nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: scratchbrush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scratch + brush. 1. A sturdy wire brush used for cleaning iron, silver and other metals. Example: If he decide, upon dismounting, that the tyre is punctured, and not merely short of inflation, the car should be jacked up so as to permit free movement of the wheel. The tyre should then be cleaned, the best article for the purpose being a brush with wire bristles; the type is known as a 'jeweller's scratchbrush.
Word: scratchbrushes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scratchbrush Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overhall Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of overhaul. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: overhalled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overhall Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overhalling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overhall Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overhalls Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overhall Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mustachoed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mustacho + -ed. 1. Alternative form of moustachioed. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: maid-servants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of maid-servant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reconvention Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + convention. 1. An action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge
Word: reconventions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reconvention Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clusterbomb Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cluster bomb. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: clusterbombs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clusterbomb Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clusterable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cluster + -able. 1. Capable of forming, or tending to form, clusters.
Word: bizatch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bitch + -iz-. 1. Synonym of bitch. Labels: slang Example: “The bizatch. At least my honeypot knows who's boss.” Smiling sweetly, Honeypot took the pitcher, topped off his beer.
Word: bizatches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bizatch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: outbabble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + babble. 1. To babble excessively. 2. To surpass in babbling. Example: The rest of this chapter he sacrifices to the echo of his conscience , out-babbling creeds and aves
Word: outbabbled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outbabble Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: outbabbles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outbabble Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outbabbling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outbabble Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: inextension Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + extension. 1. Lack of extension; unextended state. Labels: uncountable
Word: disembosom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + embosom. 1. To separate from the bosom. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Who , disembosom'd from the Father, bows 2. To disburden oneself of a secret. Labels: transitive
Word: disembosomed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disembosom Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disembosoming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disembosom Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disembosoms Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disembosom Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: biznatch Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bitch. Labels: alt-of, alternative, slang Example: All I need to calm me is a good scream and cry to force out my demon and sob myself to sleep Healthy healthy bitty iddy biznatch Fuck why do we learn to systemize each other... Example: [She's] just a crazy old biznatch who ran over my brother.
Word: biznatches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biznatch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ring roads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ring road Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boniform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin bonus (“good”) + -form. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒnɪfɔː(ɹ)m/ 1. Naturally good-moraled. Example: Happiness is not barely to be placed in the Intellect; but her proper Seat must be called the Boniform Faculty of the Soul […]
Word: larviform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From larva + -iform. 1. Having the shape or structure of a larva
Word: Genevanism Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Genevan + -ism, from Geneva, where Calvin resided. 1. Calvinism.
Word: debauchness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From debauch + -ness. 1. The quality of being debauched. Labels: uncountable
Word: overforward Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + forward. 1. Excessively forward. Example: And tho' a Man may have been often mis-us'd upon this account, there are still some People so modest, and will esteem so well of a kind Offer, that 'twill be frequently a Man's Duty to run the Hazard of his Service being slighted, rather than not profer his Assistance to a poor honest Man, that has not the Face to ask it: And to be overforward to do good is so great a Rarity, it ought never to be difcourag'd. Example: And, in like manner, I have never yielded to those who set themselves up rashly to sit in judgment, as for the most part overforward to determine the nature. of the malady while ignorant of its root. 2. Excessively forward. Example: Nay, till my second Thoughts check'd the overforward Impetuosity of my first, I was about to add, Since God resents an infinite satisfaction in the Accomplishment of his own Will, your Making over your whole Will to God, will impart to you that Felicity, proportioned to the degree of the Resignment. Example: I do not deny that some have displayed an overforward hostility to that system. 3. Excessively forward. Example: I the rather say this to you, as you seem, in your last, to condemn ( which I am much pleased with ) the hasty and overforward prescriptions of beginners. Example: This was not a childish or an overforward choice in him , but doubtless was from a serious consideration , as seeing him who is invisible ; for we are expressly told , that ' When he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.' 4. Excessively forward. Example: What ? do the Bishops fit to govern the Church ? undoubtedly He did not , nor do any of them : and had not his fear pull'd him by the sleeve , and given a check to his overforward Tongue, no doubt but he would have produced all the strong Reasons of the Cabal for the proving of the Negative. Example: We had a glorious day together in his mother's garden; never before did such magnificent volcanoes break forth out of mole-hills, or were plots of daisies and violets so ruthlessly scorcehed and torn by the explosion of deep-laid mines; and though a few mishaps did happen to overforward fingers , and to eye - brows that were in the way , our amusements passed off innoculously on the whole , and evening saw nearly the half of our precious store unexhausted .
Word: coelospermous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Ancient Greek hollow + seed 1. Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ephialtes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἐφιάλτης (Ephiáltēs). 1. an incubus; a nightmare Labels: obsolete Example: Those that were asleep it [a spirit] terrified with horrible visions; those that were waking it would strike, pull, or press, lying heavy upon them like an Ephialtes: so that there were perpetuall complaints every morning of their last nights rest through the whole Town.
Word: commemorabilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Morphologically, borrowed from Latin commemorābilia, the nominative neuter plural of Latin commemorābilis; semantically, a blend of commemorate + memorabilia. 1. Items that are created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an event, person, or institution. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: By the time the wedding date rolled around on July 29, 1981, her face and his were on most of the 971 "items of commemorabilia" that somebody counted for sale across the country.
Word: copicide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cop + -icide. 1. A method of suicide in which a person deliberately behaves in a threatening manner to provoke a police officer into shooting him or her. Labels: informal Example: Carrie told a police negotiator she didn't have the nerve to shoot herself. Later, she'd tell psychiatrist Gwen Levitt she was hoping to commit what the police call "copicide," in which a suicidal person gets the police to shoot him or her. 2. The act of killing a police officer. Labels: informal Example: More weird media excretion: Time Warner homey Ice-T can't say enough nice things about the Man, his employer. Time Warner executives were so supportive during his recent difficulties, he says. They were exceptionally supportive of his totally private and personal decision to recall his ode to copicide from record stores.
Word: copicides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of copicide Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cowpool Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cow + pool (“small body of water”). 1. A pond used by cows. Example: Dried snot on the marijuana pipe tossed into the cowpool built with government subsidy on a Vermont commune.
Word: cowpool Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cow + pool (“to put together”), by analogy with carpool. 1. A group that engages in cowpooling. Example: Others have created so-called "cowpools" to divvy up an entire animal and dole out cuts of meat.
Word: cowpool Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cow + pool (“to put together”), by analogy with carpool. 1. To jointly purchase all or part of a butchered cow with one or more additional parties and split the meat. Example: Brandee Callahan, 32, has lived in Huntersville for about two years and has ordered from GO Local for a year. She cowpools about every three months and supplements with smaller orders.
Word: cowpooled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of cowpool Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cowpooling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cow + pooling, by analogy with carpooling. 1. The practice of two or more parties jointly purchasing all or part of a butchered cow and dividing the meat between them. Labels: uncountable Example: Cowpooling, however, is far more involved than simply grabbing a sirloin from the grocery freezer.
Word: cowpooling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cow + pooling, by analogy with carpooling. 1. present participle and gerund of cowpool Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cowpools Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cowpool Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cowpools Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cowpool Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: canonship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From canon + -ship. 1. The rank or office of canon.
Word: canonships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of canonship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: xenohormone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From xeno- + hormone. 1. Any of a group of natural and artificial compounds showing hormone-like properties.
Word: xenohormones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of xenohormone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: xenoestrogen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Hellenic *ksénwos Ancient Greek ξένϝος (xénwos) Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos)der. English xeno- Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂-der. Ancient Greek οἶστρος (oîstros)der. Latin oestrusbor. English estrus Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English estro- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Hellenic *génos Ancient Greek γένος (génos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor. French -gènebor. English -gen English estrogen English xenoestrogen From xeno- + estrogen. 1. A xenohormone that acts as an estrogen.
Word: xenoandrogen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From xeno- + androgen. 1. A xenohormone that imitates androgen.
Word: xenoandrogens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of xenoandrogen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: xenoestrogens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of xenoestrogen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mycoestrogen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Pre-Greekder. Ancient Greek μῠ́κης (mŭ́kēs) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English myco- Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂-der. Ancient Greek οἶστρος (oîstros)der. Latin oestrusbor. English estrus ▲ English -o- English estro- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Hellenic *génos Ancient Greek γένος (génos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor. French -gènebor. English -gen English estrogen English mycoestrogen From myco- + estrogen. 1. An estrogen produced by fungi.
Word: mycoestrogens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mycoestrogen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deoxynivalenol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, deoxy- + -nival- + -enol 1. vomitoxin
Word: deoxynivalenols Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deoxynivalenol Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vomitoxin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of vomit + toxin, named for the emesis it causes in livestock which eat contaminated grain. Pronunciation: /ˌvɒmɪˈtɒksɪn/, /ˌvɑmɪˈtɑksɪn/ 1. A mycotoxin, a type B trichothecene that occurs predominantly in grains.
Word: vomitoxins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vomitoxin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: man orchid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several orchids whose flowers are said to resemble a human figure, as those of species Orchis anthropophora and certain other species formerly of the genus Aceras.
Word: cloud street Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /klaʊd stɹiːt/ 1. Long rolls of counterrotating air that are oriented approximately parallel to the ground in the planetary boundary layer.
Word: cloud streets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cloud street Labels: form-of, plural
Word: amblingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From ambling + -ly. 1. With an ambling walk. Labels: not-comparable
Word: courtbred Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From court + bred. 1. Bred or educated at a royal court Labels: not-comparable 2. polite; courtly. Labels: not-comparable
Word: emphaticalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From emphatical + -ness. 1. The quality of being emphatic; emphasis. Labels: uncountable
Word: supportance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From support + -ance. 1. support Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Give some supportance to the bending twigs
Word: excuseless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From excuse + -less. 1. Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology. Example: What of the weakling, the ignorant criminal? Not who, excuseless, Breaking my law braved death, knowing his deed and its due — Nay, but the feeble and foolish, the poor transgressor, of purpose Example: To accept these and kindred social sicknesses as fatalities is as excuseless as to accept tuberculosis or hookworm as permanent and unavoidable ills.
Word: corybantiasm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κορυβαντιασμός (korubantiasmós), from Κορύβας (Korúbas). 1. A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and lack of sleep. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: fiendful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fiend + -ful. 1. Full of fiendish arts or spirit. Example: Fauſtus is gone, regard his helliſh fall, / Whoſe fiendful fortune may exhort the wiſe, / Onely to wonder at vnlawful things, […]
Word: retroact Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From retro- + act. 1. To act retrospectively or in opposition Example: In their eyes the past was good or bad for itself, and the present good or bad for itself, and an evil past could no more shadow a virtuous present than a virtuous present could retroact to brighten or redeem an ugly past. 2. to be retrospective. 3. To apply (a law) retroactively to situations that predate the enactment of the law. Example: Sec. 4. The effectivity of this Act shall retroact to January 1, 2001.
Word: retroacted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of retroact Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: retroacting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of retroact Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: retroacts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of retroact Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: intervital Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + vital. 1. Between lives. Labels: not-comparable Example: If Sleep and Death be truly one, ⁠And every spirit’s folded bloom ⁠Thro’ all its intervital gloom In some long trance should slumber on; […]
Word: trispermous Part of Speech: adj 1. Containing three seeds. Labels: not-comparable Example: a trispermous capsule or fruit
Word: semiacid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + acid. 1. Slightly acid; semiacidic. Labels: not-comparable Example: Their semiacid fastness was attributed to the fact that the application of the acid had, purposely , been continued for a shorter time than would have been the case had the preparation been subjected to the routine treatment employed for the distinction of the bacillus of tuberculosis. Example: Consequently, in an acid or semiacid food there will be a more rapid inactivation of the organisms than in a low-acid product.
Word: semiacid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + acid. 1. A weak acid that does not completely dissociate in solution.
Word: reometer Part of Speech: noun 1. rare spelling of rheometer Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: reometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: SEP Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative letter-case form of Sep (“September”). Labels: alt-of 2. Initialism of Socialist Equality Party. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Saito was with fellow WSWS reporter and SEP member Liz Cabrera when police agents began firing on the crowd.
Word: SEP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of sensory evoked potential. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of special enrollment period. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of standard-essential patent. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of Surrendered Enemy Personnel. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: SEP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of solar energetic particles. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, plural, plural-only
Word: amphoric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin amphoricus (“of or related to an amphora”), from amphora + -icus (“-ic: forming adj.”). Equivalent to amphora + -ic. Pronunciation: /æmˈfɒɹɪk/, /æmˈfɔɹɪk/ 1. Of or related to an amphora, either as a large vessel or a Roman unit of liquid measure. Labels: historical, not-comparable 2. Produced by or indicating a hollow cavity in the lungs, giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter. Labels: not-comparable Example: amphoric respiration or resonance
Word: calvish Part of Speech: adj 1. Like a calf; stupid. Example: the vain bablings and long frivolous discourses of the Sophifters seduce thee with their Calvish understanding
Word: scopulous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin scopulosus, from scopulus (“a rock”), from Ancient Greek σκόπελος (skópelos). 1. Full of rocks; rocky. Labels: obsolete
Word: solar energetic particles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of solar energetic particle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: food bank Part of Speech: noun 1. A charitable nonprofit organization that distributes mostly donated food to a wide variety of agencies to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger. Example: Food banks are large warehouses or distribution centers that supply local storefronts known as food pantries, but also hand food directly to some individuals. They are a relatively recent feature of American life. Example: Five Greater Anglia stations will become food bank collection points again until December 12, thanks to an initiative by ticket office clerk Michael King. 2. A stock of food stored or set aside for use in the event of an emergency or shortage.
Word: food banks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of food bank Labels: form-of, plural
Word: foodbank Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of food bank. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: foodbanks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of foodbank Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Bungis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Bungi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Bungay Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Bungi. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Bungay Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈbʌŋɡi/ 1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM3389).
Word: Bungie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Bungi. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Bungy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Bungi. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: caninal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From canine + -al. 1. canine Labels: archaic Example: caninal anger
Word: veteranize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From veteran + -ize. 1. To make veteran. Labels: transitive 2. To reenlist for service as a soldier. Labels: US, dated, intransitive Example: About this time we were much embarrassed by a general order of the War Department, promising a thirty-days furlough to all soldiers who would "veteranize"
Word: veteranized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of veteranize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: veteranizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of veteranize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: veteranizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of veteranize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rehibitory Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to rehibition. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: rehibitory action Example: rehibitory defect
Word: terrenity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From terrene + -ity. Pronunciation: /təˈɹɛnɪti/ 1. earthiness; worldliness Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: a dull and low terrenity
Word: technicist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From technic + -ist. 1. One skilled in technics or in the practical arts.
Word: technicists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of technicist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: florification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin flos, floris (“flower”) + facere (“to make”). 1. florescence. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually
Word: florifications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of florification Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mechanurgy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mechano- + -urgy Pronunciation: /məˈkænəd͡ʒi/, /məˈkænəɹd͡ʒi/ 1. The branch of science that deals with moving machines. Labels: obsolete, rare, uncountable Example: Recourse must be had to some positive mechanical contrivance[…]Such a movement involves some of the finest problems in mechanurgy. Example: The character of the instruction given in the regular feldsher schools is indicated by the following curriculum, taken from official sources: Theology. / Russian language. / Latin. […] Surgery. / Desmurgy. / Mechanurgy. / Massage.[…]
Word: naughtly Part of Speech: adv 1. naughtily; wrongly Labels: obsolete Example: Because my parents naughtly brought me up.
Word: reflourish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + flourish. 1. To flourish again. Labels: intransitive
Word: reflourished Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reflourish Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reflourishes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reflourish Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reflourishing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reflourish Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: melaphyre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French, from Ancient Greek, meaning "black porphyry". 1. Various dark-coloured volcanic igneous rocks rich in augite, similar to and in some definitions including basalt, principally of Paleozoic age Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: melaphyres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of melaphyre Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sepalous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sepal + -ous. 1. Having, or relating to, sepals. Labels: not-comparable
Word: diaphanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See diaphanous. 1. Allowing light to pass through; transparent
Word: suspectless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From suspect + -less. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌspɛktləs/ 1. With no criminal suspects. Example: After some initial successes, agencies began to craft coordinated strategies for submitting and accepting unsolved cases. These strategies must include re-educating detectives, who were told for 25 years that suspectless cases would not be worked. 2. Not suspecting; having no suspicion. Labels: obsolete Example: the innocent princes were , suspectless of danger 3. Not suspected; not mistrusted. Labels: obsolete Example: Suspectless have I travell'd all the town thro', / And in this merchant's shape won much acquaintance
Word: greenth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From green + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Dutch groente. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːnθ/ 1. The state or quality of being green. Labels: uncountable Example: Imagine a rambling, patchy house, […] the mellow darkness of its conical roof surmounted by a weather-cock making an agreeable object either amidst the gleams and greenth of summer or the low-hanging clouds and snowy branches of winter […] Example: A large part of the forest growth on the northern slopes of Mt. Tamalpais is composed of it; and as it is an evergreen, it forms a mountain wall of delightful and refreshing greenth the year around. 2. Green vegetation. Labels: uncountable
Word: cynarctomachy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyno- + Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos) + -machy. 1. bearbaiting with a dog Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: And shall we turn our fangs and claws Upon our own selves, without cause? That some occult design doth lie In bloody cynarctomachy, Is plain enough to him that knows How Saints lead brothers by the nose.
Word: beseemly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare seemly. 1. fit; suitable; becoming Labels: archaic Example: In beseemly order sitten there. Example: To Connel's shop my SUSAN will I bring, To fit her finger with the wedding-ring; Procure the licence, and all else beside, Fit and beseemly for my bonny bride
Word: sepaloid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sepal + -oid. 1. Resembling a sepal.
Word: sepaloid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sepal + -oid. 1. A sepaloid structure in a flower. Example: The outer sepaloids are triangular scale-like, thick, greenish or variously reddish-colored, and fleshy. Example: The sepaloids and petaloids range in color from green to lavender to magenta .
Word: bencher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bench + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛnt͡ʃɚ/ 1. A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick). Labels: Canada 2. One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court. Labels: UK Example: There is Pump Court and Fountain Court, with their hydraulic apparatus, but one never heard of a bencher disporting in the fountain; and can’t but think how many a counsel learned in the law of old days might have benefited by the pump. 3. An alderman of a corporation. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: ten of them Aldermen, or chief Benchers 4. A member of a court or council. Labels: obsolete Example: Come, come, you are well understood to be a perfecter / giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the / Capitol. 5. One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler. Labels: obsolete
Word: enstate Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic form of instate. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: enstated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of enstate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: enstates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of enstate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: enstating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enstate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dissocialize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + socialize. 1. To render unsocial. Labels: transitive
Word: dissocialized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dissocialize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dissocializes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dissocialize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dissocializing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dissocialize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: brandle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: French brandiller. 1. To shake; to (cause to) totter. Labels: ambitransitive, obsolete
Word: brandled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of brandle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: brandles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of brandle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hoarstone Part of Speech: noun 1. A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark. Example: The Hoarstone , 9ft . 5in , high 2. Leans Very much inward
Word: hoarstones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hoarstone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pseudomonocotyledonous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pseudo- + monocotyledonous. 1. Having two coalescent cotyledons. Labels: not-comparable Example: The live oak and the horse-chestnut are pseudomonocotyledonous.
Word: furciferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin furcifer (“yoke bearer, scoundrel”), from furca (“fork, yoke, fork-shaped instrument of punishment”) + ferre (“to bear”). Pronunciation: /fə(ɹ)ˈsɪfəɹəs/ 1. rascally; scandalous Labels: archaic Example: furciferous knaves Example: furciferous practices
Word: pigeonries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pigeonry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pigeonry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pigeon + -ry. 1. A birdhouse for pigeons; a dovecote.
Word: pitcherful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pitcher + -ful. 1. The quantity that a pitcher can hold. Example: The biographer, especially of a literary man, need only mark the main currents of tendency, without being officious to trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest.
Word: pitchersful Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pitcherful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pitcherfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pitcherful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Virgouleuse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French virgouleuse, from Virgoulée, variant form of Villegoureix, a village in the Limousin province of France. Compare vergaloo. 1. A variety of winter pear. Example: Charles had stuffed his pockets with virguleus pears from the table and they ate these as they tramped through the streets which were running with the overflow of rain water from the open gutters.
Word: Virgouleuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Virgouleuse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inexplosive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + explosive. 1. Not explosive.
Word: morkin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from mort + -kin (compare mortling); or from Old French mortekine, a variant of mortecine, from Medieval Latin morticinus. Compare also Swedish murken (“putrefied”), Icelandic morkinn (“putrid”). Pronunciation: /ˈmoɹkɪn/, [ˈmo̞ɹkɪn], /ˈmɔːkɪn/, /mɔːɹkɪn/, /mɔːkɪn/ 1. An animal that has died of disease or by mischance. Labels: obsolete Example: Could hee^([sic]) not sacrifice / Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies, / Or meagre heifer, or some rotten ewe, […]
Word: morkins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of morkin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: whirlpooling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From whirlpool + -ing. 1. The action of liquid swirling around, forming a whirlpool. Labels: uncountable Example: It makes no sense to say that the whirlpool is “here” and the ocean “there.” Whirlpooling is a feature of the ocean. 2. The assault, undressing and groping of a woman by men in an aquatic setting. Labels: uncountable Example: "In dozens of separate 'whirlpooling' incidents, groups of teenage boys surrounded a girl in the water, tore off her swimsuit top and then grabbed her breasts." 3. A method of separating the trub from the wort, involving centrifugal force. Labels: uncountable
Word: whirlpooling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. present participle of whirlpool Labels: form-of, participle, present
Word: starter marriage Part of Speech: noun 1. A first marriage for an individual or couple that either was short-lived or is expected to be unsuccessful, especially when viewed as serving as preparation for a subsequent marriage. Labels: informal Example: A starter marriage is one where the couple marries young and gets divorced before the arrival of the first child—and usually before the arrival of the first wrinkle. Starter marriages are more common among overachievers.
Word: cronehood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crone + -hood. 1. The condition of being an elderly woman; the time during which a woman is elderly. Labels: uncountable Example: It was a little vain, perhaps, but the notion of cronehood sent me immediately to my mirror. 2. The elderly stage of a female Wiccan witch (compared with the Crone aspect of the Goddess). Labels: uncountable Example: Many circles create ceremonies to mark a woman's passage into cronehood and designate special status to crones Example: An archaic term, really, but I like it. crone: A menopausal or post-menopausal Wiccan. The time at which a woman assumes her cronehood is intensely individual.
Word: unidentate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From uni- + dentate. 1. single-toothed Labels: not-comparable 2. monodentate Labels: not-comparable
Word: crosswordese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crossword + -ese. Pronunciation: /ˌkɹɒswɜː(ɹ)ˈdiːz/ 1. The jargon of crossword puzzle clues or answers, often consisting of rare, archaic, or dialectal words. Labels: uncountable Example: "The Times puzzle is full of crosswordese – words nobody ever heard of," he said. "Take today March 10. He's got the clue 'corn mush.' The answer is 'samp.' Then there's 'dwarf buffalo.' The answer is 'anoa.' It's laughable. I know these words because I'm in the business. But why should you?"
Word: cutensil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of cute + utensil. 1. A functional object with a cute or novelty design. Example: Take the popularity of "cutensils" — kitchen utensils that have been given personality implants. Open the drawer in an American or European home and you'll likely find a bottle opener that looks like a smiling cat, a spaghetti spoon that grins at you and the pasta, or a vegetable brush with googly eyes and spindly legs.
Word: cutensils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cutensil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paccan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pecan (tree). Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Alternative form of pecan (nut). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: … to send him some paccan nuts. … Jefferson in his reply wrote: "The Paccan nut is, as you conjecture the Illinois nut, ..., and enters into the Botanical name with is Juglans Paccan" Example: A creamy liquid called powcohicoria or "hickory milk" was prepared by the Algonquins: paccan kernels were pounded into small pieces, cast into boiling water, strained and stirred.
Word: peccan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pecan (tree). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: —where the oak and the pine give way to the cotton-wood and peccan— Example: It's gone straight for that peccan tree, … 2. Alternative form of pecan (nut). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: … the spicewood, the pawpaws and peccan-nuts, ...
Word: love goggles Part of Speech: noun 1. Blindness to criticism or objectivity directed at a person with whom one is in love. Labels: idiomatic, informal, plural, plural-only Example: I've heard it put this way; they "wear love goggles". This means that this person you are falling in love with must be Mr. or Miss. Right. Example: When you're several years into your relationship, the love goggles may come off, but they're replaced by new lenses that reveal another, fuller picture of your relationship.
Word: dBASE Part of Speech: name 1. An early database management system for microcomputers
Word: dBFAST Part of Speech: name 1. A dialect of dBASE for Microsoft Windows
Word: dGlc Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of deoxyglucose. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: dTDP Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of thymidine diphosphate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: dTMP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of thymidine monophosphate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: TMP Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of thymidine monophosphate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable 2. Abbreviation of trimethoprim. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable 3. Abbreviation of Template metaprogramming. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: dThd Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of thymidine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: amorpha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name, Amorpha, from Ancient Greek ἄμορφος (ámorphos, “shapeless, deformed”), because the flowers have only one petal rather than the three of other genera in the subfamily Faboideae. 1. Any species of the genus Amorpha of leguminous shrubs. Example: Billowy bays of grass ever rolling in shadow and sunshine, Bright with luxuriant clusters of roses and purple amorphas
Word: amorphas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of amorpha Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retriment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin retrimentum. 1. refuse; dregs Labels: archaic
Word: retriments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of retriment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: malambo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese [Term?]. 1. An old Argentine dance. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton malambo. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fulcrate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See fulcrum. 1. Propped; supported by accessory organs Labels: not-comparable 2. Furnished with fulcrums. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pathetical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin patheticus + -al. Pronunciation: /pəˈθɛtɪkl̩/ 1. Arousing sympathy; pathetic. Labels: archaic 2. Arising from strong emotion; passionate. Example: Not Hermes Prolocutor to the Gods, Could vſe perſwaſions more pathetical. Example: Theseus at the first sight of Helen was so besotted, that he esteemed himself the happiest man in the world if he might enjoy her, and to that purpose kneeled down, and made his pathetical prayers unto the gods.
Word: hoodman-blind Part of Speech: noun 1. The game of blind man's buff. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: What devil was't That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?
Word: dimplement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dimple + -ment. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪmpəlmənt/ 1. The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions. Labels: uncountable Example: the ground's most gentle dimplement
Word: decussatively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From decussative + -ly. 1. Crosswise; in the form of an X. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, rare Example: And if it were clearly made out what is remarkably delivered from the Traditions of the Rabbins, that as the Oyle was powred coronally or circularly upon the head of Kings, so the High-Priest was anointed decussatively or in the form of a X […] Example: McClintock and Strong's Cyclopedia of Theological Literature Says: " […] The fathers, with their usual luxuriant imagination discover types of this kind of cross in Jacob's blessing of Joseph’s sons: in the annointing of priests ‘decussatively’; for the Rabbis say that priests were distinctively thus anointed ; and in the crossing of the hands over the head of the goat […] ."
Word: surgeoncies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of surgeoncy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: surgeoncy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From surgeon + -cy. Pronunciation: /ˈsɝ.d͡ʒən.si/ 1. The office or employment of a surgeon, either in the naval or military service, or in a hospital as a resident or house officer. Labels: India Example: Before she is able to have her own practice, she has to complete her house surgeoncy. Example: 1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. J—W—E., in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, pp. 4-5, […] his abilities, address, good nature, and good sense, have got him a surgeoncy in the batalion of guards, which is reckoned a very good thing.
Word: sleighest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of sleigh: most sleigh Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: Iricism Part of Speech: noun 1. Irishism Example: May 1820, Francis Jeffrey, "Life of Curran", in Edinburgh Review There is no more such nonsense in the book — nor any other Iricism so discreditable to the taste either of its hero or its author
Word: Iricisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Iricism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ensuable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ensue + -able. 1. Ensuing, following, or likely to ensue. Labels: not-comparable
Word: impeccant Part of Speech: adj 1. Without sin; impeccable
Word: watershoot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From water + shoot. 1. A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree. 2. That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone. 3. A trough for discharging water.
Word: watershoots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of watershoot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trebleness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From treble + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being treble. Labels: uncountable Example: the trebleness of tones
Word: metergram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meter + gram. 1. A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation. Labels: obsolete
Word: metergrams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metergram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: billethead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From billet + head. 1. A carved wooden decoration, usually at the bow of a vessel, generally smaller than a figurehead Example: we painted her on the outside, giving her open ports in her streak, and finishing off the nice work upon the stern, where sat Neptune in his car, holding his trident, drawn by sea-horses; and re-touched the gilding and coloring of the cornucopia which ornamented her billet-head.
Word: billetheads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of billethead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interclavicle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inter- + clavicle. 1. The episternum.
Word: interclavicles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of interclavicle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: broadbrim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From broad + brim. 1. A hat with a very broad brim. 2. A Quaker. Labels: capitalized, dated, derogatory, humorous, often 3. A quiet, sedate, respectable old man. Labels: archaic, broadly, humorous
Word: broadbrims Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of broadbrim Labels: form-of, plural
Word: broadbrimmed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From broad + brimmed. 1. Having a broad brim. Example: a broadbrimmed Panama hat
Word: nittily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From nitty + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪtɪli/ 1. In a nitty manner; lousily. Labels: obsolete Example: hee was a man nittily needy and therefore aduentrous, esteemed, but an idel fellow
Word: nectarize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From nectar + -ize. 1. To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten. Labels: obsolete Example: Gently assemble, delicacies all, And sweetly nectarize this bitter gall!
Word: nectarized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of nectarize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: nectarizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of nectarize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: nectarizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of nectarize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sweinmote Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of swainmote. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The court of sweinmote is to be holden before the verderors, as judges, by the steward of the sweinmote, thrice in every year, the sweins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury. The principal jurisdiction of this court is, first, to inquire into the oppressions and grievances committed by the officers of the forest; [...] and, secondly, to receive and try presentments certified from the court of attachments against offences in vert and venison.
Word: sweinmotes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sweinmote Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stultiloquies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stultiloquy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stultiloquy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stultiloquium. 1. Foolish talk; babble. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: concerning stultiloquy it is to be observed that the masters of spiritual life mean not the talk and useless babble of weak and ignorant persons
Word: spleened Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From spleen + -ed. 1. Deprived of the spleen. Labels: obsolete Example: Assollant, having observed that spleened animals never died of hemmorrhage, and that ligatures applied to the divided splenic vessels constantly caused abscesses in the omentum, and death, adopted a peculiar mode of extirpation, which consisted in exposing the organ by a sufficient incision, cutting across its vessels, removing itself, and, without applying a ligature to any of those vessels, proceeding to return the protruded viscera, and to unite the external wound by some points of suture. Example: While physiology cannot sanction these grave charges against the spleen, it has of late, probably exaggerated its merits, since it has been ascertained, as already mentioned, that spleened animals not only survive its extirpation, but thrive very well without it. 2. angry; annoyed. Example: I was annoyed by this insinuation— my boyish pride took fire at once; and although I knew this proposition to be the result of the present splenetic mood, yet feeling a little spleened myself, I determined to see him through on his own terms, and merely said, "Very well, sir—as you choose." Example: Take me at the best, you shall not find a thing more spleened and choleric. 3. Having splines or ridges. Example: Combining, with the plain and spleened shaft and the cutters, the screw-threaded sleeves, for the purpose of adjusting said cutters, substantially as described. Example: With hands that thrilled voluptuously at the delicious caress of that spleened surface, but still were swift and sure to their task, James Femms replaced the becket in its emplacement and stood back, his eyes intoxicated with the charm of the perfect spleencraft, the cool, proud beauty of the hand-groined base.
Word: spleened Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From spleen + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of spleen Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: envassal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + vassal. 1. To make into a vassal. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: envassaled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of envassal Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: envassaling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of envassal Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: envassals Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of envassal Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outmount Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + mount. 1. To mount above; to climb higher than or surpass. Labels: archaic, transitive 2. to mount (a horse) quicker than
Word: outmounted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outmount Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: outmounting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outmount Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outmounts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outmount Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person