nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: preferrer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prefer + -er. 1. A person who prefers (a stated person or thing). Example: a preferrer of red wine Example: 1833, Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry dated 13 January, 1833, in Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes (eds.), Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, London: Constable, 1910, pp. 14-15, […] it takes a divine man to exhibit anything divine, Socrates, Alfred, Columbus, Wordsworth, or any other brave preferrer of the still voice within to the roar of the populace—a thing very easy to speak and very hard to do for twenty-four hours. 2. A person who prefers (a stated person or thing). Labels: obsolete Example: I cannot nor ought nor, except I would bee noted not onely ingrate to your royall person beyng my patrone & preferrer, but also a neglecter of my dutye, a secrete mummer of suche thynges whiche touche both the inheritance of your croune & the honor of your realme ether holde my peace or kepe silence. Example: She [Anna Bollen] was a great Patronesse of the Protestants, Protectour of the persecuted, Preferrer of men of merit (among whom Hugh Latimer) a bountifull Reliever of the poor, and the happy Mother of Queen Elizabeth. 3. A person who prefers (a stated person or thing). Example: It [an Enditement] differeth from an Accusation in this, that the preferrer of the Bill is no way tyed to the proofe thereof vpon any penalty, if it be not proued, except there appeare conspiracy. Example: […] Q. Anne’s father […] was the preferrer of the suite, & hated Sir THOMAS both for his religion, and for that he had not consented to his daughter’s marriage […]
Word: preferrers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of preferrer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preferers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of preferer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: roughdried Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of roughdry Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: roughdries Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of roughdry Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: roughdry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From rough + dry. 1. In laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing. Labels: transitive Example: Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently roughdried and starched. Example: From Miss Purchase— who nearly killed herself over his shirts, starching and ironing them, and nearly drove me crazy because she roughdried my clothes — down to the blacksmith's where Stephen took his riding horse to be shod, my husband was a general favorite . 2. To dry shaped bricks before they are fired in a kiln. Example: He had a cough which spoke sometimes of roughdried bricks in a builder's yard, and his calf muscles spoiled the particoloured set of his stockings.
Word: roughdry Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rough + dry. 1. Having been dried but not ironed. Example: At the time of the injury appellant was operating a flatwork ironer, wheras thereafter her duties were confined solely to the folding of roughdry laundry, a duty which did not involve the same amount of dexterity or physical exertion as the job she was performing at the time of the injury. Example: This includes classifying and marking; shaking out wet laundry; feeding into the flatwork ironer; catching, folding, and stacking ironed flatwork; folding roughdry laundry; sorting by identification number; and wrapping bundles. 2. Having been been sawn, edged, trimmed, and dried, but not surfaced or dressed by planing. Example: The dry lumber was pulled from the kiln and held in the roughdry shed for a day or two before unstacking. Example: The minimum roughdry thickness of the standard yard board shall be not less than twenty-eight thirty-seconds of an inch, except that 20 percent of a shipment may be not less than twenty-seven thirty-seconds of an inch.
Word: roughdrying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of roughdry Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bridecake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bride + cake. 1. Synonym of wedding cake. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: This day my Julia thou must make For Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake: Knead but the Dow, and it will be To paste of Almonds turn’d by thee: Or kisse it thou, but once, or twice, And for the Bride-Cake ther’l be Spice. Example: But when the day should come for sending a piece of bridecake and cards with ‘Mrs. Herbert’ on them, all these wrongs would be avenged!
Word: bridecakes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bridecake Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cirriform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cirri- + -form. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹɪfɔːm/ 1. Shaped like a cirrus or tendril. Labels: archaic
Word: cirruses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cirrus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wheellike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English wheellike From wheel + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a wheel. Example: wheellike motion
Word: fricandeaus Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fricandeau Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fricandeaux Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fricandeau Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fricando Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of fricandeau. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: fricandos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fricando Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fricandoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fricando Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of fricandoe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fricandel Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of fricandeau. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: fricandels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fricandel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: raia Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of raya (“type of historical territory”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: eloignment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French éloignement. 1. The act of removing something to be put far away; withdrawal. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: eloignments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eloignment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scalpriform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin scalprum (“chisel, knife”) + -form. 1. Shaped like a chisel. Labels: archaic Example: the scalpriform incisors of rodents
Word: suppositor Part of Speech: noun 1. An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum, such as a syringe. Labels: archaic
Word: suppositors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suppositor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anthraxolite Part of Speech: noun 1. A carbonaceous substance resembling anthracite. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: anthraxolites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of anthraxolite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: decence Part of Speech: noun 1. decency Labels: obsolete Example: When the Decence and Convenience of a thing is considered, we should attribute much to the Wisdom of Authority Example: What with more decence were in silence kept, And but for this unjust Reproach had slept?
Word: freck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle. Pronunciation: /fɹɛk/ 1. To checker; to diversify. Labels: poetic, rare, transitive Example: The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow, / Dusking the sunshine which they seem to cheer, / Meet symbol of the senses and the soul; […]
Word: freck Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /fɹɛk/ 1. prompt; eager Labels: Scotland Example: Ae stride or twa took the silly auld carle, ⁠An' a gude lang stride took he. I trow thou art a freck auld carle, ⁠Wilt thou show the way to me?
Word: frecked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of freck Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: frecking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of freck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: frecks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of freck Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cowardship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From coward + -ship. 1. cowardice Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Sir Toby: and for his / cowardship, ask Fabian. Fabian: A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it!
Word: protosulphuret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proto- + sulphuret. 1. A protosulfide. Labels: obsolete
Word: protosulphurets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of protosulphuret Labels: form-of, plural
Word: attonce Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of at once. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable, obsolete Example: So all attonce they on the Prince did thonder.
Word: cawky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cawk + -y. 1. Resembling or relating to cauk. Labels: archaic
Word: ingesta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin ingerō. See ingest. 1. Material introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: ardian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A compounding of the Scottish Gaelic àrd (“chief”) + eun (“bird”). 1. A proposed but unadopted air-officer rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to air vice-marshal. Labels: historical Example: A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […] “Ardian” comes from the Gaelic “Ard” meaning “chief”, and “Ian” or “Eun”, a “bird”.
Word: truckman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From truck + man. 1. One who does business in the way of barter or exchange. 2. One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.
Word: truckmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of truckman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ardian Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of ardian. Labels: alt-of
Word: sheltery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shelter + -y. 1. Giving shelter, acting as a shelter. Example: They spend their winters under the warm and sheltery shores of Gibraltar and Barbary.
Word: pillaret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pillar + -et. 1. A little pillar. Example: a crossfloree […]supported with pillarets
Word: pillarets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pillaret Labels: form-of, plural
Word: meminna Part of Speech: noun 1. Any spotted chevrotain of genus Moschiola, especially the Indian spotted chevrotain (Moschiola indica) Labels: archaic
Word: meminnas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of meminna Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gypsography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gypsum + -graphy. 1. The art or process of engraving on gypsum. Labels: uncountable Example: Maurice Dumont developed his own version of gypsography, executing a number of stylised figures in landscapes in blind embossing and lightly inked. He also produced etchings, drypoints, wood engravings, lithographs and zincographs.
Word: distemperate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1398, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English distemperat(e), borrowed from Medieval Latin distemperātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + temperātus, perfect passive participle of temperō (“to temperate oneself, show restraint”). 1. Immoderate, excessive. Labels: obsolete Example: Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule. 2. Not temperate, of no good influence for one's confort or soundness; (figuratively) unwholesome, stormy. Labels: obsolete 3. Not properly tempered; disordered through excess or deficiency of some constituent; (by extensions, of bodily or mental condition) disordered, out of order; diseased, out of health; ill-conditioned. Labels: obsolete
Word: mucigenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From muci- + -genous. Pronunciation: /mjuːˈsɪd͡ʒɪnəs/ 1. Connected with the formation of mucin or mucus. Example: The mucigenous basis is manufactured at the expense of the ordinary protoplasm of the cell. 2. resembling mucin
Word: succussive Part of Speech: adj 1. Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up-and-down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation. Example: the succussive motion in earthquakes Example: succussive strokes
Word: deletories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deletory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deletory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See delete. Pronunciation: /dəˈliːtəɹi/ 1. That which blots out. Labels: obsolete Example: 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery confession […] was mostly certainly intended as a deletory of sin
Word: ineye Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *ineyen, eneien, eneyen, equivalent to in- + eye. 1. To innoculate or bud; ingraft or propagate (as a tree or plant) by the insertion of a bud. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: One would be almost here tempted to believe, that Theophrastus means grafting, were it not for the climate of Attica, which may possibly have favourted the above practice of ineyeing.
Word: dowable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French dowable; equivalent to dow + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊəbəl/ 1. Capable of being endowed. Labels: not-comparable 2. Entitled to dower. Labels: not-comparable Example: all wives would have become dowable of such lands as were held to the use of their husbands
Word: townhall Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of town hall. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: townhalls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of townhall Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fricace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See fricassee. 1. Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce. Labels: obsolete Example: dispatch your soop, cotelets, ragous, fricaces, amlets, deserts 2. An unguent, or the act of rubbing with an unguent. Labels: obsolete Example: Applying onely a warme napkin to the place, after the vnction, and fricace.
Word: fricaces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fricace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subvaginal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + vaginal. 1. Situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane. Labels: not-comparable Example: the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve
Word: crownlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crown + -let. 1. A coronet (small crown) Labels: poetic Example: The Chief, whose antique crownlet long Still sparkled in the feudal song
Word: crownlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crownlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dulocracies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dulocracy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dulocracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek δουλοκρατία (doulokratía), from δοῦλος (doûlos, “servant, slave, thrall”) + κρατέω (kratéō, “rule”). 1. A government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer; predominance of slaves. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Or must the country passively submit to that dulocracy in politics which has become a stigma upon the nation, and a shame to the intelligence of the people? Example: In a dulocracy who are the slaves?
Word: insnarl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + snarl. 1. To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle. Labels: obsolete Example: This without doubt hath wofully insnarled your peoples Consciences and is one great reason they are so full of fears and scruples
Word: insnarled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of insnarl Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: insnarling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of insnarl Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: insnarls Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of insnarl Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: fricatrice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Latin frictrix, from fricare (“to rub”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪkətɹɪs/ 1. A lewd woman or prostitute. Labels: obsolete Example: And am asham'd you' should ha' no more forehead / Than thus to be the patron, or St. George, To a lewd harlot, a base fricatrice, / A female devil, in a male outside Example: One can imagine an ideal servent who serves out of pure love for his master, just as one can an ideal rustic who remains a ditcher from a love of nature, or an ideal fricatrice who spreads her legs a dozen times a night from a love of copulation. But one never encounters these fabulous creatures in reality. 2. A woman who masturbates. Labels: obsolete
Word: fricatrices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fricatrice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apepsy Part of Speech: noun 1. defective digestion; indigestion Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: The causes of an Anorexy , and Apepsy are the fame , that is , whatsoever hinders or diminishes the motions of the muscular coats of the stomach
Word: stintedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stinted + -ness. 1. The state of being stinted. Labels: uncountable
Word: falcade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French falcade, ultimately from Latin falx, falcis (“a sickle or scythe”). By surface analysis, Latin falc- + -ade. Pronunciation: /fælˈkeɪd/ 1. A horse's movement of throwing itself on its haunches two or three times, bending in very quick curvets. Example: let him make two or three Falcades or Times , to firm his Haunches the better, and to turn with the better Grace.
Word: falcades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of falcade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gabionnade Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gabionade. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gabionnades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gabionnade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Talmudist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Talmud + -ist. Compare French talmudiste. 1. Someone versed in the Talmud. 2. Someone who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.
Word: Talmudists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Talmudist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: outwind Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + wind. Pronunciation: /aʊtˈwaɪnd/ 1. To extricate by winding; to unloose. Labels: transitive Example: they haue him enclosed so behind, / As by no meanes he can himselfe outwind Example: Dear Psittacuse! when shalt thou once outwind / Thy self from this sad yoke?
Word: outwind Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + wind. 1. To surpass in wind or breath. Labels: transitive Example: The urchin had an elasticity of muscle, a capacity of stretch and endurance in his sinews, and a share of positive strength in his excessive breadth of shoulders, which made him little inferior in conflict to most ordinary men, and in speed he could have outwinded the best.
Word: outwinding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outwind Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outwinds Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outwind Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outwound Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outwind Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: photics Part of Speech: noun 1. The science of light. Labels: uncountable
Word: gregarian Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən/, /ɡɹɪˈɡɛ.ɹi.ən/ 1. gregarious Labels: obsolete Example: the gregarian soldiers
Word: syntagms Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: [ˈsɪntæmz] 1. plural of syntagm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pipra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any member of the bird genus Pipra; a manakin.
Word: pipras Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pipra Labels: form-of, plural
Word: declinatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin declinatorius, from declinare: compare French déclinatoire. Pronunciation: /dɪˈklɪnətɹi/ 1. Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence. Labels: historical, not-comparable, obsolete Example: […] that the prisoner should first be arraigned, and might either then claim his benefit of clergy, by way of declinatory plea, or after conviction by way of arresting judgment. Example: Declinatory exceptions do not tend to defeat the demand, but only to decline the jurisdiction of the judge before whom it is brought.
Word: declinatory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin declinatorius, from declinare: compare French déclinatoire. Pronunciation: /dɪˈklɪnətɹi/ 1. A declination or refusal. Labels: historical, obsolete 2. Synonym of declinator (“instrument for measuring declination”).
Word: solecistical Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌsɒlɪˈsɪstɪkəl/ 1. Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism; incorrect. Example: He thought it made the language solecistical and absurd.
Word: ecce homo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin ecce homō̆ (“behold the man!”). See John 19:5 in the Bible. Pronunciation: /ˌɛ.keɪ ˈhoʊ.moʊ/ 1. A picture representing Jesus Christ wearing a crown of thorns, before his crucifixion.
Word: ecce homos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ecce homo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: supravisor Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of supervisor. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: supravisors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of supravisor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: speisses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of speiss Labels: form-of, plural
Word: excitomotor Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of excitomotory. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: ralliance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Old French raliance. See rally (“to reunite”). 1. The act of rallying. Labels: uncountable Example: “old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests & kings, as she can. what a Colossus shall we be when the Southern continent comes up to our mark! what a stand will it secure as a ralliance for the reason & freedom of the globe!”
Word: craniognomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cranio- + -gnomy from physiognomy. 1. craniology (the science of the form and characteristics of the skull). Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: fibromatoses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fibromatosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonfibrolamellar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + fibrolamellar. 1. Not fibrolamellar. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonhepatocellular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + hepatocellular. 1. Not hepatocellular. Labels: not-comparable
Word: larvated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin larvatus (“bewitched”). See larva, larvate. 1. Masked; concealed. Labels: not-comparable Example: ... larvated or concealed in an excellent one, even though they are preceded by such slight attacks of petit mal. These larvated attacks of epileptic insanity are apt to recur periodically or quasi-periodically, and they have in[…] Example: […] larvated or masked form, the latent form, the secondary and the associated forms. The Common Form. - Dyspepsia and anæmia often signalize its beginning; herpes zoster, according to some authors, is a precious diagnostic sign of[…] 2. Containing a larva or larvae. Labels: not-comparable Example: larvated eggs Example: Larvated eggs are passed in the feces and are ingested by fly larvae intermediate hosts.
Word: subvenes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of subvene Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: subvening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of subvene Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: subvened Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of subvene Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mesonota Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mesonotum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mesonotum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek, meaning "middle of the back". 1. The dorsal portion of the mesothorax of insects. Example: Frons mat black, orbits slightly paler, more greyish; mesonotum distinctly mat, greyish-black, but with some subshine; […]
Word: Reissner's membrane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after German anatomist Ernst Reissner (1824–1878). 1. The thin membrane that separates the canal of the cochlea from the vestibular scala in the inner ear.
Word: Reissner's membranes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Reissner's membrane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: whame Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of whame fly.
Word: whames Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of whame Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prescriptionless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From prescription + -less. 1. Obtained without a medical prescription. Labels: not-comparable Example: prescriptionless spectacles
Word: noncircumventable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + circumventable. 1. That cannot be circumvented. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ult Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of ultimate. Pronunciation: /ʌlt/ 1. The final (ultimate) syllable of a word. Example: Main stress falls on the antepenult, with secondary stress falling on the ult. 2. An ultimate; the most powerful ability available to a character. Labels: slang Example: In addition to his healing and teleportion powers, Bard also has a unique ultimate ability, or ult. Ults are the most powerful moves each champion has—the one that takes the longest to unlock in a game, and is activated by pressing "R." Example: To me, Lucio is the pinnacle of what a support character should be, he's fast, he's fun, he's useful, he can get eliminations and his ult can change the course of a game. 3. One's ultimately favorite group or member, i.e. a preference which is never expected to change.
Word: ult Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of ultimate. Pronunciation: /ʌlt/ 1. To use a character's ultimate ability. Labels: slang
Word: spectrology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spectro- + -ology. 1. spectrometry. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: spectrology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spectre + -ology. 1. The study of ghosts and spirits; demonology. Labels: uncountable Example: Samuel had studied parapsychology and spectrology back in the States before landing this job, an investigator on PI. Viewers loved him. A comforting anchor, Samuel was a contradiction to the frightening events portrayed.
Word: eozoon Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of eozoön. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: eozoonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From eozoon + -al. 1. Relating to, or containing, eozoöns. Labels: not-comparable Example: eozoonal limestone Example: eozoonal rock
Word: eozoons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eozoon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hiera picra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin hiera picra, from Ancient Greek ἱερᾱ́ πίκρᾱ (hierā́ píkrā, literally “sacred bitterness”). 1. A warming cathartic medicine made from aloes and canella. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: His hiera picra formula called for aloes, spices and herbs; the compound was made into an electuary.
Word: sudorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sudorus, from sudor (“sweat”). 1. Consisting of, or relating to, sweat. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: the strigments and sudorous adhesions from men's hands
Word: percarburet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From per- + carburet. 1. A percarbide. Labels: no-plural, obsolete
Word: percarburets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of percarburet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: histrion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin histriō. Compare French histrion. See histrionic. 1. A stage actor. Labels: obsolete
Word: histrions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of histrion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dementia praecox Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A Latin phrase coined by Arnold Pick in 1891, first used in German and later adopted into English. From the Latin dēmentia (“madness; insanity”) + praecox (“premature; untimely”, whence English precocious), together meaning “untimely madness” or “premature dementia”. Here, dēmentia carries the connotation of senile dementia. 1. schizophrenia Labels: dated, uncountable, usually
Word: praenasal Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of prenasal. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
Word: sulphophosphite Part of Speech: noun 1. A salt of sulphophosphorous acid. Labels: archaic
Word: sulphophosphites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sulphophosphite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: placit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin placitum, from placitus, from placeō (“be pleasing”). Doublet of plea. Pronunciation: /ˈplæsɪt/ 1. A decree or dictum. Labels: obsolete Example: 20 January, 1657, John Evelyn, letter to Mr. E. Thurland the placits and opinions of other philosophers
Word: placits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of placit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glitchcore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glitch + -core. 1. A subgenre of glitch music. Labels: uncountable Example: Herbert is a former piano prodigy and Exeter drama student who went from touring with UK big bands to freaking clubbers with samplers and kitchen utensils, and his cozy records merge glitchcore buzz and tech-house heat […] Example: Rather than UR-styled militant Techno, the first two singles, sleeved in exploding vector designs, showcase the glitchcore sounds of code warriors like Richard Devine, Kero and Mode Selektor.
Word: besort Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + sort. Pronunciation: /bɪˈsɔː(ɹ)t/ 1. To suit; fit; become. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: such men as may besort your age
Word: besort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From be- + sort. Pronunciation: /bɪˈsɔː(ɹ)t/ 1. Something fitting or appropriate; suitable company, associates, or attendants. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: With such accommodation and besort / As levels with her breeding.
Word: hyposterna Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hyposternum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyposternum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypo- + sternum. 1. The hypoplastron. Labels: archaic
Word: embryonary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin embryō (stem embryōn-) + -ary. 1. embryonic Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: embryonary sac
Word: nubble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Low German nubben (“to knock, cuff”). Pronunciation: /ˈnʌbəl/ 1. Alternative spelling of knubble (“small knob or lump”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.
Word: nubble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare Low German nubben (“to knock, cuff”). Pronunciation: /ˈnʌbəl/ 1. To beat or bruise with the fist. Labels: obsolete Example: if his Master went an Hair's Breadth beyond his Duty, he was a Tyrant, that it was lawful for him to Nubble him
Word: nubbled Part of Speech: adj 1. containing nubbles Labels: not-comparable
Word: nubbled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of nubble Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: nubbles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of nubble Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: nubbling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of nubble Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tractories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tractory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tractory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin tractorius (“of drawing”), from trahere, tractum (“to draw”). 1. A tractrix.
Word: tractory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin tractorius (“of drawing”), from trahere, tractum (“to draw”). 1. resembling a tractor
Word: postexistence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From post- + existence. 1. An afterlife; a subsequent existence. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: postexistences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of postexistence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: perennities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of perennity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: perennity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From perenn + -ity, from Latin perennitas. 1. The quality of being perennial. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually Example: the perennity of divers Springs, which always afford the same quantity of Water Example: But these phenomena remain a proof, albeit in reverse, of the perennity of the mystical quest.
Word: herborough Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of harbour. Labels: alt-of, no-plural, obsolete Example: And like the German lord, when he went out of Newgate into the cart, took order to have his arms set up in his last herborough […]
Word: propulsory Part of Speech: adj 1. propulsive Labels: rare
Word: ancienty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ancienneté, from Old French ancienete, from ancien + -ete. See ancient. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪn(t)ʃənti/ 1. age; antiquity Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: That which hee ſpeaketh of Magna charta, albeit he handle it laſt, yet for the ancientie, ſeemeth to deſerue the first ranke 2. seniority Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: diametrally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From diametral + -ly. 1. In a diametral way.
Word: schistaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From schist + -aceous. 1. Having the color of slate; slaty Example: Eyes golden-green. Mouth black. Thorax schistaceous beneath. Example: In No. 736 the throat is almost uniform schistaceous, except a few blackish dots here and there. 2. Containing schist or exhibiting schistosity; schistose. Example: Wills does not just climb cliffs or scramble over boulders; he negotiates "schistaceous gneiss." Example: Habitat: Climbing over dwarf bushes or oak trees, on hill slopes, in forests, near streams, on schistaceous, sandy and rocky soils, 1300–3300m.
Word: raie ultime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in the plural in February 1910 and in the singular in 1920; French: raie (“line”) + ultime (“final”). Pronunciation: /ˌɹeɪ ulˈtim/ 1. The line in an atomic spectrum that results from a transition to the lowest level of excitation from the first higher non-metastable level. Example: In the second paper M. de Gramont considers the distribution of raies ultimes in different stellar types, having studied for this purpose the Harvard classifications, the numerous publications of Sir Norman Lockyer, and the works of Sir William Huggins. Example: De Gramont distinguished by the name of Raie Ultime that line in the spectrum of an element which is the last to disappear.
Word: raies ultimes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌɹeɪz ulˈtim/ 1. plural of raie ultime Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Raie Ultime Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of raie ultime. Labels: alt-of
Word: Raies Ultimes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Raie Ultime; alternative letter-case form of raie ultime. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paenultima law Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1892; Latin paenultima (“penult”) + English law. 1. The rule of Classical Latin pronunciation which states that a word receives antepenultimate stress if its penult is a short or metrically light syllable, but receives penultimate stress if its penult is a long or metrically heavy syllable. Labels: singular, singular-only Example: He calls attention to the large number of words found over and over again with a metrical accent which does not follow the ‘paenultima law’, but falls on the last syllable…or even on the fourth syllable from the end.
Word: utility player Part of Speech: noun 1. A player who can play more than one position. 2. A player who accumulates stats without being assigned to any particular position.
Word: penultima law Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of paenultima law. Labels: alt-of, alternative, singular, singular-only
Word: utility players Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of utility player Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Hudibrasian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Hudibras + -ian. 1. Of or relating to Hudibras, a mock-heroic 17th-century narrative poem by Samuel Butler.
Word: hudnas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hudna Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fantasy sports Part of Speech: noun 1. A competition in which participants select combinations of players in a league and score points according to their performance. Labels: uncountable
Word: withywind Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of withwind. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The reddleman suffered the wound and went on: “He is a man who notices the looks of women, and you could twist him to your will like withywind, if you only had the mind.” Example: lf you've got a bad withywind patch then you've got a bare patch in a few years.
Word: withywinds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of withywind Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fantasy baseball Part of Speech: noun 1. A competition in which participants select combinations of baseball players in a real league and score points according to their performance. Labels: uncountable
Word: subfont Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + font. 1. A subset of a font, holding only some of its glyphs. Example: Two subfonts are available for EGA/VGA displays, and only one is available for LCD displays.
Word: subfonts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subfont Labels: form-of, plural
Word: instratified Part of Speech: adj 1. interstratified Labels: not-comparable Example: instratified layer Example: instratified beds
Word: tittlebat Part of Speech: noun 1. The three-spined stickleback. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal Example: “Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with Some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats;”.
Word: tittlebats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tittlebat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polysurgery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + surgery. 1. Multiple surgical operations, especially when part of a morbid condition where the patient desires unnecessary surgery. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: polysurgeries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of polysurgery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: comorbidly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From comorbid + -ly. 1. In a comorbid fashion. Labels: not-comparable Example: Hypochondriasis is often comorbidly associated with other psychiatric disorders.
Word: trothplighted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From troth + plighted. 1. engaged; betrothed. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: trothplighted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From troth + plighted. 1. simple past and past participle of trothplight Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: antisurgical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-ōr Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír) Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Hellenic *wérgon Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon) Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós) Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek χειρουργῐκός (kheirourgĭkós)bor. Late Latin chīrurgicus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Medieval Latin cirurgicālisder. Middle French cirurgicalbor. Middle English cirurgicalder. English surgical English antisurgical From anti- + surgical. 1. Opposing surgery. Example: Alternative healers also espoused a decidedly antisurgical bias, and many promised cures that avoided the knife.
Word: nonspreadable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + spreadable. 1. Not spreadable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rublu Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rublis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bite in Part of Speech: verb 1. To corrode metallic plates by means of an acid, as part of an etching process. Labels: dated 2. To repress (an emotion); bite back. Labels: dated, transitive Example: He says, he bit in his rage as best he could, took his hat, pretended business, and walked the three out, instead of kicking them out.
Word: timelining Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From timeline + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of timeline Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: timelining Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From timeline + -ing. 1. The use of timelines in scheduling. Labels: uncountable
Word: siterip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From site + rip (“to copy or plagiarize data from a CD, DVD, etc. or the internet”, verb). 1. A complete archive of a website. Labels: Internet Example: I downloaded the siterip of Wikipedia.
Word: zero ending Part of Speech: noun 1. The absence of an ending after a noun‐stem in a language in which endings are normally applied; often written as ∅. Example: The Polish word for "cat" is "kot". Its genitive form is "kota", which has the ending "–a". Because the nominative form consists of the stem without an ending, it can be said that "kot" has the zero ending. In a table listing the endings one could hence write: "Nominative: –∅, Genitive: –a".
Word: keyholing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From keyhole + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of keyhole Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: keyholing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From keyhole + -ing. 1. The tendency of a bullet fired down an excessively large barrel to wobble in flight and leave a keyhole-shaped puncture in the target. Labels: uncountable 2. The formation of a transient column of vapor or plasma when using high energy beams, such as lasers, for welding or cutting. Labels: uncountable
Word: mechatronic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to mechatronics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: siterips Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of siterip Labels: form-of, plural
Word: accurizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of accurize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: accurizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of accurize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: accurized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of accurize Labels: US, form-of, participle, past
Word: blowability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blow + -ability. 1. The quality of being blowable. Labels: uncountable
Word: cordwoods Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cordwood Labels: form-of, plural
Word: corduroying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of corduroy Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: corduroyed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of corduroy Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: corduroyed Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a ribbed pattern, like corduroy. Labels: not-comparable Example: Soon, the incessant wind would dry the stenchy wallow to corduroyed cement. 2. Dressed in corduroy. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] and even Violet Flower was draped over a couch discussing auras with an earnest, pink-faced chap from Dunnedoo, whose corduroyed legs were tightly crossed over his crotch.
Word: one-form Part of Speech: noun 1. a covector field
Word: drag up Part of Speech: verb 1. To remind people of (something, usually unpleasant, from the past). Example: I don't know why John had to drag up the incident of the car accident. It was really embarrassing. Example: It’s hard to understand how a mother as devoted as Diana would choose, in 1995, to drag up her affair with Hewitt again in her explosive interview with the BBC’s Martin Bashir on Panorama. She knew how devastated her boys had been by their father’s on-camera confession of infidelity with Camilla Parker Bowles in Jonathan Dimbleby’s 1994 ITV documentary, and how truly mortified they felt when Princess in Love came out. 2. To educate reluctant pupils. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve.[…]" 3. To raise a child with insufficient discipline or instillment of social etiquette. Labels: UK, figuratively, transitive Example: It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up. 4. Of a man: to dress in women's clothing for entertainment. 5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drag, up.
Word: natalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From natal + -ism. 1. Pronatalism; an ideology in favor of childbearing. Labels: uncountable Example: Falling birth rates are being met in many nations with a backlash: in China, Poland, Hungary and elsewhere, natalism is making a comeback, and the line between policies that are ‘pro-family’ (benefits and incentives) and those that are ‘anti-woman’ (abortion bans and the rescinding of workplace rights) is skin-thin. Example: Many of the speakers and attendees see natalism as a way of reversing these changes.
Word: pronatalists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pronatalist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: natalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From natal + -ist. 1. A supporter of natalism; one who is in favour of childbearing. Example: Ultimately, this is what unites the Collinses with the more “trad” wings of the natalist movement, from the nativists to the Christian nationalists: pushing back on social and cultural changes they see as imposed on them by outside forces. […] All the natalists have to do is have enough kids so that, in a generation or two, they’ll be the ones who inherit the earth.
Word: natalists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of natalist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dodge ball Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dodgeball. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: antibreeding Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + breeding. 1. Opposing or preventing breeding.
Word: dogtooth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dogge tothe, calque of Latin dens caninus (“doglike tooth”). Equivalent to dog + tooth. 1. Synonym of cuspid, a pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars. Example: Dogges teeth, dentes canini. Example: There are other twaine on each side, commonly called Dogge-teeth. 2. An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth. Example: This arch is the side of a niche from the tomb of Can Signorio della Scala, at Verona; and the value, as well as the distant expression of its dogtooth, may be seen by referring to Prout's beautiful drawing of this tomb in his "Sketches in France and Italy." 3. Synonym of houndstooth. 4. A dogtooth violet. 5. Alternative form of dog tooth, a jagged leading edge of a wing. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: anticontraceptive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + contraceptive. 1. Opposing or forbidding the use of contraceptives.
Word: anticontraception Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + contraception. 1. Opposing or forbidding contraception.
Word: dogteeth Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dogtooth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dogsledded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dogsled Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: antiparamilitary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + paramilitary. 1. Opposing a paramilitary.
Word: do down Part of Speech: verb 1. To belittle or intimidate. Labels: idiomatic
Word: uncenteredness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From uncentered + -ness. 1. The quality of not being centered. Labels: uncountable
Word: uncentredness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From uncentred + -ness. 1. Alternative form of uncenteredness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: sess Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Aphetic form of assess. 1. To lay a tax upon; to assess. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: sess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Aphetic form of assess. 1. A tax; an assessment. Labels: obsolete
Word: sess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of sensimilla. 1. Marijuana, weed. Labels: slang Example: Remedy for stress is three bags of sess / A day at my rest playin' chess, yes Example: Well, from yuh never put no cocaine inna yuh cigarette. Before, yuh woulda prefer smoke 10 pound of sess.
Word: do for Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, for. Example: What can I do for you? 2. To doom; to bring about the demise of someone; to injure or harm someone. Labels: UK, transitive Example: Smoking did for him in the end. Example: She's done for! 3. To prosecute someone for a criminal offence. Labels: UK, transitive Example: He was done for murder. Example: The police did him for conspiracy to commit burglary. 4. To work as a domestic servant for. Labels: UK, dated, intransitive Example: I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock. 5. To tire; to exhaust. Labels: slang Example: All this running has done for me.