nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: proruption Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin proruptio, from prorumpere, proruptum (“to break forth”), from pro (“forth”) + rumpere (“to break”). 1. The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out. Example: Others ground this disruption upon their continued or protracted time of delivery, presumed to last twenty days; whereat, excluding but one a day, the latter brood, impatient, by a forcible proruption anticipate their period of exclusion; Example: But the proruption of a fame that shall blaze, not flicker, is at hand. 2. A protrusion extending from the main body of a country or state. Example: The most important area of revenue production, on the other hand, is Shaba Province (formerly Ka-tanga), itself a proruption in the far southeast. Example: Proruptions were often drawn by colonizers to ensure their access to raw materials or water transport. 3. A transformation into a more politically articulated or differentiated form of government. Example: The democratic proruption of a society underlines simply the fact that all the members of a particular society are now partners and participants in the act of governance. Example: In his discussion of the proruption of a political people, he employs the symbol of mystical body for the realm.
Word: proruptions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of proruption Labels: form-of, plural
Word: extravenate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From extra- + Latin vena (“vein”). 1. That has been let out of the veins. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: the wound is affected in like manner as is the extravenate blood by the Sympathetick medicine Example: The profusion of blood was great; although he penetrated the pleura, nothing came forth, except that which was extravenate, although great care was used.
Word: extravenate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From extra- + Latin vena (“vein”). 1. Synonym of extravasate. Example: And finally, that having obtained this plenary satisfaction, of the sympathy maintained betwixt the blood extravenated, and that yet conserved in the veins .... Example: For he holds, that there is a certain virulent anodyne Quality in extravenated Blood, or in some such Matter, which makes the Kidney forget its Office of separating the forum and so sends it back to the Belly.
Word: metempirics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From met- + empirics. Coined by George Henry Lewes. 1. The concepts and relations conceived as beyond, and yet related to, knowledge gained through experience. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: Puseyite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Pusey + -ite, after Edward Bouverie Pusey. 1. One who holds the principles of Puseyism; a member of the Oxford movement. Labels: historical
Word: Puseyites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Puseyite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diswarn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + warn (with intensive dis-). 1. To dissuade or warn against. Labels: obsolete
Word: diswarned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of diswarn Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: diswarning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of diswarn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: diswarns Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of diswarn Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: latitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin latitatio. 1. The act of concealment or hiding. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: singulatively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From singulative + -ly. 1. In a singulative manner or context. Labels: not-comparable
Word: seitanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From seitan + -ic, punning on satanic. Pronunciation: /seɪˈtænɪk/ 1. Made with, or relating to, seitan (wheat gluten). Labels: not-comparable Example: Perfectly sinful for hardcore meat-eaters and vegans alike, seitanic jambalaya is a favorite at parties, potlucks, […]
Word: lytico-bodig Part of Speech: name Etymology: Chamorro 1. A particular neurological disorder, whose symptoms include both paralysis and dementia.
Word: MI9 Part of Speech: name Etymology: Abbreviation of Military Intelligence, Section 9. 1. A section of British military intelligence in World War II; they were charged with aiding resistance fighters in enemy territory and recovering Allied troops from behind enemy lines. Labels: historical
Word: swyped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of swype Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bunnyhopping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bunny + hopping. 1. The act of jumping repeatedly to avoid enemy fire, especially in first-person shooters. In some games, the jumping animation or air speed is faster than the walking animation or speed, making hopping a more efficient mode of movement. Labels: uncountable
Word: exsert Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin exsertus, past participle of exserō (“to stretch out or forth”). See exert. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)t/ 1. To thrust out; to cause to protrude. Labels: transitive Example: Some worms are said to exsert the proboscis.
Word: exsert Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin exsertus, past participle of exserō (“to stretch out or forth”). See exert. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)t/ 1. Standing out; projecting beyond some other part. Example: exsert stamens
Word: exserted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of exsert Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: exserted Part of Speech: adj 1. protruding, projecting Example: Sori in the axils of lamina branches, partly immersed; involucre bell- or trumpet-shaped, or obconical, usually 2-lipped; receptacle generally exserted.
Word: cicatricule Part of Speech: noun 1. cicatricula
Word: cicatricula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cicātrīcula, diminutive of cicātrīx (“scar”). 1. The point, in the yolk of an egg, from which the embryo is formed.
Word: chiel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of chield. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: "And yet the chiel has shown us once before that he knows what he's talking about."
Word: neuridine Part of Speech: noun 1. A substance isolated from the brain, later identified as spermine. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: afflated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of afflate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: afflated Part of Speech: adj 1. Inspired, especially divinely.
Word: prease Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of press. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: He[…]turn'd abacke, and to retyre him hasted Through the thick prease, there thinking him to hyde
Word: prease Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of press. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: That it the Posterne did from closing stay : The while the Prince hard preased in betweene 2. Obsolete form of praise. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: afrite Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ifrit. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […]
Word: Balearic Sea Part of Speech: name 1. Part of the Mediterranean Sea, between the Balearic Islands and Levante.
Word: Iberian Sea Part of Speech: name 1. The Balearic Sea
Word: zymotechnics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zymo- + technics. 1. The applied science and technology of fermentation. Labels: uncountable Example: Meronym: biotechnology
Word: cnidariologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cnidaria + -logist. 1. A zoologist who studies cnidarians.
Word: tinctumutation Part of Speech: noun 1. The dynamic variation in colour of certain animals such as chameleons and cephalopods. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Timor Sea Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈtiːmɔː(ɹ)/ 1. A sea situated between the island of Timor and Australia.
Word: transhumant Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transhumance; migratory Labels: not-comparable
Word: transhumant Part of Speech: noun 1. A seminomadic farmer.
Word: spirochæte Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of spirochaete. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: capilotade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French capilotade. 1. A type of stew, typically of several different meats.
Word: shame, shame Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Reduplication of shame. 1. I condemn the content of this speech; Expression of admonishment or disgust at the content of a speech. Example: Sir William: No, there are still many things, and I cannot emphasize this too strongly, not on top of other things. I myself, on my way here this evening, saw a thing that was not on top of another thing in any way. Other members: Shame, shame! Example: You must believe it whether you will or no—for tis true, that neither the Marquis, nor any one of his family are in possession of any place under, or any pension from the State. (Great tumult, and cries of "Shame! Shame!")
Word: entrance examinations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of entrance examination Labels: form-of, plural
Word: everyone and their mother Part of Speech: pron 1. Synonym of everybody and his brother. Example: DS Andy Wainwright: You do know there are more guns in the country than there are in the city. DS Andy Cartwright: Everyone and their mums is packin' round here!
Word: calutrons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of calutron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glycollates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of glycollate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kelvin bridges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Kelvin bridge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: empty function Part of Speech: noun 1. A function whose domain is the empty set.
Word: swansongs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of swansong Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enstrophies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enstrophy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caravanner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From caravan + -er. 1. A person who leads a caravan (trail of animals). 2. A person who holidays in a caravan (mobile home). Labels: UK
Word: roller towels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of roller towel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Yorkshire fogs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Yorkshire fog Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cardon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cardón, from from Late Latin cardōnem, from Latin cardus, alternative form of carduus (“thistle”). Doublet of cardoon and chard. 1. Any of several large columnar cacti mostly of the genus Cereus.
Word: adjectivized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of adjectivize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: adjectivizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of adjectivize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: adjectivizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of adjectivize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: metagalaxies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metagalaxy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vacuum gauges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vacuum gauge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: iron bacteria Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of iron bacterium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: CAMP Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Central Atlantic magmatic province. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: CAMP Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of continuous airworthiness maintenance program Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: cologarithms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cologarithm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antitransforms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antitransform Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Carolines Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəlaɪnz/ 1. plural of Caroline Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Carolines Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəlaɪnz/ 1. plural of Caroline Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Carolines Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish Carolinas, after Charles II of Spain. Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəlaɪnz/ 1. Synonym of Caroline Islands.
Word: decigrades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of decigrade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metamers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metamer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lay days Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lay day Labels: form-of, plural
Word: straining beams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of straining beam Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chloroborates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chloroborate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ceratosaurs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ceratosaur Labels: form-of, plural
Word: air-raid wardens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of air-raid warden Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cabans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caban Labels: form-of, plural
Word: calissons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of calisson. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: capilotades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of capilotade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cardons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cardon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: candie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of candy (“Indian unit of mass”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cannelés Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cannelé Labels: form-of, plural
Word: halpace Part of Speech: noun 1. A haut-pas; a dais. Labels: archaic
Word: halpaces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of halpace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mylohyoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin mylohȳoīdēs, from Ancient Greek μῠ́λη (mŭ́lē, “a molar”) + Latin hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”); equivalent to mylo- (“molar”) + hyoid. Pronunciation: /ˌmʌɪ.lə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/, /ˌmaɪ.loʊˈhaɪˌɔɪd/ 1. Relating to or in the region of the lower jaw and the hyoid apparatus, or the mylohyoid muscle. Labels: not-comparable Example: the mylohyoid nerve
Word: mylohyoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin mylohȳoīdēs, from Ancient Greek μῠ́λη (mŭ́lē, “a molar”) + Latin hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”); equivalent to mylo- (“molar”) + hyoid. Pronunciation: /ˌmʌɪ.lə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/, /ˌmaɪ.loʊˈhaɪˌɔɪd/ 1. Ellipsis of mylohyoid muscle. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: lady's garters Part of Speech: noun 1. ribbongrass, Phalaris arundinacea Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: squabbish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From squab + -ish. 1. thickly built; fat; heavy
Word: ale-knight Part of Speech: noun 1. A drinking companion. Labels: obsolete Example: Come, all you brave wights, / That are dubbed ale-knights, / Now set out yourselves in sight; / And let them that crack / In the praises of sack, / Know malt is of mickle might. Example: Payne, for a long time, lived and worked alone in his filthy den; but towards the close of his career, he took in, as a fellow-labourer, an excellent workman named Weir. This man was a regularly 'dubbed ale-knight,' loved barley-wine to the full as much as his partner, and used to sing: […]
Word: ale-knights Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ale-knight Labels: form-of, plural
Word: homacanth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hom- + Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”). 1. Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lecanoric acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Lecanora + -ic 1. An organic acid obtained from several species of lichens (Lecanora, Roccella, etc.). Labels: uncountable
Word: bisecants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bisecant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exsuction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ex(s)ugō, ex(s)uctum (“to suck out”), from ex (“out”) + sugō (“to suck”). Equivalent to ex- + suction. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈsʌkʃən/ 1. The act of sucking out. Labels: archaic Example: VVe thought it not amiſs to try if a Pendulum vvould ſvving faſter, or continue ſvvinging longer in our Receiver, in caſe of the exſuction of the Air, then othervviſe.
Word: exsuctions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exsuction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: agnition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin agnitio, from agnoscere. See notion. 1. Acknowledgement. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: [Jesus] was borne in Bethlem a City of Juda: where incontinent by the glorification of the Angels, the agnition of the Shepeherds, the veneration of the wiſe men, the prophecy of holy Simeon, and the admiration of the Doctours, he was had in honour.
Word: quadrifocal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, quadri- + focal, or, by surface analysis, quadri- + foc(us) + -al. 1. Involving four foci. Labels: not-comparable
Word: disbind Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + bind. Compare disband. 1. To unbind; to loosen. Labels: transitive Example: a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon Nay how dare we disbind or loose our elves from the tie of that way of agnizing and honouring God Example: Under what circumstances is it acceptable to annotate, extra-illustrate, cut up, disbind, rebind, reprint, recycle or discard books?
Word: disbinding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disbind Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disbinds Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disbind Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: and his mother Part of Speech: phrase 1. Serves as an intensifier for an inclusive noun or phrase such as everyone, anyone, each someone or all someones. Labels: idiomatic Example: It looks like everyone and his mother has come out tonight. Example: Anyone and his mother could see through that disguise.
Word: synodically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From synodical + -ly. 1. In a synodical manner; in a synod; by the authority of a synod. Labels: not-comparable Example: the alterations made by the commissioners were brought to the Convocation then sitting, where they were Synodically agreed upon 2. In a synodic way Labels: not-comparable
Word: encirclet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From encircle + -let. 1. A small circle; a ringlet. Labels: obsolete Example: So that therein appears some blood, Like wine and milk that mingled stood, In whose encirclets if ye gaze, Your eyes may tread a lover's maze
Word: encirclets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of encirclet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ladified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ladify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ladifies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ladify Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ladify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From lady + -fy. 1. To make a lady of; to make ladylike. Labels: obsolete
Word: ladifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ladify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: trutination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin trutinari (“to weigh”), from trutina (“a balance”). See trone (“a steelyard”). 1. The act of weighing. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: And we conceive men may mistake, if they distinguish not the sense of levity unto themselves, and in regard of the scale, or decision of trutination
Word: trutinations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trutination Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spermatia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spermatium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spermatium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spermat- + -ium. Pronunciation: /spɜː(ɹ)ˈmeɪʃiəm/ 1. One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi. Example: cellular filaments bearing spermatia
Word: fautress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fautrix: compare French fautrice. 1. A patroness. Labels: obsolete Example: 1598-1616, George Chapman (translator), Homer's Iliad Ever they cried to him. And this even his wise breast did move To more desire of victory, it made him pray, and prove, Minerva's aid, his fautress still: "O Goddess, hear," said he, "And to my feet stoop with thy help, now happy fautress be."
Word: fautresses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fautress Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rigation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin rigatio, from rigare (“to water”). 1. irrigation Labels: obsolete
Word: dispunct Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See dispunge. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpʌŋkt/ 1. To expunge, to erase; to mark for erasure. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: I desire the Reder then so to take me, as though I did not deal here withal, nor speak of the matter, but utterly to haue pretermitted, and dispuncted the same. Example: ... all beyond Carthage, as Mauritania, & c., would wind up into a small inconsiderable tract, as being dispuncted by no great states or colonies.
Word: cunningman Part of Speech: noun 1. A fortuneteller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Labels: obsolete Example: He that with injury is griev'd, And goes to law to be reliev'd, Is sillier than a sottish chouse Who , when a thief has robb'd his house, Applies himself to cunning men, To help him to his goods agen
Word: cunningmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cunningman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: secularness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From secular + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being secular. Labels: uncountable
Word: eucrasy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐκρασία (eukrasía, “well-temperedness”). By surface analysis, eu- + -crasy. Compare French eucrasie. 1. A mixture of qualities that constitutes health or soundness. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: a good digestion should follow; and it will be some days before the stomach recover its eucrasy again , and perform its office well
Word: leipothymic Part of Speech: adj 1. Dated form of lipothymic. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: eustyle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eu- + -style. 1. An intercolumniation of two-and-a-quarter column diameters.
Word: eustyles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eustyle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: summarist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From summary + -ist. 1. Someone who summarizes.
Word: summarists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of summarist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desinential Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin dēsinentia + -al. Compare French désinentiel. 1. consisting of desinences or grammatical endings; terminal Labels: not-comparable Example: desinential consonant Example: desinential letter
Word: spirulate Part of Speech: adj 1. Having the colour spots, or structural parts, arranged spirally.
Word: engoulée Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of engouled. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: mussite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mussa + -ite, since it comes from the Pian della Mussa in Piedmont, Italy. 1. A variety of pyroxene; diopside. Labels: obsolete
Word: biliment Part of Speech: noun 1. A woman's ornament; habiliment. Labels: obsolete
Word: biliments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biliment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: liripoop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French liripipion, liripion, Latin liripipium. Said to be corrupted from cleri ephippium (“the clergy's caparison”). 1. A pendent part of the old clerical tippet. Labels: obsolete Example: So, so, I have my lerrepoop already. Example: The hood and liripoop (the long tail or tippet of the hood) was worn by the laity of both sexes as well as by the clergy. 2. A tippet; a scarf; worn also by doctors, learned men, etc. Labels: obsolete Example: MASTER Janotus , with his hair cut round as a dish, his Liripoop on his head , after the old fashion; and having sufficiently antidoted his stomach with kitchen-cordials, and holy water of the cellar, conveyed himself to the lodging of Gargantua, driving before him three red muzzled beadles, and dragging after him five or six artless masters, all thoroughly bedagled with the mire of the streets. Example: Moreover, we forbid all the above persons to use beyond the College any mantles or liripoops of fine linen or woollen, except on the attack of some disease, or on leave obtained from the President or Vice-President, for urgent reason; 3. acuteness; smartness; knowledge. Labels: obsolete Example: Heere was a wily wench had her liripoop without book, she was not to seeke in her knackes and shifts: such are all women, each of them hath a cloke for the raine, and can bleare her husbands eies as she list. Example: There's a girl who knows her lirripoop. 4. One's proper business or prescribed role. Labels: obsolete Example: For seeing you make me your judge, I trow, I shall teach you both your liripoop to know. Example: I will teach thee thy lyrripups. 5. A silly person. Labels: obsolete Example: I thought I would ask him questions fast enough and directly enough to force from him a positive answer of “yes” or “no” —a thing which it is exceedingly difficult to obtain in the piney-woods—but I found he was no liripoop. Example: Jones, however, for his part, is sometimes equally inane in criticising Smith, who holds that millions of Germans have now been killed off, that the copper has all been melted down, and that the occupation of Warsaw is the last desperate resort of the Kaiser—or, rather, of "the imperial gambler", to use an effective and stylish expression among liripoops; for he derides Smith as an optimist—as if optimism signified a person who holds absurd or addle-headed opinions directly contrary to the clear truth.
Word: liripoops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of liripoop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sinistrin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin sinister (“left”), because it is levorotatory. 1. A slimy polysaccharide extracted from squill. Labels: uncountable
Word: everyone and his mother Part of Speech: phrase 1. Synonym of everybody and his brother. Example: Golf is supposed to be a gentleman's game, but I curse everyone and his mother out there. I have to win.
Word: imperviable Part of Speech: adj 1. impervious
Word: dahabeah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dahabieh. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dahabeahs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dahabeah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: everybody and his mother Part of Speech: phrase 1. Synonym of everybody and his brother. Example: On Thursday the same remark would have applied equally to Tokomairiro; everybody and his mother seemed to be paying us a visit.
Word: sun traps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sun trap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: green papers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of green paper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: autotransfusions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of autotransfusion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dittologies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dittology Labels: form-of, plural
Word: audio guides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of audio guide Labels: form-of, plural
Word: audiograms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of audiogram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: audio frequencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of audio frequency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: get into the act Part of Speech: verb 1. To participate in an activity, especially a successful or attractive one. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: The scramble for this business is already on; everybody wants to get into the act. More than 370 American concerns have applied for franchises to give service over foreign and domestic airways.
Word: pepsinogens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pepsinogen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: galactogens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of galactogen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fish stories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fish story Labels: form-of, plural
Word: agglutinogens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of agglutinogen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: get in on Part of Speech: verb 1. To gain participation in an activity, especially an attractive one. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Mr. Stetzle sighed. "Gee, I wish I could get in on something like that. Running a chopmill is a mighty slow way to get rich." Example: Of course, a lot of them say it is just their luck because they are not good enough grabbers to get in on anything like that.
Word: cloudly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cloud + -ly. Compare cloudlike. 1. Of or pertaining to a cloud or clouds; cloudlike; cloudy; nebulous. Labels: nonstandard Example: Here the redoubtable Ramm contracted his brow, clasped up his mouth, till it wrinkled at each corner, and redoubled his smoking with such vehemence, that the cloudly volumes soon wreathed round his head, as the smoke envelopes the awful summit of Mount Etna. Example: In acidified acetone, the above mentioned skeletons yielded yellow or orange organic solutions which float above a colourless cloudly aqueous solution.
Word: confessional chairs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of confessional chair Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sentry-boxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sentry-box Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cloudish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cloud + -ish. 1. Resembling a cloud or clouds; cloudly; cloudlike. Example: The boys move in cloudish groups, like schools of fish on the reef. 2. Somewhat cloudy. Example: I just remember being on the trail and the sun seemed to be out—sort of cloudish, maybe somewhere around three or four in the afternoon.”
Word: interclusion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin interclusio. See interclude and interclusive. 1. interception; a stopping or obstruction (literal or figurative) Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually
Word: despend Part of Speech: verb 1. To spend; to squander. Labels: obsolete Example: Some noble men in Spain can despend 50000 l. ſome Forty, ſfome Thirty, and divers twenty thouſand Pounds per annum.
Word: despended Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of despend Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: despending Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of despend Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: despends Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of despend Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: sowter Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of souter. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The tailleur and the sowter
Word: sowters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sowter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: psilanthropist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψιλός (psilós, “bare, mere”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man”) + -ism. 1. One who believes that Jesus Christ was a mere man. Example: the theanthropist is a Christian, the psilanthropist cannot be so ; and vice versa
Word: psilanthropists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of psilanthropist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sheep-biter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: sheep + biter (“one who bites”). Figurative term possibly influenced by the fable "De cane oves domini sui occidente, a quo suspensus est" in Hecatomythium by Laurentius Abstemius (later included with Aesop's Fables as "A Sheep-Biter Hang'd" — see quotations). 1. A sheepdog that worries (chases or attacks) sheep. Labels: obsolete Example: What curre will not bawle, & be ready to flye on a mans face, when he is set on by his master, who, if hee bee not by to encourage him, he casts his taile betwixt his legges, & steales away like a sheepe byter. 2. A contemptible person, especially one who practices petty thefts. Labels: derogatory, figuratively, obsolete Example: His gait, like a sheep-biter, fleering aside Example: A poor man has but one ewe, and this grandee sheep-biter leaves whole flocks of fat wethers, whom he may knock down, to deuour this.
Word: sheepbiters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sheepbiter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tallophytes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tallophyte Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inner cabinets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inner cabinet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: house-searches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of house-search Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bath-brushes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bath-brush Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aeroscopes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aeroscope Labels: form-of, plural
Word: opposite sides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of opposite side Labels: form-of, plural
Word: half-integers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of half-integer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: photolytes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of photolyte Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tiebar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tie + bar. 1. A flat bar used as a tie in construction work. Example: The scheme for strengthening comprised, in the first place, the provision of tiebars between all piers to reduce the spread under loading at arch springing level. These tiebars were made of old rails placed immediately below springing level, between the tops of the piers, throughout the spans, and with a positive fan fix into each abutment. 2. Synonym of tie (“the symbol ⁀”).
Word: tiebars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tiebar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scrotocele Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scroto- + -cele. 1. A rupture or hernia in the scrotum. Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: scrotoceles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scrotocele Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Restorationer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Restoration + -er. 1. Archaic form of restorationist. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: Restorationers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Restorationer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coleopter Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the Coleoptera; a beetle. 2. A type of VTOL aircraft which uses a ducted fan as the primary fuselage of the entire aircraft. Example: But the coleopter, with its tubular wing, belongs in a class by itself.
Word: coleopters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coleopter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: search warrants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of search warrant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overaffect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + affect. 1. To have too great an effect on. Labels: transitive 2. To care for unduly. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: if those that overaffect antiquity will follow the square thereof, their bishops must be elected by the hands of the whole church
Word: overaffected Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overaffect Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overaffecting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overaffect Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overaffects Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overaffect Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: feese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English fese (“a blast, a rush, a burst”), a derivative of Middle English fesen (“to put to flight”). More at faze. 1. Obsolete form of feeze (“running start”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Conatum longius petere. Quintill: To fetche his feese of beave further of in leaping. Example: To leap without fetching any race or feese, nullo procursu salire. 2. Obsolete form of feeze (“state of fretful excitement or worry”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: feese Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fess (“horizontal band, in heraldry”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: William Fellow als Norry grants to thomas thacker of Hyghege in Com. Derby gen . these Armes following: Gules a feese betwene iij maskes argent And by way of Augmentacon upon the Feese a treyfull asure stalkede verte betweene ij bytturse heds rasy in theire ppr . coloure, about theire necks a laase wth a folding knotte golde taslede azure on every masks iij droppes sable. Example: Bigware. Or, a feese gu. betw. three lozenges az. ( another, six ) .
Word: feese Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of feeze (“to freeze”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Some rain in the night which feesed [froze] as it fell, […]
Word: feeses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of feese Labels: form-of, plural
Word: feeses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of feese Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: inviscate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin inviscatus, past participle of inviscare (“to birdlime”), from in- (“in”) + viscum, viscus (“mistletoe, birdlime”). 1. To daub, catch, or entangle with glue or birdlime or other viscous matter. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […] withall its food being flies and such as suddenly escape, it hath in the tongue a mucous and slymy extremity, whereby upon a sudden emission it inviscates and tangleth those insects.
Word: inviscated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of inviscate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: inviscates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of inviscate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: inviscating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of inviscate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: superexcrescence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + excrescence. 1. Something superfluously long Labels: no-plural, obsolete, rare
Word: Castille Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Castile. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete
Word: countor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From count + -or. 1. An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause Labels: UK, obsolete
Word: countors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of countor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dickcissel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Said to be imitative of its call. Pronunciation: /dɪkˈsɪsəl/, /ˈdɪkˌsɪsəl/ 1. The American black-throated bunting (Spiza americana). Example: But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.
Word: dickcissels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dickcissel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seraskierate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From seraskier + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office). 1. The office or position of a seraskier. Labels: historical
Word: seraskierates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seraskierate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misly Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of mizzly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: As late as it was, yet Rolt and Harris would go home to-night, and walked it, though I had a bed for them; and it proved, dark, and a misly night, and very windy.
Word: sauvignon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French sauvignon. 1. Any of several grape varieties and associated wines originally from France
Word: sauvignons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sauvignon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cloudling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cloud + -ling. 1. A small or miniature cloud; an immature or formative stage in the development of a cloud. Example: And yet at first it seemed hard to believe that so innocent a cloudling could be the progenitor of mist dense enough to blot out even a section of the enormous landscape. Example: “I'll give you an example: a cloudling may coalesce one morning and rise to the sky, ready to meander across the horizon for a few hours before joining a bank of other cloudlings.
Word: cloudlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cloudling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: runch Part of Speech: noun 1. The wild radish.
Word: runch Part of Speech: verb 1. To grind, as with the teeth; to crunch. Labels: Scotland, transitive
Word: runches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of runch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: asperation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English asperacione, from Latin asperationem. 1. Harshness; unpleasantness. 2. The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough. Example: The Welshe doe drown the true ſounde of manie letters and ſillables by a kinde of asperation, contrarie to moste Languages
Word: asperations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of asperation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hennotannic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: henna + tannic. 1. lawsone (acid) Labels: uncountable
Word: burbolt Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of birdbolt. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: I saw a little devil fly out of her eye like a burbolt, which sticks at this hour up to the feathers in my heart
Word: burbolts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of burbolt Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ethylsulphuric acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ethyl + sulphuric acid. 1. The partial ethyl ester of sulfuric acid, H.C₂H₅.SO₄, produced as a thick liquid by the action of sulphuric acid on alcohol Labels: uncountable
Word: haemacytometer Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hemocytometer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: haemacytometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haemacytometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acroter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French acrotère, from Latin acrōtērium, from Ancient Greek ἀκρωτήριον (akrōtḗrion), from ἄκρος (ákros) + -τήριον (-tḗrion). Doublet of acroterium. Pronunciation: /ˈækɹətə(ɹ)/ 1. An acroterium. Example: It is a very elegant building, with four supporting Tuscan columns on pedestals, a cornice with a carved wooden valance, and an acroter with square pear-shaped balusters continuing round to the outer wall
Word: acroters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acroter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: superpolitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + politic. 1. More than politic; above or exceeding policy. Example: superpolitic aphorism
Word: Saxondom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Saxon + -dom. 1. The Saxon domain or race. Labels: uncountable
Word: rameal Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of ramal. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: corkwing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cork + wing? 1. corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops)
Word: corkwings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corkwing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intertissued Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + tissued. 1. interwoven Labels: not-comparable Example: the intertissued robe of gold and pearl
Word: septuagesimal Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌsɛptjuəˈd͡ʒɛsɪməl/ 1. Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies. Labels: not-comparable Example: our abridged and septuagesimal ages
Word: consectaneous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin consectaneus. 1. Following as a matter of course. Labels: not-comparable Example: It is swifter then so : it is not consectaneous, or in chase of it, but coetaneous with it, and its foster-sister.
Word: ball-flower Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ball flower. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ball-flowers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ball-flower Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mammonization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mammon + -ization. 1. The process of rendering something mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism. Labels: uncountable
Word: hercogamous Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of herkogamous. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: astructive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin astructus, past participle of astruere (“to build up”), from ad + struere (“to build”). 1. constructive. Labels: obsolete
Word: spiciform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin spica (“a spike, ear”) + -form. 1. spike-shaped
Word: scampavia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian scampavia. 1. A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the 19th century. Labels: historical
Word: scampavias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scampavia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neveling Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English nevelinge, nevelyng, neuelinge (“flat down”, adverb), equivalent to nuel + -ling. More at nuel. 1. On one's face; face-down. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: neveling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nevel (“to deliver a blow with the hand or fist, pummel”), equivalent to nevel + -ing. 1. A beating with the fists.
Word: granarys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of granary Labels: form-of, obsolete, plural Example: , Up and out with Captain Witham in several places again to look for oats for Tangier, and among other places to the City granarys […] Example: […] this considerable consumption of grain by the poor will not only greatly contribute to the keeping up and maintaining the granarys, and help to give the corn a natural currency at home […]
Word: avoke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare avocate. Ultimately from Latin āvōcō, āvōcāre. Pronunciation: /əˈvəʊk/ 1. To call back again or revoke Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And after our long communication and reasoning in the King's Highness Cause, which, at length, we have written to your Grace in our common Letter, for a confirmation of many inconveniences and dangers which we perswaded to his Holiness, to follow both to himself and to the See Apostolick, in case his Holiness should avoke the cause; […]
Word: avoked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of avoke Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: avokes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of avoke Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: avoking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of avoke Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: incomposed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + composed. 1. disordered; disturbed Labels: obsolete Example: Thus Satan; and him thus the Anarch old, / With faltring speech and visage incompos'd, / Answer'd. I know thee, stranger, who thou art,
Word: overplus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + Anglo-Norman plus, Middle French plus. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvəplʌs/ 1. That which remains beyond what is necessary or required; a surplus. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Where some for an over-plus, or supererogation have added this necessaity, that they must necessarily accompany them, as well in death, as in life. Example: Thou hast thy Will, And Will too boote, and Will in ouer-plus.
Word: overpluses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of overplus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: frizel Part of Speech: noun 1. A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock. Labels: historical Example: To this succeeded the Snaplance ^([sic]), in which a motion was given to the dog, or cock, and a movable plate of steel, called the frizel, or hammer, was placed vertically above the pan to receive the action of the flint.
Word: frizels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frizel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eventilate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin ēventilātus, past participle of ēventilō (“to fan”). See ventilate. 1. To winnow out; to fan. Labels: obsolete Example: I cannot forbear to touch another circumstance which might seem at first to be a miracle of Nature, beyond the causes which I have alledg'd; but having well eventilated it we shall find that it depends upon the same principles. 2. To discuss; to ventilate. Labels: obsolete Example: I[f] regard be had to the Univerſity of humane Reaſon, it is no vvhere ſo narrovvly diſcuſſed and eventilated, and the judgement rectified by clear notions: […]
Word: eventilated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of eventilate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: eventilates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of eventilate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: eventilating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of eventilate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: slimsy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of slim + flimsy. Pronunciation: /ˈslɪmzi/ 1. flimsy; frail Labels: US, colloquial, dated Example: In front of the store, and in and out of the interminable pushcarts, with their flaring oil-lamps at night illuminating a bewildering miscellany of merchandise,—everything from spoiled grapefruit to slimsy suspenders, Rosey played and fought and bit her way.
Word: grallic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Grallae + -ic. 1. Of or relating to the Grallae, a former taxonomic classification of wading birds. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: The crane and fowls of a like kind, seem to hold a middle place between land and water fowls, as they have separate toes like land fowls, but the bills and legs of the aquatic orders. [...] From the length of their legs they are called grallic, or stilted.
Word: letterwood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From letter + wood. 1. The wood of the tree Brosimum guianense, marked with black spots resembling hieroglyphics. Labels: uncountable Example: Letterwood has often been used to make bows and walking-sticks.
Word: touch-needle Part of Speech: noun 1. A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for testing the purity of gold or silver articles by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
Word: touch-needles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of touch-needle Labels: form-of, plural