AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
agglutinate: to unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.-united with glue or as with glue; cemented together.-consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc.  see agglutination, 2.
agglutination: the act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.-combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. see agglutinative, 2.
agglutinative: pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.-formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound.
aggrandize: to make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.-to make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.-to make appear great or greater; to exalt.-to increase or become great.
aggrandizement: the act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
aggravate: to make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.-to make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.-to give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.-to exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
aggravating: of aggravate-making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.-exasperating; provoking; irritating.
aggravation: the act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.-exaggerated representation.-an extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.-provocation; irritation.
aggregate: to bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "the aggregated soil."-to add or unite, as, a person, to an association.-to amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.-formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.-formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.-composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.-having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.-united into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.-a mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.-a mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
aggregation: the act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
aggress: to commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.-to set upon; to attack.-aggression.
aggression: the first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "aggressions of power."
aggressive: tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.
aggressor: the person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
aggri: applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in ashantee and fantee in africa.
aggrieve: to give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive to be aggrieved.-to grieve; to lament.
agha: in turkey, a commander or chief officer. it is used also as a title of respect.
aghast: to affright; to terrify.-see agast, v. t.-terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
agile: having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
agility: the quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.-activity; powerful agency.
agio: the premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. the premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
agiotage: exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.
agist: to take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.
agistment: formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.-the taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.-the price paid for such feeding.-a charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.
agistor: formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in england is corrupted into guest-taker.-now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
agitate: to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.-to move or actuate.-to stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.-to discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.-to revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
agitation: the act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.-a stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.-excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation.-examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
agitato: sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
agitator: one who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.-one of a body of men appointed by the army, in cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators.-an implement for shaking or mixing.
aglow: in a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.
agminated: grouped together; as, the agminated glands of peyer in the small intestine.
agnail: a corn on the toe or foot.-an inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.
agnate: related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.-allied; akin.-a relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.
agnomen: an additional or fourth name given by the romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, publius caius scipio africanus.-an additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, aristides the just.
agnomination: a surname.-paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.
agnostic: professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.-one who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal deity, a future life, etc.
agnosticism: that doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.-the doctrine that the existence of a personal deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon hamilton and mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of herbert spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.
agnus castus: a species of vitex (v. agnus castus); the chaste tree.
agnus dei: a figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.-a cake of wax stamped with such a figure. it is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the pope.-a triple prayer in the sacrifice of the mass, beginning with the words "agnus dei."
agoing: in motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.
agonistical: pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural.
agonize: to writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.-to struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.-to cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.
agony: violent contest or striving.-pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of christ in the garden of gethsemane.-paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.-the last struggle of life; death struggle.
agora: an assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient greek city.
agouara: the crab-eating raccoon (procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of america.
agouta: a small insectivorous mammal (solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in hayti.
agouty: a rodent of the genus dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to south america and the west indies. the most common species is the dasyprocta agouti.
agraffe: a hook or clasp.-a hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.
agraphia: the absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. it is one form of aphasia.
agrarian: pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.-wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.-one in favor of an equal division of landed property.-an agrarian law.
agrarianism: an equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.
agrarianize: to distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism.
agree: in good part; kindly.-to harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law.-to yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.-to make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.-to be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.-to suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.-to correspond in gender, number, case, or person.-to make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends.-to admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences.
agreeability: easiness of disposition.-the quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness.
agreeable: pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.-willing; ready to agree or consent.-agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.-in pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the house took up the report.
agreeableness: the quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses.-the quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency.-resemblance; concordance; harmony; -- with to or between.
agreeably: in an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly.-in accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; -- followed by to and rarely by with. see agreeable, 4.-alike; similarly.
agreement: state of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.-concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.-a concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.-the language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises.
agrestic: pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.
agricultural: of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc.
agriculture: the art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
agrimony: a genus of plants of the rose family.-the name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (bidens).
agrise: to shudder with terror; to tremble with fear.-to shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.-to terrify; to affright.
agrom: a disease occurring in bengal and other parts of the east indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.
agrostis: a genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. some of them, as redtop (agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.
aground: on the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.
agrypnotic: anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.
aguardiente: a inferior brandy of spain and portugal.-a strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque.
ague: an acute fever.-an intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.-the cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.-a chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.-to strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
aguish: having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky.-productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of england.
ah: an exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.
aha: an exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.-a sunk fence. see ha-ha.
ahead: in or to the front; in advance; onward.-headlong; without restraint.
ahriman: the evil principle or being of the ancient persians; the prince of darkness as opposer to ormuzd, the king of light.
ahull: with the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. see hull, n.
ai: the three-toed sloth (bradypus tridactylus) of south america. see sloth.
aich's metal: a kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin.
aid: to support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.-help; succor; assistance; relief.-the person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.-a subsidy granted to the king by parliament; also, an exchequer loan.-a pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.-an aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.
aid-de-camp: an officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.
aiglet: a tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. they were sometimes formed into small images. hence, "aglet baby" (shak.), an aglet image.-a round white staylace.-same as aglet.
aigrette: the small white european heron. see egret.-a plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc.-a tuft like that of the egret.-a feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.
aiguille: a needle-shaped peak.-an instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.
aiguillette: a point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet.-one of the ornamental tags, cords, or loops on some military and naval uniforms.
ail: to affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? i know not what ails him.-to be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble.-indisposition or morbid affection.
ailantus: a genus of beautiful trees, natives of the east indies. the tree imperfectly di/cious, and the staminate or male plant is very offensive when blossom.
ailette: a small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet.
ailment: indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.
ailuroidea: a group of the carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas.
aim: to point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.-to direct the indention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor; -- followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well.-to guess or conjecture.-to direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).-the pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.-the point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.-intention; purpose; design; scheme.-conjecture; guess.
ain't: a contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [colloq. or illiterate speech]. see an't.
aino: one of a peculiar race inhabiting yesso, the kooril islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the japanese. the ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.
air: the fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. it is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.-symbolically: something unsubstantial, light, or volatile.-a particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.-any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air.-air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.-odoriferous or contaminated air.-that which surrounds and influences.-utterance abroad; publicity; vent.-intelligence; information.-a musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.-in harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.-the peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air.-peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style.-an artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs.-the representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed.-carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air.-the artificial motion or carriage of a horse.-to expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room.-to expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion.-to expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.
air bladder: an air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. it originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.-a sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.
air cell: a cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.-a receptacle of air in various parts of the system; as, a cell or minute cavity in the walls of the air tubes of the lungs; the air sac of birds; a dilatation of the air vessels in insects.
air chamber: a chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.-a cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.
air gun: a kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. the air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.
air hole: a hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.-a fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.
air jacket: a jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.
air pump: a kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air or force it into a closed space.-a pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and any commingled air.
air sac: one of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.
air shaft: a passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
air stove: a stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.
air vessel: a vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. for the latter, see air chamber. the air vessels of insects are called tracheae, of plants spiral vessels.
air-built: erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.
air-slacked: slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
air-tight: so tight as to be impermeable to air; as, an air-tight cylinder.-a stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off.
airer: one who exposes to the air.-a frame on which clothes are aired or dried.
airily: in an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly.
airiness: the state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.-lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.
airing: of air-a walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health's sake.-an exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.
airless: not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.