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cowlicked

a. (context of the hair English) In a cowlick.

treckschuyt

n. A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.

mebanazine

n. A hydrazine derivative and monoamine oxidase inhibitor.

splat maps

n. (splat map English)

swarming

n. 1 The action of a swarm. 2 (context colloquial Canada English) A crime where an unsuspecting innocent bystander is attacked by several culprits at once, with no known motive. vb. (present participle of swarm English)

coddler

n. One who coddles (treats with excess care).

periosteally

adv. In the periosteum.

flip out

vb. (label en slang) to become angry or upset about something

abiogenesis

n. (context biology English) The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation. (Late 19th century.) (R:SOED5: page=4)

ywroken
  1. (context archaic English) avenged. v

  2. (context obsolete English) (past participle of wreak English)

germinates

vb. (en-third-person singular of: germinate)

repatriable

a. Capable of being repatriated.

dries out

vb. (en-third-person singulardry out)

wogging

vb. (present participle of wog English)

caban

n. (context Philippines English) A grain measure equal to 3.47 cubic feet, used in the Philippine Islands.

scare out of one's wits

vb. (context idiomatic English) To frighten someone to such an extent that they behave irrationally

civilist

n. 1 (context obsolete English) One who study or works with the civil law. 2 (context obsolete theology English) One who rejects the moral authority of Christ but who nevertheless adheres to a moral code in line with “civil righteousness” and “good citizenship”. 3 (context obsolete English) A statesman, politician, or student of the political sciences.

hopple

n. (context chiefly in the plural English) A fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble. 2 (context transitive figurative English) To entangle; to hamper.

warkand

a. (context dialectal or obsolete English) painful.

phytanic acid

n. (context organic compound English) The diterpenoid carboxylic acid ''(7R,11R)-3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadecanoic acid'' derived from chlorophyll via the related phytol

glooming

Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of gloom English) Etymology 2

n. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming

sneak out

vb. To leave a place or a gathering while trying to avoid being seen or heard.

wale

Etymology 1 n. 1 A ridge or low barrier. 2 A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course) 3 The texture of a piece of fabric. 4 (context nautical English) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale) 5 A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth. 6 A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position. 7 A ridge on the outside of a horse collar. 8 A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip. vb. 1 To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale. 2 To give a surface a texture of wales. Etymology 2

n. Something selected as being the best, preference; choice. vb. to choose, select.

ring out

n. (cx video games English) A win in a fighting game obtained by throwing one's opponent out of the aren

  1. v

  2. 1 To sound very loudly. 2 (context telephony English) To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number.

lashed out

vb. (en-past of: lash out)

desecularizes

vb. (en-third-person singular of: desecularize)

epistemological turn

n. (context philosophy English) In the history of Western philosophy, the shift in philosophical attention from the classical and medieval focus on themes of metaphysics to a primary focus on themes and issues relating to human knowledge, usually considered to have occurred during the period from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes (1596-1650) through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant (1724-1804).

lashes out

vb. (en-third-person singular of: lash out)

whistles dixie

vb. (en-third-person singularwhistle Dixie)

rede

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context archaic English) help, advice, counsel. 2 (context archaic English) decision, a plan. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (label en transitive archaic or UK dialectal) To govern, protect. 2 (label en transitive archaic or UK dialectal) To discuss, deliberate. 3 (label en transitive archaic or UK dialectal) To advise.

halluxes

n. (plural of hallux English)

feel twelve feet tall

vb. (alternative form of feel ten feet tall English)

ghost image

n. 1 (context photography English) any undesired image appearing at the image plane of an optical system; either a false image of the desired object, or an out-of-focus image of a bright source of light in the field of the optical system 2 (context computing English) a copy of all the contents of a hard drive, used as a backup

metabasis

n. 1 (context rhetoric English) A change from one subject to another. 2 (context pathology English) Any change in the course of a disease; metabola.

nonnephritic

a. Not nephritic.

microgame

n. 1 (context gaming English) A board game packaged in a small set with instructions in booklet format and counters to be cut from sheets of paper or cardboard. 2 (context video games English) A very small minigame, typically lasting for only a few seconds.

papaver

n. (context botany English) Any plant of the genus ''Papaver'', the poppy.

photobleach

vb. (context intransitive English) To become less absorbent, reflective or fluorescent upon exposure to light.

news tickers

n. (news ticker English)

endotoxemias

n. (plural of endotoxemia English)

telarly

adv. (context obsolete nonce English) In a web-like manner.

kochite

n. (context mineralogy English) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, cerium, fluorine, hafnium, iron, lanthanum, manganese, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, strontium, titanium, vanadium, yttrium, and zirconium.

ekes

vb. (en-third-person singular of: eke)

regiolect

n. A dialect spoken in a particular geographical region.

Usage examples of "regiolect".

The last of the flood, two days after the lowest neaps, and wind north by east.

To build a tower on a sea rock, eleven miles from shore, and barely uncovered at low water of neaps, appeared a fascinating enterprise.

We're on neaps but, with this north-easterly, the westerly tidal stream is bound to be running faster.