nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: smock-faced Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a feminine expression or appearance; smooth-faced; girlish-faced. Labels: dated Example: A smock-faced amoroso. Example: That counter-casting, smock-faced boy.
Word: clothes lines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clothes line Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clothes line Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of clothesline. Labels: New-Zealand, UK, alt-of, alternative
Word: catheretic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek καθαιρετικός (kathairetikós, “reducing”), from καθαιρέω (kathairéō, “take down”). 1. A mild caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.
Word: catheretics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of catheretic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: frank-marriage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From frank (“free”) + marriage. 1. A form of conditional marriage-gift of land under English law, often from father to daughter. Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: an estate given with her in frank marriage by her ancestor
Word: frank-marriages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frank-marriage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: superframe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + frame. 1. A frame (chunk of data) comprising several subframes.
Word: superframes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superframe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: midframe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mid- + frame. 1. The central part of a frame. Example: the midframe of a kayak
Word: midframe Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mid- + frame. 1. During a frame; before the completion of a discrete chunk of data. Labels: not-comparable
Word: midframes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of midframe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: corody Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of corrody. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: corodies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corody Labels: form-of, plural
Word: corrodies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corrody Labels: form-of, plural
Word: brond Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See brand. 1. A sword. Labels: obsolete
Word: bronds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brond Labels: form-of, plural
Word: septaemia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin septaemia, from Ancient Greek σηπτός (sēptós), verbal adjective of σήπω (sḗpō, “make rotten”), + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -ia. 1. Synonym of septicemia. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: helotries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of helotry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: helotry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From helot + -ry. 1. Collectively, the helots (slaves or bondsmen). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Apparently influenced by Montesquieu's judgment that Spartan helotry combined the worst features of slavery and serfdom, Dew credited the Athenians with treating their slaves gently.
Word: metensomatoses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metensomatosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metensomatosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μετενσωμᾰ́τωσῐς (metensōmắtōsĭs). 1. A change of body by the soul, reincarnation, metempsychosis. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: doulocracy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dulocracy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, no-plural
Word: siphonobranchiate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From translingual Siphonobranchiata (see -ate), from siphono- + branchia + -ata. 1. Having a siphon or siphons to convey water to the gills (said of gastropods of the former order Siphonobranchiata. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: Hills Hoists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Hills Hoist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Hills Hoist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From genitive of Hill (“a surname”) (with elided apostrophe) + hoist (“lift”); from the trade name of the product manufactured from 1945 by Lance Hill of Adelaide, South Australia. 1. A rotary clothes line with adjustable height by means of a rotating handle. Labels: Australia Example: A Hills Hoist was set into the concrete. It was covered with a lush choko vine. Hazel always claimed the Hills Hoist was the perfect plant support. “If you want to do some pruning, you just wind it up and spin it round.” Example: Like most Australians I have spent much of my life in the suburbs. I was raised in the Perth suburb of Karrinyup. A quarter acre, a terracotta roof, a facade knocked out by some bored government architect, a Hills Hoist in the back yard and picket fences between us and the neighbours.
Word: shekhinah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shechinah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: teaze-hole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Corrupted from French tisard fire door. 1. The opening in a glass furnace through which fuel is introduced.
Word: teaze-holes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of teaze-hole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Persism Part of Speech: noun 1. A Persian idiom.
Word: Persism Part of Speech: name 1. Ancient Persian religion, especially as represented by the Magi. Labels: archaic Example: This system we shall call 'Persism', in order to free ourselves of the popular associations still connected with such terms as magism, Parseeism, and so forth; meaning by 'Persism' the teaching of Zarathustra as it affected the Greek and Latin world.
Word: Persisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Persism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: roytelet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French roitelet, diminutive of roi (“king”). 1. A little king. Labels: archaic Example: The chief Roytelet amongst the Mohawks now living, is a Dutchmans Bastard Example: hire troops of the roytelets of Brunswick and Hesse - Cassel
Word: roytelets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of roytelet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coryphei Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corypheus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: corypheus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin coryphaeus, from Ancient Greek κορυφαῖος (koruphaîos, “leader”), from κορυφή (koruphḗ, “head”). 1. The conductor or leader of the dramatic chorus in Ancient Greece. Labels: historical Example: In this work Homer and Virgil already appear beside Cicero and Plato as doctrinal authorities. The four corypheuses are infallible; any contradiction between them is wholly out of the question. 2. The chief or leader of a party or interest. Labels: broadly Example: That noted corypheus of the Independent faction. Example: Let us blithely hail, throughout the whole universe, these disciples of Christ, these two Coryphei, Peter and Paul : O Peter, the Foundation-stone and Rock ; and thou also, O Paul, Vessel of Election.
Word: corypheuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corypheus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rock tripe Part of Speech: noun 1. An edible lichen of the genus Umbilicaria that grows on rocks. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rock tripes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rock tripe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cablet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cable + -let. 1. A slender or small cable.
Word: cablets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cablet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gemshorn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Gemshorn, literally "chamois horn". Pronunciation: /ˈɡɛmzˌhɔɹn/ 1. An instrument of the ocarina family, historically made from the horn of a chamois, goat, or other animal. 2. An organ stop with conical tin pipes.
Word: gemshorns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gemshorn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rebatement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Old French rabatement, from rabatre (“to diminish”). By surface analysis, rebate + -ment. 1. A rebate (discount or partial refund). Labels: archaic
Word: rebatements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rebatement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thereology Part of Speech: noun 1. therapeutics Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: reckling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reck + -ling. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛklɪŋ/ 1. A weak child or animal. Labels: archaic Example: O ay, what say ye to Sir Valence, him / Whose kinsman left him watcher o'er his wife / And two fair babes, and went to distant lands; / Was one year gone, and on returning found / Not two but three: there lay the reckling, one / But one hour old! What said the happy sire? 2. A reckless person. Labels: archaic
Word: recklings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reckling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mesomyodian Part of Speech: noun 1. Any bird with a mesomyodous larynx, formerly classified un the superfamily Mesomyodi. Labels: obsolete
Word: mesomyodians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mesomyodian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peplus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek. 1. An upper garment worn by women in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Labels: obsolete 2. A kind of kerchief formerly worn by women in England. Labels: dated Example: A wimple or peplus was thrown over the head ; a sort of hood , which , instead of covering the shoulders , was brought round the neck beneath the chin like a warrior's gorget
Word: pepluses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of peplus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inclamation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin inclamatio. See in- + claim + -ation. 1. exclamation; (loud) utterance Labels: obsolete Example: When the king of Israel is in all the hight both of his state and superstition, honouring his solemne day with his richest devotion, steps forth a prophet of God, and interrupts that glorious service, with a loud inclamation of judgment.
Word: inclamations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inclamation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haemometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From haemo- + -meter. 1. A hemadynamometer.
Word: haemometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haemometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: asbestous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From asbestos + -ous. 1. Relating to, containing, or resembling, asbestos. Labels: archaic Example: asbestous actinolite Example: asbestous tremolite
Word: contragestion Part of Speech: noun 1. Prevention of the implantation of a blastocyst. Labels: uncountable
Word: disculpate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin disculpātus, perfect passive participle of disculpō (“to disculpate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dis- (“off”, denoting the ending of an action) + culpō (“to blame”), from culpa (“fault”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of disculp. Pronunciation: [ˈdɪskʌɫpeɪt], [ˈdɪskʊɫpeɪt] 1. To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exonerate. Labels: transitive Example: He […] endeavoured to disculpate the youth, and left no method untried to soften the tyrant's rage.
Word: disculpated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disculpate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disculpates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disculpate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: disculpating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disculpate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hair salt Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hair-salt. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: ragious Part of Speech: adj 1. raging; furious; angry Labels: obsolete
Word: balsamation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From balsam + -ation. 1. The act of imparting balsamic properties. Labels: uncountable 2. The art or process of embalming. Labels: uncountable
Word: embalmings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of embalming Labels: form-of, plural
Word: playdoughs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of playdough Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diabolicality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From diabolical + -ity. 1. The state or quality of being diabolical. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: diabolicalities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diabolicality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: liza Part of Speech: noun 1. The white mullet (Mugil curema), of the subtropical Americas.
Word: lizas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of liza Labels: form-of, plural
Word: indeliberated Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of indeliberate. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: aitchbones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aitchbone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: edgebone Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of aitchbone. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: edgebones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of edgebone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Pleiocene Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Pliocene. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Pleiocene Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Pliocene. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: adversion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin adversiōnem, from adversiō. 1. A tendency or wish to avoid someone or something. 2. A turning towards; the act of paying attention. Labels: obsolete Example: And if the eye / Of her adversion were fast fixt on high, / In midst of death 'twere no more fear or pain, / Then 'twas unto Elias to let flie Example: We have tested assertions of this kind, not as we should, by grounded and consecutive study of the whole document, but by momentary adversion to the passages specially attacked, with our minds full of the attack
Word: malacoderm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”) + -derm. 1. One of a former tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body. Labels: dated Example: The fireflies are malacoderms.
Word: malacoderms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of malacoderm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: demibrigade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French demi-brigade, demi- + brigade. 1. half a brigade.
Word: demibrigades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of demibrigade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rhine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English ryne. See run. Pronunciation: /ɹaɪn/ 1. A watercourse; a ditch for water. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: the Black Ditch and the Langmoor Rhine 2. A running waterway that links a ditch or stream to a river.
Word: rhines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rigoll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Corrupted from regal. 1. An old musical instrument consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end.
Word: rigolls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rigoll Labels: form-of, plural
Word: turnsick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From turn + sick, because turning on the spot is a symptom of the disease. 1. The disease coenurosis, specifically when it occurs in sheep. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: antipartyism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + partyism. 1. opposition to a party or faction Labels: uncountable
Word: richweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rich + weed. 1. Pilea pumila, a herb of the nettle family with a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem.
Word: richweeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of richweed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clearweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clear + weed. 1. A herb with a clear stem; the richweed.
Word: clearweeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clearweed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stromboid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Strombus + -oid 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the genus Strombus of sea snails.
Word: Podsnappery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Podsnap + -ery, referring to a character Mr. Podsnap in Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend (1864–1865), in which this word was also coined. Podsnap was “conscious that he set a brilliant social example in being particularly well satisfied with most things, and, above all other things, with himself”. 1. Smug self-satisfaction and a lack of interest in the affairs of others. Labels: derogatory, uncountable Example: No doubt in particular contexts certain of these judgments might be sustained. But what is evident, wherever such judgments obtrude, is the loosening of emotional control and the displacement of analysis by commination. There is, about them, the air of an inverted Podsnappery.
Word: hyperstructure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + structure. 1. Any algebraic structure equipped with a hyperoperation. 2. A set of sets or a system of systems. Example: One has also to remember that within a hyperstructure - which a regime resembles - not every entity and organization has to be in the same area of state space. 3. A very densely populated habitat, as in arcology. Example: With historical landscapes erased, with megastructures and superblocks as primary components, and with an increasingly dense and self-contained circulation system, the new financial district is best conceived as a single, demonically self-referential hyperstructure, a Miesian skyscape raised to dementia. 4. A set of documents interlinked by hyperlinks, along with the links between documents. Example: The editing process is split between the hyperstructure editing process and the content editing process: the hyperstructure editing enables the editing of the constituents defined in the hyperstructure: nodes, links, hyperdocuments etc . Example: There are close relationships between these items. For example, a syntax rule presented by text, and its corresponding concept illustrated by a cartoon have a close relation. Therefore, a function is needed to support the reference operation freely between closely related items. A hyperstructure is used to achieve this function.
Word: hyperstructures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hyperstructure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hypergroup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + group. 1. Any algebraic group equipped with a hyperoperation.
Word: semihypergroup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + hypergroup. 1. Any hypergroup for which the reproduction axiom is valid.
Word: semihypergroups Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semihypergroup Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyperstructural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + structural. 1. Relating to hyperstructure. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hyperoperation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + operation. 1. One of a sequence of operations for compounding numbers that increase in growth iteratively. Example: The first four hyperoperations are successor, addition, multiplication, and exponentiation.
Word: hyperoperations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hyperoperation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyperoperator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + operator. 1. A mapping from operators to operators. 2. An operator that acts on every member of a set.
Word: hyperoperators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hyperoperator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sowbug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sowe (“sow, female pig; also woodlouse”); bug. 1. A woodlouse.
Word: sowbugs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sowbug Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rolly-polies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rolly-poly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rolly-poly Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of roly-poly (“kind of pudding”). Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: haemotachometer Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of haematachometer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: haemotachometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haemotachometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haematothorax Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hemothorax. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: haemothorax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From haemo- + thorax. 1. Alternative form of hemothorax. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: hemothorax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hemo- + thorax. 1. A condition resulting from accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: spadebone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spade + bone? 1. shoulder blade Labels: UK, obsolete Example: a spadebone of a shoulder of mutton
Word: spadebones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spadebone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cledgy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cledge + -y? 1. stiff, stubborn, clayey, tenacious Example: The stiff cledgy land was but little better
Word: turban shell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a reanalysis or misconstruction of translingual Turbinidae (with the root Turbo), from a similar pronunciation. To demonstrate (in General American): Turbinidae as /tɝˈbɪ.nɪ.deɪ/ and turban as /ˈtɝ.bən/; as /ɪ/ and /ə/ are interchangeable in certain words in General American, especially before consonants like /m/ and /n/. It has been reinterpreted from Latin turbo (“whirlwind”, from the shells' twisting shapes) to English turban, due to a perceived similarity to the ways turbans are worn and the shape of the shells of these snails. 1. A marine gastropod of the family Turbinidae, or the shell thereof.
Word: turban shells Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of turban shell Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cinnamone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cinnamic + -one. 1. A yellow crystalline substance, (C₆H₅.C₂H₂)₂CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: scentful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From scent + -ful. 1. Having a pleasant scent; odorous. Example: a scentful nosegay Example: Sweetened cream is a blank canvas upon which to build a scentful composition that will transport your guests to other places in time or space—through their noses! 2. Having a keen sense of smell. Example: The scentful osprey by the rock had fish'd.
Word: Piarist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pius (“pious”), + -ist. 1. A member of the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, a Catholic educational order founded in the sixteenth century.
Word: Piarists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Piarist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disroof Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + roof. 1. To unroof; to remove the roof. Labels: transitive Example: Ghastly châteaus stare on you by the wayside; disroofed, diswindowed[.]
Word: disroofed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disroof Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disroofing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disroof Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disroofs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disroof Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: foutra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See fouter. 1. A trifle, an insignificant amount. Labels: derogatory, no-plural, obsolete, slang Example: A foutra for the world and worldlings base! Example: A foutra for thy hand, thy heart, thy braine.
Word: panderage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pander + -age. 1. The act of pandering. Labels: uncountable
Word: paraschematic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From para- + schematic. 1. parasynthetic Labels: archaic, not-comparable 2. Imitative. Labels: not-comparable 3. Occurring in the absence of an external stimulus. Labels: not-comparable Example: paraschematic sensations
Word: crankbird Part of Speech: noun 1. A small European woodpecker (Dryobates minor, formerly Picus minor). Labels: dated, dialectal
Word: crankbirds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crankbird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Suwałki Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Suwałki. 1. A town in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland.
Word: reirrigate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + irrigate. 1. To irrigate again. Labels: transitive
Word: reirrigated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reirrigate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reirrigates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reirrigate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reirrigating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reirrigate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bugfish Part of Speech: noun 1. The menhaden. Labels: US, dated
Word: crotaloid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Crotalus + -oid 1. Resembling the genus Crotalus of venomous snakes, including the rattlesnake.
Word: crotaloid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Crotalus + -oid 1. Any member of the Crotalinae, formerly known as Crotaloidae.
Word: trumpetweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trumpet + weed. 1. Any of the joe-pye weeds, herbaceous composite plants of genus Eutrochium, often having hollow stems, bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads, native to eastern North America. Labels: uncountable 2. Ecklonia buccinalis (seaweed) Labels: uncountable
Word: wkend Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of weekend. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Remember, wkend after Labor Day at Palm Springs for 89 (contact Dick Groves) and same wkend at Bar Harbor, ME for 90 (contact Mark, Herb Puscheck, Jerry Mitchell, or John Nun).
Word: antitypous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “a blow”) + -ous. 1. resistant to blows; hard Labels: obsolete Example: Essentially antitypous ; one magnitude joined to another always standing without it , and making the whole so much bigger
Word: sea kale Part of Speech: noun 1. Crambe maritima, a halophytic perennial plant that grows wild along the coasts of Europe. Labels: uncountable
Word: pleuric Part of Speech: adj 1. pleural Labels: not-comparable Example: pleuric clot Example: pleuric pain
Word: salsoda Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sal soda. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: rattlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rattling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: foldage Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of faldage. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: palmiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin palmifer, from palma (“a palm”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French palmifère. 1. Bearing palm trees. Labels: archaic
Word: ethule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Altered on the basis of Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē). 1. ethyl Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: destimulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + stimulation. 1. The act or process of destimulating. Labels: uncountable
Word: lect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Use of the compound element -lect as an independent noun. Pronunciation: /lɛkt/ 1. A specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect. Example: Meronyms: lexicon, grammar, sublect Example: These, together with (some) Romansh lects, belong to our West Rhaetian; the /ȫ/ also supported by two lects from the Ticino which by our criteria are NWIt, and by the partially umlauting lects of Lombardy which together with (some) Engadine lects belong to our East Rhaetian.
Word: lects Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lect Labels: form-of, plural
Word: heliosheaths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heliosheath Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Buli Part of Speech: name 1. A Gur language spoken in Ghana.
Word: Buli Part of Speech: name 1. A South Halmahera language spoken in Indonesia.
Word: scenograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See scenography. 1. A perspective representation or lateral view of an object, as opposed to a view from above or below. Example: The analogy between the ichnograph - scenograph relation and the independent - dependent relation between God and particular minds clearly struck Leibniz as most beautiful and appropriate . 2. An early portable camera, invented in 1874 by a Dr. Candèzi. Example: Every inventor may be excused a little enthusiasm when exhibiting his bantling to the world, and we must not criticise too severely the remark of the worthy doctor, in the preface to his brochure, in which he tells us that he looks forward confidently to the time when every tourist will be a photographer, and will carry in his coat pockets, on his excursions, the scenograph and dark plates, and in his hand the walking-stick tripod. Example: One whose ideas of cameras and photographic apparatus have been acquired from an acquaintance with the works of English camera-makers will, upon examining a scenograph, immediately assert that it is a mere toy and nothing more. 3. A changing diorama or cyclorama representing a historic event, first introduced in 1894. Example: What is the scenograph? It is the latest development of the cyclorama and is the creation of Mr. E. J. Austen, who has painted seventeen different cycloramas, including the Battle of Gettysburg and the Chicago Fire. In the scenograph Mr. Austen has added to a printed background a model of the great buildings of the World's Fair, with real water for Lake Michigan and the lagoons. Example: The. Scenograph presents to the spectator the World's Fair, with a large tract of the surrounding country as it would appear to an aeronaut drifting over the lake at an altitude of 600 feet.
Word: scenographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scenograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spicose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin spica (“a spike or ear”). 1. Having spikes or ears like those of corn. Example: a spicose umbel
Word: subdial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + dial. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbˌdaɪəl/ 1. A secondary dial set into the face of a dial.
Word: subdial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin subdiālis, from sub diō (“under the sky, in the open air”), from Proto-Italic *djous (“day, sky”). Pronunciation: /sʌbˈdaɪəl/ 1. open-air; outdoor. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: subdials Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subdial Labels: form-of, plural
Word: corollet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From corolla + -et. 1. A floret in an aggregate flower. Labels: obsolete Example: […]the flat part of the corollet in ligulate florets
Word: corollets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corollet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: homoeomeria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios, “similar, like”) or ὁμοῖος (homoîos, “similar, like”) with μέρος (méros, “portion, part, share”). 1. The state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts. 2. A doctrine in the philosophy of Anaxagoras, that the atoms constituting a substance must themselves have the salient observed properties of that substance. e.g. atoms of water would be wet, atoms of iron would be hard, atoms of wool would be soft, etc.
Word: homoeomerias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of homoeomeria Labels: form-of, plural
Word: decennaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of decennary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: decennary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin decennis (“decennial, of ten years”) + -ary. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛnəɹi/ 1. Decennial: of or related to a ten-year period. Labels: not-comparable
Word: decennary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin decennis (“decennial, of ten years”) + -ary. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛnəɹi/ 1. A decennium: a period of ten years.
Word: decennary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin decennārius, a variant of decanarius (“containing ten items; related to the number ten”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛnəɹi/ 1. Alternative form of decenary: of or related to the number ten; containing ten items. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: decennary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin decennārius, a variant of decēnārius. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛnəɹi/ 1. Alternative form of decenary: of or related to a tithing. Labels: alt-of, alternative, historical, not-comparable
Word: decennary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin decennārius, a variant of decēnārius. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛnəɹi/ 1. Alternative form of decenary: a tithing. Labels: alt-of, alternative, historical Example: All males... should... be enrolled in a tithing, or decennary, which originally consisted of ten free families.
Word: motived Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of motive Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: motiving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of motive Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: motivelessly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Anglo-Norman motifder. Middle French motifder. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin mōtus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Late Latin mōtīvumder. Middle English motif English motive Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English motiveless Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English motivelessly From motiveless + -ly. 1. Without a motive. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pedomotive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ped- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *pṓds Proto-Italic *pets Latin pēsder. English pedo- Anglo-Norman motifder. Middle French motifder. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin mōtus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Late Latin mōtīvumder. Middle English motif English motive English pedomotive From pedo- (“foot”) + motive. 1. Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle. Labels: not-comparable Example: pedomotive carriage
Word: estacade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French estacade; compare Italian steccata, Spanish estacada, and English stake. Pronunciation: /ˈɛstəkeɪd/ 1. A dyke of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to hinder the approach of an enemy. 2. a type of pier or jetty
Word: estacades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of estacade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: torchwort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From torch + wort, because in ancient times the stalks were dipped in suet and used as torches. 1. The common mullein (Verbascum thapsus). Labels: uncountable
Word: prebronchial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + bronchial. 1. Situated in front of the bronchus Labels: not-comparable Example: prebronchial artery embolization Example: prebronchial branch
Word: hummeler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hummel + -er. 1. Someone who, or a machine which, hummels.
Word: hummelers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hummeler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hummels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hummel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hummeller Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hummeler. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hummellers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hummeller Labels: form-of, plural
Word: free-trade area Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of free trade area. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: waistbanded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From waistband + -ed. 1. Having a waistband. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sweetweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sweet + weed. 1. Either of two tropical American weeds, (Capraria biflora of the figwort family or Scoparia dulcis) of the plantain family. Labels: uncountable
Word: figworts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of figwort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: napha water Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish nafa. 1. A perfume distilled from the orange blossom. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: Coatzacoalcos Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish, from Classical Nahuatl; see below. 1. A major port city in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. Formerly named Puerto México. 2. A municipality of Verazcruz, Mexico. 3. A large river which flows through the city of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, and into the Gulf of Mexico.
Word: sweepwasher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sweep + washer. 1. One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where those metals are used. Labels: dated
Word: sweepwashers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sweepwasher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: epulotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπουλωτικός (epoulōtikós), from οὐλή (oulḗ, “scar”). 1. Promoting the scarring or healing of sores. Labels: obsolete Example: epulotic ointment
Word: epulotic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπουλωτικός (epoulōtikós), from οὐλή (oulḗ, “scar”). 1. Any epulotic ointment or substance. Labels: obsolete
Word: epulotics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of epulotic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Grecize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare French gréciser. 1. To render Grecian, or cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; to Grecianize; to Hellenize. Labels: transitive Example: The name is grecized. 2. To translate into Greek. Labels: transitive 3. To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech. Labels: intransitive
Word: grecized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of grecize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: grecizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of grecize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: grecizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of grecize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: agend Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of agendum. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: encolure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French encolure. Pronunciation: /ɑŋkəˈlʊə(ɹ)/ 1. The neck of a horse. Labels: archaic Example: Crisped like a war-steed's encolure
Word: encolures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of encolure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shadbird Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shad + bird, since it appears at the same time as the shad (a fish). 1. The American snipe; Wilson's snipe (Gallinago delicata). Labels: UK, dated, dialectal 2. The common snipe or European sandpiper (Gallinago gallinago). Labels: UK, dated, dialectal
Word: shadbirds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shadbird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disbecame Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of disbecome Labels: form-of, past
Word: disbecome Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + become. 1. To misbecome; to fail to suit; to be unfitting. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: be careful That your compassion of my age, nor his, Move you to any thing that may disbecome The place on which you sit
Word: disbecomes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disbecome Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: disbecoming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disbecome Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pandour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian pandur, from Medieval Latin banderius, a follower of a banner. Pronunciation: /ˈpændʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈpændɔː(ɹ)/ 1. One of a class of Croatian skirmishers serving in the Austrian army. Example: her whisker'd pandours and her fierce hussars 2. A robber. Labels: obsolete
Word: pandours Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pandour Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pandoor Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pandour. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pandoors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pandoor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scholarity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Old French scholarité, or Latin scholaritias. 1. scholarship Labels: obsolete, uncountable 2. schooling; level of education Labels: uncountable
Word: spargefaction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin spargere (“to strew”) + facere, factum (“to make”). 1. The act of sprinkling. Labels: obsolete, rare, uncountable, usually Example: The operation was performed by spargefaction in a proper time with of the moon.
Word: spargefactions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spargefaction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cold-short Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of cold short. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: cold-short iron
Word: incaved Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + cave + -ed. 1. Enclosed within, or as if inside, a cave. Labels: not-comparable
Word: profligation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin prōflīgātiō, from prō- (“forward”, (whence pro-)) + flīgō (“to strike, dash”) + -ō. By surface analysis, profligate + -ion. 1. defeat; rout; overthrow Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: the braying of Silenus his Ass, conduced much to the profligation of the Giants Example: This is David's profligation and discomfiture of his enemies; this is an act of true honour, a true victory, a true triumph, to keep the field, to make good one station, and yet put the enemy to flight. 2. Licentiousness; lewd behavior. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I've seen your player show folks, and such like wiggeling and waggeling, and chattering about London pride, and London profligation, and what not – Now I think, if one of them was just to set about talking a little of London kindheartedness and London charity, it would be rather more truerer, and quite as becoming. Example: a site of constant exchange and transition, Columbus Circle is suspended in a state of marginal profligation through numerous fugitive concurrences . 3. The quality of being profligate; extravagance; overabundance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This profligation of grant programs has tended to confuse objectives, recipients, and administrators. Example: Earlier this century, the preferred way for realists to mitigate any prima facie profligation of scientific entities was by appeal to scientific reductionism — the notion that all (other) sciences or parts of science are reducible to a single science and so, likewise, that all (other) scientific entities are reducible to the entities of this one science.
Word: agroupment Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of aggroupment. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: agroupments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of agroupment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: afformative Part of Speech: noun 1. An affix.
Word: afformatives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of afformative Labels: form-of, plural
Word: alcahest Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈal.kə.hɛst/ 1. rare spelling of alkahest Labels: alt-of, countable, rare, uncountable
Word: homodynamic Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy. Labels: not-comparable Example: Thus the arm-bone or humerus of a man is homologous (homogenetic) with the upper bone of the fore limb of a quadruped , or of the wing of a bird , while it is at the same time serially homologous (homodynamic) with the thigh- of man himselfbone
Word: malleation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin malleatio: compare Old French malleation. 1. The act or process of malleating (beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal) Labels: archaic, countable, often, uncountable 2. Forceful or constant bending, shaping working Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 3. A hammering movement of the hands against the thighs, a form of tic. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: malleations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of malleation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diaphonics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dia- + phonics (“acoustics”). 1. The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: grindle Part of Speech: noun 1. A fish, the bowfin (Amia calva). Labels: US, dated, dialectal
Word: grindles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of grindle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hypobole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑποβολή (hupobolḗ, “a throwing under, a suggesting”), from βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”). 1. A rhetorical figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make claims against the argument, or in favor of the opposing side, but are then refuted one by one. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable 2. A deliberate, intentional understatement. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Word: millionary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From million + -ary. 1. Of, containing, or relating to millions; consisting of millions (e.g. of a currency). Labels: not-comparable Example: the millionary trade
Word: indefeisible Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of indefeasible. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: imposthumation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See apostemation. 1. The formation of an abscess; inflammation; suppuration 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Example: Askew , a wealthy and facetious farmer of Cornwall , was afflicted with a most alarming imposthumation of which he appeared to be on the very point of suffocation
Word: imposthumations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of imposthumation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hewhole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare hickwall. 1. The European green woodpecker. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal
Word: palaetiologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From palaetiology + -ist. 1. Someone versed in palaetiology. Labels: archaic
Word: palaetiologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of palaetiologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stentorin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stentor + -in. 1. A blue or green pigment found in some stentors (the protozoans). It is a photoreceptor
Word: stentorins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stentorin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cannabene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cannab(is) + -ene. From French cannabène. 1. A colourless oil obtained from hemp by distillation, with the same intoxicating properties as cannabis. Labels: uncountable
Word: reclination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French réclinaison. 1. The act of leaning or reclining. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The angle made by the plane of a dial with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Removal of a cataract by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: reclinations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reclination Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stulm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Stollen (“tunnel”). 1. A shaft, conduit, adit, or gallery to drain a mine. Example: … they have to advance the lower stulm on each side of the tunnel … the advancement of the stulm, … it must be finished, including the graveling. Example: … an upper chamber, a stulm, a lower chamber in open communication with the lower end of the head shaft, and arranged at substantially the level of the stulm, and a downwardly extending sill divinding the lower end of the shaft from the stulm so that the lower chamber is at normal pressure and the shaft is at negative pressure.
Word: stulms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stulm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dozzled Part of Speech: adj 1. stupid; heavy Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: In such a perplexity every man asks his fellow, What's best to be done? and being dozzled with fear, thinks every man wiser than himself. Example: The other stood cold as a pyramid, Lacked Beauty, lacked noble blend Of elbow and joist, Was dozzled, was too pipingly voiced To be perfect friend
Word: dozzled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dozzle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Lethy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Lethe + -y. 1. Lethean. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Thou dotest upon a devil, not a woman, / That has bewitched thee with her sorcery / And drowned thy soul in Lethy faculties.
Word: encauma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔγκαυμα (énkauma, “mark caused by burning”). See encaustic. 1. An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea. Labels: archaic
Word: transumptive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin transumptivus. 1. Metaphorical. Example: Meander is a riuer in Lycia, a prouince of Natolia, or Aſia minor, famous for the ſinuoſitie & often turning thereof, riſing from certaine hills in Mæonia[;] heerevpon are intricate turnings by a tranſumptiue & metonimicall kind of ſpeech, called Meanders, for this Riuer did ſo ſtrangely path it ſelfe, that the foote ſeemed to touch the head. Example: fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive [translating Dante's Latin transumptivus], and withal definitive
Word: moneyage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French monnayage (“coinage”). 1. Coinage; mintage. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: He remitted the right of impoſing moneyage, and of levying taxes at pleaſure on the farms, which the barons retained in their own hands: […] 2. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debasing the coin. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: lysdexic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By intentional alteration of dyslexic. 1. Dyslexic. Labels: humorous Example: for someone diagnosed with lysdexic...pardon me...dyslexic tendencies […]