AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
call: to command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.-to summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.-to invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the president called congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the board of aldermen.-to give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.-to regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.-to state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.-to show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.-to utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.-to invoke; to appeal to.-to rouse from sleep; to awaken.-to speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.-to make a demand, requirement, or request.-to make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.-the act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.-a signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.-an invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.-a requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.-a divine vocation or summons.-vocation; employment.-a short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.-a note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.-a whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.-the cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.-a reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.-the privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.-see assessment, 4.
caller: one who calls.-cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air.-fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.
callet: a trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip.-to rail or scold.
calling: of call-the act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.-a summoning or convocation, as of parliament.-a divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called.-a naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies.-one's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade.-the persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment.-title; appellation; name.
calliope: the muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of orpheus, and chief of the nine muses.-one of the asteroids. see solar.-a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. it is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.-a beautiful species of humming bird (stellula calliope) of california and adjacent regions.
calliopsis: a popular name given to a few species of the genus coreopsis, especially to c. tinctoria of arkansas.
callithump: a somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
callosity: a hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
callosum: the great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. see corpus callosum, under carpus.
callot: a plant coif or skullcap. same as calotte.-a close cap without visor or brim.-such a cap, worn by english serjeants at law.-such a cap, worn by the french cavalry under their helmets.-such a cap, worn by the clergy of the roman catholic church.
callous: hardened; indurated.-hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.
callow: destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged.-immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth.-a kind of duck. see old squaw.
callus: same as callosity-the material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.-the new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
callyciflorous: having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the french botanist candolle.
calm: freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.-to make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.-to deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.-not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.-undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.
calmness: the state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose.
calmucks: a branch of the mongolian race inhabiting parts of the russian and chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the calmucks.
calomel: mild chloride of mercury, hg2cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. it occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.
calorescence: the conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.
caloric: the principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.-of or pertaining to caloric.
caloricity: a faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.
calorie: the unit of heat according to the french standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0¡ to 1¡. compare the english standard unit, foot pound.
calorifere: an apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.
calorificient: having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.
calorimeter: an apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.-an apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam.
calorimotor: a voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.
calotype: a method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called talbotype, from the inventor, mr. fox. talbot.
caloyer: a monk of the greek church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of st. basil, especially, one on or near mt. athos.
caltrap: a genus of herbaceous plants (tribulus) of the order zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. the species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.-an instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. they are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet.
calumba: the root of a plant (jateorrhiza calumba, and probably cocculus palmatus), indigenous in mozambique. it has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic.
calumbin: a bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root.
calumet: a kind of pipe, used by the north american indians for smoking tobacco. the bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.
calumniate: to accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.-to propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.
calumniation: false accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.
calumnious: containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.
calumny: false accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.
calvaria: the bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion.
calvary: the place where christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of jerusalem.-a representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion.-a cross, set upon three steps; -- more properly called cross calvary.
calver: to cut in slices and pickle, as salmon.-to crimp; as, calvered salmon.-to bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered; as, grayling's flesh will calver.
calvinism: the theological tenets or doctrines of john calvin (a french theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches.
calvinistical: of or pertaining to calvin, or calvinism; following calvin; accepting or teaching calvinism.
calx: quicklime.-the substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.-broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.
calycle: a row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside.
calycozoa: a group of acalephs of which lucernaria is the type. the body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. an aboral sucker serves for attachment. the interior is divided into four large compartments. see lucernarida.
calypso: a small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. it grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the united states. the calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ n.
calyptra: a little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.
calyx: the covering of a flower. see flower.-a cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.
cam: a turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.-a curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.-a projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts.-a ridge or mound of earth.-crooked.
camail: a neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece.-a hood of other material than mail;-a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.
camarasaurus: a genus of gigantic american jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.
camarilla: the private audience chamber of a king.-a company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.
camass: a blue-flowered liliaceous plant (camassia esculenta) of northwestern america, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the indians.
camber: an upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).-an upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. see hogback.-to cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.-to curve upward.
camberkeeled: having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship.
cambist: a banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.
cambium: a series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. the growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.-a fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase.
cambrasine: a kind of linen cloth made in egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.
cambrian: of or pertaining to cambria or wales.-of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the silurian or molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the silurian. it is named from its development in cambria or wales. see the diagram under geology.-a native of cambria or wales.-the cambrian formation.
cambric: a fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.-a fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called cotton cambric, and cambric muslin.
came: imp. of come.-a slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.-of come
camel: a large ruminant used in asia and africa for carrying burdens and for riding. the camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long time without drinking. its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. the dromedary (camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the bactrian camel (c. bactrianus) has two. the llama, alpaca, and vicua, of south america, belong to a related genus (auchenia).-a water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. by admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted.
camellia: an asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. camellia japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and c. sassanqua and c. oleifera are grown in china for the oil which is pressed from their seeds. the tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of camellia thea.
camelopard: an african ruminant; the giraffe. see giraffe.
cameo: a carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like.
camera: a chamber, or instrument having a chamber.  specifically: the camera obscura when used in photography. see camera, and camera obscura.
camera lucida: an instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. it is generally used with the microscope.
camera obscura: an apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a darkened chamber, or box, so that the outlines may be traced.-an apparatus in which the image of an external object or objects is, by means of lenses, thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface placed at the back of an extensible darkened box or chamber variously modified; -- commonly called simply the camera.
camerate: to build in the form of a vault; to arch over.-to divide into chambers.
camerlingo: the papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. he has at times possessed great power.
cameronian: a follower of the rev. richard cameron, a scotch covenanter of the time of charles ii.
camisado: a shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.-an attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado.
camisard: one of the french protestant insurgents who rebelled against louis xiv, after the revocation of the edict of nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.
camisole: a short dressing jacket for women.-a kind of straitjacket.
camlet: a woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton.
cammock: a plant having long hard, crooked roots, the ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. the scandix pecten-veneris is also called cammock.
camonflet: a small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners.
camp: the ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.-a collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.-a single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.-the company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.-a mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.-an ancient game of football, played in some parts of england.-to afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.-to pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.-to play the game called camp.
campagna: an open level tract of country; especially "campagna di roma." the extensive undulating plain which surrounds rome.
campagnol: a mouse (arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
campaign: an open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. seechampaign.-a connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field.-political operations preceding an election; a canvass.-the period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.-to serve in a campaign.
campaigner: one who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.
campanula: a large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; -- also called bellflower.
campanulaceous: of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (camponulaceae) of which campanula is the type, and which includes the canterbury bell, the harebell, and the venus's looking-glass.
campanularian: a hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae.
campbellite: a member of the denomination called christians or disciples of christ. they themselves repudiate the term campbellite as a nickname. see christian, 3.
campestrian: relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.
camphene: one of a series of substances c10h16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.
camphine: rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.
camphor: a tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the laurus family, esp. from cinnamomum camphara (the laurus camphara of linnaeus.). camphor, c10h16o, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative.-a gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (dryobalanops camphora) growing in sumatra and borneo; -- called also malay camphor, camphor of borneo, or borneol. see borneol.-to impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate.
camphorate: to impregnate or treat with camphor.-a salt of camphoric acid.-alt. of camporated
campion: a plant of the pink family (cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous.
campus: the principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.
campylospermous: having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely.
campylotropous: having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.
can: an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [see gan.]-a drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids.-a vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can.-to preserve by putting in sealed cans-to know; to understand.-to be able to do; to have power or influence.-to be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, i can go, but do not wish to.
can hook: a device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.
canaanite: a descendant of canaan, the son of ham, and grandson of noah.-a native or inhabitant of the land of canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited canaan at the time of the exodus of the israelites from egypt.-a zealot.
canaille: the lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.-shorts or inferior flour.
canal: an artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.-a tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.
canaliculated: having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
canard: an extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.
canary: of or pertaining to the canary islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.-of a pale yellowish color; as, canary stone.-wine made in the canary islands; sack.-a canary bird.-a pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.-a quick and lively dance.-to perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.
canary bird: a small singing bird of the finch family (serinus canarius), a native of the canary islands. it was brought to europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. it generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. it is sometimes called canary finch.
canaster: a kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in south america.
cancan: a rollicking french dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.
cancel: to inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.-to shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.-to cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.-to annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.-to suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.-an inclosure; a boundary; a limit.-the suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.-the part thus suppressed.
canceleer: the turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop.
cancellate: consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.-having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.
cancellated: crossbarred; marked with cross lines.-open or spongy, as some porous bones.