nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: corpuscularian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From corpuscular + -ian. Pronunciation: /kɔːˈpʌs.kjʊˈlɛəɹi.ən/, /kɔɹˈpʌs.kjəˈlɛɹi.ən/ 1. Pertaining to or consisting of corpuscules; corpuscular. Labels: obsolete 2. Related to the corpuscular theory; pertaining to corpuscules or atoms; atomic. Labels: historical Example: Boerhaave promoted mechanistic disease explanation within a corpuscularian matter theory, seeing health in terms of hydrostatic equilibrium, a balance of internal fluid pressures.
Word: corpuscularian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From corpuscular + -ian. Pronunciation: /kɔːˈpʌs.kjʊˈlɛəɹi.ən/, /kɔɹˈpʌs.kjəˈlɛɹi.ən/ 1. An adherent of the corpuscular theory of chemistry. Labels: dated
Word: corpuscularians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corpuscularian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: muskwood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From musk + wood, because of its fragrance. 1. Wood of a West Indian tree of the mahogany family (Trichilia moschata). Labels: uncountable 2. Wood of an Australian tree (Olearia argophylla). Labels: uncountable 3. Any of species Guarea guidonia (American muskwood), of parts of the tropical Americas, or their wood. Labels: uncountable
Word: beat one's brain Part of Speech: verb 1. To struggle to think or remember something. Labels: idiomatic
Word: preconformity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + conformity. 1. conformity in advance Labels: uncountable Example: These great First Truths, these good and gracious Tidings, these holy and humanizing Spells, in the preconformity to which our very humanity may be said to consist, are so infused, that it were but a tame and inadequate expression to say, we all take them for granted.
Word: shipboards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shipboard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: piscation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin piscatio, from piscari (“to fish”). 1. fishing; fishery Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or Venation, five of Halieuticks or Piscation, commented and published by Ritterhusius; wherein describing beasts of venery and fishes
Word: piscations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of piscation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mimographer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mime + -o- + -grapher. 1. A writer of mimes (farces).
Word: mimographer Part of Speech: noun 1. One who writes down sign language according to the system of mimography. Labels: archaic
Word: guisard Part of Speech: noun 1. guiser, mummer Labels: archaic
Word: rhysimeter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥύσις (rhúsis, “flow”) + -meter. 1. An instrument, similar to a pitot tube, for measuring the velocity of a fluid current, the speed of a ship, etc. Labels: obsolete
Word: rhysimeters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhysimeter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pegomancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek πηγή (pēgḗ, “fountain”) + -mancy. 1. divination by fountains Labels: uncountable Example: This was the Pegomancy of the Greeks; who also solicited the answer of the Nymphs of the Spring, by offerings of bread, stones, or coins, or by dipping in a mirror, and construing the figures which the water had left on it. Example: Needless to say, “midden,” if we are to translate, is the stuff through which one is trying to walk in that footless stocking while the editors of National Review are failing to bite the bullet and forsake all squalid pegomancy for pedomancy.
Word: method actor Part of Speech: noun 1. An actor who employs the techniques of method acting
Word: inoxidized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + oxidized. 1. Not oxidized. Labels: not-comparable
Word: inoxidizing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + oxidizing. 1. Preventing or hindering oxidization or rust. Labels: not-comparable Example: inoxidizing oils and varnishes
Word: mimographers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mimographer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: method acting Part of Speech: noun 1. An acting technique in which the actor fully immerses themselves into the character they are playing. Labels: uncountable
Word: mimiviral Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to the mimiviruses. Labels: not-comparable
Word: envillaged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From en- + village + -ed. 1. Turned into, or reduced to, a village. Labels: nonce-word, not-comparable, obsolete Example: There on a goodly plain, by time thrown down, / Lies buried in his dust some ancient town; / Who now envillaged, there 's only seen / In his vast ruins what his state had been: […]
Word: scrap book Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of scrapbook. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: note book Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of notebook. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bibliopolist Part of Speech: noun 1. bibliopole
Word: ink slinger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ink + slinger. 1. A writer, especially of low-quality writing or invective. Labels: derogatory, slang 2. A tattooist. Labels: slang
Word: giantize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From giant + -ize. Compare French géantiser. 1. To make giant or gigantic; to increase to huge proportions. Labels: transitive
Word: giantized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of giantize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: giantizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of giantize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: giantizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of giantize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: think aloud Part of Speech: verb 1. To utter one's thoughts. Labels: idiomatic
Word: caban Part of Speech: noun 1. A grain measure equal to 3.47 cubic feet, used in the Philippine Islands. Labels: Philippines Example: After a good harvest the caban fetches four reales; but just before the harvest the price rises to one dollar, and often much higher. Example: Eusebio Mazorca further states: [105]--"The Governor receives payment of the tribute in rice-paddy, which he credits to the native at two reales in silver per caban.
Word: multivalency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From multi- + valency. 1. The property of being multivalent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The fact that the intensity of the fluorescence did not vary appreciably as the affinity of the interaction was lowered can be attributed to the multivalency of the BSA conjugates (avidity effects).
Word: argilliturbation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin argilla (“clay”) + turbation. 1. A mixing process in clay rich soils subjected to cycles of wet and dry, whereby the soil expands when wet and contracts as it dries, causing soil, stones and artefacts to move up and down. Labels: uncountable Example: At SBA-1807 and SBA-2061, these processes include bioturbation, argilliturbation, chemical weathering, downslope movement, natural addition of faunal remains to the midden, wildfires, trampling, grading, plowing, and discing. Example: In extreme situations, argilliturbation can result in a surface stone pavement (Johnson and Hester 1972, Muhs 1982).
Word: muscovy Part of Speech: noun 1. Muscovy duck Example: The clerks have rejected it as much as they liked; I am told that they admitted somewhere about six thousands of muscovy; during our administration there were 28 or 30 thousands received, which is a large difference without taking into account other qualities, and all this does not give the French much trouble, and at the most for the year we were not informed.
Word: musha Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Irish muise; perhaps originally a minced oath for Muire (“Mary”). 1. An expression of surprise. Labels: Ireland, archaic Example: Well, here now, here's five hogs to begin with; and, musha, but I never thought I'd be spending my loose change that way.' Example: "O then, musha! but isn't it a glad sight for my ould eyes to see your own silf undher my roof?" 2. An expression of sympathy. Labels: Ireland, ironic, often
Word: musicologically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From musicological + -ly. 1. With regard to musicology. Labels: not-comparable Example: Local concertgoers have become familiar with this exciting British conductor in recent years: she's presided over popular Chicago Opera Theatre productions of Monteverdi and Mozart, and in her tryout appearances with MOB she smoothly brought the group around to her musicologically informed interpretations.
Word: musicalization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From musical + -ization. 1. The act of musicalizing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Scapin, Rusty Magee's musicalization of Moliere's 1670 Les Fourberies de Scapin, is an adaptation true to its source: this slight farce becomes an even slighter musical.
Word: devow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French dévouer, Latin devovere. Equivalent to de- + vow. Doublet of devote (transitive verb). 1. To give up; to devote. Labels: obsolete 2. To disavow; to disclaim. Labels: obsolete Example: That should have been for sacred vengeance thrown: Thereto the armies angelic devow'd Their former rage, and all to Mercy bowed;
Word: devowed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of devow Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: devowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of devow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: devows Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of devow Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: transplendent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tran- + splendent. 1. extremely resplendent; very shiny or magnificent.
Word: mustee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mestizo (noun). Pronunciation: /mʌˈstiː/, /mʌsˈtiː/, /ˈmʌstiː/, /məˈsti/, /ˈməsti/ 1. A person of one-eighth African ancestry. Labels: archaic Example: a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee; the child of a white man by a mustee woman is a mustiphini; Example: Near the commencement of the weeding season of 1835, I was ordered to whip a young woman, a light mustee, for not performing her task.
Word: mylonitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mylonite + -ic. 1. Containing mylonite. Labels: not-comparable Example: Fibrous strain fringes up to ~12 mm long surrounding large (~5 mm) pyrites were collected from mylonitic carbonate-rich slates of Aptian age [~110 million years ago (Ma)] in the immediate hanging wall of a north-directed thrust of the Northern Pyrenees near Lourdes, France.
Word: myrtled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From myrtle + -ed. 1. Containing myrtle. Labels: poetic Example: Loud wail the dwellers on the myrtled coasts, The green savannas swell the maddened cry, And with a yell from all the demon hosts Falls the great star called Wormwood from the sky! Example: So, by this glorious lane, over the myrtled hills and down into valleys, whose bed was one hue of rose from the blossoming oleanders, we travelled for five hours, crossing the low ranges of hills through which the Orontes forces his way to the sea.
Word: raspatories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of raspatory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: raspatory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin raspatorium. Compare French raspatoir. See rasp. 1. A surgeon's rasp. Example: I put into his Mouth a Raspatory, and, fixing it between the root of his Tongue, and edge of that Tonsil, pulled away the corrupt Flesh Example: Through this hole raspatories may be introduced of various sizes and shapes, until the muco-periosteum is detached from one side of the palate; the raspatory will not separate the muco-periosteum from its attachment to the posterior margin of the bony palate, where also the fascia of the soft palate is firmly attached; for this, curved scissors can be used, the palate being drawn forward with a hook and the scissors passed behind the palate.
Word: myristylate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From myristyl + -ate (verb-forming suffix). 1. To undergo myristoylation. Example: Src42A myri has a point mutation in codon 2, which causes an amino acid substitution from Gly 2 to Asp. Gly 2 is conserved in all members of the Src family and must be myristylated for localization of Src to the cellular membrane in mammals (10 ). Example: Similarly, FRS2, which is myristylated and has a potential PTB domain, is specifically phosphorylated by receptors for fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and nerve growth factor (NGF) (39 ).
Word: haematitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From haematite + -ic. 1. Alternative spelling of hematitic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nationless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nation + -less. 1. Without a nation, not belonging to any nation. Labels: not-comparable Example: But if The Zenith Angle is never much more than a muddled adventure tale of cybersecurity in the war on terror, its meditation on the twin natures of the Internet and Al Qaeda (nationless and nebulous, thus so posthuman) is certainly neat enough. Example: And now, with the tyranny of wrongful power, "The loathsome mark has fallen, the mall remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise."
Word: nainsell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nain (from reanalysis of an own, mine own etc. as a nain, my nain) + sell, alternative form of self. 1. self Labels: Scotland, obsolete Example: "Gin ye hae your appetite wi' you we'll eat, Mr. Montagu, for I'm a wee thingie hungry my nainsell (myself). Example: Forsooth her nainsell lives by thift.
Word: narial Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈnɛəɹi.əl/, /ˈnɛɹi.əl/ 1. Relating to, or located at or near, the nares Labels: not-comparable Example: Data on turtles and mammals were collected from the literature, numerous dried skulls, and dissection notes and accumulated experience; the stereoradiographic techniques were not used for these clades partly because turtles and mammals are less relevant for inferences about dinosaurs but mostly because the narial anatomy of turtles and mammals clearly dictates the rostral position of the fleshy nostril relative to the bony nostril. Example: The asymmetry of the bones too is remarkable, although this is characteristic of all the catodon whales, especially as regards the bones of the anterior narial passages, the left of which is very much larger than the right.
Word: nather Part of Speech: conj 1. neither Labels: obsolete, regional Example: "Weel, then," said Jem, imperfectly comprehending the signs made to him by the reeve, "the hut looks nather to t' south naw to t' north, but to t' west; it feaces t' moor; an there is a path fro' it to Hook Cliff."
Word: neoprimitive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From neo- + primitive. 1. Related to the neoprimitivism movement. Example: Perhaps an equivalent influence on Davies is the movie The Night of the Hunter and its arsenal of neoprimitive, childlike imagery and rural, homespun folk poetry--its starry skies and oversized moon, its troubled Christianity, its lyricized and almost generic treatment of madness, its period street scenes that remind you of magazine ads for hair tonic and talcum powder.
Word: nickle Part of Speech: noun 1. European green woodpecker (Picus viridis).
Word: nickle Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of nickel. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: On top of the card place a dime or nickle; this should be exactly over the tip of the finger and in the middle of the card. Example: Sweet rolls, the kind that sell four for a nickle at home, cost two for a nickle.
Word: nowdays Part of Speech: adv 1. Pronunciation spelling of nowadays. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling Example: Oh, A know vera well, we've no time for an old or a new dispensation nowdays. Example: I s'pose if the gen'ral run of trotters never got better 'n three 'n a half that a hoss that c'd do it in three 'd be fast, but we don't call 'em so nowdays. 2. Misspelling of nowadays. Labels: alt-of, misspelling, not-comparable 3. Alternative form of nowadays. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: noxiousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From noxious + -ness. 1. the state of being noxious Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Though she's superficial to the point of noxiousness and obsessed with amassing cultural cache, her ridiculous affectations make up for it. Example: If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the[…]hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.
Word: nubility Part of Speech: noun 1. The property or state of being nubile. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: It's certainly no disgrace to have been ripped off by a pretty-faced hustler--who among us has not mistaken nubility for genius? Example: In France, more than half the women who have reached the age of nubility are married; in Ireland, generally speaking, less than a third.
Word: outswim Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + swim. 1. To swim faster, farther or better than. Labels: transitive Example: Last July in Berkeley, California, a 38-year-old man under the influence of alcohol drowned after a 50-year-old man offered to give him his car if the younger man could outswim him in San Francisco Bay....That same month a 45-year-old man drowned off Cabo San Lucas, at the southern tip of Baja California, Mexico, while trying to surf the ten-foot waves caused by Hurricane Juliette.... Example: He was not afraid now; tortoises do not fight unless attacked, and the boy could easily outswim any of the clumsy creatures.
Word: overfondness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + fondness or from overfond + -ness. 1. Excessive fondness. Labels: uncountable Example: Pryor's overfondness for medium-tempo shuffles can make his shows a little predictable, and his stage presence is more sincere than flamboyant. Example: Where those old songs give one a reassuring feeling even as they discuss personal calamities--losing a lover, or a job, or family, or discovering an overfondness for something addictive like alcohol, or pot, or, again, love--McFerrin's calamities are of the easily overcome, cardboard sort that appear in brief glimpses during ads depicting Reagan's America, brief signs of the bad that we can shoo away if we only keep up a good mental attitude.
Word: ownest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: own + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of own Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: owneth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: own + -eth 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of own Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: penecontemporaneously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From penecontemporaneous + -ly. 1. in a penecontemporaneous way Labels: not-comparable Example: Our study shows that chondrules formed at higher pressures relative to canonical solar nebula pressures and that some chondrules and CAIs formed penecontemporaneously.
Word: pouchy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pouch + -y. 1. Resembling a pouch; baggy Example: He had a trick which I noticed even then, which grew on him later, of pulling his jowl with his right hand as he spoke, and his jowl was already fat and pouchy.
Word: eviration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin eviratio. 1. Emasculation; effeminacy. Labels: archaic, historical, uncountable Example: Essentially, then, it was the fear of “eviration,” rather than any overt hostility to women, that excited Rousseauian passions.
Word: anelectrotonus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an- + electrotonus. 1. The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Labels: uncountable Example: the impulse is generated only at the anode where the nerve passes suddenly back from anelectrotonus into a normal condition.
Word: willower Part of Speech: noun 1. A machine for cleaning wool etc.; a willowing machine. Labels: historical
Word: willowers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of willower Labels: form-of, plural
Word: delibration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + Latin liber (“bark”) + -ation. 1. The act of stripping off bark. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Coniferous and broadleaved wood destined for delibration or pulping by mechanical, chemical or combined means. 2. Obsolete form of deliberation. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: delibrations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of delibration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intendancies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of intendancy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intendancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From intendant + -cy. Compare French intendance. 1. The office or employment of an intendant. Example: By the 1780s [in France] four quarterings of nobility were needed even to buy a commission in the army, all bishops were nobles and even the keystone of royal administration, the intendancies, had been largely recaptured by them. 2. A territorial district overseen by an intendant.
Word: expetible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin, expetibilis, from expeto (“I wish for, I aspire to”), from ex (“out”) + peto (“I seek”) 1. Worthy of being wished for; desirable or sought after Labels: obsolete Example: 1679 (original publication date), Timothy Puller, The Moderation of the Church of England Uniformity in religious and ecclesiastical matters sure is so excellent and desirable again, that certainly an establishment, somewhat less perfect, with "being of the same mind so far as we have attained," and with a regular and effectual observation of good laws, is more expetible, than an appointment, in some cases more perfect, without the same uniform order and peace therewith.
Word: pinpatch Part of Speech: noun 1. A mollusk, the periwinkle. Labels: UK, archaic
Word: pinpatches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pinpatch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exigenter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exigent + -er. 1. An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was to make out exigents. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: There are also four Exigenters, whose Office is to make all Exigents and Proclamations in all Actions where Process of Outlawry doth lye.
Word: exigenters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exigenter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cenobitism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cenobite + -ism. 1. The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite. Labels: uncountable Example: The baides in which the early christians took refuge in the ages of cenobitism or of persecution
Word: preelect Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + elect. 1. To elect beforehand Labels: transitive
Word: preelected Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of preelect Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: preelecting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of preelect Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: preelects Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of preelect Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: berycoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek βῆρυξ (bêrux, “fish”) + -oid. 1. Resembling or relating to the Berycidae, a family of marine fishes.
Word: subpena Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated spelling of subpoena.
Word: subpena Part of Speech: verb 1. Dated spelling of subpoena.
Word: subpenas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subpena Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subpenas Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of subpena Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: subpenaing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of subpena Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: subpenaed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of subpena Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unbethink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + bethink. 1. To change one's mind, or to forget. Labels: dialectal, obsolete, reflexive Example: I unbethought myself.
Word: unbethinks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unbethink Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unbethought Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unbethink Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: guarish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the stem of Old French guarir, garir, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną. 1. To heal or cure. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [T]he Mayd / His readie vvound with better ſalues new dreſt, / Daily ſhe dreſſed him, and did the beſt / His grieuous hurt to guariſh, that ſhe might, […]
Word: guarished Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of guarish Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: parrotries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parrotry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: parrotry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From parrot + -ry. 1. Thoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: This sentiment is so lugged into every debate, that it has degenerated into mere parrotry. Example: The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apemanship and parrotry conforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary […].
Word: feateous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare Old French faitis, faitice, fetis (“well made, fine”), Latin facticius (“made by art”). 1. dexterous; neat Labels: obsolete
Word: parrock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English parrok, from Old English pearruc, pearroc (“clatrum, fence by which a space is enclosed, enclosure, enclosed land”), perhaps from post-classic Latin parricus (compare park). Cognate with Dutch perk (“flowerbed”), German Pferch (“pen, fold”). 1. An enclosed area of land; a small field or a paddock. Labels: England, Scotland, regional Example: James Broadbent did not wonder what Isaac Hartley was doing in the sodden parrock that lay behind Elphaborough Hall in the fading light of day […].
Word: parrock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English parroken, parrokken, from parrok. See above. 1. To enclose or shut in; park. Labels: transitive
Word: parrocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parrock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: yellowred Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of yellow-red. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncommon Example: Coxa grey, grey haired, femur blackbrown, yellowwhite haired along the distal lateral border, tibia redbrown to blackbrown, yellowred haired at base, then black haired. Example: Head: Triangular; clypeus enclosed; cheeks surrounding clypeus are nearly straight extending in front of compound eyes; antennae pinkish or of yellowred tile with last article darker; second article longer than third one [...]
Word: yellowred Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of yellow-red. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncommon
Word: insecable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin insecabilis, from in- (“not”) + secabilis (“that may be cut”). Compare French insecable. 1. indivisible (literal or figurative) Labels: not-comparable
Word: glint in the milkman's eye Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Created by analogy with similar expressions such a glint in your father's eye, but implying the child was conceived adulterously; milkmen, visiting housewives while their husbands would have been at work, are often associated with adultery. 1. Someone or something that has not been born or conceived yet. Labels: UK, humorous Example: It’s no wonder then that, musically, from Summer Camp to Best Coast, we’ve stepped into a sepia time machine recently, transported back to a golden age where romance abounded and Justin Bieber was a mere glint in the milkman’s eye. Example: "And which Pitt would this be? Pitt the Toddler? Pitt the Embryo? Pitt the Glint in the Milkman's Eye?"
Word: per say Part of Speech: adv 1. Misspelling of per se. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: calisson Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French calisson, from Occitan calissoun. 1. A Provençal diamond-shaped confection made with ground almonds. Example: A crème brûlée into which had been blitzed those Provençal iced-marzipan biscuits called "calisson" was a crème brûlée adulterated. Example: The "ethically sound" shelves tugged at my conscience, while the gourmet section tempted me with almond calisson at £13.99 and spelt dinkelbrot. I didn't know what either of these delicacies were, but I knew I wanted them.
Word: sex hormones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sex hormone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: breast augmentations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of breast augmentation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tonically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From tonic + -ally. 1. in a tonic manner Labels: not-comparable Example: Slow-developing changes in the population response of the tonically active neurons of the striatum, putative interneurons, have also been found [ T. Aosaki, et al., J. Neurosci. Example: Force must not be used, but steady firm pressure against the tonically contracted cricopharyngeus is made, while at the same time the distal end of the esophagoscope is lifted by the left thumb.
Word: toothful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tooth + -ful. 1. A small amount, especially a small alcoholic drink. Labels: archaic Example: The signal officer was looking wise over something that boomed and buzzed alternately; the machine-gun officer may, or may not, have been enjoying another toothful. Example: "Give her a toothful of whisky, your ladyship.
Word: toothful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tooth + -ful. 1. Toothy; showing the teeth. Example: a toothful grin 2. Toothsome. Labels: obsolete
Word: thrasonic Part of Speech: adj 1. thrasonical Labels: obsolete Example: In praise of Brandenburg the Shouting Emperor spoke, In language like a huge thrasonic joke. Example: Tu-Kila-Kila lifted himself up in his thrasonic mood.
Word: thicke Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of thick. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The ground is couered thicke with pokickeries (which is a wild Wall-nut very hard and thick of shell; but the meate (though little) is passing sweete,) with black Wall-nuts, and acorns bigger than Ours. Example: Looke thou no further, but affixe thine eye 50 On that bright shynie round still moving masse, The house of blessed God, which men call Skye, All sowd with glistring stars more thicke then grasse, Whereof each other doth in brightnesse passe, But those two most, which, ruling night and day, 55 As king and queene the heavens empire sway; And tell me then, what hast thou ever seene That to their beautie may compared bee?
Word: symphonize Part of Speech: verb 1. To agree; to be in harmony. Labels: intransitive Example: to make the Texts they quit them in, Symphonize with their Tenents
Word: superstitiousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From superstitious + -ness. 1. superstition Labels: rare, uncountable, usually Example: The characters are all quirky and life-size (the Dillon character's superstitiousness is one of the principal motors of the plot, and the story's outcome doesn't prove him wrong), and, as with the burglaries in Breaking In, the treatment of drugs is refreshingly free of either moralizing or romanticizing. Example: The accident that aroused it illustrates Indian superstitiousness.
Word: subtility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From subtile + -ity, from Middle French subtilité, from Latin subtīlitas. See subtle. Doublet of subtlety. Pronunciation: /sʌbˈtɪlɪti/ 1. Cunning, craftiness. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: —L. By thus glorying in their resistance to the vice of Nature's law—if, indeed, anything natural be vicious—they become not only like inhuman and cruel beasts, but even like the devils whose pride and subtility they borrow. 2. A cunning scheme; a trick, a con. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: And that such their subtility might not be perceived, they made him a like paire of eares and nose of wax: wherfore you may see that the poore miser for lucre of a little mony sustained losse of his members. Example: I cannot omit a subtility of one of those quack operators, with which he gulled the poor people to crowd about him, but did nothing for them without money. 3. Excessive refinement of argument; casuistry. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But these scruples, if not too intricate, are of too extensive consideration for my present purpose, nor are they such as generally occur in common life; and though casuistical knowledge be useful in proper hands, yet it ought by no means to be carelessly exposed, since most will use it rather to lull than awaken their own consciences; and the threads of reasoning, on which truth is suspended, are frequently drawn to such subtility, that common eyes cannot perceive, and common sensibility cannot feel them. 18. 4. A convoluted or refined argument. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is no subtilitie so vaine, but confounds me. 5. Fineness; subtlety. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As we rise in the scale of forces towards greater subtility, the forces become more important and efficient.
Word: shirtings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shirting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suitings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suiting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trouserings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trousering Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cross-correlations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cross-correlation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: radio soundings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of radio sounding Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Argie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A diminutive of Argentinian, formed as Arg- + -ie. 1. An Argentine. Labels: informal Example: The Argies attempted a half-hearted counter-offensive, but our artillery quickly put paid to that.
Word: Argies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Argie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cannelé Part of Speech: noun 1. A style of interweaving giving a channelled or fluted effect to fabric. Labels: uncountable 2. A fabric woven so as to have this effect; a rep. Labels: countable 3. Alternative spelling of canelé (French filled pastry) Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: cookings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cooking Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Neolithic Revolution Part of Speech: name 1. the discovery of agriculture Example: The end of the last ice age around 10,000 b.c. was followed by what is called the Neolithic Revolution; that is, the revolution that occurred in the New Stone Age (the word Neolithic is Greek for “New Stone.”) Example: The Neolithic Revolution (about 8000-3000 B.C.E.) was characterized by people moving from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles.
Word: indiscussed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + discussed. 1. Not discussed. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: upon reaſons light in themselves or indiscussed in me
Word: stroam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: British dialect strome (“to walk with long strides”). 1. To wander about idly and without purpose. Labels: UK, intransitive, obsolete 2. To walk with long strides. Labels: UK, intransitive, obsolete
Word: stroamed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of stroam Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: stroaming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of stroam Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stroams Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stroam Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: stadimeter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stadium + -meter. 1. A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances.
Word: stadimeters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stadimeter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: playdough Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From play + dough. 1. Modeling clay for children. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: electrepeter Part of Speech: noun 1. An early type of commutator. Labels: dated, historical
Word: electrepeters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of electrepeter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: parturiency Part of Speech: noun 1. Parturition Labels: uncountable Example: Is it possible for a woman to go through parturiency without pain? Example: Savages of a low degree of civilization are generally little troubled by parturiency. 2. Gestation. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: It seems, if we may so use the metaphor, to have been the "destroying angel" of naturalized and injurious systematism, and has greatly assisted to substitue the innovation of the more truly elevating attainments of practical and useful pursuits; not merely intended to produce a book on a Greek word, but the discovery of a useful acid, an alert remedy , or hidden principle of the universe –combining the useful with the ornamental, the parturiency of the fruit with the flower. Example: In Night Song, Cara Henson, the teacher, becomes pregnant in her romantic relationship with Chase Jefferson, a cavalier soldier, but refuses to tell him about her parturiency. 3. A process or quality that brings forth something new. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: The Woman, i.e. Church in her travelling State, may be considered, First, with respect to her Spiritual Parturiency, which great thing being effected powerfully and suddenly, by the abundant Grace of God poured forth upon her in Prayers and Supplications, it thence becomes an easy Birth, the Kindliness and Facility whereof thus expressed, Isa. lxvi. 7. Before she travailed she brought forth: before he pain came she was delived of a Man-child. Example: As you have considered human nature in all its lights, you must be extremely well apprized, that there is a very close correspondence between the outward and the inward man; that scarce the least dawning, the least parturiency towards a thought can be stirring in the mind of man, without producing a suitable revolution in his exteriors, which will easily discover itself to an adept in the theory of the phiz. 4. A phase in the therapeutic process in which feelings dominate over understanding, in which the client seems to relive emotions and to lack clarity. Labels: uncountable Example: If a parturiency is more disturbing and doesn't quickly return to nascence, the therapist may wish to indicate this to the client with some brief statement, such as "I'm feeling grumpy about something and I don't quite know what it is." Example: This highlights the necessity for the therapist to be alert for signs of parturiency, since if one is distracted or inattentive, one may miss these "doorways to feelings."
Word: subdeposit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + deposit. 1. Something which is deposited beneath something else. Example: a subdeposit of rock Example: subdeposits of sand
Word: subdeposit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sub- + deposit. Labels: empty-gloss, no-gloss
Word: subdeposits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subdeposit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cicatrizant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French cicatrisant, properly the present participle of cicatriser. 1. That helps with healing, or with the formation of a scar
Word: cicatrizant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French cicatrisant, properly the present participle of cicatriser. 1. A medicine, ointment or similar application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a scar. Example: used as a cicatrizant and analgesic
Word: cicatrizants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cicatrizant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: summities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of summity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paduasoy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Padua (“a place name in Italy”) + French soie (“silk”). Compare French pou-de-soie, peau de soie. 1. A rich and heavy silk material. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A garment made from this material. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [M]y wife herself retained a passion for her crimson paduasoy, because I formerly happened to say it became her.
Word: intervent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See intervene. Pronunciation: /ɪntə(ɹ)ˈvɛnt/ 1. Abbreviation of interventional. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: intervented Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of intervent Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: interventing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of intervent Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: intervents Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of intervent Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dispost Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + post. 1. To eject from a post; to displace. Labels: transitive Example: Now, thinke thou see'st this Soule of sacred Zeale, This kindling Cole of flaming Charitie, Dispossed all in post; not for his weale, But, for his further future miserie.)
Word: disposted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dispost Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disposting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dispost Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disposts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dispost Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bharal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi भड़ल (bhaṛal). 1. A blue sheep, being any species of the genus Pseudois, goatlike bovids of the Himalayas and western China with a bluish-grey coat; Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur). Example: On the way we disturbed the peace of three bharals and the female of a snow-cock ; the latter, with her brood hardly a week old, rose almost from my feet as I clambered round a rock tower. Example: In appearance, the bharal resembles both a sheep and a goat. Its horns are smooth, rounded and form a curve backwards over the neck. The fur is brownish grey in colour which attains a slaty grey hue in winter and becomes browner in summer. In Kumaun the bharal is found in the desolate tracts of northern Pithoragarh, usually on the slopes of the main Himalayan range where it lives between the timberline and the snowline.
Word: paramaleic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From para- + maleic acid. 1. fumaric acid Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: trisulc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin trisulcus; tri- (“three”) + sulcus (“a furrow”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪsʌlk/ 1. Something having three forks or prongs, especially a trident. Labels: no-plural, obsolete, rare Example: Jupiter's trisulc
Word: bignoniaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Bignoniaceae + -ous 1. Of or relating to the flowering plant family Bignoniaceae.
Word: nonhorticultural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- Proto-Indo-European *gʰórtos Proto-Italic *hortos Latin hortus Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English horticulture English -al English horticultural English nonhorticultural From non- + horticultural. 1. Not horticultural. Labels: not-comparable
Word: GUIs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of GUI Labels: form-of, plural
Word: finedraw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fine + draw. 1. To sew up so finely that the seam is not visible; to renter. Labels: transitive Example: and when one of larger dimensions was required, several of these were sewn finedrawn together with such care that no seams were discernible.
Word: finedrawing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of finedraw Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: finedraws Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of finedraw Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: finedrew Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of finedraw Labels: form-of, past
Word: filoplume Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin filum (“a thread”) + pluma (“a soft feather”). 1. A hair-like feather; a feather with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length. Labels: archaic Example: filoplumes of chickens
Word: filoplumes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of filoplume Labels: form-of, plural
Word: marlite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From marl + -ite. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)laɪt/ 1. A wind-resistant variety of marl. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Marlites […]are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.
Word: marlites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of marlite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: facelessly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From faceless + -ly. 1. Without a face or identity. Labels: idiomatic Example: Social networking will turn us all into facelessly meaningless numbers on a screen.
Word: reboation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin reboare; compare reboant. 1. A loud reverberation; the echo of a bellow or roar. Example: […]were deafened in the awe-inspiring roar of the torrent, the reboations of which we heard at some distance after we had left the spot whence they proceeded. Example: To an untrained ear the deep-mouthed reboation of a ship's horn seems to have lost itself in the fog,[…].
Word: pestery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pester + -y. 1. Tending to pester.
Word: disinsure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + insure. 1. To render insecure; to put in danger. Labels: obsolete 2. to take away insurance of; to uninsure
Word: disinsured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disinsure Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disinsures Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disinsure Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: disinsuring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disinsure Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: despread Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + spread. 1. To recombine radio signals that have been spread or distributed.
Word: despread Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of dispread. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: despreaded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of despread Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: despreading Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of despread Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: despreads Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of despread Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mesally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From mesal + -ly. 1. Alternative form of mesially. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: executress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old French executeresse (modern French exécutrice), from executeur (“executor”) + -esse (suffix forming female equivalents). By surface analysis, executor + -ess (suffix forming female equivalents). Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɹɪs/, /ɛkˈsɛk-/ 1. A female executor; an executrix. Labels: archaic, obsolete
Word: executresses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of executress Labels: form-of, plural