nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: perviousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pervious + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being pervious. Labels: uncountable Example: some Philosophers suppose in the pores of Glass, as 'tis a transparent body, or rather in their ranks or rows, may facilitate the Perviousness we above observ'd in Glass
Word: Patriarchists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Patriarchist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: éboulement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French éboulement. 1. A mass of debris or shingle. 2. The falling in of the wall of a fortification. 3. A landslide or landslip.
Word: blow-buddy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of blowbuddy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: blow-buddies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blow-buddy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eanling Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of yeanling (“newborn goat or sheep”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire
Word: eanlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eanling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: geophagous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From geo- + -phagous. 1. Eating earth. Labels: not-comparable
Word: vitrifiable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French vitrifiable. 1. Capable of being vitrified, or converted into glass by heat and fusion. Labels: not-comparable Example: Flint is vitrifiable.
Word: insurmountability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + surmount + -ability. 1. The state or quality of being insurmountable. Labels: uncountable Example: But when we reflect that across the road at the centre of the arc of each curve there was a barricade, and cannon placed to rake the' intervals between the different barricades, the difficulties of the ascent, which is very steep, would be increased even to insurmountability. Example: He dried his eyes. His aunt saw the insurmountability of the difficulty, and they drowned feeling in an affectionate glass of green-orangeade.
Word: tricksterism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trickster + -ism. 1. The use of a trickster character in folk literature. Labels: uncountable 2. The philosophical position of being a trickster. Labels: uncountable Example: Tricksterism was thus a justifiable response to the dehumanizing experience people encountered as slaves.
Word: margaritiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: from Latin margarītifer, from margarīta (“pearl”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French margaritifère. 1. Producing pearls.
Word: boastive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From boast + -ive? 1. boastful; presumptuous Labels: archaic
Word: nontraversing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + traversing. 1. Not traversing. Labels: not-comparable
Word: annulary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See Latin annularis. See annular. 1. Having the shape of a ring; annular. Labels: archaic Example: because continual Respiration is necessary for the Support of our Lives, it is made with annulary Cartilages, to keep it constantly open
Word: weyleway Part of Speech: intj 1. Obsolete form of wellaway. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: jeez Louise Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative spelling of geez Louise. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: elephant in the corner Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of elephant in the room. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: reverse ferret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The term originates from Kelvin MacKenzie's time at the The Sun. His preferred description of the role of journalists when it came to public figures was to "stick a ferret up their trousers". This meant making their lives uncomfortable, and was based on the northern sport of ferret-legging. However, when it became clear that the tide of public opinion had turned against the paper's line, MacKenzie would burst from his office shouting "Reverse Ferret!" 1. A sudden volte-face in an organisation's editorial line on a certain issue, especially one without acknowledgment of the previous position. Labels: UK
Word: omitter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From omit + -er. 1. Someone who omits. Example: the observers or the omitters thereof should not mutually censure each other
Word: omitters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of omitter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overknowing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + knowing. 1. Excessively knowing or cunning. Example: Odds me! how wise the child is! what a loss And pity 'tis that in old times the folk Were not so thoughtful and so over-knowing!
Word: omniform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin omniformis, from omnis (“all”) + forma (“form”). Compare French omniforme. 1. Having every form or shape. Labels: not-comparable Example: The living fire , the living omniform seminary of the world , and other expressions of the like nature , occurring in the ancient and Platonic philosophy
Word: monsterous Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of monstrous. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: theaterical Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of theatrical. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: theaterical Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of theatrical. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: cockbreath Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cock + breath. 1. A contemptible person, usually used as a disparaging term of address Labels: colloquial, derogatory, offensive, vulgar Example: "Fuck my ass, cockbreath," he snarled back. Example: And you know what that means, cockbreath?
Word: simber Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of simmer. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: […] that their vital heat and moisture may not always onely simber in one sluggish tenour, but sometimes boil up higher and seethe over […]
Word: pisshole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From piss + hole. 1. The urethra. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: I pushed my ass back toward the voodoo man's thick, leaking cock, and the jism dripping from his pisshole lubricated my asshole. My anus grew slick and opened of its own accord. The more of his cum that wet my hole, the more my muscles contracted to give him easy entrance. Example: As is, he and I know the wetness is natural lubricant oozing from the pisshole of his big dick. 2. An unpleasant place. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: High school crowds; doinks with nothing better to do than come down to this pisshole and wave through the glass partition at the biggest jerk in the whole gang.
Word: pissholes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pisshole Labels: form-of, plural Example: Beau glared at the precum drops oozing from their pissholes, dribbling down the full length of their cocks.
Word: transcursion Part of Speech: noun 1. A rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation. Labels: obsolete Example: And if Man were out of the world, who were then left to view the face of Heaven, to wonder at the transcursion of Comets […] Example: In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.
Word: repedation Part of Speech: noun 1. A stepping or going back. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] to take notice of the Direction, Stations and Repedations of those Erratick Lights, and from thence most convincingly to inform himself of that pleasant and true Paradox of the Annual Motion of the Earth […]
Word: parelius Part of Speech: noun 1. A parhelion. Labels: obsolete Example: […] even then he began, and with that noble personage, to clasp some one gratioso in the embraces of his great love, who was, unto him as a parelius,—that is, when the sun finds a cloud so fit to be illustrated by his beams that it looks almost like another sun.
Word: longerons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of longeron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pudus Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pudu Labels: form-of, plural
Word: marsh deer Part of Speech: noun 1. A large deer of the wetlands of South America, Blastocerus dichotomus. Example: Like pampas deer, marsh deer occur only south of Amazonia.
Word: pampas deer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pampas + deer. 1. A small South American deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus). Example: Like many open-country ungulates, the pampas deer tends to explore the unusual
Word: defringes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of defringe Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: defringe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + fringe. 1. To remove unwanted surrounding portions or speckles of colour from (an image). Labels: transitive
Word: cockroach taxi Part of Speech: noun 1. An unroadworthy mini-bus taxi. Labels: South-Africa
Word: articulative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From articulate + -ive? 1. Serving to articulate or express something. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] speaking a language invented before the human tongue learned the trick of articulative speech […] Example: […] shock techniques used by rappers are both a mode of self-expression and articulative of the actual language and violence of urban ghetto culture.
Word: expectingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From expecting + -ly. 1. In a state of expectation.
Word: insomnolence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + somnolence. 1. Sleeplessness. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: insomnolence is complained of, or if the patient sleeps his rest is disturbed by frightful dreams Example: He […] feels out his body from the inside, rarefied and refined by hunger and insomnolence.
Word: insomnolences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of insomnolence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: insurrectional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From insurrection + -al. Compare French insurrectionnel. 1. Relating to insurrection. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] I can’t understand why a political movement would want to celebrate an insurrectional movement like the Commune. It shocks me.”
Word: leady Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English leddy, ledy, ledi, equivalent to lead + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛdi/ 1. Synonym of leaden, of or related to the metal lead. Labels: uncommon Example: Leadie colour Example: The mucous coat presented on a ground more or less of a leady hue , mulberry-coloured or crimson spots
Word: overmeasure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + measure. 1. To measure or estimate with a result that is larger than it should be.
Word: overmeasure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + measure. 1. Excessive measure; surplus. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: overmeasures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of overmeasure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overwax Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + wax. 1. To apply too much wax to. Labels: transitive Example: an overwaxed floor 2. To wax or grow too rapidly or too much. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: overwaxed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overwax Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overwaxes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overwax Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overwaxing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overwax Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Pictish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Pict + -ish. Compare Old English Pihtisċ. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪk.tɪʃ/ 1. Of or pertaining to the Picts. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Gothic monarch and the Pictish peer
Word: Pictish Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Pict + -ish. Compare Old English Pihtisċ. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪk.tɪʃ/ 1. The extinct, poorly attested language spoken by the Picts.
Word: redowa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Via French [Term?] from Czech rejdovák, from rej (“whirl”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdəvə/, /ˈɹɛdəwə/ 1. A dance of Czech origin with turning, leaping waltz steps. Example: The Redowa or Pas de Basque was originally adapted to Polka-Mazurka music, and, consequently, was danced much slower than it is at present, adapted as it is to waltz and galop music. Hence the name Polka-Redowa: — Polka step, Redowa time. Example: "The Varsouvienne," says one reference, "apparently originated in France about 1853, in imitation of the Polish Mazurka, Polka, and Redowa. 2. The music for this kind of dance, usually in quick triple time.
Word: redowas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of redowa Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ungka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay ungka. 1. A kind of gibbon, the siamang. Labels: archaic
Word: ungkas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ungka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: methylic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From methyl + -ic. 1. Pertaining to, derived from, or containing methyl. Example: methylic ether Example: methylic hydride
Word: morinda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any of the genus Morinda of rubiaceous trees and shrubs.
Word: morindas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of morinda Labels: form-of, plural
Word: protractedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From protracted + -ness. 1. The quality of being protracted. Labels: uncountable
Word: casualist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From casual + -ist. 1. Pertaining to casualism. Labels: not-comparable
Word: casualist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From casual + -ist. 1. One who believes in casualism.
Word: casualists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of casualist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: incorporealism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From incorporeal + -ism. 1. Existence without a body or material form; immateriality. Labels: uncountable Example: Atomism and Incorporealism[…]
Word: ozonification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ozone + -ification. 1. ozonization Labels: uncountable
Word: exceptioner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin excipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin exceptiōder. Old French excepcion Anglo-Norman excepciounbor. Middle English exception English exception Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English exceptioner From exception + -er. 1. One who takes exception or protests. Labels: Early, Modern, archaic Example: Thus much (Readers) in favour of the ſofter ſpirited Chriſtian, for other exceptioners there was no thought taken. Example: [This] interpretation will overbeare with me an hundred moderne exceptioners, if they should deny that a man may be said to have a right unless he himselfe be the immediate subject of the right, as if it were a naturall accident inherent in him […]
Word: exceptioners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exceptioner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interdictum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin interdictum. 1. A prohibition: a legal order issued by a praetor (or, in the provinces, a proconsul) at the request of a claimant and addressed to another person, imposing a requirement either to do something or to abstain from doing something. Labels: Ancient-Rome, historical
Word: prolabor Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pro- + labor. 1. Alternative form of prolabour. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: quadriennium Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of quadrennium. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: breast bone Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of breastbone. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: homish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From home + -ish. 1. Belonging to home; domestic. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]hose Princely Policies […] cary with them, (Triumphantly) The Deadly Darte, and Hedding Axe, ineuitable to all forreyn Offenders, and Homish Rebells. 2. Characteristic of a home; cosy. Example: quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life
Word: mollifiable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mollify + -able. 1. Capable of being mollified. Example: mollifiable material
Word: intramundane Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From intra- + mundane. 1. Within the material world. Labels: not-comparable
Word: novercal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin novercalis, from noverca (“a stepmother”). Pronunciation: /nəʊˈvɜː(ɹ)kəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to a stepmother. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: when almost the whole tribe of birds do thus, by incubation, produce their young , it is a wonderful deviation , that some few families only ſhould do it in a more novercal way Example: Guido's old lady-mother Beatrice, / Who since her husband, Count Tommaso's death, / Had held sole sway i' the house,—the doited crone / Slow to acknowledge, curtsey and abdicate,— / Was recognized of true novercal type, / Dragon and devil.
Word: Kimry Part of Speech: name 1. A town in Russia located at the confluence of the Volga and Kimrka rivers. Example: The village of Kimry is, as has already been stated, celebrated for its boots; it is also the market for the sale of goods from the extensive region where all kinds of boots and shoes are made. Example: I lived in the town of Kimry in Tver province.
Word: Kimry Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of Cymry. Labels: alt-of, archaic, uncountable Example: The Kimry pronounced their name Kumry, which strictly accords with Khumry, the name by which the Assyrians designated the country of Samaria. The Welch and ancient Bretons were Kimry. Example: They are the last remnant of the Kimmerioi of Homer, and of the Kimry (Cimbri) of Germany. 2. An ancient ethnic group originally from the area around the Sea of Azov, who invaded much of what is now Europe, and intermingled with the ancient Gauls. Labels: uncountable Example: The Kimry, from the Palus Moeotis, entered the north-eastern portion of Gaul, and expelled from their territory many of the tribes who werre settled there; these, uniting in large hordes, precipitated themselves upon Italy. Example: The territory situated to the east of that limit belonged to the race of the Kimry: it was in time divided into two portions by the line of the Seine and the Marne, the one northern and the other southern.
Word: ligniferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin lignifer, from lignum (“wood”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French lignifère. 1. Yielding or producing wood. Example: ligniferous clay Example: ligniferous marl
Word: amphistomous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From amphi- + stoma + -ous. 1. Having a sucker or opening at each extremity. Labels: not-comparable Example: Some entozoa are amphistomous. Example: They would even strip off the amphistomous worms which literally live in the stomachs of all cattle in this region, and, without more ado, put them raw into their mouths by the handful. 2. Having stomata on both surfaces of the leaf. Labels: not-comparable Example: Adaxial and abaxial surfaces of three taxa of the Acutae group in the Pacific Northwest (C. aquatilis, C. lenticularis, and C. nebrascensis) are not differentiated (the amphistomous condition) . Example: For most amphistomous leaves, the correct value for g_(lw) is between those given by Equations 11.24 and 11.25 (Moreshet et al., 1968).
Word: bituminiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin bitumen (stem bitumin-) + -iferous. 1. Producing bitumen. Example: Bituminiferous and cupriferous {{long sand}}
Word: infoliate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- (“in”) + Latin folium (“leaf”). 1. To cover or spread with, or as if with, leaves. Labels: transitive Example: Long may his fruitfull Vine infoliate and clasp about him with embracements of Princely love
Word: infoliate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- (“in”) + Latin folium (“leaf”). 1. infoliated Labels: not-comparable
Word: infoliated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of infoliate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: infoliating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of infoliate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ostentive Part of Speech: adj 1. Ostentatious Labels: obsolete 2. Used to indicate or draw attention to something specific.
Word: withamite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Witham + -ite after its discoverer, H. Witham. 1. A reddish variety of epidote, found in Scotland. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: withamites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of withamite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: encindered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of encinder Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: encindered Part of Speech: adj 1. Burnt to cinders. Labels: not-comparable
Word: brangler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brangle + -er. 1. A quarrelsome person, or a bickerer. Labels: archaic
Word: branglers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brangler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: appealer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From appeal + -er. 1. Someone who makes an appeal; an appellant. 2. A speech act intended as an appeal. Example: Complex expletives in turn-final position were also used as a kind of deprecatory appealers, e.g. in God's name, for God's sake and for heaven's sake.
Word: appealers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of appealer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: univalvular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From uni- + valvular. 1. Having only one valve. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rivose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin rivus (“a brook, channel”). 1. Marked with sinuate and irregular furrows. Labels: not-comparable
Word: fissural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fissure + -al. 1. Pertaining to a fissure or fissures. Labels: not-comparable Example: the fissural pattern of a brain Example: fissural plane
Word: asmear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + smear. Pronunciation: /əˈsmɪɹ/, /əˈsmɪə/ 1. Smeared over. Labels: not-comparable Example: So, I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me. Example: The young Isaac, my grandchild, played in the center of the floor, his face asmear, clothing torn and foul.
Word: preambulary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare Old French preambulaire. 1. Of or pertaining to a preamble; introductory. Example: preambulary tax
Word: unconsiderate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + considerate. 1. Obsolete form of inconsiderate. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Thus much beguiled haue Poore unconsiderate wights
Word: galvanist Part of Speech: noun 1. A practitioner or expert in galvanism.
Word: galvanists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of galvanist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wrathless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wrath + -less. 1. Free from anger. Example: Before his feet so sheep and lions lay, Fearless and wrathless while they heard him play
Word: dogmatician Part of Speech: noun 1. A dogmatist.
Word: dogmaticians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dogmatician Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wolvish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wolf + -ish, with wolf inflected as in wolves. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊlviʃ/ 1. Alternative spelling of wolfish. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Example: Good shepherd / Tubby has protected players, beat off wolvish critics for years. How his flock has grown.
Word: erythric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From erythrin + -ic. 1. Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling erythrin. Example: erythric acid Example: erythric fibres
Word: ciliograde Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cilio- + -grade (“means of locomotion”). Compare French ciliograde. 1. Moving by means of cilia or similar organs, such as ctenophores do. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: ciliograde Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cilio- + -grade (“means of locomotion”). Compare French ciliograde. 1. An organism that moves by means of cilia.
Word: extralimitary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From extra- + limitary. 1. Beyond the limit or bounds. Example: cultivating the extralimitary land between the boundaries of Attica and Megaris
Word: invertedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From inverted + -ly. 1. In an inverted manner, or reverse order. Labels: not-comparable Example: a pretty landskip of the objects abroad invertedly painted on the paper , on the back of the eye 2. Misspelling of inadvertently. Labels: alt-of, misspelling, not-comparable
Word: vitriolize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare French vitrioliser. 1. To convert into a vitriol. Labels: dated, transitive 2. To injure (a person) with sulfuric acid, as by throwing it upon the face. Labels: dated, transitive 3. To poison with vitriol. Labels: dated, transitive Example: Similarly, Something for Everyone was described as “an innocent seeming piece of Bavarian chocolate that has been vitriolized by hypodermic injection.”
Word: vitriolized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of vitriolize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: vitriolizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of vitriolize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: vitriolizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of vitriolize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wagonry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wagon + -ry. 1. Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons. Labels: uncountable Example: Let them make ſhews of reforming while they will, ſo long as the Church is mounted upon the Prelatical Cart, and not as it ought, between the hands of the Miniſters, it will but ſhate and totter; and he that ſets to his hand, though with a good intent to hinder the ſhogging of it, in this unlawful Waggonry wherein it rides, let him beware it be not fatal to him as it was to Uzza. Example: In order to maintain themselves, Jewish farmers were compelled to take up supplementary occupations like craftmaking, trade and wagonry.
Word: falsaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of falsary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: falsary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin falsarius, from falsus. See false. 1. A falsifier of evidence. Labels: obsolete Example: by the Ministers of the Church is exhibited in the Person of the whole Church: for euen as he should be accounted a falsary
Word: drainable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From drain + -able. 1. Capable of being drained.
Word: lapwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lap + work. 1. Work in which one part overlaps another. Labels: uncountable Example: A basket […] into which by the Indian-Women are wrought, by a kind of Lap-Work, the Quills of Porcupines
Word: decard Part of Speech: verb 1. To discard (get rid of a card). Labels: obsolete Example: At trump, saint, and such other like, cutting at the neck is a great vantage, so is cutting by a bum card (finely) under and over, stealing the stock of the decarded cards, if there be broad laws beforced aforehand. Example: Philocles. Can you decard, madam? Queen. Hardly, but I must do hurt. 2. To discard (throw away or reject) Labels: obsolete Example: Therefore these kalendars of doubts I commend as excellent things; so that there be this caution used, that when they be so throughly sifted and brought to resolution, they be from thenceforth omitted, decarded, and not continued to cherish and encourage men in doubting. Example: O but when this poore deceaved sot, begins to be beggerd, then his Lordship presently decards him, because hee can not serue more to make vp a full hundreth.
Word: decarded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of decard Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: decarding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of decard Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: decards Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of decard Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hydropsies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hydropsy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hydropsy Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪdɹɒpsi/, /ˈhaɪdɹɑpsi/, [ˈhaɪ̯dɹɑpsi] 1. Edema, dropsy. Labels: dated
Word: dropsies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dropsy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dropsies Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drop + -sies. 1. The action of dropping something, in certain children's games. Labels: uncountable
Word: pensileness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pensile + -ness. 1. State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness. Labels: uncountable
Word: phallicness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phallic + -ness. 1. The quality of being phallic. Labels: uncountable
Word: theologics Part of Speech: noun 1. theology Labels: uncountable Example: What angels wou'd these be, who thus excel / In theologics
Word: barometrograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From baro- + metro- + -graph. 1. A type of barometer capable of recording the variations, at a regular rate (such as every hour), of atmospheric pressure onto paper. Labels: historical
Word: barometrographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of barometrograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: valerianic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From valerian + -ic. 1. Pertaining to, or obtained from, valerian root. Labels: not-comparable Example: valerianic ether Example: valerianic alcohol
Word: smokejack Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of smoke jack. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: smokejacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of smokejack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scrubstone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scrub + stone. 1. A form of calciferous sandstone. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal, uncountable
Word: deputable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From depute + -able. 1. Fit to be deputed or to act as a deputy. Labels: archaic Example: [A]ll these fitted Baillie to be a leader in General Assemblies and conclaves, a man deputable to the London Parliament and elsewhither.
Word: gastroepiploic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gastro- + epiploic. 1. Of or pertaining to the stomach and omenta; gastroomental. Labels: not-comparable Example: left gastroepiploic artery
Word: whallah Part of Speech: intj Etymology: French voilà pronunciation respelling Pronunciation: /wɑˈlɑ/ 1. voila; ta-da, presto; lo and behold Example: People back East always thought it was a simple matter: a property, a star, a director — and whallah — a picture. Example: They were mammoth but if you turned down a random corner then, whallah!—there might be an arts & crafts show.
Word: evidencer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From evidence + -er. 1. One who gives evidence.
Word: evidencers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of evidencer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: annalize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From annal + -ize. 1. To record in annals. Labels: transitive Example: obſerue the miracle deſeruing a Baronius to annalize it
Word: annalized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of annalize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: annalizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of annalize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: annalizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of annalize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dogmaticalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dogmatical + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being dogmatical. Labels: uncountable
Word: uncreditable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + creditable. 1. Not to be credited or believed. Example: an uncreditable result 2. discreditable Labels: obsolete
Word: professorialism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From professorial + -ism. 1. The manners or habits of a professor. Labels: uncountable Example: Another class there is who may receive profit from our humble efforts, and find their home-hours blessed by our monthly professorialism —those who, in the morning of family life, find it their duty to be "stayers at home," and whom even the fascinations of institute life and progress cannot tempt from a wife's side, from child-training, or from the sadder sick couch which demands the silent, loving watchfulness of the untasked hours. Example: Lynd's great generosity, his disdain of "professorialisms," his eagerness to learn from his students were important but too often unrealized desiderata of effective graduate teaching — as I was to appreciate more fully in later years. 2. The state of being a professor; professorship. Labels: uncountable Example: I don't want to scale the ladder of professorialism towards another goal that's as difficult to attain as the goal at the end of the ladder I've been on for the last fifteen years. Example: I determined to observe Bloomsbury—not the totem worshippers of professorialism, but the large-hearted visitors of colour. 3. The quality of being professor-like; didactic, academic, erudite, stuffy, and/or pedantic. Labels: uncountable Example: The frigid professorialism of Kant's philosophy robbed it of all dynamic principle . Example: His training and practice as Electrical Engineer corrected any tendency towards high-and-dry professorialism, and the wireless section of the Telegraphic Department was established ab initio on those practical progressive lines which have been maintained ever since .
Word: keelyvine pen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Scottish Gaelic cìl (“ruddle”). 1. A pencil of black lead. Labels: Scotland, dialectal, obsolete Example: Put up your pocket-book and your keelyvine pen then, for I downa speak out an' ye hae writing materials in your hands Example: This article, if finished at all, must be written with the keelavine pen on the backs of old letters—whereof, thank heaven! we have scores unanswered—by fits and snatches, as we repose from our labours on the gree-sward;.
Word: opinicus Part of Speech: noun 1. A heraldic imaginary creature with an eagle's head, a short tail, and sometimes wings. Example: Two opinici vert, beaked sable, wings gules, support the insignia of the Plasterers’ Company. Example: Urcheons, bagwyns, opinici and musimons, represented statant, sejant or segreant, and in every variety of metal, colour and fur, completed an exhibition which was both boastfully heraldic and pompously powerful.
Word: supervisive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From supervise + -ive. 1. supervisory Labels: archaic
Word: antepileptic Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of antiepileptic. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
Word: antepileptic Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of antiepileptic. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: antepileptics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antepileptic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rectoress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rector + -ess. 1. A governess; a rectrix. Example: Diſſembling griefe, as one that knevv not ill, / So can ſhe rule the greatneſſe of her mind, / As a moſt perfect Rectoreſſe of her vvill, / Aboue the vſuall vveakneſſe of her kind; […] 2. The wife of a rector. Example: In this way the worthy Rectoress consoled herself : and her daughters sighed, and sate over the Peerage all night
Word: rectoresses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rectoress Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dicast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek δικαστής (dikastḗs, “judge”). 1. A kind of juror. Example: The dicast keeps his eyes level in the face of his gods. The parity of the ballots of the impartial human jury is a twofold symbol[…]
Word: dicasts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dicast Labels: form-of, plural
Word: octogamy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From octo- + -gamy. Compare Middle English octogamie. 1. The state of having eight spouses simultaneously. Labels: uncountable Example: I regret to say John has never had that pleasure yet; but if the "Honourable" Herbert D'Aulnoy should darken my doors again, I should feel it my duty to communicate certain facts about him to Sir Richard Mayne and Mr. Pollaky, and to ensure his conviction for bigamy, trigamy, quadrigamy, or perhaps octogamy, at the Old Bailey. Example: The best wardmaster in Scutari had eight wives—I mean eight wives alive—at different stations. […] He was tried when he came home at Warwick Assizes for what was euphoniously called bigamy, but was octogamy.
Word: drossless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dross + -less. 1. Free from dross. Example: OFT tho' thy genius, DARWIN! amply fraught With native wealth, explore new worlds of mind; Whence the bright ores of drossless wisdom brought, Stampt by the Muse's hand, enrich mankind;
Word: villanella Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian villanella (“pretty country girl”). 1. An old Italian rustic dance, usually accompanied by singing.
Word: villanellas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of villanella Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beehouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bee + house. 1. A beehive or apiary.
Word: beehouses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beehouse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exhalable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From exhale + -able. Pronunciation: /ɛksˈ(h)eɪləbəl/ 1. Capable of being exhaled or evaporated. Example: the great rapidity , with which the wheels that serve to cut and polish diamonds must be moved , excites a great degree of heat in the stone ; whereby , perhaps , it loses its exhalable matter so plentifully
Word: kevel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From English dialect kevil, cavel (“rod, pole, a large hammer”), from Middle English kevel, *kavel (“a large stonemason's hammer”), from Old Norse kefli, kafli n (“a cylinder, stick, piece of wood”) and Old Norse kefli, kafli m (“a piece cut off, buoy, piece”). Compare Icelandic kefli (“cylinder, a stick, mangle”), and Danish kievle (“a roller”). 1. A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed. 2. A stonemason's hammer.
Word: kevel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English kevel. More at cavel. 1. Alternative form of cavel (“gag”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: kevel Part of Speech: noun 1. A gazelle. Example: […] the pasan is the most frequent, then the corinne, which differs very little from the kevel, and the proper gazelle […]
Word: kevels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kevel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: footbreadth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From foot + breadth. Compare Middle English fote-brede. 1. The breadth of a foot; used as a measure. Example: Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a footbreadth; because I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. Example: Wherewith at a stroke he hewed The millstone through and through, And Foot-breadth of Thoralf the Strong, Were neither so broad nor so long
Word: kapnomar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of capnomor. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: brazen-face Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brazen + face. 1. An impudent or shameless person. Labels: obsolete Example: Well said, brazen-face.
Word: brazenfaces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brazenface Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semiamplexicaul Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + amplexicaul. 1. Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half or partly round. Labels: not-comparable
Word: tetracoccous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tetra- + coccus + -ous. 1. Having four cocci, or carpels. Labels: dated, not-comparable
Word: victoriate Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of victoriatus (“silver coin”)
Word: parelii Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parelius Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quadriennia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quadriennium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hydropult Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See hydro- and catapult. Originally a trade name. 1. A hand-powered machine for spraying water, somewhat similar to a fire extinguisher. Labels: archaic, historical
Word: hydropults Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hydropult Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wowf Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈwaʊf/ 1. crazy; deranged. Labels: Scotland, obsolete Example: "[I]t is very odd how Allan, who, between ourselves," said he to Musgrave, "is a little wowf, seems at times to have more sense than us all put together. Observe him now."
Word: wowf Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ˈwaʊf/ 1. Alternative form of woof. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: stridulator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stridulate + -or. 1. Something which stridulates. Labels: archaic, rare Example: Scolytus has lately been described by Dr. Chapman as a stridulator, in the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' vol. vi. p. 130.
Word: stridulators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stridulator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: budlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bud + -let. 1. A smaller or secondary bud, usually growing from a parent bud. Example: We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring. Example: As zooid, bud and budlet development is closely coordinated, the stage of a colony during its blastogenetic cycle is univocally defined and expressed by a formula of three numbers separated by slashes
Word: budlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of budlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: old-maidish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From old maid + -ish. 1. Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular. Example: ‘You must forgive me,’ he said. ‘I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It’s very pernickety and old-maidish really, but then when I’m working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.’ Example: At thirty-six, I'm no bargain in the marriage market. But Aunt Emily in Toronto, still single at fifty-six, is even more old-maidish than I am and yet she refuses the label.
Word: paxillose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin paxillus (“a small stake”). 1. Resembling a small stake.
Word: predesign Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + design. 1. To design beforehand; to predetermine. Labels: transitive Example: Tranquillity insued among the people ; and the cart , predesigned by heaven to bring a king, the author of so much good , was , with its appendages , dedicated to the god , and placed in the citadel , where it was carefully preserved
Word: predesigning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of predesign Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: predesigns Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of predesign Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unmingle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + mingle. 1. To separate things that are mixed. Labels: transitive Example: […] dip the mouth of it within the second glass and remove your finger; continue it in that posture for a time, and it will unmingle the wine from the water […]
Word: unmingles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unmingle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unmingling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unmingle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: misrecital Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + recital. 1. An inaccurate recital. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: misrecitals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misrecital Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unculpable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + culpable. 1. Alternative form of inculpable. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Seeing therefore these Canons do bind as they are edicts of Nature, which the Jews observing as yet unwritten, and thereby framing such Churchorders as in their Law were not prescribed, are notwithstanding in that respect unculpable
Word: outflatter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + flatter. 1. To exceed in flattery, to flatter more or better than. Labels: transitive
Word: outflattered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outflatter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: outflattering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outflatter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outflatters Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outflatter Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: resolvedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From resolved + -ness. 1. the state of being resolved; determination; resolution. Labels: uncountable Example: I Muſt confeſs that an ordinary reflexion upon this reſolvedneſs of ſuffering to the utmoſt extremity in perſons that are thus miſtaken in the points they ſuffer for, cannot but make ſuch as are Atheiſtically inclined ſubject to think That there is no Truth nor Certainty at all in Religion; […]
Word: hoper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hoper, equivalent to hope + -er. 1. One who hopes. Example: Our thoroughsped republick of whigs, which contains the bulk of all hopers, pretenders, expecters, and professors
Word: hopers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hoper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mewler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mewl + -er. 1. Someone or something that mewls.
Word: mewlers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mewler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: destructibleness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From destructible + -ness. 1. The quality of being destructible; destructibility. Labels: uncountable
Word: ridgelet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ridge + -let. 1. A little ridge.
Word: ridgelets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ridgelet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: emissaryship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From emissary + -ship. 1. The status or office of an emissary. Labels: uncountable
Word: adventureful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From adventure + -ful. 1. adventurous
Word: ruffianous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ruffian + -ous. 1. Like a ruffian. Labels: archaic
Word: dissertationist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dissertation + -ist. 1. A writer of dissertations.
Word: dissertationists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dissertationist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suffocative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From suffocate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌfəkətɪv/ 1. Tending or able to choke or stifle. Example: suffocative catarrhs Example: Both of these were true; but the snowy heights of the numerous surrounding hills, and the loner chain of mountains which reached quite across and almost buried the adjoining kingdom of Thrace, preserved a more steady and severe cold in winter, than on the sea-coast; and a more uniform and suffocative heat, in summer.
Word: varicous Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of varicose. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: lithologically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From lithological + -ly. 1. From a lithological point of view, regarding lithology Labels: not-comparable Example: to consider a stratum lithologically Example: lithologically similar stones
Word: whitebeard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From white + beard. 1. An old man; a greybeard. Example: According to the whitebeards and coffeehouse celebrities, Mullah Abbas had always been there.
Word: whitebeards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of whitebeard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exemptible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From exempt + -ible. 1. That may be exempted. Labels: not-comparable
Word: extendedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From extended + -ly. 1. In an extended manner.
Word: chorist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French choriste. 1. A singer in a choir; a chorister. Labels: dated
Word: chorists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chorist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prasinous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin prasinus, from Ancient Greek πρᾰ́σῐνος (prắsĭnos, “leek-green, light green”). 1. Of a clear, light green color.
Word: sieveyer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sieve + -yer. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪvjə/, /ˈsɪvɪə/ 1. A maker of sieves. Labels: archaic
Word: discommender Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From discommend + -er. 1. One who discommends. Example: we would not then be accounted Dispraisers, Discommenders, and Dishonourers of the infinitely good and glorious God
Word: discommenders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of discommender Labels: form-of, plural
Word: faunist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fauna + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːnɪst/ 1. One who describes the fauna of a country. Example: SOME future faunist, a man of fortune, will, I hope, extend his visits to the kingdom of Ireland; a new field, and a country little known to the naturalist
Word: faunists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of faunist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gauderies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gaudery Labels: form-of, plural