nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: dreve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dreven (also droven), from Old English drēfan, *drōfian (“to trouble, vex, agitate, disturb the mind of”), from Proto-Germanic *drōbijaną (“to disturb, excite, make muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to become thick or cloudy, curdle, ferment”). Cognate with Low German dröven, Dutch droeven (“to be sad, grieve”), German trüben (“to dull, dim, cloud, tarnish, trouble”), Swedish bedröva (“to grieve, sadden, distress”). Related to droff. Pronunciation: /dɹiːv/, /dɹiv/ 1. To trouble; afflict; make anxious. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: minibrowser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + browser. 1. Synonym of microbrowser.
Word: minibrowsers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minibrowser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: keke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: In imitation of the sound of laughter. Pronunciation: /ˈkiː.kiː/ 1. To laugh, especially in a cackling or staccato-like manner. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: Two of the models I hadn't met yet were kekeing behind us, which delighted me when I saw the irritation plastered on Cruella de Vil's face.
Word: palmito Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish palmito. Doublet of palmetto and palmite. 1. Synonym of heart of palm.
Word: explanate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin explanatus (“flattened”). 1. Flat; flattened. Example: […]it has been transformed, except in a few taxa where lobules are always explanate, into a galeate water-sac, which is formed wholly from the lobule, with the external surface from the adaxial leaf surface.
Word: Gondwanalandic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Gondwanaland + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to Gondwana. Labels: not-comparable Example: Lobules, homologous in structure, recur again only in the Gondwanalandic families Lepidolaenaceae and Jubulopsidaceae thus in the Lepidolaenineae.
Word: connectorless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From connector + -less. 1. Without connectors. Labels: not-comparable
Word: monkie Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of monkey. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Now God helpe thee, poore Monkie: / But how wilt thou do for a Father?
Word: butcherknives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of butcherknife Labels: form-of, plural
Word: licentiousnesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of licentiousness Labels: form-of, plural
Word: worstly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From worst + -ly. 1. worst Labels: nonstandard, not-comparable, rare
Word: fauxhawks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fauxhawk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hominies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hominy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antifrost Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + frost. 1. Preventing, or countering the effects of frost. Labels: not-comparable Example: Work on anti-frost precautions on diesel locomotives is to be speeded up to ensure that most if not all locomotives have been dealt with before the winter sets in.
Word: cop-killer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cop + killer. 1. A person who deliberately kills an on-duty police officer. Example: Serpico spat the words out. "For killing a cop! He's a fucking cop-killer! Tell that to all his fucking friends up there."
Word: cop-killer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the bullet's (bullets') supposed ability to penetrate body armor, thus endangering police officers. 1. A Teflon-coated bullet. Labels: US, slang
Word: disseisin Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of disseizing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The United States cannot acquire jurisdiction tortiously or by disseisin of the state, or by occupancy with merely the tacit consent of the state.
Word: intracapsular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From intra- + capsular. 1. Within a capsule. Labels: not-comparable Example: Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.
Word: placify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare pacify, placid, placate. 1. To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid. Labels: rare 2. To calm (someone), to pacify. Labels: rare, transitive Example: According to the last accounts from Cattaro, all the southern districts have been placified Example: The present writer has seen two letters of Bishop Wilberforce to Archbishop Longley, one speaking very severely of the Bishop of Cape Town's overbearing; the other chuckling at having ‘placified’ him, though pacifying, he thought, was out of any man's reach.
Word: placifies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of placify Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: placifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of placify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: placified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of placify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: acroscopic Part of Speech: adj 1. Toward or facing the apex. Labels: not-comparable Example: Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.
Word: basiscopic Part of Speech: adj 1. Toward or facing the base; away from the apex. Labels: not-comparable Example: In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.
Word: obpyriform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ob- + pyriform. 1. Having a shape that is in outline like that of a pear, with the base at the narrower end. Labels: not-comparable Example: On fertilization, the archegonia form obyriform calyptrae that are distinctly narrowed at base to form a stalk or peduncle; this does not occur in other Hepaticae.
Word: on the radar Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Likely to happen, or be important in the near future or tending to attract attention. Labels: idiomatic Example: After the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, space exploration was on the radar of many Americans who had ignored it earlier.
Word: bistratose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bi- + stratose. 1. Composed of two cell layers. Labels: not-comparable Example: The capsule in both families is spherical, with a bistratose wall; the outer cell layer usually bears nodular thickenings[…]; the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts[…]
Word: semiannular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + annular. 1. Having a shape resembling part of a ring or incomplete circular band. Labels: not-comparable Example: The capsule in both families is spherical, with a bistratose wall; the outer cell layer usually bears nodular thickenings[…]; the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts[…]
Word: leafy liverwort Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of numerous species of liverwort plant belonging to the order Jungermanniales. Example: […]the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts[…]
Word: leafy liverworts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leafy liverwort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: generalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From general + -ness. 1. The quality of being general, of having wide applicability. Labels: uncountable
Word: merrymake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From make merry. 1. To make merry, have fun, celebrate. Labels: archaic, literary Example: Drawing near, / Loud from the chambers of the bridge below, / Sounds of carousal came and song, / And unveiled women bade the advancing youth / Come merry-make with them.
Word: merrymake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From make merry. 1. Merry-making, celebration, festivity. Labels: archaic, literary Example: when he saw her toy, and gibe, and geare, / And passe the bonds of modest merimake, / Her dalliance he despisd, and follies did forsake.
Word: dismail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French desmailler. 1. To remove the chainmail or armour from (someone). Labels: archaic Example: Their mightie ſtrokes their haberieons diſmayld, / And naked made each others manly ſpalles; […]
Word: jambeau Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English iambeau(s) (compare jamber), from an Anglo-Norman [Term?] derivative of Old French jambe (“leg”): compare Old French jambiere. See jamb (noun). Compare lamboy(s). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæm.boʊ/ 1. A piece of armour for the leg (especially below the knee), a greave. Labels: historical, in-plural Example: The mortall steele despiteously entayld / Deepe in their flesh, quite through the yron walles, / That a large purple streme adown their giambeux falles. Example: [He suspected] a chink in his hinder jambeau, for there was a trickling at the back of his leg, although he felt no pain. 2. Any of the spikefishes of the genus Parahollardia. Example: Spotted spikefishes and jambeaus are diamond shaped, about as long as they are high, with the greatest depth occurring at the tips of the stout first dorsal and anal spines, near the midbody. The small caudal fin is broadly rounded.
Word: jambeaux Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jambeau Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tway Part of Speech: num Etymology: Inherited from Middle English tweye, from Old English twēġe, reduced form of twēġen (“twain”). Doublet of swy. Pronunciation: /tweɪ/ 1. Two. Labels: dialectal, obsolete Example: Guyons angry blade so fierce did play On th'others helmet, which as Titan shone, That quite it cloue his plumed crest in tway, And bared all his head vnto the bone […]
Word: scarmoge Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of skirmish. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Such cruell game my scarmoges disarmes: / Another warre, and other weapons I / Doe loue […]
Word: debateful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From debate + -ful. Pronunciation: [dɪˈbeɪtfəɫ] 1. Contentious, argumentative, full of strife. Labels: obsolete Example: Debatefull strife, and cruell enmitie / The famous name of knighthood fowly shend [...].
Word: arming sword Part of Speech: noun 1. A sword seen as a being a part of someone's set of arms or military accoutrements; a warrior's regimental or official sword. Labels: historical Example: Lo, to that shore one in an auncient gowne, / Whose hoarie locks great grauitie did crowne, / Holding in hand a goodly arming sword, / By fortune came [...].
Word: arming swords Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arming sword Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bisalkene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bis- + alkene. 1. Any compound, especially a symmetric dimer, containing two alkene groups Example: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich In the case of cavity bisalkene 75, a single isomer was obtained with two equivalents of isobenzofuran 72, each reacting stereospecifically with a cyclobutene-1,2-diester group to produce the symmetrical product 76.
Word: bisaziridine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bis- + aziridine. 1. Any organic compound containing two aziridine rings Example: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich We have shown that the norbornene π-bonds in 77 reacted with azides to produce a diastereomeric pair of 2:1 adducts 79 that were converted photochemically to a single bisaziridine 80.
Word: Large Münsterländers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Large Münsterländer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: synaptase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek συναπτός (sunaptós, “joined together, continuous”) + -ase. 1. Emulsin. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: emulsin Part of Speech: noun 1. A mixture of enzymes, extracted from bitter almonds, once used to hydrolyze glucosides. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: constantan Part of Speech: noun 1. An alloy of copper and nickel whose resistivity is constant over a wide temperature range. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cotidal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From co- + tidal. 1. Describing the locations (and of related lines on a chart) linking places where tides occur at the same time of day Labels: not-comparable
Word: Jerusalem crickets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Jerusalem cricket Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Jerusalem crickets Part of Speech: intj 1. gosh; wow; expressing astonishment.
Word: potato bugs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of potato bug Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coxalgia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cox- + algia. 1. pain in the hip Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: coxite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From coxa + -ite. By surface analysis, cox- + -ite. 1. Either of a pair of lamellate structures on the underside of each abdominal segment in certain insects.
Word: coxitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, cox- + -itis. 1. Inflammation of the hip joint. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: covetise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French coveitise. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌvɪtaɪz/ 1. Covetousness; excessive desire for something, especially for acquiring wealth. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Strife; and debate, bloudshed, and bitternesse, Outrageous wrong, and hellish couetize, That noble heart as great dishonour doth despize.
Word: Niçoise Part of Speech: noun 1. Ellipsis of Niçoise salad. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: Niçoises Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Niçoise Labels: form-of, plural
Word: surplusage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin surplusagium, from surplus. 1. A surplus; a superabundance. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: If then thee list my offred grace to vse, / Take what thou please of all this surplusage; / If thee list not, leaue haue thou to refuse […] Example: A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature. 2. Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and may be rejected. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1802–1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature one third-part of the surplusage of the estate of any person dying intetate, hall be distributed to his widow,and the reidue amongt his children by equal portions
Word: balnicity Part of Speech: noun 1. A measure of how much a quasar resembles a standard "broad absorption line" quasar
Word: reest Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of rest (“to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish); (of a horse) to stop or refuse to go, balk”). Labels: England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative, obsolete Example: Gay Garland had carried my father over long to reest with him at the hinderend.
Word: schene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin schoenus, from Ancient Greek σχοῖνος (skhoînos, “a rush, a reed, a land measure”). 1. An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia. Labels: historical Example: Herodotus has fixed the measure of the schene, in Lower Egypt, at four miles, or a league and a quarter. Example: With regard to the extent of this lake, we recur again to the testimonies above cited: Herodotus says, that the circumference of the lake Mœris was 3600 stadia, or sixty schenes, which, says the historian, form the dimensions of the maritime base of Egypt, (seventy-five leagues.)
Word: night-raven Part of Speech: noun 1. A bird active at night, sometimes identified with a specific species such as a night owl or nightjar, and sometimes seen as a separate animal in its own right. Example: sad Horrour with grim hew, / Did alwayes sore, beating his yron wings; / And after him Owles and Night-rauens flew, / The hatefull messengers of heauy things [...]. Example: Cursed creatures, messengers of death, possess the world. / Night-ravens, screech-owls, and voice-killing mandrakes […].
Word: lenticula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin lenticula. See lenticel. Doublet of lentil. 1. A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle. 2. A small lens. 3. A lenticel.
Word: Lens Part of Speech: name 1. A municipality in Hainaut, Belgium. 2. A commune in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France. 3. A municipality in Valais canton, Switzerland.
Word: eigenpairs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eigenpair Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lenticel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin lenticella, diminutive of Latin lēns (“lentil”); compare French lenticelle. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛntɪsɛl/, /ˈlɛntəsɛl/ 1. One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth. Example: He raises his binocular telescope, bringing the birches near the shoreline into sharp relief, the eye-shaped lenticels in the pale bark seeming to stare back at him, as if following the train’s progress. 2. A small, lens-shaped gland on the underside of some leaves.
Word: lenticels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lenticel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: electrodermal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From electro- + dermal. 1. Of or pertaining to the electrical properties of skin Labels: not-comparable
Word: geoelectrical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From geo- + electrical. 1. Of or pertaining to geoelectricity Labels: not-comparable
Word: gyrokinetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gyro- + kinetic. 1. Of or pertaining to gyrokinetics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: gyrokinetics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gyro- + kinetics. 1. The branch of physics concerned with the helical flow of particles in the magnetic field of a plasma Labels: uncountable
Word: isobaricity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From isobaric + -ity. 1. The condition of being isobaric. Labels: uncountable
Word: messin Part of Speech: noun 1. A mongrel dog; a cur. Labels: Scotland
Word: learnability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From learn + -ability. 1. The condition of being learnable. Labels: uncountable 2. The ease with which something can be learned. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: noncovariant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + covariant. 1. Not covariant. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonideality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + ideality. 1. The condition of being nonideal Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: overluminosity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + luminosity. 1. The condition of being overluminous Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: nonidealities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonideality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overluminosities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of overluminosity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: predeposited Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + deposited. 1. deposited in advance Labels: not-comparable
Word: vicissitudinary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin vicissitūdin- + -ary, from oblique stem of Latin vicissitūdō, from vicis + -tūdō. By surface analysis, vicissitude + -ary. 1. pertaining to change, alteration, or mutation. Labels: rare Example: We say the elements of man are misery and happiness, as though he had an equal proportion of both, and the days of man vicissitudinary, as though he had as many good days as ill ...
Word: psychophysiological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From psycho- + physiological. 1. Of or pertaining to psychophysiology
Word: psychophysiology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From psycho- + physiology. 1. The branch of physiology that deals with the interaction of the mind and physiological processes. Labels: uncountable
Word: undercoordinated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + coordinated. 1. Insufficiently coordinated
Word: undercoordination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + coordination. 1. An insufficient level of coordination Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: roge Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of rogue. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: tranquillise Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of tranquilize. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: enlumine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French enluminer. 1. To illumine; to light up. Labels: obsolete Example: Ne is that ſame great glorious lampe of light, / That doth enlumine all theſe leſſer fyres, / In better caſe, […]
Word: enlumines Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of enlumine Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from banting. 1. To regulate what one eats according to the precepts of William Banting; to go on a diet. Labels: archaic, colloquial Example: If he is […] gouty, obese, and nervous, we strongly recommend him to ‘bant.’ Example: ‘I'm so sorry,’ she cried, jumping up. ‘I shall have to bant if I can't break myself of this habit of sitting on gentlemen's knees.’
Word: bant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of banter. 1. Clipping of banter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, uncountable
Word: hornify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From horny + -fy and/or horn + -ify. 1. To make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden. Labels: transitive Example: We see in Figure 8 that the hornified cuticle runs continuously over the cementum […] 2. To make horny; to excite sexually; to arouse. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: The air and the water hornified him. Then he met her. The sun was making her horny, and the sunset got her horny, and the moon, and the trees and the birds, they all got her horny[…] 3. To horn; to cuckold. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: My Wife has hornified me.
Word: hornifies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hornify Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hornifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hornify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hornified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hornify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overspan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + span. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvəˈspæn/, /ˌoʊvɚˈspæn/ 1. To reach or extend over. Labels: transitive Example: The place for the fuel is carried up ſtrait on both ſides, till about three feet high ; then they almoſt fill it with wood, and over that lay a covering of ſea-coal, and then overſpan the arch[…] Example: If we look at the geographical position, which the great world-powers (England, Russia, and France) occupy on the surface of the globe, we shall perceive that the actual Russian territories in Europe, Asia, and America, overspan, like an arch, all the civilised countries of Europe, and the vast territories of Tartary and China—descending moreover, like the shoot of a root, from the shores of the Caspian and Aral seas towards the Indian Empire.
Word: glitterand Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of glittering. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Soone as thoſe glitterand armes he did eſpye, / That vvith their brightneſſe made that darknes light, / His harmefull club he gan to hurtle hye, / And threaten batteill to the Faery knight; […]
Word: weve Part of Speech: contraction 1. Alternative form of we've. Labels: alt-of, alternative, contraction, informal, nonstandard
Word: engrosse Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of engross. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: shright Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English, preterite of shritch. 1. simple past and past participle of shritch Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past
Word: shright Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, preterite of shritch. 1. A shriek or shrieking; sobbing. Labels: obsolete Example: cruell Sprights, / That with their pitteous cryes, and yelling shrights, / They made the further shore resounden wide [...].
Word: Kemi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Kemi. 1. A town and municipality of Lapland, Finland, near the border with Sweden. 2. A river in Lapland, in northern Finland, with its mouth at the town of Kemi.
Word: throughly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From through + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹuːli/ 1. Thoroughly, completely. Labels: archaic Example: The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth. Example: The next advantage / Will we take throughly.
Word: forby Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English forby, forbi, of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, equivalent to fore- + by. Compare Saterland Frisian foarbie (“beyond, past”), West Frisian foarby (“over, beyond, past”), Dutch voorbij (“beyond, past”), Low German vörbi, vörbie (“over, up, gone, finished, past”), German vorbei (“over, gone, past”), Danish forbi, Swedish förbi. More at fore, by. Pronunciation: /fəˈbʌɪ/ 1. Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal Example: He's a forbye man.
Word: forby Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English forby, forbi, of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, equivalent to fore- + by. Compare Saterland Frisian foarbie (“beyond, past”), West Frisian foarby (“over, beyond, past”), Dutch voorbij (“beyond, past”), Low German vörbi, vörbie (“over, up, gone, finished, past”), German vorbei (“over, gone, past”), Danish forbi, Swedish förbi. More at fore, by. Pronunciation: /fəˈbʌɪ/ 1. Past; by; beyond. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal Example: To see the world and folk that went forby, […] 2. Uncommonly; exceptionally. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal Example: He was forby kind.
Word: forby Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English forby, forbi, of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, equivalent to fore- + by. Compare Saterland Frisian foarbie (“beyond, past”), West Frisian foarby (“over, beyond, past”), Dutch voorbij (“beyond, past”), Low German vörbi, vörbie (“over, up, gone, finished, past”), German vorbei (“over, gone, past”), Danish forbi, Swedish förbi. More at fore, by. Pronunciation: /fəˈbʌɪ/ 1. Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal 2. Past; gone by; over. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal 3. Near; beside; by, close to. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal Example: Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old / Who meeting earst with Archimago slie, / Foreby that idle strond, of him were told, / That he, wich earst them combatted, was Guyon bold. 4. On one side; out of the way. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal 5. Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal Example: There was other six forby me. Example: [T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […] 6. With the exception of; not taking into account. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal
Word: overshorten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + shorten. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.vəˈʃɔː.tən/, /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃɔɹ.tən/ 1. To shorten too much; make excessively or inappropriately short. Labels: transitive Example: This plant has only a certain capacity for daylight, and to overshorten the nights would injure it.
Word: marriage certificate Part of Speech: noun 1. An official record indicating that two individuals were legally married on the date of the certificate.
Word: marriage certificates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of marriage certificate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: meadwort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English medewort, from Old English medewyrt, medowyrt, corresponding to mead + wort. Cognate with Norwegian mjødurt, Danish mjødurt. 1. Meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: The metall first he mixt with Medæwart, / That no enchauntment from his dint might saue; / That it in flames of Aetna wrought apart, / And seuen times dipped in the bitter waue / Of hellish Styx, which hidden vertue to it gaue.
Word: stomachous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin stomachōsus, from stomachus (“stomach”). By surface analysis, stomach (“irritation; malice, ill-will, spite; vexation”) + -ous. 1. Bitter, resentful. Labels: obsolete Example: By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]
Word: fellness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fell + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being fell; awfulness, horror, cruelty. Labels: uncountable Example: For very felnesse lowd he gan to weepe, / And said, Caytiue, cursse on thy cruell hond [...].
Word: bispiraled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bi- + spiraled. 1. Possessing two spirals or helices. Labels: not-comparable Example: In all of the Jubulaceae there is normally a single spiral (this is also normally the case in Lejeuneaceae, but in some forms the spiral may be lost, while a few forms may have occasional bispiraled elaters).
Word: thromboendoarterioectomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed as thrombo- + endo- + arteri- + -o- + -ectomy; compare the better-formed thrombendarteriectomy and see thrombendarteriectomy. Pronunciation: /ˌθɹɒmbəʊˌɛndəʊɑːˌtɪəɹɪəʊˈɛktəmɪ/ 1. Rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy. Labels: alt-of, no-plural, rare
Word: thromb-endarterectomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Etymologically incorrect rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy. Labels: no-plural Example: Cate, WR, Scott, HW: Cerebral ischemia of central origin: Relief by subclavian vertebral artery thromb-endarterectomy. Surgery, 45:19, 1959.
Word: burgonet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French bourguignotte (modern bourguignote), from Bourgogne (“Burgundy”), perhaps influenced by Middle English burgon (“Burgundian”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɝ.ɡəˌnɛt/, /ˌbɝ.ɡəˈnɛt/, /ˈbɜː.ɡəˌnɛt/, /ˌbɜː.ɡəˈnɛt/ 1. A light helmet worn by infantrymen, bearing a crest and hinged cheekpieces, but typically without a visor. Labels: historical Example: He stroke so hugely with his borrowd blade, / That it empierst the Pagans burganet, / And cleauing the hard steele, did deepe inuade / Into his head […]
Word: thrombendoarterectomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Etymologically incorrect rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy. Labels: no-plural Example: intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) … in pulmonary thrombendoarterectomy, 232
Word: thrombo-end-arterectomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Etymologically incorrect rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy. Labels: no-plural Example: Thrombo-end-arterectomy was made in 5 instances and by-pass in 4. Example: Wylie, E.J., Kerr, E. and Davies, O. (1951). Experimental and clinical experiences with use of fascia lata applied as a graft about major arteries after thrombo-end-arterectomy and aneurysmorrhaphy. Surg. Gynecol. Obstet., 93, 257–72
Word: thrombo-endoarterectomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Etymologically incorrect rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy. Labels: no-plural Example: Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II).
Word: in the long term Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. After a very long time; eventually; over a long period of time; more generally. Labels: idiomatic
Word: thromboendo-arterectomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Etymologically incorrect rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy. Labels: no-plural Example: Vercellio G, Coletti M, Agrifoglio G (1986) Semiclosed thromboendo-arterectomy on femoro-popliteal tract revised after a fourteen years experience on 595 cases. Int Surgery 71: 59–61
Word: bittur Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of bittern. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: For as a Bittur in the Eagles claw, / That may not hope by flight to scape aliue, / Still waites for death with dread and trembling aw; / So he now subiect to the victours law, / Did not once moue […]
Word: thromboendoarterectomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of thrombendarteriectomy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: thromboendarterectomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of thrombendarteriectomy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: thrombo-endarterectomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Etymologically incorrect spelling of thrombendarteriectomy
Word: eigensolvers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eigensolver Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thrombo-endo-arteriectomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thrombo- + endo- + arteriectomy. 1. Rare spelling of thrombendarteriectomy. Labels: alt-of, no-plural, rare Example: Thrombo-endo-arteriectomy (TEA) 10% is especially indicated for the correction of segmental blockades.
Word: unperjured Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + perjured. 1. Not belied by perjury; genuine, honest. Labels: not-comparable Example: The evidence of an inaccurate, but decidedly unperjured witness whom we know thoroughly is worth much more than even voluminous testimony of unknown writers […] Example: […] who would swear that the oath he had sworn was clear and unperjured.
Word: unmothered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + mothered. 1. Lacking maternal care; not raised by a mother. Labels: not-comparable Example: Twin lambs were divided into 2 groups: an unmothered group consisting of 1 of each pair of twins separated from its mother at birth, and a mothered group... Example: In contrast, Artemis and Athena are more likely to cause others who care about them to feel rejected or unimportant, especially if, like Atalanta, they were unmothered and had to raise themselves much of the time.
Word: unmothered Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + mothered. 1. simple past and past participle of unmother Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unparks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unpark Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unparking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unpark Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unparked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unpark Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unparked Part of Speech: adj 1. Not having been parked. Labels: not-comparable Example: an unparked car
Word: tailorings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tailoring Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stick that in your pipe and smoke it Part of Speech: phrase 1. Synonym of put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Word: nonsystolic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + systolic. 1. Not systolic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: reproing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of repro Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reproed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of repro Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: synonymless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From synonym + -less. 1. Having no synonyms. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: synonymists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of synonymist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thrombo-endarteriectomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thrombo- + endarteriectomy. 1. Alternative spelling of thrombendarteriectomy. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The authors report on early and delayed complications of 67 vascular plactic operations (thrombo-endarteriectomies, autological vein transplantations and alloplasties) which were carried out in the period from 1953 to 1959.
Word: blebby Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bleb + -y. 1. Of or pertaining to blebs or bubbles
Word: thromboendarteriectomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of thrombendarteriectomy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: thromboendoarteriectomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of thrombendarteriectomy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: thrombendarteriectomies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thrombendarteriectomy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diam. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of diameter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches[…]
Word: thecal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From theca + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to a theca. Labels: not-comparable 2. Possessing a theca. Labels: not-comparable Example: The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches[…]
Word: colorific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French colorifique or New Latin colorificus, from color + -i- + -ficus. Pronunciation: /ˌkʌl.əˈɹɪf.ɪk/ 1. That produces colored precipitates Labels: obsolete 2. colorful Example: It's a magical place filled with luscious tropical greens, colorific rare flowers, and talkative birds with personalities—all underneath a futuristic dome sky. Example: The man, meanwhile, measures his full blackness against the night sky in a colorific conundrum that involves the painterly exploration of the darkest shades of the spectrum. 3. flowery; ornate Labels: figuratively
Word: colorific Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French colorifique or New Latin colorificus, from color + -i- + -ficus. Pronunciation: /ˌkʌl.əˈɹɪf.ɪk/ 1. Any substance that produces coloured precipitates. Labels: obsolete
Word: colorizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From colorize + -er. 1. A device or system that colorizes black and white film or images.
Word: Savo Finnish Part of Speech: name Etymology: Savo + Finnish. 1. A dialect of Finnish, also called Savonian. Example: A system with tone bound to the second vowel of a prosodic word is found in Savo Finnish, where the second syllable nucleus has tone if the first syllable nucleus contains a single segment, … (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, Vol. 3, p. 91, 1983)
Word: Savo Finnish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Savo + Finnish. 1. Of, relating to, or spoken or written in Savo Finnish.
Word: colorology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From color + -ology. 1. The scientific study of color. Labels: uncountable 2. Chromotherapy. Labels: uncountable
Word: leaf insertion Part of Speech: noun 1. In liverworts, the angle and orientation of the plane of the leaves with respect to the axis of the stem. Example: The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.
Word: nontiered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + tiered. 1. Lacking tiers or organized ranks. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.
Word: colostration Part of Speech: noun 1. Any disorder of infants attributed to the effects of the colostrum Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: colport Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from colporteur. Pronunciation: /kɒlˈpɔː(ɹ)t/ 1. To work as a colporteur
Word: magnetophoresis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed as magneto- + -phoresis, by analogy with electrophoresis. 1. Motion induced by a magnetic field on a particle of magnetic or magnetizable material (such as a hemoglobin-bearing red blood cell) in a fluid. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: striplike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From strip + -like. 1. Resembling a strip. Labels: not-comparable Example: The attachment to the stem is formed by a very narrow striplike fold, a few cell rows wide.
Word: colports Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of colport Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: colporting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of colport Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: colported Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of colport Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ventriloquial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ventriloquy + -al. Pronunciation: /vɛntɹɪˈləʊkwɪəl/ 1. Of or relating to ventriloquy. Example: Her voice came, muffled, as if from the back of the top of his head. The ventriloquial effect was startling. Example: Learn the ventriloquial alphabet: A C D E G H I J K L N O Q R S T U X Z 2. Spoken to oneself. Example: He threw half-crowns up into the air until they disappeared into the central blue, and then held a ventriloquial conversation, not in the best of taste, with the celestial spirits, who having caught the coins announced their intention of sticking to them. 3. Of bird vocalisations, sounding as though emanating from a location other than where the vocalising bird is. Example: We tried this a couple of times with no luck whatsoever, partly because whipbirds are notoriously ventriloquial and we could never agree on where the call was coming from.
Word: valetudinary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin valētūdin- + -ary, from oblique stem of Latin valētūdō, from valeō + -tūdō. By surface analysis, valetude + -arian. Doublet of valetudinarious. 1. Sickly, infirm, valetudinarian. Labels: obsolete Example: "His Majesty began to become valetudinary; and the hypochondria which tormented him rendered his humor very melancholy. Example: It produces a weak valetudinary state of body, attended by all those horrid disorders, and yet more horrid methods of cure, which are the result of luxury on the one hand, and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other.
Word: valetudinary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin valētūdin- + -ary, from oblique stem of Latin valētūdō, from valeō + -tūdō. By surface analysis, valetude + -arian. Doublet of valetudinarious. 1. A sickly, infirm person. Labels: dated
Word: vaseline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Germanic *watōr Proto-West Germanic *watar Old High German waȥȥar Middle High German wazzer German Wasser Proto-Hellenic *élaiwon Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English vaseline From German Wasser (“water”) + Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “oil”) + -ine. Genericized trademark of the Vaseline brand of petroleum jelly introduced by American chemist Robert Augustus Chesebrough in 1872. Pronunciation: /ˈvæ.sə.liːn/, /ˈvæ.sə.lin/ 1. Petroleum jelly. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Hearts of putty, hearts of vaseline... 2. Any particular kind of petroleum jelly or of any similar lubricant. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A Russian vaseline has been lately added to the many kinds of vaseline found in […] 3. Ellipsis of Vaseline glass, or the coloring used in making it. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
Word: vaseline Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Germanic *watōr Proto-West Germanic *watar Old High German waȥȥar Middle High German wazzer German Wasser Proto-Hellenic *élaiwon Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English vaseline From German Wasser (“water”) + Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “oil”) + -ine. Genericized trademark of the Vaseline brand of petroleum jelly introduced by American chemist Robert Augustus Chesebrough in 1872. Pronunciation: /ˈvæ.sə.liːn/, /ˈvæ.sə.lin/ 1. To lubricate with vaseline. Labels: transitive Example: Even at this late date, vaselining will preserve the best of these leathers.
Word: twiddly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From twiddle + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɪd(ə)li/ 1. Capable of being finely or idly adjusted with the fingers. Labels: informal Example: Radio – with its buttons and twiddly knobs and white noise in between – is on the tip of a huge wave of change, courtesy of the Internet. Example: Through the open doorway Nedda could see […] the back of Mr. Cuthcott in a twiddly chair, surrounded by sheets of paper reposing on the floor, shining like autumn leaves on a pool of water. 2. Having an elaborately twisted form. Labels: informal Example: The design of an indicator is often — indeed usually — thought to be the business of the engineer, perhaps aided by someone — an artist or a "stylist" — who adds an aesthetic touch, a twiddly bit, a strip of chromium, a dash of paint, or better still several dashes in clashing colours, of which a bilious yellow will be one. Example: Everyone has a computer, everyone has the same software, and everyone thinks they can stick a couple of butterflies onto a twiddly background and they have an illustration. They don't have an illustration; they have decoration. 3. In music, having a rapid series of musical notes. Labels: informal Example: There are moments when the band sounds oddly like its acoustic predecessor, and there are some feints at free jazz, but the most curious episode, unlike any other live Miles I know, is a long spacey improvisation using wood flute, related less to the twiddly studio jams than to the ritual atmospherics of Chicago's creative-music vanguard. Example: The bugle called, a twiddly bit and then one long note.
Word: trigonometrically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From trigonometric + -ally. 1. By means of, or in terms of, trigonometry. Labels: not-comparable
Word: wunnerful Part of Speech: adj 1. Pronunciation spelling of wonderful. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: An' she's got spirrit, a wunnerful spirrit, to go up there alone!" Example: "You know a wunnerful deal about 'orses for a hartist, Mr. Joses," he remarked, not troubling to deny the soft impeachment.
Word: wunner Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of wonder. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: In fact I wos napped on the nod, But the way I got woke wos a wunner.
Word: wunner Part of Speech: verb 1. Pronunciation spelling of wonder. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Our folks are slow to fratch, but they're not quick at letting go," said Tom, who paused and added: "I wunner where Bell got his money; he had none when he took a job at mill in oad Osborn's time."
Word: temporomandibular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From temporo- + mandibular. 1. of or relating to both the temporal bone and mandible Labels: not-comparable Example: It shows that several key mammalian evolutionary innovations in the ear region, the temporomandibular joint, and the brain vault evolved incrementally through mammaliaform evolution and long before the differentiation of the living mammal groups.
Word: tarsometatarsus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tarso- + metatarsus. 1. The large bone in the leg of a bird, or some bird-like dinosaurs, connected to the foot, homologous to the mammalian tarsus and metatarsus.
Word: teratocarcinoma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From terato- + carcinoma. 1. A malignant tumor, most often found in the testes.
Word: thoracolumbar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thoraco- + lumbar. 1. of or relating to the thoracic and lumbar areas Labels: not-comparable Example: Following laminectomy at the thoracolumbar transition, 100,000 cells in a volume of 1 µl CMF-HBSS were injected into the dorsal column of 7-day-old md rats at one or several levels.
Word: transplantee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From transplant + -ee. 1. Someone who is receiving, or has received, an organ transplant.
Word: hedge sparrows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hedge sparrow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oftenly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From often + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɒfn.li/, /ˈɒftənli/, /ˈɔːfnli/, /ˈɔːftənli/ 1. often Labels: nonstandard Example: To endure as a software engineer you have to have addiction on this, sometimes it pays, oftenly it doesn’t. Example: In my case I have had these conversations very oftenly with my mother.
Word: catloaves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of catloaf Labels: form-of, plural
Word: man in the middle Part of Speech: noun 1. An adversary that intercepts, and often modifies, communications. Labels: attributive, often
Word: men in the middle Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of man in the middle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trigonometries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trigonometry Labels: form-of, plural