nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: edder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *edre, *eder, from Old English eder, edor (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *edaraz, *eduraz (“hedge, border”). Cognate with Old High German etar. Pronunciation: /ˈɛdɚ/, /ˈɛðɚ/, /ˈɛdə/, /ˈɛðə/ 1. To bind the top of, interweaving edder. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: to edder a hedge Example: […] hedge, with live stakes and layers cut half in two, near the ground, and intertwisted among the stakes sufficiently to maintain their position without eddering the top. The sides of the hedge are cut alternately; […]
Word: edder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of adder. 1. An adder or snake. Example: winges like a bird she hase, Fete as an edder, a mayden's face, Her kinde I'll take
Word: edders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of edder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: squamaceous Part of Speech: adj 1. squamous
Word: eddered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of edder Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: eddering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of edder Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cowhearted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cow + hearted. 1. cowardly Example: The Lady Powis […] patted him with her fan, and called him a cowhearted fellow. Example: Pfhaw, I Cow-hearted! I'm as bold as a Lyon!
Word: leucoplastid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From leuco- + plastid. 1. A kind of unpigmented plastid involved in a wide range of essential biosynthetic functions.
Word: leucoplastids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leucoplastid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stromule Part of Speech: noun 1. A microscopic stroma-filled tubule found in plant cells such as chloroplasts
Word: stromules Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stromule Labels: form-of, plural
Word: salebrosities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of salebrosity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: salebrosity Part of Speech: noun 1. roughness; ruggedness Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: there is a blaze of Honor gilding the Bryers, and inticing the Mind; yet is not this without its Thorns and Salebrosity
Word: diaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From di- + Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”). 1. A double star; applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei.
Word: diasters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diaster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suicidical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From suicide + -ical. 1. Obsolete form of suicidal. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: platonizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From platonize + -er. 1. One who platonizes.
Word: platonizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of platonizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shandrydan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown 1. A hooded chaise; (later, jocular) any rickety old-fashioned vehicle. Labels: dated Example: Mr Lingnam went on like our shandrydan, slowly and loudly. Example: The odd-man gardener has brought the Rectory shandrydan round to the front door — it was a long elongated open vehicle drawn by a mild old mare named Lucy.
Word: shandrydans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shandrydan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: verditer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French vert-de-terre, literally "green of earth". 1. verdigris Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Either of two pigments (blue verditer and green verditer) made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: mugiloid Part of Speech: adj 1. Like or pertaining to the genus Mugil or family Mugilidae — the mullets.
Word: mugiloid Part of Speech: noun 1. A fish of the genus Mugil or family Mugilidae — the mullets Labels: archaic
Word: tharf Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English therf, from Old English þeorf (“unleavened, fresh, skim”), from Proto-West Germanic *þerb, from Proto-Germanic *þerbaz (“unleavened, simple”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terbh-, *(s)trebh- (“rigid, stiff, tight”). Cognate with German derb (“rough, coarse, rude”), Old Frisian therve, Middle Dutch derf, Middle High German derp, Icelandic þjarfur (“unleavened”) and Ancient Greek τέρπω (térpō). Pronunciation: /ˈθɑː(ɹ)f/ 1. Stiff, unsocial, rough in manner. Labels: UK, obsolete, regional Example: a tharf person
Word: Swick Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: pterygoquadrate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pterygo- + quadrate. 1. Of or relating to the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages. Labels: not-comparable
Word: occupy oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. To keep busy by doing something Labels: reflexive 2. To masturbate Labels: euphemistic, reflexive
Word: Toowoomba Part of Speech: name Etymology: Uncertain; see History of Toowoomba, Queensland. 1. A mid-sized inland city in Queensland, Australia. 2. A local government area in south Queensland; in full, the Toowoomba Region.
Word: matweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mat + weed. 1. Any of several maritime grasses. 2. Any of several maritime grasses. 3. Amaranthus blitoides (prostate amaranth, mat amaranth) 4. Guilleminea spp.
Word: matweeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of matweed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: doum palm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic دوم (dawm) + palm. 1. A palm tree of species Hyphaene thebaica, with edible oval fruit, native to northern Africa and some countries of the Levant. Example: The country to the east of Derudeb [Sudan] was bleached and sere, and there were long grey cliffs and dom palms growing in the wadis.
Word: doum palms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of doum palm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stormwind Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From storm + wind. 1. A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm. Example: Also know, that it is as possible to see the winde as the aire, their substances being too tenuous to be perceived; unlesse in a storm-winde, whose matter is an exhalation so thick that it darkens the aire: Example: 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, New York: Samuel Colman, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 146, […] the stormwind smites the wall of the mountain cliff […]
Word: stormwinds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stormwind Labels: form-of, plural
Word: doum fruit Part of Speech: noun 1. The fruit of the doum palm.
Word: Ashby Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English æsċ (“ashtree”) + Old Norse býr (“farm, town”). 1. A surname. 2. A male given name. 3. Clipping of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 4. A southern suburb of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE8908). 5. A locality and former civil parish, now in Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet parish, East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM4899). 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A locality in the Clarence Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia. 12. Former name of Geelong West, Victoria, Australia. 13. A suburb of Perth in the City of Wanneroo, Western Australia.
Word: sexlocular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sex- + locular: compare French sexloculaire. 1. Having six cells for seeds. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: a sexlocular pericarp
Word: scalenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scalene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crouse Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Uncertain. 1. brisk; lively; bold Labels: Scotland Example: Thence mystic knots mak great abuse / On young guidmen, fond, keen, an' crouse;
Word: tharcake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English þerf cake; equivalent to tharf (“unleavened”) + cake. 1. A cake made from meal, treacle, and butter, eaten on the night of the fifth of November. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: gourdy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Either from gourd, or less likely from French gourd (“benumbed”). 1. Having swollen legs Labels: obsolete
Word: tharm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tharm, therm, from Old English þearm (“gut, entrail, intestine”), from Proto-West Germanic *þarm (“guts”), from Proto-Germanic *þarmaz (“guts”), from Proto-Indo-European *tórmos, *torh₂mo- (“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“to rub, bore, twist”). Cognate with Scots thairm (“gut; bowel; intestine”), North Frisian teerm (“bowel”), West Frisian term (“bowel”), Dutch darm (“bowel; gut; intestine”), German Darm (“gut; intestine; bowel”), Danish tarm (“bowel; gut; intestine”), Norwegian tarm (“intestine”), Norwegian Nynorsk tarm (“intestine”), Swedish tarm (“bowel; gut”), Icelandic þarmur (“bowel”), Latin trāmes (“way; path, track”), Ancient Greek τρᾰ́μῑς (trắmīs, “tharm; gut”), τόρμος (tórmos, “socket; peg”). Doublet of derm. 1. An intestine; an entrail; gut. Labels: dialectal
Word: tharms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tharm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: winesop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wyne soppe, wynesoppe; equivalent to wine + sop. Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪnˌsɒp/ 1. A piece of bread soaked in wine; a small cake made with grapes or wine. Example: Hence the proverb […] "to reduce one whose meal is a winesop to a dry crust." Example: Beatriz, for all her seeming frailty, had borne the long strain better, and presently came, offering winesops, the recognised restorative; small pieces of fine white bread soaked in wine. 2. A drunkard, a wino. Labels: broadly, derogatory, figuratively Example: "I'm going to give you Mr. Whish — or the winesop that remains of him," continued Attwater. Example: […] "we're being maneuvered into providing a gala State funeral for that reprobate winesop."
Word: epicurize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From epicure + -ize. 1. To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus. Example: these evil demons therefore did as it were deliciate and Epicurize in them 2. To feed or indulge like an epicure. Labels: intransitive Example: epicurizing on their pain
Word: epicurized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of epicurize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: epicurizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of epicurize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: epicurizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of epicurize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: polyperythrin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From polyp + erythr- + -in. 1. hematoporphyrin Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: imbrutement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From imbrute + -ment. 1. The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted. Labels: uncountable Example: Imbrutement from low thoughts
Word: collapsion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin collapsio. 1. collapse Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: the Collapsion which we find when an Animal dies in an Air Pump
Word: collapsions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of collapsion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cystocarp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cysto- + -carp, from Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”) + καρπός (karpós, “fruit”). 1. A minute vesicle in some seaweeds, containing the reproductive carpospores.
Word: cystocarps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cystocarp Labels: form-of, plural
Word: debuggability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From debug + -ability. Pronunciation: /diːˌbʌɡəˈbɪlɪti/ 1. The quality of being debuggable; capability of being (easily) debugged. Labels: uncountable 2. The extent to which something can be debugged. Labels: countable
Word: debugability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From debug + -ability. 1. Alternative form of debuggability. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: e-boutique Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From e- + boutique. 1. An online boutique. Example: The e-boutique has to engage them in an elevated way and they have to be stimulated by the virtual surroundings.
Word: e-boutiques Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of e-boutique Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shorer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shore + -er. 1. Someone or something that shores or props up.
Word: shorers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shorer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inanitiated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Back-formation from inanitiation. 1. Undergoing inanition; exhausted through lack of nourishment.
Word: tonicize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tonic + -ize. 1. To make (a tone) temporarily become tonic. 2. To produce tone or tension in (e.g. a muscle).
Word: tonicizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tonicize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tonicizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tonicize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tonicized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tonicize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tonicization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tonic + -ization. 1. The temporary change of an originally non-tonic tone to tonic. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tonicizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tonicization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thawy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thaw + -y. 1. Becoming liquid; thawing; inclined to or tending to thaw. 2. Conducive to thawing. Example: The N.W., which is the most frequent in winter, is dry, cold, and elastic; the S.E. soft, thawy, and rainy: the wind seldom blows from west or south, more rarely still from the north. Example: A warm and broken December had been succeeded by a still warmer and more thawy January.
Word: tinchel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Goidelic/Scottish Gaelic timchioll (“a circuit, compass”). 1. A circle of hunters, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within closer range. Labels: Scotland Example: We'll quell the savage mountaineer, / As their tinchel cows the game!
Word: tinchels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tinchel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mandarining Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mandarin + -ing. 1. The use of a nitric acid solution to give an orange colour to textiles, such as silk or wool. Labels: archaic, historical, uncountable Example: 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures By this method, which is called mandarining, an orange colour is given to silk and wool, not from the solution of a colouring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fibre by the action of dilute nitric acid.
Word: cephalotribe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cephalo- + Ancient Greek τρίβω (tríbō, “to rub, grind”). 1. A surgical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
Word: cephalotribes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cephalotribe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: somniatory Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: somniatory vaticinations
Word: memorist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From memory + -ist. Piecewise doublet of memoirist. 1. One who, or that which, causes to be remembered. Example: Though thou hadst the memory of Seneca or Simonides, and conscience the punctual memorist within us, yet trust not to thy remembrance in things which heed phylacteries. Example: A good interview allows the memorist enough room to construct a story, 2. One who, or that which, causes to be remembered. Example: Discretion is a lost art with the memorist and we would hail its return with joy and relief. Example: I am quite aware of the charge of coxcombry which will be made against me for writing in such a way about my conquests, but when a man sets forth to tell the history of his life he must make up his mind to be impervious to two accustaions which are sure to be thrownn at the head of the truthful memorist, namely, those of vanity and exaggeration. 3. One who is capable of impressive feats of memory. Example: Still, Swann did sketch some details of the island, and memorizing aerial photographs of the entire planet would tax even the most clever memorist. Example: Our ethics professor is the most remarkable memorist we have ever met; in fact, his abilities to recall things are remarkable. 4. One who remembers a particular thing or in a particular way. Example: I do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high-church, high-flyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tip-top-gallon-men, jaocobites, tantivys, anti-hanoverians, friends to popery and the pretender and to arbitrary power, disobligers of England, breakers of DEPENDENCY, inflamers of quarrels between the two nations, public incendiaries, enemies to the king and kingdoms, haters of TRUE protestants, laurel-men, annists, complainers of the nation's poverty, ormondians, iconoclasts, anti-glorious-memorists, anti-revolutioners, white-rosalists, tenth-a-junians, and the like; when, by a fair state of the account, the balance, I conceive, seems to lie on the other side. Example: it might nevertheless send a young Music Memorist into the Contest whose card of results would be better than any others.
Word: memorists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of memorist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: theftuous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier thiefteous, thiftwis, from Middle English *theftwis, equivalent to theft + -uous. Compare righteous. 1. Of the nature of theft; thievish. Example: This is an Education which consists in the outleading of the blackguardizing, pauperizing, vagrant-like, and theftuous elements of the mentality, entirely withdrawn, and apart from any moral guidance, any elevating tendency, any ameliorating influence, nay, directly under the direction of the demoralized and the abandoned.
Word: papyrean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From papyrus + -ean. 1. Alternative form of papyrian. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete
Word: scrimping bar Part of Speech: noun 1. A device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise to make it smooth for printing. Example: The piece is conducted under a small wooden roller, next over a square iron bar, and next against the scrimping bar Y, thence over the wooden roller x, round which also pass the grey piece d, and the woollen blanket e
Word: theftuously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From theftuous + -ly. 1. By theft; thievishly.
Word: antiatheist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + atheist. 1. One who opposes atheism.
Word: tartralic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tartar, the chemical compound. From French tartralique, from tartre + -al + -ique. By surface analysis, tartar + -al + -ic. 1. An acid obtained as a white amorphous deliquescent substance, a dimeric form of tartaric acid. Labels: uncountable
Word: preadjustment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *-u Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwos Proto-Italic *jowos Old Latin *iowos, *iowez- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Old Latin -tus Old Latin iovestos Latin iūstusbor. Old French juste French juste French ajuster Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -ment Middle French -ment French -ment French ajustementbor. English adjustment English preadjustment From pre- + adjustment. 1. previous adjustment Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: preadjustments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of preadjustment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: theremid Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English thermid, tharmid, thormid, from Old English þǣrmid (“therewith, with that, straightway, at the same time”); equivalent to there (“that”) + mid (“with”), from Middle English mid (“with”). Cognate with West Frisian dêrmei (“therewith, with that”), Dutch daarmee (“therewith, so”), German damit (“theremid, so”), Swedish därmed (“theremid, so, thus”). 1. With or by means of that; therewith. Labels: archaic, not-comparable, poetic Example: He hath kissed her with the kisses of his mouth, She is blacker than tents of Kedar, Her roses nod east and her roses nod south Across the wide casements of cedar, But the Rose of Sharon weeps theremid Until her true lover hath freed her.
Word: Superbowl Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Super Bowl. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fidejussion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fideiussiōnem (with -ion), from fidēiussus, from fideiubeō, from fidēs (“faith”) + iubēre (“order”). Compare French fidéjussion. 1. suretyship. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: hermeneutician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hermeneutic + -ian. 1. Synonym of hermeneut, one who studies or practices hermeneutics.
Word: hermeneuticians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hermeneutician Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pigeon-breasted Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a breast like a pigeon's, the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity. Labels: dated
Word: Pre-Greek Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of German Vorgriechisch. By surface analysis, pre- + Greek. 1. A hypothetical language (or languages) conjectured to have been spoken in prehistoric Greece before the arrival of Proto-Greek speakers, and used to explain the large number of non-Indo-European words found in Ancient Greek.
Word: Pre-Greek Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Calque of German Vorgriechisch. By surface analysis, pre- + Greek. 1. Of or relating to such a language or its speakers. Labels: not-comparable Example: Pre-Greek substrate
Word: unactive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus ▲ Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl. Latin āctīvusbor. Old French actifbor. Middle English actyf English active English unactive From un- + active. Piecewise doublet of inactive. 1. Not active; inactive. Example: Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of heav'n on all his ways; While other animals unactive range, And of their doings God takes no account.
Word: trigenic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called because it is supposed to contain the radicals of three molecules of cyanic acid. 1. An acid, C₄H₇N₃O₂, obtained by the action of cyanic acid vapour on cold aldehyde. Labels: uncountable
Word: droumy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare Scots drum, dram (“melancholy”), Icelandic prumr (“a moper”), Welsh trwm (“heavy, sad”). 1. choppy, muddy, or dreary Labels: obsolete Example: ...or that other protestation of L. Catilina, to set on fire and trouble states, to the end to fish in droumy waters,... Example: droumy days are full of fog again
Word: myoelectricity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From myo- + electricity. 1. The electrical activity of skeletal muscles Labels: uncountable
Word: electronystagmogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From electronystagmography and -gram. 1. A recording of electrical involuntary eye activity known as nystagmus.
Word: electronystagmograms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of electronystagmogram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arcubus Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of arquebus. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: arcubuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arcubus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arcubusses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arcubus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exchangeably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From exchangeable + -ly. 1. By way of exchange, or by exchanging Labels: dated, not-comparable
Word: consecution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English consecucioun (“attainment”), from Latin cōnsecūtiō (“effect, proper sequence, attainment”), from past participle of cōnsequor (“to follow, result, reach”). Pronunciation: /ˌkɒnsɪˈkjuːʃən/ 1. A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Some consecutions are so intimately and evidently connexed to or found in the premises, that the conclusion is attained, and without any thing of ratiocinative progress 2. A succession or series of any kind. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: there shall be generated such a consecution of colours, whose order, from the thin end towards the thick, shall be yellow, red, purple, blue, green, and these so often repeated 3. Sequence. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 4. The relation of consequent to antecedent. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A succession of similar intervals in harmony. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Elite Eight Part of Speech: name 1. The eight teams participating in the regional finals of the NCAA Division I tournament, one of whom will become the national champion. Labels: US, informal 2. The round of the NCAA Division I basketball tournament where all but 8 teams have been eliminated. Labels: US, informal 3. The eight teams that advance to the site of the final rounds of the NCAA Division II tournament, one of whom will become the national champion. Labels: US, informal 4. An appearance in the Elite Eight, whether in Division I or II. Labels: US, informal
Word: bedaughtered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From be- + daughter + -ed. Pronunciation: /bɪˈdɔːtəd/ 1. That has or have a daughter or daughters, especially when unwanted. Labels: humorous, not-comparable, rare Example: So many successful matches were made up here last winter, that it has encouraged all the bedaughtered dowagers to bring their unsaleable commodities to the Roman market, which is now so completely overstocked, that, like a swarm of locusts, they must die of the famine they have themselves created.
Word: sengi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili sengi, probably from another Bantu language (compare Giryama sanje). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛŋɡi/ 1. Any of several small, insectivorous long-nosed mammals, of the family Macroscelididae within the Macroscelidea order, native to Africa. Example: Four-toed elephant shrew or sengi Petrodromus tetradactylus Example: The order formerly known as Insectivora included solenodons; shrews; moles and desmans; hedgehogs and moonrats or gymnures; golden moles, tenrecs, and otter shrews; and sengis or elephant shrews.
Word: sengi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *pénkʷe Borrowed from Kongo sengi, senki, from French cinq (“five”) (in the sense of five sous). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, and punch (“beverage”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛŋɡi/, /-ɡiː/ 1. A former (1967–1993) monetary unit of Zaire, one hundredth of a likuta, and one ten-thousandth of a zaire; it was issued only in ten sengi coins. Labels: historical
Word: sengis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sengi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bepilgrimed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From be- + pilgrim + -ed. Pronunciation: /bɪˈpɪlɡɹɪmd/ 1. Overrun with pilgrims. Labels: humorous, not-comparable, rare Example: Mr. Lockhart thinks there was no literary shrine ever so bepilgrimed, except Ferney in Voltaire’s time, who, however, was not half so accessible.
Word: wirehouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1904, wire + house (“company”), from earlier private-wire house (1894). Originally referred to brokerage companies that owned or leased telegraph lines, so that market information could be transmitted more quickly. Later generalized to “major brokerage”. Wirehouses are now defined by that they have a direct access to "Fed-Fund Wires", which is the system in which all banks and only the big brokerage houses can "wire" money directly from one account to another. Smaller brokerage firms do not have their own wire line, but need to send transactions by transmitting them through a bank's wire system. 1. A major brokerage company, generally nationwide, with multiple branches. Labels: Canada, US Example: Ten years ago, the Wall Street wirehouse brokerage firm seemed unassailable – part of the very firmament underpinning the entire investment industry from coast to coast. 2. A brokerage company with a telegraph line, telephone line, or electronic communication network. Labels: Canada, US, obsolete Example: The so-called ‘wire house’ …is a product of the boom times. Example: The “market information” is more diversified than formerly, and in many ways the “wire house” can fill a place that the old-style …
Word: private-wire house Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1894, due to these brokerage companies owning or leasing telegraph lines (which occurred since 1873), so that market information could be transmitted more quickly. 1. A brokerage company with a telegraph line, telephone line, or electronic communication network. Labels: Canada, US, obsolete Example: All the private-wire houses were active on the selling side, those most talked of in connection with the Wall Street bull interest being the most active. Example: Commission men, as a rule, will not accept discretionary orders. Their risk is great enough when directions are explicit. The following is the eloquent plea made, in a letter to a private-wire house, …
Word: private-wire houses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of private-wire house Labels: form-of, plural
Word: winesops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of winesop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ocote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Spanish ocote 1. Any of various pine trees of Latin America.
Word: ocotes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ocote Labels: form-of, plural
Word: complacencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of complacency Labels: form-of, plural Example: Her original view had been that if poor Beadel, worked up, as she inveterately kept seeing him, should embrace the tragic remedy, Howard Bight wouldn't be able not to show as practically compromised. He wouldn't be able not to smell of the wretched man's blood, morally speaking, too strongly for condonations or complacencies.
Word: besweeten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + sweeten. Pronunciation: /bɪˈswiːtn̩/ 1. Sublimely sweeten. Labels: literary, rare Example: A pure ſeed-Pearle of Infant dew, // Brought and beſweetned in a blew // And pregnant violet; […]
Word: double bonus Part of Speech: noun 1. The award of two free throws on any sort of foul when enough fouls have been accumulated. Example: Colorado was in the double bonus for the last few minutes of the game, but had trouble hitting the free throws.
Word: bethreatened Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From be- + threatened. Pronunciation: /bɪˈθɹɛtn̩d/ 1. Threatened by mortal danger. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare Example: My plummet’s light, it cannot sink nor sound; // Oh, shall my rock-bethreaten’d soul be drown’d?
Word: confessio amantis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin: cōnfessiō (“confession”) + amantis (“of loving”, the genitive singular of amāns, “loving”, the present active participle of amō, “I love”) Pronunciation: /kɒnˈfɛsɪəʊ əˈmæntɪs/ 1. A lover’s confession. Example: We think we cannot do better than favour our gentle and ungentle readers with the two following letters — both from distinguished Accidental Old Maids — and addressed to two young maidens, who had no desire that any accident should intervene which might devote them to what they most erroneously denominated ‘joyless celibacy.’ — These letters are in themselves curious ‘confessiones amantium.’
Word: confessiones amantis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of confessio amantis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: confessiones amantium Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of confessio amantis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cyma recta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: cyma + Latin rēcta (“straight”) Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪmə ˈɹɛktə/ 1. A cyma concave in its upper part, and convex in its lower part.
Word: cyma reversa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: cyma + Latin reversa (“returned”) Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪmə ɹɪˈvɜːsə/ 1. A cyma convex in its upper part, and concave in its lower part.
Word: cyma inversa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: cyma + Latin inversa (“inverted”) Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪmə ɪnˈvɜːsə/ 1. Synonym of cyma reversa. Labels: rare
Word: enstraighten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From straight + en- -en. 1. To straighten Labels: rare
Word: enweaken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + weaken. Pronunciation: /ɛnˈwiːkn̩/ 1. To weaken. Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: humiliatrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin humiliātrīx or humiliate + -trix, compare humiliator and dominatrix. Pronunciation: /hjuːˌmɪlɪˈeɪtɹɪks/ 1. A dominatrix who specialises in humiliation. Example: 2005 March 27th (4:25am), “aaadoveliz” (user name), alt.personals.spanking (Usenet newsgroup), “thongs, bikini, panties, panty, bikini, stockings, garterbelt TallCenter harvey glory bubba”, Message ID: <85b18095.0503270425.70a037db@posting.google.com> The high-heeled humiliatrices of Cincinnati. Example: Miss D, a dominatrix and humiliatrix, who is a regular commentator on a number of sissy blogs
Word: infixation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From infix + -ation. Pronunciation: /ɪnfɪkˈseɪʃən/ 1. Word formation involving an infix or infixes; adding an infix to a word. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: As we have just seen, the encoding is quite versatile. In fact, it is not even limited to describing reduplicative patterns alone but can also handle infixations, circumfixations and truncations. 2. The state or quality of being infixed. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: infixations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of infixation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: innixion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed as innix-, the perfect active participial stem of the Latin innītor (“to lean or rest upon”, “to be supported by”) + the English -ion, forming nouns of action. Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɪkʃən/ 1. A leaning or resting upon something; an instance of a thing being supported by another; innitency. Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: instrengthen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + strengthen; compare enstrengthen. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈstɹɛŋθə̆n/ 1. Strengthen inwardly. Labels: rare, transitive
Word: intervacuum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed as inter- + vacuum, but compare the Latin intervacō (“to be empty between”). Pronunciation: /ɪntəˈvækjuːəm/ 1. An intervening empty space; a vacant interval. Example: In the distribution of the Animals themselves, the Subjects and the products of this energy, into the principal Classes, we do not suppose chasms & intervacua or empty Interspaces between the Classes, but ascend from a lower to a higher by an interliminary — and the same principle holds good in the Dynamics of Organic Nature, and the Enumeration and the Order of the three Constitutive Forms of the Vital Energy.
Word: intervacuum Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Formed as inter- + vacuum, but compare the Latin intervacō (“to be empty between”). Pronunciation: /ɪntəˈvækjuːəm/ 1. Between regions of vacuum (or of very low pressure) Labels: not-comparable Example: UHV technique for intervacuum sample transfer... Example: The intervacuum space was monitored continuously, a change in pressure implied to a rupture of the isolation between this volume and either the torus or waveguide vacuums.
Word: intervacua Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪntəˈvækjuːə/ 1. plural of intervacuum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: natiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1681; formed as Latin natis (“rump, buttocks”) + -i- + -form. Pronunciation: /ˈneɪtɪfɔːm/ 1. Resembling or having the form of buttocks.
Word: risktaker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From risk + taker. 1. A person who takes risk, especially to reap the benefits if the feared event is survived, or it does not happen.
Word: other halves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of other half Labels: form-of, plural
Word: negarchy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Daniel Deudney in his paper “Binding Powers, Bound States: The Logic and Geopolitics of Negarchy”, presented to the International Studies Association in Washington, D.C., 28th of March–2nd of April in 1994; formed as nega- (“negative”) + -archy (“rule”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɛɡɑːki/, /ˈnɛɡˌɑɹki/ 1. A form of status quo maintained by the interrelations of power structure and authority. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Daniel Deudney, Binding Powers, Bound States: The Logic and Geopolitics of Negarchy (paper presented at the International Studies Association, Washington, D.C., Mar. 28–Apr. 2, 1994) (on file with author) Example: Because the overall system architecture negates, it is appropriate to call the structural principle of this order negarchical and the overall order a negarchy. The tasks that define security negarchies are not arbitrary, and are intimately connected to the logics of both hierarchy and anarchy. Negarchy is the arrangement of institutions needed to prevent simultaneously the emergence of hierarchy and anarchy. In a workable negarchy, the particular configurations of negatives vary with the relative strengths of multiple threats, but the antithesis to hierarchy and anarchy remains constant. Understood in this way, negarchy is a third – and liberal – structural principle of political order, along with hierarchy and anarchy.
Word: nostra remedia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nostrum remedium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: offseasons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of offseason Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oratio recta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin: ōrātiō (“speech”) + rēcta (feminine nominative singular form of rēctus, “straight”, “direct”, “honest”) 1. Direct speech. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: arrivage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English a-rivage, arryvage, aryvage, from Anglo-Norman aryvage and/or Middle French arivage; equivalent to arrive + -age. 1. An arrival, especially one by ship or boat. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The place of her arriuage was at the port of Arundell, into which Caſtle ſhee was ioyfully receiued by William de Albeny, who had married Queen Adeliza, the late wife to King Henry, whoſe Dowrie it was; […]
Word: arrivages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arrivage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonknowledge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + knowledge. 1. The state of not knowing. Labels: uncountable Example: 2009, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens interview, reddit.com It's only when you have grazed on the lower slopes of your own ignorance and begun to understand the great vistas of nonknowledge that you have, that you can claim to have been educated at all.
Word: nonknowledges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonknowledge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boildown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From boil + down. 1. The process of boiling something down; concentration by means of evaporation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: boildowns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boildown Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disproportionable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dis- + proportionable. 1. out of proportion; disproportionate
Word: caustical Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of caustic. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: dickly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dick + -ly. 1. Relating to or having the characteristics of a dick (penis). Labels: vulgar Example: You're the one being the dick. I'm being a dick by pointing out the dickly properties of someone else? Example: I don't suppose it's remotely possible that you are boorish and dickly, is it?
Word: perspirability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From perspire + -ability. 1. The quality or state of being perspirable. Labels: uncountable Example: In cutaneous diseases (which seldom require a hot bath) a tepid temperature is often quite sufficient to produce a salutary relaxation and perspirability of the skin[…]
Word: strictly dickly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From strictly + dickly. 1. Attracted only to men, and not women. Labels: humorous, slang, vulgar Example: In general, the girls who identified as "strictly dickly" exhibited homophobic attitudes and adopted this terminology to warn their virtual audience that they are only interested in dating males Example: While he was in Boston, Cohen met a heterosexual couple from New Hampshire who were very eager to hangout with him and gave off “a really interesting vibe” that told him “this was maybe more than a hang out.” “I was like, ‘This shocking to me,’ because I’m strictly dickly,” he says in the interview.
Word: strickly dickly Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of strictly dickly. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: strickly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of strictly. 1. Strictly.
Word: -iour Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: An alteration of -our, arising in the 15th and 16th centuries through analogy with words such as saviour (Middle English saveour, savour) and paviour (Middle English paver, pavier) which varied between forms with an intervening -e- or -i- and those without due to differing adaptions of their Old French sources (sauveor and paveor, *pavier respectively). 1. Suffix added to verbs to form nouns. Labels: idiomatic, morpheme Example: behaviour, saviour 2. Alternative form of -our Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: thefteous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier thiefteous, thiftwis, from Middle English *theftwis, equivalent to theft + -eous. Compare righteous. 1. Alternative form of theftuous. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mighteous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From might + -eous, modelled after righteous, equivalent to might + -wise. 1. Possessing might; mighty; powerful; mightily righteous. Example: The sea is thy mirror, thou regardest thy soul In its mighteous waves that unendingly roll, And thy spirit is yet not a chasm less drear. Example: Still, it was quite edifying to witness the anxious bustling, and to hear the learned remarks of our dwarf Esculapius; who among other things, was constrained to acknowledge that — "unassisted nature had yet mighteous potential efficacity of her own intrinsic internal force, [...]
Word: snow skinks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of snow skink Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wrongeous Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of wrongous. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: prelect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin praelectus, past participle of praelegō. Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈlɛkt/ 1. To speak publicly; to lecture. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: Spitting, if the reader will pardon the mention of so gross a fact, was shown to be a very difficult part, and publicly prelected upon about the same time, in the same great capital. Example: a. 1806, Samuel Horsley, sermon To prelect upon the military art.
Word: prelected Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of prelect Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: prelecting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of prelect Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: prelects Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of prelect Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: twillies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of twilly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: twilly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare willy. 1. A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willying machine.
Word: twilly Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare willy. Labels: no-gloss
Word: friz Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of frizz. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar full-bottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts.
Word: friz Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of frizz. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: "To friz, or not to friz! that is the question!" exclaimed Marion, as she turned from her looking-glass and appealed to Florence, who was buttoning her best-fitting cloth boots.
Word: scleragogy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek hard + a leading or training. 1. severe discipline Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: we let others run faster than we , in Temperance , in Chastity , in Scleragogy
Word: hanumans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hanuman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hoonoomaun Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of hanuman. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: hoonoomauns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hoonoomaun Labels: form-of, plural
Word: obtestation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin obtestatio. 1. The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Antonio asserted this with great obtestation. Example: [T]he ten thousand Judiths press up, resistless; with obtestations, with outspread hands,—merely to speak to the Mayor.
Word: obtestations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of obtestation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Sclavism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sclav + -ism. 1. Archaic form of Slavism. Labels: alt-of, archaic, uncountable
Word: promissive Part of Speech: adj 1. Making or implying a promise; promising. Example: I answer, that the word may be considered under a double notion, either as it is operative of faith, or as it is promissive of rest to believers: take it as operative of faith, and so it profits, not being mixed with faith, otherwise faith could not come by hearing, as the apostle asserts, (Rom. x. 17); but take it as promissive of rest to believers, and so it doth not profit, not being mixed with faith; that is, faith, which is the condition of the promise, not being performed, the eternal rest, which is the thing promised, cannot belong to them: and this is clearly the apostle's meaning; Example: The performing of the promises cancelled the promissive words; for if they were yet promissive, then what was promised is not performed; this was promised by certain signs. Those promissive signs are cancelled, because the promissive Verity is exhibited. 2. Implying that the speaker intends to do something or guarantees something. Example: Changing the expression—shall is predictive, and will is promissive in the first person only; whereas, in the second and third, will is predictive, and shall promissive. Example: As we will see, Korean also has promissive and propositive speech act sentence particles, which encode commitment and suggestion, respectively, and exclamative/mirative, indicating a surprise.
Word: promissive Part of Speech: noun 1. A promissive mood, phrase, word, or inflection. Example: The promissive presumably belongs with informant subjects because we can assert a special kind of commitment concerning our own future actions; or, in a question, ask for this commitment from the addressee. Example: The answer to the first question is negative: yídìng cannot express strong epistemic necessity in an imprative or a promissive.
Word: endaspidean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From endo- + Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “a shield”) + -ean. 1. Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; said of certain birds. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare Example: tarsal envelope endaspidean Example: endaspidean tarsus
Word: shoven Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of shove Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past
Word: biophytes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biophyte Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flirt-gill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flirt (“one who teases affection”) + gill (“prostitute, harlot”). 1. A flirtatious, promiscuous, or loose woman. Labels: obsolete Example: Scurvy / knave! I am none of his flirt-gills. I am none of his / skains-mates. Example: You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill, and sing bawdy songs upon me;
Word: flirt-gills Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flirt-gill Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dehonestation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin dehonestatio. 1. An act of dishonouring or disgracing. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: expiate the infinite shame, dehonestation, and infamy, which they bring to Christian Religion
Word: whitster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contracted from whitester. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtstə(ɹ)/, /ˈhwɪtstə(ɹ)/ 1. Obsolete spelling of whitester. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: the whitsters in Datchet mead
Word: whitsters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of whitster Labels: form-of, plural