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How come polysemous only has one meaning?

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An accessible copy of Muscarello's Algorismus at last, but I haven't found pronic root or pronic number in it yet. Ok lets read it all - starting at v recto [1]

Useful resources

• OED (login page)
• Webster's 128 Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Brigham Young University Corpora
• Langenscheidt Routledge German Dictionary of Physics →ISBN
• German Technical Dictionary →ISBN, Google books preview, Amazon search inside
• Meriam-Webster's dictionary of English usage
• The Devil's Dictionary
  • dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.

• http://www.onelook.com/ Dictionary search
• http://www.global-language.com/CENTURY/

My contributions

...up to 21 September 2013 and new words 10 December 2015 to 6 September 2018

Words added

English

Abaddan • alactic • anerithmon gelasma • anticlinal vertebra • antimetric • antimetrical • aquafact • beduke • beshit • banana ball • banana shot • cannot-link • capillary wave • Celsius scale • centisome • chapparel • chirurgeon • chumocracy • chunklet • collateral science • commission bid • constraint cluster • cratic • crystalliferous • debureaucratic • decameride • demarcation potential • disclimax • dish antenna • echotomography • epta- • eptameride • escartele • extensive property • Fahrenheit scale * flag meeting • ganker • Geddes Axe • gelasma • Gelasma • geologize • heat dump • heptameride • heteromecic • hog-Morse * horn antenna • hypertensor • hula-hula • huly-huly • hula hula • injury current • injury potential • intensive property • jannissary • jidderbug • khaki-green • khaki green • loaded dice • local anaesthetic • logical positivism • logical positivist • marcation • matrically • mawwormism • meride • miliaria • Mullidae • multiplepoinding • must-link • non-paper • non-volatile • noonmark • oblong number • partial differential • plagioclimax • pre-agreed • prickly heat • pronic • purpurine • Rankine scale • rapscal • recombobulation • rectangular number • reed relay • repeatered • resonistor • rhadomancy • savart • scimetar • spoon-drift • stepping switch • stick of furniture • Strowger exchange • Strowger switch • supertensor • sweat rash • testudinous • thermotics • turn-key • Toby mush • top and tail • tool and die • tussah • tussore • tussur • unassessed • unfutured • uniselector • uroerythrin • ur-text • worm and wheel • worm drive

Middle English

ale-stake • bokeleer • conseil • gerland • maad • reed (noun)

German

Erziehungsanstalt • fadenförmigen • letzeburgisch • veilchenblau • Zimmermeister • Zimmermeisterin

French

chasse patate

Senses added

banana • beaten • belldom • blue John • bodge • capillary • chip • control • decode • furniture • iris • isomorphism • jidder • jobbing • lawn sleeves • lossy • lug • massive • maw-worm • obsessed • obsession • purpurin • sandlotter • snip • spinous • telemeter • Toby

Etymology added

conchoid • conchoidal • crimony • gasoline • geologize • immitance • Mawworm • multiplepoinding • Pithecanthropus • stick (of bombs etc) • telemeter • thinking cap • Toby (market sense) • Toby mush • Tom (bell sense) • Winkler bottle • XX • XY

Citations added

abscond • ale post • alestake • anerithmon gelasma • antenna • belldom • bodge • cat's pyjamas • cool as a cucumber • cratic • crimony • cob • court plaster • describe (geometric sense) • exsiccation • fractal • furniture • gelasma • Gelasma • geologize • humectation • khaki • knap • loaded dice • loblolly • Mawworm • nonillion • not've • no more Mr Nice Guy • obsessed • obsession • occasionally • red book • siccity • shit • the bee's knees • splurge • Toby (market sense) • Toby mush • Tom (bell sense) • tonne • unfuck • wergeld

Cleanup

abscond • anode • antenna • antennae • anticlinal • bulletin board system • butyl • chert • cissoid • conchoid • conchoidal • decyl • die • distro • capillary • capillary action • cathode • chaser (screw thread sense) • cob • crystal • ethyl • exponent • firmware • fractal • gagul • heptyl • hexyl • isomorphism • khaki • knap • lock and load • methyl • mullet • no more Mr Nice Guy • nonyl • octadecyl • octyl • olive drab • pentyl • piranha • propyl • rank • red book • reef knot • routing • scrambled • semi-tractor • session • space • stick (bombs, paratroops etc) • talisman • tensor • tonne • wergeld • Winkler bottle • XX • XY

Colour panels

banana • khaki • khaki-green • olive drab • outer space