nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: hematosis Part of Speech: noun 1. sanguification; the conversion of chyle into blood 2. The arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in general; haematogenesis
Word: papulopustular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From papulo- + pustular. 1. Characterized by papules and pustules. Labels: not-comparable
Word: panflute Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of pan flute. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: panflutes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of panflute (alternative spelling of pan flutes). Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pan flutes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pan flute Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hare's-tail Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of sedge, hare's-tail cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum).
Word: solidungulous Part of Speech: adj 1. solipedous Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: fishhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fish + -hood. 1. The state or condition of being a fish. Labels: uncountable Example: Petrovitch had taken and passed the astronavigation exam the exact same time Rimmer had made his claims to fishhood.
Word: lepas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle. Labels: archaic Example: 60. The tiger tower, a mitres, a lithophagus, a purple rayed solen, a lepas, and 9 other shells. Example: The peduncles of the lepases are flexible; and Dr. Weatherill has ascribed to the species which he has noticed in V. 339–342., the power of availing itself of this flexibility in "extending, shrinking, and writhing itself at pleasure."
Word: lepases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lepas Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lamel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of lamella. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: lamels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lamel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trichophore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tricho- + -phore. 1. The special cell in red algae which produces or bears a trichogyne. 2. One of the sac-like organs from which the setae of annelids arise.
Word: trichophores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trichophore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bellpush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bell + push. 1. A button that rings a bell (such as a doorbell) when pressed. Example: I groped around a bit to find the bell-push, and let them have a full five seconds clatter, just to show what I was thinking of them.
Word: bellpushes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bellpush Labels: form-of, plural
Word: brickshaped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From brick + shaped. 1. shaped like a brick
Word: clovepink Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of clove pink. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: clovepinks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clovepink Labels: form-of, plural
Word: colliculi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of colliculus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cornettino Part of Speech: noun 1. The descant instrument of the cornetto family.
Word: fishpool Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fischpol, from Old English fisċpōl (“fishpond”), equivalent to fish + pool. 1. A pool of water containing fish; fishpond. Example: “Yes,” said our father, when Jem asked him if we could go over and sit by Miss Rachel’s fishpool with Dill, as this was his last night in Maycomb.
Word: cornettini Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cornettino Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cornettinos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cornettino Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deerhorn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deer + horn. 1. Antler from a deer. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Pick made of deerhorn, used by flint miners in the New Stone Age.
Word: Jockney Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of jock + cockney. 1. A Scot who lives in London. Labels: slang Example: 'It's a Jockney pub,' he explains, making me wonder whether my thoughts were on air too. Sure enough, I ended up in the Globe. It was like a visit to the old Barras. It was like a little Glasgow.
Word: matryoshki Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of matryoshka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: molerat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mole rat. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: molerats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of molerat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pocketphone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pocket + phone. 1. A telephone that fits in one's pocket; a mobile phone. Labels: dated
Word: pocketphones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pocketphone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: statespersons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of statesperson Labels: form-of, plural
Word: statespeople Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of statesperson Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tabletopped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From table + topped. 1. Having a flat top. Labels: not-comparable Example: a tabletopped plateau
Word: triquetrae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of triquetra Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wantings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wanting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: xeraphin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of xeraphim. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: xeraphins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of xeraphin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chimaeroid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chimaera + -oid. 1. Any fish of the suborder Chimaeroidei
Word: in petto Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian in petto (“in the chest”). 1. Secret, private. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] it was not unfrequent for a good bargain to be struck with him by one or more of the public functionaries, the difference between the sum proposed and accepted being settled against the interests of Mynheer Krause, by the party putting him in possession of some government movement which hitherto been kept in petto. Example: […] in its nine members, stand prominently personified indolence and ignorance consummate, solemn pedantry and petulance in petto, upstart self-conceit and high-born arrogance all-blustering, self-sufficiency all smirking, and solid acres in all their stolidity, the remnant of vigour on crutches, and of saintly talent ever dozing—all this is indeed prophetic of wo to the land. 2. Designated as a cardinal but not yet announced. Labels: not-comparable Example: In future you will have the right to dress in red — indeed, you are already cardinal in petto, and you will be proclaimed at the next conclave.
Word: in petto Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian in petto (“in the chest”). 1. Privately, in secret. Labels: not-comparable Example: And yet, thou brave Teufelsdröckh, who could tell what lurked in thee? […] The secrets of man’s Life were laid open to thee; thou sawest into the mystery of the Universe, farther than another; thou hadst in petto thy remarkable Volume on Clothes. Example: Ministers and their Majority had a rejoinder in petto, as we have explained above; but it was one which they could not for shame avow, though they voted on the strength of it.
Word: physograde Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From physo- + -grade. 1. Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float. Labels: archaic
Word: physogrades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of physograde Labels: form-of, plural
Word: synchondrotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek union by cartilage + to cut. 1. Synonym of symphysiotomy. Labels: uncountable
Word: deuteroscopy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deutero- + -scopy. 1. That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense, ulterior signification. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: For not attaining the deuteroscopy, and second intention of the words, they are fain to omit their superconsequencies, coherencies, figures, or tropologies; and are not sometime perswaded by fire beyond their literalities. 2. Second sight. Labels: uncountable Example: I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye […]
Word: catsfoot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cat's + foot. For its obsolete figurative sense, see cat's-paw. 1. Synonym of cat's-paw: a foot of a cat; (figurative, obsolete) a person used unwittingly or through trickery by another. Example: ...like the Monkey, that took the Cat's Foot to pull the Chesnut out of the Fire... 2. Synonym of ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea). Example: It is commonly called […] in English ground Iuie, Alehoofe, Gill creepe by ground, Tunehoofe, and Cats foote. 3. Synonym of mountain cudweed (Antennaria dioica). Example: ...an Infusion made with the Heads of White Poppies, Cat's-foot, Colt's-foot, and Maiden-hair.
Word: boothaling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: boot (from booty) + haling 1. foraging for booty; plundering Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: kerplops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kerplop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kerwham Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From ker- + wham. 1. A wham; a sound of a powerful collision.
Word: kersplosh Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From ker- + splosh. 1. splosh: sound of something heavy falling into liquid
Word: sploshes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of splosh Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: peroqua Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of boat. Example: The peroqua rapidly approached, and was soon close to the beach; the sail was lowered, and she was backed in through the surf.
Word: peroquas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of peroqua Labels: form-of, plural
Word: foalfoot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From foal + foot. 1. coltsfoot Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: foalfoots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of foalfoot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spinebill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spine + bill, possibly as a calque of translingual Acanthorhynchus, which was coined at around the same time. 1. Either of the Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus, types of honeyeaters.
Word: spinebills Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spinebill Labels: form-of, plural
Word: genocider Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Hellenic *génos Ancient Greek γένος (génos) Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der. Proto-Italic *kaidō Latin caedō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin -cīda Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin -cīdiumder. Middle French -cidebor. English -cide English genocide 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 genocider From genocide + -er. Piecewise doublet of genocidaire. 1. One who commits genocide.
Word: genociders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of genocider Labels: form-of, plural
Word: genocidally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From genocidal + -ly. 1. In a genocidal manner. Example: […] the Muslim Turks who genocidally slaughtered the Christian Armenians; the Bosnian Christian Serbs who genocidally slaughtered Albanian and Croatian Muslims […] 2. With regard to genocide. Example: a genocidally inclined country
Word: homiciders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of homicider Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cephalitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cephal- + -itis. 1. phrenitis Labels: archaic, uncountable 2. phrenitis Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: meningoencephalitides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of meningoencephalitis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: real gone Part of Speech: adj 1. outrageously cool, wild and carefree Labels: US, not-comparable, slang
Word: unmired Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + mired. 1. Not mired. Labels: not-comparable Example: Indeed, as a financial journalist previously unmired in disputes of academic priority, I would say Mandelbrot's batting average for correctly analyzing market behavior would accord him a place in the Economics Hall of Fame.
Word: nondysfunctional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + dysfunctional. 1. Not dysfunctional. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cohibit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin cohibitus, past participle of cohibere (“to confine”), from co- + habere (“to hold”). Compare inhibit. 1. To restrain; to inhibit. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: the proper Cure to cohibit so pernicious a Symptom
Word: cohibited Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of cohibit Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cohibiting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of cohibit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cohibits Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cohibit Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: holonymous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From holonym + -ous. 1. Having the nature or property of a holonym.
Word: king of the doos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From king + of + the + Scots doo (“dove”). Compare king-of-the-salmon, king of the mullets (Dicentrarchus labrax, Apogon imberbis) and similar terms. 1. Synonym of English Carrier. Labels: Scotland
Word: kings of the doos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of king of the doos ( = English Carrier) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: centibel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From centi- + bel. 1. A measure of sound intensity that is one hundredth of a bel on the logarithmic intensity scale.
Word: centibels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of centibel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: SIMAP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Similarity Matrix of Protein: a freely accessible database of protein similarities created using distributed computing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: VGTU Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas) in Lithuania. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: weddinged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of wedding Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: weddinging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wedding Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Austrophobe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Austro- + -phobe. Pronunciation: /ˈɒstɹə(ʊ)fəʊb/ 1. Someone who fears or dislikes Austria or the Austrians. Example: The shift after 1737 towards a more pro-Austrian policy was unpopular with the Foreign Minister, a noted Austrophobe.
Word: Austrophobes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Austrophobe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diocesans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diocesan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Rudyard Part of Speech: name Etymology: Inherited from Old English Rudierd (name of the village in Staffordshire, recorded in the Domesday Book), from Old English rude geard (“rue yard”), first mentioned in 1002. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌd.jəɹd/ 1. A lakeside village in Horton parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9558). 2. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Chippewa County, Michigan, United States, apparently named after Rudyard Kipling. 3. An unincorporated community in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. 4. A census-designated place in Hill County, Montana, United States. 5. A male given name.
Word: Kipling Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈkɪp.lɪŋ/ 1. A surname. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A male given name. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Rudyard Kipling, a British writer. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: neo-colony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neo- + colony. 1. A country, especially a former colony, controlled or dominated by another country, by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance. Example: Cuba was the last of the independent Latin American countries to throw off the Spanish yoke and the first to become a full-fledged neo-colony of the United States.
Word: neocolony Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of neo-colony. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ASBOing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ASBO Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ASBOed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ASBO Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mélangeur Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of melangeur. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The water to be purified is first put in an inclosed vessel, called the mixing vessel, or mélangeur. This is done by a pipe running close to the bottom of the mélangeur, and widens there to a kind of rose. The lime-water, previously prepared in a vessel situated higher is also injected into the mélangeur. Example: The blood is mixed in a mélangeur—that is, a capillary tube one extremity of which is blown into a bulb having a capacity of 100 c.mm.[…]The mélangeur is marked at 0.5, 1 c.mm. and 101 c.mm.
Word: mixer tap Part of Speech: noun 1. A tap in which the amount of hot and cold water emerging from a single outlet can be independently varied, usually with a lever
Word: -esses Part of Speech: suffix 1. plural of -ess Labels: form-of, morpheme, plural
Word: mensurations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mensuration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mélangeurs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mélangeur Labels: form-of, plural
Word: narkier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of narky: more narky Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: narkiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of narky: most narky Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: tundishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tundish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preheatable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From preheat + -able. 1. Capable of being preheated. Labels: not-comparable
Word: German wheel Part of Speech: noun 1. An apparatus made up of two large, usually steel rings joined together by a set of parallel steel bars. Example: First is the German Wheel, two metal hoops six feet in circumference, joined at six points. Inside, gymnast Chris Lashua rolls, turns and spins through a series of gravity-defying somersaults and acrobatics. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see German, wheel.
Word: camail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed in the late 1600s from French camail, from Old Occitan capmalh. Pronunciation: /kəˈmeɪl/, /ˈkæm.eɪl/ 1. A piece of chainmail worn to protect the neck and shoulders, replacing the whole-head coif. Labels: historical Example: […] the hood was increasingly replaced with a mail curtain (the camail or aventail) suspended from the outside of the bascinet, and the bascinet thus augmented gradually replaced the clumsy great helm as the principal defense […] 2. An ecclesiastical ornament worn by bishops. Labels: historical
Word: Summers Part of Speech: name 1. A surname. 2. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Arkansas, United States. 3. An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States.
Word: Summers Part of Speech: name Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. plural of Summer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lazy initialisation Part of Speech: noun 1. A creational design pattern that uses the tactic of delaying an expensive process, like the creation of an object, until the first time it is needed. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: lazy initialisations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lazy initialisation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lazy evaluations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lazy evaluation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lazy initialization Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of lazy initialisation. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: lazy initializations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lazy initialization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exclusive disjunction Part of Speech: noun 1. A disjunction which is true if only one, but not both, of its disjuncts is true.
Word: inclusive disjunction Part of Speech: noun 1. A disjunction which is true if at least one of its disjuncts is true.
Word: wild strawberries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wild strawberry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wood strawberries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wood strawberry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mercurochrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a trademark. 1. merbromin Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Then the doctor came bustling in, brown-mustached, blue-tied, spectacled, carrying a tan bag, and behind him followed the two ambulance men, one with a thatch of flaming red hair and the other with a stain of mercurochrome on his jacket-sleeve. Example: Jenny was sining on the closed lid of the toilet, her long legs stretched out in front of her so that he could treat the cuts with mercurochrome.
Word: Mesdemoiselles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Mademoiselle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: body temperatures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of body temperature Labels: form-of, plural
Word: social skills Part of Speech: noun 1. The personal skills needed for successful social communication and interaction. Labels: plural, plural-normally Example: Interviews with families highlighted the lack of accessible and supportive social environments and concerns about insufficient social skills training, even though both children and parents desired social contact.
Word: Nilas Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Nila Labels: form-of, plural
Word: camails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of camail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mercurochromes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mercurochrome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: méridienne Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French méridienne, feminine of méridien (“meridian; noon (attributive)”), from its typical use: rest in the middle of the day, when the sun is near the meridian. 1. An asymmetrical daybed with a high head-rest, and a lower foot-rest, joined by a sloping piece. Example: Méridiennes have sold for up to $19,000 a pair, a bid posted at Morton’s. “Méridiennes such as that one are the rare pieces that bring top dollar,” says Phillip Alford, Morton’s nineteenth-century furniture expert. Example: Silk velvet on the méridiennes is from Manuel Canovas; Clarence House fabric covers the sofa and front of fauteuils.
Word: méridiennes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of méridienne Labels: form-of, plural
Word: English Carrier Part of Speech: noun 1. Columba livia domestica, an old breed of fancy pigeon.
Word: leather cheerio Part of Speech: noun 1. An anus. Labels: slang, vulgar
Word: bedream Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + dream. 1. To dream about; bestow with dreams or impart dreams unto. Labels: transitive Example: O learned John, but thou art grown fantastic As a romancer! thou art quite bedream'd[…] Example: I had only to turn it, the soul's own image to see there: — Beauty that might bedream the sleep of a youthful immortal![…]
Word: Åland Islands Part of Speech: name 1. A region of Finland. Swedish speaking group of islands between Finland and Sweden.
Word: akro- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Alternative form of acro-. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme, rare
Word: extraordinary renditions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of extraordinary rendition Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flon, flone, flan, from Old English flān (“barb, arrow, javelin, dart”), from Proto-Germanic *flainaz (“fork-point, prong, hook, spear-tip”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plei- (“to divide, split, splice”). Cognate with Icelandic fleinn (“thorn, arrow, dart, pike, fluke”). 1. An arrow. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: monkey trail Part of Speech: noun 1. A beaten path where children play. Labels: Canada, Western
Word: monkey trails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monkey trail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chili sauce Part of Speech: noun 1. Hot sauce. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: pepper sauce Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of hot sauce. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A sauce made with peppercorns, served with steak etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: forsteal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forstelen, from Old English forstelan (“to steal away, steal, rob, deprive”), from Proto-Germanic *farstelaną, *frastelaną (“to steal, steal away”), equivalent to for- + steal. Cognate with Middle Low German vorstelen (“to steal away”), Middle High German ferstelan (“to steal away”). 1. To steal away, rob, deprive. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]
Word: forsteal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of forestall. 1. Obsolete form of forestall. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: scobs Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin scobs, or scobis, from scabere (“to scrape”). Pronunciation: /skɒbz/ 1. Raspings of wood, ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: This was so much the case in antient times that the floor of the dining room was generally covered with scobs or sawdust to absorb what Seneca calls the purgamenta et jactus cænantium, the “excretions and discharges of the guests." The scobs became at length a point of luxury. Heliogabalus ordered the portico to be strewed in lieu of scobs with gold and silver dust, and lamented that he could not find amber enough for that purpose. Example: Dump your wet scobs in the trash barrel, replace your dust pan, hand broom and #10 can. 2. The dross of metals. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: The scobs thereof Diose, helps those that are hurt by quicksilver, taken inwardly, or used outwardly, it attracting to it selfe Example: scobs and ashes of graphite
Word: scobs Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /skɒbz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of scob Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: scobs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /skɒbz/ 1. plural of scob Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mad-apple Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mad apple. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mad-apples Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mad-apple Labels: form-of, plural
Word: carangoid Part of Speech: adj 1. Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels.
Word: carangoid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any fish of the family Carangidae.
Word: culrage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English culrage, culrache; probably from Old French cul (“the buttock”) + rage; compare French curage. 1. smartweed Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: cathedrated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cathedra + -ated. 1. Synonym of ex cathedra. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: The highest cathedrated sentence of your Admonition, written in all your names rayleth at the Protestants, affirming your contentions to be but Ceremonies. Example: The office and station have no place or standing in the external forum where the sentence is put upon its trial. The Judge-Bishop cannot speak there, by judicial or by cathedrated authority. 2. Having been incathedrated. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: But if this same marvelling writer were to attend his cathedrated phyfician to the chambers of the sick; to hear him run over his few questions; to see how elegantly he can feel a pulse; and with what dispatch he can, in consequence, write out his prescription;—seeing this ease and elegance of manner, and the dispatch with which the most interesting things may be dispatched, he would afterwards take very ill with the tedious and stammering attentions of his taylor in taking his measure fro a suit of clothes, or the irksome and impertinent catechism of his lawyer in making out a deed! Example: During this year, when papal Ireland was on tiptoe for another jubilee: "During this year of Jubilee," (speaks the cathedrated oracle ) , " we mercifully in the Lord grant and impart the most plenary and complete indulgence, remission , and pardon of all their sins, to all the faithful in Christ, of both sexes, who are truly penitent, and have confessed, and who have likewise refressed themselves with the holy communion—provided" they shall visit certain churches, and pray for the church, for the extirpation of heresies, and for the salvation and tranquillity of Christendom. 3. Holding a chair (distinguished professorship) Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: cathedrated professor Example: He, however, was only appointed in 1834; but almost immediately after became a cathedrated professor, and lectured most ably in most of the chairs until in 1853 he retired on a pension. 4. In a sitting position; seated. Labels: not-comparable Example: My eyes shot away from the cathedrated figure below me, up, up into the region of cabinets (abnormally lowered like everything else to keep them within the sunken eparch's reach), decorative frieze, ceiling, multiarmed overhead light.
Word: top-hamper Part of Speech: noun 1. The rigging, spars, etc., stored above the deck of a ship. Example: There were the pitching of the vessel, the hissing of the waters, the dashing of spray, the shocks that menaced annihilation to the little craft as she plunged into the seas, the undying howl of the wind, and the fearful drift. The last was the most serious danger; for, though exceedingly weatherly under her canvas, and totally without top-hamper, the Scud was so light, that the combing of the swells would seem at times to wash her down to leeward with a velocity as great as that of the surges themselves. Example: At the same time sleet and hail were driving with all fury against us. We clewed down, and hauled out the reef- tackles again, and close-reefed the fore-topsail, and furled the main, and hove her to on the starboard tack. Here was an end to our fine prospects. We made up our minds to head winds and cold weather; sent down the royal yards, and unrove the gear; but all the rest of the top hamper remained aloft, even to the sky-sail masts and studding-sail booms.
Word: top-hampers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of top-hamper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shamoying Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See shammy and -ing. 1. The act of one who shamoys. Labels: uncountable
Word: come to power Part of Speech: verb 1. To be installed in high office, for example as a king, president, or prime minister. Labels: idiomatic
Word: forspill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forspillen, from Old English forspillan, forspildan (“to waste, lose, disperse, bring to nothing, destroy, ruin, kill”), from Proto-West Germanic *furispilþijan. Equivalent to for- + spill. Cognate with Old High German farspildan, Dutch verspillen (“to waste”), Swedish förspilla (“to waste”). 1. To destroy; ruin; lose. Labels: transitive Example: In fine, all these treasures, like snow on the wold, Three days lain, then to nothing forspilled, suppose. Example: In questing for the talisman That ruled the wished-for treasure, The world on me, for grief of her, Was all forspilled; and 'twas not.
Word: archaei Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of archaeus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forstop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forstoppen, from Old English forstoppian (“to stop up, close”), equivalent to for- + stop. Cognate with Dutch verstoppen (“to clog, obstruct, conceal”), German verstopfen (“to block, clog, plug, stop up”), Swedish förstoppa (“to constipate”). Pronunciation: /fə(ɹ)ˈstɒp/ 1. To stop up; block; clog; obstruct; to stifle (the breath); to dam up (a watercourse). Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: QUILTBAG Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Contrived acronym from quilt and bag, coined by Sadie Lee as an inclusive self-designation for minority sexual and gender identities. 1. Acronym of Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans (Transgender/Transsexual), Bisexual, Asexual, and/or Gay/Genderqueer. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, not-comparable Example: There’s a reason that people supporting marriage and fighting hardest for it are primarily middle class white gays and lesbians, because, for them, marriage may be the ‘final frontier,’ while other members of the QUILTBAG community are fighting with issues like ‘how to stay alive when your parents have kicked you out of the house for being gay’ and ‘how to get hormone treatments when you are an undocumented immigrant making less than minimum wage.’ Example: And so not all queer writing is quiltbag, and neither is all quiltbag writing queer.
Word: forsling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Middle Dutch verslinden, from Old Dutch *farslindan (“to devour”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraslindan, from Proto-Germanic *fraslindaną (“to devour”), equivalent to for- + Proto-Germanic *slindaną (“to devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, creep”). Cognate with Dutch verslinden (“to devour”), Middle Low German vorslinden (“to devour, eat up”), German verschlinden, verschlingen (“to devour, swallow up”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (fraslindan, “to gobble, swallow, devour”). 1. To swallow down; gobble up. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: He hath waited by night and day in such wise that he hath stolen so many of my children that of fifteen I have but four, in such wise hath this thief forslongen them.
Word: performance management Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of ensuring that organisational goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner. Labels: uncountable
Word: condominia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of condominium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Jewishish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Jewish + -ish. 1. Having the indefinite appearance of being Jewish; moderately or superficially Jewish. Labels: informal, offensive, possibly Example: I rent this movie the other day. It's about this dark, brooding, Jewishish guy […]
Word: sex partner Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone that one has sex with, especially on an informal or casual basis. Example: The effect was ruined, however, by Louis's decision [...] to be accompanied by his mistress, the duchesse de Châteauroux, along with her sister, the duchesse de Lauraguais (who was Louis's occasional sex-partner rather than a fully-fledged royal mistress). Example: But the 44-year-old trouper earns £7,000 a night as a DJ, insists he can beat his weakness for drugs, and makes no apologies for cruising online for sex partners.
Word: sex partners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sex partner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subventioned Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: subventioned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of subvention Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: subventioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of subvention Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: groid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of negroid. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɔɪd/ 1. Clipping of negroid. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur Example: My only concern is that the groids may disturb the habitat of valuable species of wildlife. I am a major supporter of the Aids for Africa campaign. Example: Occasionally, on the bank, we saw an orange-red glow, momentarily illuminating a black face. Fishing lines, slanting into the stream, were visible against the light of small fires. The canoe moved soundlessly by, and on into the darkness. "The groids sure love to fish.” Sam murmured. The moon was low. It was midnight.
Word: gentrice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gentryse, from Old French genterise, variant form of gentelise, from gentil. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛntɹɪs/ 1. The state or quality of being high-born; gentility. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: “And where could I get a horse to him?” cried Alan, turning on her with the same appearance of fury. “Would ye have me steal?” […] “Ye neednae tell me,” she said at last—“ye’re gentry.” “Well,” said Alan, softened a little (I believe against his will) by this artless comment, “and suppose we were? Did ever you hear that gentrice put money in folk’s pockets?” Example: The tragedy, however, as Burke and other British statesmen were to declare, had already been prepared indirectly by Gentlemen Johnny Burgoyne, whose claims to gentrice were as dubious as his talents as a general. 2. High-born individuals collectively; gentry. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement. Others would threep she was gentrice, come of a persecuting family in the west, who had been ruined in the Revolution wars. Example: […] I don't hold with gentrice who fetch their drink from London instead of helping local traders to get their living."
Word: a penny saved is a penny gained Part of Speech: proverb 1. Synonym of a penny saved is a penny earned.
Word: Utrecht velvet Part of Speech: noun 1. A thick mohair or cotton plush used for upholstering. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: minutage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From minute + -age. 1. The amount of time, in minutes, during which advertising can be broadcast. Labels: uncountable Example: The Statement set conditions for cross-promotion of digital services outside of designated advertising minutage, addressing in particular how analogue terrestrial licensees could promote their associated digital services.
Word: SOLID Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsɑlɪd/, /ˈsɒlɪd/ 1. Acronym of single responsibility, open-closed, Liskov substitution, interface segregation and dependency inversion, a set of design principles promoting maintainability and extensibility. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
Word: SRP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of single responsibility principle. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of suggested retail price. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: parloir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French parloir (“parlor”). Doublet of parlor. 1. A room set aside for visitors in a monastery or convent, where they can talk to residents. Example: The first to which we went was a convent of Benedictine Nuns. When we had entered the gates we rang a bell, and a servant appeared, and desired us to go up stairs to the parloir.
Word: guild-hall Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of guildhall. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: put someone through their paces Part of Speech: verb 1. To direct a horse to walk, canter, trot, etc. Labels: literally Example: She put Rosebud through his paces in the ring, and received her share of applause at the antics of the clever horse. 2. To test several or all functions or training of a person, animal, machine, etc. Labels: figuratively Example: The new fire chief really put us through our paces: we had to wash all the fire trucks and then had two different fire drills. Example: When I test-drove the new car, the salesman let me take it out to the freeway to put it through its paces.
Word: single responsibility principle Part of Speech: name 1. The principle that every class should have a single responsibility entirely encapsulated by that class.
Word: open-closed principle Part of Speech: name 1. A principle that states that software entities (such as classes, modules, and functions) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.
Word: Liskov substitution principle Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after Barbara Liskov (1939–), who introduced the concept in 1987. 1. A principle stating that any type having a subtype should be replaceable by its subtype without altering any of the desirable properties (such as correctness, task performed, etc.) of the program.
Word: interface segregation principle Part of Speech: name 1. A principle that states that once an interface has become too large, it needs to be split into smaller and more specific interfaces so that any client of the interface will only know about the methods that pertain to itself. In other words, no client should be forced to depend on methods it does not use.
Word: dependency inversion principle Part of Speech: name 1. Design principle that states that (1) High- and low-level modules should both depend on abstractions and (2) instead of abstractions depending upon details, details should depend upon abstractions.
Word: God object Part of Speech: noun 1. A poorly designed object that does more than one thing and thus violates the single responsibility principle of SOLID.
Word: God objects Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of God object Labels: form-of, plural
Word: God class Part of Speech: noun 1. The class serving as a template for a God object.
Word: God classes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of God class Labels: form-of, plural
Word: LLG Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Logical Language Group. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: LLG Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of local-level government. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: CLU Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of consultant-led unit. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: CLU Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of cluster, a concept equivalent to classes in object-oriented programming. Pronunciation: /kluː/ 1. A computer language developed between 1973–1975 that pioneered abstract data types and iterators.
Word: GRASP Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns (or Principles). Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of 2. Acronym of Gamepedia Rapid Anti-Spam Patrol. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns Part of Speech: name 1. Principle that consists of a set of guidelines for assigning responsibility to classes and objects.
Word: General Responsibility Assignment Software Principles Part of Speech: name 1. Synonym of General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns.
Word: parloirs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parloir Labels: form-of, plural
Word: alkylant Part of Speech: noun 1. An alkylant is a chemical compound that can introduce an Alkyl group to another molecule. Example: The main types of irritant and/or corrosive products are: acids, bases, oxidizers / reducing agents, solvents, and alkylants.
Word: cross-over Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from cross over. 1. Alternative spelling of crossover. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nappie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of nappy: Example: Depositing Susie in the bathinette, I removed the soiled nappie. 2. Alternative form of nappy: Example: For family service, the 4-inch nappie is more practical than the sherbet glass. Example: The solid colored pieces sold with this line were the nappie, fruit bowl, creamer, sugar bowl with lid, and cup. 3. Alternative form of nappy: Example: a. 1846, Robert Burns, Comforts of the Poor, 1846, Henry Corbould, The Book of the Poets, page 448, An' whyles twalpennie-worth o′ nappie / Can mak the bodies unco happy ;
Word: National Convention Part of Speech: name 1. A constitutional and legislative assembly holding executive power during the French Revolution. Labels: historical
Word: nerd out Part of Speech: verb 1. To study intensely, swot Labels: slang Example: There appears to be something essential about that. I search my memory for every reference to decapitation found in a lifetime of nerding out at the library 2. To do nerdy things; to geek out. Labels: slang Example: Even when he’s nerding out, he’s nerding out to the 10th power.
Word: provostal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From provost + -al. 1. Pertaining to a provost.
Word: provostorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From provost + -orial. 1. Pertaining to a provost.
Word: IJDB Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /aɪ d͡ʒeɪ diː biː/ 1. Initialism of International Journal of Developmental Biology. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: nature strips Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nature strip Labels: form-of, plural
Word: IAT Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of Implicit Association Test. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Initialism of import address table. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Implicit Association Test Part of Speech: noun 1. a measure within social psychology designed to detect the strength of a person's automatic association between mental representations of objects (concepts) in memory
Word: Implicit Association Tests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Implicit Association Test Labels: form-of, plural
Word: IATs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of IAT Labels: form-of, plural
Word: queue-jumper Part of Speech: noun 1. One who jumps the queue. Example: Instead, travellers are directed to the respective assembly points; this facilitates any last-minute changes in platform arrangements and also frustrates any would-be queue-jumpers.
Word: modificatives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of modificative Labels: form-of, plural
Word: guild-halls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of guild-hall Labels: form-of, plural
Word: onychophagia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From onycho- + -phagia. 1. Nail biting. Labels: uncountable
Word: La Toya Part of Speech: name Etymology: Possibly a combination of the prefix La- + Toya, a Spanish pet form of Victoria. 1. A female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th-century African-American usage.
Word: Alora Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Botswana, it means "my dream" in the Bantu languages. 1. A female given name from the Bantu languages of African origin.
Word: dandelion clocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dandelion clock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forspan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forspannen, forspanen, from Old English forspanan (“to mislead, lead astray, seduce, entice”), from Proto-Germanic *farspananą, *fraspananą (“to allure”), equivalent to for- + span. Cognate with Middle High German verspanen (“to tempt, entice”). 1. To entice; seduce. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: forspan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore- + span. 1. Foresight; the ability to see, predict, or perceive future events. Labels: uncountable Example: In a remote age and country we find Njal, the hero of the Njal's saga, credited with forspan, or the gift of beholding such shadowy apparitions of future events — a power carefully distinguished from ordinary clear-sighted wisdom.
Word: forsweal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forswelen, forswælen, from Old English forswǣlan (“to burn, burn up, inflame, consume”), equivalent to for- + sweal. 1. To burn up. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: forloppin Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From for- + loppin, past participle of loup (“to run, leap”). 1. Being a runaway, vagabond, or renegade. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: molleton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French molleton, from molle + -et (“diminutive”) + -on (“diminutive”), from Latin mollis (“soft”). 1. A kind of thick woollen material, once important in the Canada trade. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable
Word: forlong Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forlangen, equivalent to for- + long. Cognate with Middle High German verlangen. 1. To fill with longing. Example: Now certain shadows followed me. Forlonged memories move round From visions inside my head I see [...] Example: And then after, forlonged, forlonging, longing without end. I looked at his hands, his fingers long, elegant, the hands of a conductor.
Word: forlong Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of furlong. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Example: Again, Oh read ouer D. John Bridges, for it is a worthy work, is: Printed oner sea, in Europe, within two forlongs of a Bouncing Priest, at the Cost and Charges of Martin Marprelate, Gent, 1589. Example: Besides, he divided all the road into miles, of near eight forlongs each, and set up pillars of stone to mark the divisions.
Word: molletons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of molleton. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: box jelly Part of Speech: noun 1. box jellyfish
Word: scrub bull Part of Speech: noun 1. A bull living in (or bred in) the wild; a feral bull in the outback. Labels: Australia Example: ‘These ridges are full of old scrub bulls.’
Word: drill ground Part of Speech: noun 1. An open area where military drills are practised.
Word: drill grounds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of drill ground Labels: form-of, plural
Word: drillground Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of drill ground. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: law suit Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of lawsuit. Labels: alt-of, archaic