nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: etwee Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of étui. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The twinkling jewels, and the gold etwee, With all its bright inhabitants Example: From the inn she is taken to the house of the procuress, divested of her home-spun garb, and dressed in the gayest style of the day; her pincushion and scissars discarded for an etwee and watch, and the tender native hue of her complexion incrusted with paint, and disguised by patches.
Word: etwees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of etwee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: irreconciliation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ir- + reconciliation. 1. Lack of reconciliation; disagreement Labels: uncountable
Word: reinterrogate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + interrogate. 1. To interrogate again. Labels: transitive
Word: reinterrogated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reinterrogate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reinterrogates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reinterrogate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reinterrogating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reinterrogate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: semster Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of seamster. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: semsters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: affranchisement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French affranchissement. 1. The act of freeing; enfranchisement; emancipation.
Word: enarched Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From en- + arch + -ed. 1. Bent into a curve; said of a bend or other ordinary. Labels: not-comparable
Word: inextended Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + extended. 1. Not extended. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: blennogenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From blenno- + -genous, from Ancient Greek. 1. Generating or producing mucus. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: bedrizzle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + drizzle. 1. To drizzle upon (usually said of rain, but also of other liquids e.g. blood).
Word: bedrizzled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bedrizzle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bedrizzles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bedrizzle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bedrizzling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bedrizzle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disconvenient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dis- + convenient. 1. Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted. Labels: obsolete Example: […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.
Word: pepsinhydrochloric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pepsin + hydrochloric. 1. Only used in pepsinhydrochloric acid Labels: not-comparable
Word: niggardise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From niggard + -ise. 1. Niggardliness. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: “For he, whose daies in wilfull woe are worne, / The grace of his Creator doth despise, / That will not use his gifts for thanklesse nigardise.”
Word: windore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A corruption of window, or perhaps coined on the wrong assumption that window is from wind + door. 1. Obsolete form of window. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Not as the ancient heroes did, / Who, that their base births might be hid, / Knowing they were of doubtful gender, / And that they came in at a windore, / Made Jupiter himself, and others / O' th' gods, gallants to their own mothers
Word: windores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of windore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eupathies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eupathy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eupathy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eu- + -pathy. Pronunciation: /ˈjuːpəθi/ 1. Right feeling. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For then is there said to be an Eupathy or good Disposition of the Affections
Word: ornithotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ornitho- + -tomy. 1. The anatomy or dissection of birds. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: reletting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of relet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reletting Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of letting a property again.
Word: roseries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rosery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rosery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rose + -ery. 1. A rose garden Labels: dated
Word: lixivia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lixivium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lixivium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lixivium, lixivia, from lixīvus. See lixivial. Pronunciation: /lɪkˈsɪviəm/ 1. A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any solution obtained by lixiviation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: holocryptic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From holo- + cryptic. Pronunciation: /ˌhɒl.əˈkɹɪp.tɪk/, /ˌhɑ.ləˈkɹɪp.tɪk/ 1. Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered. Labels: not-comparable Example: A holocryptic cipher is one constructed so as to offer no clue to its meaning to anybody without the key. Example: A holocryptic code
Word: temporizingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From temporizing + -ly. 1. In a temporizing manner.
Word: blaubok Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Dutch. 1. The bluebuck. Labels: archaic
Word: blauboks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blaubok Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reencourage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + encourage. 1. To encourage again. Labels: transitive
Word: reencouraged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reencourage Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reencourages Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reencourage Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reencouraging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reencourage Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wrest block Part of Speech: noun 1. A wooden block in the pianoforte, often made of several pieces, into which the wrest-pins are driven.
Word: insanable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin īnsānābilis. Compare Old French insanable. See in- (“not”) + sanable. 1. Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] by the Cirrhæan spikes, by the boiled head of my own baby served in Egyptian vinegar, I curse the whole insanable cacoëthical cohort of scriptitating—
Word: prehensory Part of Speech: adj 1. Adapted to seize or grasp; prehensile. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rusticly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From rustic + -ly. 1. Archaic form of rustically. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: “To you it seems so,” rusticly Ajax Oïleus said, “Your words are suited to your eyes.[…]"
Word: confectory Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to the art of making confectionery. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: the wanton might Of Confectory Art endeavor'd how To charm all Tasts to their sweet overthrow
Word: confectory Part of Speech: noun 1. confectioner's; sweetshop Labels: archaic
Word: emperorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From emperor + -ship. 1. The rank or office of an emperor. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: emperorships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of emperorship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: link rot Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of linkrot. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: doublehearted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From double + hearted. 1. deceitful; treacherous; double-crossing. Example: double-hearted hypocrite
Word: smaragdite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French smaragdite; so called from its emerald-green color. See smaragd. 1. A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varieties of gabbro. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: smaragdites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of smaragdite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: missel Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmɪsəl/ 1. A missel thrush. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. mistletoe Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: missel Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪsəl/ 1. Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: missel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪsəl/ 1. Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: lixiviums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lixivium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wrest-block Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of wrest block. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pentadactyloid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pentadactyl + -oid. 1. Having the form of, or a structure modified from, a pentadactyl limb; having an underlying structure that is a limb with five digits (although these may be fused or only exist in vestigial form).
Word: bilinguar Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of bilingual. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: beef-witted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From beef + witted. 1. stupid; dull Labels: derogatory, obsolete Example: The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!
Word: ridiculize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From ridicule + -ize. 1. To make ridiculous; to ridicule. Labels: nonstandard, obsolete Example: My heart still trembling, lest the false alarmes That words oft strike up should ridiculize me.
Word: ridiculized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ridiculize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ridiculizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ridiculize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ridiculizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ridiculize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: prohibiter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prohibit + -er. 1. Someone who prohibits or forbids. 2. Something that prohibits or hinders. Example: a prohibiter of movement
Word: prohibiters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prohibiter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: muriatiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From muriatic + -i- + -ferous. 1. Producing muriatic substances or salt. Labels: obsolete Example: muriatiferous clay
Word: goff Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of golf (“ball game”). Labels: Scotland, alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: Forester soon took an aversion to the game of goff, and recollected Scotch reels with less contempt.
Word: goff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French goffe (“ill-made, awkward”), Italian goffo, Spanish gofo, German dialect Goff (“a blockhead”). 1. A fool; a clown. Labels: obsolete Example: He calls the bishop Grey-beard Goff, And makes his power a mere scoff.
Word: goff Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
Word: furacity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fūrāx (“thievish”), from fūr (“thief”) + -acity. 1. The habit of, or addiction to, theft; thievery. Labels: obsolete, rare, uncountable Example: they are ſly, cunning, and artful to a great degree; they glory in every species of furacity and artifice , eſpecially when the theft or deception has been ſo well executed as to eſcape detection.
Word: stanchly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From stanch + -ly. 1. staunchly Labels: archaic
Word: manumotor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin manus (“hand”) + mōtō (“to move, set in motion”). 1. A small wheeled vehicle, similar to a velocipede but powered by the seated occupant's arms. Labels: historical
Word: manumotor Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin manus (“hand”) + mōtō (“to move, set in motion”). 1. Relating to the physical process of handwriting. Labels: not-comparable
Word: manumotors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of manumotor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inbeing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + being. Compare Old English onwist (“habitation”), Dutch aanwezigheid (“presence, existence”). 1. The fact or state of being in; existence in something else. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Inherence; inherent existence; indwelling; immanence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This is not spoken concerning the union, the inbeing, or indwelling of any distinct divine nature of Christ 3. Inward or essential nature; that which a thing is in itself. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An indwelling being. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: gulleting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gullet + -ing. 1. A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: gulleting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From gullet + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of gullet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: batfowling Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of bat-fowling. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: botchedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From botched + -ly. 1. In a botched manner.
Word: dynamitism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dynamite + -ism. 1. The use of dynamite, i.e. for destructive purposes. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: disconvenience Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + convenience. 1. Incongruity; unsuitableness. Labels: obsolete Example: Carta Articulorum. [...] The convenience or disconvenience which motion hath with heat and tenuity, and how these three meet, sever, and vary.
Word: factorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From factor + -ship. 1. The business of a factor (the agent). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: incession Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin incedere, incessum (“to walk”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɛʃən/ Labels: no-gloss
Word: fiddlestring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fiddle + string. 1. One of the strings of a fiddle. Example: Fiddlestrings used to be made of catgut. 2. The frenulum of the penis; penile frenulum. Labels: UK, slang
Word: fiddlestrings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fiddlestring Labels: form-of, plural
Word: picturer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From picture + -er. 1. Someone who makes pictures; a painter. Example: Zeuxis the curious picturer painted a boy holding a dish full of grapes in his hand 2. Someone who pictures, or depicts Example: picturer of reality
Word: picturers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of picturer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contestingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From contesting + -ly. 1. In a contesting or contending manner. Example: she stared contestingly at her rebellious student
Word: overhappy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + happy. 1. Exceedingly happy. Example: Happy, in that we are not ouer-happy: on Fortunes Cap we are not the very Button.
Word: foreworn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See forworn. 1. Synonym of forworn. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: 1805-1809, Samuel Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria, Titles and Opinions of Old English Books old foreworn stories almost forgotten
Word: indirected Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + directed. 1. Lacking direction; aimless. Labels: obsolete
Word: indirected Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of indirect Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sexisyllabic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sexi- + syllabic. 1. Having six syllables; hexasyllabic. Labels: not-comparable Example: If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]
Word: exotical Part of Speech: adj 1. exotic Labels: archaic
Word: goldcup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gold + cup. 1. The buttercup. Labels: dated Example: Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers Are lying in field and lane, With dandelions to tell the hours That never are told again.
Word: goldcups Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of goldcup Labels: form-of, plural
Word: imperforation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French imperforation. 1. The state of being without perforation. Labels: uncountable 2. Absence of perforation in a normally patent structure. Labels: uncountable
Word: beggarism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beggar + -ism. 1. beggary (the state of being a beggar) Labels: uncountable
Word: misproportion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + proportion. 1. A deviation from proper proportions.
Word: misproportion Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + proportion. 1. To give the wrong proportions to. Labels: transitive
Word: misproportioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misproportion Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: misproportions Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of misproportion Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: epulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin epulatio. 1. A feast or banquet. Labels: obsolete Example: he would dine with Jove, and pretend unto epulation, he desired no other addition than a piece of Cytheridian cheese
Word: smilingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From smiling + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being smiling. Labels: uncountable Example: […]Had made despair a smilingness assume.
Word: vilipendency Part of Speech: noun 1. disesteem; slight; disparagement or hate Labels: archaic, formal, uncountable Example: The mighty Goliaths of Rome, by this way of vilipendency hope to give our clergy's flesh to be food for the fowls of the air.
Word: ascertainably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From ascertainable + -ly. 1. In a way that can be ascertained. Example: an ascertainably false statement
Word: lodgeable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French logeable. 1. Capable of being lodged. Labels: not-comparable Example: The masses of refugees are not easily lodgeable in the small border town. 2. Capable of affording lodging; habitable. Labels: not-comparable Example: the lodgeable area of the earth
Word: lung-grown Part of Speech: adj 1. Having lungs that adhere to the pleura. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: mitties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mitty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mitty Part of Speech: noun 1. The storm petrel. Labels: UK, archaic
Word: consumptiveness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmō Latin cōnsūmptus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -ive Middle English consumptive English consumptive Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English consumptiveness From consumptive + -ness. 1. The state of being consumptive. Labels: uncountable
Word: dracontine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek δρᾰ́κοντ- (drắkont-, “dragon”) + -ine. 1. of, related to, or depicting a dragon. Labels: not-comparable Example: There with malignant patience He sate in fell despite, Till this dracontine cockatrice Should break its way to light.
Word: excerptor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From excerpt + -or. 1. One who makes/writes excerpts.
Word: excerptors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of excerptor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fixidity Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being fixed. Labels: uncountable Example: Sometimes the bodies mingled by the fire are differing enough as to fixidity and volatility , and yet are so combined by the first operation of the fire , that itself does scarce afterwards separate them Example: Among the baſe metals, Copper retains its fixidity the longeſt in the fire next to Iron
Word: rattlebox Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rattle + box. 1. A toy or instrument that makes a rattle sound; a rattle. 2. An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), whose ripe seeds rattle in the inflated pod. 3. Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods. 4. An ornamental shrub (Sesbania punicea) native to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. 5. Any species of Rhinanthus, a genus of annual hemiparasitic herbaceous plants. 6. Senna covesii, a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico. 7. A species of moth, (Utetheisa ornatrix), that feeds on Crotalaria.
Word: rattleboxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rattlebox Labels: form-of, plural
Word: buckish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From buck + -ish. 1. Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious. Labels: obsolete 2. Like a dandy; foppish. Labels: archaic Example: Not to detail the history minutely, there was a pretty numerous company, two genteelish ladies and their husbands, one a clergyman of buckish cast […] .
Word: torturingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From torturing + -ly. 1. So as to torture. Example: The ground soon becomes torturingly hard, and she is bitten all over by insects. The worst thing is the cold. It creeps in upon her, and she cringes into a ball to escape from it. Example: An host of furies Could not have baited me more torturingly , More rudely , or more most unnaturally! 2. Extremely; painfully
Word: prosiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prosy + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: animalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From animal (adjective) + -ness. 1. The quality of being animal; animality. Labels: uncountable Example: These examples reveal that the shared personhood of hunters and prey was mutually comprehensible, such that hunters could see the animalness of themselves and the humanness of prey, and prey could see the humanness of themselves […]
Word: creeky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From creek + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːki/ 1. Containing, or abounding in, creeks. Example: Nowadays it's a lovely little place of pebble-covered cottages sloping up from the creekiest of harbours. 2. Like a creek; winding.
Word: readorn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + adorn. 1. To adorn again. Labels: transitive
Word: readorned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of readorn Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: readorning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of readorn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: readorns Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of readorn Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ferrocyanate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ferrocyanic acid + -ate. 1. ferrocyanide.
Word: ferrocyanates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ferrocyanate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: indifuscin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From indican + Latin fuscus (“dusky”) + -in. 1. A brown amorphous powder obtained from indican. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: lasciviency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, lascivi(ent) + -ency. Pronunciation: /ləˈsɪvɪ.ənsɪ/, /ləˈsɪvi.ənsi/ 1. The quality of being lascivious or wanton. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: metamorphist Part of Speech: adj 1. Believing in the metamorphic formation of nonsedimentary rocks and minerals. Labels: historical, not-comparable Example: The deductions, in the works of Professor Keilhau, with which I have become acquainted since the publication of the first part of this work; the passages of the granite, which this geologist points out, to the stratified forms, considered together with the obscurity in which he confesses that the origin of the great mass of crystalline rocks is still involved, can only strengthen me in the opinion, that the theory of an igneous stratification of crystalline schists offers the only guide which can direct the geologist throught the labyrinth of difficulties with which a too limited interpretation of the general principle of stratification had encircled science, leaving it entirely to the speculations of the metamorphist geologists. Example: This strict identity of feldspars (and other crystals) has been for us, then for some other authors such as H.H. Read, a base for the metamorphist conception of the genesis of granites.
Word: metamorphists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metamorphist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: furacious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin fūrāx (“thievish”), from fūr (“thief”) + -acious. 1. Prone to stealing; thieving. Labels: obsolete
Word: puppetish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From puppet + -ish. 1. Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; puppetlike.
Word: agaty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From agate + -y. 1. Of the nature of agate, or containing agate. Example: agaty rock Example: agaty stone
Word: limitarian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From limit + -arian. Pronunciation: /ˌlɪm.ɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/, /ˌlɪ.mɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/ 1. Tending to limit, or supporting limitarianism.
Word: limitarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From limit + -arian. Pronunciation: /ˌlɪm.ɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/, /ˌlɪ.mɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/ 1. One who subscribes to the doctrine of limitarianism.
Word: phraseologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phraseology + -ist. 1. A writer or speaker who coins clever phrases; One who is eloquent. Example: The author of Poetæ Rusticantis literatum Otium is but a mere phraseologist, the philological publisher is but a translator; but I expected better usage from Mr. Abel Roper, who is an original. Example: They have descriptive powers, write charmingly, and tickle our sense of profundity with high-wounding dogmas and moral theories, which seem, indeed, plausible enough; but on comparing the description with the work describe, we find, now unfrequently, that the eloquent and dainty phraseologist could not distinguish between ugly and handsome, valueless fact and vital truth, archæology and imagination, good painting and bad; and when we meditate on the moral basis of his aesthetical theories, we find them, in all likelihood, something one-sided, ungenial, contracted, ascetic; their evil influence being indeed traceable in the falsely cramped and rigid lines of the pencils led by them. 2. One who studies or collects phrases Example: Another correspondent, who has 'completed [his] education in the language of Tully, the philosophy of Voltaire, and the amplification of Dr. Johnson, the great Lexiconian phraseologist,' aspires to become the dramatic critic of the journal alluded to, and give the following taste of his quality: Example: At the other end there is the phraseologist's view that at least one member of the collocation has to be restricted (Howarth 1998b). 3. One who specializes in phraseological details of a field. Example: Two further aspects should be underlined: (a) the terminologist is generally also a 'phraseologist' and (b) the task of the terminologist is now recognised as a bona fide job within certain companies. Example: It is particularly problematic for the phraseologist to presuppose that a modification is properly understood when the reader has been able to work out all the elements/information that the phraseologist has detected in the modification, for it might even go far beyond what the producer, always under time pressure, intended in the first place.
Word: phraseologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phraseologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fairhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fair + -hood. 1. fairness; beauty Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: I was loth to interrupt the thoughts that played over her fairhood like a summer's cloud athwart the morning sky. Example: The tuneful cricket in the latter math Sings of her fairhood to the passing breeze.
Word: lampate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lampic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. A (supposed?) salt of lampic acid. Labels: obsolete
Word: lampates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lampate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: copulatively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From copulative + -ly. 1. In a copulative manner. Labels: not-comparable Example: stand copulatively Example: take a verb copulatively
Word: orthographize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From orthography + -ize. 1. To spell correctly or according to usage or pronunciation. Labels: transitive 2. To correct in regard to spelling. Labels: transitive Example: "In the" coalesced into "ith", which modern reaction has orthographized to "i' th". 3. To devise a writing system for a language. Labels: transitive
Word: orthographized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of orthographize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: orthographizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of orthographize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: orthographizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of orthographize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cobswan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cob (“one who is eminent or great”) + swan. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒbswɒn/ 1. A large male swan. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: I'am not taken / With a Cob-Swan, or a high-mounting Bull / As fooliſh Leda and Europa were. Example: [T]here's plenty hint / Your pinions have received of late a shock— / Out-soar them, cobswan of the silver flock!
Word: cobswans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cobswan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: louchettes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French 1. Goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting vision only directly in front. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: recision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin recisio, from recidere, recisum (“to cut off”). 1. The act of cutting off. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: recision of debts
Word: branglings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brangling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: noonflower Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From noon + flower. 1. Referring to various species of flowers. Example: Noon-flower, or Noon-tide, from its closing at midday, and marking the hour of noon, / Tragopogon pratensis, L. Example: ... especially the sultriness between noonflower and the four-o'clock's opening 2. Referring to various species of flowers. Example: Along the seacoast from San Francisco to Patagonia, the trailing juicy stems and leaves of the noonflower hang curtains of vivid green over the sea cliffs or spread soft mats on the bare earth. Example: A more spectacular plant is the noonflower, which often forms huge swards of mauve flowers, from coastal salt marshes through to inland deserts. This is a more delicate-looking version of the pigface. 3. Referring to various species of flowers. Example: For isolated shrubs , and not too many at that, the lack of all appearance of striving after there would be the spreading noonflower, bauhinia, dracaumas with their warm-hued leaves, […]
Word: noonflowers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of noonflower Labels: form-of, plural
Word: imbursement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From imburse + -ment. 1. The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Money laid up in stock. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: seminification Part of Speech: noun 1. propagation from seed Labels: rare, uncountable Example: Seminification and propagation from the feed or seminal parts
Word: Turcoman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Turcomannus, from Classical Persian ترکمان (turkamān). Doublet of Turkman and Turkmen. 1. A member of a mainly nomadic Turkic people inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea; a Turkmen. Example: Apart from hostile Turcoman tribesmen who roamed this desolate region, the principal obstacle facing Bekovich was a dangerous stretch of desert […] 2. A kind of carpet or rug supposed to be made by the Turcomans.
Word: Turcoman Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Turcomannus, from Classical Persian ترکمان (turkamān). Doublet of Turkman and Turkmen. 1. Of or relating to these people. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Turcoman Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Turcomannus, from Classical Persian ترکمان (turkamān). Doublet of Turkman and Turkmen. 1. The Turkmen language.
Word: Turcomans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Turcoman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hectostere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French hectostère. 1. An old measure of volume equal to one hundred cubic metres.
Word: hectosteres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hectostere Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multiversant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + Latin versans, present participle. See versant. 1. Turning into many shapes; assuming many forms; protean. Example: The effect of these methods upon the physical constitution is very deleterious, and the system has never been recognised as part of Theosophy, which is neither "theological dilettantism" nor Hatha Yoga, but the wisdom-religion of the ancient Sages, which underlies, as a basic truth, all the multiversant creeds and theologies of the past and present. Example: That succinct statement reminds us that high frequency of vegetative reproduction in multiversant species and low densities of pauciversant species populations may protect each against what Muller (1950) called load of mutations (which in general depresses the adaptive ability of the population).
Word: tramroad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tram + road. 1. A road designed for use by trams or wagons. Example: About two hundred and fifty years ago, some genius, as unknown as the inventor of the lathe, laid the first wooden tramroad, to enable a horse to draw forty-two cwt. instead of seventeen. Example: It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.
Word: tramroads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tramroad Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fluxionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fluxion + -ist. 1. One skilled in fluxions. Example: a fluxionist writing about momentums
Word: fluxionists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fluxionist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inductile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + ductile. 1. Not ductile Example: modally inductile Example: inductile material
Word: triedral Part of Speech: adj 1. Dated form of trihedral. Labels: alt-of, dated, not-comparable
Word: irregeneration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ir- + regeneration. 1. An unregenerate state. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: For the darkness of the Legal Covenant, and the state of irregeneration, are passed away, and now Christ, who brings life and grace with him, and is the true
Word: prelateship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prelate + -ship. Compare prelacy. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛlətʃɪp/ 1. The rank or office of prelate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Heliodorus that good Bishop of Tricea, loved rather to lose the dignity, profit and devotion of so venerable a Prelateship, than to for-goe his daughter […].
Word: prelateships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prelateship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: petaliferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From petal + -i- + -ferous. 1. Bearing petals. Example: petaliferous flowers
Word: embottle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From em- + bottle. 1. To bottle; to place in a bottle. Labels: dated, transitive Example: What did you teach these Cubs the World to burn, Or to embottle London in its Urn ? Example: Here might you see Barons, and Peasants on th'embottled Field
Word: embottled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of embottle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: embottles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of embottle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: embottling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of embottle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: retrovaccination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From retro- + vaccination. 1. The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: retrovaccinations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of retrovaccination Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vernant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin vernans, present participle vernare (“to flourish”), from ver (“spring”). 1. Flourishing, as in spring; vernal. Labels: obsolete Example: to bring in change / Of seasons to each clime; else had the spring / Perpetual smil'd on earth with vernant flowers, / Equal in days and nights Example: [T]he penetrative Sun […] sets the steaming Power / At large, to wander o'er the vernant Earth, / In various Hues […].
Word: alfet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin alfetum, from Old English alfæt (“fire-vat”), from āl (“fire”) + fæt (“vat”). 1. A cauldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm, used as a form of trial in Medieval England. Labels: historical Example: ALFET, antiently ſignified the Cauldron in which boiling Water was put, for the Accuſed to plunge his Hand in up to the Elbow, by way of Trial of Purgation. Example: Miss Twig, head bowed at the far end of the table, continued to eat placidly, but Jacko fixed her with a hard look. "His rooms, huh? Eh, Twigs," he said, "'tis the alfet for a ewbrice." ¶ Dimple gurgled, swallowed, and said, "And what, Jacko boy, might an alfet be?" ¶ Jacko grinned. "Yer tub a boilin' water. For duckin' class offenders."
Word: alfets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of alfet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semiflosculous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + flosculous. 1. Having all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: disclusion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin disclusio, from discludere, disclusum (“to separate”). See disclose. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkluːʒən/ 1. A shutting off; exclusion. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: impressed in the Brain, the composition of them, and disclusion and various disposal of them, is plainly an arbitrarious act, 2. A separation of the teeth when the jaw is slightly opened. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Especially, a separation of posterior teeth when the lower jaw moves forward, as a natural result of the alignment of the anterior teeth. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: disprepare Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + prepare. 1. To render unprepared. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavour by dark and erroneous doctrines to extinguish in them the light, both of nature and of the gospel, and so to disprepare them for the kingdom of God to come
Word: disprepared Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disprepare Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disprepares Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disprepare Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dispreparing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disprepare Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: replyer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reply + -er. 1. Obsolete form of replier. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The replyer, who was a dissolute man, did tax him that being a private bred man, he would give a question of state.
Word: replyers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of replyer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: criticisable Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of criticizable. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: lopeared Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of lop-eared. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sloat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See slot (“a bar”). 1. A narrow piece of timber that holds together large pieces; a slat. Example: the sloats of a cart Example: sloats in a theatre
Word: sloats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sloat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disinfector Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From disinfect + -or. 1. Someone or something that disinfects. 2. An apparatus for applying disinfectants.
Word: disinfectors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disinfector Labels: form-of, plural
Word: amateurship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From amateur + -ship. 1. The quality or character of an amateur. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: This, perhaps, is the most valuable part of the collection to a student either in art or amateurship: but it would altogether shock our English taste, the modishest of any modern, which relishes nothing half so much as portraits of Right Honourables and Dishonourables […]
Word: amateurships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of amateurship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: occasionable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From occasion + -able. Pronunciation: /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəbəl/ 1. Capable of being occasioned or caused Labels: not-comparable Example: this practice will fence us against immoderate displeasure occasionable by men's hard opinions 2. occasional Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: occasionable table Example: Having listened attentively to the statement of Wandle Schoonhoven, giving an occasionable grunt, as he shovelled a mighty spoonful of Indian pudding into his mouth […]
Word: pinguidinous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin pinguedo (“fatness”), from pinguis (“fat”). 1. Containing fat; fatty. Labels: obsolete
Word: rattlemice Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rattlemouse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rattlemouse Part of Speech: noun 1. A bat (the animal). Labels: obsolete Example: the tale of the Rattlemouſe who in the warres proclaimed betweene - the foure footed beaſts , and the birdes, beyng ſent for by Lyon to be at his muſters, excuſed himself for that he was a foule and flew with winges : and beyng ſent for by the Eagle to serue him, sayd that he was a foure footed beaſt[…]
Word: septinsular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sept- + insular. 1. Consisting of seven islands. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ticpolonga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Native name. 1. A very venomous viper (Daboia russelii), native to Sri Lanka and India.
Word: ticpolongas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ticpolonga Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sulfocyanic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of sulphocyanic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: begore Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + gore. 1. To make gory. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: begored Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of begore Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: begores Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of begore Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: begoring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of begore Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: depulsion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin depulsio. 1. expulsion or repulsion. Labels: uncountable Example: Shee [Margaret of Anjou] vvas his vvife tvventie ſixe yeeres, and tvventie nine daies: and (after her husbands depulſion from his regall throne) her forces being vanquiſhed at the battell of Tevvksburie, in a poore religious houſe, vvhether ſhee had fled for the ſafetie of her life, vvas taken priſoner, […]
Word: glomuliferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin glomus (“a ball”) + -iferous. 1. Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences. Labels: not-comparable Example: The bright green and glomuliferous parmelia , and the resupinate nephroma , will be found on the rocks and trees in the immediate neighbourhood
Word: childed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From child + -ed. 1. Having a child. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete 2. Having a certain type or number of children Labels: not-comparable Example: one-childed Example: multi-childed
Word: childed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From child + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of child Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: niopo Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of snuff prepared by some indigenous peoples of Venezuela and Colombia, from the roasted seeds of a leguminous tree, Anadenanthera peregrina. Labels: uncountable 2. The tree Anadenanthera peregrina. Labels: uncountable
Word: individuity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin individuitas. 1. Separate existence; individuality; oneness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Instinctual suppression and repression has only a bearing on the mass - psyche of the individual in so far as his actual individuity is affected by it.
Word: mesorchia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mesorchium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mesorchium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek [Term?], literally "between the testicles". 1. The fold of peritoneum that attaches the testis to the dorsal wall of the body cavity or scrotum.
Word: impressor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin [Term?] (“printer”). 1. One who, or that which, impresses. Example: September 29 1663, Robert Boyle, a letter fancy is the receiver and impressor
Word: impressors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of impressor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tentaculite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name, from Latin tentaculum + -ites. 1. Any of numerous species of small, conical shells found in Paleozoic rocks, fossils from the extinct genus †Tentaculites.
Word: tentaculites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tentaculite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acuteangled Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of acute-angled. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: 1734, James Jurin, George Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), Geometry no friend to infidelity Now, we know that the several compound Ideas of a rectangled, an oblique, and an acuteangled Triangle are different and inconsistent one with another. No two of them can be put together so as jointly to exist or be conceived in the mind.
Word: langate Part of Speech: noun 1. A linen roller used in dressing wounds. Labels: obsolete
Word: langates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of langate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: recordance Part of Speech: noun 1. remembrance Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: ericolin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See Ericaceae 1. A glucoside found in the bearberry (and other ericaceous plants). Labels: uncountable
Word: poundkeeper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pound + keeper. 1. The keeper of a pound (place for the detention of stray or wandering animals). Labels: dated
Word: poundkeepers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of poundkeeper. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bibble-babble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Reduplication of babble. 1. Idle talk; babble. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the / heavens restore! Endeavour thyself to sleep and leave / thy vain bibble-babble.
Word: bibble-babbles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bibble-babble Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mockage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mock + -age. 1. Mockery; mocking. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: a mockage of marriage Example: I [...] say the Apocrypha be all lying works or Ironies: mockages of fools.
Word: opinionatist Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of opinionist. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: opinionatists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of opinionatist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: parochialize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From parochial + -ize. 1. To render parochial; to form into parishes. Labels: transitive
Word: parochialized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of parochialize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: parochializes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of parochialize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: parochializing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of parochialize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present