nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: obedible Part of Speech: adj 1. obedient Labels: obsolete Example: […] though spirits have nothing material in their nature, which that fire should work upon; yet by the judgment of the Almighty Arbiter of the World, justly willing their torment, they may be made most sensible of pain, and by the obedible submission of their created nature, wrought upon immediately by their appointed tortures […]
Word: unexpectation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + expectation. 1. Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Surely, these are no small disadvantages: as every other evil, so this especially, is aggravated by our unexpectation.
Word: viary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin viarius, from via (“a way, road”). 1. Of or pertaining to roads, or occurring on roads. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: Oʻahu Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Oahu. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: This essential guide to Oʻahu’s beaches begins at Ala Moana Regional Park and continues counter-clockwise around the island—the traditional route most visitors and residents take when touring the island’s scenic points. Example: Samuel Kamakau, a bit younger than [David] Malo (he was born in 1815), was also a Lahainaluna student and his family traced its descent from the priestly class of Oʻahu and Kauaʻi.
Word: belace Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + lace. 1. To fasten, as with a lace or cord. Labels: transitive 2. To cover or adorn with lace. Labels: transitive Example: How to belace and fringe soft Love 3. To beat with a strap. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Striped trews belaced with tiny silver bells covered his fat baker-legs
Word: belaced Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From belace + -ed. 1. Bordered or adorned with lace. Example: Tante Lydia's morning cap was quite as youthful as that of her niece, her flowered wrapper as belaced and befurbelowed as the lingière could make it, and her high heeled mules were at least two sizes too small, and slapped as she walked.
Word: belaced Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From belace + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of belace Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: belaces Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of belace Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: belacing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of belace Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: equivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin equus (“horse”) + vorare (“to eat greedily”). 1. That eats horsemeat. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: annihilatory Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, related to, or causing annihilation. Example: annihilatory sacrifice Example: annihilatory intentions
Word: scamperer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scamper + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈskæmpəɹə/, /ˈskæmpəɹɚ/, /ˈskeə̯mpəɹɚ/, /ˈskɛə̯mpəɹɚ/ 1. One who scampers. Example: They were no idle scamperers on the mountains that made these wild recesses first known […]
Word: scamperers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scamperer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Republic of South Africa Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of South Africa: a country in Southern Africa. 2. Synonym of South African Republic (“the Transvaal statelet from 1852 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland's annexation of it in 1902”). Labels: proscribed
Word: Kingdom of Lesotho Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Lesotho: a country in Southern Africa.
Word: annualist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From annual + -ist. 1. One who writes for, or edits, an annual. Example: On such occasions, the "reserved" pages were filled by some veteran annualist, like Mr. Alaric Attila Watts, editor of the "Literary Souvenir"; or perhaps Mr. Thomas Haynes Bailey, he who wrote "I'd be a Butterfly," and "Gaily the Troubadour," was persuaded to warble some such appropriate sentiment as this in the "Forget-Me-Not":
Word: annualists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of annualist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: water crow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called in allusion to its dark plumage. 1. The dipper (bird). 2. The coot, especially the Eurasian coot.
Word: water crows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of water crow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: centauries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of centaury Labels: form-of, plural
Word: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of Arabic الْجُمْهُورِيَّة الْجَزَائِرِيَّة الدِّيمُقْرَاطِيَّة الشَّعْبِيَّة (al-jumhūriyya l-jazāʔiriyya d-dīmuqrāṭiyya š-šaʕbiyya). 1. Official name of Algeria: a country in North Africa.
Word: pawnees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pawnee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chimneyed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chimney + -ed. 1. Featuring one or more chimneys. Labels: not-comparable Example: The cloud had sunk, and filled with fold on fold The chimneyed city; […] Example: He had watched the evening close in lurid and stormy across the chimneyed wastes of the black country, until the darkness covered all the land, and wiped out even the last memory of the dead day from the western sky.
Word: embryous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From embryo + -ous. 1. embryonic; undeveloped Labels: archaic 2. Of or pertaining to an embryon Example: embryous membrane
Word: effigial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From effigy + -al. 1. Relating to an effigy. Labels: not-comparable Example: effigial burning Example: effigial monument
Word: chirk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chirken, cherken, charken, from Old English ċearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to make a sound, crack”). Doublet of chark. Related also to crake, crack. 1. To become happier. Labels: especially, intransitive 2. To make happier. Labels: especially, transitive 3. To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.
Word: chirk Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English chirken, cherken, charken, from Old English ċearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to make a sound, crack”). Doublet of chark. Related also to crake, crack. 1. lively; cheerful; in good spirits Labels: New-England, US, colloquial
Word: chirurgic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French chirurgique surgical, Latin chirurgicus, Ancient Greek χειρουργικός (kheirourgikós, “surgical”), from χειρουργός (kheirourgós, “surgeon”), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). See chirurgeon, and compare surgical. 1. Of or pertaining to chirurgery; surgical. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: […] That all Ulcers which are ſtubborn or, as they are termed, rebellious, come under the Name of Cacoethic, a Word frequently met with in chyrurgic Treatiſes […] Example: "I brought my chirurgic instruments with me."
Word: chloritic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chlorite + -ic. 1. containing chlorite Labels: not-comparable Example: Next Reports Footwall Refrigeration Along a Detachment Fault: Implications for the Thermal Evolution of Core Complexes Jean Morrison, * J. Lawford Anderson Oxygen isotope compositions of epidote and quartz from chloritic breccias that underlie the detachment fault in the metamorphic core complex of the Whipple Mountains yielded quartz-epidote fractionations that range from 4.1 to 6.4 per mil and increase systematically toward the fault. Example: The river could still be followed a short distance further upwards; and in its bed there were disjointed fragments of talcose and chloritic rocks.
Word: jacksaw Part of Speech: noun 1. A bird, the merganser. 2. A heavy-duty hand saw. Example: The circular saw was 14% faster than the jacksaw, but caused more damage.
Word: jacksaws Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jacksaw Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kingdom of Belgium Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Belgium: a country in Western Europe.
Word: deflectable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From deflect + -able. Pronunciation: [dɪˈflɛktəbəɫ] 1. Capable of being deflected.
Word: choise Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of choice. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Ye shall haue choise of a thousande as good as shee, And ye must pardon hir, it is for lacke of witte. Example: Behold him now, according to his wish, at libertie: in that age, wherein Hercules had the choise, to take the way of vertue or of vice, reason or passion for his guide, and of these two must take one.
Word: choise Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of choice. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Muſes, I oft inuoked your holy ayde, / With choiſeſt flowers my ſpeech to engarland ſo; / That it deſpiſde in true but naked ſhew, / Might winne ſome grace in your ſweet grace arraid. Example: I doubt not but ye ſhall have more adoe to drive out dulleſt and lazieſt youth, our ſtocks and ſtubbs from the infinite deſire of ſuch a happy nurture, then we have now to hale and drag our choiſeſt and hopefulleſt wits to that aſinine feaſt of ſowthiſtles and brambles which is commonly ſet before them, as all the food and entertainment of their tendereſt and moſt docible age.
Word: Kingdom of Bhutan Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Bhutan: a country in South Asia.
Word: differest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: differ + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of differ Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: distinguishest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: distinguish + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of distinguish Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: distinguisheth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: distinguish + -eth 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of distinguish Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: choky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From choke + -y. 1. Alternative form of chokey. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It's worse," gulped a choky voice. Example: “He's won it!” he ses, in a choky voice. “It's Number I. Bob Pretty 'as won the prize.”
Word: choky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From choke + -y. 1. Alternative form of chokey. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Saudi Arabia: a country in West Asia, on the Arabian Peninsula.
Word: chronometrical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chronometric + -al. 1. Synonym of chronometric. Labels: not-comparable Example: The situations of the following places, which were either fixed by us or adapted from other authorities, served as the basis of the chronometrical determination of the longitudes of the intermediate parts. Example: Observations were made during portions of three lunations of the transit of the moon's bright limb and of such tabulated stars as differed but little in right ascension and declination from the moon, in order to obtain additional data to those furnished by chronometrical comparisons with the meridian of Boston for computing the longitude of this meridian line.
Word: Kingdom of Sweden Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Sweden: a country in Northern Europe.
Word: vineries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vinery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chrysalid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chrysalis + -id. 1. of or relating to a chrysalis. Labels: not-comparable Example: Dark: In Larva, Pupa, and Flight details the transformation from a chrysalid state of frustration--rendered here by a dark, mechanistic environment complete with droning soundscape--to a fleeting interlude of freedom. Example: The larva which is fed on honey first adopts a false chrysalid appearance and afterwards goes back to its earlier form, though the necessity for these transformations escapes us entirely.
Word: chrysalid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from French chrysalide. 1. Archaic form of chrysalis. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Of the other chrysalids seven are living at this date (15th October).
Word: churrascaria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese churrascaria. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʊˌɹæskəˈɹi.ə/, /t͡ʃʊˌɹɑːskəˈɹi.ə/ 1. A steakhouse where food in a churrasco style is served. Example: There are no sword-toting tarted-up gauchos to trouble you, and in all Al Primo Canto offers the churrascaria experience in a significantly more civilized manner than other spots for a lower price. Example: Brazilian churrascaria just blocks from its competitor Fogo de Chão.
Word: unobservance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + observance. 1. Lack or neglect of observance. Labels: uncountable Example: Among those uncontrouleable Levellers of the World, Fate, or Fortune, (in the Profane Lexicon, and in the Christians undiscovered Providence) may passe for the first; Opinion, and Time (or the Grave) for the other two. The two first require the more serious inquiry into, for the universality of their Power (and yet generall unobservance of it) and usefulnesse of its Contemplation in the occurences of life; the third is not lesse usefull, but a more common Theme, and so needs the lesse Descant.
Word: martern Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of marten. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: marterns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of martern Labels: form-of, plural
Word: solvible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From solve + -ible. 1. Obsolete form of solvable. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: vagrantly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From vagrant + -ly. 1. In a vagrant manner. Example: […] they understand [liberty] to mean nothing more than exemption from labour, and permission to leave the glebe to which they are confined, and wander vagrantly, like loosened cattle, into other pastures.
Word: churrasco Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish churrasco (“barbecue”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʊˈɹæskəʊ/, /t͡ʃʊˈɹɑːskəʊ/ 1. A type of barbecued steak, popular in Latin America. Labels: uncountable Example: Most of the old favorites--beef brisket, gumbo, churrasco, and Pine's famous Cajun green beans--are still around. Example: In addition to sandwiches, mini pizzas, and breakfast items like hot oatmeal, muffins, and croissants, Last Kiss offers Chilean specialties including empanadas, a churrasco sandwich (broiled sirloin steak with avocado, tomato, and mayo), sopapilla^([sic]) chips (a crispy version of the puffy fried bread) with cilantro sauce, and mate--the traditional South American herbal tea, served in a gourd.
Word: Kingdom of Swaziland Part of Speech: name 1. Former official name of Eswatini: a country in Southern Africa, until April 19, 2018. Labels: historical
Word: cicatricial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cicatrix + -ial. 1. Relating to or caused by a scar. Labels: not-comparable Example: It required a secondary operation to overcome some cicatricial contraction, and, on the whole, he had a very serviceable prepuce; but, what was more to the point, it prevented his ever being mistaken for a Turk. Example: This was apparently the result of the difficulty of isolating the vessels in the tangled mass of clot and cicatricial tissue surrounding them, and is a strong argument against too early interference.
Word: cindery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cinder + -y. 1. covered in cinders Labels: not-comparable Example: A new interstate blasted like an infinite airstrip straight through the hills toward the horizon; it had been done so brutally that we kept seeing on either side of the freeway corridor the stump-ends of the old cindery roads, and boarded-up tourist traps dangling precariously on the sheared hillsides. Example: The same snow lies over the fens and marshes and freezes Quixote's windmills to a standstill against the cindery Flemish sky.
Word: State of Eritrea Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Eritrea: a country in East Africa.
Word: Kingdom of Cambodia Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Cambodia: a country in Southeast Asia.
Word: Jason mask Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the mask worn by the character Jason Voorhees in the film Friday the 13th (1980). 1. A hard white hockey mask such as the one popularized by the character Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th films.
Word: Principality of Liechtenstein Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Liechtenstein: a microstate in Central Europe.
Word: circumspectness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From circumspect + -ness. 1. the state or quality of being circumspect Labels: uncountable Example: It must be granted, poor George Wilhelm's case demanded circumspectness. Example: "But if to the audacity of the design there be brought a commensurate circumspectness of execution, how then?"
Word: Kingdom of Norway Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Norway: a country in Northern Europe.
Word: cloyster Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of cloister. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: At the banquet the king took his station, incog. in a little closet made out of the cloyster of St. Stephen's, on the right side of the hall. Example: Davy Ramsey, his Majesty's clock-maker, had been informed, that there was a great quantity of treasure buried in the cloyster of Westminster-Abbey; he acquaints Dean Williams therewith, who was also then Bishop of Lincoln; the Dean gave him liberty to search after it, with this proviso, that if any was discovered, his church should have a share of it.
Word: cloyster Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of cloister. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: cloysters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cloyster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Samians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Samian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: filanders Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French filandres, from Latin filum (“thread”). 1. A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small thread-like worms (probably Capillaria), and of filaments of coagulated blood, stemming from the rupture of a vein. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: transportance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From transport + -ance. 1. transportation Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: give me swift transportance to those fields
Word: coiffured Part of Speech: adj 1. Styled; Having been arranged and cut, especially when in an elaborate style. Example: The elderly, snow-white-coiffured lady bolted before the group's self-appointed leader could perform his opening statement. Example: He thought she looked like some coiffured dog, with her foreign hair and the bright red beads at her neck, her jowls hanging down. 2. Resulting from elaborate training or construction. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: Liz Dalton Interiors called for spectacular treatments like crown moldings and coiffured overheads which Rybovich built from solid teak. Example: One aesthetic feature of the interior prominently displayed in Zhongguo jianzhu was the coiffured ceiling .
Word: coiffured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of coiffure Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: collicular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From colliculus + -ar. 1. Of or relating to the colliculus. Labels: not-comparable Example: Purified RGCs were cocultured with purified, DiI-labeled superior collicular neurons in the absence (A) or presence (B) of glia.
Word: combrous Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of cumbrous. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Henceforth I flie not Death, nor would prolong / Life much, bent rather now I may be quit / Faireſt and eaſieſt of this combrous charge, / Which I muſt keep till my appointed day / Of rendring up.
Word: Kingdom of the Netherlands Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of Dutch Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. 1. Official name of the Netherlands: a country consisting of the Netherlands per se, in Western Europe, as well as three other small island countries in the Caribbean, namely Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.
Word: fructescence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fructus (“fruit”) + -escence. 1. The maturing or ripening of fruit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Fructescence, or the fruiting season , is the time when vegetables scatter their ripe seeds
Word: fructescences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fructescence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: comminglement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From commingle + -ment. 1. mix, mixture Labels: archaic Example: There, Mr. Editor, you have a pleasing comminglement of romance and colloquialism. Example: In a word, Velasquez was a puzzling comminglement of the classic and the realist.
Word: bonnetless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bonnet + -less. 1. Without a bonnet. Labels: not-comparable Example: The sidewalks too were littered with men and women, hatless and bonnetless, who had rushed out of the houses.
Word: disporous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From di- + -sporous. 1. Having two spores. Labels: not-comparable
Word: foehood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From foe + -hood. 1. The state of being a foe; enmity. Labels: uncountable Example: c. 1642, William Bedell, letter Have you forgotten S. Hierome's and Ruffinus's deadly foehood which was rung over the world?
Word: plebiscitary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From plebiscite + -ary. 1. Of or pertaining to a plebiscite. Labels: not-comparable Example: plebiscitary democracy Example: plebiscitary presidency
Word: conoidal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From conoid + -al. 1. Having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape. Labels: not-comparable Example: And a moment later a conoidal bullet struck him square in the chest and knocked him flat in the dirt among his comrades. Example: Many different forms have been given to the heads of projectiles, as flat, ogival, hemispherical, conoidal, parabolic, blunt trifaced, etc.
Word: intastable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + tastable. 1. Incapable of being tasted. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: monorhyme Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mono- + rhyme. 1. A poem or rhyme scheme whose lines all end with the same rhyme. Example: Until 1629 no other rhyme scheme approaches the importance of monorhyme; in 1655–1729 alternating rhyme numbers over half of the total output, and for two of the next three generations it drops down to about a third.
Word: monorhyme Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mono- + rhyme. 1. Having a single rhyme Labels: not-comparable
Word: monorhymes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monorhyme Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paramorph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From para- + -morph. 1. A kind of pseudomorph in which there has been a change of physical characteristics without alteration of chemical composition, as in the change of aragonite to calcite.
Word: paramorphs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paramorph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: consentingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From consenting + -ly. 1. in a consenting manner, showing consent Example: It'll be more sociable," the masseuse suggested, lifting her bag to the table and covering its shiny onyx surface with bottles and polishers. Mrs. Spragg consentingly slipped the rings from her small mottled hands. Example: Yet, as he talked, Dosia became curiously aware that from his position directly across the room he was covertly watching her as she sat consentingly listening to George Sutton, whose round face was bending over very near, his thick coat sleeve pinning down the filmy ruffles of hers as it rested on the carved arm of the little sofa.
Word: objectize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From object + -ize. 1. To turn into, or treat as, an object; to objectify. Example: […] an indestructible power with two opposite and counteracting forces, which,[…], we may call the centrifugal and centripetal forces. The intelligence in the one tends to objectize itself, and in the other to know itself in the object.
Word: objectized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of objectize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: objectizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of objectize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: objectizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of objectize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: refrangibilities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of refrangibility Labels: form-of, plural
Word: refrangibility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French réfrangibilité. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈfɹændʒɪbəl/ 1. The quality of being refrangible. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: consideringly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From considering + -ly. 1. in a manner suggesting one is considering, pensively Example: Sara surveyed his goodly proportions consideringly. Example: Miss Howe signed her note and bit consideringly at the end of her pen.
Word: hypnum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any member of the genus Hypnum of mosses.
Word: hypnums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hypnum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: constrainedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From constrained + -ly. 1. in a constrained manner; subject to constraint Example: As his glance met that of Mr. Calvert, he bowed constrainedly, and the red of his face deepened.
Word: comminglements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of comminglement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contextless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From context + -less. 1. without context Labels: not-comparable Example: Like their fellow Glaswegians in Arab Strap, Scatter like to add contextless and slightly cryptic monologues to their music--an unfortunate predilection, since the delivery usually sounds forced and overstrict alongside the impulsive swells of the band's free-folk drone. Example: What is a problem, though, is that the fictional math in WN is extremely important but also extremely vague, comprising mostly repeated and contextless verbiage--"If I could only establish its K-reducibility with the aid of a suitable calibrator set!"
Word: foreseeingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From foreseeing + -ly. 1. With foresight.
Word: continency Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɒntɪnənsi/ 1. Alternative form of continence. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: [22] But the fruit of the Spirit is: charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, [23] mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity.
Word: conversationist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From conversation + -ist. 1. Someone skilled in the art of conversation. Example: Witty, learned, imaginative, she was conceded to be the best conversationist in any circle. Example: BROWN, SAMUEL, M.D., chemist, born in Haddington, grandson of John Brown of Haddington, whose life was devoted, with the zeal of a mediaeval alchemist, to a reconstruction of the science of atomics, which he did not live to see realised: a man of genius, a brilliant conversationist and an associate of the most intellectual men of his time, among the number De Quincey, Carlyle, and Emerson; wrote "Lay Sermons on the Theory of Christianity," "Lectures on the Atomic Theory," and two volumes of "Essays, Scientific and Literary" (1817-1856).
Word: dyingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From dying + -ly. 1. While, or as if, dying. Labels: not-comparable Example: The candle's flame flickered dyingly and finally went out.
Word: dittander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an Anglo-Norman or Middle English form ditaundere attested in a glossary ca. 1265 and by an obscure reason extended from the word underlying dittany. Pronunciation: [dɪˈtændə] 1. A peppergrass of species Lepidium latifolium, native from Iberia to the Himalayas, introduced elsewhere. Labels: uncountable
Word: counterstroke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + stroke. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊntəstɹəʊk/ 1. A blow given in return. Example: He met him with a counterstroke so swift, / That quite smit off his arme as he it up did lift. 2. A retaliation. Example: The declaration of the Allied Governments that they will not conclude peace separately during the war or demand terms of peace without previous agreement with each other is an opportune counterstroke to the campaign initiated by Germany for the purpose of detaching France from Russia and especially from Britain. Example: She could understand how a man like Monohan would hate a man like Jack Fyfe, would nurse and feed on the venom of his hate until setting a torch to Fyfe's timber would be a likely enough counterstroke.
Word: noctilucine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin noctilūca (“firefly”) + -ine. Term coined by British scientist Thomas Lamb Phipson (1833–1908). It appeared first in his article On noctilucine, the phosphorescent principle of luminous animals, published in The chemical new, vol. 32, no. 832, on November 5, 1875. 1. A nitrogenous substance in fireflies, glowworms and marine animals, once believed to be responsible for their luminescence. Labels: uncountable
Word: disannuller Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From disannul + -er. 1. One who disannuls.
Word: disannullers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disannuller Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grapy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English grapy, equivalent to grape + -y. 1. Alternative form of grapey. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cutcherry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- Sanskrit कृ (kṛ) Proto-Indo-European *-yós Sanskrit -य (-ya) Sanskrit कृत्य (kṛtya) Ashokan Prakrit 𑀓𑀘 (kaca) Prakrit 𑀓𑀘𑁆𑀘 (kacca) Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-der. Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰr̥dʰás Sanskrit गृह (gṛha) Proto-Middle Indo-Aryan *𑀕𑀭𑁆𑀳 (*garha) Prakrit 𑀖𑀭 (ghara) Proto-New Indo-Aryan *𑀓𑀘𑁆𑀘𑀳𑀭𑀺𑀆 (*kaccahariā) Hindi कचहरी (kacahrī)bor. Marathi कचेरी (kacerī)bor. Tamil கச்சேரி (kaccēri)bor. English cutcherry Borrowed from Tamil கச்சேரி (kaccēri, “office, administrative office”). 1. An administration office in India. Example: The cutcherry clerks and the police are with him everywhere; higher native officials are often on his side. Example: He went to the cutcherry and enrolled himself as a muktear (attorney) and soon the litigants and the magistrates found out how clever he was and he acquired a big practice. 2. A hall used for business, political, or social assemblies, such as a magistrate's court or a building housing a public agency. Labels: India Example: I walked through the ruins of the Fort of Bangalore ... it is not without some degree of magnificence. On the upper storey it contains four halls, each comprising two balconies of state for the prince, and each balcony faces a different Cutchery, or court for giving audience. No person, except a few trusty guards, were admitted into the hall with the Sultan: but at each end of the court was erected a balcony for the officers of the highest rank. 3. Kaempferia galanga, a plant resembling ginger.
Word: cutcherries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cutcherry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Hangchou Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 杭州 (Hángzhōu) Wade-Giles romanization: Hang²-chou¹. 1. Alternative form of Hangzhou. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The Emperor Kao-tsung (1107-1162), whose official name was Kou, and whose familiar name was Te-chi, was the ninth son of the Emperor Hui-tsung. At first he was entitled Prince of K'ang, but on the two emperors Hui-tsung and Ch'in-tsung being taken north as prisoners by the Khitan he established himself as emperor in Hangchou. Example: The Sung Dynasty is divided into a Northern and Southern Sung, the former when the capital was at Kaifeng, and the latter when Hangchou was the capital.
Word: Dairen Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Japanese 大連(だいれん) (Dairen). 1. Synonym of Dalian: the Japanese-derived name. Example: That treaty gave into the possession of the victorious Japanese, subject to agreement with China, the Kwantung Territory and the southern portion of the Manchurian Railway, from Changchun to Dairen and Port Arthur, and all the property pertaining thereto, including extensive, partially developed mines. Example: Negotiating with Stalin was like dealing with an octopus. At Yalta it had been agreed that Dairen in China would be an open port that the Chinese could use. And now they were trying- it'd be under the control of the Chinese, that the Russians could use is what I intended to say. And, it was now an approach, by Stalin, that would have given him complete possession of that part of Manchuria. And that, I wasn't in favor of doing.[...]Dairen would be administered by the Chinese, as a Chinese port, but it would be a free port that everybody could use including the Russians.
Word: Kano Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hausa Kanṑ. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːnoʊ/ 1. A state of Nigeria in the North West geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Kano City. 2. The largest city and state capital of Kano State, Nigeria.
Word: Kano Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 狩野 (Kano) or Japanese 加納 (Kanō). 1. A surname from Japanese.
Word: Sultanate of Oman Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Oman: a country in West Asia, on the Arabian Peninsula.
Word: Jidda Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Jeddah. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: at last the Suva appeared, with Captain Boyle, who took me back to Jidda. Example: When we landed in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, the temperature was above 100 degrees.
Word: Lyallpur Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani لائل پور (lāyal pur) / लायलपुर (lāyalpur), named after James Broadwood Lyall. 1. Former name of Faisalabad, a city in Punjab Pakistan. Labels: dated
Word: gamespace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From game + space. 1. The virtual space within which a video game takes place. Example: the value placed on social interaction in gamespaces
Word: gamespaces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gamespace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Saint Louis Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French Saint-Louis, usually after King Louis IX of France (sometimes with oblique reference to later French kings named Louis). Sometimes after other places named for him. In the case of the Alsace commune, originally from German Sankt Ludwig bei Basel. In the case of the Minnesota river, thought to reference its French discoverer's recent Cross of Saint Louis, named for the French king. Doublet of São Luís. Pronunciation: /ˌseɪnt ˈlu.ɪs/, /ˌseɪnt ˈlu.əs/, /ˌsɪnt ˈluː.ɪs/, /ˌsɑn luˈi/, /seɪnt ˈluːwiː/ 1. A city in eastern Missouri, United States, near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and formerly important in the westward expansion of the United States. Example: ...that Saint Louis smarty that thinks he dresses so fine... 2. A river in northeastern Minnesota, United States. 3. Alternative form of Saint-Louis (“any of various places in French-speaking areas including France, Canada, Guadeloupe, New Caledonia, Réunion, and Senegal”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Campinas Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Campinas. 1. A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil.
Word: Meshed Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Mashhad. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Taegu Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /taˈɡuː/, /tæˈɡu/, /ˈteɪɡu/ 1. Dated form of Daegu. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Guayaquil Part of Speech: name 1. The capital of the state of Guayas, Ecuador, and the largest city in Ecuador.
Word: Hofei Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Hefei. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In the fall of 1939 Miss Wilkinson returned to do mission work in Occupied China. She gave a year’s service to Nantungchow. In the fall of 1940 she returned to Hofei and had the experience of sharing for a brief period with folk who, in her own familiar setting, had undergone the experience of life under Japanese occupation. After only a short time in Hofei Miss Wilkinson joined others of the women missionaries of the Disciples of Christ who, in response to the consular request that American women and children leave China, returned home in January of 1941. Example: I spent a day and a night in Hofei, the provincial capital of Anhwei, thanks to one of those unforeseen incidents that make the Chinese airlines so charming.[...]Two hours later, we landed in Hofei, where we were stuck in the airport, flattened by an African heat (this was August) bristling with cicadas.[...]The authorities in charge decided that I would stay in the Hofei Guest House, a luxurious place recently built on a hill outside the city, with a very nice garden and a lotus-covered pond.[...]Though Hofei is the provincial capital and must have about a million inhabitants, it appears that it never receives foreign tourists; it has no model factories and no Maoist relics—nothing worth organizing a guided visit.[...]But Hofei did have—like Peking, Canton, Soochow, Loyang, Sian, and most of the other cities I visited—an exhibit of archaeological objects "found in the province during the Cultural Revolution."
Word: Belem Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Belém. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: collidine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek 1. Any of six isomers of trimethylpyridine
Word: collidines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of collidine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Douala Part of Speech: name 1. The largest city of Cameroon, situated on the west coast.
Word: overtread Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overtreden, from Old English ofertredan. 1. To tread over or upon. Labels: transitive
Word: overtreading Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overtread Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overtreads Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overtread Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Yaounde Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Yaoundé. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: overtrod Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of overtread Labels: form-of, past
Word: overtrodden Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of overtread Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Dusseldorf Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Düsseldorf. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: do. Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of ditto. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: kittysol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish quitasol. 1. A Chinese parasol of paper and bamboo. Labels: historical
Word: kittysols Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kittysol Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bioplasmic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bioplasm + -ic. 1. Pertaining to, or consisting of, bioplasm. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonym: bioplastic Example: bioplasmic forces
Word: insculption Part of Speech: noun 1. inscription Labels: obsolete
Word: insculptions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of insculption Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misfashion Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + fashion. 1. To form, make, or fashion wrongly. Labels: archaic
Word: misfashioned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of misfashion Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: misfashioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misfashion Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: misfashions Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of misfashion Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ahigh Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English a-high. By surface analysis, a- + high. Pronunciation: /əˈhaɪ/ 1. on high Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: One heaved a-high to be hurled down below,
Word: bell jar Part of Speech: noun 1. A piece of laboratory equipment used for creating vacuums, often made of glass in a bell-like shape. 2. A bell-shaped glass used to cover and protect items such as food.
Word: bell jars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bell jar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hospitage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin hospitagium, for Latin hospitium. See hospice. 1. hospitality (lodging or putting someone up) Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: That his ungentle hoste n'ote him appeach Of vile ungentlenesse or hospitages breach
Word: purificative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pūrificātīvus. 1. Having power to purify or cleanse.
Word: wandy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wand + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒndi/ 1. Long and flexible, like a wand; wandlike Labels: UK, dialectal Example: His wandy circlet with his bladed bands
Word: convocational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From convocation + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to a convocation. Example: convocational reform Example: convocational transcript
Word: gibingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From gibing + -ly. 1. With gibes; scornfully; jestingly. Example: […] but your loves, Thinking upon his services, took from you The apprehension of his present portance, Which most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion After the inveterate hate he bears you. Example: “You little fool!” he said half-angrily, half-gibingly; and thereafter they rode in silence - she too mortified with shame and anger to venture upon words.
Word: ropish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rope + -ish. 1. Somewhat ropy. 2. ropelike
Word: vassaless Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vassal + -ess. Pronunciation: /ˌvæsəˈlɛs/ 1. A female vassal. Labels: archaic Example: Should to a beast his noble heart embase , And be the vassal of his vassaless
Word: vassalesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vassaless Labels: form-of, plural
Word: displeasantly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From displeasant + -ly. 1. In a displeasant manner.
Word: nitrosaccharin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Egyptian nṯr Proto-Afroasiatic *-i? Egyptian -j Egyptian nṯrjder. Semiticbor. Ancient Greek νῐ́τρον (nĭ́tron) English nitro- Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Pali sakkharābor. Ancient Greek σάκχᾰρον (sákkhăron)bor. Latin saccharon Latin saccharum German -in German Saccharinbor. English saccharin English nitrosaccharin From nitro- + saccharin. 1. An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, guncotton, etc. Labels: uncountable Example: 6-saccharin
Word: uveous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From uva + -eous. 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grape or grapes. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Behind, concealed by woods of pine, / There grew on plains the uveous vine;
Word: uveous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From uvea + -ous. (Related to above via Latin uva.) 1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the uvea; uveal. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: The uveous coat and the inside of the choroides are wonderfully blackened;[…]. Example: 1760, cataract, entry in Thomas Dyche, A New General Engliſh Dictionary, unnumbered page, […] alſo a diſtemper in the eyes cauſed by the congelation of phlegm between the uveous coat and cryſtalline humour.
Word: wieldance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wield + -ance. 1. wielding. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: […] this spiritual edge shall either turn again, or, through our weak wieldance, not enter the stubborn and thick hide of obdured hearts […]
Word: ribaudries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ribaudry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ribaudry Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of ribaldry. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: And roll with rest in rhymes of ribaudry
Word: involucellate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From involucel + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). 1. Containing involucels.
Word: seismic damper Part of Speech: noun 1. A mechanical device to dissipate the kinetic energy of seismic waves penetrating a building structure.
Word: languaged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From language + -ed. 1. Having a specified type or number of languages. Labels: not-comparable Example: The city since of many-languaged men 2. Skilled in, or capable of, language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: languaged Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From language + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of language Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: nevadite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Nevada + -ite. 1. A granitoid variety of rhyolite. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: overrigid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + rigid. 1. Too rigid or severe.
Word: wouldingness Part of Speech: noun 1. willingness; desire Labels: nonstandard, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] whatsoever you do, you do, first, against one velleity, or wouldingness, or other; and secondly, with some mixture of the contrary […]
Word: seismic dampers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seismic damper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: moff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Akin to the synonymous Georgian მოვი (movi), Armenian մով (mov) and Persian [script needed] (mov), the latter attested ca. 1540 in ʿAlamara-ye Shah Tahmasp in the phrase [script needed] (alecheh-ye mov kar-e Hend, “mov-alacha made in India”). Note further Tajik мовут (movut), Uzbek movut (“broadcloth”). 1. A thin silk material made in the Caucasus. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: moff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mutation of moth 1. A moth. Labels: endearing, informal
Word: affectibility Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of affectability. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: dendrologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dendrology + -ist. Pronunciation: /dɛndˈɹɒlədʒɪst/ 1. an expert or student of dendrology; someone knowledgeable about trees
Word: dendrologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dendrologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jereed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish جرید (cirid) (Turkish cirit), from Arabic جَرِيد (jarīd). 1. A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights. Labels: countable Example: The spur hath lanced his courser's sides— Away—away—for life he rides— Swift as the hurled on high jerreed, Springs to the touch his startled steed, […] 2. A traditional Turkish equestrian team sport played outdoors on horseback in which the objective is to score points by throwing a blunt wooden javelin at opposing team's horsemen. Labels: uncountable
Word: jereeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jereed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: legislatorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From legislator + -ship. 1. The office or position of a legislator. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His conduct, while he was there, was equally unprincipled, if not as atrocious, as it has been since his elevation to the Legislatorship.
Word: legislatorships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of legislatorship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gunnies Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Cornish gonis (“gunnies”). 1. A vacant space left in the ground after a lode has been mined. Labels: Cornwall Example: At the mines of Bruay the gunnies are filled by rubbish from the surface, carried down through pipes by a current of water.
Word: gunnies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gunny Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fb Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of football. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 2. Abbreviation of femboy. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: fb Part of Speech: verb 1. Abbreviation of follow back. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of
Word: retorter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From retort + -er. 1. Someone who retorts.
Word: retorters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of retorter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dispraisingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From dispraising + -ly. 1. By way of dispraise; reproachfully.
Word: orthodoxally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From orthodoxal + -ly. 1. Obsolete form of orthodoxly. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: [...] in plain Engliſh, more warily, more judiciouſly, more orthodoxally than twice their number of Divines have don in many a prolix Volume: [...]
Word: osmite Part of Speech: noun 1. A salt of osmious acid. Labels: obsolete
Word: osmites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of osmite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: melanochroic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From melano- + -chroic from Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs, “complexion”). 1. Having a dark complexion; dark-skinned Labels: obsolete