nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: veterascent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin veterāscēns. 1. Growing old. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare Example: […] we have no palate at all to relish heavenly food, minding rather to patch up our decaying carcases, which are daily veterascent and mouldring away, then the taking hold of any opportunity that may lead us to partake and tast of those immortal joyes […] Example: This Vestis animae (as Tertullian calls it,) our body, the clothing of our soules, is daily veterascent and mouldring away; notwithstanding all the art wee use to patch up our obsolete faces and withered carkasses.
Word: voluntariest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of voluntary: most voluntary Labels: form-of, superlative Example: The voluntariest death, is the fairest.
Word: AN Other Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of A. N. Other. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: A.N. Other Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of A. N. Other. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hewwo Part of Speech: intj 1. Pronunciation spelling of hello. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: prophethood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prophet + -hood. 1. State or condition of being a prophet. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They are all invested with the robe of prophethood, and are honored with the mantle of glory. Example: There is no doubt whatever that such souls were prophets, for the mission of prophethood is education, and these wondrous souls trained and educated mankind.
Word: indolencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of indolency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: harnpan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English herne panne, hern panne, equivalent to harn(s) (“brains”) + pan (“pan, forehead”). Cognate with Scots harn-pan (“harnpan”), Middle Dutch and Middle Low German hernepanne (“harnpan”), Dutch hersenpan (“harnpan”). Compare also Middle Low German panne (“pan, forehead”), Danish pande (“pan, forehead”), Swedish panna (“pan, forehead”). 1. The brainpan; the skull. Labels: archaic, dialectal, rare
Word: harn-pan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of harnpan. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: overgive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + give. Compare Scots overgie (“to relinquish, resign”), Dutch overgeven (“to surrender”), German übergeben (“to hand over, surrender”), Danish overgive (“to surrender”). Pronunciation: /əʊvəˈɡɪv/ 1. To give too lavishly. Labels: ambitransitive 2. To give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: For th'heavens have decreëd to displace / The Britons for their sinnes dew punishment / And to the Saxons over-give their government. 3. To give up, terminate. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: overget Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overgeten; equivalent to over- + get. Cognate with Scots overget (“to overtake”). Compare Old English oferġietan (“to forget, disregard, neglect”). 1. To get more than expected or due. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Some companies hold their clerks responsible to account for the actual amount of the fares on tickets sold, and ignore the question of overgot and undergot money. 2. To attain, reach; pass, overtake; come up with; get hold of, catch. Labels: archaic, transitive 3. To get beyond; get over; recover from. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: gangrel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gangrel, equivalent to gang + -rel. Compare gangling. 1. A tramp, vagrant, vagabond. Labels: Scotland, dialectal Example: Two men saw him on the road, and have recorded their experience. One was a gangrel, by name McNab, who was travelling from Gledsmuir to Allerkirk with a heavy pack on his back and a bowed head. 2. A tall awkward fellow. Labels: UK, dialectal 3. A child just beginning to walk; toddler. Labels: UK, archaic
Word: overgreedy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *overgredy, from Old English ofergrǣdiġ (“overgreedy, too covetous”), equivalent to over- + greedy. 1. Greedy to excess. Example: The commonwealth is sick of their own choice Their over-greedy love hath surfeited. Example: 'I am, perhaps, overgreedy, but I sense a good cook instinctively.'
Word: over-greedy Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of overgreedy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: suicide battery Part of Speech: noun 1. A battery whose purpose is, in addition to powering an electronic device, making the powered device permanently unusable once the energy is exhausted.
Word: suicide batteries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suicide battery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Cæpio Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin. 1. Obsolete spelling of Caepio. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The law de maiestate now enabled Saturninus to impeach the quæstor, Servilius Cæpio, who had interrupted by force the voting on the lex frumentaria.
Word: ant farm Part of Speech: noun 1. A glass-sided dirt-filled box containing ants, normally used as a biological study tool.
Word: cacodæmonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cacodæmon + -ic. 1. Obsolete spelling of cacodaemonic. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Well, however, might it have been just now, had the genius of Britannia studded her whole sea‐board with cacodæmonic castles.
Word: Œchalia Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οἰχαλία (Oikhalía). 1. A city that was located in Ancient Greece. Example: But Hecateus the Mileſian writes that Œchalia is in Scium, a part of Eretria.
Word: Œnoë Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οἰνόη (Oinóē). 1. A city in Greece. Example: Ægeus became alarmed at his success, especially as he had contracted a friendship with the Pallantidæ, who were his rivals, and he therefore caused Androgeus to be murdered at Œnoë, in Attica, as he was on his way to a sacred festival at Thebes.
Word: Brontë Part of Speech: name Etymology: Used by Patrick Brontë (1777–1861) as a rendering of Brunty, Prunty, an Anglicization of the Irish Ó Proinntigh (“descendant of a person named Proinnteach (“Generous”)”), with the diaeresis over the terminal ⟨e⟩ to indicate that the name has two syllables. He first registered in 1802 at St John’s College, Cambridge, as Branty or Brunty, later Brontë, and formally changed the spelling in adult life. Multiple theories exist to account for the change, including that he may have wished to hide his humble origins. As he would have been familiar with classical Greek as a man of letters, he may have chosen the name after Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”). One view, which biographer Clement Shorter proposed in 1896, is that he adapted his name to associate himself with Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, who was also Duke of Bronte (itself also of same Greek origin). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɒn.ti/, /ˈbɹɑn.ti/ 1. An extinct surname from Irish, borne by a 19th-century literary family. Example: An 85-year injustice has been rectified at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey with the corrected spelling of one of the greatest of all literary names. Reader, it is finally Brontë, not Bronte. An amended memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë was unveiled on Thursday with added diaereses (two dots) that ensure people pronounce it with two syllables. As if it rhymed with Monty, not font. The memorial was installed in 1939 and, for whatever reason, came without the diaereses that the Brontës used. 2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
Word: œnolin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From œno- + -lin, from Ancient Greek οἶνος (oînos, “wine”) in combination with λίνον (línon, “flax”,“linen”). 1. Colouring matter of any grapes and red wines. Labels: uncountable Example: The distillation of alcohol for the extraction of œnolin shall be accomplished by apparatus exclusively intended for this purpose.
Word: spiritual sequel Part of Speech: noun 1. A successor to a work of fiction which does not directly build upon the storyline established by a previous work as do most traditional prequels or sequels, but nevertheless features many of the same elements, themes, and styles as its source material.
Word: spiritual sequels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spiritual sequel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cœmeteries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cœmetery Labels: form-of, plural Example: That the banks of rivers ſhould he their only cœmeteries, may be explained from the ravages occaſioned by inundations, which may have left their carcaſes in theſe ſpots.
Word: steatorrhœa Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of steatorrhoea. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: anoxæmia Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of anoxaemia. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: To what extent does acute anoxæmia in a healthy subject wreck the machinery as well as stop the machine? By acute anoxæmia I mean complete or almost complete deprivation of oxygen which, in the matter of time, is too short to prove fatal.
Word: anoxhæmia Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of anoxaemia. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: agrees to disagree Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of agree to disagree Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: agreeing to disagree Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of agree to disagree Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: agreed to disagree Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of agree to disagree Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: trichomania Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”) (stem trikh-) and μανία (manía, “madness”). By surface analysis, tricho- + -mania. Pronunciation: /ˌtɹɪkoʊˈmeɪni.ə/, /ˌtɹɪkəˈmeɪni.ə/ 1. A mania for, or passionate interest in, long hair. Labels: uncountable
Word: trichomaniac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tricho- + maniac. 1. One with a mania or passion for hair. Example: I suddenly said: "You know, Milton must have been a trichomaniac"―meaning a hair fetishist.
Word: tricho- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρῐχός (trĭkhós, “hair”). 1. Forming words related to hair. Labels: morpheme
Word: serial key Part of Speech: noun 1. A string of characters or equivalent access code that must be input into a program in order to activate it.
Word: serial keys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of serial key Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subductive Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, related to, or caused by tectonic plate subduction Example: [Vancouver Island's] long, thin land mass was pushed up from the seabed to heights of over 7,000 feet by the relentless, subductive grinding of the Pacific Plate, which is slowly slipping beneath the continent upon which Canada stands. Example: These typically occur in subductive troughs and it is apparent, both from their petrology and regional setting, that graywackes are often derived from the rising island arcs of volcanic origin.
Word: Michif Part of Speech: name Etymology: A variant pronunciation of the French word Métis. 1. One of the languages of the Metis people, spoken mainly in Canada. They exist along a continuum with three main types: 2. One of the languages of the Metis people, spoken mainly in Canada. They exist along a continuum with three main types: 3. One of the languages of the Metis people, spoken mainly in Canada. They exist along a continuum with three main types:
Word: Œcles Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οἰκλῆς (Oiklês). 1. Son of Mantius and father of Amphiaraus. Labels: Greek Example: The gods in those days were sometimes mortals who are still worshipped, Aristæus, and Britomartis of Crete, and Hercules, the son of Alcmena, and Amphiarus, the son of Œcles, and beside them Castor and Pollux.
Word: fœderalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fœderal + -ism. 1. Obsolete spelling of federalism. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: Some of the arguments used by its advocates appeared to him to be drawn from the principles of messieurs Robespierre and Barrère, who had contended for an empire one and indivisible, in preference to the union of its parts by fœderalism.
Word: fœderal Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of federal. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete Example: Yet the Romans, taking them [the Carthaginians] at an Advantage, vvhen they vvere in Streights; compell'd them, contrary to all Fœderal Right and Juſtice, by Nevv Articles, both to part with Sardinia, their Lavvful Territory, and alſo to pay them for the future, a Double Tribute. Example: It would have been material perhaps to this point of argument to have averred this, becauſe it will be an important conſideration how far thoſe fœderal engagements made in India will bind the country.
Word: maniped Part of Speech: noun 1. A combination manicure and pedicure; a mani-pedi. Labels: rare
Word: acetonæmia Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of acetonemia. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: And in seven out of the forty cases which came under my notice the persistent vomiting was due to acetonæmia; and probably this is often the cause.
Word: bolk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bolken, balken (“to vomit, overflow”), from Old English bealcian (“to belch, utter, bring up, sputter out, pour out, give forth, emit, come forth”), from Proto-Germanic *balkōną, *belkaną (“to belch”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch balken, bulken (“to bellow”), German bölken (“to roar”). See also belch. 1. To belch. Labels: intransitive 2. To vomit; retch. Labels: intransitive 3. To heave. Labels: intransitive 4. To gush out. Labels: intransitive 5. To belch out; give vent to; ejaculate. Labels: transitive
Word: bookful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From book + -ful. 1. Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books. Labels: obsolete Example: The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read, / With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head.
Word: bookful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From book + -ful. 1. As much as a book holds.
Word: first love Part of Speech: noun 1. One's first experience of the feeling of romantic love. Labels: literally Example: Could this be love?—pure, first love for a shopkeeper's daughter. Example: The common things are terrible and startling, death, for instance, and first love. 2. The first person to be the object of one's romantic affection. Labels: broadly Example: He thought how he would tell her . . . that his love for her had fallen off through his own unworthiness, and had returned to one who was in all respects less perfect than she, but who in old days, as she well knew, had been his first love. Example: [A]fter I made the personal acquaintance of Mr. Thrall's chef, Anatole, I found my affections dividing themselves between him and his lordship's man Robert, my first love. 3. The thing, place, or activity of which one is fondest; one's most fundamental interest or attachment. Labels: broadly, idiomatic Example: He had a very strong and faithful attachment for places: Chatham, I think, being his first love in this respect. Example: Even though he made his millions from refrigerators, radios, scalp exercisers, bed coolers and sundry other gadgets, Powel Crosley Jr.'s first love was always the automobile.
Word: opinionate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From opinion + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French opinionner. Pronunciation: /əˈpɪnjəneɪt/ 1. To have or express as an opinion; to opine. Labels: ambitransitive Example: notwithstanding being (as he saith) counselled by a friend of his, at that instant, to kill himselfe, it fell out well for him to opinionate himselfe [translating s'opiniatrer] yet in hope[…]. Example: He doesn't editorialize and he doesn't try to opinionate. It is just the facts. 2. To have a given opinion. Labels: reflexive
Word: opinionate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From opinion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix, with perfect meaning). 1. Opinionated. Labels: archaic Example: May humility henceforth conduct me; for conceit of knowledge, through an opinionate arrogance, hath made me many times glory in my own ignorance.
Word: opinionates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of opinionate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: opinionating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of opinionate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: uvala Part of Speech: noun 1. A closed karst depression, a landform usually of elongated or compound structure and of larger size than a sinkhole. Example: Uvalas are a particular type of karst closed depression. While other types of closed depression—dolines and poljes—are regularly listed and relatively well-defined in overviews of karst surface morphology, uvalas are either excluded or their vague identification is stressed
Word: caliver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of calibre. Pronunciation: /ˈkalɪvə/ 1. A type of light musket. Labels: historical Example: 0, giue me the ſpare men, and ſpare me the great ones. Put me a Calyuer into VVarts hand, Bardolph. Example: That done, running out into the streets, with a crosse-bow in one hand, and a caliver [translating harquebouze] in the other, at two shoots, slew the two first Turks that came next to his gates[…].
Word: calivers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caliver Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crematorial Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to cremation or a crematory. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pillar of the community Part of Speech: noun 1. A prominent member or supporter of a particular community.
Word: overhold Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overholden, from Old English oferhealdan (“to overcome, overtake, hold over, delay to do, neglect”), from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”) + *haldaną (“to hold”), equivalent to over- + hold. Cognate with Dutch overhouden (“to hang on, hold over, save”), German überhalten (“to hold on to, keep”), Danish overholde (“to observe”). 1. To overvalue; overestimate; hold or estimate at too dear a rate. Labels: transitive Example: if he overhold his price so much Example: That is your opinion: you state here that you were induced to overhold the land […] 2. To hold over; keep. Labels: transitive
Word: overhold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English overholden, from Old English oferhealdan (“to overcome, overtake, hold over, delay to do, neglect”), from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”) + *haldaną (“to hold”), equivalent to over- + hold. Cognate with Dutch overhouden (“to hang on, hold over, save”), German überhalten (“to hold on to, keep”), Danish overholde (“to observe”). 1. The act or process of holding over. Example: Overholding clauses serve the purpose of contractually regulating the terms and conditions of an overhold.
Word: acatalepsia Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of acatalepsy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: plantar fasciitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From plantar fascia + -itis. 1. A painful inflammation of the plantar fascia. Labels: uncountable
Word: plantar fascia Part of Speech: noun 1. The thick connective tissue which supports the arch of the foot. Labels: uncountable
Word: overhip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overhippen, equivalent to over- + hip (“to hop”). 1. To leap over; skip over; omit. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: overheave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overhebben, from Old English oferhebban (“to pass by, pass over, omit, neglect”), from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”) + *habjaną (“to lift, heave”), equivalent to over- + heave. 1. To overcast. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: overgild Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overgilden, from Old English ofergyldan (“to encase, overlay, or adorn with gold”), from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”) + *gulþijaną (“to deck with gold”), equivalent to over- + gild. Cognate with German übergülden, übergolden (“to overgild”). 1. To cover with gilding. Labels: transitive
Word: Vasconic Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Vascon + -ic. 1. A language family spoken in the northern Pyrenees.
Word: Hamito-Semitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Hamite + -o- + Semitic or Hamito- + Semitic. 1. Afroasiatic. Labels: dated, not-comparable
Word: Hamito-Semitic Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hamite + -o- + Semitic or Hamito- + Semitic. 1. Afroasiatic. Labels: dated
Word: thugz Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thug Labels: form-of, nonstandard, plural
Word: offensive backs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of offensive back Labels: form-of, plural
Word: perpetual beta Part of Speech: noun 1. A marketing strategy in which a maker of computer software or hardware repeatedly launches early versions of new products as a product development feedback method. Labels: uncountable
Word: asteroseismologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From asteroseismology + -ist. 1. One who studies asteroseismology.
Word: epithelial dysplasia Part of Speech: noun 1. the sum of various disturbances of epithelial proliferation and differentiation as seen microscopically
Word: epithelial plug Part of Speech: noun 1. a bed of cells that form the normal corneal epithelium.
Word: happy birthdays Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of happy birthday Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: happy birthdaying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of happy birthday Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: happy birthdayed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of happy birthday Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Perses Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Persēs, from Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs), apparently from the verb πέρθω (pérthō, “to sack, ravage, destroy (a city); to slay (a person)”). 1. The name of various male characters Labels: Greek 2. The name of various male characters Labels: Greek
Word: planned obsolescence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Bernard London in 1932 and popularized in the 1960 book The Waste Makers by Vance Packard. 1. A policy of deliberately planning or designing a product with a limited useful life, so it will become obsolete or nonfunctional after a certain period. Labels: uncountable Example: An equally important advantage of a system of planned obsolescence would be its function in providing a new reservoir from which to draw income for the operation of the Government. Example: And Brooks Stevens, a leading industrial designer, explained obsolescence planning in these terms: “Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and everybody who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. We make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then next year we deliberately introduce something that will make those products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.[…]”
Word: molotov cocktail Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Molotov cocktail. Labels: alt-of Example: The post included a picture of a man holding a flaming molotov cocktail, his face painted with the St George flag, emblazoned with the words: “Fcuk Ulez. People must now stand together. If Khan gets in the PURGE must begin with NO REGRETS.” Example: FBI Director Kash Patel’s home is also listed on the map, which uses a molotov cocktail as its cursor. […] On Tuesday, a masked man used molotov cocktails to firebomb a Tesla dealership in Las Vegas before firing rounds into the burning vehicles.
Word: tattoo gun Part of Speech: noun 1. A tattoo machine. Labels: informal
Word: tattoo guns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tattoo gun Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tattoo machine Part of Speech: noun 1. A small hand-held device used for applying tattoos.
Word: tattoo machines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tattoo machine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anarchisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of anarchism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grid plan Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.
Word: Question Time Part of Speech: name 1. A time during a sitting of parliament wherein Members of Parliament pose questions to government ministers (including the Prime Minister) which they are obliged to answer.
Word: hardcode Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of hard code. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: relegator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From relegate + -or. 1. One who relegates.
Word: European Portuguese Part of Speech: name 1. The Portuguese language as spoken and written in Portugal, particularly when it differs from other regional varieties of that language.
Word: suck arse Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of suck ass. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: camises Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of camis Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of camise Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diseasing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disease Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: geodæsy Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of geodesy. Labels: alt-of, archaic, uncountable Example: This he effected by a combination of geodæsy with astronomy, namely, by comparing the distance from Alexandria to Syene with the corresponding arc of the meridian. Example: Geography is the description of the earth’s superficies; geodesy, or, as it might be written without affectation, geodæsy, (Γεωδαισια, from γεα, earth, and δαιω, I divide, assign, distribute), is the knowledge of the earth’s solid form and shape, the distribution of the portions which make up the terrestrial map, their depressions and elevations, their ins and outs, their regularities and irregularities.
Word: laticlave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin lāticlāvium, lāticlāvus, from lātus (“broad”) + clāvus (“purple stripe”). Pronunciation: /ˈlatɪkleɪv/ 1. A badge of two wide purple stripes, worn by senators and certain other high-ranking people in ancient Rome. Labels: historical
Word: laticlaves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of laticlave Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fœderalist Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of federalist. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Even the election of his successor, Adams, a fœderalist, like himself, proved the magic of the name and measures of Washington.
Word: adventitias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of adventitia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aerugine Part of Speech: noun 1. A phenol found in Pseudomonas fluorescens. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: radfem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of radical feminist, treated as a compound. 1. A radical feminist. Labels: derogatory, slang, sometimes Example: "How come a radfem like you didn't keep your last name after you got married?" Mosko asked. Example: In their philosophical pursuit of answers to ultimate questions, the radfems get mired in the multi-syllabic muck of over-intellectualization, lacing their ideas with obscure cross-references and mind-numbing bombast […]
Word: Œnophyta Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Οἰνόφυτα (Oinóphuta). 1. Grecian village located in the eastern region of Boeotia. Labels: archaic Example: On the ſixty‐ſecond day after the unfortunate action of Tanagra, he met the Bœotian army, much more numerous than his own, at Œnophyta, and gained a complete victory.
Word: Bœotian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Bœotia + -n. 1. Obsolete spelling of Boeotian. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: On the ſixty‐ſecond day after the unfortunate action of Tanagra, he met the Bœotian army, much more numerous than his own, at Œnophyta, and gained a complete victory.
Word: Bœotian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Bœotia + -n. 1. Obsolete spelling of Boeotian. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: kirk-town Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of kirktown. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: kirkton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, kirk + -ton. 1. Alternative form of kirktown. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: kirk-towns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kirk-town Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kirktons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kirkton Labels: form-of, plural
Word: microfoam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + foam. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌɪkɹə(ʊ)fəʊm/ 1. Foam consisting of very small bubbles, specifically as an element in the steamed milk used to make certain types of latte coffee. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When a barista steams the milk for a cappuccino, microfoam is created by introducing very tiny bubbles of air into the milk, giving the milk a velvety texture and sweetness.
Word: Æolick Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of Æolic. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The Æolick Mood was that which was of a more Ayery and ſoft pleaſing ſounds […]
Word: Italianizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of Italianize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Italianized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of Italianize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: embetter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From em- + better. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɛtə(ɹ)/ 1. To make better; improve. Labels: transitive Example: For cruelty doth not embetter men, But them more wary make than they have been. Example: But they're allowed to use the money to change hearts and souls, to help save lives, to embetter the world we live in.
Word: embillow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From em- + billow. 1. To heave, as the waves of the sea; swell. Labels: intransitive, rare
Word: animalcula Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of animalculum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: animatos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of animato Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Italianise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Italian + -ise. 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Italianize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: Italianised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of Italianise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Italianises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of Italianise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Italianising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of Italianise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: antiperistasis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + peristasis. 1. The heightening of the force of an opposing process. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The poore people in Corinth did ſee, and ſmell, vvhat the rich men taſted, Tantalizing all the vvhile, and having their penury doubled by the Antiperiſtaſis of others plenty; yea, ryot and exceſſe, for ſome of them vvere drunken. Example: [T]here are in the moſt depraved and venemous diſpoſitions, certain pieces that remaine untoucht, vvhich by an Antiperiſtaſis become more excellent, or by the excellency of their antipathies are able to preſerve themſelves from the contagion of their enemies vices, and perſiſt intire beyond the generall corruption.
Word: antiperistases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antiperistasis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: feather-brain Part of Speech: noun 1. A feather-brained or stupid person, especially a woman. Labels: derogatory, metonymically
Word: Australian magpie Part of Speech: noun 1. A magpie-like black-and-white passerine bird of species Gymnorhina tibicen, native to Australia and southern New Guinea, and introduced to New Zealand, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands.
Word: cassican Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin cassis (“helmet”). 1. An American bird (Psarocolius decumanus, syn. Cassicus cristatus), allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest. 2. A piping crow. 3. A piping crow.
Word: antitypy Part of Speech: noun 1. reaction (to an applied force) Labels: obsolete
Word: aphorismus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin aphorismus, though the meaning is closer to Ancient Greek ᾰ̓φορῐσμός (ăphorĭsmós). 1. A figure of speech that questions whether a word is properly used, as in "How can you call yourself a man?". Labels: rhetoric
Word: aphorismi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aphorismus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aphorismos Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of excommunication. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: embloom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From em- + bloom. 1. To deck or enrich with bloom. Labels: rare, transitive
Word: beardling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beard + -ling. 1. One who wears a beard. Labels: archaic Example: bicause at your departing you had no berd at al, now you become a handsome beardling.
Word: emblossom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From em- + blossom. 1. To cover with blossoms. Labels: poetic, transitive
Word: beardlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beardling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: embrothel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From em- + brothel. 1. To inclose or harbour in a brothel. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive Example: Men, which chuse Law practice for mere gain, boldly repute, Worse than imbrothel'd strumpets prostitute.
Word: embusy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From em- + busy. 1. To employ; keep busy. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: eams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eam. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ean Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English enen, from Old English ēanian (“to yean, bring forth young, bring forth lambs”), from Proto-West Germanic *aunōn, from Proto-Germanic *aunōną (“to bring forth lambs”). An alternate etymology derives the Old English word from a corruption of Old English ēacnian (“to add, increase, be enlarged, be augmented, become pregnant, conceive, bring forth, produce”), from ēacen (“increased, augmented”), from ēaca (“an addition, increase, eeking”), from Proto-Germanic *aukô (“increase”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to increase”). More at eke. 1. To bring forth young; to yean. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember, Even on my eaning time; but whether there Deliver'd, by the holy gods, I cannot rightly say.
Word: Shriners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Shriner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cupcakeries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cupcakerie Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of cupcakery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fœderalists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fœderalist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: œconomize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From œconomy + -ize. 1. Obsolete spelling of economize. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: If therefore we aim at regulating this household, the question will be, whether we ought to œconomize by detail, or by principle ? The example we have had of the success of an attempt to œconomize by detail, and under establishments adverse to the attempt, may tend to decide this question.
Word: minchen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English minchen, monchen, from Old English myneċen (“a female monk, nun”), from Proto-Germanic *munikinnō (“female monk”), from *munikaz (“monk”), from Late Latin monachus (“monk”), from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “hermit”, noun), from μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”, adjective), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *menw-, *manw- (“small, little, isolated”). Cognate with German Mönchin (“female monk”). Related also to minnow. More at monk. 1. A nun. Labels: obsolete
Word: minch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mynche, a reduced form of minchen, monchen, from Old English myneċen (“a female monk, nun”), from Proto-Germanic *munikinnō (“female monk”), from *munikaz (“monk”), from Late Latin monachus (“monk”), from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “hermit”, noun), from μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”, adjective), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *menw-, *manw- (“small, little, isolated”). Cognate with German Mönchin (“female monk”). Related also to minnow. More at monk. 1. A nun. Labels: obsolete
Word: minch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English menchen, a variant of mincen. More at mince. 1. Alternative form of mince. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dialectal
Word: minch Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of mitch (“play truant from school”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: William Henry opened the gates for them along the return journey, and at the lodge accepted shamefacedly a penny and a promise of the bad end little boys came to who minched from school.
Word: œconomizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of œconomize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: authourship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From authour + -ship. 1. Obsolete spelling of authorship. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: Kazuko Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese かずこ (Kazuko). 1. A female given name from Japanese.
Word: œconomized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of œconomize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: alterator Part of Speech: noun 1. One who or that which alters something; a changer. Example: To avoid such feelings by using mood alterators is a normal coping mechanism for our times. Example: I carry a few different alterators in my field kit. Most just allow telescopic sight.
Word: cack up Part of Speech: verb 1. To vomit or hack up. Labels: transitive Example: My cat is always cacking up hairballs. 2. To mess up; to get seriously wrong. Labels: slang, transitive Example: OmniCorp has really cacked up this problem. 3. To become plugged up. Labels: intransitive Example: The pipe has cacked up again, so I'm calling a plumber.
Word: community service Part of Speech: noun 1. Service or activity performed for the benefit of the community at large, such as cleaning, fundraising, pro bono professional services, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Within El Alberto, belonging is premised on the completion of between one and three years of unpaid community service, which all Hñähñu men and unmarried Hñähñu women are required to contribute every eight years. To default on this service is to lose citizenship within the pueblo. This means no longer being able to cultivate the land, build a home there, participate in the decision-making processes that affect the community, or receive the protections it provides. 2. Such work performed as an alternative for a criminal penalty. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: community spirit Part of Speech: noun 1. Willingness to do deeds which benefit the community at large, such as community service. Labels: uncountable
Word: a-building Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From a- (“in, on”) + building (“the act or process of building”). 1. Being built or under construction, as a structure or a vessel. Labels: not-comparable Example: This talk brought us up to the house that was a-building, not a large one, which stood at the end of a beautiful orchard surrounded by an old stone wall. Example: "Of these nineteen ships a-building no more than two can take the water before a month be past, and but seven more ere six months' time, push we never so mightily the work."
Word: done thing Part of Speech: noun 1. Something done habitually or according to social norms, expectations, etc. Labels: UK Example: I wanted to be called Linda but Aunt Angela said that was a common name, you know, not the done thing, so I have to be Bella... Example: "I was only 18 and was having back problems so I got regular cortisone injections. It was the done thing in those days, all the players were having them."
Word: Tolkienite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tolkien + -ite. 1. A person who has an extended knowledge and is also a fan of the works and fantasy world (Middle-Earth) of J. R. R. Tolkien; used especially when referring to a fan of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Word: evoker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From evoke + -er. 1. Agent noun of evoke: someone or something that evokes. Labels: agent, form-of 2. A person who practices evocation.
Word: egoïsm Part of Speech: noun 1. Rare spelling of egoism. Labels: alt-of, no-plural, rare
Word: ponticular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ponticulus + -ar (“of, pertaining to”). 1. Of or pertaining to the ponticulus Labels: not-comparable
Word: ponticulus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ponticulus. 1. a ridge of cartilage on the eminentia conchae of the ear
Word: astrictive Part of Speech: adj 1. binding; astringent Example: Now there is no small difference in Palmes, Galen himself being Judge, for some are dry and astrictive, as the Egyptian ones; others soft, humid and sweet, as those we call Chariotae; but the best grow in Syria, Palestine, and many Eastern regions, where they suppeditate both meat and drink to the incolists . Example: Some would allege this to be in consequence of a farther operation in the system, but to me its operation seems to be in the stomach, depending on its solvent, absorbent, and astrictive power. In the intestines it acts as astrictive, and so has been found to stop obstinate Dysentery . 2. Constricting; providing limits or strictures. Example: Other astrictive properties, such as upper bound, lower bound, and tight bounds can also be achieved in S-PIM, by devising properly a strain construction scheme. 3. Without constriction or strictures. Example: astrictive gripping Example: Beside, it is not likely that the law meant there should be such a narrow search and examination in this case, being a law astrictive and preceptive. 4. Lacking striae. Example: Hustedt also described these types. Both ends are slightly astrictive.
Word: astrictive Part of Speech: noun 1. An astringent.
Word: spondulicks Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally a US slang term of unknown origin. Pronunciation: /spɒnˈdjuː.lɪks/, /spɑnˈd(j)u.lɪks/ 1. Money. Labels: UK, slang, uncountable Example: With just a few clicks / save your spondulicks / and you'll thank your stars that you went to GoCompare!
Word: English Opening Part of Speech: noun Etymology: English + opening, from its use by English world champion Howard Staunton. 1. A chess opening in which white begins by playing 1.c4, moving his queen bishop's pawn to the fourth rank. Labels: uncountable
Word: præpare Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of prepare. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: minsitive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From minse (“to mince”) + -itive. 1. Mincing; affected; servile. Labels: obsolete
Word: beant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: be + -n’t 1. variant of bean't. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dialectal, rare Example: Why, sir, there beant an o in the office, neither a big un nor a little un!
Word: bracteola Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bracteole. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bracteolae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bracteola Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Old Scratch Part of Speech: name Etymology: Probably an alteration of scrat, from Middle English scrat, skratt, scratte, ultimately from Old Norse skratti (“a type of demon”). 1. The Devil. Labels: Southern-US Example: “Lisieux is a little town in Normandy,” she said. “I was there a few days with your father, one summer, long ago. It’s a country full of old stories, folklore, and traditions; and the people still believe in the Old Scratch pretty literally. […]”
Word: calefactive Part of Speech: adj 1. calefactory
Word: calesce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin calescere. Pronunciation: /kəˈlɛs/ 1. To undergo calescence; to become or grow warm; to heat up; to warm; to glow with heat. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Now [warming it over the spirit lamp] here it is becoming yellow again, and that is all because its attraction of cohesion is changed. And what will you say to me when I tell you that this piece of common charcoal is just the same thing, only differently calesced, as the diamonds which you wear? Example: 23. Drops of Water. — In answer to E. J. Pond's query in Science for Jan. 20, it seems to me that the phenomenon is explainable in the same way as the related phenomenon of drops of water on a hot stove; […] The small drops that fall from the oar-blade will float a short time before calescing, even when no wind is blowing; […]
Word: psychalgia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From psych- + -algia. 1. psychogenic pain, physical pain of psychological origin Labels: countable, uncountable 2. psychological pain, any non-physical pain Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: phrenalgia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phren- + -algia. 1. psychalgia; non-physical pain Labels: uncountable Example: ...compelled me to seek a talisman against homesickness and the nervous troubles which learned men call Phrenalgia and Autophobia. 2. pain in the diaphragm Labels: uncountable
Word: Old Serpent Part of Speech: name 1. The Devil.
Word: interruptors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of interruptor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: up and leaves Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of up and leave Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: up and left Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of up and leave Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fraist Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fraisten, freisten, frasten, from Old Norse freista (“to try, tempt, make trial of”), from Proto-Germanic *fraistōną (“to try”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to try, risk”). Cognate with Icelandic freista (“to tempt”), Swedish fresta (“to try, tempt, tantalise”), Danish friste (“to try, tempt”), Old English frāsian (“to ask, inquire, tempt, try”). More at fraise. 1. To try; test; prove; put to the proof; make trial (of). Labels: UK, ambitransitive, dialectal, obsolete Example: Þen found he no frekes to fraist on his strenght. 2. To learn by trial; experience. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive 3. To seek to learn; ask; inquire. Labels: obsolete, transitive 4. To seek; be eager for; desire. Labels: obsolete, transitive 5. To go forth on an expedition; sally forth. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: manipeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of maniped Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Mischling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Mischling. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪʃlɪŋ/ 1. In certain (especially Nazi) racial theories, someone of mixed race; especially one who is partly of Jewish descent. Labels: historical Example: Dodo had been married to a drunken and adulterous wife-beater, Lionel Hickman by name, who had continued our mischling tradition by converting to Judaism in order to marry her, given her an all-around vile time, and then been run over by a tram during the blackout that accompanied the Nazi blitzkrieg.
Word: campanulas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of campanula Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chrystalline Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of crystalline. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Becauſe in the Conſpection of Objects remote, the Pupil of the Eye is expanded circularly, for the admiſſion of more Rays, and the Chryſtalline Humour ſomewhat retracted toward the Retina Tunica, for the Determination of the Point of Concurſe in the ſame, which otherwiſe would be ſomewhat too remote: and on the contrary, in the Conſpection of Objects vicine, the Pupil is contracted circularly, and the Chryſtalline Lens protruded ſomewhat outwardly, for the contrary reſpects. Example: Hence Goëthe has ingeniously compared Shakspeare’s characters to watches with chrystalline plates and cases, which, while they point out the hours as correctly as other watches, enable us at the same time to perceive the inward springs whereby all this is accomplished.
Word: gamma bomb Part of Speech: noun 1. A bomb designed to spread radioactive material for harmful purposes.
Word: gamma bombs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gamma bomb Labels: form-of, plural
Word: countercounterargument Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + counterargument. 1. A counterargument to another counterargument. Labels: rare
Word: countercounterarguments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of countercounterargument Labels: form-of, plural
Word: layed up Part of Speech: verb 1. Misspelling of laid up. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: clavicula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from New Latin clāvicula (“the collarbone”), diminutive of clāvis (“a key”). Pronunciation: /kləˈvɪk.jəl.ə/, /klæˈvɪk.jəl.ə/ 1. Alternative form of clavicle. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: claviculae Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kləˈvɪk.jəˌli/ 1. plural of clavicula Labels: form-of, plural