nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: sulcal Part of Speech: adj 1. of or relating to a sulcus Labels: not-comparable Example: In addition, five of six subjects showed right frontal-lobe activation for novel pictures in the inferior frontal sulcal region between middle and inferior gyri.
Word: synsacral Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to the synsacrum Labels: not-comparable Example: Retroverted pubis, separated from the main synsacral axis by an angle smaller than 45~: absent (0), present (1). Example: Most preserved parts of the axial column (the last 6 dorsal, the synsacral, and the first 12 caudal vertebrae and chevrons) were found in virtually direct articulation.
Word: scampy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From scamp + -y. 1. scampish Example: Very often, after they sow their wild oats, some of those scampy young fellows settle down and marry a nice young girl and turn out very good husbands. Example: Thanks to his association with Fossey, Sembagare rises in life from scampy village tour guide to responsible adjutant.
Word: broodiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From broody + -ness. 1. The state of being broody. Labels: uncountable Example: In contrast, egg-producing white leghorn chickens have had the broodiness bred out of them. Example: Bohmes Liebeslied, for flute and piano, is arresting in its low-key broodiness; Bittersweet Music I, its piccolo a lonely bird in its nervous twitters, continued the despairing mood.
Word: bruskness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brusk + -ness. 1. The state of being brusk Labels: uncountable Example: On further acquaintance I concluded that Mr. Spear's bruskness was assumed, and that beneath the tough husk there beats a very tender heart. Example: "Why didn't you send for me at once?" asked the older man with increasing bruskness.
Word: bulginess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bulgy + -ness. 1. The state of being bulgy Labels: uncountable Example: He was only partially dressed; his face had the peculiar bulginess of the hard drinker; his eyes were watery and shifty, and several days' growth of beard, with patchy grey and black spots, gave a stucco effect to his countenance. Example: There is nothing in Grown-up Land that equals the thrill the delicious bulginess of the stocking, gripped in the darkness, gave one.
Word: dauphiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dauphin + -ess. 1. Synonym of dauphine. Example: As dauphin and dauphiness they naturally had a great following, and as king and queen their taste was paramount, and the style became established. Example: After gaining his confidence by her sincerity and trustworthiness, and making herself indispensable to him, she succeeded in bringing about the desired separation, through the medium of the dauphiness, whom she won over to her cause.
Word: manfulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English manfulnesse; equivalent to manful + -ness. 1. The state of being manful Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He will at least have the manfulness to depart out of it, if not; to say: "I cannot move in thee, and be a man; like a wretched drift-log dressed in man's clothes and minister's clothes, doomed to a lot baser than belongs to man, I will not continue with thee, tumbling aimless on the Mother of Dead Dogs here:--Adieu!" Example: He only sees his own weakness, and want of life, of spirit, of manfulness, of power.
Word: objectness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From object + -ness. 1. The state of being an object Example: As a result objects that "should" dominate in Sekiguchi's work instead look strangely anomalous, as if the painter found these isolated things--steaks cut from an animal, an eye separate from the rest of a human figure--to be almost funny in their assertive objectness. Example: Like much of the work, these are surrounded by painted frames that are part of the overall composition and underscore the objectness of the artwork.
Word: personalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From personal + -ness. 1. The state of being personal Labels: uncountable Example: As the mutual education of marriage is an individual affair,--as the more individualness, the more personalness there is in the relation is what the relation itself is for, the mutual education of employers and employees is going to be found to have more meaning, value and power, the more individual and personal--that is to say, the more alive it is. Example: Not the least part of the charm of this museum is the fact that it is not of great size, and that one may consequently visit it without fatigue; but the chief fascination of the place is the dramatic personalness of its exhibits.
Word: salutariness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From salutary + -ness. 1. The state of being salutary. Labels: uncountable Example: The security derived from the innate integrity of men is more pleasing than that which arises from their fears. The nation that boasts of the multiplicity and salutariness of its regulations conveys satire in self-applause; and, though the paradox is not in all cases just, we may venture to affirm, that those who have the best laws often need them the most. Example: […] Mrs. Gascoigne was disposed to hope that trouble would have a salutary effect on her niece, without thinking it her duty to add any bitters by way of increasing the salutariness.
Word: treelet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tree + -let. 1. a small tree Example: At one extreme, the two plots in Malaysia are in tall, evergreen forest; have no regular dry season; and include over 800 tree and treelet species each. Example: The people are sorely in need of firewood, and not being far-seeing enough to realize what a menace it is to the country to denude it so unscientifically, they have razed every treelet.
Word: heroinware Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From heroin + -ware. 1. An addictive computer game, especially one played to the extent it interferes with the everyday life of the player. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Luckily, Jaffe found refuge and eventual salvation with On-Line Gamers Anonymous, one of several online self-help groups that have sprung up to deal with the fallout from electronic entertainment they call heroinware. Its forums are swollen with refugees of various online worlds, all with harrowing stories of runaway gaming habits, lives ruined, friends lost, marriages broken.
Word: scarabee Part of Speech: noun 1. A beetle. Labels: archaic Example: From one of the upper buttonholes dangled a thin gold chain, supporting a bunch of small charms against the evil eye, a little coral horn, a tiny silver hunchback, a miniature gilt bell, and two or three coins of gold and silver, besides an Egyptian scarabee in a gold setting. Example: We too, who mock at Israel's golden calf And scoff at Egypt's sacred scarabee, Would have our amulets to clasp and kiss, And flood with rapturous tears, and bear with us To be our dear companions in the dust, Such magic works an image in our souls!
Word: scaredly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From scared + -ly. 1. In a scared manner, with fear. Example: He then turned round and looked scaredly at Crean and myself. Example: Wha, like the stricken deer, chased by the hunter's spear, Fled frae the hills o' his father sae scaredly; But wha, by affection's chart, reigns in auld Scotland's heart-- Wha but the royal, the gallant Prince Charlie?
Word: sequenator Part of Speech: noun 1. A sequencer; a device for determining the sequence of monomers in a polymer, especially amino acids in protein, or bases in DNA. Example: Essentially a “robot chemist", the sequenator or sequencer carries out the coupling, wash, cleavage, and extraction steps of the cycle. Example: For amino acid sequencing, the two major proteins were sequenced by automated Edman degradation with an Applied Biosystem 473 sequenator.
Word: Breivik Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Breivik. 1. A surname from Norwegian. Example: Even at a time when Anders Behring Breivik is on trial in Norway for killing 77 people in a terror attack last year – and the remote possibility he could end up at Bastoy or a similar prison some day – Nilsen and others stand up for this brand of justice.
Word: seed stocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seed stock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hard-bills Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hard-bill Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hopium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of hope + opium, as though it were a drug; regarding the surface analysis as hope + -ium, see copium § Etymology. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.pi.əm/, /ˈhoʊ.pi.əm/ 1. A clinging to unreasonable or unfounded hopes. Labels: colloquial, derogatory, idiomatic, uncountable Example: Hopium can make you see potential in the grimmest set of circumstances. Example: This way, we might avoid depression, panic, denial, and hopium for good or bad news, any of which renders us more unrealistic, unprepared, and unwell.
Word: elderlies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of elderly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: autumn years Part of Speech: noun 1. The later years of one's life, especially after one has finished one's career. Labels: literary, plural, plural-normally
Word: weaky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From an unattested English dialectal word *weak (“moist; moisture”) + -y. Compare voky, woky. *Weak is from Middle English *weke, *wak, *wok, from Old Norse vǫkr (“moist; damp; wet”) and Old Norse vǫkvi, vǫkva (“moisture; juice”), from Proto-Germanic *wakwaz (“moist”) and *wakwô, *wakwijô (“moisture; wetness; open water; icehole”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet”). Cognates Germanic cognates include Scots wak, wakke, waik (“moist; damp; wet", also "moisture; wetness”); Dutch wak (“icehole; blowhole”) and its earlier form, Middle Dutch wac (“flexible; liquid; moist; soft”); Middle Low German wake (“hole in the ice; open water in the ice”); Swedish vak (“hole in the ice”); Icelandic vökur (“moist”) and vökvi, vökva (“fluid”). Indo-European cognates include Latin ūmeō (“to be wet, moist or damp”), whence English humid, humidity, and humidify; Ancient Greek ὑγρός (hugrós, “wet; moist; fluid”, adjective), whence English hygro-; Sanskrit उक्षति (ukṣáti, “to wet; moisten; sprinkle”). Pronunciation: /ˈwiki/, /ˈweɪki/, /ˈwiːkɪ/, /ˈweːkɪ/ 1. moist; damp; clammy Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal 2. juicy; mellow Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal 3. watery Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal 4. pliant; soft Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: weakiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From weaky + -ness. 1. Moisture. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, uncountable
Word: sukūn Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of sukun. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sukūns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sukūn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sukuns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sukun Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tamping iron Part of Speech: noun 1. An iron rod used for beating down the earthy substance in tamping for blasting. Example: The world's most famous tamping iron is the one that struck the head of Phineas Gage.
Word: besmell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + smell. 1. To smell out; sniff about, around, or all over; investigate or check by smelling; detect a smell or a scent. Labels: emphatic, transitive Example: I'll tell you News, Sirs, I carry a little Muist-box (which is the Word of GOD) in my Bosom, and when I meet with the ill Air of ill company, that's like to gar me Swarf, I besmell my self with the 'sweet lavour of it, and with the Name ... Example: Juan positioned himself by the side of the building, peeked through an open window, and found the feast a sight to behold, and a scent to besmell.
Word: besnew Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English besnewen, bisnewen, from Old English *besnīwian (attested in past participle besnīwod (“besnowed”)), equivalent to be- + snew. 1. Alternative form of besnow. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: home loan Part of Speech: noun 1. A loan taken for the purpose of purchasing a house, or other type of residential property. Labels: countable
Word: besleeve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- (“off, away”) + sleeve. 1. To take the sleeves from (a bishop). Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: beslap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + slap. 1. To slap around or about; slap all over; slap soundly or completely. Labels: transitive
Word: bestay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + stay, from Middle English *stayen, steyen, from Old French estaier, estayer (“to prop, stay, support”), from estaye (“prop, support”), of Proto-Germanic origin. More at stay. 1. To secure or steady; cause to come to a fixed position or state; bring to a halt or stop. Labels: transitive Example: Mid the half-furrowed field bestay the plough, Bid the twin toilers of the yoke go free, And aught that doth thee patient servitude, From closing sabbath to its blest return, [...] Example: Hereupon the magistrates of the town cried "Hola, hola, bestay the matter."
Word: unresolve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + resolve. Pronunciation: /(ˌ)ʌn.ɹɪˈzɒlv/, /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɑlv/, /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɔlv/ 1. The lack of the quality of resolve. Labels: uncountable Example: But the truth is that all of us, including this Union, are now poised at a dangerous place midst the unresolve of God that flows off as unresolve into the real world around us.
Word: unresolve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + resolve. Pronunciation: /(ˌ)ʌn.ɹɪˈzɒlv/, /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɑlv/, /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɔlv/ 1. To undo a resolution. Example: Similarly, the visual dynamics of cubo-futurist and expressionist designs also found their way into constructivist architecture. On the one hand, the dynamics consisted of unresolving the visual tensions between the component parts and […] Example: […] remembered experience in QuickTime is often "bit-mapped" and "pixelated": boxed fragments of photorealist images are fragmented and compartmentalized further into smaller boxes yet, unresolving the personal meaning and contours of human memory and resolving them as the visible and controlled geometry that informs the computer's underlying memory and structuration.
Word: polars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of polar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Things Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Thing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: recouches Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of recouch Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mignardise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French mignardise. 1. A bite-sized dessert sometimes served at the end of a meal.
Word: Platonical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Platōnicus + -al. By surface analysis, Platonic + -al or Platon + -ical. Pronunciation: /pləˈtɒnɪk(ə)l/ 1. Pertaining to Plato or his philosophy; Platonic. Example: [T]he Pythagoricall, and Platonicall perfect scholer, and the constant profound Philosopher, with more ease and spede, may (like the Bee,) gather, hereby, both wax and hony. Example: Plutarkes opinions are Platonicall, gentle and accommodable unto civill societie[…]. 2. Affectionate but non-sexual; platonic.
Word: availful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From avail + -ful. 1. Profitable, useful; of much avail. Labels: obsolete Example: These Logicall and Aristotelian ordinances are not availfull [translating à propos] for me, who onely endevour to become more wise and sufficient, and not more wittie or eloquent.
Word: speculoos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch speculoos, Flemish form of speculaas. 1. A type of spiced shortcrust biscuit. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A type of spiced shortcrust biscuit. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A type of spread made with the biscuit. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: exogamic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From exogamy + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to exogamy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: butchers' paper Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of butcher paper. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cymata Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪmətə/ 1. plural of cyma Labels: form-of, plural Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:cymata.
Word: cyma rectum Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of cyma recta. Labels: rare Example: Wolmut certainly had some drawings like these, because a cornice with pipes tops the doorframe of the Prague Belvedere and above it, there is a cyma rectum separated from the cornice by an astragal.
Word: rubber plants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rubber plant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spray gun Part of Speech: noun 1. paint sprayer, powered by compressed air or other gas, larger than an airbrush.
Word: TOTP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Top of the Pops (“British TV show”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: TOTP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of time-based one-time password. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: calorimetres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of calorimetre Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metathesiophobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See metathesis and -phobia. 1. The persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of change. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: Then, metathesiophobia, fear of change. Example: There is a related fear, metathesiophobia, the fear of change.
Word: Boro Part of Speech: name 1. The town of Middlesbrough, and more specifically Middlesbrough FC football club. Labels: Teesside Example: They created the better chances while Boro, looking every inch a troubled team, rarely looked like avoiding a third successive goalless home draw. Example: If, however, Boro let their guard slip, you can bet the Tigers will tear their guests for the day to shreds. In not one game this season have City sat back. Against Middlesbrough it will surely be no different. 2. Stevenage Football Club, a football team from Stevenage formerly known as Stevenage Borough Football Club Example: Craig Reid struck the United woodwork, while Boro goalkeeper Chris Day had to tip over a header from his own midfielder Michael Bostwick. 3. A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Word: caped crusader Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪpt kɹuːˈseɪdə/ 1. The superhero Batman.
Word: level pegging Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably from the pegging in a cribbage board used to keep track of player's scores. 1. equal (having the same number of points, or being in the same position) Labels: not-comparable Example: The merest glance at the details is enough to show that there was some very level-pegging between the two locomotives.
Word: secesh Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Shortening. 1. Secessionist, supportive of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War. Labels: US, historical, informal Example: This is true, for Mrs. Sherman has an idea that St. Louis is unhealthy for our children, and because most of the Catholics here are tainted with the old secesh feeling. Example: But he was mistaken; for as the current swept the bateau around the bend of the river, he discovered, to his astonishment and chagrin, the two secesh soldiers, who had left the picket post some time before, standing at convenient distances from each other and from the shore, in the water, ready to rescue him from the fate before him.
Word: secesh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. A secessionist, a supporter of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War. Labels: US, historical, informal Example: […] I think they buried more secesh than our folks. Question. How did they bury them? Answer. They buried the secesh over back of the fort, all except those on Fort Hill; them they buried up on top of the hill where the gunboats shelled them. Example: […] our minds to get 'em, and we charged, yelling like bloody hl, drove the seceshes back a deuced sight quicker than they come, and popped 'em down at every shot.
Word: Teeside Part of Speech: name 1. Misspelling of Teesside. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: BLAST FURNACE AT THE TEESIDE IRON WORKS
Word: Deeside Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Dee (“River Dee (Wales)”) + -side. 1. A conurbation consisting of the towns and villages around the estuary of the Dee in Cheshire, England, and Flintshire, Wales.
Word: Deeside Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Dee (“River Dee (Aberdeenshire)”) + -side. 1. The area around Braemar and Banchory on the banks of the Dee in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, home to Balmoral. Labels: usually Example: As we climbed the Marykirk Bank Ogilvie spoke of the passes leading over to Deeside, and of the Royal deer forests around Balmoral; then, with mingled pride and modesty, he added, "I've driven the King seven times."
Word: mauvelous Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of mauve + marvelous. Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːvələs/ 1. The color mauve, or a specific shade of mauve Labels: humorous Example: At any rate, it's a mauve'''lous cover. Example: Around the courthouse, things are simply “mauvelous,” as in a purple, violet or lilac color.
Word: animal pole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From animal (adjective) + pole (“extremity of an axis”). 1. The hemisphere of the blastula which eventually gives rise to the three germ layers and is composed of small cells that are in a state of rapid division.
Word: mauvelouses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mauvelous Labels: form-of, plural
Word: schmozzle Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shemozzle. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: opercules Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of opercule Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coucal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French coucal, said to be a blend of coucou (“cuckoo”) + alouette (“lark”). 1. Any bird of the genus Centropus in the cuckoo family Cuculidae.
Word: vegetal pole Part of Speech: noun 1. The hemisphere of the blastula opposite to the animal pole comprising large yolk cells dividing at a slower rate that eventually differentiate into the extraembryonic membranes.
Word: electrical polyspermy block Part of Speech: noun 1. A polyspermy block where the electric potential of an egg rapidly rises from -70mV to +20mV upon contact with sperm due to the influx of sodium ions.
Word: inner cell mass Part of Speech: noun 1. A mass of cells within a primordial embryo that will eventually develop into the distinct form of a fetus in most eutherian mammals.
Word: germ layer Part of Speech: noun 1. A collection of cells assembled during embryogenesis that eventually develop into all tissues and organs via organogenesis in animals.
Word: ib. Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of ibidem. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: undecently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From undecent + -ly. 1. Unsuitably; improperly. Labels: obsolete Example: Philosophie hath done me the pleasure to judge, that so honorable an action, had been undecently [translating indecemment] placed in any other life, than in Catoes[…]. 2. Scandalously; indecently. Labels: obsolete
Word: pattern formation Part of Speech: noun 1. The mechanism in developing tissue by which originally similar cells acquire diverse forms and functions by coordinated cell fate control. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: patiency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin patientia. Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪʃ(ə)nsi/ 1. Patience. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Constancie in dangers (if it may be termed constancie) contempt of death, patiencie in misfortunes, may happen, and are often seen in men, for want of Good judgement in such accidents, and that they are not apprehended for such as they are indeed. 2. Passivity (as opposed to agency). Labels: uncountable
Word: forthsend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *forthsenden, from Old English forþsendan (“to send forth”), equivalent to forth- + send. Cognate with Dutch voortzenden (“to send forth”), German fortsenden (“to send forth, dispatch”). 1. To send forth; dispatch; send off. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Forthsend my thoughts, to Venice on the sea; And dream of gondolas, and palace-pile, And shadowy figures sitting near to me; [...] Example: Many thanks now in foresight for the care wherewith you have to forthsend me this post parcell, that I am waiting for with hurry (I have me pickled the ear ass on this word : avec impatience ! ). Forgive me.
Word: foresend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *foresenden (compare biforesenden), from Old English foresendan (“to send before”), equivalent to fore- + send. 1. To send before; send beforehand. Labels: transitive Example: I presume to foresend my wife's maid with her linen, as the state of the city occasioneth me thereunto by increase of deaths, which many fear and flee.
Word: acidosteophyte Part of Speech: noun 1. A sharp or needle-shaped osteophyte.
Word: acidosteophytes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acidosteophyte Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aconine Part of Speech: noun 1. An amorphous, bitter, non-poisonous alkaloid, derived from the decomposition of aconitine. Labels: uncountable
Word: Fields Part of Speech: name 1. A surname. 2. An unincorporated community in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, United States. 3. An unincorporated community in Harney County, Oregon, United States, named after Charles Fields.
Word: sightreads Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sightread Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: sightreading Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sightread Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mollas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of molla Labels: form-of, plural
Word: raised points Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of raised point Labels: form-of, plural
Word: radioactive datings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of radioactive dating Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mechanizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mechanizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: amylopsins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of amylopsin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cabbin Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of cabin. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: ----When our Boston sea Captain, therefore, came into Broadway, a Virginian comes a-board of him--and as he goes down into the cabbin, had to stoop a little, because the cabbin was low--for, as I said before, the sloop was 60 tons, although our religious sea-captain entered but 40 tons at the Naval-Office: Howsomever he had a reserve of conscience, for the Naval-Officer charged him for light money, when there was not one light-house in all the ancient dominion. Example: This Gabriel declared vnto me that they had saued both the ankers and our hauser, and after we had thus communed, I caused 4 or 5 of them to goe into my cabbin, where I gaue them figs and made them such cheere as I could.
Word: caleche Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of calèche. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Here he was put in a caleche, and transported forthwith to the nearest frontier. Example: One is struck with the comparative absence of wheeled vehicles in the streets of Rio. Now and then a clumsy caleche is driven past by a negro postillion, in blue livery and jackboots, riding a second horse yoked outside the shafts, and omnibuses drawn by four or six mules, are not infrequently met with, and seem to be much patronised.
Word: calimanco Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of calamanco. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: I had our porter up to get under the bed and fetch it out; and though he habitually wallows in dust,--swims in it from morning to night, and wears a close-fitting waistcoat with black calimanco sleeves for the purpose,--it made him sneeze again, and his throat was that hot with it that it was obliged to be cooled with a drink of Allsopp's draft. Example: What should ail them, but a jacket and petticoat of good yard-wide stuff, or calimanco, might keep them decent and warm.
Word: camaron Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cammaron. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: camboose Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of caboose. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Along the mess-table of the galley--or the "camboose," as the yacht's cook insisted upon calling it--were ranged three gentlemen of color, each of whom treated his companions with the greatest deference, though at the same time believing himself to be just a little better posted in culinary matters than either of the others. Example: Crouching under the lee of the camboose, the young skipper found Bessie, Mrs. Vincent, and the two children, while the crew were clinging to the rigging of the bowsprit to prevent being washed overboard.
Word: campward Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From camp + -ward. 1. Toward a camp, campwards Labels: not-comparable Example: Sometimes as many as four or six of our company, having leave of absence at the same time, would rendezvous to return together in the small hours of the night, through Rocketts, where "hold-ups" were not uncommon, and recount our various experiences as we proceeded campward. Example: And as the cheery cry swelled farther and farther, the train drew out, everybody looking from the windows as the patient soldiery straggled back campward. "
Word: camstairy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cam (“crooked”) and uncertain second component. 1. unruly; unmanageable Labels: Scotland, archaic Example: "Ah!" he said again, with a reproving wag of the head, for he knew now what was coming,--"idols are perverse, camstairy things at best, you know, and a bit out of date too. Example: My faither was on a strong mare, and I was on a bit powney; and amang the cattle there was a camstairy three-year-auld bull, that wad neither hup nor drive.
Word: cancellated Part of Speech: adj 1. Marked with cross lines; crossbarred. Example: This chamber, he states, "is inclosed with three doors, the inner cancellated, the middle, which is very thick, lined with skins like parchment, and driven full of nails.["] Example: 'Tis cancellated with little squares on the Margin; on the top of the back, sexangularly 2. Open or spongy, like certain porous bones.
Word: capsulated Part of Speech: adj 1. Enclosed in a capsule Labels: not-comparable Example: If the colonizing population of the ancestral capsulated strains is too small, a sufficient number of unencapsulated variants (mutants) may not be generated and invasion will not take place. Example: Cultivations from the heart blood gave a pure growth of a typical (capsulated) pneumococcus.
Word: carcel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the inventor of the Carcel lamp. 1. A former unit to measure the intensity of light, approximately 9.74 candelas. Labels: historical Example: Desroziers in a series of experiments obtained as much as 250 carcel spherical luminous value per horse-power; this characteristic is one likely to be of great value in electric lighting by incandescence of high intensity. Example: When experimenting in Paris with a No. 3 lamp in a vertical direction, it showed a consumption of 34.6 liters (1.2 cubic feet) per carcel obtained.
Word: cambooses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of camboose Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caried Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a tooth: affected by caries; decayed. Labels: not-comparable Example: a caried tooth
Word: caried Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of cary Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: caried Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of carried. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: When he had ſaied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]
Word: cavendish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from the name of the original manufacturer. 1. Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. Labels: uncountable Example: "But the managers seem inclined to cut their cavendish very fine just at present," she said. Example: No man less; only he (not Vieuxbois, but his younger brother) has found a wide-awake cooler than an iron kettle, and travels by rail when he is at home; and when he was in the Crimea, rode a shaggy pony, and smoked cavendish all through the battle of Inkermann." "
Word: cawker Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of calker. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Hae, man, there's a cawker to keep your heart warm; and set down that bottle," quoth I, wiping the saw-dust affn't with my hand, "to get a toast; I'se warrant it for Deacon Jaffrey's best brown stout."
Word: cellarette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cellar + -ette. 1. A drinks cabinet Example: The inset sketch of joint shows the housing of the top rail to receive the legs. Fig. 59 shows a deep drawer, generally known as a cellarette, and used in a sideboard to accommodate wine bottles. Example: The source of drinks he indicated was a well-stocked cellarette at the other side of the room.
Word: cembra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin cembra. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛmbɹə/ 1. The Swiss pine, Pinus cembra. Example: Among the cembra trees in the Engadine the snow may be sprinkled with the nuts out of the cones. Example: Then comes the descent, with its forests of larch and cembra, golden and dark green upon a ground of grey, and in front the serried shafts of the Bernina, and here and there a glimpse of emerald lake at turnings of the road.
Word: my certie Part of Speech: intj 1. certes; verily Labels: Scotland, obsolete Example: Weel, lassie, walk ye by the burn, And walk ye slow and sly; My certie! weel ye ken the gate That Geordie Young comes by! Example: Englishmen, for instance, will say that I am a bad speller, and that my language is kittle; and such of the Irishers as can read, will be threaping that I have abused their precious country; but, my certie, instead of blaming me for letting out what I could not deny, they must just learn to behave themselves better when they come to see us, or bide at home.
Word: cetacea Part of Speech: noun 1. Whale-like mammals. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Of cetacea, or whale-like mammals, sixty-five; ruminantia, or cud-chewers, one hundred and seventy-seven; pachydermata, or thick-skinned mammals, such as the horse, hog, and elephant, forty-one; edentata, like the sloth and ant-eater, thirty-five; rodentia, or gnawers, such as the rat, squirrel, and beaver, six hundred and seventeen; carnivora, or flesh-eaters, four hundred and forty-six; cheiroptera, or bats, three hundred and twenty-eight; quadrumana, or monkeys, two hundred and twenty-one; and marsupialia, or pouched mammals, like the opossum and kangaroo, one hundred and thirty-seven. Example: But here we give no such extracts, but content ourselves with four short skits, having the cetacea for their subject.
Word: champac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sanskrit चम्पक (campaka). Compare with Hindi चंपक (campak). 1. A type of Asian tree with fragrant blossoms, Magnolia champaca Example: And now, as to that blossomy peach-scent--even while some floes were yet around me--I was just like some fantastic mariner, who, having set out to search for Eden and the Blessed Islands, finds them, and balmy gales from their gardens come out, while he is yet afar, to meet him with their perfumes of almond and champac, cornel and jasmin and lotus. Example: The bamboo boughs that sway and swing / 'Neath bulbuls as the south wind blows, / The mango-tope, a close dark ring, / Home of the rooks and clamorous crows, / The champac, bok, and South-sea pine, / The nagessur with pendant flowers / Like ear-rings--and the forest vine / That clinging over all, embowers […]
Word: chancellory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Adapted to chancellor. 1. Alternative spelling of chancellery. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The hall of the chancellory had been transformed into a cloakroom and there the crowd was thickest. Example: Bismarck's successor in the chancellory, Count Caprivi, set matters in their true light in a speech in the Reichstag shortly after the publication of Bismarck's Reminiscences.
Word: woman child Part of Speech: noun 1. A young female human; a girl. Labels: archaic 2. An adult female who is childish or immature. Labels: colloquial, derogatory Example: The first statute that gave the father a power of appointing, was the 4 and 5 Philip and Mary, c. 8, which provides, under severe penalties, such as fine and imprisonment for years, against taking any maid, or woman child unmarried, being within the age of sixteen years, out of or from the possession, custody, or governance, and against the will of the father of such maid, or woman child, or of such person or persons, to whom the father of such maid, or woman child, by his last will and testament, or by any other act in his life time, shall grant the education and governance of such child.
Word: woman-child Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of woman child. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: "I'm sure, lass, we like very well to have you. If there's one thing I've missed all my days, and coveted, which for that matter it's a sin and a breaking of the commandment, though there ain't no mention of a daughter in the wording of it, as there be of a wife, — if there be one thing I've coveted, it be a woman-child of my own; a girl's a wonderful comfort when the boats be out, let alone a sister for the lads."
Word: woman children Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of woman child Labels: form-of, plural
Word: women children Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of woman child Labels: form-of, plural
Word: woman-children Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of woman-child Labels: form-of, plural
Word: maid child Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mayde child, maide child, maide-child, maide childe, maidechilde, mayde childe, mayde-chyld, maydechylde. Compare Middle English maidenchild, from Old English mæġdenċild. 1. A young female human; a girl. Labels: archaic Example: But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
Word: maid children Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of maid child Labels: form-of, plural
Word: maid-child Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of maid child. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Mrs. Forbes's eyes were instantly fixed on her with mild astonishment, and something of a mother's tenderness awoke in her heart toward the little maid-child.
Word: maid-children Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of maid-child Labels: form-of, plural
Word: maidchild Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of maid child. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 'Well, Mr. Frodo,' he said. 'I'm in a bit of a fix. Rose and me had settled to call him Frodo, with your leave; but it's not him, it's her. Though as pretty a maidchild as anyone could hope for, taking after Rose more than me, luckily. So we don't know what to do.'
Word: maidchildren Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of maidchild Labels: form-of, plural
Word: compensatory lengthening Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɒmpɛnˈseɪtəɹi ˈlɛŋ(k)θ(ə)nɪŋ/, /kɒmˈpɛnsətəɹi-/, /kəmˈpɛnsəˌtɔɹi ˈlɛŋ(k)θənɪŋ/ 1. The lengthening of a vowel sound which occurs when a following consonant is lost, regarded as an extreme form of fusion; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: uncountable
Word: compensatorily lengthen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from compensatory lengthening. 1. To lengthen (a vowel) upon dropping the consonant that had followed it; to cause to undergo compensatory lengthening. Labels: transitive
Word: cold-cuts Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cold cuts. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
Word: sign function Part of Speech: noun 1. The signum function.
Word: sign functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sign function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: floor function Part of Speech: noun 1. A function that maps a real number to the largest integer that is not greater than it.
Word: floor functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of floor function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ceiling function Part of Speech: noun 1. A function that maps a real number to the smallest integer that is no smaller than it.
Word: ceiling functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ceiling function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ceil function Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of ceiling function.
Word: ceil functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ceil function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: three-milk cake Part of Speech: noun 1. A pastel de tres leches.
Word: Melayu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Malay Melayu. 1. The Malay ethnic group. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: chaparejos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish. 1. chaps (trousers) Labels: plural, plural-only Example: In the store the long shelves upon one side held dry-goods, while upon the opposite shelves a miscellany of groceries was displayed; toward the rear was the storekeeper's assortment of hardware near a counter piled high with sweaters, boots, chaparejos, all jumbled hopelessly. Example: To protect our legs we wore over the trousers heavy leather chaparejos, sometimes of bear or buffalo hide.
Word: chapparal Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of chaparral. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: The road wound onward toward the middle Sierras, thickly wooded with oak and digger pine, and, of course, the chapparal, and towering to the clouds rose the mighty serrated peaks of the range, where magnificent forests of pine, fir, and cedar swept upwards to the limits of eternal snow. Example: Nothing in the lucid page of Thucydides nor in the terse commentaries of Caesar, nothing in the vivid narrative of Napier or the glowing battle scenes of Allison, can surpass the story how, spurning the chapparal and the barbed wire, pressing their rifles to their throbbing hearts, toiling up the heights, and all the while the machine guns and the Mausers mowing the jungle as if with a mighty reaper, on and yet right on, they won the fiery crests, and Santiago fell.
Word: charlatanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From charlatan + -ic. 1. Charlatanical. Example: Of the principal character thus introduced (the celebrated and graceful, but charlatanic, Bolingbroke) I still think that my sketch, upon the whole, is substantially just. Example: [I] Vast and overwhelming, however, as the ills which follow in the train of over producing power, in the world material and manufacturing, they sink into utter insignificance--for magnitude, they are as Highgate Hill to sky-enveloped Chimborazo of eternal snow--in comparison with that crowding crush, that prodigious overflow, of charlatanic genius, in the world physical and spiritual, which blocks up every highway and byway, swarms in every circle, roars in every market-place, or thunders in each senate of the realm.
Word: chawnce Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of chance. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: "Very well, Sergeant," said Chippo meekly; "it'll give me a chawnce to make my complaint to the orficer." Example: The onlookers thought that Mrs. Trudge was about to take her innocent offspring to the House of Commons, and those out of hat-pin range murmured, "Shime," "Give the kids a chawnce."
Word: cheare Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of cheer. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: It was one of the state maxims of this philosophic monarch, in his advice to his son, "To allure the common people to a common amitie among themselves; and that certain daies in the yeere should be appointed for delighting the people with public spectacles of all honest games and exercise of arms; making playes and lawful games in Maie, and good cheare at Christmas; as also for convening of neighbours, for entertaining friendship and heartliness, by honest feasting and merriness; so that the sabbothes be kept holie, and no unlawful pastime be used. Example: With chaunge of cheare the seeming simple maid Let fall her eyen, as shamefast to the earth, 240 And yeelding soft, in that she nought gain-said, So forth they rode, he feining seemely merth, And she coy lookes: so dainty they say maketh derth.
Word: cheare Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of cheer. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: contractional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From contraction + -al. 1. of or related to contraction Labels: not-comparable Example: Removal of SCLM can be accomplished by thermal erosion associated with a rising plume head, by extensional thinning of the lithosphere (and associated mantle upwelling), or by processes related to contractional tectonics [e.g., foundering of lithosphere during thickening, peeling of lithosphere, shearing away of lithosphere during shallow subduction, or erosion of lithosphere induced by flow in the mantle wedge above a subducting slab (1-5, 7 )]. Example: Bars show principal horizontal stresses; black bars correspond to contractional stress and white bars to extensional stress.
Word: Jacky Howes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Jacky Howe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Jackie Howes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Jackie Howe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Jackie Howe Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Jacky Howe. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: misbelievers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misbeliever Labels: form-of, plural
Word: morrion Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of morion (“helmet”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: childie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From child + -ie. 1. an affectionate name for a child Example: Now, don't cry about it, childie!" as a big tear splashed down Ingred's dress. Example: "And now, childie, about your praying.
Word: choller Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of choler. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: In the meane season, I counsailed his wife to absent her selfe at some of her Neighbours houses, till the choller of her husband was pacified, lest he should be moved against her, as he was against the young man.
Word: chymic Part of Speech: adj 1. chemic Labels: obsolete Example: Till lastly, when by chymic jolt / And sheer corrosion of the thatch, / What time the withering woodlands moult / My love shall moult to match, / And all those curls I loved to beg / For keepsakes on the earth be strewed, / Leaving her cranium like an egg / Incomparably nude. Example: Less shone the tresses Egypt's princess wore, / Which sweet Callimachus so sung before; / Here courtly trifles set the world at odds, / Belles war with beaux, and whims descend for gods, / The new machines in names of ridicule, / Mock the grave frenzy of the chymic fool.
Word: chymic Part of Speech: noun 1. chemic Labels: obsolete Example: The subtle chymic can divest / And strip the creature naked, till he find / The callow principles within their nest
Word: cistus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Cistus. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪstəs/ 1. A rockrose; a plant of the genus Cistus. Example: drawing his huge ungainly form from the soft cushion of moss, where the daisies and golden cistus flowers had shut their eyes for the night Example: Everywhere in spring the ground is carpeted with a profusion of wild-flowers, cistus and brown orchis, narcissus and the scarlet anemone; sometimes the forest scenery sweeps away, and leaves us among olive-grounds and orange-gardens arranged in formal, picturesque rows.
Word: residue class Part of Speech: noun 1. A coset of an ideal of the ring of integers.
Word: emmure Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic form of immure (“to wall up”). Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: emmures Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of emmure Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: smart cookie Part of Speech: noun 1. An individual regarded as clever, astute, or judicious. Labels: informal Example: “Who is it, out there.” “I’m lost on the road can you tell me where I am.” “You’re right here, stranger. You got me out of bed. Clear off before I sprinkle your ass with buckshot.” “It’s a dire emergency.” “Don’t try to be a smart cookee stranger.” Example: Newland, lead cook and a smart cookie, would find some way to feed them if they got stranded ashore.
Word: smart cookies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of smart cookie Labels: form-of, plural