nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: effume Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin effumare (“to emit smoke”), from ex + fumare (“to smoke”), from fumus (“smoke”). 1. To breathe or puff out. Labels: obsolete Example: I can make this dog take as many whiffes as I liſt, and he ſhall retaine or efume them at my pleaſure.
Word: effumed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of effume Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: effumes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of effume Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: effuming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of effume Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: imposturage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From imposture + -age. 1. imposture; cheating Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: incompared Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + compared. 1. Peerless; incomparable. Labels: obsolete Example: c. 1580-1590, Edmund Spenser, letter to Sir Francis Walsingham That Mantuane Poets incompared spirit
Word: mother-naked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Meaning "as naked as when born (from one's mother)". Compare typologically Russian в чём мать родила́ (v čom matʹ rodilá). 1. Completely naked. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: And they saw those fields, and the river, and the peasants swimming; mother-naked, unembarrassed, frolicking in the water
Word: symbological Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to a symbology.
Word: sextonries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sextonry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sextonry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sexton + -ry. 1. The office of sexton. Labels: obsolete Example: He[…]retayned to hymselfe but a small lyueng, and that was the sextenry of our lady churche in Renes.
Word: disincorporation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + incorporation. 1. Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the king's disincorporation of the monks
Word: disincorporations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disincorporation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: elementarity Part of Speech: noun 1. elementariness (the quality of being elementary). Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: For, though Moses have left no mention of minerals, nor made' any other description than suits unto the apparent and visible creation, yet is there, unquestionably, a very large class of creatures in the earth, far above the condition of elementarity.
Word: overliberal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + liberal. 1. Too liberal.
Word: overquietness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From overquiet + -ness. 1. Excessive quietness. Labels: uncountable Example: To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail […] were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks.
Word: weanedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From weaned + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being weaned. Labels: uncountable
Word: hieroglyphically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hieroglyphical + -ly. 1. Written using hieroglyphics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: preconsolidated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + consolidated. 1. consolidated beforehand Labels: not-comparable
Word: rudderpost Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁roh₁-(ye-)-tider. Proto-Germanic *rōaną Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Germanic *-þrą Proto-Germanic *rōþrą Proto-West Germanic *rōþr Old English rōþor Middle English rother English rudder Latin postisbor. Old English post Latin postisder. Old French postbor. Middle English post English post English rudderpost From rudder + post. 1. The rudderstock 2. A vertical support on an aircraft's tail section, that connects the rudder to the vertical stabilizer.
Word: rudderposts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rudderpost Labels: form-of, plural
Word: knight-erratic Part of Speech: noun 1. A knight-errant (the knight) Labels: archaic
Word: stageplaying Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stage + playing. 1. The performance of plays on stage. Labels: uncountable
Word: histrionicism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From histrionic + -ism. 1. The histrionic art; stageplaying. Labels: uncountable Example: On the one hand, he considered it almost impossible for a woman to be so disingenuous; on the other hand, how could this girl have taught herself, in the solitude of a savage island, a species of histrionicism which women in London circles strove for years to acquire, and rarely acquired in any perfection?
Word: cantation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin cantatio. 1. A singing. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: These words were jabbered as fast as ever tongue could utter them, and when he had finished, up he jumped, again commenced the same mad rotations, and broke into the same extravagant cantation as before. Example: When we have come to hear thy sweet oblation Of love and joyance from thy sylvan station, Why, in the place of musical cantation, Balk us with pratings? 2. Synonym of incantation. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Whether or not there was any mystic virtue in the exorcisory cantation of the previous night, I cannot determine; but it is certain, that next morning, though headaches abounded among our officers, indications of the yellow fever there were none. Example: This literature contained a corpus of texts, most probably one for each school of Vedic cantation (the words śakhā, 'school' or 'branch', speaks in favor of this guess).
Word: cantations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cantation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lifehold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From life + hold. 1. Land held by a life estate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He was quite angry with circumstances for so heedlessly inflicting on Giles a second trouble when the needful one inflicted by himself was all that the proper order of events demanded. "I told Giles's father when he came into those houses not to spend too much money on lifehold property held neither for his own life nor his son's," he exclaimed. "But he wouldn't listen to me. And now Giles has to suffer for it."
Word: lifeholds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lifehold Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retributer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From retribute + -er. 1. Someone who makes retribution.
Word: retributers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of retributer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: houseroom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From house + room. Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊsɹuːm/ 1. Room or place in a house. Labels: uncountable Example: ‘But go thy waies to him, and fro me say, / That here is at his gate an errant Knight, / That house-room craves […].’ Example: […] it would make a man mad of our profession, especially to be buz’d in the Ears with your Honesty or Plain-dealing, as if you were turned their Advocate, and went about to perswade us to give them House room. 2. A room dedicated for the use of a particular house at a boarding school. Labels: countable
Word: slumbery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English slumbry, slombry, slomry, equivalent to slumber + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch slumerich (“slumbery”). 1. Inclined to sleep; sleepy or sleeping; (by extension) quiet and slow-paced. Example: Only the upper part of her body is awake, and even that droops with a slumbery weakness. Example: “Yes, miss. He found you outside on the portico. You were wet and cold and all slumbery.” “Slumbery?” Susannah scrunched her nose at the sound of the word. “Asleep, miss. He couldn't wake you.” Colleen took Susannah's hand.
Word: laulau Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hawaiian laulau. 1. A Hawaiian dish of pork or fish etc. wrapped in taro leaf. Labels: uncountable
Word: friskful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From frisk + -ful. 1. Lively; frolicsome. Labels: rare Example: [H]is sportive Lambs, / This way and that convolv'd, in friskful Glee, / Their Frolics play.
Word: galvanographic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to galvanography. Labels: not-comparable Example: galvanographic process Example: galvanographic section
Word: hornedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From horned + -ness. 1. The condition of being horned. Labels: uncountable
Word: tinners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tinner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: factionary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French factionnaire, Latin factionarius (“the head of a company of charioteers”). 1. Belonging to a faction; partisan; taking sides. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Prithee, fellow, remember my name is Menenius, always factionary on the party of your general.
Word: factionary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French factionnaire, Latin factionarius (“the head of a company of charioteers”). 1. A member of a faction. Example: 1555, Richard Eden (translator), The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, London: Edwarde Sutton, Decade 2, Book 6, [p. 71b], Vaschus him selfe dyd greatly affecte this embasage: But neyther woolde the resydewe of his felowes electe hym therto, nor his factionaries suffer hym to departe: Aswell for that therby they thought they shulde bee left desolate, as also that they murmured that if Vaschus shulde once goo from theym, he wolde neuer returne to suche turmoyles and calamities […] Example: 1832, Walter Scott, Count Robert of Paris in Tales of My Landlord, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 4th Series, Volume 2, Chapter 10, p. 257, […] the traitor Ursel, some of them suppose, is dead, but if it were so, his name is sufficient to draw together his old factionaries […]
Word: wordle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈwɜː(ɹ)dəl/ 1. One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.
Word: wordles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wordle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mezzotinting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mezzotint Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mezzotinted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of mezzotint Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: actinophorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek. 1. Having straight projecting spines
Word: guildable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From guild + -able. 1. Liable to a tax; taxable. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: tectibranch Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the former order Tectibranchiata of gastropods. Labels: obsolete
Word: tectibranchs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tectibranch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unfriendship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + friendship. 1. unfriendliness; enmity Labels: uncountable Example: an act of unfriendship to my sovereign person 2. The state of not being a friend Labels: uncountable
Word: uncart Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + cart. 1. To remove or unload from a cart. Labels: transitive
Word: uncarted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of uncart Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: uncarting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of uncart Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: uncarts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of uncart Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: uncontrovertibly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From uncontrovertible + -ly. 1. incontrovertibly
Word: toothlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tooth + -let. 1. A small tooth or other toothlike object.
Word: toothlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of toothlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: existencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of existency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: existency Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of existence. Labels: alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable Example: variety of states or manner of existency naturally and necessarily concomitant unto it
Word: verisimilous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin vērisimilis + -ous. 1. Synonym of verisimilar. Example: verisimilous writing
Word: arsehead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arse + head. 1. An idiotic or undesirable person. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, vulgar Example: Blackadder: Meet the new Member of Parliament for Danny-on-the-Wold. Prince George: But he's an absolute arsehead!
Word: arseheads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arsehead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: incumbently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From incumbent + -ly. 1. In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent. Labels: especially
Word: coinhabitant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + inhabitant. Pronunciation: /ˌkəʊ.ɪnˈhæbɪtənt/ 1. Someone who lives with another, or with others. Example: co-inhabitants of the same element
Word: coinhabitants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coinhabitant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flocky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flock + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈflɒki/, /ˈflɑki/ 1. Abounding with flocks (tufts); floccose. Labels: archaic Example: flocky sediment
Word: freightless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From freight + -less. 1. Without freight. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hearkener Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hearken + -er. 1. One who hearkens; a listener.
Word: hearkeners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hearkener Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unfeather Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + feather. 1. To strip of feathers. 2. To disengage the controls that rotate the blades of a propeller perpendicular to the axis of the propeller. Example: unfeather the propeller
Word: unfeathering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unfeather Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unfeathers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unfeather Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: exequial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin exequialis, exsequialis, from exsequiae (“exequies”). 1. Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal. Labels: not-comparable Example: exequial parvana cake Example: exequial rite
Word: misadvertence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + advertence. 1. inadvertence; carelessness Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: gesturement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gesture + -ment. 1. Act of making gestures; gesturing. Labels: obsolete Example: Meanwhile our poets, in high parliament, / Sit watching euerie word and gesturement […]
Word: gesturements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gesturement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phycochrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phyco- + -chrome. 1. A bluish-green pigment in certain blue-green algae. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The purple-red or violet phycochromaceze contain phycochrome, which is composed of chlorophyll and a purple, but generally (not apparently different) blue modification of phycocyan, which easily turns into a verdigris-coloured substance. Example: It is quite possible that the writer has reckoned some of the filamentous species of the Schizomycetes under the head of Phormidium tenuissimum, since it is impossible to determine with certainty in all cases whether a filament less than one micromillimeter in thickness, contains phycochrome or not.
Word: phycochromes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phycochrome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lyric opera Part of Speech: noun 1. A nineteenth-century form of French opera, emphasising melody and having a romantic or fantasy theme. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: gipouns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gipoun Labels: form-of, plural
Word: healful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English heeleful, heleful, equivalent to heal (“health, well-being”) + -ful. Compare healless. 1. Tending or serving to heal; health-promoting; healing. Example: healful remedies Example: As for psychogenic death, this will be the case when three supplementary, in this case, healful conditions are fulfilled: […] 2. Full of health or safety; healthy; whole; sound; safe. Example: […] I believe my Father catched [sic] cold on his journey, tho' he was otherways a very strong healful man, for on his return to Pennicuik a boile broke out between his shoulders, which in a very few days turn'd to a Mortification. Example: The public conscience demands that they work under healful conditions, with ample light, without overspceding, and with the same provisions for their safety at their work that the employer would desire for himself were he so employed. 3. Affording health or salvation. Example: […] since Christ will not fail to minister, himself, all lawful and healful sacraments, and necessary at all time, and especially at the end, […]
Word: kecklish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: keck, keckle + -ish 1. Inclined to vomit; squeamish. Example: The female Penyroiall[…]staieth a kecklish stomack.
Word: teston Part of Speech: noun 1. A tester; a sixpence. Labels: obsolete
Word: have a pop at Part of Speech: verb 1. To attack or start a fight with something or someone. Labels: UK, slang, transitive Example: I called this guy gay, and then he had a pop at me. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:have a pop at.
Word: megalerg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From megalo- + erg. 1. A unit of one million ergs.
Word: megalergs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megalerg Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rightwisely Part of Speech: adv 1. Obsolete form of righteously. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: soldan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English soudan, from Old French soudan, from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān). Doublet of sultan. Pronunciation: /ˈsɒldən/ 1. The ruler of a major Muslim state in the Middle Ages, especially the Sultan of Egypt. Labels: archaic, historical Example: The iewels and the treaſure we haue tane Shall be reſeru’d, and you in better ſtate, Than if you were arriu’d in Siria, Euen in the circle of your Fathers armes, The mightie Souldan of Ægyptia. 2. A sultan. Labels: archaic Example: And then the Damzell, the sad Samient, / Should as his purchast prize with him convay / Unto the Souldans court […].
Word: soldans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of soldan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tartramide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tartro- + amide. 1. An acid amide derivative of tartaric acid.
Word: tartramides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tartramide Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misobserve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + observe. 1. To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Example: They understand it as early as they do language; and, if I misobserve not , they love to be treated as rational creatures sooner than is imagined
Word: misobserved Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of misobserve Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: misobserves Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of misobserve Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: misobserving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misobserve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: uncreatedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From uncreated + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being uncreated. Labels: uncountable Example: They rejected the Mu'tazili notion of the createdness of the Quran, affirmed the contrary – its uncreatedness – and made this a fundamental tenet of faith, as a way of asserting the superiority of the Quran to all human reasoning and knowledge.
Word: ebbet Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɛbɪt/ 1. The eastern newt, Notophthalmus viridescens.
Word: humidness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From humid + -ness. 1. humidity Labels: uncountable
Word: overlate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + late. 1. Too late; exceedingly late.
Word: overlate Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From over- + late. 1. Excessively late
Word: plumbage Part of Speech: noun 1. leadwork; plumbing Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: plumbages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plumbage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: surmisable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From surmise + -able. 1. Capable of being surmised. Example: surmisable fact Example: a surmisable result
Word: pumiciform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pumice + -iform. 1. Resembling, or having the structure of, pumice.
Word: unspin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + spin. 1. To unravel (something spun, knit, or woven). Labels: transitive Example: They cannot unspin or unweave themselves, they are threads either of warp or woof. Example: Do you know how Penelope passed her days in spinning and her nights in ravelling her web? This is why her name is given to all the women who imitate her, who spin and unspin. 2. To counteract fate. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Since pen and ink cannot alter facts, nor clotho herself unspin the thread of destiny ( § 39 ) , the historian's sole business is to narrate what has happened; Example: But you, you must unspin fate, go back to find Robin! 3. To untwist (something that is twisted or wound) Labels: ambitransitive Example: I contemplated "unspinning" everything into the two separate colors, but knew I did not have the patience to unwind that much yarn. Example: If twist has accumulated in the yarn, it is easy enough to rebalance by letting either the needles and fabric, or the ball, hand free and unspin. 4. To stop (something) from spinning. Example: You have to unspin it or the whole world will be sucked down into it. Example: This strategy also allows the supermassive black hole to pull dominant stars into a cluster around itself, and unspin those stars and force them to go Supernova. 5. To unmake. Labels: transitive Example: the garments of they righeousness are light as the web of gossamer, and shall be blown away by the breath of the Eternal, in that day when he will unspin all that nature hath ever woven. Example: Yet I shall, in bitter revenge, unspin this flesh And cut my tattered existence free of all its tarnished innocence. 6. To counteract or decipher a complicated web of lies, statements, arguments, traditions, etc. Example: It was an impulse to use art to unspin poisonous “social/psycho/spiritual” formations. Example: In fact, our analysis will be an attempt to unravel or unspin the seamless web of Panare thought. 7. To reveal the truth behind PR (public relations) or slanted reporting. Example: Around the pressroom, there was a palpable sense of satisfaction from knowing that, on this rare occasion, sportswriters and broadcasters could unspin the corporate spin, restore the proper pecking order to the basketball universe. Example: The trope requires a distinction between untrustworthy, biased politicians and trustworthy, unbiased experts. The latter are required to reveal, or to unspin, the misleading appearances of the former. 8. To disentangle. Labels: transitive Example: It took about six of us to unspin that web, but finally the whole mess was lowered to the deck . Example: I had to unspin this shimmering construction and move back and forth through the rooms tracing the pattern without getting tangled in it. 9. To happen; to unfold; to develop. Example: My life bifurcated. On half of it continued to unspin itself gently in the parklands of the Embassy, the other in and out of government offices, getting a little tangled in the process, Example: […] looking always for a way to unspin the story I kept tightly wrapped to me .
Word: unspinning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unspin Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unspins Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unspin Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bastioned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bastion + -ed. 1. Furnished with a bastion; having bastions. Labels: not-comparable Example: As he walked stiffly aslant against the booming northern wind, he tried to marshal his thoughts, tried to dovetail for himself a picture of what had happened behind the grim, bastioned walls of the lamasery and of what was going to happen […] Example: To the North there were low pale-colored hills, in places bastioned with rock.
Word: bastioned Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From bastion + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of bastion Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: enguard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + guard. 1. To guard or treasure. Labels: obsolete Example: He may enguard his dotage with their powers
Word: enguarded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of enguard Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: enguarding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enguard Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enguards Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of enguard Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unnaturalize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From unnatural + -ize. 1. To make unnatural. Labels: rare, transitive Example: he strives to unnaturalize himſelf
Word: unnaturalizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unnaturalize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unnaturalizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unnaturalize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vernacularization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vernacular + -ization. 1. The act or process of making vernacular. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thousands of words and uses of words, on their first appearance, or revival, as candidates for vernacularization, must have met with repugnance, expressed or unexpressed.
Word: vernacularizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vernacularization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gelatination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gelatin + -ation. 1. conversion into gelatin or jelly-like substance Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: gelatinations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gelatination Labels: form-of, plural
Word: idoloclast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From idol + -o- + -clast. 1. A breaker or undoer of idols; an iconoclast. Labels: archaic
Word: idoloclasts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of idoloclast Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caracoly Part of Speech: noun 1. An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, formerly used to make cheap jewellery. Labels: historical, obsolete, uncountable
Word: unrioted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + rioted. 1. Free from rioting; without riots. Labels: obsolete Example: a chaste, unrioted house
Word: geneset Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gene + set. 1. A set of genes (with a specified function)
Word: intermuscular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + muscular. 1. Between muscles. Labels: not-comparable
Word: gettable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From get + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɛtəbəl/, /ˈɡɛtəbl/, /ˈɡɛdəbəl/, /ˈɡɛdəbl/ 1. Able to be gotten. Example: I think that of the court's conservative justices, [Amy Coney Barrett] is (as the order today [in Department of State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition] suggests and yesterday's decision [in City and County of San Francisco v. EPA]) one of the justices that may be more "gettable" to join the court's liberal justices.
Word: cuspated Part of Speech: adj 1. cuspate
Word: aflow Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From a- + flow. Pronunciation: /əˈfloʊ/ 1. flowing Labels: not-comparable Example: But hush! and from the children take away / Their founts aflow with tears, and talk them calm,
Word: weighbeam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From weigh + beam. 1. A kind of large steelyard or scale that works by balance, as opposed to a spring. 2. The rigid beam that supports the receptacle for an item that is weighed on a balance-based scale. Example: The normal balance position of the weighbeam of a beam scale shall be horizontal.
Word: weighbeams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of weighbeam Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neologian Part of Speech: adj 1. Neological. Labels: archaic
Word: neologian Part of Speech: noun 1. A neologist. Labels: archaic
Word: neologians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neologian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: offerable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From offer + -able. 1. Capable of being offered 2. suitable or worthy to be offered. Example: an offerable present
Word: hoistway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hoist + way. 1. An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a warehouse.
Word: hoistways Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hoistway Labels: form-of, plural
Word: casemated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From casemate + -ed. 1. Furnished with, protected by, or built like a casemate. Labels: not-comparable Example: Casemated batteries are sometimes used in the seafaces of works, and in defending the entrance of harbours, in which case they consist of a bomb-proof
Word: unconsequential Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + consequential. 1. inconsequential
Word: unpatient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + patient. 1. impatient Labels: nonstandard, obsolete Example: Forsothe he that is vnpacient, schal suffre harm; and whanne he hath rauyshid, he schal leie to anothir thing. Example: Gond. That I hate truely, thou hadst better bin a devill. Orian. Why my unpatient Lord? Gond. Devils were once good, there they excell'd you wom[e]n.
Word: geminiflorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin geminus (“twin”) + flos, floris (“flower”). 1. Having the flowers arranged in pairs. Labels: not-comparable Example: geminiflorous helices
Word: unmantle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + mantle. 1. To divest of a mantle; to uncover. Example: Meanwhile the earl, for he was of no inferior rank, returned his lady's caress with the most affectionate ardour, but affected to resist when she strove to take his cloak from him. “Nay,” she said, “but I will unmantle you[…]”
Word: unmantles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unmantle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unmantling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unmantle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: forbiddenly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From forbidden + -ly. 1. In a forbidden or unlawful manner. Example: you haue toucht his Queene Forbiddenly
Word: choralist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From choral + -ist. 1. A singer or composer of chorales. 2. A chorister
Word: choralists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of choralist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: incommodation Part of Speech: noun 1. The state of being incommodes; inconvenience; discomfort. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: while the incommodation lasts, what but the selfishness of men devolves it upon women?
Word: incommodations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of incommodation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intertalk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From inter- + talk. 1. To converse. Labels: obsolete Example: 1633, Thomas Carew, "The Enquiry", in the supplement to Coelum Britanicum Love and my ighes thus intertalk't
Word: intertalked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of intertalk Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: intertalking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of intertalk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: intertalks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of intertalk Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ballproof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ball + -proof. 1. bulletproof. Labels: dated
Word: forebrace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore- + brace. 1. A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail. Example: He noted the effect on the ship of this change; then, as though satisfied, roared out: "Let your forebraces hang, forrard there! Stand by heavin'-lines fore and aft! Stand by to go ahead with that steamer when we have your line!" Example: “The gorilla was halfway up the fore rigging by this time, and the two Dutchmen had reached the foreyard, while the Sou’egian was going higher. One Dutchman laid out to windward, the other to leeward, and I thought of a plan. “‘Climb aft on the forebrace, each one of you,’ I sang out. ‘If he follows, I’ll let go the brace when you’ve reached the mainmast.’
Word: forebraces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forebrace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: globy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From globe + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɡləʊbi/ 1. Resembling a globe; round. Labels: archaic Example: the globy sea whereon she stands
Word: undecencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of undecency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undecency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + decency. 1. Obsolete form of indecency. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: an aft of lukewarmness is only an undecency
Word: kousso Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic ኮሶ (koso). Pronunciation: /ˈkʊsəʊ/ 1. An Ethiopian rosaceous tree whose flowers were used as a vermifuge, of species Hagenia abyssinica.
Word: regeneratory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From regenerate + -ory. 1. Having power to renew; regenerative. Example: A Power regeneratory, and of begetting them by the Word
Word: enneagonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From enneagon + -al. 1. In the form of an enneagon; having nine angles. Labels: not-comparable Example: enneagonal angle
Word: unpenitent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + penitent. 1. Not penitent; impenitent. Example: God will not relieve th'unpenitent, Nor to the pray'rs of wicked souls consent
Word: vernicose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See varnish. 1. Having a brilliantly polished surface, like some leaves.
Word: mystickal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mystick + -al. 1. Obsolete form of mystical. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: unleasht Part of Speech: verb 1. Rare spelling of unleashed. Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: coördinational Part of Speech: adj 1. Dated spelling of co-ordinational. Labels: not-comparable
Word: co-ordinational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From co-ordination + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to co-ordinations. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sh- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Alternative form of sch-. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: coordinational Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of co-ordinational. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: naïver Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of naïve: more naïve Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: naïvest Part of Speech: adj Etymology: naïve + -est 1. superlative form of naïve: most naïve Labels: form-of, superlative Example: He spoke of me all the time, in the blandest way, as “this prodigious giant,” and “this horrible sky‐towering monster,” and “this tusked and taloned man‐devouring ogre,” and everybody took in all this bosh in the naïvest way, and never smiled or seemed to notice that there was any discrepancy between these watered statistics and me.
Word: élitists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of élitist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: insues Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of insue Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: insue Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic spelling of ensue. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: interlines Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of interline Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: postest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: post + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of post Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular Example: thou postest by running into so many Sins
Word: probest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: probe + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of probe Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: robbest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: rob + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of rob Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: cond Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping. Pronunciation: /kɒnd/, /kɑnd/ 1. Clipping of conditional. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
Word: cond Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English conduen, condien, French conduire (“to conduct”), from Latin conducere. Pronunciation: /kɒnd/, /kɑnd/ 1. Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Sometimes he who conds the ship will be speaking to him at helm at every little yaw; which the sea-faring men love not, as being a kind of disgrace to their steerage; then in mockage they will say, sure the channel is narrow he conds so thick […]
Word: cheshirization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cheshire (cat) (“fictional cat which disappeared leaving only its smile, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by the English author Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)”) + -ization (suffix forming nouns denoting the act, process, or result of doing or making something), coined by the American linguist James Matisoff (born 1937) in a 1991 book chapter entitled “Areal and Universal Dimensions of Grammatization in Lahu”. Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃɛʃəɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/, /-ɹə-/, /-ɹɪ-/ 1. Synonym of transphonologization (“a type of sound change whereby a phonemic contrast that used to involve a certain feature evolves in such a way that the contrast is preserved, yet becomes associated with a different feature”). Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, rare, uncountable Example: For example, Mandarin uses the suffix ɚ < ér 兒 'son' while Cantonese employs tone sandhi, changing the citation tone to high rising tone, the cheshirization of an earlier segmental morpheme meaning 'son'.
Word: drinkableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drinkable + -ness. 1. The quality of being drinkable. Labels: uncountable
Word: inevasible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + evasible. 1. Impossible to evade.
Word: kerl Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of carl. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: kerls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kerl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: legitimism Part of Speech: noun 1. The principles or ideas of legitimists. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: legitimisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of legitimism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: orthoxylene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ortho- + xylene. 1. An aromatic hydrocarbon based on benzene with two methyl substituents bonded to adjacent carbon atoms in the benzene ring (the ortho configuration). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: orthoxylenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of orthoxylene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: parasital Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From parasite + -al. 1. parasitic Example: parasital chemicals
Word: sarcocele Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sarco- + -cele. 1. Any solid tumour of the testicle. Example: The complaint was a sarcocele, which Johnson bore with uncommon firmness, and was not at all frightened while he looked forward to amputation.
Word: sarcoceles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sarcocele Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undecisive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + decisive. 1. Alternative form of indecisive. Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare Example: this Philosophy is litigious, the very spawn of disputations and controversies as undecisive as needless
Word: Wernerian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Werner + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817), German mineralogist and geologist, or his theory of Neptunism.
Word: whipstalk Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of whipstock. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: whipstalks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of whipstalk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Christlikeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Christlike + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being Christlike. Labels: uncountable
Word: formeret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French [Term?] 1. One of the half-ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
Word: formerets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of formeret Labels: form-of, plural
Word: indew Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of endue. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Cattes fleſhe is vnholeſome, and harde to be indewed, and breedeth perillous wormes, and ſtoppeth a Hawke in the gorge, and marreth hir winde. Example: Infinite ſhapes of creatures there [in the Garden of Eden] are bred, / And vncouth formes, vvhich none yet euer knevv, / […] / Some fitt for reaſonable ſovvles t’indew, / Some made for beaſts, ſome made for birds to vveare, […]
Word: indewed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of indew Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: indewing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of indew Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: indews Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of indew Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: vexillaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vexillary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vexillary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin vexillarius: compare French vexillaire. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛksɪləɹi/, /ˈvɛksəˌlɛɹi/ 1. Creating a partition. Labels: not-comparable 2. Larger than the other (leaves, petals, etc.) and rising above them. Labels: not-comparable
Word: vexillary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vexillarius: compare French vexillaire. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛksɪləɹi/, /ˈvɛksəˌlɛɹi/ 1. A standard-bearer of a vexillum. Labels: Ancient-Rome Example: In letters like to those the vexillary / Hast left crag-carven o'er the streaming Gelt— […]
Word: unlikeableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unlikeable + -ness. 1. The quality of being unlikeable. Labels: uncountable Example: To be "at home" in the presence of others is not necessarily to like them (nor is it necessarily to condone their characters or their actions), but it is to recognize them as beings who are like us even in their unlikeableness.
Word: territoried Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From territory + -ed. 1. Having territory or territories Example: a territoried prince Example: a many-territoried country
Word: unmutable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unmutable; equivalent to un- + mutable. 1. Obsolete form of immutable. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: ridgebone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rygge-bone, rigbone, from Old English hryċġbān (“backbone; spine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hruggjabain, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjabainą (“backbone”); equivalent to ridge (“the back”) + bone. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪd͡ʒbəʊn/ 1. The backbone or spine. Labels: also, figuratively, rare Example: [T]he corrupt blood […] lying cluttered about the ridge-bone. Example: Let your body be erect and straight, your ridgebone answering to that of the horse; so that his body and your's may appear but as one piece of mechanism.
Word: ridgebones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ridgebone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glissette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French glissette, from glisser (“to slip”). 1. The locus described by any point attached to a curve that moves continuously along another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.
Word: glissettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of glissette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dobule Part of Speech: noun 1. A common dace (Leuciscus leuciscus) Labels: archaic
Word: dobules Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dobule Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oryctologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oryctology + -ist. 1. Someone versed in oryctology. Labels: obsolete
Word: oryctologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oryctologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: favillous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin favilla (“sparkling or glowing ashes”) + -ous. 1. Of or pertaining to ashes. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: But of lower consideration is the common foretelling of strangers, from the fungous parcels about the weeks of Candles: which only signifieth a moist and pluvious ayre about them, hindering the avolation of the light and favillous particles; whereupon they are forced to settle upon the snast. Example: The rocks and stones generally upon the hills, are extremely ragged and favillous, vast bodies of them, in many instances, having the appearance of being composed entirely of the calcarious matter once held in solution by the hot water of the springs.
Word: inditer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English enditour, endyter, inditer; equivalent to indite + -er. 1. One who indites.
Word: inditers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inditer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ostreophagist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ostreo- + -phagist. 1. Someone who eats oysters. Labels: archaic
Word: ostreophagists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ostreophagist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nol-pros Part of Speech: verb 1. To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute. Labels: transitive
Word: nol-prossed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of nol-pros Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: nol-prosses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of nol-pros Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: nol-prossing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of nol-pros Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: osiered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From osier + -ed. 1. Covered or adorned with osiers. Labels: poetic Example: osiered banks
Word: fluentness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fluent + -ness. 1. The quality of being fluent. Labels: uncountable
Word: gyneolatry Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒaɪniˈɒlətɹi/, /ˌɡaɪniˈɒlətɹi/ 1. The worship or adoration of women. Labels: uncountable
Word: Lowellian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Lowell + -ian. 1. Of or relating to Percival Lawrence Lowell (1855–1916), writer and astronomer who fuelled speculation that there were canals on Mars. 2. Of or relating to Robert Lowell (1917–1977), American poet. 3. Of or relating to Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American imagist poet. 4. Of, from, or pertaining to Lowell (any of the towns or cities of that name).
Word: terrestrious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin terrestris + -ious. Pronunciation: /təˈɹɛstɹiəs/ 1. Synonym of terrestrial. Labels: obsolete Example: The ſecond way whereby bodies become black, is an Atramentous condition or mixture, that is a vitriolate or copperoſe quality conjoyning with a terreſtrious and aſtringent humidity;
Word: unprudent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + prudent. 1. Obsolete form of imprudent. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: iodizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From iodize + -er. 1. Someone or something that iodizes.
Word: iodizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of iodizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overtrust Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + trust. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈtɹʌst/ 1. To trust too much. Example: Some there are, that do so overtrust their leaders' eyes
Word: overtrust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + trust. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌtɹʌst/ 1. excessive trust Labels: uncountable
Word: overtrusted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overtrust Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overtrusts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overtrust Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Franklinic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Franklin + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin, especially his work on electricity. 2. Alternative letter-case form of franklinic. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: lepidodendrid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of an extinct genus (†Lepidodendron) or its close relatives of trees, related to the present-day club mosses.
Word: lepidodendrids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lepidodendrid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Franklinian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Franklin + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin, scientist and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Word: feetless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From feet + -less. Compare Old English fēþelēas. 1. Without feet. Labels: not-comparable Example: feetless birds Example: feetless stockings
Word: shrubbed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shrub + -ed. 1. Having shrubs. Labels: not-comparable Example: a richly-shrubbed garden