nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: pourlieu Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of purlieu. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: pourlieus Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pourlieu Labels: form-of, plural
Word: labyrinthodon Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of labyrinthodont. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: One day they unearthed some bones in a sandhill that Mr Shinglar said were of the labyrinthodon, a great sloth-lizard that roamed in forests submerged for a thousand thousand years.
Word: labyrinthodons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of labyrinthodon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: comprobation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin comprobatio. 1. joint attestation; proof Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Thus in law both Civill and Divine, that is only esteemed a legall testimony, which receives comprobation from the mouths of at least two witnesses; 2. approbation Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: the comprobation of the beſt and most famous learned men
Word: comprobations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of comprobation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prosingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From prosing + -ly. 1. prosily 2. prosily
Word: anti-vaccinationist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + vaccination + -ist. 1. One who opposes vaccination. Example: In the past, physicians and vaccine producers were remarkably flexible and politically astute when making claims about vaccine safety or responding to anti-vaccinationists. To defeat anti-vaxxers’ campaign of misinformation, the same thing must happen today.
Word: anti-vaccinationists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of anti-vaccinationist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ivory-bill Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ivorybill. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ivory-bills Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ivory-bill Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stack-guard Part of Speech: noun 1. A covering or protection for a haystack, such as a canvas. Labels: archaic
Word: stack-guards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stack-guard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: splenization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”) + -ization. 1. A morbid state of the lung produced by inflammation, in which its tissue resembles that of the spleen. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: splenizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of splenization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: colbertine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Colbert + -ine. From Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a minister of Louis XIV, who encouraged the lace manufacture in France. 1. A kind of lace. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: meliority Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin melioritas, from melior. See meliorate. 1. The state or quality of being better; melioration. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: [M]en are accuſtomed after themſelues & their ovvne faſhion, to incline vnto them vvhich are ſofteſt, and are leaſt in their vvay, in deſpight and derogation of them, that hold them hardeſt to it. So that this colour of meliority and preheminence is of a ſigne of eneruation and weakneſſe.
Word: sinopite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French [Term?], from Latin sinopis (terra) (“a red earth or ocher found in Sinope”), from Sinope (“a town in Paphlagoma, on the Black Sea”). 1. sinopia (clay) Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually
Word: cacoon Part of Speech: noun 1. A beanlike seed of a tropical vine (Entada rheedei), used as a hallucinogen and in traditional medicine, and made into jewelry.
Word: cacoons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cacoon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shad-spirit Part of Speech: noun 1. The shadbird. Labels: dated
Word: shad-spirits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shad-spirit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tailage Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of tallage. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: tailages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tailage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English thyvelle, perhaps from Old English þȳfel (“thicket”) through an intermediate sense of "whisk". Pronunciation: /ˈθaɪbəl/ 1. A stick for stirring food. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete
Word: thibles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thible Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plethoretic Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of plethoric. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: a plethoretick Fondness
Word: scranny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See scrannel. 1. scrawny Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal Example: Rat. I’ll slily seize and Let blood from her weasand,— Creeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny, With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny. Example: Observe in the whole lot, from the magnificent lord of the herd down to the scranniest runt, the superlative of self-reliance, the air of puffy arrogance and solid disregard of public or private opinion such as few of us attain.
Word: crossgrained Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of cross-grained. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: job center Part of Speech: noun 1. An agency, often a government agency, that tries to find a job for working-age people. Labels: US
Word: job centers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of job center Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plough stop Part of Speech: noun 1. UK spelling of plow stop.
Word: plough stop Part of Speech: verb 1. UK spelling of plow stop.
Word: job centre Part of Speech: noun 1. UK standard spelling of job center. Example: She put it all down last time she was at the job centre and they stopped her benefits for the hundredth time because of an error in the system that will take twelve weeks for them to reassess.
Word: job centres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of job centre Labels: form-of, plural
Word: figgery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fig + -ery. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪɡəɹi/ 1. A fig farm or orchard.
Word: figgery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fig + -ery, in colloquial sense of "figure". Pronunciation: /ˈfɪɡəɹi/ 1. Dressy ornamentation. Labels: colloquial, dated
Word: flittery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flitter + -y. 1. flitty Example: MOSQUITOS On this New York trio's 2003 debut, everything that's cheap and listless about loungey indie pop melded with everything that's overly precious and flittery in Brazilian pop--ugh.
Word: flunkeydom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flunkey + -dom. 1. The state of a being a flunkey Labels: uncountable Example: The coachman was fat and florid, the footman a particularly fine specimen of flunkeydom, and their faces, as the light of my lamps fell upon them--they could not speak, for they were both gagged as well as bound--were so convulsed with terror, that I could see they did not look upon me as a friend. Example: So, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence;--and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et em, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card.
Word: frowardly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English frowardly; equivalent to froward + -ly. 1. in a froward manner Example: They refuse still to return, Ephraim-like, going on frowardly in the way of their own heart. Example: The queen of England, however, frowardly bent on opposing the match to the utmost, directed sir Nicholas Throgmorton, her ambassador, to set before the eyes of Mary a long array of objections and impediments; and he was further authorized secretly to promise support to such of the Scottish nobles as would undertake to oppose it.
Word: fusiony Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fusion + -y. 1. Containing elements of fusion music. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: There are also some new faces, like Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab and Jay Israelson of the new wavey psych-pop collective Lansing-Dreiden, but they don't change the sound much: more organic and melodic than most post-rock, Pierce's music is essentially fusiony electric-acoustic pop, its jazzy drums and shimmering flamenco guitars rushing along with the cool momentum of illbient electronica or IDM. Example: Their overblown debut, Ling (Giant/Mechanic), mixes fusiony fretless bass playing (by Salls), prog rock precision, effects-heavy guitar, and pristine vocal harmonies with simpy melodies and wretched lyrics. 2. Containing elements of fusion cooking. Labels: informal, not-comparable
Word: gemman Part of Speech: noun 1. A gentleman. Labels: archaic, colloquial, nonstandard Example: But dar am a gemman yere, sah,--" "What!" came a surprised ejaculation that caused the negro to jump, and I heard a chair overturned within. Example: But a negro servant who had been stationed as warden at the door refused to allow the messenger to pass in, saying, 'The gemman can't be disturbed.'
Word: geognostic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From German geognostisch, equivalent to geo- + gnostic. Pronunciation: /dʒɪəɡˈnɒstɪk/ 1. Pertaining to geognosy; geological. Labels: historical, not-comparable Example: To a ploughboy, a pebble is an insignificant thing, suggestive possibly of some discomfort in walking, and fit only to shy at a bird, may be; but to the geologist it appears worthy a volume, and speaks to him of strata may be a million of years old, of glacial attrition, of volcanic action, of chemical constituents, of mineralogical principles, and crystallogenic attraction, of mathematical laws and geometric angles, and of future geognostic changes. Example: Unfortunately I do not possess sufficient geognostic knowledge to be able to set this cavern down as an extinct volcano.
Word: geognostical Part of Speech: adj 1. of or pertaining to geognosy Labels: not-comparable
Word: geomantic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin geōmanticus. By surface analysis, geo- + -mantic. 1. Of or relating to geomancy. Labels: not-comparable Example: And though he was almost persuaded that Aladdin must have died miserably in the subterranean abode where he had left him, yet he had the curiosity to inform himself about his end with certainty; and as he was a great geomancer, he took out of a cupboard a square, covered box, which he used in his geomantic observations. Example: A long table was covered with scrolls, skulls, crucibles, crystals, star-charts, geomantic figures, and other appurtenances of a magician's calling.
Word: gether Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of gather. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete Example: "'Twere back-end o' t' yeer," he continued at last, "an' t' lads had gone into t' woods to gether hesel-nuts an' accorns. Example: An a taicher wise aw've faand thi, An this lesson gained throo thee; 'At when dangers gether raand me, Th' wisest tactics is to flee.
Word: gliosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glia + -osis. 1. A proliferation of astrocytes in damaged areas of the central nervous system. This proliferation usually leads to the formation of a glial scar. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Material for the second MS library (herein MS2) came from a pool of tissues from two patients, one with acute, active lesions and widespread inflammatory involvement in the white matter, and the other with chronic, "silent" lesions, with gliosis, but without evidence of a lymphocytic infiltrate.
Word: plebeiance Part of Speech: noun 1. plebeianism Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually 2. plebeians collectively Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: plebeiances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plebeiance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: podesta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian podesta, from Latin potestas (“power; powerful one”). Doublet of poustie. See potent. 1. A chief magistrate of various Italian republics and city-states in the Middle Ages. Labels: historical Example: Secular palaces, such as that of the Tolomei, were rented for municipal use, and officials such as the Podestà were found lodgings in others. 2. A municipal administrator during the Italian Fascist regime (1927–43). Labels: historical Example: M.B. herself is tormented by anxiety […] for her husband, who, as Podestà of this town, is likely soon to get into trouble.
Word: podestas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of podesta Labels: form-of, plural
Word: globar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glow and bar; a genericized trademark. 1. A silicon carbide rod that is used as a source of infrared radiation when electrically heated.
Word: prestimonies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prestimony Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prestimony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin praestimonium, from praestare (“to furnish, supply”). Compare French prestimonie. See prest (noun). 1. A fund for the support of a priest, without the title of a benefice. Labels: archaic, rare
Word: glunch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Scots glunch, of uncertain origin, possibly an alteration of glum or glump. 1. To look sullen or glum; to frown Labels: Scotland, intransitive
Word: glunch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Scots glunch, of uncertain origin, possibly an alteration of glum or glump. 1. A sullen or glum look; a frown. Labels: Scotland
Word: gordian Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Gordian. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: The final disentanglement of sister chromatids can only be achieved by cleavage of the "gordian knot" by separin. Example: This fire, like the eye of gordian snake, Bewitch'd me towards; and I soon was near A sight too fearful for the feel of fear: In thicket hid I curs'd the haggard scene-- 500 The banquet of my arms, my arbour queen, Seated upon an uptorn forest root; And all around her shapes, wizard and brute, Laughing, and wailing, groveling, serpenting, Shewing tooth, tusk, and venom-bag, and sting!
Word: gorry Part of Speech: intj 1. God! Labels: archaic, euphemistic Example: She hedn't any particular kind of a nose nor mouth nor eyes, but gorry! when she looked at yer, yer felt kind as if yer was turnin' to putty inside." Example: "By gorry!" says I; "you're right.
Word: pentail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pen + tail. 1. A species of treeshrew (Ptilocercus lowii) of Borneo, with a very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.
Word: pentails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pentail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: proctorical Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of proctorial. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: gotter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From got to. 1. Alternative form of gotta. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: "You gotter go," said she. Example: My Pa says it's mostly guff, but the pollertishans has gotter feed the people with that kinder guff ev'ry once in a while, he says, they get fat on it, he says.
Word: physiogeny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Simplified learned borrowing from German Physiontogenie, itself from physio- + Ontogenie; equivalent to a reduction of physio- + ontogeny to physio- (“nature”) + -geny (“origin”). The simplification means that the term is also used to translate German Physiogenie, the distinction between Physiontogenie and Physiogenie not being made in English. 1. The study of the evolution of functions and vital activities by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny. Labels: historical, rare, uncountable, usually Example: Es wird daher erst die Aufgabe einer zukünftigen Physiogenie sein, die Entwickelungsgeschichte der Functionen mit gleichem Eifer und Erfolge in Angriff zu nehmen, wie dies für die Entwickelungsgeschichte der Formen von der Morphogenie längst geschehen ist.
Word: gourdful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gourd + -ful. 1. As much as a gourd wili carry Example: Mother, make Harry bring me a gourdful fresh from the spring. Example: She had been milked only a few hours before, and so he got only a gourdful from her.
Word: cyanosite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See cyanic and -ite. 1. chalcanthite (a copper sulfate) Labels: uncountable
Word: erythroleic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”) + Latin oleum (“oil”). 1. A purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from orchil. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: grenadilla Part of Speech: noun 1. African blackwood, a tree of species Dalbergia melanoxylon, found in Africa, valued for its timber. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: On these plains, too, you will find the bushy oleander, many varieties of Jerusalem thorn and African rose, the bright scarlet of the cordium, bowers of jessamine, vines of grenadilla, and the silver and silky leaves of the portlandia. 2. The wood obtained from this plant, blackwood, which is particularly used for making musical instruments. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Alternative spelling of granadilla. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Here and there we found a European farm, marked in the distance by the waving tops of the gum-trees, with the low wooden house festooned by the brilliant mauve blossoms of the climbing bougainvillea, and the garden enclosed by hedges of grenadilla, whose fruit is much eaten in South Africa.
Word: grevious Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of grievous. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Then there was a rich man in the mount of Carmel that hight Nabal, and on a time he sheared and clipped his sheep, to whom David sent certain men, and bade them say that David greeted him well, and whereas aforetimes his shepherds kept his sheep in desert, he never was grevious to them, ne they lost not much as a sheep as long as they were with us, and that he might ask his servants for they could tell, and that he would now in their need send them what it pleased him. Example: There is found the keynote of the grevious native government in an incident of the date of 1841 by which "the foreign relations of the government became involved with the schemes of a private firm.
Word: greystone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grey + stone. 1. Alternative form of graystone. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: The walls were of native greystone in its natural roughness; all over the front and one angle the American ivy climbed and waved, mounting to the tower; while at the back, the closer clinging Irish ivy covered the little "apse," and creeping round the corner, was advancing to the windows, and promising to case the first one in a loving frame of its own. Example: Here and there the bogland showed a darker tint, and at his feet, cupped out in the smooth greystone, lay a sheet of water.
Word: grinde Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of grind. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Take of Linet two grains, of Musk three, of Ambergreece four, and the oyl of Bems a pretty quantity; grinde them all upon a Marble stone fit for that purpose; then with a brush or sponge rake them over, and it will sweeten them very well; your Gloves or Jerkins must first be washed in red Rose-water, and when they are almost dry, stretch them forth smooth, and lay on the Perfumes. Example: The other is to warme the water; and then, when you have put it into a pot, or dish, as much Chocolate as you thinke fit, put in a little of the warme water, and then grinde it well with the molinet; and when it is well ground, put the rest of the warme water to it; and so drinke it with Sugar.
Word: grone Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of groan. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Dead is Sansfoy, his vitall paines are past, Though greeved ghost for vengeance deepe do grone: He lives, that shall him pay his dewties last,[*] 440 And guiltie Elfin blood shall sacrifice in hast.
Word: growen Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of grow Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past Example: Our soule deliuered out of this foule & filthie prison, where, by long continuing it is growen into an habite of crookednes, shall againe draw her owne breath, recognize her ancient dwelling, and againe remember her former glory & dignity.
Word: guttery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gutter + -y. 1. Having a guttering flame; flickering and weak. Example: Its guttery flare exposed a bed, with a thin mattress and a skimpy cover, shoved close up under the sloping wall; a sprained chair on its last legs; an old horsehide trunk; a shaky washstand of cheap yellow pine, garnished forth with an ewer and a basin; a limp, frayed towel; and a minute segment of pale pink soap. Example: I am on picket, and writing in the guard-tent by a guttery lantern. 2. Dark and brooding. Labels: broadly Example: On the Warlocks' early records, for all that the music was grim and dark and guttery, there was a lightness and a sense of fun in the totally over-the-top playing, each repetitive, maddening, Chinese-water-torture ching-ching-ching drawn out so far past the point of absurdity you could imagine strobe lights flashing off the band's shit-eating grins. 3. Vulgar; salacious or crude. Example: DB okay for one time laughs. at the crass, guttery humour. Example: The more guttery bit of our mind wants to break into a disco remix of 'Ranbir and Priyanka sitting in a tree…'
Word: guttery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gutter + -y. 1. The part of an abattoir used for emptying the gut of its contents; tripery. Example: In large abattoirs, the triperies and gutteries should preferably be situated under the slaughtering halls and in direct contact with them, by means of a system of chutes.
Word: cercarian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Cercariae + -an Pronunciation: /sɜːˈkɛə.ɹi.ən/, /sɝˈkɛ.ɹi.ən/ 1. Of, like, or relating to cercariae.
Word: cercarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Cercariae + -an Pronunciation: /sɜːˈkɛə.ɹi.ən/, /sɝˈkɛ.ɹi.ən/ 1. A cercaria.
Word: cercarians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cercarian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ptiloses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ptilosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ptilosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin ptilōsis, from the Ancient Greek πτῐ́λωσῐς (ptĭ́lōsĭs). 1. The appearance or study of feathers on a bird, including factors such as their texture or shape. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Pterylography must be based on the distribution of the follicles, for the ptilosis as seen externally does not reflect the actual pterylosis. 2. Loss of the eyelashes, due to ulceration or other damage to the follicles. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The state of the lid, when deprived of the eyelashes, has been called ptilosis or alopecia ; the effect of the removal is very inconsiderable, and unless you look closely to the lid of a person of light hair, you can hardly distinguish whether the eyelashes are wanting or not. Example: This is an aggravated form of the last disease, and presents ulceration and induration of the edges of the eye: lids, so as to cause the cilia, or lashes to fall out—ptilosis.
Word: hammerstone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hammer + stone. 1. A type of stone used to hit or strike in a similar way to a modern-day hammer. Example: Striking a hand-held isotropic block or cobble (a core) with a hammerstone initiates a cone-shaped crack at roughly 60° from the axis of force, exemplified by the hole in a plate glass window made by a pellet gun (18, 19 ). Example: On the other hand, in the same crannog, a hammerstone broken in two was found, each half in a different place, as were two parts of a figurine at Dumbuck.
Word: harmonical Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of harmonic. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The CGLE is a general model that describes the behavior of reaction-diffusion systems near onset of self-oscillations, while they remain approximately harmonical. Example: There follows an "harmonical parallel between the types of the Old Testament and the Four Evangelists' relations of our Lord and Saviour;" also a "discourse of the estate of the Jews," by Dr. Jackson, "The destruction of Jerusalem," and long extracts from a work entitled "Moses unveiled," besides other matter.
Word: harmonical Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of harmonic mean. Labels: archaic
Word: conceptibility Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness. Labels: uncountable Example: a. 1688, Ralph Cudworth, A Treatise of Freewill The understanding as necessary nature in us , or clear distinct conception , can never err , because there cannot possibly be any clear conception of falsehood in eternal things as geometry and metaphysics , clear conceptibility' is the essence
Word: harzburgite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Harzburg + -ite. 1. An ultramafic igneous rock, a variety of peridotite consisting mostly of olivine and low-calcium pyroxene. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The two rutiles occur in veins in harzburgite xenoliths carried in volcanoes of the eastern African Rift: Labait and Pello Hill.
Word: precel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See precellence. 1. To surpass; to excel; to exceed. Labels: obsolete Example: […]attempted a Princely Graffe, which as farre precels her, which hee hath lighted upon[…]
Word: precelled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of precel Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: precelling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of precel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: precels Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of precel Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: stelography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “post, slab, pillar”) + -graphy. 1. The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars. Labels: uncountable Example: […] this pillar thus engraved (as it was the first of its kind that we have upon record) gave probably the origin to the invention of stelography, or the ancient manner of writing upon stone, ever after […]
Word: headward Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From head + -ward. 1. Cutting backwards or upstream above the original source. Labels: not-comparable Example: The highest, flattest, and smoothest part of Tibet (3 ) is the central, Oligo-Miocene plateau, mature but still sheltered, especially in the west, from headward erosion. Example: [View Larger Version of this Image (130K GIF file)] Discussion The martian landforms resemble terrestrial gullies, which form by a combination of processes, including overland flow, headward sapping (32 ), debris flow, and other mass movements (33 )--all processes that, on Earth, involve the action of water. 2. Toward the head. Labels: not-comparable Example: When lift is applied, forces are experienced which appear to the pilot as being applied from a headward direction, i.e., from head to toe.
Word: headward Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From head + -ward. 1. In a headward direction. Labels: not-comparable Example: As the isthmus disappeared at the close of the 17th century, the river continued to erode the island headward and build it up at its downstream end, so that the western and southern shores where the first settlement had been built, were partly destroyed.
Word: healme Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of helm. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The mightie monarch of a royall realme, Swaying his scepter with a princely pompe, Of his desires cannot so steare the healme, But sometime falls into a deadly dumpe; When as he heares the shrilly sounding trumpe Of forren enemies, or home-bred foes, His minde of griefe, his hart is full of woes.
Word: crataeguses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crataegus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: heathenry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From heathen + -ry. 1. The state of being heathen. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: It was as though she were some tinted and lavishly adorned statue of barbaric heathenry, and he her postulant; and her large eyes appeared to judge an immeasurable path, beyond him. Example: In the simpler case of northern heathenry the civilization spread with a simplier progress. 2. Alternative letter-case form of Heathenry (“Germanic (neo)paganism”). Labels: alt-of, uncountable, usually Example: Asatru is one of the most popular types of heathenry.
Word: heavenful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From heaven + -ful. 1. skyful Example: He saw a heavenful of stars for a moment, and then saw nothing for a long time. Example: And it was only when I had lain myself upon leaves for my bed, my head on my caftan, a rill for my lullaby, and two stars, which alone I could see out of the heavenful, for my watch-lights; and only when my eyes were already closed toward slumber, that a sudden strong thought pierced and woke me: for I remembered that Leda was the name of a Greek woman who had borne twins.
Word: hemal Part of Speech: adj 1. American standard spelling of haemal. Labels: not-comparable Example: This specimen is identified as a fossil snake on the basis of its highly kinetic skull with anteriorly free ending maxillae and dentaries, slender and elongate tooth-bearing palatines and pterygoids, single mental foramen in the dentary, high number of presacral vertebrae, and the presence of hypapophyses or hemal ridges throughout the trunk, distally bifurcated lymphapophyses in the cloacal and proximal tail region, and paired hemapophyses on the tail vertebrae.
Word: hemispheral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hemi- + spheral. 1. hemispheric Labels: not-comparable Example: No hemispheral differences in the magnitude of rCBF activations were detected.
Word: heterotropic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hetero- + tropic. 1. Concerning an effect in one entity that is controlled or influenced by a separate entity, such as when one ligand influences the binding of another ligand. Labels: not-comparable Example: This behavior is analogous to that of any cooperative binding protein, such as hemoglobin (18, 19 ), although in this case, cooperativity is observed between heterotropic rather than homotropic ligands. Example: Some allosteric enzymes exhibit mixed homotropic and heterotropic interactions. 2. Concerning a process that abnormally takes place outside of its normal system as well as within its normal system. Labels: not-comparable Example: Heterotropic pregnancy occurs when intrauterine and ectopic pregnancies coexist. Example: Various hereditary conditions and congenital condition give rise to heterotropic calcification something abnormal in metabolic and endocrinal functions also give rise to deposition of calcium in extraskeletal system. 3. Arising from the interaction of separate people or entities. Labels: not-comparable Example: At the end of the twentieth century Nature is alive and well, permeating the experience of everyday life as a riotous profusion of heterotropic images, signs and discursive constructs. Example: In contrast, heterotropic intentional mental states, intentional acts and actions cannot be performed and experienced by a single individual: heterotropic states, acts and actions necessarily refer to and depend on other individuals, i.e. they involve at least two individuals.
Word: hieratical Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of hieratic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: They made innuendoes concerning the stability of the other articles of hieratical law.
Word: holin Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a diverse group of small proteins produced by dsDNA bacteriophages in order to trigger and control the degradation of the host's cell wall at the end of the lytic cycle. Example: All known pneumococcal phages contain a cell wall lytic system consisting of a holin that permeabilizes the cell membrane, and either an N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase (amidase) or a lysozyme, capable of digesting the pneumococcal cell wall (8 ).
Word: hyperconscious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + conscious. 1. Extremely conscious or aware Example: He makes his poor hyperconscious creations sing their cynical sagas with Beatlesesque grace over charmingly cheesy keyboard riffs, in the deadpan tone he probably arrived at after trying everything else, with a disheveled charisma he can't decide whether to embrace or deny.
Word: hypermutability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + mutability. 1. The state of being hypermutable Labels: uncountable Example: This explains previous observations of a defect in bypass of damage in XP-V cells and cell extracts (82 ) and accounts for the marked hypermutability of XP-V cells in response to UV light and some chemical agents.
Word: hypoconid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypo- + conid. 1. One of the main cusps, at the posterolabial side. Example: Differs from Catopithecus and Oligopithecus by the retention of P 2 2, its single-cusped P 4, its P 3-4 of about the same size, its hypoconid nontwinned with entoconid on lower molars, its upper premolars without inner cusps, and by its broader upper molars with only very slight hypocone swelling.
Word: hypoconulid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypo- + conulid. 1. The distal cusp of a lower molar. Example: Two upper incisors vertically implanted with I 1 slightly larger than I 2 (judging from the remaining roots), strong vertical upper and lower canine with rounded crown sections, reduced and single-rooted P 2, P 3 as large as P 4, simple with their crown obliquely orientated and high protoconid, M 1 with low paraconid, metaconid widely separated from protoconid, and buccodistally projecting hypoconulid.
Word: pruning hook Part of Speech: noun 1. billhook
Word: caipivodka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of caipirinha + vodka. 1. A caipirinha cocktail made with vodka instead of cachaca. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: caipivodkas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caipivodka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: standing army Part of Speech: noun 1. A professional permanent army composed of full-time career soldiers, and not disbanded during times of peace.
Word: milk fever Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of fever caused by infection, occurring in women shortly after childbirth (previously associated with the start of lactation). Labels: uncountable 2. An acute metabolic disorder occurring at the start of lactation and caused by calcium deficiency, which primarily affects dairy cows. Labels: uncountable
Word: iligant Part of Speech: adj 1. Pronunciation spelling of elegant. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: I was just afther thinkin' I had nothin' but throuble, whin in comes these iligant fish." Example: In the mean time, "Phelim," the pig, throve finely, and grew to be, as Mrs. O'Shaughnessy said, "an iligant cratur, intirely."
Word: imbruted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of imbrute Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: imminency Part of Speech: noun 1. imminence Labels: archaic Example: His career as editor had been long enough, however, for him to impress upon the minds of the French public the imminency of the Prussian Peril. Example: For Mr. Madison the caucus was unanimous, but there was a difference with regard to the Vice-Presidency, then filled by the aged George Clinton of New York, who represented the anti-Virginian wing of the party in power. Mr. Calhoun, in a set speech, opposed the renomination of Governor Clinton, on the ground that in the imminency of a war with England the Republican party ought to present an unbroken front.
Word: commorance Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of commorancy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: commorances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of commorance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crossrow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cross + row. For its use as a name for the alphabet, see Christcross-row. 1. A row that crosses others. Example: To achieve straight crossrows, you will need guide lines so that you can align the trees up and down the slope. 2. The alphabet, or Christcross-row. Labels: obsolete Example: For before on your breſt, and behind on your back, In Romaine letters I never founde lack In your croſſe rowe nor Chriſt croſſe you ſpede, Example: And from the cross-row plucks the letter G
Word: crossrows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crossrow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: imployment Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of employment. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] King Henry [VIII] full fraught all thoſe vvith vvealth and revvards, vvhom he retained in his imployment. Example: [I]t is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe [the Clerk of the Acts], and possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment.
Word: inaugurative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inaugurate + -ive. 1. That inaugurates Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: When Christ reigns as Viceroy for Jehovah for a thousand years, as the Word of God so distinctly intimates, it may be that some such plan as this, far more perfect and world-wide in its aim, will form part of the inaugurative forces of that happy lot.
Word: saltfoot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From salt + foot. 1. A large salt cellar formerly placed near the centre of the table, with the superior guests seated above it. Labels: historical, no-plural
Word: inbreathed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of inbreathe Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reddition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin redditio, from reddere (“to give back, to return”). Compare French reddition. See render and rendition. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈdɪʃən/ 1. restoration; restitution: surrender Labels: countable, uncountable Example: perfect obedience[…]partly by voluntary reddition and desire of protection, and partly by conqueſt 2. explanation; representation Labels: countable, uncountable Example: reddition, or application of the comparison
Word: redditions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reddition Labels: form-of, plural
Word: incommensuration Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality or state of being incommensurate or contradictory. 2. A crystal structure where natural translation distances are incommensurate with each other. 3. Incommensurate peaks in the spin fluctuation spectrum. Example: To see how striking this incommensuration is, I plotted (see figure) the real part of the plane wave with Q = ( p [1- d ]/a, p /a), for a = 3.8 Å, with smooth interpolation between the lattice points.
Word: indistinctively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From indistinctive + -ly. 1. In an indistinct manner Example: They had not reached the point of differentiating divorces, but classed them indistinctively as disgraceful incidents, in which the woman was always to blame, but the man, though her innocent victim, was yet inevitably contaminated. Example: It was as an unconscious and deep trance, through which something like a dream only faintly and indistinctively stirs.
Word: preteritness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From preterit + -ness. 1. Alternative form of preteriteness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: indraft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + draft. 1. Alternative form of indraught (“drawing in”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: And yet, at other times, there is a mysterious indraft, which irresistibly draws a passing vessel among the isles, though not bound to them. Example: In the evening, Mr. Tucker went on shore to teach the younger ones to repeat the Lord's Prayer and the creed, more perfectly; and I, with the rest of my party, rowed up "the Southern Arm," an indraft of about three miles, winding among the most picturesque mountains I ever saw.
Word: inshoot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in + shoot. 1. The act of shooting or moving rapidly inward, as a baseball that is pitched with a curve. Example: The pitcher started the ball wide, but, with a sudden break it took an inshoot across the plate. Example: Woods fooled him on a wide curve and a swift inshoot.
Word: chertiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cherty + -ness. 1. The quality of being cherty. Labels: uncountable
Word: porcelanite Part of Speech: noun 1. A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; porcelain jasper. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: porcelanites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of porcelanite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interfinger Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From inter- + finger. 1. To interpenetrate in long alternating strips like clasped fingers. Example: The lagoon deposits overlie and interfinger with beach sands in SAV3 and SAV4, which overlie an early Holocene estuary deposit in SAV4.
Word: interfinger Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + finger. 1. Between two zinc fingers. Labels: not-comparable Example: Strong-intensity interfinger NOE cross-peaks observed in the complex, but not for the free protein (26 ), indicate that binding is also promoted by the formation of extensive intraprotein interactions (Fig. 4 B).
Word: interfingered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of interfinger Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: interfingering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of interfinger Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: interfingering Part of Speech: noun 1. An interpenetration in long alternating strips like clasped fingers.
Word: hammerstones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hammerstone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: harzburgites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of harzburgite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: harzburgitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From harzburgite + -ic. 1. Containing or relating to harzburgite. Example: harzburgitic garnets
Word: planktotrophic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From plankto- + -trophic. 1. That feeds on plankton Labels: not-comparable Example: In addition to an adult stage that is a capable swimmer, R. exoculata has a free-swimming, planktotrophic, post-larval stage that feeds on photosynthetically derived organic material and can be found as far as 100 km from a known vent field (53, 54 ).
Word: secess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin secessus. See secede. 1. retirement; retreat; secession Labels: obsolete Example: Silent Secesse, wast Solitude Deep searching thoughts often renew'd.
Word: semicrustaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + crustaceous. 1. partially crustaceous Labels: not-comparable
Word: swaip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English swaipen (“to strike, scourge”), from Old Norse sveipa (“to sweep, stroke”) and/or Old English swāpan (“to sweep”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *swaipaną (“to sweep, swing, hurl, fling”). Doublet of swoop. 1. To walk proudly; to sweep along. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: Och, for his swaiping! That was a lucky job for him, —the ill-favored, foul-mouthed blackguard, heretic and villain thief! Example: But Ayas swaiped aside among the crowd, Aflush with hate and burning discontent: And many murmured at him: for, said they, “Hamil at least doth surely mean us well!“
Word: swaiped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of swaip Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: swaiping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of swaip Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: swaips Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of swaip Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: eventerate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Likely a "relatinized" calque of French éventrer, from Latin ē(x)- (“out”) + Latin venter (“belly”, ventr- in compounds) + -ate (verb-forming suffix); this should have given *eventrate, compare its obsolete doublet eventrate and orienate. 1. To rip open; to disembowel. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: eventerated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of eventerate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: eventerates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of eventerate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: eventerating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of eventerate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: croodle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare cruddle, crudle. 1. To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: Far ben thy dark green plantin's shade The cushat croodles am'rously Example: Oh! that I had wings-not as a dove , to fly home to its nest and croodle there 2. To fawn or coax. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete
Word: croodle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic "croo" + -le. 1. To make a cooing sound. Labels: dialectal Example: Too dark to see well, but judge from movements of old bird's head and croodling noise. Example: Do pigeons croodle, or only doves?
Word: croodle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic "croo" + -le. 1. A bird's coo, especially that of a dove. Example: [A]nd no sound falls on my ears, except the distant roar of a passing train, the song of linnets, and croodle of turtle-dove and cushat. Example: [A] third-storey apartment under the eaves loud with the croodles and canoodling of amorous pigeons.
Word: croodled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of croodle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: croodles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of croodle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: croodling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of croodle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: suffossion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin suffossio, from suffodere, suffossum (“to dig under”), from sub (“under”) + fodere (“to dig”). 1. Internal erosion by liquid percolating through clay, sand, or silt.
Word: suffossions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suffossion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aneutronic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + neutronic. 1. That does not involve or radiate neutrons
Word: neutronic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From neutron + -ic. 1. Relating to neutrons or to neutronics Labels: not-comparable
Word: stramazoun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian stramazzone. Pronunciation: /stɹɑ.ma.zuːn/ 1. A direct descending blow with the sword edge. Labels: obsolete Example: But I (being loth to take the deadly advauntage that lay before mee of his left ſide) made a kind of stramazoun, ran him vp to the hilts, through the Doublet, through the Shirt, and yet miſt the skin. Example: Thy fincture, carricade, and sly passata, Thy stramazon, and resolute stoccata.
Word: stramazouns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stramazoun Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subreption Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin subreptio, from subripere, subreptum (“to snatch or take away secretly”). Compare French subreption. See surreptitious, surreptition. Pronunciation: /sʌbˈɹɛpʃən/ 1. Under Roman law, the act of giving false testimony. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 2. The act of obtaining a favour or grant by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: lest there should be any subreption in this sacred business, it is ordered, that these Ordinations should be no other than solemn 3. The act of obtaining a gift or favor by concealing the truth. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The conflation of a condition under which it is possible to intuitively understand an object, and a condition under which an object can possibly exist; the confusion of knowing with experiencing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: subreptions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subreption Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anodisation Part of Speech: noun 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anodization. Labels: UK, alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable
Word: mineful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mine + -ful. 1. An amount sufficient to fill a mine. Example: The Americans abandoned what had become a more than useless concession, and to-day a mineful of water, colored with copper sulphates and lapping undetermined streaks of ore, remains the property of the Virgin of Cobre. 2. A large amount, particularly of something obtained through mining. Labels: figuratively Example: Oh this earth is a mineful of treasure, A goblet, that's full to the brim, Example: I had taken all this with a mineful of salt and had not been calling Violet more often.
Word: wolf's-milk Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of wolf's milk. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: minefuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mineful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anodiser Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of anodizer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Yezidis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Yezidi Labels: form-of, plural