along the pavement, to the jostlement of all weaker people, might have seen how safe and strong he was. Example: The Niigata of the Government, with its signs of progress in a western direction, is quite unattractive-looking as compared with the genuine Japanese Niigata, which is the neatest, cleanest, and most comfortable-looking town I have yet seen, and altogether free from the jostlement of a foreign settlement. It is renowned for the beautiful tea-houses, which attract visitors from distant places, and for the excellence of the theatres, and is the centre of the recreation and pleasure of a large district.
Word: jowler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jowl + -er. 1. A dog with large jowls, such as the beagle. Labels: archaic Example: Never saw I bloodthirsty fierceness better depicted than in the muzzles o ' thae ferocious Jowlers
Word: Judaist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Juda(ism) + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːˌdeɪ.ɪst/, /ˈd͡ʒuːdeɪ.ɪst/, /ˈd͡ʒuːdi.ɪst/ 1. One who believes and practices Judaism. Labels: Judaism, uncommon Example: Moreover, is not Cicero, according to Dr. J.’s principles, a pretty good Christian, or, to speak more chronologically, a spiritual Judaist? Example: When the falling star was predicted as poisoning with his wormwood the rivers and fountains, he was not only described as poisoning the sources of instruction, and the youth who drank at them. An allusion was obviously intended to the waters of Hemero-baptism, which doubtless formed a prominent part of the Thebutic system, and one of the characters of its numerous adherents, daily baptism having long previously been exacted from the zealous Judaist.*
Word: judicable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin iūdicābilis. See judge. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːdɪkəbəl/ 1. Able to be judged; capable of being tried or decided upon, especially in a legal case. Example: Pride is soon discernable, but not easily judicable.
Word: justiceship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From justice + -ship. 1. The office or dignity of a justice. Example: her Majesty hath also commaunded that Sir Thomas Norreis shall leave the chardg of the Justiceshippe
Word: kercher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English kevercher, kercher, from Old French cuevrechier. Pronunciation: /ˈkɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/ 1. A bandana. Labels: obsolete Example: He had a kercher wreathed aboute his heed: […] Example: I bought thee kerchers to thy head, that were wrought fine and gallantly: I kept thee both at boord and bed, Which cost my purse wel fauouredly.
Word: kerchered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From kercher + -ed. 1. Covered, or bound round, with a kercher. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: […]his kercher'd head[…]
Word: kirumbo Part of Speech: noun 1. A bird of Madagascar, the cuckoo-roller, Leptosomus discolor. Labels: obsolete
Word: kissing-crust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kissing + crust. 1. The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking. Example: how he would recommend this slice of white bread, or that piece of kissing crust, to a tender juvenile, advising them all to have a care of cracking their teeth Example: he cuts a massy fragment from the rich curly kissing-crust, that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf[…]
Word: knuff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Old English cnof (“a churl”). Pronunciation: /nʌf/ 1. A lout, rogue or rustic person. Labels: obsolete Example: The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, with clubs and clouted shoon
Word: laccin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French laccine. 1. A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac. Labels: uncountable
Word: lackadaisy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Alteration of lack-a-day or alack-the-day. 1. Lackadaisical. Labels: archaic
Word: lackadaisy Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Alteration of lack-a-day or alack-the-day. 1. Lackaday. Labels: archaic
Word: lactary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin lactārius. Pronunciation: /ˈlæktəɹi/ 1. Alternative form of lactory. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: lactary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin lactārius. Pronunciation: /ˈlæktəɹi/ 1. A dairyhouse. Labels: archaic Example: The same may be said of the ‘long-horns’ and of the ‘Alderneys;’ for the former, though fattened for the market, and yielding a large supply of butter and cheese, are not kept to any great extent in the ‘lactaries,’ or milk establishments; […] Example: The quantity of butter made here is, for an obvious reason small; and rarely exceeds 100 lbs. per week. […] Such is one of the London Lactaries:—there are many of them, some of larger, several of equal, and a few of interior extent.
Word: lanseh Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of langsat. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: laryngismus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin laryngismus, from the Ancient Greek λαρυγγισμός (larungismós, “a croaking”), from λάρυγξ (lárunx), whence also larynx. By surface analysis, laryng- + -ismus. Pronunciation: /læɹɪnˈd͡ʒɪzməs/ 1. laryngospasm. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: lazyback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lazy + back. 1. A support for the back, attached to the seat of a vehicle. Labels: colloquial, dated Example: After we got them stopped, we asked them to get out of the car, which they did. Carroll referred to me, and called me by the name of 'Fred,' just as soon as I got up to him. Raised up the back part of the roadster; didn't find any liquor there; then raised up the cushion; then I struck at the lazyback of the seat and it was hard. I then started to open it up, and I did tear the cushion some, and Carroll said, 'Don't tear the cushion; we have only got six cases in there;' and I took out two bottles and found out it was liquor
Word: lepered Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From leper + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of leper Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: lepered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From leper + -ed. 1. Synonym of leprous. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: lichwort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lich + wort. 1. The herb Parietaria officinalis. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: lightroom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From light (noun) + room (noun). 1. A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows. 2. The room at the top of a lighthouse containing the lighting apparatus.
Word: likehood Part of Speech: noun 1. likelihood Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: livelihed Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of livelihood. Labels: alt-of, no-plural, obsolete
Word: logicalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From logical + -ness. 1. The quality of being logical. Labels: uncountable
Word: loosish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From loose + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈluːsɪʃ/ 1. Somewhat loose.
Word: luctation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin luctātiō (whence -ation), from luctor (“to wrestle, strive”). Pronunciation: /lʌkˈteɪʃən/ 1. Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavour. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: a. 1658, Anthony Farindon, a sermon thoſe duties which require the luctation of the Mind
Word: mariput Part of Speech: noun 1. A species of civet; Ictonyx striatus.
Word: martialism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From martial + -ism. 1. The quality of being warlike; exercises suitable for war. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: You, a poet, will understand when I say that the same relationship which exists between bourgeois art and art exists between militarism and martialism. Example: This perspective differed radically from the core values of realist writers; in this sense, it is suggested that realism should be regarded in aspects as the antithesis of martialism, and not (as many writers of international theory seem to hold) as its corollary. 2. A spiritual philosophy associated with some martial arts that involves finding one's inner balance, transcending physical combat, and the ability to become one with the opponent. Labels: uncountable Example: Interactive confusion and misunderstanding often result from failure to distinguish the different aspects of Zen and martialism as they actually operate in various mixtures. Example: In particular, one military academy that trains officers emphasizes the Hwarang spirit along with Sangmujeongsin (martialism) to its students.
Word: mazeful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From maze + -ful. 1. Causing amazement; wonderful. Labels: obsolete Example: A precious memory is the mazeful notes of Dr. Brodsky's interpretation of the romantic cadenza; […] Example: He could not quite draw from the New York Philharmonic the mazeful shadelike world into which Schubert recedes at times in this wonderful masterpiece, where risks are taken so hazardous that only genius as innocent as Schubert's could […] 2. Mazy. Example: In both a mazefull ſolitarineſſe: / In night of ſprites the gaſtly powers to ſtur, / In thee or ſprites or ſprited gaſtlineſſe: […] Example: It was a mazeful wonder; / Thrice three times it was enwalled / With an emerald— / Sealèd so asunder.
Word: mazeful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From maze + -ful. 1. A quantity that fills or forms a maze. Example: There will be another four waiting to be gobbled there, as well as a whole new mazeful of cheese bits. Example: When you were young and fell in love for the first time with a stranger, the emotional involvement and novelty being so strong that you did not have a chance to judge it with a cool head and normally get entangled in a mazeful of false sentiments.
Word: medicable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin medicabilis, from medicare, medicari, to heal, from medicus physician. See medical. 1. Capable of being medicated 2. Capable of being cured or healed. Example: medicable wound Example: medicable bruise
Word: medicative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From medicate + -ive. 1. Medicinal; acting like a medicine.
Word: mellifluently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From mellifluent + -ly. 1. In a mellifluent manner.
Word: mercurammonium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of mercuric + ammonium. 1. The cation Hg(NH₄)₂⁴⁺ Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: microphytal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From microphyte + -al. 1. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes. Labels: not-comparable Example: microphytal earth Example: microphytal growth
Word: middler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From middle + -er. 1. One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries. 2. A pupil at middle school. 3. Someone or something in the middle.
Word: mimically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From mimical + -ly. 1. In a mimicking or imitative manner. Example: mimically represented emotions Example: In the last place, he argues, that if it be lawful to baptize infants without understanding, baptism may be mimically and jocularly administered by boys in play. 2. In a manner that preserves the form and internal structure of an organic substance. Example: Allochems and preexisting cements may be unreplaced, partially replaced, replaced mimically, or replaced nonmimically. Example: The overgrowths have been mimically dolomitized.
Word: misallied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mis- + allied. 1. Wrongly allied or associated.
Word: misregard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + regard. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsɹɪˈɡɑːd/, /ˌmɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹd/ 1. Wrong understanding; misconstruction. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Here well I weene , whenas these rimes be red With misregard 2. Disregard; failure to heed or consider; contempt; neglect. Labels: uncountable Example: As to the duke's misregard of her offer, they did remit the truth of that to the report of the persons employed by herself. Example: […] poem does a turnabout as the narrator justifies that "misregard" by telling the golden-age story from the Censor's standpoint: […]
Word: misregard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + regard. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsɹɪˈɡɑːd/, /ˌmɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹd/ 1. To disregard; fail to heed; ignore; neglect. Labels: transitive Example: To misregard the Word is in the account of Paul, to misregard ones own Salvation, he does not prise his own Soul, as he should do: […] Example: […] yet such being their resolution, that in they would, and be worshipful upon any terms, they misregarded all formerly-used steps of promotion, accounting them but unnecessary, and most rudely rushing into the very sanctuary, they immediately hung out the orange colours to testifie their conquest of the honour of knights-baronet.
Word: misspeech Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + speech. 1. Incorrect speech. Labels: uncountable Example: Near-synonym: speako (countable)
Word: misterm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + term. 1. To call by a wrong name; to misname or give a misnomer
Word: monopodial Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis of growth; of or pertaining to a monopodium. Labels: not-comparable Example: A birch twig or a cornstalk is monopodial.
Word: moonblind Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From moon + blind. 1. Dim-sighted; purblind. Labels: obsolete 2. Alternative form of moon-blind. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: moreen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare mohair. 1. A thick woollen fabric, watered or with embossed figures, once used in upholstery, for curtains, etc. It is a variety of camlet. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement. Example: Briggs cried, and Becky laughed a great deal and kissed the gentlewoman as soon as they got into the passage; and thence into Mrs. Bowls's front parlour, with the red moreen curtains, and the round looking-glass […]
Word: muckiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mucky + -ness. 1. The quality of being mucky; dirtiness. Labels: informal, uncountable 2. muck; dirt Labels: uncountable
Word: multicapsular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + capsular: compare French multicapsulaire. 1. Having several capsules.
Word: naphthalate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From naphthalic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. A salt of naphthalic acid; a phthalate. Labels: obsolete
Word: nauseative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nauseate + -ive. 1. Causing nausea; nauseous. Labels: archaic
Word: neossine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek 1. The salivary secretion various swift species use to make their nests. Labels: uncountable
Word: neoterism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek νεότερος (neóteros) + -ism. Pronunciation: /niːˈɒtəɹɪzəm/, /niˈɑtəˌɹɪzəm/ 1. An innovation or novelty Labels: archaic 2. a neoteric (newly coined) word or phrase.
Word: nervimotion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nerve + -i- + motion. 1. The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Labels: uncountable
Word: newfangly Part of Speech: adj 1. Newfangled. Labels: humorous, obsolete Example: He had alſo ſet a prieſt of his and a ſeculer ſeruaunt of his beſyde to by [buy] many of the ſame ſuyte [of books], & double and treble of one ſorte, whiche were by thẽ [them] vttred to diuers yonge ſcholers ſuch as thei founde properly witted, feately lerned, and newfangly mynded. Example: Sounds like one o' them newfangly things they come up with since '87 …
Word: nobilify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin nobilis (“noble”) + -fy. 1. To make noble Labels: obsolete
Word: novelry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Old French novelerie. 1. Novelty; new things. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: novenary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin novenarius, from novem (“nine”). 1. A group of nine.
Word: novenary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin novenarius, from novem (“nine”). 1. Pertaining to the number nine.
Word: nummulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin nummulus (“money”) + -ation. By surface analysis, numm(us) + -ule + -ate + -ion. 1. The arrangement or aggregation of red blood cells into rouleaux, resembling piles of coins. Labels: rare Example: A marked peculiarity of these bodies is their tendency to cohere immediately after the blood is drawn, thus forming Schultze's grannule-masses, and this process is analogous to the nummulation of the red corpuscules. Example: Examples of the other blood coagulation system measurement items include coagulation of blood (blood clotting), …, nummulation of red blood cells, blood aggregation, …, and fibrinolysis.
Word: oceloid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ocelot + -oid. 1. Resembling the ocelot. Labels: archaic Example: oceloid cat Example: oceloid leopard
Word: officiary Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to an office or an officer; official. Example: the Title as it were meerly Officiary and Personal
Word: officiary Part of Speech: noun 1. A Scottish land division, part of a large estate. Labels: historical
Word: onocerin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin Ononis, the generic name of the plant + Latin cera (“wax”) + -in 1. A white crystalline waxy triterpene extracted from the root of the leguminous plant spiny restharrow (Ononis spinosa).
Word: ontologic Part of Speech: adj 1. ontological
Word: onwardness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From onward + -ness. 1. Progress; advancement. Labels: uncountable 2. Forward motion Labels: uncountable Example: the burbling onwardness of the river itself
Word: ophidious Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of ophidian. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: ophiomorphite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek 1. An ammonite. Labels: obsolete
Word: opinionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French opinioniste. 1. One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Example: every conceited Opinionist sets up an infallible Chair in his own brain 2. One whose unusual or heretical belief or opinion contrasts with the dominant view.
Word: orthotomous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From orthotomy + -ous or ortho- + -tomous. 1. Having two cleavages at right angles with one another. Example: orthotomous feldspar
Word: oscule Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of osculum. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: osteogenetic Part of Speech: adj 1. Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of bone. Labels: not-comparable Example: osteogenetic fibre Example: the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum
Word: ostreaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ostrea (“an oyster”). See oyster. Pronunciation: /ˌɒstɹiˈeɪʃəs/ 1. Of or pertaining to an oyster, or to a shell. Labels: not-comparable Example: the crustaceous or ostreaceous body 2. shaped like an oyster Labels: not-comparable Example: ostreaceous psoriais
Word: Ovidian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Ovidianus, equivalent to Ovid + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pamprodactylous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Ancient Greek 1. Having forward-facing toes. Labels: not-comparable
Word: paraboliform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From parabola + -iform. 1. Shaped like a parabola; parabolic. Labels: archaic
Word: permitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From permit + -er. 1. One who permits.
Word: philologian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From philology + -ian. 1. A philologist. Labels: rare
Word: piceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin piceus (“like pitch; pitch-black”) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality). Piceus is derived from pix (“pitch, tar”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat; milk”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the sources of attributes). The English word is cognate with Italian piceo (“like pitch; of a dark brown colour”), Spanish piceo (“like pitch; of a dark brown colour”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɪ.sɪ.əs/, /ˈpaɪ-/, /paɪˈsiː.əs/, /ˈpɪ.si.əs/ 1. Of or pertaining to pitch (“a sticky, dark brown substance obtained from distilling turpentine or wood tar, or crude oil or tar”); having a quality like pitch. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: I do not therefore require of you to believe, that the ancient rocks and compact bodies were diſſolved, but that many new ones were formed by the deluge, which had incloſed the ſpoils of the ſea within them. […] What other rational account will you give of that ſhell of a nautilus, which was found buried in a ſtratum of a piceous ſubstance below the bed of the river Arbis, where Artaxerxes commanded a bridge to be built over it? 2. Resembling pitch in colour; a very dark brown. Example: Piciroſtris. Oblong, black: ſilvery-ſilky: ſnout half way and legs piceous. Example: The colour of the upper part is a mixture of yellowish-white and piceous disposed in dots, exactly resembling mosaic work, […]
Word: pinnigrade Part of Speech: noun 1. A pinniped. Labels: obsolete
Word: pluteal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pluteus + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to a pluteus. Labels: not-comparable Example: pluteal arms Example: pluteal larvae
Word: poeticule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poet + -i- + -cule. 1. A poetaster; a bad poet. Example: […] the rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules who decompose into criticasters.
Word: potale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pot + ale. 1. A liquid byproduct from a grain distillery, consisting of the liquid portion of draff after the spent grain is removed, plus washings from tuns (spent wash). Over time its disposition has varied: mostly as dumped waste, sometimes sold for part of the ration for pigs and cattle, when such a market is available. Labels: uncountable
Word: preconsent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + consent. 1. Consent given in advance. Labels: uncountable
Word: preconsent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + consent. 1. Before being given consent. Labels: not-comparable
Word: predatorily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From predatory + -ly. 1. In a predatory manner. Example: While the more peaceable part of the tribe are to be found among those who possess large herds of cattle, and are frequently connected with some of the principal people in the Arab towns, to whom in times of disturbance they afford protection, among the wandering or nomadic population, are to be found the poorest and most predatorily inclined […]
Word: prefigurative Part of Speech: adj 1. Related to prefiguration; that prefigures. Example: The whole of this process seems to be typical or prefigurative of the grand atonement to be made for the sins of the whole world by Jesus Christ
Word: prolegomenary Part of Speech: adj 1. Acting as a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.
Word: proscriber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proscribe + -er. 1. One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits. Example: In a period of quiet, he had acquired the name of a man of worth; in darker days, he left the renown of a pitiless proscriber. Example: “In principle,” he declared, “proscription is not only a crime, but a fault; history is full of instances, showing how proscribers have in their turn been forced into the ranks of the proscribed."
Word: rangership Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ranger + -ship. 1. The role or status of keeper of a forest or park. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: raveler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ravel + -er. 1. Someone or something that ravels. Example: There are no trimmers or ravelers on the machine.
Word: rebaptizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rebaptize + -er. 1. Someone who rebaptizes.
Word: refractable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From refract + -able. 1. Able to be refracted. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rejoicement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rejoice + -ment. 1. Rejoicing; glee; celebration. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: rejournment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rejourn + -ment. 1. adjournment Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: repealability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From repeal + -ability. 1. The quality of being repealable. Labels: uncountable
Word: represser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From repress + -er. 1. Someone or something that represses.
Word: resonancy Part of Speech: noun 1. resonance Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rheumatismal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rheumatism + -al. 1. Archaic form of rheumatic. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
Word: rhomboganoid Part of Speech: noun 1. A fish of the obsolete suborder Rhomboganoidei, roughly corresponding to the gars (Holostei).
Word: rough-grained Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a rough grain or fiber. 2. coarse of character; not polished or refined. Labels: broadly, figuratively
Word: ruffleless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ruffle + -less. 1. Having no ruffle. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rufiopin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin rufus (“reddish”) + opianic acid. 1. A yellowish-red crystalline substance related to anthracene and obtained from opianic acid. Labels: uncountable
Word: scraw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Irish scrath (“a turf”), sgraith (“a turf, green sod”), akin to Scottish Gaelic sgrath, sgroth (“the outer skin of anything, a turf, a green sod”). Pronunciation: /skɹɔː/, /skɹɑː/ 1. A sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field. Labels: Ireland, archaic 2. Such a turf covering the roof of a cottage beneath the thatch.
Word: sedimental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sediment + -al. 1. sedimentary Labels: not-comparable Example: sedimental samples
Word: semispheroidal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + spheroidal. 1. Shaped like a half spheroid. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sensificatory Part of Speech: adj 1. Susceptible of, or converting into, sensation; sensory. Labels: archaic Example: the sensificatory part of a nervous system
Word: southerliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From southerly + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward (or from) the south. Labels: uncountable
Word: spherosiderite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sphero- + siderite. 1. A spheroidal variety of siderite. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: spicenut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spice + nut. 1. A small, crisp cake containing strong spices. Example: “Good-night, Captain, many thanks. You did it uncommonly well; how kindly the old un swallowed the spice-nut, to be sure; and it is only one of many others he has swallowed within these two days. I am afraid in about another four-and-twenty hours they will begin to disagree with him unless his stomach is a very strong one.”
Word: subconformable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + conformable. 1. Partially conformable; somewhat alike. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: Bracts in the acrocarpous species usually subconformable to the leaves, although often more divided
Word: subnascent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin subnascens, present participle of subnasci (“to grow under”), from sub (“under”) + nasci (“to be born”). Pronunciation: /sʌbˈnæsənt/ 1. Growing underneath. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable, sometimes Example: subnascent seedling
Word: subspherical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + spherical. 1. Somewhat spherical; having a figure resembling that of a sphere.
Word: succorable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From succor + -able. 1. Capable of being succored or assisted; admitting of relief. Labels: archaic
Word: sumpitan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay sumpitan. 1. The sumpit.
Word: sumptuosity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sumptuo(u)s + -ity, from Latin sumptuositas: compare French somptuosité. 1. The state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Macedon may justly be called to witness, who found more cities and sumptuosity in that little kingdom of Porus […] than in all his other travels and undertakings. Example: Sumptuosity and sordidness; revenge, life-weariness, ambition, darkness, putrescence; and, say, in sterling money, three hundred thousand a year,—were this poor Prince once to burst loose from his Court-moorings, to what regions, with what phenomena, might he not sail and drift!
Word: supersacral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + sacral. 1. Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the sacrum. Labels: not-comparable Example: supersacral foramina Example: supersacral region
Word: supertuberation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + tuber + -ation. 1. The production of young tubers from the old while still growing. Labels: uncountable
Word: swinery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From swine + -ery. 1. A piggery.
Word: synochal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From synocha + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to synocha; like synocha. Labels: obsolete Example: synochal fever
Word: tephrite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin tephrītis and Ancient Greek τεφρῖτις (tephrîtis). By surface analysis, tephro- + -ite. 1. An igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: thaumaturgics Part of Speech: noun 1. Feats of legerdemain, or magical tricks. Labels: uncountable
Word: theftbote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From theft + bote. 1. The receiving of a person's goods back from a thief, or a compensation for them, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment. Labels: historical, obsolete, uncountable
Word: theomancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek; theo- + -mancy 1. A kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: thickskin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thick + skin. 1. A coarse, gross person, dull, unsensitive or unsensible person.
Word: thickskin Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thick + skin. 1. Applied to various creatures having a thick skin. Labels: not-comparable
Word: tidology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tide + -ology, Coined by English polymath William Whewell. 1. The science of tides. Labels: uncommon, uncountable Example: He referred mainly to his tidology when he applied for the Lowndean professorship of astronomy, which had become vacant that fall.
Word: tintinnabulous Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /tɪntɪˈnæbjʊləs/ 1. tintinnabular. Example: The persecution of the chapel-bell, sounding its unwelcome summons to six o'clock matins, interrupts my slumbers no longer: the porter who rang it, […] is dead, and has ceased to disturb any body: and I, and many others, who suffered much from his tintinnabulous propensities, have now agreed to overlook his errors, and have forgiven him.
Word: tuberiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tuber + -i- + -ferous. 1. Producing or bearing tubers. Example: tuberiferous crop Example: tuberiferous plant
Word: tulipist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tulip + -ist. 1. A cultivator of tulips. Labels: archaic Example: [T]he Ingenuous delight of Tulipiſts, ſtands ſaluted vvith hard language, even by their ovvn Profeſſors.
Word: tutoress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tutor + -ess; compare tutress. 1. A female tutor. Labels: dated Example: I offer ſubſcription; but always vnder reformation of that moſt honored Tutreſſes Pupils, which ſhall (omitting fabulous traſh) iudiciouſly inſtruct otherwiſe. Example: Fidelia shall be your tutoress.
Word: tympanitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin tympaniticus (“one afflicted with tympanites”). 1. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from, tympany.
Word: tyny Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of tiny. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: typifier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From typify + -er. 1. One who, or that which, typifies. Example: […]some better Authority at least than a modern Typifier
Word: ubiquitariness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ubiquitary + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being ubiquitary, or ubiquitous. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: uglesome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See ugly and -some. Pronunciation: /ˈʌɡəlsəm/ 1. Ugly. Labels: obsolete
Word: ulmic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Formed from the root of Latin ulmus (“an elm”), with the suffix -ic: compare French ulmique. 1. Pertaining to ulmin; designating an acid obtained from ulmin. Labels: not-comparable Example: ulmic acid Example: ulmic precipitate
Word: ultrazodiacal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ultra- + zodiacal. 1. Outside the zodiac; being in that part of the skies that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: ultrazodiacal planets
Word: umbery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From umber + -y. 1. Of or pertaining to umber; like umber. Example: umbery gold Example: umbery silver
Word: umbilication Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin umbilicatus. By surface analysis, umbilic- + -ation. 1. A small, navel-shaped depression, or dimple, at the centre of a rounded body. Example: papillary umbilications Example: the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle
Word: umbrosity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From umbrose + -ity, or borrowed from Latin umbrōsitās. 1. Shade, shadiness. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: the interstitial divisions being continuated by the accession of oil, it becometh more transparent, and admits the visible rays with less umbrosity Example: Shrubberies.[…]The judicious introduction of views of more distant scenery; which is most frequently desirable, unless in such parts as, by way of contrast, are preserved in umbrosity.
Word: unguentary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin unguentarius. 1. Like, or containing, an unguent. Labels: archaic
Word: unguentous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From unguent + -ous. 1. Unguentary. Labels: obsolete, rare