AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
browse: the tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.-to eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.-to feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.-to feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.-to pasture; to feed; to nibble.
browsing: of browse-browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse.
browspot: a rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.
brucine: a powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of strychnos, especially in the nux vomica. it is less powerful than strychnine. called also brucia and brucina.
brucite: a white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate.-the mineral chondrodite.
bruise: to injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.-to break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.-to fight with the fists; to box.-an injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
bruiser: one who, or that which, bruises.-a boxer; a pugilist.-a concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.
bruisewort: a plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
bruit: report; rumor; fame.-an abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.-to report; to noise abroad.
brumaire: the second month of the calendar adopted by the first french republic. it began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. see vendemiaire.
brunette: a girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.-having a dark tint.
brunonian: pertaining to, or invented by, brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by john brown, of scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.
brunswick green: an oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
brunt: the heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.-the force of a blow; shock; collision.
brush: an instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.-the bushy tail of a fox.-a tuft of hair on the mandibles.-branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.-a thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.-a bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.-the act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.-a skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.-a short contest, or trial, of speed.-to apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.-to touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.-to remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.-to move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.
brush turkey: a large, edible, gregarious bird of australia (talegalla lathami) of the family megapodidae. also applied to several allied species of new guinea.
brush wheel: a wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.-a circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.
brushing: of brush-constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.-brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.
brushwood: brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.-small branches of trees cut off.
brusque: rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.
brusqueness: quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.
brussels: a city of belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.
brustle: to crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.-to make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.-a bristle.
brutal: of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.-like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.
brutality: the quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.-an inhuman act.
brutalize: to make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.-to become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.
brute: not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.-not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.-of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. hence: brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.-having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.-rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.-an animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.-a brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.-to report; to bruit.
brutify: to make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize.
brutish: pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
brutism: the nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.
bryonin: a bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (bryonia alba and b. dioica). it is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic.
bryony: the common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus bryonia. the root of b. alba (rough or white bryony) and of b. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.
bryozoa: a class of molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also polyzoa.
bryozoan: of or pertaining to the bryozoa.-one of the bryozoa.
bryozoum: an individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. the zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (avicularia, ooecia, etc.).
buansuah: the wild dog of northern india (cuon primaevus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.
bub: strong malt liquor.-a young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.-to throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
bubale: a large antelope (alcelaphus bubalis) of egypt and the desert of sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the bible.
bubble: a thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.-a small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters.-a globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.-a small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.-the globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.-anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the south sea bubble.-a person deceived by an empty project; a gull.-to rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.-to run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.-to sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
bubble shell: a marine univalve shell of the genus bulla and allied genera, belonging to the tectibranchiata.
bubbler: to cheat; to deceive.-one who cheats.-a fish of the ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.
bubbling jock: the male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.
bubby: a woman's breast.-bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.
bubo: an inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.
bubonocele: an inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.
buccaneer: a robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the spaniards in america in the 17th and 18th centuries.-to act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
buccinator: a muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
buccinoid: resembling the genus buccinum, or pertaining to the buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. see whelk, and prosobranchiata.
buccinum: a genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. it includes the common whelk (b. undatum).
bucentaur: a fabulous monster, half ox, half man.-the state barge of venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the adriatic.
buchu: a south african shrub (barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. several species furnish the leaves.
buck: lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.-the cloth or clothes soaked or washed.-to soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.-to wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.-to break up or pulverize, as ores.-the male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.-a gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.-a male indian or negro.-to copulate, as bucks and does.-to spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.-to subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.-to throw by bucking. see buck, v. i., 2.-a frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.-the beech tree.
buck bean: a plant (menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.
buck's-horn: a plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (plantago coronopus); also, lobelia coronopifolia.
buckboard: a four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.
bucker: one who bucks ore.-a broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.-a horse or mule that bucks.
bucket: a vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.-a vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.-one of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.-the valved piston of a lifting pump.
bucket shop: an office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.
buckeye: a name given to several american trees and shrubs of the same genus (aesculus) as the horse chestnut.-a cant name for a native in ohio.
buckie: a large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. see buccinum.
bucking: of buck-the act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.-a washing.-the process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
buckle: a device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.-a distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.-a curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.-a contorted expression, as of the face.-to fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.-to bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.-to prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.-to join in marriage.-to bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.-to bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.-to yield; to give way; to cease opposing.-to enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
buckler: a kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.-one of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.-the anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.-a block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.-to shield; to defend.
buckra: a white man; -- a term used by negroes of the african coast, west indies, etc.-white; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.
buckram: a coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.-a plant. see ramson.-made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.-stiff; precise.-to strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.
buckshot: a coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.
buckskin: the skin of a buck.-a soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.-a person clothed in buckskin, particularly an american soldier of the revolutionary war.-breeches made of buckskin.
buckthorn: a genus (rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. the shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. see rhamnus.
buckwheat: a plant (fagopyrum esculentum) of the polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.-the triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.
bucolic: of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.-a pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the bucolics of theocritus and virgil.
bucranium: a sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.
bud: a small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.-a small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. see hydra.-to put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.-to begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.-to be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.-to graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.
buddha: the title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the buddhists, esp. gautama siddartha or sakya sinha (or muni), the founder of buddhism.
buddhism: the religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the hindoo sage gautama siddartha, surnamed buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of central and eastern asia and the indian islands. buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. it presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, nirvana) as the greatest good. buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.
buddhist: one who accepts the teachings of buddhism.-of or pertaining to buddha, buddhism, or the buddhists.
budding: of bud-the act or process of producing buds.-a process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. see hydroidea.-the act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
buddle: an apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.-to wash ore in a buddle.
bude burner: a burner consisting of two or more concentric argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.
bude light: a light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.
budge: to move off; to stir; to walk away.-brisk; stirring; jocund.-a kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.-lined with budge; hence, scholastic.-austere or stiff, like scholastics.
budgerow: a large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the ganges.
budget: a bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.-the annual financial statement which the british chancellor of the exchequer makes in the house of commons. it comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. the term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries.
buff: a sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner.-the color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.-a military coat, made of buff leather.-the grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. see buffy coat, under buffy, a.-a wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.-the bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.-made of buff leather.-of the color of buff.-to polish with a buff. see buff, n., 5.-to strike.-a buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "blindman's buff."-firm; sturdy.
buffalo: a species of the genus bos or bubalus (b. bubalus), originally from india, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. it is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.-a very large and savage species of the same genus (b. caffer) found in south africa; -- called also cape buffalo.-any species of wild ox.-the bison of north america.-a buffalo robe. see buffalo robe, below.-the buffalo fish. see buffalo fish, below.
buffel duck: a small duck (charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. the head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. called also bufflehead.
buffer: an elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.-a pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.-one who polishes with a buff.-a wheel for buffing; a buff.-a good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man.
bufferhead: the head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.
buffet: a cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.-a counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.-a blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.-a blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.-a small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.-to strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.-to affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.-to deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.-to exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.-to make one's way by blows or struggling.
buffeting: of buffet-a striking with the hand.-a succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity.
buffle-headed: having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering.
bufflehead: one who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.-the buffel duck. see buffel duck.
buffoon: a man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.-characteristic of, or like, a buffoon.-to act the part of a buffoon.-to treat with buffoonery.
buffoonery: the arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.
bufonite: an old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.
bug: a bugbear; anything which terrifies.-a general name applied to various insects belonging to the hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.-an insect of the genus cimex, especially the bedbug (c. lectularius). see bedbug.-one of various species of coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.-one of certain kinds of crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
bugbane: a perennial white-flowered herb of the order ranunculaceae and genus cimiciguga; bugwort. there are several species.
bugbear: something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.-same as bugaboo.-causing needless fright.-to alarm with idle phantoms.
bugger: one guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.-a wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.
buggy: infested or abounding with bugs.-a light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.-a light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.
bugle: a sort of wild ox; a buffalo.-a horn used by hunters.-a copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the kent bugle.-an elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.-jet black.-a plant of the genus ajuga of the mint family, a native of the old world.
bugleweed: a plant of the mint family and genus lycopus; esp. l. virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.
bugloss: a plant of the genus anchusa, and especially the a. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.