nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: putid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin pūteō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin pūtidusder. English putid From Latin putidus. Compare French putide. Compare putrid. Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːtɪd/ 1. rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless Example: Memorials of their putid Rottenneſſe Example: thy putid muse
Word: ministracy Part of Speech: noun 1. ministration Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: toyingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From toying + -ly. 1. In a toying manner; so as to toy with someone or something.
Word: dilucid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *lewk- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti Proto-Italic *loukeō Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der. Proto-Italic *loukēō Latin lūceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin lūcidus Latin dīlūcidus English dilucid From Latin dilucidus, from dilucere (“to be light enough to tell objects apart”). See lucid. Pronunciation: /daɪˈl(j)uːsɪd/, /dɪˈl(j)uːsɪd/ 1. clear or lucid Labels: obsolete Example: an ambiguous, or not so perspicuous and dilucide description of Lawes
Word: selfist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From self + -ist. 1. Believing in or practicing selfism. Example: To do this, you should have sympathy for all humanity, and this cannot be done as long as you are a selfish or even selfist person. Example: To be selfist, one must presume divergence of interest.
Word: selfist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From self + -ist. 1. A selfish person. Example: [T]he pretentious wiſdom, and the knowing cautions of men—reputed to be of high ſtanding in phyſiological ſcience, but whoſe philoſophy, as it is that of the materialiſt, ſo does it prompt them to palliate, or even to juſtify, the practices of licentious ſelfiſts. Example: We have in the priests and elders the selfist prosperous in his schemes, and untouched, unhurt. We have in Judas the selfist wounded and disappointed, beginning to " eat of the fruit of his own way, and to be filled with his own devices." 2. A proponent of selfism; One who believes in their right and their responsibility to look after their own needs and desires. Example: The selfist uses himself to achieve his goals, whereas the selfish uses others to achieve his goals. The selfist gets to a point where he simply must gather up all that is generated by his name and work so that he may properly organize his life; the selfist simply needs time to himself. Example: The selfist, on the other hand, believes that those same persons wield power to their own advantage only, and care little or not at all about the aspirations of their constituents.
Word: selfists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of selfist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undenary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ūndēnī (“eleven each, eleventh”) + -ary, from ūndēnus. 1. In base (radix) eleven. Labels: not-comparable
Word: undecimal Part of Speech: adj 1. Based upon the number eleven Labels: not-comparable
Word: dedecorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin dedecorus. See decorous. 1. disgraceful; unbecoming Labels: obsolete Example: he took courage to proceed to greater and more dedecorous and base practises
Word: recapacitate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + capacitate. 1. To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Labels: transitive Example: February 13 1703, Francis Atterbury, letter to Bishop Trelawny persons recapacitating themselves by taking the oaths
Word: recapacitated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of recapacitate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: recapacitates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of recapacitate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: recapacitating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of recapacitate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disopinion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + opinion. 1. Absence or difference of belief; disbelief. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: There are thoughts belonging to the understanding, assenting and dissenting thoughts, belief and disopinion.
Word: canticoy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an Algonquian (probably Lenape) language; compare Unami këntke (“he dances”) and English cantico. 1. A social gathering, usually for dancing. Labels: archaic, rare Example: The Indians denied us going to the town on excuse of a canticoy. We lodged in the woods that night. Example: […] as long as M. Poincaré keeps up his canticoys, so long will that disturbance increase.
Word: canticoys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of canticoy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: maxillomandibular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From maxillo- + mandibular. 1. Relating to the maxilla and mandible. Labels: not-comparable Example: the maxillomandibular nerve
Word: bezzle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English besilen, from Old French besiler, besillier (“to mistreat, pillage”); or shortened from English embezzle. 1. To plunder; to lay waste to, in riot. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To drink to excess; to revel. Labels: obsolete 3. To squander. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: bezzle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by John Kenneth Galbraith, from embezzle. 1. The level or proportion of financial sector activity that consists of hidden embezzlement, varying in step with the business cycle. 2. The time between when a confidence trickster has stolen money from an unsuspecting person and when that person realizes the money has been stolen. Example: That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled. Example: Uber is a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). Every bezzle ends. 3. The difference between the short-term or current market value of an asset and its true long-term worth.
Word: bezzled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bezzle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bezzles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bezzle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bezzling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bezzle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: deprecable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin deprecabilis (“exorable”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛp.ɹə.kə.bl̩/ 1. That may or should be deprecated. Example: 1649, King Charles I (attributed), Eikon Basilike book upon the temporall destruction of the greatest King, as far less deprecable than the eternall damnation of the meanest Subject
Word: olivaster Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French olivastre (attested by 1575; compare modern French olivâtre). For more, see olive, -aster. 1. Of the color of the olive; tawny. Labels: archaic, uncommon Example: Of colour, they are rather black than olivaster and that their arms and legs are chained with manilios and armlets of silver, brass, ivory and the like
Word: gelatigenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gelatin + -genous. 1. Producing or yielding gelatin. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: the gelatigenous tissues
Word: subcrystalline Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + crystalline. 1. Imperfectly crystallized. Labels: not-comparable Example: subcrystalline limestone
Word: pactional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From paction + -al. 1. Of the nature of, or by means of, a pact. Labels: not-comparable Example: For the several duties that by God's Ordinance are to be performed by persons that stand in mutual relation either to other, are not pactional and conditional, as are the leagues and agreements made between Princes […]
Word: recto- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, indirectly from Latin rectum by the same path whence also English rectum (which see). 1. rectum Labels: morpheme
Word: cinchonaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cinchona + -aceous. Pronunciation: /ˌsɪŋkəˈneɪʃəs/ 1. Pertaining to, or derived from, cinchona (the plant or the medicine). Labels: not-comparable Example: cinchonaceous tree Example: cinchonaceous gland
Word: synonymize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From synonym + -ize. Pronunciation: /sɪˈnɒnɪˌmaɪz/ 1. To express by a synonym or synonyms. Labels: transitive Example: This word fortis we may synonymize after all these fashions: stout, hardy, valiant, doughty, courageous, adventurous, brave, bold, daring, intrepid. 2. To identify two taxonomic terms as synonyms, thus equating two potentially disparate categories.
Word: synonymized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of synonymize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: synonymizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of synonymize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: synonymizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of synonymize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Pnyx Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πνύξ (Pnúx); since ancient times it has been claimed the word is derived from πυκνός (puknós, “close-packed; dense; thick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *puḱ- (“to press together”), but the Oxford English Dictionary considers this a folk etymology with no evidence supporting it. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪks/, /ˈpnɪks/ 1. A hill in Athens west of the Acropolis with a stone platform and steps set into its side, which was used as the meeting place of the democratic assembly in Ancient Greece. Labels: historical
Word: cerographies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cerography Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cerography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cero- + -graphy. 1. The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: wirble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare burble, whirl. Pronunciation: /ˈwɜː(ɹ)bəl/ 1. To whirl; to eddy. Example: The waters went wirbling above and around.
Word: wirbled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of wirble Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: wirbles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wirble Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: wirbling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wirble Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spinnerule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spinner + -ule. 1. One of the small tubes on the spinnerets of spiders. Labels: archaic
Word: spinnerules Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spinnerule Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bachelorism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bachelor + -ism. 1. Bachelorhood. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Often, I say, have I wavered in my faith as to the unapproachable beatitude of bachelorism, when dining out, for example, at a well-appointed marital menage. 2. A manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As he could not be prevailed on to give any account of himself in our introduction, I will take the opportunity of his confinement, while his back is turned, to give a slight sketch of his character;—fertile in whim-whams and bachelorisms, but rich in many of the sterling qualities of our nature.
Word: bachelorisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bachelorism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: perpension Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See perpend. 1. Careful consideration; pondering. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: unto reasonable perpensions it hath no place in some sciences
Word: perpensions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of perpension Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subintestinal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + intestinal. 1. Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the intestine. Labels: not-comparable Example: subintestinal vein
Word: pratingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From prating + -ly. 1. With idle or long-winded talk; with loquacity.
Word: permiscible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin permiscere (“to mingle”), from per + miscere (“to mix”). 1. Capable of being mixed. Labels: archaic
Word: dictatorian Part of Speech: adj 1. dictatorial Labels: obsolete Example: dictatorian council Example: dictatorian power
Word: be mum Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of be mother. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: oneitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From one + -itis. Pronunciation: /wʌnˈaɪtɪs/ 1. Attraction towards a single potential partner to the exclusion of other possible partners. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Oneitis is more likely to attack chicks than dudes for reasons of biological conditioning, habitation, mother-child relationship and other scientific crap. Example: But in the past eight months, I hadn't felt even a tremor of oneitis. In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable.
Word: forty-spot Part of Speech: noun 1. Pardalotus quadragintus, the forty-spotted pardalote, a rare Tasmanian bird.
Word: forty-spots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forty-spot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: camisated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin camisia. 1. Dressed with a shirt over the other garments. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] Rombert was leaning against a tree, his eye bent closely upon the wrinkled and inexpressive face of the camisated Dutartre. Example: […] his dearly beloved wife, Innanui te po, who, tradition further adds, wore that invaluable article of apparel, "unmentionable to ears polite;" a deprivation that has descended to the present camisated sans culotte descendants.
Word: delirifacient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From delirium + Latin faciens, facientis, present participle of facere (“to make”). 1. Producing, or tending to produce, delirium. Labels: archaic
Word: delirifacient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From delirium + Latin faciens, facientis, present participle of facere (“to make”). 1. Any substance that causes delirium. Labels: archaic Example: Irregular action of the heart in a person falling asleep produces the well-known sensation of suddenly falling through space, and it seems quite possible that the combination of a delirifacient like belladonna with a drug producing irregular action of the heart like aconite might produce the sensation of flying.
Word: delirifacients Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of delirifacient Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inustion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See ustion. 1. The act of burning or branding. Labels: obsolete Example: Is that memory that is seated in the Mundane spirit of man , by a strong impression , or inustion of any phantasme , or outward sensible object , upon that spirit
Word: inustions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inustion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: circuiter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From circuit + -er. 1. One who travels a circuit, such as a circuit judge. Example: Having previously assured their fellow circuiters that no discourtesy was intended them, they resolved upon bold measures […]
Word: circuiters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of circuiter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tasimeter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek τάσις (tásis, “stretching, extension”) + -meter. 1. An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists of a small rod or disk of carbon forming part of an electrical circuit, whose resistance (varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured) causes variations in the strength of the current, which are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. Example: The eclipse offered the opportunity to test the tasimeter, and Edison promptly headed west for the July 29 event.
Word: tasimeters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tasimeter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preknowledge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + knowledge. 1. prior knowledge Labels: uncountable
Word: rivalities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rivality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rivality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rival + -ity, from Latin rivalitas: compare French rivalité. 1. rivalry; competition Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: outdream Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + dream. 1. To surpass in dreams or imagination. Labels: transitive
Word: outdreaming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outdream Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outdreams Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outdream Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outdreamed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outdream Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: outdreamt Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outdream Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: stickful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stick + -ful. 1. As much type as fills a composing stick. Labels: dated Example: That first morning it took me half an hour to set my first stickful, a dozen lines. Example: Stickful after stickful is placed on this galley, until it also is full. 2. An amount that is held on one stick. Example: I started with old headman and passed a good smoking hot stickful of meat to everyone, about twenty or twenty-five of them altogether in the order what I guessed their ages was. Example: If you scoop a stickful up and then tap the stick smartly on the edge of the pot, most of it will fall off the stick.
Word: sticksful Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stickful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stickfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stickful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tubiporite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tubipore + -ite. 1. Any fossil coral of the genus †Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.
Word: tubiporites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tubiporite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: opiniatreties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of opiniatrety Labels: form-of, plural
Word: opiniatrety Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French. 1. opinionatedness Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: disinvolve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + involve. 1. To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle. Labels: transitive Example: And for that second sense, it is indeed disinvolved of those former Difficulties Example: And for thee Creation universal calls aloud To disinvolve the moral world, and give To nature's renovation brighter charms. 2. To terminate the involvement of. Example: Given a variety of urgent and vital global problems requiring attention and co-operation of the super-powers and the world communitiy in their solution, can the super-powers take a decision to disinvolve themselves from the Viet-Nam-Indo-China tangle and to use all their influence with the local parties concerned to facilitate such disinvolvement? Example: Has the author processed his subject in such a way as to exclude, to pacify, to disinvolve the reader?
Word: disinvolved Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disinvolve Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disinvolves Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disinvolve Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: disinvolving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disinvolve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pretendingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From pretending + -ly. 1. So as to pretend. Example: The disagreement starts with the species capable of pretend play, which necessarily entails disagreement over what the minds involved do in order to play pretendingly, and when. 2. As if by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously. Example: I have a particular Reason to look a little pretendingly at present; therefore I hope you will excuse it
Word: tarsometatarsal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tarso- + metatarsal. 1. Of or pertaining to both the tarsus and metatarsus. Labels: not-comparable Example: the tarsometatarsal articulations Example: tarsometatarsal joint 2. Of or pertaining to the tarsometatarsus. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sarcenet Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of sarsenet. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: There is one exception however in this case, and that is, when you are so fortunate a fellow, as to have had your jerkin made of a gum-taffeta, and the body-lining to it, of a sarcenet or thin persian.
Word: sarcenets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sarcenet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pregnance Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of pregnancy. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: Only in the passage following, I cannot but admire the ripenes, and the pregnance of his native trechery, endeavouring to bee more a Fox then^([sic]) his wit will suffer him.
Word: ozokerite Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ozocerite. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: ozokerites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ozokerite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: symphyseal Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to symphysis Labels: not-comparable
Word: synodist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From synod + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnədɪst/ 1. An adherent to, or member of, a synod. Example: These synodists thought fit in Latin as yet to veil their decrees from vulgar eyes.
Word: synodists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of synodist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pedatifid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pedate + -fid, from -fidus, from Latin findere (“to split”). 1. Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base. Labels: not-comparable
Word: recumbence Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: sternal recumbence Example: supine recumbence
Word: seether Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From seethe + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsiːðə(ɹ)/ 1. A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Labels: archaic Example: Like burnished gold the little seether shone. 2. A person who seethes. Example: The following strategies can help a seether gain control of angry feelings. Example: Oh, she is not born like other girls / But I know how to conceive her / Oh, she may not look like other girls / But she's a snarl-toothed seether, seether!
Word: seethers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seether Labels: form-of, plural
Word: angelize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From angel + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪnd͡ʒəlaɪz/ 1. To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic. Labels: transitive Example: W. Taylor It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man.
Word: angelized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of angelize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: angelizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of angelize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: angelizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of angelize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pleurapophysial Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to the pleurapophysis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: perispomenon Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek περισπώμενον (perispṓmenon). Pronunciation: /ˌpɛɹɪˈspəʊmənɒn/ 1. Having a high-low pitch accent on the last syllable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: perispomenon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek περισπώμενον (perispṓmenon). Pronunciation: /ˌpɛɹɪˈspəʊmənɒn/ 1. A word with a high-low pitch accent on the last syllable. Example: All contract forms of these adjectives are perispomena; except ώ for έω and όω in the dual
Word: fatherlasher Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of father lasher. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fatherlashers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fatherlasher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reillume Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + illume. 1. To relight; to reilluminate. Labels: also, archaic, figuratively, poetic Example: Thou must reillume its spark. Example: 1712, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mother and Son" The vital fire seemed reillumed within By this sweet unexpected welcoming
Word: reillumed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reillume Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reillumes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reillume Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reilluming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reillume Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: misliker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mislike + -er. 1. One who mislikes. Example: December 20, 1576, Edmund Grindal, letter to the Queen concerning suppressing the prophecies, and restraining the number of preachers Some there be also, that are mislikers of the godly reformation in religion now established; wishing indeed that there were no preachers at all […]
Word: mislikers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misliker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: textuist Part of Speech: noun 1. A textualist; a textman. Labels: obsolete Example: the crabbed textuists of his time Example: And as a close and correct textuist generally, few perhaps ever excelled him . 2. One who analyzes the structure, meaning, and context of texts. Example: Gerhard Joseph as a textuist is philologically sound . Example: In the interwaves of Greetham's Transgressions, the textuist-turned-autobiographer writes of his private experience of belatedness, otherness, anomie, absence.
Word: textuists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of textuist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preestablishment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + establishment. 1. The act of establishing or settling something beforehand. Labels: uncountable
Word: Bosjesman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Bosjesman. 1. A Bushman of southern Africa. Labels: archaic
Word: Bosjesmans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Bosjesman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: maleficient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Modification of maleficent; compare beneficient. Pronunciation: /ˌmæləˈfɪʃənt/ 1. Alternative form of maleficent. Labels: alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes
Word: disputacity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dispute + -acity. 1. Proneness to dispute. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: […] lest they should dull the wits, and hinder the exercise of reasoning, [and] abate the disputacity of the nation.
Word: subcranial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + cranial. 1. Situated, or occuring under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium. Labels: not-comparable Example: subcranial approach Example: subcranial division
Word: brickleness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brickle + -ness. 1. brittleness Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: facundious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin facundiosus. 1. eloquent; wordy Labels: obsolete
Word: vigonia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French vigogne (“vicuña”). 1. Alternative form of vicuña. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic, attributive Example: The Peruvians showed great skill in the manufacture of different articles for the royal household from this delicate material, which, under the name of vigonia wool, is now familiar to the looms of Europe
Word: vigonias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vigonia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: remandment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From remand + -ment. 1. A remand. Labels: dated
Word: remandments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of remandment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peccability Part of Speech: noun 1. The state or quality of being peccable; liability to sin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the common peccability of mankind
Word: collusory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin collusorius. 1. collusive Example: collusory bidding Example: collusory practice
Word: distractious Part of Speech: adj 1. distractive; distracting Example: 1678?, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe And thus may the slow and imperfect wits of mortals be satisfied, that Providence to the Deity is no moliminous, laborious, and distractious thing.
Word: withinforth Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English withinforth, from withinne + forth, equivalent to within + forth. 1. Within; inside; inwardly. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: And I sawȝ, and loo! an hoond was sent to me, in whom was a boke foldyn. And he leide it abrood before me, the which was writen withinforth and withoutforth. And lamentaciouns, and dite, or soong, and woo, was writen in it. Example: [It is much greater] labour for to withinforth call into mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon.
Word: interjunction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin interjunctus, past participle of interjungere (“to join together”). See inter- and join, and compare interjoin. 1. A place where two or more things join or cross.
Word: interjunctions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of interjunction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pisciculturist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pisciculture + -ist. 1. One who breeds fish.
Word: pisciculturists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pisciculturist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spirable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin spirabilis. 1. Capable of being breathed; respirable. Labels: obsolete Example: spirable matter Example: ...but the spirable odor & pestilent steame ascending from it, put him out of his bias of congruity...
Word: subturriculate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + turriculate. 1. Somewhat turriculate. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: subturriculate species
Word: postulatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin postulātōrius. Pronunciation: /ˌpɒstjʊˈleɪtəɹi/, /ˌpɑstjʊˈleɪtəɹi/, /ˈpɑstjʊləˌtɔɹi/ 1. Of the nature of a postulate. Example: Whoever shall peruse the phytognomy of Porta and strictly observe how vegetable realities are forced into animal representations, may perceive the semblance is but postulatory. 2. Supplicatory.
Word: cylindriform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin cylindrus + -iform. 1. cylindrical
Word: biopsic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From biopsy + -ic. 1. Relating to a biopsy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: potamography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ποταμός (potamós, “river”) + -graphy. 1. An account or description of a river, or rivers. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: potamological Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to potamology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: antevert Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin antevertere, from ante + vertere (“to turn”). Pronunciation: /æntɪˈvɜː(ɹ)t/ 1. To prevent, to avert. Labels: obsolete Example: antevert some great danger to the public 2. To displace by anteversion, or make anteverted
Word: anteverting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of antevert Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: anteverts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of antevert Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: streakline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From streak + line. 1. A locus of points of all the fluid particles that have passed continuously through a particular spatial point in the past. Example: Dye steadily injected into the fluid at a fixed point extends along a streakline.
Word: streaklines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of streakline Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bilboquet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bilboquet. Pronunciation: /ˌbɪl.bəˈkɛt/ 1. A traditional children's toy consisting of a wooden cup with a handle, and a ball attached to the cup by a string. Labels: countable 2. The game in which the player attempts to catch the ball in the cup of such a toy. Labels: uncountable
Word: bilboquets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bilboquet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crookbill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crook + bill. 1. wrybill (Anarhynchus frontalis). Labels: archaic
Word: crookbills Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crookbill Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fullmart Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of foumart. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Was ever such a full-mart for an huisher
Word: fullmarts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fullmart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: infeoffment Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of enfeoffment. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: infeoffments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of infeoffment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dernful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dern + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)nfəl/ 1. secret, lonely, sad, or mournful Labels: obsolete, poetic Example: dernful noise Example: dernful alley
Word: monticles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monticle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: termon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *ter-? Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ Proto-Italic *termn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *term(e)nos Latin terminusder. Middle Irish termonn Irish tearmannbor. English termon From Irish tearmann, from Middle Irish termonn (“church land affording right of sanctuary”), from Latin terminus (“limit”). Doublet of term and terminus. 1. An area of land belonging to a church or monastery Labels: Ireland, historical Example: Another time, when Patrick was at rest in the end of night, at Tiprad-Cernai, in Tir-Tipraid, the angel went to him and awoke him. Patrick said to him: "Is there anything in which I have offended God, or is His anger upon me?" "No," said the angel; "and you are informed from God," added the angel, "if it is it you desire, that there shall be no share for any else in Eriu, but for you alone. And the extent of the termon of your see from God is to Droma-Bregh, and to Sliabh-Mis, and to Bri-Airghi." Example: Hugh MacMahon out of the way, he in October 1591 partitioned Monaghan (with the exception of Donnamyne, which belonged to the Earl of Essex) among the principal gentlemen of the MacMahons, the termon or ecclesiastical lands being reserved for English officials.
Word: termwise Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From term + -wise. 1. by terms, term by term Labels: not-comparable
Word: termwise Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From term + -wise. 1. term by term Labels: not-comparable Example: the termwise differentiability of a sequence of generalized functions
Word: discandied Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of discandy Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: discandies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of discandy Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: discandy Part of Speech: verb 1. To melt; to dissolve or thaw. Labels: transitive Example: The hearts That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets. Example: As doth this clay grow hard, and as this wax Discandies at the one and the same fire , — So Daphnis by our love. 2. To take or remove candy from. Example: Beads of liquid fat in my tea discandy me with fear of ballooning out again. Example: Proust's memory of a sweet crumb leads to the redemption of time; Gass's history as the history of things leads to the decay of a discandied world. Kohler presents a tour de force of memory in an account of a childhood candy shop; but, whatever beauty follows is contaminated by his anti-Semitism toward the store's owners.
Word: discandying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of discandy Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Fourier sine series Part of Speech: noun 1. a Fourier series consisting solely of sine functions
Word: Fourier cosine series Part of Speech: noun 1. a Fourier series consisting solely of cosine functions
Word: assistantly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From assistant + -ly. 1. So as to assist or aid. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: noughth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nought + -th (ordinal suffix). Pronunciation: /nɔtθ/, /nɑtθ/, /nɔːtθ/, /noːtθ/ 1. Before the first; zeroth. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: By that, the value of the successive places, counting from right to left, being equal to the successive powers of the base, beginning with the noughth power, each figure in the combination is multiplied in value by the power of the base proper to its place, and the value of the whole is equal to the sum of those products.
Word: entoil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + toil. 1. To capture with, or as if with, toils or nets; to ensnare or catch out. Example: It seem'd he never, never could redeem, / From such a stedfast spell his lady's eyes; / So mus'd awhile, entoiled in woofed phantasies.
Word: entoiled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of entoil Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: entoiling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of entoil Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: entoils Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of entoil Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: blocked shot Part of Speech: noun 1. A shot that is grabbed or batted away by an opposing player before it reaches the basket, goal, etc.
Word: blocked shots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blocked shot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: indigogen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From indigo + -gen. 1. indigo white Labels: obsolete, uncountable 2. indican Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: antephialtic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + ephialtes + -ic. 1. Acting against nightmares. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: backstager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From backstage + -er. 1. One who works backstage. 2. A drama dealing with the lives and relationships of actors.
Word: backstagers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of backstager Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retagger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From retag + -er. 1. A criminal who fraudulently changes the serial numbers of automobiles. 2. A program or algorithm that updates or changes tags.
Word: retaggers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of retagger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: NBD Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviation. 1. Initialism of next business day. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of no big deal. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: The really astonishing thing about watching this scene is its nonchalance. NBD, I’m fucking a high schooler. Example: We know nail art generally is NBD at this point, but trust us - these are next level attention to detail. 3. Initialism of never been done: An event or action that has never been accomplished under a given set of conditions and criteria. An attempt at performing such under the given set of conditions and criteria. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
Word: saponifier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From saponify + -er. 1. Any reagent used for saponification.
Word: saponifiers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of saponifier Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subprior Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + prior: compare French sous-prieur. 1. The assistant or deputy of a prior Labels: historical
Word: subpriors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subprior Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tripinnate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tri- + pinnate. 1. Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rachis. Labels: not-comparable Example: tripinnate leaf Example: tripinnate panicle
Word: calcitration Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of kicking. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: calcitrations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of calcitration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metallical Part of Speech: adj 1. metallic Labels: obsolete
Word: chafferies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chaffery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chaffery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See chaffer. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæfəɹi/ 1. trade; bargaining; buying and selling Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Of the second be all Sciences, and those which be called Liberal Arts. Of the third is Merchandise and Chaffery, that is, Buying and Selling
Word: appetibility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French appétibilité. Pronunciation: /ˌæpətɪˈbɪlɪti/ 1. The quality of being desirable. Labels: uncountable Example: tempting the object or end by its appetibility
Word: featherfoot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From feather + foot. 1. An Aboriginal sorcerer. Labels: Australia
Word: featherfeet Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of featherfoot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: as I was saying Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used to refer back to one's own previous statement in a discourse. Labels: idiomatic, informal
Word: permittance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From permit + -ance. 1. The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thus we see how this unclean permittance defeats the sacred and glorious end both of the moral and judicial law 2. The power of a dielectric to permit or enhance induction. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: permittances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of permittance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: centre-forward Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of centre forward. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: villanize Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of villainize. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Were virtue by descent, a noble name Could never villanize his father's fame.
Word: villanized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of villanize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: villanizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of villanize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: villanizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of villanize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cat-and-mouse Part of Speech: adj 1. suspenseful, involving alternating roles of attack and defence. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: From a cat-and-mouse sequence at a busy airport to a long car chase through Rome to a grand finale aboard a runaway train, each action scene tops the one before it. Example: Does that produce a different dynamic when they meet in battle? ‘It does,’ said Hoy. ‘I tell myself that it doesn’t matter who you race against, you try to expose their weaknesses. The only difference is that they know your weaknesses. It just makes it a bit more of a mind game, a cat-and-mouse strategy.
Word: cat-and-mouse Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cat and mouse. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: cat-and-mouse Part of Speech: verb 1. To engage in a game of cat and mouse. Labels: intransitive Example: The Cinque Ports' navy had torn up and down the Channel harassing any marauding French; smugglers had cat-and-moused with revenue men over the marshes, into the woods. Example: You have actually "gone to contract" after months of cat-and-mousing with an editor who had to be convinced and who had to convince an editorial group of your punishability. 2. To engage in a game of cat and mouse. Labels: transitive Example: But previously it has only cat-and-moused him, trying to achieve the delicate balance of injuring him and yet not having to eat him alive, he then being too big in popularity to swallow. Example: Victor listened and smiled, teased and cat-and-moused me, but finally agreed to grounding my folly-in-the-air.
Word: nucin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin nux, nucis (“a nut”) + -in. 1. juglone Labels: uncountable
Word: tamkin Part of Speech: noun 1. A tampion. Example: The superabundant wax is next removed, and two coats of paint laid over the entire surface of both plate and letters, the projecting letters being afterwards painted, by the aid of a tamkin or rubber, in a different colour or shade from that of the plate, the whole being finally coated with copal or caoutchouc varnish. Example: But he do say that people do complain of Sir Edward Spragg, that he hath not done extraordinary; and more of Sir W. Jenings, that he came up with his tamkins in his guns. 2. A brick housing that protects an access point where pipes beneath London could be plugged for maintenance. Example: Its course was punctuated by tamkins, small brick buildings whose name, a variant of the word "tompion," still in use for the plug closing the muzzle of a gun, denoted their purpose: an access point for plugging off sections which required isolation so that repairs could be carried out. Example: The tamkins were access points where Wolsey's water engineers could isolate sections of the pipeline which were in need of attention.
Word: tamkin Part of Speech: noun 1. A woman's duty to submit to her husband's will. Labels: uncountable Example: […] concepts such as tamkin (woman's duty to submit to her husband's will) and nushuz (her refusal to submit, rebellion), which legitimate women's subordination in marriage, but instead they add two qualifiers. Example: It's a wife's lack of tamkin that causes such a thing. Why aren't you prepared to be in tamkin?
Word: tamkins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tamkin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin unus one. 1. A churchman who holds only one benefice. Labels: UK, archaic Example: I do not deny but there are pluralists of great ecclesiastical merit; but I do deny that in general pluralists have greater merit than unalists […]
Word: unalists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of unalist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shamefastly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Inherited from Middle English schamefastly, equivalent to shamefast + -ly. 1. In a shamefast manner.
Word: inflictest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: inflict + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of inflict Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: inspirest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: inspire + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of inspire Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular Example: It is thou that inspirest tyrants with rage against the innocent saints of God, and actuatest their hellish cruelty.
Word: inspireth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: inspire + -eth 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of inspire Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: psychopannychism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From psycho- + Ancient Greek παννύχιος (pannúkhios, “all night long”) + -ism. 1. The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: cat cracker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. catalytic cracker Labels: informal
Word: cat hole Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cathole. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cat-hole Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cathole. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: catholicise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From catholic + -ise. 1. Alternative spelling of Catholicize. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: catholicize Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of Catholicize. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cat litter Part of Speech: noun 1. Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet cats. Labels: uncountable
Word: mopeful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mope + -ful. 1. mopey; inclined to mope. Labels: archaic
Word: cellular telephone Part of Speech: noun 1. A wireless telecommunication device that enables voice and data transmission through a network composed of geographically distributed radio cells. Each cell is served by a fixed transmitter and receiver, allowing the device to maintain communication while moving between coverage areas.
Word: vergencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vergency Labels: form-of, plural