nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: scaraboid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scarab + -oid. 1. Any scaraboid beetle. 2. An imitation scarab ornament. Example: There were over a score of small gold beads, 2 gold scaraboids, gold crescents, pendants shaped like pomegranate buds, several gold rings, pins of gold-covered bronze.
Word: scaraboids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scaraboid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: darlingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From darling + -ness. 1. The quality of being darling, or adorable. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: terzettos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of terzetto Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plicated Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of plicate. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: plicating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plicate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: obtected Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin obtectus, past participle of obtegere (“to cover over”). 1. covered; protected Labels: obsolete 2. Covered with a hard chitinous case, like the pupa of certain files.
Word: crabeaters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crabeater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fuars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fuar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contrabands Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of contraband Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: contrabands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of contraband Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contrabanding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of contraband Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: contrabanded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of contraband Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: contrabander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From contraband + -er. 1. A smuggler; a contrabandist.
Word: contrabanders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of contrabander Labels: form-of, plural
Word: affeerer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed in English as affeer + -er, after the Anglo-Norman afferour, affoerour. Compare affeeror. 1. One who affeers. Labels: obsolete Example: They shal be amerced and their amercement shall be affeared by affearers there.
Word: affeerers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of affeerer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: everlastings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of everlasting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Cretes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Crete Labels: form-of, plural
Word: resplendencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of resplendency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: resplendences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of resplendence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: muckering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mucker Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: muckered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of mucker Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: auspicing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auspice + -ing. 1. administration of a grant by one group on behalf of another Labels: Australia, uncountable
Word: auspicing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From auspice + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of auspice Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deflour Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French déflorer, Late Latin deflorare, from Latin de- + flos, floris (“flower”). See flower, and compare deflorate. 1. Obsolete form of deflower. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him.
Word: defloured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of deflour Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: deflouring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deflour Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deflours Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of deflour Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: nectosac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From necto- + sac. 1. The cavity of a nectocalyx. Labels: in-plural, rare
Word: nectosacs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nectosac Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hedge-hop Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of hedgehop. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: ‘He said he embarked on his journey for the Mainland, chickened out and hedge-hopped home over Laos ducking the radar screens.’
Word: droneflies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dronefly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dronefly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drone + fly. 1. A European hoverfly, Eristalis tenax. Example: I took a large grey Drone-Fly, that had a large head, but a small a slender body in proportion to it, and cutting off its head, I fix'd it with the forepart or face upwards upon my Object Plate […].
Word: bed screw Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of jackscrew for lifting large bodies and assisting in launching. 2. A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.
Word: bed screws Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bed screw Labels: form-of, plural
Word: whistling hare Part of Speech: noun 1. The pika.
Word: whistling hares Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of whistling hare Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mousefish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mouse + fish. 1. The sargassum fish, Histrio histrio. 2. Gonorynchus gonorynchus, a kind of beaked salmon.
Word: mousefishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mousefish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chowter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Compare dialectal chowre (“to complain”), and English dialect chow (“to grumble”). 1. To grumble or mutter sulkily. Labels: obsolete Example: Chuk poured out the coffee , and handed him the sugar and milk ; and while Richard was eating , the boy tended his master , and chowtered about the room . “ There is not a boom on the river like that , ” he said , " and there'll never be[…]"
Word: chowtered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of chowter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: chowtering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of chowter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: chowters Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of chowter Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: plethorical Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of plethoric. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bellcrank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bell + crank, because of its original use in changing the vertical pull on a rope to a horizontal pull on the striker of a bell. 1. A type of crank that changes motion through an angle, typically 90 or 180 degrees.
Word: bellcranks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bellcrank Labels: form-of, plural
Word: almendron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish almendrón, augmentative of almendro (“almond tree”). 1. The brazil nut tree.
Word: almendrons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of almendron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Candiot Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Candia + -iot. Compare English Cypriot and French candiote. 1. Of or relating to Candia (now called Heraklion). Labels: historical, obsolete
Word: Candiot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Candia + -iot. Compare English Cypriot and French candiote. 1. A native or inhabitant of Candia. Labels: historical, obsolete
Word: silicatization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From silicate + -ization. 1. silicification Labels: uncountable
Word: cagmag Part of Speech: noun 1. A tough old goose. Labels: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable 2. Coarse, bad food of any kind. Labels: UK, broadly, dialectal, uncountable Example: when a man pays for the price of a good wholesome dinner, and finds that all the dishes are filled with cagmag, it is no particular satisfaction to him to know that he is not forced to touch a second morsel
Word: cagmags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cagmag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rathripe Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹɑːðɹaɪp/ 1. Alternative form of rareripe. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dialectal Example: such who delight on rath-ripe fruits
Word: rathripes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rathripe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: labrid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the family Labridae of marine fishes.
Word: labrids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of labrid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: odacid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the family Odacidae of perciform fishes
Word: odacids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of odacid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scarid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the family Scaridae; parrotfishes.
Word: scarids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scarid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aplodactylid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any marblefish in the family Aplodactylidae.
Word: aplodactylids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aplodactylid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: marblefish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From marble + fish. 1. Any of the family Aplodactylidae of perciform fishes.
Word: marblefishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of marblefish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: two-edged sword Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of double-edged sword: a benefit that is also a liability. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see two, edged, sword. Example: For the word of God is quicke and powerfull, and sharper then any two edged sword, pearcing euen to the diuiding asunder of soule and spirit, and of the ioynts and marrowe, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Word: plitt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian плеть (pletʹ, “whip”). 1. An instrument of punishment resembling the knout, formerly used in Russia. Labels: historical Example: Not a few of these carry with them the germ of inevitable death, their frames being enfeebled, and their constitutions broken by having undergone the cruel sentence of the plitt.
Word: plitts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plitt Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sensigenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense Latin -i-bor. English -i- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Hellenic *génos Ancient Greek γένος (génos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor. French -gènebor. English -gen Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English -genous English sensigenous From sense + -i- + -genous. 1. Causing or exciting sensation. Example: it is becoming clear that the more perfect the sensory apparatus, the more completely do these sensigenous cells take on the form of delicate rods or filaments
Word: pertinacy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pertinacia, from pertinax. See pertinacious. 1. Obsolete form of pertinacity. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: pertinacy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pertinere. 1. The quality or state of being pertinent; pertinence. Labels: uncountable
Word: misbegot Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mis- + begot. 1. Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin Labels: archaic Example: Your words have took such pains as if they labour’d To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling Upon the head of valour; which indeed Is valour misbegot and came into the world When sects and factions were newly born: Example: 1661, George Wither, Vox Vulgi: A Poem in Censure of the Parliament of 1661, edited by W. Dunn Macray, Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1880, p. 28, lines 537-538, A Man defective born or misbegot To be therfor a Man deny wee not, Nor thinck wee those defects deprive him can Of attributes essentiall to a Man.
Word: misbegot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + begot. 1. simple past of misbeget Labels: form-of, past
Word: fig-eater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fig + eater. 1. A large beetle (Cotinis nitida) which has elytra that are velvety green with pale borders, which ranges from eastern Canada to central Texas, and which in the southern United States destroys figs. 2. A beetle (Cotinis mutabilis) which ranges from central Texas across the southwestern United States and Mexico. 3. A bird (Sylvia hortensis) that feeds on figs and grapes, and that people eat as a delicacy.
Word: figeaters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of figeater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: capsicin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of capsicine. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: berlin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the name of the German capital city Berlin, where it was invented in the 17th century. Pronunciation: [bɚˈlɪn], /bəˈlɪn/ 1. A four-wheeled carriage with a separate sheltered seat behind the body. Example: I was then giving some instructions about the forwarding my trunk, and was just going to mount my new purchase in the yard of the inn; when a berlin, apparently belonging to a foreigner of distinction, attended by three French or Swiss servants, drove to the door […]. Example: I passed her in his berlin the other day, and just caught a glimpse of very pretty features, with an interesting and sad expression. I believe that she is his wife, because I always believe for the best.
Word: berlins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of berlin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fusulinid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the Fusulinidae., an extinct family of fusulinacean Foraminifera.
Word: fusulinids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fusulinid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: verbeekinid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the Verbeekinidae, a group of large fusulinaceans characterized by subspherical to cylindrical, planispirally coiled tests.
Word: verbeekinids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of verbeekinid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tectonicist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tectonic + -ist. 1. A geologist who studies tectonics.
Word: tectonicists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tectonicist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: slumpage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From slump + -age. 1. The act or result of slumping or sinking down. Labels: uncountable Example: The soil slumpage due to fluid removal and to explosives used in seismic exploration cannot always be mitigated.
Word: earthflow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earth + flow. 1. A downslope viscous flow of fine-grained materials that have been saturated with water, moving under the pull of gravity. Example: [A] rockflow involving at least 1.5 million m3 of material moved down the Uchau-Su river valley into the sea within a day. Some mudflows are so viscous that they come to a halt in the stream channel. On slopes, soilflow or earthflow depend[…]
Word: limoniad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin limoniades, plural, Ancient Greek λειμωνιάδες (leimōniádes), from λειμών (leimṓn, “meadow”). 1. A meadow nymph. Labels: Greek
Word: limoniads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of limoniad Labels: form-of, plural
Word: slab-sided Part of Speech: adj 1. having flat sides 2. tall, or long and lank Labels: US, archaic, colloquial Example: "Oh! Cousin Clarence," he exclaimed, "there is a Yankee peddler here; the longest, lathiest, queerest slab-sided being you ever saw in all your life."
Word: wapp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wap (“to wrap up”, dialectal). 1. A fairleader. 2. A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.
Word: wapp Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of web application Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: wapps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wapp Labels: form-of, plural
Word: colotomies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of colotomy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: colotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From colo- + -tomy. 1. Any incisional operation on the colon.
Word: colotomy Part of Speech: noun 1. The rhythmic and metric patterns of gamelan music, involving the use of specific instruments to mark off nested time intervals. Labels: uncountable
Word: purrock Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of paddock. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Alternative form of parrock. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: purrocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of purrock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: post-tympanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + tympanic. 1. Alternative form of posttympanic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: molebut Part of Speech: noun 1. The sunfish.
Word: molebuts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of molebut Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phlegmasia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek φλεγμᾰσία (phlegmăsía, “inflammation”), from φλέγμα (phlégma, “flame”) (whence also phlegm). Pronunciation: /flɛɡˈmeɪzi.ə/, /flɛɡˈmeɪʒə/ 1. An inflammation, especially of the internal organs. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually
Word: epinikian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See epinicion. 1. Relating to victory.
Word: epinikian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See epinicion. 1. Alternative form of epinicion. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: scleriasis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sclero- + -iasis. 1. a morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid Labels: uncountable 2. induration of any part, including scleroderma Labels: uncountable
Word: mallee bird Part of Speech: noun 1. malleefowl
Word: mallee birds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mallee bird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: synanthrose Part of Speech: noun 1. A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, found in the tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke, in the dahlia, and in other Compositae. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: derne Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old English dyrnan (“to hide”). See dern, dearn (adjective). 1. Alternative spelling of dern (“hide, skulk”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth.
Word: unfortunateness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unfortunate + -ness. 1. The quality of being unfortunate; bad luck; mischance. Labels: uncountable
Word: matico Part of Speech: noun 1. A Peruvian plant (Piper aduncum) allied to the pepper, whose leaves are used as a styptic and astringent. Labels: uncountable
Word: shram Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare shrink. 1. To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to numb. Labels: UK, dated, dialectal Example: the shramming cold
Word: transcur Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin transcurrere, transcursum, from trans (“across, over”) + currere (“to run”). 1. To run or rove to and fro, to flit Labels: obsolete Example: For astonishment , it is caused by the fixing of the mind upon one object of cogitation , whereby it doth not spatiate and transcur, as it useth ; for in wonder the spirits fly not , as in fear ; but only settle , and are made less apt to move 2. To transpire, to occur
Word: transcurred Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of transcur Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: transcurring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of transcur Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: transcurs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of transcur Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tapoa tafa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug. 1. A small carnivorous marsupial, the brush-tailed phascogale. Labels: obsolete
Word: chokestrap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From choke + strap. 1. A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
Word: chokestraps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chokestrap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: strappings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of strapping Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tyings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tying Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eariness Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɪəɹɪnəs/ 1. Obsolete spelling of eeriness. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: [T]he eldest sister, little Agnes, though sadly alarmed, and feeling the sensation of eariness as twilight came on, and she looked out from the cottage door to the dreadful fells, […]
Word: erythrogen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From erythro- + -gen. 1. carbon disulfide Labels: uncountable 2. A substance reddened by acids, supposed to be contained in flowers. Labels: uncountable 3. A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia. Labels: uncountable
Word: odyl Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of odyle. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: reducents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reducent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spiritual incest Part of Speech: noun 1. The crime of cohabitation between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation. Labels: uncountable 2. The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other. Labels: uncountable
Word: extraditee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From extradite + -ee. 1. One who is extradited.
Word: extraditees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of extraditee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: loches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of loche Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nothing but Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English nothyng but, from Old English nan þing butan 1. Only. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: nothing less than; nothing if not (in some usages) Example: Do you solemnly swear that you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Word: lutings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of luting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: additional accompaniment Part of Speech: noun 1. The practice of enlarging and revising the orchestration of an earlier work, usually a Baroque piece, to accommodate the larger contemporary orchestras and tastes of the time. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Adonics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Adonic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stromb Part of Speech: noun 1. Any marine univalve mollusk of Strombus and allied genera.
Word: strombs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stromb Labels: form-of, plural
Word: principiating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of principiate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: principiated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of principiate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: poluria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + -uria. 1. A persistent excessive flow of watery urine. Labels: uncountable
Word: hieromnemon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἱερομνήμων (hieromnḗmōn), from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred”) + μνήμων (mnḗmōn, “mindful, remembering”, from μνήμη (mnḗmē)). 1. The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister. Labels: historical 2. A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium. Labels: historical
Word: hieromnemons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hieromnemon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rossel Part of Speech: noun 1. Light land; rosland. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable Example: After lining the parietes , or walls of the belly , it is reflected from them , giving covering to the different viscera , and their rossels.
Word: titter-totter Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of teeter-totter. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: meach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See mich. 1. To skulk; to cower. Labels: obsolete
Word: spoom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably a variant of spume (“foam”). 1. To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted. Example: 17th century: Samuel Pepys We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Example: 17th century: John Dryden When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, / My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.
Word: spoom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably a variant of spume (“foam”). 1. A sorbet containing fruit juice
Word: spoomed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of spoom Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: spooming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of spoom Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spooms Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spoom Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: spooms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spoom Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cinque-pace Part of Speech: noun 1. A lively dance, the galliard, whose steps were regulated by the number five. Labels: obsolete Example: For, hear me, Hero: wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes Repentance, and with his bad legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
Word: cinque-paces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cinque-pace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: strainless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From strain + -less. 1. Without strain.
Word: seity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin se (“oneself”). Pronunciation: /ˈsiːɪti/ 1. Something peculiar to oneself; personal peculiarity; individuality. Labels: archaic Example: 1709-1711, The Tatler The learned Scotus , to distinguish the race of mankind, gives every individual of that species what he calls a Seity, something peculiar to himself, which makes him different from all other persons in the world Example: He was […] affected with trepidation, partial surdity, and most perceptible seity.
Word: sarplier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French serpillière. 1. A coarse cloth made of hemp, used for packing goods, such as wool, hops etc. Labels: obsolete Example: In Merchandice na Merchant sall passe over the sea, except he haue thrie Serplaiths of wooll, of hiw awin proper gudes.
Word: sarpliers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sarplier Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aspersoir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French 1. aspergillum
Word: aspersoirs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aspersoir Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coquilla nut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese coquilho, Spanish coquillo, diminutive of coco (“a coconut”). 1. The hard-shelled fruit of a Brazilian palm (Attalea funifera), which is used to make ornamental articles.
Word: coquilla nuts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coquilla nut Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bobac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Polish bobak. 1. The bobak marmot (Marmota bobak). Labels: dated
Word: bird's mouth Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of birdsmouth. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: protopapas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + πάπας (pápas, “father”). 1. A protopope.
Word: protopapases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of protopapas Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See exsect. 1. To cut off or out. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: the Office of the Spleen is of great importance, though it may be ſupplyed by other parts, in caſe it be diſeaſed, obſtructed, or exected
Word: exected Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of exect Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: execting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of exect Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: exects Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of exect Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: survivency Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of survival. Labels: alt-of, archaic, uncountable
Word: foggage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fog + -age; see fog (etymology 2). 1. Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the (autumn and) winter. Labels: UK, archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: foggage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fog + -age; see fog (etymology 2). 1. To leave (dead or decaying grass) on land (in the autumn or winter) as foggage. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:foggage.
Word: bark lice Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bark louse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bark louse Part of Speech: noun 1. Any insect of the family Coccidae, that infest the bark of trees and vines. Labels: obsolete Example: Housed plants are considerably injured by an oval bark-louse, the Coccus Hesperidum of Linnæus, which has been introduced from abroad. 2. Any insect of the order Psocoptera, that live on or near trees and feed on algae and lichen. Example: Another group of insects that tend to be very secretive in their habits and were very well represented in the ancient forest are the bark lice, or psocids.⁶⁸ Bark lice (90) are usually solitary, but sometimes the adults and nymphs live together under webs spun out of silk emitted from head glands. They are found not only in litter but, as their name implies, on and under bark. Example: These include springtails (order Collembola), bark lice (order Ps[o]coptera),[…].
Word: drabble-tail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drabble (“to make wet and dirty by dragging through the mud”) + tail. 1. A draggle-tail; a prostitute or promiscuous woman. Example: Whose tinsel robes of tawdry language trail, Slatterns in fine attire, a drabble tail; Whose monft'rous thoughts, diminutive and vile, Seem pigmy pages to a giant style; Example: If the rubber piled up to the ceiling she would simply move to another room. His disgust with such slatternly, drabbletail customs of India rose to the surface as he slapped twenty-rupees in the crack-salesman's light-colored palm. The girl winked at the pimp as he slipped out to the hallway. 2. An untidy person; a general term of contempt. Example: Jinx said to Bubber [a male character]– "Aw go 'haid, drabble[-]tail. Ain' nobody studyin' yo' family." Example: the drunken drabbletail Dublin drab 3. A mess; something bedraggled or cheaply made. Example: Ngarara went in, and mistaking the post for Ruru, encircled it with the drabbletail of her dress. Example: Probably she got it on hire from some cheap costume dealer in the Brunnen Strasse or some such locality. It was a perfect drabbletail, and looked hideous.
Word: drabble-tail Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From drabble (“to make wet and dirty by dragging through the mud”) + tail. 1. Ragtag. Example: What was ailing this ordinarily competent musical flock that they should have languished into such a straggly, drabbletail gathering of barnyard fowl? Example: Most of the inhabitants were white women, noted Tom Osborn, with lots of dirty, half-naked children hanging onto their skirts. When Osborn asked a drabbletail group gathered in front of a stick-chimney shanty to account for their husbands, two or three acknowledged the men were away soldiering; another claimed to be an old maid.
Word: drabble-tails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of drabble-tail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cadencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cadency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cadency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin *cadentia. 1. Alternative form of cadence. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable 2. Any systematic way of distinguishing similar coats of arms belonging to members of the same family. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: TRGB Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Tip of the Red Giant Branch; A classification of stars on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram for all stellar populations or of a given sample set, the end of the plot for stars existing on the red giant branch as it branches off from the main sequence. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Ellipsis of TRGB star (“a star in this classification”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: blue John Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blue + John. Pronunciation: /ˈbluː dʒɒn/ 1. Afterwort, partially fermented wort. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 2. A semiprecious mineral mined in Derbyshire, a form of fluorite with bands of a purple-blue or yellowish colour. Labels: uncountable 3. Skimmed milk. Labels: US, regional, uncountable Example: Lee went up front to his icebox and brought back a jar of milk. The cream had been skimmed from it. I said, “This tastes like blue-john to me.”
Word: stayedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From stayed + -ly. 1. Obsolete form of staidly. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: anorn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From variant forms of Old French aorner, aourner (whence also enurny), from Latin adornare (“to adorn”). 1. To adorn. Labels: obsolete Example: proclamation anorned the walls
Word: anorned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of anorn Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: alew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative. Compare halloo. 1. A cry of despair. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Yet did she not lament with loude alew, / As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singults few.
Word: tiger's-foot Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various species of morning glory with the leaves lobed in pedate fashion, especially Ipomoea pes-tigridis.
Word: eyre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English eire, from Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue. Pronunciation: /ɛəɹ/, /ɛɹ/ 1. A journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre) Labels: UK, historical Example: The fact that the Surrey veredicta are uncancelled, and indeed their very survival, can doubtless be explained by the suspension of the eyre in June 1294, when consideration of the crown pleas had barely begun; Example: None of the original veredicta survive for this eyre, but one of the best surviving examples, and the only one so far to be printed, comes from the Wiltshire eyre which began in the southern eyre circuit at Wilton on the same day as the 1281 Derbyshire eyre began at Derb, and which provides a valuable insight into the nature and contents of the lost Derbyshire veredicta.
Word: eyres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eyre Labels: form-of, plural
Word: roosa oil Part of Speech: noun 1. Grass oil. Labels: East, India, uncountable
Word: sea feather Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a number of gorgonians (corals) that branch out in a plume-like form.
Word: sea feathers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sea feather Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tetradont Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of tetrodon. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: tetradonts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tetradont Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bishop's-weed Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bishop's weed. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: bear's-paw Part of Speech: noun 1. A large bivalve mollusc of the East Indies (Hippopus hippopis). 2. A succulent plant native to South Africa (Cotyledon tomentosa).
Word: metavolcanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From meta- + volcanic. 1. Being or relating to a type of metamorphic rock originally produced by a volcano, either as lava or tephra, then buried and subjected to high pressures and temperatures, causing it to recrystallize. Labels: not-comparable Example: Metavolcanic rock is commonly found in greenstone belts.
Word: tephras Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tephra Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Songhai Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /sɒŋˈɡaɪ/ 1. Any of a group of closely related languages or dialects centred on the middle stretches of the Niger River in West Africa, and used as a lingua franca in that region. 2. The Songhai Empire.
Word: Songhai Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /sɒŋˈɡaɪ/ 1. Any member of a West African people who speak the Songhai languages.
Word: Songhais Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Songhai Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beaked salmon Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several species of long, thin ray-finned fish in genus Gonorynchus (family Gonorynchidae) that live on sandy bottoms near shorelines.
Word: coyoted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of coyote Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: coyoteing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of coyote Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: coyoting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of coyote Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plutonism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Pluto + -ism, after the classical ruler of the underworld. 1. The old geological theory that the rocks forming the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: plutonisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plutonism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trachearies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tracheary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tracheary Part of Speech: adj 1. tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae Labels: not-comparable Example: tracheary elements Example: tracheary cells
Word: tracheary Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the Trachearia, an former division of arachnids that breathe through their trachea. Labels: archaic
Word: palinspastically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From palinspastic + -ally. 1. In a palinspastic fashion. Example: If reconstructed palinspastically for 300 km of right lateral movement on the San Andreas fault, these strata would lie west to northwest of Paleozoic to Lower Mesozoic strata in Sonora.
Word: megashear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + shear. 1. A very large shear, typically tens to hundreds of kilometres in length.
Word: megashears Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megashear Labels: form-of, plural
Word: distance fog Part of Speech: noun 1. A gradient that progressively obscures objects as they get further from the camera, typically used to avoid the processing overhead of rendering distant objects. Labels: uncountable
Word: sorehon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Corrupted from sojourn, Scots soirne, sorn. Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːhən/, /ˈsɔɹhən/ 1. A kind of servile tenure in Ireland which required the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel. Labels: Ireland, historical, uncountable Example: Sorehon was a tax laide upon the free - holders , for certaine dayes in each quarter of a yeare , to finde victualls , and lodging , and to pay certaine stipends to the kerne
Word: Davidsonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Davidson + -ian. 1. Of or relating to Donald Davidson (1917–2003), American philosopher. Example: My teacher was a big supporter of Davidsonian ethics Example: For, there is a considerably larger epistemic gap between ordinary attitude attributions and their Fodorian truth conditions than between those attributions and their Davidsonian truth conditions.
Word: chironomies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chironomy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chironomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French chironomie and directly from Latin chīronomia, from Ancient Greek χειρονομία (kheironomía, “gesturing, gesticulation”), from χειρονόμος (kheironómos, “mime, skilled gesturer”), from χειρο- (kheiro-, “hand-”) + νόμος (nómos, “controller, manager”), from νέμω (némō, “to control, to manage”). Pronunciation: /kaɪˈɹɒnəmi/ 1. The art of using effective hand gestures, especially (historical) in Greco-Roman contexts. Labels: rhetoric, uncountable, usually 2. The skill of conducting music with hand gestures. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: cammock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cammok (“Ononis repens; Peucedanum officinale; Rhamnus cathartica”), from Old English cammoc. 1. A common restharrow (Ononis spinosa subsp. maritima, syn. Ononis spinosa), a plant with long, hard, crooked roots. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A Venus comb (Scandix pecten-veneris). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cammock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English camboke; see cambuca for more. 1. A crooked stick, staff or club. Example: For, say they, although iron the more it is used the brighter it is, yet silver with much wearing doth waste to nothing; though the cammock the more it is bowed the better it serveth, yet the bow the more it is bent and occupied the worse it waxeth.
Word: cammocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cammock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tucan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Native to Mexico, from Nahuatl tuçan, togan. Pronunciation: /ˈtuːkən/ 1. The hispid pocket gopher (Heterogeomys hispidus). Labels: obsolete, possibly, rare Example: THE TUCAN, OR MEXICAN GOPHER (G. mexicanus, (Licht.) Rich.) is a Mexican species, with the coloration much […] Example: Geomys mexicanus, (Licht.) Baird. Tucan. Mexican Pocket-Gopher. Mexico. / Geomys hispidus, Le Conte. Quackil. Central American Pocket-Gopher […]
Word: tucans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tucan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paleolith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From paleo- + -lith. 1. A relic from the Paleolithic era. Example: A large number of the reported discoveries of paleoliths in Kent had been made in the district surrounding the village of Ightham, some seven miles east of Shoreham, where Prestwich had his country home.
Word: paleoliths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paleolith Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pocoson Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pocosin. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: raising mud from the pocosons
Word: pocosons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pocoson Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Caxton Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Caxton. Pronunciation: /ˈkæk.stən/ 1. A surname. 2. A kind of printing-type in imitation of William Caxton's. 3. A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3058).
Word: Caxton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Caxton. Pronunciation: /ˈkæk.stən/ 1. Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer. Example: I recall vividly a bright summer morning, many years ago, when, in search of Caxtons, I entered the inner quadrangle of a certain wealthy College in one of our learned Universities. Example: This remarkable passion of the British nobility for editiones principes and Caxtons seems to have lasted but a couple of decades.
Word: Caxtons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Caxton Labels: form-of, plural
Word: swiftfoot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From swift + foot. 1. A bird, the courser. Example: 1838-1842, William Jardine, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland The Courser or Swiftfoot […] are Little Bustard Plovers, intermediate in many respects, and showing a beautiful gradation of form.
Word: swiftfoot Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From swift + foot. 1. nimble; fleet Labels: obsolete Example: The hauke, the hound, the hinde, the swift-foot hare
Word: eurocentrism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from eurocentric. Superficially euro- + -centrism. 1. Alternative letter-case form of Eurocentrism. Labels: alt-of, uncountable
Word: fanfoot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fan + foot 1. A gecko of the genus Ptyodactylus, having toes expanded into large lobes for additional adhesion. 2. Any moth of the genus Polypogon.
Word: fanfoots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fanfoot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scasely Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈskeɪsli/ 1. scarcely; hardly Labels: colloquial, dated, dialectal, not-comparable, obsolete Example: For it scasely ever chaunceth that the moste vertuous amonge vertuous Example: If a thing wanted regulating, he warn't a man to go browsing around after somebody to do it, but he would prance in and regulate it himself. He warn't a Catholic. Scasely. He was down on 'em. His word was, 'No Irish need apply!'
Word: Eurocentrist Part of Speech: noun 1. One who holds Eurocentric beliefs or opinions.
Word: Eurocentrists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Eurocentrist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Eurocentrically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Eurocentric + -ally. 1. In a Eurocentric manner.
Word: riglet Part of Speech: noun 1. rare spelling of reglet Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: riglets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of riglet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: supraciliary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From supra- + ciliary. 1. Alternative form of superciliary. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: supraciliary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From supra- + ciliary. 1. Alternative form of superciliary. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sarmentous Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of sarmentose. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tableau vivant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French tableau vivant (literally “living picture”). 1. A tableau (group scene resembling a painting). Example: Indeed, there is something uncanny about the careful re-enactment of the scene in the manner of a tableau vivant, something that Jean-Luc Godard would also experiment with and try to push to its limits in Passion (1982).
Word: tableaux vivants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tableau vivant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: refret Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + fret. 1. To replace the frets on (a musical instrument). Labels: transitive Example: Can you refret my guitar?
Word: refret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English refreit, from Anglo-Norman refreit (“response”), refraindre (“to sing a refrain”); also Old French refreit (“refrain”). The Oxford English Dictionary suggests influence from an unattested Late Latin form, refrangere; compare Latin refractus (past participle). See refrain (noun), refract. 1. A refrain. Labels: obsolete Example: Our old English term refrette, ‘the foote of the dittie, a verse often interlaced, or the burden of a song,’ was probably from refrain; or from refresteler, to pipe over again. […] ‘Refrain, the refret, burthen, or downe of a ballad.’ All this discussion is rendered necessary, because Steevens unfortunately forgot to note from whence he made the following extract, Example: The refret or burden of the song in ver. 6, 8, 9, 10, “Yet have ye not returned to me,”[…] alludes to Deut. iv. 29(30),
Word: refrets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of refret Labels: form-of, plural
Word: top-armour Part of Speech: noun 1. A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: top armour, i.e. armour on the top side of e.g. a tank. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: top-armours Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of top-armour Labels: form-of, plural
Word: teil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French teil, til, from Latin tilia. Pronunciation: /tiːl/, /til/ 1. The lime tree, or linden. Labels: obsolete Example: But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Word: teils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of teil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clanny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From clan + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of planty. 1. Clannish; socially exclusive. Example: They were a clanny bunch who favored each other for jobs[…] Example: Each time I use a personal pronoun, I hear a mafioso echo, a clanny, insular, hegemonic reverberation[…]
Word: clanny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clan + -y (“person associated”). 1. A player who habitually plays the same clan or with the other players on the same team. Labels: derogatory, sometimes Example: Once Assamite clannies can dissect the new cards, we'll know the true state of the clan. Example: Join a clan to flaunt your victories and be a good sport by donating support troops to fellow clannies.
Word: hiccius doctius Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Corrupted from Latin hic est doctus (“this is a learned man”). 1. A juggler. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: Play fast and loose; make men obnoxious, / And clear again, like Hiccius Doctius.
Word: paraconsistently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From paraconsistent + -ly. 1. In a paraconsistent fashion.
Word: morling Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mortling. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: morlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of morling Labels: form-of, plural