nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: overstore Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + store. 1. Located above a store. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] ; 72,364 ( 29.5 % ) are two-family homes; the remainder, 93,644, are multifamily and apartment-overstore dwellings. Example: […] if there is any justice up in heaven, Dr. Freud has been assigned a corner apartment with one of those little concrete balconies or "terraces," of the Collins Avenue condominium-tower variety, rigged out with a telescope and an infrared X-ray attachment that enables him to look down through every roof and every ceiling in the United States...day or night, into overstore massage parlors on lower State Street as easily as the flimsiest cinder-block motel room, even into the utter darkness of the Lido East movie theater […]
Word: overstored Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overstore Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overstores Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overstore Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overstoring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overstore Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tanite Part of Speech: noun 1. A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc. Labels: historical
Word: fatner Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of fattener. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: fatners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fatner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tallowing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tallow + -ing. 1. The act of applying tallow. Labels: uncountable
Word: tallowing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tallow + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of tallow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hadder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hader, hather, heddre, from Old English *hǣddre, a variant of hǣþ (“heath; heather”). More at heath, heather. Pronunciation: /ˈhædə(ɹ)/ 1. heather or heath Labels: countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable Example: they lay upon the ground covered with skins, as the Redshanks do on Hadder
Word: hadder Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Contracted form 1. Eye dialect spelling of had to. Labels: alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling
Word: pyralis Part of Speech: noun 1. A species of firefly, Photinus pyralis Example: As Loeb has shown by many experiments, the phototropic phenomena of animals differ not at all from those of plants, and they carry no more psychism in a polyp or in a pyralis than in a geranium or in a volvox. Example: If you have an opportunity to experiment with Photinus pyralis, try the following: Start a male toward you by answering him properly, that is, as a pyralis female would answer him, once or twice. 2. A moth of the genus Pyralis. Example: This once happened in a hemp field destroyed by a pyralis, described by me in a special memoir. Example: At first there was a belief that the caterpillar was that of a pyralis like that which caused such great loss to beet growers in southern Russia, Roumania and North America.
Word: pyralides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pyralis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: porpita Part of Speech: noun 1. A marine organism, Porpita porpita, the blue button.
Word: eeler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eel + -er. 1. A fisherman who catches eels.
Word: eelboat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eel + boat. 1. A boat used for eeling (catching eels).
Word: toggle bolt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the resemblance of the hinged wings to a toggle. 1. A fastening device consisting of a bolt and a pair of hinged, usually sprung, wings threaded at the hinge to receive the bolt, used by inserting the bolt with wings folded into a small hole in a sheet material to the point where the wings unfold and the bolt can be tightened.
Word: heelpiece Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From heel + piece. 1. A piece of armour to protect the heels. Example: Courts are to be the theatres of your wars, where you should be always as completely armed , and even with the addition of a heelpiece. 2. A piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe. Example: [H]e pulled out a little wooden stool, an' stud up upon it, and dipped a little piggen into the pitcher, an' tuk out the full av it, an' put it beside the stool, an' thin sot down undher the pitcher, an' begun to work at puttin' a heelpiece an a bit iv a brogue jist fittin' fur himsilf. 3. The end. Labels: figuratively Example: the heel-piece of his book
Word: heelpieces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heelpiece Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blue-eye Part of Speech: noun 1. The blue-faced honeyeater of Australia (Entomyzon cyanotis). 2. Fish of the family Pseudomugilidae, native to Australia and New Guinea.
Word: blue-eyes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blue-eye Labels: form-of, plural
Word: epipterygoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From epi- + pterygoid. 1. Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone. Labels: not-comparable
Word: epipterygoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From epi- + pterygoid. 1. An epipterygoid bone or cartilage 2. the columella in the skulls of many lizards.
Word: epipterygoids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of epipterygoid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: imitatorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From imitator + -ship. 1. The state or quality of an imitator. Labels: uncountable Example: servile imitatorship
Word: eelboats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eelboat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: CATOBAR Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of catapult-assisted takeoff but arrested recovery. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable 2. Acronym of catapult-assisted takeoff barrier arrested recovery. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
Word: historize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From history + -ize. 1. To relate as history. 2. To chronicle. 3. To historicize. Example: fountaines, under which is historized the whole Ovidian Metamorphosis
Word: historized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of historize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: historizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of historize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: historizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of historize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: waterie Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of watery. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: overplease Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + please. 1. To please excessively.
Word: overpleased Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overplease Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overpleases Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overplease Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overpleasing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overplease Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: twigsome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From twig + -some. 1. Full of twigs; twiggy. Example: [T]he twigsome trees by the wayside (which, I suppose, never will grow leafy, for they never did) guarded here and there by a dusty soldier, […]
Word: invitrifiable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + vitrifiable. 1. Not capable of being vitrified. Labels: not-comparable Example: Macquer found the purest gypsum invitrifiable by solar heat ; that of Monmartre seemed to yield , but probably was not pure. Even the heat excited by pure air , if continued long enough to dissipate the acid , cannot vitrify it
Word: compressibleness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From compressible + -ness. 1. The quality of being compressible. Labels: uncountable
Word: homeling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From home + -ling. 1. A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant. Labels: obsolete Example: […] that one writer will still deal with a word as a stranger, and lead us to suppose it so. while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling.
Word: homelings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of homeling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eelblenny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eel + blenny. 1. Any fish of genus Lumpenus, resembling an eel, found in subarctic waters, especially Lumpenus sagitta and Lumpenus fabricii (slender eelblenny). 2. A carpet eel-blenny (Congrogadus subducens). 3. Certain fish of genus Notograptus. 4. Eel snake blenny (Peronedys anguillaris), of Australia
Word: disslander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English disclaundre, disslaundre, from Anglo-Norman disclaundre, from sclandre, esclandre, from Old French esclandre. See slander and compare Middle English sclaundre. By surface analysis, dis- + slander. 1. Slander. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: He declareth you a true man to hym[…]the saied dislaunder and noysyng notwithstandyng.
Word: stalactitiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stalactite + -iform. 1. Having the form of a stalactite; stalactiform. Labels: archaic
Word: simple-hearted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From simple + hearted. 1. sincere Example: He exhibited his client as a simple-hearted, honest, well-meaning man, who, during a copartnership of twelve years, had gradually become impoverished Example: “My dear friend, above all things I want to behave like a gentleman and to be recognised as such,” the visitor began in an access of deprecating and simple-hearted pride, typical of a poor relation. 2. ingenuous; guileless
Word: pausingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From pausing + -ly. 1. With pauses; haltingly. Example: This pausingly ensu'de
Word: eelblennies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eelblenny Labels: form-of, plural
Word: doomful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From doom + -ful. 1. Full of, or portending, doom. Example: that doomful deluge
Word: pleuropericardial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pleuro- + pericardial. 1. Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium. Labels: not-comparable
Word: civicism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From civic + -ism. 1. The principle of civil government. Labels: uncountable 2. civil studies or civic-mindedness Labels: uncountable
Word: monopyrenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mono- + pyrene + -ous. 1. Having a single stone or kernel. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: monopyrenous drupe
Word: styracin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From styrax + -in. 1. A white crystalline substance extracted from gum storax, consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol. Labels: uncountable
Word: emmantle Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of immantle. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The World, and this, which by another name men have thought good to call Heaven (under the pourprise and bending cope wherof, all things are emmanteled and covered) beleeve wee ought in all reason to be a God, eternall, unmeasurable, without beginning, and likewise endlesse. 2. Place around as a fortification Example: Whereby he grew to such wealth, that of late he bequeathed by his last will and testament ten millions of Sesterces unto his native city Marsils toward the fortifications therof, besides the walls that he caused to be built and emmanteled about other towns , which cost him little under the foresaid summe.
Word: emmantled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of emmantle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: emmantles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of emmantle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: emmantling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of emmantle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bedye Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + dye. Pronunciation: /bɪˈdaɪ/ 1. To dye or stain. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed
Word: bedyed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bedye Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bedyeing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bedye Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bedyes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bedye Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reask Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + ask. 1. To ask again. Labels: transitive Example: I'll reask my original question.
Word: reasking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reask Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reasks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reask Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reasked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reask Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reclasp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + clasp. 1. To clasp again.
Word: reclasped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reclasp Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reclasping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reclasp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reclasps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reclasp Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Turnbull's blue Part of Speech: noun 1. Prussian blue, especially when viewed as ferrous ferricyanide. Labels: uncountable
Word: glucic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλυκύς (glukús) + -ic. 1. Pertaining to, or obtained from, sugar Labels: dated, not-comparable
Word: intemperament Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + temperament? 1. A bad state. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: depend upon the intemperament of the part Ulcerated
Word: amianthiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From amianthus + -iform. 1. Resembling amianthus in form. Labels: archaic Example: amianthiform arseniate
Word: leapful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From leap + -ful. 1. Full of leaps: requiring one to leap or making many leaps. Example: Pity ('tis true) revolves their leapful springs, Smil'd thanks, attoning pray'rs, embracing clings, Sallies of guileless joy, gay gleams offense, Soft stroking flatt'ries — active impotence ; Example: O leapful look, assault of eye, hurdle the decorous delay.
Word: leapfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leapful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: isabelline Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From isabella + -ine. Pronunciation: /ɪzəˈbɛlɪn/ 1. Coloured a greyish yellow. Example: The isabelline (or Daurian) shrike is a greyish-yellow and hunts from prominent perches, impaling the corpses on thorns as a larder. Example: As Mr. Tristram has remarked, in regard to the inhabitants of the Sahara, all are protected by their “isabelline or sand-colour.”
Word: stylose Part of Speech: adj 1. Having styles of unusual length or persistence.
Word: palmaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From palm + -aceous. 1. Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms. Labels: dated Example: palmaceous tribe
Word: rosiny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rosin + -y. 1. Like or resembling rosin.
Word: tres-tyne Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of tres-tine. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tres-tynes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tres-tyne Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bethabara Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally a trademark. Based on the Ancient Greek proper noun Βηθαβαρά (Bēthabará). 1. Ipe (kind of wood). Labels: uncountable
Word: peerdom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From peer + -dom. 1. A lordship. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Peers as a group; peerage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Today's most cited authors wil be tomorrow's peers. It all revolves around professional proficiency, sharing specific research traditions, the availability of money, publications in leading journals, honours received. There is more to peerdom than reviewing papers. Example: The families that left the village in the dead of niot were headed westward to a new peerdom beyond the reach of peers and lashers — a peerdom of one- namers, a peerdom where they could manage their own affairs, educate their children, and guarantee a full measure of freedom to all.
Word: peerdoms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of peerdom Labels: form-of, plural
Word: becker Part of Speech: noun 1. A European fish, Pagrus pagrus Labels: archaic
Word: beckers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of becker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desynonymization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + synonym + -ization. 1. The act of desynonymizing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: desynonymizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desynonymization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Turnbull Part of Speech: name Etymology: From turn + bull, originally a nickname for someone who was strong enough to turn a bull. 1. An English surname transferred from the nickname.
Word: overfront Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + front. 1. A false overshirt, jacket, or vest that is attached to the bodice or shirt of a garment. Example: No 2—Is the Overfront, forming a jacket that opens over the fullness. Example: The straight overfronts and back of the gown were made in Ondine silk , shot blue and faint yellow with an opalescent effect 2. A decorative wall hanging or dorsal that sits behind the altar and matches the netherfront. Example: Or when they had four columns to hold up the overfront and riddells, these were often utilised to carry a taper on each. Example: It seems quite possible that the 'greater sorte' of silk pictures in particular were intended to adorn an altar, either as an overfront, a netherfront or even a reredos.
Word: overfront Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + front. 1. To confront; to oppose; to withstand. Labels: obsolete Example: Doubling of the Reere, your battaile will be both lengthened and strengthned , And so by the sudden bringing of these Supplies into the reere, you may not only relieve your owne, but happily overfront your enemy. Example: When things indifferent shall be set to overfront us under the banners of sin , what wonder if we be routed , and by this art of our adversary fall into the subjection of worst and deadliest offences ?
Word: overfronted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overfront Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overfronting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overfront Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overfronts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overfront Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mannitose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mannite + -ose. 1. A sugar obtained by partial oxidation of mannitol, and closely resembling levulose. It turned out to be a mixture of numerous sugars, not one. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: idiotish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From idiot + -ish. Compare Dutch idioots (“idiotic”), German idiotisch (“idiotic”), Danish idiotisk (“idiotic”), Swedish idiotisk (“idiotic, stupid, insane”). 1. Like an idiot; idiotic; foolish.
Word: extructive Part of Speech: adj 1. constructive Labels: obsolete Example: papistry is both affirmative and extructive of all wickedness
Word: tiewig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tie + wig. 1. A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up. 2. A wig that is tied upon the head; a court-wig tied with ribbon at the back. Example: A pragmatical pleader, as soon as he has thrown a tiewig over his toupee, [is equalled] to a Coke or a Littleton.
Word: tiewigs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tiewig Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Dandie Dinmont Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after a character in Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott. 1. A terrier of a small Scottish breed with long body, short legs, and a distinctive "topknot" of hair on the head.
Word: mootman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From moot + -man. 1. One who argued moot trials in the Inns of Court. Labels: UK, obsolete
Word: mootmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mootman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seigniories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seigniory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: triticin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: translingual Triticum (“genus of wheat, also formerly the genus of quitchgrass, from which it can be obtained”), + -in. 1. A carbohydrate isomeric with dextrin. Labels: uncountable
Word: faffle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare famble, maffle and waffle. 1. To stammer or murmur. 2. to flap, like a flag Example: From drooping at half-mast, his personal pennant was faffling away in a whole new wind.
Word: faffled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of faffle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: faffles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of faffle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: faffling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of faffle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: anophthalmos Part of Speech: noun 1. anophthalmia Labels: uncountable
Word: bedung Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bidungen, bydyngen, from Old English *bedynġan, from Proto-West Germanic *bidungijan, equivalent to be- + dung. Cognate with West Frisian bedongje (“to bedung”), Dutch bedongen (“to bedung”), German bedüngen (“to bedung”). 1. To cover with dung or manure. Labels: transitive 2. To bedaub or defile. Labels: figuratively, sometimes, transitive Example: […] had not God's inexpected champion, by divine instinct, taken up the monster, and vanquished him; leaving all but his head to bedung that earth, which had lately shaken at his terror.
Word: bedunged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bedung Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bedunging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bedung Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bedungs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bedung Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ascigerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ascus + -gerous. Pronunciation: /æˈsɪd͡ʒəɹəs/ 1. Having asci. Example: Perithecium closed , perforated by an orifice , filled by an ascigerous somewhat deliquescent nucleus
Word: birdbolt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bird + bolt. 1. A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. 2. Anything that smites without penetrating. Labels: figuratively Example: To be generous, / guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those / things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:
Word: birdbolts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of birdbolt Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beglerbeg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish. 1. Alternative form of beylerbey. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: beglerbegs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beglerbeg Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scrawler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scrawl + -er. 1. Someone who scrawls; a scrawly writer.
Word: scrawlers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scrawler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Sanskritic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Sanskrit + -ic. 1. Sanskrit, relating to Sanskrit. Labels: not-comparable
Word: morné Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French morné. Possibly doublet of mourn. Pronunciation: /mɔːneɪ/, /moɹ.neɪ/, [mo̞ɹ.neɪ], /mɔː(ɹ)neɪ/ 1. Rampant without teeth, beak, tongue, claws, etc. Labels: not-comparable Example: A lion morné appears as a canting charge in the coat of the old French family of DE MORNAY : - Fascé d'argent, et de gueules, au lion morné de sable couronné d'or brochant sur le tout. I have noticed that the lion morné occurs in the arms of several old Breton families, KERBOURIOU, KERBESCAT, KERANGUEN, etc. Example: […] Self-appointed 'reformers' of heraldic terminology will contend that since lions morné and lions eviré have have barely an existence in current armory, the words themselves are mere textbook fill-up […]
Word: faytour Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of faitour. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: being oppressed by that faytour bold
Word: faytours Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of faytour Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misconsequence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + consequence. 1. A wrong consequence; a false deduction. Example: As Satan and the profane world are very inventive of such shapes and colours as may make truth most odious, drawing monstrous misconsequences out of it , and belying the practices of Christians
Word: misconsequences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misconsequence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tympanies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tympany Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zylophone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See xylophone. 1. Archaic form of xylophone. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: The zylophone and metallophone are examples of musical instruments employing free vibrating rods supported at their nodes. The zylophone consists of a series of wooden rods of different lengths […]
Word: zylophones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zylophone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grame Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gram (“angry”), Dutch gram (“wrath”), Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adjective), grim. 1. Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 2. Sorrow; grief; misery. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: to save the from the Blame of all my greffe & grame Example: Age doth me mvche grame.
Word: grame Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian (“to anger, enrage”), from Proto-Germanic *gramjaną (“to grill, vex, irritate, grieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with German grämen (“to grieve”), Danish græmme (“to grieve”), Swedish gräma (“to grieve, mortify, vex”). 1. To vex; grill; make angry or sorry. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail. For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail. 2. To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.
Word: heapmeal Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English *hepemele, from Old English hēapmǣlum (“in heaps, heapmeal”), equivalent to heap + -meal. 1. In heaps, or heap by heap; in large quantities or numbers. Labels: rare Example: There was then no delay, so that greater hosts came heap-meal from the nations which we mentioned before ; and the folk which came hither began to wax and spread so much that they were a great terror to the same inhabitants of the land … Example: Long dures, mongst the forefighters, of both parts, Dread strife, before the wall, for Tola's corse. Almains and Rhaetians, heapmeal, fall thereon, Till the day's end; [...]
Word: blindman's holiday Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A partially-sighted person would not be able to work in the limited light. 1. The twilight (time of day between daylight and when candles were lit). Labels: archaic, humorous, uncountable
Word: panaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of panary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: panary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pānārium (“pantry”). Doublet of pannier. 1. A pantry or storehouse for bread. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: In a word, it [Scripture] is a Panary of holeſome foode, againſt fenowed traditions; a Phyſions-ſhop (Saint Baſill calleth it) of preſeruatiues against poiſoned hereſies; a Pandect of profitable lawes, againſt rebellious ſpirits; a treaſurie of moſt coſtly iewels, againſt beggarly rudiments; Finally, a fountaine of moſt pure water ſpringing vp vnto euerlaſting life.
Word: panary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin pānārius. 1. Relating to the making of bread. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1830, Donovan, Michael. Domestic Economy Vol I. Cabinet Cyclopaedia When flour is made into a paste or dough by means of water, and yest added, as in the process of bread-making, the dough acquires sponginess, in consequence of being inflated in all parts by fixed air, or carbonic acid. It had been asserted, that, dough in this state, if distilled, does not afford alcohol, although it might have heen expected to do so, if the fermentation which it obviously has undergone were the vinous. It was, therefore, concluded to be a fermentation essentially different ; and from panis, bread, it was called the panary fermentation. […] [T]here are no grounds for doubting the identity of the panary with the vinous fermentation; the former is the incipient stage of the latter […] Example: The bakery, which supplies the household bread, would be a proper place for trying the relative panary properties of different kinds of flour and meal.
Word: tavernman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tavern + -man. 1. The keeper of a tavern. Labels: archaic
Word: tavernmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tavernman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: precedeth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: precede + -eth 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of precede Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: precedest Part of Speech: verb 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of precede Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: centipoises Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of centipoise Labels: form-of, plural
Word: solidagoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of solidago Labels: form-of, plural
Word: solidagos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of solidago Labels: form-of, plural
Word: proceedest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: proceed + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of proceed Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: teinland Part of Speech: noun 1. Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord Labels: UK, obsolete, uncountable
Word: fuzzle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare Low German fuseln (“to drink common liquor”), from fusel (“bad liquor”). Pronunciation: /ˈfʌzəl/ 1. To make drunk or confused. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: if the spirits of the brain be fuzzled or misaffected by such means at such a time, their children will be fuzzled in the brain Example: Through her tears she saw him counting—on his entry into Paradise—the children who had preceded him, and more than ever fuzzled by the flapping of their wings.
Word: fuzzled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of fuzzle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fuzzles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fuzzle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: fuzzling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fuzzle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stemlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stem + -let. 1. A little stem (any sense).
Word: stemlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stemlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fascinous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin fascinum (“witchcraft”), akin to fascinare. See fascinate. 1. Caused or acting by witchcraft. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: fascinous diseases Example: […] nor did I ever but once see him escape from the fascinous kind of influence which had seized upon him.
Word: daggle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dag + -le. Pronunciation: /ˈdæɡəl/ 1. To drag or trail through water, mud, or slush Labels: intransitive Example: I ne'r vvith VVits and VVitlings paſt my days, / To ſpread about the Itch of Verſe and Praiſe, / Nor like a Puppy daggled thro' the Tovvn, / To fetch and carry Sing-ſong up and dovvn; […] Example: There is a damp air of decay about them, and you get the impression that if you looked closely you would see the cobwebs hanging from their coat-elbows, or forming a fringe from their daggling dress. 2. To trail, so as to make wet or muddy. Labels: transitive Example: The warrior's very plume, I say, / Was daggled by the dashing spray. 3. To dangle or wag.
Word: daggled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of daggle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: daggles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of daggle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: daggling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of daggle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: settledness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From settled + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being settled. Labels: uncountable Example: Excessive joy hath more severity then jolity: extreme and full content more settlednes then cheerfulnesse.
Word: pendulate Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpɛn.d͡ʒəl.eɪt/ 1. To swing like a pendulum. Example: There is an old trick of suspending a shilling by a thread, and causing it to pendulate within a glass , so as to strike its sides , the thread being held between the finger and thumb . Example: Watch a male in fight. He will pendulate over one spot for ten or fifteen minutes , then change his position and pendulate again . 2. To vacillate between states, especially states of arousal and of relaxation. Example: What's important to realize is that you can pendulate—swing back and forth—between these sensations of expansion and contraction. Example: If it stops feeling okay, pendulate to thinking about (or doing) something that feels nurturing for you: it it's available to you, get up and move around, look at a favorite picture or painting, talk to a friend, or pet your dog or cat.
Word: pendulate Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈpɛn.d͡ʒəl.eɪt/ 1. pendulous. Example: Here the rachis is bent at the point of its origin, and thereby it produces pendulate inflorescence. Example: Above the lower headcut, phreatophytic mesquite and little leaf sumac hug the banks, drawing pendulate water from the silts remaining from former marsh deposits and sending long taproots into channel stores.
Word: pendulated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of pendulate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pendulates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pendulate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pendulating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pendulate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plevin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French plevine. See replevin. 1. A warrant or assurance. Labels: obsolete
Word: plevins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plevin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reimpregnate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + impregnate. 1. To impregnate again. Labels: transitive Example: the vigor of the Loadstone is destroyed by fire , nor will it be reimpregnated by any other Magnețe
Word: reimpregnated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reimpregnate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reimpregnates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reimpregnate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reimpregnating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reimpregnate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deglutitious Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /diːˌɡluːˈtɪʃəs/ 1. Pertaining to deglutition (swallowing). Labels: archaic, not-comparable, rare Example: deglutitious movements
Word: anarchize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From anarchy + -ize. 1. To convert to a state of anarchy.
Word: anarchized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of anarchize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: anarchizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of anarchize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: anarchizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of anarchize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: informidable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin informidabilis. See in- (“not”) + formidable. 1. Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. Labels: obsolete Example: foe not informidable
Word: prospectiveness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prospective + -ness. 1. The quality of being prospective. Labels: uncountable
Word: dragooner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dragoon (verb) + -er. 1. One who dragoons; a coercer. Example: The photograph shows Himmler as he walks past these glass cases, hands behind his back, reviewing his dragooners.
Word: dragooner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dragoon (noun) + -er. 1. A dragoon. Labels: archaic
Word: dragooners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dragooner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sarplar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Latin sarplare. See sarplier. 1. A large bale or package of wool, containing eighty tods, or 2,240 pounds, in weight. Labels: UK, obsolete
Word: sarplars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sarplar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: epigeneses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of epigenesis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: terebilenic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. A complex acid, C₇H₈O₄, obtained as a white crystalline substance by a modified oxidation of terebic acid. Labels: uncountable
Word: coralfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From coral + fish. 1. Certain fish of the butterflyfish family (Chaetodontidae spp.).
Word: coralfishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coralfish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gladiature Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin gladiatura. 1. swordplay; gladiatorial contest Example: Nay in their amphitheatricall gladiatures, the lives of captives lay at the mercy of the Vulgar
Word: gladiatures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gladiature Labels: form-of, plural
Word: signeted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From signet + -ed. 1. Stamped or marked with a signet. Labels: not-comparable
Word: signetted Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of signeted. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: breakle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English brekil, brikel, brukel, brokel (“easily broken or shattered, brittle, fragile”), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in hūsbrycel (“burglarious”, literally “tending to break into houses, i.e. "house-breakative"”), scipbrucol (“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “tending to break ships or shipping down, i.e. "ship-breakative"”)), from Proto-Germanic *brukilaz, *brukulaz (“liable or tending to break”), extended form of Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breakable”), equivalent to break + -le. Compare brittle. 1. Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle. Labels: dialectal Example: At "Blackhead" — "Here is a breakle black touche stone under other rough stone."
Word: Laetare Sunday Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Laetare (“Rejoice!”), the first word of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally a Latin translation of Isaiah 66:10. 1. Synonym of Mothering Sunday: the fourth Sunday of Lent.
Word: Laetare Sundays Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Laetare Sunday Labels: form-of, plural
Word: devaporation Part of Speech: noun 1. condensation (the change of vapour into water, as in the formation of rain). Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: hirtellous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Diminutive from Latin hirtus (“hairy”), with -ous. 1. with minute hairs.
Word: breakly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From breakle + -y and/or break + -ly. Compare German zerbrechlich (“fragile”). 1. Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle. Example: Our ash is not tough and hard like that, but has an open grain, and is among the most brash or breakly of our timbers. Example: Daylight was breakly dimly through wild-looking clouds upon a world of tumultuous waters.
Word: breakly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From breakle + -y and/or break + -ly. Compare German zerbrechlich (“fragile”). 1. In a breakly manner. Example: Surface longitudinal breakly furrowed, slight lustrous, orange-brown.
Word: huckstress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From huckster + -ess. 1. A female huckster.
Word: huckstresses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of huckstress Labels: form-of, plural
Word: troostite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Troost + -ite, after Dr. Gerard Troost of Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 1. The mineral willemite with manganese. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: troostites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of troostite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: broacher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From broach + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹəʊt͡ʃə(ɹ)/ 1. A broach, a spit (for cooking). Example: On five ſharp broachers rank'd, the roaſt they turn'd; [...] 2. One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first promoter or publisher. Example: broacher of a topic/argument etc. Example: Let not a Man therefore ſay, that the Scripture is not plain in thoſe things, in which we pretend it is, becauſe in thoſe very things, the Church of God hath Underſtood it one way, and Arius, Socinus, or ſome ſuch Broacher of Hereſy, another.
Word: broachers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of broacher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unclew Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + clew. 1. To unwind, unfold, unravel or untie. Labels: also, archaic, figuratively, transitive Example: unclewing ropes and disentangling knots Example: unclewing the inmost mysteries of the bed-chamber 2. To undo; to ruin. Labels: archaic, figuratively, transitive Example: If I should pay you for't as 'tis extoll'd, It would unclew me quite
Word: unclewed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unclew Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unclewing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unclew Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unclews Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unclew Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pseudoheart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + heart. 1. Any contractile vessel of invertebrates that is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system.
Word: pseudohearts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pseudoheart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: manifolded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From manifold + -ed? 1. Arranged in a manifold. Labels: not-comparable Example: a manifolded coil Example: a manifolded cylinder 2. Having many folds, layers, or plates. Labels: obsolete Example: a manifolded letter Example: a manifolded shield
Word: paramitome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From para- + mitome. 1. Synonym of cytosol.
Word: paramitomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paramitome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shoppish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shop + -ish. 1. Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper. Labels: dated 2. Resembling a shop
Word: statutable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From statute + -able. 1. In conformity to statutes regarding size, quality etc. Labels: not-comparable Example: statutable measures 2. Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of legislature. Labels: not-comparable Example: a statutable provision or remedy 3. Describing a crime or offence regulated by statute; legally punishable. Labels: not-comparable Example: Is not this Statutable Frenzy?
Word: matrimoine Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of matrimony. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: gaydars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gaydar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unbow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + bow. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbəʊ/, /ʌnˈboʊ/ 1. To unbend (something). Labels: transitive Example: Richard [I of England] was well ſtored with men, the bones; and quickly got money, the ſinews of warre; by a thouſand Princely skills gathering ſo much coin as if he meant not to return, becauſe looking back would unbowe his reſolution Example: As in little pieces of wood naturally bow'd like a Man's Elbow, the Carver doth not unbow it, but carves an hand at the one end of it, and shapes it into the compleat figure of a Mans Arm.
Word: unbowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unbow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unbows Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unbow Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cnida Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek κνίδη (knídē, “stinging nettle; anemone”). Pronunciation: /nɪdə/ 1. A nematocyst.
Word: cnidae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cnida Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cnidocyst Part of Speech: noun 1. A nematocyst.
Word: cnidocysts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cnidocyst Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phillygenin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phillyrin + -gen + -in. 1. A pearly crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phillyrin. Labels: uncountable
Word: semiheaps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semiheap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semiheap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + heap. 1. A variety of heap that is required to satisfy only the para-associative law and need not obey the identity law.
Word: semigroud Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + groud. 1. semiheap
Word: semigrouds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semigroud Labels: form-of, plural
Word: groud Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian груда (gruda, “pile, heap”). 1. A heap, or mathematical generalization of a group, in abstract algebra.
Word: grouds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of groud Labels: form-of, plural
Word: what-iffery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From what-if + -ery. 1. Speculation as to what might have happened if things had happened differently. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: […] what if Jonah is a piece of what-iffery, a story, an experiment with words, rather than a carefully honed piece of polemic […] Example: The film's what-iffery becomes even more compelling when Blair, played, as in A Very Social Secretary, by a twitchingly reptilian Robert Lindsay, decides to stand down shortly before the 2010 general election.
Word: camleted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From camlet + -ed. 1. Wavy or undulating like waved camlet; veined. Labels: archaic Example: Its camleted roots are used for making fancywork
Word: nawl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See nall. 1. An awl. Labels: obsolete
Word: nawls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nawl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: daglock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dag (“shred, strip of cloth”) + lock (“tuft or length of hair”). Pronunciation: /ˈdæɡlɒk/ 1. A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep. Example: 1859-1865, Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail. Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.
Word: daglocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of daglock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acorea Part of Speech: noun 1. the congenital absence of the pupil in an eye Labels: uncountable
Word: ossific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin os, ossis (“bone”) + facere (“to make”). Compare French ossifique. Pronunciation: /ɒˈsɪf.ɪk/, /ɑˈsɪf.ɪk/ 1. Capable of producing bone; having the power to change cartilage or other tissue into bone. Labels: not-comparable Example: ossific deposit Example: ossific matter
Word: mundification Part of Speech: noun 1. The act or operation of cleansing. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: mundifications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mundification Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acormus Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a head but no (or a rudimentary) body Labels: not-comparable
Word: acouasm Part of Speech: noun 1. The perception of ringing, buzzing or hissing sounds that are not really present. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: acousmatamnesia Part of Speech: noun 1. The inability to remember sounds. Labels: uncountable