nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: escript Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French escrit, from Latin scrīptum, from scribō (“to write”). 1. A writing. Labels: obsolete Example: the true copies of all other deeds, evidences, charters, writings, escripts, and muniments which do touch and concern the said premises before bargained and sold Example: and also excepted out of this pardon all offences of bribery, perjury and the subornation of perjury or witnesses, and offences of forging or counterfeiting any deeds, debentures, bills of publick faith, escripts, wills or other writings whatsoever, or of any examinations or testimonies of any witness or witnesses, tending to bring any person or persons in danger of his life, liberty or estate, and the giving the same in evidence, and the counselling or procuring of any such counterfeiting or forging to be had or made
Word: haye Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch haai (“shark”) or West Flemish haaie (formerly haeye), from the Old Norse hái, a short form of hákarl (“shark”) (a compound of há- (“marks fish of the shark kind”) + karl (“a man”)). The German Hai, the Swedish haj and the Danish haj are from the same source. Pronunciation: /heɪ/ 1. A shark (cartilaginous fish of Selachimorpha). Example: They have of Hayens or Tuberons which devour men, especially such as fish for Pearles. Example: Other unlucky accidents oft-times happen in these seas, as, when (especially in becalmings) men swim in the bearing ocean, the greedy Hayen, called Tuberon or Shark, armed with a double row of venomous teeth, pursue them, directed by a little rhombus or musculus, variously streaked and coloured with blue and white, that scuds to and fro to bring the shark intelligence.
Word: haye Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See hay. 1. Obsolete spelling of hay (“grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: 14. In marg.—"Jo. Turner." For mowinge and wininge* the haye in Barkholme, xxxj⁸. For mowinge and wininge the haye in Brampton parke, xxxiij⁸. vjᵈ. Example: Iem, that hee take order with them for husbandlie usage of the haye, and apportionate the provender to be allowed to everye man's charge, according to the number of horses that are in house […]
Word: Pixie Part of Speech: name Etymology: From pixie. 1. A female nickname, also used as a formal given name.
Word: Pixie Part of Speech: name Etymology: From its IATA code of PX. 1. Air Niugini Labels: informal
Word: glocalisation Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of glocalization. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: MDR Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of multi-drug resistant (used to refer to strains of tuberculosis). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: MDR Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of mandatory declassification review. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of main development region. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: paciently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From pacient + -ly. 1. Obsolete form of patiently. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: proclines Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of procline Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: proclinate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin prōclīnātus. 1. inclined, directed, or leaning forward, as in the teeth of some mammals and bristles on the frons of many insects
Word: piscator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin piscātor. 1. A fisherman; an angler. Labels: archaic, formal Example: ...this was Lady Allerton, no longer the artful Miss Aubrey, who drew away poor Mary Granard's lover, but the imperious wife, who had long since taught her cautious, suspicious husband that he had been angled for by a skilful piscator, and secured by tackle the law alone could break. Example: The canes themselves tower up, many of them, for more than thirty feet in height, and are at the lower joints as thick as a man's arm, though millions of lesser growth are there, to furnish fishing-poles for all the piscators alive.
Word: Novikov self-consistency principle Part of Speech: name Etymology: Developed by Russian physicist Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov in the mid-1980s. 1. A conjecture asserting that it is impossible to create paradoxes by time travel because the past cannot be changed.
Word: would have liked to Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Ultimately from re-analysis of like (to) (an adjective meaning "likely") as a verb. See like to. 1. nearly; almost Labels: Southern-US, not-comparable Example: I’d have liked to died laughing!
Word: properer Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of proper: more proper Labels: comparative, form-of, nonstandard Example: He was then silent, and began to consider with himself whether it would be properer to make his escape, or to deliver himself into the hands of justice; which meditation ended as the reader will see in the next chapter. Example: […] she should be able to reason herself into a properer state; […]
Word: properate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin properatus, past participle of properare (“to hasten”). 1. To hasten or press forward. Labels: obsolete Example: For Vomiting so properates and crowds the Juices, that they rush and stagnate in more confused Bodies, which is the principle of Apoplexies, and the frequent Fate of Plethoricks. Example: That nothing but the Dread of such approaching Enquiries broke the Band of their Iniquity, and properated their Elopement.
Word: propositae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of proposita Labels: form-of, plural
Word: propugner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From propugn + -er. 1. A defender, supporter, vindicator. Labels: archaic Example: zealous propugners are they of their negative Creed
Word: Ex Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of ex. Labels: alt-of
Word: menyvere Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of miniver. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: full-out Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From full + out. 1. Alternative spelling of full out. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: make faces Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of make a face. Labels: alt-of, alternative, idiomatic, intransitive Example: Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.
Word: Iswa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the tribe's autonym, ye iswa (“people of the river”), from Catawba ye (“people”) + iswa (“river”). 1. A Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Catawba. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: keep pace Part of Speech: verb 1. To run at the same speed as a pacesetter Labels: idiomatic 2. To progress at the same rate as another; to keep up Labels: idiomatic Example: As he had grown older, he found that he had grown away from his people. Their interests and his were far removed. They had not kept pace with him, nor could they understand aught of the many strange and wonderful dreams that passed through the active brain of their human king. So limited was their vocabulary that Tarzan could not even talk with them of the many new truths, and the great fields of thought that his reading had opened up before his longing eyes, or make known ambitions which stirred his soul. Example: From the 'fifties onwards the development of the South Wales & Monmouthshire coalfield went on at terrific speed, and railway construction was hard pressed to keep pace with it.
Word: unloves Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unlove Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: new-comer Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of newcomer. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: Some parleying was audible in the hall, and soon the new-comer entered. He bowed to Lady Ingram, as deeming her the eldest lady present. Example: This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
Word: dressing-bell Part of Speech: noun 1. A bell rung to alert people that it is time to get dressed, especially for dinner. Example: The sound of the dressing-bell dispersed the party. It was not till after dinner that I saw him again: he then seemed quite at his ease. Example: The evening came, and the dressing-bell for dinner rang, before Mr. Franklin returned from Frizinghall.
Word: no rest for the wicked Part of Speech: proverb Etymology: From the Book of Isaiah verses 48:22 and 57:20-21, originally Hebrew. First attested in English in 1535, in Coverdale Bible of Miles Coverdale. Quoted in biblical sense for centuries, humorous secular sense popularized from 1930s, particularly due to use as title of popular Little Orphan Annie strip by Harold Gray in 1933. According to rabbinical tradition, the word “wicked” refers only to king Nebuchadnezzar II and his descendants. 1. Eternal torment in hell awaits sinners. Labels: literally 2. People who are wicked must work harder than normal people. Labels: humorous
Word: gazoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Irish garsún, from Old French garçun. Doublet of garçon. 1. A young farm boy. Labels: Northern-Ireland Example: "… devil don't it subtract a bit before the thing goes skylarkin' as it will before—500–550—say this is no place for a gazoon that wants to see Father O'Houlihan before he kicks the bucket," and Pat strode off with the subtleness that bespoke youth and fine trim. 2. A close body of men. Labels: nonce-word Example: A close gazoon the horsemen made, Douglas and Morison the head, And through the ranks impetuous bore, By dint of lance and broad claymore, […]
Word: hyperinstruments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hyperinstrument Labels: form-of, plural
Word: orchestrinas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of orchestrina Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quadfectas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quadfecta Labels: form-of, plural
Word: howdies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of howdy Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of howdie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: will of the wisp Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of will o' the wisp. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: unhill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + hill. 1. To uncover, reveal. Labels: obsolete Example: […]these four men and these ladyes layd hand on syr launcelot /[…]/ and soo in to a chamber where was the holy vessel of the Sancgreal / and by force syr launcelot was leid by that holy vessel / and there came an holy man and vnhylled that vessel / and soo by myracle and by vertu of that holy vessel syr launcelot was heled and recouerd […]these four men and these ladies laid hand on Sir Launcelot, […] and so into a chamber where was the holy vessel of the Sangreal, and by force Sir Launcelot was laid by that holy vessel; and there came an holy man and unhilled that vessel, and so by miracle and by virtue of that holy vessel Sir Launcelot was healed and recovered
Word: unhills Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unhill Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unhilling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unhill Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unhilled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unhill Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ageusic Part of Speech: adj 1. Lacking a sense of taste. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pudent Part of Speech: adj 1. Exhibiting pudency; modest. Labels: rare Example: […] pudent in the presence of others, so must he be pudent when alone. It was said that, "Pudency and faith are interdependent, and either cannot be complete without the other."
Word: turtle excluder device Part of Speech: noun 1. A device that allows a captured sea turtle to escape when caught in a fishing net.
Word: quadrae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quadra Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acoustoelectronic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From acousto- + electronic. 1. of or pertaining to acoustoelectronics Labels: not-comparable
Word: acoustoelectronics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From acousto- + electronics. 1. A branch of electronics that involves microwave sound waves travelling through specialized solids. Labels: uncountable
Word: intelligence agencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of intelligence agency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phonobreathers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phonobreather Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phonobreather Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phono- + breather? 1. A non-linear wave that can transport energy in a coupled oscillator chain by means of a phase-torsion mechanism.
Word: obeyance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From obey + -ance. 1. obedience Labels: uncountable Example: Poor fellow! how happy would a companion make you, to whom you could relate your battles, bouts, and courtships; but mum is the order, and Jack is used to an implicit obeyance of head-quarter orders. Example: One of the instructions given by experienced aviators to pupils, and for which they insist upon implicit obeyance, is: "If your machine gets more than 30 feet high, or comes closer to the ground than 6 feet, descend at once."
Word: obeyance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Misspelling or alteration of abeyance, by association with obey. 1. abeyance Labels: nonstandard, uncountable Example: The disfiguring wrinkles that make many necks unsightly may be kept in obeyance by massaging.
Word: piezopolymers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of piezopolymer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: piezopolymer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From piezo- + polymer. 1. A piezoelectric polymer (that can reversibly convert pressure to electricity)
Word: obeyer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From obey + -er. Pronunciation: /əˈbeɪəɹ/, /əʊˈbeɪəɹ/ 1. One who obeys.
Word: mammy markets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mammy market Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subminister Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the Latin subministrō, sumministrō (equivalent to English sub- + minister). 1. to supply; to administer Labels: archaic Example: subminister the principal and predominant Matter for those great and vaſt Luminaries 2. to be subservient (to) Labels: archaic Example: Our passions […] subminister to the best and worst purposes.
Word: subminister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Latin subministrō, sumministrō (equivalent to English sub- + minister). 1. a subordinate minister
Word: combustious Part of Speech: adj 1. inflammable; combustible 2. turbulent Labels: figuratively
Word: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Yugoslavia: a former Communist country in Southeastern Europe that existed from 1963 until 1992; abbreviation SFRY. Labels: historical
Word: SFRY Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, official name of Yugoslavia: a former Communist country in Southeastern Europe that existed from 1943 until 1992. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
Word: Vietnam War Part of Speech: name 1. The war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975 between South Vietnam (backed by the United States and SEATO) and North Vietnam aiding the South Vietnamese communist guerrilla army known as the Vietcong (supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union) for the struggle for total Communist control of Vietnam as one state. Labels: historical Example: The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.
Word: circular files Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of circular file Labels: form-of, plural
Word: necessitarians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of necessitarian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quincunces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quincunx Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beat-ups Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beat-up Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rati Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ratti (“Indian unit of measure”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ratis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rati Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reliquiae Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin reliquiae. 1. Remains, especially of fossil organisms. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: The most abundant fossil remains of plants belong to terrestrial tribes; but the animal reliquiæ are mostly of aquatic origin; […] 2. Artifacts; things made or modified by human art. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: Red Brigades Part of Speech: name 1. A former Marxist-Leninist militant group based in Italy. Labels: historical
Word: notcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From notch + -er. Cricket scorers originally kept score by making notches in wood. 1. One who makes notches. 2. A scorer.
Word: notcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a contraction of not your, as in "notcher balls/pussy, notcher ass." 1. The perineum. Labels: slang Example: He is a Libertarian, does not vote, and we are all privy to the goings on in his crotch (particularly his notcher). Example: I'll let you be the first in line to shave your notcher, then.
Word: zoöphagy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zoö- + -phagy. 1. Alternative form of zoophagy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: “Oh, no, oh no! I want no souls. Life is all I want.” Here he brightened up; “I am pretty indifferent about it at present. Life is all right; I have all I want. You must get a new patient, doctor, if you wish to study zoöphagy!” Example: Darwin’s stimulus influenced Profesor Karl von Goebel, and in turn, his student Francis Ernest Lloyd whose monograph, The Carnivorous Plants (1942) is the vade mecum for the student of zoöphagy in plants.
Word: recedent Part of Speech: adj 1. Synonym of receding. Example: The recedent or retrograde form is marked by a sudden subsidence of the inflammatory state of the joints, succeeded immediately by an affection of some internal part, where is thenceforth the seat of the morbid manifestations.
Word: reclinant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin reclinans. See recline. 1. Bending or leaning backward.
Word: redintegrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the Latin redintegrō (“to restore or renew; to refresh or revive”). Pronunciation: /ɹɛˈdɪntɪɡɹeɪt/, /ɹɪˈdɪntɪɡɹeɪt/ 1. To renew, restore to wholeness. Example: Whether the propos'd Water, being in Glass-Vessels exactly luted together slowly and warily abstracted to a thickish substance; This being reconjoin'd to the distill'd Liquor, the Mineral Water will be redintegrated 2. To reinstate a memory by redintegration. Example: His [David McClelland’s] theory is that we are first of all presented with cues in affective situations; for instance, sugar is put in the mouth and this produces pleasurable affect. This type of cue then becomes paired with an affective state in such a way that the cue will, as a result of association, come to ‘redintegrate’ the affective state first associated with it.
Word: redintegrate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Latin redintegrātus (“restored or renewed”, “refreshed or revived”), the perfect passive participle of redintegrō. Pronunciation: /ɹɛˈdɪntɪɡɹət/, /ɹɪˈdɪntɪɡɹət/ 1. Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Charles the Eighth, the French king , by the virtue and good fortune of his two immediate predecessors , Charles the Seventh , his grandfather , and Lewis the Eleventh , his father , received the kingdom of France in more flourishing and spread estate than it had been of many years before ; being redintegrate in those principal members
Word: redintegrator Part of Speech: noun 1. One who redintegrates.
Word: refringes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of refringe Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: refringe Part of Speech: verb 1. To infringe. Labels: transitive 2. To refract. Labels: transitive
Word: remigrant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + migrant. 1. A migrant who returns to their former country. 2. An insect that migrates back to a previous host. Example: In host-alternating aphids the remigrants, which give birth to the mating females, are the first to arrive on the primary host […]
Word: rein up Part of Speech: verb 1. To bring a ridden animal to a halt by pulling on the reins. Labels: intransitive Example: 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared. 2. To fit reins on (a horse). Labels: transitive Example: "Well," said York, "if they come here, they must wear the bearing rein. I prefer a loose rein myself, and his lordship is always very reasonable about horses; but my lady—that's another thing, she will have style; and if her carriage horses are not reined up tight, she wouldn't look at them.[…]" 3. To stop, to cause to come to a halt. Labels: transitive
Word: bed-room Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of bedroom. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Harriet slept at Hartfield that night. For some weeks past she had been spending more than half her time there, and gradually getting to have a bed-room appropriated to herself; and Emma judged it best in every respect, safest and kindest, to keep her with them as much as possible just at present. Example: Her bed-room—one of those spacious, yet low, paneled apartments, warm and gloomy, in which cowards at night—and I can speak from experience—are wont to require a rushlight, and apt to look under beds, and into closets, and to bolt and lock doors, was at a very remote part of the house, and was almost the last of a suite of sleeping-rooms, or dressing-rooms, which were now trimmed out for the expected visitors to the hall.
Word: sun-up Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sunup. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: I opened my eyes and looked around, trying to make out where I was. It was after sun-up, and I had been sound asleep. Pap was standing over me looking sour and sick, too.
Word: stabboard Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of starboard. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, uncountable Example: I watched it come creeping down, and when it was most abreast of where I stood I heard a man say, "Stern oars, there! heave her head to stabboard!" I heard that just as plain as if the man was by my side.
Word: crowd up Part of Speech: verb 1. To come together, to form a crowd. Labels: intransitive Example: They all crowded up and leaned over the rails, nearly in my face, and kept still, watching with all their might. I could see them first-rate, but they couldn't see me.
Word: July Monarchy Part of Speech: name Etymology: July + monarchy 1. A period of liberal constitutional monarchy in France under King Louis-Philippe starting with the July Revolution (or Three Glorious Days) of 1830 and ending with the February Revolution of 1848.
Word: uncock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + cock. 1. To straighten or flatten (remove a cocked shape). Example: to uncock a hat 2. To let down the cock of (a firearm). Labels: transitive Example: My heart jumped up amongst my lungs. I never waited for to look further, but uncocked my gun and went sneaking back on my tiptoes as fast as ever I could. Example: And d'Artagnan set the example. Then, turning toward Planchet, he made him a sign to uncock his musketoon. The Englishmen, convinced of these peaceful proceedings, sheathed their swords grumblingly. 3. To open or spread from a cock or heap, as hay.
Word: uncocks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of uncock Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: uncocking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of uncock Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: musketoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From musket + -oon, after French mousqueton. Compare Italian moschettone. Pronunciation: /mʌskɪˈtuːn/ 1. A firearm, similar to a musket but with a shorter barrel and a large bore. Labels: historical Example: And d'Artagnan set the example. Then, turning toward Planchet, he made him a sign to uncock his musketoon. The Englishmen, convinced of these peaceful proceedings, sheathed their swords grumblingly. 2. One who is armed with such a musket. Labels: obsolete
Word: musketoons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of musketoon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Principality of Albania Part of Speech: name 1. Former official name of Albania: a country and former principality in Southeastern Europe, existing from 1914 to 1925. Labels: historical
Word: doan' Part of Speech: contraction 1. Pronunciation spelling of don't. Labels: alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling Example: "Doan' hurt me—don't! I hain't ever done no harm to a ghos'. I alwuz liked dead people, en done all I could for 'em. You go en git in de river agin, whah you b'longs, en doan' do nuffn to Ole Jim, 'at 'uz awluz yo' fren'."
Word: Blackpudlians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Blackpudlian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: alwuz Part of Speech: adv 1. Pronunciation spelling of always. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
Word: Electorate of the Palatinate Part of Speech: name 1. The County Palatinate of the Rhine, a historical state in the Holy Roman Empire, during the period when its count palatinate was an elector of the Holy Roman Empire (1356–1803). Labels: historical
Word: spider-webby Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From spider web + -y. 1. Resembling a spider web, or full of spider webs Example: the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider-webby; and here would come a blast of wind that would bend the trees down and turn up the pale underside of the leaves
Word: gashly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Perhaps a dialectal alteration of ghastly, by association with gash. 1. Ghastly, horrible. Example: My ladies' maid, who was troubled with nerves, declared she could never sleep alone in such a "gashly, rummaging old building;" and the footman, who was a kind-hearted young fellow, did all in his power to cheer her up. Example: I have a great mind to break all your gashly images about the head of your fine Miss, in her silks and satins;’—mistaking his lay-figure for a living model of the highest sort.
Word: bedquilts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bedquilt Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bran-new Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of brand new. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable Example: But scorning rest, upon his reappearance, he instantly began again, though there were no dancers yet, as if the other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter, and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him out of sight, or perish. Example: We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, […]
Word: consent search Part of Speech: noun 1. A warrantless search made by United States law enforcement personnel with the consent of the individual whose person or property is being searched.
Word: consent searches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of consent search Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lake Malar Part of Speech: name 1. The third-largest lake in Sweden.
Word: red noise Part of Speech: noun 1. A signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the spectral energy density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency squared (1/f²).
Word: blue noise Part of Speech: noun 1. A signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the spectral energy density is proportional to the frequency.
Word: violet noise Part of Speech: noun 1. A signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the spectral energy density is proportional to the frequency squared.
Word: grey noise Part of Speech: noun 1. A signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the spectral energy density is perceived by the listener as equally loud at all frequencies.
Word: Lake Mälaren Part of Speech: name 1. The third-largest lake in Sweden.
Word: exogeology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exo- + geology. 1. Synonym of astrogeology. Labels: uncountable
Word: Cyber Monday Part of Speech: name 1. The Monday after Thanksgiving, regarded as a day when many people shop online. Labels: US
Word: unattaining Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + attaining. 1. That does not lead to attainment Example: There she clutches at illusions, and she seeks the phantom goal With the unattaining passion that consumes the unsleeping soul: And calamity enfolds her, like the shadow of a ban, And the niggardness of Nature makes the misery of man;
Word: MEG Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of Meghalaya. Labels: India, abbreviation, alt-of
Word: MEG Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of magnetoencephalogram. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 2. Abbreviation of magnetoencephalograph. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 3. Abbreviation of magnetoencephalography. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable 4. Abbreviation of monoethylene glycol. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: PLCC Part of Speech: noun 1. Plastic leaded chip carrier 2. Power line carrier communication
Word: repetent Part of Speech: noun 1. A tutor or private teacher in Germany; a repetitor.
Word: reportor Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of reporter. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: botulinum toxin Part of Speech: noun 1. A neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.
Word: repugner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From repugn + -er. 1. Someone who repugns.
Word: repugnate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin repugnare. See repugn. 1. To oppose; to fight against. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive
Word: respues Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of respue Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: respue Part of Speech: verb 1. To reject. Labels: formal, obsolete, rare, transitive Example: […] teaching him to respue this effeminate style of versification.
Word: subministers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of subminister Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: subministering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of subminister Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: revellent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin revellens. 1. Causing revulsion; revulsive. Labels: obsolete Example: The local remoræ of blood which occur in cholera infantum here, will not bear, as a general practice, the abstraction of blood for their relief; they are more under the control of revellent remedies, not of a depletive kind.
Word: subministered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of subminister Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: revertent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French revertent, from Latin revertor, equivalent to revert + -ent. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tənt/ 1. Having reverted to a previous (more basic or more natural) state. Example: As can be seen from the data for the control cultures, the variability in the numbers of revertent colonies observed in the absence of any specific mutant can be quite large. Example: The revertent virus may have escaped immune recognition in the animal in which it arose, but this virus was pathogenic in naive hosts.
Word: revertent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French revertent, from Latin revertor, equivalent to revert + -ent. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tənt/ 1. A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system Labels: obsolete 2. Any remedy that restores something to its desired natural state. Labels: broadly Example: Dear Rowland, it must be your business and mine to experimentalize on the utility and practicability of a revertent to this disgusting disorder which now vexes and threatens death to the state. 3. A mutation that reverts or undoes the effects of another mutation. Example: A revertent having restored levels of ornithine decarboxylase has been reported () and is probably a second site revertent which compensates for ts4. Example: In all cases where the original inactivating mutation disrupted a base pair in the putative secondary structure of the site, in the revertent, the opposing nucleotide in the base pair mutated to restore pairing.
Word: JPDA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Java Platform Debug Architecture. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: RMI Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of Remote Method Invocation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of Rights Management Information. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Abbreviation of radio magnetic indicator. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: RMI Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Republic of the Marshall Islands. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of Remote Micro Imager. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Abbreviation of Rocky Mount Instruments. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: RMIs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of RMI Labels: form-of, plural
Word: JSWDKs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of JSWDK Labels: form-of, plural
Word: JPDAs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of JPDA Labels: form-of, plural
Word: PLCCs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of PLCC Labels: form-of, plural
Word: JSRs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of JSR Labels: form-of, plural
Word: WSDLs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of WSDL Labels: form-of, plural
Word: JVMs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of JVM Labels: form-of, plural
Word: JSDKs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of JSDK Labels: form-of, plural
Word: JDK Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Java Development Kit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: JDKs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of JDK Labels: form-of, plural
Word: JNDI Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Java Naming and Directory Interface. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: IIOP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Internet inter-ORB protocol. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: RMI-IIOP Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of RMI over IIOP. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: JNI Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Java Native Interface. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: saults Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sault Labels: form-of, plural
Word: IIOPs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of IIOP Labels: form-of, plural
Word: RMI-IIOPs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of RMI-IIOP Labels: form-of, plural
Word: JDBCs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of JDBC Labels: form-of, plural
Word: JNIs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of JNI Labels: form-of, plural
Word: JMX Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Java Management Extensions. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: JNDIs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of JNDI Labels: form-of, plural
Word: JMXs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of JMX Labels: form-of, plural
Word: AWT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Airborne Wind Turbine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: AWT Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Antony Worrall Thompson. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Abstract Window Toolkit. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Abbreviation of Armathwaite railway station. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of
Word: AWTs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of AWT Labels: form-of, plural
Word: JREs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of JRE Labels: form-of, plural
Word: SDKs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of SDK Labels: form-of, plural
Word: J2EE Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of JavaEE. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, dated
Word: J2SE Part of Speech: noun 1. Old abbreviation for JavaSE.
Word: JavaME Part of Speech: name Etymology: from Java + ME 1. Acronym of Java Platform, Micro Edition. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: JavaSE Part of Speech: name Etymology: from Java + SE 1. Acronym of Java Platform, Standard Edition. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: JavaEE Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: J2SEs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of J2SE Labels: form-of, plural
Word: J2MEs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of J2ME Labels: form-of, plural
Word: MIDP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Mobile Information Device Profile: a specification published for the use of Java on embedded devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: eure Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of ewer. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: 1630 December 20, Robert Nedham, knight viscount Killmorey, testament, quoted in 1800, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Accounts and Papers […] and other Stuff remaining in my House and Grounds at Shavington except the hangings and other Furniture which is now used in the Dining Chamber at Shavington aforesaid and except my best Silver Bason and Eure and my Seal of Arms and also all my Armour in my Armory at Shavington all which before excepted I give and devise unto my said Son Robert Nedham to remain to him […] Example: […] Altar-Services; and among others, one made of Chrystal; Candlesticks, Crevets, a Bason and Eure, and the Foot of a Chalice, all of Amber.
Word: scalpes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scalpe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scalpe Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of scalp. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: scalpra Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scalprum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: secretarie Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of secretary. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: To the honorable Sir William; Cecill Knight, principall Secretarie to the Quenes most excellent Maiestie.
Word: lead-out Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lead + out. 1. A program scheduled to follow another. Example: The lead - in rating is expected to be the greatest single predictor of a syndicated television program , with the leadout second 2. The tactic where one cyclist goes ahead at high speed so that a following teammate (the sprinter) can benefit from the slipstream. See drafting. 3. The final part of the groove of a vinyl record, after the end of the recording. Example: It's not always convenient for me to pick up the tone arm at the end of the record and the stylus continues to ride the leadout groove for a time. 4. A marker in the data stored on a compact disc, representing the end of a recording session.
Word: lead-outs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lead-out. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: septenarii Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of septenarius Labels: form-of, plural
Word: severum Part of Speech: noun 1. The banded cichlid, Heros severus (previously Cichlasoma severum), a freshwater tropical fish of South America.
Word: Potterverse Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Potter + -verse. Named after fictional character Harry Potter, the main character of the original property created by J.K. Rowling. 1. The setting of the Harry Potter series. Labels: slang 2. The Harry Potter and related and spin-off media franchise. Officially, this is known as the "Wizarding World". Labels: slang
Word: Christmas Days Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Christmas Day Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Japanese slipper Part of Speech: noun 1. A cocktail made from Midori, Cointreau, and lemon juice.
Word: rusty nail Part of Speech: noun 1. A cocktail made by mixing Drambuie and Scotch. 2. A has-been, a person whose fame or influence is rapidly declining. Labels: derogatory, slang, uncommon
Word: whiskey sour Part of Speech: noun 1. A cocktail containing Bourbon whiskey, lemon juice and sugar.
Word: pull factors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pull factor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cucs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cuc Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sylvae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sylva Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sylvas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sylva Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Aesops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Aesop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: command-line interpreter Part of Speech: noun 1. A computer program that reads lines of text entered by a user and interprets them in the context of a given operating system or programming language.
Word: semiarboreal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + arboreal. 1. Of a creature, which sometimes dwells in trees. Labels: not-comparable Example: Its large toes protruded laterally as do those of the semiarboreal peoples of Borneo, the Philippines and other remote regions where low types still persist. The countenance might have been that of a cross between Pithecanthropus, the Java ape-man, and a daughter of the Piltdown race of prehistoric Sussex.
Word: land of plenty Part of Speech: noun 1. A utopia that provides for all one's needs. Example: "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"
Word: toolie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tool + -ie. 1. A tool dresser. Labels: colloquial Example: He and the geologist went to explore in the sandy Garcia pastures. The rig builder, toolie, and driller retired to the Colonel's porch to drink. 2. An adult reveller who deliberately travels to a destination where schoolies (senior students) congregate, often to solicit sex from them. Labels: Australia, slang Example: Perhaps you should go next year as a "toolie", and you'll get to see for yourself. Example: Maybe they were toolies! 3. A gun. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, US, slang Example: Rise that heater, tap that mash They don't come outside their flats Decamp, decamp, aim this toolie at your hat They piss us off on Snap, so we rise up and load them straps
Word: toolies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of toolie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polyetheretherketone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + ether + ether + ketone. 1. A colorless organic polymer thermoplastic used in engineering applications. Labels: uncountable
Word: middle management Part of Speech: noun 1. In a large organization, the group of managers or administrators who occupy positions in the company hierarchy which, generally, are above the level of front-line supervisors but below the level of vice-presidents. Labels: uncountable Example: The [wage] gap can also be attributed to . . . the difficulty they have had in penetrating the so-called glass ceiling, a bias barrier that keeps so many women from moving beyond middle management.
Word: entheses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enthesis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: handegg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hand + egg. The jocular implication is that the name football ought to denote using the foot to propel a ball-shaped [i.e. spherical] object, which is the usual case for soccer, as opposed to using the hand to propel an egg-shaped [i.e. spheroid] object. Pronunciation: /ˈhændɛɡ/ 1. Any of the sports that are called football but are played mainly with the hands and with a prolate spheroid ball; that is, American football and (less often) Canadian, Australian and rugby football (including league and union varieties). Labels: humorous, slang, uncountable Example: Football is certainly a misnomer, for the game is played not with the feet but with the hands, and the ball is not a ball but an egg. I propose that the game be played with the feet and with a ball, or else that it be called “hand-egg”. Example: Yes, but would anyone show up for a game of handegg? 2. The ball used to play such a game. Labels: countable, humorous, slang
Word: vestibuled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vestibule + -ed. 1. Having vestibules. Labels: not-comparable Example: On the Ashford line 36 services operate daily ; of these six each way serve the halts, and are formed of one of two ex-L.B. & S.C. vestibuled two-coach push-and pull sets. [...] At Ore all the electric stock is cleaned and stabled, including eight vestibuled London sets stationed there. Example: Following this line, I soon came upon a yellow, vestibuled car numbered 1852—of a plain, double-trucked type common from 1900 to 1910.
Word: hand-eggs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hændɛɡz/ 1. plural of hand-egg Labels: form-of, plural
Word: handeggs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhændɛɡz/ 1. plural of handegg Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Virgilian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Virgil + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to Virgil (Roman writer) Example: This Virgilian diversion, together with the spectral thoughts incident to All Hallows’ Eve with its Witch-Sabbaths on the hills, produced in me last Monday night a Roman dream of such supernal clearness and vividness, and such titanic adumbrations of hidden horror, that I verily believe I shall some day employ it in fiction. Example: Through Mr. Burroughs, he met the other future luminaries of the Beat Generation and became, in the words of Mr. Burroughs's biographer, Ted Morgan, “a sort of Virgilian guide to the lower depths.”
Word: Virgilian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Virgil + -ian. 1. An age forming part of the Carboniferous.
Word: gw Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of good work. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: dehorter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dehort + -er. 1. Someone who dehorts; a dissuader. Labels: obsolete
Word: PITs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of PIT Labels: form-of, plural
Word: PIOs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of PIO Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tentet Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of decet
Word: undent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + dent. 1. To remove a dent from. Labels: transitive Example: Can you undent the milk jug?
Word: undate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin undātus. 1. undated; rising and falling in waves
Word: undate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + date. 1. A casual meeting arranged between two people that may resemble a date (romantic outing) but is not intended as one. Labels: informal Example: […] an undate, all you're really doing is hanging out with a new acquaintance for a few hours. Example: […] suggest an undate if he asks you out. Guys will normally welcome the idea […]
Word: CLDC Part of Speech: noun 1. Connected limited device configuration 2. Characteristic Differential Leucocyte Count
Word: CLDCs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of CLDC Labels: form-of, plural
Word: CDCs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of CDC Labels: form-of, plural
Word: verberate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin verberatus, past participle of verberare (“to beat”), from verber (“a lash, a whip”). 1. To hit; to beat; to strike Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The sound […] rebounds again and verberates the skies. Example: You shall be verberated, and reverberated, my exact piece of stolidity
Word: vestigate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin vestigatus, past participle of vestigare. See vestige. 1. To investigate. Labels: nonstandard, obsolete Example: This attempt to vestigate these causes […] will not, perhaps, be deemed an unnecessary digression.
Word: draw away Part of Speech: verb 1. To move away. Labels: intransitive Example: She looked at me and then turned and glanced at my arm about her, and then she seemed quite suddenly to realize the scantiness of her apparel and drew away, covering her face with her palms and blushing furiously. 2. To lead away, or cause to move away, by luring. Labels: transitive Example: An almost 19th-century atmosphere has returned to Beetham since the M6 motorway drew away the traffic which used to roar along its main street.
Word: Mix Part of Speech: name 1. A surname. 2. An unincorporated community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. From the surname.