AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
been: of be-the past participle of be. in old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of be. see 1st bee.
beer: a fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.-a fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
beestings: same as biestings.-the first milk given by a cow after calving.
beeswax: the wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.
beeswing: the second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. it consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.
beet: a biennial plant of the genus beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.-the root of plants of the genus beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.
beetle: a heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.-a machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.-to beat with a heavy mallet.-to finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.-any insect of the order coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. see coleoptera.-to extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
beetle-browed: having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.
beetlehead: a stupid fellow; a blockhead.-the black-bellied plover, or bullhead (squatarola helvetica). see plover.
befog: to involve in a fog; -- mostly as a participle or part. adj.-hence: to confuse; to mystify.
befool: to fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.-to cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish.
before: in front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.-preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that.-an advance of; farther onward, in place or time.-prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than.-in presence or sight of; face to face with; facing.-under the cognizance or jurisdiction of.-open for; free of access to; in the power of.-on the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear.-in advance.-in time past; previously; already.-earlier; sooner than; until then.
beforehand: in a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.-by way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.-in comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.
befoul: to make foul; to soil.-to entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
befriend: to act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance.
befringe: to furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe.
beg: a title of honor in turkey and in some other parts of the east; a bey.-to ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.-to ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.-to make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.-to take for granted; to assume without proof.-to ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.-to ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
beget: to procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.-to get (with child.)-to produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
beggar: one who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.-one who makes it his business to ask alms.-one who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.-one who assumes in argument what he does not prove.-to reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.-to cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
beggar's lice: the prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of echinospermum and cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.
beggar's ticks: the bur marigold (bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
beggarhood: the condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
beggarly: in the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.-produced or occasioned by beggary.-in an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.
beggary: the act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.-beggarly appearance.-beggarly.
begin: to have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.-to do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start.-to enter on; to commence.-to trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.-beginning.
beginner: one who begins or originates anything. specifically: a young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.
beginning: of begin-the act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.-that which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.-that which is begun; a rudiment or element.-enterprise.
begird: to bind with a band or girdle; to gird.-to surround as with a band; to encompass.
beglerbeg: the governor of a province of the ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.
begone: go away; depart; get you gone.-surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone).
begonia: a genus of plants, mostly of tropical america, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. the leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.
begot: of beget-of beget-imp. & p. p. of beget.
beguard: one of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the beguines. they arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by innocent x. in 1650.  called also beguins.
beguile: to delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.-to elude, or evade by craft; to foil.-to cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.
beguiling: of beguile-alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting.
beguinage: a collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of beguines.
beguine: a woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.
behalf: advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.
behave: to manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.-to carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.-to act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.
behavior: manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
behemoth: an animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in job xl. 15-24.
behest: that which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.-a vow; a promise.-to vow.
behight: of behight-of behight-to promise; to vow.-to give in trust; to commit; to intrust.-to adjudge; to assign by authority.-to mean, or intend.-to consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.-to call; to name; to address.-to command; to order.-a vow; a promise.
behind: on the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.-left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death.-left a distance by, in progress of improvement hence: inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement.-at the back part; in the rear.-toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.-not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.-backward in time or order of succession; past.-after the departure of another; as, to stay behind.-the backside; the rump.
behindhand: in arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.-in a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work.
behn: the centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.-the cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called silene inflata.-the statice limonium, or sea lavender.
behold: to have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes.-to direct the eyes to, or fix them upon, an object; to look; to see.
beholding: of behold-obliged; beholden.-the act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld.
behoove: to be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.-to be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due.-advantage; behoof.
being: of be-existing.-existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence.-that which exists in any form, whether it be material or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings.-lifetime; mortal existence.-an abode; a cottage.-since; inasmuch as.
bejewel: to ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.
bel: the babylonian name of the god known among the hebrews as baal. see baal.
belabor: to ply diligently; to work carefully upon.-to beat soundly; to cudgel.
belace: to fasten, as with a lace or cord.-to cover or adorn with lace.-to beat with a strap. see lace.
belated: of belate-delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted.
belay: to lay on or cover; to adorn.-to make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.-to lie in wait for with a view to assault. hence: to block up or obstruct.
belaying pin: a strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.
belch: to eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.-to eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.-to eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.-to issue with spasmodic force or noise.-the act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.-malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.
beldame: grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire.-an old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag.
beleaguer: to surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
belemnite: a conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. it is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. the belemnites are found in rocks of the jurassic and cretaceous ages.
belfry: a movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.-a bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.-a room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.-the framing on which a bell is suspended.
belgic: of or pertaining to the belgae, a german tribe who anciently possessed the country between the rhine, the seine, and the ocean.-of or pertaining to the netherlands or to belgium.
belgravian: belonging to belgravia (a fashionable quarter of london, around pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.
belial: an evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil.
belie: to show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.-to give a false representation or account of.-to tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.-to mimic; to counterfeit.-to fill with lies.
belief: assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.-a persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.-the thing believed; the object of belief.-a tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.
believe: to exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.-to have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.-to think; to suppose.
believer: one who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.-one who gives credit to the truth of the scriptures, as a revelation from god; a christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives christ as his savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel.-one who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.
belittle: to make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
bell: a hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.-a hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.-anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.-that part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.-the strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.-to put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.-to make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.-to develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.-to utter by bellowing.-to call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
bell animalcule: an infusorian of the family vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds.
bell bearer: a brazilian leaf hopper (bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.
bell crank: a lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. it is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.
bell jar: a glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. it is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.
bell metal: a hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells.
bell pepper: a species of capsicum, or guinea pepper (c. annuum). it is the red pepper of the gardens.
bell-mouthed: expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun.
belladonna: an herbaceous european plant (atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. the whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. called also deadly nightshade.-a species of amaryllis (a. belladonna); the belladonna lily.
bellbird: a south american bird of the genus casmarhincos, and family cotingidae, of several species; the campanero.-the myzantha melanophrys of australia.
belle: a young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.
bellerophon: a genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the heteropoda, peculiar to the paleozoic age.
belles-lettres: polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
bellflower: a plant of the genus campanula; -- so named from its bell-shaped flowers.-a kind of apple. the yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple.
bellied: having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.-of belly
belligerency: the quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.
belligerent: waging war; carrying on war.-pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.-a nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.
bellman: a man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours.
bellow: to make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.-to bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.-to roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound.-to emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out.-a loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.
bellows: an instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.
bellows fish: a european fish (centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
bellwether: a wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.-hence: a leader.
bellwort: a genus of plants (uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.
belly: that part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.-the under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.-the womb.-the part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship.-the hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.-to cause to swell out; to fill.-to swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.
belly-god: one whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
bellyband: a band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.-a band of flannel or other cloth about the belly.-a band of canvas, to strengthen a sail.
bellyful: as much as satisfies the appetite. hence: a great abundance; more than enough.
belomancy: a kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.
belong: to be the property of; as, jamaica belongs to great britain.-to be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.-to be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.-to be suitable for; to be due to.-to be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.-to be deserved by.
belonging: of belong-that which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects.-that which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance.-family; relations; household.
belonite: minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.
belooche beloochee: of or pertaining to beloochistan, or to its inhabitants.-a native or an inhabitant of beloochistan.
below: under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.-inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.-unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.-in a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.-on the earth, as opposed to the heavens.-in hell, or the regions of the dead.-in court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below.-in some part or page following.
belt: that which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.-that which restrains or confines as a girdle.-anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.-same as band, n., 2.   a very broad band is more properly termed a belt.-one of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets jupiter and saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.-a narrow passage or strait; as, the great belt and the lesser belt, leading to the baltic sea.-a token or badge of knightly rank.-a band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.-a band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.-to encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.-to shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.
beltane: the first day of may (old style).-a festival of the heathen celts on the first day of may, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. it still exists in a modified form in some parts of scotland and ireland.
belted: of belt-encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl.-marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.-worn in, or suspended from, the belt.
belting: of belt-the material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.
belvedere: a small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.
bema: a platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.-that part of an early christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.-erroneously: a pulpit.
bemire: to drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.
bemoan: to express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.
bemuddle: to muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.
bemuse: to muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.
ben: alt. of ben nut-within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.-the inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment.-an old form of the pl. indic. pr. of be.-a hoglike mammal of new guinea (porcula papuensis).
ben nut: the seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. see moringa.