nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: superficialist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From superficial + -ist. 1. A superficial or shallow person; some who sees things superficially Example: .
Word: superficialists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superficialist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nanoinclusion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nano- + inclusion. 1. A nanoscale inclusion, typically less than a hundred nanometers in size.
Word: eternization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eternize + -ation. 1. eternalization Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: eternizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eternization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: abductively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin abdūcō Latin abductusder. English abduct Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English abductive 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 English -ly English abductively From abductive + -ly. Pronunciation: /æbˈdʌk.tɪv.li/, /ˈæbˌdək.tɪv.li/ 1. In an abductive fashion. Labels: not-comparable
Word: adductively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From adductive + -ly. 1. In an adductive fashion. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unmeshed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + meshed. 1. Not meshed. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unmeshed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From unmesh + -ed. 1. past participle of unmesh Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Hebrician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hebrew + -ician. 1. A Hebraist. Labels: archaic
Word: Hebricians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Hebrician Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bedraw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bedrawen, from Old English bedragan (“to draw aside, seduce”), from Proto-West Germanic *bidragan, equivalent to be- + draw. Cognate with Scots bedraw, bydraw (“to draw aside, supersede”), Dutch bedragen (“to total, amount to”), German betragen (“to amount to”). Pronunciation: /bɪˈdɹɔː/, /bɪˈdɹɔ/, /bɪˈdɹɑ/ 1. To draw aside or away. Labels: dialectal, rare, transitive Example: Become, be with, be helping me; Bespouse, bedraw, be make-me see. Example: "Oh, how grand those rays! they seem to bedraw earth to Heaven!" 2. To draw away; seduce; deceive. Labels: dialectal, rare, transitive
Word: atonable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From atone + -able. 1. Capable of being atoned for. Example: atonable sin
Word: variolitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From variola. 1. speckled; spotted. Labels: archaic
Word: variolitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From variolite + -ic. 1. Of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling variolite. Example: variolitic basalt Example: variolitic nodules
Word: scytheman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scythe + -man. 1. One who uses a scythe; a mower. Example: Another said that he should be glad to know how the Devonshire trainbands, who had fled in confusion before Monmouth's scythemen, would have faced the household troops of Lewis Example: "Time presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of contract."
Word: scythemen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scytheman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gleucometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of gleuco- + -meter, where the first component is taken from Ancient Greek γλεῦκος (gleûkos, “sweetness”). 1. An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.
Word: vinatico Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese vinhatico. 1. Archaic spelling of vinhatico. Labels: alt-of, archaic, uncountable
Word: Pre-Cana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + Cana, from the biblical story of the wedding feast at Cana. 1. In Catholic tradition, a spiritual retreat for couples about to be married.
Word: lochage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek λοχαγός (lokhagós). Pronunciation: /ˈləʊkɪd͡ʒ/ 1. The head of a lochos in Ancient Greece; an officer or commander. Labels: historical Example: One lochage only avowed his dissent; adding his opinion, that they ought at once to throw themselves on the king's mercy, as the only resource affording a reasonable hope […]. Example: ‘Come inside. The lochage wishes to speak with you.’
Word: lochages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lochage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: myrica Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any of the genus Myrica of shrubs and trees.
Word: combable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From comb + -able. 1. Able to be combed (in a desired fashion)
Word: thankworthiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thankworthy + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being thankworthy. Labels: uncountable
Word: geminous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin geminus. 1. double; appearing or growing in pairs Labels: not-comparable Example: geminous teeth Example: And this the practice of Christians hath acknowledged, who have baptized these geminous births.
Word: p.g.a. Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Producers' Guild of America, used as post-nominal letters indicating a member of the guild. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: cedrene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin cedrus (“cedar”) + -ene. 1. A rich aromatic oil, C₁₅H₂₄, extracted from oil of red cedar. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any of a class of similar substances, such as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cedrenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cedrene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: musciform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin mūscus (“moss”) + -iform. 1. Having the appearance or form of a moss. Example: The surface had an irregular, musciform quality, interrupted by various ridges and valleys. Example: 8. Native Gold, of a bright gold-yellow colour, in musciform leaves, upon saxum metalliferum; from the same place (very rich.)
Word: musciform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Musca + -form. 1. Having the form or structure of flies of the genus Musca or family Muscidae. Example: The insect had a distinctly musciform appearance, although its shiny, golden colouration was altogether more agreeable. Example: Larva.—Length, 7–9 mm. White, head black. General shape musciform, tapered anteriorly, blunt posteriorly.
Word: cydonin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Cydonia + -in 1. A gummy substance extracted from the seeds of the quince, regarded as a variety of amylose. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: surcingled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From surcingle + -ed. 1. Contained in a surcingle. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: pre-Cana Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + Cana, from the biblical story of the wedding feast at Cana. 1. Prior to a wedding. Labels: not-comparable
Word: exterraneous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin exterraneus, from ex (“out”) + terra (“land”). 1. foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad or outside Labels: not-comparable
Word: dekastere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deka- + stere. 1. Alternative form of decastere. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dekasteres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dekastere Labels: form-of, plural
Word: madrigaler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From madrigal + -er. 1. A madrigalist (writer or performer of madrigals)
Word: madrigalers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of madrigaler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: adfiliated Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of affiliated. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: gryphite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: †Gryphaea + -ite 1. A shell of the genus †Gryphaea. Labels: archaic
Word: gryphites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gryphite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exalbuminous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ex- + albuminous. 1. Having no endosperm around the embryo. Labels: not-comparable
Word: microphonous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From microphone + -ous. Pronunciation: /maɪ̯ˈkrɒ.fə.nəs/ 1. Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; amplifying. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: Innumerable degrees of crime, but a whisper in the era of Kent and Blackstone, are now of microphonous volume in strenuousness, and as common as the asphyxial conditions which create it. Example: The Meteor was a microphonous ear which caught every whisper of the world, and a megaphonic mouth which could trumpet its news to eager millions, or shut itself up as close as a Bank of England vault. 2. Heard through a microphone. Labels: dated, rare Example: The invasion of the microphonous tribe began in February, when Dusty and Goldie […] Example: A microphonous voice, “Calling Doctor Newton, calling Doctor Nowton” and “Calling Doctor Dovey, calling Doctor Dovey,” heard simultaneously in the corridors of the Queen, Mary Hospital has somewhat puzzled patients newly admitted to the institution.
Word: goosish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English goosish; equivalent to goose + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈɡuːsɪʃ/ 1. Like a goose; somewhat gooselike. 2. Foolish. Labels: broadly Example: Don't do anything gooseish, will you?' 'No, and don't you do anything gooseish either!' she retorted. Example: “Don't be goosish.” Lucy was studying the room.
Word: polariscopy Part of Speech: noun 1. The art or process of making observations with a polariscope. Labels: uncountable
Word: naturing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of nature Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: chromotype Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chromo- + -type. 1. A sheet printed in colour by any process, such as a chromolithograph Labels: historical 2. A photographic picture in the natural colours Labels: historical
Word: chromotypes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chromotype Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lungie Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlʌŋi/ 1. A guillemot Labels: Scotland, UK, archaic Example: a kittywake's and lungie's nest
Word: lungie Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlʌŋi/ 1. Alternative form of lungi. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: lungies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lungie Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of lungy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: frigatoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian fregatone. Compare French frégaton and see frigate. 1. A Venetian vessel with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged. Labels: historical Example: "Your protegé shall not want advancement through my forgetfulness, be assured, Kenard. But why are you so anxiously looking through your glass to the windward?" "For the three-masted frigatoon." "You are doubtless mistaken in her character!" "I cannot be, my lord. No honest trader in these waters ever had such a rig. She is a pirate, and, if she is anywhere near us, will be sure to give us a taste of her quality ere long." Example: If he would fit out and man a frigatoon for Constantinople, I would, I said, gladly make the voyage therein, the money being packed and treated as my baggage, but none the less faithfully delivered by me to Signor Mario Battista[…]
Word: frigatoons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frigatoon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Saxonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Saxon + -ic. 1. Relating to the Saxons or Anglo-Saxons. Labels: dated
Word: water-laid Part of Speech: adj 1. Consisting of three or more hawser-laid ropes twisted together in the opposite direction from that in which the hawser-laid ropes are twisted; cable-laid. Labels: not-comparable Example: In these days of steel hawsers and towing machines, water-laid rope is going out of fashion, and the writer being one of the men that never saw this splice made does not hope to now; Example: Rope may be divided into three main classes, according to the manner in which the strands are laid: (1) Plain-laid rope, composed of three strands; (2) shroud-laid rope, composed of four or six strands with a core or heart running through the center: and (3) cable-laid rope, hawser-laid or water-laid, composed of three or four plain-laid ropes twisted together. 2. Deposited by a stream, river, or other body of water; alluvial. Labels: not-comparable Example: This is 25 feet of light-gray thinly bedded and cross-bedded water-laid tuff, which in turn overlies a poorly indurated ash-flow sheet, 125 feet thick. Example: In a ravine about a quarter of a mile south of Cairn Point, Bootlegger Cove Clay extends from the beach to a level 126 feet above it (Miller and Dobrovolny, 1959, p. 39(; the horizontally bedded clay is overlain by hard, stony sand interpreted by the writers as water-laid "till." 3. Manufactured by suspending material in water and then draining the water away through a net, screen, or similar device. Labels: not-comparable Example: A continuous method of making hydraulic cement products comprising forming a plurality of water-laid sheets of hydraulic cement, having linear fibers therein which are oriented longitudinally of the surface of said sheets, […] Example: The improved sheet formation of foam-laid paper is shown visually in Fig. 2 where softwood kraft handsheets, water-laid and foam-laid are shown for comparison.
Word: podder Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pother. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: As to the Light within, you make such a Podder about as if a Man could not tell that two and two were equal to four without it discovered it to him, I fhall give you my Sentiments about it: The Light within you understand to be the Spirit of Christ, or a Part of the Divine Nature; Example: What a podder about a translation!
Word: podder Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of powder. Labels: alt-of, countable, pronunciation-spelling, uncountable Example: If Ah'd only got some podder, Ah can mek Fourt' of July raght here. Example: Thursday the Therd Day: I Kept Laising aBought all Day for I was very Laisay only I made a Stople to a podder Horn : and So on:
Word: podder Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of podar (“a money changer”) Labels: India, alt-of, alternative Example: B., a Podder in the Bank, demanded and took a reward for his trouble in receiving the money. Example: Five of these 100-rupee notes have been traced to a podder or money-changer in the Fort, who deposes that he received them from four soldiers in the Royal Fusiliers.
Word: podder Part of Speech: noun 1. A frog or toad. Labels: South-Africa Example: It sounds like treacle,' said Abe, with a puzzled look; but I don't see what the podder's got to do with it, anyhow; and the young woman's got no business to be wasting her time waiting for the milk to set. Example: Now and then toads would appear, and the shout " There's a podder!" would come from some child or other during an acute moving crisis.
Word: podder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of podware. 1. Alternative form of podware. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dialectal
Word: podders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of podder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: heterobiographies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of heterobiography Labels: form-of, plural
Word: repleader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + pleader. 1. A second pleading, or course of pleadings. Example: Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo. Example: When a repleader is awarded , the amendment must begin where the plea, which makes the issue bad, begins to be the faulty ( a );
Word: repleaders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of repleader Labels: form-of, plural
Word: luxive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: luxe (“luxury”) + -ive 1. Luxurious, extravagant. Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: puncticular Part of Speech: adj 1. Comprised in, or like, a point; exact. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: He that vvould diſcern the rudimentall ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the bigneſſe of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull eye may alſo diſcover the puncticular Originals of Perivvincles and Gnats.
Word: disposement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dispose + -ment. 1. disposal (several meanings) Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The next thing to be noticed is, that God having in these types foretold he should be a Nazarite ; and also in his wise disposement forelaid it, that an inhabitant of Nazareth, and a Nazarite devoted to be more eminently holy and a saviour, should by one and the same word be signified in vulgar use
Word: disposements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disposement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: whally Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈʍɔːlɪ/, /ˈwɔːlɪ/ 1. Having a light-coloured iris of the eye. Labels: obsolete, possibly Example: And next to him rode lustfull Lechery, Vpon a bearded Goat, whose rugged haire, And whally eyes (the signe of gelosy) […] Example: Yet he with whally eyes and shaggy beard
Word: representationary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From representation + -ary. 1. representative. Labels: dated
Word: encrustment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From encrust + -ment. 1. encrustation (something forming a crust). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: disengaging truth from its encrustment of error
Word: encrustments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of encrustment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inunderstanding Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + understanding. 1. Devoid of understanding. Labels: obsolete Example: 1868, Rev. J. Gorle, An Analysis of Pearson on the Creed Can we think that such material and mortal, that such inunderstanding souls, should be furnished with bodies of so long permansion, and our spirits joined to flesh so suddenly dissolvible, were it not that they lived but once […]
Word: Tarantinos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Tarantino Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pentangular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pent- + -angular, after pentangle. 1. Having five corners or angles. Labels: not-comparable
Word: gonydial Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: gonydial angle
Word: rascaless Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rascal + -ess. 1. A female rascal. Labels: humorous
Word: rascalesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rascaless Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gourdworm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gourd + worm. 1. A fluke or trematode worm, especially the liver fluke. Labels: obsolete
Word: gourdworms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gourdworm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hireless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hire + -less. 1. Without recompense, payment or reward. Labels: not-comparable Example: "To cry the state of the political atmosphere,"—and so forth, I set off on a tour to the North, from Bristol to Sheffield, for the purpose of procuring customers, preaching by the way in most of the great towns, as an hireless volunteer, in a blue coat and white waistcoat, that not a rag of the woman of Babylon might be seen on me.
Word: pseudographies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pseudography Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pseudography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + -graphy. 1. Incorrect spelling. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: intermembranous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + membranous. 1. Within or beneath a membrane. Labels: not-comparable Example: intermembranous ossification Example: intermembranous part
Word: overliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From overly + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvəlɪnəs/, /ˈoʊvəɹlɪnəs/ 1. The quality or state of being overly. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 2. The quality or state of being overly. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: VVould God ouerlineſſe and contempt vvere not yours, euen to them vvhich are mounted higheſt vpon beſt deſert; […]
Word: reconcilements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reconcilement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tuggingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From tugging + -ly. 1. Involving tugging (forceful pulling). Labels: not-comparable 2. achingly or deeply Labels: not-comparable
Word: black up Part of Speech: verb 1. To become or make (something) black or darker. Labels: intransitive, literally, transitive 2. To put on or wear blackface makeup. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Cantor starts blacking up, right then and there, painting his face with a burnt piece of cork. 3. To make something (e.g. a film, cast, story line, etc.) more racially black in character; blackenize. Labels: transitive
Word: Caspian tiger Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of an extinct race of Panthera tigris tigris, recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and formerly inhabiting the sparse forest habitats and riverine corridors west and south of the Caspian Sea, from Turkey, Iran and west through Central Asia into the Taklamakan Desert of Xinjiang, China.
Word: separatical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From separate + -ical? 1. Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical. Example: Churches and congregations were torn asunder , many ministers were dismissed , churches of a separatical character were formed , the peace of society was permanently broken up
Word: speculatorial Part of Speech: adj 1. speculatory; speculative Labels: obsolete
Word: Pactolian Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands. 2. golden
Word: binoxide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bin- + oxide. Pronunciation: /baɪˈnɒksaɪd/ 1. Archaic form of dioxide. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: binoxides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of binoxide Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grippleness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gripple + -ness. 1. The quality of being gripple. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: amasthenic Part of Speech: adj 1. Uniting the rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens does. Labels: not-comparable
Word: inexertion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + exertion. 1. Lack of exertion or effort; indolence; laziness. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: And that exertion/inexertion combo is stressing me right out of my life. Exertion makes me tired. Inexertion makes me useless. No time and no energy to love.
Word: inexertions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inexertion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undeified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of undeify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: undeified Part of Speech: adj 1. Not deified. Labels: not-comparable
Word: undeifies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of undeify Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: undeify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + deify. 1. To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive godness. Labels: transitive Example: An Idol may be undeified
Word: undeifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of undeify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: paragnathous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From para- + -gnathous. 1. having both mandibles of equal length, with the tips meeting, as in certain birds Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: cotland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cot + land. 1. The land attached to a cottage, or held by the owner of the cottage. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable
Word: cotlands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cotland Labels: form-of, plural
Word: luciform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin lux, lucis (“light”) + -form. 1. Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light. Example: This tunicle of the soul, whether it be called pure ether, or luciform vehicle, or animal spirit, seemeth to be that which moves and acts upon the gross
Word: blink-eyed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From blink + eyed. 1. Habitually winking. Example: Mingled with powdred shot & fethered steele So thicke vpon the blink-ei’d Burghers heades
Word: cohesibility Part of Speech: noun 1. The state of being cohesible. Labels: uncountable Example: Cohesibility is the tendency which one part of matter evinces to unite with another part of matter, so as to form out of different bodies one common mass.
Word: corvetto Part of Speech: noun 1. A curvet; a leap. Example: You must draw the horse in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c.. Example: but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the rector of Saynt Andrew of S—, nearest in neighbourhood, but not of mine own cure, myself being of D— manor house in the same vicinage,—who astonished beyond measure at my so extasied gladness, demanded wherefore I did carry myself on this wise? 2. An Egyptian style of cornice, resembling the roof structure of a reed hut. Example: These all have a crowning corvetto and ovolo. Example: House D had Egyptian architectural features and artefacts, such as a stone slab with a corvetto cornice, a royal signet ring (Psamtik I), and mud sealings (Necho II) (Mumford 2007).
Word: corvettos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corvetto Labels: form-of, plural
Word: turfen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From turf + -en. 1. Made of turf; covered with turf. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: turfen steps Example: […] the shepherds of Desvres were seen at a distance betaking themselves to the insufficient shelter of the turfen hovels dotted upon the cote to afford them a retreat from the vicissitudes of the atmosphere.
Word: wardmote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wardmote. Equivalent to ward + moot. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːdməʊt/ 1. A meeting of the inhabitants of a ward, especially in the City of London. Labels: historical Example: Association was built into the structure of communal government in the City's wardmotes and precinct meetings and in the open vestries of many suburban parishes. 2. A court formerly held in each ward of London, England for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like. Labels: historical
Word: wardmotes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wardmote Labels: form-of, plural
Word: genealogic Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of genealogical. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
Word: assistful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From assist + -ful. 1. helpful Labels: archaic
Word: organotrophic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From organo- + -trophic. 1. Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts Labels: not-comparable 2. (of bacteria) That can obtain metabolic energy from the oxidation of organic compounds Labels: not-comparable
Word: fulgently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From fulgent + -ly. 1. In a fulgent manner; dazzlingly; glitteringly Labels: dated Example: For genuine students the time to simply praise is past, the time to fitly appraise not yet come; for the morning he so fulgently heralded is still far from its noon, and the most prescient are still all-unsure what shall be the character of the evolution and completion of its day. Example: I was silent when the sun set fulgently over the far hills, and Kilderry blazed all red and gold in a flame that seemed a portent.
Word: hemiglyph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hemi- + glyph. 1. The half-channel or semi-groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
Word: hemiglyphs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hemiglyph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trifoliolate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tri- + foliolate. 1. Having three leaflets, as some compound leaves do. Labels: not-comparable
Word: trifoliolate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tri- + foliolate. 1. A plant of this kind.
Word: encystation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From en- + cyst + -ation. 1. encystment Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: encystations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of encystation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: squirely Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From squire + -ly. 1. Like or suiting a squire. Labels: dated
Word: hypnocyst Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypno- + cyst. 1. A cyst in which some microscopic organisms temporarily enclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food.
Word: hypnocysts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hypnocyst Labels: form-of, plural
Word: titmouses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of titmouse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: heriotable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From heriot + -able. 1. Subject to the payment of a heriot. Labels: not-comparable Example: The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.
Word: copperish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From copper + -ish. 1. Like copper; coppery. Example: She was naked like himself, but chocolate-coloured, not copperish as he was.
Word: lepidopter Part of Speech: noun 1. lepidopteran; one of the Lepidoptera.
Word: lepidopters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lepidopter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: humifuse Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin humus (“ground”) + fusus, past participle of fundere (“to spread”). 1. Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent
Word: demesnial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From demesne + -ial. Pronunciation: /dɪˈmiːni.əl/ 1. Of or pertaining, or of the native of a demesne Example: demesnial custom Example: demesnial land
Word: bowgrace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bow + grace. Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊɡɹeɪs/ 1. A frame or fender made of rope or junk (old cordage), hung over the sides or bow (front) of a vessel to avoid it getting damaged. Labels: historical
Word: bowgraces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bowgrace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fasciole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fasciola (“a little bandage”). See fascia. 1. A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, found on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. Example: aboral fascioles Example: anal fascioles
Word: fascioles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fasciole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lighterage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lighter + -age. 1. The fee paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter (flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If Goods are to be brought Home to your own House, there are Charges for Weighage, Cranage, Porterage, Wharfage, Cartage, Lighterage, &c. Example: 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 355, He has certainly organized the lighterage service of the harbor for the O.S.N. Company with great ability.
Word: lighterages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lighterage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vaporation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French vaporation, Latin vaporatio. 1. evaporation Labels: nonstandard
Word: mootable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From moot + -able. 1. Capable of being mooted. Example: a mootable point Example: a mootable question
Word: woulding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From would + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊdɪŋ/ 1. An emotion of desire; an inclination; velleity. Labels: obsolete Example: an act of some kind of woulding or appetite, and that is constantly twofold to the same matter; the flesh hath one woulding, and the spirit hath another
Word: wouldings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of woulding Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peppermint stick Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of candy cane.
Word: anemographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of anemograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dobchick Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of dabchick. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: dobchicks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dobchick Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rimosely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From rimose + -ly. 1. In a rimose manner.
Word: strychnic Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪknɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to strychnine. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: strychnic compounds Example: strychnic poisoning
Word: floutingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From flouting + -ly. 1. With flouting; insultingly. Example: to treat a lover floutingly
Word: Waldensian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Waldens(es) + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to the Waldenses. Example: A spin-off of the Waldensian sect began in 1207 when Durand of Huesca, an early follow of Waldo, converted to Catholicism. Example: Valdensian communities took to the mountains of Savoy, and would defy the authorities in the best Burgundian manner for centuries.
Word: Waldensian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Waldens(es) + -ian. 1. One who holds the doctrines of the Waldenses (a pre-Protestant church founded by Peter Waldo).
Word: Waldensians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Waldensian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hastings Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From haste. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪstɪŋz/ 1. Early fruit or vegetables, especially peas. Labels: dated, plural, plural-normally Example: The large white and green Hastings are tender , and not to be set till the cold is over , and then not very thick , for they spread much and mount high , and therefore require the help of tall Sticks
Word: hastings Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From haste. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪstɪŋz/ 1. plural of hasting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: locustella Part of Speech: noun Etymology: New Latin, from Latin locusta a locust. 1. A bird, the European cricket warbler.
Word: locustellas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of locustella Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fourrier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French fourrier, from Old French forre. See forage (noun). 1. A harbinger (someone who provides lodgings). Labels: obsolete
Word: fourriers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fourrier Labels: form-of, plural
Word: insociate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + sociate. 1. unaccompanied; solo. Labels: obsolete Example: the insociate virgin life
Word: subglobose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin subglobōsus. By surface analysis, sub- + globose. 1. Somewhat globose.
Word: oxaline Part of Speech: noun 1. imidazole Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: overgird Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + gird. 1. Encircling. Example: The left maenad on A and B of the Oxford cup wears the same overgird Doric peplos of Smithsonian, side B and one attributed to the Painter of Athens.
Word: overgird Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + gird. 1. To gird too closely. Labels: transitive Example: Yes, and all wholesome herbs, and all fresh dews, by your violent and hidebound frost; but, when the gentle west winds shall open the fruitful bosom of the earth , thus overgirded by your imprisonment , then the flowers put forth and spring, and then the sun shall scatter the mists, and the manuring hand of the tiller shall root up all that burdens the soil, without thank to your bondage. Example: Perhaps the most important thing to remember, however, is don't overgird. Girding one's loins too tightly can lead to loss of circulation and, in extreme cases, loss of a loin. 2. To encircle; to gird over. Example: She is dressed in a long, overgirt Ionic chiton and a heavy himation, one end of which she holds with her extended right hand. Example: Does swaddling figure in cultural adaptations, such as martial armor (cumbersome, ineffectual), and more irenic transformations, such as the monastic robes (overgirding otherwise scratchy hair-shirts or prickly girdles) and veils, turbans, and wimples among religious that set off the body as inviolable space? 3. To encapsulate; to encompass and bind together. Example: If He promises eternal life, there must be an immortality somewhere, that binds the promise together; and to the forces of nature on this side of God, we add such things as we can imagine on the other side of God; and with our bark thus undergirded and overgirded, we can trust immortal hopes, and immortal fears, too, upon it. Example: Well, that is the leitmotif that sort of overgirds this entire series of hearings, and the question is what do we do about it.
Word: overgird Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + gird. 1. Something that encompasses and binds together; an encapsulation. Example: And finally, as an overgird to the whole piece, we need to establish policies that are clear to each employee in the Department of Energy and contractors that indicate, first of all, that program implementation and development happens through the Federal arm and not through contractor hand and mind.
Word: overgirded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overgird Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overgirding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overgird Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rhythmer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-? Proto-Indo-European *srew- Proto-Indo-European *sru-dʰ-mo-s Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós)bor. Latin rhythmusder. English rhythm Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English rhythmer From rhythm + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪðəmə(ɹ)/, /ˈɹɪðmə(ɹ)/ 1. One who writes in rhythm, especially in poetic rhythm or meter. Example: one now scarce counted a rhythmer, formerly admitted for a poet 2. Someone who provides rhythm
Word: rhythmers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhythmer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: numps Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain, probably from Numps, obsolete diminutive of Humphrey. Compare also numb and numpty. 1. A fool; a blockhead. Labels: obsolete Example: These are villainous engines indeed; but take heart, Numps! here is not a word of the stocks; and you need never stand in awe of any more honourable correction. Example: "You're a dizzard!" I retorted. "And a noodle and a jolt-head; you're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.
Word: numpses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of numps Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disadvantageable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From disadvantage + -able. 1. injurious; disadvantageous. Labels: obsolete Example: For haſty Selling is commonly as Diſaduantageable as Intereſt.
Word: Norroy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”) + roi (“king”), Anglo-Norman roy (“king”). 1. The most northern of the English kings-of-arms, whose jurisdiction lay north of the Trent. Since 1943, the jurisdiction is Norroy and Ulster. Labels: historical
Word: Norroy Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French [Term?]. 1. A commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Word: Norroys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Norroy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hydrogenide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hydrogen + -ide. 1. A hydride. Labels: archaic
Word: hydrogenides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hydrogenide Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forehoof Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore- + hoof. 1. A front hoof. Example: One of the wildly dancing horse's forehooves slammed into his shoulder, nearly dislocating it, and driving the breath out of his lungs.
Word: forehoofs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forehoof Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forehooves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forehoof Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spindom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spin + -dom. 1. The realm, territory, or sphere of spinning. Labels: humorous, nonce-word, uncountable Example: I would LOVE to learn how to spin, congrats on taking the first step towards spindom!!! 2. The realm, territory, or sphere of political spin. Labels: uncountable Example: He was curmudgeonly about the level of spin that journalists were putting on Verdi 'celebrations' during his lifetime; the present levels of spindom would have him gnawing the woodwork. Example: Wal-Mart is driving could-have-been-Pulizer-prizewinning newshounds to a life of inglorious spindom.
Word: elementation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From element + -ation. 1. Instruction in the elements or first principles. Labels: uncountable Example: For this latter certainly contained the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Logos; and, therefore, it seems likely that the present Apsosles' creed was an introductory, and, as it were, alphabetical, creed for young catechumens in their first elementation. Example: No, my only design is to commend the other duty to more frequent practice: a duty without whose pre-elementation sermons themselves edify very little . 2. The manner in which something is divided into basic elements. Labels: uncountable Example: Through a systematic elementation of design solutions a large variety of alternatives can be accomplished by manipulating the elements in different combinations. Example: The origin of the contradiction lies in this, that we think a process of elementation is rigidly fixed and admit that this process applies to every aggregate, in particular to E: but there is no contradiction if E cannot be elemented with this process.' 3. The state or act of elementing; the combination of elements to create something. Labels: uncountable Example: The normal process of elementation is a deposit of the relatively insoluble combinations of these elements by a process of precipitation. Example: The elementation of matter was its complete distentio to the plenitude and filling of the entire sensible region. Thus it was impossible to believe that a vacuum could possibly have existed and because no vacuum could have existed it followed that matter and elementation must have been created simultaneously. 4. Coming into existence as an element; substantiation; incorporation. Labels: uncountable Example: This grand event took place (p. 259) "by the voice of his mighty energy that is, by its melodious sweetness, which was scarcely heard when lo! the dead gleamed into life, and the non-entity which had neither place nor existence flashed like lightning into elementation, and rejoiced into life; and the congealed, motionless shiver warmed into living existence, the destitute nothing rejoiced into being a thousand times more quickly than the lightning reaches its home. Example: When such power met elementation the result was fire started for the manufacturing of the original power together with elementation.
Word: fortin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French fortin. See fort. 1. A small fort; a fortlet. Labels: historical, obsolete
Word: fortins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fortin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Wormian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Worm + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to Ole Worm (Olaus Wormius, 1588–1655), Danish physician and antiquary. Example: Wormian ossicles
Word: ammonitiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ammonite + -iferous. Pronunciation: /ˌæmənaɪˈtɪfəɹəs/ 1. Containing fossil ammonites. Example: ammonitiferous limestone Example: ammonitiferous bedrock
Word: prefigurement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prefigure + -ment. 1. The act of prefiguring. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Something that prefigures. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Surely there was here, in his pious, ever-labouring, subtle mind, a precious truth, or prefigurement of truth ; and yet a fatal delusion withal.
Word: prefigurements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prefigurement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tuberculization Part of Speech: noun 1. The development of tubercles Labels: countable, uncountable 2. the condition of one who is affected with tubercles. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: swallowfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From swallow + fish. 1. A tub gurnard or sapphirine gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna).
Word: scissible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin scindere, scissum. 1. Capable of being cut by a sharp instrument. Example: The differences of impressible and not impressible, figurable and not figurable, mouldable and not mouldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and uses which men ordinarily practice . Example: The herein described article comprising a rolled-up sheet of thin soft material coated with an adhesive substance, stiffening strips of scissible material secured to opposite ends of the sheet , a plurality of suspension loops secured to one end of the sheet. and a wrapper of scissible material inclosing the body o fhte sheet with the suspension loops projecting therefrom andd serving to indicate the lines upon which the article can be severed into a plurality of individual fly catchers, weach including a portion of the sheet, one of the suspension loops, and a section of the wrapper. 2. That can be severed or broken (often by a specific enzyme or catalyst). Example: The former need the presence of either a free α-NH₂ or a α-COOH group adjacent to scissible bond, whereas the latter cleaves peptide bonds of the polypeptide chain distant to the termini. Example: This latter Ca²⁺ site, of unknown location, is influenced by Asp residues at P3(D¹⁶⁷0 and P3' (D¹⁷²) of the scissible activation peptide bond of PC
Word: electrizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From electrize + -er. 1. Someone or something that electrizes; an electrifier
Word: electrizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of electrizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: synonymal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From synonym + -al. 1. synonymous Labels: obsolete
Word: alleviatives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of alleviative Labels: form-of, plural
Word: alleviable Part of Speech: adj 1. Capable of being alleviated.
Word: unalleviable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + alleviable. 1. That cannot be alleviated.
Word: appendicle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin appendicula, diminutive of appendix. 1. A small appendage. Labels: archaic
Word: appendicles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of appendicle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fluoborate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fluo- + bor + -ate. Compare French fluoborate. 1. A salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride.
Word: fluoborates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fluoborate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glandiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin glandifer, from glans, glandis (“acorn”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French glandifère. 1. Bearing acorns or other similar nuts. Labels: not-comparable
Word: stayless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stay + -less. 1. Without stays (the item of clothing). 2. Without stays (nautical) 3. Without stays (e.g. on a boiler) 4. Without stop or delay. Labels: archaic Example: 1559, William Baldwin (attributed) " […] Richard Neuill of Earle of Warwicke […] ", in The Mirror for Magistrates Among the heauy heape of happy knightes, Whome fortune stald vpon her staylesse stage
Word: epidotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From epidote + -ic. 1. Related to, resembling, or containing epidote. Labels: archaic Example: an epidotic granite
Word: strengthner Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of strengthener. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: strengthners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of strengthner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: indulgential Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to the indulgences of the Roman Catholic church. Labels: not-comparable Example: 'Tis but getting some of those rusty pieces, which Pope Sixtus the Fifth found once under the rubbish of an old wall, then presently you are fitted with rare indulgential priveleges.
Word: gyle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch gijl, from gijlen (“to ferment”). Pronunciation: /ɡaɪl/ 1. The amount of beer brewed at a time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Perkins told me Yesterday that his Guile of Beer had a Summer-head on't, like as one sees in the last Weeks of Brewing in a forward Spring:—The Phænomenon surprized him I find. 2. Fermented wort used for making vinegar. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: extravagantness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From extravagant + -ness. 1. extravagance Labels: uncountable
Word: descensive Part of Speech: adj 1. Tending to descend or move downward; descending. Example: the descensive Motion describing the Parabola
Word: artiodactyle Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of artiodactyl. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: artiodactyles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of artiodactyle Labels: form-of, plural