nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: posied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From posy + -ed. 1. Containing, or decorated with a posy or posies. Labels: not-comparable Example: In posied lockets bribe the fair. Example: When the cat died, his ashes packed into a cheesy, pink-posied tin and placed high upon the mantel
Word: myolemma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From myo- + lemma. 1. sarcolemma Labels: archaic
Word: myolemmata Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of myolemma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: algific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin algificus, from algus (“cold”) + facere (“to make”). Pronunciation: /ælˈd͡ʒɪf.ɪk/ 1. Very cold; covered in ice or cold air. Example: Hail, New Year's morn, we welcome thee, With all thy splendid show Of ice and snow and driving storm, Much longer known than thou! Thou need'st not think to frighten us With thy algific train; We know too well their fickleness To think they'll long remain. Example: Many algific slopes have cold microclimates throughout the summer. , even on the warmest days.
Word: Allemannic Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Alemannic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Allemannic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Alemannic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sedged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sedge + -ed. 1. Made of or composed of sedge. Labels: not-comparable Example: With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks.
Word: sublapsarian Part of Speech: noun 1. An infralapsarian.
Word: sublapsarians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sublapsarian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: despiciency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin despicientia. See despise. 1. The act of looking down on someone; despisal. Labels: obsolete, rare, uncountable
Word: insearch Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of ensearch. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Example: Yet as naked as at the firſt bluſh it [the work] ſeemeth, if it ſhall ſtande wyth your Honour his pleaſure (whome I take to be an experte Lapidarie) at vacant houres to inſearche it, you ſhall finde therein ſtones of ſuch eſtimatiõ, as are woorthy to be coucht in riche and precious collets.
Word: insearched Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of insearch Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: insearches Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of insearch Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: insearching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of insearch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: majorate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin maiōrātus, past participle of maiōrō (“to augment”), derived from Latin maior. By surface analysis, major + -ate (verb-forming suffix). See major (adjective). 1. To augment; to increase. Labels: obsolete Example: The Embryo[…]proceeds to majoration and augmentation accordingly. And it is[…]an absurdity to think, that the Infant after conception should be majorated by the influence of any other Soul then that from whom he received his formation.
Word: majorate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From major (noun) + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office). 1. The office or rank of a major.
Word: majorated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of majorate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: majorates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of majorate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: majorating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of majorate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dahn Part of Speech: adv 1. Pronunciation spelling of down. Labels: UK, alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling Example: At the end o' the six paces yer cuts yer 'and away an' brings it smartly dahn ter yer side an' looks to yer front. Example: He's got a kind of a way with him an' he sits dahn with the like of huz, and he talks to us as if we was men in place o' bein' cattle, which is the way with most on 'em.
Word: dahn Part of Speech: prep 1. Pronunciation spelling of down. Labels: UK, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: “So, wot, people'd pay to throw you dahn the stairs? Dunno abaht that. People in these parts is used to throwing one another dahn stairs for free. Example: He's cool. Does triathlons dahn de Sahn.
Word: pentastyle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From penta- + -style. 1. A portico with five columns.
Word: gauffer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French gaufrer (“to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs”), from gaufre (“honeycomb, waffle”); of Germanic origin. See waffle, wafer, and compare goffer, gopher (“an animal”). 1. To plait, crimp, or flute Labels: transitive Example: gauffered crape Example: High heels were conspicuous everywhere, but it was left to Italy to have the honour of popularising the most ridiculous fashion of the chopines or stilted clogs, which asserted themselves at different heights, mostly outrageous, beneath a covering of gauffered leather, a commodity which looks like the modern poker-work. 2. To decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron. Labels: historical, transitive
Word: gauffered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of gauffer Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: gauffering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of gauffer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: gauffering Part of Speech: noun 1. A gauffered ornamentation.
Word: gauffers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of gauffer Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: sciuroid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Sciurus + -oid. 1. Any rodent from the family Sciuridae. Example: The loss of the internal carotid artery in the sciuroids seems likewise to go back to the early Tertiary. The oldest known sciuroid, Protosciurus (table XII) , stems from the Middle Oligocene [BLACK, 1963) , and the earliest sciuroids presumably evolved from central members of the paramyid group around the transition between the Eocene and Oligocene [WOOD, 1959]. Example: It may also be noted that the fossil record stretches back no farther than the Oligocene on macroscelidoid elephant shrews (Patterson, 1965), also on sciuroids (Black, 1963), and no farther than the Miocene on lorisoids (Walker, 1974) .
Word: sciuroid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From translingual Sciurus + -oid. 1. Of or pertaining to the taxonomic family Sciuridae. Example: The feet are very sciuroid, and while they are the most generalized rodent feet, they show the distinctive characteristics of the order already firmly fixed, in the peculiar reduction of the pollex, presence of radial sesamoid, characteristic form of astragalus etc. Example: A sciuroid rodent to farmers well known— He is rather destructive to crops— Is apposite, novel and ready to hand As arms of the "Issue of Ops" 2. Resembling the tail of a squirrel, as branches which are close and dense, or spikes of grass like barley. Example: Tufts large, very laxly cohering, nearly without rhizoids, silky or yellowish green, fainly shining; stem elongate, irregularly divided or prolonged into sciuroid-curved obtuse branches; leaves loosely imbricate, crowded, when dry sub-rugose , when moist patent, short decurrent, indistinctly auriculate, faintly plicate, from concave ovate and gradually acuminate base long cuspidate; Example: Plants dioceious, in habit comparable to Breutelia, Primary stem creeping, naked, secondary stems arcuate, sciuroid, simple, branching or producing stolons.
Word: couhage Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of cowage. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: daliance Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of dalliance. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Banish that ticing dame from forth your mouth, / And follow your foreseeing starres in all; / This is no life for men at armes to liue, / Where daliance doth consume a Souldiers strength, / And wanton motions of alluring eyes / Effeminate our mindes inur'd to warre.
Word: reedification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French réédification. 1. The act of reedifying; edification again. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: reedifications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reedification Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seek-no-further Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a number of kinds of North American apples, such as the Rambo apple or the Westfield Seek-No-Further
Word: seek-no-furthers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seek-no-further Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dbh Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of diameter at breast height, a standard method of expressing the diameter of the trunk or bole of a standing tree, measured at the supposed height above ground of an adult's breast (which varies according to local convention from 1.3 to 1.5 metres). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: We again found that the number of tree species in a sample of stems 20 cm dbh or larger is greater in selectively logged forest 8 years after the harvest than in nearby unlogged forest (t test, d.f. Example: Tuart is usually a tall tree attaining 25–40 m in height and 1–2 m dbh, but in the northern part of its distribution it may be reduced to about 10–15 m in height.
Word: decidual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From decidua + -al. Pronunciation: [dɪˈsɪd͡ʒʊəɫ] 1. of or relating to the decidua Labels: not-comparable Example: In addition, Crry is also expressed in the maternally derived decidual tissues (Fig. 2 A). Example: Uterine response to mechanical traumatization (decidual stimulation) is a progesterone receptor (PR)-dependent process (22 ).
Word: blue hour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of French heure bleue. Pronunciation: /ˈbluː aʊə/, /ˈblu(ː)aʊɚ/ 1. The period of twilight when the Sun is approximately 4-8° below the horizon and the sky is within a range of blue colors.
Word: blue hours Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blue hour Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deeme Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of deem. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: "O you that bathe in courtlye bliss, "Or toyle in fortune's giddy spheare; "Do not too rashly deeme amisse "Of him that hides contented here. Example: LIV Assure your selfe, it fell not all to ground;[*] For all so deare as life is to my hart, I deeme your love, and hold me to you bound: 480 Ne let vaine feares procure your needlesse smart, Where cause is none, but to your rest depart.
Word: defouled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of defoul Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: degreed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From degree + -ed. 1. Having an academic degree. Labels: not-comparable Example: Ex-Army Ranger Captain, degreed from Oregon, Princeton, Tulane. Example: She has been a degreed paralegal for ten years, working for a suburban firm where she specializes in municipal law.
Word: katmoget Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a belly of darker colour than the rest of the body. Labels: Shetland, not-comparable
Word: degreeless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From degree + -less. 1. Without an academic degree. Labels: not-comparable Example: There also went the confidential secretaries, the clerks and shorthand typists, in their hundreds; degreeless, brainless beings, but wise in their generation. ' Example: A university can confer a degree upon a distinguished man because it can judge whether his degreeless condition is due to accident or not. 2. Without extent or measure. Labels: not-comparable
Word: deific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French déifique, from Latin deificus, from deus (“god”) + facio (“to make”). Pronunciation: /diːˈɪf.ɪk/ 1. divine; of or relating to a deity or deities. Example: "The individual existence of man begins on the sense plane of the physical world, but rises through successive gradations of ethereal and celestial spheres, corresponding with his ever unfolding deific life and powers, to a destiny of unspeakable grandeur and glory. Example: Then you will find that one is as important a factor as duodecillions in being and doing right, and thus demonstrating deific Principle.
Word: Smyrniot Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Smyrna + -iot. 1. Of or relating to Smyrna (modern-day Izmir, Turkey).
Word: Smyrniot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Smyrna + -iot. 1. A native or inhabitant of Smyrna (modern-day Izmir, Turkey). Labels: historical Example: After remaining a few days at Smyrna, we set out to pay a visit to the ruins of Ephesus, which are situated on the shore of the Gulf of Skalanova, about thirty-five miles south of Smyrna. Our equipage consisted of a Greek servant, Spiridon, or, as he was usually called, Spiro; Achmet, a janissary; and an old Smyrniot, proprietor of the horses which we rode.
Word: Smyrniots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Smyrniot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bioeconomics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + economics. 1. The study of the dynamics of living resources using economic models. Labels: uncountable 2. The study of economic systems, applying the laws of thermodynamics. Labels: uncountable
Word: dendroclimatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dendro- + climatic. 1. Of or relating to dendroclimatology Labels: not-comparable Example: This trend removal is similar to that used to remove nonclimatic growth-related trends in dendroclimatic records (29 ). Example: It is also a product of the NSF- and NOAA-sponsored Analysis of Rapid and Recent Climatic Change (ARRCC) and other non-PALE (for example, dendroclimatic) projects, and is also a result of research funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), including the Paleoecological Analysis of Circumarctic Treeline (PACT) program.
Word: bioeconomic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bio- + economic. 1. Relating to bioeconomics or a bioeconomy Labels: not-comparable
Word: bioeconomist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + economist. 1. One who studies bioeconomics.
Word: bioeconomists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bioeconomist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: devolatilize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + volatilize. 1. To remove volatile components from Labels: transitive 2. To lose volatile components Labels: intransitive Example: Because hydrous silicate melts devolatilize at room pressure, our study exploits the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the liquid-glass transition to measure the density of a hydrous silicate liquid at 1 bar (3 ).
Word: perissad Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “odd”) + -ad. 1. odd; not even; said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder. Labels: not-comparable
Word: perissad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “odd”) + -ad. 1. An atom of this kind.
Word: diachylon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek διάχῡλος (diákhūlos, “juicy”). Pronunciation: /daɪəˈkaɪlɒn/ 1. A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants, later made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerine mixed with lead salts of the fat acids. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Externally, I find the practitioners on whom I have chiefly relied used the plasters of Paracelsus, of melilot, diachylon, and probably diaphoenicon, all well known to the old pharmacopoeias, and some of them to the modern ones,—to say nothing of "my yellow salve," of Governor John, the second, for the composition of which we must apply to his respected descendant.
Word: dicumarol Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dicoumarol. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: A derivative called dicumarol is used as an anticoagulant (blood thinner). Example: Furthermore, the thermophilic formation of magnetic iron oxides was prevented by the ferric reductase inhibitor p-chloromercuriphenyl sulfonate (pCMPS), the hydrogenase inhibitor quinacrine dihydrochloride, the protonophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP), and the electron transport inhibitors 2-n-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide (HOQNO) and dicumarol.
Word: hippodame Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By confusion with hippotame. 1. A sea horse or hippocampus. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: on every syde / They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke, / That his swift charet might have passage wyde / Which foure great Hippodames did draw in temewise tyde. Example: Nor did less tumult swell the late defeat Of monstrous Dagon, from whom, worse deformed With hippodame and kraken, self -assumed, So spirits can, turned infantry and steed, Nor chose the ambush of his doubtful shape.
Word: hippodames Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hippodame Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diffusable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From diffuse + -able. 1. Nonstandard spelling of diffusible. Labels: alt-of, nonstandard Example: It is now apparent that future analyses of Delta in Notch signaling events must consider its potential as a diffusable ligand. Example: There are other much more effective and less depressing diffusable stimulants.
Word: detesters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of detester Labels: form-of, plural
Word: digitated Part of Speech: adj 1. Having digits; characterized by digitation. 2. Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Example: In Brazil I have often admired the varied beauty of the bananas, palms, and orange-trees contrasted together; and here we also have the bread-fruit, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf. Example: The other pair of limbs terminate in something that, from the single instance I experienced, seemed to resemble soft but firm antennae or, perhaps, digitated palpi--" "Feelers!"
Word: diked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dike Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disenter Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of dissenter. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: disenter Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of disinter. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: disenterred Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disenter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disenterring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disenter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: diplomatical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French diplomatique and its etymon New Latin diplōmaticus + -al. By surface analysis, diplomat + -ical. 1. Dated form of diplomatic. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: Whenever the channels of diplomatical communication between the United States and France shall be opened, I shall demand satisfaction for the insult and reparation for the injury.
Word: gibbier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French gibier. 1. wildfowl; game Labels: obsolete Example: the Fowl and Gibier are Tax free. Example: The bread muſt ſoon be of the fineſt wheat; poultry and gibbier must be added to beef and mutton
Word: discordancy Part of Speech: noun 1. discordance Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A linear regression through these 18 data sets yields an upper intercept age of 555.4 ± 1.6 Ma [mean squared weighted deviation (MSWD) = 0.10] and a lower intercept indistinguishable from 0 Ma, suggesting that normal discordancy is a function of recent Pb loss.
Word: discretional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From discretion + -al. 1. discretionary Example: That of their small force, some of the soldiers were superannuated, others invalid; therefore, since the course to be pursued was left discretional, their unanimous advice was, to remain where they were, and fortify themselves as strongly as possible. Example: The Admiral, very apprehensive of her falling into the hands of the enemy, sent me with discretional orders to Captain Hood, that, should he not be able to get her off the shoal, he might put his men into the Thames, and burn the Venerable, making the signal at the same time for the Thames to close with the Venerable as soon as possible.
Word: podogynium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From podo- (“foot”) + Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + -ium (“structure”). 1. A pedicel rising from the base of a flower with the ovary at the top.
Word: iguanodont Part of Speech: noun 1. Any member of the genus Iguanodon.
Word: iguanodonts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of iguanodont Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dispensible Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of dispensable. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Another striking epigenetic aspect of Xist function is that the Xist locus is dispensible for maintenance of the inactive state (25, 26 ). Example: The region of IKK- containing the leucine zipper-like motif was required both for homodimerization of IKK- and for formation of heterodimers with IKK-, whereas the putative helix-loop-helix region was dispensible.
Word: haemoplastic Part of Speech: adj 1. haematoplastic Labels: not-comparable
Word: panurgies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of panurgy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: panurgy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek, pan- + -urgy. 1. mischief-making in all matters, knavery. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Wisdom and Eloquence without Truth and Justice are a Panurgy, that is to say, a guile or slight, such as Parasites use in Comedies
Word: angiomatosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, angi- + -omatosis. 1. A rare genetic non-neoplastic condition presenting with little knots of capillaries in various organs. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: distinguishably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From distinguishable + -ly. 1. In a distinguishable way Example: The two distinguishably younger samples (5013 and 8034, from the Maranhão and Cassiporé, respectively) are from the northernmost portion of the Brazilian CAMP. A similar relation is shown on the African continental margin in Guinea (4 ).
Word: angiomatoses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of angiomatosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Von Hippel-Lindau disease Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of von Hippel–Lindau disease. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: a-vie Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From a- + vie. 1. In rivalry. Labels: obsolete Example: Our mind doth likewise take revenge of it, they lie, they cog, and deceive one another a vie.
Word: Schweitzerian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Schweitzer + -ian. 1. Of or relating to Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and missionary.
Word: distressedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From distressed + -ly. 1. in a distressed manner Example: Sally said distressedly: "Oh, Mike, it's all true and I'm so sorry!" Example: Marjorie caught it in her hand, where it lay palpitating distressedly; and thrusting her arm through a broken pane of glass, allowed the creature to escape.
Word: Ellulian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ellul + -ian. 1. Of or relating to Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), French philosopher, sociologist, theologian, and Christian anarchist.
Word: elliptizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of elliptization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: frozen custard Part of Speech: noun 1. A cold dessert similar to ice cream, made with eggs in addition to cream and sugar. Labels: Canada, US, countable, uncountable
Word: frozen custards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frozen custard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sharpfin Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sharp + fin. 1. Having sharp fins. Labels: not-comparable Example: sharpfin barracuda Example: sharpfin chubsucker
Word: hyposphagma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπόσφαγμα (hupósphagma). 1. A bruise or contusion; a bloodshot eye. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Those which are sicke of the disease which phisitians call Hyposphagma, which is a suffusion of blood under the skin, imagine that all things they see are bloodie and red.
Word: glanceless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From glance + -less. 1. Not glancing; blind, dim, or lacking sparkle or vitality. Labels: not-comparable Example: […]in movements of fingers, by glanceless eyes, by voiceless opening and shutting of telegraphic lips[…] Example: He in turn is represented as an inherently divine being, as indicated again by his glanceless mask-like face.
Word: chubsucker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chub + sucker. 1. Any of various freshwater suckers of the genus Erimyzon, native to North America.
Word: chubsuckers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chubsucker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bubble shell Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the headshield slugs of genus Bulla, belonging to the order Cephalaspidea of gastropods. 2. Any of the headshield slugs of genus Bulla, belonging to the order Cephalaspidea of gastropods. 3. Any of the family Epitoniidae (syn. Janthinidae), of pelagic sea snails.
Word: bubble shells Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bubble shell Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seniorize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From senior + -ize. 1. To make/become senior; or to exercise authority; to rule Labels: ambitransitive, rare Example: As faire he was, as Cithereas make, / As proud as he, that ſignoriſeth hell, […]
Word: seniorized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of seniorize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: seniorizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of seniorize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: seniorizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of seniorize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cherogril Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin choerogryllus, from Ancient Greek χοιρογρύλλιος (khoirogrúllios), a compound of χοῖρος (khoîros) and γρῦλος (grûlos), both meaning “pig”. The Greek word was used in the Septuagint to render Hebrew שפן (“hyrax”). 1. A hyrax. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Cherogril which cheweth the cudde, and divideth not the hoofe, is uncleane. Example: Ah, the Conies! Those little cherogrils, or chief-rabbits; tiny, timid, defenseless.
Word: cherogrils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cherogril Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ASAR Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of advanced synthetic aperture radar. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: perula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pērula, diminutive of pera (“wallet”), from Ancient Greek πήρα (pḗra). Compare French pérule. 1. One of the scales of a leaf bud. 2. A pouchlike portion of the perianth in certain orchids.
Word: perulae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of perula Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cresorcin Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of isorcin. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: ophiuran Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to the Ophiuroidea. Labels: dated
Word: ophiuran Part of Speech: noun 1. Any member of the echinoderm class Ophiuroidea; a brittle star. Labels: dated
Word: ophiurans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ophiuran Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oulachan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of eulachon. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: oulachans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oulachan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exogen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exo- + -gen: compare French exogène. 1. A plant characterized by wood, bark and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and growth only occurring on the outside. 2. The last phase of the hair growth cycle that follows telogen, during which the hairshaft is released from the hair follicle and is shed from the body.
Word: exogens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exogen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paradisical Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of paradisiacal. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: medregal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish medregal. 1. A bonito or greater amberjack (Seriola fasciata).
Word: medregals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of medregal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: optimacies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of optimacy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: optimacy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French optimatie. See optimate. 1. government by the nobility Labels: countable, uncountable Example: mixture 'twixt Monarchy, Optimacy, and Democracy 2. the nobility, collectively Labels: countable, uncountable 3. a most favourable condition or state Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fucktoy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fuck + toy. 1. A person regarded as a sex object. Labels: slang, vulgar
Word: fucktoys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fucktoy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fuck-toy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fucktoy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fuck toy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fucktoy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fuck-toys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fuck-toy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fuck toys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fuck toy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stercory Part of Speech: noun 1. excrement; dung Labels: obsolete, uncountable 2. dunghouse Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: subventitious Part of Speech: adj 1. helping; aiding; supporting Labels: obsolete Example: Monsieur Cuckoldry should never 1 be favourable nor propitious to them , -- that he should never help , aid , supply , succour , nor grant them any subventitious furtherance, auxiliary , suffrage , or adminiculary assistance
Word: parietic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: parietina -ic acid 1. An acid found in the lichen Parmelia parietina. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: buttonweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From button + weed. 1. Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially: 2. Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially: 3. Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially: 4. Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially: 5. Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially: 6. Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially: 7. Any of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially:
Word: buttonweeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of buttonweed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Mancona bark Part of Speech: noun 1. sassy bark Labels: archaic
Word: connumeration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin connumeratio, from Latin connumerare, connumeratum (“to number with”). 1. A reckoning or counting together. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He is arguing against a sophism which turned on the difference between connumeration and subnumeration: it was contended, that persons or things equal in dignity and homousian are connumerated […]
Word: connumerations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of connumeration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: proctodaea Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of proctodaeum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: balotade Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ballotade. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: balotades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of balotade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overcolor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + color. 1. Alternative spelling of overcolour. Labels: alt-of, alternative, transitive
Word: overcolored Part of Speech: adj 1. Rendered too colourful; with an excess of color. 2. exaggerated
Word: overcolored Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overcolor Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overcoloring Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + coloring. 1. present participle and gerund of overcolor Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overcoloring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + coloring. 1. Alternative form of overcolouring. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: overcolors Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overcolor Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Bishop Barkers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Bishop Barker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rusine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Rusa + -ine 1. Of, like, or relating to, a deer of the genus Rusa. 2. Having the brow tine simple, and the beam forked at the tip.
Word: Hyacinthian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Hyacinth + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪ.əˈsɪn.θi.ən/ 1. Of or relating to Hyacinth, a divine hero in Ancient Greek mythology. Labels: Greek, not-comparable
Word: blackroot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From black + root. 1. Several North American plants with black roots of: Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Several North American plants with black roots of: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Several North American plants with black roots of: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Several plant diseases caused by fungi in the genus Aphanomyces causing that cause roots to rot and turn black. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: blackroots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blackroot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caligraphy Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of calligraphy. Labels: alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable Example: The caligraphy was, like the paper, unusual, bold, decided, and, I should have guessed, produced by a J pen.
Word: Antilegomena Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀντιλεγόμενα (antilegómena), from ἀντι- (anti-, “against”) + λέγω (légō, “to speak”). 1. Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: copple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cop + -le, diminutive. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒpəl/ 1. A crest on a bird's head. Labels: obsolete
Word: copples Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of copple Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rheotrope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rheo- + -trope. 1. An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current; synonym of commutator. Labels: dated
Word: rheotropes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rheotrope Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dog-fox Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dogge fox. By surface analysis, dog + fox. 1. A male fox. Example: Till sung his midnight hymn the owl, / Answer'd the dog-fox with his howl, / Then waked the King—at his request, / Lord Ronald stretch'd himself to rest. Example: Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox / Gone to ground 2. The arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus, and especially the blue fox subspecies. 3. Any species of the genus Vulpes.
Word: dog-foxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dog-fox Labels: form-of, plural
Word: superexcitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + excitation. 1. Excessive, or more than normal, excitation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: superexcitations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superexcitation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: goramies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of goramy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: goramy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gourami. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: longshanks Part of Speech: noun Etymology: long + shanks 1. A bird, the stilt. Labels: dated
Word: longshanks Part of Speech: adj Etymology: long + shanks 1. long-legged or tall. Labels: dated, not-comparable
Word: signors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of signor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: signior Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of signore. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: […]all gave way to Mr. Thorne, who was something of a grand signior, as a country gentleman always is in a provincial city.
Word: signiors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of signior Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caboched Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of caboshed. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: caligraphies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caligraphy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: loosefill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From loose + fill. 1. A kind of insulation made of light loose materials spread evenly. Labels: uncountable
Word: borborygm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French borborygme, ultimately from Ancient Greek βορβορυγμός (borborugmós, “(onomatopoeic) borborygmus”), from βορβορύζω (borborúzō, “to experience borborygmus”). Pronunciation: /ˌbɔːbəˈɹɪɡm̩/, /ˈbɔːbəɹɪm/, /ˌbɔɹbəˈɹiɡm̩/, /ˈbɔɹbəɹim/ 1. A gurgling or rumbling noise produced by gas in the bowels. Labels: rare Example: Borborygm, a rumbling Noiſe in the Guts. Example: Should the dose of bark [of Cinchona trees] be too strong, or its use be too long continued, or finally, the digestive canal, or any other organ be in a state of inflammation, all the phenomena we have just mentioned become more intense and all the symptoms of phlegmasia are aggravated. Uneasiness and dry heat are felt at the epigastric region; nausea, borborygm, vomiting or alvine evacuations take place; […] 2. A gurgling or rumbling. Labels: figuratively Example: [Susan] Sontag then pauses for the space of a paragraph to deliver a swift verbal kick at American fiction for its technical unadventurousness, its lack of an avant-garde, and its tendency to interpretive borborygm. Example: When the promised state of affairs failed to materialize, the specifically communist claim of authority was rendered void, and it was clumsily and awkwardly replaced by Brezhnevite borborygms of the status quo.
Word: borborygms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of borborygm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cururo Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of coruro. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cururos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cururo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sidely Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *sideli (adjective), sideli (adverb), equivalent to side + -ly. Cognate with German seitlich (“lateral”). Compare also sideling. 1. Of or relating to the side (of something); lateral. Labels: nonstandard, rare Example: “[…] The evidence of that philosophy is found in its perennial focus on a 'this-sidely' world and an 'other-sidely' world.”
Word: sidely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English *sideli (adjective), sideli (adverb), equivalent to side + -ly. Cognate with German seitlich (“lateral”). Compare also sideling. 1. To the side; sideways; laterally; sideling; obliquely; indirectly. Labels: nonstandard, not-comparable, rare Example: […] satisfying her homosexuality with the keeping of a secret scrapbook of pictures of favorite male actors or athletes or by supervising the activities of young boys or visiting turkish^([sic]) baths or mens^([sic]) locker rooms, leering sidely while seeking protection behind a carefully guarded guise of virility […]
Word: phycomater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phyco- + Latin mater (“mother”). 1. A gelatin in which the algae spores have been supposed to vegetate. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: The cells, granules, and plasma of which they consist become developed, and propagate themselves in the areolar and vascular net-works within the canals, like the sporules, thallus, and phycomater of fungi: […]
Word: cloom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A variant of clam (“to clog”). Pronunciation: /kluːm/ 1. To close with glutinous matter. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: If none of these ways will cause them to swarm, but that they lie forth ſtill, then rear the Hive enough to let them in, and cloom up the Skirts all but the Door Example: There also were wicker skeps or hives, and these were cloomed. This meant that they were banked with a mixture of dirt and cow manure to protect them from the weather and the cold
Word: cloomed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of cloom Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: clooming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of cloom Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clooms Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cloom Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: inshipped Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + ship + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of inship Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: inshipped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + ship + -ed. 1. Shipped in from outside; imported. Labels: not-comparable 2. Placed on a ship; embarked. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: And so, my lord protector, see them guarded / And safely brought to Dover where, inshipped, / Commit them to the fortune of the sea.
Word: ember-goose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Norwegian emmer-gaas. Pronunciation: /ˈɛmbəɡuːs/ 1. The great northern loon, Gavia immer. Example: There is the distant cry of an embergoose, and then the moon slips up out of the grasp of the trees.
Word: one-sidely Part of Speech: adv 1. Misspelling of one-sidedly. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: The observers most adequately list the different aspects of this insight and yet emphasize somewhat one-sidely the patient's need for love as the most important motivating factor. Example: More than that, it reveals a one-sidely individualistic view of our humanity.
Word: bemar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + mar. 1. To mar about or all over; injure seriously. Labels: transitive Example: He hath all to be pist my shooes He hath bemarred my paper [...]
Word: infant respiratory distress syndrome Part of Speech: noun 1. A condition that occurs in premature infants due to underdeveloped lungs and surfactant deficiency. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: behallow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + hallow. 1. To make holy; consecrate; sanctify; hallow completely. Labels: transitive Example: [...] bishops and servants of God — the "senatores natu majores," the elders and chiefs of the people — caused his eldest son, Egfurth, to be behallowed (which is the Saxon term used for the consecration of a bishop) as king of Mercia. Example: Kings are "behallowed" as well as bishops; […]
Word: airshowers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of airshower Labels: form-of, plural
Word: airshower Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of air shower. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: air shower Part of Speech: noun 1. An extensive cascade of ionized particles formed by the entry of a cosmic ray into the atmosphere.
Word: apogalactic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From apo- + galactic. 1. Of or pertaining to an apogalacticon Labels: not-comparable
Word: perigalactic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From peri- + galactic. 1. Of or pertaining to a perigalacticon Labels: not-comparable
Word: bigyrotropic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bi- + gyrotropic. 1. Exhibiting gyrotropy in two separate senses Labels: not-comparable
Word: bowshocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bowshock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: convexified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of convexify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: convexified Part of Speech: adj 1. converted to a convex form Labels: not-comparable
Word: microaccelerations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microacceleration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: microacceleration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + acceleration. 1. A numerically very small acceleration
Word: nonubiquitous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + ubiquitous. 1. not ubiquitous Labels: not-comparable
Word: palaeorecord Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From palaeo- + record. 1. Alternative form of paleorecord. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: residual volume Part of Speech: noun 1. The volume of unexpended air that remains in the lungs following maximum expiration.
Word: scotogenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From scoto- + -genic. 1. Created from dark matter Labels: not-comparable
Word: vital capacity Part of Speech: noun 1. The maximum volume of air that can be discharged from the lungs following maximum inspiration. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: behelp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + help. Cognate with Scots behelpe (“to assist”), West Frisian beholpje, Dutch behelpen (“to make do”), German behelfen (“to manage”). Pronunciation: /bɪˈhɛlp/ 1. To help (with); give aid or assistance to. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: But we live in a good hope of better times and then, hopefully, will this dessign be excuted; Meanwhile I must behelp myself with this boock, so, as I have found it, and so as it is. Example: It is said of one of them that at an audience with the Queen of England he was asked whether he was married and, his knowledge of the English language being defective, replied: "No, Your Majesty, behelp me so!
Word: beknowledge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + knowledge. 1. To acknowledge. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Detected he hath reported a rhyme upon names of sundry men & women in our parish but will not beknowledge who made it nor of whom he had it.
Word: same-bloodedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From same-blooded + -ness. 1. The state or condition of being same-blooded; consanguinity; homogeneity. Labels: uncountable Example: At any rate, this does tend to put in truer perspective the symbolic claim placed by Herodotus in the mouth of 'the Athenians'—also Ionians—in 480/479, that the fact of being Greek was constituted in essential part by 'same-bloodedness'. Example: Even the style bears similarity, and, as Shin explains, both appealed to the 'same bloodedness' of the Korean people.
Word: sameish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From same + -ish. 1. Basically the same; somewhat similar; rather alike. Example: They all look alike, have about the same tone and the same color, and indeed they are very sameish all around. Example: Dressed like my mother, except all in green—green knit top, sameish green trousers. 2. Run-of-the-mill; ordinary; usual. Example: Otherwise, with the sameish meals and the utterly sameish pattern, the patternless days, I might lose count, lose my bearings, they might trick me. Example: Undergraduates are grouped in rather sameish groups to do rather sameish things. You are there because you fit in. 3. Dull; drab; boring; typical; not exciting. Example: For example, readers might say they love a post you've written on headlines, because they're finding that their headlines are becoming stale and “sameish.”
Word: sameishness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sameish + -ness. 1. The state, quality, or condition of being sameish; similarity; uniformity. Labels: uncountable Example: The danger for the couplet, a short endlessly recurrent metre, is an effect of sameishness. Example: Under these compulsions, it is natural that there should be similarity of technique and style, even on occasion a sameishness in content, between avant-garde poetic movements in different countries. 2. Usualness; normality; familiarity. Labels: uncountable Example: The gentle sameishness of the milk swishing into the hand-bowl seemed to have soothed the burglar very much.
Word: suck-boy Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone who has a particular enjoyment of or skill for fellatio. Labels: slang Example: “Is he a suck-boy too?” “Let's find out,” Kurt said. He moved in front of Buddy and pressed the tip of his dripping cock to Buddy's nose.
Word: same-minded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From same + minded. Compare like-minded. 1. Having or being of the same mind or mindset; similar in thought or thinking. Example: Now, finally, all, same-minded, sympathetic, fraternally friendly, compassionate, lowly-minded, not giving back a base thing for a base thing or reviling for reviling but contrariwise, continuing to bless, because for this you were [...] Example: [...] a minded creature, but we recognize each other as same-minded and as persons who have access to their minds from a first-person perspective. 2. In agreement; harmonious.
Word: same-minded Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From same + minded. Compare like-minded. 1. With the same mind or mindset; in an agreeable or harmonious way. Example: Paul thus asks the single-minded and integer ones to walk same-minded, uttering hereby his confidence that the Lord makes this unity possible, no matter what different opinions the brethren may have.
Word: suckboy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From suck + boy. 1. An obsequious man; a male yesman or suckup. Labels: slang Example: Lawson, use that one-eye to scour my brain like a cheese grater – regale me with tales of your literary output over the years and I shall forever be your biggest suckboy.
Word: suck-boys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suck-boy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suckboys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suckboy Labels: form-of, plural