nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: dictatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Classical Latin dictātōrius. By surface analysis, dictate + -ory. 1. Exessively strict. Example: [B]ut rather, as I hope, for that our Engliſh, the language of men ever famous, and formoſt in the atchievements of liberty, will not eaſily finde ſervile letters anow to ſpell ſuch a dictatorie preſumption Engliſh. Example: There is philosophercraft as well as priestcraft, both from one source, both of one spirit. In English cities and towns, the minister of religion has been tamed: so many weapons are bared against him when he obtrudes his office in a dictatory manner, that, as a rule, there is no more quiet and modest member of society than the urban clergyman.
Word: dictatory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French dictatorie, from Classical Latin dictātor + Middle French -ie. By surface analysis, dictate + -ory. 1. Synonym of dictate. Labels: nonstandard, obsolete 2. Synonym of dictatorship. Labels: nonstandard, obsolete Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:dictatories.
Word: swashy Part of Speech: adj 1. swashbuckling Labels: informal Example: a swashy film adaptation of Robin Hood 2. soft, flabby or squishy Labels: UK, archaic
Word: sycophantish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sycophant + -ish. 1. Like a sycophant; sycophantic
Word: irreligionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ir- + religion + -ist. 1. An irreligious person
Word: irreligionists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of irreligionist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nurstle Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of nursle. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete
Word: nurstled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of nurstle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: nurstling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of nurstle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: excruciable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin excruciabilis (“deserving of torture”). 1. Liable to torment. Labels: archaic Example: With the same heroic devotion with which they went forth to fight the battles of their country, firmly clinging to the dear old flag, they died the most excruciable deaths possible for rebel tyrants to inflict.
Word: imitational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From imitation + -al. 1. Pertaining to, employed in, or using, imitation. Example: imitational behaviour Example: imitational teaching
Word: albinotic Part of Speech: adj 1. Affected with albinism; albinistic.
Word: lithoglyph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From litho- + glyph. 1. An engraving on a gemstone.
Word: lithoglyphs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lithoglyph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: revengeable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From revenge + -able. 1. Capable of being revenged. Example: a revengeable wrong
Word: trinervate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin trinervatus, from tri- + nervus (“nerve”). 1. Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex. Labels: not-comparable
Word: fungin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fungus (“mushroom”). Compare French fongine, fungine. 1. A cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: hot-livered Part of Speech: adj 1. Of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered. Labels: archaic Example: [Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.
Word: lecherer Part of Speech: noun 1. A lecher. Example: 1598-1601, John Marston, Here's a toy to mocke an Ape indeede To the Theaters I finde thee once more come for lecherers To satiate ?
Word: lecherers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lecherer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: remerge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + merge. 1. To merge again. Example: That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]
Word: remerge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + merge. 1. An act of merging again.
Word: remerges Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of remerge Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: remerges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of remerge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: remerging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of remerge Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wardsman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ward + -s- + man. 1. A man who keeps watch; a guard or warden Example: Wardsmen, selected in each yard among the best of the prisoners, are very serviceable. If prisoners work, they should work in silence 2. Someone who is responsible for representing or managing a specific ward within a city or municipality.
Word: wardsmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wardsman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kiver Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kivɚ/, /kɪvɚ/ 1. To cover. Labels: archaic, dialectal
Word: kiver Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kivɚ/, /kɪvɚ/ 1. Cover. Labels: archaic, dialectal 2. A shallow wooden vessel or tub. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:kiver.
Word: kivers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kiver Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kivering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of kiver Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: kivered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of kiver Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: antimoniated Part of Speech: adj 1. Combined or prepared with antimony. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: antimoniated tartar or silver
Word: cizars Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of scissors. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, plural, plural-only Example: a pair of Cizars
Word: globularness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From globular + -ness. 1. The quality of being globular. Labels: uncountable
Word: submedial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + medial. 1. Lying near, but offset from, the middle. Labels: not-comparable
Word: palisado Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of palisade. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: [T]he Eyelids are fortify'd vvith little ſtiffe briſtles as vvith Paliſadoes, againſt the aſſault of Flyes and Gnats, and ſuch like bold Animalcula.
Word: palisado Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of palisade. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: He provided a table sixty feet in diameter, upon which I was to act my part, and palisadoed it round three feet from the edge, and as many high, to prevent my falling over. Example: The sea breaks upon this coast against a palisadoed fence of rocks and cliffs, around which swarm flocks of polar birds with cries and screams.
Word: cum-dumpster Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cum dumpster. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cum-dumpsters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cum-dumpster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bow-ties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bow-tie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ugly finders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ugly finder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ugly-finder Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ugly finder. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ugly-finders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ugly-finder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crystalline humor Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of crystalline humour. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: crystalline humour Part of Speech: noun 1. The lens of the eye. Labels: obsolete Example: And then again, the parts of the Eye are made Convex, that there might be a direction of many rayes coming from one point of the Object unto one point answerable in the bottom of the Eye; to which purpose the Crystalline Humour is of great moment, and without which the sight would be very obscure and weak.
Word: bipunctate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bi- + punctate. 1. Having two punctures or spots. Labels: not-comparable Example: bipunctate impression Example: bipunctate striae
Word: embroiler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From embroil + -er. 1. One who embroils.
Word: embroilers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of embroiler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: erectable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From erect + -able. 1. Capable of being erected or raised up. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] on the crown of the head the feathers are long, and erectable in form of a crest […]
Word: gelatiniferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gelatin + -i- + -ferous. 1. Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: gelatiniferous tissue Example: gelatiniferous fibres
Word: heptarchist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From heptarchy + -ist. 1. A ruler of one division of a heptarchy. Labels: historical
Word: heptarchists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heptarchist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interambulacral Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to the interambulacra. Labels: not-comparable Example: interambulacral plate Example: interambulacral region
Word: liplet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lip + -let. 1. A small lip. Example: Her liplets twain old wine contain, And dews of fount-like purity: Her teeth resemble strings o' pearls, Arrayed in line and fresh from sea
Word: liplets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of liplet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misrepresenter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From misrepresent + -er. 1. One who misrepresents.
Word: misrepresenters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misrepresenter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peripetalous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From peri- + petalous. 1. Surrounding, or situated around, the petals. Labels: not-comparable Example: peripetalous fasciole
Word: recompensive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From recompense + -ive. 1. Serving to recompense or reward Example: This is the day that must make good that great attribute of God, his justice, that must reconcile those unanswerable doubts which torment the wisest understandings, and reduce those seeming inequalities and respective distributions in the world, to an equality and recompensive Justice in the next.
Word: smicker Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English smiker, from Old English smicer, smicor (“beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, neat, tasteful”), from Proto-West Germanic *smikr, from Proto-Germanic *smikraz (“fine, elegant, delicate, tender”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to smear, stroke, wipe, rub”). Cognate with Middle High German smecker (“neat, elegant”), Ancient Greek σμικρός (smikrós), μικρός (mikrós, “small, short”), Lithuanian smeigti (“to lunge, thrust, jab”), Latin mīca (“crumb, morsel, bit”). For the verb, compare Swedish smickra (“to flatter, coax, wheedle, butter up”), Danish smigre (“to flatter”). Pronunciation: /ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/ 1. Elegant; fine; attractive, beautiful. Labels: archaic Example: No, his deep-reaching spirit could not brook The fond addiction to such vanity; Regardful of his honour he forsook The smicker use of court-humanity. 2. Amorous; wanton. Labels: archaic 3. Handsome; spruce; smart, dapper. Labels: archaic Example: A smicker boy, a lither swain, Heigh ho, a smicker swain, That his love was wanton fain, […]
Word: smicker Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English smiker, from Old English smicer, smicor (“beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, neat, tasteful”), from Proto-West Germanic *smikr, from Proto-Germanic *smikraz (“fine, elegant, delicate, tender”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to smear, stroke, wipe, rub”). Cognate with Middle High German smecker (“neat, elegant”), Ancient Greek σμικρός (smikrós), μικρός (mikrós, “small, short”), Lithuanian smeigti (“to lunge, thrust, jab”), Latin mīca (“crumb, morsel, bit”). For the verb, compare Swedish smickra (“to flatter, coax, wheedle, butter up”), Danish smigre (“to flatter”). Pronunciation: /ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/ 1. To look amorously or wantonly. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: […] Maskall, must you be smickering after wenches, while I am in calamity? 2. To look or smile seductively or amorously. Labels: Scotland, archaic, intransitive 3. To laugh or smile in a sniggering or leering way; smirk. Labels: Scotland, archaic, intransitive Example: I gave him a questioning look and he hurled a pillow at me. “Who you a look pon^([sic]) so?” “Me baby father” He smickered.
Word: acidimetrical Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of acidimetric. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: anaphrodisia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an- + aphrodisia. 1. Lack of desire for sex. Labels: uncountable
Word: deviling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. present participle and gerund of devil Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deviling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From devil + -ling. 1. A small or young devil. Example: Away French ſtallion, now you have a Barbary mare of your own, go leap her, and engender young devillings.
Word: devilings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deviling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hydropathists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hydropathist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hydropath Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French hydropathe. 1. A hydropathist.
Word: hydropaths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hydropath Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hydrotellurate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hydrotelluric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. A salt formed by the union of hydrogen telluride (hydrotelluric acid) and the base. Labels: obsolete Example: hydrotellurate of ammonia Example: hydrotellurate of potash
Word: hydrotellurates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hydrotellurate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intransgressible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin intragressibilis (“that can not be crossed”). See in- (“not”) + transgress + -ible. 1. Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passed over or crossed.
Word: mounch Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of munch. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: mounched Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of mounch Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mounching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mounch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: exciteful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From excite + -ful. 1. Full of excitement; exciting Labels: archaic Example: an exciteful story Example: Stern Pluto and Persephoné, apply Exciteful pray'rs.
Word: semicirque Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + cirque. 1. A semicircular hollow or opening among trees or hills. Example: Upon a semicirque of turf-clad ground, / The hidden nook discovered to our view / A mass of rock […]
Word: semicirques Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semicirque Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undersphere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + sphere. 1. A sphere which is smaller than, and in its movements subject to, another; a satellite. 2. An inferior sphere, or field of action.
Word: underspheres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of undersphere Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vetoist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From veto + -ist. 1. One who uses, or supports the use of, the veto, especially in relation to the appointment of Catholic bishops in Ireland in the 19th century. Labels: historical, usually Example: I afterwards proceeded to shew, that both vetoists and anti-vetoists, by uniting to press, as a sine qua non, the necessity of emancipation on the mind of his Holiness, were forcing him to a decision, which at the present moment, for the reasons I then assigned, was pregnant with danger. Example: He acknowledged that he had concurred in sacrificing the delegate of the catholics of Ireland out of an absurd complacency to incurable vetoists and corrupt retainers of an hostile administration; but has he, by his subsequent behaviour, endeavoured to retrieve that loss of public principle he then so lamentably deplored?
Word: vetoists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vetoist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boneache Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bone + ache. 1. Pain in the bones, or seemingly in the bones. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After this, the vengeance on the whole camp! or rather, the bone-ache! for that, methinks, is the curse dependent on those that war for a placket. Example: The blueberries grew far away and the Old Lady had many a tramp after them. Sometimes her bones ached at night because of it; but what cared the Old Lady for that? Bone ache is easier to endure than soul ache; and the Old Lady’s soul had stopped aching for the first time in many a year.
Word: boneaches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boneache Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Old French inition. See initial. 1. initiation; beginning Labels: obsolete Example: And here I note the inition of my Lords friendship with Mountjoy, which the Queen her self did then conjure.
Word: receptories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of receptory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: receptory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English receptorie, from Medieval Latin receptorium (“a place of shelter”). 1. A receptacle, a container . Labels: obsolete
Word: uncord Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + cord. 1. To remove or untie cords; to unbind. Labels: transitive Example: to uncord a package
Word: uncorded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of uncord Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: uncorded Part of Speech: adj 1. Without a cord or cords. Labels: not-comparable
Word: uncording Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of uncord Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: uncords Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of uncord Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: fiddledeedee Part of Speech: intj 1. nonsense; rubbish Labels: colloquial, dated Example: Hunting, hawking, fishing, fiddle-de-dee! You know, Charlie, my dear, it is quite out of the question.
Word: recurvation Part of Speech: noun 1. A backwards bending or flexure backwards. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: recurvations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of recurvation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Boswellian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Boswell + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish lawyer and writer, best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson.
Word: imperviability Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being imperviable; imperviousness. Labels: uncountable
Word: indulgement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From indulge + -ment. 1. indulgence Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: But giving himself the liberty of too frequent indulgements, either to please his friend, or patient, or both, was taken away by death in the prime of his years on the 12th day of October (or thereabouts) in sixteen hundred seventy three, and was, I suppose, buried in the chappel belonging to the said hospital.
Word: indulgements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of indulgement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: narcotinic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From narcotine + -ic. 1. Pertaining to, or derived from, narcotine. Labels: not-comparable Example: narcotinic acid
Word: nectaried Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nectary + -ed. 1. Having a nectary. Labels: not-comparable Example: nectaried cotton Example: nectaried cultivars
Word: nectariless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nectary + -less. 1. Without a nectary. Labels: not-comparable
Word: orthospermous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Ancient Greek 1. Having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some umbelliferous plants. Labels: not-comparable Example: But in regard to the differences both in the internal and external structure of the seeds, […] in the Umbelliferae these differences are of such apparent importance—the seeds being in some cases, according to Tausch, orthospermous in the exterior flowers and cœlospermous in the central flowers,—[…]
Word: reenaction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + enaction. 1. The process of reenacting. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: reenactions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reenaction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semiovate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + ovate. 1. Half ovate. Labels: not-comparable
Word: racemule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From raceme + -ule. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈsiːmjuːl/ 1. A little raceme.
Word: racemules Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of racemule Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antizymic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + zymic. 1. Synonym of antizymotic.
Word: hydrargyrism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hydrargyrum + -ism. By surface analysis, hydr- + argyr- + -ism. 1. hydrargyria; mercurialism or mercury poisoning Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: hydrogalvanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hydro- + galvanic. 1. Pertaining to, produced by, or consisting of, electricity through fluids. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: hydrogalvanic currents Example: hydrogalvanic bath
Word: kiby Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From kibe + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪbi/ 1. Affected with kibes. Example: And he halteth often that hath a kiby heel
Word: brachydiagonal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brachy- + diagonal. 1. The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism. Labels: obsolete
Word: brachydiagonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From brachy- + diagonal. 1. Relating to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: brachydiagonals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brachydiagonal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: catechetically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From catechetical + -ly. 1. In a catechetical manner; by catechesis Labels: not-comparable 2. By question and answer. Labels: not-comparable Example: If the professors were to teach catechetically, it would be (as far as relates to intellectual instruction) but a question of words. They would be so far "Tutors" under another name. Example: In the midst of a catechetically structured recital of the ills to which life is subject, "Ithaca"'s narrator asks, Did Stephen participate in his dejection?
Word: fuff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative. Compare puff. Pronunciation: /fʌf/, /fɐf/, /fʊf/ 1. To puff. Labels: ambitransitive, dialectal Example: cats fuffing and fighting
Word: fuff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative. Compare puff. Pronunciation: /fʌf/, /fɐf/, /fʊf/ 1. A puff. Labels: dialectal 2. The spitting of a cat. Labels: dialectal 3. A burst of anger. Labels: dialectal
Word: fuffed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of fuff Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fuffing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fuff Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fuffs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fuff Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overtroubled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + troubled. 1. Excessively troubled.
Word: overtroubled Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. simple past and past participle of overtrouble Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pumpage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pump + -age. 1. That which is raised by pumps. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The amount of work done by pumps. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A comparison of Silurian dolomite aquifer water-level hydrographs and pumpage graphs indicates that in general water-level decline is directly proportional to pumpage and suggests that recharge balances discharge.
Word: pumpages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pumpage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unlute Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + lute. 1. To separate, as things cemented or luted Labels: transitive 2. to take the lute from, to unseal Labels: transitive Example: Let the Vessels be cool'd, and unluted, and the Panacæa will appear at the bottom of the Cucurbite Example: carelesly unlute the vessels
Word: unluted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unlute Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unlutes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unlute Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unluting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unlute Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cumdump Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cum + dump. 1. A place or person to ejaculate in, especially a body part or cavity. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: “Me and my guys need ourselves a cumdump for when we go on tour. Some hole who'll keep us entertained on our private plane and take care of our cocks at night – especially numero uno here.” Example: He couldn't simply enjoy me as his personal cumdump for the past several weeks and not feel a thing, even if the gift was nothing more to give me something to remember him by after he gave me my deserving promotion.
Word: equiponderous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From equi- + ponderous. 1. Having equal weight. Labels: not-comparable Example: A Method much different from our Progressive Conduct, whose Engine-Wheel is light, and equiponderous on all Sides, and every Ladle hath its Opposite for a Counterpoise
Word: extensibleness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From extensible + -ness. 1. The quality of being extensible. Labels: uncountable
Word: frequentable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From frequent + -able. 1. accessible Example: While youth lasted in him, the exercises of that age and his humour not yet fully discovered, made him somewhat the more frequentable and less dangerous.
Word: harpooneer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From harpoon + -eer. 1. A harpooner, one who uses a harpoon to hunt whales. Example: To all this I joyously assented; for besides the affection I now felt for Queequeg, he was an experienced harpooneer, and as such, could not fail to be of great usefulness to one, who, like me, was wholly ignorant of the mysteries of whaling, though well acquainted with the sea, as known to merchant seamen.
Word: harpooneers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of harpooneer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nutritial Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to, or connected with, nutrition; nutritional. Labels: obsolete Example: Diana praise , Muse , that in darts delights , Lives still a maid , and had nutritial rights With her born - brother , the far - shooting Sun.
Word: air stove Part of Speech: noun 1. A precursor to the radiator, functioning by heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes and then distributed through a room or building. Labels: historical
Word: air stoves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of air stove Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vatical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin vates a prophet, and + -ical. 1. Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetic. Example: Neither couldst thou have made up those vatical predictions without this conveyance.
Word: unedge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + edge. 1. To deprive of an edge; to blunt. Example: […]bodies that were made for shining brass, Are […]unedged
Word: unedged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unedge Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unedged Part of Speech: adj 1. Not given an edge. Labels: not-comparable Example: unedged tools
Word: unedges Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unedge Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unedging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unedge Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: classicalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From classical + -ist. 1. Synonym of classicist. Example: I shall not devote a fourth section to [Andrea] Palladio, nor weary the reader with successive chapters of vituperation; but I shall, in my account of the earlier architecture, compare the forms of all its leading features with those into which they were corrupted by the Classicalists; […]
Word: classicalists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of classicalist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intramercurial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From intra- + mercurial. 1. Between the planet Mercury and the sun. Labels: not-comparable Example: a hypothetical intramercurial planet
Word: docible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin docibilis, from docere (“to teach”). Compare docile. 1. Easily taught, tamed or managed; teachable. Labels: obsolete Example: I doubt not but ye ſhall have more adoe to drive out dulleſt and lazieſt youth [...] then we have now to hale and drag our choiſeſt and hopefulleſt wits to that aſinine feaſt of ſowthiſtles and brambles which is commonly ſet before them, as all the food and entertainment of their tendereſt and moſt docible age.
Word: notchboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From notch + board. 1. The board that receives the ends of the steps in a staircase.
Word: notchboards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of notchboard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: emplore Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of implore. Labels: alt-of, obsolete 2. Misspelling of implore. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: omniformity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From omniform + -ity. 1. The state of having every form. Labels: uncountable Example: Her centrall omniformity / Thus eady keepeth off needleffe infinity
Word: bodypart Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of body part. Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard, possibly, uncommon
Word: dropsied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dropsy + -ed. 1. Suffering from dropsy (edema). Labels: not-comparable Example: a dropsied honour
Word: fountful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fount + -ful. 1. Full of fountains or springs. Labels: archaic, poetic Example: c. 1718, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, Book XV 'Go wait the Thunderer's will,' Saturnia cried, / 'On yon tall summit of the fountful Ide: / There in the Father's awful presence stand, / Receive and execute his dread command.' Example: The golden pleasures of love and song will me whole And in fountful recesses I'll repeat (beyond the ear of shepherds) The stories I heard in a dream, and your lambent kisses I stole And stood upon a hill surrounded by songful birds 2. Gushing. Example: Dost thou explore Sabrina's fountful source, Where huge Plinlimmon's hoary height afoends; Example: Far beyond the tangible love goeth When the matron's holy fountful breast Of the slumbering infant's breathings knoweth, Distant in its rosy curtained nest :
Word: recarried Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of recarry Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: recarries Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of recarry Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: recarry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + carry. 1. To carry back. Example: Pigeons are then related to carry and recarry letters.
Word: recarrying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of recarry Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: treasonableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From treasonable + -ness. 1. The quality of being treasonable. Labels: uncountable
Word: bodyparts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bodypart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cumdumps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cumdump Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ferricyanate Part of Speech: noun 1. ferricyanide.
Word: ferricyanates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ferricyanate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cum-dump Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cumdump. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cum-dumps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cum-dump Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cum dump Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cumdump. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cum dumps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cum dump Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unpiety Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + piety. 1. Lack of piety. Labels: uncountable
Word: liguliflorous Part of Speech: adj 1. Bearing only ligulate flowers. Labels: not-comparable Example: liguliflorous head
Word: selenocentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From seleno- + -centric. 1. Having the moon at the center. Labels: not-comparable Example: a selenocentric coordinate system Example: a selenocentric orbit
Word: undividual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + dividual. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈdɪvɪdjuəl/ 1. indivisible Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: tetrapetalous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tetra- + petalous. 1. Containing four distinct petals. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: besottedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From besotted + -ly. 1. In a besotted manner.
Word: bedcord Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bed + cord. 1. A cord or rope interwoven into a bedstead as support for a rope bed. Example: On this floor is spread in places matting made of bamboo grass. On this matting many of the natives throw down a cotton blanket, or possibly a thin mattress, for beds. Some have a rude bed made of four posts sixteen inches high with crossheads and side pieces pinned together and then cris-crossed with bed cords.
Word: bedcords Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bedcord Labels: form-of, plural
Word: foxish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English foxish, equivalent to fox + -ish. 1. Like or characteristic of a fox; foxlike; (by extension) sly. Example: Over all the faces was a sheen of appetite for something. They had a foxish look under the moving tree light. Example: One was a "small, decidedly vulpine race," characterized by prominent, pointed, erect ears, pointed muzzle, silky hair and typically whitish belly. Consistent with foxish traits, the dogs were usually, brown, reddish or in some cases, white and gray.
Word: repulsory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin repulsorius. 1. Repulsive; acting to repel; driving back.
Word: boatmanship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From boatman + -ship. 1. The art of managing or looking after a boat. Labels: uncountable
Word: flatuosity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French flatuosité. 1. flatulence Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: It attenuateth[…]crude and colde humours, and flatuosities abounding in flegmatike and melancholicke persons. Example: The fourth cause is flatuosity : for wind stirred moveth to expel : and we find that ( in effect ) all purgers have in them a raw spirit or wind ; which is the principal cause of tortion in the stomach and belly
Word: distinguishingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From distinguishing + -ly. 1. With distinction; with some mark of preference. Example: January 13, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Joseph Addison the heads of that party have been distinguishingly favourable to me
Word: viridescence Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality or state of being viridescent. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The quality or state of being viridescent. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The quality or state of being viridescent. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: viridescences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of viridescence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: convocationist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From convocation + -ist. 1. An advocate or defender of convocation.
Word: convocationists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of convocationist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: outsuffer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + suffer. 1. To exceed in suffering. Example: All in all, she said, she had spent twenty-one years in gaol; which was a longer sentence than many convicts serve. And yet, there were women walking down there, too, who would outsuffer her. She had seen them come; she dared to say she would not be there to see them leave . . .
Word: outsuffered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outsuffer Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: outsuffering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outsuffer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outsuffers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outsuffer Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hemiholohedral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hemi- + holohedral. 1. Presenting hemihedral forms in which half the sectants have the full number of planes. Labels: not-comparable
Word: body-part Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of body part. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: body-parts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of body-part Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acquittanced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of acquittance Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: turribant Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtʌɹɪbənt/, /ˈtɜːɹɪbənt/ 1. Obsolete form of turban. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: with hundred turrets like a turribant
Word: turribants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of turribant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: befrill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + frill. 1. To provide or decorate with a frill. Labels: dated, transitive
Word: befrilled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of befrill Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: befrilling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of befrill Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: befrills Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of befrill Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hungerer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hunger + -er. 1. One who hungers or yearns. Example: Nothing in Milton is finelier fancied than in these temperate dreams of the divine Hungerer
Word: hungerers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hungerer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neuropterous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From neuro- + -pterous. 1. Dated form of neuropteral. Labels: alt-of, dated, not-comparable
Word: overrighteous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + righteous. 1. Excessively righteous
Word: allomerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From allo- + -merous. 1. Allomeric. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hungeringly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hungering + -ly. 1. With hunger or yearning.
Word: allodialist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From allodial + -ist. 1. A holder of allodial land.
Word: allodialists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of allodialist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blasty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From blast + -y. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a blast or explosion. Example: How could a lodger make blasty noises without a gramophone to drown his shame ... ? Example: Personally, I wouldn't have the muzzle-brake on the end of a rifle barrel—particularly not a rifle with such a blasty calibre as the .270. 2. Extremely loud. Example: The recording is for the most part clean and bright, with only an occasional blasty forte marring the otherwise excellent sound. Example: Roland's arrangement of the Ellington-Strayhorn piece captures the feeling of the original but invests it with the Kenton sound by employing the band's predictable blasty trombones and its typical screaming trumpets . 3. Affected by blasts; gusty. Labels: obsolete Example: Thus passed the first afternoon of my retour by the Mountaineer, and the next day being blasty and bleak, nobody was in a humour either to tell or to hear stories; Example: In the morning the weather was blasty and sleety , waxing more and more tempestuous, till about mid-day, when the wind checked suddenly round from the nor-east to the sou-west, and blew a gale, as if the prince of the powers of the air was doing his utmost to work mischief. 4. Given to outbursts; blustery. Labels: obsolete Example: I told him it was not, and then he said, "Pooh, pooh, Carey; you know what a windy, blasty fellow Chisholm is , and it is not worth while to take any more notice of it, or say anything about it. " Example: Once I had a temper cheerful, and my home was full of peace, and you heard no wailing tearful from my wife or aunt or niece; but for months I've been as nasty as a bear with festered dome, and I said things blanky- blasty when I had to write a pome. 5. Causing or displaying blast (blight) or injury Labels: archaic Example: The floor, the pews, the stripped-bare altar are strewn with leaves, twigs, orange needles from the blasty boughs of spruce trees. Example: The Yearling took in soprano Dolores Wilson, leprechaun David Wayne, and some blasty kids.
Word: laryngoscopist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From laryngoscope + -ist. 1. Someone who performs a laryngoscopy.
Word: laryngoscopists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of laryngoscopist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: barytic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From baryta + -ic. Pronunciation: /bəɹˈɪtɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to baryta Labels: not-comparable 2. Containing barium Labels: not-comparable
Word: discordable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare Old French descordable. 1. That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Example: discordable Mindes
Word: osteophone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From osteo- + -phone. 1. An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.
Word: osteophones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of osteophone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prenasal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + nasal. 1. Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers. Labels: not-comparable
Word: prenasal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + nasal. 1. The anterior half of a divided nasal scale.
Word: uratic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From urate + -ic. 1. Of or containing urates. Labels: not-comparable Example: uratic calculi Example: uratic deposits
Word: disyoke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + yoke. 1. To free (someone or something) from a yoke; to disjoin, to unyoke. Labels: poetic, transitive Example: Deep, indeed, / Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared / To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, / Disyoke their necks from custom, and assert / None lordlier than themselves but that which made / Woman and man. Example: O me, my wife, my boys— / And—O myself, how, miserably moved, / Am I disyoked now from both boys and wife!
Word: disyoked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disyoke Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disyokes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disyoke Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: disyoking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disyoke Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: imblaze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From im- + blaze. 1. Archaic form of emblaze. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: imblazed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of imblaze Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: imblazes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of imblaze Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: imblazing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of imblaze Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: kathetal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάθετος (káthetos, “perpendicular”) + -al. 1. Making a right angle; perpendicular Labels: not-comparable Example: kathetal joints Example: kathetal surface
Word: sonneter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sonnet + -er. 1. A composer of sonnets; sonnetist.
Word: sonneters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sonneter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: navals Part of Speech: noun 1. naval affairs or achievements Labels: obsolete, plural, plural-only
Word: guardiance Part of Speech: noun 1. guardianship Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: incapableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From incapable + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being incapable; incapability. Labels: uncountable
Word: KED Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Kendrick Extrication Device. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Kendrick Extrication Device Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after its inventor, Richard Kendrick. 1. A specialized immobilization backboard device used to protect the spinal cord in patients that are found in a confined or seated position such as a car in auto extrications. Example: 1997, Ian Greaves, T. J. Hodgetts, Keith Porter, Emergency care: a textbook for paramedics The extrication devices (such as the Russel Extrication Device, REDTM, or the Kendrick Extrication Device, KEDTM) are short, moulded, rigid boards which are placed along the spine and strapped to the patient. Example: 2000, Brian Dolan, Lynda Holt, Accident and emergency: theory into practice In current use are the Kendrick Extrication Device (KED), the Russell Extrication Device (RED) and the ED2000.
Word: Vietcong Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Vietnamese Việt Cộng, short for Việt Nam cộng sản (“Vietnam(ese) communist(s)”). Pronunciation: /ˌviː.ɛtˈkɒŋ/, /ˌvi.ɛtˈkɑŋ/ 1. A communist organization and guerrilla army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the South Vietnamese government, the United States, South Korea, and Australia during the Vietnam War and was supported by communist North Vietnam.
Word: Vietcong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Vietnamese Việt Cộng, short for Việt Nam cộng sản (“Vietnam(ese) communist(s)”). Pronunciation: /ˌviː.ɛtˈkɒŋ/, /ˌvi.ɛtˈkɑŋ/ 1. A member of this organization. Example: Then I went to Cam Ranh Bay, a huge base, and received the same official briefing, upbeat and hopeful. Afterward, I asked the briefing officer if he thought any Vietcong were working on the base itself. He said yes. I asked how many, and he said, “We figure twenty to thirty percent of our employees are Vietcong.”
Word: Viet Cong Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Vietcong. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bejesuit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + Jesuit. Pronunciation: /bɪˈdʒɛz.ju.ɪt/ 1. To subject (someone) to Jesuits or Jesuit belief. Labels: rare, transitive Example: who hath so bejesuited us that we should trouble that man with asking licence to doe so worthy a deed?
Word: bejesuited Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bejesuit Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: corpora lutea Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corpus luteum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cucumiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in a glossary in 1826, in a fragment in 1838, and in a grammatical sentence in 1892; formed by the suffixation of cucumi-, the short i-stem of the Latin cucumis (“cucumber”), with the English -form; compare the earlier New Latin cucumeriformis (1703), cucumiformis (1791) and French cucumeriforme (1777), cucumiforme (1804). Pronunciation: /kjuːˈkjuːmɪfɔːm/ 1. Shaped like a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and possibly curved. Example: Cucumiform (Cucumiformis). Cucumber-shaped. Whose longitudinal section is oblong, and transverse circular. Example: She was there, tumbling the marvelous cucumiform weights down upon a chest which looked as though it would cave in under such manna.
Word: chrysotype Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chryso- + -type. 1. A photograph taken on paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of gold chloride.
Word: chrysotypes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chrysotype Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tetragold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tetra- + gold. 1. Four gold atoms in a compound. Labels: especially, in-compounds, uncountable
Word: trigold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tri- + gold. 1. Three gold atoms in a compound. Labels: especially, in-compounds, uncountable
Word: mislearn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, mis- + learn. Compare Middle English misleren, Old English mislǣran. 1. To learn wrongly.
Word: mislearned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of mislearn Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mislearning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mislearn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mislearns Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of mislearn Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mislearnt Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of mislearn Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: kinic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French kinique. 1. Alternative form of quinic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: phototopographer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From photo- + topographer. 1. One who carries out phototopography.