nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: crankness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crank + -ness. 1. Liability to capsize (said of a ship or other vessel). Labels: dated, uncountable 2. sprightliness; health; vigour Labels: dated, uncountable Example: crankness of the mind Example: crankness of intellect
Word: leucophlegmatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From leuco- + phlegmatic. Compare French leucophlegmatique. 1. Having an oedemic habit of body, with a white bloated skin. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: megastome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + -stome. 1. One of a group of univalve shells, having a large aperture or mouth.
Word: megastomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megastome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: egomism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French? 1. Obsolete form of egoism. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: So that, brought to its genuine and undissembled issue, it ends in that kind of knowledge mentioned once or twice above, called Egomism.
Word: swainling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From swain + -ling. 1. A little or young swain. Labels: archaic
Word: swainlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of swainling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: epitrite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French épitrite, Latin epitritus, Ancient Greek ἐπίτριτος (epítritos). 1. A metrical foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable. Labels: Ancient-Greek, Latin
Word: epitrites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of epitrite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trickment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trick + -ment. 1. decoration; ornament Labels: obsolete, plural Example: No tomb shall hold thee But these two arms, no trickments but my tears: Over thy hearse, my sorrows like sad arms Shall hang for ever.
Word: trickments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trickment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desmognathous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From desmo- + -gnathous. 1. belonging to a former taxonomic group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), having the maxillopalatine bones united Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: deadlihood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deadly + -hood? 1. The state of being dead; death. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: clinodiagonal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clino- + diagonal. 1. That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis.
Word: clinodiagonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From clino- + diagonal. 1. Pertaining to, or in the direction of, such a diagonal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: clinodiagonals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clinodiagonal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: immoderancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin immoderantia. 1. Lack of moderation; excess. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: He despaired of God's mercy in the same fact, where this presumed of it; he by a decollation of all hope annihilated his mercy, this by an immoderancy thereof destroyed his justice
Word: redeclare Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + declare. 1. To declare again or anew. Labels: transitive
Word: redeclaration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + declaration. 1. The act of redeclaring.
Word: redeclares Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of redeclare Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: redeclaring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of redeclare Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: redeclarations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of redeclaration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: redeclared Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of redeclare Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: spermophore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spermo- + -phore. 1. rare spelling of spermatophore Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: spermophores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spermophore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enomotarch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin enōmotarcha, from Ancient Greek ἐνωμοτάρχης (enōmotárkhēs). Pronunciation: /ɛˈnɒmətɑː(ɹ)k/, /ɪˈnəʊməˌtɑː(ɹ)k/ 1. The commander of an enomoty. Labels: historical Example: sixteen Enomotarchs : the number of soldiers he leaves unmentioned Example: A particular kind of this manœuvre was called the Laconian; it began from the enomotarchs, who faced about to the right, and passed in an oblique direction between their own and the next file; the whole file, following their leader, placed itself in front of the uragus, who merely faced to the right about.
Word: enomotarchs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enomotarch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lungoor Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of langur. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: lungoors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lungoor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gyratories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gyratory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: roky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From roke + -y. 1. Misty; foggy; cloudy. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: they slaver men sayne - Lyke a roky rayne. - Skelton. Example: He […] in a roky hollow, belling, etc. Roky (associated with reek) means misty, foggy. 2. Exhibiting roke (a defect in steel ingots). Example: […] scaly, and frightfully roky bar. Example: then elongate and “open-out,” producing “roky” billets and blooms. When the cracks are from top to bottom, i.e. longitudinal, it is usually because cooling, after the ingot has been taken out of the mould, has been uneven.
Word: soal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sol, sule, from Old English sol (“mud, wet sand, wallowing-place, slough, a mire or miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid, muck”). Compare sully. More at soil. 1. Alternative spelling of sole. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, dialectal
Word: soal Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of sole (the fish). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: soals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of soal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: amentiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin amentum + -form. 1. Shaped like a catkin. Example: The inflorescence in these associated genera is in (catkins, or) amentiform regimes. Example: Data-Palms (Coryphaceae). Trees; leaves clustered, terminal' infolorescence not in amentiform racemes; stamens hypogynous or perigynous, 6-9-12; 2. Resembling dementia or delirium, including disorganized thinking, incoherence, and memory disturbances. Example: a. 100 oer cent in acute and subacute amentiform conditions; b. 81 per cent in acute and subacute stupor; C. 71 per cent in acute and subacute hebephrenia; d. 68 per cent in acute and subacute paranoid-hallucinatory conditions. Example: This would be in line with our findings that, in the French-Canadian multiparas (sometimes after the ninth or twelfth delivery), the amentiform - delirious syndromes and depressive episodes were relatively more often observed .
Word: dudder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From duds + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌdə(ɹ)/ 1. A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. Labels: UK, dated
Word: dudder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Related to dodder. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌdə(ɹ)/ 1. To confuse or confound with noise. Labels: dialectal, transitive Example: […]Joel piled on great fires, and went off on some mysterious errand , having“ other chores to do than idling and duddering" 2. To shiver or tremble; to dodder. Labels: dialectal, intransitive Example: I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf.
Word: dudder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Related to dodder. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌdə(ɹ)/ 1. Confusion. Labels: dialectal
Word: dudders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dudder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trypanosomic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From trypanosome + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to a trypanosome Labels: not-comparable
Word: preconsign Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + consign. 1. To consign beforehand Labels: transitive
Word: preconsigned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of preconsign Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: podosperm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From podo- + Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”). Compare French podosperme. 1. The stalk of a seed or ovule.
Word: podosperms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of podosperm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trypanosomicide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trypanosome + -cide. 1. Trypanocide.
Word: trypanosomid Part of Speech: noun 1. A skin lesion resulting from trypanosomiasis
Word: misrehearse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + rehearse. 1. To rehearse or quote incorrectly. Labels: transitive Example: If the Approver misrehearse the appellee , either by his name, or the colour of his horse , he shall be hanged incontinent
Word: misrehearsed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of misrehearse Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: misrehearses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of misrehearse Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: misrehearsing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misrehearse Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bananeries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bananery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vectitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vectitatus (“borne about”), from intensive form of vehere, vectum (“to carry”). 1. Transport. Labels: obsolete, rare, uncountable Example: “You say well (quoth Albertus) and we have several other kinds of Vectitation unknown to the Ancients; particularly flying Chariots, where the people may have the benefit of this exercise at the small expence of a farthing.” Example: We had a pic-nic a few days ago, to which they gave me the means of vectitation; that is, a very nice English tilbury, with the younger son, just returned from South America, as a companion.
Word: apprecatory Part of Speech: adj 1. Praying or wishing well. Labels: obsolete Example: apprecatory […]benedictions
Word: clodpate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clod + pate. 1. A blockhead; an idiot or fool. Labels: dated
Word: clodpates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clodpate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gynandromorphism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gynandromorph + -ism. 1. The condition of being a gynandromorph. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: gynandromorphisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gynandromorphism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: verumontana Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of verumontanum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: verumontanum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin veru montānum (literally “mountainous javelin”). 1. An elevation or crest in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.
Word: misvouch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + vouch. 1. To vouch falsely. Labels: archaic
Word: misvouched Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of misvouch Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: misvouching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misvouch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: -kins Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From -kin + -s. See -kin. 1. Forms (often intentionally childish or twee) diminutives of nouns. Labels: morpheme Example: “But what about Bobbykins your lovely doggie?” asked his mother plaintively. Example: They can't drive a vehicle, cook a meal, or walk Fluffykins at the same time that they watch your video podcast, so you gain greater audience focus.
Word: -kins Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From -kin + -s. See -kin. 1. plural of -kin Labels: form-of, morpheme, plural
Word: chasible Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of chasuble. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: chasibles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chasible Labels: form-of, plural
Word: libriform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the stem of Latin liber + -iform. 1. Resembling or having the form of liber, or bast. Example: The unseptate fibres, the true libriform cells, are only sparingly pitted, except in a few species like Oleander, where they are pitted on both the radial and tangential walls
Word: libriform Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the stem of Latin liber + -iform. 1. Tissue composed of cells of this kind. Labels: uncountable
Word: enrank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + rank. 1. To place in ranks or in order. Labels: obsolete Example: No leisure had he to enrank his men; He wanted pikes to set before his archers; Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck’d out of hedges They pitched in the ground confusedly, To keep the horsemen off from breaking in. Example: The souldiers all sat downe enrank’t, each by his armes and horse, That then lay downe, and cool’d their hoofes. 2. To classify (someone in a particular group); to enroll, register. Labels: figuratively, obsolete Example: […] thy Lord or Maister enranks thee with the deceaved sort, and so forgets thee! Example: […] hee begat the sonne who is enranked in this genealogicall rolle.
Word: enranked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of enrank Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: enranking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enrank Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enranks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of enrank Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: glandulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French 1. The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants. Labels: uncountable Example: […]their placentation , rooting , branching , intorsion , budding , leafing , stipulation , pubescence , glandulation , lactescence , florescence , & c . Example: Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles.
Word: organific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From organ + Latin -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy. Pronunciation: /ˌɔː.ɡəˈnɪf.ɪk/, /ˌɔɹ.ɡəˈnɪf.ɪk/ 1. Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism. 2. Acting through, or resulting from, organs. Example: But among those who admit the atoning death of Christ as the organific principle of their faith, there are differences […]
Word: mundic Part of Speech: noun 1. iron pyrite or arsenopyrite Labels: Cornwall, obsolete Example: The ores and minerals to be treated according to my invention are those containing sulphur, particularly mundics, or iron pyrites, copper ores, lead ores, tin ores, zinc ores […]
Word: mundics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mundic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inherse Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of enhearse. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: inhersed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of inherse Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: inherses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of inherse Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: inhersing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of inherse Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: curvicaudate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin curvus (“bent”) + English caudate. 1. Having a curved or crooked tail.
Word: provinciate Part of Speech: verb 1. To convert into a province or provinces. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: a Designe to Provinciate the whole Kingdom Example: Accordingly, after having provinciated Egypt, the most productive corn country in the world, he set about repairing the reservoirs and canals which served to retain and distribute the waters of the Nile; and he did every thing possible to restore that rich country to its primitive state of fertility.
Word: provinciated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of provinciate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: provinciates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of provinciate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: provinciating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of provinciate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: greillade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French [Term?] 1. iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: The ore on one side of the furnace being in lumps, the hot carbonic oxide generated by the action of the blast on the charcoal is able to pass freely through its mass, reducing it, after the water has been driven off by heat, to metallic iron. At the same time the ore becomes impregnated with carbon, derived from the decomposition of the gases with which it is charged. The greillade on the other side is much richer in silica than the larger pieces, and from this it results that the quantity of slag will vary with the greillade added.
Word: temporaneous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin temporāneus (“timely”), derived from Latin tempor- (“time”). 1. temporary Labels: obsolete Example: Oxen have a permanent and temporaneous set of horns Example: Those things may cause a temporaneous disunion.
Word: in antis Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in antis. 1. Between antae; where columns are set between two antae, forming the angles of the building. Labels: not-comparable Example: in antis façade Example: pillars in antis
Word: biostatics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + statics. 1. The science of the structure and function of organic bodies Labels: uncountable
Word: biostasis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + stasis. 1. The ability of an organism to tolerate environmental changes without actively adapting to them Labels: uncountable
Word: traductive Part of Speech: adj 1. Capable of being deduced; derivable. Example: as it is a species of folly all parties are apt to give into , it may not be amiss to consider this matter of TRADUCTIVE CUSTOMS a little more particularly
Word: immundicities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of immundicity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: immundicity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French immondicité, Portuguese imundície, Latin immunditia, English immundities. Pronunciation: /ˌɪmənˈdɪsɪti/ 1. Filth, uncleanliness; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: [T]his naturall immundicity vvas but a figure of that ſpirituall impurity of him and his Court; […]
Word: debarb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + barb. Pronunciation: /diːˈbɑːb/ 1. To remove a barb or barbs from. Labels: transitive Example: how to debarb a fish hook
Word: debarbed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of debarb Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: debarbing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of debarb Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: debarbs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of debarb Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: misesteem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + esteem. Compare French mésestime. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsɪsˈtiːm/ 1. Lack of esteem; disrespect. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: The daily sight of this my sovereign's sweet humility, and his detachment from earthly things, works in me a contagious misesteem for this brief life […] Example: Not but that his Lordship, what with his own wide reading of the ancients, his soldier's life, and therefore constant listening in the camp and at the mess to the just defamation of the sex by honest fellows by it cajoled, and as an effect of my own constant hortations in season and out, had arrived at such a misesteem and despizal of womankind as even I could scarce wish made stronger.
Word: misesteem Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + esteem. Compare French mésestime. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsɪsˈtiːm/ 1. To hold in the wrong esteem; to disrespect. Labels: transitive Example: Whatever man he be that dares to deem True poet's skill to spring of earthly race, I must him tell, that he doth misesteem Their strange estate, and eke himself disgrace By his rude ignorance. Example: "My good friend Sexwolf," quoth the Norman, in very tolerable Saxon, “I pray you not so to misesteem us."
Word: thionaphthene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thiophene and naphthalene. 1. A two-ringed aromatic heterocycle consisting of a benzene ring fused to one of thiophene; any derivative of this compound
Word: thionaphthenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thionaphthene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hogger pump Part of Speech: noun 1. The uppermost pump in the pit of a mine. Labels: archaic
Word: hogger pumps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hogger pump Labels: form-of, plural
Word: indispersed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + dispersed. 1. Not dispersed. Example: The massive sides, massive they seemed, of this ravine were built of clouds which ever hung there indispersed, and caught on every vaporous fold and skirt the glory of the sportive rays that streamed forth from the happy paradise beyond innumerable. Example: As Lincoln approached, the Insurgents who were collected in bodies of from 100 to 150 & 200 fled, some of these are still indispersed & lurk on the frontiers of N. York, & Vermont. 2. Dispersed within Example: Sections of the purified Valonia cell wall were subjected to ultrasonic vibrations for 4 hourse after which the larger indispersed fragments were removed. Example: […] banks, salt marshes, mud flats and silty deposits with many indispersed salt-water channels known as guts or goats.
Word: indispersed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + dispersed. 1. simple past and past participle of indisperse Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: glutaconic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of glutaric + aconitic + acid. 1. The unsaturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid pent-2-enedioic acid Labels: uncountable
Word: sanguinariness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sanguinary + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being sanguinary. Labels: uncountable
Word: uti possidetis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Latin phrase uti possidetis, ita possideatis, literally as you possess, so you shall possess. 1. The principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of the acquisitions they have gained by force during the war. 2. A species of interdict granted to one who was in possession of an immovable thing, in order that he might be declared the legal possessor. Labels: Ancient-Rome, historical
Word: glutaconate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glutaconic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. Any salt or ester of glutaconic acid
Word: wreckfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wreck + fish, since it often comes in with wreckage. 1. Any of the perciform marine fish of the family Polyprionidae, often inhabiting caves and shipwrecks.
Word: wreckfishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wreckfish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blanquillo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish blanquillo. Pronunciation: /blɑŋˈki(l)ˌjoʊ/ 1. The tilefish (Malacanthidae spp.).
Word: blanquillos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blanquillo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: delations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of delation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bushelman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bushel + -man. 1. A tailor's assistant for repairing garments. Labels: US, archaic, dialectal Example: The day was before him—a long day in which to discover something—and this was how he must begin to discover. He scanned the long column, which mostly concerned bakers, bushelmen, cooks, compositors, drivers, and the like, finding two things only which arrested his eye. Example: A merchant tailor has in the same shop with himself one or more "bushelmen," who repair garments, and one cutter who cuts all the garments. Besides these, there are usually several "journeymen" tailors in his employ, who come to the shops for garments and make them up in their own homes, unless a "back- shop" is provided a room near by where the tailors work together, although on separate garments.
Word: bushelmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bushelman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stroboscopy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From strobo- + -scopy. 1. The examination of a vibrating object (e.g. the vocal cords) using a stroboscope Labels: uncountable
Word: hartebeests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hartebeest Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hartbeest Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hartebeest. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hartbeests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hartbeest Labels: form-of, plural
Word: collodiotype Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From collodion + -type. 1. A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype. Labels: dated
Word: collodiotypes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of collodiotype Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shoaliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shoaly + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being shoaly; small depth of water; shallowness. Labels: uncountable
Word: niggardship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nigardshipe, nygartship, negardship, nygardschip, nygardschippe, equivalent to niggard + -ship. 1. Niggardliness; stinginess. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: much pinching and niggardship of meat and drink is to be discommended
Word: meazling Part of Speech: adj 1. Falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: meazling and soaking Rains
Word: appair Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English apeiren, from Old French empeirier (modern French empirer). See impair. 1. To make worse; to injure or damage. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The ancient lawes, uſages, cuſtomes, and franchiſes of the Realm, have been, and be greatly appaired, blemiſhed, and confounded […] 2. To become impaired; to grow worse. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: I see the more that I them forbear The worse they be from year to year;
Word: appaired Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of appair Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: appairing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of appair Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: appairs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of appair Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of mure Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: misrepeat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + repeat. 1. To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of. Labels: transitive Example: 1825-1826, John Winthrop, The History of New England The petition was of many sheets of paper, and contained many false accusations, (and among some truths misrepeated,) accusing us to intend rebellion, to have cast off our allegiance, and to be wholly separate from the church and laws of England […]
Word: misrepeated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of misrepeat Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: misrepeating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misrepeat Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: misrepeats Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of misrepeat Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pseudepigraphies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pseudepigraphy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pseudepigraphy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + epigraphy. 1. The composition of pseudepigrapha, false credit of authorship to give ideas greater legitimacy. Example: Pseudepigraphy was sometimes regarded as a literary lie, a forgery, which enabled the apocalyptic writers to acquire authority for their writings by using a borrowed identity.
Word: Anglic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Anglia + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈæŋɡlɪk/ 1. Dated form of Anglian. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Anglic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: This sense was rare and restricted to discourse about Scots until the 2000s. Probably influenced by Anglican, or directly derived from Latin Anglicus (“English”). Pronunciation: /ˈæŋɡlɪk/ 1. Pertaining to the family of languages descended from Old English, including English, Scots, and the extinct Yola and Fingallian languages. Labels: not-comparable
Word: dinetical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek δινέω (dinéō, “to whirl round”). 1. Revolving on an axis. Labels: obsolete Example: Besides the revolution it maketh with its orbs, it hath also a dinetical motion, and rolls upon its own poles. Example: dinetical motion
Word: haĉek Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of háček. Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard, rare Example: Ask to be that diver falling haĉek into this wave. Example: BTW, Esperanto uses a “breve” on the “u”, i.e. ŭ, not a haĉek.
Word: strophanthin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Strophanthus + -in 1. Any of several poisonous cardiac glycosides obtained from various African plants Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: strophanthus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any of several African plants of the genus Strophanthus, some of which yield arrow poisons. Example: But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.
Word: bemouth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + mouth. 1. To mouth the praises of (a person); talk grandiloquently; declaim. Labels: transitive 2. To place in the mouth; to put one's mouth on; (by extension) to eat. Labels: transitive Example: Entering the hotel they tossed off a glass of wine apiece, bemouthed a cigar, and directed the landlord to provide the best game supper in his power. Example: All made of Flanders cloth, And now bemouthed of many a moth […]
Word: bemow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + mow (“a grimace”). 1. To mock or mock at, especially with grimaces. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: Debbie Downer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Rachel Dratch and Paula Pell as the name of a recurring character on the American comedy show Saturday Night Live. 1. A naysayer; one whose negative remarks depress or dissuade others. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but… Example: Everyone has met a Debbie Downer. They are filled with complaints, see everything darkly, and feel like a victim of life. And that is the energy they bring to themselves.
Word: strophanthins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of strophanthin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stroopwafels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stroopwafel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bemuffle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + muffle. 1. To muffle up. Labels: transitive
Word: strombi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of strombus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bemeet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + meet. 1. To meet with. Labels: ambitransitive, obsolete Example: Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant, or I shall so bemeet thee with thy yard as thou shall think on prating whilst thou liv'st!
Word: snowful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From snow + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈsnəʊfəl/ 1. Full of snow; snowy. Example: the snowful sky in this pale December Example: The sun […] glows in a still, if misty, heaven, snowful and leaden.
Word: nonexpressive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + expressive. 1. Not expressive. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Punic War Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several wars between Ancient Rome and Carthage. Example: So ended the first and longest of the three Punic Wars; or, if viewed from a more romantic standpoint, the first act of a three-act tragedy, the tragedy of the destruction not only of Carthage but also of old Rome - of Rome the city state. Example: The first Punic War has ended in 241 BC, but another Punic War would begin in 218 BC.
Word: bemercy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + mercy. 1. To treat with mercy; show mercy to; milse. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: Hulkamaniac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hulk + -a- + -maniac. 1. A fan of the professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea). Labels: informal Example: I argued that the presentational skills he learned in wrestling — how to work a crowd, how to build a promo up to its crescendo, and how to connect with the Hulkamaniac generation — made him the ideal third-party candidate. Example: This DVD also addresses the long-rumored belief that the defense's main argument was, “But only like twelve people even bought that show.” A must for every Hulkamaniac.
Word: Hulkamaniacs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Hulkamaniac Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hulkingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hulking + -ly. 1. In a hulking manner. Example: The Sergeant stood hulkingly, breathing heavily, by the end of the bed.
Word: Sassoonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Sassoon + -ian. 1. Of or relating to Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), English poet, author, and soldier whose works described the horrors of World War I and satirized the patriotism of those who did not have to fight.
Word: Spockish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Spock + -ish. 1. Resembling or characteristic of the Star Trek character Mr. Spock, especially in being excessively logical and emotionless. Example: Gary Oldman is pale with pale blue eyes and Spockish ears. Example: In the early shows, Leonard Nimoy and the various writers and directors struggled to find the Spockish response to emotionally charged situations. 2. Characteristic of Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), American pediatrician who introduced elements of psychoanalysis into childcare. Example: Circumcision of the goyim would not become the pediatric norm in America until the Spockish 1950's. Example: And the two of us, I already a bit refreshed perhaps by an hour's sleep, Harry longing for a touch of baby skin, would conspire to break the Spockish law and sneak him across the hall to spend some time with us in bed.
Word: bemark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + mark. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bemäärke, German Low German bemarken, German bemerken. 1. To mark with the sign of the cross; mark oneself. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive 2. To mark or cover with marks; mark up. Labels: transitive Example: [...] commuter frenzy as soon they'll be charging en masse from Market and Sansome buildings on foot and in buses and all well-dressed thru workingman Frisco of Walkup?? truck drivers and even the poor grime-bemarked Third Steet of lost bums [...]
Word: Hulkamania Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hulk + -a- + -mania. 1. Enthusiasm for the professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea). Labels: informal, uncountable
Word: HACEK Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Acronym. Pronunciation: /ˈhæsɛk/, /ˈheɪsɛk/ 1. Haemophilus aphrophilus, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans (the former name of Haemophilus actinomycetemcomitans), Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corrodens, Kingella kingae — five gram-negative bacilli that are typically regarded as fastidious or difficult to culture and which can cause bacterial endocarditis. Labels: attributive, often Example: HACEK organisms
Word: pulsific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pulse + -ific. Pronunciation: /pʌlˈsɪf.ɪk/ 1. Inciting the pulse; causing pulsation. Labels: archaic
Word: compt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin comptus, past participle of comere (“to care for, comb, arrange, adorn”). 1. Neat; spruce. Labels: obsolete Example: who is not much more carefull of the grace of his head, than of his health? who maketh not more account to be compt, than to be honest? Example: A compt, accomplished prince.
Word: compt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of count. 1. Account; reckoning; computation. Labels: obsolete Example: Your servants ever have theirs,/Themselves and what is theirs, in compt, /To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, /Still to return your own. Example: it would be difficult for a youth of his age to follow the expositions of a practical lawyer, concerning actions of compt and reckoning, and of multiple-poindings, and adjudication and wadsets, proper and improper, and poindings of the ground and declarations of expiry of the legal.
Word: compt Part of Speech: verb 1. To compute; to count or consider. Labels: obsolete Example: For some were warded in the Pittie-vault, some set caution to remove from the town, after they had compted and reckoned for their tavernry with their mistresses; […] Example: So shall my ryghteousnes aunswere for me in time to come: for it shal come for my rewarde before thy face. And euery one that is not specked and partie amongst the goates, & blacke amongst the sheepe, let it be compted theft in me.
Word: compt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviations. 1. Abbreviation of comptroller. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of compliment. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: subaduncate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + aduncate. 1. Somewhat hooked or curved. Labels: archaic, not-comparable, rare
Word: caroteel Part of Speech: noun 1. A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs.
Word: caroteels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caroteel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clusteringly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From clustering + -ly. 1. In clusters. Labels: not-comparable
Word: leadwort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lead + wort. 1. Plants in family Plumbaginaceae 2. Plants in family Plumbaginaceae 3. Plants in family Plumbaginaceae 4. A leadplant, a leguminous shrub of species Amorpha canescens,) of the western U.S. that has hoary pinnate leaves and bears dull-colored racemose flowers; supposed to help locate lead deposits. 5. Diverse plants that tolerate high levels of lead, such as spring sandwort (Sabulina verna subsp. verna, syn. Minuartia verna) and alpine pennycress (Noccaea caerulescens, syn. Thlaspi caerulescens).
Word: leadworts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leadwort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ingluvious Part of Speech: adj 1. gluttonous Labels: obsolete Example: all kinde of rictous and ingluvious gurmandize
Word: fiaunt Part of Speech: noun 1. commission; fiat; order; decree Labels: obsolete Example: Nought suffered he the Ape to give or graunt , But through his hand alone must passe the Fiaunt
Word: predictional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From prediction + -al. 1. Relating to prediction; prophetic; prognostic. Labels: not-comparable Example: Predictional astrology is, to my personal point of view, both a menace and a handicap. Example: It is obvious that with it the principle of induction would lose its predictional value.
Word: inadherent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin haereō Latin adhaereō Latin adhaerēnsder. Old French adherentbor. Middle English adherent English adherent English inadherent From in- + adherent. 1. Not adhering. Labels: not-comparable Example: an inadherent material 2. Free; not connected with the other organs. Labels: not-comparable Example: an inadherent intestine
Word: grandevous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin grandaevus (“old, aged”), from grandis (“grand”) + aevum (“lifetime, age”). 1. Of great age; aged; long-lived. Labels: obsolete Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:grandevous.
Word: errorful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From error + -ful. 1. Full of error; wrong. Example: They can scarce suffer privileges, that is to say, license to spoil our citizens, given them by our forefathers, and brought in by errorful custom, to be taken from them. 2. Involving error; not errorless.
Word: errorlessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From errorless + -ness. 1. Freedom from error. Labels: uncountable
Word: battering train Part of Speech: noun 1. A train of heavy artillery, such as battering rams and catapults, for siege operations. Labels: historical Example: When the fire reached this barrier, it was compelled to pause, until a concentration of its heat could overcome the moisture, like an army impatiently waiting the operations of a battering train, to open its way to death and desolation. Example: Be that as it might, numberless great guns, whose thunder had long been the voice of battle,—the artillery of the Armada, the battering-trains of Marlborough, and the adverse cannon of Napoleon and Wellington,—were trundled into the midst of the fire.
Word: battering trains Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of battering train Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bandrol Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of banderole. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Yeomen of the guard bearing halberds, trumpeters sounding loud flourishes, bea ers of standards, banners, guidons, pennons, pensils, and bandrols, heralds in coats of arms, pursuivants of arms and marshals of arms with[…] Example: The Crest Mantling and other accessories being out of place upon it, nevertheless it is not uncommon to see these, as well as their arms, painted upon the Banners, or rather Bandrols, of High Sheriffs at the reception[…]
Word: bandrols Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bandrol Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pseudomorphism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + -morphism or pseudomorph + -ism. 1. The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that of the species. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: pseudomorphisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pseudomorphism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scriptory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin scriptorius, from scribo (“to write”). Pronunciation: /ˈskɹɪptəɹi/ 1. Of or pertaining to writing; expressed or used in writing; written. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: scriptory evidence Example: scriptory declaration
Word: dambose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dambonite + -ose? 1. A crystalline variety of glucose obtained from dambonite. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: hoazin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hoatzin. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hoazins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hoazin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: odorament Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin odōrāmentum. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊdəɹəmənt/ 1. Something which gives off a scent; an odoriferous substance. Labels: archaic Example: Odoraments to smell to, of rose-water, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, etc., do much recreate the brains and spirits […]
Word: spoliative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French spoliatif. 1. Serving to take away, diminish, or rob. 2. Serving to take away, diminish, or rob. Labels: dated Example: spoliative bloodletting
Word: phyle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin phȳlē, from Ancient Greek φῡλή (phūlḗ, “a union of individuals into a community”). Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪli/ 1. A local division of the people; a clan or tribe. 2. A subdivision of the priestly caste in ancient Egypt, headed by a phylarch. Labels: historical
Word: phyles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phyle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chargeous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English charjous, from Anglo-Norman chargeous; equivalent to charge + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒəs/ 1. burdensome Labels: obsolete Example: In consideracion whereof, as also for that we apon certen consideracions have assigned accordinge your Majesties commaundemente unto therle of Desmonde for suche howse and lande as your Highnes gave unto him and his heiers masles for his better supportinge at his repayer to your Parliamentes and Counseilles parte of the manse and demaynes of the said Sent Mary Abbay, whereby the said Waltier, after thexpiring of his terme in the same beinge oncerten of any dwellinge place, must be compelled to resorte to the borders of the Yrishrie to another farme he hathe of your Majestie, where he shalbe daylie at grete charges for the defence of the same, and also for the contynewall resorte of the confyners thereaboute whose interteynmente wilbe chargeous unto him for a time, we shall moste humbly beseche your excellent Majestie, of your haboundant grace, to be his good and gracious Lorde, to gyve him for his relyffe and helpe some lycense for transportinge and conveyinge some grayne and lether or other marchandize out of your realme of Englande, and of your princely goodnesse to graunte him som farder estate of your Majesties said farme that he nowe occupieth apon the borders. Example: Now not in mine opinion only, but in the opinion of all the ancient gentlemen, freeholders and borderers of all these places, the easiest way and least chargeous to Her Majesty to reduce this matter were: — that if it would please Her Highness to give Bagenall his money which he paid for this barony and constableship, about 2,365l. besides his charges to his learned council to make his assurance, and her Majesty to take both land and constableship into Her own hands.
Word: odoraments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of odorament Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misbeseem Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + beseem. 1. To be unseemly on or from; to fail to suit. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Herald Boast like to this, laden to the full with truth, misbeseems not the speech of a noble wife.
Word: misbeseemed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of misbeseem Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: misbeseeming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misbeseem Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: misbeseems Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of misbeseem Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: shooty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shoot + -y. 1. Involving the shooting of weapons. Labels: informal Example: the swingy, shooty theatrics of Bionic Commando 2. Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: Increases of auxin up to 12 mg L–1 did not alter the shooty morphology of the callus.
Word: spagyrically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From spagyrical + -ly. 1. In a spagyric way; according to alchemical principles. Example: If you will have them spagirically prepared, look in Oswaldus Crollius, Basil. Chymica.
Word: glabrity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin glabritas. 1. smoothness or baldness. Labels: uncountable Example: I had had my beardal hair eradicated so that I could glory in a countenance of an infantile softness and an exquisite glabrity.
Word: hammercloth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Dutch hemel (“heaven, canopy, tester”) (akin to German Himmel, and perhaps also to English heaven) + cloth; or perhaps a corruption of hamper cloth. Pronunciation: /ˈhæməɹˌklɒθ/ 1. The cloth that covers a coachbox. Labels: archaic, historical Example: Nevertheless, a hackney-coachman, who seemed to have as many capes to his greasy great-coat as he was years old, packed me up in his coach and hemmed me in with a folding and jingling barrier of steps, as if he were going to take me fifty miles. His getting on his box, which I remember to have been decorated with an old weather-stained pea-green hammercloth motheaten into rags, was quite a work of time. Example: The mulberry-colored coach, apparently not too large for what it contained, though she alone was in it; the handsome, jolly coachman and his splendid hammer-cloth loaded with lace
Word: hammercloths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hammercloth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tonsile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin tonsilis, from tondere, tonsum (“to shear, clip”). See tonsure. 1. Capable of being clipped.
Word: diphtheritic Part of Speech: adj 1. Resembling or related to diphtheria. Example: diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder Example: diphtheritic paralysis
Word: evolvingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From evolving + -ly. 1. With evolution; so as to evolve or develop.
Word: revolvingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From revolving + -ly. 1. With revolution; so as to revolve or rotate. Labels: not-comparable
Word: physiognomize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From physiognomy + -ize. 1. To observe and study the physiognomy of. Labels: transitive Example: February 24 1796, Robert Southey, letter to Grovesnor C. Bedford Esq. I defy you or Mr. Shandy to physiognomize that man's name
Word: physiognomized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of physiognomize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: physiognomizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of physiognomize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: physiognomizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of physiognomize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present