nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: distaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of distance. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: [N]other perceaueth the concordaunt and diſcordante diſtaunces of ſoundes, and tunes […]
Word: disturbaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of disturbance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: enhaunce Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of enhance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: inhaunce Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of enhance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: entraunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of entrance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: finaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of finance. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: addressin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From address + -in. 1. An extracellular protein of the endothelium of venules. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: addressins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of addressin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: governaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of governance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: grievaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of grievance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: guidaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of guidance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: grievaunces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of grievaunce Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ignoraunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of ignorance. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: antientest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of antient: most antient Labels: form-of, superlative Example: Theſe Books mention only three Sects to have been in vogue in the World ; for of other Sects there is not the leaſt mention made. The firſt is the Sect of the Learned : The ſecond is called Sciequia : And the third Lancu. The firſt of theſe three is followed by all the Chineſes, and the adjacent People, which uſe the Chineſe Characters, as the Iſlanders of Japan, Corea, and Couchinchina : this Sect, which is that of the Learned, is taught to, and followed by none, but only thoſe and the Chineſes themſelves, and is the Antienteſt of all the Sects that were ever heard of in China : Out of this, about which a very great number of Books are writ, generally are choſen perſons fit for the Government of the Empire ; and therefore it is honoured and eſteemed above all others. The Doctrine of this Sect is not taught all at once, but they ſuck it in by degrees when they learn to Read or Write. The firſt Founder of this Sect was Confutius, the Prince of Chineſe Philoſophers, who is to this day honoured by all the Learned, with the Title of the The moſt Wiſe.
Word: antienter Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of antient: more antient Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: antiently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From antient + -ly. 1. Obsolete form of anciently. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Iudges and Interpreters of the Lawes, were antiently called Prudentes and Sages.
Word: skirt steak Part of Speech: noun 1. A long, flat cut of beef from the plate, prized for flavour rather than tenderness. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: antibike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + bike. 1. Opposing the use of bicycles. Example: By this year Koch had become so antibike that he banned the cycles from several major Manhattan avenues.
Word: antiautomobile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + automobile. 1. Opposing the use of automobiles. Example: Politicians and antiautomobile groups are pushing this proposal.
Word: Gotcha Day Part of Speech: noun 1. A day celebrated by the family of an adopted child or pet to recognize the day they received the child or pet. Labels: US
Word: affrightful Part of Speech: adj 1. frightful Labels: obsolete Example: […]so when he awakes from sleep, and says to himself, "Shall I be no otherwise when I am dead, than I was even now when I was asleep?" he may be ashamed of his waking dreams, and of his melancholy fancying out a horrid and an affrightful figure of that death which is so like sleep.
Word: afrayed Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of afraid. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: agrostis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin agrōstis, via the genus name taxonomic name Agrostis. 1. Any grass of the genus Agrostis of bentgrasses. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Above, see those delicate threads of the purple amoret, with its flood of anthers that are nearly yellow; the snowy pyramids of the meadow-sweet, the green tresses of the wild oats, the slender plumes of the agrostis, which we call wind-ear; roseate hopes, decking love's earliest dream and standing forth against the gray surroundings. Example: The ground is littered with fallen trunks that lie crossed and recrossed like storm-lodged wheat; and besides this close forest of pines, the rich moraine soil supports a luxuriant growth of ribbon-leaved grasses--bromus, triticum, calamagrostis, agrostis, etc., which rear their handsome spikes and panicles above your waist.
Word: agrostologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From agrostology + -ist. 1. One who studies agrostology.
Word: agrostological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From agrostology + -ical. 1. Of or pertaining to agrostology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: agrostologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of agrostologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ahind Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From a- + hind. Pronunciation: /əˈhaɪnd/ 1. behind Labels: dialectal Example: "You see, sir," said Mr. Smear, "that wherever that ere water has been it's left a dampness ahind it; the moistur' consekent upon such a dampness must be evaporated by ever-so-many applications of the warming-pan. Example: "Watch was drunk; I crawled down ahind the whiskey.
Word: alanna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Irish a leanbh (“O child”). 1. child Labels: Ireland, dialectal, term-of-address Example: "Now, Mary, stir yourself, alanna," said the old woman, "and get out the bread and butther. Sure you know the misthress can't but be hungry afther her walk." Example: He was sentenced to be hung without any trial worth speaking of; but as he was carted to the gallows an old woman cried out, "Ach, Jimmy alanna!
Word: yead Part of Speech: noun 1. head Labels: dialectal Example: The Derbyshire people have a saying-- "Darbyshire born, and Darbyshire bred, Strong o' the yarm and weak o' the yead." Example: "Beer doan't agree wi' my inzide, an' it gits into my yead, and makes me proper jolly, zo the young volk make game on me.
Word: yeads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of yead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wrencher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wrench + -er. 1. One who, or that which, wrenches.
Word: wrenchers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wrencher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wreckful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wreck + -ful. 1. Causing wreckage; ruinous. Labels: poetic Example: O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? Example: […]a single star I had watched by night searching the wreckful seas[…]
Word: worldbeat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From world + beat. 1. A music genre that blends Western pop music with traditional folk music or world music. Labels: uncountable Example: DJ King Scratch will spin worldbeat music all night, including Byron Lee's calypso, Machito's salsa, and Segun Adawale's African high-life. Example: Diners sit amongst peaceful concrete trees and plastic leaves, listening to soothing worldbeat music; renderings of globes appear throughout, as do references to FoodlifeUs massive recycling program and the healthiness of the establishment's victuals.
Word: woolsacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of woolsack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: woolsack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wool + sack. 1. A bag or bale of wool. Example: We shall never beat the French says one, why truly replied I, 'tis like kicking at a Woolsack—there is perpetual Resistance made, & a strange Elasticity […]. 2. A seat made of wool; (specifically) the traditional seat of the British Lord Chancellor (since 2006 of the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords); hence (by metonymy) the post of Lord-Chancellor. Example: “O rare-painted portrait!” exclaimed Rashleigh, when I was silent—“Vandyke was a dauber to you, Frank. I see thy sire before me in all his strength and weakness, loving and honouring the King as a sort of lord mayor of the empire, or chief of the board of trade;—venerating the Commons, for the acts regulating the export trade;—and respecting the Peers, because the Lord Chancellor sits on a wool-sack.” Example: On entering the House, he is described to have appeared abashed and pale: he passed the woolsack without looking round, and advanced to the table where the proper officer was attending to administer the oaths. 3. Synonym of corestone.
Word: buck rarebit Part of Speech: noun 1. A Welsh rarebit topped with a poached egg.
Word: retherm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Shortening. 1. To rethermalize. Labels: informal
Word: retherming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of retherm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rethermed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of retherm Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: woundily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From woundy + -ly. 1. Excessively; greatly. Labels: obsolete Example: Taking up the tongs, as if to arrange the wood, but rather perhaps to conceal his own confusion, the butler observed, “it was burning clear now, but had smoked woundily in the morning.” Example: [']Well, at that moment the Frenchman lifted for'ard on a heavy swell, and let drive at us, with all his forecastle guns, fired as it might be with one priming—'" / "That was bad gunnery," growled Tom Sponge, "as it racks a ship woundily."
Word: woodward Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wodeward, from Old English wuduweard; equivalent to wood + ward. 1. A warden of a wood. Labels: archaic Example: A sergeantry, called woodward of the Lee Baile, was then held by John Throckmorton, Esq. In the reign of Henry VIII. the office of Bleysbale and forestership of fee was filled by William Alberton. Example: And he is not a comely man, but on the contrary he is exceedingly ill favoured; and he is the woodward of that wood.
Word: woodwards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of woodward Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Woodward Part of Speech: name Etymology: Occupational surname from woodward. 1. A surname. 2. A small city in Dallas County, Iowa, United States. 3. A city, the county seat of Woodward County, Oklahoma, United States. 4. A census-designated place in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. 5. Three townships, in Clearfield County, Clinton County and Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
Word: woodbin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wood + bin. 1. A bin in which wood is stored. Example: They said down at market to-day, Mrs. Scogin, that Addie Fitton knocked herself against the woodbin and has water on the knee." " Example: Ordinarily Jerry and Rachel were able to keep the woodbin filled with driftwood gathered along the shore.
Word: driftwoods Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of driftwood Labels: form-of, plural
Word: woodbins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of woodbin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: woode Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of wood. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: In woode and stone, not the softest, but hardest, be alwaies aptest, for portrature, both fairest for pleasure, and most durable for proffit. Example: The second member or part of the Plough, is called the skeath, and is a peece of woode of two foote and a halfe in length, and of eight inches in breadth, and two inches in thicknesse: it is driuen extreamly hard into the Plough-beame, slopewise, so that ioyned they present this figure.
Word: woodes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of woode Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unwontedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unwonted + -ness. 1. The quality of being unwonted or unusual; deviation from custom or habit. Labels: uncountable Example: 1924: ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Book 1, Part 5. … we demand the language we are accustomed to, and that which is different from this seems not in keeping but somewhat unintelligible and foreign because of its unwontedness.
Word: wontedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wonted + -ness. 1. habit; custom Labels: uncountable Example: Over all, there is that deft, subtle knowledge of place displayed by its busy inmate, a lifelong wontedness to surroundings, indefinable and unconscious, which fascinates us, and which reminds us that the same scene may be to one habituated to it the most iterated of commonplace and to new-comers often alive with novelty and interest. Example: At home we keep constantly in mind the great importance of inculcating in them a love of books and a wontedness in their use.
Word: wirehaired Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wire + haired. 1. Having wiry hair. Example: When a neighbor's rottweiler (loose) began mauling her small wirehaired terrier (tied up) for the second time in eight months, Miki Meyer of suburban LaPorte, Indiana, grabbed her video camera and started filming.
Word: cowboy shot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the framing of cinema shots in Westerns, where the holster and gun needed to be in view along with the actor's face. 1. A shot framed to include a region from the actor's head to mid-thigh. Example: In Europe, the term plán americain or plano americano refers to a shot framed from mid-leg up, basically a cowboy shot. Beyond this we are into the realm of close-ups. Example: One drawback to following an actor on stairs is that you are looking at the actor's back (and worse, emphasizing his or her behind if you are climbing the stairs in a cowboy shot).
Word: wingy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wing + -y. 1. Winged, or as if winged; inclined to fly. Labels: archaic Example: The path that leads, where, hung ſublime, / And ſeen afar, youth's gallant trophies, bright / In Fancy's rainbow ray, invite / His wingy nerves to climb. Example: —and I ran up and down in the scale of semibreves and minims that I had heard, with the one long, sweet trill transfusing life on earth into heavenly existence, and I felt very wingy, very much as if I could take up the tower, standing high and square out there, and carry it, "like Loretto's chapel, through the air to the green land," where my spirit would go singing evermore.
Word: wingy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wing + -y. 1. One who has an amputated arm or arms. Labels: slang Example: He was crippled in one leg, which fact accounted for his moniker, for on the Road a lame man is a gimpy; even as a one-armed man is a wingy. Example: All the golfers shown played in the N.Z. Annual "wingies" and "limbies" tournament, total number of competitors, 40. 2. One who has a wing position. Labels: slang Example: Wingies, don't you love the lead who immediately rudders you out to route at 500 feet and then turns into you while giving a channel change. Example: Damn it all, I know you're right, Dar, but I've never lost a wingy before.
Word: wimpled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wimple + -ed. 1. Wearing a wimple. Labels: not-comparable Example: Two are figures of cross-legged knights in chain armour and surcoats: one is a female figure wimpled. Example: She put on a white wrapper of Susy's, and, looking like a wimpled nun, followed Polly down stairs.
Word: wimpled Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From wimple + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of wimple Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: wimpishness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wimpish + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being wimpish. Labels: uncountable
Word: cowboy shots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cowboy shot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wifish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wife + -ish. 1. Like a wife. Example: Lastly, by all means keep the body warm, and remember that the more careful you are of yourself, even at the risk of being thought "old wifish," you will, humanly speaking, be enabled to enjoy the sport to a greater age than you might otherwise do. Example: But when I press anything, it is always with a true wifish submission to your judgment and inclination.
Word: whereso Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English whereso; equivalent to where + so; compare Old English hwǣr swā. 1. wheresoever; regardless of which place Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Thrand answered that whereso he was, he would still be deemed a brave man, "And now it is meet for thee to settle down and get married, and I would put forth my word and help, if I but knew whereto thou lookest." Example: But when Commercial and Colonial expansion became a definite and avowed object of the former's policy, she found, whereso she might look, that Britain was there, in the way--"everywhere British colonies, British coaling stations, and floating over a fifth of the globe the British flag."
Word: whereinsoever Part of Speech: adv 1. In whatever way or aspect. Labels: not-comparable Example: It is necessary to correct a wrong opinion, which is, that Lutheran ministers are at liberty to deviate from the Augustan Confession whereinsoever they conceive it as erroneous. Example: So that whereinsoever the independent government is truly excellent, the presbyterial government stands in a full equipage and equality of excellence.
Word: werena Part of Speech: contraction 1. Alternative form of werenae. Labels: alt-of, alternative, contraction Example: "I've been thinking this long time that ye or Duncan would see that sunbonnets werena braw enough for a woman of my standing, and ye're a guid laddie to bring me this beautiful hat." Example: Corp's face shone, but Gavinia said at once, "You werena sic great friends as that; were you, man?"
Word: weller Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of well: more well Labels: comparative, form-of Example: Emma is looking weller and handsomer (as you say) than ever. Example: He forgot the Huns; forgot John the Baptist; forgot even his sick, till one of the weller of them (as we may assume) knocked memorially upon his door....
Word: wellest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of well: most well Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: perfectionless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From perfection + -less. 1. Devoid of perfection. Labels: not-comparable Example: The section closes with an interesting denial that real fusion is possible; the dream and the act always remain apart in this perfectionless earth.
Word: weedling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From weed + -ling. 1. A small weed. Example: The vegetation was withered to pallid rags: even the tiniest weedling in the rock crevices had been poisoned by the devastating blast. Example: In early spring, it takes time and scrutiny to decipher the newly emerging weedlings from my precious, rising seedlings.
Word: weedlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of weedling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: weatherworn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From weather + worn. 1. Synonym of weather-beaten. Example: His hair, gray as the underwing of the owl whose note he forged, straggled in uncut disarray from under the drooping rim of a battered and weatherworn hat. Example: Old Heck said again, his weatherworn features working convulsively, "it's more than a mortal man can endure and stand!"
Word: warrantably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From warrantable + -ly. 1. In a way that is justified; reasonably. Example: None of those who defend the adoring of the humanity of Christ with divine worship, do well and warrantably express their opinion. Example: The sentence of execution passed upon the murderer may be warrantably passed by the State of the future or its officers upon a monstrous birth, a baby riddled with congenital syphilis or some such horrible fruit of our present carelessness and wickedness in such matters.
Word: wande Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of wand. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: And with that (as he sayde) the deuill brake the white wande, and immediatly vanished foorth of his sight.
Word: wandes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wande Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vowe Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of vow. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: And his discreete father, being safe according to his vowe, hanging vp his wings in the temple of Appollo.
Word: vowe Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of vow. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: I vse to kisse all them that I loue to God I vowe.
Word: vowes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vowe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vocality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōx Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin vōcālisbor. Middle English vocal English vocal Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English vocality From vocal + -ity. Compare Latin vocalitas (“euphony”). 1. The quality or degree of being vocal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The admiral, fearing she might not confine herself to vocality, but begin to beat time with her fists, thought it right to take up a position; he therefore very dexterously took two steps in the rear, and mounted on a sofa[…] Example: 'On what special subject of the theorems and topics does your desire for vocality seem to be connected with?' 2. The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vitrinitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vitrinite + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to vitrinite.
Word: unvitrified Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + vitrified. 1. Not converted into glass. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonvirtualized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + virtualized. 1. Not virtualized. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonvitrified Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + vitrified. 1. Not converted into glass. Labels: not-comparable
Word: vitrinite Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the primary components of coals and most sedimentary kerogens, with a shiny appearance resembling glass. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vitrinites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vitrinite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: maceral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin mācerō (“macerate”) + -al, after mineral. Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1935. 1. A component of coal or oil shale. Example: Inertinite, vitrinite and liptinite are macerals.
Word: macerals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of maceral Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inertinitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inertinite + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to inertinite.
Word: liptinitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From liptinite + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to liptinite.
Word: liptinite Part of Speech: noun 1. The finely-ground and macerated remains found in coal deposits. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: liptinites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of liptinite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inertinite Part of Speech: noun 1. Oxidized organic material or fossilized charcoal, found as tiny flakes within sedimentary rocks. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: inertinites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inertinite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: resinitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From resinite + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to resinite.
Word: ambrite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From amber + -ite. 1. A form of resinite found in New Zealand coal seams. Labels: uncountable
Word: resinite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From resin + -ite. 1. A form of amber occurring in coal seams. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: resinites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of resinite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lipsynched Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lipsynch Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: lipsynching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lipsynch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lipsynchs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lipsynch Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: lipuric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lipuria + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to lipuria.
Word: lipsyncs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lipsync Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: lipsyncing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lipsync Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lipsynced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lipsync Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sporinite Part of Speech: noun 1. An exinite maceral found in coal formed from spores and pollen. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sporinites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sporinite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sporinitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sporinite + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to sporinite.
Word: exinitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From exinite + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to exinite.
Word: alginitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From alginite + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to alginite.
Word: cutinitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cutinite + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to cutinite.
Word: alginite Part of Speech: noun 1. A component of some types of kerogen, consisting of organic-walled marine microfossils. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: alginites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of alginite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cutinite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cutin + -ite. 1. A liptinite maceral formed from terrestrial plant cuticles. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cutinites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cutinite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sapropelic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sapropel + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to sapropel.
Word: lamalginite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of lamina + alginite? 1. An alginite found in sapropel and composed of thin-walled colonial or unicellular algae that occur as distinct laminae, cryptically interbedded with mineral matter. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: lamalginites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lamalginite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: telalginite Part of Speech: noun 1. An alginite found in sapropel and composed of large, discretely occurring colonial or thick-walled unicellular algae. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: telalginites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of telalginite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: buck rabbit Part of Speech: noun 1. A male rabbit. 2. Alternative form of buck rarebit. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: aurichalcites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aurichalcite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vagabondish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vagabond + -ish. 1. Like a vagabond. Example: But, in the same domains and at the end of the same century, his grandson William VII. was the most vagabondish, dissolute, and violent of princes; and his morals were so scandalous that the bishop of Poitiers, after having warned him to no purpose, considered himself forced to excommunicate him. Example: It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention Mr. Lindsay's loyalty to the people of his place and hour, or the training in sympathy with their aims and ideals which he has achieved through vagabondish wanderings in the Middle West.
Word: nonvolcaniclastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + volcaniclastic. 1. Not volcaniclastic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: vitric Part of Speech: adj 1. glassy; vitreous Example: This flow overlies fossil vertebrate-bearing volcaniclastic sediments that include a grayish-black vitric tuff that may be correlative with the unit A1 tuff at Dmanisi.
Word: vitreal Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to the vitreous humor Labels: not-comparable Example: Many mitogenic effects of GH are mediated by IGF-I. In some studies of diabetic patients, serum IGF-I levels or vitreal IGF-I levels are associated with proliferative retinopathy (6 ).
Word: visuality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From visual + -ity, from Latin visualitas. 1. The quality of being visual Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Not the general whole only; every compartment of it is worked out, with intense earnestness, into truth, into clear visuality. Example: The scope of his mental visuality no longer included the figure of the agent from the private detective bureau. 2. Physical appearance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After all, her "visuality" is that of a "narrative image" — the bruised, abused, and overused but essentially young and sensuous, primitively vital female figure that carries the burden of the narrative movement and whose consumption brings about the narrative closure. 3. vision (mental picture) Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: visualizability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From visualize + -ability. 1. The quality of being visualizable. Labels: uncountable
Word: visored Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From visor + -ed. 1. Fitted with a visor. Labels: not-comparable Example: Afterward he took his smart visored cap off the hook and limped down town, his boots and leggings and uniform very spick and span from Ma Werner's expert brushing and rubbing. 2. Wearing a visor. Labels: not-comparable Example: The outlines of the hovering planes showed by his side, and Lannes called in a loud voice to shrouded and visored men.
Word: viscountship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From viscount + -ship. 1. The role or status of viscount. Example: Louis persisted in struggling for the preponderance of the crown against the great vassals; succeeded in taming Peter Mauclerc, the turbulent Count of Brittany; wrung from Theobald IV., Count of Champagne, the rights of suzerainty in the countships of Chartres, Blois, and Sancerre, and the viscountship of Chateaudun, and purchased the fertile countship of Macon from its possessor. Example: HARDINGE, HENRY, VISCOUNT, a distinguished soldier and Governor-General of India […] was appointed Governor-General of India, and later distinguished himself under Gough in the first Sikh War; a viscountship and pension followed in 1845[…]
Word: viscountships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of viscountship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vintager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vintage + -er, cognate to French vendangeur. 1. One who gathers the vintage, i.e. a grape harvester. Example: The sun, treading the earth like a vintager, drew from it heady fragrances, crushed out of it new colours. Example: Matured in all the graces, he is like the ripened Chian clusters that await the vintager in the autumn days.
Word: vintagers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vintager Labels: form-of, plural
Word: villadom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From villa + -dom. 1. The world of suburban villas. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At present that convenience is still needlessly expensive in Great Britain, and a scandalously stupid business conflict between telephone company and post-office delays, complicates, and makes costly and exasperating all trunk communications; but even under these disadvantages the thing is becoming a factor in the life of ordinary villadom. Example: […]turning to the right again, but more sharply, the wayfarer found himself once more in villadom, but a villadom more ornate, more costly, with gardens to be measured in acres—or nearly.
Word: smartassery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From smartass + -ery. 1. The behaviour of a smartass. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: 'Is that the best you can do with all your big-talk smartassery? Aspirin?' Harold stuffed his hands into his pockets and looked at her miserably, accepting the rebuke.
Word: vigilancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vigilantia. 1. Vigilance. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually Example: this infinit confusion of opinions and sentences, which this goodly humane reason, by her certainty and cleare-sighted vigilancie brings forth in whatsoever it medleth withal […]. Example: When thou seest justice executed on any, thou maist inwardly take delight in his vigilancy, to punish offenders, because it tends to publique quiet, yet shew pity to the offender, and ever Constitute the defect of his morality, thy precaution.
Word: vigilancies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vigilancy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vidiot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of video + idiot. 1. A passive, undiscriminating consumer of video media. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: You are a vidiot if you watch music videos for any period of time without stopping to think about what they are saying. Example: Cynics might say that any show based on television--like, say, The Real Live Brady Bunch--is bound to be popular among the nostalgic vidiot generation.
Word: vidiots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vidiot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vidette Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of vedette. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I told him not to shoot, as I was a scout from Fort Hays; and then, calling the sergeant of the guard, I went up to the vidette of the post, who readily recognized me. Example: Convinced that this would prove to be either a cavalry vidette, or a Federal foraging party, it made me more anxious to get quickly down into the town, hopeful they might have a spare horse with them, and I pointed out the dust spirals to my companion.
Word: videttes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vidette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: villainage Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of villeinage. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: In any suit against his lord the proof of his condition of villainage was sufficient to put him out of court, and his only recourse was the local court of the manor, where the lord himself or his representative presided.
Word: villanage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From villan + -age. 1. Alternative form of villeinage. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Even during the Dark Ages, even in its most corrupted form, Christianity wrought for the practical extinction of serfdom. Mr. Newman says that it was Christians, not men, that the church sought to enfranchise; it little matters; she sought to abolish all villanage.
Word: instaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of instance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: villeinages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of villeinage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: villainages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of villainage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: villanages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of villanage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: maintenaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of maintenance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: vexedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From vexed + -ly. 1. In a vexed manner; annoyedly. Example: "What made you harp upon the war, man, knowing what his opinions are?" the doctor asked vexedly, as he stumbled along the uneven stone passage towards the hall. Example: If only Dr. Spiller had sent me a wire yesterday," he exclaimed vexedly, "he had my address in the country, I should have been saved a useless visit to London!"
Word: vexedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vexed + -ness. 1. The quality of being vexed; irritation or annoyance. Labels: uncountable
Word: ordinaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of ordinance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete 2. Obsolete form of ordnance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: performaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of performance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: perseveraunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of perseverance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: vertebrated Part of Speech: adj 1. vertebrate; having vertebrae Labels: not-comparable Example: There is not a single class of vertebrated animals which, when it first appears, is represented by analogues of the lowest known members of the same class. Example: And they think I'm going to crawl about on my stomach--on my vertebrated stomach!
Word: benzoporphyrins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of benzoporphyrin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: remembraunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of remembrance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: repentaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of repentance. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: verisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of verism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: resemblaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of resemblance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: verist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From verism. By surface analysis, Latin vērus (“true”) + -ist. 1. One who subscribes to verism. Example: It is the creation of a verist, of a naturalist, founded on a clear and intimate perception of nature. Example: He is, nevertheless, a realist—a verist, as he prefers to be called.
Word: verists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of verist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: repugnaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of repugnance. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: resistaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of resistance. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: verie Part of Speech: adj 1. Early Modern spelling of very. Labels: not-comparable, usually
Word: verie Part of Speech: adv 1. Early Modern spelling of very. Labels: not-comparable Example: At that time liued likewise a worthie Gentleman, whose many verie famius deeds (wherof I am sorie I may here make no rehearsal, because neither time nor occasion will permitte me) renowne his name to all ensuing posterities: he, being called sir Richard Whittington, the founder of Whittington Colledge in London, and one that bare the office of Lord Maior of this Citie three seuerall times.
Word: romaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of romance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: semblaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of semblance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: severaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of severance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: verdureless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From verdure + -less. 1. Devoid of verdure. Labels: not-comparable Example: There were not then, as now, upon some of them, great dead trees reaching out their long bare arms in verdureless desolation above a stinted undergrowth, and piled up trunks charred and blackened by the fire that had revelled among them, but all were green, and thrifty, and glorious in their robes of beauty. Example: At three o'clock in the morning we stopped forty minutes at Tchertchen, almost at the foot of the ramifications of the Kuen Lun. None of us had seen this miserable, desolate country, treeless and verdureless, which the railway was now crossing on its road to the northeast.
Word: commaund Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of command. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: commaund Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of command. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: verdured Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From verdure + -ed. 1. Covered with verdure; green and lush; verdant. Labels: not-comparable Example: About midway in the short vista which my dreamy vision took in, one small circular island, profusely verdured, reposed upon the bosom of the stream. Example: After a time, fully two miles away, he saw sheep grazing on a thinly verdured slide.
Word: substaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of substance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: sufferaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of sufferance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: temperaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of temperance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: ventosities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ventosity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: utteraunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of utterance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: ventosity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ventose + -ity, from Latin ventositas. 1. The quality or state of being windy or flatulent; windiness or flatulence. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: On the one hand, a sternness and a coarseness of structure which changes its stem into a stake, and its leaf into a spine; on the other, an utter flaccidity and ventosity of structure, which changes its stem into a riband, and its leaf into a bubble. 2. vainglory; pride. Labels: broadly, uncountable, usually Example: Both of them were youths of a Sprightly Genius, and of an Alert Apprehension, attended, in the case of GRANDOLPH, with a mighty heat and ebullition of Fancy, which led early to a certain frothiness or ventosity in speech. Example: And surely no small number of those who are of a solid nature, and who, from the want of this ventosity, cannot spread all sail in pursuit of their own honour, suffer some prejudice and lose dignity by their moderation."
Word: venially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From venial + -ly. 1. In a venial manner. Example: The Antients venially delighted in flouriſhing Gardens; […] Example: With regard to all the failings and offences which fall under this head, it may be remarked that, from their false show of generosity, society is apt to treat them too venially, except where they entail degradation or disgrace.
Word: venialness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From venial + -ness. 1. The quality of being venial (pardonable). Labels: uncountable
Word: variaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of variance. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: veniality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From venial + -ity. 1. The quality of being venial (pardonable). Labels: uncountable Example: When he heard him in after years accused of shameless veniality, of trickery, lying, duplicity, even murder, he always remembered that impulsive revelation--never repeated--of a warped, unhappy childhood, of a perverted destiny. Mr. Morris came to him later as he stood leaning against the wall behind the chair of Madame de Chastellux. " Example: However enraged I might be at the new revelation of Addicks' extraordinary veniality, the other elements in the situation remained as before. 2. A venial (pardonable) action or an instance of venial behaviour. Labels: countable
Word: venialities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of veniality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: valiaunce Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of valiance. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: uncorrupt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + corrupt. 1. Not corrupt; honest, fair. Example: What this city needs is an uncorrupt police force. 2. Not having decayed. Labels: archaic Example: An uncorrupt dead body was thought to be a vampire.
Word: uncorruptible Part of Speech: adj 1. Synonym of incorruptible.
Word: uncorruptable Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of incorruptible. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: veilless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From veil + -less. 1. Without a veil. Labels: not-comparable Example: He drove the dust against her veilless eyes
Word: veale Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of veal. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Biefe, Mutton, and Porke, shred pies of the best, Pig, veale, goose, and capon, and Turkey well drest. Example: And so I to my Lord Crew's, thinking to have dined there, but it was too late, and so back and called at my brother's and Mr. Holden's about several businesses, and went all alone to the Black Spread Eagle in Bride Lane, and there had a chopp of veale and some bread, cheese, and beer, cost me a shilling to my dinner[…]
Word: veales Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of veale Labels: form-of, plural
Word: varmin Part of Speech: noun 1. vermin Labels: dialectal, plural, plural-only Example: There's things folks 'ud pay to be rid on, besides varmin. Example: Powerful sight of varmin there allers be round they sheds and places.
Word: vegetive Part of Speech: adj 1. vegetable Labels: not-comparable, obsolete 2. Of or pertaining to vegetation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: vegetive Part of Speech: noun 1. vegetable Labels: obsolete Example: I have (Together with my practice) made familiar To me and to my aid, the blest infusions That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones Example: Hence vegetives receive their fragrant birth, / And clothe the naked bosom of the earth.
Word: vegetives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vegetive Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vaned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vane + -ed. 1. Having a vane or vanes. Labels: not-comparable Example: More spectacularly, the end of Protoarchaeopteryxs tail sported a fan of feathers that are vaned', suggesting the presence of barbules.
Word: ultramicrotomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ultramicrotome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: valewe Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of value. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: valewes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of valewe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: valew Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of value. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: valews Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of valew Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vagabondize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From vagabond + -ize. 1. To act as the vagabond; to wander about in idleness. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: Well, last summer, I was out that way among the lakes that lie sleeping in beauty, and along the streams that flow through the old woods, playing the savage and vagabondizing in a promiscuous way. Example: "Because I will not permit you to go idling and vagabondizing about the village."
Word: vagabondizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of vagabondize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: vagabondizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of vagabondize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vagabondized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of vagabondize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: vandyke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck. Pronunciation: /vænˈdaɪk/ 1. An edge with ornamental triangular points. 2. A style of facial hair which has both a mustache and a goatee but with all cheek hair shaven, popular in Europe in the 17th century. Example: He was still an old galliard, with white Buffalo Bill vandyke, and he swanked around, still healthy of flesh, in white suits, looking things over with big sex-amused eyes. Example: Raj, you will be painting sideburns and a Van Dyke on a six-inch figurine of Legolas the elf. 3. A style of dress or collar similar to those in Anthony van Dyck's portrait paintings; a small round cape, the border ornamented with points and indentations.
Word: vandyke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Named after 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck. Pronunciation: /vænˈdaɪk/ 1. To fit or furnish with a vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a vandyke. Labels: transitive Example: Again I searched, and found a most diabolical pair of cock-nosed shears, capable of vandyking the interiors of elephants. Example: The travellers had not advanced many paces towards them before the peaks of three gables rose above them, vandyking the sky and docking the last sparse branches of the elms. Mr. Thomasson's exclamation of relief, as he surveyed the building, was cut short by the harsh rattle of a chain, followed by the roar of a watch-dog, as it bounded from the kennel; in a second a horrid raving and baying, as of a score of hounds, awoke the night.
Word: vandyking Part of Speech: noun 1. Edging with ornamental triangular points. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Her charms were set off by the mourning dress which she wore, and by the robe called the quintise, which was an upper tunic without sleeves, with bordered vandyking and scalloping worked and notched in various patterns, worn so long behind that it swept the floor, but in front held up gracefully with one hand so as not to impede the step.
Word: vandyking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of vandyke Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vandyked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of vandyke Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: vandykes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vandyke Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vandykes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of vandyke Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person