AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
bilateral: having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.-of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.
bilberry: the european whortleberry (vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.-any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in america, the species vaccinium myrtilloides, v. caespitosum and v. uliginosum.
bilbo: a rapier; a sword; so named from bilbao, in spain.-a long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships.
bile: a yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. it passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.-bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile.-a boil.
bilection: that portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.
bilge: the protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.-that part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.-bilge water.-to suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.-to bulge.-to fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).-to cause to bulge.
biliary: relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.
bilifuscin: a brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. it is a derivative of bilirubin.
bilimbing: the berries of two east indian species of averrhoa, of the oxalideae or sorrel family. they are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. the juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases.
bilin: a name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. it is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.
bilinear: of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates.
bilingual: containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary.
bilious: of or pertaining to the bile.-disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.-choleric; passionate; ill tempered.
bilirubin: a reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.
biliteral: consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a sanskrit verb.-a word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters.
biliverdin: a green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.
bilk: to frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.-a thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.-a cheat; a trick; a hoax.-nonsense; vain words.-a person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
bill: a beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.-to strike; to peck.-to join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.-the bell, or boom, of the bittern-a cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. when short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.-a weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. a common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.-one who wields a bill; a billman.-a pickax, or mattock.-the extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.-to work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.-a declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.-a writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.-a form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.-a paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.-an account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.-any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.-to advertise by a bill or public notice.-to charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
bill book: a book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.
bill holder: a person who holds a bill or acceptance.-a device by means of which bills, etc., are held.
billboard: a piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.-a flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
billbug: a weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. see curculio.
billed: of bill-furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.
billet: a small paper; a note; a short letter.-a ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.-to direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. hence: to quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.-a small stick of wood, as for firewood.-a short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.-an ornament in norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.-a strap which enters a buckle.-a loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.-a bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
billethead: a round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.
billfish: a name applied to several distinct fishes-the garfish (tylosurus, / belone, longirostris) and allied species.-the saury, a slender fish of the atlantic coast (scomberesox saurus).-the tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.-the american fresh-water garpike (lepidosteus osseus).
billhook: a thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. when it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.
billiards: a game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. the player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.
billingsgate: a market near the billings gate in london, celebrated for fish and foul language.-coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.
billion: according to the french and american method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the english method, a million millions, or  1,000,000,000,000. see numeration.
billon: an alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.
billow: a great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.-a great wave or flood of anything.-to surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
billowy: of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
billy: a club; esp., a policeman's club.-a slubbing or roving machine.
bilocation: double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.
bilocular: divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp.
bimana: animals having two hands; -- a term applied by cuvier to man as a special order of mammalia.
bimedial: applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).
bimetallic: of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
bimetallism: the legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.
bimonthly: occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications.-a bimonthly publication.-once in two months.
bin: a box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.-to put into a bin; as, to bin wine.-an old form of be and been.
binarseniate: a salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base.
binary: compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).-that which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality.
bind: to tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.-to confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams.-to cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.-to make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.-to prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.-to protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.-to sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.-fig.: to oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.-to bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.-to place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.-to tie; to confine by any ligature.-to contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.-to be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.-to exert a binding or restraining influence.-that which binds or ties.-any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.-indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.-a ligature or tie for grouping notes.
binder: one who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.-anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.
bindery: a place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.
bindheimite: an amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.
binding: of bind-that binds; obligatory.-the act or process of one who, or that which, binds.-anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.-the transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
bindweed: a plant of the genus convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (c. sepium); lesser bindweed (c. arvensis); the white, the blue, the syrian, bindweed. the black bryony, or tamus, is called black bindweed, and the smilax aspera, rough bindweed.
binervate: two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.-having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects.
binnacle: a case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.
binny: a large species of barbel (barbus bynni), found in the nile, and much esteemed for food.
binocle: a dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass.
binocular: having two eyes.-pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision.-adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope.-a binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope.
binomial: an expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 - 3.-consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root.-having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs.
binoxalate: a salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.
biocellate: having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.
biochemistry: the chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
biogeny: a doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.-life development generally.
biographer: one who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as plutarch.
biology: the science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. it has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.
bion: the physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.
biophor biophore: one of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. see pangen, in supplement.
bioplasm: a name suggested by dr. beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.
bioplast: a tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.
biorgan: a physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
biotite: mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. see mica.
biparietal: of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other.
bipartient: dividing into two parts.-a number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder.
bipartite: being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty.-divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions.
bipartition: the act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.
biped: a two-footed animal, as man.-having two feet; two-footed.
bipinnaria: the larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage.
bipolar: doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.
bipontine: relating to books printed at deuxponts, or bipontium (zweibrucken), in bavaria.
bipupillate: having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.
bipyramidal: consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.
biquadrate: the fourth power, or the square of the square. thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.
biquadratic: of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power.-a biquadrate.-a biquadratic equation.
biquintile: an aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees.
birch: a tree of several species, constituting the genus betula; as, the white or common birch (b. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (b. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (b. papyracea); the yellow birch (b. lutea); the black or cherry birch (b. lenta).-the wood or timber of the birch.-a birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.-a birch-bark canoe.-of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.-to whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.
bird: orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).-a warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. see aves.-specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.-fig.: a girl; a maiden.-to catch or shoot birds.-hence: to seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
bird cherry: a shrub (prunus padus ) found in northern and central europe. it bears small black cherries.
bird fancier: one who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds.-one who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.
bird of paradise: the name of several very beautiful birds of the genus paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting new guinea and the adjacent islands. the males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.
bird pepper: a species of capsicum (capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.
bird's-eye: seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, general; not minute, or entering into details; as, a bird's-eye view.-marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.-a plant with a small bright flower, as the adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (primula farinosa), and species of veronica, geranium, etc.
bird's-foot: a papilionaceous plant, the ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point.
bird's-mouth: an interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called crow's-foot in the united states.
bird's-nest: the nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.-the nest of a small swallow (collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of china and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.-an orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus neottia (n. nidus-avis.)
bird-witted: flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention.
birdbolt: a short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them.-anything which smites without penetrating.
birdcall: a sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.-an instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall.
birdcatching: the art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls.
birdlime: an extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. when a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. hence: anything which insnares.-to smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
birdseed: canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
birectangular: containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle.
birk: a birch tree.-a small european minnow (leuciscus phoxinus).
birken: to whip with a birch or rod.-birchen; as, birken groves.
birl: to revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.-to pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse.
birlaw: a law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.
birr: to make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.-a whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.-a rush or impetus; force.
birrus: a coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the middle ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head.
birth: the act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.-lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.-the condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.-the act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.-that which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.-origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.-see berth.
birthday: the day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.-the day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.-of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.
birthnight: the night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years.
birthplace: the town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.
birthright: any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born.
birthroot: an herbaceous plant (trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.
birthwort: a genus of herbs and shrubs (aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.
bis: twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
biscayan: of or pertaining to biscay in spain.-a native or inhabitant of biscay.
biscotin: a confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.
biscuit: a kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.-a small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.-earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.-a species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.
bise: a pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.-a cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the mediterranean and in switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistral.-see bice.
bisector: one who, or that which, bisects; esp. (geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.
bisectrix: the line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.
biserrate: doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.-serrate on both sides, as some antennae.
bisexual: of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.
bishop: a spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.-in the roman catholic, greek, and anglican or protestant episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the apostles. the bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.-in the methodist episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.-a piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.-a beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.-an old name for a woman's bustle.-to admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.-to make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.