nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: copper-fastens Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of copper-fasten Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: copper-fastening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of copper-fasten Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: copper-fastened Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of copper-fasten Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overbulk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + bulk. 1. To be more bulky than; to tower over. Example: Achilles must or now be cropped Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil To overbulk us all. 2. To make bulky Example: Fabricating this type of thin margin with a computer-aided designed and manufactured (CAD-CAM) restoration may be more challenging, overbulking the margins at CAD design and after adhesive cementation.
Word: overbulked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overbulk Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overbulking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overbulk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overbulks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overbulk Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: nondualistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + dualistic. 1. Not dualistic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: postlitigation Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + litigation. 1. After litigation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: collectorate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From collector + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office). 1. The district or seat of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
Word: collectorates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of collectorate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gestic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gest + -ic. See gest (“a deed”), gesture. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛstɪk/ 1. Relating to the movement of the body, or consisting of gestures. Labels: not-comparable Example: gestic actor Example: gestic theater 2. Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare Example: Dames of ancient days / Have led their children through the mirthful maze, / And the gay grandſire, ſkill'd in gestic lore, / Has friſk'd beneath the burthen of threeſcore.
Word: oorial Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of urial. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: oorials Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oorial Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phaneroglossal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From phanero- + Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue”) + -al. 1. Having a conspicuous tongue. Labels: not-comparable Example: phaneroglossal reptiles.
Word: ladies' eardrops Part of Speech: noun 1. The small-flowered fuchsia (Fuchsia coccinea) Labels: plural, plural-only 2. Other species that somewhat resemble earrings, such as Brunnichia ovata Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: hryvnya Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hryvnia. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hryvnyas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hryvnya Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subbasal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + basal. 1. Near or below the base. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cothurn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin cothurnus, from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos). Compare cothurnus. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒθə(ɹ)n/ 1. A buskin anciently worn by tragic actors on the stage. Example: The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might again be assumed with effect.
Word: cothurns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cothurn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: double-shot Part of Speech: verb 1. To load (a cannon) with twice the shot, for increased damage at the expense of range. Labels: transitive Example: The Indomitable raked the frigate’s stern with double-shotted guns. Example: The boarding-nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls.
Word: double-shot Part of Speech: adj 1. Made by molding a second layer of plastic around a plastic or metal base. Labels: not-comparable Example: This keyboard has double-shot keycaps, to prevent the symbols from wearing off.
Word: revestries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of revestry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: revestry Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of revestiary. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: frett Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See frit. 1. A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: adiaphory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek [Term?]. 1. indifference Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: enpierce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See empierce. 1. To pierce. Labels: obsolete Example: I am too sore enpierced with his shaft.
Word: enpierced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of enpierce Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: enpiercing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enpierce Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dicacity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dicacite, from Old French dicacité, from Latin dicācitās (whence -acity), from dicāx (“talkative”), from dīcō (“to speak, tell”). 1. pertness; sauciness Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: fretts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frett Labels: form-of, plural
Word: regulized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of regulize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: regulized Part of Speech: adj 1. Reduced to regulus; separated, as a metal from extraneous matter. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: regulized antimony
Word: atimy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀτιμία (atimía, “disgrace”). Pronunciation: /ˈætɪmi/ 1. public disgrace or stigma; outlawry; loss of civil rights Labels: historical, uncountable Example: the decree of atimy, or deprivation of rights and honors, which had been passed against him on occasion of the mutilation of the Mercuries[…]
Word: deligation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French déligation. 1. A binding up; a bandaging. Example: Deligation of the Part : and in this case Bandages are to be made of softer and broader Linen than we use in Fractures without a Wound
Word: deligations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deligation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wecht Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of sieve used to winnow grain; the weight of its contents. Labels: Scotland
Word: wecht Part of Speech: verb 1. To winnow grain using such a device. Labels: Scotland
Word: gyall Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of gayal. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: gyalls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gyall Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ajutage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French ajutage, from ajoutage, from ajouter (“to add”), from Latin adjuxtare, from ad + juxta (“near to, nigh”). Compare adjutage, adjustage, adjust. 1. A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube. Labels: obsolete Example: the ajutage of a fountain or reservoir
Word: ajutages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ajutage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tendries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tendry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tendry Part of Speech: noun 1. A tender; an offer. Labels: obsolete Example: you are gone astray from the paths of truth , and tendries of Antiquity
Word: dubitancies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dubitancy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dubitancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin dubitantia. Pronunciation: /ˈdjuːbɪtənsi/, /ˈduːbɪtənsi/ 1. Doubt; uncertainty. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: when they are most fully without all dubitancy resolved Example: He walks with the air of a minister of state on the eve of a vacant garter, hoping, wondering, fearing, and dignified even in his dubitancy.
Word: mandment Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mandement. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mandments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mandment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: regrede Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin regredi (“to go back”). Compare regrade, regress. 1. To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. Labels: intransitive Example: […] the instantaneous parabola decreases in magnitude and descends in position throughout the entire motion, while its axis regredes during the ascent and progredes during the descent of the particle.
Word: regreded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of regrede Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: regredes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of regrede Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: regreding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of regrede Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sulphureity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sulphureous + -ity. Pronunciation: /sʌlfəˈɹiːɪti/ 1. The quality or state of being sulphureous. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: The aqueity, Terreity, and sulphureity Shall run together again, and all be annulled
Word: sclerotical Part of Speech: adj 1. sclerotic
Word: hederic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hedera + -ic + acid, apparently used for the first time in English in 1849 in Vol. VII of the Chemical Gazette published by Richard and John E. Taylor, London, England in an article titled "On the constituents of the seeds of ivy", written by German professor L. (Louis?) Posselt, who was the first to extract the substance from ivy (Hedera helix) seeds. Original article was published in Liebig's "Annalen der Chemie" in January 1849. 1. hederagenin Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: get-pennies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of get-penny Labels: form-of, plural
Word: get-penny Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that makes money; a financially successful affair. Labels: colloquial, dated Example: thou and thy acts become the posies for hospitals; when thy name shall be written upon conduits, and thy deeds played i' thy lifetime by the best companies of actors, and be called their get-penny. Example: if a pack of hackney scribblers shall attack me only by way of a get-penny, I shall not be provoked to answer them
Word: presurmise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + surmise. 1. A surmise previously formed.
Word: presurmise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + surmise. 1. To surmise beforehand.
Word: unseason Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + season. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈsiːzən/ 1. To make unseasoned; to deprive of seasoning. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: unseasoning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unseason Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unseasons Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unseason Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Corinthiac Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin Corinthiacus. 1. Of or relating to Corinth; Corinthian.
Word: roccellic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French roccellique, from roccelle (“archil”), from Italian roccella, from rocca (“a rock”), because archil grows on rock. 1. A dibasic acid, C₁₇H₃₂O₄, of the oxalic series, found in archil (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), and other lichens. Labels: uncountable
Word: bleds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bled Labels: form-of, plural
Word: malaconotid Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the family Malaconotidae of bushshrikes.
Word: malaconotids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of malaconotid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thamnophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek, meaning "bush-loving"; see θάμνος (thámnos, “bush”) and -phile. 1. A grasshopper that lives in trees (as opposed to underbrush).
Word: thamnophiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thamnophile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bush shrike Part of Speech: noun 1. An African passerine bird of the family Malaconotidae. 2. Any bird of the American family Thamnophilidae; an antshrike. Labels: obsolete Example: In most parts of tropical America we may always find some species of woodpecker[,] tanager, bush-shrike, chatterer, trogon, toucan, cuckoo, and tyrant-flycatcher; and a few days' active search will produce more variety than can be here met with in as many months.
Word: bushshrikes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bushshrike Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cubooctahedra Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cubooctahedron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cubooctahedron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cube + -o- + octahedron. 1. A combination of a cube and octahedron, especially one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.
Word: lingams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lingam Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cubooctahedrons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cubooctahedron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exantlate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin exantlatus, past participle of exantlare, exanclare (“to endure”). 1. To exhaust or wear out. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: seeds […] wearied or exantlated
Word: exantlated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of exantlate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: exantlates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of exantlate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: exantlating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of exantlate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: phoronomics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek a carrying, motion + a law. 1. The science of motion; kinematics. Labels: uncountable Example: Several new paragraphs have been added to the analytical laws of phoronomics and aerostatics, and in hydraulics the pressure of water flowing through tubes occupies two new paragraphs […]
Word: cometographies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cometography Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cometography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From comet + -o- + -graphy. Compare French cométographie. 1. The scientific description of comets.
Word: coction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin coctiō. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑkʃən/, /ˈkɒkʃən/ 1. An act of boiling. Labels: obsolete 2. Digestion. Labels: obsolete 3. The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination. Labels: archaic, historical Example: But it is found by ſad experience, that ſhe rouſes herſelf up to make a criſis, not only upon improper, and, as phyſicians call them, intercident days, […] vvhich ſeldom afford any criſis, and much ſeldomer a good one; but alſo vvhen there appear not any ſigns of coction, or at leaſt of due coction, and by theſe unſeaſonable attempts vveaken the patient, and increaſe the malady, or perhaps make it ſpeedily mortal. Example: A yellow Urine is caused by a due Concoction of the Chyle with the Blood. A red Urine is made by the Mixture of Blood with it, or by a greater Coction.
Word: coctions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sput Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare spud Pronunciation: /spʌt/ 1. An annular reinforcement in a steam boiler, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.
Word: sputs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sput Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subsulphate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + sulphate. 1. A sulphate with an excess of the base.
Word: subsulphates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subsulphate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: New-York Part of Speech: name 1. Archaic form of New York: 2. Archaic form of New York:
Word: diitiidʔaaʔtx̣ Part of Speech: name 1. Ditidaht language. Example: Ditidaht First Nation members Sarah Tom and Pat Patterson talk about working to revitalize diitiidʔaaʔtx̣, one of the seven Indigenous language groups rooted on Vancouver island. Example: In the spring of 2021, CBC Radio's afternoon show in Victoria spoke to some of the many people working to revitalize Indigenous languages across Vancouver Island. Those languages include Lekwungen, SENĆOŦEN, Hul'q'umi'num', Ayajuthem, diitiidʔaaʔtx̣, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Kwak̓wala.
Word: cut it out Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of knock it off. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic, imperative Example: Would you two please cut it out with the shouting? I'm trying to sleep.
Word: cut it out Part of Speech: intj 1. Synonym of knock it off. Example: Cut it out! This is the last time I'm telling you!
Word: worship the ground someone walks on Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1848. Pronunciation: /ˈwɜː.ʃɪp ðə ɡɹaʊ̯nd ˈsʌmˌwʌn wɔːks ɒn/, /-ˈsʌm.wən-/, /-ɔːn/, /ˈwɜɹ.ʃɪp ðə ɡɹaʊ̯nd ˈsʌmˌwʌn wɑks ɑn/, /-wɔks ɔn/ 1. To admire or adore someone to excess. Labels: excessive, idiomatic
Word: leptocardian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Leptocardii + -an. 1. Of or relating to the Leptocardii (formerly Leptocardia). Labels: dated, not-comparable
Word: leptocardian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Leptocardii + -an. 1. A lancelet (one of the Leptocardii). Labels: dated
Word: leptocardians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leptocardian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: yin yang Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of yin-yang. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: talma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably named after François Joseph Talma (1763–1826), French actor. 1. A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak. Labels: dated
Word: talmas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of talma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: emprosthotonos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From emprostho- + tonos. 1. Alternative form of emprosthotonus. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: impignoration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin impignoratio: compare French impignoration. 1. The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned. Labels: Scotland, formal, rare Example: Because the special subject pledged continues the debtor's property, therefore if it perishes during the impignoration, it perishes to the debtor, according to the rule stated above, § 20. Example: Historical interpretation has differed over the role played by the king of Denmark and Norway in the impignoration of the islands.
Word: impignorations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of impignoration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: where it's at Part of Speech: adj 1. cool, trendy Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: 5 March 2012, Daily Telegraph, Stockholm: on the trail of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoohttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/9111563/Stockholm-on-the-trail-of-the-Girl-with-the-Dragon-Tattoo.html In fact, for armchair sleuths, Scandinavia — where waterfronts swiftly segue into gritty, albeit imagination-based, crime scenes — is where it's at. Example: Too many students learn another discrimination, between school and the "real world." That discrimination is the source of the concern for relevance. When a student concludes that education is not "where it's at," he is ready to drop out physically or turn off psychologically. 2. true, truthful Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: You say I let you down, you know it's not like that. If you're so hurt why then don't you show it? You say you lost your faith but that's not where it's at. You have no faith to lose and you know it.
Word: portension Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare portent. 1. The act of foreshowing; foreboding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the red Comets do carry the portensions of Mars
Word: portensions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of portension Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enlimn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + limn. Compare enlumine, illuminate. 1. To adorn (a book, manuscript, etc.) with coloured and decorated letters and/or figures. Labels: poetic Example: par of tables enlymned with Seyntes.
Word: enlimned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of enlimn Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Ditidaht Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ditidaht diitiidʔaaʔtx̣. 1. A member of an indigenous North American people of the southern coast of Vancouver Island in Western Canada.
Word: Ditidaht Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ditidaht diitiidʔaaʔtx̣. 1. The language spoken by the Ditidaht people: a member of the Southern Wakashan language group.
Word: Ditidaht Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ditidaht diitiidʔaaʔtx̣. 1. Of or pertaining to the Ditidaht people. Labels: not-comparable
Word: enlimning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enlimn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enlimns Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of enlimn Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: approof Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See approve and proof. 1. trial; proof; testimony; affirmation. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: A man so absolute in my approof, / That nature hath reserv'd small dignity, / That he enjoys not. Example: His good remembrance, sir, / Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb; / So in approof lives not his epitaph / As in your royal speech. 2. approval; commendation Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: O perilous mouths, / That bear in them one and the selfsame tongue, / Either of condemnation or approof, Example: But above all, his own works testifie of him to this day, and clearly demonstrate, that what respect the world, and what approof and commendations Authours have given him, was not affected but well deserved
Word: approofs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of approof Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sue + -ability. 1. liability to be sued Labels: uncountable
Word: petromastoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From petro- + mastoid. 1. Of or relating to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone Labels: not-comparable Example: petrmastoid bone Example: petrmastoid canal
Word: petromastoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From petro- + mastoid. 1. The portion of the temporal bone that includes the petrous and mastoid parts.
Word: cheapstead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cheap (“purchase, business, market”) + stead (“place”), probably a translation of Old Norse kaupstaðr (“marketplace”). Compare Icelandic kaupstaður (“market town”), Swedish köpstad (“market town”), Old English ċēapstōw (“marketplace”). 1. A marketplace. Labels: historical, rare Example: […] three weeks of winter were employed in butchering, and more than an acre of field surrounding the cheapstead at Housewick was covered with knots of men and women decapitating and flaying their flocks. Example: Sleet showers continued until we reached the cheapstead of Akureyri (Acre Beach), at the south end of the fjord.
Word: beauseant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French beaucéant. 1. The black and white standard (battle flag) of the Knights Templar. Labels: historical Example: The air has been gay with waving plumes and resplendent beauseants; the streets of the Monumental City have echoed with the measured tramp of six thousand gallant Knights, gathered from all parts of the Union[…]
Word: beauseants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beauseant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ingeny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ingenium. See ingenious. 1. natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity Labels: obsolete Example: it [God's mercy] chose me suitable company and habitation; it gave me betimes a teachable ingeny
Word: lushburg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lushburg, lussheburgh. 1. A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxembourg (then called Lussheburgh). Labels: historical, obsolete
Word: paragnathi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paragnathus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paragnathus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin paragnathus, from para- + Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos, “jaw”). Compare earlier paragnatha. 1. One of the two lobes forming the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea. 2. One of the small, horny, tooth-like jaws of certain annelids.
Word: thysanopter Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the Thysanoptera.
Word: thysanopters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thysanopter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: droitzschka Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of droshky. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: droitzschkas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of droitzschka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: entropium Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of entropion. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: multisect Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + Latin sectus, past participle of secare (“to cut”). 1. Divided into many similar segments; said of an insect or myriapod Labels: not-comparable 2. formed of numerous sects Labels: not-comparable
Word: timorsome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Alteration of timor(ous) + -some. Pronunciation: /ˈtɪməsəm/, /ˈtɪməɹsəm/ 1. Easily frightened; timorous. Labels: Scotland, dated Example: Maister Mordaunt , is as tender as ony man's in my degree ; but she is something of a timorsome nature , cannot abide angry folk
Word: chromoplastid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chromo- + plastid. 1. A protoplasmic granule of some other colour than green.
Word: chromoplastids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chromoplastid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: planxties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of planxty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: planxty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Latin planxī (“to have mourned ...”), planctus (“a lament or dirge”), and plangere (“to mourn aloud”). 1. An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character. Example: Dr. Arne. Owenson, who was a handsome young man with a commanding presence, was bitten by a mania for the stage, but failed to make much impression as an actor, though he sang, and danced an Irish planxty in the character of Teague with great success.
Word: sloomy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sloom + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈslu.mi/ 1. sluggish; slow Labels: UK, dialectal Example: "Besides, if you get, you'll never be able to hold it down — a sloomy gal like you." The applicant was only too much afraid that it must be so. She had very little confidence in herself. Example: […] we would gladly soodle a sloomy way home with a burred moon over us and the fern-owls chittering in the pingles and the holts.
Word: dollman Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of dolman. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: dollmans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dollman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deliquiate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1668; either from deliquium + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or an alteration of deliquate. 1. To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce. Labels: intransitive Example: Its strong taste, its tendency to deliquiate, and indeed all its properties, lead us to think, that it would act powerfully on the animal œconomy […] 2. To cause to melt. Labels: transitive
Word: deliquiated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of deliquiate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: deliquiates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of deliquiate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: deliquiating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deliquiate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: protosulphide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proto- + sulphide. 1. Alternative spelling of protosulfide. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: protosulphides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of protosulphide Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phyllocyst Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phyllo- + cyst. 1. The cavity of a hydrophyllium.
Word: phyllocysts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phyllocyst Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disculpation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French disculpation. 1. exculpation Example: This innoxious and ineffectual character, that seems formed upon a plan of apology and disculpation, falls miserably short of the mark of public duty.
Word: disculpations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disculpation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plicidentine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin plica (“fold”) + English dentine. 1. A form of dentin which shows sinuous lines of structure in a transverse section of the tooth.
Word: plicidentines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plicidentine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: organoscopy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From organo- + -scopy. 1. phrenology Labels: uncountable Example: It is further maintained, that the figure and extent of these parts of the brain can be discerned externally. This is organoscopy.
Word: unlooking Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + looking. 1. Not looking; unseeing or unregarding. Labels: not-comparable
Word: regainable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From regain + -able. 1. Capable of being regained. Labels: not-comparable
Word: epichordal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From epi- + chordal. 1. Upon or above the notochord; applied especially to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it. Labels: not-comparable
Word: catapetalous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cata- + petalous. 1. Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1962 (posthumously published) Mark Twain, A Cat Tale in Letters from the Earth […] ever and anon the enchanted eye wandered from congeries of lordly cat-tails and kindred catapetalous blooms too deep for utterance […]
Word: protensive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin prōtēnsīvus, from prōtendō (“draw out”). Pronunciation: /pɹəˈtɛnsɪv/, /pɹoʊˈtɛnsɪv/ 1. Drawn out; extended. Example: And then our patience is, as Christ's most exactly was, according to the will of God; when it is as extensive, as intensive, and as protensive as God requires it to be. Example: Time, Protension or protensive quantity, called likewise Duration, is a necessary condition of thought. It may be considered both in itself and in the things which it contains. 2. Anticipating the future; pertaining to protention. Example: The diversity as protensive is in the manifoldness of the successive instants through which the appearance as quality is prolonged . Example: Their heightened enjoyment Iser explains in terms of the protensive tension provoked by the strategic interruption of the narrative at crucial moments .
Word: sodomitical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sodomite + -ical. 1. Synonym of gay: Of or related to sodomites. Labels: archaic Example: Of the dozen or so surviving articles, squibs, and letters to the editor, the most remarkable appeared in the Whip and Satirist’s February 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a cabal of gay men in New York's otherwise wholesome nightscape of brothels and riots. Moreover it identified the spider who minced so delicately along the wide-flung strands of the sodomitical web. "There is not one so degraded as this Captain Collins, the King of the Sodomites." He was a foreigner, an Englishman, in the long tradition of blaming homosexuality on the influence of aliens. Among the syndicate of perverts, the writer announced, "we find no Americans as yet—they are all Englishmen or French" (the English called homosexuality the French vice and the French the English vice; for the Whip it was the French and English vice).
Word: scise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin scindere, scissum (“to cut, split”); form influenced by the unrelated excise. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪz/ 1. To cut; to penetrate. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: The wicked steel scised deep in his right side.
Word: scise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin scindere, scissum (“to cut, split”); form influenced by the unrelated excise. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪz/ 1. Alternative form of sais (servant responsible for horses) Labels: India, alt-of, alternative Example: We proceeded about half-a-mile very well; but the night was so wet, that our humanity induced us to make the scise get up on the foot-board. Example: "My horse! my horse!" cried he—and as he patted his war neck, the scise saw the fire of his tear-starred eye and trembled.
Word: scised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of scise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: scises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of scise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: scising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of scise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tampoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See tampion. 1. a stopper or bung. Labels: archaic
Word: tampoons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tampoon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phantasmagories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phantasmagory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phantasmagory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French phantasmagorie, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “ghost”) + ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak publicly”). 1. phantasmagoria
Word: gorces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gorce Labels: form-of, plural
Word: doomsman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English domesman, equivalent to doom + -s- + man. 1. One who renders judgement (e.g. a judge, magistrate, or arbiter); an umpire. Labels: archaic, historical Example: The fire shall burn about the Doomsman. Example: And the King marveled at the wisdom of the doomsman, and said to him: "Now I know that all I have heard is truth. […]" 2. One who carries out a judgement or sentencing; executioner. Labels: rare Example: At the place of execution, Dorothea begged the doomsman to tarry a little, and kneeling by the block, she raised her hands to heaven and prayed earnestly.
Word: doomsmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of doomsman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: punnology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pun + -ology. 1. The art or practice of punning; paronomasia. Labels: uncountable Example: he might have been better instructed in the Greek punnology Example: Far from restricting or confining meaning, Pearl's elaborate form allows the fullest play of its punnology
Word: oblectation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin oblectātiō (“delight, amusement”). Equivalent to oblectate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ɑ.blɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of pleasing highly, or state of being greatly pleased; delight. Labels: obsolete Example: "No, sir, though I am myself of a strong temperament, I abhor ebriety, and detest those who swallow wine gulae causa, for the oblectation of the gullet […]" Example: Whereof the first is called oblectation, which is a certain quietness or assentation of the mind or will, because it obeys, and not willingly consents to that pleasantness which the senses hold forth […]
Word: oblectations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oblectation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caddises Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caddis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caseworm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From case + worm. 1. A worm or larva that makes a protective case for itself.
Word: caseworms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caseworm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: admarginate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From ad- + margin + -ate. 1. To write in the margin. Labels: archaic Example: c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor receive candidly the few hints which I have admarginated for your assistance
Word: admarginated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of admarginate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: admarginates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of admarginate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: admarginating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of admarginate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: simpless Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French simplesse. 1. simplicity or silliness Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Such Simpless mought them shend
Word: interstapedial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + stapedial. 1. Relating to part of the columella of the ear, between the stapes and the mediostapedial. Labels: not-comparable Example: interstapedial cartilage
Word: saccharous Part of Speech: adj 1. saccharine; relating to saccharin or sugar Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: Novatians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Novatian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: classible Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of classable. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tautochronous Part of Speech: adj 1. Occupying the same time. Labels: not-comparable 2. Relating to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone. Labels: not-comparable Example: tautochronous motion
Word: suscitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin suscitatio: compare French suscitation. 1. The act of raising or exciting. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: But the Answer to this, is not difficult, viz. That the Point now before us is not wholly determinable from the bare Grammatical Use of these Words; (according to which we deny not, but that they sometimes import a mere Suscitation or Production of a thing, without supposing any precedent Destruction of the same;) […]
Word: trabeated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin trabs (“beam”). 1. Built with horizontal beams; furnished with an entablature Labels: not-comparable
Word: scribism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scribe + -ism. 1. The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Jesus Christ. Labels: uncountable Example: The great danger to which scribism yielded was that of moral pedantry and pride
Word: assecuration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin assecuratio, from assecurare. Pronunciation: /ˌæ.sə.kjʊəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ 1. Assurance; certainty. Labels: obsolete Example: This charge here, as it implies the possibility, so it signifies the convenience, use, profit, necessity of this assecuration: for sure, if it were not beneficial to us, it would never be thus forcibly urged upon us . Example: Fritz has given me assecuration that the said paranymphal occasion will occur as suggested, and not on the Greek calends. 2. Protection; safeguard; insurance. Labels: obsolete Example: Association for the assecuration of the Queen , subscribed by the members of Lincoln's Inn ( Egerton Papers 208 ) . Example: A Proclamation made for the assecuration of the person of . . . . Paolo Servite, in execution of a Decree accorded, in the . . . .Councell of the Pregadie upon the 27. of Oct. 1607. 3. A bill or charter outlining the rights granted and assured by Germanic Royalty in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Labels: historical Example: Since this second assecuration was acceptable to the Diet, which in return acknowledged Frederic William as the lawful and only prince, we shall be justified in regarding it, and the accompanying act of the Diet, as the instruments by which the public law of the province was brought into harmony with the new order of things. Example: The “assecuration” of January 14, 1571, which permitted the lords and knights in Austria the free practice of religion, was the model for the religious settlement reached in Bruck in 1572, which, at first applicable only in Styria, provided a new legal status for the Augsburg Confession throughout Inner Austria.
Word: assecurations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of assecuration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Photoshopper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Photoshop (“Adobe Photoshop graphics software”, verb) + -er (“agent noun”). 1. One who digitally alters photographs. Example: Each band is composed of a Hypertextualist, a Multimedium, and a Photoshopper, and these form “guilds” for working in the computer lab. Example: The theorist Brett Steele sees in Mies van der Rohe the fist ‘Photoshopper’, the architect who anticipated our present-day modes of producing and processing imagery.
Word: Photoshoppers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Photoshopper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: broken record Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance. Labels: idiomatic Example: She repeated several little anecdotes or remarks about Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and George Antheil. Disconcertingly she kept asking me if I knew them, if I’d been in Paris then, what had happened to them and others, most of them dead. Her mind wandered, repeating itself like a broken record. Example: 1994, Deb M., Stepping Stones to Recovery from Codependency, Aaron Anderson quoting Ken Fisher, The Making of a Market Guru: Forbes Presents 25 Years of Ken Fisher In spite of reading all the materials on the Steps, talking to my sponsor, sharing at meetings, I felt like a broken record. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, record.
Word: other than Part of Speech: prep 1. Except, besides. Labels: idiomatic Example: There was no furniture in the abandoned house, other than a broken bedstead. 2. Otherwise than; in any other way than, for any other reason than, etc. Labels: idiomatic Example: The problem cannot be solved other than by putting in much time and effort. Example: He was never anything other than pleasant to me.
Word: Catalina coupon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the marketing company, founded on a sailing trip to Santa Catalina Island. 1. A coupon printed after purchase at the register, based on the items purchased. Labels: US
Word: me, myself and I Part of Speech: pron 1. Only me; myself alone. Example: I like things the way they are: just me, myself, and I. No complicated organs and systems and such. Give me the simple life. Example: Here I was all alone, no one to help me get over my mom's and sister's death, just me myself and I. It was as if I died and all I could see was black.
Word: bat five hundred Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the practice of reckoning the batting average of a hitter in baseball in thousandths. 1. To be successful half of the time; to have a success rate of 50%. Labels: idiomatic
Word: sleep tight Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: The word tight is sometimes explained as here meaning “well, soundly”. However, it can just as well be interpreted in its literal sense of “firm, fast”; compare fast asleep. 1. If one keeps oneself tightly bundled one will sleep warm and rest well. Example: Sleep tight! Don't let the bedbugs bite!
Word: sleep tight Part of Speech: intj Etymology: The word tight is sometimes explained as here meaning “well, soundly”. However, it can just as well be interpreted in its literal sense of “firm, fast”; compare fast asleep. 1. A farewell said shortly before going to bed; usually said between family members or good friends. Example: "Thank you for washing the dishes." "Goodnight, Mr Smith. "Goodnight, Miss Martin. Sleep tight." Miss Martin's door closes. Hear her light switch on. Smith locking latches on doors and windows. Turning off the faint music on the vast radio. The light out under Miss Martin's door.
Word: sine qua nons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sine qua non Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sine quibus non Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪnɪ ˌkwaɪbʊs ˈnɒn/, /ˌsɪnɪ ˌkwɪbʊs ˈnəʊn/, /ˌsɪni ˌkwɪbʊs ˈnɑn/, /ˌsɪni ˌkwɪbʊs ˈnoʊn/, /ˌsaɪni ˌkwaɪbʊs ˈnɑn/ 1. plural of sine qua non Labels: form-of, plural
Word: p-adic absolute value Part of Speech: noun 1. A norm for the rational numbers, with some prime number p as parameter, such that any rational number of the form pᵏ(a/b) — where a, b and k are integers and a, b and p are coprime — is mapped to the rational number p⁻ᵏ and 0 is mapped to 0. (Note: any nonzero rational number can be reduced to such a form.) Example: According to Ostrowski's theorem, only three kinds of norms are possible for the set of real numbers: the trivial absolute value, the real absolute value, and the p'''-adic absolute value.ᵂᴾ Example: If cgt;1, then x#92;rightarrowc#123;-v#95;p(x)#125; (with the convention c#123;-#92;infty#125;#61;0) is a nonarchimedean absolute value, denoted #92;vert..#92;vert#95;#123;p,c#125; and called the p-adic absolute value to base c. If cgt;1 and dgt;1 and if r#61;#92;log#95;cd, then #92;vertx#92;vert#95;#123;p,d#125;#61;#92;vertx#92;vertʳ#95;#123;p,c#125; for every x#92;inK. The p-adic topology on K is the topology defined by the p'''-adic absolute values.
Word: wainage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wain + -age. Compare Old French waaignage. 1. Gainage; the team and implements necessary for the cultivation of land. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Bracton says in one place that the villein has an action against his lord if the lord should take away the villein's wainage, i.e. plough and plough-team. 2. The provision of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods or produce. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Such an extraordinary wainage could only have been accomplished by the mode of forced requisitions, and by devoting 5000 extra horses to the service; for the conveyance to Lyons was required of 14,000 bombs, 34,000 balls, 300,000 pounds of powder, 800,000 cartridges, and 130 pieces of ordnance. Example: Provendering and wainage without consent of owner shall be allowed only on due payment in money.
Word: wainages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wainage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: comptible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From compt + -ible. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmp.tə.bəl/ 1. accountable; responsible Labels: obsolete Example: The Act of Indemnity, by which no Intrometters with Publick Money are comptible for Publick Money. 2. sensitive Labels: obsolete Example: I am very comptible even to the least sinister usage.
Word: cynarrhodium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κυνόροδον (kunórodon), from κύων (kúōn) + ῥόδον (rhódon). 1. A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.
Word: delirament Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin deliramentum, from delirare. See delirium. 1. A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy. Labels: obsolete Example: popish deliraments
Word: deliraments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of delirament Labels: form-of, plural
Word: isuretine Part of Speech: noun 1. A synthetic nitrogenous base, isomeric with urea. Labels: uncountable
Word: obsignation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin obsignatio. 1. The act of sealing or ratifying. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You seem in your letter to make the principal end and effect of all sacraments to be obsignation, and all sacraments to be merely obsignatory signs […] 2. Confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: , "On the Spirit of Grace" The spirit of manifestation will but upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation.
Word: obsignations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of obsignation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kjarposko Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from the name of the creator, Kjartan Poskitt. 1. A number puzzle involving linked pairs of numbers Example: Kjarposko is a number puzzle like Sudoku.
Word: bevel gear Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet. Example: Each axle has its own final drive two-step reduction, a bevel gear set and a spur gear set which drives the axle. Of these, the spur gears take most of the stress and the bevel gears provide optimum reduction at high speed and low torque—an arrangement which makes for easier assembly and reduced load for the bevel gears.
Word: bevel gears Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bevel gear Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arquebusade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French arquebusade (“shot of an arquebus”); eau d'arquebusade, a vulnerary for gunshot wounds. 1. The shot of an arquebus. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The marquis of Guast escaped by the swiftness of his horse , being wounded in the thigh with an arquebusade 2. A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, such as rosemary, millefoil, etc., originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The AQUA VULNERATA, arquebusade water, is prepared from numerous aromatics[…]
Word: arquebusades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arquebusade Labels: form-of, plural