nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: leaf hoppers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leaf hopper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: loses the plot Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lose the plot Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: losing the plot Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lose the plot Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lost the plot Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lose the plot Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: shallow-copy Part of Speech: verb 1. To make a shallow copy of. Labels: transitive Example: The bug came from trying to shallow-copy a mutable structure.
Word: shoestring catches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shoestring catch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shooting circles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shooting circle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hinters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hinter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ahola Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-der.? Proto-Germanic *askǭbor.? Proto-Finnic *aho Finnish aho Proto-Finno-Ugric [Term?] Proto-Finnic *-la Finnish -la Finnish Aholabor. English Ahola Borrowed from Finnish Ahola. 1. A surname from Finnish.
Word: Koskela Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Koskela. 1. A surname from Finnish.
Word: Niemi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Niemi. 1. A surname from Finnish.
Word: Scotch arguses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Scotch argus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Salo Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Italian Salò. 1. A city and municipality of Southwest Finland. 2. A town in Lombardy, Italy. 3. Ellipsis of Salo Republic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: small blue Part of Speech: noun 1. A very small butterfly, Cupido minimus, of the lycaenid subfamily Polyommatinae, the blues Labels: UK 2. A very small butterfly, Philotiella speciosa, of the lycaenid subfamily Polyommatinae, the blues Labels: US
Word: small blues Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of small blue Labels: form-of, plural
Word: small copper Part of Speech: noun 1. A small, copper and dark brown butterfly, Lycaena phlaeas, of the family Lycaenidae
Word: small coppers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of small copper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Laakso Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Laakso. 1. A surname from Finnish.
Word: small heath Part of Speech: noun 1. A small, orange and yellow butterfly, Coenonympha pamphilus, of the family Nymphalidae.
Word: small heaths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of small heath Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lehto Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Finnish Lehto. 1. A surname from Finnish.
Word: Nurmi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Nurmi. 1. A surname from Finnish.
Word: powder cap Part of Speech: noun 1. A parasitic fungus, Asterophora lycoperdoides, that lives on other mushrooms.
Word: powder caps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of powder cap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hoatzins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hoatzin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: parrotlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From parrot + -let. 1. A miniature parrot of the New World of the genera Forpus, Nannopsittaca and Touit.
Word: parrotlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parrotlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: onfall Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English onfal, onfalle, equivalent to on- + fall. Cognate with Dutch aanval (“an attack, assault”), German Anfall (“an attack, seizure, fit”), Swedish anfall (“an attack, offensive, assault”). Compare also Middle English onfallynge (“an onslaught, attack”). 1. A falling on or upon; an attack, onset, or assault. Example: Are we to have military onfall; and death also by starvation? Example: The onfall of the bishops had helped to wreck this possibility, [...] 2. A fall of rain or snow. 3. The fall of the evening.
Word: onfall Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English onfal, onfalle, equivalent to on- + fall. Cognate with Dutch aanval (“an attack, assault”), German Anfall (“an attack, seizure, fit”), Swedish anfall (“an attack, offensive, assault”). Compare also Middle English onfallynge (“an onslaught, attack”). 1. To fall on or upon. Labels: transitive Example: [...] have been formed and ripened in large numbers, especially on the shaded ower sides of the leaves, the mycelium is practically exhausted, and as these processes are completed towards the end of the summer, the leaf so onfalls. Example: 'the temple caught fire from the onfallen lightning' [...] 2. To assault, attack. Labels: transitive
Word: go-away-bird Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of go-away bird. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: go-away-birds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of go-away-bird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stinkbird Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stink + bird, referring to the strong smell of the bird. 1. The hoatzin.
Word: stinkbirds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stinkbird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonconnotative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + connotative. 1. Not connotative. Labels: not-comparable Example: Barthes describes the punctum (the nonconnotative or denotative meaning) of the photograph (or movie still) in such a manner; the detail relevant or not relevant to the image's overall meaning becomes the focus of an otherwise forgettable picture […] Example: We will use the name, as the ancient Hebrews did, simply as a nonconnotative proper name referring to that individual who in fact was, and is, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Word: onsend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English onsenden, from Old English onsendan (“to send out, send forth, transmit, yield up, offer to”), equivalent to on- + send. 1. To send; send on; send out; forward; transmit. Labels: transitive Example: Through machines' capacity to store and forward, the packet of information or file can sit wherever it is until the machine is able to onsend it. Example: […] to be routed through Reichsmarschall Goering's liaison to Party Leader Bormann for permission to onsend to Sicherheitsdienst/OKW/appropriate Luftforschungsamt […]
Word: rootworm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From root + worm. 1. A worm that tunnels through the roots of young plants. Example: Dr. Ostlie, at the University of Minnesota, said he had permission from three companies in 2007 to compare how well their insect-resistant corn varieties fared against the rootworms found in his state.
Word: rootworms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rootworm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: biodynamically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *dunamai Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai) Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor. French dynamiqueder. English dynamic English biodynamic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English biodynamically From biodynamic + -ally. 1. In a biodynamic manner. Labels: not-comparable Example: Aside from a preference for wines from grapes grown organically or biodynamically, Ms. Feiring has one major rule for pairing wine with highly spiced foods: “Oak and high alcohol don’t work,” she said.
Word: undercelebrated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + celebrated. 1. Not having received as much fame as one deserves. Example: In “The Recognitions,” the famously undercelebrated doorstop by William Gaddis, the virtuosity of a painter who makes counterfeit “undiscovered” paintings by Flemish masters is the vehicle through which Gaddis questions the genuineness of other forms of art, life and religion.
Word: appendaged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From appendage + -ed. 1. Having appendages. Labels: not-comparable
Word: deployer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deploy + -er. 1. One who, or that which, deploys. Example: Mr. Ross is one of New York’s most prominent developers, the chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York, and a prolific campaign contributor and deployer of lobbyists in Albany.
Word: deployers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deployer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gammaherpesvirus Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae of herpesviruses that reproduce at a relatively variable rate.
Word: gammaherpesviral Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to the gammaherpesviruses. Labels: not-comparable
Word: benorth Part of Speech: prep 1. North of. Labels: Scotland Example: "No, no, landlord," answered a strong deep voice behind him, "it's e'en because your English gaugers and supervisors, that you have sent down benorth the Tweed, have taen up the trade of thievery over the heads of the native professors."
Word: dysgammaglobulinemia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dys- + gamma globulin + -emia. 1. An immune disorder characterized by a reduction in some (but not all) types of gamma globulins. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dysgammaglobulinemias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dysgammaglobulinemia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: EEHV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: endotheliotropic Part of Speech: adj 1. Having an affinity for endothelial cells. Labels: not-comparable Example: Researchers say the disease, elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, has killed one of five Asian elephant calves born in North American zoos since 2000.
Word: fampridine Part of Speech: noun 1. The drug dalfampridine. Labels: uncountable Example: Dr. Ron Cohen, Acorda’s chief executive, said fampridine, if approved, would sell for about $5,000 to $10,000 a year.
Word: multidisciplined Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + disciplined. 1. Alternative form of multidiscipline. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL (Friday, Saturday and Tuesday through Thursday) The Joyce’s Web site says that this festival, presented by the New Dance Alliance, offers “over 35 multidisciplined artists.”
Word: dalfampridine Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dælˈfæmpɹɪdiːn/ 1. 4-aminopyridine, one of the three isomeric amines of pyridine, used in research and to manage symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Labels: uncountable
Word: nannydom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nanny + -dom. 1. The realm or sphere of nannies. Labels: uncountable Example: […]some of the aspects of nannydom that are sheer drudgery: changing diapers and washing bottles and singing nonsense songs over and over.
Word: prehumans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prehuman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: miniorchestra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + orchestra. 1. A small orchestra. Labels: rare Example: The seven-member Bell Orchestre was indeed a miniorchestra, with strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion along with occasional guitar and analog electronic noise.
Word: night lizard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: These lizards were once (wrongly) thought to be nocturnal. 1. Any of the family Xantusiidae of very small, viviparous lizards.
Word: night lizards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of night lizard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: small skipper Part of Speech: noun 1. A small, bright orange and brown butterfly, Thymelicus sylvestris, of the family Hesperiidae. Example: Researchers found that 15 of 17 species which commonly live on farmland – including the small tortoiseshell, small skipper and wall butterfly – show declines associated with increasing neonic use. […] The Essex skipper declined by 67% between 2000 and 2009 and the small skipper declined by 62% in the same period.
Word: antinaturalist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + naturalist. 1. Opposing or rejecting naturalism. Example: Ms. Callaghan, 36, is a genre-scoffing playwright whose antinaturalist works (“Dead City,” “Crawl, Fade to White”) have earned a downtown following.
Word: antinaturalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + naturalist. 1. One who opposes or rejects naturalism.
Word: antinaturalists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antinaturalist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hubcapped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hubcap + -ed. 1. Having hubcaps (of a specified number or kind). Labels: not-comparable Example: The man driving the now-three-hubcapped car didn't notice and kept driving to his destination, which turned out to be Wal-Mart. Example: While I was waiting, a gold-hubcapped car full of guys playing ridiculously loud rap music pulled up at the curb in front of me.
Word: small skippers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of small skipper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dismembrator Part of Speech: noun 1. A device that removes the membrane from liquid. Example: Mr. Arnold, mop-headed and boyish at 37, is spectacularly fond of his toys: the rotary evaporator he uses in a makeshift still, for instance, or the sonic dismembrator he used to make a hot buttered rum devoid of the fatty slick on its surface.
Word: dismembrators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dismembrator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: envisionings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of envisioning Labels: form-of, plural
Word: envisionment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From envision + -ment. 1. The process or result of envisioning. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Wallace Berman’s “Aleph,” made and frequently revised between 1956 and 1966, uses shaky newsreel and home-movie footage obscured by paint, scratches and Letraset symbols applied directly to the celluloid to evoke a more hardcore experience, one that Mr. Brakhage described as “the only true envisionment of the ’60s I know.”
Word: envisionments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of envisionment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: recreatest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: recreate + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of recreate Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: intrazonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From intra- + zonal. 1. Within a single zone. Labels: not-comparable
Word: linework Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From line + work. 1. The technique of drawing lines. Labels: uncountable Example: Dalrymple’s linework, tremulous and twitchy, and Paul Hornschemeier’s muted colors don’t look much like any other superhero comics; there’s a sense of human frailty to their characters that inverts the muscles-and-action tradition.
Word: midcry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mid- + cry. 1. A point in time during a cry. Labels: uncountable Example: Nobody had flown beside an osprey, painted by Audubon as if seen aloft by a companion bird, gripping a fish in its talons and opening its beak in midcry.
Word: midcourters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of midcourter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Highland Gaelic Part of Speech: name 1. The Scottish Gaelic language, as distinguished from the now defunct dialects of Lowland Gaelic.
Word: mugham Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Azerbaijani muğam. Doublet of maqam, muqam, and makam. Pronunciation: /muˈɡɑm/ 1. A musical composition of Azerbaijan in a complex form that blends classical poetry and musical improvisation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But the more complicated issue was that the sections composed for orchestra and chorus, in the style of a 19th-century Italian opera, seemed entirely separate from the mugham sections, long improvisations in which Mr. Qasimov interprets the plight of Majnun using one of the 24 different mughams specified by Hajibeyov.
Word: mughams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mugham Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dhrupad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi ध्रुपद (dhrupad). 1. A vocal genre in Hindustani classical music Labels: uncountable Example: Sitar prodigy Kartik Seshadri, now in his late 30s, began studying with Ravi Shankar in 1974, immersing himself in senia and dhrupad, a couple of distinctive northern Indian performing traditions.
Word: nonzealot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + zealot. 1. One who is not a zealot. Example: But like all zealots, Jindal is oblivious to how nonzealots see him.
Word: nonzealots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonzealot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dignifiedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From dignified + -ly. 1. in a dignified manner Example: As for the mulatto waiter, after a moment more of hesitation, he took Ford's order, and walked dignifiedly away, muttering,-- "Nebber seen de like afore. Example: The morning after the perfection of the invention Simpson called upon Mr. Grampus and calmly, coldly, and dignifiedly announced that his lock was complete, and that he was now about to install it in the Grampus front door.
Word: disburthen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + burthen. 1. Obsolete spelling of disburden. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: He told me he did not come as ordinary of the place, whose business it is to extort confessions from prisoners, for private ends, or for the further detecting of other offenders; that his business was to move me to such freedom of discourse as might serve to disburthen my own mind, and furnish him to administer comfort to me as far as was in his power; and assured me, that whatever I said to him should remain with him, and be as much a secret as if it was known only to God and myself; and that he desired to know nothing of me, but as above to qualify him to apply proper advice and assistance to me, and to pray to God for me. Example: The desert Pelican had built her nest / In that deep solitude. / And now returned from distant flight / Fraught with the river stream, / Her load of water had disburthened there. / Her young in the refreshing bath / Sported all wantonness; […]
Word: disprofit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + profit. 1. To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. Labels: obsolete
Word: disprofit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + profit. 1. Loss; damage. Example: And whereas he sought profit, he fell into double disprofit, that neither with good men he could avoid secret shame Example: Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness govern the dative.
Word: dividedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From divided + -ly. 1. in a divided manner Example: If God be omnipresent, he cannot be so dividedly, a part of him here and a part 28 Ibid. pp. 1, 16. 29 Ibid. pp. 48, 142, 174. 30 Vishnu Purana, p. 57. 31 Ibid. p. 651. 32 Rammohun Roy, Translations from the Veda, 2d ed., London, 1832, pp. 69, 39, 10. of him there; but the whole of him must be in every particle of matter, in every point of space, in all infinitude. Example: She was dividedly conscious of a desire to laugh and of the notion that she must remain outwardly serious, because though this horrible Pemberton man was talking abject nonsense, she would presently be having him as a dinner-guest.
Word: recolorization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + colorization. 1. The process or result of recolorizing. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: ASHES OF TIME REDUX The Hong Kong stylist Wong Kar-wai has retrofitted his 1994 martial arts fantasia with a digital recolorization, some re-editing and a new score featuring Yo-Yo Ma.
Word: recolorizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of recolorization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rusalka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian руса́лка (rusálka, “mermaid, siren”). Doublet of rosalia. 1. A female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths underwater. Example: She is now a rusalka, a water spirit; in revenge she sends their daughter, a rusalochka, to lure him into the water.
Word: rusbanks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rusbank Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rusalki Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rusalka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rusalky Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rusalka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rusalkas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rusalka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unholdable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + holdable. 1. Impossible to hold. Labels: not-comparable Example: Huldebrand wants Undine because she’s unholdable, impalpable.
Word: doubtsome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From doubt + -some. 1. Characterised or marked by doubt; doubtful. Example: But to returne to the purpose, as these formes, wherein Sathan oblishes himselfe to the greatest of the Magicians, are wounderfull curious; so are the effectes correspondent vnto the same: For he will oblish himselfe to teach them artes and sciences, which he may easelie doe, being so learned a knaue as he is: To carrie them newes from anie parte of the worlde, which the agilitie of a Spirite may easelie performe: to reueale to them the secretes of anie persons, so being they bee once spoken, for the thought none knowes but GOD; except so far as yee may ghesse by their countenance, as one who is doubtleslie learned, inough in the Physiognomie: Yea, he will make his schollers to creepe in credite with Princes, by fore-telling them manie greate thinges; parte true, parte false: For if all were false, he would tyne credite at all handes; but alwaies doubtsome, as his Oracles were. Example: But such is the liberal doctrine of the boasted Roman Catholic Church, and such the sandy foundation of that "general and doubtsome faith" which the witnesses renounce.
Word: unhousedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unhoused + -ness. 1. The quality of being unhoused. Labels: uncountable Example: To provide a focus for this concept, George Steiner introduces the idea of extra-territoriality, explained in the foreword and the first essay as the emergence of linguistic “unhousedness” in great writers. Example: There is not only an unhousedness in language — how to convey, to say nothing of converge — but an unhousedness of place.
Word: drabby Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From drab + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹæb.i/ 1. pale, lacking color. Example: The ground-colour is a pale drabby stone-colour, and all about the large end is a broad dense zone of dull brownish purple. Example: Oh, there was no warmth in the sunlight, and the sky was a drabby gray, and he was filled with bitterness unutterable. "
Word: drabbier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of drabby: more drabby Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: drabbiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of drabby: most drabby Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: dragge Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of drag. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Away with him, cut of his head and handes, And send them for a present to the Pope: And when this just revenge is finished, Unto mount Faucon will we dragge his coarse: And he that living hated so the crosse, Shall being dead, be hangd thereon in chaines.
Word: wellknown Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of well-known. Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard Example: Elie Wiesel has become so wellknown a crusader against hatred, violence and persecution that one can forget he has also been, from the beginning, a writer.
Word: drawly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From drawl + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɔː.li/ 1. Having a drawling sound. Example: They generly had on yellow straw hats most as wide as an umbrella, but didn't wear no coats nor waistcoats, they called one another Bill, and Buck, and Hank, and Joe, and Andy, and talked lazy and drawly, and used considerable many cuss words. Example: She heard his deep, drawly voice urging the unwisdom of sleeping with calked boots on, and Beaton's hiccupy response.
Word: sprawly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sprawl + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈspɹɔː.li/ 1. sprawling. Labels: colloquial
Word: mistelling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mistell Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mistelling Part of Speech: noun 1. An incorrect telling. Example: The story's original meaning has become lost after years of mistellings.
Word: akonting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Jola-Fonyi. 1. A folk lute of the Jola people of West Africa; a banjo-like instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string. Example: But there’s no less spirit in the singing and thumb piano playing of Ruth Akello, an unheralded Ugandan, or in the banjo-like akonting playing of the Jatta family, in Gambia.
Word: coua Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French coua, from Malagasy koa, an onomatopoeia for its cry. 1. A terrestrial bird of the genus Coua, in the cuckoo family.
Word: mistold Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of mistell Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: couas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coua Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dreamful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dream + -ful. 1. Dreamy Labels: poetic Example: Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease!
Word: dreamful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dream + -ful. 1. As much as one can dream about. Example: It is filled with dreamfuls of Genii, and Houris, and beautiful slave girls, and the almost unimaginable pomp of the Commander of the Faithful, with his black banner; and oh! such moonlight nights, and illuminated pavilions, and sleeping boats upon silent streams, and the mufti, and the minaret, and the call to prayer, and the pilgrimages to Mecca, and the prodigious endurances of persecution and privation volunteered for what in our occidental selfishness of superstition is condemned as monstrous and madness, but what, if only by means of the medium of poetry through which we behold it, enforces a feeling that cannot be profane to call reverence, while we deny it our worship, and the creed, like the country,has with all its loveliness, its darkened places, and its many a tale of terror. Example: Or Mistral, after the dry wind and for her who wished a fisher's daughter a dreamful of fish, leaping and aglow.
Word: mistelle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French mistelle, Spanish mistela, from Italian mistella, from misto (“mixed”). Pronunciation: /mɪˈstɛl/ 1. A drink produced by adding alcohol to grape juice. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mistelles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mistelle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lehendakari Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Basque lehendakari. 1. The president of the Basque government. Example: A vote to choose the new Basque leader, or lehendakari, is expected this week.
Word: emendatory Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to emendation; corrective Labels: archaic Example: We can judge of the probable success of this course, by the various laws passed to alter, or amend, or repeal, previous emendatory acts. Example: I do so in the hope that perhaps I may recall something which they have forgotten to make known, or that what I say may elicit from them available emendatory remarks.
Word: allomothering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of allomother Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: allomothering Part of Speech: noun 1. The provision of infant care from someone other than the mother. Labels: uncountable Example: They’re so big (read: hungry) and so slow to grow to independence, that allomothering – infant care from other than the mother – not only from a baby’s grandmother, maternal aunts and sisters, but also from the baby’s brothers, father and his kin, enabled us to continue and maybe even thrive under these conditions.
Word: allomothered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of allomother Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: entozoon Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various microscopic parasitic worms previously classified together under the grouping Entozoa. Labels: obsolete Example: The discovery that a disorder known as "the staggers," of which many thousands of sheep have died annually, is caused by an entozoon which presses on the brain, and that if the creature is extracted through the softened place in the skull which marks its position, the sheep usually recovers, is another debt which agriculture owes to biology.
Word: entozoons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of entozoon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: entozoa Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of entozoan Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of entozoon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enthusiastical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From enthusiastic + -al. 1. enthusiastic Labels: archaic Example: --The conversation we have had, as well as the reflections of my own mind on past events, would, if I were condemned to my body again, teach me great moderation in my judgments of persons who might happen to differ from me in difficult scenes of public action; they would entirely cure me of the spirit of party, and make me think that as in the Church, so also in the State, no evil is more to be feared than a rancorous and enthusiastical zeal.
Word: hypersociality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + sociality. 1. The quality of being hypersocial. Labels: uncountable Example: “I’m not comfortable accepting this idea that the origins of hypersociality can be found in warfare, or that in-group amity arose in the interest of out-group enmity,” she said in a telephone interview.
Word: epibranchial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From epi- + branchial. 1. Of or pertaining to a segment, below (more ventral than) the pharyngobranchial segment and above (more dorsal than) the ceratobranchial segment, on either side of a branchial arch (in a fish) or of a pharyngeal arch (in the embryo of a vertebrate). Labels: not-comparable Example: 1920, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, Volumes 8-9, Royal Society of South Africa, page 92, According to T. J. Parker, they probably represent the epibranchial region of the second branchial arch, and Beddard also refers them to the same arch. Example: We demonstrate that in the chick head, integration between the epibranchial placodes and the hindbrain is achieved as the neuroglial hindbrain crest cells guide the epibranchial neuronal cells inward to establish their central connections.
Word: epibranchial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From epi- + branchial. 1. An epibranchial cartilage or bone. Example: The fourth and fifth epibranchials of other genera have the same tendency as these clupeids and salmonids. Example: In the place where Howes's (1985b) fig. 9 identifies epibranchial 4, our Gonorynchus specimen has both epibranchials 4 and epibranchial 5, not in contact except at their dorsal fusion and ventral articulation, as illustrated in Monad (1963, fig. 40) (epibranchial 5 identified as "cartilage semilunaire").
Word: nondeadly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + deadly. 1. Not deadly. Labels: not-comparable Example: Deputy Rackard’s lawyers, in an appeals court brief last year, said the use of “moderate nondeadly force in the face of spirited, though nonviolent, resistance was a reasonably proportionate response.”
Word: equiponderant Part of Speech: adj 1. Having equal weight. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: In an absolute government there can be no such equiponderant parties. Example: Thus, the scales of my philosophical balance remain eternally equiponderant, and I see no reason to say of either of them, OICHETAI EIS AIDAO[15.1]."
Word: bourride Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French Pronunciation: /bəˈɹiːd/ 1. A dish made with monkfish, mayonnaise, and a vegetable brunoise. Example: Place 2 baguette toast slices in each of 4 soup plates, spoon in bourride and top with another slice of toast and minced fennel fronds.
Word: bourrides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bourride Labels: form-of, plural
Word: esclandre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French. Doublet of slander and scandal 1. An incident that occasions much disapproving talk; scandalous conduct; a scene. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The simple truth, if adhered to, might not have answered the purposes of the narrator, because lapses from conjugal fidelity are unhappily not crimes unknown or unpardonable in Italy; but when to it were added exaggerated representations of the disgraceful esclandre of a public elopement, and the death of the deserted husband, stated to have been caused by the misconduct of the wife, the utmost indignation was excited. Example: "Not a word to my mother!" Pen cried out, in a state of great alarm. "She would never get over it. An esclandre of that sort would kill her, I do believe. […]" 2. Infamy. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: The old Lord had, wisely enough, settled in his will that Lucia was to enjoy the interest of her fortune from the time that she came out, provided she did not marry without her guardian's leave; and Scoutbush, to avoid esclandre and misery, thought it as well to waive the proviso, and paid her her dividends as usual.
Word: gruntlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From grunt + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a grunt. Example: “Haa mmm,” Mr. Serundori says, emitting a special gruntlike gorilla greeting that miraculously stops Kabirizi in midcharge.
Word: gruntingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From grunting + -ly. 1. With a grunting sound.
Word: estimably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From estimable + -ly. 1. In an estimable manner; deserving of esteem. Example: The name of the sisters Frank stood estimably at the head of this useful establishment; but it is a question whether it would have prospered to such an extent, whether it would have developed itself so beautifully and well without the assistance of a person who, however, has carefully concealed his activity from the eye of the public, and whose name, for that reason, was never praised. Example: He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met.
Word: gruntings Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹʌntɪŋz/ 1. plural of grunting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ethnographically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From ethnographic + -ally. 1. In an ethnographic manner, in a way inspired by, or relating to, ethnography. Labels: not-comparable Example: In this review essay, I reflect on the pros and cons of studying events ethnographically. 2. Regarding the ethnography (of a region). Labels: not-comparable Example: [274] Hence the Western Islanders of Torres Straits form a transition both geographically and ethnographically between the aborigines of Australia on the one side and the aborigines of New Guinea on the other side. Example: Straws are just one of the unconventional but commonplace items Dohner uses in addition to traditional materials like ceramic, glass, and wood in his series of witty, ethnographically inspired works now on view at Ten in One Gallery.
Word: midcharge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mid- + charge. 1. A point in time during a charge. Labels: uncountable Example: “Haa mmm,” Mr. Serundori says, emitting a special gruntlike gorilla greeting that miraculously stops Kabirizi in midcharge.
Word: nondisturbing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + disturbing. 1. Not disturbing. Labels: not-comparable
Word: faggoty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From faggot + -y. 1. Relating to or consisting of faggots of wood. Labels: rare 2. Characteristic of or appropriate for homosexual men, especially effeminate ones. Labels: derogatory, offensive, slang, vulgar Example: And there is two things in Harlem I don't understan' / It is a bulldyking woman and a faggoty man Example: american critic ad 1935 / alias faggoty slob with a sob […]
Word: nondisturbance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + disturbance. 1. An agreement not to disturb tenants in a residence. Labels: uncountable
Word: reconcentration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + concentration. 1. A second or subsequent concentration. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Wages and income for the average worker have stagnated or declined as tax policies skewed to the rich and unchecked financial speculation have led to a reconcentration of wealth unseen since the 1920s. 2. The act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or around towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable
Word: reconcentrations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reconcentration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: farden Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of farthing. Labels: Jamaica, Northern-England, UK, alt-of, obsolete, pronunciation-spelling Example: Sir Pitt did not care, as he said, a brass fardenfor any one of them. Example: The young gent's been and popped all his things for the play and the drink; and I haven't myself so much as a brass farden to get a mouthful o' meat with."
Word: reverberance Part of Speech: noun 1. reverberation Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Surely those produce a touch of reverberance?
Word: reverberances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reverberance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fashionless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fashion + -less. 1. Not fashioned or contrived; natural. Example: Later on, she had all the clothes that money could buy, but in none of them was she ever more lovely than in her fashionless wedding dress of tarlatan and tulle, and the plain little frock in which she drove away.
Word: favourer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From favour + -er. 1. Alternative form of favorer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: subgrantee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From subgrant + -ee. 1. The recipient of a subgrant.
Word: subgrantees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subgrantee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: feelingless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From feeling + -less. 1. Without feeling, without emotion, unemotional. Labels: not-comparable Example: Accustomed by the strictest and most rigid training, to obey as familiars, the will of their superiors without question--to be mere mindless and feelingless tools, to whom death itself was awarded, if by word or hint, or even sign, they dared evince themselves to be as other men--he had, at the command of the Grand Inquisitor, deeply drugged Senor Stanley's evening draught, and, while under its potent influence, had purloined his sword; waylaid Don Ferdinand in the Calle Soledad, effectually done the deed, and--aware that it would be many hours ere the English Senor could arouse himself from the stupifying effects of the draught--had intended returning to his chamber still more effectually to throw on him the suspicion of the murder. Example: I will quickly fly from thee for ever, Thou hated land, where everything so proudly Upbraids me for my weakness--for my fetters: Where I, pursu'd by pains of hopeless passion, The live-long nights among deaf rocks do wander-- Whose echoes sport with Balder's lamentations, Each cold, each feelingless, as Nanna's bosom, The fair, unpitying savage!
Word: subgrant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + grant. 1. A grant made by one organisation using funds previously granted to it by another. Example: Some funds will be distributed to state arts agencies and regional arts organizations that will subgrant it to various groups; funds will also made available directly to nonprofit arts organizations through a competitive process.
Word: subgrant Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sub- + grant. 1. To give a grant of this kind.
Word: subgrants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subgrant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subgrants Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of subgrant Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: subgranting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of subgrant Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: subgranted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of subgrant Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: feele Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of feel. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Loth was that other, and did faint through feare, To taste th' untryed dint of deadly steele; But yet his Lady did so well him cheare, That hope of new goodhap he gan to feele; 305 So bent his speare, and spurd his horse with yron heele. Example: And if thou be in distresse, or afflicted with sicknesse of body, and feele no present release or comfort, what then? here is the tryall of thy patience, haue not recourse to superstitious and vnlawfull helpers, although they promise thee present remedy; and when they fore-tell thee of things which doe truely according to the prediction to fall out, beleeue them not, follow the example of Christ, who rebuked the Diuell, though he called him (as he was indeed) the Son of God. For vnder the vaile of truth he shadoweth falshood; euen as if one should sweeten with honey or sugar the brimme of the Cup wherein he bringeth poyson: But some will say, they call vpon the name of the Lord of Sabbaoth.
Word: favourers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of favourer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: feeleth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: feel + -eth 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of feel Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: feelest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: feel + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of feel Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: firy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Equivalent to fire + -y. 1. Obsolete form of fiery. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: flagitiousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flagitious + -ness. Pronunciation: /fləˈdʒɪʃəsnəs/ 1. The state or quality of being flagitious; wickedness, infamy. Labels: uncountable Example: Anſelm calls a Synod at St. Paul’s, where was this Statute made; We condemn this Sodomitical Flagitiouſneſs in any, and thoſe that aſſiſt them, with a heavy Anathema. Example: [H]ow can he esteem himself, when conscience will ever upbraid him with the participation in an act, whose flagitiousness is so great, that unless he renounces the character of man, his very share would be sufficient to sink him under the most ignominious contempt […]?
Word: sublandlord Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + landlord. 1. Synonym of sublessor. Example: Ms. Colp-Haber said that companies that sublease space could protect themselves by negotiating the right to stay in the space with the building’s landlord if the sublandlord should default.
Word: sublandlords Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sublandlord Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flagitiously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From flagitious + -ly. 1. In a flagitious manner.
Word: ungored Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + gored. 1. Not gored. Labels: not-comparable Example: Although the road to recovery will probably leave no ox ungored, it is essential that we support President Obama as he undertakes the herculean — not Sisyphean — task before him. 2. Not stained with gore; not bloodied. Labels: not-comparable
Word: kirtan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sanskrit कीर्तन (kīrtana, “narrating”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɪə(ɹ)tən/ 1. A call-and-response chant performed in India's devotional traditions. Example: She was not devout or overly religious but she went to temples and kirtans regularly. Example: Recently, Mrs. Breighner and Ms. Damon attended a Friday night kirtan at the Integral Yoga Institute.
Word: kirtans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kirtan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kirtankar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit [Term?]. 1. One who performs a kirtan.
Word: kirtankars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kirtankar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multikey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + key. 1. Of or pertaining to more than one key (in various senses). Labels: not-comparable Example: The keyboard houses 12 fully programmable G-keys (three macros per key) and has multikey input functionality, which means you can bang on up to five keys simultaneously.
Word: multikey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From multi- + key. 1. A multi-element key into a data structure.
Word: nonforeclosure Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + foreclosure. 1. Not of or pertaining to foreclosure. Labels: not-comparable Example: Single-family home prices tumbled 18.5 percent in December from the previous year, and real estate agents say that nonforeclosure sales are still stagnant.
Word: slumpy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From slump + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈslʌmpi/ 1. Characteristic of an economic slump. Example: Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process. 2. Slumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag. Labels: informal Example: Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier. Example: Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence. 3. Easily broken through; boggy; marshy. Labels: UK, US, dialectal Example: So away goes lunch, and off goes you and the 'Sir,' a trampousin' and trapsein' over the wet grass agin […] and then back by another path that's slumpier than t'other, and twice as long […] Example: […] a large extent of rushy ground, either dry or hard, or slumpy and wet, […]
Word: traveloguelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From travelogue + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a travelogue. Example: Personal reflections are also found in traveloguelike, popularized autobiographical accounts of fieldwork that are clearly separated from the serious and scholarly ethnography. Example: The Brooklyn Museum, for example, which has maintained lively blogs since the summer of 2006, provides a detailed stream of traveloguelike pictures and words to keep viewers current on the progress of its archaeological work in Egypt (brooklynmuseum.org).
Word: epigrammatical Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram; concise and witty or pointed. Labels: not-comparable Example: He could be terrifically epigrammatical.
Word: prepremiere Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + premiere. 1. Before a premiere. Labels: not-comparable Example: The first days are tough because large audiences tune in to see what all the prepremiere fuss was about, boosting ratings and expectations, then quickly turn away if not instantly amused.
Word: sanctuarylike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sanctuary + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a sanctuary. Example: Each 16-by-13-inch painting has a wall to itself, creating a sanctuarylike environment.
Word: unlaughing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + laughing. 1. Not laughing. Labels: not-comparable Example: Emblems of past promises for a utopian future and scenes of a present still poisoned by those promises exist on a continuum in these wry but unlaughing, beautifully painted pictures.
Word: unlaughingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unlaughing + -ly. 1. Without laughing; seriously, solemnly.
Word: uncomedic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Ancient Greek κῶμος (kômos) Proto-Hellenic *awéidō Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Proto-Hellenic *awoidā́ Ancient Greek ᾰ̓οιδή (ăoidḗ) Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ) Ancient Greek κῶμος (kômos) Proto-Hellenic *awoidós Ancient Greek ἀοιδός (aoidós) Ancient Greek κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ (kōmōidĭ́ā)bor. Latin cōmoediader. Middle French comediebor. Middle English comedie English comedy Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English comedic English uncomedic From un- + comedic. 1. Not comedic.
Word: untragical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + tragical. 1. Not tragical.
Word: untragic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + tragic. 1. Not tragic.
Word: untragically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From untragic + -ally. 1. In an untragic way.
Word: flytraps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flytrap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flypapered Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From flypaper + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of flypaper Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: flypapered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flypaper + -ed. 1. Filled with flypaper. Labels: not-comparable