nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: depletives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of depletive Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diversories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diversory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diversory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin diversorium, deversorium (“an inn or lodging”). 1. A wayside inn. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: For slaughtering one , through many regions stray'd In my stall, as his diversory, stay'd.
Word: diversory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin diversorium, deversorium (“an inn or lodging”). 1. Tending to divert; causing diversion.
Word: closehanded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From close + handed. 1. Covetous; penurious; stingy Example: Once he got to Main Street, the street lamps puddled pale gold circles directly beneath their poles, closehanded as a string of misers, but Mason avoided even the edges of their light. Example: The most famous of the roods was that of Boxley in Kent, which used to smile and bow, or frown and shake its head, as its worshippers were generous or closehanded. 2. Secretive. Example: Ye need not be so closehanded of anything I send you: ye may communicate them to whom ye will, for I am little concerned if they be published under others' name or not. Example: Formerly a tight, closehanded group of archives in fear of studio snoops in search of misappropriated property in the archives' collections, they have since blossomed into relatively open "cinematheques" complete with Rene Beauclair's The International Directory of Film and TV Documentation Centers (1988). 3. Involving close proximity. Labels: obsolete Example: ...a closehanded battle, or tumult, in which the ditferent parties are confusedly mired together, and fight, as we say, pellmell.
Word: closehanded Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From close + handed. 1. Closely, directly. Example: As a reporter, I became aware of the problems whistleblowers face closehanded back when I was covering government and local government in Des Moines, Iowa.
Word: pharyngologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pharyngology + -ist. 1. A student of pharyngology; one versed in the science of pharyngology.
Word: May Duke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Corruption of Médoc, the province in France where it is supposed to have originated. 1. A large dark-red variety of cherry, cross between Prunus avium and Prunus cerasus.
Word: Maydukes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Mayduke Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pharyngologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pharyngologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deterration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin de + terra (“earth”) + -ation. Compare French déterrer (“to unearth”). 1. The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; an unearthing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This Deterration, as 'tis called, or Devolution of Earth and Sand from the Mountains and higher Grounds
Word: deterrations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deterration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unburial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + burial. 1. The digging up of something previously buried; disinterment; exhumation.
Word: unburials Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of unburial Labels: form-of, plural
Word: emacerate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin emaceratus (“emaciated”), from e + macerare (“to make soft”). 1. To make or become lean; to emaciate. Labels: obsolete Example: Let Cockle, ſtead of Barley, stead of wheat, Let Thistles all my grounds emacerate.
Word: emacerated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of emacerate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: emacerates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of emacerate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: emacerating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of emacerate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: becut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bekutten (found in compound for-bekutte (“mutilated”)), equivalent to be- + cut. 1. To cut about; cut around; cut up; cut off; sever. Labels: transitive Example: And dead and cold, me then againe they martyr-'d, Me all in pieces they becut and quartir'd, […]
Word: stigmatically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From stigmatic + -ally. 1. In a stigmatic way, with a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity. Labels: not-comparable
Word: elaidic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See elaine (“oleic acid”). 1. The trans isomer of oleic acid; the major trans fat found in hydrogenated vegetable oils, also occurring in small amounts in caprine and bovine milk. Labels: uncountable
Word: blindstories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blindstory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blindstory Part of Speech: noun 1. The triforium Labels: archaic
Word: chiragrical Part of Speech: adj 1. Having gout in the hand. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: As for the observation of Lemnius, an eminent physician, concerning the gout, however it happened in his country, we may observe it otherwise in ours; that is, chiragrical persons do suffer in this finger as well as in the rest, and sometimes first of all, and sometimes nowhere else.
Word: suggestment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From suggest + -ment. 1. suggestion Labels: obsolete Example: They fancy that every thought must needs have an immediate outward suggestment.
Word: suggestments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suggestment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Rhadamanthus Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ῥαδάμανθυς (Rhadámanthus). Pronunciation: /ˌɹæ.dəˈmæn.θəs/ 1. A king of Crete, one of the three judges in Hades. Labels: Greek
Word: Rhadamanthus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ῥαδάμανθυς (Rhadámanthus). Pronunciation: /ˌɹæ.dəˈmæn.θəs/ 1. A strict and just judge. Labels: figuratively Example: It was in vain to be a Rhadamanthus with the bells, and if an unfortunate bell rang without leave, to have it down inexorably and silence it. Example: Nothing is now heard but the ticking of a quaint old timepiece on the summit of a bookcase. Ten minutes pass; he captures her knight; she takes his knight, and looks a very Rhadamanthus.
Word: Rhadamanthuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Rhadamanthus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: healless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English heleles, equivalent to heal (“health, well-being”) + -less. Compare healful. 1. Incapable of being made whole or well; cureless; incurable; unhealable. Example: […] the hour that Wrung its idol from its core, and left it Bleeding with a healless wound, nor power On earth to staunch and stop the same; […] Example: A capacity for sin so healless that it makes its man despair from his heart of redemption - that is the true theological way to salvation.
Word: hepatocele Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hepato- + -cele. 1. hernia of the liver Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: No Fun City Part of Speech: name Etymology: Reportedly coined in 2000 by an organiser of Vancouver's annual Symphony of Fire fireworks exhibition (now known as the Celebration of Light), who was upset over a tobacco company being prevented from sponsoring the event. Strict liquor licensing laws have also been pointed to as the source of the nickname, as has an incident in which police advised people to avoid a New Year's celebration, fearing violence. Further popularized in 2010 via a feature documentary called No Fun City about the struggles faced by Vancouver music venues, directed by Melissa James and Kate Kroll. 1. Derogatory name for Vancouver: a major city in British Columbia, Canada. Labels: derogatory, informal, usually Example: Where did this wealth of visual expression come from, and how did it blossom in No Fun City, of all places? Example: Celebrates independent art and culture in “No Fun City” — Vancouver, BC.
Word: 'havior Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English havour, a corruption of Old French aveir, avoir (“a having”), of same origin as English aver (“a workhorse”). The h is due to confusion with have. 1. behaviour; demeanor Labels: obsolete Example: Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, / Nor customary suits of solemn black, / Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, / No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, / Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, / Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, / That can denote me truly...; Example: Her who had made him a pastime, bridging the winter across With a masque, a foolery petty and vain, amusing herself with his loss,— God! it had been but an insult throughout, her ’havior so sisterly free
Word: alepole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ale + pole. 1. A pole erected as an indication of an alehouse. Labels: obsolete
Word: alepoles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of alepole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ludification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ludificatio, from ludificare (“to make sport of”), from ludus (“sport”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy. 1. Derision; mockery. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The process of ludifying; the process of making something playful or converting something into a game. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As such, ludification of culture is first and foremost a philosophy. Example: Although ludification ties in with both gamification and the concept and practice of transmedia it possesses unique characteristics and qualities of its own, primarily evolving around playful ways of creating and interacting with stories.
Word: ludifications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ludification Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cocculus indicus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin cocculus, diminutive of coccum (“kermes berry”) + Indicus (“of India”). 1. The fishberry (fruit of Anamirta cocculus).
Word: Alice chess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the protagonist of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, who travelled through a mirror and encountered characters based on chess pieces. 1. A chess variant that employs two chessboards; as each move is made, the moved piece is transferred to the same square on the other chessboard. Labels: uncountable
Word: beakiron Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of beak-iron. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: beakirons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beakiron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: elucubration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the past participle of Latin elucubrare (“compose by lamplight”). Pronunciation: /ɪˌluːkjʊˈbɹeɪʃən/ 1. The act of elucubrating. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: elucubrations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of elucubration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Feringee Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of firangi. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: Feringees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Feringee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enwall Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + wall. 1. Alternative form of inwall. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: O change my state, unthrall my soule enthralled: / Of my escape then will I tell the story, / And with a crown enwalled / Of godly men, will glory in thy glory.
Word: enwalled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of enwall Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: enwalling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enwall Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enwalls Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of enwall Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: inwalling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of inwall Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: inwalled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of inwall Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: equiveillance Part of Speech: noun 1. A state of equilibrium, or a desire to attain such, between surveillance and sousveillance. Labels: uncountable Example: Police who film protesters while covering up their own badge numbers have no respect for equiveillance.
Word: astrobabble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From astro- + babble. 1. worthless astrological talk Labels: derogatory, informal, uncountable Example: More subtly, it kills off the very understanding that the real thing is supposed to promote and replaces it with tokens of understanding that have value only in an economy of free-floating, all-purpose astrobabble. Example: Fluent in astrobabble. Flagrantly philosophical. Fiery for redheads. Awaiting adventure. All femmes need apply.
Word: mewingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From mewing + -ly. 1. With mewing sounds. Example: Later the cat arrived back at deponent's place with very sore feet and was found mewingly located in front of the box in the garage where deponent kept his supply of tire patches. Example: Sea birds swooped and dived over the surf and called mewingly to one another.
Word: elaidinisation Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of elaidinization. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: elaidinization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From elaidin + -ization. 1. A chemical reaction that alters the orientation of double bonds from cis to trans, most often performed on fats and oils to increase the melting point and extend the shelf life without reducing the degree of unsaturation. Labels: uncountable
Word: elaboratively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From elaborative + -ly. 1. In an elaborative manner.
Word: crunode Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Latin crux (“a cross”) + English node. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹuːnəʊd/ 1. node (point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch) Labels: archaic
Word: crunodes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crunode Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chalkstone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English ċealcstān, equivalent to chalk + stone. 1. A mass or piece of chalk. Labels: obsolete Example: [W]hen he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. 2. A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus. Example: [T]he thoughts of his breeding Gout so fast shocks me: it has beside all the rest made a Deposit in the Great Toe—I mean in the Joint, as if intending a Chalkstone.
Word: chalkstones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chalkstone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cokernut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: This spelling was introduced by the London customhouse to distinguish more widely between this and other articles spelt much in the same manner. 1. Archaic form of coconut. Labels: UK, alt-of, archaic Example: The cokernut (sometimes spelt "cocoanut," though it has, of course, no connection with cocoa) is a sort of "ugly duckling" when compared with other nuts, and few people partake of it regularly.
Word: cokernuts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cokernut Labels: form-of, plural
Word: surgeless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From surge + -less. 1. Free from surges; smooth; calm. 2. Free from electrical surges.
Word: exestuate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exaestuātus, passive participle of exaestuō (“to boil up”). See estuate. Pronunciation: /ɛɡˈzɛs.tjʊˌeɪ̯t/, /ɛɡˈzɛs.t͡ʃuˌeɪ̯t/ 1. To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce. Labels: ambitransitive, obsolete Example: Till this they were not much enraged, but now no flames could exestuate more than their fury and ravings ; Example: In excess, they [wine and alcohol] increase, excite, provoke, exaggerate, exestuate, and demonize the passions ; while blasted prospects, ruined hopes, destroyed health, poverty, pain, sorrow, woe, wretchedness, and crime, generally follow their intemperate use
Word: ectethmoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ecto- + ethmoid. 1. external to the ethmoid; prefrontal (situated in front of the frontal bone) Labels: not-comparable Example: ectethmoid bone Example: ectethmoid chamber
Word: ectethmoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ecto- + ethmoid. Labels: empty-gloss, no-gloss
Word: divast Part of Speech: verb 1. to devastate; to lay waste Labels: obsolete
Word: Feringhee Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of firangi. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The thing stands thus, Sahib, and I tell it to you because I know that an oath is binding upon a Feringhee, and that we may trust you.
Word: Feringhees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Feringhee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Plotinist Part of Speech: noun 1. A disciple of Plotinus, a leading Neoplatonic philosopher of the third century AD, who believed in henology and emanationism. Labels: historical
Word: Plotinists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Plotinist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: manlessly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From manless + -ly. 1. Inhumanly. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: [L]et her vvounds / Manleſly digd in her, be eaſd and cur'd / VVith balme of thine ovvne teares: […] Example: Thus furie-like ſhe [Andromache] vvent, / Tvvo vvomen (as ſhe vvill'd) at hand; and made her quicke aſcent / Vp to the tovvre, and preaſſe of men; her ſpirit in vprore. Round / She caſt her greedy eye, and ſavv, her Hector ſlaine, and bound / T' Achilles chariot; manleſly, dragg'd to the Grecian fleet.
Word: coulages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coulage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exothecia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exothecium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exothecium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exo- + theca (“pollen-producing organ”) + -ium. 1. The outer layer of the anther.
Word: southsaying Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of soothsaying. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: reciproque Part of Speech: adj Etymology: French réciproque. 1. reciprocal Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Neither doth this weakness appear to others only, and not to the party loved; but to the loved most of all, except the love be reciproque.
Word: pestilentious Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of pestilential. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: irroration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From irrorate. 1. A sprinkling or wetting with dew. Labels: obsolete Example: Generally, to the irroration of the body much use of sweet things is profitable, as of sugar, honey, sweet almonds, pineapples, pistachios, dates, raisins of the sun, corans, figs, and the like. 2. Markings reminiscent of spots or dew drops. Example: Underside: ground-colour similar, both fore and hind wings with extensive irroration of black scale which varies considerably in amount: in some specimens it is very dense and gives a glackish tint to the ground-colour, especially on the hind wing. Example: Black, markings formed by pale blue glossy irroration; markings white on costal edge.
Word: irrorations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of irroration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trabea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin trabea. 1. A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes, worn by kings, consuls, and augurs. Labels: Ancient-Rome, historical Example: When the emperors were themselves consuls, they wore a Trabea adorned with gems, which were allowed to none else.
Word: trabeae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trabea Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exsanguinity Part of Speech: noun 1. Lack of blood. Labels: uncountable
Word: alure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English alure, alour, from Old French alure, aleure (“walk, gait”), from aler (“to go”) + -ure (modern French aller). 1. A walkway or passageway. Labels: obsolete Example: The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble.
Word: alures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of alure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cyberdefamation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + defamation. 1. defamation by material published on the Internet, or in cyberspace Labels: uncountable Example: Cyberdefamation, virus production, or negligent publication cases will rarely arise out of contractual relations. Example: Even though online harassment, cyberdefamation, and cyberbullying do not always reach the level of stalking, they do cause significant distress in both the targets of the violence and their families.
Word: bdellotomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bdellatomy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: sizarship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sizar + -ship. 1. The position or standing of a sizar. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sizarships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sizarship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: skunkish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From skunk + -ish. 1. Resembling the skunk, especially in smell.
Word: songish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From song + -ish. 1. Consisting of or containing songs. Labels: obsolete Example: The other, which, for want of a proper English word, I must call the songish part, must abound in the softness and variety of numbers; its principal intention being to please the hearing, […] 2. Characteristic of a song; songlike Labels: rare Example: I have struck off what I am sure would be objected to as not songish enough for the taste of the day. The air will now require to be sung each four lines, which I think answers as well as repeating each part. Example: This turning away from the performed, songish traits of the cantares, which seems an inevitable result of the inscriptive technology that brings them to us, breaks down any number of other metonymic connections of these songs to the indigenous world.
Word: incorporality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin incorporalitas: compare French incorporalité. 1. Obsolete form of incorporeality. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: Incorporality is free from all Custody or Imprisonment , as also devoid of Pain and Pleasure
Word: osteocope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From osteo- + -scope. Compare French ostéocope. 1. pain in the bones Labels: archaic
Word: osteocopes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of osteocope Labels: form-of, plural
Word: conusant Part of Speech: adj 1. cognizant Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: sternites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sternite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: endosternite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From endo- + sternite. 1. The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in crustaceans and insects.
Word: endosternites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of endosternite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cisternal maturation model Part of Speech: noun 1. A proposed transport mechanism of protein through the Golgi apparatus in which the cisternae move, beginning at the cis face and progressing via the medial face to the trans face.
Word: faussebraye Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French fausse-braie. Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊsbɹeɪ/ 1. A second rampart, exterior and parallel to the main rampart, and considerably below its level.
Word: faussebrayes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of faussebraye Labels: form-of, plural
Word: strenuity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From strenu(ous) + -ity, from Latin strenuitas. 1. strenuousness; activity Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: sword and fire should force Both ships and lives of all the Greeks. And thus, unlike affects Bred like strenuity in both.
Word: suscitability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From suscitate + -ability. 1. The capability of being suscitated; excitability. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: Svb. This's Heathen Greek, to you? And, what's your Mercury? Fac. A very Fugitiue, he will be gone, Sir. Svb. How know you him? Fac. By his viſcoſitie, His oleoſitie, and his ſuſcitabilitie. Example: Neither suscitability of the still-born infant or the resuscitability of the seemingly dead adult require proof to substantiate their possibility. With life extinguished neither operation has any concern, […]
Word: schismatical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin schismaticus + -al. 1. Alternative form of schismatic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: The Oppoſition inſiſted, that the victims were not fat nor fair enough to be offered on the altars of blaſphemed Regicide; and it was inferred from thence, that the ſacrifical miniſters, (who were a ſort of intruders in the worſhip of the new divinity) in their ſchiſmatical devotion had diſcovered more of hypocriſy than zeal.
Word: schismatical Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin schismaticus + -al. 1. Alternative form of schismatic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pleonaste Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?] abundant, rich; compare French pléonaste. 1. A black variety of spinel.
Word: pleonastes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pleonaste Labels: form-of, plural
Word: yokelish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From yokel + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈjəʊkəlɪʃ/ 1. Like a rustic or bumpkin; simple and ignorant. Example: The exclusion of anoblis and the presence of large numbers of country gentry (around a quarter of the delegation as a whole) gave the meetings a very provincial and at time yokelish ethos.
Word: snaphance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Dutch snaphaan (“a gun”), originally, the snapping cock of a gun. See snap and hen. 1. A spring lock for discharging a firearm. 2. The firearm to which it is attached. 3. A trifling or second-rate thing or person. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]o make this realme a praye to al venturers, al ſpoylers, all ſnaphanſes, all forlornehopes, all cormerauntes, all reuenours of the worlde, that wyll inuade this realme, is to ſaye, thou poſſeſſyoner of any landes of this realme, of what degree ſo euer thou be, fro the higheſt to the loweſt, ſhalte be ſlayne and deſtroyed, and thy landes taken frome the by thoſe that wyl haue al for them ſelfes. 4. A snappish retort. Labels: obsolete
Word: snaphances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of snaphance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: snaphaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of snaphance. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: snaphaunces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of snaphaunce Labels: form-of, plural
Word: off-sale Part of Speech: adj 1. Of alcoholic beverages, pertaining to the sale of closed containers for consumption off the premises. Labels: not-comparable Example: The bar also had off-sale liquor available.
Word: boroughholder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From borough + holder. 1. A tithingman.
Word: boroughholders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boroughholder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: megatheroid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Megatherium + -oid. 1. One of a family of extinct edentates found in America, including the megatherium and the megalonyx, among others. Example: The more striking phenomena first and most strongly impress the mind, which contrasts for example, the great Cave-Bears of Europe with the actual Brown Bear, the Megatheroids of South America with the small existing sloths, and the gigantic Glyptodons with the Armadillos.
Word: megatheroids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megatheroid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: twinner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From twin + -er. 1. One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Example: Ewes yeerly by twinning rich maisters doo make, the lamb of such twinners for breeders go take Example: In the former or first four pregnancies the proportion of twinners in a hundred twinners is smaller than the proportion of child-bearers in a hundred : […] 2. One who visits or interacts with a sister city of their own city. Example: Beyond correspondence, twinners around the country got very interested in elaborating their relation to their paired city by visiting it. 3. One who is identical, is similar, or is a counterpart, to another person. Labels: uncommon Example: The twinner of Jack's ailing mother, a faded movie actress named Lily Cavanaugh (who was billed in her time as the “Queen of the B Movies”), […] Example: Everyone, that is, except for Jack; his twinner, Jason, died as a baby and has become something of a mythical character in the alternate world, […]
Word: twinners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of twinner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diiamb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From di- + iamb. Pronunciation: /daɪˈaɪæm/ 1. A diiambus.
Word: diiambs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diiamb Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mascled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mascle + -ed. 1. Composed of, or covered with, mascles (lozenge-shaped scales). Labels: not-comparable Example: mascled armour 2. Having lozenge-shaped divisions. Labels: not-comparable
Word: prefident Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare Latin praefidens (“overconfident”). See pre- and confident. 1. Trusting beforehand; overconfident. Labels: obsolete Example: If the Pastors themselves were not prefident and presumptuous over-valuers of their own apprehensions!
Word: triplicities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of triplicity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: triplicity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From triplic(ate) + -ity, from Latin triplicitas, from Latin triplex, triplicis (“threefold”). Compare French triplicité. See triplicate. Pronunciation: /tɹɪˈplɪsɪti/ 1. The quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In their trinall triplicities on hye 2. The division of the twelve signs according to the four elements. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: he very promptly and speedily formed and fashioned a complete fabric of the houses of heaven in all their parts, whereof when he had considered the situation and the aspects in their triplicities, he fetched a deep sigh, and said: I have clearly enough already discovered unto you the fate of your cuckoldry, which is unavoidable, you cannot escape it.
Word: semichorus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + chorus. 1. half a chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, rather than the full choir. It was popular in Ancient Greek theatre. 2. A small number of selected singers.
Word: semichoruses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semichorus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cnemial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek κνημίς (knēmís, “the lower part of the leg, greaves”). By surface analysis, cnem- + -i- + -al. 1. Relating to, or located at, the shinbone, or tibia. Labels: not-comparable Example: Some birds and reptiles, like dinosaurs, have a cnemial crest. Example: cnemial ridge
Word: concretively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From concretive + -ly. 1. In a concretive manner.
Word: mani-pedis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mani-pedi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polysyntheticism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + synthetic + -ism. 1. polysynthesis Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: polysyntheticisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of polysyntheticism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: leucoline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From leuco- + Latin oleum (“oil”). 1. quinoline. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: Xanthippic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Xanthippe + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to Xanthippe (wife of Socrates) 2. scolding, nagging
Word: anaptotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνάπτωσις (anáptōsis, “falling back”), in reference to πτῶσις (ptôsis, “grammatical case”). Pronunciation: /ˌæn.əpˈtɑt.ɪk/ 1. Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; uninflected Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: anaptotic languages
Word: dinumeration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dinumeratio, from di-, dis- + numerare (“to count”), from numerus (“number”). 1. enumeration Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Seyng therefore, that there is no Dinumeration of tyme with God, it followeth that a thousande yeres with hym, are as one daie […] Example: What therefore do Philosophers number, measure, waigh? All things: yet have they most solemn dinumerations, dimensions, collibrations, ( 1 ) of Heaven, in Astronomy; ( 2 ) of Earth, in Geographie; ( 3 ) of Times, in Chronology; (4) of Cogitations, in Logick, Mnemonick, Prognostic; (5) of Moral Actions, in Morality; (6) of Speech, in Arts Philological; all of which let us run thorow by the by.
Word: interambulacra Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of interambulacrum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interambulacrum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inter- + ambulacrum. 1. In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones between two ambulacra.
Word: heteroscian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑτερόσκιος (heteróskios) other + shadow: compare French hétéroscien. So called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward). 1. A person or object that is located in the temperate zones (i.e., between the polar regions and the tropics), whose shadow thus does not change its north-south direction over the course of the year.
Word: heteroscians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heteroscian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scenary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Latin scenarius (“belonging to the stage”). 1. Obsolete spelling of scenery. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: To make a Sketch, or a more perfect Model of a Picture, is in the Language of Poets, to draw up the Scenary of a Play, and the reaſon is the ſame for both; to guide the Undertaking, and to preſerve the Remembrance of ſuch things, whoſe Natures are difficult to retain.
Word: water turkey Part of Speech: noun 1. An anhinga, Anhinga anhinga.
Word: water turkeys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of water turkey Labels: form-of, plural
Word: placentious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin placentius, from placeō (“to please”). Pronunciation: /pləˈsɛnʃiəs/, /pləˈsɛnʃəs/ 1. pleasing or pleasant Labels: obsolete Example: a placentious person
Word: inconcinne Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See inconcinnous. 1. dissimilar; incongruous; unsuitable Labels: obsolete Example: You see by what small strings the applications of these four Beasts are tied to these four Visions hitherto, to omit what is very inconcinne, the breaking the order they were first named in, ( chap.4. ver. 7.) the first a Lion, the second an Oxe, the third a Nab, the fourth an Eagle. Example: He could invent a fictional restaurant for you to bite your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic.
Word: pitfalling Part of Speech: adj 1. Entrapping; ensnaring. Labels: not-comparable Example: able to shew us the ways of the Lord straight and faithful as they are, not full of cranks and contradictions, and pitfalling dispenses Example: But always with my future as Nicholas's illustration of moral pitfalling possibilities.
Word: pitfalling Part of Speech: noun 1. The practice of setting up and using pitfalls to capture animals. Labels: no-plural Example: Here is all the evidence of which we are at present cognizant; but is it not almost enough to start a party for New Zealand in the hope of trapping, toiling, or pitfalling, —anything but shooting, —the biggest bird in the world, and bringing it alive to England, as the crown of the Knowsley and the Regent's Park menageries? Example: Hunting, poisoning, trapping, pitfalling and other types of extermination campaigns are carried out and are sometimes organized by local authorities. 2. The process or act of succumbing to an unexpected hazard or pitfall. Labels: no-plural Example: Now, falling in love is one thing, but pitfalling is another. A man dislikes the thought of being trapped into a marriage. Example: It may take some trying and pitfalling, but the end result will be a lot more satisfying than George Babbitt's uniform.
Word: pitfalling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pitfall Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mendment Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of amendment. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: Ordovian Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Ordovician. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Ordovian Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Ordovician. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: anthorism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνθορισμός (anthorismós) from ἀνθορίζω (anthorízō, “make a counterdefinition”) from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”). 1. A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the opposing party. Labels: rare, rhetoric
Word: mercat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin mercātus. See market. 1. Market; trade. Labels: obsolete Example: December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall With irresistible majesty and authority our Saviour removed the exchange, and drove the mercat out of the temple.
Word: mercat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Dutch meercatte. 1. Obsolete form of meerkat. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: mercat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mer- + cat. 1. A mermaid cat. Example: You can also open this project up to encompass other mercreatures, such as merdogs, mercats, or merdeer. Example: Madeline lived in a conch shell with her merdog called Byron and her mercat called Bella.
Word: lorette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French lorette. 1. A woman of low morals, especially associated with the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette district of Paris. Labels: dated Example: Wife or mistress, lorette or lady, there is but one fate for us!
Word: lorettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lorette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blacktail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of black + tail. Pronunciation: /ˈblækˌteɪl/ 1. A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua) Example: […] the blacke taile Perch [which ſome take for a Ruffe, others for a ſea Breame:] Example: Melarunus, the Black-tail, a kind of Perch of Ruff, a Fiſh; it alſo taken for a Sea-bream: […] 2. A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon. 3. A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains. 4. Certain fish with black tails: Labels: UK 5. Certain fish with black tails: Labels: Namibia, South-Africa 6. Certain fish with black tails: Labels: Jamaica
Word: blacktails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blacktail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kaleidophones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kaleidophone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tonophant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “a tone”) + -φάντης (-phántēs), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to show”). Compare hierophant. 1. A modification of the kaleidophone, for showing the composition of acoustic vibrations. It consists of two thin slips of steel welded together, their length being adjustable by a screw socket. Labels: dated
Word: cledge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare clay. Pronunciation: /klɛd͡ʒ/ 1. The upper layer of fuller's earth. Labels: archaic
Word: tubulipore Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of numerous species of Bryozoa belonging to Tubulipora and allied genera, with tubular calcareous calicles.
Word: tubulipores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tubulipore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: probationership Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From probationer + -ship. 1. The state of being a probationer; novitiate. Example: I presume, to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here
Word: probationerships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of probationership Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pleuropneumonia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pleuro- + pneumonia. 1. inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, especially a kind of contagious and fatal lung disease of cattle and pigs, caused by infection by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae Labels: uncountable
Word: trumpetwood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trumpet + wood. 1. A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the nettle family, whose hollow stems can be used for wind instruments. Labels: uncountable
Word: paraglobulin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From para- + globulin. 1. Synonym of fibrinoplastin. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: paraglobulins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paraglobulin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chinaldine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin chininum (“quinine”) + aldehyde. 1. Alternative form of quinaldine. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: chinaldines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chinaldine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: venada Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Spanish venado (“a doe, stag”). 1. A species of deer; the pudu. Labels: archaic
Word: venadas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of venada Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aggeration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin aggeratio. 1. A piling up; accumulation. Labels: archaic, rare Example: aggerations of sand
Word: aggerations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aggeration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trading cards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trading card Labels: form-of, plural
Word: baseball card Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of trading card that features a picture of a baseball player on one side and information about the player on the other side.
Word: baseball cards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of baseball card Labels: form-of, plural
Word: submediants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of submediant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: outcut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + cut. 1. To cut out. Labels: transitive 2. To surpass or exceed in cutting; cut more than or cut superior to. Labels: transitive Example: They're guaranteed to outcut and outlast any plier made.
Word: outcut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From out- + cut. 1. That which is cut out. 2. A groove; channel.
Word: outcut Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From out- + cut. 1. Cut out.
Word: heanlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heanling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lovemate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From love + mate. 1. The person with whom one is mated in love; a lover or sweetheart.
Word: loveness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From love + -ness. Compare Middle English lovnesse, lufeniss, luvenesse (“lovingness, love”). 1. Love. Labels: nonstandard, rare, uncountable Example: People concerned about creating a just society would use loveness as a guide when setting priorities.
Word: lovewende Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English luvewende, from Old English lufwende (“lovable, pleasant”), from lufu (“love”) + -wende. 1. Lovable; beloved; lovely; loving. Labels: obsolete
Word: xochinacaztli Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Nahuatl xōchinacaztli (“ear-flower”), from xōchitl (“flower”). So called because it somewhat resembles an ear. 1. The earflower, Cymbopetalum penduliflorum, sometimes used by the Aztecs to flavour cocoa. Labels: uncountable
Word: textworthy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From text + -worthy. 1. Worthy of text or being written in text; worthy of being written about, printed, set in text, or texted. Example: We are all bombarded daily with newsworthy and "textworthy" vignettes telling of new psychological findings. Example: Editors, focused on the apparent inconsistencies in the way Horatio is represented, might seem to suggest that he is also not a textworthy character.
Word: loveship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From love + -ship. 1. The act of falling in or making love; courtship. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Dapper bearded dyke desires intense friendship, loveship with mentally and physically strong adventurous political lesbian lunatic
Word: people pleaser Part of Speech: noun 1. An obsequious, subservient person, especially in a workplace. Labels: informal 2. Someone who prioritizes serving others over their own desires. Labels: informal Example: Her wedding gives her fans the satisfying narrative conclusion that they desire. Or which, in the case of the fandom’s more lunatic fringes, they believe that they are entitled to. Hey, she’s a people pleaser.
Word: people pleasers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of people pleaser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unteleported Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + teleported. 1. Not having been teleported. Labels: not-comparable Example: By examining the coincidence detection rates between the teleported and unteleported pairs after polarization filtering it can be determined if non-local correlations are still present. Example: If it hadn't been for the anesthetic, there'd have been no break in A's conscious, unteleported experience and there'd be no doubt who was the original. But then what if we teleport two copies […]
Word: Lion City Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the literal English meaning of Singapore's name, which derives from Malay singa ("lion") and pura ("city"), from Sanskrit सिंह (siṃhá, “lion”) and पुर (pura, “city”). 1. Singapore. Labels: informal Example: Singapore is a place to be included on any traveller's itinerary, whether for pleasure or business. Its manifold attractions lure over six million visitors to the Lion City every year.
Word: Emerald City Part of Speech: name Etymology: The Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau held a contest in 1981 to find a new nickname for Seattle. The winning entry, "Emerald City", came from Sarah Sterling-Franklin of Carmel, California, whose submission described the city as "the jewel of the Northwest, the Queen of the Evergreen State, the many-faced city of space, elegance, magic and beauty." "Emerald City" is also a reference to the fictional capital of the Land of Oz in the book series by L. Frank Baum. 1. Seattle (a city in Washington, United States). Labels: informal Example: The Emerald City, both famous and notorious for its clouds and rain, has been forced to institute a mandatory water conservation program for the first time "in memorable history."
Word: KED board Part of Speech: noun 1. A Kendrick Extrication Device.
Word: peachen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From peach + -en. 1. Of or resembling a peach; peachlike; having a surface like that of a peach; peachy. Example: They were fine, stalwart-looking men, well limbed, clear of eye, and upright in shape, with that peculiar color of a ripe, rich peachen hue upon the cheek, which only a pure temperate life perfect health can place there.
Word: Serer Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of a West African ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania.
Word: Serer Part of Speech: name 1. The language of the Serer people.
Word: Serers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Serer : An ethnoreligious group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania (the Serer people, the Serer religion and Serer history). Labels: form-of, plural
Word: black-billed capercaillie Part of Speech: noun 1. A large black grouse endemic to Siberia, closely related to western capercaillie; Tetrao parvirostris.
Word: meronymies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of meronymy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cyclable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cycle + -able. 1. Capable of being cycled (progressed through a cycle, or ridden by bicycle). Labels: not-comparable
Word: undisambiguated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts? Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder. Proto-Italic *amβi- Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin ambig(ō) Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Italic *-wos Latin -uus Latin ambiguuslbor. English ambigu(ous) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English ambiguate English disambiguated English undisambiguated From un- + disambiguated. 1. Not disambiguated. Labels: not-comparable Example: Such semantical cues serve to identify the proper underlying phrase-marker initially obfuscated by the transformational shifting of form-classes in the lineal generation of the undisambiguated phrase-marker. Example: And if there turn out to be no unambiguous words by which to explain ambiguous ones such words are going to remain undisambiguated.
Word: prothoracicotropic hormone Part of Speech: noun 1. A peptide hormone found in insects, produced in the copora cardiaca or corpus allata, which initiates the release of the ecdysteroid hormone from the prothoracic gland.
Word: prothoracicotropic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From prothoracic + -o- + -tropic. 1. That modifies the behaviour of the prothoracic gland
Word: prothoracic gland Part of Speech: noun 1. Either of a pair of glands, in the prothorax of insects, which produce ecdysone