nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: brashy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From brash + -y. 1. brash, stormy Example: Several skuas seen--three seals up in our Bay--several off Pram Point in the shelter of Horse Shoe Bay. A great many fish on sea ice--mostly small, but a second species 5 or 6 inches long: imagine they are chased by seals and caught in brashy ice where they are unable to escape. Example: The sea was little encumbered with ice, it being now late in June, so that our progress was not at all impeded by the few soft, brashy floes that we encountered, none of them hard enough to do a ship's hull any damage. 2. brittle, crumbly Example: It was after noon, for the sun was past the meridian, and very hot for the time of year, when the face of the country began to change; and instead of the short sward of the open down, sprinkled with tiny white snail-shells, the ground was brashy with flat stones, and divided up into tillage fields. Example: On either side the cliffs rose higher, and the walls of Jurassic rock, above the brashy steeps, more towering, precipitous, and fantastic.
Word: terpenylic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From terpene + -yl + -ic + acid. 1. An acid, C₈H₁₂O₄, homologous with terebic acid, and obtained by oxidation of oil of turpentine with chromic acid. Labels: uncountable
Word: brickish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From brick + -ish. 1. Resembling or characteristic of brick. Example: One moment his shoulders and his head stood plain in every detail, even to the brickish redness of his skin and the curve of his fingers about the glasses; the next he was gone. Example: "Well, she had a slate-colored, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a feather of a brickish red. 2. Like a brick, a helpful or reliable person. Labels: UK, dated, slang Example: "It's awfully brickish of you, Worcester," said Acton, as Grim was heard trotting up the corridor "to stand down."
Word: brek Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. breakfast Labels: countable, informal, uncountable
Word: brek Part of Speech: verb 1. Pronunciation spelling of break. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: "They were goin' to brek into me house, indade," said Mrs. McNamara. Example: At a very early age his shrill voice could be heard calling in admonitory tones, caught from his mother's very lips, "You 'Nelius, don' you let me ketch you th'owin' at ol' mis' guinea-hens no mo'; you hyeah me?" or "Hi'am, you come offen de top er dat shed 'fo' you fall an' brek yo' naik all to pieces."
Word: colleteria Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of colleterium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: colleterium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See colletic. 1. The colleterial gland Labels: obsolete
Word: breakfastlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From breakfast + -like. 1. Resembling breakfast
Word: ingraff Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of engraft. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: ingraffed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ingraff Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ingraffing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ingraff Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ingraffs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ingraff Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cespitous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See cespitose. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛspɪtəs/ 1. turfy; resembling turf
Word: diffusate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From diffuse + -ate (noun-forming suffix). 1. Material which, in a process of dialysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: fresh diffusate
Word: diffusates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diffusate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apologetical Part of Speech: adj 1. apologetic Example: Zachariae has drawn the character of Sulla in an apologetical tone. Example: I shall not attempt to enter on the thorny thicket of Jacob Behmen's polemical and apologetical works.
Word: dewret Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dew + ret. 1. To subject to the process of dewretting.
Word: dewrets Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dewret Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dewretted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dewret Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bringdowns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bringdown Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seminiferous tubule Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of many threadlike structures, located in the testes, that are the specialized areas of sperm production.
Word: hateration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First used in the 2001 single "Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige: "Don't need no hateration, holleration / In this dancery." 1. Hatred, hostility, animus. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: I feel a wave of hateration washing over me. I can't believe that Mimi's getting a car before I get one.
Word: enterwrought Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of interworked. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: interworked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of interwork Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: From November 1, 1926, the District Railway ceased to provide any rolling stock for the Inner Circle service except three trains on Sundays and the whole service was worked by the Metropolitan. At the same time, to balance the interworked mileage, the Putney Bridge-Edgware Road service was introduced and operated entirely by District Railway trains.
Word: sea devil Part of Speech: noun 1. Any fish of the genus Lophius. 2. Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Mobula (syns. Manta, Cephaloptera). 3. Any fish of the family Ceratiidae. 4. Any large cephalopod.
Word: sea devils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sea devil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: witfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch witvis. 1. The ladyfish. Labels: obsolete 2. Alternative form of whitefish. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete
Word: witfishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of witfish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: courb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English courben, from Middle French courber, from Latin curvō. Doublet of curb. 1. To bend; to bow. Labels: obsolete Example: Thanne I courbed on my knees · and cryed hir of grace. Example: Sallys may also be propagated like Vines, by courbing, and bowing them in Arches.
Word: courbed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of courb Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: courbing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of courb Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: courbs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of courb Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bauchle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Scots, probably related to Old French bafouer (“to hoodwink”). 1. To misuse, to bungle. Labels: Scotland Example: Our enemies were disputing not far off upon the deck, and that so loudly that I could hear a word or two above the washing of the seas. “It was Shuan bauchled it,” I heard one say. Example: Maybe that shot that ye think ye bauchled was the most providential shot ye ever fired... 2. To insult, to upbraid, to make a fool of someone. Labels: Scotland Example: An echo of "bauchling" lingered on, it seemed to me, in Cumbrian rural police courts until a few years ago. Nowhere else, as a court reporter, have I heard so much abusive interruption and blasphemous invocation from the public benches during the hearing of cases. Cumbrian magistrates dealt with it most tolerantly.
Word: bauchle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scots, probably related to Old French bafouer (“to hoodwink”). 1. An old shoe. Labels: Scotland, in-plural Example: 1842, Laird of Logan, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, issue 481, page 104. We a' ken that there's tongues in heads, but I ne'er heard o' ony in hats or bauchles afore. 2. A fool. Labels: Scotland Example: He adds, probably his letter would be propaled and made a bauchle of, and assures them he was never loved at Court as a minister. 3. A bungled or muddled situation; a mess. Labels: Scotland
Word: bauchles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bauchle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bauchled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bauchle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bauchled Part of Speech: adj 1. Wearing cheap or old shoes. Labels: Scotland Example: A beetle-browed chamber, long, narrow, stifling with the heat of a great fire, its flagged floor at intervals would slap with bare or bauchled feet dancing to a short reel. Example: […] as he cowered in the half-lit hall the woman came in bauchled feet up the stair, and looking him full in the face laid her hand, roughened red through much scrubbing, on his shoulder.
Word: bauchling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bauchle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: beworry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + worry. Pronunciation: /bɪˈwʌɹi/ 1. To worry about. Labels: transitive 2. To fill with worry; cause to be worried; beset with cares; trouble; vex; harass. Labels: transitive Example: Is there a death ? — it is no easy matter for an editor to select from the bundle of elegies he receives. Is there a shipwreck or any great national event ? — and the poor beworried nine are called upon to inspire a thousand pens, [...] Example: Here the much beworried mamma will get a short respite from the ever-recurring bothers of household cares; [...]
Word: regeneratable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From regenerate + -able. 1. Capable of being regenerated. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ejaculatory duct Part of Speech: noun 1. Either of a pair of ducts through which semen passes, each of which is formed by the merging of the vas deferens and the duct of the seminal vesicle.
Word: jacking up Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of jack up Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: jacks up Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of jack up Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: casers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hathos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of hate + pathos. According to journalist Alex Heard, this word was coined in 1985 when he was searching for a word to describe the "cringe-y feeling you get when celebs go AWOL" and attended a Super Bowl party where he and another guest, then-Bob Dole press aide Scott Richardson, exchanged ideas until they came up with "hathos." The word's first apparent use in print was in an essay by Heard, published in The Washington Post on May 17, 1987. 1. Enjoyment derived from hatred of a person or thing. Labels: uncountable Example: The patron saint of hathos connoisseurs, H.L. Mencken, was a brave soul, but even a fellow as sturdy and unstinting as he might have been struck dumb in the presence of the extravagantly hathotic Kathie Lee Gifford.
Word: turnwrest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From turn + wrest? 1. A cumbersome kind of plough formerly used in England, especially in Kent. Labels: UK, historical
Word: turnwrests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of turnwrest Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shepherdism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shepherd + -ism. 1. Pastoral life or occupation Labels: uncountable Example: True, the Hindu writers describe their Apollo, in the full enjoyment of a pastoral scene, worthy the birthplace of the Georgics; but the stern realities of Indian shepherdism form a woeful bathos to all this . Example: After a few introductory remarks on the most probable state of mankind in an early stage of savageism, shepherdism, pastoral life, agriculture, rude dwellings, towns and cities, Mr. Barker stated that the object of Buckle is to unfold the causes of man's advancement in art, science, and literature – i.e., physical, intellectual, and moral well-being. 2. The keeping and tending of sheep. Labels: uncountable Example: In the wide sheep pastures on the S. E. corner of Scotland, and those of England immediately bordering with it, where all the branches of the business of shepherdism are well understood, and diligently pursued, the active and intelligent occupants of sheep farms have, for some time, been in the custom of drawing small drains through all the moist parts of their pastures, to lead away the superfluous water which arises from springs, or descends from the hills in rains; Example: Gilnockie is only some eleven miles south-east from Caplefoot, where raiding has been displaced by shepherdism, and where the pipe and viol have superseded the Jeddart axe.
Word: external fertilization Part of Speech: noun 1. Fertilization involving the fusion of the male and female gametes outside the bodies of the reproducing individuals. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: stalely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From stale + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪl.li/ 1. In a stale manner. 2. Of old; long since. Labels: obsolete Example: Tut, all your promis'd mountains, And seas, I am so stalely acquainted with
Word: clotweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See clote and weed. 1. cocklebur Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: internal fertilization Part of Speech: noun 1. Fertilization achieved via copulation, primarily in mammals. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: candytuft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian Candia (“the name used by the Venetian occupiers of the city of Iraklion”) + tuft. 1. Any of the genus Iberis of flowering plants.
Word: candytufts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of candytuft Labels: form-of, plural
Word: iberis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any plant of the genus Iberis; a candytuft.
Word: iberises Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of iberis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preeternity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + eternity. Pronunciation: /ˌpɹiːɪˈtɜː(ɹ)nɪti/ 1. An infinite previous duration, an eternity in the past. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: the Worlds Pre-eternity
Word: palpiger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See palpigerous. 1. The part of the labium that bears the pedipalps in insects. Example: external palpigers Example: fused palpigers
Word: palpigers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of palpiger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: porteress Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of portress. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The door opened; a bright gleam of sunshine shot into the room, but darkened instantly as the porteress admitted the visitor.
Word: porteresses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of porteress Labels: form-of, plural
Word: embiotocoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Embiotoca + -oid 1. Belonging to the fish family Embiotocidae.
Word: embiotocoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Embiotoca + -oid 1. One of family Embiotocidae of surfperches, abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous.
Word: embiotocoids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of embiotocoid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coolung Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi कुलंग (kulaṅg). 1. The common crane (Grus grus). Labels: India, archaic
Word: coolungs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coolung Labels: form-of, plural
Word: notaea Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /nəʊˈtiːə/, /noʊˈtiːə/ 1. plural of notaeum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: notaeum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek νῶτον (nôton), νῶτος (nôtos, “back”). Pronunciation: /nəʊˈtiːəm/, /noʊˈtiːəm/ 1. The back (upper surface) of a bird.
Word: scymetar Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of scimitar. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: scymetars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scymetar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intergraven Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + graven. 1. engraved or carved between Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: And the work itſelf of the baſes, was entergraven: and there were gravings between the joinings. Example: again there are suggestions of the white man's work ingeniously intergraven with his own conceptions of art not so rude or savage
Word: notodontian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined from Ancient Greek νῶτον (nôton, “the back”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “a tooth”). 1. A notodontid
Word: notodontians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of notodontian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stiptic Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of styptic. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: stiptic Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of styptic. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: stiptics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stiptic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Monsel's salt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Invented by Leon Monsel (1816–1878), French military pharmacist. 1. A basic sulphate of iron with medical uses. Labels: uncountable
Word: imminution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin imminutio, from imminuere, imminutum (“to lessen”), from im- (“in”) + minuere. 1. reduction; lessening; decrease. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: No ſhade of change, no imminution, / No nor increaſe Example: and did not a Providence continually overſee and ſecure them from all alteration or imminution
Word: imminutions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of imminution Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lessenings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lessening Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lessenest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: lessen + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of lessen Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: lectureth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: lecture + -eth 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lecture Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: lesseneth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: lessen + -eth 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lessen Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cherubical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cherub + -ical. 1. Archaic form of cherubic. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: Malpighian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Malpighi + -an. 1. Of, relating to, or discovered by Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
Word: sappodilla Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of sapodilla. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: sappodillas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sappodilla Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sunblink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sun + blink. 1. A glimpse or flash of the sun. Labels: archaic Example: the midges that the sunblink brings out
Word: sunblinks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sunblink Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tewtaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See tew (verb). 1. A tool for beating flax. Labels: obsolete
Word: tewtaws Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tewtaw Labels: form-of, plural
Word: releasing hormone Part of Speech: noun 1. A hormone that is involved primarily in stimulating the release of another hormone.
Word: single tickets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of single ticket Labels: form-of, plural
Word: endocrine disruptor Part of Speech: noun 1. A chemical substance that hinders the normal functioning of the endocrine system in animals and human beings. Example: These endocrine disruptors are everywhere: plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, cushions, pesticides, canned foods and A.T.M. receipts. They often aren’t on labels and can be difficult to avoid.
Word: surmisal Part of Speech: noun 1. surmise Example: So leſt it ſhould be ſtill imputed to me, as I have found it hath been, that ſome ſelf-pleaſing humor of vain-glory hath incited me to conteſt with Men of high eſtimation, now while green years are upon my head, from this needleſs ſurmiſal I ſhall hope to diſſwade the intelligent and equal Auditor, if I can but ſay ſuccesfully that which in this Exigent behoovs me, although I would be heard only, if it might be, by the elegant and learned Reader, to whom principally for a while I ſhall beg leave I may addreſs my ſelf.
Word: surmisals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of surmisal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sleepish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sleep + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈsliːpɪʃ/ 1. sleepy; drowsy Example: One, my lord, that doth so palpably, so apparently make her adulteries a trophy, whiles the poting-stick to her unsatiate goatish abomination jeers at, and flouts your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Example: She answered the telephone with a sleepish sounding voice, since she wasn't fully awake yet.
Word: requietories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of requietory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: requietory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin requietorium, from requiescere, requietum (“to rest”). See re- and quiesce. 1. A sepulchre. Labels: obsolete Example: digged vp out of their Requietories
Word: smock frock Part of Speech: noun 1. A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over other clothing, as by farm labourers. Example: What reason has he, therefore, to suppose that the return of the smock-frock will even increase the gobbling of potatoes and the drinking of cat-lap? Example: Among them we saw Rhys, and Llewellyn catching him by the smock-frock, as he came by him, pulled him out of the circle.
Word: smock frocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of smock frock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sarcel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French cercel, French cerceau, Latin circellus, diminutive of circulus. See circle. 1. One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, especially a hawk. Example: If a ſarcell, or other feathers be broken aboue the quyll, towards the poynt of yͤ fethers twoo or three fingers bredth, you muſt cut it off with a ſharpe penknife, aſlope, and (as they ſay) a ſwaſhe, ⁊ then take another feather to the ſame, cutting it in like manner, as you did the other, ſo as it may fitte with yͤ ſame feather, both for length and cutte.
Word: sarcels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sarcel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cirrhiferous Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of cirriferous. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tysonite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tyson + -ite, after S. T. Tyson. 1. fluocerite
Word: tysonites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tysonite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polaristic Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar arrangement or disposition. Example: polaristic antagonism 2. polarized
Word: clotbur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clote + burr. Compare clitbur. 1. The burdock. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: a weed with large leaves and burs somewhat like those of the burdock or clotbur 2. The cocklebur. Labels: US
Word: clotburs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clotbur Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scamilli Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scamillus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scamillus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin [Term?] (“a little bench”), from scamnum (“bench, stool”). 1. A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without mouldings and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.
Word: sycophantcy Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of sycophancy. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: protandric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From protandry + -ic. 1. protandrous Labels: not-comparable
Word: threave Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of thrave. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: threaves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of threave Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mesaticephalous Part of Speech: adj 1. mesaticephalic Labels: not-comparable
Word: colestaff Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of colstaff. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: colestaves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of colestaff Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neuroendocrine signaling Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of cell signaling involving the release of a hormone from a nerve cell that has an effect on another cell. Labels: uncountable
Word: doddart Part of Speech: noun 1. A sport or game much like hockey, played in an open field. Labels: Northern-England, historical, uncountable 2. The bent stick used in playing this game. Labels: Northern-England, countable, historical, uncountable
Word: shieldtail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shield + tail. 1. Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native to Sri Lanka and Southern Asia.
Word: shieldtails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shieldtail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paviage Part of Speech: noun 1. A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways. Labels: historical Example: [a] document, which grants a toll for murage and for paviage
Word: paviages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paviage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: entomostracan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Entomostraca + -an 1. Relating to the Entomostraca. Labels: not-comparable
Word: entomostracan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Entomostraca + -an 1. One of the Entomostraca.
Word: entomostracans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of entomostracan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Forlivian Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to Forlì Labels: not-comparable
Word: Forlivian Part of Speech: noun 1. Native or inhabitant of Forlì
Word: haycation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of hay + vacation. 1. A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks. Example: In a world where small farmers need to diversify to keep their fields afloat and city dwellers are more desperate than ever to learn where their food comes from, a "haycation" for about the price of a nice hotel room in Manhattan didn’t seem like such a far-fetched idea.
Word: haycations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haycation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lignone Part of Speech: noun 1. lignin Labels: obsolete
Word: lignocelluloses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lignocellulose Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lignones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lignone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suppletories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suppletory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suppletory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin suppletorius. 1. A source of supply. Example: Invent suppletories to excuse an evil man. 2. A supplement.
Word: suppletory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin suppletorius. 1. Making up for deficiencies; supplementary. Example: a suppletory oath
Word: stultiloquence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin stultiloquentia, from stultus (“foolish”) + loquentia (“a talking”). Pronunciation: /stʌlˈtɪləʊkwɛns/ 1. Silly talk; babble. Labels: formal, uncountable
Word: sectist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sect + -ist. 1. A member of a sect.
Word: sectists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sectist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sauropsid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “face”) literally "lizard face". 1. A member of the Sauropsida, a comprehensive group of vertebrates comprising the reptiles (including birds).
Word: sauropsids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sauropsid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unexhibitionistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + exhibitionistic. 1. Not exhibitionistic.
Word: exhibitable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From exhibit + -able. 1. Capable of being exhibited. Labels: not-comparable
Word: exhibitionisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exhibitionism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chrysarobin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: chrys- (“gold”) + araroba (“Goa powder”) + -in. 1. A bitter yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder. It yields chrysophanic acid, and has been used to treat skin conditions. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: depeach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French dépêcher (“to dispatch”). See dispatch. 1. To discharge or dispatch Labels: obsolete Example: as soon as the party […] before our justices shal be depeached
Word: depeached Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of depeach Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: chondritis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, chondr- + -itis. 1. inflammation of the cartilage Labels: uncountable
Word: tenioid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, ten- + -ioid. 1. Alternative form of taenioid. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gelsemic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gelseminic acid. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: mustaiba Part of Speech: noun 1. A close-grained, heavy wood from Brazil, used in turning, for making the handles of tools, etc. Labels: uncountable Example: Mustaiba, from the Brazils and Rio Janeiro, is imported in logs 7 by 10 in., and also in planks; it is generally of an inferior rosewood character but harder, and is sometimes equally good; Example: King-wood, Maracaybo wood, and Mustaiba wood, all imported from Brazil, and Nicaragua wood from Central America, are of unknown botanical origin.
Word: substant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin substantis. First attested in 1597. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌb.stənt/, /ˈsʌb.stʌnt/, /ˈsɐb.stənt/, /ˈsəb.sʈanʈ/ 1. Something that subsists. Example: 1597, The substants of bodie and soule have nothinge commune with this spirituall mariage. (quoted in OED)
Word: substant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin substantis. First attested in 1597. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌb.stənt/, /ˈsʌb.stʌnt/, /ˈsɐb.stənt/, /ˈsəb.sʈanʈ/ 1. Substantial; firm. Labels: rare Example: [The glacier's] substant ice curls freely, molds, and breaks itself like water, — breaks in waves, plastic like honey, crested lightly with a frozen spray; it winds tenderly about the rocky shore, and the granite, disintegrated into crumbs, flows on with it.
Word: deplanate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1884; borrowed from Late Latin dēplanātus, perfect passive participle of dēplanō (“to make level”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). 1. Flattened; made level or even.
Word: cappadine Part of Speech: noun 1. A flossy substance obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off. It can be used to make some lower quality materials. Labels: uncountable
Word: stearone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stearic + -one. 1. The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, by the distillation of various stearates. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: stearones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stearone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Eneid Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Aeneid. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: spheniscan Part of Speech: noun 1. Any banded penguin of genus Spheniscus Labels: archaic, rare
Word: spheniscans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spheniscan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lustring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French lustrine, Italian lustrino, from lustrare (“to polish”), Latin lustrare. See luster and compare lutestring. 1. A glossy silk fabric; lutestring. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [S]he would give her a brown lustring gown, which with some alterations to make it more suitable to her degree would a great while serve her for a Sunday wear […].
Word: lustrings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lustring Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nardoo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dieri ngardu. 1. Marsilea drummondii, a four-leaved aquatic fern native to Australia the sporocarps of which are processed for food. Labels: Australia, countable, uncountable Example: Nardoo (Marsilea drummondii) was a crucial plant because of its ability to grow on the beds of shallow lakes in otherwise inhospitable regions.
Word: nardoos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nardoo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ngardu Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of nardoo. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: marsileaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Marsileaceae + -ous. 1. Of or relating to the family Marsileaceae of pepperworts and water clovers. Labels: not-comparable
Word: marsilea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: New Latin, after Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli ( Marsilius ) + 1730 Italian Naturalists 1. Any of the genus Marsilea of aquatic ferns (water clover).
Word: marsileas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of marsilea Labels: form-of, plural
Word: counselorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counselor + -ship. 1. The function and rank or office of a counselor. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: counselorships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counselorship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wontish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wont (“custom, habit”) + -ish. 1. Of or suggestive of a wont; customary; usual; habitual. Example: He garbs himself in raiments and costumes that make him appear to the naked eyes to be somebody else. The press, in its wontish way, goes wild.
Word: androspore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From andro- + spore. 1. A spore with male functions, in some algae.
Word: androspores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of androspore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: leniment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin lenimentum. Compare Old French leniment. See lenient. 1. Something that soothes; a sedative or comforter. Labels: obsolete
Word: leniments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leniment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: palempore Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of palampore. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: palempores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of palempore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haematothermal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From haemato- + thermal. 1. warm-blooded Labels: not-comparable
Word: wantish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From want + -ish. 1. Of or suggesting lack or want; meagre; lean; lacking. Example: wantish flesh 2. Suggesting or pertaining to wants or desires; desirous. Example: She's wantish and never satisfied.
Word: exection Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of exsection. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: But how far soever the Exection of a Testicle may contribute to the Agility of the Body, this Custom owes not its Original to any such Matter […]
Word: unty Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of untie. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: untyed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unty Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: untyes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unty Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: wantful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From want + -ful. Compare wishful, wistful, etc. 1. Full of want or lack; lacking; poor. Example: Nor rank, nor wealth, I ask, but let me be Above contempt, and wantful poverty. 2. Full of want or desire; desirous. Example: Greaves's soul had up to that moment been "wantful, lustful,” and "working actively in lower regions,” but now it became “receptive of Spirit from the higher elements.
Word: participialize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From participial + -ize. 1. To form into, or put in the form of, a participle. Labels: transitive
Word: participialized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of participialize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: participializes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of participialize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: participializing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of participialize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: yebo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu yebo. 1. yes Labels: South-Africa, not-comparable Example: But Sipho was more sympathetic. “Don't worry. We'll take you to Father. He'll know what to do.” “Father?” asked Jabu, surprised. “Yebo,” said Sipho brightly. “Come with us. Father may even have some coins for another tickey box. One that works,” Vusi said with mirth.
Word: wyf Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of where('re) you from (where are you from?). Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: wunst Part of Speech: adv 1. Obsolete spelling of once, pronunciation spelling of once. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: "Mrs Harris," I says to her, "none on us knows what we can do till we tries; and wunst, when me and Gamp kept 'ouse, I thought so too. Example: Wouldn't they let him and Sam off this wunst?
Word: wreake Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of wreak. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: "And, in avengement of their bold attempt, Both sun and starres and all the heavenly powres Conspire in one to wreake their rash contempt, And downe on them to fall from highest towres: 580 The skie, in pieces seeming to be rent, Throwes lightning forth, and haile, and harmful showres, That death on everie side to them appeares, In thousand formes, to worke more ghastly feares.
Word: wrathe Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of wrath. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: For shee holdeth dixi et solvavi animam meam to bee a goode rule, and thatt it is nott a goode thinge to goe away with wrathe pente up in ye boosum. Example: The thyrd kynde is: wherin is lauded or blamed no- ther person nor dede / but some other thing as vertue / vice / iustice / iniurie / charite / en- uie / pacience / wrathe / and suche lyke.
Word: wratch Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of wretch. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: I canna be bathered wi' the chatterin', fykie, kyowowin' little wratch. Example: Noo soul to sheaere The trials the poor wratch must bear.
Word: wrappe Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of wrap. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: wough Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wough (“wall”), from Old English wāh, wāg, wǣg (“interior wall, separating structure”), from Proto-West Germanic *waig, from Proto-West Germanic *waig, from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall, structure”). Cognate with Scots wauch, waw (“wall”). 1. A wall. Labels: archaic, dialectal, obsolete
Word: wough Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of woof. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: As it scrambled swiftly over the edge it caught sight of the elephant and with a deep "wough!" charged straight at it. Example: The trapper shouted and waved his cap; whereupon, to his amazement, the bear uttered a loud "wough" and charged straight down on him--only to fall a victim to misplaced boldness.
Word: wote Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of wot. Labels: Early, Modern, alt-of, alternative Example: Now (sayd the Lady) draweth toward night, And well I wote, that of your later fight Ye all forwearied be: for what so strong, 285 But wanting rest will also want of might? Example: He builded within the citie of ] London then called Troinouant, a temple, and named it the temple of peace: the which (as some hold opinion, I wote not vpon what ground) was the same which now is called Blackwell hall, where the market for buieng and selling of cloths is kept.
Word: hectivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of hectic + activity. Pronunciation: /hɛkˈtɪv.ɪ.tiː/, /hɛkˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/, [hɛkˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi] 1. A state of constant, frenzied, and typically stressful activity. Labels: uncountable Example: I headed from my apartment over to a corner diner for a late break fast^([sic]), and I don't recall the normal crush of people packing the New York streets or the usual hectivity. 2. A frenetic or stressful activity. Labels: countable Example: Out here on the Pacific, there's no rush, no tension, none of the "hectivities" of everyday life ashore.
Word: worne Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of worn, past participle of wear. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: There are seldom more than a few lines together which possess any distinguishing merit, such as an indulgent editor has found in Bellula's exclamation when she first falls in love with Callidora: How red his cheekes are! so our garden apples Looke on that side where the hot Sun salutes them; (I. ii.) or in the lines with which Callidora prepares to meet death from her brother's sword: As sick men doe their beds, so have I yet Injoy'd my selfe, with little rest, much trouble: I have beene made the Ball of Love and Fortune, And am almost worne out with often playing; And therefore I would entertaine my death As some good friend whose comming I expected. Example: Bolton says, "The sayd victorious Princes tombe is in the goodly Cathedral Church erected to the honour of Christ, in Canterburie; there (beside his quilted coat-armour, with half-sleeves, Taberd fashion, and his triangular shield, both of them painted with the royall armories of our kings, and differenced with silver labels) hangs this kind of Pavis or Target, curiously (for those times) embost and painted, and the Scutcheon in the bosse being worne out, and the Armes (which, it seemes, were the same with his coate armour, and not any particular devise) defaced, and is altogether of the same kinde with that upon which (Froissard reports) the dead body of the Lord Robert of Dvras, and nephew to the Cardinall of Pierregoort, was laid, and sent unto that Cardinale, from the Battell of Poictiers, where the Blacke Prince obtained a Victorie, the renowne whereof is immortale."
Word: hectivities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hectivity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: worldy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English worldy, worldi. By surface analysis, world + -y. 1. Synonym of worldly. Labels: rare Example: For these worldy advantages you offer, I will sell you my body and my soul. Example: Listen to him play a Bach cello suite and you'll grasp its proportionate beauty and the conviction that music transcends all worldy concerns.
Word: worldy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From world + -y, from world-class. 1. Alternative form of worldie (“anything particularly excellent of its kind”). Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, slang
Word: woolsey Part of Speech: noun 1. A material made of cotton and wool. Labels: uncountable Example: Mickey was the best hurler in the barony, no mean performer on the violin, could dance the national bolero of "Tatter Jack Walsh" in a way that charmed more than one soft heart beneath a red woolsey bodice, and had, withal, the peculiar free-and-easy devil-may-care kind of off-hand Irish way that never deserted him in the midst of his wiliest and most subtle moments, giving to a very deep and cunning fellow all the apparent frankness and openness of a country lad. Example: "But, please, sir, won't you let our Tommy out first?" cried Jerry, as the strong woman lapped up the two youngest in her woolsey apron and ran off with them.
Word: juxtaglomerular apparatus Part of Speech: noun 1. A minuscule structure inside the kidney, involved in the regulation of the activity of each nephron.
Word: wole Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of whole. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: I war sory to hear that My brother war sol i am glad that i did come away when i did god works all the things for the Best he is young he may get a long in the wole May god Bless hem ef you have any News from Petersburg Va Plas Rite me a word when you anser this Letter and ef any person came form home Letter Me know. Example: To make Pig Brawn Take a white or red Pig, for a spotted one is not so handsome, take a good large fat one, and being scalded and drawn bone it whole, but first cut off the head and the hinder quarters, (and leave the bone in the hinder quarters) the rest being boned cut it into 2 collars overwart both the sides, or bone the wole Pig but only the head: […]
Word: wizzard Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of wizard. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Are you a wizzard that you have so drawn me on? Example: "I should like to read 'Manfred' here," said Molly one morning (Byron was one of her favorites) "It is just the place, mountains, forests and all, and who knows--the wizzard."
Word: withoutside Part of Speech: prep 1. outside Labels: obsolete Example: Soon after, a fire was made withoutside the cabin, in the open air, and a kettle hung over it to boil. Example: We build our houses on the sand Comely withoutside and within; 20 But when the winds and rains begin To beat on them, they cannot stand; They perish, quickly overthrown, Loose from the very basement stone.
Word: wisha Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Irish mhuise, originally a euphemism for A Mhuire! (“O Mary!”) in calling upon the Virgin Mary. Compare Irish muise. 1. An expression of surprise. Labels: Ireland Example: "Wisha! wisha," says I. "A pound of chops," says he, "coming into the Mansion House." "Wisha!" says I, "what kind of people is going at all now?"
Word: windes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of winde Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wimpling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wimple Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wimpling Part of Speech: noun 1. A rippling or meandering.
Word: willes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wille Labels: form-of, plural Example: The latter bond of adherence was, however, the more slender; for, in the acts regulating the borders, we find repeated mention of "Clannes having captaines and chieftaines, whom on they depend, oft-times against the willes of their landeslordes." Example: Whereupon, by reason also that Winter was come vpon them, and foule weather increased with fogs and mists that so couered the land, as without danger of perishing they could not approch it: Sir Humfrey Gilbert and M. Hays were compelled much against their willes to retyre homewards: And being 300. leagues on their way, were after by tempestuous weather separated the one from the other, the ninth of September last, since which time M. Hays with his Barke is safely arriued, but of Sir Humfrey as yet they heare no certaine newes.
Word: wildered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of wilder Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: whoof Part of Speech: intj 1. The sound of a dog barking. 2. The sound of a steam train, steam boat, etc. Example: Whoof! whoof! its steaming breath hissed at her.
Word: whoof Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of woof. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Thor rose from beside the rock with a prodigious whoof that roused Muskwa. Example: A little whoof, like the sound that would be made by a baby and it asleep, came from Cona'n.
Word: whoof Part of Speech: verb 1. To make sound like a dog's bark; to bark. Labels: intransitive Example: It was quite an expedition that Ida met, a kind of elfin's rout it looked in the moonlight, children and animals and a fairy-like presence with a face like a moon-lily, all scampering and squealing and whoofing and miauling in a merry game they were making of their progress. 2. To make a snuffling noise, like a bear vocalising, or a steam engine puffing. Labels: intransitive Example: He kicked Leo in the ribs to wake him up. Leo grunted and whoofed.
Word: whith Part of Speech: prep 1. Obsolete form of with. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Boil half a pound of French barley in 3 several waters, keep the last water to make your milk of, then stamp half a pound of almonds with a little of the same water to keep them from oyling; being finely beaten, strain it whith the rest of the barley water, put some hard sugar to it, boil it a little, and give it the party warm. Example: Winthrop, whith such directions as he conceived fitt, and, as I hear, hath given his debte, which he maks 544^li. unto y^e gentlemen of y^e Bay. Indeed, M^r.
Word: superfluorescence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti? Latin fluō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin fluorbor. English fluor Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English fluorite Middle Low German sparder. Old English spærstān Middle English sparston English sparstonebf. English spar blend English fluorspar Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁sḱeti Proto-Italic *-ēskō Latin -ēscō Latin -escensder. English -escence English fluorescence English superfluorescence From super- + fluorescence. 1. fluorescence as a result of spontaneous correlation of excited atomic states Example: In this approach, a source of parametric superfluorescence (an OPG with optical gain of 10 10 to 10 12 ) provides the seed pulse (energy 10 to 100 nJ) for subsequent parametric amplification (with an OPG with optical gain of 10 3 to 10 5 ).