AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
accession: a coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.-increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory.-a mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.-the act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.-the act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.-the invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
accessorial: of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.
accessory: accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.-that which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.-same as accessary, n.-anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.
acciaccatura: a short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.
accidence: the accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.-the rudiments of any subject.
accident: literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.-a property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.-a point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.-a property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.-a quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.-any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.-unusual appearance or effect.
accidental: happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.-nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.-a property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.-those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.-a sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
accidentally: in an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
accipiter: a genus of rapacious birds; one of the accipitres or raptores.-a bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.
accipitral: pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike.
accipitres: of accipiter-the order that includes rapacious birds. they have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. there are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.
accipitrine: like or belonging to the accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.
acclaim: to applaud.-to declare by acclamations.-to shout; as, to acclaim my joy.-to shout applause.-acclamation.
acclamation: a shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.-a representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy.
acclimation: the process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.
acclimatization: the act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.
acclimatize: to inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.
acclimature: the act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated.
acclivity: a slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.
acclivous: sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.
accloy: to fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. see cloy.
accolade: a ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.-a brace used to join two or more staves.
accommodate: to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.-to bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.-to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.-to show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.-to adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.-suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
accommodating: of accommodate-affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
accommodation: the act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.-willingness to accommodate; obligingness.-whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.-an adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.-the application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.-a loan of money.-an accommodation bill or note.
accompaniment: that which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.-a part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
accompany: to go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow.-to cohabit with.-to associate in a company; to keep company.-to cohabit (with).-to perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
accomplice: a cooperator.-an associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.
accomplish: to complete, as time or distance.-to bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.-to equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.-to gain; to obtain.
accomplished: of accomplish-completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.-complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain.
accomplishment: the act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.-that which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.
accord: agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.-harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.-agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.-voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.-an agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.-to make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.-to bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.-to grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.-to agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.-to agree in pitch and tone.
accordant: agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to.
accordantly: in accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
according: of accord-agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious.-accordingly; correspondingly.
accordingly: agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable.-in natural sequence; consequently; so.
accordion: a small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
accost: to join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.-to approach; to make up to.-to speak to first; to address; to greet.-to adjoin; to lie alongside.-address; greeting.
accosted: of accost-supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.
accoucheur: a man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.
account: a reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the julian account of time.-a registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.-a statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.-a statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.-a statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.-an estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.-importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.-to reckon; to compute; to count.-to place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.-to value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.-to recount; to relate.-to render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.-to render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.-to give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
accountability: the state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness.
accountable: liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to god for his conduct.-capable of being accounted for; explicable.
accountant: one who renders account; one accountable.-a reckoner.-one who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.-accountable.
accouplement: the act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union.-that which couples, as a tie or brace.
accoutre: to furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array.
accoutrements: dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers.
accoy: to render quiet; to soothe.-to subdue; to tame; to daunt.
accredit: to put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.-to send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.-to believe; to credit; to put trust in.-to credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one.
accrementition: the process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.
accrete: to grow together.-to adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to.-to make adhere; to add.-characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.-grown together.
accretion: the act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.-the act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.-concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.-a growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes.-the adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.-gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share.
accroach: to hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.-to usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives.
accrue: to increase; to augment.-to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.-something that accrues; advantage accruing.
accruer: the act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.
accrument: the process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase.
accubation: the act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.
accumbent: leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.-lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.-one who reclines at table.
accumulate: to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.-to grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.-collected; accumulated.
accumulation: the act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.-the concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
accumulator: one who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.-an apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.-a system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.
accuracy: the state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
accurate: in exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.-precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
accurateness: the state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
accurse: to devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
accurst: doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed.
accusable: liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.
accusation: the act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.-that of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.
accusative: producing accusations; accusatory.-applied to the case (as the fourth case of latin and greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. it corresponds to the objective case in english.-the accusative case.
accusatory: pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel.
accuse: accusation.-to charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense-to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.-to charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.-to betray; to show. [l.]
accustom: to make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.-to be wont.-to cohabit.-custom.
accustomed: of accustom-familiar through use; usual; customary.-frequented by customers.
ace: a unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.-hence: a very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
aceldama: the potter's field, said to have lain south of jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which judas took for betraying his master, and therefore called the field of blood. fig.: a field of bloodshed.
acephala: that division of the mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. formerly the group included the tunicata, brachiopoda, and sometimes the bryozoa. see mollusca.
acephali: a fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.-a christian sect without a leader.-bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.-a class of levelers in the time of k. henry i.
acephalocyst: a larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. these cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. also applied to similar cysts of different origin.
acephalous: headless.-without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.-having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.-without a leader or chief.-wanting the beginning.-deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry.
acerate: a combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.-acerose; needle-shaped.
acerb: sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.
acerbity: sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.-harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.
acerose: having the nature of chaff; chaffy.-needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.
acerous: same as acerose.-destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks.-without antennae, as some insects.
acervate: to heap up.-heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.
acescency: the quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
acescent: turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.-a substance liable to become sour.
acetabulifera: the division of cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the dibranchiata. see cephalopoda.
acetabuliferous: furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.
acetabuliform: shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx.
acetabulum: a vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.-the bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.-the cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.-a sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.-the large posterior sucker of the leeches.-one of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
acetal: a limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.
acetamide: a white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.
acetanilide: a compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine.
acetate: a salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.
acetic: of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.-pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. the latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.
acetification: the act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.
acetimeter: an instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.
acetimetry: the act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it.
acetone: a volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.
acetous: having a sour taste; sour; acid.-causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation.
acetyl: a complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. its hydroxide is acetic acid.
acetylene: a gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. it is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. its light is very brilliant.
achaian: of or pertaining to achaia in greece; also, grecian.-a native of achaia; a greek.
achatina: a genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of america and africa.
ache: a name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.-continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "such an ache in my bones."-to suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed.
achenium: a small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.
acheron: a river in the nether world or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. by some of the english poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.
acherontic: of or pertaining to acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
achieve: to carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.-to obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.-to finish; to kill.
achievement: the act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.-a great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat.-an escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.
achilles' tendon: the strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the river styx.