nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: ruption Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ruptio, from rumpere, ruptum (“to break”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌpʃən/ 1. A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture. Example: The plenitude of vessels or plethora causes an extravasion of blood, by ruption or apertion Example: You can't cure it, for it's a ruption of an air vessel , and you can't get at it to sew it up. 2. A commotion. Labels: rare Example: "Would you? You might insist long long enough before you would get that done. I fancy," replied Peter Dyer, who was much inclined to assist in a "ruption," as he termed it, in the morning, as he had been in the night before. Example: But you know the square and I had a kind of a ruption about that Mr. Quickerrow; he don't come here, and so I don't come to your house.
Word: ruptions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ruption Labels: form-of, plural
Word: consarcination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin consarcinare, consarcinatum (“to patch together”). 1. A patching together; patchwork. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: It is one thing to take the text of these documents, and to trace out its consarcinations, interpolations, retrenchments; to ascertain, if it may be, what it was in its earliest form, what the age and history of its several parts […] Example: Although great proficients in the arts and sciences, the Egyptians were more distinguished for a certain squeamishness of taste, than as gastronomes who could revel in a multiplicity of heterogeneous consarcinations […]
Word: consarcinations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of consarcination Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bunnian Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of bunion. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: bunnians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bunnian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: castlebuilder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From castle + builder. 1. Someone who builds castles. 2. Someone who builds castles in the air; someone who has overly visionary aspirations. Labels: figuratively 3. Synallaxis albescens, a bird that constructs a spherical nest of sticks.
Word: castlebuilders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of castlebuilder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spoonwood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spoon + wood. 1. Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel. 2. Trichilia havanensis, a Caribbean softwood.
Word: boistous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English boistous, from Anglo-Norman bustous (“rough”), perhaps from Old French boitous (“noisy”) (the source of French boiteux). 1. Coarse, rude; noisy, violent; strong. Labels: Early, Modern, obsolete Example: Pawes he had grete and longe / Fyre of out of his mouthe spronge / His tayle was grete and no thynge small / And his body boystous withall / His blaste myght no man tell Example: The tune wherof semes yet full straunge, so boystous is the blast: / but quiet calmes settes forth still windes, when stormes be gon and past.
Word: slushed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of slush Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: slushing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of slush Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fit for a king Part of Speech: adj 1. Lavish; luxurious. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: kingly, kinglike Example: Mum cooked us a meal fit for a king.
Word: dissheathe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + sheathe. 1. To become unsheathed. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: his sword dissheathing pierced his own thigh
Word: dissheathed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dissheathe Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dissheathes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dissheathe Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: nonmonetizable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + monetizable. 1. Not monetizable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: theorematical Part of Speech: adj 1. theorematic Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: therebeforn Part of Speech: adv 1. Therebefore. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: theosoph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested circa 1835. From Medieval Latin theosophus (“a theologian”, noun), from Koine Greek θεόσοφος (theósophos, “wise in things concerning god”, adjective), from Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god”) + σοφός (sophós, “wise”). Cognate with French théosophe and Spanish teósofo. Pronunciation: /ˈθiː.əsɒf/, /ˈθiː.oʊ.sɒf/ 1. A theosophist. Labels: archaic Example: […] where arose on some circumscribed basis of experiments, the speculative structures of the theosoph, the astrologer and the alchemist.
Word: theosopher Part of Speech: noun 1. A theosophist. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:theosophist.
Word: Therapeutæ Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Therapeutae. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
Word: rebuffingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From rebuffing + -ly. 1. In a manner that rebuffs.
Word: hair grass Part of Speech: noun 1. A grass with very slender leaves or branches, as: Labels: uncountable 2. A grass with very slender leaves or branches, as: Labels: uncountable 3. A grass with very slender leaves or branches, as: Labels: uncountable 4. A grass with very slender leaves or branches, as: Labels: uncountable
Word: hair-salt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of German Haarsalz. 1. A habit of epsomite which occurs as silky, hair-like fibers. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: looch Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of lohoch. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: looches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of looch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cloakedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From cloaked + -ly. 1. In a concealed manner; with secrecy.
Word: hairtail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hair + tail. 1. Any of a number of species of marine fishes of the family Trichiuridae, long, band-like, with a slender, pointed tail.
Word: epigaeous Part of Speech: adj 1. Dated form of epigeous. Labels: alt-of, dated, not-comparable
Word: chancrous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French chancreux. 1. Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre. Labels: archaic Example: chancrous pus
Word: angiotomies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of angiotomy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: angiotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From angio- + -tomy (from Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “vessel, urn, pot”) + τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”)). 1. dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sequoiene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sequoia + -ene. 1. A hydrocarbon (C₁₃H₁₀) obtained from the needles of the giant sequoia. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: neuropteran Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Neuroptera + -an. 1. Any insect of the order Neuroptera, having four large and membranous wings.
Word: conceiting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of conceit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Sabbatarianisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Sabbatarianism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neuroskeletal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From neuro- + skeletal. 1. Of or pertaining to the neuroskeleton. Labels: not-comparable Example: neuroskeletal biology Example: neuroskeletal junction
Word: newfangle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English newefangil, neufangel, newefongel, equivalent to new + fangle. 1. Eager for novelties; desirous of changing. Labels: obsolete
Word: newfangle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English newefangil, neufangel, newefongel, equivalent to new + fangle. 1. To change by introducing novelties. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: rhinopome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: rhino- + Ancient Greek πῶμα (pôma, “a lid”) 1. Any member of the bat genus Rhinopoma. Labels: obsolete
Word: rhinopomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhinopome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plebeianize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From plebeian + -ize. 1. To make plebeian, common, or vulgar. Labels: transitive
Word: plebeianized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of plebeianize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: plebeianizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of plebeianize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: plebeianizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plebeianize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: newfanglist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See newfangled, fangle, and -ist. 1. One who is eager for novelties or desirous of change. Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: phascolome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek φάσκωλος (pháskōlos, “pouch”) + μῦς (mûs, “mouse”). Compare Greek φασκωλόμυς (faskolómys, “wombat”). 1. A marsupial of the former genus Phascolomys; a wombat. Labels: obsolete
Word: phascolomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phascolome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nicknackeries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nicknackery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nicknackery Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of knickknackery. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: semimutes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semimute Labels: form-of, plural
Word: yakkier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of yakky: more yakky Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: brownwort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brown + wort. 1. A figwort of the species Scrophularia vernalis or (possibly) of certain other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers. Labels: archaic
Word: brownworts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brownwort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prenticeship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prentice + -ship. 1. Obsolete form of apprenticeship. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: He serv'd a 'Prenticeship
Word: prenticeships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prenticeship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: splanchnotomies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of splanchnotomy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: splanchnotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From splanchno- + -tomy. 1. The dissection or anatomy of the viscera. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: suppliance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See suppliant. 1. supplication; entreaty Labels: uncountable Example: When Greece her knee in suppliance bent
Word: suppliance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From supply. 1. That which supplies a want; assistance; a gratification; satisfaction. Example: he perfume and suppliance of a minute Example: All human suppliances for the satisfying of the cravings of the body or of the soul have in them this defect, that they do not satisfy for ever. They only serve to dull and deaden the present sense of the want, but do not remove it.
Word: melilotic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From melilot + -ic + acid. 1. The carboxylic acid 3-(2-hydroxyphenyl)propanoic acid present in melilot Labels: uncountable
Word: Caen stone Part of Speech: noun 1. A cream-coloured limestone used in building, found near Caen, France. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Caen stones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Caen stone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semilunary Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of semilunar. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: mentomeckelian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mento- + Meckelian. 1. Of or relating to the chin and lower jaw. Labels: not-comparable
Word: mentomeckelian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mento- + Meckelian. 1. The bone or cartilage forming the anterior extremity of the lower jaw in some animals, such as frogs
Word: mentomeckelians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mentomeckelian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crampfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cramp + fish. 1. A type of electric ray 2. A type of electric ray 3. A coffin ray (Hypnos monopterygius)
Word: crampfishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crampfish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: uptill Part of Speech: prep Pronunciation: /ʌpˈtɪl/ 1. up to, or against Labels: obsolete, rare Example: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her breast up-till a thorn.
Word: aesthesodic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “sensation”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”) + -ic; compare French esthésodique. 1. sensory Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: aesthesodic substance Example: aesthesodic system
Word: heartburning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From heart + burning. 1. Secret enmity; discontent. Example: [N]ecessity may abolish any law, but cannot alter the sentiments of the vulgar; right of inheritance being perhaps the most popular of all topicks; and therefore in great changes, when that is broke, there will remain much heart-burning and discontent among the meaner people; which (under a weak prince and corrupt administration) may have the worst consequences upon the peace of any state. Example: [John] Winthrop, acting with the concurrence of Wilson, whom the delicacy of his position compelled to reserve, with difficulty succeeded in parrying the blow. But the transaction did not fail to leave heart-burnings. 2. Heartburn. Example: Hee sett Promethius, on a merrye pynn, / Whoe dranke soe devillishly, that there he gott / A terrible heartburninge, […]
Word: heartburnings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heartburning Labels: form-of, plural
Word: septane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin septem (“seven”). 1. Obsolete form of heptane. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: septanes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of septane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: officialities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of officiality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preerected Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + erected. 1. erected beforehand Labels: not-comparable
Word: legement Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of ledgment. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: pterophore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ptero- + -phore. 1. Any moth of Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth.
Word: pterophores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pterophore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: saliaunce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See sally. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪliəns/ 1. Obsolete spelling of salience (“onslaught”). Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: with so fierce saliaunce
Word: saliaunces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of saliaunce Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ptyalogogue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek spittle + driving. 1. Any substance that causes the discharge of saliva. Labels: obsolete
Word: ptyalogogues Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ptyalogogue Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seamed stockings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seamed stocking Labels: form-of, plural
Word: the Bomb Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of the bomb (as in a nuclear bomb) Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: battel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English batel, batayle from Old French bataille, from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia (“military exercises”), from Latin battuō (“to strike, hit, beat, fight”), from a Gaulish root, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to stab, dig”). Doublet of battalia and battle. 1. Archaic spelling of battle. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Great trauail is created to al men, and an heauie yoke vpon the children of Adam, from the day of their comming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of their burying, into the mother of al. Their cogitations, and feares of the hart, imagination of things to come, and the day of their ending: from him that ſitteth vpon the glorious ſeate, vnto him that is humbled in earth & aſhes. From him that weareth hyacinth, and beareth the crowne, euen to him that is couered with rude linen: furie, enuie, tumult, wauering, and the feare of death, anger perſeuering, and contention, and in time of repoſe in bed, the ſleepe of night changeth his knowledge. A litle is as nothing in reﬅ, and afterward in ſleepe, as in the day of watch. He is troubled in the viſion of his hart, as he that hath eſcaped in the day of battel. In the time of his ſafetie he roſe vp, and merueleth at no feare: with al fleſh, from man euen to beaﬅ, and vpon ſinners ſeuenfold. Beſides theſe things, death, bloud, contention, and ſword, oppreſſions, famine, and contrition, and ſcourges: for the wicked al theſe were created, and for them the floud was made. Al things that are of the earth, ſhal turne into the earth, and al waters ſhal returne into the ſea. 2. A single combat. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: trial by battel; wager of battel
Word: battel Part of Speech: adj 1. fertile; fruitful; productive Labels: obsolete Example: a battel soil for grain, for pasture good
Word: battel Part of Speech: verb 1. To make fertile. Labels: transitive 2. To supply with provisions from the buttery. Labels: ambitransitive, obsolete Example: Troth, and for mine owne part, I am a poore Gentleman, & a Scholler, I haue beene matriculated in the Vniuerſitie, wore out ſixe Gownes there, ſeene ſome fooles, and ſome Schollers, ſome of the Citty, and ſome of the Countrie, kept order, went bare-headed ouer the Quadrangle, eate my Commons with a good ſtomacke, and Battled with Diſcretion; at laſt, hauing done many ſlights and trickes to maintaine my witte in vſe (as my braine would neuer endure mee to bee idle,) I was expeld the Vniuerſitie, onely for ſtealing a Cheeſe out of Ieſus Colledge. 3. To stand indebted in the college-books for provisions and drink from the buttery. Labels: intransitive
Word: battel Part of Speech: noun 1. Fees charged by a college for accommodation and living expenses. Labels: UK, countable, in-plural, uncountable 2. Provisions ordered from the kitchen and buttery. Labels: UK, countable, in-plural, obsolete, uncountable 3. A small allowance of food collegers receive from their dames (matrons) in addition to their college allowance Labels: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: battel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Hebrew בטל. 1. To waste, especially time. Labels: intransitive 2. To nullify. Labels: transitive
Word: Olorun Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Yoruba Ọ̀lọ́run. 1. The supreme god of the Yoruba pantheon, or the God of Abrahamic religions when identified with him.
Word: miterwort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From miter + wort. 1. Any plant of the genus Mitella, slender perennial herbs with flower slightly resembling a bishop's miter of the arctic and temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere.
Word: miterworts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of miterwort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interclose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From inter- + close. See interclude. 1. To shut in; to enclose. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: interclosed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of interclose Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: intercloses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of interclose Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: interclosing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of interclose Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: superconception Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō ▲ Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq. Latin concipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin conceptiōlbor. Old French conceptionbor. Middle English concepcioun English conception English superconception From super- + conception. 1. superfetation Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: those superconceptions, where one child was like the father, the other like the adulterer
Word: bowtel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of boultel. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bowtels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bowtel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spicer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English spicer, spycer, spycere, from Old French espicier (> French épicier), from Latin speciarius (“dealer in spices”), equivalent to spice + -er. 1. One who seasons with spice. Labels: historical, uncommon Example: And finally, at end of a banquet when candied spices were served, the First Chamberlain handed the dragée box to the Spicer for an assay, and then passed it to the senior person of the Duke's Houshold present; this person presented the box to the Prince, and then returned it to the First Chamberlain, who in turn replaced it into the hands of the Spicer - always assuming this last person to have survived the earlier assay of his product! Example: […] they [professional cooks] had as many as 25 helpers, such as saucerers, larders, roasters, pottagers, bakers, spicers, and fruiterers, not to mention spit turners and scullions. 2. That which adds spice or (figurative) excitement. Example: There are only 13 plots […] and a limited number of story spicers — deception, mistaken identity, unnatural affection […] Example: In Europe cloves from the Indonesian archipelago were prized as a medicine, especially for toothache, as well as a spicer of food and drink. 3. A spice dealer. Labels: historical, obsolete Example: The pepperers, spicers, &c. afterwards went to Bucklersbury, where they sold their commodities in the open air. Example: In the same place, under the same date, occurs the other of the extinct company of spicers […]
Word: spicers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spicer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mucific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mucus + Latin -ficare (“to make”) (in comparative). See -fy. 1. Inducing or stimulating the secretion of mucus; blennogenous. Labels: archaic 2. Secreting mucus. Labels: archaic
Word: foo yung Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cantonese 芙蓉 (fu4 jung4). 1. A Chinese omelette dish usually made with meat and vegetables. Labels: uncountable Example: To someone who had spent part of their youth visiting a grandmother in Singapore, a lot of the food they served didn’t seem particularly Chinese to me: the flavour of chop suey with its chicken or pork or prawns, or chow mein, or the omeletty foo yung, never seemed quite right.
Word: foo young Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of foo yung. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: paraventure Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English paraventure, peraventure. Equivalent to par + aventure. 1. peradventure; perchance Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: Pasteurism Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Pasteur + -ism. 1. pasteurisation Labels: dated
Word: estreat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Old French estrete (“an extract”). 1. A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, especially of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. Example: If the crime reached onely to ſhamefull penance, […] then might that penance be reduced to a ranſome, according to the graine of the offence aſſeſſed in the preſence of a Judge by the free men, and entered upon the roll, and the eſtreat of each ranſome ſeverally and apart ſent to the Sheriffe.
Word: estreat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Old French estrete (“an extract”). 1. To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; said of a forfeited recognizance. Labels: transitive 2. To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine. Labels: transitive
Word: estreated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of estreat Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: estreating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of estreat Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: estreats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of estreat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: estreats Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of estreat Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: subaid Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sub- + aid. 1. To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly. Example: […]they ſub-ayded the Gaules againſt him[…]
Word: subaided Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of subaid Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: subaiding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of subaid Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: subaids Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of subaid Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cerograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cero- + -graph. 1. A writing on wax.
Word: cerographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cerograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spumeous Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of spumous. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The Delinition alſo of the Infant's Ears and Noſtrils with the Spittle of the Prieſt may ſometimes ſtrike harſhly upon the ſpirits of the more delicate; but it makes much for the opinion of his Sanctity, vvhoſe ſpumeous excrement is of ſo ſacred a virtue, and vvill gain alſo the prayers of all the vvomen in the Tovvn, that he may ever be an hail and ſound man.
Word: subfuscous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin subfuscus, suffuscus, equivalent to sub- + fuscous. 1. Duskish; moderately dark; tawny. Labels: not-comparable
Word: colonical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin colonus (“husbandman”). 1. Of or relating to farmers or farming; agricultural. Labels: obsolete Example: colonical lease Example: colonical tenant
Word: insuavity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin insuavitas. Compare French insuavité. See in- (“not”) + suavity. 1. Lack of suavity; unpleasantness. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: All fears, griefs, suspicions, discontents, įmbonities, insuavities, are swallowed up and drowned in this Euripus, this Irish sea, this ocean of misery Example: It was not till this moment that Clym recollected her to be the person who had behaved so barbarously to Eustacia. It partly explained the insuavity with which the woman greeted him.
Word: pugh Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of pooh: an expression of contempt, disgust, etc. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic Example: "Pugh!" says Sophia. "There! no, no: what should he do there? He is gone before this time, to be sure. Besides, why—what—why should you go to see? besides, I want you for something else. Go, fetch me my hat and gloves. I shall walk with my aunt in the grove before dinner." Example: Pugh! you? begone!
Word: scantlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French eschantelet (“corner”). 1. A small pattern or quantity. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]he beſt of mankind vvould ſoon find that that vvhich was truly good, in the whole courſe of his life, vvere a pitiful, ſlender ſcantlet, and vvould be infinitely out-vveighed by his ſins, omiſſions, and defects; […]
Word: scantlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scantlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cheese-eating surrender monkeys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cheese-eating surrender monkey Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sculp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See sculptor. 1. To sculpture; to carve or engrave. Labels: humorous, obsolete, sometimes Example: the tenor of my just complaint / Were sculpt with steel on rocks of adamant ! 2. To flay. Labels: transitive
Word: sculped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of sculp Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sculping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sculp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sculps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sculp Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dethronize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dethrone + -ize; compare Latin dethronizare. 1. To dethrone; to remove from the throne. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]hey conſult on this important buſineſs, how they may dethronize Baretana, and inthronize Albemare in the chair and choice of Clara’s affection: […]
Word: dethronized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dethronize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dethronizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dethronize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dethronizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dethronize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: schindyleses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of schindylesis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: schindylesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek σχινδύλησις (skhindúlēsis, “a splitting into fragments”). 1. A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: incicurable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin incicur (“not tame”), from in- (“not”) + cicur (“tame”), + -able. 1. Impossible to tame. Labels: rare
Word: tozy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unclear. Various dictionaries mention an old dialectal word tozy, tosy meaning "cosy, cozy", which may be from toze, tose + -y, but it is not clear if this is related to the "intoxicated" sense. 1. Slightly intoxicated; tipsy. Labels: obsolete, possibly Example: The Magistrates there came into prison, and said, This day you are all to die, and if any of you will undertake to be executioner to the rest, he shall have his life […] The Magistrates gave him Drink and kept him tozy until the murder was over. Example: What puir man, whan he's tozy, But spends as he ware bein and cozy?
Word: send her down Hughie Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Hughie (“diminutive of Hugh, a male given name”) is a god of rain, addressed as an ordinary person. 1. An appeal for continued rain, invoked when it comes after a long drought. Labels: Australia Example: All night it poured down but Dinny grinned and applauded. ‘Send her down, Hughie!’ he cried, as the diggers used to on Coolgardie and Hannans. Example: The wind was bucking round to the west and heavy rain had started again. “Send her down, Hughie!” he said under his breath, thinking with satisfaction of the soil being gouged out of Sunderland′s paddock and carried off into the rising river.
Word: conusable Part of Speech: adj 1. cognizable; liable to be tried or judged. Labels: obsolete Example: a. 1603, Thomas Barlow, letter to Sir P. P. He is a judge of one of those courts, where matrimonial causes are conusable.
Word: poulder Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of powder. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: poulder Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of powder. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: poulders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of poulder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Shakerism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Shaker + -ism. 1. The doctrines of the Shakers. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: Shakerisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Shakerism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Eleatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Eleāticus, from Ancient Greek ’Ελεατικός (’Eleatikós), from Ἐλέα (Eléa, “Elea, Velia”). Pronunciation: /ˌɛliˈætɪk/ 1. Of or relating to a certain school in Elea of Ancient Greek philosophers who taught that reality is stable and unchanging and that real knowledge comes from reason rather than senses.
Word: Eleatic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Eleāticus, from Ancient Greek ’Ελεατικός (’Eleatikós), from Ἐλέα (Eléa, “Elea, Velia”). Pronunciation: /ˌɛliˈætɪk/ 1. A philosopher of the Eleatic school.
Word: Eleatics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Eleatic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apical ectodermal ridge Part of Speech: noun 1. A formation of ectodermal cells that occurs at the distal end of each limb bud and functions as the primary signaling point to secure the proper development of a limb.
Word: platinochloride Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From platino- + chloride. 1. A double chloride of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinochloric acid.
Word: platinochlorides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of platinochloride Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sepiment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sepimentum, saepimentum, from sepire, saepire (“to hedge in”). 1. Something that separates; a hedge; a fence. Labels: obsolete Example: The Partition or Sepiment which divides the great Cavity of the Nose, the Crista Galli, and the Ethmoidal bone is not bony in the Foetus.
Word: sepiments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sepiment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: merrymakings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of merrymaking Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peckerwood sawmill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently coined as a pejorative by the organized lumber-products industry. 1. A small-scale sawmill, often with older equipment not capable of producing wood of uniform dimension. Example: The thousands of gasoline-powered "peckerwood" sawmills that scatter wood waste across the landscape, and the big lumber, veneer, and pulp mills that stand in distant isolation from one another 2. Any small-scale production operation. Labels: Southern-US
Word: California blanket Part of Speech: noun 1. A heavy blanket, especially one made of wool. 2. Newspaper used as bedding. Labels: slang
Word: chuck a dummy Part of Speech: verb 1. To feign an epileptic attack. Labels: slang
Word: nickel note Part of Speech: noun 1. A five-dollar bill.
Word: koha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Māori koha (“regard, respect; gift, present”). Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊhə/, /ˈkoʊhə/ 1. A Māori tradition of reciprocal giving of gifts. Labels: New-Zealand, countable, uncountable Example: Koha are commonly given at the conclusion of a powhiri (a Maori welcome onto a marae (meeting place)). [Mary Anne] Salmond explains that "great pride is taken in being able to present a generous gift to the hosts." Koha that are given at the conclusion of a powhiri are not payments for goods or services. Example: The speaker then sits down and a person from the marae side walks over to collect the koha and acknowledge it. 2. A voluntary donation given for a service that has been provided. Labels: New-Zealand, broadly, countable, uncountable Example: There was considerable opposition to any advance for this mill being charged as against "Koha." […] In respect to the Turakirae Block, Manihera and Wi Kingi claimed "Koha" for Taita, Mangaroa, and Pakuratahi, stating that the purchase extended over those lands, and even to the source of a stream falling to the West Coast. Example: Unfortunately, some of our young people have come to the conclusion that koha as a system is out of date. Several times I have heard it said by young people that they are going to a hui but, not to worry, the Government will fund it. […] I believe that we ought to be attending hui, and ought to make contributions by way of koha.
Word: koha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sinhalese කොහා (kohā, “cuckoo”), probably from Sinhalese කෝ + හඩ (kō + haḍa, “cuckoo”) or ultimately as the abbreviation of the word tells, the imitation of the chirping and trilling sound. Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊhə/, /ˈkoʊhə/ 1. The koel (Eudynamys), a genus of cuckoos from Asia, Australia, and the Pacific with a distinctive loud call; specifically, the Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus). Labels: Sri-Lanka Example: Our species, the Koel or Koha also belongs to this sub-family of Cuculinae. The male cuckoo is dark in colour, while its female is speckled (called the Gomara Koha). Example: The sound of the koha is associated with the advent of the Sinhala and Tamil new year; the bird is often called the Avurudu koha—the New Year Cuckoo. The koha is an early bird, and its call is strident, plaintive, and easy to imitate. The legend has it that the koha never makes a nest of its own. It takes a free ride by laying its eggs in the crow's nest.
Word: hot nickel Part of Speech: noun 1. Interstate highway 5. Labels: slang
Word: nickel nurser Part of Speech: noun 1. A miser. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic
Word: unreusable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + reusable. 1. Not reusable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nickel-in-the-slot Part of Speech: noun 1. Operated by a nickel, especially of an early jukebox or slot machine. Labels: attributive, historical
Word: gaming machine Part of Speech: noun 1. A device such as a slot machine designed to play solitary gambling games. 2. A slot machine for the purpose of playing video games.
Word: featherwoods Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of featherwood Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nickel bag Part of Speech: noun 1. A five-dollar baggie of narcotics, especially marijuana, typically a little under half a gram. Labels: US, slang Example: Often the junkie pusher will deal "nickel bags" at $5 each, as well as $3 "Treys." Example: They say, "I've got a dime, I've got a nickel bag" / "Oh, it's the best stuff you've, you ever had" / "I've got your pleasure right here in my hand" / "It'll make you feel just, just like a real big man" / But when I stop to think about the cost / I know that I just might get lost
Word: spear biscuits Part of Speech: verb 1. To search garbage for food. Example: They're great campers and know how to spear biscuits and how to avoid the pussy footers and use a number ten gunboat can and chuck a dummy and hunt a wampus, you know, cool things like that. Example: “Anything to keep from 'spearing biscuits' ... that's a last resort.” “Uh,” Terry began, before finally just giving up and asking, “What's that mean?” “Spearing biscuits? That's the polite way of saying digging through garbage looking for food. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spear, biscuits. Example: Most of the cowboys were either eating or standing in line at their spread's chuck wagon, taking plate, cup, and eating tools, then spearing biscuits and a steak from a row of Dutch ovens ...
Word: possum belly Part of Speech: noun 1. A makeshift compartment underneath a wagon. Labels: colloquial 2. A toolbox under the caboose. 3. A metal container at the head of the shale shaker that receives drilling fluid at the end of the flowline.
Word: babool Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of babul. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: parodiable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From parody + -able. 1. Suitable for parody.
Word: unsatirizable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + satirizable. 1. Not satirizable.
Word: distractors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of distractor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cockshy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cock + shy; so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks. 1. A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players. 2. An object at which stones are flung; (by extension) a person who is abused or vilified. Example: He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or ‘cockshy’ […]
Word: cockshy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cock + shy; so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks. 1. To pelt; to throw things at. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: omber Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of ombre. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: coendoo Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of coendou. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: coendou Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin, from Old Tupi kûandu. 1. A prehensile-tailed tree-dwelling porcupine, of genus Coendou, found in Central and South America.
Word: progressless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From progress + -less. 1. devoid of progress
Word: pentecosties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pentecosty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pentecosty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek πεντηκοστύς (pentēkostús), from πεντήκοντα (pentḗkonta, “fifty”). 1. A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army. Example: There were seven companies in the field without counting the Sciritae, who numbered six hundred men: in each company there were four Pentecostyes, and in the Pentecosty four Enomoties.
Word: galactin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek γάλα, γᾰ́λᾰκτ- (gála, gắlăkt-, “milk”) + -in. Compare lactin. 1. An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron). Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: paraphosphoric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From para- + phosphoric. 1. pyrophosphoric Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: fecundified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of fecundify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fecundifies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fecundify Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: fecundify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fecund + -ify. 1. To make fruitful; to fecundate. Labels: transitive
Word: fecundifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fecundify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: eggily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From eggy + -ly. 1. In an eggy manner; like an egg or eggs.
Word: clodpated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From clod + pated. 1. stupid; idiotic: foolish Labels: dated
Word: Dutch uncle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From 1838. 1. One who reproves or advises in a blunt, stern but often kindly manner, intended for the benefit of the recipient. Example: Gruff but kindly, with dark-rimmed glasses prone to slip down his prominent ruddy nose and an unlit cigar habitually clenched in his teeth, he was everyone's Dutch uncle and let even strangers call him “Maggie” to his face. Example: I talked like a Dutch uncle to convince them they would be in the way if they came out too.
Word: Dutch uncles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Dutch uncle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pessimize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ize, modelled after optimize. Pessimus is derived from Proto-Indo-European *ped-tm̥mó-s, from *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”) + *-tm̥mó-s (superlative suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈpɛsɪmaɪz/, /ˈpɛsəˌmaɪz/ 1. To take a pessimistic view of; to speak of in a negative or pessimistic way. Labels: transitive Example: Mr. [Benjamin] Disraeli's Church appointments have been received with general satisfaction. There are two relations of the matter; the one as regards the prudence and astuteness of the dispenser of good things, and the other as relates to the general good and efficiency of the Church itself. It is equally possible to optimize and pessimize either aspect. 2. To make (something) pessimal or the worst; (in a weaker sense) to make (something, such as a computer program) less efficient. Labels: transitive Example: pessimizing compiler [...] A compiler that produces object [...] code that is worse than the straightforward or obvious hand translation. The implication is that the compiler is actually trying to optimize the program, but through excessive cleverness is doing the opposite. A few pessimizing compilers have been written on purpose, however, as pranks or burlesques. Example: Designing a window without the building, a light without the room, or a motor without the machine it drives works as badly as designing a pelican without the fish. Optimizing components in isolation tends to pessimize the whole system – and hence the bottom line. 3. To think like a pessimist; to believe the worst. Labels: intransitive Example: The pessimising and desponding tone of the Tory Foreign Minister's correspondence, in the early part of 1859, can hardly be read without a shudder. Example: Glancing at the developments of individualities in memberdom, it may be said that Lord Elebo availed himself of the last appearance in the House of the Army Estimates to repeat the attacks on the physical condition of the men of the service which he had so elaborately made a week or two ago; and he pessimised on the subject, if possible, with the same exaggeration as before. 4. To become pessimal or the worst. Labels: intransitive Example: Without an effort to integrate the various design disciplines, for instance, individual subsystems (such as the HVAC system) may be optimized, but the system as a whole may be "pessimized."
Word: pessimized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of pessimize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pessimizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pessimize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pessimizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pessimize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lithofellic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From litho- + Latin fel, fellis (“gall”). 1. An acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope. Labels: uncountable
Word: Dutch gold Part of Speech: noun 1. Dutch metal. Labels: uncountable
Word: nonverifying Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + verifying. 1. Not verifying. Labels: not-comparable
Word: self-view Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From self- + view. 1. One's conceptualization of oneself; sense of identity; self-image. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Modesty, then denotes a moderate self-view—seeing oneself as intermediate, rather than as very positive or very negative, on key personal attributes such as personality traits, abilities and skills, physical appearance, and social behavior. A moderate self-view may be entertained privately or expressed publicly. Example: From this vantage point, it was the personality flaw, rather than the negative self-view, that caused people with negative self-views to embrace negative evaluations and evaluators. 2. Carefulness or regard for one's own interests. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: But mark the punishment which did ensue Upon those ill-misleading villanies; They blinded were themselves with their self view, and fell into their own-made miseries; Example: nor can I say thet either of them loved without some Self-view. Amelia plainly saw into the Falseness of their Tempers, look'd upon it as a Misfortune to be married into such a Family, and only made this Use of it, to avoid the Crime in herself .
Word: judgementally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From judgemental + -ly. 1. Alternative form of judgmentally. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Dutch wives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Dutch wife Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonverification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + verification. 1. absence of verification; failure to verify Labels: uncountable
Word: bamboo wife Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque from Chinese 竹夫人 (zhúfūrén). 1. In East Asia and Southeast Asia, a hollow bamboo bolster roughly the size of a human body, embraced by a person while sleeping during hot weather because its open structure exposes the body to cooling air flow.
Word: bamboo wives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bamboo wife Labels: form-of, plural
Word: restorator Part of Speech: noun 1. A restaurateur; a restaurant owner. Labels: obsolete 2. A restorer; one who restores.
Word: restorators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of restorator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stringhalt Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of lameness in horses, causing the animal to twitch its leg up suddenly. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: jogging bra Part of Speech: noun 1. A sports bra
Word: retund Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin retundere, retusum, from re- (“re-”) + tundere (“to beat”). 1. To blunt; to make less sharp. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Covered with skin and hair keeps it warm, being naturally a very cold part, and also to quench and dissipate the force of any stroke that shall be dealt it, and retund the edge of any weapon. 2. To cause to be obtuse, weak or dull. Labels: figuratively, obsolete, transitive Example: to retund someone's confidence
Word: retunded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of retund Labels: form-of, participle, past