misreport

misreport (third-person singular simple present misreports, present participle misreporting, simple past and past participle misreported)

misreports (present singular third-person)
misreporting (participle present)
misreported (participle past)
misreported (past)

From Middle English misreporten, equivalent to mis- + report.

/ˌmɪsɹɪˈpɔː(ɹ)t/

/ˈmɪsɹɪˌpɔː(ɹ)t/

Near-synonym: misstate

The wrong judgment that misleads us , and makes the will often fasten on the worse side , lies in misreporting upon the various comparisons of thes

1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:

Often, she would discover facts that had been overlooked or misreported by the mainstream press.

2009, David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, Roy Morris, Seeking a Voice, page 156:

(transitive) To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of.


misshape

en-verb

misshape (third-person singular simple present misshapes, present participle misshaping, simple past misshaped, past participle misshaped or (obsolete or poetic) misshapen)

misshapes (present singular third-person)
misshaping (participle present)
misshaped (past)
misshaped (participle past)
misshapen (obsolete participle past poetic)

Major Rawls drove us to our motel […] where a swimming pool with underwater lights had the disturbing effect of substantially enlarging and misshaping the swimmers.

1989, John Irving, chapter 9, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1990, page 601:


downbeat

(music) The accented beat at the beginning of a bar (indicated by a conductor with a downward stroke).


ampliate

en-adj

ampliate (comparative more ampliate, superlative most ampliate)

more ampliate (comparative)
most ampliate (superlative)

Latin ampliātus, past participle of ampliō (“to make wider”).


punctulate

punctulate (comparative more punctulate, superlative most punctulate)

more punctulate (comparative)
most punctulate (superlative)


refit

en-verb

refit (third-person singular simple present refits, present participle refitting, simple past and past participle refitted or refit)

refits (present singular third-person)
refitting (participle present)
refitted (participle past)
refitted (past)
refit (participle past)
refit (past)

For what can be more comfortable then to be asserted from the power of the grave, and rescued from death and mortality, to have our Soul refitted with Organs, and all the bodily powers awakened again so as to lose nothing by our fall;

1679, John Goodman, chapter 5, in The Penitent Pardoned, London: R. Royston, page 332:

1697, John Dryden (translator), Virgil’s Aeneis, Book 1, lines 776-777, in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 224,
Permit our Ships a Shelter on your Shoars,
Refitted from your Woods with Planks and Oars;

(transitive) To fit out or supply again (with something).


earless

Earless seals are probably more hydrodynamic without ear lobes.

There are but few farmers who have failed to notice the large number of poor and earless stalks in the crop, but few can give any reason. They have often seen a good stalk and a poor one in the same hill—one with perhaps two good ears, the other with none on it. Just so long as we select as we do, and fail to improve on our system of saving seed, we shall have more earless stalks than prolific ones.

1883 January, A. E. Blount, “Experiments in Corn Culture”, in Agricultural Review and Journal of the American Agricultural Association, volume III, number 1, page 11:

Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:


incurvate

en-adj

incurvate (comparative more incurvate, superlative most incurvate)

more incurvate (comparative)
most incurvate (superlative)


upspring

en-verb

upspring (third-person singular simple present upsprings, present participle upspringing, simple past upsprang or upsprung, past participle upsprung)

upsprings (present singular third-person)
upspringing (participle present)
upsprang (past)
upsprung (past)
upsprung (participle past)

From Middle English upspringen, from Old English uppspringan, ūpspringan, equivalent to up- + spring.

In diamond light upspring the dazzling peaks Of Pyramids

Might not its waters upspring in this new land, whose discovery was the great marvel of the age, and which men looked upon as the unknown east of Asia?

(intransitive) To spring up, rise up, originate, come into being.


unbowed

en-adj

unbowed (comparative more unbowed, superlative most unbowed)

more unbowed (comparative)
most unbowed (superlative)

Unbowed after two years in jail, nine of the defendants boycotted the trial, refusing even to talk to their lawyers.

1998 July 3, James Brooke, “Anti-Government Freemen Are Found Guilty of Fraud”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-08-08:

It created an indelible image and captured the essence of Trump’s MAGA movement: under attack but defiant, bloody but unbowed.

2024 July 15, Charles M. Blow, “How the Attempted Assassination of Trump Could Change the Campaign”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


quadrate

quadrates (plural)
quadrat (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English quadrat, quadrate, from Latin quadrātum. Doublet of quadrat; compare also quadrant (“square or quadrangle”).


envie

en-verb

envie (third-person singular simple present envies, present participle envying, simple past and past participle envied)

envies (present singular third-person)
envying (participle present)
envied (participle past)
envied (past)

In which all pleasures plenteously abownd,
And none does others happinesse envye

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(obsolete) To vie; to emulate; to strive.


severer

/ˈsɛvəɹə(ɹ)/

They received this name from the jealousy of their rivals, who thereby intimated that they were severers of the unity of the Algonquin nation, as a people who were setting up an independent government […]

1862, Sir Daniel Wilson, Prehistoric man, researches into the origin of civilisation, page 133:


miskick

The shot went wide of a post after a miskick from Sayers.


mishit

England added only one more run to its overnight second-innings total of 221 for 9 before Broad was caught by Hammer at mid-on to a mishit.


overspray

In spray painting, the spray that goes outside the area being painted (necessary to ensure coverage at the edge).


overspray

overspray (third-person singular simple present oversprays, present participle overspraying, simple past and past participle oversprayed)

oversprays (present singular third-person)
overspraying (participle present)
oversprayed (participle past)
oversprayed (past)

To produce overspray when spray painting.


overfall

From Middle English overfallen, from Old English oferfeallan (“to fall upon, attack”), from Proto-West Germanic *obarfallan, *ubirfallan, from Proto-Germanic *ubirfallaną; equivalent to over- + fall. Cognate with Dutch overvallen (“to raid, overtake”), German überfallen (“to assault, attack, raid”), Swedish överfalla (“to attack”).

cog

A turbulent section of a body of water, caused by strong currents passing over submerged ridges.


Etna

From the Latin Aetna, perhaps via the Italian Etna. From either Ancient Greek Αἴτνη (Aítnē, “Aetna”) or αἴθω (aíthō, “I burn”), or from a Sicanian dialect Italic base *aið-na (“fiery one”), all from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”). Doublet of Aetna.

der

A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.

A town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.


affy

If you have won a monthly prize, they will send you an affy and have you send it back. Then your prize comes from a courier.

1997, Sandretto, “Singapore Contest....”, in alt.consumers.sweepstakes (Usenet):

The contest ended in mid November, I got the affy Christmas eve, and I picked up the car February 4th or 5th.

1999, Suzy, “Any BIG winners?”, in alt.consumers.sweepstakes (Usenet):

(slang) An affidavit to be signed by a contest winner to confirm eligibility.


needly

en-adv

needly (comparative needlier or more needly, superlative needliest or most needly)

needlier (comparative)
more needly (comparative)
needliest (superlative)
most needly (superlative)

From Middle English needely, neodliche, from Old English nēodlīċe (“eagerly, earnestly, carefully, zealously, diligently, sedulously; greatly”); equivalent to need (“desire”) + -ly. Cognate with Old Saxon niudlīko (“zealously, carefully”), German niedlich (“desirable, appealing, lovely, cute”).

cog

(archaic) Zealously; carefully; earnestly.


shrow

en-verb

shrow (third-person singular simple present shrows, present participle shrowing, simple past and past participle shrowed)

shrows (present singular third-person)
shrowing (participle present)
shrowed (participle past)
shrowed (past)

Dense fogs followed; and early one morning, the city was shrowed in almost Egyptian darkness.

c. 1830, The Parterre; Or, Universal Story-teller:

Neither is there any doubt, but that many Rulers over Cities and countreys, are over ruled by their wives, but as these women knowe howe in time and place, to bee obedient to their husbands, so there are some such restive jades, that they will not at any time be commaunded, and by their importunities, exclamations, scolding, and brawling, continually withstande their husbands willes, and make a mock at them, playing with them a thousand shrowed prankes, which caused a certayne King to say, that they were very fooles that would followe their wife, running away from them.

1913, The Nineteenth Century and After - Volume 73, page 1281:

I may make it clear here that discussion on the important religious cults alongwith their attendant sects in a systematic manner is not an easy task due to the fact that systematic records have not yet been available, some of the religions have been shrowed in oblivion and many of the monuments have been damaged.

1985, H. C. Das, Cultural Development in Orissa, page 126:


rescript

From Latin rescriptum (“written reply”).

rescrit

legal gloss provided by the pope without precedential force

Decretals... ought, properly speaking, to be distinguished, on the one hand from constitutions... enacted by the Pope sua sponte without reference to any particular case, and on the other hand from rescripts... which apply only to special circumstances or individuals, and constitute no general precedent. But this nomenclature is not strictly observed.

1878, "Decretals" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. VII, p. 22

(canon law) An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential force, sometimes (improper) inclusive of decretals which serve as precedents in canon law.


exarate

exarate (third-person singular simple present exarates, present participle exarating, simple past and past participle exarated)

exarates (present singular third-person)
exarating (participle present)
exarated (participle past)
exarated (past)

From Latin exaratus, past participle of exarare (“to plough up, to write”); ex (“out”) + arare (“to plough”).


improver

(historical) A pad worn by women to make the dress hang properly.


fasciate

From Latin fasciātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

The stems of the garden cockscomb are often fasciate.

(botany) Flattened and laterally widened.


foreshow

foreshow (third-person singular simple present foreshows, present participle foreshowing, simple past foreshowed, past participle foreshown)

foreshows (present singular third-person)
foreshowing (participle present)
foreshowed (past)
foreshown (participle past)
foreshew (alternative)

From Middle English foreschewen, from Old English forescēawian (“to foreshow, foresee; preordain, decree, appoint; provide, furnish with”), equivalent to fore- + show. Cognate with Dutch voorschouwen, German vorschauen.

inh

Amid his senses' giddy wheel, / Did he not desperate impulse feel, / Headlong to plunge himself below, / And meet the worst his fears foreshow?— […]

1810, Walter Scott, “Canto II. The Island.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXXI, pages 85–86:

What could the soothsayer foreshow that we knew not before? The future is written in the past; and if we prophesy, it is with eyes that look behind.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 314:

(transitive, archaic) To show in advance; to foretell, predict.


foreshow

The fore-shew of their inclination whilest they are young is so uncertaine […] that it is very hard, (yea for the wisest) to ground any certaine judgement […].

(obsolete) A manifestation in advance; a prior indication.


punch up

en-verb

punch up (third-person singular simple present punches up, present participle punching up, simple past and past participle punched up)

punches up (present singular third-person)
punching up (participle present)
punched up (participle past)
punched up (past)

To punch up the flavor even more, we looked to an untraditional ingredient: fish sauce.

2013, America's Test Kitchen, Comfort Food Makeovers: All Your Favorites Made Lighter:

(transitive) To make bolder, zestier, or more exciting.


gular

Goolar, or Doomur. Ficus glomerata.

1836, “Appendix No. II. List of Specimens of Wood from India, &c. Presented to the Society by Capt. H. C. Baker, of the Bengal Artillery.”, in Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce: […], volume L, London: […] J. Moyes, […][for the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce], →OCLC:

These [black-eared flying foxes (Pteropus melanotus, formerly edulis)] I have now in captivity (five in number) are fed on goolars, (Ficus glomerata), which they chew in the manner above mentioned, until they have extracted all the juice, when the remaining pulp is ejected out of the mouth.

1842 April, Lieut. Tickell, “Remarks on Pteropus Edulis, Geoffroy”, in John M‘Clelland, editor, The Calcutta Journal of Natural History: […], volume III, number IX, Calcutta, West Bengal: W. Risdale, Bishop’s College Press, →OCLC, page 34:

Conceive a large and beautiful sheet of calm, clear, and silvery water, [...] embanked with huge blocks of cut granite, embrowned by the shade of magnificent burgots, goolars, jâmuns, and peepuls, under which bright, small Hindoo temples, carefully white-washed, might be seen in their shade; [...]

1843, C[harles] J[ames] C. Davidson, Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India, […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 244–245:

I then sat down under a goolar tree, to wait for his appearance. The goolar is a species of fig, and the leaves are much relished by cattle and goats.

1878, “Maori” [pseudonym; James Inglis], chapter VI, in Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier: Or Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 58:

The gular (ficus glomerata), the bargad, which is another name for the banyan, and the pakar (ficus venosa) are all members of the fig tribe, the Levites of the forest. The gular yields a larger fruit than the banyan, and is a good deal used as a food. In the extremely hot weather of this year, the writer found that mysterious holes were being dug by night round the roots of a large gular tree in his compound. On inquiring into the cause, he found that the servants were incising the roots to obtain the juice which they said they drank to keep up their strength during the heat. [From The Statesman.]

1906 July, “Some Indian Trees”, in [Prithwis Chandra Ray], editor, The Indian World, volume IV, number 16, Calcutta, West Bengal: […] The Cherry Press, […], →OCLC, page 53:

[page 56] Goolar Ficus racemosa [...] Widely distributed especially near water, the goolar qualifies as a native Delhi tree. [...] [page 57] According to folk wisdom, there runs a hidden stream under every goolar tree. This is not unfounded – the goolar is a 'riparian' tree, growing naturally near streams or ponds in moist, clayey loams.

2006, Pradip Krishen, “Jamun-like Leaves”, in Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide, New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley (India), →ISBN, pages 56–57:

Carpet Sahib had picked up our trail, and the police would follow us all the way through the gular trees, to guess where we were headed.

2009 November, Sujit Saraf, The Confession of Sultana Daku, New Delhi: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 194:

Many of the trees of different species have special associations with particular deities. For example, the Lord Vishnu is associated with the ‘Pipal’ (Ficus religiosa), ‘Bargad’ (Ficus benghalensis), and ‘Gular’ (Ficus glomerata); [...] the Lord Dattatreya with ‘Gular’ (Ficus glomerata); [...]

2017, G. Singh, “Sacred Places, Trees and Groves: An Overview”, in Sacred Groves of Rajasthan: Threats and Management Strategies, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, New Delhi: […] [F]or Arid Forest Research Institute by Scientific Publishers (India), →ISBN, page 23:

Ficus racemosa
Ficus racemosa#Translingual

(India) Synonym of cluster fig (“Ficus racemosa, a species of plant in the family Moraceae; the edible fruit of this plant”).


traverse

From Middle English traversen, from Old French traverser, from Latin trans (“across”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of Latin vertere (“to turn”).

The whole care of the vessel rested, therefore, upon me, and I was obliged to direct her by my former experience, not being able to work a traverse.

1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 7, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:


consociate

consociate (third-person singular simple present consociates, present participle consociating, simple past and past participle consociated)

consociates (present singular third-person)
consociating (participle present)
consociated (participle past)
consociated (past)

From Latin cōnsociātus, past participle of cōnsociō (“to associate, unite”).

In the first place therefore, it cannot but amuse a mans mind to think what these officious Spirits should be that so willingly sometimes offer themselves to consociate with a man: […]

1662, Henry More, "An Antidote Against Atheism", Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 129

(obsolete, intransitive) to associate, partner

Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds.

1747, David Mallet, Amyntor and Theodora:

(obsolete, transitive) To bring into alliance, confederacy, or relationship; to bring together; to join; to unite.

(US) To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation.


pignorate

From Medieval Latin pignoratus, variant of earlier Latin pignerātus (“pledged, guaranteed”).


disincorporate

/ˌdɪsɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ)pəɹeɪt/

/ˌdɪsɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ)pəɹət/

So as it is a thing of great use well to define , what , and of what latitude those points are , which do make men merely aliens and disincorporate from the church of God

1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:

Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated.


miswrite

From Middle English miswriten, from Old English miswrītan, misƿrītan (“to write incorrectly; make a mistake in writing; miswrite”), equivalent to mis- + write.

Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites.

1983, Lawrence Calmus, The business guide to small computers, page 143:


referment

en-verb

referment (third-person singular simple present referments, present participle refermenting, simple past and past participle refermented)

referments (present singular third-person)
refermenting (participle present)
refermented (participle past)
refermented (past)
re-ferment (alternative)

In the Low Countries, I’d developed a taste for refermented fruit beers.

1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 42:


heathery

en-adj

heathery (comparative more heathery, superlative most heathery)

more heathery (comparative)
most heathery (superlative)


heathery

A place where varieties of heath are grown in a controlled environment.


predestinate

From Middle English predestinate, from Latin praedestinātus, past participle of praedestināre.

God keep your ladyship still in that mind; so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:


mallee

Probably borrowed from Wemba-Wemba mali; compare Woiwurrung mali.

mallee ringneck

Australian ringneck; Barnardius zonarius

The ecology of much Western Australian mallee is poorly understood, so only a few general points can be made here. Mallee dominated by eucalypts including Eucalyptus redunca and E. eremophilia is mapped as widespread (Beard, 1975) on areas of brown calcareous earths north of Esperance (Northcote et al., 1967).

1994, R. F. Parsons, “Eucalyptus Scrubs and Shrublands”, in R. H. Groves, editor, Australian Vegetation, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 301:

Large areas of mallee shrublands are now either reserved specifically for biodiversity conservation or else managed sympathetically. Fire is a prominent feature of the semi-arid lands in general and the mallee shrublands in particular.

2002, Ross A. Bradstock, Janet S. Cohn, “Fire Regimes and Biodiversity in Semi-arid Mallee Ecosystems”, in Ross A. Bradstock, Jann E. Williams, A. Malcolm Gill, editors, Flammable Australia: The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 238, column 2:

(Australia) A type of scrubland with low-growing thick eucalypts, characteristic of certain parts of Australia.

Although not totally destitute of animal life, in the summer season very few living creatures, beyond innumerable tribes of insects, are to be found within the Mallee.

1867 December, A. M., “Lost in the Mallee”, in The Colonial Monthly; an Australian Magazine, volume I (New Series), number 4, Melbourne, Vic.: Clarson, Massina, & Co., […]; Sydney: Gibbs, Shallard, & Co., published 1868, →OCLC, page 305:

'They're going to lynch you, Regerson,' Harry told him, grinning. 'You'd better take to the mallee before they come for you.'

1958, E. O. Schlunke, The Village Hampden: Stories, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, →OCLC:

It made no difference that he had also invented several ploughs and a device for grubbing Mallee country or that people had journeyed all the way from Melbourne to inspect them.

1985, Peter Carey, chapter 4, in Illywhacker, London: Faber and Faber, published 2003, →ISBN, page 365:

(Australia) Any semi-desert region of Australia where such scrub is the predominant vegetation.

An immense tract of country in this district is entirely occupied by a "scrub," as it is called in Colonial language, consisting of the mallee plant, Eucalyptus dumosa, the leaves of which at certain seasons become covered with this species of manna, which is known to the natives by the name of Lerp, the l being pronounced like the Italian gl.

1851 January, Thomas Anderson, “On a New Species of Manna from New South Wales. [...] (From the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for July, 1849.)”, in Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, volume I, part III, [Hobart], Tasmania: [Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land]; sold by Walch & Son, […]; Henry Dowling, […], →OCLC, pages 242–243:

The water-yielding Eucalyptus is one of the many species which pass under the name of Eucalyptus Dumosa, extending from the desert tributaries of the Murray, westward, as far as Swan River, constituting those almost impenetrable scrubs called Malleè.

1859, John Cairns, “Art. V.—On the Weir Malleè, a Water-yielding Tree, the Bulrush, and Porcupine Grass of Australia. … [Read before the Institute, 16th June, 1858.]”, in John Macadam, editor, Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, volume III, Melbourne, Vic.: Philosophical Institute of Victoria, →OCLC, page 32:

From the mallee and kurrajong trees came a rowdy chatter of parakeets, while queer soughing of air-currents came from the valley top.

1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 187:

It was almost dark by the time we reached a small rocky hill, its boulders bursting with the white plumes of spinifex in flower, and a black fuzz of leafless mallee bush.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 104:

(Australia) Any of several low-growing eucalypts characteristic of such scrubland, especially Eucalyptus dumosa, Eucalyptus oleosa, and Eucalyptus socialis.

[page 1-4, section 1.3] Of the many variations in form of the Eucalyptus (shrubs, mallees, trees, etc.), virtually all species being tested in the above category are those which exhibit good tree form (e.g., height, straightness of trunk, etc.). […] [page 2-1, section 2.2] Shrubby eucalypts are usually referred to as "mallees" although the term strictly applies to those species which have many stems growing from an enlarged rootstock (lignotuber).

1978 June, Eliseo O. Mariani, Warren A. Wood, Paul C. Kouchoukos, Mary Beth Minton, Marelco, Inc., “Introduction” and “The Eucalypts”, in The Eucalyptus Energy Farm: Feasibility Study and Demonstration: Phase 1: Site and Species Selection (HCP/T2557-01), Washington, D.C.: Division of Solar Technology, Office of Energy Technology, United States Department of Energy, →OCLC, pages 1-4 and 2-1:

Eucalypts with a mallee growth form can also be found in areas wetter than those already considered and where single-stemmed eucalypts predominate. This occurs in a variety of unfavourable habitats, either by normally single-stemmed eucalypts assuming a mallee habit (e.g., E. baxteri) or by the occurrence of distinct wet-country mallees of restricted distribution specific to such habitats.

1994, R. F. Parsons, “Eucalyptus Scrubs and Shrublands”, in R. H. Groves, editor, Australian Vegetation, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 292:

(botany, Australia) The growth habit of certain eucalypt species that grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber, shared by species of related genera.


mallee

[H]ence the slow progress hitherto made in the cultivation of such produce of the garden as is generally held in estimation by the European portion of the community, left as it generally is, to the simple Hindoo mallee (or gardener,) it is not to be wondered at, that our bazars want what are deemed the more delicate articles of vegetable production for the table; […]

1840, G. T. Frederic Speede, Indian Hand-book of Gardening; Containing Directions for the Management of the Kitchen and Flower Garden, etc. etc. in India: […], Calcutta: W. Thacker & Co. St. Andrew’s Library, →OCLC, page 1:

Prizes were awarded to ten other mallees for best samples of vegetables, fruits and flowers, and last though not least we have to note, that a prize of two rupees was awarded to the mallee of Robert Fulton, Esq., of Sultangunge, for a remarkably fine bunch of grapes, clearly showing that either the soil of Mr. Fulton's garden, the climate of Sultangunge, or the skill of that gentleman's gardener, are highly favorable to the growth, and bringing to maturity of this delicious fruit.

1848, “Report of Exhibitions of Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers and Agricultural Produce, Held at Bhaugulpore, on 11th February and 25th May, 1848. (Communicated by Major [T. E. A.] Napleton, Honorary Secretary Branch Agri-Horticultural Society.)”, in Journal of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India, volumes VI, part II (Correspondence and Selections), number 3, Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, →OCLC, page 125:

Telegram from Collector of Sylhet to Secretary Colonel Burne, No. 221; dated the 29th November 1871. Every necessary precaution taken to arrest spread of cholera: three camps formed, one for those attacked, one for the convalescents, one for the healthy. I sent down dhobies, sweepers, cooks, and mallees, last to dig trenches for burying the dead, when burning was not possible.

1871 November 29, “Cachar: Further Correspondence on the Subject of the Looshai Raids and the Consequent Hostilities (in Continuation of Paper, No. 398, of 1871)”, in Accounts and Papers: […], volumes X (East India—continued), [London]: […] The House of Commons, […], published 28 May 1872, →OCLC, page 301:

(India, South Asia) Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).


ingenerate

ingenerate (comparative more ingenerate, superlative most ingenerate)

more ingenerate (comparative)
most ingenerate (superlative)

/ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹət/

/ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹeɪt/

Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime
 That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Those virtues were […]rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature.

1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:


unfriend

en-verb

unfriend (third-person singular simple present unfriends, present participle unfriending, simple past and past participle unfriended)

unfriends (present singular third-person)
unfriending (participle present)
unfriended (participle past)
unfriended (past)
un-friend (alternative)

From un- (verb prefix) + friend. Compare Dutch ontvrienden (“to unfriend”), German entfreunden (“to unfriend”).

"I asked her why, she said it was because I didn't comment, and I shrugged and said whatever. I didn't unfriend her."

2007, Mia Consalvo, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Internet Research Annual: Volume 4:

Without unfriending someone, you can now choose to limit or block (unsubscribe) someone from your newsfeed or choose to see only what Facebook deems as very important.

2013, Nils Smith, Social Media Guide for Ministry: What It Is and How to Use It:

(social media) To defriend; to remove from one's friends list (e.g. on a social networking website).


misrhyme

In this poem his 'vernacular' bluster and garish misrhymes build to a pitch of rowdy anarchy; 'lanes' rhymes with 'sardines', 'bucket' with 'like it', 'toad-like' with 'hard luck' and 'blarney' with 'money' […]

2014, James Booth, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, page 190:


misrhyme

misrhyme (third-person singular simple present misrhymes, present participle misrhyming, simple past and past participle misrhymed)

misrhymes (present singular third-person)
misrhyming (participle present)
misrhymed (participle past)
misrhymed (past)

It is an open question whether or not Blake misrhymed deliberately.

1965, Alicia Ostriker, Vision and Verse in William Blake:


outride

(equestrianism) A trip on a horse outside an enclosed area, a trip on a horse in the open.


misparse

misparse (third-person singular simple present misparses, present participle misparsing, simple past and past participle misparsed)

misparses (present singular third-person)
misparsing (participle present)
misparsed (participle past)
misparsed (past)


misdate

misdate (third-person singular simple present misdates, present participle misdating, simple past and past participle misdated)

misdates (present singular third-person)
misdating (participle present)
misdated (participle past)
misdated (past)

(transitive) To date incorrectly; to mark with the wrong date.


rewatch

It's not the best film I've ever seen, but it probably deserves a rewatch.


contentful

en-adj

contentful (comparative more contentful, superlative most contentful)

more contentful (comparative)
most contentful (superlative)

How contentful the whole life is of him, that neither deviseth mischief against others, nor suspects any to be contrived against himself.

a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of a Peaceable Temper”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

With the setting sun sending long shadows loping ahead of them over the smooth hillocks of the downs, they came up with the lagoon; a contentful return home, with appetite brisked up by a ten-mile walk, and plenty of food to satisfy it.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 63:


techy

Variant of tetchy, of uncertain etymology.

(obsolete) Alternative spelling of tetchy.


reupload

en-verb

reupload (third-person singular simple present reuploads, present participle reuploading, simple past and past participle reuploaded)

reuploads (present singular third-person)
reuploading (participle present)
reuploaded (participle past)
reuploaded (past)
re-upload (alternative)

/ɹiːʌpˈləʊd/

/ɹiːˈʌpləʊd/


unperfect

en-adj

unperfect (comparative more unperfect, superlative most unperfect)

more unperfect (comparative)
most unperfect (superlative)

As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put besides his part

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 23”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

'But this,' said Musidorus, 'shows you more unperfect, to be cruel to him that submits himself unto you. But since you are unperfect,' said he, smiling, 'it is reason you be governed by us wise and perfect men.

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:


contentless

From content (“subject matter”) + -less.

a beautiful but essentially contentless book


unblessed

The god, vindictive, doom'd them never more / (Ah, men unbless'd!) to touch that natal shore.

1725, Homer, “Book I”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:


Tamar

From Latin Tamarus, possibly from Proto-Celtic *tamaros (“river, waters”, literally “dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *tm̥Hrós, from *temH- (“dark”). See more at Thames.

der

A river in the Australian state of Tasmania, named after the English river.


posho

en-noun

posho (usually uncountable, plural poshos)

Borrowed from Swahili posho, itself from English portion.

(East Africa) A food product made of cornmeal.


matric

matric (countable and uncountable, plural matrics)

(South Africa) The final year of high school.

Once, when some money disappeared […], it was Ben who took the cleaner under his wing and instituted inquiries which revealed a group of matric boys to be the culprits.

1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 37:

(South Africa) Someone in their final year of high school.

matriek

someone in their final year of high school


misgo

en-verb

misgo (third-person singular simple present misgoes, present participle misgoing, simple past miswent, past participle misgone)

misgoes (present singular third-person)
misgoing (participle present)
miswent (past)
misgone (participle past)

From Middle English misgon, equivalent to mis- + go.

Brother Samson, in the time of the Antipopes, had been sent to Rome on business; and, returning successful, was too late,—the business had all misgone in the interim!

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 6, Monk Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing.

1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], chapter 45, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:

(intransitive, now rare or dialect) To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.


retard

/ɹɪˈtɑː(ɹ)d/

From Middle English retarden, from Anglo-Norman or Latin, from Anglo-Norman retarder, from Latin retardāre (“to retard”), from re- + tardus (“slow”).

(music) A slowing down of the tempo; a ritardando.

The retard in our class needs special help.

(offensive, dated) A person with mental retardation.

“That's 'cause your dog is a retard,” the large woman retorted. The pit bull must have sensed the insult because it got up on all fours and started barking at the woman. Not one to back down from an interspecies fight, the prison lady stood up […]

2007, Doug Green, No Wife No Kids No Plan, →ISBN:

(informal, offensive) A person or being who is extremely stupid or slow to learn.

idioot

a stupid person, or one who is slow to learn


retard

retard (third-person singular simple present retards, present participle retarding, simple past and past participle retarded)

retards (present singular third-person)
retarding (participle present)
retarded (participle past)
retarded (past)

accelerate

antonym(s) of “keep delaying, continue to hinder”

/ɹɪˈtɑː(ɹ)d/

Some years it [The River Nile] hath also retarded, and come far later than usually it was expected

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:


misfeed

From Middle English *misfeden, from Old English misfēdan; equivalent to mis- + feed.

A fault in a mechanical feed mechanism (in the paper pick-up of a printer, for example).


tear up

tear up (third-person singular simple present tears up, present participle tearing up, simple past and past participle teared up)

tears up (present singular third-person)
tearing up (participle present)
teared up (participle past)
teared up (past)

See: tear (“liquid that falls from the eyes”).

After seeing Johnny tear up at that cheesy movie, I knew he was a loser.


forestal

forestal (third-person singular simple present forestals, present participle forestalling, simple past and past participle forestalled)

forestals (present singular third-person)
forestalling (participle present)
forestalled (participle past)
forestalled (past)


forestal

/ˈfɔɚɹəstəl/

(uncommon) Relating to forestry (cultivating forests for harvest).


misfare

misfare (third-person singular simple present misfares, present participle misfaring, simple past and past participle misfared)

misfares (present singular third-person)
misfaring (participle present)
misfared (participle past)
misfared (past)

From Old English misfaran, corresponding to mis- + fare.

(obsolete) To go astray; to transgress, to sin.


boose

From Middle English bousen (verb) and bouse (noun).

1922, A.E Housman, "The Oracles"
'Tis true there's better boose than brine, but he that drowns must drink it;
And oh, my lass, the news is news that men have heard before.

Sucking duck eggs by God till further orders. Keep him off the boose, see? O, by God, Blazes is a hairy chap.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:


boose

boose (third-person singular simple present booses, present participle boosing, simple past and past participle boosed)

booses (present singular third-person)
boosing (participle present)
boosed (participle past)
boosed (past)

Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?

1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman:


interminate

en-adj

interminate (comparative more interminate, superlative most interminate)

more interminate (comparative)
most interminate (superlative)

Within a thicket I reposed; when round / I ruffled up fall'n leaves in heap; and found, / Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate.

1614–1615, Homer, “The Seventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, page 165, lines 395–397:

Without end or limit; boundless, infinite, interminable.


sise

In the new casting of a die, when ace is on the top, sise must needs be at the bottom.

1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):


fusome

fusome (comparative more fusome, superlative most fusome)

more fusome (comparative)
most fusome (superlative)
fusom (alternative)
fusum (alternative)
feusome (alternative)
fewsome (alternative)

From Middle English *fussom, equivalent to fouse (eager, ready, brave, noble) + -some.

She was...as douce and fewsome as ony woman's bairn

1867, Eliza Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg:

(UK, dialect, obsolete) Neat; handsome, comely, shapely, attractive.


overwind

en-noun

overwind (countable and uncountable, plural overwinds)

A wind that moves over or above an object.


ush

(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ushojo.


plicate

en-adj

plicate (comparative more plicate, superlative most plicate)

more plicate (comparative)
most plicate (superlative)

From Latin plicātus, perfect passive participle of plicō (“to fold”), see -ate.

(biology) Folded multiple times lengthwise like a fan, usually lending stiffness to a flat structure such as a leaf; corrugated; pleated.


ingeminate

en-verb

ingeminate (third-person singular simple present ingeminates, present participle ingeminating, simple past and past participle ingeminated)

ingeminates (present singular third-person)
ingeminating (participle present)
ingeminated (participle past)
ingeminated (past)

Borrowed from the participle stem of Latin ingeminō (“repeat, reiterate”).

we found a black pavillion; in it three old Arabians; who, out of their Alcoran ingeminated a dolefull requiem to their Brothers carcasse, over which they sat […]

1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section II:

(transitive) To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.


ingeminate

en-adj

ingeminate (comparative more ingeminate, superlative most ingeminate)

more ingeminate (comparative)
most ingeminate (superlative)

It is an ingeminate expression of our labours . And that supposes us to have faculties capable of improvement

1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old:


miscut

en-noun

miscut (countable and uncountable, plural miscuts)

(philately) Incorrect separation of postage stamps; a postage stamp resulted from such an error.


Jelena

/d͡ʒəˈliːnə/

“Jelena” ended their almost two year relationship just a week ago when, as reports state, Justin wouldn't “be her boyfriend” any more.

2012 November 29, Brittany Lander, “Bieber BreakUp (Boo-Hoo)”, in Red & Black, volume 104, number 11, Washington & Jefferson College, page 17:

By fall 2011, “Jelena”—the cosmically cute combo of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez—was official.

2013, Nadia Higgins, Justin Bieber: Pop and R & B Idol, Lerner Publications Company, →ISBN, page 26:

On Jan. 4, Justin Bieber posted a picture — an usie — on Instagram of him and Selena Gomez, captioned “Love the way you look at me.” Only time and paparazzi will tell if Jelena will once again go strong.

2014 January 8, “Trending”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 3B:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez.


overset

en-verb

overset (third-person singular simple present oversets, present participle oversetting, simple past and past participle overset)

oversets (present singular third-person)
oversetting (participle present)
overset (participle past)
overset (past)
overset (infinitive)
overset (first-person present singular)
overset (first-person past singular)
overset (present second-person singular)
oversettest (archaic present second-person singular)
overset (past second-person singular)
oversettedst (archaic past second-person singular)
oversets (present singular third-person)
oversetteth (archaic present singular third-person)
overset (past singular third-person)
overset (plural present)
overset (past plural)
overset (present subjunctive)
overset (past subjunctive)
overset (imperative present)
oversetting (participle present)
overset (participle past)
over-set (alternative)

/ˌoʊvəɹˈsɛt/

PIE word
 *upér
The verb is derived from Middle English oversetten (“to place or set over, cover; to assail; to defeat, overcome, overpower, overthrow; to defer; to discredit, refute; to disregard, overlook, set aside; to hinder; to oppress; to repulse”), from Old English ofersettan (“to put in a position of authority; to overcome or be overcome; to set over”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubarsattjan (“to place above, set over; to establish, install”), from *ubarsittjan (“to abstain from, neglect; to occupy, possess; to sit over or upon”), from *ubar- (prefix meaning ‘above, over’) + *sittjan (“to sit”) (from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”)). By surface analysis, over- (prefix meaning ‘above, higher; excessive, excessively’) + set (verb). Doublet of oversit.
Sense 1.2.3 (“to translate (a text)”) is probably a calque of German übersetzen.
The adjective is derived from overset, the past participle form of the verb. The noun is also derived from the verb.
cognates
* Dutch overzetten (“to ferry, transport, translate”)
* Old High German ubarsezzen (Middle High German übersetzen, modern German übersetzen (“to cross over, translate”))
* Saterland Frisian uursätte (“to cross over, translate”)
* Swedish översätta (“to translate”)
* West Frisian oersette (“to translate”)

cog

It [tobacco] is a good Companion to one that converſeth vvith dead Men [i.e., reads books], for if one hath been poring long upon a Book, or is toil'd vvith the Pen, and ſtupified vvith Study, it quickneth him, and diſpels thoſe Clouds that uſually o'erſet the Brain.

1646 January 11 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “VII. To Henry Hopkins, Esq”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume III, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section VI, page 403:

(rare) To come to rest over (something); to settle.


overset

/ˌoʊvəɹˈsɛt/

They groped their way, pushing and panting, to the road again, where, beholding the overset buggy with its wheels ludicrously in the air, they suddenly seized and shook each other, and in an outburst of hilarious ecstasy, fairly laughed until the tears came into their eyes.

1893, Bret Harte, chapter II, in Susy: A Story of the Plains, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 26:

A pitiless hail was hissing round me, and I was sitting on soft turf in front of the overset machine.

1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Time Travelling”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 32:

We had gone but a few paces along the pier when we came upon an old man, who was evidently a watchman, for he sat in an overset barrel, close to a place where masons had lately been working upon a break in the pier, and had in front of him a fire such as one sees slung under tinkers' carts.

1914 April, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, “Rosa Alchemica”, in Stories of Red Hanrahan; The Secret Rose; Rosa Alchemica, new edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, section III, page 212:

Having been overset (verb sense).
Capsized, overturned, upset.


overset

en-noun

overset (countable and uncountable, plural oversets)

/ˌoʊvəɹˈsɛt/

/ˈoʊvəɹˌsɛt/

(journalism, printing, uncountable) Copy or type set in excess of a given space; (countable) an instance of this.

ylijuokseva teksti

copy or type set in excess of a given space; an instance of this


overside

[…] that is, glued to the underside of one card and the overside of the next, thus keeping their edges close and parallel to each other, […]

1882, English mechanic and world of science: Volume 34 - Page 547

While the overside of the tiles was well smoothed, the underside was in general left crude and rough.

1981, Berit Wells, Opuscula Romana XIII: Volume 13:

This chapter contains some of the most humorous writing on the overside of the narrative, and the most serious on the underside.

The side facing up or positioned above; the topside; surface.


overstrike

en-verb

overstrike (third-person singular simple present overstrikes, present participle overstriking, simple past overstruck, past participle overstruck or (rare) overstricken)

overstrikes (present singular third-person)
overstriking (participle present)
overstruck (past)
overstruck (participle past)
overstricken (participle past rare)

/ˈəʊvəstɹʌɪk/

/əʊvəˈstɹʌɪk/

For as he in his rage him overstrooke, / He, ere he could his weapon backe repaire, / His side all bare and naked overtooke, / And with his mortal steel quite through the body strooke.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(obsolete, reflexive) To overreach oneself while striking.

(transitive) To cover up (a design, mark etc.) by stamping another on top of it; to superimpose a mark or logo on (a coin, stamp, etc.).


overstrike

en-noun

overstrike (countable and uncountable, plural overstrikes)

/ˈəʊvəstɹʌɪk/

/əʊvəˈstɹʌɪk/

(numismatics) A coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once.

(computing, uncountable) overtype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them)


elater

From New Latin elatēr, from Ancient Greek ἐλατήρ (elatḗr, “driver, that which drives away”).


overgo

en-verb

overgo (third-person singular simple present overgoes, present participle overgoing, simple past overwent, past participle overgone)

overgoes (present singular third-person)
overgoing (participle present)
overwent (past)
overgone (participle past)

From Middle English overgon, from Old English ofergān (“to pass over, beyond, across, traverse, cross, transgress, overstep, overrun, overcome, overspread, conquer, come upon, overtake, seize, attack, pass off, pass away, end, overreach”), equivalent to over- + go. Cognate with Dutch overgaan, German übergehen, Swedish övergå.

inh

O, what cause have I, / Thine being but a moiety of my grief, / To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

He seeks to persuade the queen not merely to emulate the Amazons' vigilant territoriality but to overgo them by emulating the Spaniards' rampant invasiveness.

1992, Domna C Stanton, Discourses of Sexuality, page 177:


three-legged

/θɹiːˈlɛɡɪd/

(informal, vulgar) Having a large penis.


underlook

en-verb

underlook (third-person singular simple present underlooks, present participle underlooking, simple past and past participle underlooked)

underlooks (present singular third-person)
underlooking (participle present)
underlooked (participle past)
underlooked (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underlook.wav

From Middle English underloken (“to be suspicious of; look at with mistrust”), equivalent to under- + look.

inh

Existing review research has focused on specific terms, underlooking important developments in the area.

2020, Vera Ferreira et al., “Stakeholders' Engagement on Nature-Based Solutions: A Systematic Literature Review”, in Sustainability, volume 12, number 620, page 19:

The CHAIRMAN. I am not overlooking anything. I am just making inquiry of you for information.
Mr. THOMSON. I know you do not overlook anything.
The CHAIRMAN. I am not overlooking or underlooking, but just listening to you and trying to get your viewpoint.

1950, Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-First Congress, Second Session, volume 2, page 2656:

To fail to notice because one is looking too low (found in complement with overlook, as if it meant "to fail to notice because one is looking too high").


imped

(especially of feathers in falconry) Engrafted, eked, implanted; supplemented by imping.


messer

Borrowed from Italian messer, which is itself a truncated form of messere. Doublet of monsieur.

(obsolete, of an Italian person) Form of address equivalent to signore.


decan

(Egyptology, astrology) One of a collection of 36 small constellations or zodiacal subdivisions that appear heliacally at intervals of 10 days or are separated by approximately 10 degrees.


dimidiate

From Latin dīmidiātus, past participle of dīmidiāre (“to halve”).

a dimidiate leaf, which has only one side developed

Consisting of only one half of what the normal condition requires; having the appearance of lacking one half.

dimidiate hermaphroditism

Having the organs of one side, or half, different in function from the corresponding organs on the other side.


dimidiate

en-verb

dimidiate (third-person singular simple present dimidiates, present participle dimidiating, simple past and past participle dimidiated)

dimidiates (present singular third-person)
dimidiating (participle present)
dimidiated (participle past)
dimidiated (past)

[…] hybridization in the same vein is the beast shown as supporters to arms granted in 1971, where a unicorn dimidiates a lion rampant.

1973, Rhodesiana, numbers 28–31, The Rhodesia Africana Society, page 36:

(transitive, heraldry) To represent one half of, or undergo dimidiation with.


underwork

underwork (third-person singular simple present underworks, present participle underworking, simple past and past participle underworked or (archaic) underwrought)

underworks (present singular third-person)
underworking (participle present)
underworked (participle past)
underworked (past)
underwrought (archaic participle past)
underwrought (archaic past)

[H]e raiſeth (in priuate) a nevv Inſtrument, one Sertorius Macro, and by him vndervvorketh, diſcouers the others Coũſells [i.e., counsels], his Means, his Ends, […]

1605, Ben[jamin] Jonson, “The Argument”, in Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, →OCLC, , signature [A4], recto:

(intransitive, obsolete) To work or operate in secret or clandestinely.


sidewind

sidewind (third-person singular simple present sidewinds, present participle sidewinding, simple past and past participle sidewinded or sidewound)

sidewinds (present singular third-person)
sidewinding (participle present)
sidewinded (participle past)
sidewinded (past)
sidewound (participle past)
sidewound (past)

(intransitive) To move sideways, especially in a series of S-shaped curves


odic

en-adj

odic (comparative more odic, superlative most odic)

more odic (comparative)
most odic (superlative)

From od + -ic, modelled after German odisch.

Reichenbach has detected, or fancies that he has detected a force, which he designates the odic force, distinct from magnetism and electricity, by which many of the more recondite phenomena of nature are apparently effected.

1853, Southern Literary Messenger, volume 19, page 389:

Such was the origin of the delusions of "animal magnetism," and "odic" and "psychic" force—claims that belong to cerebro-physiology, a department of science that is now but just passing out of the territorial into the organized stage.

1878 July, George Miller Beard, The Scientific Study of Human Testimony, Part III, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 13

With his death, not only the odic theory but the whole conception of animal magnetism would appear to have been buried and forgotten, the only references, as this one from Garrison's History of Medicine, being of a disparaging nature: ‘The whole subject was exploited in various mystic forms ... by Baron von Reichenbach, whose concept of odic force still survives in ouija boards and odic telephones.’

1973, Aubrey T. Westlake, The Pattern of Health: A Search for a Greater Understanding of the Life Force in Health and Disease, page 32:

(pseudoscience, historical) Synonym of odylic (“of or pertaining to the od or odyle (“a hypothetical force or natural power, now proved not to exist, which was supposed by Carl Reichenbach and others to inhere in certain people and produce phenomena such as animal magnetism and mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by chemical or vital action, heat, light, magnets, etc.”)”)


overdate

en-verb

overdate (third-person singular simple present overdates, present participle overdating, simple past and past participle overdated)

overdates (present singular third-person)
overdating (participle present)
overdated (participle past)
overdated (past)

And had he also redeem'd his overdated minority from a Pupillage under Bishops, he would much less have mistrusted his Parlament[…]

(transitive) To date later than the true or proper period.


misfield

misfield (third-person singular simple present misfields, present participle misfielding, simple past and past participle misfielded)

misfields (present singular third-person)
misfielding (participle present)
misfielded (participle past)
misfielded (past)

The verb is derived from mis- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + field (verb). The noun is derived from the verb.

prefix

(transitive) To field (“catch or intercept and play”) (a ball) clumsily or ineptly; in cricket this can result in the batsman scoring another run.


uprush

en-verb

uprush (third-person singular simple present uprushes, present participle uprushing, simple past and past participle uprushed)

uprushes (present singular third-person)
uprushing (participle present)
uprushed (participle past)
uprushed (past)


impassionate

en-adj

impassionate (comparative more impassionate, superlative most impassionate)

more impassionate (comparative)
most impassionate (superlative)
empassionate (alternative obsolete)

From Italian impassionato. By surface analysis, in- (“into”) + passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

surf

/ɪmˈpæʃənət/

The Briton Prince was ſore empaſſionate, / And woxe inclined much vnto her part, [...]

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 46, page 309:

It is essential, as in Milton, that poetry be simple, sensuous, and impassionate:—simple that it may appeal to the elements and the primary laws of our nature; sensuous, since it is only by sensuous images that we can elicit truth at a flash; impassionate since images must be vivid, in order to move our passions and awake our affections.

1813, J. Payne Collier, quoting Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets, Kessinger Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, III. Lectures on Shakspere and Milton, At Bristol, page 459:

“Well sir,” exclaimed a lady, the vehement and impassionate partizan of Wilkes, in the day of his glory, and during the broad blaze of his patriotism,—“well sir! and will you dare deny, the Mr. Wikles is a great man, and an eloquent men?”

1817 July, Joseph Deniie, John Elihu Hall, “The Adversaria”, in The Port Folio for 1817, volume 4, number 1, Harrison Hall, page 40:

Young ministers, deeply impressed and longing to pour out the burning, impassionate zeal of their own souls, are apt to abuse the use of this figure.

1900, George P. Hott, Christ, the Teacher, U. B. Publishing House, page 81

The first and main reason is the fact that after the disobedience of Adam, his body received the whole of its existence and constitutions from physical pleasure that is impassionate and irrational.

1989 [1801], Pater A Chambers, Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain: A Handbook fo Spiritual Counsel, Paulist Press, translation of Symvouleftikon Encherirdion by Nicodemos the Hagiorite, →ISBN, Chapter Two: Concerning the Mind, page 76:

And then what about Margaret Mead? IS it just coincidence that the most impassionate ethnographic disputes of the decade are swirling around the figure of her who was first mother of Media Anthropology?

1990, David W. Plath, “Fieldnotes, Field Notes, and the Conferring of Note”, in Roger Sanjeck, editor, Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, From Fieldnotes to Ethnography, page 384:


impassionate

en-verb

impassionate (third-person singular simple present impassionates, present participle impassionating, simple past and past participle impassionated)

impassionates (present singular third-person)
impassionating (participle present)
impassionated (participle past)
impassionated (past)
empassionate (alternative obsolete)

From the above adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Equivalent to in- (“into”) + passion + -ate.

/ɪmˈpæʃənət/

our Saviour Christ was one while deeply impassionated with Sorrow, another while very strongly carried away with Žeal and Anger

1662, Henry More, The Defence of the Moral Cabbala:

(transitive) to affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of


impassionate

/ɪmˈpæʃənət/

Various old ladies in the neighbourhood spoke of him as The Last of the Patriarchs. So grey, so slow, so quiet, so impassionate, so very bumpy in the head, Patriarch was the word for him.

1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Patriarchal”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 105:

“Try to serve well and to show yourself worthy,” he added, turning sternly to Borís. “I am glad— Are you here on leave?” he recited, in his impassionate voice.

1869, Leo Wiener, War and Peace, volume 2, BiblioBazaar, translation of Война и мир by Leo Tolstoy, published 1957, →ISBN, page 77:

From a scholarly standpoint, the book was poorly written: Scholarly works demand keen attention to logical consistency while maintaining an impersonal, impassionate voice; and while the Course certainly lack humour, it is anything but impassionate, and far from being logically consistent.

2005, Alexander T. Newport, The Vomit Factory (Life Is Fake: Death Is Good), Lulu.com, →ISBN, Chapter 15: Letter to Veronica, pages 96–97:


misclick

It takes time, dedication, curiosity, and a hint of stubbornness to get past the missteps and misclicks. Every image you work on today teaches you strategy and skills for the image you'll open tomorrow.

2005, Katrin Eismann, Wayne Palmer, Photoshop restoration and retouching:

(computing) A click of a computer mouse that is inaccurate and therefore fails to perform the desired action.


misclick

misclick (third-person singular simple present misclicks, present participle misclicking, simple past and past participle misclicked)

misclicks (present singular third-person)
misclicking (participle present)
misclicked (participle past)
misclicked (past)

(computing, ambitransitive) To perform an erroneous click with a computer mouse.


terebrate

/ˈtɛɹɪbɹeɪt/

From Latin terebratus, past participle of terebrare.


terebrate

terebrate (third-person singular simple present terebrates, present participle terebrating, simple past and past participle terebrated)

terebrates (present singular third-person)
terebrating (participle present)
terebrated (participle past)
terebrated (past)

/ˈtɛɹɪbɹeɪt/

the threefold effect of Jupiter's trisulk , to burn , discuss , and terebrate

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:


calceate

From Latin calceātus, participle of calceāre (“to shoe, to provide with shoes”), from calceus (“calceus, shoe”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y”, adjective-forming suffix). Equivalent to Latin calceus + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

af

(rare) Synonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as opposed to the barefoot mendicant orders.


venenate

en-adj

venenate (comparative more venenate, superlative most venenate)

more venenate (comparative)
most venenate (superlative)

Latin venenatus, past participle of venenare (“to poison”), from venenum (“poison, venom”).

Arſenick, red, […] They give this in Fevers after Calcination, by which means the venenate Parts are carried off.

1728, J[ohn] Woodward, “[A Catalogue of the Foreign Fossils in the Collection of J. Woodward M.D. […] Part I […].] Lapides Venarum; seu materia lapidea varia in Venis Metallicis aliisque stratorum Saxeorum Fissuris, reperta. Vein-Stones. Sales, Salts.”, in A Catalogue of the Additional English Native Fossils, in the Collection of J. Woodward M.D., tome II, London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn] Senex, […]; and J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, […], →OCLC, page 22:


foredeal

foredeals (plural)
fordele (alternative)
fordeal (alternative)
fordeale (alternative)
forthdeal (alternative)
fordell (alternative)
fordel (alternative)

From earlier fordele, from Middle English foredel, foredele. Equivalent to fore- + deal. Compare Saterland Frisian Foardeel (“advantage, gain, benefit, profit”), Dutch voordeel, Low German fortel, German Vorteil (“advantage”), Danish fordel, Swedish fördel. More at fore-, deal.

cog

(UK dialectal, Scotland) Progress; advancement.


mischarge

en-verb

mischarge (third-person singular simple present mischarges, present participle mischarging, simple past and past participle mischarged)

mischarges (present singular third-person)
mischarging (participle present)
mischarged (participle past)
mischarged (past)


sloughy

en-adj

sloughy (comparative more sloughy, superlative most sloughy)

more sloughy (comparative)
most sloughy (superlative)

From slough (“shed skin; dead skin”) + -y.


breaky

en-noun

breaky (countable and uncountable, plural breakies)


redintegrate

/ɹɛˈdɪntɪɡɹət/

/ɹɪˈdɪntɪɡɹət/

From the Latin redintegrātus (“restored or renewed”, “refreshed or revived”), the perfect passive participle of redintegrō.

uder

Charles the Eighth, the French king , by the virtue and good fortune of his two immediate predecessors , Charles the Seventh , his grandfather , and Lewis the Eleventh , his father , received the kingdom of France in more flourishing and spread estate than it had been of many years before ; being redintegrate in those principal members

1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

(obsolete) Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed.


stercorate

en-verb

stercorate (third-person singular simple present stercorates, present participle stercorating, simple past and past participle stercorated)

stercorates (present singular third-person)
stercorating (participle present)
stercorated (participle past)
stercorated (past)


fatigate

en-adj

fatigate (comparative more fatigate, superlative most fatigate)

more fatigate (comparative)
most fatigate (superlative)

he suffre nat the childe to be fatigate with continuall studie or lernyng

1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:

Requickened what in flesh was fatigate.

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

The young Englishman […] never fatigate, nor despondent, nor overthrown by any demand.

2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 68:


Gala

A type of apple, a cross-pollination between Kidd's Orange Red and Golden Delicious.


color coordinate

en-noun

color coordinate (plural color coordinates)

color coordinates (plural)
color-coordinate (alternative)
colour coordinate (alternative)

(colorimetry) Each value in a set of coordinates representing the position of a color in a color space.


retime

en-verb

retime (third-person singular simple present retimes, present participle retiming, simple past and past participle retimed)

retimes (present singular third-person)
retiming (participle present)
retimed (participle past)
retimed (past)

Train services will be retimed tomorrow because of strike action.

Many of the remaining trains have been retimed and where possible freight trains have also been diverted to alternative routes.

1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:

(transitive) To reschedule for another time.


misbid

misbid (third-person singular simple present misbids, present participle misbidding, simple past misbid or misbad or misbade, past participle misbidden)

misbids (present singular third-person)
misbidding (participle present)
misbid (past)
misbad (past)
misbade (past)
misbidden (participle past)

From the fusion of Middle English misbidden (to mistreat; equivalent to mis- + bid) and Middle English misbeden (“to mistreat; abuse; outrage; offend; insult”), from Old English misbēodan (“to ill-use, injure, do wrong to, announce wrongly”), equivalent to mis- + bid (“to offer, declare”).

inh

After apologizing profusely for his errors on the first two hands, he misbid the last hand and they ended up in fifth place.

2004, Jim Priebe, Takeout Double: A Bridge Mystery:

(ambitransitive, card games) To bid incorrectly; bid higher or lower than actual.


overdeal

Among the people (of Rome) beſide x. modij of corne, & as many pints of oyle, he diſtributed & dealt 300 Seſterces alſo by the poll, vvhich hee had in times paſt promiſed, vvith an overdeale of 100. a peece to boote, for time.

1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Caius Iulius Cesar Dictator”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 38, page 16:


overdeal

en-verb

overdeal (third-person singular simple present overdeals, present participle overdealing, simple past and past participle overdealt)

overdeals (present singular third-person)
overdealing (participle present)
overdealt (participle past)
overdealt (past)

Extended family issues (Mom overdeals with his family and Dad underdeals with his family).

2003, Carol Ummel Lindquist, Happily Married with Kids: It's Not Just a Fairy Tale, →ISBN, page 6:

To deal too much or too many (for example, playing cards)


diminute

en-adj

diminute (comparative more diminute, superlative most diminute)

more diminute (comparative)
most diminute (superlative)

From Middle English diminute, from Latin dīminūtus and Old French diminut.

prices made diminute and lessened to such proportions and abatements as that fault should make

1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC:


incrustate

incrustate (comparative more incrustate, superlative most incrustate)

more incrustate (comparative)
most incrustate (superlative)

/ɪŋˈkɹʌstət/

the finer part will be turned into air , and the grosser stick as it were baked , and incrustate upon the sides of the vessel

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:


overlight

en-verb

overlight (third-person singular simple present overlights, present participle overlighting, simple past and past participle overlit or overlighted)

overlights (present singular third-person)
overlighting (participle present)
overlit (participle past)
overlit (past)
overlighted (participle past)
overlighted (past)

Dozens of times over the next two years, Officer Yan’s work brought him through the sliding glass doors into the overlit clamor of Kings County’s emergency room, one of the busiest in the city.

2007 July 15, Andy Newman, “In Hospital Scrubs and Officer’s Blues, a Kinship”, in New York Times:

(transitive) To illuminate too brightly.


foveate

en-adj

foveate (comparative more foveate, superlative most foveate)

more foveate (comparative)
most foveate (superlative)

From fovea + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

(anatomy, of a bone or organ, lichenology) Having slight depressions or pits.


forehold

en-verb

forehold (third-person singular simple present foreholds, present participle foreholding, simple past foreheld, past participle foreheld or (obsolete) foreholden)

foreholds (present singular third-person)
foreholding (participle present)
foreheld (past)
foreheld (participle past)
foreholden (obsolete participle past)

From fore- (prefix meaning ‘occurring beforehand; earlier, prior to’) + hold (“to maintain; to consider, opine”). Hold is derived from Middle English holden (“to grasp; to possess; to hold (a belief or opinion”), from Old English healdan (“to grasp, hold fast; to possess”), from Proto-West Germanic *haldan (“to hold; to keep”), from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to hold; to keep”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”).

inh

Instead of that he has encountered nothing but harsh criticism, unkindly dispositions, even on the part of his relatives, and he naturally drifted into places and surroundings where legitimate sympathy was not foreheld.

1902, J. F. Hultgen, “Infantile Hemiplegia and Inebriety”, in Bulletin of Iowa Institutions (under the Board of Control), volume IV, Dubuque, Iowa: Herald Printing Company, →OCLC, page 463:

Or he may call "he who foreholds" the one who wants and receives, rather than the one who confers first: he calls […]

2001, Aspasius, [anonymous], Michael of Ephesus, translated by David Konstan, On Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8–9 (The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle), London: Duckworth, →ISBN:

In a case regarding hazardous waste disposal, the [European] Commission ordered recovery for that part of the operating aid, which did not concern foreholding a capacity for waste treatment, but rather for the acquisition of commercial hazardous waste.

2006, Annette Kliemann, “Aid for Environmental Protection”, in Michael Sánchez Rydelski, editor, The EC State Aid Regime: Distortive Effects of State Aid on Competition and Trade, London: Cameron May, →ISBN, page 325:

(transitive, rare) To hold or believe (something) beforehand; to assume; to anticipate, to predict.


betear

en-verb

betear (third-person singular simple present betears, present participle betearing, simple past betore, past participle betorn)

betears (present singular third-person)
betearing (participle present)
betore (past)
betorn (participle past)

(transitive, obsolete) To tear; tear around the sides of; tatter.


betear

betear (third-person singular simple present betears, present participle betearing, simple past and past participle beteared)

betears (present singular third-person)
betearing (participle present)
beteared (participle past)
beteared (past)


prejudicate

prejudicate (third-person singular simple present prejudicates, present participle prejudicating, simple past and past participle prejudicated)

prejudicates (present singular third-person)
prejudicating (participle present)
prejudicated (participle past)
prejudicated (past)
præjudicate (alternative)

Borrowed from Latin praeiūdicātus, past participle of praeiūdicō (“pre-judge”). Doublet of prejudge.

the Florentine will moue vs
 For speedie ayde: wherein our deerest friend
 Preiudicates the businesse, and would seeme
 To haue vs make deniall.

c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

(ambitransitive, now rare) To determine beforehand, especially rashly; to prejudge.


misbeat

misbeat (third-person singular simple present misbeats, present participle misbeating, simple past misbeat, past participle misbeaten or (colloquial) misbeat)

misbeats (present singular third-person)
misbeating (participle present)
misbeat (past)
misbeaten (participle past)
misbeat (colloquial participle past)

The assistant's role is not a minor one: When they become shaman, after they start in, his assistants have to know just what song to sing and how to beat the drum. If they misbeat the drum, the shaman just become normal again.

1996, David Levinson, Religion: a cross-cultural encyclopedia:

“I fear he will not be with us beyond the winter. He has already had two problems with his heart, which grows continually weaker.” “How weak?” “Twice it has misbeat. The third time may prove fatal.”

2000, Peter Tremayne, Hemlock at Vespers: fifteen Sister Fidelma mysteries:

(transitive, intransitive) To beat out of rhythm; beat incorrectly.


misyield

On poorer medium soils mixed grain still gives a satisfactory yield where each single component, grown by itself, would often result in a misyield.

1943, Königliche Preussische Landes-Oekonomie-Kollegium, Prussia (Germany). Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Domänen und Forsten, Germany. Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, Landwirtschaftliche Jahrbücher

In the aforegoing examples the term "misyield" is employed to indicate that portion of the material treated which is not true sink or float material and is considered as a loss unless recycled.

1959, H. Schranz, PROCESS OF REDUCING THE CONSISTENCY OF:

A bad, wrong, or incorrect yield or product.


misfall

From Middle English misfallen, equivalent to mis- + fall. Cognate with Dutch misvallen (“to misfall, miss in falling, displease, miscarry”), German missfallen (“to displease”), Icelandic misfalla (“to misuse”).

cog

But alas! an unlooked- for misfall has occurred."

A mishap; accident; bad luck; misfortune.


relead

en-verb

relead (third-person singular simple present releads, present participle releading, simple past and past participle releaded)

releads (present singular third-person)
releading (participle present)
releaded (participle past)
releaded (past)

The real windows were transported to nine glass-restoration studios from Massachusetts to California, where the glass was cleaned and patched, and then releaded.

2009 May 25, Glenn Collins, “Let There Be Light, and Color, on Fifth Avenue”, in New York Times:

(transitive) To fit (a window) with new lead.


relead

relead (third-person singular simple present releads, present participle releading, simple past and past participle reled)

releads (present singular third-person)
releading (participle present)
reled (participle past)
reled (past)


overpull

en-noun

overpull (usually uncountable, plural overpulls)

/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌpʊl/

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈpʊl/

(engineering) The driver for a pump that has the eccentrics above or beside the gear wheel.


bedrite

en-verb

bedrite (third-person singular simple present bedrites, present participle bedriting, simple past bedrote or bedrit, past participle bedritten)

bedrites (present singular third-person)
bedriting (participle present)
bedrote (past)
bedrit (past)
bedritten (participle past)

(transitive, obsolete, UK dialectal) To befoul with ordure; bedirt.


misturn

misturn (third-person singular simple present misturns, present participle misturning, simple past and past participle misturned)

misturns (present singular third-person)
misturning (participle present)
misturned (participle past)
misturned (past)

From Middle English misturnen, mistournen, mistornen, equivalent to mis- + turn.

(intransitive) To go wrong; make a wrong turn.


leadline

leadlines (plural)
lead line (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-leadline.wav

From lead (noun) + line (after the metal); the attached plummet is usually made from lead.

Approximately 60% of inshore hydrography was acquired by leadline (pre-1940) sounding technology.

2004, 2004 Atlantic Boating Almanac: Gulf of Mexico, →ISBN:

A sounding line; an instrument used in navigation to measure water depth.


understroke

A lower or underlining stroke in writing.


desertful

en-adj

desertful (comparative more desertful, superlative most desertful)

more desertful (comparative)
most desertful (superlative)


upshoot

(pathology) An involuntary upward movement of the eye


noncontent

(UK, politics, dated or historical) Someone who gives a negative or opposing vote in the House of Lords.


Elgin

en-proper noun

Elgin (countable and uncountable, plural Elgins)

US, Houston avenue; other places outside Texas

The village in New Brunswick is probably named in honour of colonial administrator James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811 - 1863). The civil parish is named after the village.

A rural community and parish in Albert County, New Brunswick.

A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

A number of places in the United States:

A ghost town in Merced County, California.

A minor city and township in Antelope County, Nebraska.

An incorporated town in Kershaw County, South Carolina.

A city in Bastrop County and Travis County, Texas.


consubstantiate

c. 1620-1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral and Political
We must love her that is thus consubstantiate with us.

Partaking of the same substance; consubstantial.


unwit

en-verb

unwit (third-person singular simple present unwits, present participle unwitting, simple past and past participle unwitted)

unwits (present singular third-person)
unwitting (participle present)
unwitted (participle past)
unwitted (past)

As if some planet had unwitted them

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:


overswell

overswell (third-person singular simple present overswells, present participle overswelling, simple past and past participle overswelled)

overswells (present singular third-person)
overswelling (participle present)
overswelled (participle past)
overswelled (past)
o’erswell (alternative)
over-swell (alternative)

In some years the river overswells its banks, causing widespread flooding.

Let floods o’erswell, and fiends for food howl on!

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

Fill, Lucius, till the wine o’erswell the cup;

1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Come, you have made mee resolute and bould,
And now receive your lapps ore-swell’d with gold.

1636, Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse, London: John Crowch, act I, scene 1:

1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. M—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p. 13,
[…] the heart gratefully throbbing—overswelled with thankful sensations

When mushrooms they were fairy bowers,
Their marble pillars over-swelling,

1835, John Clare, “Decay”, in The Rural Muse, London: Whittaker, page 60:

[…] then Badoglio and his staff [went by] looking rather big for their cars, like the necks of bookmakers overswelling their collars;

1942, G. L. Steer, chapter 2, in Sealed and Delivered,, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 14:

(ambitransitive) To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.).


exulcerate

en-adj

exulcerate (comparative more exulcerate, superlative most exulcerate)

more exulcerate (comparative)
most exulcerate (superlative)

/ɪɡˈzʌlsəɹət/

/ɪɡˈzʌlsəɹeɪt/

From Latin exulcerātus, perfect passive participle of exulcerō.


Hulin

From Mandarin 虎林 (Hǔlín, literally “tiger forest”).

The incident only a few years ago at Chenpao Island northeast of Mutankiang city and in the Hulin county of the prefecture, showed the white fangs of the bear all right.

1977 September, Rewi Alley, “Mutankiang”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 9, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 1:

Chenpao Island is located on the Wusuli river in Hulin County, Heilungkiang Province, northeast China. It is on the Chinese side of the river's main channel, only some 100 meters from the shore of our side.

1977 November 3 [1977 November 2], Chang, quotee, “View the Chinese PLA From Chenpao Island”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 212, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking to Taiwan, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: International Affairs, page A 6:

Sino-Soviet relations were exacerbated by a border incident on May 9. Beijing charged that thirty Soviet troops, supported by a helicopter and navy boats, crossed the Ussuri River into the Hulin area of Heilongjiang province.

1986, Peter P. Cheng, “1978: The Four Modernizations on the March”, in Chronology of The People's Republic of China, 1970-1979, Scarecrow Press, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 395:

Yang Wanying, 19, was admitted into the computer science programme at Yangzhou University in Jiangsu province, near Shanghai, according to the Yangtse Evening News.
But she resides in Hulin city in Heilongjiang province to the north, bordering Russia.

2015 September 20, Mimi Lau, “Chinese teenager cycles 2,500km along coast to get to university in time for new academic year”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-09-21, China:

Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2016 shows the scenery of the Zhenbao Island wetland in Hulin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The 29,275-hectare wetland has been designated as a wetland of international importance by the Ramsar Convention in 2011 for its vital importance as a unique wetland for biological diversity.

2016 September 29, “Scenery of Zhenbao Island wetland in Heilongjiang(1/6)”, in Li Yan, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on 2016-10-06:

A county-level city of Jixi, Heilongjiang, China.


eugh

you must take such Things, as are Greene all Winter; Holly; Ivy; Bayes; Juniper; Cipresse Trees; Eugh; […]

1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Gardens”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

almost join'd the Horns of the tough Eugh

1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:


regreet

en-verb

regreet (third-person singular simple present regreets, present participle regreeting, simple past and past participle regreeted)

regreets (present singular third-person)
regreeting (participle present)
regreeted (participle past)
regreeted (past)

First attested in 1586; from re- + greet.

Nor never look upon each other's face;
 Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 1, scene 3]:

(rare) To greet again; to return a greeting to (someone).


miscompute

Buddeus de Asse correcting their miscompute

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:


tridented

Trineus beholding a ſhape of ſuch ſtrangeneſſe, making the ſigne of the Croſſe on his breaſt, and aduauncing his Shield for his defence, ſtoode to defend what this deformed Monſter durſt doe: who lifting vppe his tridented forke, ſtrooke it quite thorow his Shielde, and the blowe falſing along his pouldrone, wounded him a little in the arme.

1602, A[nthony] M[unday], transl., The Third and Last Part of Palmerin of England. Enterlaced with the Loues and Fortunes of Many Gallant Knights and Ladies: A Historie Full of Most Choise and Sweet Varietie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for VVilliam Leake, […], folio 154, verso:

Euen ſo the Mariners perceiuing all
Their labour ſpent, and the effect but ſmall,
And of neceſſity that all muſt dye,
If Ionah leaue not their ſociety,
They tooke vp Ionas, and with one accord,
And common ayde, threw Ionas ouer boord;
Whereat grim Neptune wip’t his fomy mouth,
Held his tridented Mace vpon the South;
The windes were whiſt, the billowes daunc’t no more,
The ſtorme allay’d, the heau’ns left off to rore,
The waues (obedient to their beheaſt)
Gaue ready paſſage, and their rage ſurceaſt:
The ſkie grew cleare, and now the glorious light
Begins to put the gloomy clouds to flight:
Thus all on ſuddaine was the Sea tranquill,
The heau’ns were quiet, and the Waues were ſtill.

1620, Fra[ncis] Quarles, A Feast for VVormes. Set Forth in a Poeme of the History of Ionah., London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Richard Moore, […]:


exarticulate

exarticulate (third-person singular simple present exarticulates, present participle exarticulating, simple past and past participle exarticulated)

exarticulates (present singular third-person)
exarticulating (participle present)
exarticulated (participle past)
exarticulated (past)

(surgery) To amputate a limb by cutting through a joint


rejolt

And as long as these inward Rejolts and Recoilings of the Mind continue (which they will certainly do for a considerable Part of a Man's Life) the Sinner will find his Accounts of Pleasure very poor and short […]

1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

A counter-jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.


solicitate

solicitate (third-person singular simple present solicitates, present participle solicitating, simple past and past participle solicitated)

solicitates (present singular third-person)
solicitating (participle present)
solicitated (participle past)
solicitated (past)

Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.

[…] to solicitate the relief of Sir Robert Kerr and Buccleuch's son […]

1969, Great Britain. General Register Office (Scotland), Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Scotland and Mary, ... (page 184)


misclaim

misclaim (third-person singular simple present misclaims, present participle misclaiming, simple past and past participle misclaimed)

misclaims (present singular third-person)
misclaiming (participle present)
misclaimed (participle past)
misclaimed (past)


rewet

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


interanimate

/ˌɪntəɹˈænɪmət/

/ˌɪntəɹˈænɪmeɪt/

Meanwhile, however, classicism had kept alive the imagination of an interanimate cosmos: of the land and the sea as gods and as comprising hosts of minor local deities; of humans as children of gods; of natural creatures as transformed humans (Daphne into laurel, Procne into swallow) or as transformable into human shape.

1995, Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination, page 183:

Before going on to show the relationship of tactile-kinesthetic invariants and iconicity to analogical thinking, I would like to interpose a question alluded to earlier: how are new interanimate meanings minted?

2004, Morana Alač, Patrizia Violi, In the Beginning: Origins of Semiosis, page 118:

Deepened understandings of responsivity, of its basis in both comsigns and interchangeability, and of the basis of comsigns and interchangeability in species-specific kinetic/tactile-kinesthetic invariants, provide the grounds for elucidating the interanimate phenomenon of empathy.

2010, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, The Roots of Morality, page 225:

The beauty of the queer invitation, Forster discovers, lies in its unconventional temporality, which permits delays, demurrals, and even extended deferrals, but which nonetheless supplies a lifeline for interanimate collaborations that interrupt the self's consolidation into an obedient disciple of heterosexuality.

2017, Benjamin Bateman, The Modernist Art of Queer Survival:

Occurring as or involving interactions between separate consciousnesses.

If we agree with Pat Hartwell's statement that thinking and writing are interanimate, then we cannot help but address thinking when we speak of writing .

1992, Linda Bannister, Writing Apprehension and Anti-writing, page 2:

The interaction of discourses is dynamic, interdependent, "interanimate," and "interilluminating."

1994, George Kalamaras, Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension, page 26:

In chapter five, the applied chapter, I show how ecological and prima facie formalist and aesthetic values are interanimate and therefore inseparable.

2006, Heather Lea Wainwright, New Paradigms in Aesthetics: The Challenge of Environmental Art, page 46:

Mutually affecting; tending to interanimate.


interanimate

interanimate (third-person singular simple present interanimates, present participle interanimating, simple past and past participle interanimated)

interanimates (present singular third-person)
interanimating (participle present)
interanimated (participle past)
interanimated (past)

/ˌɪntəɹˈænɪmət/

/ˌɪntəɹˈænɪmeɪt/

When love, with another so
Interanimates two souls

These voices compete, interanimate (penetrate and inform), and change over time.

1996, Jennifer L. Troutner, Language, Culture, and Politics: English in China, 1840s-1990s, page 45:

The third space enables new meanings to be generated as the diverse voices of the official script and unofficial counterscript interanimate.

2006, Jos van den Linden, Peter Renshaw, Dialogic Learning, page 92:

As cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical discourses accumulate, and juxtapose, Bakhtin (1990) argues they begin to interanimate, to show up in one another, to express one through the other.

2008, David M Boje, Storytelling Organizations:


recurvate

en-adj

recurvate (comparative more recurvate, superlative most recurvate)

more recurvate (comparative)
most recurvate (superlative)

/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)vət/


unappropriate

unappropriate (comparative more unappropriate, superlative most unappropriate)

more unappropriate (comparative)
most unappropriate (superlative)

/ˌʌnəˈpɹəʊpɹieɪt/

/ˌʌnəˈpɹəʊpɹiət/

Goods, which God, at first, created unappropriate.

a. 1779, William Warburton, Sermon XXXI:


precursive

But soon a deep precursive sound moan'd hollow.

1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations:


inviscerate

inviscerate (comparative more inviscerate, superlative most inviscerate)

more inviscerate (comparative)
most inviscerate (superlative)

/ɪnˈvɪsəɹət/

[W]hen man ſigheth, (as the Apoſtle ſaith) as burthened vvith inviſcerate intereſts, longing to put on this pure ſpirituall veſture of Filiall love, this kind of heavineſſe of ſpirit, may be ſaid to make his love vveight in heaven; […]

1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fourteenth Treatise. The Test and Ballance of Filial and Mercenary Love. §. III. Filiall Love Described, and Some Strong Incentives Presented to Kindle It in Us.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 190:


overbow

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbaʊ/

It has a lifting capacity of 2000 short tons with fixed boom in overbow position.

1977, Australasian Oil and Gas Journal - Volume 23, page 18:

MIBSPA claims that every type of offshore system can utilise the MIB coupling including submerged and floating hoses, overbow and integration into a specific manufacturer's system.

1978, Offshore Services - Volume 11, page 41:

Extending beyond the bow (front of a ship)


bewit

From Middle English bewette, diminutive of Old French beue, bue, buie, boie (“bond, chain”), from Latin boia (“neck collar, fetter”). Compare buoy.

(chiefly in the plural) A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.


misle

en-verb

misle (third-person singular simple present misles, present participle misling, simple past and past participle misled)

misles (present singular third-person)
misling (participle present)
misled (participle past)
misled (past)

I know a woman of fashion, who is perpetually employed in remarks upon the weather, who observes from morning to noon, that it is likely to rain, and from noon to night, that it spits, that it misles, that it is set in for a wet evening; and, being incapable of any other discourse, is as insipid a companion and just as pedantic as he who quotes Aristotle over his tea, or talks Greek at a card-table.