nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: indecimable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- (“not”) + Latin decimare (“to tithe”). Compare French indécimable. See decimate. 1. Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes. Labels: not-comparable Example: What things be indecimable by the Law, and ought not to pay tithe.
Word: irrelapsable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ir + relapse + -able. 1. Not liable to relapse; unrelenting; secure. Example: irrelapsable condition
Word: epipharyngeal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From epi- + pharyngeal. 1. Pertaining to, or located at, the segments above the epibranchial in the branchial arches of fishes. Labels: not-comparable Example: epipharyngeal bar Example: epipharyngeal gland
Word: epipharyngeal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From epi- + pharyngeal. 1. An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage.
Word: epipharyngeals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of epipharyngeal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: baculine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin baculum (“staff”). 1. Of or pertaining to a rod or cane, or punishment with either of them. Labels: not-comparable Example: baculine discipline Example: baculine blows
Word: basifugal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From basi- + -fugal. 1. Tending or proceeding away from the base. Labels: not-comparable Example: a basifugal development Example: a basifugal evolution
Word: implacental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From im- + placental. 1. Not having a placenta (said of e.g. marsupials and monotremes). Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: implacental Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From im- + placental. 1. A mammal having no placenta. Labels: archaic
Word: implacentals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of implacental Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tolbooth Part of Speech: noun 1. The traditional municipal building of a Scottish town or burgh, usually including a meeting-hall, court, prison and (eponymically) a place for the receipt of taxes, duties and fines. Labels: Scotland 2. Archaic form of toll booth. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: tolbooths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tolbooth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mismeter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + meter. 1. To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. Labels: transitive
Word: mismetered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of mismeter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mismetering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mismeter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: inkhornism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inkhorn + -ism. 1. Pedantry; a preference for inkhorn terms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But the virus of unrestrained inkhornism lurks today, ready to damage the prose of writers who think there are no words in the language sufficiently refined to communicate their ideas and who believe that long, impressive-sounding words must represent impressive ideas. 2. An inkhorn term. Labels: countable Example: Mr. Will, whose inkhornisms remain a weekly treat, has had tough words for former White Housers who write tell-all books, so the younger George had better watch his tongue. Example: Grandiloquent terms in particular aimed to dignify the pedestrian. People might use “pseudo-Latinisms for relatively common things,” similar to the 17th-century inkhornisms that preceded them, Sheidlower said.
Word: inkhornisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inkhornism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inkhorns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inkhorn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: myochrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From myo- + -chrome. 1. myoglobin Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: fluavil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. 1. A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha as a yellow resinous substance. Labels: archaic
Word: fluavils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fluavil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: allodiaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of allodiary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: allodiary Part of Speech: noun 1. An allodium holder. Labels: dated, historical
Word: proletaneous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin proletaneus. 1. Having numerous offspring. Labels: rare Example: When heads of families did their shopping, they could unostentatiously slip into "The Stoat and Hammer," and manage the business of the nation upon those drastic principles so dear to the hearts of the proletarian and proletaneous dwellers in Little Lambton Street. Example: Twinning also was very common in the flock to which this proletaneous ewe belonged, for last year 402 ewes had produced 642 lambs .
Word: emissitious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin emissitius, from emittere. Pronunciation: /ɛmɪˈsɪʃəs/ 1. Looking, or narrowly examining; prying, nosy or meticulous. Labels: obsolete Example: Malicious Mass-Priest, cast back those emissitious eyes, to your own infamous Chair of Rome; and, if even in that thou canst discern no spectacles of abominable uncleanness, spend thy spiteful censures upon ours.
Word: somner Part of Speech: noun 1. A summoner; especially, one who summons to an ecclesiastical court. Labels: obsolete Example: Life, they may do any thing there, man, and fear neither beadle nor somner
Word: somners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of somner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cubitals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cubital Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coagent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + agent. 1. An associate or fellow agent, i.e. a coworker. Example: a coagent from MI5 2. A joint agent, something that acts with another Example: With a crew of ribalds, vallainous, and nought, As their coagents in this hatefull thing,
Word: coagents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coagent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tractioneer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of traction + engineer. 1. An operator of a farm tractor (steam tractor or gas tractor). Labels: obsolete
Word: tractioneers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tractioneer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thresherman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thresher + -man. 1. A male thresher, who beats the grain manually on a threshing floor. Labels: historical 2. The operator of a mechanical thresher (a threshing machine). Labels: historical 3. The owner-operator of a mechanical thresher, operating as a threshing business. Labels: historical
Word: threshermen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thresherman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: steam rollers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of steam roller Labels: form-of, plural
Word: MDNA Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: mDNA Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Abbreviation of murine DNA. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Abbreviation of murine DNA. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: LNAs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of LNA Labels: form-of, plural
Word: UNAs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of UNA Labels: form-of, plural
Word: geanticlines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of geanticline Labels: form-of, plural
Word: GNA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of glycol nucleic acid. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: GNAs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of GNA Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tillites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tillite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glycol nucleic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. A synthetic nucleic acid; an analogue of DNA in which the sugar backbone is glycerol or a related glycol
Word: peptide nucleic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. A synthetic organic polymer similar to DNA or RNA; the sugar backbone of nucleic acids is replaced by N-(2-aminoethyl)-glycine linked through peptide bonds - considered a possible precursor to RNA
Word: locked nucleic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. a synthetic form of RNA, in which the ribose is modified to be locked into a specific conformation by adding extra chemical bonding.
Word: BNA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of British North America. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: BNA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of bridged nucleic acid. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: BNAs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of BNA Labels: form-of, plural
Word: XNAs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of XNA Labels: form-of, plural
Word: threonucleic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. threose nucleic acid
Word: chelandion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek χελάνδιον (khelándion). 1. a Byzantine bireme used primarily for cargo transport Labels: historical
Word: dromon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek δρόμων (drómōn). 1. A Byzantine bireme, similar to the chelandion, but used primarily for naval combat. Labels: historical
Word: feeler gauge Part of Speech: noun 1. A set of thin metal strips, of known thickness, used to measure a narrow gap such as by go/no-go status or by the feel of how the gauge slides into the gap.
Word: fragmentation bomb Part of Speech: noun 1. An antipersonnel bomb that scatters shrapnel when it explodes
Word: Brissie Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Brisbane + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪzi/ 1. Brisbane (a large city, the capital city of Queensland, Australia) Labels: Australia, informal
Word: Brissie Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Brizzie Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Brissie. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: constructio ad sensum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From modern Latin cōnstrūctiō (“[grammatical] construction”) + ad (“toward, [according] to”) + sēnsum (accusative singular of sēnsus, abstractly “sense”, “notion”, “signification”): "grammatical construction according to [the] sense". Pronunciation: /kɒnˈstɹʌktɪəʊ æd ˈsɛnsəm/ 1. A grammatical construction in which a word’s inflection is determined by the semantics of the word or words with which it associates, in contravention of what is required by grammar. Example: St. John ſpeaks of her children, as if they were all of them ſons, and ſays nothing of daughters. For, though he uſes both ver. 1. and ver. 4. the neuter τεκνα, which when uſed by itſelf may include daughters as well as ſons, yet, ſince he adds in the former inſtance ȣ῾ς εγω αγαπω, and in the latter inſtance ϖεριπατȣντας εν αληθειᾳ, the maſculine relative and participle reſtrict the ſenſe to ſons aloneʰ. Example: Peculiarities in the order of words, occasional omissions of a word or words, constructiones ad sensum, carelessnesses, or roughness of style, and even positively bad writing, are faithfully reproduced.
Word: hogchoker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Said to be from hog + choker, because the scaly fish could get stuck in the throats of pigs when fed to them. 1. Trinectes maculatus, a small flatfish found along the coast of parts of North America.
Word: hogchokers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hogchoker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cockatoo farmer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably refers to the practice of working a small patch of land for a short period before moving on, in the manner of a feeding cockatoo. Alternatively so called to compare the farmers with the common sulphur-crested cockatoo, which come down on the newly sown cornfields in myriads. 1. A small-scale farmer. Labels: Australia, derogatory, obsolete Example: The cockatoo farmer of South Australia lives a plentiful but not a picturesque life, and unless he gets hopelessly into debt is his own master. Example: “ Does it pay to breed cockatoos ?” said Archie innocently. “Don′t be the death o′ me, Johnnie. A cockatoo farmer is just a crofter.[…]”
Word: consecrater Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of consecrator. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: consecraters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of consecrater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inchastities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inchastity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inchastity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + chastity: compare French inchasteté. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈt͡ʃæstɪti/ 1. Absence of chastity; the quality of being unchaste. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable Example: In pre-Christian Roman belief it might be held as better not to indulge in extramarital sex, as a courtesy more than a due to one’s partner, or because character was believed to derive from having the strength to resist vice […] but, such rationalisations aside, male inchastity did not matter as such. Female inchastity could threaten bloodlines and property transfer, and so from the earliest times very much did matter: […] in fact, Chrysostom refutes in detail the legal position that only women’s inchastity signified in marriage, in a passage so full of reproach and repetition […] that we may infer that he too is meeting a dead weight of inertia, if not active opposition, from his hearers. Example: The relevant Qur’anic verse (Ayât) is very similar to the English law on slander per se and the imputation of inchastity for women.
Word: enanguished Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From en- + anguish + -ed. 1. Filled with anguish. Labels: archaic
Word: enhorrored Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From en- + horror + -ed. 1. Filled with horror. Labels: archaic Example: Victoria advanced with furious looks—she shook the branches of the tree, that Lilia might fall headlong. Enhorrored at this terrible menace, the miserable girl quitted suddenly her hold […]
Word: smift Part of Speech: noun 1. A slow match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.
Word: smifts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of smift Labels: form-of, plural
Word: geolatry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From geo- + -latry. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiːˈɒlətɹi/ 1. The worship of the Earth. Labels: uncountable Example: To this succeeded astrolatry in the East, and geolatry in the West, where the idea of the earth as a susceptible and productive agent led to the distinction of male and female divinities
Word: ringbill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ring + bill. 1. Aythya collaris, a diving duck of North America with a white band around the bill.
Word: ringbills Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ringbill Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retrovert Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From retro- + Latin vertere, versum (“to turn”). Compare retrorse. 1. To turn back; to return to a previous state.
Word: retrovert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From retro- + Latin vertere, versum (“to turn”). Compare retrorse. 1. One who returns to their original creed.
Word: retroverting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of retrovert Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: retroverts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of retrovert Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: wallaba Part of Speech: noun 1. A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves, reddish-brown wood, and clusters of red flowers. Example: The wild red sage is also their favourite shrub, and they buzz like bees round the blossom of the wallaba tree.
Word: wallabas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wallaba Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shakefork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shake + fork. 1. A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork. Labels: obsolete 2. A pall, especially one which stops short of the edges of the shield and which has pointed ends. Example: CUNNINGHAM of GLENGARNOCK, descended of a second Son of Henry Cuninghame of Kilmaures, and his Spouse Riddel Heiress of Glengarnock […] carry Argent, a Shakefork Sable, charged with a Cinque foil of the first: […] Example: CUNYNGHAME of Milneraig and Livingston (L. O., 1775). Argent, a shakefork sable between three fleurs-de-lis azure, one in chief and two in flank.
Word: shakeforks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shakefork Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rubiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin rubifōrmis, from ruber (“red”) + -fōrmis. 1. reddish Labels: archaic Example: the rubiform rays of the sun
Word: gamashes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French gamaches. 1. High boots or buskins. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes, brodkins, gambadoes, shoes, pumps, slippers, and every cobbled ware wrought and made steadable for the use of man. Example: In the warmest corner of all, his face aglow with firelight and good liquor, sat Master Pothier dit Robin, with his gown tucked up to his waist as he toasted his legs and old gamashes in the genial warmth of a bright fire. 2. Short spatterdashes, gaiters or jodhpurs, worn as an outer garment over other clothing. Labels: Scotland, plural, plural-only Example: Upon his legs he had gamashes, Which sogers ca' their spatterdashes
Word: cropsick Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From crop (“stomach”) + sick. 1. Sick in the stomach, especially from excess in eating or drinking. Labels: obsolete Example: By my soul, Jack, if I had not been taken thus egregiously cropsick, I would have been up with thee, and the lady too, before now. Example: crop-sick drunkards
Word: voltigeur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French voltigeur, from voltiger (“to vault”), Italian volteggiare. See volt (“a tread”). 1. One of a picked company of skirmishers in each regiment of the French infantry during the Napoleonic Wars. Labels: historical 2. A ranger. Labels: Canada
Word: voltigeurs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of voltigeur Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clancular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin clanculārius, from clanculum (“secretly”), adverbial diminutive of clam (“secretly”). Pronunciation: /ˈklæŋkjʊlə(ɹ)/ 1. Conducted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed. Labels: obsolete Example: Not close and clancular, but frank and open.
Word: corruptionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From corruption + -ist. 1. Someone who corrupts, or who is prone to corruption. Example: The first effort of the corruptionist is to fix the epithet Speculative upon any scheme which he thinks may cherish the spirit of reform
Word: corruptionists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corruptionist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pentacrostic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From penta- + acrostic. 1. A set of verses arranged so that the name of the subject occurs five times, the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom. Example: There were also pentacrostics, where the name was repeated five times. Example: 1872, Crack (pseud.), Whetstones for wits; or, Double acrostics There are instances […] of pentacrostics, i.e., of acrostics where the required letters form five columns in the poem. An average specimen of these is the Latin acrostic in hexameter verse, prefixed to the first volume of Father Bluteau's Portuguese Dictionary, in praise of the author.
Word: pentacrostics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pentacrostic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sterno- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From sternal + -o-. Pronunciation: /stɜː.nə(ʊ)/, /stɝ.noʊ/, /stɝ.nə/ 1. Of or pertaining to the sternum. Labels: morpheme
Word: glaringness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glaring + -ness. 1. The quality of being glaring. Labels: uncountable
Word: panabase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pan- + base, in allusion to the number of metals it contains. 1. tetrahedrite Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: hernani Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the town of Hernani in Spain. 1. A thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Hernani, silk and cotton […] Hernani, entirely of silk Example: A novelty this season is the wide mesh hernani in all colors; […]
Word: hernanis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hernani Labels: form-of, plural
Word: irrision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin irrīsiō, from irrīdēre (“to laugh at”); ir- (“in”) + rīdeō (“to laugh”): compare French irrision. Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹɪʒən/ 1. The act of laughing at another; derision. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: This being spoken scopticè, or by way of irrision. Example: From thence he was carried back to Jerusalem, first to Annas, then to Caiaphas, and (as late as it was) then he was examined and buffeted, and delivered over to the custody of those officers from whom he received all those irrisions […]
Word: pertransient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin pertransiens, present participle of pertransire. 1. Passing through; transient. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: I will not stick summarily to deliuer somewhat more concerning lines Armoriall: which, first, are either Entire, and Pertransient, or Entire and Pertingent, or parts of them. Example: Interſecants, in Heraldry, are pertranſient Lines which croſs one another.
Word: bink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bink, binke, variants of Middle English benk, benke, from Old English benc (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. More at bench. 1. To shelter or become trapped on a ledge or crag. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal Example: On June 2nd, the last day of this season, Bowman spent six hours extricating as many hounds who had got themselves binked on Catle Crag in Mardale. Example: We peer over the edge—it is far more pleasant to kneel down on one knee and steady oneself with one hand, besides being safer, in the event of the edge being rotten or should a wind be blowing—we peer over the edge, and see the fox run lightly along a slightly projecting crag, from which with a sidelong scramble up a rough rock face, it reaching a narrow grassy "bink" ledge, and there it is binked as safe as the Church of England (just about). 2. To cut a bink in peat moss. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal Example: On June last he caused his servants cast a number of "peittis for elding unto his hous in the mosse of belonging to him heritablie, and they having binked the same and left thame in the mosse , " returned home to their master's house at night .
Word: bink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of binky. 1. A pacifier. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal Example: Even though we don't agree with the practice of the use of the bink in our house, Gideon was an exception. Example: Of course, we create the problem to begin with by offering a bink to newborn babies.
Word: bink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeia 1. A musical, percussive noise; plink. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal Example: The knob turned—.bink, bink, bink, on the treble keys . Example: I was looking at the rack to wee what cam I could pop in when I heard this "bink! " sound , and I looked up and saw big loops of the rope falling toward me.
Word: bink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeia 1. To make a bink noise. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal Example: My tinny typing binked. Example: From the palm of her hand, Farah's iPhone binked and chirped once every minute or so with calls or text messages, but she was ignoring them. 2. To poke lightly. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal Example: It didn't hurt, not at all, but at that moment, as that ballpoint binked my chest, something binked inside my head. Example: Carmen gave her a toothy grin and binked her on the nose with a forefinger. 3. To win, especially a substantial amount due to luck. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: binks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bink Labels: form-of, plural
Word: corporally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From corporal + -ly. 1. In or with the body; bodily. Example: to be corporally present Example: although Christ be not corporally in the outward visible signs, yet he is corporally in the persons that duly receive them
Word: primatical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From primate + -ical. 1. Of or pertaining to a primate (the church thing, not the monkeys). Labels: archaic Example: Before I proceed any further I ſhall briefly dravv ſome Corollaries from this Hiſtorical account vvhich I have given of the original and grovvth of Metropolitical, Primatical, and Patriarchal Juriſdiction.
Word: ycarried Part of Speech: verb Etymology: y- + carried 1. past participle of carry Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past
Word: clustery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cluster + -y. 1. Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Example: The green, clustery, Alpine Bryum
Word: circ Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See circus. Pronunciation: /sɝk/, /sɜːk/ 1. An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus. Labels: obsolete Example: It is remarkable, that circs of the same ſort are still to be seen in Cornwall
Word: circ Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of circumcision. Clipping of circumcise. Pronunciation: /sɝk/, /sɜːk/ 1. Circumcision. Labels: informal Example: During the pre-NHS 1930s, circumcision was as fashionable among the British middle class as confirmation. Breech deliveries were said to be popular with both obstetrician and anaesthetist, a boy assuring them early in the birth of 'a couple of guineas next week for the circ.' Example: The circ is progressing apace when, without warning, one of the nurses bursts in from outside, and I mean bursts in, as opposed to entering soundlessly and unobtrusively as we all try to (with the exception of the attending surgeons, who always burst in), and tells us, "Someone just crashed a plane into one of the Twin Towers."
Word: circ Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of circumcision. Clipping of circumcise. Pronunciation: /sɝk/, /sɜːk/ 1. To circumcise. Labels: informal Example: Again, I don't think I was *wrong* to circ my son, though some may choose to disagree quite loudly with that statement; I just think not circing is a better decision. Example: I'm not stating how i feel either way but i like it that my husband was circed.
Word: irreconciliable Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of irreconcilable. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: subsphenoidal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + sphenoidal. 1. Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone. Labels: not-comparable Example: subsphenoidal canal Example: subsphenoidal confluent
Word: cléché Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of cleché. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: proleptics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proleptic + -ics. 1. The art and science of predicting in medicine. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: At the best, the student of proleptics will anticipate paralysis, premature senility, and asthenic apoplexy towards middle life, when he finds the pulse feeble, and the spirits correspondingly low in youth, unless remedial measures be adopted in good time, and persevered in with due diligence. Example: Of course the science of proleptics recognises no mysterious or supernatural agency more than is recognised in astronomy, or any other natural science; it is founded altogether on the observation of phenomena, with a special reference to the order in which they arise. 2. The art of making of predictions. Labels: broadly, obsolete, uncountable Example: The desire to know definitely and presciently is also one of the most urgent of the instincts proper of man; it leads him on to the most mystical speculations as to the future, and is the orectic basis of all the arts of divination, as well as of scientific Proleptics or anticipation of the order of nature. Example: try to divine the inevitable fortunes of your friends, and of the leaders and rulers of nations; endeavour to previse and forewarn; and study proleptics. 3. The act of making prophecies. Labels: uncountable Example: To be sure the anticipatory proleptics of the "historical survey in future-form" associated with pseudonymity rests upon the literary fiction of the pre-historicality of the revelation of these secrets; but this fictionality is intended to emphasize precisely by means of its esoteric quality that God will allow the elect righteous (cf. I Enoch 1:1) and wise persons (cf. I Enoch 100:6, 104:12) of the present day to participate already in his revelation that has proceeded from the mouths of the righeous and wise ones of pre-history, through the "literary" medium of the book. Example: Eschatology and proleptics aside, I think this is a really stupid way to read a mystery novel. 4. The elaboration and exploration of proleptic themes and ideas; the employment of prolepsis. Labels: uncountable Example: Getting action can make use of prolepsis; that is, getting action may proceed by inveigling others to take an anachronistic view of the future. Either way, proleptics is for them an art of paradox. Example: This is literary identity-formation in Harold Bloom's sense of the proleptics that lead to oneself, whether those origins are one's own early poems or other young writers that represent a new beginning for poetry. 5. plural of proleptic. Labels: form-of, plural, uncountable
Word: punctiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin punctum (“point”) + -iform. 1. pointed; pointy 2. Having the form of a tiny dot.
Word: prillion Part of Speech: noun 1. Tin extracted from the slag. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: powderings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of powdering Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cibol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French ciboule and Middle English chibolle, from Old Northern French chibole; both ultimately from Latin cepulla. 1. A perennial onion plant, Allium fistulosum, commonly called Welsh onion. Labels: obsolete Example: SKATE WITH LIVER SAUCE: CRIMP or cut the skate into pieces, boil and serve on it a sauce made as follows: - Put into a sauce-pan, parsley, cibol, mushrooms, a clove of garlic, all finely minced, and a little butter; give it a turn or teo on the fire, and add a good dust of flour, then a bit of butter, capers, and a minced anchovy, the liver of the skate, first boiled and bruised, pepper, and salt; moisten it with gravy or water, and thicken it on the fire. Example: The herbs generally employed in the fourniture are chervil, tarragon, chives, or cibol.
Word: acrospore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From acro- + spore. Pronunciation: /ˈækrəˌspɔːr/, /ˈækrəˌspɔː/ 1. A fungal spore produced at the tip of a specialized hypha. Labels: obsolete Example: In all these (which to the naked eye appear as patches of a white woolly substance) the fruit, or acrospores, as they are called in technical language, are situated on the tips of certain upright threads, sometimes solitary, but more generally branched, so as to have the appearance of miniature forest trees, only that there are no leaves, and that each branchlet supports at its apex a single round or oval acrospore. Example: In most cases the apex of the acrospore is obtuse, and the entire body has a violet tint, more or less deep; in some it is completely colourless. These acrospores, when placed in favourable conditions, will germinate, and, in fact, comport themselves in the manner of true spores.
Word: acrospores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acrospore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cachinnatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cachinnate + -ory. Pronunciation: /ˈkakɪnəˌtəɹi/ 1. Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter. Example: But these jests, and others of a similar nature, had evidently produced, at no time, any effect upon the cachinnatory muscles of the tar.
Word: dentigerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin dentis (“genitive singular of dens”) + -gerous (“bearing”). 1. Bearing teeth or tooth-like structures; of or pertaining to tissue from which teeth develop. Labels: not-comparable Example: They usually bear teeth on a dentigerous process or, occasionally, as in Hemiphractus, odontoids (projections of bone resembling teeth). Example: Occasionally dentigerous cysts may be lined partially or wholly by pseudostratified columnar epithelium with cilia and mucous cells.
Word: dislikelihood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + likelihood. 1. improbability Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: “ But consider , Chiffie , the dislikelihood of her pleasing , ” said the noble courtier.
Word: holcad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin holcas, from Ancient Greek ὁλκάς (holkás). Compare hulk. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒlkæd/ 1. A large merchantman ship in Ancient Greece. Labels: historical Example: The storeships provided by the Athenian government , which carried also both sutlers and artificers , were thirty of large burden of the kind called holcads, and a hundred smaller[…]
Word: holcads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of holcad Labels: form-of, plural
Word: postscapula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From post- + scapula. 1. The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula. Labels: dated, no-plural
Word: profulgent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pro- + Latin fulgeō (“to shine”). Pronunciation: /pɹəˈfʌld͡ʒənt/ 1. Shining out; gleaming. Labels: obsolete Example: Truth may stand forth unmoved of change, / An image with profulgent brows, / And perfect limbs, […]
Word: pearlash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pearl + ash. Compare potash. 1. A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: unconsecrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + consecrate. 1. To render not sacred; to remove sanctity. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: unconsecrated and profaned that sacred edifice
Word: unconsecrates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unconsecrate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unconsecrating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unconsecrate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: prebookings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prebooking Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disarmature Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + armature. 1. The act of stripping of armor or defence. Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: terminism Part of Speech: noun 1. The Christian doctrine that there is a time limit for repentance from sin, after which God no longer wills the conversion and salvation of the sinner. Labels: uncountable
Word: steatomatous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From steatoma + -ous. 1. Of the nature of a steatoma. Labels: not-comparable Example: steatomatous thickening Example: steatomatous tumor
Word: shelfy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shelf + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛlfi/ 1. Abounding in shelves; containing crossbedded hard and soft layers that result in rocky shelves at varying angles. Example: And, o'er the dang'rous deep, secure the navy flies; / Glides by the Sirens' cliffs, a shelfy coast, / Long infamous for ships and sailors lost Example: The procedure and the results of calculating the wave regime in the example of the shelfy water of the Black Sea are discussed. Analogous data with respect to the wave regime can be obtained for all shelfy bodies of water of the inland and shelf seas of the USSR . 2. Full of strata of rock. Labels: obsolete Example: The tillable fields are in some places […] so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten his root. Example: The vegetable Soils may be distinguished into three sorts, the black and gritty, the shelfy slatty Soil, and the stiff reddish Soil, approaching more to the nature of Clay. 3. Shelf-like; resembling or pertaining to a shelf. Example: His rosebud lay on shelfy breast,And deem it quite a fragrant jest. Example: I hit my head on that shelfy thing every time I stand up. 4. Relatively horizontal and flat with low friction. Example: Reduced models have long been used to describe the mechanics of ice sheets and ice shelves, while more recently a shelf-like model has been used to describe the mechanics of shelfy streams, where the basal friction is ' small ' in a precisely definable sense. Example: For many purposes this means we do not have to consider shelfy streams as part of the marine ice sheet system. Moreover, since the slopes of shelfy streams are controlled by the same processes which control shelves, the same arguments about the transfer of kinematical information between shelfy stream and meso-traction stream as were used for shelf and sheet hold; the meso-traction stream does not 'see' the shelfy stream.
Word: terminist Part of Speech: noun 1. One who supports the doctrine of terminism.
Word: terminists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of terminist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hell-brewed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Hell + brewed. 1. Prepared in Hell. Labels: nonce-word, not-comparable, poetic Example: hel-brew'd opiate
Word: pistilliferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pistil + -i- + -ferous; compare French pistillifère. 1. Having pistils; pistillate.
Word: empeople Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From em- + people. 1. To form into a people or community. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To fill with people; to populate. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: We now know 't is very well empeopled.
Word: empeoples Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of empeople Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: empeopling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of empeople Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reeligible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From re- + eligible. 1. Eligible again; capable of reelection. Labels: not-comparable Example: she is reeligible for the same office
Word: tylari Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tylarus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tylarus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin tylarus, from Ancient Greek τυλάριον (tulárion, “cushion”). 1. One of the soft pads on the undersurface of the toes of some birds, such as owls and ospreys.
Word: insaturable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin īnsaturābilis. Compare French insaturable, Portuguese insaturável. See in- (“not”) + saturable. 1. Not capable of being saturated.
Word: forefence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore- + fence. 1. A defense at the front. Labels: obsolete
Word: forefences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forefence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: primogenitureship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From primogeniture + -ship. 1. The right of the first-born child (especially a son) to inherit property or titles; primogeniture. Labels: uncountable Example: [A]ll the younger branches of those families were disinherited, and the law of primogenitureship set up.
Word: sunflowery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sunflower + -y. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a sunflower. Example: c. 1877-1882, Algernon Charles Swinburne, letter I am well into the second book or canto of your Tristram, containing the adventure illustrated by Morris on the walls of the Oxford Union in the sunflowery style which you may remember. Example: There is a way it seems to us to see sunflowers not just as some more shaped and colored things, but as what has a distinctively sunflowery look.
Word: centrolinead Part of Speech: noun 1. An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a centre. Labels: historical
Word: centrolineads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of centrolinead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haybird Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hay + bird. 1. The European spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata). 2. The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla).
Word: haybirds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haybird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: connaturally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From connatural + -ly. 1. In a connatural manner.
Word: nuthook Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nut + hook. 1. A hook on a pole to pull down boughs for gathering nuts. 2. A thief who steals by means of a hook. Labels: obsolete 3. A bailiff who metaphorically hooks or seizes malefactors; a policeman; a constable. Labels: obsolete Example: Nuthook, nuthook, you lie.
Word: nuthooks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nuthook Labels: form-of, plural
Word: connately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From connate + -ly. 1. In a connate fashion.
Word: tenuirostral Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a thin bill (said of birds belonging to the former group of birds Tenuirostres Labels: obsolete Example: The tenuirostral birds included the hummingbirds.
Word: enwind Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + wind. 1. To wind around (something); to encircle or wrap up. Labels: transitive Example: Love, the third, Between us, in the circle of his arms Enwound us both; […] Example: Prais’d be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
Word: enwinding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enwind Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enwinds Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of enwind Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: enwound Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of enwind Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ironwort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From iron + wort. 1. A herb of several species in the genus Sideritis, formerly believed to heal sword cuts. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Galeopsis ladanum, red hemp-nettle. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: prolocutorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prolocutor + -ship. 1. The rank or office of a prolocutor. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: prolocutorships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prolocutorship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: alamodality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From à la mode + -ality. 1. The quality of being fashionable. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Doubtless it hath been selected for me because of its alamodality,- a good and pregnant word, on the fitness of which some German whose name appears to be erroneously as well as uncouthly written Geamoenus, is said to have composed a dissertation. Example: Gwendolyn Hackworth hadn't packed a parasol, but she was untroubled; she'd always had a kind of natural, unconscious alamodality.
Word: adipocerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From adipocere + -ous. 1. Like, or containing, adipocere. Example: adipocerous skin Example: adipocerous transformation
Word: privatively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From privative + -ly. 1. In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively. Labels: not-comparable Example: ordinary despair in our spiritual: then privatively, depriving us of that which is the mother and soul of our obedience and good works , I mean faith
Word: truttaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin trutta (“trout”), Latin tructa. See trout. 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trout. Labels: archaic
Word: prosecutorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prosecutor + -ship. 1. The rank or office of prosecutor.
Word: prosecutorships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prosecutorship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prosecutorially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From prosecutorial + -ly. 1. In a prosecutorial manner or context. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonprosecutorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + prosecutorial. 1. Not prosecutorial. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonlate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + late. 1. Not late. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonphased Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + phased. 1. Not phased. Labels: not-comparable
Word: haematosin Part of Speech: noun 1. hematin Labels: uncountable
Word: septicidal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From septum + Latin caedere (“to cut”). Compare French septicide. 1. Exhibiting or relating to a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels. Labels: not-comparable Example: septicidal capsules Example: septicidal dehiscence
Word: parturitive Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to parturition; obstetric. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: spiralization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spiral + -ization. 1. the act of forming into a spiral
Word: spiralize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From spiral + -ize. 1. To form into a spiral. Labels: intransitive, transitive
Word: carpetmonger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From carpet + monger. 1. One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
Word: carpetmongers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of carpetmonger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Hellenistically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Hellenistic + -ally. 1. According to the Hellenistic manner or dialect. Example: ſo Shakar moſt properly ſignifieth, but is often rendred by the Lxx ἀδικία which therefore may bear the same ſignification Helleniſtically in this place
Word: democraty Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of democracy. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: I could name him who from his private house wrote that Discourse to the Parlament of Athens , that perswades them to change the forme of Democraty which was then establisht
Word: beely Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bee + -ly. 1. Of, relating to or pertaining to bees; apian. Labels: rare Example: As for bees, we cannot accuse them of silence, as the peculiar buzzing-sound they make in flying, [...] and which is so very agreeable to our ears when its gentle monotony enlivens the calm of the warm summer air, is, we may hope, a cheerful accompaniment to all beely labours, and as pleasant to those who make it as our voices are to us, […] Example: With their countenance' spaces / Planned for beely enterprise […]
Word: beely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From bee + -ly. 1. In a beelike manner. Labels: humorous, rare Example: His effort is to come as near 100 percent as is humanly (and beely) possible.
Word: beely Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of belie. 1. Obsolete form of belie. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: And were it not that I haue a desire in nothing to beely the author, and lesse will to leaue that which he had wrytten vpon the miserable end [...]
Word: frogly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From frog + -ly (suffix forming adjectives). 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of frogs. Example: 1877, "The Centennial Frog", The Centennial Frog, and Other Stories, publ. by Clazton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, page 14. Lieutenant Frog's rich frogly voice / Husky grew with his great theme; Example: […] and when at last they arrive at frogly maturity, they escape into the world through the mouth of their father.
Word: frogly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From frog + -ly (suffix forming adverbs). 1. In a frog-like manner. Labels: humorous, nonce-word Example: Toadly awesome!" "Not toadly," said Michael, laughing. "Gorfman's a frog." "It's frogly awesome," said Charu.
Word: pink slime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently first applied to food in 2002 by Food Safety and Inspection Service microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein. Pronunciation: /ˌpɪŋk ˈslaɪm/ 1. An undesirable pink-colored microbial mass occurring in the slurry used in making paper. Labels: uncountable Example: Pink slime is a real and continuing problem in many paper mills. Once established it may be difficult to ... Holmes (15, 16) and Sanborn (24) stated that yeasts or yeast-like fungi were often the cause of pink slime. 2. A meat byproduct produced from scraps by heating and then treating with ammonia to produce a food additive. Labels: colloquial, derogatory, uncountable Example: Pink slime is allowed in any school in America by the USDA. Example: You’ve heard about the “pink slime,” right? It’s that meat filler made from slaughterhouse scraps that is treated with ammonia. 3. Low-quality, mass-produced internet content, especially AI-generated. Labels: broadly, uncountable Example: I paid a website developer to create a fully automated, AI-generated ‘pink-slime’ news site, programmed to create false political stories. 4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, slime. Slime which is pink. Labels: uncountable Example: Water flowed down the cliff, showering on their heads; the stone under their feet was slick with pink slime. Example: The pastry room was a further revelation. Six young girls in white coats and white hats were dusting white flour over small pre-formed pastry lids, which were then glued onto cups of uncooked short crust filled with pink slime.
Word: preintimation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + intimation. 1. Previous intimation; a suggestion beforehand. Example: And a preintimation of this was preached to Abraham […]
Word: preintimations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of preintimation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: decardinalize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + cardinal + -ize. 1. To depose from the rank of cardinal. Labels: transitive