AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
burial: a grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.-the act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment.
burin: the cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. it is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.-the manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin.
burion: the red-breasted house sparrow of california (carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch.
burke: to murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.-to dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
burl: to dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.-a knot or lump in thread or cloth.-an overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.
burlap: a coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.
burlesque: tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.-ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.-an ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.-a ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.-to ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.-to employ burlesque.
burly: having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky.-coarse and rough; boisterous.
burman: a member of the burman family, one of the four great families burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of burmah; a burmese.-of or pertaining to the burmans or to burmah.
burmese: of or pertaining to burmah, or its inhabitants.-a native or the natives of burmah. also (sing.), the language of the burmans.
burn: to consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.-to injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.-to perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.-to make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.-to consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.-to apply a cautery to; to cauterize.-to cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.-to be of fire; to flame.-to suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.-to have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.-to combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.-in certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.-a hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.-the operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.-a disease in vegetables. see brand, n., 6.-a small stream.
burner: one who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.-the part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced.
burnet: a genus of perennial herbs (poterium); especially, p.sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.
burnettize: to subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by sir william burnett.
burning: of burn-that burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.-consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal.-the act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.
burnish: to cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.-to shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.-the effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.
burnisher: one who burnishes.-a tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. it has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
burnous: a cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by arabs.-a combination cloak and hood worn by women.
burnt: of burn-consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
burr: any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. also, any weed which bears burs.-the thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. see burr, n., 2.-a ring of iron on a lance or spear. see burr, n., 4.-the lobe of the ear. see burr, n., 5.-the sweetbread.-a clinker; a partially vitrified brick.-a small circular saw.-a triangular chisel.-a drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.-the round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.-a prickly seed vessel. see bur, 1.-the thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.-a thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.-a broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.-the lobe or lap of the ear.-a guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the newcastle, northumberland, or tweedside, burr.-the knot at the bottom of an antler. see bur, n., 8.-to speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.
burrel: a sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.-same as borrel.
burrel fly: the botfly or gadfly of cattle (hypoderma bovis). see gadfly.
burrel shot: a mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency.
burring machine: a machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
burrock: a small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.
burrow: an incorporated town. see 1st borough.-a shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.-a heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.-a mound. see 3d barrow, and camp, n., 5.-to excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.-to lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.
burrower: one who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.
burry: abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.
bursa: any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.
bursar: a treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.-a student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.
bursary: the treasury of a college or monastery.-a scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies.
burse: a purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.-a fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries.-an ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.-an exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental europe. same as bourse.-a kind of bazaar.
burst: of burst-to fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring.-to exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.-to break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors.-to break.-to produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall.-a sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration.-any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.-a sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse.-a rupture or hernia; a breach.
burstwort: a plant (herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.
burton: a peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.
bury: a borough; a manor; as, the bury of st. edmond's-a manor house; a castle.-to cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.-specifically: to cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.-to hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.
busby: a military headdress or cap, used in the british army. it is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.
bush: a thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.-a shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.-a shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.-a shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.-the tail, or brush, of a fox.-to branch thickly in the manner of a bush.-to set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.-to use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.-a lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.-a piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.-to furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
bushel: a dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.-a vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.-a quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.-a large indefinite quantity.-the iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [eng.] in the united states it is called a box. see 4th bush.
bushelman: a tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler.
bushfighting: fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
bushhammer: a hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.-to dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite.
bushing: of bush-the operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.-a bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. see 4th bush.
bushman: a woodsman; a settler in the bush.-one of a race of south african nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.
bushranger: one who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.
bushwhacker: one accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes.-a guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers.
bushwhacking: traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.-the crimes or warfare of bushwhackers.
bushy: thick and spreading, like a bush.-full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs.
business: that which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.-any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.-financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.-that which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.-affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.-the position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.-care; anxiety; diligence.
busk: a thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.-to prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.-to go; to direct one's course.
busket: a small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet.-a part of a garden devoted to shrubs.
buskin: a strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg.-a similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient greece and rome. used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy.
buss: a kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.-to kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.-a small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.
bust: a piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.-the portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body.
bustle: to move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.-great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.-a kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.
bustling: of bustle-agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd.
busy: engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant.-constantly at work; diligent; active.-crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street.-officious; meddling; foolish active.-careful; anxious.-to make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.
busybody: one who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.
but: except with; unless with; without.-except; besides; save.-excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.-otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.-only; solely; merely.-on the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the house of representatives passed the bill, but the senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.-the outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.-a limit; a boundary.-the end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. see 1st butt.-see butt, v., and abut, v.-a limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.-the thicker end of anything. see but.-a mark to be shot at; a target.-a person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.-a push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.-a thrust in fencing.-a piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.-a joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.-the end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.-the portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.-the joint where two planks in a strake meet.-a kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.-the thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.-the hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
butane: an inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, c4h10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.
butcher: one who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.-a slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.-to kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.-to murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
butcher's broom: a genus of plants (ruscus); esp. r. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. see cladophyll.
butchering: of butcher-the business of a butcher.-the act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
butcherly: like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
butchery: the business of a butcher.-murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.-a slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
butler: an officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.
butlerage: a duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into england by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.
butment: a buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.-the mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.
butt: alt. of but-to join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.-to thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [see butt, n.]-to strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.-a large cask or vessel for wine or beer. it contains two hogsheads.-the common english flounder.
butt joint: a joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. see 1st butt, 8.
butte: a detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the rocky mountain region.
butter: an oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.-any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.-to cover or spread with butter.-to increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.-one who, or that which, butts.
butter-fingered: apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.
butterbird: the rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of jamaica.
butterbur: a broad-leaved plant (petasites vulgaris) of the composite family, said to have been used in england for wrapping up pats of butter.
buttercup: a plant of the genus ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly r. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. it is the cuckoobud of shakespeare.
butterfish: a name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the stromateus triacanthus of the atlantic coast, the epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of new zealand.
butterine: a substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter.
butteris: a steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. it is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.
butternut: an american tree (juglans cinerea) of the walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.-the nut of the caryocar butyrosum and c. nuciferum, of s. america; -- called also souari nut.
butterwort: a genus of low herbs (pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. the species are found mostly in the north temperate zone.
buttery: having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.-an apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.-a room in some english colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.-a cellar in which butts of wine are kept.
butting joint: a joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.
buttock: the part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.-the convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.