nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: superpoliteness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + politeness. 1. Exceptional politeness. Labels: uncountable
Word: do one's bit Part of Speech: verb 1. To make an individual contribution toward an overall effort. Labels: informal Example: Soon we were climbing through New Mills and Foxhall, both of which are closed entirely, their buildings doing their bit to ease the housing problem, and Kilmacrenan was reached at four o'clock. Example: Elizabeth was said to be slow to mature, but she and her sister did their bit by digging vegetable plots and knitting garments for the troops.
Word: do well for oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. To thrive or succeed. Labels: idiomatic
Word: the devil you say Part of Speech: phrase 1. An expression of surprise at something stated by another. In modern usage usually sarcastic, implying that the statement was obvious.
Word: newth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From new + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare similarly formed Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌾𐌹𐌸𐌰 (niujiþa, “newness”). Pronunciation: /n(j)uːθ/ 1. Newness. Labels: nonstandard, rare, uncountable Example: I came across one modern once who used "newth," meaning newness, and make it rhyme with "youth." Example: The Ancient Ones' repulsive fecundity is a septessential aspect of these unpossible non-beings; in a way, they are newness itself. (Or should that be 'newth'?) […]
Word: nidder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a dialectal variant of nither, nether. 1. To keep down or under. Labels: Scotland, transitive 2. To press hard upon; straiten (applied to bounds). Labels: Scotland, transitive 3. To pinch or starve with cold or hunger; stunt in growth. Labels: Scotland, transitive 4. To harass; grill; plague; annoy. Labels: Scotland, transitive
Word: threeling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From three + -ling. 1. One of three children born at the same birth; triplet. 2. A twoling, or twin crystal, composed of three individuals.
Word: ditionary Part of Speech: noun 1. A subject; a tributary. Labels: obsolete Example: he with his famelie, famylyers, and ditionaries, of desperate mynde fledde to the mountaynes
Word: ditionary Part of Speech: adj 1. Under rule; subject; tributary. Labels: obsolete Example: And now our markets their chief purveyance owe To some remote and ditionary coast
Word: praecornu Part of Speech: noun 1. The anterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. Example: In man there are three extensions of the cella: cephalic, PRECORNU, ventral, MEDICORNU, and caudal, POSTCORNU; the last is wanting in the sheep as in most other mammals.
Word: praecornua Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of praecornu Labels: form-of, plural
Word: morisk Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of morisco (“morris dance”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: sputative Part of Speech: adj 1. Inclined to spit; spitting very much. Labels: archaic Example: a. 1639, Henry Wotton, letter to Doctor C. I could pick out any counsell to allay that sputative Symptome which yet remaineth upon me from my obstructions of the Splene
Word: theanthropy Part of Speech: noun 1. theanthropism Labels: uncountable
Word: subresource Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + resource. 1. A resource making up part of a larger resource.
Word: subresources Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subresource Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dogeate Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dogate. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: it would appear well calculated to ensure the proper administration of the dogeate
Word: suctorious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sūctus + -ory + -ous, from past participle of sūgō (“to suck”). 1. Archaic form of suctorial. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable Example: The two extremities of the body are sometimes dilated in the form of suckers (in the suctorious annelidans)
Word: solecist Part of Speech: noun 1. One who commits a solecism. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Shall a noble writer, and an inspired noble writer, be called a solecist, and barbarian, for giving a new turn to a word so agreeable to the analogy and genius of the Greek tongue? Example: Let me, therefore, urge you, if you ever feel condemned by such yielding, to become a solecist and wilfully and determinately break those laws of society that your conscience can not approve.
Word: solecist Part of Speech: adj 1. Having the characteristics of a solecism. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: […] is another solecist quotation.
Word: solecists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of solecist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inconcoct Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin in- (“not”) + concoctus, past participle of concoquere. See concoct. 1. inconcocted Labels: obsolete Example: (whereby it reſiſteth and holdeth faſt in ſome degree the firſt Forme or Conſiſtence,) it is (all that while,) altogether Crude and Inconcoct
Word: anaerobiotic Part of Speech: adj 1. Synonym of anaerobic. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: monandry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mono- + -andry. 1. The possession of only one husband at one time. Labels: uncountable 2. The condition of being monandrous. Labels: uncountable 3. A mating system in which all of the eggs of a female are fertilized by sperm from the same male (over one breeding season or over a lifetime). Labels: uncountable Example: Yet monandry does exist in short-lived invertebrates (Shuster 1989a,b; Robinson and Allgeyer 1996; Fischer and Fiedler 2000; Jones 2001), in certain birds (Mauck et al. 1995) and mammals (Sever and Mendelssohn 1985; Brotherton et al. 1997), as well as in protistan species in which sexuality is achieved by the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another (Raikov 1995; Dacks and Roger 1999).
Word: oneling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From one + -ling. Cognate with Dutch eenling, German Einling. 1. A singleton; maverick; a single or only child. Labels: rare Example: Considering how she was humoured, when a oneling, I think her behaviour is extraordinary.
Word: sixling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From six + -ling. 1. A compound or twin crystal consisting of six individuals.
Word: endoss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old French endosser. Doublet of endorse. 1. To write on the back of (a document); to endorse. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To inscribe; to depict on any surface. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: he […] Gave me a shield, in which he did endosse / His deare Redeemers badge upon the bosse […]
Word: endossed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of endoss Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: endossing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of endoss Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: squinied Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of squiny Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: squinies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of squiny Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: squiny Part of Speech: verb 1. To squint. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou / squiny at me?
Word: squinying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of squiny Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: scolytid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Scolytus + -id. 1. A bark beetle (of Scolytus)
Word: scolytids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scolytid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: premotion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + motion. 1. Previous motion or excitement to action, especially a divine impulse that precedes human action, guiding or enabling individuals to act in accordance with God's will. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sevenling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From seven + -ling. 1. A poem consisting of seven lines, split into three stanzas.
Word: pantisocrat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pantisocratist. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pantisocrats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pantisocrat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dunter Part of Speech: noun 1. A porpoise. Labels: Scotland, dialectal Example: "Here an old woman, thinking to help her pastor out of a dead lift, cried out, 'Aiblins, Sir, it was a dunter.' (The vulgar name of a species of whale common to the Scotch coast.) Example: Porpoises, it is true, and "dunters" may be seen gambolling along the coast of Durham, but even that royal fish, the sturgeon, often caught in the last century, as the files of the Newcastle Courant prove, is a rarity on the coast. 2. The common eider, Somateria mollissima.
Word: dunters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dunter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Momier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French mômier, from Old French momer, mommer (“to mum, to mask oneself”). 1. A strict Calvinist in Switzerland, France, or some parts of Germany, in the early part of the 19th century. Labels: derogatory, historical
Word: Momiers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Momier Labels: form-of, plural
Word: doub grass Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of doob grass. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: margaritic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French margaritique. 1. Alternative form of margaric acid. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: swordman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English swerdman; equivalent to sword + -man. 1. A swordsman. Example: Worthy fellows, and like to prove most sinewy swordmen
Word: swordmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of swordman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pompoleon Part of Speech: noun 1. A pomelo, or grapefruit. Labels: obsolete
Word: pompoleons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pompoleon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: helodermin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Heloderma + -in. 1. A peptide in Gila monster venom. Labels: uncountable
Word: exendin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: peptide found in an EXocrine secretion of Heloderma lizards which has ENDocrine activity" (J Biol Chem (1990) 265: 20259) + -in 1. Any of a group of peptide agonists found in Gila monster venom.
Word: exendins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exendin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: helospectin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Heloderma suspectum (taxonomic name for the Gila monster) + -in. 1. A peptide in Gila monster venom. Labels: uncountable
Word: wobbly hedgehog syndrome Part of Speech: noun 1. A disease found in the African Pygmy domesticated hedgehog, characterized by vacuolization of the grey matter of the brain and spinal cord that leads to neurogenic muscle atrophy. Labels: uncountable
Word: voblas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vobla Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neurocysticercoses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neurocysticercosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fluor albus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin, white flow. 1. leukorrhea Labels: uncountable
Word: leucorrheas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leucorrhea Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suretiship Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of suretyship. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Word: suretiships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suretiship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: twistorian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From twistor + -ian. 1. A mathematician who specializes in twistor theory. Example: This identification, using this resolution, first appeared in twistor theory in [30], before twistorians were aware of the full BGG resolution. Example: It is noteworthy that the 'electro- weak' theory seems to offer so helpful a line of advance, and I would suggest that as well as taking twistor diagrams more seriously, twistorians might also take the 'standard model' of quantum field theory more seriously.
Word: twistorian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of twist + historian. 1. One who twists history to promote an agenda. Labels: derogatory, rare, slang Example: That is why the twistorians are now attempting to rewrite the founders' own words, most notably in a recent Associated Press (22d February, 1998, Charlottesville _Daily Progress_) article with the ludicrous lying headline "Jefferson sought integrated schools." Example: But, then, what else should we expect from the Ginsu Twistorian other than slicing and dicing?
Word: devocation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin devocare (“to call off or away”), from de + vocare (“to call”). 1. A calling off or away. Example: […]be freed and released from all its Blandishments and flattering Devocations
Word: devocations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of devocation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: capelan Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of capelin. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: capelans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of capelan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: uncommandable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + commandable. 1. Not commandable; unresponsive to commands.
Word: cleardown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clear + down. 1. The termination of a call.
Word: cleardowns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cleardown Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scriptlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From script + -let. Compare applet. 1. A small script, especially a section of Java code embedded in JavaServer Pages code.
Word: scriptlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scriptlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paviours Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paviour Labels: form-of, plural
Word: uncommendably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From uncommendable + -ly. 1. In an uncommendable manner.
Word: scotograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scoto- + -graph. 1. An instrument for writing in the dark, or by the blind. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Scotograph or writing-machine for use of the blind Example: In some recent experiments with it at the Blind Asylum at Amsterdam, children of 6 learned very rapidly to write with the assistance of the scotograph, which is the invention of Dr. Nord, but it is especially designed for the use of scholars, etc., who have become blind late in life and still wish to continue their literary activity. 2. An impression made on a photographic plate by a radioactive substance without the intervention of any opaque object other than the screen of the plate. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: "Scotograph" is likely to stick as the popular term for portraits taken by the Röntgen process. It means "shade picture," and its analogy with photograph, which is a "light picture," is sufficiently manifest to help on its vogue. Example: You will be able to see radiographs, or scotographs, — referring to darkness and shadow ; you will see that shadowgraphs indicate to you any deformity of the roots of the teeth, or any teeth that have not come into position in the arch, or any osseous deformity which may take place in the jaw […] 3. An image of a ghost or other apparition appearing on unexposed film. Example: The spirit-faces are sometimes obtained on ordinary paper without the aid of a camera and are called Scotographs. Example: What she did produce at times on her own were so-called scotographs, similar to Rorschach effects used in psychiatry; they were the result of briefly exposing sensitive photographic paper to light and then interpreting the resulting shapes.
Word: scotographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scotograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: torpedinous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin torpēdinōsus, from torpēdō + -ōsus. Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)ˈpɛdɪnəs/ 1. stupefying; dull; torpid. Labels: archaic Example: Was he dull? Is a wooden spoon dull? Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner; […] 2. Relating to torpedoes (the marine weapons). Labels: rare
Word: snowl Part of Speech: noun 1. The hooded merganser. Labels: US, dated, dialectal
Word: misdight Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mis- + dight. 1. Arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Her heart gan grudge for very deepe despight / Of so unmanly maske in misery misdight. Example: Despised nature suit them once aright, / Their body to their coat, both now misdight. / Their body to their clothes might shapen be, / That nill their clothes shape to their bodie.
Word: prelatries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prelatry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prelatry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prelate + -ry. 1. prelacy Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: reapplicant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + applicant. 1. One who reapplies.
Word: reapplicants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reapplicant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: daredn't Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dared + -n't. 1. Contraction of dared + not. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
Word: scissil Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of scissel. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: scotch-hoppers Part of Speech: noun 1. The game of hopscotch. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: Phenician Part of Speech: adj 1. Dated form of Phoenician. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Phenician Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of Phoenician. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Phenicians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Phenician Labels: form-of, plural
Word: propugnation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin propugnatio. 1. means of defence; defence Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: What Propugnation is in one man's valour / To stand the push and enmity of those / This quarrel would excite?
Word: propugnations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of propugnation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: usercentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From user + -centric. 1. Having a focus on the user.
Word: multiseed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + seed. 1. Having or relating to more than one seed.
Word: preemergence Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + emergence. 1. Before the emergence of the plants being targeted. Labels: not-comparable
Word: postemergence Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + emergence. 1. After the emergence of the plants being targeted. Labels: not-comparable
Word: burndown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from burn down. In the software-development sense, perhaps suggesting a burning fuse. 1. The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage. Example: Controlling weeds prior to direct seeding or transplanting peppers can involve the use of burndown or stale seedbed weed control systems[…] 2. A kind of destructive fault in electrical equipment. Example: arcing fault burndowns 3. In agile software development, a chart showing how much work remains to be completed. Example: Avoid creating separate status reports for management; these reports duplicate information in the sprint burndowns[…]
Word: burndowns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of burndown Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Burmillas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Burmilla Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stramoniums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stramonium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stramony Part of Speech: noun 1. Stramonium; jimsonweed, thornapple. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Manicheist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French manichéiste. 1. Alternative form of Manichaean. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Manicheist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French manichéiste. 1. Alternative form of Manichaean. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Manicheists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Manicheist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crossdisciplinary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cross- + disciplinary. 1. Spanning several disciplines. Example: Near-synonyms: interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, pluridisciplinary, transdisciplinary
Word: crossfunctional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cross- + function + -al. 1. Spanning several functions. Example: the management of crossfunctional groups and project teams
Word: crossflows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crossflow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: booklands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bookland Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bookkept Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bookkeep Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bockland Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of bookland. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: bocklands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bockland Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bookkeeps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bookkeep Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: halcyonoid Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of alcyonoid. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: halcyonoid Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of alcyonoid. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: halcyonoids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of halcyonoid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: captainries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of captainry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: captainry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English capitainerie, from Middle French capitainerie; compare French capitainerie. By surface analysis, captain + -ry. Piecewise doublet of chieftainry. 1. Power or command over a district; chieftainship. Labels: historical, obsolete
Word: Banglish Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Bangla + English. 1. Bangla interspersed with English; a blend of Bangla and English.
Word: orgal Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of argol. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: cannel coal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Corrupted from candle coal. 1. cannel (type of coal) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It cannot be easily distinguished from the ordinary coal of our mines, and burns with a brilliant flame like the famous cannel coal. Example: Gerald was enthusiastic. After a while they shook hands, it being time to separate. And for a long time Selwyn sat there alone in the visitors’ room, absent-eyed, facing the blazing fire of cannel coal.
Word: antecians Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of antoeci. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
Word: coudee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French coudée, from coude (“elbow”). 1. a cubit (distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger) Labels: obsolete
Word: coudees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coudee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enodation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin enodatio (“explanation”), from enodare (“to free from knots”). See enode. 1. An unknotting; the act or operation of clearing of knots, or untying. 2. The solution of a difficulty. Labels: broadly Example: There is one thing then I apprehend will serve much for the enodation of many difficulties
Word: enodations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enodation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unknottings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of unknotting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: untyings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of untying Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sphragide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sphragis, sphragidis (“Lemnian earth”), from Ancient Greek σφραγίς (sphragís, “a seal”), so called because sold in sealed packets. Pronunciation: /ˈsfræd͡ʒaɪd/ 1. An aluminous earth of a grayish yellow color; a medicinal clay. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Dr. Hawks says it is found in Lemnos, sometimes called Terra Lemnia, and used in medicine. It is sometimes called sphragide. Example: Lemnian earth (sphragide bole, a kind of fine clay)
Word: sphragides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sphragide Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of sphragis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sparhawk Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sparrow hawk. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, dialectal
Word: sparhawks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sparhawk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sparrowless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sparrow + -less. 1. Without sparrows.
Word: sparrings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sparring Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tribunitious Part of Speech: adj 1. tribunician Labels: obsolete Example: And let them not come in multitudes, or in a tribunitious manner; for that is to clamour counsels, not to inform them.
Word: chinquapins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chinquapin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chincapin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of chinquapin. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chincapins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chincapin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: knottle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English knottil, cnottel (“little knot”), diminutive of knotte, cnotte (“knot”), equivalent to knot + -le. Cognate with Middle Dutch knuttel, Middle Low German knutel, Middle High German Knüttel (“little stick”). Compare also Old English cnyttels (“string, fiber, sinew”). 1. A knob. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: tonsilotomies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tonsilotomy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tonsilotomy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tonsillotomy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chinkapin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of chinquapin. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I was chased out of a chinkapin woods by a bull.
Word: chinkapins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chinkapin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Chinatowner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Chinatown + -er. 1. An inhabitant of Chinatown.
Word: Chinatowners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Chinatowner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bullpout Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various bullheads (fish).
Word: bullpouts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bullpout Labels: form-of, plural
Word: palliament Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin palliare (“to clothe”), from Latin pallium (“a mantle”). See pall, the garment. Pronunciation: /ˈpælɪəmənt/ 1. A dress; a robe. Labels: obsolete Example: This palliament of white and spotless hue
Word: palliaments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of palliament Labels: form-of, plural
Word: planer tree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after J. S. Planer, a German botanist. 1. A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but bearing nuts without wings.
Word: planer trees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of planer tree Labels: form-of, plural
Word: donataries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of donatary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: donatary Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of donatory. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Hence, where the King had confirmed an heritable right granted by the rebel after denunciation, the donatary, who had by his gift acquired a right to the escheat previously to the confirmation, was preferred to the right confirmed, Feb. 10. 1710, Leslie. Example: But the king is now ultimus hæres taking (by his donatary) the fee, with all its burdens, and all real debts created by the vassal, to the extent of the fee (a). 2. A donatary captain. Example: Because of the massive threat to the very existence of the captaincy, old Duarte Coelho's two sons, Duarte Coelho de Albuquerque, the second donatary, and his brother Jorge de Albuquerque Coelho, the third donatary, interrupted their education in Lisbon at the command of the queen regent to return to Pernambuco (where they had both been born) in 1560 to restore order. Example: A third was established in 1611 in the newly created State of Maranhao, and a fourth in Pernambuco after the crown confiscated that captaincy from its donatary.
Word: hebete Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin hebes, hebetis (“dull, stupid”), from hebere (“to be dull”). Pronunciation: /ˈhiːbiːt/, /ˈhɛbiːt/ 1. unintelligent; stupid. Labels: obsolete Example: the most hebete of created intelligences
Word: scarefire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scare + fire. In some senses, alteration of scathefire. 1. A fire causing alarm, i.e. a house-burning; conflagration; scathefire. Labels: obsolete Example: Scarefire of Purgatory
Word: scarefires Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scarefire Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scarey Part of Speech: adj 1. Dated form of scary. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: Is it not lack of accurate knowledge that makes the average gas man scarey of the bugaboo High Bill Complaint?
Word: impaste Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From im- (“in”) + paste. Compare Italian impastare, Old French empaster. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpeɪst/ 1. To knead; to make into paste; to concrete. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, Baked and impasted with the parching streets 2. To lay colours thickly on canvas by the impasto technique.
Word: impasted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of impaste Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: impastes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of impaste Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: epipolism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπιπολή (epipolḗ, “surface”) (from τέλλω (téllō, “rise”)) + -ism. 1. fluorescence Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: You then examined it for epipolism or fluorescence , and you pronounced the opinion that it possessed this property only in a minor degree
Word: pianette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From piano + -ette. 1. A small piano.
Word: pianettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pianette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: impasting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of impaste Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: parahuman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From para- + human. 1. A human-animal hybrid or chimera.
Word: parahumans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parahuman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pansophical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See pansophy. 1. All-wise; claiming universal knowledge. Example: 1847-1886, James Crossley (editor), notes in The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington His indefatigable adversary, who is the perfect model of an agile controversialist, had attacked him as a magniloquent Thraso, on account of his Pansophical promises.
Word: prickmadam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French trique-madame. Compare Dutch tripmadam. 1. Any of several species of stonecrop, such as Petrosedum rupestre, formerly used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: thoracometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thoraco- + -meter. 1. A stethometer.
Word: thoracometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thoracometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Danicas Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Danica Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dretch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from Old English dreċċan (“to vex, irritate, trouble, torment, torture, oppress, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to torment”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrag-, *dʰragʰ- (“to bother, torment”). Cognate with Russian раздража́ть (razdražátʹ, “to irritate”), Sanskrit द्राघते (drāghate, “to exert oneself, be tired, torment”). 1. To vex; grill; trouble; oppress. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: dretch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from Old English *dreċċan (“to draw out, delay, linger”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ- (“to pull, drag, scratch”). Cognate with Scots dratch, dretch (“to dawdle”), Dutch trekken (“to draw, pull, tear, pluck, trek”), German trecken (“to draw, trek”), Danish trække (“to draw, pull”), Norwegian dråk (“stripe”), Swedish dialectal drakig (“striped, streaked”), Icelandic rák (“streak”). 1. To delay; linger; tarry. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 2. To move slowly and heavily; dawdle; loiter. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive
Word: dretch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from Old English *dreċċan (“to draw out, delay, linger”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ- (“to pull, drag, scratch”). Cognate with Scots dratch, dretch (“to dawdle”), Dutch trekken (“to draw, pull, tear, pluck, trek”), German trecken (“to draw, trek”), Danish trække (“to draw, pull”), Norwegian dråk (“stripe”), Swedish dialectal drakig (“striped, streaked”), Icelandic rák (“streak”). 1. An idle wench; a slattern. 2. A person slow in the execution of a job; a dawdler. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: schlockumentary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of schlock + documentary. 1. A documentary programme or film that is schlocky, typically due to its content being deemed sensationalistic, propagandistic, or factually inaccurate. Labels: derogatory Example: The narrator of this 53-minute schlockumentary insists that "the public's appetite for seeing their favorite stars caught off guard... is insatiable."
Word: schlockumentaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of schlockumentary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shlockumentary Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of schlockumentary. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It's another shlockumentary from NBC, the network that brought you "Ancient Prophecies" and "Angels: The Mysterious Messengers."
Word: shlockumentaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shlockumentary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deech Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dechen, from Old English dēċan (“to smear, plaster, daub”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōkijan (“to apply with a rag or cloth, smear”), from *dōk (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz (“rag”); see duck (“canvas, cloth”). Cognate with Dutch doeken, German tuchen. For the noun sense, compare gound. 1. To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained. Labels: transitive Example: The mud of Flanders clung to his boots and clothes. It was "deeched" into his skin, and round his eyes had left a stain so dark, it looked as if he had been painted for a theatrical make-up.
Word: deech Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dechen, from Old English dēċan (“to smear, plaster, daub”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōkijan (“to apply with a rag or cloth, smear”), from *dōk (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz (“rag”); see duck (“canvas, cloth”). Cognate with Dutch doeken, German tuchen. For the noun sense, compare gound. 1. Dirt (or grime) ingrained on the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc. Labels: Northern-England, UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually
Word: shockumentaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shockumentary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Malfunction Junction Part of Speech: name Etymology: Attested in military publications from the early Cold War years; early uses are primarily for airports. Perhaps popularized, and widened in sense, by the 1973 Schoolhouse Rock! segment "Conjunction Junction". 1. A traffic jam, or any location noted for such congestion. Labels: US, informal Example: The center of the new city was on the Clark Fork River, one and one half miles from what would become Malfunction Junction, along the newly built military road (now an interstate highway) and what became a railroad line,[…]
Word: Acapulco gold Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of marijuana originating from Acapulco, Mexico. Labels: uncountable
Word: Spitzbergen Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Spitzbergen, a Germanised spelling of Dutch Spitsbergen. 1. Alternative spelling of Spitsbergen. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dated
Word: man date Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From man (“adult male”) + date (“meeting with a romantic partner”). 1. A platonic outing by two (typically straight) men, often in settings that would otherwise be reserved for romantic encounters. Labels: colloquial Example: Anyone who finds a date with a potential romantic partner to be a minefield of unspoken rules should consider the man date, a rendezvous between two straight men that is even more socially perilous. Example: Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a man date with him. Roy: It is not a man date. I am not a man-woman. We are not married. I am not your wife!
Word: standing committee Part of Speech: noun 1. An established parliamentary or congressional committee to which all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials and other matters regarding a defined scope of subjects get referred to and then returned to parliament or congress along with a recommended measure.
Word: standing committees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of standing committee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anti-abortionism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti-abortion + -ism. 1. An ideology or policy of opposition to the practice and/or legalization of abortion. Labels: uncountable Example: Anti-abortionism became crucial in the protection of births and population growth and thus a key element in the social policy of the New State.
Word: antiabortionism Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of anti-abortionism. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Opposition to contraception was not derived from antiabortionism, which reacted to a common practice in surrounding culture, but arose rather in response to problems in the Christian community.
Word: flathe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flathe (“flat fish”), from Old English *flaþa ("flatcake"; found only in compound flæþecomb, fleþecomb (“weaver's comb”)), from Proto-West Germanic *flaþō (“flatcake”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“broad, flat”). Cognate with Dutch vla, vlade (“baked custard, pancake”), Middle Low German vlade (“flatcake”), German Fladen (“a flatcake, cowpatty”). Related to flan. Pronunciation: /fleɪð/ 1. A flan. 2. A ray or skate (fish). Labels: dialectal
Word: Nakano Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 中野 (Nakano). 1. A surname from Japanese. 2. A city in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. 3. A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Nerima, Toshima, Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Suginami special wards.
Word: pro-abortionism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proabortion + -ism. 1. An ideology or policy of support for the practice and/or legalization of abortion. Labels: uncountable Example: They see pro-abortionism and reductions in immigration as the same issue.
Word: baroque piety Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From baroque + piety, after French piété baroque. 1. An ostentatious form of popular Catholic piety, especially in Counter-Reformation Europe. Labels: uncountable Example: Outside the crypto-Protestants and a small elite attracted to Jansenism after 1750 the bulk of the population, in Bohemia as in Austria, had been won over to baroque piety. Example: Post-Tridentine worship was in essence a baroque piety which expressed itself in florid ostentation and which used all the media of communication and the material culture of worship to make a powerful sensorial assault on the life of the spirit.
Word: Tungabhadra Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Sanskrit तुङ्गभद्रा (tuṅgabhadrā, “Tungabhadra”). 1. A river in South India formed by the union of Tunga and Bhadra rivers, which flows through Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Word: proabortionism Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of pro-abortionism. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Only "right-to-lifers" caricature the feminist position as dogmatic "proabortionism" or some crazed baby-hatred.
Word: Nagavali Part of Speech: name 1. A river in South India, flowing through Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
Word: Mahanadi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit महानदी (mahānadī)/महानदि (mahānadi). 1. A river in Central India. It has a course of 858 km and flows through the states of Chhattisgarh and Odisha. Example: The small hill of Budharaja that over-looks the city of Sambalpur and the famous river Mahanadi that flows past it, the Hirakud Island now celebrated for the enormous hydro-electric project established by the Government of India—all these, besides other notable places of interest in Orissa, have been immortalised in the lines of this weaver.
Word: pro-lifeism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pro-life + -ism. 1. An ideology or policy of opposition to abortion. Labels: uncountable Example: He starts with three strikes against him: Mormonism, Massachusetts-ism and a suspiciously recent conversion to pro-lifeism. 2. An ideology of opposition to the legalization of euthanasia. Labels: uncountable
Word: c4 Part of Speech: noun 1. A 501(c)(4), an organization that conforms to the United States Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)4 Labels: US
Word: spooky PAC Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of political action committee which does not have to reveal its donors' identities, and which does not limit the amount of contributions by donors. Labels: US
Word: spooky PACs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spooky PAC Labels: form-of, plural
Word: have the tiger by the tail Part of Speech: verb 1. To be in a difficult or dangerous situation in which one ideally should not remain, but from which one cannot withdraw. Labels: idiomatic Example: "We have the tiger by the tail," Paul whispered. "We can't go down, can't land…and I don't think I can lift us out of this. We'll have to ride it out."
Word: have a tiger by the tail Part of Speech: verb 1. To be in a difficult or dangerous situation in which one ideally should not remain, but from which one cannot withdraw. Labels: idiomatic Example: "Sounds like you have a tiger by the tail. Hawthorne won't go down without a battle and will probably sue you if he wins," Clair admonished.
Word: smishing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of SMS + phishing. 1. A type of identity theft committed by means of a malicious link that is contained within a text message. Labels: uncountable Example: The FBI warns a threat moving across America “from state to state" targets citizens via malicious SMS (smishing) texts, teling^([sic]) iPhone, Android users to “delete any smishing texts received.” Example: With smishing scams evolving and spreading at an alarming rate, authorities continue to emphasize vigilance.
Word: ptyaline Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ptyalin. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: huauzontle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish huauzontle. 1. A flowering plant of the goosefoot family, Chenopodium berlandieri, consumed primarily for its edible inflorescence. Labels: uncountable
Word: banting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after William Banting. 1. A diet aimed at losing weight, mostly accomplished by avoiding carbohydrates and sweet foods. Labels: UK, archaic, informal, uncountable Example: Miss Clark, alarmed at her increasing stoutness, was doing a course of what is popularly known as banting.
Word: chirographer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chiro- + -grapher. 1. Alternative form of chirographist. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chirographers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chirographer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ramee Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of ramie. Labels: alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: filigraned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From filigrane + -ed. 1. Archaic form of filigreed. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
Word: recremental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From recrement + -al. 1. recrementitious Labels: archaic
Word: lapsus auris Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin lāpsus auris (“lapse of the ear”). Compare lapsus linguae, lapsus oculi. 1. An instance of mishearing, an error in hearing something correctly. Labels: formal, rare Example: Baudouin deems it necessary to exclude from that domain such phenomena as established alternations, sound correspondences in different languages, lapsus linguae and lapsus auris, as well as sound substitutions due to dialect mixture and analogy (including hypercorrection).
Word: God-wink Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of God wink. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: flathon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flathon, probably representing Medieval Latin fladon-, stem form of flado (“a flat-cake”), from Frankish *flaþō (“flat-cake”). Cognate with Middle English flathe (“a flat-cake, flat fish”). More at flathe. 1. Flathe; flan. Labels: obsolete
Word: Marechal Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from French Maréchal. 1. A surname from French.
Word: market order Part of Speech: noun 1. An instruction to a stock broker to sell stocks immediately, at whatever price reflects the current value of the stock.
Word: market orders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of market order Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stop-loss orders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stop-loss order (alternative spelling of stop loss orders). Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stop loss orders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stop loss order Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Marechal's test Part of Speech: name 1. A test for the presence of bile pigments in urine in which a solution of iodine produces a bright green colouration Labels: obsolete
Word: bedrive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bidriven, from Old English bedrīfan (“to drive; beat; strike; assail; follow up; pursue; surround; cover”), from Proto-West Germanic *bidrīban, equivalent to be- + drive. Cognate with Dutch bedrijven (“to commit, perpetrate”), German betreiben (“to operate, conduct, pursue”), Swedish bedriva (“to manage, carry on, prosecute”). 1. To drive or toss about; drive out, off, back, or away; defeat. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: But when every human help ceased, that they might trust more to divine help, they then first began to fight against their foes, who for many years before harried and plundered on them, and they then made a great slaughter among them, and bedrove them home, and had a victory. 2. To effect; do; commit; perpetrate; experience. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: And every man that standeth here would well bethink him what he hath done and bedriven in his days, he should the better have patience and pity on Reynart.
Word: Mauriceau Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French Mauriceau. 1. A French surname.
Word: mulga wires Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mulga wire Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Mauriac Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French Mauriac. 1. A French surname.
Word: flaysome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flay + -some. 1. Terrifying; frightful. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: labourage Part of Speech: noun 1. The loading or unloading of a ship's cargo. Labels: dated, uncountable 2. The wage for labour. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 3. Workplace; the place where one labors. Labels: uncountable Example: The Commissars of Edinburgh were found not to have Right to confirm the Testament of a person dying in Edinburgh, albeit he had dwelt there half a year, and had a house taken for a year, furnished with his own plenishing, and his wife and whole children there, not being in it animo remanendi, but about his aflairs, but that the confirmation was to be where his chief Residence, or his labourage, and most of his servants were, February 7, 1672.
Word: mulga wire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mulga (“any of a number of small acacia trees, especially Acacia aneura, forming dense scrub in dry inland areas of Australia; (by extension) the outback”) + wire (“telecommunication wire or cable”), possibly modelled after bush telegraph. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌlɡə ˌwaɪə/, /ˈmʌlɡə ˌwaɪ(ə)ɹ/, /ˈmɐlɡə ˌwaɪə/, [-ˌwɑeə] 1. An informal gossip network, especially in a rural area such as the outback; also, a component in the network (either a person or an imagined wire). Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable Example: There is a really good sketch of Micky, the lonely boundary rider, whose wonderful stock of news comes by "the mulga wires," who is full of scandal about the squatter's rams, and is "follered" by a phantom hut of leopard-wood slabs. Example: Lumps of silver as big as your head they're picking up. So the mulga wires say. 2. A message or story transmitted through such an informal network, especially one containing false information. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable Example: Tom had been been out early, or had got what we call a bush telegraphy or mulga wire, for when they reached the Four Lanes he said—[…] Example: "What else did Nero say?" / "Nothin'. Only to tell you when you came home. Wandin sent him the mulga wire, I suppose." 3. A system for long-distance communication used by Aboriginal Australians, chiefly using smoke signals; also, a message or signal sent using such a system. Labels: Australia, countable, historical, uncountable
Word: requisitioner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From requisition + -er. 1. One who, or that which, requisitions.
Word: requisitioners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of requisitioner Labels: form-of, plural