nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: latticings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of latticing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: navarchy Part of Speech: noun 1. The office or state of a navarch. Labels: uncountable
Word: unexpedient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + expedient. 1. Obsolete form of inexpedient. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: intertangle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From inter- + tangle. 1. To entangle; to intertwine. Labels: transitive
Word: intertangled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From intertangle + -ed. 1. Entangled, intertwined. Example: [F]rom a cavern's mouth, o'ergrown / With moss and intertangled vines, / A streamlet leaps into the light / And murmurs over root and stone / In a melodious undertone; […]
Word: intertangled Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From intertangle + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of intertangle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: intertangles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of intertangle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: intertangling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of intertangle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Longfellowian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Longfellow + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), American poet and professor.
Word: underfurrow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From under- + furrow. 1. To cover as if under a furrow; to plow in. Labels: transitive Example: to underfurrow seed or manure
Word: underfurrow Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + furrow. 1. Under a furrow. Labels: not-comparable
Word: underfurrowed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of underfurrow Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: underfurrowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of underfurrow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: underfurrows Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of underfurrow Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: titulary Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of titular. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: titulary Part of Speech: noun 1. A person invested with a title. 2. The set of titles or names held by a person. Example: The Kushite titularies are characterised from the earliest preserved titulary (1/4, 5) through the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty till the 5th century BC by a strong reliance on Egyptian titularies of the Old-, Middle- and New Kingdoms.
Word: unswear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + swear. 1. To recall a previously sworn oath. Example: The Ape was glad to end the strife so light , And there - to swore ; for who would not oft swear , And oft unswear , a diadem to bear ? Example: unswear that oath again, I'll tell you all;
Word: unswearing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unswear Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unswears Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unswear Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unswore Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of unswear Labels: form-of, past
Word: bridler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bridle + -er. 1. Someone or something that bridles (puts a bridle on). 2. Someone or something that restrains and governs, like with a bridle. Example: The Prelats which boaſt themſelves the only bridlers of Schiſm, God knows have been ſo cold and backward both there and with us to repreſs Hereſie and idolatry, that either through their careleſſneſs or their craft all this miſchief is befaln.
Word: bridlers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bridler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: moonling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From moon + -ling. Compare moon-related origins of lunacy and lunatic. 1. A simpleton; a lunatic. Labels: archaic Example: I have a husband, and a two-legg'd one, But such a moonling, as no wit of man, Or roses can redeem from being an ass. Example: Of the members composing this household, there are but two of whom it will be necessary to speak in this connection; and these are the moonling, or simpleton, and the sister of the wife. 2. One who is lovesick; one who moons over a beloved. Labels: archaic, poetic Example: The sky was not quite as blue as her—Thunderation, he was no moonling! Example: Remaining there long enough to hear Those words that moonling longs to hear...I love you 3. A changeling. Example: "I see. He's a black man. But Jacob Millhaven is not black. Eldridge was left on his doorstep as a baby, and the philosopher adopted him." "Oh! Then he's a moonling! He doesn't seem to suffer from any stigma." 4. Someone from the Moon. Example: A shy moonling hangs on the suit of an astronaut and is taken back to earth. Example: For a given walking speed, will an earthling astronaut or a moonling do less, equal, or more work when taking a stroll on the Moon, and by what factor?
Word: moonlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of moonling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nuisancer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nuisance + -er. 1. Someone who makes or causes a nuisance.
Word: nuisancers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nuisancer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Raphaelism Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Raphael + -ism. 1. The principles, or style of painting introduced by the Italian painter Raphael
Word: stinter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stint + -er. 1. Someone or something that stints.
Word: stinters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stinter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vicenary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin vīcēnārius, from vīcēnus (“twenty each”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming adjectives and related nouns”). Doublet of vicenarious. Ultimately cognate with English vigenary. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪsən(ə)ɹi/, /ˈvaɪ-/, /ˈvɪsəˌnɛɹi/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or based on the number twenty. Labels: not-comparable Example: vicenary scale Example: vicenary numeration
Word: vicenary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vīcēnārius, from vīcēnus (“twenty each”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming adjectives and related nouns”). Doublet of vicenarious. Ultimately cognate with English vigenary. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪsən(ə)ɹi/, /ˈvaɪ-/, /ˈvɪsəˌnɛɹi/ 1. An officer in command of twenty men. Labels: archaic, obsolete Example: Delicat, another Captaine, or vicenarie in Sara, hauing vnder him twenty assistants.
Word: unowed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + owed. 1. Not owed. Labels: not-comparable Example: to pay money unowed 2. ownerless Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: The unowed interest of proud - swelling state
Word: hierourgy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hiero- + -urgy. 1. A sacred or holy work or worship. Labels: no-plural, obsolete Example: consummating the spiritual hierourgy
Word: inimicous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin inimicus. 1. Obsolete form of inimical. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Hemlock and Rue are said to be inimicous
Word: multiformous Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of multiform. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: unicapsular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From uni- + capsular. 1. Having only one capsule to each flower. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: leachy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From leach + -y. 1. Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous. Example: Gravelly and sandy soils may be leachy.
Word: mythologizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mythologize + -er. Pronunciation: /mɪˈθɒləd͡ʒaɪzə(ɹ)/ 1. Someone or something that mythologizes. Example: Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer; […]
Word: mythologizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mythologizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arcograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin arcus (“arc”) + -graph. 1. An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point.
Word: arcographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arcograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: squadroned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of squadron Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: squadroned Part of Speech: adj 1. Formed into squadrons. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: They gladly thither haste, and, by a quire Of squadroned Angels, hear his carol sung
Word: ushership Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From usher + -ship. 1. The office or position of an usher. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: usherships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ushership Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dihexagonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From di- + hexagonal. 1. Consisting of two hexagonal parts united. Labels: not-comparable Example: A dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base. 2. Having twelve similar faces. Labels: not-comparable Example: a dihexagonal prism
Word: firebare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English fȳrbǣr, fȳrbǣre (“fire-bearing; fiery”, adjective). 1. A beacon or lighthouse Labels: obsolete
Word: firebares Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of firebare Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unanimate Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of unanimous. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: unguinous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin unguinosus, from unguinis, from unguen (“fat, ointment”). 1. Consisting of, or resembling, fat or oil; unctuous; oleaginous. Labels: dated
Word: unifoliolate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From uni- + foliolate. 1. Having only one leaflet. Labels: not-comparable Example: The leaves of the orange tree are unifoliolate.
Word: unifoliolate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From uni- + foliolate. 1. A plant of this kind.
Word: untimeous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + timeous. 1. Untimely. Labels: archaic Example: restrain his irreverent and untimeous jocularity
Word: vitriolate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vitriol + -ate. 1. A sulfate. Labels: obsolete
Word: vitriolate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From vitriol + -ate (verb-forming suffix). 1. To convert into, or change to, a vitriol; to make into sulphuric acid or a sulphate. 2. To subject to the action of, or impregnate with, vitriol.
Word: vitriolates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vitriolate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disaffirmance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + affirmance. 1. The act of disaffirming; denial. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal Labels: countable, uncountable Example: disaffirmance of judgement 3. Annulment of a contract or obligation, such as one agreed by someone who was underage at the time, and has attained age of majority. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: Under California law, a minor may make a contract in the same manner as an adult, “subject to the power of disaffirmance,” according to the judge’s decision. In this case, the six children who signed on to Epic’s end user license agreement, which contains the arbitration clause, claim that by filing the lawsuit they have disaffirmed the agreement and that they are no longer bound by it.
Word: disaffirmances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disaffirmance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fevery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fever + -y. 1. Similar to a fever; feverlike. 2. Feverish. Labels: obsolete Example: O Rome, in vvhat a ſickneſſe art thou fall'n! / Hovv dangerous, and deadly! vvhen thy head / Is drovvn'd in ſleepe, and all thy body feu'ry! Example: And that there be no fevery heats nor colds
Word: unsimplicity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + simplicity. 1. Absence of simplicity; complication or complexity. Labels: uncountable Example: [Eustace] then went home flattering himself that he had taken in parson, clerk, and people; not knowing in his simple unsimplicity, and cunning foolishness, that each good wife in the parish was saying to the other, "He turned Protestant? The devil turned monk! He's only after Mistress Salterne, the young hypocrite."
Word: mopstick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mop + stick. 1. The long handle of a mop. Example: THE TWITCH is a short stick of strong ash, about the size of a mopstick, 2. In an old pianoforte movement, a rod that raises the damper as the key is depressed. Labels: historical
Word: mopsticks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mopstick Labels: form-of, plural
Word: regentess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From regent + -ess. 1. A female regent.
Word: regentesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of regentess Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bifronted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bi- + fronted. 1. Having two fronts. Labels: not-comparable Example: The condition / Of our affaires exacts a double care, / And like bifronted Ianus, vvee muſt looke / Backvvard, as forvvard: […]
Word: Massingerian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Massinger + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to Philip Massinger (1583–1640), English dramatist.
Word: inofficiously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From inofficious + -ly. 1. In an inofficious manner; without officiousness.
Word: tricostate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tri- + costate. 1. Having three ribs or three costae Labels: not-comparable
Word: binucleolate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bi- + nucleolate. 1. Having two nucleoli. Labels: not-comparable
Word: fittable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fit + -able. 1. Capable of being fitted. Example: easily fittable spare parts 2. suitable; fit Labels: obsolete
Word: palacious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From palace + -ious. 1. Obsolete form of palatial. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: great Palacious Houses
Word: weighage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From weigh + -age. 1. A duty or toll paid for weighing merchandise. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If Goods are to be brought Home to your own House, there are Charges for Weighage, Cranage, Porterage, Wharfage, Cartage, Lighterage, &c.
Word: weighages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of weighage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: decharm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + charm. Compare French décharmer. Pronunciation: /diːˈtʃɑːm/ 1. To free from a charm, or charm (charisma); to disenchant. Labels: transitive
Word: decharmed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of decharm Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: decharming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of decharm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: decharms Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of decharm Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ludificatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin ludificatorius. 1. enjoyable; fun Labels: obsolete
Word: metamerically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From metameric + -ally. 1. In a metameric manner, by metamerism. Labels: not-comparable Example: metamerically arranged muscles Example: metamerically segmented animals
Word: omegoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From omega + -oid. 1. Having the form of the Greek capital letter omega, Ω.
Word: vesbium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Vesuvius, contracted to Vesbius, -ium. 1. A supposed rare metallic element extracted from Vesuvian lava. Later tests showed it to be a composite. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: janizarian Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to the janizaries or their government. Labels: not-comparable Example: But notwithstanding this resemblance , which I allow , I never shall so far injure the janizarian republic of Algiers as to put it in comparison for every sort of crime , turpitude , and oppression , with the Jacobin republic of Paris.
Word: undulous Part of Speech: adj 1. undulating, wavy Labels: obsolete
Word: exanimous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin exanimus, exanimis; ex (“out, without”) + anima (“life”). Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzænɪməs/, /ɛkˈsænɪməs/ 1. lifeless; dead Labels: obsolete Example: those exanimous and moribund bodies
Word: oversprang Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of overspring Labels: form-of, past
Word: overspring Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overspringen, equivalent to over- + spring. Compare Dutch overspringen, German überspringen. 1. To rise above, or spring or leap over. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: overspringing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overspring Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: oversprings Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overspring Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: oversprung Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of overspring Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: peastone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pea + stone. 1. pisolite Labels: countable, uncountable 2. pea gravel Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: peastones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of peastone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: engagedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From engaged + -ly. 1. In an engaged, interested or involved way.
Word: knarl Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of gnarl (“A knot in wood”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: knarls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of knarl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misaventure Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of misadventure. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: misaventures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misaventure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Hollandish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Holland + -ish. 1. Dutch. Labels: archaic
Word: oxamate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oxamic acid + -ate. 1. The carboxylate anion of oxamic acid.
Word: oxamates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oxamate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: uncautious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + cautious. 1. Not cautious.
Word: uncongeal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntsder. Proto-Germanic *anda- Proto-West Germanic *anda- Old English and- Old English on- Middle English on- English un- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *gel- Latin gelū Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin gelō Latin congelōder. Middle French congelerbor. Middle English congelen English congeal English uncongeal From un- + congeal. 1. To become liquid again; to thaw. Labels: intransitive Example: Like soften'd airs that blowing steal, / When meres begin to uncongeal, / The sweet church bells began to peal. 2. To make less rigid Labels: transitive 3. To become less rigid Labels: transitive
Word: uncongealing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of uncongeal Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: uncongeals Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of uncongeal Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: vehiculary Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of vehicular. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: wastorel Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of wastrel. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: wastorels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wastorel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antiperistatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + peristatic. 1. Pertaining to antiperistasis. Labels: not-comparable Example: antiperistatic cycle Example: antiperistatic effect
Word: have a snootful Part of Speech: verb 1. To be drunk. Labels: idiomatic Example: Billy usually didn’t drink much, because the war had ruined his stomach, but he certainly had a snootful now, and he was being unfaithful to his wife Valencia for the first and only time. Example: “It strikes me as a dish invented by men in a hunt camp,” he added, “men who have a snootful, who say, ‘What would happen if we took this bird and put it in this bird?’”
Word: forevouched Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fore- + vouched. 1. simple past and past participle of forevouch Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: forevouched Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fore- + vouched. 1. Avowed or affirmed in advance. Labels: not-comparable Example: I meane hereafter to make a more liberall discourse of them in the forevouched booke of their liues, to be opened at large with all suche worthye actions as they haue performed. Example: Sure her offence Must be of such unnatural degree, That monsters it, or your forevouched affection Fall into taint,
Word: lampoonry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lampoon + -ry. 1. Alternative form of lampoonery. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: opiniated Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of opinionated. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: overfierce Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + fierce. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvəˈfɪəs/, /ˌoʊvɚˈfɪɹs/ 1. Excessively fierce; overly ferocious. Labels: rare Example: So he wrote to the squire, showing the letter to Catherine when it was done, lest there should be anything overfierce in it. It was the simple record of twelve months’ experience told with dignity and feeling. Henslowe was barely mentioned in it, and the chief burden of the letter was to implore the squire to come and inspect certain portions of his property with his own eyes. The rector would be at his service any day or hour. Example: In other respects also his book is a severe and overfierce indictment against the century for its still-continued failures and its wonderful achievements and correspondingly wonderful advantages.
Word: assentment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From assent + -ment. 1. assent; agreement Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: assentments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of assentment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: untrust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English untrust, untrost, untrist, likely from un- + trust. Cognate with Icelandic útraust (“untrust”). Compare also Swedish otro (“lack of faith, disbelief”). 1. Lack or absence of trust; mistrust. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Alternatively, untrust corresponds to the space between distrust and trust, in which an agent is positively trusted, but not sufficiently to cooperate with. Example: The absence of trust is sometimes called untrust (Marsh and Dibben, 2005). As most of the trust literature focuses on the positive aspect of trust, it is restricted to the simple dichotomy between trust and untrust. 2. The zone representing everything that originates outside of the firewall. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: You have only two zones (admins and untrust), so there are two intra-zone policy contexts (admins to admins and untrust to untrust ) and two inter-zone policy contexts ( admins to untrust and untrust to admins ) . Example: The untrust zone is designed typically for the Internet or other undesirable places.
Word: untrust Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English untrust, untriste, probably from Old Norse útraustr (“untrustworthy”). Cognate with Icelandic útraustur. 1. Faithless; distrustful. Labels: archaic
Word: untrust Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English untrust, untriste, probably from Old Norse útraustr (“untrustworthy”). Cognate with Icelandic útraustur. 1. To fail to trust; to distrust. Example: As to pray and not to trust, so to trust and not to expect, to trust and then to murmur, to trust and to untrust, whiles we are speaking, to get the soul to put it selfe upon Christ , and before we have done speaking, to pluck of the soul againe, to deface our own fealing, to cast away our confidence, this is ill, very ill . Example: upon the verity thereof I am content to die, and ready to lay down my life; and hope your charity to me a dying man, will be such as not to untrust me therein; especially since it is notoriously adminiculate by act of secret Council , and yet denied upon oath by the principal officers of state present in Council at the making of said act, and whom the act bears to have been present; 2. To mark or flag (something) as untrustworthy. Example: To untrust one document, you have to untrust them all.· Example: […] to untrust (if delete is not possible) a certificate from macOS using Keychain Access.
Word: geothermometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From geo- + thermometer. 1. A proxy that allows for geothermometry, the determination of the temperature of a geological material from the past or existing at great depth. Example: The geothermometer is often used to calculate the deep temperatures of geothermal reservoirs on the basis of water-rock equilibrium in the exploration of geothermal resources. Example: The sulphate-water geothermometer indicates that the deep hot water is at 250°C. 2. A thermometer designed for measuring extremely high temperatures below ground level. Labels: obsolete Example: Walferdin's registering thermometer and the geothermometer of Magnus are constructed on this principle. Example: It is most important to notice that the experiment at Sperenberg shews that there is no regular, uninterrupted increase of temperature corresponding to the increase of depth, but that the increase of heat occurs more slowly at very great depths; in other words, that the degrees of the geothermometer grow longer as it descends.
Word: geothermometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of geothermometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anemonin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anemone + -in. 1. An acrid toxic substance obtained from some species of anemone. Labels: uncountable
Word: uropodal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From uropod + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to a uropod. Labels: not-comparable Example: uropodal exopod Example: uropodal plate
Word: monoxylous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See monoxylon. Pronunciation: /məˈnɒk.sɪ.ləs/, /məˈnɑk.sɪ.ləs/ 1. Made from a single piece of wood. Labels: not-comparable Example: a monoxylous canoe Example: monoxylous coffins
Word: quintilliard Part of Speech: num Etymology: From French quintilliard, equivalent to quint- + -illiard. 1. A thousand million million million million million: 1 followed by thirty-three zeros, 10³³. Labels: rare Example: A second computator, taking up the inquiry at the point at which it has been left by the first proposer of the query, has shown that the number of “ascendants” increasing in geometrical ratio with each generation back, the number of forbears computed to the 37th degree, exceeds the total population of the earth from that time downwards; while, counted up to half the time from Adam, we come to a number of quintilliards probably large enough to people all the planets of our system; proving, according to the judicious reflection of this novel inquirer, that the entire human race must have had the same grandfathers and grandmothers over and over again, and that, consequently, so far from priding themselves on imaginary superiority of pedigree, all men should regard one another as cousins. Example: With the Triple DES implementation of DES, there are 5 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 (5.1 quintilliard) or more possible encryption keys that can be used.
Word: stationariness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stationary + -ness. 1. the state or quality of being stationary Labels: uncountable Example: The normal condition of every species on this planet is not progress but stationariness. Example: In olfaction, these features might be chemical species, chirality, concentration, location, stationariness, or rate of encounter.
Word: splashers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of splasher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: soakingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From soaking + -ly. 1. To the point of soaking; imparting extreme wetness. Example: The temperature at noon had risen to 33 deg., and everything was more soakingly wet than ever, if that was possible. Example: There are people who even in this enlightened age vegetate upon the face of the earth and know not these things, and a very great many more who do not know that they ought to select a soakingly wet day to appreciate the Falls of Niagara at their highest value.
Word: slantindicular Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of slantendicular. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Why not a 'slantindicular line,' as Mr Slick expresses it?" Example: "The elevators inside this rock can move in just about any direction except slantindicular.
Word: slaken Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of slacken. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: I was glad when we were very politely invited to get out of the train and walk a plank over a puddle that for a moment submerged the track; glad when we were advised to foot it over a trestle-bridge that sagged in the swift current of a swollen stream; and gladder still when our locomotive began to puff and blow and slaken its pace as we climbed up into the mouth of a ravine fragrant with the warm scents of summer--albeit we could boast but a solitary brace of cars, and these small ones, and not overcrowded at that. Example: And so she swept in, with her arm round Lucia's waist; while Elsley stood looking after her, well enough satisfied with her reception of him, and only hoping that the stream of words would slaken after a while. "
Word: skimmingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From skimming + -ly. 1. in a skimming manner Example: Whether sleeping, quarrelling, or playing, whether curious, frightened, or angry, its interest is continuously humorous, but the Adelie penguin in the water is another thing; as it darts to and fro a fathom or two below the surface, as it leaps porpoise-like into the air or swims skimmingly over the rippling surface of a pool, it excites nothing but admiration. Example: Yesterday, beside preaching a sermon more than half new, and attending a funeral (out of the society), I read skimmingly more than half Nichol's "Architecture of the Heavens."
Word: discomfortable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare Old French desconfortable, equivalent to discomfort + -able or dis- + comfortable. 1. Causing discomfort or uneasiness Labels: obsolete Example: an assassin who misses his aim and flounders into penitence much as that discomfortable drama misses its point and stumbles into vacuity 2. uncomfortable Labels: obsolete
Word: unguled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin ungula (“a claw”), + -ed. 1. Having hoofs of a tincture different from the body. Labels: not-comparable Example: Supporters, dexter, a unicorn ar. armed, maned, and unguled or; sinister, a lion, gu. Motto, In te Domine speravi, In thee , 0 Lord , have I put my trust. Example: Supporters - Two pegasi, ermine, winged, bridled, crined, and unguled, or, each charged on the shoulder with a fleur de lis, azure. Motto - Virtute, non verbis.
Word: singlestick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From single + stick. 1. A one-handed wooden stick used for fencing in place of a sword. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists. Example: Scottish broadsword training methods included practice with the singlestick. The singlestick is a wooden rod (usually ash) with a basket hilt. Length was usually 3 feet (just under a meter). 2. A martial art, sport or exercise using a cudgel or backsword. Labels: uncountable
Word: sirname Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly influenced by erroneous analysis as sire-name (per Brewer's 1877 Errors of Speech and of Spelling). 1. Archaic spelling of surname. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Fair Helen's sirname, therefore, depends upon the period at which she lived, which it is now impossible to ascertain. Example: These names were not always used; commonly two, and sometimes only the sirname.
Word: sirname Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly influenced by erroneous analysis as sire-name (per Brewer's 1877 Errors of Speech and of Spelling). 1. Archaic spelling of surname. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: feriation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ferior (“to keep holiday”), from feriae (“holidays”). Pronunciation: /fɛɹiˈeɪʃən/, /fɪəɹiˈeɪʃən/ 1. A holiday or break from work or effort. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men. Example: Thus ſleep may properly be defined, a certain feriation of the external ſenſes
Word: sirnames Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sirname Labels: form-of, plural
Word: throatwort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From throat + wort. 1. A plant, Trachelium caeruleum (syn. Campanula trachelium), with a throat-shaped corolla, once considered a remedy for sore throats. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Dense blazingstar Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: throatworts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of throatwort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apieces Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From a- + pieces. 1. Into pieces; asunder. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: being torn apieces
Word: witheredness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From withered + -ness. 1. The state of being withered. Labels: uncountable
Word: scatteringly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From scattering + -ly. 1. in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering. Example: She pushed cautiously down to the edge of the rocks where the bushes grew scatteringly, pretending to herself that she wanted a bit of wild geranium that flourished in a crevice far below the top. Example: 'My father went straight to the hiding-place in full sight of everybody, and got out the fish-hooks and brought them and flung them scatteringly over my head, so that they fell in glittering confusion on the platform at my lover's knee.
Word: furrowy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From furrow + -y. 1. Having furrows. Example: A double hill ran up his furrowy forks / Beyond the thick-leaved platans of the vale.
Word: helminthologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From helmintholog(y) + -ist. By surface analysis, helminth + -o- + -log + -ist. 1. A zoologist in the field of helminthology.
Word: helminthologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of helminthologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: powdry Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of powdery. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: empoisoner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From empoison + -er. 1. A poisoner. Labels: obsolete Example: For when Seianus perceiued that Drufus, empoisoners escaped vnpunished
Word: empoisoners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of empoisoner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Jovinianist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Jovinian + -ist. 1. An adherent to the doctrines of Jovinian, a monk of the fourth century, who denied the virginity of Mary and opposed the asceticism of his time. Labels: historical
Word: Jovinianists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Jovinianist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: underviewer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + viewer. 1. An underlooker; the manager responsible for a colliery in the absence of the viewer. Labels: historical
Word: underviewers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of underviewer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reunitedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From reunited + -ly. 1. Having been reunited. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: I very soon found that though a large number of vills either severally or re-unitedly contained five hides or a multiple, yet many did not fall under this rule. Example: To reciprocate I’ll just make a date with you right now for next year’s Reunion. Let’s get back early and stay late. […] Yours reunitedly, […]
Word: notableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From notable + -ness. 1. notability; the quality of being notable. Labels: uncountable
Word: upstir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From up- + stir. 1. Commotion; disturbance, tumult. Example: But yee […] ought to be like sheep to your King, who ought to be like a Shepheard unto you, even in the time when your profit was sought, and better redresse was intended then your upstirres and unquietnesse could obtaine […] Example: The world is now in an upstir because this association is about to hold its great convention in New York City
Word: upstir Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + stir. 1. To disturb, cause a commotion, stir up. Example: And conscience to upstir him […] Example: […] upstirring of the modern democrat against the aristocrat […]
Word: drearisome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dreary + -some. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪəɹisəm/, /ˈdɹɪɹisəm/ 1. Characterised or marked by dreariness. Example: Ere the wet, wintry morn , with its drearisome light
Word: norice Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of nurse. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: norices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of norice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unhelmet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + helmet. 1. To remove the helmet from. Labels: transitive Example: In spite of all that Durward could say of the slightness of his hurt, he was compelled to dismount, and to seat himself on a bank, and unhelmet himself 2. To take off a helmet Labels: intransitive Example: Due to security protocols—ones I had devised—I had to unhelmet at the front gate and a guard with a slavering dog met me in the circular drive.
Word: unhelmeting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unhelmet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unhelmets Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unhelmet Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: uniliteral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From uni- + literal. 1. Consisting of a single letter; single-letter. Labels: not-comparable Example: uniliteral phonograms Example: uniliteral phonemes
Word: unexperience Part of Speech: noun 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- English experience English unexperience From un- (“lack of”) + experience (noun). 1. Obsolete form of inexperience. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: unexperience Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntsder. Proto-Germanic *anda- Proto-West Germanic *anda- Old English and- Old English on- Middle English on- English un- English experience English unexperience From un- (“inverse of”) + experience (verb). 1. To undo the act of experiencing something; to erase the memory of having experienced something.
Word: unreverence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + reverence. 1. Lack of reverence; irreverence. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: descanter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From descant + -er. 1. One who descants.
Word: descanters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of descanter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: megalophonous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Either an adapted borrowing of Ancient Greek μεγαλόφωνος (megalóphōnos) + -ous, or independently from megalo- + -phonous. 1. Strident or pompous in expression; vociferous. Labels: literary, rare Example: Let the megalophonous grasshopper sound a blast and summon hither the perfunctory and circumforaneous TumbleBug, to the end that excavations may be made and learning gather new treasures. Example: The world loves wit, but is all aweary of those megalophonous burros who unbraid their ears and bray at men who are striving in all earnestness to solve the industrial problem. 2. Loud. Labels: literary, rare Example: The doors were closed against further admissions at 1 A. M., but not before a dozen callow youths had got in, their heads already buzzing with wine and their voices megalophonous with song. Example: “I hear some hard words passed between you?” “Yes; he called me a megalophonous megalasaurus,^([sic – meaning megalosaurus]) To which I retorted that, in comparison with him, the antediluvian cyclepteridæ would not have been in it
Word: purse-proud Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From purse + proud. 1. Haughty in the possession of riches.
Word: registrarship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From registrar + -ship. 1. The office or position of a registrar. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: registrarships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of registrarship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wivehood Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of wifehood. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: That girdle gave the vertue of chast love And wivehood true to all that did it beare
Word: bookmonger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From book + monger. 1. A bookseller. Labels: archaic
Word: bookmongers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bookmonger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: improving lease Part of Speech: noun 1. An extended lease to induce the tenant to make improvements to the premises. Labels: Australia, historical Example: Cheltenham Farm on the Canning River, consisting of 5,300 acres, belonging to Messrs Clark and Spyers, will be let on an improving lease at a moderate rent. There is a good house on the property, and 14 acres of excellent soil have been cultivated. The straw will be given up to the tenant. This is an excellent station for a store and public House.
Word: improving leases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of improving lease Labels: form-of, plural
Word: urosome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From uro- + -some. 1. The abdomen or postabdomen of an arthropod
Word: urosomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of urosome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: affectationist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From affectation + -ist. 1. One who exhibits affectation. Example: Adamantiferous, etymologically correct, would never answer; but all except pedants or affectationists would be satisfied with diamond-producing. Example: Colour is a grand subject for our modern affectationists. The proof of a gift for colour would, according to them, appear to be that you do not see in any object the colour which people have seen in it since the beginning of the world […]
Word: affectationists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of affectationist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: endecagon Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hendecagon. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: embrew Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of imbrue. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Great ſhame it is, thing ſo diuine in vievv, / made for to be the vvorlds moſt ornament: / to make the bayte her gazers to embrevv, / good ſhames to be to ill an inſtrument.
Word: embrewed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of embrew Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: embrewed Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of imbrued. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: embrewing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of embrew Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: embrews Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of embrew Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hendecagons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hendecagon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: amphigoric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From amphigory + -ic. 1. Nonsensical; absurd 2. pertaining to an amphigory.
Word: duck mole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From duck + mole. 1. A platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Labels: rare
Word: duck moles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of duck mole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flusteration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fluster + -ation. 1. The state of being flustered; agitation. Labels: colloquial, countable, dated, uncountable Example: Bleſs me! ſaid ſhe, how ſoon theſe fine young Ladies will be put into fluſterations!
Word: flusterations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flusteration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wish-wash Part of Speech: noun 1. Any weak, thin drink. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Between the result of the above, and the ordinary wish-wash served as coffee, the difference is too great to be expressed. Example: The famous bohemian cafés, the Dôme, the Coupole and the Rotonde, still remained; the hooded iron stove still warmed the regulars settled beside the round tables from the wintry streets; the waiter, with the unvarying rudeness of Paris, served the "national coffee," that grayish-brown wish-wash which passed for coffee in Paris and which, like everything labeled "national," roused the suspicion that it wasn't what it was called but only resembled the real thing. 2. Talk, music, or art, or ideas that lack any value, substance, originality, or meaning; dreck. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is a thing that fails altogether to interest; a wish-wash that only serves to pass the time. Example: They confined their sermons on Sunday to the decorous wish-wash in which average men treated in a harmless way subjects to which the people were indifferent. 3. The sound of liquid sloshing Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Martha steadily turned and turned, and the cream within the snowy white sycamore box went 'wish-wash, wish-wash, wish-wash, playing, after all, a very delicious tune in the young farmer's ears, for it suggested yellow butter, and yellow butter suggested sovereigns, and sovereigns suggested home comforts and saving, and above all, the turning of that handle suggested the winning of just the very wife to occupy that home. Example: Then in the morning the washing of the deck; rush comes an engine pipe on the floor–ceases, is renewed, flourishes about, rushes again; then suddenly half a dozen brooms, wish-wash, wish-wash, scrib-scrub, scratching and roaring alternately.
Word: wish-wash Part of Speech: adj 1. Vapid; lackluster; mediocre Example: Of course we fear to address ourselves to those gentlemen whose reading is limited to the daily newspaper and novels of the wish-wash order. Example: To suit a degraded English taste, foreigners like the late Mr. Lŏhr, had to write down to the level of the wish-wash drawing-room ballad. 2. Unfocussed, meandering or impulsive Example: While you are sitting by the side of the placid Thames, under shades of your own planting, planning the operations of a next winter's campaign, we are in the wish-wash way at Margate, amidst deep caverns, high cliffs, and expanded waters, enjoying the less calm, but more sublime objects of Nature. Example: Be nothing, do nothing, say nothing, and the world will let you slip into eternity damned by your own wish-wash, willy-nilly life.
Word: wish-wash Part of Speech: verb 1. To slosh around. Example: And that night, with the stars jumping and the air lating cold (for we were up in the 40's), and the John wish-washing through the seas at three leagues the hour, MacMuir told me the story of Mungo Maxwell. Example: A little scalloped cove where weedy creatures Trail in and out, wish-washing on the tide . 2. To behave in a wishy-washy manner, to vacillate Example: Hain't been a fair election in 15 years to my knowing, and I am confident about what I am talking about, but I am getting sick and tired of this wish-washing about eating tickets; have known them to do this after election. Example: With his eyes glued on the fall elections, President Truman is wish-washing this country into certain war with Russia .
Word: wish-washes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wish-wash Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forkedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From forked + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being forked. Labels: uncountable
Word: forkiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From forky + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being forky. Labels: uncountable
Word: tungstenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tungsten + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌtʌŋˈstɛnɪk/ 1. Containing or pertaining to tungsten. Example: tungstenic material Example: tungstenic ores
Word: crapulas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crapula Labels: form-of, plural
Word: graminifolious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From oblique stem of Latin grāmen, grāminis (“grass, turf, herb, plant”) + -i- + folious (“leafy, like a leaf”). 1. Bearing leaves that resemble blades of grass. Labels: archaic
Word: starproof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From star + -proof. 1. Impervious to the light of the stars. Labels: nonce-word, not-comparable, poetic Example: O'er the smooth enamelled green, / Where no print of step hath been, / Follow mc, as I sing / And touch the warbled string, / Under the shady roof / Of branching elm star-proof. Example: The thick, unbroken cloud that covered all the sky was lifted toward the west above a deep of pure, pale yellow, while the glow of it streaming faintly over the creeping river, and the sodden meadows folded as in a mystic haze, the massed darkness of the church, and the "star-proof" blackness of the yews beside it.