nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: through oneself Part of Speech: adj 1. confused, mixed up Labels: Ulster
Word: two-double Part of Speech: adj 1. very stooped Labels: Ulster
Word: up the country people Part of Speech: noun 1. people from any part of Ireland except northeast Ulster Labels: Ulster, uncountable
Word: Asomtavruli Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ასომთავრული (asomtavruli, “capital letters”), from ასო (aso, “letter, type”) + მთავარი (mtavari, “main, chief, principal, head”). 1. One of three forms of the Georgian alphabet. Asomtavruli, a monumental script, is the oldest form of the Georgian alphabet, but it is no longer used for writing the language. Due to its design, it is still sometimes used for headlines and titles.
Word: Mkhedruli Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian მხედრული (mxedruli, “cavalry, military; secular, worldly”). 1. One of three forms of the Georgian alphabet. Mkhedruli, a unicameral script, is the form of the Georgian alphabet that is now used for writing the Modern Georgian language. 2. A Georgian dance.
Word: barfogenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From barf + -o- + -genic. 1. Causing nausea and vomiting. Labels: slang Example: If you’re on the top floor of, say, the 1,667-foot-tall Taipei 101, you could find yourself swaying back and forth abruptly, a total of up to 2 feet within five seconds. Highly barfogenic.
Word: Karagiozis Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Greek Καραγκιόζης (Karagkiózis), from Ottoman Turkish قرهگوز (Karagöz, “lit. Black eye”). 1. A certain Greek shadow puppet character, of Turkish origin. 2. Someone completely ridiculous, a buffoon Labels: derogatory, figuratively
Word: barfogenesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From barf + -o- + -genesis. 1. Motion sickness caused by video media, particularly video games and virtual reality environments. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Camera control is especially tough to learn and can leave players with a case of barfogenesis.
Word: amusette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French amusette. 1. A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel. 2. wall gun
Word: amusettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of amusette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hound's tongue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English houndestonge, from Old English hundes tunge (“hound’s tongue (cynoglossum officinale)”), a calque of Latin cynoglossos, itself from Ancient Greek κυνόγλωσσον (kunóglōsson, literally “hound’s tongue”). Compare Dutch hondstong, German Hundszunge. 1. Any of genus Cynoglossum of small-flowered herbs and shrubs of the Old World 2. Any of genus Cynoglossum of small-flowered herbs and shrubs of the Old World
Word: Whitworth gun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth of Manchester, England. 1. A form of rifled cannon and small arms. The bore has a polygonal section, and the twist is rapid. The ball, which is pointed in front, is made to fit the bore accurately, and is very much elongated, its length being about three-and-a-half times its diameter. Example: THE WHITWORTH GUN. — Mr. Whitworth, of Manchester, has succeeded in constructing several rifled breech-loading cannon of various calibres: his 3-pounder gun, 208 lbs. in weight, with a calibre of 1½ inches, a charge of 8 oz. of powder,[…]
Word: Whitworth guns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Whitworth gun Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clivis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: compactions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of compaction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ancistroid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄγκιστρον (ánkistron) + -oid. Pronunciation: /ænˈsɪstɹɔɪd/ 1. Hook-shaped. Example: ancistroid spicules
Word: infumation Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being infumate (translucent with a smoky appearance.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The conspicuous dark maculation of the otherwise light tegmina and the feeble infumation of the apex of the wings, with the nearly uniformly colored dorsum of the prothorax and the relatively small size, are the distinctive marks of Duncan Island forms. Example: I am sure Frederick Smith has correctly named a pair in the British Museum, with the whole upper and to a less extend the lower basal cells infumate and the apical alar infumation approaching closely to the stigma; one probably came from Bates and the female, which lacks the single black marks on the second and third segments, was acquired about 1839 through Mr. Mornay from Brazil.
Word: eclaircise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from eclaircissement, borrowed from French éclaircissement. Pronunciation: /ɪˈklɛːˌsaɪz/, /eɪ-/, /ɪˈklɛɹˌsaɪz/ 1. To make clear; to clarify, to explain. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Passage O soul to India! / Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables.
Word: eclaircised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of eclaircise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: eclaircises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of eclaircise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: eclaircising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of eclaircise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: monish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old English monesten. See admonish, monition. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnɪʃ/ 1. To admonish; to warn. Labels: archaic Example: monish him gently
Word: monished Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of monish Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: monishes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of monish Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: monishing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of monish Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: interminated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + terminated. 1. interminable; endless Labels: obsolete Example: Th' interminated ocean, he beholds Cursed with abhorrence by his doom severe.
Word: nidulant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin nidulans, compare French nidulant. 1. Nestling, as a bird in its nest. Labels: not-comparable 2. Lying loose in pulp or cotton within a berry or pericarp. Labels: not-comparable Example: nidulant seeds
Word: Aonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Aonia + -an. Pronunciation: /eɪˈəʊ.ni.ən/, /eɪˈoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. Pertaining to Aonia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there. Example: The Aonian fount stood at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and was sacred to the Muses.
Word: Aonian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Aonia + -an. Pronunciation: /eɪˈəʊ.ni.ən/, /eɪˈoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. An inhabitant of Aonia.
Word: mettled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mettle + -ed. 1. Having mettle; pithy, spirited Labels: archaic Example: The mettled ſteeds, when from their noſtrils flows / The ſcorching fire, that in their entrails glows. Example: She looked, and saw one of the most graceful cavaliers that ever reined in a mettled horse.
Word: immechanical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin im- English im- Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.? Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós)bor. Latin mēchanicusder. Old French mecaniquebor. Middle English mechanic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English mechanical English mechanical English immechanical From im- + mechanical. 1. Not mechanical. Labels: obsolete Example: But ev'n the admiſſion of ſuch an Hypotheſis removes us but one Step further from Immechanical Principles, for the Cauſe of the Motion of this ſubtile Fluid, vvhich is the Cauſe of Gravity, is it ſelf Immechanical.
Word: rememberable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From remember + -able. 1. Capable or worthy of being remembered. Example: You will be struck with the combinations of vivid greenery, and water, and building; but everything is so distinct and rememberable, that you would not improve your conception by visiting the country a hundred times over.
Word: tithonometer Part of Speech: noun 1. An instrument or apparatus for measuring or detecting tithonicity; an actinometer. Labels: archaic
Word: tithonometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tithonometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subumbonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + umbonal. 1. Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell. Labels: not-comparable Example: subumbonal teeth
Word: bandoline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps related to band. 1. A glutinous pomatum for the hair. Labels: dated
Word: bandoline Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps related to band. 1. To apply bandoline to (the hair). Labels: dated, transitive
Word: bandolines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bandoline Labels: form-of, plural
Word: copist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French copiste. See copy. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒpɪst/ 1. A copier; one who copies. Labels: obsolete Example: […] whether the Writer be Poet, Philosopher, or of whatever kind, he is in truth no other than a copist after NATURE. 2. Misspelling of copyist. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: copists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of copist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: decerp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin decerpere, from de- + carpere (“to pluck”). 1. To pluck off, to pick out, extract or gather. Labels: obsolete
Word: decerped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of decerp Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: decerping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of decerp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: decerps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of decerp Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: wag-halter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wag + halter. 1. Someone who is likely to swing in a halter; someone likely to be hanged. Labels: obsolete Example: I can tell you, I am a mad waghalter.
Word: wag-halters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wag-halter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cravates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cravate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: drillas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of drilla Labels: form-of, plural
Word: drilla Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of driller (“term of address”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Happy birthday, drilla.
Word: dulcifies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dulcify Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: embusqué Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French embusqué. 1. One who avoids military service; a draft dodger. Example: A woman was recently fined for calling a policeman an embusqué, even in the heat of argument.
Word: microborrower Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + borrower. 1. A person who borrows a microloan.
Word: escoffions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of escoffion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: indisposes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of indispose Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: alaite Part of Speech: noun 1. A rare hydrous arsenate sulfate mineral with the chemical formula V₂O₅·H₂O. Labels: uncountable
Word: opinant Part of Speech: noun 1. One who offers an opinion. Example: Could Mr. Sayers have held out for three minutes, for five minutes, for ten minutes more? He says he could. So we say we could have held out, and did and had beaten off the enemy at Waterloo, even if the Prussians hadn't come up. The opinions differ pretty much according to the nature of the opinants.
Word: persiflant Part of Speech: adj 1. Engaging in persiflage; bantering. Labels: formal, not-comparable
Word: potassions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of potassion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reckful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From reck + -ful. Compare reckless. 1. Full of careful heed or attention; careful; cautious. Labels: uncommon Example: Man, in fact, should be reckless in nothing, but reckful in every thing; […] Example: […] it's tough to call when it's in that gray area between reckless stupidity and reckful insanity.
Word: intercurrence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See intercurrent. 1. A passing or running between; occurrence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] I have observed in grinding of glasses […] sometimes the convex surface of one body being ground upon the concave surface of another, the two surfaces will happen to be so closely and exactly fitted to one another, (their immediate contact in all their parts, or at least in innumerable of them, hindering the intercurrence of the air) that a man is not able without breaking one or both of them to pull them directly asunder […] Example: It is an interesting fact that certain diseases are sometimes benefited if not cured, by the intercurrence of erysipelas.
Word: intercurrences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of intercurrence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intersocial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + social. 1. Pertaining to social interaction Labels: not-comparable
Word: reckfulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reckful + -ness. Compare recklessness. 1. The state or quality of being reckful or careful; heedfulness; caution. Labels: uncountable Example: Edward the Fourth reclining luxuriously upon his tottering throne, like a child lulled by its rocking, displaying that rare combination of deep duplicity and heartless gaiety which so seldom exist together, the reckfulness of the one being like a noxious vapour to the recklessness of the other: […] Example: When you reply that your reckfulness can be taken as read, he'll confide: 'I know, I know. I'm talking to myself.'
Word: Seceder Part of Speech: noun 1. A follower of the 18th-century secession movement from the Church of Scotland. Labels: historical 2. A member of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Labels: rare
Word: Seceders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Seceder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: feodaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of feodary Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of feodarie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: feodary Part of Speech: noun 1. An accomplice. Example: Art thou a feodary for this act? 2. An ancient officer of the Court of Wards Labels: UK
Word: metamere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meta- + -mere. 1. One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, such as in an earthworm
Word: metameres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metamere Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disprison Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + prison. 1. To release from prison; to set at liberty. Labels: transitive Example: Away—away, over lands, and seas, and space, on the rushing desire flies the disprisoned mind!
Word: disprisoned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disprison Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disprisoning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disprison Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disprisons Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disprison Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cosherer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cosher + -er. 1. Someone who coshers.
Word: cosherers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cosherer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: servitorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From servitor + -ship. 1. The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Example: He could not promise to do more; but would undertake for the servitorship
Word: servitorships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of servitorship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: floytes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of floyte Labels: form-of, plural
Word: catling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cat + -ling. Compare kitling, catkin. According to the OED, the sense of a surgical knife may be an independent word. Pronunciation: /ˈkætlɪŋ/ 1. A little cat; a kitten. Labels: archaic Example: For never cat nor catling I shall find, / But mew shall they in Pluto's palace blind. Example: Abel was a lover of the worst type: when he was with a catling he hardly ever laughed . If the catling came back again, he never did. 2. catgut; a catgut string Example: but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on. Example: If you have a two-string lute, where one string is made with iron and the other with catling (made of sheep guts), and you tune it so that it produces the best unison, you shall lose it as soon as you move the keys, while looking for a new common chord. In practical terms, if an iron string and a catling string with the same length vibrate in unison , this does not mean they will do the same if you cut them by half . 3. A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife. Example: the amputation is competed by passing the catling between the separated bones, dividng the flexor tendons, &c., and forming a flap of about equal size to the superior from the integument on the sole of the foot. Example: The operator […] grasping the soft parts immediately below, raises them so as to facilitate the passage of a double-edged knife or catling across the face of the bones […]
Word: catlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of catling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nightman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From night + -man. 1. A person whose job is cleaning cesspools or sewers, or emptying privies by night. Labels: historical Example: Near-synonym: shit-carter Example: 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt (etc.), p. 54, That the Laystalls be removed as far as may be out of the City, and common Passages, and that no Nightman or other be suffered to empty a Vault into any Garden near about the City. 2. A male night shift worker. Labels: dated Example: Most men who are of sufficient intelligence and moral character to make thoroughly satisfactory block signalmen will naturally seek a respite occasionally from such a confining routine, and if they cannot accomplish this without securing a substitute at their own expense they are under constant temptation to “change off”—the day man working for the nightman and the nightman for the day. Example: Doorman John Healy comes to work Sunday morning bringing a partly finished bottle of whiskey. He greets his colleague, George Tiernan, nightman, with the suggestion that they “kill the quart” before Mr. Tiernan goes home. 3. A nightwatchman; a guard who works at night.
Word: nightmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nightman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scavage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scavage, schevage, schewage, from Anglo-Norman escavage, escauwage, alteration of earlier escauvinghe (“scavage”), from Middle English shewing, schewing (“inspection, examination, show”), from Old English sċēawung (“a looking at, seeing, contemplation, consideration, respect, regard, reconnoitering, surveying, inspection, examination, scrutiny, a spectacle, show, appearance, pretence, a showing, exhibiting, manifestation, toll on exposure of goods”), equivalent to show + -ing. Doublet of shewage. 1. A tax on non-resident merchant goods by city officials for resident merchant advantage, similar to a tariff. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable
Word: scavage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from scavager. 1. To act as a scavenger, to scavenge.
Word: clubfisted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From club + fisted. 1. Having a large fist. Example: Baxter gripped the handle with his free hand and straightened his ball-hand in front of him, resembling a club-fisted Superman. Example: As Skena, once again, started to go by the stout woman, Ella met her, the club-fisted hands shoving at her so hard, it knocked her back several steps. 2. Crude and blunt, lacking finesse. Example: I will defend it against any Collian, or clubfisted Usurer of them all, there is no immortalitie can be given a man on earth like unto Playes. Example: As Logic is clubfisted and crabbed, so she is terrible at first sight
Word: glyconin Part of Speech: noun 1. An emulsion of glycerol and egg yolk, formerly used as an ointment, or as a vehicle for medicines, etc. Labels: obsolete
Word: guze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since at least 1562. According to "A Glossary of Terms used in Heraldry" by James Parker (published in 1894) it comes from Turkish göz, meaning “eye”. Pronunciation: /ɡjuːz/ 1. A roundlet of the sanguine tincture, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.
Word: guzes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of guz Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of guze Labels: form-of, plural
Word: accommodability Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality or degree of being accommodable. Labels: uncountable
Word: bodrage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably of Celtic origin. Compare bordrage. 1. A raid across a border. Labels: obsolete
Word: bodrages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bodrage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wholesomest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of wholesome: most wholesome Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: wholesomer Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of wholesome: more wholesome Labels: comparative, form-of Example: As there is no wholesomer, so perhaps there are few stronger, sleeping potions than fatigue.
Word: advancive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From advance + -ive. 1. Tending to advance. Labels: archaic Example: advancive motion Example: advancive development
Word: impartible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From im- + partible. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɑː(ɹ)tɪbəl/ 1. not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible Labels: not-comparable Example: impartible estate
Word: impartible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From impart + -ible. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɑː(ɹ)tɪbəl/ 1. capable of being imparted or communicated; impartable. Example: impartible knowledge Example: impartible information
Word: clerisies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clerisy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semiellipse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + ellipse. 1. A half ellipse.
Word: semiellipses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semiellipse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: right-hand rule Part of Speech: noun 1. A common mnemonic for understanding notation conventions for vectors in three dimensions. Example: A very convenient method for determining this relation is the Fleming right-hand rule. In this rule the fingers of the right hand are utilized as follows[…] 2. The systematic use of right-hand turnings to solve a maze. Example: Worse yet, the right-hand rule does not work for all mazes.
Word: Owenian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Owen + -ian. 1. Of or relating to Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.
Word: atlantal Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to the atlas. Labels: not-comparable 2. anterior; cephalic Labels: not-comparable Example: […] when the scapula is moved directly atlantad, the atlantal forces acting on the base and acromion are the motors, the dorsa-mesial and ster-mesi-lateral the directors, and the sacral forces the moderators […]
Word: uncharioted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + chariot + -ed. 1. Deprived of a chariot. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1715, Alexander Pope, a letter to a lady The poor distressed Roman Catholicks, now unhorsed and uncharioted.
Word: tithingman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tithing + -man. 1. The chief of a tithing. Labels: historical Example: [...] We that are wisely mounted higher Than constables, in curule wit, When on tribunal bench we sit, Like speculators, should foresee, From Pharos of authority, Portended mischiefs farther than Low proletarian tything-men [...] 2. A ruler or leader of ten men; a decurion. Labels: obsolete 3. A peace officer. Labels: UK 4. A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath. Labels: US, historical 5. A collector of tithes.
Word: tithingmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tithingman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: underconstable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + constable. 1. A lower or subordinate constable.
Word: underconstables Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of underconstable Labels: form-of, plural
Word: canonists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of canonist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fillock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From filly + -ock (diminutive suffix). 1. A wanton girl. Labels: dated, obsolete
Word: swooshy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From swoosh + -y. 1. Like or suggesting a swooshing sound or movement. Example: The children drew swooshy patterns in the wet sand.
Word: androphore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From andro- + -phore. 1. A support or column on which stamens are raised. 2. The part which, in some Siphonophorae, bears the male gonophores.
Word: androphores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of androphore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intermede Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French intermède, from Latin inter (“between”) + medius (“middle”). Compare Italian intermedio. Doublet of intermezzo. 1. A short musical dramatic piece, of a light, pleasing, and sometimes burlesque character. 2. An interlude between the acts of a play or opera. 3. An intermediate Example: an intermede between oil and water
Word: intermedes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of intermede Labels: form-of, plural
Word: brattishing Part of Speech: noun 1. A brattice. 2. Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.
Word: brattishing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of brattish Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: brattishings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brattishing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: encephalology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From encephalo- + -logy. 1. The science of the brain and its structure and function. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: heroship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hero + -ship. 1. The character or personality of a hero. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: three years of heroship
Word: heroships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heroship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: addlepatedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From addlepated + -ness. 1. The quality of being addlepated. Labels: uncountable
Word: antilanguage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + language. 1. A language used by a social group to prevent outsiders from understanding it. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: antilanguages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antilanguage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: drugster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drug + -ster. 1. A druggist. Labels: obsolete Example: minerals, that may be found profitable to the physician , the drugster, or the mineralist
Word: drugsters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of drugster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: VZV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of varicella zoster virus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of varicella zoster vaccine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: overnoise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + noise. 1. To overpower with noise. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive
Word: overnoised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overnoise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overnoises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overnoise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overnoising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overnoise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lepidine Part of Speech: adj 1. Composed of scales. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lepidine Part of Speech: noun 1. 4-methylquinoline, a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound used in the preparation of certain dyes. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: lepidines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lepidine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spurgall Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spur + gall. 1. A gall caused by use of the spur.
Word: spurgall Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From spur + gall. 1. To gall or wound with a spur. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To bother, harass, or insult Labels: figuratively, obsolete
Word: spurgalled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of spurgall Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: spurgalling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of spurgall Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spurgalls Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spurgall Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tripetalous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tri- + petalous: compare French tripétale. 1. Having three petals. Labels: not-comparable
Word: balsamous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From balsam + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːlsəməs/ 1. balsamic. Labels: dated Example: an oily and balsamous substance
Word: memorializer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From memorialize + -er. Pronunciation: /məˈmɔːɹi.əˌlaɪ.zə(ɹ)/ 1. Someone who provides or writes a memorial.
Word: memorializers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of memorializer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: munity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See immunity. Pronunciation: /ˈmjuː.nɪ.ti/ 1. Immunity; freedom; security. Labels: obsolete Example: […] I might ſhevv them hovv Devotion comming and poſſeſſing our mindes, doth rather compoſe the munity, then infringe the true liberty of our affections.
Word: instinctivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From instinctive + -ity. 1. The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.
Word: overlashing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overlash Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overlashing Part of Speech: noun 1. excess; exaggeration Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually 2. The process of physically tying additional cables to the cables that are already attached to a utility pole. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: overlashing of copper wires
Word: overlashings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of overlashing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥητίνη (rhētínē, “pine resin”) + -ene. 1. A hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene, that is extracted from pine tar and also found in certain fossil resins. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: gallin Part of Speech: noun 1. A substance obtained by the reduction of gallein. Labels: uncountable
Word: tritozooid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trito- + zooid. 1. A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction. Labels: rare
Word: tritozooids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tritozooid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gallocyanin Part of Speech: noun 1. A certain synthetic dye. Labels: uncountable
Word: dignification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dignify + -ation. 1. The act of dignifying or making dignified Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dignifications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dignification Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gladiatorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gladiator + -ship. 1. The behaviour, state, or art of a gladiator. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: gladiatorships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gladiatorship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inrunning Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + running. 1. Running or flowing inward. Labels: not-comparable Example: an inrunning current has at last become enabled to flow out by its old path again Example: “Long Wharf,” said Ericsson, jamming the wheel over as the tug churned past the outside dolphins, and putting the engines ahead. He clipped open a speaking-tube and conversed briefly with invisible authority below. The Wonder squatted down duckwise, stuck her battered nose up and scuttered across the course of the inrunning stream of the tide at top speed.
Word: inrunning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + running. 1. The act or the place of entrance Labels: archaic 2. an inlet. Example: And Lancelot answer'd nothing, but he went, / And at the inrunning of a little brook / Sat by the river in a cove Example: On either side the woodland moved slowly back. The morning mist had not yet vanished, but floated against the trees in silver drifts, and veiled every inrunning of the shores with bright mystery.
Word: inrunnings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inrunning Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undignifiedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From undignified + -ly. 1. In an undignified manner; without dignity.
Word: dignifiable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dignify + -able. 1. Capable of being dignified. Labels: not-comparable Example: Russian River flows through a country of hill ridges, which in many places are dignifiable with the appellation of mountains.
Word: counterchanged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From counter- + changed. 1. Exchanged. Labels: not-comparable Example: ... both sides re-engaging with exactly counterchanged fronts and positions. Again did the stern valor of the Roundheads prove irresistible : Goring was swept from the field, after a furious struggle,[…] 2. Having the tinctures exchanged mutually. Labels: not-comparable Example: If the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.
Word: villanel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See villanelle. 1. A ballad. Labels: obsolete Example: c. 1685-1686, Charles Cotton, the Essays of M. de Montaigne she may come into comparison with the greatest beauty of poetry perfected by art: as we see in our Gascon villanels and the songs that are brought us from nations that have no knowledge of any manner of science
Word: villanels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of villanel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clubbish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From club + -ish. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a club (weapon). Example: For had not ſhe bene mercifull, my ſhip had ruſht on Rocks, And ſo decayed amids the ſtormes, through force of clubbiſh knocks 2. Resembling or characteristic of a club (social establishment). Example: She remembered a long-ago dinner they shared at Chasen's, one of Hollywood's most clubbish and exclusive restaurants […] 3. Disposed to club together. Example: Some of the Centered Workshops get very clubbish, even encounter-groupish, I was told, and some don't. Ours didn't, although we certainly had a good time together. Example: A clubbish man, Duyckinck liked to discuss his plans for the Libraries with his close circle of friends, two of whom […] he hoped to enlist as contributors to the American Library.
Word: electroballistics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From electro- + ballistics, itself from ballista + -ics or by surface analysis, ballistic + -s. 1. The process or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of electricity. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: myrmicine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Myrmicinae. Pronunciation: /ˈmɜː(ɹ)mɪsaɪn/, /ˈmɚmɪsin/ 1. Of or pertaining to the ant subfamily Myrmicinae. Example: These data have been accumulated from the study of the specialized Myrmicine and Formicine ants of Europe and North America [...] Example: The discovery of tandem calling with pheromones in Leptothorax throws considerable light on the evolution of chemical recruitment techniques in myrmicine ants generally. 2. Of or pertaining to the ant genus Myrmica.
Word: myrmicine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Myrmicinae. Pronunciation: /ˈmɜː(ɹ)mɪsaɪn/, /ˈmɚmɪsin/ 1. Any ant of the subfamily Myrmicinae. Example: Subfamily Myrmicinae […]Species of myrmicines are most likely to be confused with species of Leptanilla or Tetraponera because of the two-segmented petiole. Example: The other dominant ant subfamilies were also present but with lesser importance (fig. 1.4). Toward the end of the ponerine expansion (Early Eocene), the myrmicines began to radiate, surpassing the ponerines in biomass and diversity.
Word: melezitose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French mélèze (“larch”) and melitose. 1. A non-reducing trisaccharide sugar produced by many insects that consume plant sap. Labels: uncountable Example: Melezitose can be partially hydrolyzed to glucose and turanose.
Word: melicitose Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of melezitose. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: additiveness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From additive + -ness. 1. additivity Labels: nonstandard, uncountable
Word: subtractiveness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From subtractive + -ness. 1. The quality of being subtractive. Labels: uncountable
Word: mucksy Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of muxy. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: it was all so soaked and sodden, and as we call it, 'mucksy,' that to meddle with it in any way was to do more harm than good.
Word: enswathement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From enswathe + -ment. 1. The act of enswathing. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The state of being enswathed. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: enswathements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enswathement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ferk Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of firk. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ferk Part of Speech: verb 1. To rummage, in order to search for something; to dig amongst articles or move things aside in order to try and find something. Labels: UK
Word: gymnoplast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gymno- + -plast. 1. A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of a cell wall, such as a white blood cell.
Word: gymnoplasts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gymnoplast Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vermicast Part of Speech: noun 1. wormcast
Word: unrestingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unresting + -ly. 1. Without rest; unceasingly, perpetually.
Word: transcendingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From transcending + -ly. 1. So as to transcend.
Word: repellingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From repelling + -ly. 1. So as to repel.
Word: persistingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From persisting + -ly. 1. With persistence.
Word: prowlingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From prowling + -ly. 1. In a prowling manner. Example: He rose and began to pace, prowlingly, about the room.
Word: boy meets girl Part of Speech: noun 1. A romantic story in which a boy gets to know a girl and begins to love her. Labels: attributive, uncountable Example: a story of boy meets girl Example: a boy meets girl movie
Word: ilities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ility Labels: form-of, plural
Word: geocoordinate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From geo- + coordinate. 1. A geospatial coordinate. Example: The lost mountaineer was easily rescued because his phone transmitted his geocoordinates to the emergency services.
Word: geocoordinates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of geocoordinate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: geocomposites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of geocomposite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: theiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: translingual Thea (“tea, the tea plant”) + -form (compare French théiforme) 1. Similar to tea. Labels: not-comparable Example: A warm theiform drink, taken from a quarter to three quarters of a litre at a dose, increases the pulse from six to twelve beats[…] Example: All raw vegetable juices, all spices, all essences, all odours, all perfumes, all theiform infusions, all that can by any possibility be supposed to exercise the slightest influence over the organism[…]
Word: facular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From facula + -ar. 1. Of or pertaining to the faculae. Labels: not-comparable Example: facular granules Example: facular atmosphere
Word: funebrial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin funebris (“belonging to a funeral”), from funus (“funeral”). 1. Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funereal. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: intended for funebrial purposes Example: they [garlands] were convivial, festival, sacrificial, nuptial, honorary, funebrial
Word: Ironsides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Ironside Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dynamographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dynamograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: signiorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From signior + -ship. Piecewise doublet of seigniorship and seniorship. 1. State or position of a signore. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: signiorships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of signiorship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retrogressively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From retrogressive + -ly. 1. In a retrogressive manner. Example: retrogressively altered pyrope
Word: draffy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From draff + -y. 1. consisting of, or worthy of, the dregs, i.e. worthless Labels: obsolete Example: the dregs and draffy part
Word: cotarnine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French cotarnine, from narcotine, by anagramming. 1. A white crystalline substance, allegedly with the Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: rarification Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of rarefaction. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: As soon as the manometer of the pump indicated the maximum of rarification, the apparatus was inclined […]
Word: overtower Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + tower. 1. To tower above or over. Labels: transitive Example: Slowly the whole eastern sky filled with clouds that overtowered us like some black sierra of the infernal regions. Example: an enormous old maple overtowered the house. 2. To soar too high. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: overtowered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overtower Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overtowering Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From overtower + -ing. 1. That towers above or over
Word: overtowering Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From overtower + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of overtower Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overtowers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overtower Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cyamelide Part of Speech: noun 1. A white amorphous substance, a product of polymerisation of cyanic acid. Labels: uncountable
Word: control tower Part of Speech: noun 1. An airport building from which the air traffic control unit monitors and directs the movement of aircraft on and around the airport. Example: As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways—No. 13 or No. 18. 2. An enclosed, raised structure occupied by one or more persons who operate or exercise control over railway traffic, ship movement, a racetrack, machinery, etc. Example: Ned Newton stood beside Tom in the control tower of the great tank as she started on her homeward way. Example: In a railway control tower at Dunkirk, Ohio, Operator Cliff Schwartzkopf waited for the Pennsylvania's Pennsylvanian, eastbound from Chicago to New York.
Word: aerocraft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aero- + craft. 1. An aircraft. Labels: dated, nonstandard Example: An aerocraft having independent slidable weights for steering the same in horizontal and vertical directions
Word: aerocrafts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aerocraft Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trackmaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From track + master. 1. One who is in charge of a railroad track. Labels: dated 2. A person or system responsible for overseeing and managing the various components of a music track during the recording and mixing process.
Word: trackmasters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trackmaster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: piddler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From piddle + -er. 1. One who piddles; a trifler or time-waster. 2. One who urinates. Labels: slang 3. A prisoner who works in a craft shop. Labels: slang Example: Many piddlers use the craft shop as a way of improving their quality of life while in prison. They make just enough money to buy food, to gamble, and to occasionally mail something home.
Word: piddlers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of piddler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: relaxative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From relax + -ative. 1. Having the quality of relaxing; relaxing or laxative. Labels: not-comparable
Word: relaxative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From relax + -ative. 1. A relaxant. Example: you are troubled with some ligatures i' th' neck of your vesica[…]therefore you must use relaxatives
Word: relaxatives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of relaxative Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anthraciferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anthracite + -iferous. 1. Yielding anthracite. Example: anthraciferous sandstone Example: anthraciferous strata
Word: unofficered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + officer + -ed. 1. Without an officer. Labels: not-comparable Example: the destruction of property by unofficered soldiers
Word: schooldame Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From school + dame. 1. A schoolmistress. Labels: archaic
Word: schooldames Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of schooldame Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unprinced Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + prince + -ed. 1. Deprived of the state or authority of a prince; without princely qualities. Labels: not-comparable
Word: monogenist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From monogeny + -ist. 1. Having a common origin; exhibiting monogenesis. Labels: not-comparable Example: Despite those demonstrations of a monogenist embryological development, opponents continued their advocacy of polygenist views by focusing instead on nerve regeneration: after a nerve is cut the processes peripheral to the injury first degenerate and later regenerate.
Word: monogenist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From monogeny + -ist. 1. One who maintains that all members of the human race belong to a single species. Labels: historical
Word: monogenists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monogenist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: manifestness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From manifest + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being manifest or obvious. Labels: uncountable
Word: bilifuscin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin bilis (“bile”) + fuscus (“dark”) + -in. 1. A brownish-green pigment, derived from bilirubin, found in human gallstones and in old bile. Labels: uncountable
Word: restringency Part of Speech: noun 1. Quality or state of being restringent. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: the juice being pressed out is immediately pleasant in caste , without any thing of that restringency which it had when incorporated with the meat , or flesh of the Apple
Word: nidget Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French nigaud (“a booby, fool”), Old French niger (“to play the fool”). 1. A fool or idiot. Labels: obsolete Example: in signification it signifieth, as it seemeth, no more than abject, base-minded, falſe-hearted, coward or nidget Example: Nigeur: m. A midget, fup, trifler. 2. A coward. Labels: obsolete
Word: nidgets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nidget Labels: form-of, plural
Word: roadmaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From road + master. 1. One who is in charge of a railroad track. Example: Railwaymen may travel by free pass to their homes by applying to the Roadmaster.
Word: roadmasters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of roadmaster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: substantivally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From substantival + -ly. 1. In a substantival manner. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hamzated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the past participle of the verb to hamzate, from hamza + -ate. 1. Having a hamza (ء (ʔ)) as one of its radicals, which may be realised as ء (ʔ) (stand-alone hamza), أ (ʔ), آ (ʔā), إ (ʔ), ؤ (ʔ) or ئ (ʔ) in writing, depending on the surrounding vowels and consonants. The exact orthography is determined by the rules of the seat of hamza. Labels: Arabic, not-comparable
Word: infusories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of infusory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: infusory Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the Infusoria, a former class of microscopic animals. Labels: obsolete
Word: infusory Part of Speech: adj 1. infusorial; of or related to infusoria Labels: archaic, not-comparable