nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: cartilege Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of cartilage. Labels: alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: risquée Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French risquée. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪskeɪ/, /ɹɪsˈkeɪ/, /ɹiː-/, /ɹəˈskeɪ/, /ɹɪ-/ 1. Used when referring to a woman: feminine of risqué Labels: rare Example: Therefore he placed along with this couple who had become one, Margaret, the gamesome lady's-maid, who is risquée in her talk with her mistress, and has Borachio as a lover—so anxious is [William] Shakespeare for variety of character and of life. Example: The housewives of Siena could not believe that such a woman could be very important in the world; but beyond the limits of her native town, in Florence, in Rome, Catherine was already famous for her gifts of prophecy. A woman of strong will, rough and risquée of speech, she declared herself appointed of God to achieve the great purpose of her time—the return of the Holy See to Rome.
Word: smoggier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of smoggy: more smoggy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: smoggiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of smoggy: most smoggy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: cy-près Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of cy pres. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: like water Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Abundantly; consumed rapidly or found in great quantity. Example: He throws great parties: the beer flows like water. Example: We will invade the village, and the blood will flow like water.
Word: isolant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English isolate Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English isolant From isolate + -ant. 1. That which is isolated from something else. Example: Monodictys austrinia was previously reported as an isolant from soil at McMurdo (Tubaki and Asano, 1965), an obviously contaminated area.
Word: cocaïne Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of cocaine. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: Cocaïne is prepared by digesting coca leaves with 85 per cent. alcohol containing a small quantity of sulphuric acid, mixing the expressed mass with milk of lime, neutralising the filtrate with sulphuric acid, evaporating off the alcohol, mixing the residue with water, precipitating the resulting yellow-brown solution with carbonate of sodium, treating the brown precipitate of impure cocaïne with ether, and evaporating. Cocaïne then remains, partly amorphous, partly crystalline, and may be purified by repeated treatment with alcohol. Example: Cocaïne.—Let us mention, finally, cocaïne as the most recent mydriatric we possess.
Word: c u l8r Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative spelling of cul8r. Labels: Internet, alt-of, alternative
Word: Cauchy distribution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Augustin Cauchy. 1. A symmetric continuous probability distribution with fat tails, with probability density function that is
Word: standard normal distribution Part of Speech: noun 1. The normal distribution with a mean of zero and a variance of one.
Word: torchons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of torchon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: information entropy Part of Speech: noun 1. A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable; a measure of the average information content one is missing when one does not know the value of the random variable (usually in units such as bits); the amount of information (measured in, say, bits) contained per average instance of a character in a stream of characters. Labels: uncountable
Word: information theory Part of Speech: noun 1. A branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information sent over a communication channel, disregarding the meaning of the sent messages, exemplified by the noisy-channel coding theorem. Labels: uncountable
Word: diffusant Part of Speech: noun 1. A substance that diffuses through something.
Word: diffusons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diffuson Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ajoite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the type locality: New Cornelia mine in Ajo, Arizona, USA Ajo + -ite 1. A turquoise mineral with triclinic crystals, (K,Na)Cu₇²⁺AlSi₉O₂₄(OH)₆·3H₂O. Labels: uncountable
Word: restant Part of Speech: adj 1. remaining; persistent Labels: not-comparable
Word: transportant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-téh₂ Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂ Proto-Italic *portā Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Proto-Italic *portāō Latin portō Latin trānsportāreder. Old French transporterbor. Middle English transporten English transport Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English transportant From transport + -ant. 1. A substance involved in transportation.
Word: home equity Part of Speech: noun 1. The monetary value of a home less the value of any encumbrances, such as liens or mortgages. Labels: uncountable
Word: adamites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of adamite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: culminant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French culminant. 1. being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude 2. predominant or highest quality, power, greatness etc. Labels: broadly Example: culminant point
Word: horsedrawn Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of horse-drawn. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: shiver me timbers Part of Speech: intj 1. A sarcastic remark indicating that the speaker is not scared. Labels: idiomatic, informal 2. Alternative form of shiver my timbers. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: commodity market Part of Speech: noun 1. A market where raw or primary products are exchanged.
Word: développé Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French développé. 1. A movement in which the leg is lifted to cou-de-pied or retiré and then fully extended outward, passing through attitude.
Word: développés Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of développé Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aventures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aventure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spatial unmasking Part of Speech: noun 1. The localization of sound by angular sources. Labels: uncountable
Word: rigole Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of regal (“type of organ”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rigoles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rigole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arrose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French arroser. 1. To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you. Example: Who from the commencement of his reign spared not the kings his enemies, who never saw rest from battle and fight, who crused like hesbet the lands and their rulers; the four cardinal points were arrosed with blood.
Word: arroses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of arrose Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: arrosions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arrosion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: growth media Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of growth medium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: culture media Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of culture medium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: douma Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of duma (“Russian legislative assembly”). Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: an angel passes Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used to denote an awkward pause. Example: There was a momentary silence. Mrs. Oliver said: "Is it twenty-to or twenty past? An angel passing . . . My feet aren't crossed—it must be a black angel!" Example: As Case was picking up his beer, one of those strange instants of silence descended, as though a hundred unrelated conversations had simultaneously arrived at the same pause. […] Ratz grunted. “An angel passed.”
Word: impersonification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English im- English personification English impersonification From im- + personification. 1. the act of impersonating; impersonation Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 2. personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: cogitant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin cōgitans, present active participle of cōgitō (“think”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒd͡ʒɪtənt/ 1. thinking, that thinks Labels: rare
Word: soja Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊdʒə/ 1. Dated form of soya. Labels: alt-of, dated, uncountable
Word: dayereh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Persian دایره (dâyere), from Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira). Doublet of daerah. 1. A large Central Asian frame drum with jingles attached, a type of tambourine.
Word: schooldays Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of schoolday Labels: form-of, plural
Word: schooldays Part of Speech: noun 1. The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth. Labels: uncountable Example: I can hardly remember my schooldays now that I have reached middle age. Example: Baſſ. In my ſchoole dayes, when I had loſt one ſhaft I ſhot his fellow of the ſelfeſame flight The ſelfeſame way, with more aduiſed watch To finde the other forth, and by aduenturing both, I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, […]
Word: decarbonatization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English carbonatization English decarbonatization From de- + carbonatization. 1. Any process that removes carbonate minerals from rock. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: impoundment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English impound Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English impoundment From impound + -ment. 1. A body of water impounded within an enclosure, such as a reservoir. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of impounding. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The state of being impounded. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: insular Spaniard Part of Speech: noun 1. A person of Spanish descent who lives in the Philippines. Example: The first thing the separatists desired was to get rid of the Peninsu[l]ar Spaniard; the next to go would have been the insular Spaniard, then the Spanish mestizo, then the chinee half-caste and the chinee; after which would come the gradual extinction of the various tribes. Example: Within the Spanish society, a great difference evolved between the Insular Spaniards, sent over for different periods of time from Spain, to serve as officials, etc., and the "native" Spaniards, the Creoles.
Word: subprogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English program English subprogram From sub- + program. 1. A program contained within a larger program.
Word: granulocytes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of granulocyte Labels: form-of, plural
Word: balise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French balise. Pronunciation: /bəˈliːz/ 1. An electronic beacon or transponder placed between the rails of a railway. Example: Akers claims that ETCS signalling renewals are roughly 50% of the cost of conventional renewals. If nothing else, this is an important reason for NR to be keen to switch. "There's no rocket science or magic in that, there's just physically less to deliver," he says. "There are no trackside signals. Yes, you have balises and marker boards, and you still have train detection, but by and large there is simply less to deliver.
Word: responsory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English responsorie, from Late Latin respōnsōrium, from Latin respōnsus (“answered”), from the verb respondeō (“to answer”). Compare respond. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈspɒn.s(ə)ɹi/, /ɹɪˈspɑn.sə.ɹi/ 1. A chant or anthem recited after a reading in a church service; a respond. 2. A book of liturgical responses; a responsorial.
Word: responsory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English responsorie, from Late Latin respōnsōrium, from Latin respōnsus (“answered”), from the verb respondeō (“to answer”). Compare respond. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈspɒn.s(ə)ɹi/, /ɹɪˈspɑn.sə.ɹi/ 1. Containing or making answer; answering. Labels: not-comparable Example: that Reponsory Letter from His Majesty
Word: responsories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of responsory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: virtueless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English vertulees; equivalent to virtue + -less. 1. Lacking virtue or goodness. 2. Lacking efficacy.
Word: descendence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French descendance, or descend + -ence. 1. The act of descending; descent.
Word: I'ma Part of Speech: contraction 1. Alternative form of Imma. Labels: alt-of, alternative, contraction
Word: mockable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English mock Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English mockable From mock + -able. 1. Able to be mocked or ridiculed. Example: Mocking the men who hurt us, as mockable as they are, starts to feel like acquiescing to the most condescending of catcalls: “You look better when you smile.” 2. Of which a mockup or prototype may be made. Example: To run tests on a mockable version of android.jar, you would need to introduce product flavors, which we covered in Chapter 4.
Word: murrion Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of morion. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: murrion Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of murrain. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The fold ſtands empty, in the drovvned fiend, / And crovves are fatted vvith the murrion flocke. Example: [A] red murrion ath thy Iades trickes.
Word: executory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English executory, from Latin execūtōrius. By surface analysis, execute + -ory. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɛk.jʊ.tə.ɹi/, /ɪɡˈzɛk.jʊ.tɹi/ 1. Of or pertaining to administration or execution. Labels: not-comparable Example: An executory interest is a future interest in a grantee which will not automatically become possessory and which follows a prior estate which will not terminate inevitably. 2. Yet to be completed; not fully executed, performed or carried out; lacking in execution, unfulfilled; so, yet to take effect. Labels: not-comparable
Word: needly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English needely, neodliche, from Old English nēodlīċe (“eagerly, earnestly, carefully, zealously, diligently, sedulously; greatly”); equivalent to need (“desire”) + -ly. Cognate with Old Saxon niudlīko (“zealously, carefully”), German niedlich (“desirable, appealing, lovely, cute”). Pronunciation: /ˈniːd.li/ 1. Zealously; carefully; earnestly. Labels: archaic
Word: needly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English needely, nedelich, from Old English *nīedlīċe (“necessarily”), from nīedlīc (“necessary”); equivalent to need (“necessity, need”) + -ly. Merged with Etymology 1 above. Cognate with Middle Dutch nodelike, Middle Low German nōtliken, Middle High German nōtliche. Pronunciation: /ˈniːd.li/ 1. Necessarily; of necessity. Labels: archaic Example: Or if sower woe delights in fellowship, And needly will be rankt with other griefes 2. Urgently. Labels: archaic
Word: needly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-European *-tlom Proto-Indo-European *(s)néh₁tlom Proto-Germanic *nēþlą Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Germanic *-ō Proto-Germanic *nēþlō Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu Old English nǣdl Middle English nedle English needle Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English needly From needle + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈniː.dəl.i/, /ˈniːd.li/ 1. Like a needle or needles. Labels: informal Example: a needly horn Example: needly beard
Word: neglectingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English neglecting Middle English -ly English -ly English neglectingly From neglecting + -ly. 1. Carelessly; heedlessly.
Word: nighted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From night (“noun sense”) + -ed. 1. Dark; clouded. Example: Queen Gertrude: Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off. Example: To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law—to be linked with the vast outside—to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate—surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity! 2. Overtaken by night; belated.
Word: nighted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts Proto-Germanic *nahts Proto-West Germanic *naht Proto-West Germanic *nahti Old English niht Middle English nyght English night English -ed English nighted From night (“verb sense”) + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of night Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: monotonically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English monotonic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English monotonically From monotonic + -ally. Pronunciation: /ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪkli/, /ˌmɑnəˈtɑnɪkli/, /ˌmɔnəˈtɔnɪkli/, /ˌmɒnəˈtɒnəkli/, [ˌmɔ̟nəˈtɔ̟nəkli] 1. In a monotonic manner, pertaining to the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. Labels: not-comparable 2. In a monotonic manner, of a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nourisher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nourish + -er. 1. One who, or that which, nourishes. Example: Another book Kalpadrukosh mentions hornbills as "priyatmaj" meaning nourisher and regaler of his mate.
Word: nourishers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nourisher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oathable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English oath Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English oathable From oath + -able. 1. Capable of having an oath administered to one: fit to be sworn. Labels: not-comparable Example: You're not oathable, Altho' I know you'll swear Into strong shudders th' immortal gods
Word: recursiveness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English recursive Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English recursiveness From recursive + -ness. 1. The quality of being recursive.
Word: offendress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From offender + -ess. 1. A woman who offends; a female offender
Word: offendresses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of offendress Labels: form-of, plural
Word: opposeless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English oppose Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English opposeless From oppose + -less. 1. Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible.
Word: otherwhere Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From other + where. Compare German anderswo. Pronunciation: /ˈʌðə(ɹ)wɛː(ɹ)/ 1. Synonym of somewhere else: elsewhere, in or to some other place. Labels: not-comparable, regional Example: And fared like a furious wyld Beare, Whoſe whelpes are ſtolne away, ſhe being otherwhere. Example: Come, Adrian. I think we should be otherwhere.
Word: peradventures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of peradventure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pioned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Shakespearean. 1. A word of disputed meaning; perhaps, abounding in marsh marigolds. Labels: nonce-word, not-comparable Example: Thy bankes with pioned, and twilled brims
Word: playfellows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of playfellow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pomewater Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of sweet, juicy apple.
Word: pomewaters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pomewater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pontic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pont- (“bridge”) + -ic (“of, pertaining to”). 1. A false tooth that forms part of a dental bridge.
Word: pontic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin pont- (“bridge”) + -ic (“of, pertaining to”). 1. Relating to the pons. Labels: not-comparable
Word: presagers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of presager Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pricksong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prick + song. 1. Music that is sung from notation written with dots or points, as opposed to by ear; sheet music. Labels: historical Example: Well said, wench, and the prick-song we use shall be our husbands'. 2. A melody performed as a counterpoint to a plainsong. Labels: historical
Word: pricksongs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pricksong Labels: form-of, plural
Word: proface Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle French bon prou vous fasse (“may [it] do you much good”). 1. A familiar salutation or welcome offered by a host before a meal or drinks are served. Labels: obsolete Example: Sweet sir, sit; I’ll be with you anon; most sweet sir, Master Page, good Master Page, sit. Proface! What you want in meat, we’ll have in drink. Example: Gloria deo, sirs proface, Attend me now whilst I say grace.
Word: game of gotcha Part of Speech: noun 1. A practice intended to ensnare somebody. Labels: informal Example: Late fees and credit rating are an elaborate game of gotcha.
Word: radial symmetry Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of symmetry in which identical parts are arranged in a circular fashion around a central axis. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A starfish has radial symmetry; a butterfly does not.
Word: radial symmetries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of radial symmetry Labels: form-of, plural, rare
Word: radial tire Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of vehicle tire incorporating reinforcing cords distributed radially relative to the hub (at 90 degrees to the direction of travel).
Word: radial tires Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of radial tire Labels: form-of, plural
Word: radial tyre Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of radial tire. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative
Word: radial tyres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of radial tyre Labels: form-of, plural
Word: radiable Part of Speech: adj 1. Transparent to radiant energy, especially X-rays. Capable of being penetrated and examined by rays or waves.
Word: radiant energy Part of Speech: noun 1. Energy in a form that can radiate, generally electromagnetic energy.
Word: radiant energies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of radiant energy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rechecking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of recheck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rechecking Part of Speech: noun 1. A second or subsequent checking; reverification.
Word: pendragon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Pendragon, borrowed from Welsh pendragon (“chief war leader”), from pen (“head; chief; principal, supreme”) (ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom (“head”)) + dragon (“dragon; commander, war leader”) (from Latin dracō (“serpent, snake; dragon”), from Ancient Greek δρᾰ́κων (drắkōn, “serpent; dragon”), possibly from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “to see, see clearly (in the sense of something staring)”), from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ- (“to see”)). Compare Late Latin īnsulāris dracō (literally “dragon of the island”), used by the monk Saint Gildas (c. 500 – c. 570 AD) in De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain) as an epithet of Maelgwn Gwynedd (died c. 547), the king of Gwynedd. Pronunciation: /pɛnˈdɹæɡ(ə)n/, /ˈpɛnˌdɹæɡ(ə)n/ 1. Also capitalized as Pendragon: a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs: chief war leader, chieftain, dictator, despot or king. Example: [I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter. Example: The regal dominion, then, held by the sovereigns of Britain in these ages seems most properly described as an elective monarchy made hereditary; or, to take the converse of the proposition, as a hereditary monarchy requiring to be confirmed at the succession of each monarch by a popular election. […] There was this essential difference, as now in the case of the kings paramount, or pendragons^* of Britain, traces of succession by descent are noticeable. […] Thus we find in [Julius] Cæsar’s Commentaries, Gaulish Wars, vii, 4, that Celtillus, a pendragon or leader general of the Gauls, lost his life because he had endeavoured to change his delegated power into an “imperium,” that is, to make it more permanent and settled. [Footnote: ^* It is common to call the sovereigns of Britain, like Cassibelan, Uther, Arthur, and others, ‘pendragons,’ because Uther Pendragon, one that was famous among them, was so called.[…]]
Word: pendragons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pendragon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: proditor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōditor. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒ.dɪ.tə/, /ˈpɹɑd.ɪ.tɚ/ 1. A traitor. Labels: obsolete
Word: proditors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of proditor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preordinance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English ordinance English preordinance From pre- + ordinance. 1. Antecedent decree or determination; a rule previously established.
Word: preordinances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of preordinance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: protectorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English protector Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English protectorship From protector + -ship. 1. The office of a protector or regent; protectorate. Example: c.1754–61, David Hume, The History of England: From the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, 1823, Volume 1, page 409, Henry, being so far recovered from his distemper as to carry the appearance of exercising the royal power; they moved him to resume his authority [1455], to annul the protectorship of the duke, to release Somerset from the Tower,²³ and to commit the administration into the hands of that nobleman. Example: The one Irish provision which would have thrown the most light on Piccolomini's role would have been that to Tuam, the only one of the four metropolitan sees to fall vacant during Piccolomini's protectorship.
Word: protectorships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of protectorship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pulpiter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pulpit + -er. 1. A preacher. Labels: obsolete
Word: pulpiters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pulpiter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: questant Part of Speech: noun 1. Somebody who undertakes a quest. Labels: archaic Example: Not to wooe honour, but to wed it, when The brauest questant shrinkes: finde what you seeke, [T]hat fame may cry you loud: I say farewell.
Word: questants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of questant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rackers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of racker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: raker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rake + -er. 1. A person who uses a rake. 2. A machine for raking grain or hay. 3. A gun positioned so as to rake an enemy ship with gunfire.
Word: rakers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of raker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rampallian Part of Speech: noun 1. A mean wretch; a low person. Labels: obsolete Example: Away, you scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian!
Word: rampallians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rampallian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ranker Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English rank Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Germanic *-izô Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō Proto-Germanic *-ōzô Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō Old English -ra Middle English -ere English -er English ranker From rank + -er (comparative suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæ̞ŋkə/, /ˈɹæ̝ŋkɚ/, /ˈɹeɪ̯ŋkɚ/, /ˈɹɛ̃ŋkɚ/ 1. comparative form of rank: more rank Labels: comparative, form-of Example: As when a lion, rushing from his den, Amidst the plain of some wide-water’d fen, (Where numerous oxen, as at ease they feed, At large expatiate o’er the ranker mead)
Word: ranker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English rank 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 ranker From rank + -er (agent noun suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæ̞ŋkə/, /ˈɹæ̝ŋkɚ/, /ˈɹeɪ̯ŋkɚ/, /ˈɹɛ̃ŋkɚ/ 1. One who ranks things, or arranges them in ranks. Labels: countable 2. A kind of soil developed over non-calcareous material, usually rock. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A common soldier. Labels: countable 4. One with a specified rank. Labels: countable Example: But the difference between the first ranker Maharashtra and the second ranker Tamil Nadu was so sharp that Tamil Nadu's value added was just 40 per cent of that of Maharashtra. Example: Mike, as an adult chimpanzee, was a low ranker.
Word: rankest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of rank: most rank Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: ransomless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English ransom Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English ransomless From ransom + -less. 1. Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.
Word: ratifiers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ratifier Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ratsbane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rat's + bane. Compare henbane. 1. Rat poison; white arsenic. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Gadfly’s venom, fifty times distilled, Is mingled with the vomit of the Leech, In due proportion, and black ratsbane, which That very Rat, who, like the Pontic tyrant, Nurtures himself on poison, dare not touch;— Example: Before him set the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and rat's bane.
Word: rawer Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of raw: more raw Labels: comparative, form-of Example: Some tracks even rely solely on electric guitars and drums, giving them a rawer, demolike feel that puts the burden of success squarely on the singer's shoulders.
Word: rawest Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɹɔː.ɪst/, /ˈɹɔː.ɹɪst/ 1. superlative form of raw: most raw Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: razorable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English razor Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English razorable From razor + -able. 1. Fit to be shaved. Labels: obsolete Example: […] till new-born chins Be rough and razorable […]
Word: razure Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An erasure; a change made by erasing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rebeck Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of rebec. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: recanter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From recant + -er. 1. One who recants. Example: It is not merely that the recanters significantly outnumbered the martyrs. They were also a much more exalted company. None of those executed for heresy in this period were religious leaders of any great significance[…]
Word: recanters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of recanter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reconciler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reconcile + -er. 1. One who reconciles. Example: Divines […] are chosen as the ministers of mercy, and the great reconcilers of the world[…]
Word: reconcilers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reconciler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rectorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English rector Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English rectorship From rector + -ship. 1. The office or rank of a rector. 2. Government; guidance. Labels: obsolete
Word: reeky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English reky (also rechy), equivalent to reek + -y. 1. Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul. 2. Emitting a reek; smelly.
Word: pigmentary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English pigment Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English pigmentary From pigment + -ary. 1. Of or pertaining to pigment. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of a colour, produced by pigments. Labels: not-comparable
Word: regentship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English regent Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English regentship From regent + -ship. 1. The office of a regent; regency.
Word: relume Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English (il)lume English relume From re- + (il)lume. 1. To rekindle; to relight (literally or figuratively). Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Aratus, who a while relum'd the Soul / Of fondly lingering Liberty in Greece […] . Example: Then I bethought me of the glorious doom / Of those who sternly struggle to relume / The lamp of Hope o’er man's bewildered lot; […] 2. To make clear or bright again. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: [H]e opened his eyes again; the spreading film retired, and love relumed them—he gave a look—it was never forgotten.
Word: reposal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English repose Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English reposal From repose + -al. 1. The act or state of reposing. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. That on which one reposes. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: revengement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From revenge + -ment, or re- + vengement. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɛndʒmənt/ 1. Revenge. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: With that he drives at them with dreadfull might, / Both in remembrance of his friends late harme, / And in revengement of his owne despight […]
Word: revenger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From revenge + -er. 1. One who revenges. Example: [H]e is the miniſter of God, a reuenger to execute wrath vpon him that doeth euill.
Word: revengers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of revenger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rewarder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reward + -er. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈwɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)/ 1. One who rewards. Example: To the only rewarder and most just poiser of virtuous merits, the most honourably renowned Nobody, bounteous Maecenas of Poetry and Lord Protector of oppressed innocence, […]
Word: rewarders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rewarder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sailmaker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *sayl-makere, equivalent to sail + maker. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sailmoaker, West Frisian seilmakker, Dutch zeilmaker, German Low German Seilmaker, German Segelmacher, Danish sejlmager, Swedish segelmakare. 1. One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. Example: I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars. 2. An officer in the United States navy who takes charge of the sails. Labels: US
Word: sailmakers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sailmaker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: salter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sel- Proto-Indo-European *-yétor Proto-Indo-European *sl̥yétor Proto-Italic *saljō?? Latin saliō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin saltusbor. English salt English -er English salter From salt + -er. 1. One who makes, sells, or applies salt. 2. A trout leaving salt water to ascend a stream.
Word: salters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of salter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: samp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Massachusett nasamp, nasaump (“softened with water”); compare suppawn. Pronunciation: /samp/ 1. An article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: 1675, The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 341, I asked him to give me a little of his Broth, or Water they [Horses feet] were boiling in; he took a dish, and gave me one spoonful of Samp, and bid me take as much of the Broth as I would. Example: The meal, coarse or fine, is then used for samps, mushes, or batters, and cakes, thick or thin, and of many varieties and degrees of wholesomeness.
Word: scrippage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scrip + -age; probably coined by Shakespeare. 1. The contents of a scrip, or wallet. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage. Example: I soon found I should be knocked entirely to pieces by the graze and jam of the boxes and scrippage, as the tide of carrier-ponies crushed past me, if I did not look sharply out and warn them off with my whip.
Word: diamond ring Part of Speech: noun 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see diamond, ring. Example: If that mocking bird don’t^([sic]) sing // Daddy’s going to buy me a diamond ring. // If that diamond ring don’t^([sic]) shine // Daddy’s going to buy me a bottle of wine. 2. By extension, an engagement ring, usually one given by a man to a woman. Example: If it were not a tradition that a woman shall accept from her fiance a diamond ring which the idiot cannot, in all probability, afford to give her — well, women would not accept them. Example: “Delvin, a diamond ring means you are engaged to be married. I barely know you.” 3. An optical phenomenon visible during a moment of a solar eclipse when only a tiny part of the sun is not obscured by the moon, shining like a diamond in the ring of the sun’s corona.
Word: septentrion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English septentrion, septentrione, septemtryones, septemtrioun, from Latin septentriō, septentriōnem (“the northern regions, the north”) directly and through Old French septentrïon, septemtrion, from septentriōnēs (“the seven stars near the north pole”) (called Charles's Wain, or the Great Bear, also those called the Little Bear; properly, the “seven plow oxen”); from septem (“seven”) + triō, originally a plow ox (compare triōnēs, from its plural). Cognate with French septentrion, Middle English septemtrioun. 1. The north or northern regions. Labels: obsolete Example: Thou art as opposite to every good / As the Antipodes are unto us, / Or as the south to the septentrion.
Word: septentrion Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English septentrion, septentrione, septemtryones, septemtrioun, from Latin septentriō, septentriōnem (“the northern regions, the north”) directly and through Old French septentrïon, septemtrion, from septentriōnēs (“the seven stars near the north pole”) (called Charles's Wain, or the Great Bear, also those called the Little Bear; properly, the “seven plow oxen”); from septem (“seven”) + triō, originally a plow ox (compare triōnēs, from its plural). Cognate with French septentrion, Middle English septemtrioun. 1. Of or relating to the north; northern. Labels: obsolete Example: From cold septentrion blaſts
Word: shearman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English schereman, scherman; equivalent to shear + -man. 1. One whose occupation is to shear cloth. 2. One whose occupation is to shear sheep.
Word: shearmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shearman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English schon, shon, shone, schone, shoon, schoon, schoone, from Old English sċōn (“shoes”, dative plural) and Old English sċōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural), equivalent to shoe + -en. 1. plural of shoe Labels: archaic, dialectal, form-of, plural Example: If ever thou gave either hosen or shun Sitt thee downe and putt them on But if hosen nor shoon thou never gave nean Example: At this sight merry Robin laughed till the tears stood on his cheeks, for, as though to make the sight still more droll, the rider wore great clogs upon his feet instead of shoon, the soles whereof were made of wood half a palm’s breadth in thickness, and studded all over with great nails.
Word: shrow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See shrew. Pronunciation: /ʃɹəʊ/ 1. Alternative form of shrew. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Example: What Hawke can sit, in peace for carraine crow? What tongue can scape, the skolding of a shrow. Example: For Neptune ioyned with Pallas, and Iuno Dame that shrowe, Had enterprisde to bind his hands, & down the heauens him throwe.
Word: shrow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from shroud. Pronunciation: /ʃɹaʊ/ 1. To hide or cover; to shroud. Labels: obsolete Example: Dense fogs followed; and early one morning, the city was shrowed in almost Egyptian darkness. Example: Neither is there any doubt, but that many Rulers over Cities and countreys, are over ruled by their wives, but as these women knowe howe in time and place, to bee obedient to their husbands, so there are some such restive jades, that they will not at any time be commaunded, and by their importunities, exclamations, scolding, and brawling, continually withstande their husbands willes, and make a mock at them, playing with them a thousand shrowed prankes, which caused a certayne King to say, that they were very fooles that would followe their wife, running away from them.
Word: shrows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shrow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shrows Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of shrow Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: slanderers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of slanderer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: slubber Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare Danish slubbre (“to swallow, to sup up”), and English slabber. Pronunciation: /ˈslʌbɚ/, /ˈslʌbə/, /ˈslʊbə/, /ˈslʊbəɹ/, /ˈslʌbəɹ/ 1. To do (something) hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily. Labels: transitive Example: [H]e [Antonio] anſvvered, do not ſo, / Slubber not buſineſs for my ſake, Baſſanio, / But ſtay the very riping of the time 2. To cover or daub (something) carelessly with a substance; to stain. Labels: also, figuratively, transitive Example: [T]here is no art that hath bin more canker'd in her principles, more ſoyl'd, and ſlubber'd vvith aphoriſming pedantry then the art of policie; […] 3. To slobber. Labels: intransitive Example: It grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber.
Word: slubber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Danish slubbre (“to swallow, to sup up”), and English slabber. Pronunciation: /ˈslʌbɚ/, /ˈslʌbə/, /ˈslʊbə/, /ˈslʊbəɹ/, /ˈslʌbəɹ/ 1. A person who, or a machine which, slubs.
Word: sneap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is a variant of snape, from Middle English snaipen (“to injure; of sleet or snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile”) [and other forms], from Old Norse sneypa (“to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage”), from Proto-Germanic *snaupijaną, from Proto-Germanic *snūpaną, *snūbaną (“to cut, snap”); further origin unknown. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /sniːp/, /snip/ 1. To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something). Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive 2. To check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand. Labels: UK, also, archaic, dialectal, figuratively, transitive Example: Nay, I am gone. I'm a man quickly sneaped. Example: That vvee doe enough hate our corruptions, vvhen (at our ſharpeſt) vve doe but gently ſneape them, […] 3. To offend (someone); to put (someone's) nose out of joint. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal, informal, transitive Example: Some days after he, in a civil manner, sent a captain with them and other soldiers to Owthorpe, to inquire into their misdemeanours before their faces; which being confirmed to him, and he beginning to rebuke them, they set him at light, even before Mrs. Hutchinson's face, and made the poor man retire sneaped to his colonel; Example: And moreover she was convinced that her mother, secretly very flattered and delighted by the visit, was adopting a derisive attitude in order to 'show off' before her daughter. Parents are thus ingenuous! But she was so shocked and sneaped that she found it more convenient to say nothing.
Word: sneap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is a variant of snape, from Middle English snaipen (“to injure; of sleet or snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile”) [and other forms], from Old Norse sneypa (“to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage”), from Proto-Germanic *snaupijaną, from Proto-Germanic *snūpaną, *snūbaną (“to cut, snap”); further origin unknown. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /sniːp/, /snip/ 1. A rebuke; a reprimand. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal, obsolete, transitive Example: My Lord I will not vndergoe this ſnepe vvithout reply, […]
Word: somewhither Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English somwhether; equivalent to some + whither. 1. To some indeterminate place; to some place or other; to somewhere Labels: archaic, literary, not-comparable Example: See, Lucius, see how much she makes of thee / Somewhither would she have thee go with her. Example: 1884, Oliver Wendell Holmes, "In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire", Memorial Day speech, 30 May 1884, Keene, New Hampshire, USA, Speech delivered before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic All that is required of you is that you should go somewhither as hard as ever you can.
Word: soothers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of soother Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sourer Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of sour: more sour Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: sourer Part of Speech: noun 1. That which makes something sour. Labels: rare
Word: sourest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of sour: most sour Labels: form-of, superlative