nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: betrayment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From betray + -ment. 1. betrayal Labels: archaic, countable, nonstandard, uncountable
Word: betrayments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of betrayment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nautilite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nautilus + -ite. 1. A fossil nautilus. Labels: obsolete
Word: nautilites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nautilite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: veinal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vein + -al. 1. Pertaining to or contained in veins, especially the veins of a leaf. Labels: not-comparable Example: He supplemented the already-satisfying mixture with his secret touch […], which was to employ a sprinkling of Cobalt Blue, this simulating the depleted veinal blood that circulated just below the human epidermis.
Word: draconin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the stem of Latin dracō (“dragon”) + -in. 1. A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood. Labels: uncountable
Word: glutinousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glutinous + -ness. 1. The quality of being glutinous. Labels: uncountable
Word: budgerow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi बजरा (bajrā). Pronunciation: /ˈbədʒəˌroʊ/, /ˈbədʒəroː/, /ˈbʌdʒərəʊ/ 1. A kind of large river barge. Labels: India, historical Example: In a short time after a budgerow lay beside the vessel, and notice was given that it came to convey about fifteen passengers on shore. Example: A double-masted houseboat of capacious dimensions, the budgerow’s hull was painted blue and grey, to match the Raskhali estate's livery […]
Word: budgerows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of budgerow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: garreteer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From garret + -eer. Pronunciation: /ˌɡæɹəˈtɪə(ɹ)/ 1. One who lives in a garret. 2. A poor author; a literary hack. Labels: derogatory Example: a stupid and ignorant Grub Street garreteer Example: He had a stable of writers at his disposal, his garreteers, given entry to the prison and always at the ready to put a prisoner's story to paper.
Word: garreteers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of garreteer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: noris Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nori Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cosmolatry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cosmo- + -latry. Pronunciation: /kɒzˈmɒlətɹi/ 1. Worship paid to the world. Labels: uncountable Example: […]Polytheism , cosmolatry (or world-idolatry ), and creature-worship[…] 2. Worship of the cosmos. Labels: uncountable
Word: oölitic Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of oolitic. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: guilefulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gilefulnesse, gylefulnes, equivalent to guileful + -ness. 1. The quality of being guileful; cunning or deceit. Labels: uncountable
Word: glyptotheca Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French glyptothèque, from Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós, “carved, engraved”) + Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē, “box or chest”). 1. A room or building devoted to displaying works of sculpture.
Word: glyptothecas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of glyptotheca Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unperishably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unperishable + -ly. 1. In an unperishable manner.
Word: geloscopy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek γελάω (geláō, “to laugh”) + -scopy. 1. Divination by means of laughter. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: Long ago, followers of geloscopy believed the word you used to laugh revealed part of your personality! People who said “Ha!” when they laughed were considered to be honest but undependable[…]
Word: arrogaunt Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of arrogant. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: infanthood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From infant + -hood. 1. Infancy. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: nine-eyes Part of Speech: noun 1. The lamprey. Labels: archaic
Word: democratist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From democrat(ic) + -ist. 1. A supporter of democracy, a democrat 2. specifically, an advocate of republican forms of government (originally as a supporter of the French Revolution). Example: You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists, who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time, they pretend to make them the depositories of all power. Example: For the democratist, “true” democracy is always just around the corner, following the widespread observance of a new political program.
Word: democratist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From democrat(ic) + -ist. 1. Relating to, or supporting, democratism. Labels: not-comparable
Word: democratists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of democratist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: monochlamydeous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mono- + chlamydeous, from mono- + Ancient Greek χλαμύς (khlamús, “mantle, cloak”) + -ous. 1. Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: uttermore Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Through folk etymology from analogy with uttermost, as though from utter + more. 1. comparative form of utter: more utter Labels: comparative, form-of, obsolete Example: The two Pyramides in the middest whereof one was lately pulled downe by some that hoped, though in vaine, to finde treasure, did almost touch one another: the uttermore stand not farre off, yet almost in equall distance from these on both sides
Word: hexacid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hex- + acid. 1. Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent. Labels: not-comparable Example: Mannitol is a hexacid alcohol.
Word: carraway Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of caraway. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: carraways Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of carraway Labels: form-of, plural
Word: transprint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From trans- + print. 1. To transfer to the wrong place in printing; to print out of place. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: In compliance with the suggestion of a judicious friend, the celebrated conclusion of the fourth Book of Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy […] is here transprinted, for the convenience of the reader: […]
Word: transprinted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of transprint Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: transprinting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of transprint Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: transprints Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of transprint Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: franchisement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Old French franchissement. 1. Release; deliverance; freedom Labels: uncountable, usually Example: On his first quest , the which him forth did call, To weet , to worke Irenaes franchisement Example: That fate which did thy franchisement inforce, And from the depth of danger set thee free, 2. Right; privilege, especially the right to vote. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: And, as sure as this is black upon a white ground, so sure are we of the franchisement of women. Example: When the barons met King John and demanded franchisement at his hands, was it based upon the plea that they were mentally equal with him?
Word: franchisements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of franchisement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: topstone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From top + stone. 1. A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top, e.g. of a henge.
Word: topstones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of topstone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overdelighted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + delighted. 1. delighted beyond measure; excessively delighted
Word: reverberative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From reverberate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɜː.bə.ɹə.tɪv/, /ɹəˈvɜː.bɹə.tɪv/, /ɹəˈvɝ.bəˌɹeɪ.tɪv/ 1. Tending to reverberate or reflect. Example: reverberative effects Example: reverberative sounds
Word: reconvertible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From re- + convertible. 1. Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition. Labels: not-comparable 2. Able to be reconverted Labels: not-comparable Example: reconvertible room
Word: auxiliarily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From auxiliary + -ly. 1. Alternative form of auxiliarly. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: auxiliarly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From auxiliar + -ly. 1. By way of help. Example: [E]very one of them as they ſavv moſt advantageous to them, took and left the Britiſh Lavves and Cuſtoms or ſome of them, and in ſo doing vvere but vviſe in their Generation, and both ſerved themſelves of, and ſecure themſelves by, the Providences God gave them auxiliarly to them, […]
Word: freebooty Part of Speech: noun 1. freebootery Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: lucerative Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of lucrative. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: hyoglossi Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪ.oʊˈɡlɑˌsaɪ/, /ˌhaɪ.oʊˈɡlɔˌsaɪ/ 1. plural of hyoglossus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyoglossus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin hyoglōssus, clipping of musculus hyoglōssus (“hyoglossal muscle”). Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪ.oʊˈɡlɑs.əs/, /ˌhaɪ.oʊˈɡlɔs.əs/ 1. A flat muscle on either side of the tongue, connecting it with the body and the thyrohyal of the hyoid bone. Example: The Muscles of the Tongue are: the Genio-hyoglossus, which is the protruder; — the Hyoglossus, which is the depressor or retractor, or muscle which draws the tongue in; […]
Word: misconceiver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From misconceive + -er. 1. One who misconceives.
Word: misconceivers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misconceiver Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inconcerning Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + concerning. Pronunciation: /ɪŋkənˈsɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ/ 1. unimportant Labels: obsolete Example: indifferent and inconcerning matters
Word: toothbill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tooth + bill. 1. The tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris), a fruit-eating pigeon native to the Samoan Islands, somewhat resembling the extinct dodo.
Word: toothbills Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of toothbill Labels: form-of, plural
Word: assailer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English assailour, from Anglo-Norman assaillour; equivalent to assail + -er. 1. Someone who assails Labels: dated
Word: assailers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of assailer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: festinately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From festinate + -ly. 1. In a festinate manner; hastily; hurriedly. Labels: obsolete Example: Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither.
Word: indisciplinable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + disciplinable. 1. Not disciplinable; impossible to discipline.
Word: unconcernment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + concern + -ment. 1. Lack of concern; unconcern. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: It is he alone who can look Death and Danger in the Face with a rational Unconcernment
Word: variolic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From variola + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to smallpox Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: frenzical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From frenzy + -ical. 1. frantic Labels: obsolete Example: […] the coldness of her lover, the loss of her reputation, all contributed to make her miserable, and to encrease the frenzical disposition of her mind.
Word: mollah Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of mullah. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: mollahs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mollah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: moolahs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of moolah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ineffaceably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From ineffaceable + -ly. 1. In an ineffaceable manner; in a manner that cannot be removed or erased. Example: My knowledge of my mother is very scanty, but very distinct. Her personal appearance and bearing are ineffaceably stamped upon my memory.
Word: unerasably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unerasable + -ly. 1. In a way that cannot be erased.
Word: fortitudinous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin fortitūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin fortitūdō, from fortis + -tūdō. By surface analysis, fortitude + -ous. 1. Having fortitude; courageous. Example: these fortitudinous heroes are awed by the superior fierceness of the lions and tigers Example: as brave and fortitudinous a man as any in the king's dominions
Word: subtorrid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + torrid. 1. Somewhat torrid. Labels: not-comparable Example: subtorrid regions
Word: thrombotically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From thrombotic + -ally. 1. In terms of, or by means of, thrombosis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: internity Part of Speech: noun 1. State of being within; interiority. Labels: uncountable Example: 1765–70, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland the darkness of a ruined world, the internityof his ever-living light kindled up an externity of corporal irradiation
Word: rigidulous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rigid + -ule + -ous. 1. Somewhat rigid or stiff. Example: a rigidulous bristle Example: rigidulous hairs
Word: paijama Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of pajama. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: paijamas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paijama Labels: form-of, plural
Word: attitudinizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From attitudinize + -er. 1. One who attitudinizes, or practises poses. Example: Alsop is a violent attitudinizer, and one of the attitudes he strikes is that of the patrician American, a vanishing breed.
Word: attitudinizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of attitudinizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oscinine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin oscen (“songbird”) 1. Of or pertaining to the Oscines, or songbirds (birds of the clade Passeri).
Word: infumated Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a smoky appearance.
Word: metanephritic Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of metanephric. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
Word: spectioneer Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of specksioneer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: spectioneers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spectioneer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: humbugger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From humbug + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌmbʌɡə(ɹ)/, /ˈhəmˌbəɡɚ/ 1. One who humbugs; a cheat or swindler. Labels: dated Example: Under theſe circumſtances the Humbugger attacks the man whom he has ſelected for his butt; and while he proſtitutes his own candour to the raiſing his good opinion of himſelf too high, he gives the ſignal to every body about him to laugh at him for a coxcomb for doing ſo. Example: Here's a Humbugger come, / Will prove the reſt nothing at all, / 'Tis a Jobber, a Factor, / A damn'd Corn Contractor, / Who makes all our Loaves be ſo ſmall; […]
Word: transplendency Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality or state of being transplendent. Labels: uncountable Example: the Divine Transplendency appears Example: The Supreme glory dwells there, and there the cherubic forms fly on mystic wheels, and lighten the majestic scene with their transplendency.
Word: creable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin creābilis, from creō (“create”). See create. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːəbəl/ 1. Capable of being created. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: [Space] cannot be a created Subſtance; becauſe vve cannot conceive it creable or annihilable; and therefore it carries vvith it an Idea of neceſſary Exiſtence; […]
Word: holostomate Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of holostomatous. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: infralabial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From infra- + labial. 1. Below the lower lip; said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes. Labels: not-comparable
Word: infralabial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From infra- + labial. 1. Any scale below the lower lip.
Word: intermittingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From intermitting + -ly. 1. With intermissions; at intervals. Labels: not-comparable Example: Mine, which intermittingly raged for ten years, was rheumatism in the face combined with toothache
Word: poetship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poet + -ship. 1. The state or character of a poet. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: All this burst of fame, / Fury of favour, Royal Poetship, / Prophetship, book, verse, picture—thereof came / — Nothing!
Word: poetships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of poetship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sumph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. 1. A dunce; a blockhead. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: His daughter, that sumph that was Mistress Bruce, fair jumped as she heard the bang of the door [...].
Word: sumph Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of sump (“lowest part of a mineshaft, into which water drains”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: sumphs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sumph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: turacoverdin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See turaco, verdant, -in. 1. A green uroporphyrin pigment found in the feathers of the turaco. Labels: uncountable
Word: supertragical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + tragical. 1. Highly or excessively tragical.
Word: wesand Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of weasand. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: That with the Straint , his Wesand nigh he brast
Word: wesands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wesand Labels: form-of, plural
Word: frostfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From frost + fish. In the case of the tomcod, so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about when frost comes. 1. A tomcod (either species of Microgadus). 2. A tomcod (either species of Microgadus). 3. Any of genus Benthodesmus cutlassfish 4. A smelt. Labels: US, dialectal, obsolete 5. A scabbardfish. Labels: New-Zealand Example: Another species of the renowned “frost fish,” but unlike the ordinary frost fish, it is of much greater length in proportion to depth. It well deserves its proper cognomen of the scabbard fish, its silver skin adding to the resemblance.
Word: frostfishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frostfish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: appreciant Part of Speech: adj 1. appreciative Labels: archaic
Word: fluctuability Part of Speech: noun 1. The capacity or ability to fluctuate. Labels: uncountable Example: December 4 1793, Horace Walpole, letter to Miss Berry Dubious, dubious! Such fluctuability is fit only for a stock-jobber
Word: proceeder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proceed + -er. 1. One who proceeds.
Word: proceeders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of proceeder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: testamental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin testamentalis. 1. Of or pertaining to a testament; testamentary. Labels: not-comparable Example: Thy testamental cup I take, / And thus remember thee.
Word: whipstaff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From whip + staff. Pronunciation: /ˈʍɪpstɑːf/, /ˈwɪpstɑːf/ 1. A bar, going through the poopdeck, attached perpendicularly to the tiller for steering a ship.
Word: whipstaves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of whipstaff Labels: form-of, plural
Word: whipstaffs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of whipstaff Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oxybromic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From oxy- + bromic. 1. Pertaining to, or designating, a series of acids of oxygen and bromine. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare Example: oxybromic acid
Word: hygieist Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of hygienist. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: hygieists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hygieist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inconsideracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inconsiderate + -cy. 1. The quality of being inconsiderate; thoughtlessness. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: This is the common effect of the inconsideracy of youth , against which I beg you will be most carefully upon your guard.
Word: hydroferricyanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hydro- + ferri- + cyanic. 1. Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen. Labels: not-comparable
Word: wheyface Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From whey + face. 1. One who is pale, as from fear; a coward.
Word: wheyfaces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wheyface Labels: form-of, plural
Word: observership Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From observer + -ship. 1. The office or work of an observer. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. observance Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: observerships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of observership Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Hebraistically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Hebraistical + -ly or Hebraistic + -ally; equivalent to Hebra- + -istically. 1. In a Hebraistic sense or form. Example: 1843-1845, John Kitto, Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature […] which is Hebraistically used in the New Testament.
Word: delitigation Part of Speech: noun 1. telling-off; brawl Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: foiler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From foil + -er. 1. One who foils or frustrates.
Word: foilers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of foiler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: importunable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From importune + -able? 1. Heavy; insupportable. Labels: obsolete Example: [N]o ſooner vvere they left to ſtand vpon their ovvne baſis, but that they felt the vveight of their done vvrongs too importunable for them any longer to beare; […]
Word: keld Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a kell or covering; webbed. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: […] the Otter then that keepes In the wild Riuers, in their Bancks and Sleeps, And ſeeds on Fish, which vnder water ſtill, He with his keld ſeet, and keene teeth doth kill; The other two into the Arke doth follow, Though his ill ſhape doth cauſe him but to wallow[…]
Word: keld Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old Norse kelda (“spring”). 1. A marshy place or a spring. Labels: Northern-England, obsolete, possibly Example: Than thou to'nns [turns] doon o' t'left hand an' t'keld's a matter o' tunty yards doon t'bank. Example: […] locusts and varying climatic conditions ravage the kelds, and much of the land is bad or indifferent.
Word: oxamethylane Part of Speech: noun 1. methyl oxamate Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: unshent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + shent. 1. Not shent; not disgraced; blameless. Labels: obsolete Example: Ho! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment. Example: Then sprang upon each other / those knights on honor bent, / And each from wounds deep cutting / sought to keep him all unshent.
Word: weftage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From weft + -age. 1. texture (of fabric) Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: And one Example we have (it may be more than one) wherein Nature shews, though not a greater, yet a different Art; and that is the Palm-Net. For whereas in other Plants, the Webb is made betwixt the Lignous-Strings and the Fibers of the Parenchyma, only visible through a Microscope: here the said Strings themselves are Interwoven, and the Weftage apparent to the bare Eye.
Word: uncleship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From uncle + -ship. 1. The state of being an uncle; uncledom Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Being without a family, I am flattered with these temporary adoptions into a friend's family; I feel a sort of cousinhood, or uncleship, for the season
Word: uncleships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of uncleship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: raisable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From raise + -able. 1. Capable of being raised. Example: raisable roof Example: raisable stakes
Word: creasote Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of creosote. Labels: alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: creasote Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic form of creosote. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: creasotes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of creasote Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contrabandism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From contraband + -ism. 1. trading in contraband goods; smuggling Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: crocein Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See croceous, + -in. 1. Any of several synthetic yellow or scarlet dyestuffs that are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: croceins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crocein Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metrochrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From metro- + -chrome; coined by George Field (chemist), inventor of one such device. 1. Any of various instruments used to measure colours.
Word: metrochromes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metrochrome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inquisitorious Part of Speech: adj 1. inquisitorial. Labels: obsolete Example: the land had once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty , under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery , no free and splendid wit can flourish
Word: unbone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + bone. 1. To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone. 2. To twist about, as if boneless. Labels: obsolete Example: writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of Trinculoes
Word: unboned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unbone Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unboned Part of Speech: adj 1. Not having had the bones removed. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonym: bone-in Example: an unboned chicken
Word: unbones Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unbone Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unboning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unbone Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: distitle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + title. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtaɪtəl/ 1. To deprive of a title or right. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: the next way to distitle my selfe of honor
Word: distitled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of distitle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: distitles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of distitle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: distitling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of distitle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overgreatness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + greatness. 1. excessive greatness Labels: uncountable
Word: exhalement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exhale + -ment. 1. Exhalation. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: Nor will polished Amber although it send forth a gross and corporal exhalement, be found a long time defective upon the exactest scales.
Word: exhalements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exhalement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inhospitableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inhospitable + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being inhospitable. Labels: uncountable Example: Did you know that until very recently, more people had been to the moon than had dived beyond depths of six thousand metres? I think about this often – the inhospitableness of certain places.
Word: undecidedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From undecided + -ness. 1. The quality of being undecided. Labels: uncountable
Word: unalignable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + alignable. 1. Not alignable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: leglocks Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlɛɡˌlɒks/ 1. plural of leglock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fubbery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fub + -ery. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌbəɹi/ 1. Cheating; deception. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: O no, but dreame the moſt fantaſticall: O heauen: O fubbery, fubbery.
Word: organonymy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From organo- + -nymy. 1. The designation or nomenclature of organs. Labels: uncountable Example: Designation of Organs - Organonymy
Word: evacuatories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of evacuatory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: evacuatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From evacuate + -ory. 1. Pertaining to evacuation, especially evacuation of the gastrointestinal tract. Example: Consequently, disruption of the evacuatory function of the stomach during the first few days after introduction of cystamine and irradiation was more pronounce than when these factors acted separately. Example: We have located the origins and mechanisms of violence in the violating unbearable affective experience, which occurs as a consequence of failures of attunement or affective containment and in the projective, evacuatory psychological defences that then arise.
Word: evacuatory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From evacuate + -ory. 1. A purgative; a laxative. Labels: archaic
Word: vitrescence Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being vitreous or glassy. Labels: uncountable Example: Kärsten and Leske term it a zeolite; but its specific gravity and vitrescence forbid this denomination
Word: whisperously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From whisperous + -ly. 1. whisperingly; in a whispering voice Labels: archaic
Word: forelend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fore- + lend. Pronunciation: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛnd/ 1. to lend in advance Labels: archaic, transitive Example: As if that life to losse they had forelent Example: Foretelling: Spirits mine, swift death shall end ye, Cruel! if seeing me no tears forelend ye, Sith but the being in thought sets wide mine eyes For sobbing out my heart’s full memories.
Word: filaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin fīlum (“thread”) + -aceous. Pronunciation: /fɪˈleɪʃəs/, /faɪˈleɪʃəs/ 1. Composed of threads, stringy. Labels: rare Example: It is the stalk that maketh the filaceous matter commonly Example: this organic layer on the ceramic is the remnants of the fibrin adhesive which appear as a short, filaceous structure of subcellular dimensions
Word: rhodanate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rhodanic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. A salt of rhodanic acid; a sulphocyanate. Labels: obsolete
Word: rhodanates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhodanate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lyves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lyfe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: foremostly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From foremost + -ly. 1. In the foremost place or order; among the foremost. Labels: not-comparable Example: Norfolk rides foremostly, his crest well known; God and Saint George this day fight on our side
Word: welwitschia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name Welwitschia, after Austrian explorer and botanist Friedrich Welwitsch. Pronunciation: /wɛlˈwɪt͡ʃɪə/ 1. Welwitschia mirabilis, a desert plant of southwest Africa.
Word: welwitschias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of welwitschia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: appellable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin appellāre + -able. 1. appealable
Word: featherly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From feather + -ly. 1. Like a feather, or feather; feathery.
Word: gazet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian gazeta, gazzetta, probably diminutive of Latin gaza (“royal treasure”). 1. An old Venetian coin of little value. Labels: obsolete
Word: gazets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gazet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seemingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From seeming + -ness. 1. semblance; fair appearance; plausibility Labels: uncountable Example: So that, certainly, if it were not for the authority of Aristotle and of his learned followers that presses us on the one side and for the seemingness of those reason we have already mentioned which persuade us on the other side, our very eyes would carry us by stream into this consent, that light is no other thing but the nature and substance of fire, spread far and wide and freed from the mixture of all other gross bodies.
Word: wheatworm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wheat + worm. 1. Anguina tritici, a nematode worm that attacks wheat.
Word: wheatworms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wheatworm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Vaishnavism Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Sanskrit वैष्णव (vaiṣṇava, “related to Vishnu”) + -ism. 1. A branch of Hinduism focusing on the worship of Vishnu.
Word: corruptful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From corrupt + -ful. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹʌptfəl/ 1. corrupt; full of corruption. Labels: obsolete Example: corruptful bribes
Word: philanthropistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From philanthropist + -ic. 1. philanthropic (pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist). Labels: dated, rare Example: Over the wild-surging chaos, in the leaden air, are only sudden glares of revolutionary lightning; then mere darkness, with philanthropistic phosphorescences, empty meteoric lights[.]
Word: outprize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + prize. 1. To prize (rate, set a value) excessively. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Sir, you flatter now, / And do outprize my willing industry: [...] 2. To exceed in value. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: There is nothing may be compared with a faithfull [friend], neither may the waight of gold and siluer outprise his faith and goodnesse […] Example: Either your vnparagon'd Miſtirs is dead, or ſhe's out-priz'd by a trifle.
Word: outprized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outprize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: outprizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outprize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outprizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outprize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: nucleolated Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a nucleolus (second inner nucleus). Labels: not-comparable
Word: tubercled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tubercle + -ed. 1. Having, or affected with, tubercles. Example: a tubercled lung Example: a tubercled plant
Word: specteral Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of spectral. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: onerosity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From onerous + -ity, from Latin onerositas. 1. Onerousness. Labels: rare, uncountable 2. The legal state of affairs resulting from being done or given in return for receipt of something of value. Labels: uncountable Example: It may be presumed to be a necessary ingredient in onerosity, that the obligation to be fulfilled is a legal one.
Word: maneating Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From man + eating. 1. Alternative form of man-eating. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: Well known maneating tigers were killed in several districts. Example: 1959, John Taylor, Maneaters and marauders, snippet A big maneating croc had appeared in the lagoon of Lifumba
Word: maneating Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From man + eating. 1. The consumption of human flesh by animals Labels: uncountable Example: Corbett described maneating as the compulsive seeking of human flesh by carnivores Example: In general, maneating is only an infinitesimally small factor of mortality amongst people.
Word: dirty weekend Part of Speech: noun 1. A weekend break for a couple, without their children, giving them the opportunity to have sex. Labels: colloquial
Word: metal shop Part of Speech: noun 1. A class where metalwork is taught. 2. The room where these classes take place. 3. A shop that deals in metalworking
Word: shop floor Part of Speech: noun 1. The public area of a retail store, as distinct from rooms for staff such as offices. 2. The area of a factory or workshop where the operatives work, as distinct from the administrative areas.
Word: hypometabolism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó) Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der. English hypo- Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *meth₂? Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ) Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-) Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der. Proto-Hellenic *gʷəlnō Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō) Ancient Greek μεταβάλλω (metabállō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek μετᾰβολή (metăbolḗ) 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 metabolism English hypometabolism From hypo- + metabolism. 1. The physiological state of having a decreased rate of metabolic activity Labels: uncountable
Word: toe scour Part of Speech: noun 1. Damage caused at the outside base of a dam wall due to overflowing flood waters damaging the foundations. Labels: uncountable
Word: high scaler Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the dam construction workers who abseiled the canyon walls to prepare the surface for the concrete pour. Labels: US, historical
Word: balljoint Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ball joint. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hæmostasis Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hemostasis. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: chronick Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of chronic. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: connexionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From connexional + -ly. 1. Dated form of connectionally. Labels: alt-of, dated, not-comparable
Word: connectionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From connectional + -ly. 1. In a connectional manner. Labels: not-comparable
Word: reflectionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From reflectional + -ly. 1. In a reflectional manner. Labels: not-comparable
Word: reflexionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From reflexional + -ly. 1. Dated spelling of reflectionally. Labels: UK, not-comparable
Word: reflexional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From reflexion + -al. 1. Dated spelling of reflectional. Labels: UK
Word: inflexionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From inflexional + -ly. 1. Dated spelling of inflectionally. Labels: UK, not-comparable
Word: inflectionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From inflectional + -ly. 1. In an inflectional manner.
Word: deflexional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From deflexion + -al. 1. Dated spelling of deflectional. Labels: UK
Word: rambunxious Part of Speech: adj 1. Rare spelling of rambunctious. Labels: alt-of, rare Example: "I guess the governor'd be rambunxious, as usual, if I was to ask his permission," the dutiful son remarked; "but he's going away for a few days next week, and mother won't hinder me, I know."
Word: prophane Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of profane. Labels: alt-of, hypercorrect, obsolete Example: Sneerers and prophane wits may perhaps laugh at her first fright; yet my graver reader, when he considers the time of night, the summons from her bed, and the situation in which she found her master, will highly justify and applaud her conduct […]
Word: prophane Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of profane. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: VVhen the vulgar ſort / Sit on their Ale-bench, vvith their cups and kannes, / Matters of ſtate be not their common talke, / Nor pure religion by their lips prophande.
Word: prophanely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From prophane + -ly. 1. Obsolete form of profanely. Labels: alt-of, hypercorrect, obsolete
Word: dendrolite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dendro- + -lite, from Ancient Greek δένδρον (déndron, “tree”) and λίθος (líthos, “stone”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛndɹəlaɪt/ 1. A petrified or fossilised tree, plant, or part of a plant.
Word: dendrolites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dendrolite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: firetail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fire + tail. 1. Any Australian finch of the genus Stagonopleura. 2. The common redstart. Labels: UK, dated, dialectal
Word: firetails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of firetail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: herdess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From herd + -ess. 1. A shepherdess; a female herder. Example: She is the herdess fair that shines in dark, And gives her kids no food, but willows bark
Word: herdesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of herdess Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hydropathies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hydropathy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: laniariform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From laniary + -form. 1. Shaped like a laniary, or canine tooth. Example: 1840-1845, Richard Owen, Odontography the presence not only of canines, but of a pair of laniariform incisors in the upper jaw of the Camelidæ
Word: water doctor Part of Speech: noun 1. A physician who treats diseases with water; a hydropathist. Labels: archaic 2. One who claims to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine. Labels: archaic
Word: water doctors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of water doctor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: simious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin simia (“ape”) + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪm.i.əs/ 1. Simian; resembling a monkey. Labels: archaic Example: that strange simious, schoolboy passion of giving pain to others
Word: gummosities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gummosity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gummosity Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being gummy; a viscous or adhesive quality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1707-1710, Sir John Floyer, The Physician's Pulse-watch The fiziness of Chyle depends on an exceeding Puļse , the crudity and mucilaginous Gummosity on a deficient Pulse
Word: overfreight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + freight. 1. To overload with freight. Labels: transitive
Word: overfreighting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overfreight Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overfreights Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overfreight Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: caponet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From capon + -et. Pronunciation: /ˌkeɪpəˈnɛt/ 1. A young capon. Example: Some little fragments , that his haunches wore; Or sure that caponet.
Word: caponets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caponet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: waister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From waist + -er. 1. A seaman stationed in the waist of a warship. Labels: historical Example: The largest division of a ship's company, and the most ignoble, was that of the waisters, the men stationed in the waist, the men " without art or judgment," who hauled aft the fore and main sheets, and kept the decks white.
Word: waisters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of waister Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eyeflap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eye + flap. 1. A blinder on a horse's bridle.
Word: eyeflaps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eyeflap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forficate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin forfex, forficis (“shears”). 1. Deeply forked
Word: sympathetical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sympathēticus + -al. 1. Dated form of sympathetic. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: altrical Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of altricial. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: etymologer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin etymologus + -er. 1. An etymologist. Example: It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.
Word: etymologers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of etymologer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: folliculous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin folliculosus (“full of husks”): compare French folliculeux. 1. Follicular; having or producing follicles. Labels: archaic Example: folliculous tonsillitis Example: folliculous enteritis
Word: gellies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gelly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gelly Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of jelly. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round , They softly wipt away the gelly blood Example: In July, currant, raspberry, and gooseberry gelly and jam are made. 2. Clipping of gelignite. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable
Word: pharisean Part of Speech: adj 1. Following the practice of Pharisees; pharisaic. Labels: dated Example: Pharisean disciples
Word: Owenite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Owen + -ite. 1. A follower or successor of Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer.
Word: Owenites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Owenite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overbrim Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + brim. 1. To flow over the brim of; to overflow. Labels: transitive Example: And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. 2. To be so full as to overflow. Labels: intransitive Example: And all the while, methought, his voice did swim, As if it drowned in remembrance were Of thoughts which make the moist eyes overbrim: […]
Word: overbrimmed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overbrim Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overbrimmed Part of Speech: adj 1. Having too large a brim. Labels: not-comparable
Word: overbrimming Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + brimming. Pronunciation: /əʊvəˈbɹɪmɪŋ/, /oʊ.vɚˈbɹɪmɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of overbrim Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overbrimming Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + brimming. Pronunciation: /əʊvəˈbɹɪmɪŋ/, /oʊ.vɚˈbɹɪmɪŋ/ 1. Being plentiful, particularly excessively so. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: The fisherman who takes two little orphans into his already overbrimming family belongs fortunately to a world not altogether of legend. Example: His face, which would otherwise have been very handsome, had a sickly, pallid, sodden look that told its own story; and his movements, so far from having anything of the elastic spring given by constant exercise and overbrimming vitality to the English boy, were heavy and languid, as if any exertion were an effort to him.
Word: overbrims Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overbrim Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: sultanship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sultan + -ship. 1. The office or status of a sultan. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In essence, he moved the symbolism of the sultanship from an emirate or caliphal base to a national base. Various Muslim circles and conferences outside Nigeria came to regard him as the chief spokesman for Nigerian Muslims.
Word: sultanships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sultanship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vaginant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French vaginant. See vagina. 1. Serving as a sheath. Labels: not-comparable Example: A vaginant leaf is one investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube. Example: vaginant lamina
Word: graspless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From grasp + -less. 1. Without a grasp; relaxed. Example: From my graspless hand / Drop friendship's precious pearls. 2. Unable to be grasped or handled; insubstantial. Example: She stretched forth her hands, and would have grasped the form within, but it was graspless as air. Example: And all earth's fairest toys, like graspless air To it will be.
Word: miscontent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mis- + content. 1. discontent Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Thys boke we have devysed, […] In hope that no man shall Be myscontent withall.
Word: miscontent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + content. 1. discontent Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: monodynamic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men-der. Proto-Hellenic *mónwos Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der. English mono- Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *dunamai Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai) Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor. French dynamiqueder. English dynamic English monodynamic From mono- + dynamic. 1. Possessing only one capacity or power. Labels: not-comparable Example: Monodynamic men, men of a single talent, are rarely misapprehended; men of multitudinous powers, myriad-minded men, to use Coleridge's phrase, almost always. 2. Forming a bond with only one other atom. Labels: not-comparable Example: the atom of iodine is monodynamic in hydriodic acid, where it combines with a single atom of monodynamic hydrogen; tridynamic in terchloride of iodine, where it combines with three monodynamic atoms of chlorine.