nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: aortoiliac Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aorto- + iliac. 1. Of the aorta and iliac arteries. Labels: not-comparable
Word: arteriopathy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arterio- + -pathy. 1. Any disease of the arteries.
Word: arteriopathies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arteriopathy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hunormous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of huge + enormous. 1. Of a gigantic size. Labels: informal Example: They had made her a hunormous platter at the ceramics store with all their handprints on it […] Example: There's a hunormous display of chocolate bars near the tables set up for the buffet.
Word: owlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of owling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dreamsign Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dream + sign. 1. Something seen in a dream that can be used by the dreamer to recognise that they are dreaming. Example: Watch for a dreamsign, something that wouldn't be there if you were awake. Example: Once dreamsigns are identified, they can assist a person in becoming aware that he or she is experiencing a dream and, thus, lead to a state of lucidity.
Word: dreamsigns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dreamsign Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bonetta Part of Speech: noun 1. The Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda. Example: On the morning of this day we caught five bonettas, being the only fish taken since leaving England, excepting several flying fish, which at times flew aboard during the night, in their endeavours to escape from their pursuers, the bonettas and dolphins, whose principial food they constitute.
Word: bonettas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bonetta Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hit the shelves Part of Speech: verb 1. To become available for purchase. Labels: idiomatic
Word: monofractals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monofractal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rummiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of rummy: most rummy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: rummier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of rummy: more rummy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: hypogaeic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. An acid found in peanut oil in the form of a glyceride. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: cavallies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cavally Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cavally Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Portuguese cavala, Spanish caballa; probably from Portuguese cavalo (“horse”). 1. a carangoid fish of species Caranx hippos, of the Atlantic coast.
Word: hypogeic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hypogaeic acid. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: borages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of borage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: borrage Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of borage. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: borraginaceous Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of boraginaceous. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: moot-hall Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of moot hall. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: moot-halls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of moot-hall Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tough-cake Part of Speech: noun 1. tough-pitch; refined copper Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tough-cakes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tough-cake Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oryall Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of oriel. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: oryalls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oryall Labels: form-of, plural
Word: barling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *barling, diminutive of Middle English bar, bor (“boar”), equivalent to boar + -ling. Compare Scots bar, bare, bair (“boar”). 1. The smallest pig in a litter; runt. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: barling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English barling, berling, from Old Norse berlingr (“bar, pole”) (found in berlings-áss (“bar, beam, plank, rail”)), a diminutive derived from Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”); equivalent to bar + -ling. Cognate with Swedish bärling (“pole, bar”). 1. A pole; (carpentry) the cross rafter of a roof. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal, rare Example: A tripod can be formed of three hop poles or barlings. The former can be laid in depths up to 2^ metres and the latter in depths up to about 5 metres at low water if the tidal range does not exceed about 3 metres. Example: [...] one pair of fetters, one pair of couplings, 2 barlings [poles], 2s 6d; one saddle, one bridle, one panel, 12s; one corn hutch and 1 chaff bin, 6s 8d; one plough, one pair of harness and one coulter, 2 plough sha-[rest torn] with chains, 14s.
Word: Gbin Part of Speech: name 1. An extinct Mande language of Ivory Coast.
Word: elenchtic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of elenctic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: armil Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of armill. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: armils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of armil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diarea Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of diarrhea. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: This morning I noticed that what I raise is very much mixed with blood ever since I took them 2 Brandrettis pills it stopt the diarea entirely removed the swelling of my ankles & feet and broke loose some thing that made the blood flow hope it is all for the best Example: I have a seven month old Pharaoh Hound that has had diarea for a month now. I have taken stole sample to vet #1 and they can't find anything. So, to tried vet #2, as per recommended by many people at my local dog run (personnally I sort of liked vet #1 better, vet #2 seemed a bit strange, and BTW I am thinking of trying vet #3 which is the vet my breeder uses (although it would be quite a trip to go for someone without a car (OK, enough about vets))).
Word: buy cheap, buy twice Part of Speech: proverb 1. Buying a low-priced but inferior product (i.e., one that is cheap in both senses of that word) is a false economy because it will need replacement.
Word: ormolued Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ormolu Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ormoluing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ormolu Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Such Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: golore Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of galore. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: macrodomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of macrodome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clinodome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clino- + dome. 1. A dome that is parallel to the inclined axis in a monoclinic crystal
Word: clinodomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clinodome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: orthodome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ortho- + dome. 1. A dome that is parallel to the orthodiagonal in a monoclinic crystal.
Word: orthodomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of orthodome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: potamian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek ποτᾰ́μιος (potắmios, “of or from a river”), from ποτᾰμός (potămós, “river”). 1. A softshell turtle (family Trionychidae) Labels: dated
Word: potamians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of potamian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: moonie Part of Speech: noun 1. The European goldcrest. Labels: Northern-England, archaic
Word: ballahoo Part of Speech: noun 1. A fast-sailing class of schooner made for the Royal Navy, used in the Bermudas and the Caribbean. Labels: historical
Word: ballahoos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ballahoo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ballahou Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ballahoo. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ballahous Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ballahou Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caudicula Part of Speech: noun 1. A caudicle.
Word: caudicle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Diminutive of Latin cauda (“tail, appendage”). 1. A slender, elastic process to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached. Example: A pollinium when highly developed consists of a mass of pollen-grains, affixed to an elastic foot-stalk or caudicle, and this to a little mass of extremely viscid matter. Example: The structure of the rostellum and caudicles of the pollinia are worth noting. There are four pollinia, separated into two pairs. Each pair is attached to a long caudicle ending in a mass of sticky material or a distinct, viscid disc, except that in one species, I. intermedia, the two caudicles share a viscid disc. The rostellum in all species has two projections on which the caudicles lie.
Word: caudicles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caudicle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caudiculas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caudicula Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caudiculae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caudicula Labels: form-of, plural
Word: melampyrin Part of Speech: noun 1. melampyrite Labels: uncountable
Word: melampyrite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Melampyrum (of which it is found in the leaves) + -ite. 1. galactitol Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: conductions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of conduction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unownedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unowned + -ness. 1. The quality of being unowned. Labels: uncountable
Word: ownedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From owned + -ness. 1. The quality of being owned. Labels: uncountable
Word: stearrhea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek στέαρ (stéar, “suet”) + -rrhea. 1. seborrhea Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: simulachre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French simulacre. 1. A simulacrum. Labels: obsolete
Word: simulachres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of simulachre Labels: form-of, plural
Word: parlandos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parlando Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bedplate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bed + plate. 1. The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed. Example: A is a cast iron cylinder, the dots representing punching irons upon its circumference; B is a travelling bedplate or carriage on which the sheet to be punched is placed; the dots.... Example: They are mounted on bedplates which are flexibly mounted to the underframe.
Word: bedplates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bedplate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bedpiece Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bed + piece. 1. A bedplate.
Word: bedpieces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bedpiece Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prodromus Part of Speech: noun 1. A prodrome; an early symptom. 2. A preliminary course or publication; used especially in the titles of elementary works. Labels: archaic
Word: prodromuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prodromus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hypethral Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of hypaethral. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: crow-silk Part of Speech: noun 1. A filamentous freshwater alga (Cladophora rivularis). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: crow-silks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crow-silk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pimpinel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See pimpernel. 1. The burnet saxifrage. 2. The salad burnet
Word: pimpinels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pimpinel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kautskyan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Kautsky + -an. 1. Of or relating to Karl Kautsky (1854–1938), Czech-German philosopher and politician and leading theoretician of Marxism.
Word: linga Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of lingam. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: twitterpation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From twitterpated + -ation, as if it were a Latinate verb. 1. The quality of being twitterpated. Labels: uncountable Example: Ah, twitterpation: that state of ephemeral bliss we all have such an awkward relationship with. Example: Her face made him smile, and twitterpation swirled in his belly. He missed her.
Word: woald Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of weld (“the herb”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: bebeerine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bibiru + -ine. 1. An alkaloid found in the bark of the bibiru (Chlorocardium rodiei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bebirine Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of bebeerine. Labels: alt-of, archaic, uncountable
Word: saw wrest Part of Speech: noun 1. A saw set.
Word: saw wrests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of saw wrest Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pissboy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From piss + boy. 1. A man who engages in pissplay. Labels: slang
Word: pissboys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pissboy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: welshnut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English walsh-note, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “Welsh-nut”), equivalent to Welsh + nut. 1. A walnut (nut or tree). Labels: UK, West-Country, dated, dialectal Example: […] Our tongues do run, O, / Enough to stun, O, / Your head wi' glee by the welshnut tree. Example: A wife, a whelp and a Welshnut tree / The more you beat 'em, the better they be.
Word: davy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪvi/ 1. An affidavit, a legally binding statement or oath Example: Rather than testify in open court, each sailor posted a davy before sailing off. Example: "You and me should get on well, Hawkins, for I'll take my davy I should be rated ship's boy."
Word: davy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪvi/ 1. A Davy lamp, a type of safety lamp. Example: The miner knew the old davy was safer than any open flame, but far riskier than a modern flashlight. Example: He also developed the innovative davy lamp for use in coal mines.
Word: davys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of davy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: davy lamp Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Davy lamp. Labels: alt-of
Word: unhate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + hate (verb). 1. To leave off, cease, or desist from hating. Labels: transitive Example: I hate you! And I'll never unhate you or nothing! Example: Till when, All that was, is; and must forever be. Nor is it in me to unhate my hates, — [...]
Word: unhate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + hate (noun). 1. The lack, absence, or omission of hate; hatelessness; love. Labels: uncountable Example: Hold me. I am perishing. Achilles We can never perish. It is Unlove and unhate that give form To phantasms of time and space. Example: [...] as Greene in his Our Man in Havana and other novels of power and glory, puzzled and worried, for other reasons than purely political or literary, why on earth should lt be easy to work up the politics of hate, but difficult to work out the politics of unhate.
Word: mislove Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + love. 1. To love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly. Labels: transitive Example: Milkman "want(s) to get rich" on his own accord, so he misloves a woman (treats her like a whore) and gets an old car to ramble through ancestral homelands in search of gold. Example: I often yelled these words like a mad man at those I thought were guilty of my guilt: “the stabbing dagger of half-baked feeling," I would shriek in their faces, and in pain — "Love indeed!"— at those beings who had misloved me so, even though they had probably tried their best.
Word: mislove Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + love. 1. Inadequate, imperfect, or misdirected love. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To a large extent, the mislove of the world is caused by lack of imagination. Your mother cannot recall her own youth, and so fails to project her personality into your later-generation thoughts and ambitions. Example: Triple-lipped Apollo, I consign Your visitation to the night, When, amid cavernous mislove, your orbs Large with anticipate lust must diminish As, beneath my smothering embrace, The shocks your nine limbs striving to impart Shudder into the gentle heaving of sleeping. 2. The act or object of misloving. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: " […] their friendships, their loves, their “misloves," that the world instantly set her down as a spinster, a clever woman, but a double-twisted old maid. Example: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis RC 14567 by Max Shulman narrated by Roy Avers 2 cassettes Eleven humorous short stories about the adventures and misadventures, loves and misloves of Dobie Gillis on the University of Minneapolis campus.
Word: whaleling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From whale + -ling. 1. A small or young whale. Example: Their blood and body temperatures are warm and constant, and they bring forth living offspring — and produce milk to suckle their young whalelings with. Example: I like to think that Old Grandma Sperm Whales tell bedtime stories to the little whalings all about the deviousness and monstrosity that humankind used to inflict upon their ancestors.
Word: monsterling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From monster + -ling. 1. A small or young monster. Example: "They will know something is wrong, for the brute would not willingly have left her side. Odd that it did not fight you." The blunt-nose, slope-browed face of the monsterling was inscrutable, scarlet eyes inhuman and feral in the glow of the fire. Example: “My apologies, good monsterling. It was an accident.”
Word: strangeling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From strange + -ling. 1. One who is strange, foreign, or unusual; stranger. Example: Every strangeling ( Fremdling) has gone through a coming-to-terms with the mother, but has another such ahead: ... An inner voice holds the strangeling back from blasphemy against his own origin, even though he is filled with rebellion.
Word: strangelings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of strangeling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: German Swiss Sign Language Part of Speech: name 1. Swiss-German Sign Language
Word: Swiss German Sign Language Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Swiss-German Sign Language. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: grubling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grub + -ling. 1. A small, young, or miniature grub. Example: When she has finished her hole, the inside of which she smooths with great care, in order that it may be comfortable for her little grublings, she lays an egg at the bottom, and then goes to work to provide a supply of food for the future wasp. Example: As they are fed up in this way several times a day the ugly grublings soon begin to grow in breadth and stature, until they suddenly burst forth into full-blown wasps, and immediately begin to relieve their mother of her multitudinous duties.
Word: grublings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of grubling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: driftling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drift + -ling. 1. One who is carried about, drifts, or wanders aimlessly; a drifter; wanderer; traveller. Example: The low note is the voice Of the Spirit, God, Love, Saying. "Driftling! rejoice, There is harbor Above." Example: The fact of their existence at Nagasaki having been communicated to the American commissioner at Canton, the sloop of war, Preble, was dispatched to bring away these driftlings. She arrived off the harbour of Nagasaki on the 17th of April.
Word: batling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bat + -ling. 1. A young, small, or baby bat. Example: When the batling was eight days old he fell, fluttering. Example: His flexible wings, wrapped round him, serve him as bed-clothes, and his mate carries the batling clinging to her breast even when she flies out to forage.
Word: batlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of batling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ant + -ling. 1. A small, immature, or miniature ant. Example: Certainly, the kicking of the imprisoned antling is apparent enough to attract even the most stupid nurse, and the vigor of the motions, perhaps even the beginning of them, might easily give warning of the proper time for cutting the envelop. Example: This antling was, as indeed all the larvae and cocoons appeared to be, of the dwarf caste.
Word: antlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: workling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From work + -ling. 1. One who is employed or who works; worker. Example: Among its trophies it can point to penitent blasphemers, reclaimed drunkards, reformed prostitutes, and awakened worklings. Example: Not into land's expansion, Not to the miser's chest, Not to the princely mansion, Not to the blazoned crest, Not to the sordid workling, Not to the knavish clown, Not to the haughty tyrant, Cometh n blessing down.
Word: worklings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of workling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dystocial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dystocia + -al. 1. Of, pertaining to or characterised by dystocia; having had a difficult birth. Labels: not-comparable Example: Both authors discuss the same points, but Dr. Kennedy extends his observations to obstetric auscultation in dystocial or difficult parturitions. Example: Again to point out the value of x-ray pelvimetry, only 42.5 per cent of the patients who were referred to the dystocial clinic because of clinically suspected contracted pelves had them according to the Mengert indices by x-ray.
Word: federal council Part of Speech: noun 1. a central legislative group or assembly in certain governments. 2. a central executive council in certain governments.
Word: loaded words Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of loaded word Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cropable Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of croppable. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: eclosions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eclosion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intermachine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + machine. 1. Between machines. Labels: not-comparable
Word: intercomputer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + computer. 1. Between computers. Labels: not-comparable
Word: classical language Part of Speech: noun 1. An ancient language that has an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own, and has a large and rich body of ancient literature.
Word: run-times Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of run-time Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cromorna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French cromorne, from German Krummhorn (“crooked horn, cornet, an organ pipe turned like a trumpet”). Doublet of krummhorn. 1. A type of organ reed stop, sounding a tone resembling that of the oboe.
Word: cromornas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cromorna Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thin-film transistor Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of transistor manufactured by depositing layers of semiconductor, dielectric and metal on a substrate
Word: retinoblasts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of retinoblast Labels: form-of, plural
Word: La Coruña Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish La Coruña, of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /ˌlɑ kəˈɹunjə/ 1. Synonym of A Coruña: 2. Synonym of A Coruña:
Word: gimbal lock Part of Speech: noun 1. The loss of one degree of freedom in the three-dimensional rotational movement of a three-gimbal mechanism, which occurs when the axes of two of the three gimbals are driven into a parallel configuration, so that the system's rotational movement becomes two-dimensional (and necessarily remains so until an appropriate force is applied); the equivalent situation in a simulation of rotational movement, when the mathematical model uses Euler angles (representing pitch, yaw and roll) or their equivalent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Gimbal lock occurs when the pitch nears 90° or 270°, causing the bank and heading to lie along the same plane. This limits the item to only two rotation axes, as the bank and heading effectively do the same thing. Example: 2010, S. Nagabhushana, L. K. Sudha, Aircraft Instrumentation and Systems, I. K. International Publishing House, page 249, Such a strap down system reduces the cost, eliminates gimbals and associated gimbal locks, and enhances the reliability (MTBF) by having no moving elements.
Word: gimbal locks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gimbal lock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gimbleted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of gimblet Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: gimbleting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of gimblet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: seed crystal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By analogy with the seeds of plants. 1. A small crystal from which a larger crystal of the same substance is grown
Word: multiple bond Part of Speech: noun 1. A covalent bond formed by the overlap of multiple pairs or electron orbitals
Word: dangos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dango Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Barnas Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Barnaś. 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: pageantitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pageant + -itis. 1. An enthusiastic rise in the popularity of pageants. Labels: uncountable Example: Aldershot has, in common with other places, had its little spasmodic attack of pageantitis. On the 9th and 10th inst., a grand military pageant and tattoo took place in the grounds of Government House. Example: The Kaiser has condescended to catch from us an attack of pageantitis, and it broke out in Alsace-Lorraine the other day, when his Imperial Majesty inaugurated, with mediæval pomp and circumstance, the restored Hohkönigsberg, near Schlettstadt, in Lower Alsace.
Word: twitling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From twit + -ling. 1. A little twit. Example: "You twit, Long!" ... "You twitling, twitling! Twitling!" Example: "Pipe down, twitlings." Chains poured a splash of the quicksilver wine into Locke's glass and handed it back to him.
Word: misrede Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English misreden, from Old English misrǣdan (“to advise wrongly; read wrongly”), equivalent to mis- + rede. Compare misread. 1. To advise unwisely or to bad purpose; miscounsel; misadvise. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: mishold Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English misholden, from Old English mishealdan (“not to keep, to neglect, be careless”), equivalent to mis- + hold. Pronunciation: /mɪsˈhoʊld/ 1. To hold wrongly, badly, or amiss; lose hold (of); abuse; neglect. Labels: transitive Example: Kedang while attempting to catch hold of the safe, happened to mishold and fell in the lake where she was drowned; Saika's right hand was also in the safe, but it became stuck in its lid that she could no longer pull it out again. Example: He says that wealth, along with sex and power, is the most sought after and misheld and misused by those who possess it.
Word: mishold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English misholden, from Old English mishealdan (“not to keep, to neglect, be careless”), equivalent to mis- + hold. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪshoʊld/ 1. A wrong, bad, or faulty hold. Labels: uncountable Example: There was no indecision, no mishold, no stone dislodged, and he possessed such marvellous breathing power, that on reaching a fair foothold he promptly turned and began to haul at the rope without pause or hesitation. Example: A misstep, mishold, a hundredth of an instant's lack of balance.
Word: scaffling Part of Speech: noun 1. scaffolding Labels: dated, dialectal, uncommon, uncountable
Word: kanae Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Māori kanae. 1. A grey mullet.
Word: PMI chart Part of Speech: noun 1. A chart with three headings (plus, minus, and interesting) used to evaluate aspects of an idea.
Word: PMI charts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of PMI chart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scare straight Part of Speech: verb 1. To frighten (someone) to such a degree that a significant improvement in behavior results. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Indeed, there is a streak of Reaganomics that believes the only way to motivate American workers is to scare them straight with unemployment charts. Example: Thomas credited the boot camp for scaring him straight.
Word: scared straight Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of scare straight Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Swizzerland Part of Speech: name 1. Obsolete spelling of Switzerland. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: Kris Kindle Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Chris Kindle. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Chris Kindle Part of Speech: name Etymology: See etymology at Christingle. 1. A pseudonym for a secret Santa.
Word: misplease Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English misplesen, equivalent to mis- + please. Compare Old French mesplaire. 1. To fail in pleasing; displease. Labels: transitive Example: Oh, i [sic] have one great Fear to misplease Him, and I pray He give me more of that Fear each Day, He my heavenly Father, not the Fear like Olga to the Knout, but to fear I misplease Him my Father, and make me not worthy of His Love. Example: "[...] Yet let this make me as sorry as it will, still I must on that account above all see how everything looks before God and in itself, how it pleases or mispleases him."
Word: chance-medley Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French chance medlée, literally "mingled chance", with postpositive adjective (often confused because of the fact that medley is also a noun). 1. The killing of another in self-defence upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: Manſlaughter, otherwiſe called Chancemedley, is when two do fight together upon the ſudden, and by meer Chance, without any Malice precedent, and one of them doth kill the other; this alſo is Felony of Death. 2. Luck; chance; accident. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: This is true in the general right of marriage, but not in the chance-medley of every particular match. Example: Though much depends on what thy choice shall be, / Is all chance-medley, and unknown to me.
Word: chance-medleys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chance-medley Labels: form-of, plural
Word: post-fine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From post- + fine? 1. A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; the king's silver. Labels: UK, obsolete
Word: post-fines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of post-fine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misown Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + own. 1. To own, claim, or appropriate wrongly or amiss; fail to own; disown. Labels: transitive Example: A thetan very often carries with him a theta body which he mocked up on the past track and which is a number of facsimiles of old bodies he has misowned and is carrying along with him as control mechanisms which he uses […] Example: We feel as if we are ourselves afflicted or at ease when a son or a wife or an^([sic]) person dear to us is so (2) we also misattribute or misown properties which rightly belong not to us as conscious persons but to our bodies.
Word: ill luck Part of Speech: noun 1. Bad luck; misluck; misfortune. Labels: uncountable Example: Then, as we have reported, bogie defects came to light on the first few production "Deltics" [...]; these have now been remedied, but inevitably deliveries, trial running and particularly crew training were retarded as a result, so that once again ill luck has dogged the East Coast Route timetable planners.
Word: ill-luck Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ill luck. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: misregardful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From misregard + -ful. 1. Heedless; unmindful; neglectful; uncaring. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: waspling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wasp + -ling. 1. A small, young, or baby wasp. Example: It seemed that the reverse would be the ideal arrangement since the little waspling would upon hatching find food immediately at hand and thus be secured from any chance of starving while in a weak and helpless state. Example: Now safely sealed within a cell, she fed on both the defenceless spiders and the developing waspling.
Word: wasplings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of waspling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beeling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bee + -ling. 1. A small, young, or juvenile bee. Example: Herein must go an egg and food for the beeling that shall hatch therefrom. Example: [...] in which the pollen is gathered and carried to the cells to feed the hungry little larvae or beelings when they are hatched from the egg.
Word: beelings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beeling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mislodge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + lodge. 1. To lodge incorrectly, amiss, or in the wrong place. Labels: transitive
Word: allofam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From allo- + fam (“abbreviation of family”). 1. a linguistic form (attested or reconstructed word) which belongs to a particular word family. Labels: usually
Word: Danubic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Danube + -ic. 1. Less common synonym of Danubian.
Word: Danuban Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Danube + -an. 1. Less common synonym of Danubian.
Word: baghs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bagh Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Meusian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Meuse + -ian. 1. From or pertaining to the Meuse (region or river); located by the river Meuse or in the region Meuse. Labels: not-comparable
Word: oxling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ox + -ling. 1. A small, young, or miniature ox. Example: Well! Had you no shame, you miserable beast, to let such an affront get past your lips? Where you outdo me, I have no idea; for I'm as fit as you for any task, you poor, ill-fated, nonsense-talking oxling.
Word: oxlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oxling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Memelian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Memel + -ian. 1. A native or inhabitant of Memel (a city in eastern Europe). Labels: rare Example: Pista never knew how much time had elapsed, but after a while the two Memelians decided to sit down against the wall of a nearby barracks and began a conversation mirroring the struggle and destruction of a family […]
Word: Memelians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Memelian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reduction furnace Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of furnace in which an ore is reduced to a metal.
Word: beavers away Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of beaver away Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: beavered away Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of beaver away Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Siemens Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Siemens. Pronunciation: /ˈziːmənz/ 1. A surname from German. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An unincorporated community in Bessemer Township, Gogebic County, Michigan, United States, named after Werner von Siemens. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: shish kebabs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shish kebab Labels: form-of, plural
Word: French Republican Calendar Part of Speech: name 1. The republican calendar used for twelve years in revolutionary France (from late 1793 to 1805).
Word: youth work Part of Speech: noun 1. A community support activity aimed at adolescents to support their growth and integration in society. Labels: uncountable
Word: Sprachraum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Sprachraum. 1. Language area, language zone; geographical region where a language is spoken Example: The Arabic Sprachraum is roughly co-extensive with a geographical continuum stretching from the Arabian peninsula and the lands adjoining the Fertile Crescent to Morocco and from S.E. Anatolia to Sudan. Example: The networked world is typically envisioned as a globe-spanning English Sprachraum. 2. the repertoire of language available to a given person Example: […] as an expansion of the language space, the Sprachraum. The language space of a child expands as his object relationships develop. Example: As one works with different categories of patients, one discovers that each of them can be described in terms of the Sprachraum, the language space they have mastered and use in order to communicate with us, appeal to us, struggle with us, oppose us, resist us, and search for attachment of which they may well be afraid and must avoid.
Word: hurry-up wagon Part of Speech: noun 1. A rapid-response vehicle, possibly a kind of ambulance, or paddy wagon Labels: US, archaic, colloquial
Word: hurry-up wagons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hurry-up wagon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mishave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *mishaven, from Old English *mishabban, attested in derivative mishabbende (“having ill”), equivalent to mis- + have. 1. To misbehave or misconduct (oneself); do wrong. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, reflexive Example: It is agreed […] that if anie servaunte […] shall by fighting, quarrelling or other unsemelie maner at anie time herafter misdemeane or mishave himself and therof be ones monished or warned […]
Word: shie Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʃaɪ/ 1. Archaic form of shy (“to throw”). Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: […] a sort of cock, for him, in childish wantonness, to shie at.
Word: shieing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shie Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: typestate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From type + state. 1. Information stored with a variable indicating its current data type. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: typestates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of typestate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mishope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mishopen, equivalent to mis- + hope (verb). Cognate with Middle Dutch mishopen, Middle High German missehoffen, Middle Swedish mishoppa. Pronunciation: /mɪsˈhəʊp/ 1. To fail to hope (in); hope amiss; lose hope; despair. Labels: nonstandard, obsolete, transitive Example: This tree was defective in both, yielding nothing but an empty shade to the mishoping traveller. Example: Not destitute of love to God or Man; But with a serpent's quiet, hissing, hate, To whoso misbelieves, misdeems, mishopes; Nor sparing God himself, if God should spare, Nor loving whoso deems His name is Love, Nor speaking truly of who seeks but truth.
Word: mishope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mishope, equivalent to mis- + hope (noun). Cognate with Middle Dutch mishope, Middle Swedish mishop. Pronunciation: /mɪsˈhəʊp/ 1. despair; a hope not realised. Labels: countable, nonstandard, obsolete, uncountable Example: I was nearhand in utter mishope. Example: People who are older must know that as life advances it is only a series of hopes and mishopes with something infinite pulling them toward the end.
Word: taipos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of taipo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pavier Part of Speech: noun 1. A paver (someone who lays pavement). Labels: archaic
Word: paviers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pavier Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shool Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English schovele (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English sċofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”). 1. A shovel. Labels: dialectal, obsolete Example: And the pots, and the shouels, and the snuffers, and the spoones, and all the vessels of brasse wherewith they ministred, tooke they away. Example: 2003 And the pots, and the shovels, and the wick trimmers, and the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they took away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 2003 edition) 2. A spade. Labels: dialectal, obsolete
Word: shool Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English schovele (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English sċofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”). 1. To move materials with a shovel. Example: The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road. 2. To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: 1898 The Winter's Tale [Annotated] by William Shakespeare, H. H. Furness, page 236, [Annotation for line] 511. shouels-in...Jamieson (Scottish Dict. Suppl.) gives: 'Shool, A shovel' and 'To shool on, metaph. to cover, as in a grave.' 3. To shuffle or shamble. 4. To go about begging. Example: Howsomever, I should have remembered the old saying, every hog his own apple: for when they found my hold unstowed, they went all hands to shooling and begging; and, because I would not take a spell at the same duty, refused to give me the least assistance; […]
Word: shool Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of shul (“Ashkenazi synagogue”). Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: imbroccatas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of imbroccata Labels: form-of, plural
Word: imbrocata Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of imbroccata. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: imbrocatas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of imbrocata Labels: form-of, plural
Word: alcyons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of alcyon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: piccadillies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of piccadilly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: piccadil Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of piccadill. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: piccadils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of piccadil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paraquito Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of parakeet. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Come, come, you Paraquito, anſwer me directly vnto this queſtion, that I ſhall aske.
Word: paraquitoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paraquito Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paraquitos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paraquito Labels: form-of, plural
Word: otherguess Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Corruption of othergates. 1. Of another kind; different. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Be aſſured I have in reſerve a body of othergueſs arguments, vvhich I am ready to produce. Example: “I have known other-guess authors than you (that is, in point of interest and fame) kept in continual attendance and dependance during the best part of their lives, and after all, disappointed in the expectation of seeing their performances exhibited on the stage.”
Word: otherguess Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Corruption of othergates. 1. In another way. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: opportunity knocks at every man's door Part of Speech: proverb 1. Everybody gets opportunities.
Word: pervis Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of parvis. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: pervises Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pervis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: agrammatic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, pertaining to, or afflicted by agrammatism.
Word: vinegar valentine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In reference to the acidity or sourness of vinegar. 1. A sarcastic valentine greeting card with a caricature and an insulting poem. Labels: obsolete
Word: vinegar valentines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vinegar valentine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blowen Part of Speech: noun 1. A prostitute; a courtesan. Labels: obsolete, vulgar Example: Poll Strokem, an old blowen, well known about the streets of London, was continually crying; see her whenever you would, she was all snot and slobber, like a calf's head on a hot summer's day […] Example: Many a blowen of saloonic fame
Word: blowens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blowen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: harls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of harl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: harls Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of harl Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: diplomating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of diplomate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: diplomated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of diplomate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: diplomatic bags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diplomatic bag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wedeloside Part of Speech: noun 1. A toxin from plants in the genus Wedelia.
Word: wedelosides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wedeloside Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cund Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of cond (“to con (a ship)”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: These quartermasters are also to take their turns in the cunding of the ship,[…]. Example: a. 1688, John Narborough, quoted in 1990, Brian Tunstall, Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail: The Evolution of Fighting Tactics 1650-1815, page 34, […] he was ever calling in the quarter-master which cunded [conned] the ship to luff her nearer, giving me commands to forbear firing till we got up close to them.
Word: cunded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of cund Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cunding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of cund Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cunds Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cund Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: herling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown 1. The young of the sea trout or similar trout, once thought to be a separate species. Labels: Scotland, archaic
Word: herlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of herling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antifunding Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + funding. 1. Opposing funding. Example: The most famous example of an antifunding law was the attempt by Congressman James G. Blaine to pass a federal constitutional amendment prohibiting funding to parochial schools[…]
Word: spermatology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spermato- + -logy. 1. The scientific study of sperm. Labels: uncountable
Word: semicola Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semicolon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: talk page Part of Speech: noun 1. A place on wiki websites where discussion of an entry or article takes place. Example: The desire to fix something wrong—in this case, articles that have not kept up with the times—is meant to play out on an article’s “Talk page,” a companion page dedicated to discussing edits.
Word: ixtle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: American Spanish, from Nahuatl ixtli. 1. A variety of Agave angustifolia var. angustifolia (syn. Agave rigida), furnishing a strong coarse fiber. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The fiber itself; pita, or Tampico fiber. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: selvedged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of selvedge Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: selvaged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of selvage Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: scarabaeuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scarabaeus Labels: form-of, plural