Error Words
This one is a judgement call.
A word that got cut off, or scanner output that fell apart.
Some are truncations we can name, like amenorrho for amenorrhoea and analyt for analytic. Others are just noise.
If we can name the word that was meant it goes under Typo instead. If we cannot rebuild it at all it lands here.
407 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | Our best guess |
|---|---|
| encephalola | OCR debris, perh. encephaloma |
| energiatye | OCR debris, perh. energia |
| entelam | OCR debris, unrecoverable headword |
| entfaoilff | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| entr | truncation, probably of entr'acte |
| entrec | truncation, probably of entrecôte |
| entrep | truncation, probably of entrepôt |
| epenla | OCR debris, mangled headword |
| epithi | truncated epithi- |
| epitra | truncated epitra- |
| epitria | truncated, cf. epitrite |
| epitympa | truncated epitympan- |
| eplot | OCR debris, cf. plot |
| epop | truncated epop(ee) |
| equidist | truncation of equidistant |
| erron | OCR debris, cf. error |
| eruc | truncation of eruca |
| esthesio | combining form esthesio-, sensation |
| eucgia | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| eucti | truncated; cf. euctical, optative |
| euda | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| exaun | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| exla | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| extoolitic | looks like "ext." + oolitic run together |
| faailk | unrecoverable OCR debris |
| falutin | clipped second element of highfalutin |
| fatil | truncated string; unrecoverable |
| feastraw | looks like feast + raw run together |
| feru | truncation, probably of ferula |
| flb | abbreviation debris, expansion unrecoverable |
| flimsilyst | OCR debris, cf. flimsily / flimsiest |
| flrie | French word with accented vowel lost; unrecoverable |
| fortunel | truncated fortune- word, target unrecoverable |
| fourrag | truncated Fr. fourragère/fourrage |
| frden | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| freesp | truncation of freespace |
| freespac | truncation of freespace |
| frilal | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| fsiest | OCR debris, perhaps "fussiest" |
| funli | OCR debris, perhaps "fungi" |
| furnit | truncated, apparently "furniture" |
| gantsl | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| geometdecrne | geomedicine and geometer collided into one line. It sits between the two of them in the source list, all three share the head geome, and from there the tails zip together a letter at a time: ter from geometer, dcne from geomedicine, whose two thin i's are all that went missing. |
| geronto | bare combining form geronto- |
| getspa | truncation of getspace |
| ghbor | unrecoverable OCR debris |
| giher | OCR debris, perhaps for giber |
| glali | unrecoverable OCR debris |
| glotum | unrecoverable OCR debris |
| glyc | truncated combining form glyco- |
| gnatho | truncated combining form gnatho- (jaw) |
| gomerec | OCR corruption of gomerel/gomeril |
| goniunia | OCR debris, apparently for gonionia |
| grecoue | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| grf | OCR debris, no recoverable word |
| griecep | griece plus stray letter; entry-line debris |
| groow | OCR debris, probably grow |
| gunl | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| gymsia | OCR debris, probably gymnasia |
| haccucal | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| halibiu | truncated halibios/halibius |
| hallcist | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| hallicet | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| haspspecs | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| hconvert | stray h + convert, OCR debris |
| heathrman | OCR debris, perhaps heather-man |
| heavinsogme | heaving and heavisome zipped together, the lines either side of it. Shared head heavi, then ng from heaving and some from heavisome interleave into nsogme. Nothing left over. |
| hecchsmhaer | hechsher and heckman, zipped together the way hecctkaerre two lines below is. They share the head he, then hechsher supplies c h s h e r and heckman supplies c m a, having lost its k and n. The cc at the front is one c from each word. |
| hecctkaerre | hectare and hecker, zipped together. They share the head he, then their tails alternate letter for letter, c t a r e from hectare and c k e r from hecker, nothing left over. The cc at the front is one c from each word, and no other pair in the source list splits it this way. |
| hectyli | garbled, perhaps hectocotyli |
| hedgebe | truncated hedge-b... |
| heii | unrecoverable |
| helco | bare combining form helco- (ulcer) |
| helenn | garbled, perhaps Helen or helenin |
| helewou | unrecoverable |
| hellelt | unrecoverable |
| heloe | unrecoverable |
| heml | truncated, perhaps hemlock |
| hemocry | truncation, likely hemocrystallin |
| hendedra | OCR debris, likely hendecahedra |
| heptace | truncated hepta- compound |
| hermi | truncation, likely hermit |
| hermodact | truncation of hermodactyl, colchicum root |
| hermogeniarnun | OCR garble of Hermogenianum |
| hernanesell | OCR debris, perhaps hernani, a sheer fabric |
| heuau | unrecoverable OCR debris |
| hexace | truncated hexa- compound |
| hexascha | OCR debris, perhaps hexastich |
| hexdra | OCR debris, likely hexahedra |
| hexs | truncation, likely hexes or hexads |
| hgrnotine | OCR garble of an alkaloid name |
| hibunci | OCR debris, unrecoverable |
| hiphape | unrecoverable, OCR debris |
| hipmi | unrecoverable, OCR debris |
| hlqn | unrecoverable consonant string |
| horatiye | OCR debris, perhaps for hortative |
| hornerah | OCR debris; no recoverable form |
| hushllsost | unrecoverable OCR debris |
| hyalts | OCR debris, no recoverable form |
| hyperacuness | garbled hyper- entry, cf. hyperacuteness |
The other lists filed alongside this one.
