nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: physiognomically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From physiognomical + -ly. 1. In terms of physiognomy. Labels: not-comparable Example: Physiognomically regarded, the Sperm Whale is an anomalous creature. He has no proper nose.
Word: undecreasing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + decreasing. 1. Not decreasing; growing no smaller. Labels: not-comparable Example: And what is still more, for many feet after emerging from the brain's cavity, the spinal cord remains of an undecreasing girth, almost equal to that of the brain.
Word: unincreasing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + increasing. 1. Not increasing; growing no larger. Labels: not-comparable
Word: suckingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From sucking + -ly. 1. With a sucking sound or motion. Example: […] but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came suckingly up — my God! poor Tashtego — like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling went clean out of sight!
Word: openmouthed Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of open-mouthed. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.
Word: Ahwai Part of Speech: name 1. A Nigerian Plateau language or language group, which comprises the lects Nandu or Ndun, Ningon or Nyeng, and Tari or Shakara.
Word: hoister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hoist + -er. 1. One who, or that which, hoists or lifts. Example: […] putting one foot into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom. 2. A thief. Labels: UK, slang Example: In order better to appreciate the use of argot among thieves, a visit to a few public bars of the third-class public houses of Kennington or in the immediate vicinity of the Elephant and Castle would prove of great value, as hoisters, whizzers, tea-leaves, con-heads, broadsmen and brass nobs […] Example: Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
Word: hoisters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hoister Labels: form-of, plural
Word: base class Part of Speech: noun 1. A class from which other classes can be derived, inheriting its functionality or interface; a potential superclass for subclasses.
Word: Aka-Bo Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Aka-Bo aka- (“a prefix used on words relating to the mouth”) + bo. 1. A Great Andamanese language, the last speaker of which died in 2010.
Word: wagenboom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans wagenboom, literally "wagon tree". 1. A South African proteaceous tree (Protea nitida). Labels: dated 2. The tough wood of this tree, formerly used for making furniture or wagon wheels. Labels: dated
Word: wagenbooms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wagenboom Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unboxings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of unboxing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sexmobile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sex + -mobile. 1. A vehicle in which people have sexual intercourse. Labels: slang
Word: sexmobiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sexmobile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lady who lunches Part of Speech: noun 1. A lady who is affluent and thus able to have lunch with other such ladies in relatively expensive restaurants. Labels: in-plural Example: But there's always this aggrieved air that I'm some sort of ghastly Harvey Nichols-obsessed lady who lunches while he earns all the money. Example: I'm not interested in material things, the way you and your ladies who lunch are, the way my fat brother Aaron is! I'm happy to work on my jewelry, to be able to commit to my religious beliefs through my jewelry.
Word: procoele Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pro- + -coele. 1. A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain.
Word: procoeles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of procoele Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haemochromometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From haemochrome + -meter. 1. An apparatus for estimating the amount of hemoglobin in blood, by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal colour. Labels: historical
Word: haemochromometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haemochromometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: petrific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post-classical Latin petrificus (13th c.), from petra (“rock, stone”). Pronunciation: /pəˈtɹɪf.ɪk/ 1. Petrifying, turning into stone; petrifactive. Labels: archaic Example: Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry. Example: “Sir!” cried Mr. Delvile, with a look meant to be nothing less than petrific.
Word: disleal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See disloyal, leal. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈliːəl/ 1. disloyal; perfidious Labels: obsolete Example: In whiche manner thou being falſelye and trayterouſlye aſſaulted, ſhalte not be hurte, and the enemy ſhal ſhew himſelfe to be diſleal, which hadde thought to haue hurt thee, if he hadde bene able. Example: disleall knight
Word: superspinous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + spinous. 1. Alternative form of supraspinate. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: snoff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare snuff. 1. A short candle end used for igniting a fuse. Labels: obsolete
Word: snoffs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of snoff Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ake Part of Speech: name 1. A Nigerian Plateau language.
Word: earshes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of earsh Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arrish Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of earsh. Labels: Devon, alt-of, alternative, archaic
Word: arrishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arrish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: droskies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of drosky Labels: form-of, plural
Word: drosky Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of droshky. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: droschke Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of droshky. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: droschkes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of droschke Labels: form-of, plural
Word: supercretaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + cretaceous. 1. Alternative form of supracretaceous. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Akpes Part of Speech: name 1. A dialect cluster spoken in Nigeria, which is its own branch of the Volta–Niger languages.
Word: hotelkeeping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hotel + keeping. 1. The management of a hotel. Labels: uncountable
Word: hotelkeepers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hotelkeeper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ladies who lunch Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lady who lunches Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Amarakaeri Part of Speech: name 1. An indigenous American language, which is in the Harákmbut or Harákmbet language family, spoken in Peru.
Word: Amdang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Amdang sìmí amdangtí. 1. A Fur language spoken in Chad.
Word: collateral forms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of collateral form Labels: form-of, plural
Word: altar cards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of altar card Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Angami Part of Speech: name 1. A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Naga Hills in the northeastern part of India.
Word: Angami Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the major Naga tribes of Nagaland in India. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: Pucikwar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From A-Pucikwar Pucikwar. 1. An indigenous Great Andamanese people of the Andaman Islands, one of the ten or so distinct tribes which existed when British colonisation began in the 1860s and which disintegrated because of that colonisation. Labels: historical, plural, plural-only
Word: Pucikwar Part of Speech: name Etymology: From A-Pucikwar Pucikwar. 1. The A-Pucikwar language spoken by these people.
Word: Alaba-K'abeena Part of Speech: name 1. A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia in the Great Rift Valley southwest of Lake Shala.
Word: proglottis Part of Speech: noun 1. proglottid
Word: rotalite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin rotalis (“having wheels”) + -ite 1. Any fossil foraminifer of the family Rotaliidae, abundant in chalk formations. Labels: archaic
Word: rotalites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rotalite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apophlegmatism Part of Speech: noun 1. The action of apophlegmatics. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. An apophlegmatic medicine. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: ...and so it is in apophlegmatisms and gargarisms, that draw the rheum down by the palate
Word: apophlegmatisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apophlegmatism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Rogerian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Roger + -ian. 1. Of or relating to Carl Rogers (1902–1987), influential American psychologist who helped to introduce a humanistic approach to psychology.
Word: Hiroshiman Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Hiroshima + -an. 1. Of or relating to Hiroshima, Japan.
Word: Hiroshiman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hiroshima + -an. 1. A native or inhabitant of Hiroshima, Japan.
Word: Hiroshimans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Hiroshiman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: convertend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin convertendus (“to be converted”). Compare subtrahend. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnvə(ɹ)tɛnd/ 1. Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse.
Word: convertends Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of convertend Labels: form-of, plural
Word: brownback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brown + back. 1. A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. Example: In the fall and winter I shot in the lagoons and in the harbor of Greytown blue-wing and green-wing teal and gadwalls; also sickle-bill curlews, peeps or least sandpipers, and brownbacks or grass birds. Example: Two "brownbacks," as they are known on Cape Cod where these came from, are shown in Figure 36. The one whose head is held forward represents the male in fall plumage — the back slate gray and the breast a cinnamon pink. 2. A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s. Example: The color work on the postage stamps will not be new to the bureau. In addition to the work which it has done on proprietary stamps, it has mixed and used every shade of color in its other work. Brown was used on the “brownbacks,” green on the "greenbacks;" different blues on customs stamps and on the backs of bonds. Example: Of course the printers are not all doing the same kind of work: some are printing the greenbacks, some the brownbacks, some the faces, and others the backs and faces, of the revenue stamps. 3. A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis. Example: There are greenbacks for one department of the tithing-house, brownbacks for another, and so on. By using this scrip the Church is able to create a market for considerable quantities of the tithing. Example: These notes were printed on paper the reverse of which was of a brown color, and very soon after their appearance they were nicknamed the brownbacks, and continued to bear this name during the whole time they were in circulation.
Word: brownbacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brownback Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disfancied Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disfancy Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disfancies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disfancy Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: disfancy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + fancy. 1. To dislike. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: disfancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + fancy. Labels: no-gloss
Word: disfancying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disfancy Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: threadfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thread + fish. 1. A cutlassfish (Trichiuridae). 2. Any of the genus Alectis of fish, noted for their filamentous anal and dorsal fins.
Word: threadfishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of threadfish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: monoecism Part of Speech: noun 1. The state or condition of being monoecious. Labels: uncountable
Word: writ of mandamus Part of Speech: noun 1. A writ that compels a government entity to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.
Word: dousts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of doust Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dousted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of doust Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: prerogative writ Part of Speech: noun 1. A class of writ that effects control over an inferior court or public authority.
Word: polianite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?] to become grey. 1. manganese dioxide, occurring in hard tetragonal crystals Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: clewless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From clew + -less. Pronunciation: /ˈkluːləs/ 1. Without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze) Example: And now the muse (with courage not her own, / But that which heav'n protects with Freedom's, throne) / Has dar'd a clew-less passage to explore[…]. 2. Clueless. Example: A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and views that madden to crime.
Word: clewless Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From clew + -less. Pronunciation: /ˈkluːləs/ 1. Without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze) Example: He wandered clewless in a maze of mystery.
Word: conquistadorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From conquistador + -ial. 1. of or pertaining to conquistadors 2. conquering, subjugating, subduing
Word: inhiation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin inhiātiō, from inhiō, from in- + hiō (“gape”). Pronunciation: /ɪnhaɪˈeɪʃən/ 1. A gaping after; eager desire; craving. Labels: uncountable Example: Who was he […] that said, "Marriage was a loosing the reins to luxury, an inhiation after obscene lusts?"
Word: creaturize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From creature + -ize. 1. To make like a creature; to degrade to an animal status. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul.
Word: creaturized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of creaturize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: creaturizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of creaturize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: creaturizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of creaturize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: boottopping Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of boot-topping. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: boottoppings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boottopping Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pap boat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pap + boat. 1. A kind of sauceboat or dish. Labels: historical 2. A boat-shaped receptacle for baby food. Labels: historical Example: “I have a vast inclination to get a pap-boat myself, and make him a present of it.” 3. A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapa), once used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing. Labels: obsolete
Word: papboats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of papboat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: syllogization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From syllogize + -ation. 1. reasoning by syllogisms Labels: uncountable Example: In order to become assured of the unchangeable truth and demonstrative force of our syllogisation we must be sure of its correct method
Word: angiospermatous Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of angiospermic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: thysanopterous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Thysanoptera + -ous 1. Of or pertaining to the Thysanoptera, the thrips. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lithontriptic Part of Speech: adj 1. lithotriptic Labels: dated, not-comparable
Word: lithontriptic Part of Speech: noun 1. a lithotriptic Labels: dated
Word: lithontriptics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lithontriptic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: twire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English twiren (“to peep out, pry about, twinkle, glance, gleam”), cognate with Middle High German zwieren (“to spy”), Bavarian zwiren, zwieren (“to spy, glance”). Perhaps related to Old English twinclian (“to twinkle”). More at twinkle. Pronunciation: /ˈtwaɪə(ɹ)/ 1. To glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry. Labels: intransitive Example: I saw the wench that twired and twinkled at thee. Example: Which maids will twire at 'tween their fingers. 2. To twinkle; sparkle; wink. Labels: intransitive Example: When sparkling stars twire not, thou gild'st the even.
Word: twire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English twiren (“to peep out, pry about, twinkle, glance, gleam”), cognate with Middle High German zwieren (“to spy”), Bavarian zwiren, zwieren (“to spy, glance”). Perhaps related to Old English twinclian (“to twinkle”). More at twinkle. Pronunciation: /ˈtwaɪə(ɹ)/ 1. A sly glance; a leer.
Word: twire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *twir, *twirn, twern, from Old English *twirn, *tweorn (“twine, thread”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *duwo- (“two”). Doublet of twine. Pronunciation: /ˈtwaɪə(ɹ)/ 1. A twisted filament; a thread. Example: they put the cocons in hot water, and so stirring them about with a kind of rod, the ends of the silk twires of the cocons stick to it
Word: twire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps from a dialectal form of *twere, from Middle English *tweren, from Old English þweran (“to stir”) (found in compound āþweran (“to agitate, stir”)), from Proto-Germanic *þweraną (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *twer- (“to turn, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Bavarian zweren (“to stir”). Compare twirk, twirl. Pronunciation: /ˈtwaɪə(ɹ)/ 1. To twist; twirl. Labels: transitive
Word: twire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of tuyere. Pronunciation: /ˈtwaɪə(ɹ)/ 1. A pipe through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge; a tuyere. Labels: obsolete
Word: Abelam Part of Speech: name Etymology: Native name in New Guinea. Pronunciation: /əˈbə.ləm/ 1. The Ambulas language of Papua New Guinea.
Word: Abelam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Native name in New Guinea. Pronunciation: /əˈbə.ləm/ 1. A member of a Papuan people from New Guinea.
Word: baby gravy Part of Speech: noun 1. Semen. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: Why anyone would ever want to have kids is beyond this Scream Queen. They're smelly, messy, dirty, they never sleep — and those are the ones who haven't been fathered by Satan. Think of the potential for things going wrong when it's Lucifer's baby gravy that gets the eggs-a-cookin'.
Word: metanephridium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meta- + nephridium. 1. A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
Word: Great Russian Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to Great Russia. Labels: historical, not-comparable 2. Of or pertaining to Great Russians, the language of Great Russia, as opposed to Little Russia, White Russia, etc. Labels: historical, not-comparable
Word: Great Russian Part of Speech: noun 1. A person from, or an inhabitant of, Great Russia. Labels: historical
Word: Great Russian Part of Speech: name 1. The Russian language, especially when (possibly erroneously) considered to be mutually intelligible with the Ukrainian (Little Russian) and Belarusian (White Russian) languages. Labels: obsolete
Word: baby batter Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of semen. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: Another look at butch, beautiful, bareass, bronze-tanned Hank, a silent direction, and the hot number I'd just made baby batter with, leaped onto the bed, burrowed his tousled head in my crotch, and started sucking hot and hungry at my loins. Example: I could ride around some and listen to country music songs about drinking and cheating and losing love and finding it, since it looked like I wasn't going to be pumping any red-hot baby batter into my own favorite womb any time soon.
Word: warence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English waraunce, from Anglo-Norman warance (modern French garance). 1. Dyer's madder, an herb (Rubia tinctorum) or a reddish dye made from the herb. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Rvbea maior is an herbe þat me clepuþ reed mader or warance Example: Rubea the moze hath greter leves tis of grete verttue, and is the herbe that warence or madder is made of, therefore it is called the dyers rubea.
Word: clerkliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clerkly + -ness. 1. scholarship (character or qualities of a scholar) Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: And yet here in this Sermon of Jonah is no great curiousness, not great clerkliness, no great affectation of words, nor painted eloquence; it was none other but, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed;" it was no more. Example: I would argue that Ogrin is significant preciesly for the way in which these two aspects of clerkliness are intertwined: his moral guidance falters at the very moment when his literary skill is most apparent, when he rewrites the story of Tristan and Iseut in a letter designed to reconcile the lovers with King Marc. 2. The character or qualities of a clerk; the quality of being clerkish; orderliness, attention to detail, diligence, and/or a focus on bureaucratic tasks or recordkeeping. Labels: uncountable Example: The letter found in the hut is also somewhat different, for while at the Encantadas he was informed that, not only did it evince a certain clerkliness, but was full of the strangest satiric effrontery which does not adequately appear in Porter's version. Example: And these months of waiting, of trailing about wards and corridors, this pen and paper game, the clerkliness, while the real work went on about him, and he envied the men who did it, and sometimes came near hating them.
Word: photoglyphic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From photo- + glyphic. Pronunciation: /ˌfəʊ.təˈɡlɪf.ɪk/, /ˌfoʊ.təˈɡlɪf.ɪk/ 1. Relating to the art of photoglyphy Labels: not-comparable
Word: hemiplegy Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of hemiplegia. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: plebification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin plebs (“the common people”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy. 1. Making plebeian; vulgarizing. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: You begin with the attempt to popularize learning […] but you will end in the plebification of knowledge.
Word: plebifications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plebification Labels: form-of, plural
Word: embase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From em- + base. Compare Old French embaissier. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbeɪs/ 1. To lower physically. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [God had] Embast the valleys, and embost the hills. 2. To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: And either vowd with all their power and witt To let not others honour be defaste Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste […] Example: Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. 3. To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Alloy in coin of gold […] may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.
Word: embased Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of embase Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: came a cropper Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of come a cropper Labels: form-of, past
Word: embases Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of embase Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: embasing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of embase Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: embaseth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: embase + -eth 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of embase Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: suently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From suent + -ly. 1. Evenly; smoothly. Labels: archaic Example: After a while the workmen engaged on the mill came to a difficulty, and the mill stopped, nor could they rectify the fault. Little Will Davy pointed out the defects; they saw that he was right, remedied the defects, and the mill ran "suently."
Word: peoplish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English peplish, poeplissh, equivalent to people + -ish. 1. Common, vulgar. Labels: archaic Example: He’s been among the peoplish folks / And vows they’re rotten clever Example: It is possible, that Chancellor Kent is an aristocrat, or is mistaken upon this subject; but it is more probable, that the peoplish politicians of Mississippi have carried their democratic notions too far.
Word: straint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps partly from Middle French estrainte, estreinte, from Old French estrainte, estreinte; and perhaps partly taken from a clipping of English contraint, restraint, etc. See strain. 1. Strain (tension of overexertion). Labels: obsolete Example: That with the straint o his weasand nigh he brast
Word: enascent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From e- (“out”) + Latin nāscor (“be born”) + -ent, from Latin ēnāscēns, present participle of ēnāscor (“spring up”), from ēx- (“out”) + nāscor (“be born”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈnæsənt/ 1. Just coming into being; nascent. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: 1744–1745, William Warburton, Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections. in which, you just get the first glimpse, as it were, of an enascent equivocation. Example: With sweet vicissitudes of day and clime / Mark'd the new annals of enascent Time.
Word: anilic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. nitrosalicylic acid Labels: uncountable
Word: dishabilitate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare disability and rehabilitate. Pronunciation: /dɪsəˈbɪlɪteɪt/ 1. To disqualify (reject or rule out). Labels: transitive
Word: dishabilitated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dishabilitate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dishabilitates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dishabilitate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dishabilitating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dishabilitate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cauk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: British dialect cauk (“limestone”), from Northern Middle English calke, from Anglian Old English calc; doublet of calx and chalk. Pronunciation: /kɔːk/ 1. An opaque, earthy variety of barite, or heavy spar. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: bufonite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin bufo (“toad”) + -ite. It was once believed to be formed in the head of a toad. 1. A fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of pycnodonts, whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations. Labels: obsolete
Word: bufonites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bufonite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sceneshifter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scene + shifter. 1. Someone who moves the scenes in a theatre during a performance. Example: Holonym: stage crew
Word: sceneshifters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sceneshifter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contradictive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From contradict + -ive. 1. Contradictory. Labels: archaic Example: [T]here is surely, thought she, a perverse and contradictive spirit in man, which makes the whole sex odious.
Word: bibasic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bi- + basic. 1. Having two replaceable hydrogen atoms; dibasic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: teenful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English teneful, from Old English tēonful, tēonfull (“grievous; vexatious; troublesome; woeful”), equivalent to teen + -ful. 1. Full of grief; harmful; afflicted; troublesome; vexatious Labels: archaic, dialectal, obsolete, poetic Example: O, whither tends the lamentable spite Of this world's teenful apprehension, Which understands all things amiss, whose light Shines not amidst the dark of their dissension? Example: Ne'er the sun might see Me bare who now with bloodshot eyes And teenful heart and cheeks how wan, Gathering bread in beggar's guise, From door to door must wander on.
Word: apprizement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From apprize + -ment. 1. Archaic form of appraisement. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: apprizements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apprizement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyemation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin hiematio. 1. The passing of a winter in a particular place; a wintering. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 2. The act of affording shelter in winter. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: advowee Part of Speech: noun 1. One who has an advowson. Example: Moreover, the grandi endeavoured to exploit the estates of the Church by imposing themselves upon them as advowees and devouring their resources. Example: The Custody of Voidances, Presentments, Collations, etc. as Lords and Advowees.
Word: advowees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of advowee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: on one's bill Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: From Billy no mates. 1. Alone, on one's own. Labels: Northern-England, idiomatic Example: 2009, The 5th Bentinal, Is the title gone now?, The Liverpool Way Cygan was only used to sitting on his bill in the changing room cos he was too shit to make it into Arsenal's defence.
Word: cassolette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French cassolette, from Spanish cazoleta (“pan”). 1. A box or vase with a perforated cover to emit perfumes. Labels: countable Example: Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.] 2. The natural scent of a woman. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “Don't you like the word cassolette, Julian?” He supposed Thayer thought she was being clever. Cassolette was also a reference to the natural fragrance of a woman. Example: I know you're in a hurry to find out about cassolette, but please first note that “if you use your palm, rub it over your own and your partner's armpit area first.”
Word: cassolettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cassolette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Altaian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Altai + -an. 1. Of or relating to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.
Word: Altaian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Altai + -an. 1. A member of the Altai people.
Word: flugelman Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fugleman. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: flugelmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flugelman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deplume Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French déplumer, from Latin dēplūmō, from dē- + plūmō (“to cover with feathers”), from plūma (“feather”). Compare dēplūmis (“featherless”). Pronunciation: /diːˈpluːm/ 1. To strip of feathers or plumage. Labels: transitive Example: On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Example: Before the birds are cut and quartered by the butchers they must be totally deplumed. 2. To lay bare; to expose. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: the exposure and depluming […] of the leading humbugs of the age 3. To condense excess water vapor from the flue gas.
Word: deplumed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of deplume Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: deplumes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of deplume Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: depluming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of deplume Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dioecism Part of Speech: noun 1. The devolution of a city into its formerly subordinate constituents, the opposite of synoecism. Labels: uncountable 2. The condition of being dioecious. Labels: uncountable
Word: staurolitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From staurolite + -ic. 1. Of or relating to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite. Example: staurolitic bed Example: staurolitic strata
Word: dioeciously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From dioecious + -ly. 1. In a dioecious manner. Labels: not-comparable Example: A dioeciously hermaphrodite plant has flowers structurally perfect, but practically dioecious, those on one plant producing no pollen, and those on another no ovules. Example: dioeciously polygamous
Word: Horned God Part of Speech: name 1. The second major supernatural figure in the Wiccan religion, a triune god equal to the Goddess, split into the aspects of the Father, Master, and the Sage.
Word: honeybadgers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of honeybadger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: honeybadger Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of honey badger. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The Africans have often mentioned to me that a honeybadger (shidzidzi) when cornered, will stand his ground against any living thing and give a good account of himself into the bargain. Example: ‘Don′t any of you come sneaking around or you′ll feel the size of my fist and a length of sjambok across your bums, ja,’ he shouted, shaking fist and whip; then charged down the boards with the look of an angry honeybadger so that the fisherfolk scattered like gulls.
Word: socioscientific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From socio- + scientific. 1. Relating to society and science. Labels: not-comparable
Word: honey badgers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of honey badger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: formatrices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of formatrix Labels: form-of, plural
Word: heirs apparent Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heir apparent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aphrometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aphrometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: naked seeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of naked seed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: startish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From start + -ish. 1. Easily startled; skittish or shy (said especially of a horse.) Labels: archaic, colloquial
Word: retting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ret + -ing. 1. The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and similar processes. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A place where flax is retted; a rettery. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable
Word: retting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From ret + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of ret Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rettings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of retting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: soes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of soe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: duts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dut Labels: form-of, plural
Word: republique Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of republic. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: He lived in the world ſeaventie one years , which was a decrepit age if you conſider his complexion, or his conſummate wiſdome and perfection on of vertue , and his either deſires or hopes to live being but too ſhort a time if you conſider the ſervice that the publique received from him, or the common deſire that was afterward of him becauſe it concerned the moſt excellent republique, that his ſervice ſhould have beene as durable as it was faithfull.
Word: republiques Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of republique Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enrheum Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + rheum. 1. To affect with a rheum i.e. give someone a cold. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: enrheumed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of enrheum Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: enrheuming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enrheum Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enrheums Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of enrheum Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: prunello Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French prunelle, diminutive of prune. See prune (“a plum”). 1. A species of dried plum; a prunelle. 2. Alternative form of prunella (woollen material) Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: prunelloes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prunello Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bandelet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French bandelette, diminutive of bande. See band and bendlet. 1. A small band or fillet; any little band or flat moulding, compassing a column, like a ring. Example: The Tænia on the Doric Architrave is called its Bandelet 2. An orthonormal basis that is adapted to geometric boundaries, used in image processing.
Word: bandelets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bandelet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: guilloched Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From guilloche + -ed. 1. Wavy or with an intertwining pattern. Labels: not-comparable Example: guilloched silver Example: guilloched pencil
Word: cucujo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish cocuyo. From Taíno kokuyo. 1. Any of a number of species of bioluminescent beetle in the Pyrophorus genus Labels: dated
Word: cucujos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cucujo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: confervous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From conferva + -ous. 1. Relating to, consisting of, or resembling confervae. Labels: obsolete
Word: supraprotest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From supra- + protest. 1. An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee Labels: uncountable
Word: Sprengel pump Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the inventor, Hermann Sprengel 1. A kind of vacuum pump in which vacuum is produced by a stream of mercury drops running down a very narrow tube
Word: Sprengel pumps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Sprengel pump Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crinoidean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Crinoidea + -an 1. Any of the Crinoidea. Labels: archaic
Word: crinoideans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crinoidean Labels: form-of, plural
Word: setterwort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From setter + wort. The root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. 1. The bear's-foot (Helleborus foetidus). Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: setterworts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of setterwort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: croziered Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of crosiered. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: cacholong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French cacholong, said to be from Cach (“the name of a river in Bukhara”) + Kalmyk чолун (çolun, “stone”). 1. An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz. 2. A similar variety of opal.
Word: cacholongs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cacholong Labels: form-of, plural
Word: athermous Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of athermanous. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
Word: Guatemala grass Part of Speech: noun 1. teosinte (Zea spp.) Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A grass, Tripsacum laxum. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Guatemala grasses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Guatemala grass Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intrench Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic form of entrench. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children. Example: Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…]
Word: intrenching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of intrench Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: intrenches Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of intrench Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Sabbatarians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Sabbatarian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gommelin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French gommeline, from gomme (“gum”). 1. dextrin Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: endecane Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hendecane. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: endecanes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of endecane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: politicly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From politic + -ly. 1. In a politic (shrewd) manner Labels: archaic Example: I must be ignorant indeed not to know, that the Duchess, ever since you met, hath been most politicly employed in increasing those forces, and sharpening those arms with which she subdued you at first […] 2. Misspelling of politically. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: stoolball Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of stool-ball. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Nausicaa / With other virgins did at stoolball play.
Word: affectuous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin affectuosus, from affectus. Compare affectueux. Doublet of affettuoso. 1. passionate or affectionate. Labels: obsolete
Word: impartance Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of impartation. Labels: alt-of, archaic, uncountable, usually
Word: impartances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of impartance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scabbedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scabbednesse, equivalent to scabbed + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being scabby; presence of scabs.; scabbiness Labels: uncountable
Word: Elphinstone Part of Speech: name 1. An English surname. Example: ‘Good heavens !’ cried Mrs Elphinstone. ‘What is this you are driving us into ?’ 2. A town in the Shire of Mount Alexander, central Victoria, Australia
Word: torminous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tormina + -ous. 1. Affected with tormina.
Word: anomuran Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anomura + -n. 1. Any of the Anomura.
Word: anomuran Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Anomura + -n. 1. Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen. Labels: obsolete
Word: anomurans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of anomuran Labels: form-of, plural
Word: delitescency Part of Speech: noun 1. concealment or hiddenness; seclusion Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: The mental organization of the novelist must be characterized, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency.
Word: haemapoietic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From haema- + -poietic. 1. blood-forming Labels: not-comparable Example: haemapoietic cells Example: the haemapoietic function of the spleen
Word: calyptriform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From calyptra + -iform. 1. Having the form of a calyptra. Example: calyptriform integument Example: calyptriform nanocrystal
Word: clinometry Part of Speech: noun 1. The art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata. Labels: uncountable
Word: consignature Part of Speech: noun 1. Joint signature.
Word: chemically imbalanced Part of Speech: adj 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chemically, imbalanced. 2. Mentally ill. Labels: euphemistic
Word: perspicience Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin perspicientia, from perspiciens, past participle of perspicere. See perspective. Pronunciation: /pɜːˈspɪ.ʃəns/, /pɜːˈspɪ.sɪəns/ 1. The act of looking sharply; keen vision. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: The conscious perspicience of the subjective content of the Self in the action of its orgasmic forces and of its own autopsic domination is Psychology.
Word: prostibulous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin prostibulum (“prostitute”), + -ous. 1. Of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution; meretricious. Labels: obsolete Example: that prostibulous church of antichrist
Word: clinorhombic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From clino- + rhombic: compare French clinorhombique. 1. Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: greenbone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From green + bone, because the bones are green when boiled. 1. Any garfish (Belone or Strongylosura). 2. The European eelpout. 3. A common food fish, Odax pullus. Labels: New-Zealand
Word: greenbones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of greenbone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: laroid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Larus + -oid. 1. Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of the gull family, Laridae. Example: We now come to a small group of Laroid birds, remarkable for their curious bill, the lower mandible of which has been compared with a "short-handled pitchfork," and for their long wings, viz., the skimmers, the Rhynchopinæ, not less remarkable for their peculiar habits and their geographical distribution, parts of America, Asia, and Africa being inhabited by one species each. Example: The whole form of the skull is, indeed, essentially Laroid, and quite unlike that of the Kingfishers;
Word: dochmii Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dochmius Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dochmius Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dochmius, from Ancient Greek δόχμιος (dókhmios, “oblique; dochmius”). 1. A metrical foot of five syllables used in Greek tragedy for highly anguished scenes. The metrical pattern is typically: short-long-long-short-long. Example: Yet there is good reason to doubt the existence of any such; —good reason to think, that dochmiuses belong to the triple rhythm Example: This chorus, which consists almost entirely of dochmii, is so corrupt as to present various problems of an almost insoluble character, although portions of it have yielded to the brilliant emendatory efforts of Hermann.
Word: collybist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόλλυβος (kóllubos, “a small coin”) + -ist. 1. A money changer. Labels: obsolete Example: in the faces of these guilty collybists
Word: collybists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of collybist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pilous Part of Speech: adj 1. Covered with fine hair; pilose.
Word: desudation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin desudatio, from desudare (“to sweat greatly”), from de + sudare (“to sweat”). 1. A profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by a rash of small pimples. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: desudations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desudation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: protrudable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From protrude + -able. 1. That may protrude or be protruded. Labels: not-comparable Example: The males, and rarely the females, of many kinds of bats have glands and protrudable sacks situated in various parts; and it is believed that these are odoriferous.
Word: RADAR Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Acronym of radio detection and ranging. Coined by the United States Navy in 1940. The lowercase form (radar) is by anacronymic evolution. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪdɑː(ɹ)/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of radar. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: Police traffic RADARs can provide a speed reading on a detected target, but they cannot measure the range to the target. Example: Multiple RADARs can be mounted at different parts of the vehicle, front and rear, to get the complete view of objects all round.
Word: grossbeak Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of grosbeak. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: grossbeaks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of grossbeak Labels: form-of, plural
Word: solenette Part of Speech: noun 1. A small European sole (Buglossidium luteum).
Word: solenettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of solenette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: psalmistries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of psalmistry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: psalmistry Part of Speech: noun 1. psalmody. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually
Word: illinition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin illiniō (“to besmear”), from in- (“in, on”) + liniō (“to smear”). Pronunciation: /ɪlɪˈnɪʃən/ 1. The act of smearing or rubbing in or on. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Something which is smeared or rubbed on, such as ointment. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 3. A crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a thin crust or illinition of black manganese 4. Friction of a surface after the application of an ointment, to aid absorption. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: illinitions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of illinition Labels: form-of, plural