AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
circumlocutional: relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.
circumnutation: the successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
circumpolar: about the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.
circumposition: the act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed.
circumrotation: the act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round.
circumscissile: dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). see illust. of pyxidium.
circumscribe: to write or engrave around.-to inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.-to draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. see inscribe, 5.
circumscription: an inscription written around anything.-the exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.-the act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.
circumscriptive: circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of.
circumspect: attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.
circumspection: attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.
circumspective: looking around every way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger.
circumstance: that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.-an event; a fact; a particular incident.-circumlocution; detail.-condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.-to place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.
circumstantial: consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents.-incidental; relating to, but not essential.-abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.-something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion.
circumstantiality: the state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail.
circumstantially: in respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally.-in every circumstance or particular; minutely.
circumstantiate: to place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.-to prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter into details concerning.
circumvallate: to surround with a rampart or wall.-surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.-surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue.
circumvallation: the act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.-a line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.
circumvent: to gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
circumvention: the act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
circumvolution: the act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.-a thing rolled round another.-a roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.
circumvolve: to roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.-to roll round; to revolve.
circus: a level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. it was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.-a circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. also, the company of performers, with their equipage.-circuit; space; inclosure.
cirque: a circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.-a kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.
cirrhosis: a disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.
cirrhotic: pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.
cirriform: formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants.
cirrigerous: having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages.
cirripedia: an order of crustacea including the barnacles. when adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. from the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. see anatifa.
cirrobranchiata: a division of mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the scaphopoda.
cirrose: bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.-resembling a tendril or cirrus.
cirrostomi: the lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the leptocardia. see amphioxus.
cirrus: a tendril or clasper.-a soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many mollusca, and of the parapodia of annelida. those near the head of annelids are tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.-the jointed, leglike organs of cirripedia. see annelida, and polychaeta.-the external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain mollusca.-see under cloud.
cis-: a latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in english words, and signifying on this side.
cisalpine: on the hither side of the alps with reference to rome, that is, on the south side of the alps; -- opposed to transalpine.
cisatlantic: on this side of the atlantic ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer.
cisco: the lake herring (coregonus artedi), valuable food fish of the great lakes of north america. the name is also applied to c. hoyi, a related species of lake michigan.
cispadane: on the hither side of the river po with reference to rome; that is, on the south side.
cissoid: a curve invented by diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines.
cist: a box or chest. specifically: (a) a bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) a cinerary urn. see illustration in appendix.-see cyst.
cistercian: a monk of the prolific branch of the benedictine order, established in 1098 at citeaux, in france, by robert, abbot of molesme. for two hundred years the cistercians followed the rule of st. benedict in all its rigor.-of or pertaining to the cistercians.
cistern: an artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids.-a natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water.
cit: a citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously.
citadel: a fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
citation: an official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.-the act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.-enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.-a reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
cite: to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.-to urge; to enjoin.-to quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.-to refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation.-to bespeak; to indicate.-to notify of a proceeding in court.
citied: belonging to, or resembling, a city.-containing, or covered with, cities.
citigradae: a suborder of arachnoidea, including the european tarantula and the wolf spiders (lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. see wolf spider.
citigrade: pertaining to the citigradae.-one of the citigradae.
citizen: one who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.-an inhabitant of a city; a townsman.-a person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.-one who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.-having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.-of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.
citraconic: pertaining to, derived from, or having certain characteristics of, citric and aconitic acids.
citric: of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid.
citrination: the process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color.
citrine: like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow.-a yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.
citron: a fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. the thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.-a citron tree.-a citron melon.
citrus: a genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern asia.
cittern: an instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
cittern-head: blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.
city: a large town.-a corporate town; in the united states, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in great britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.-the collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.-of or pertaining to a city.
civet: a substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (viverra civetta). it is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with another substance. it is used as a perfume.-the animal that produces civet (viverra civetta); -- called also civet cat.  it is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. it is a native of northern africa and of asia. the name is also applied to other species.-to scent or perfume with civet.
civic: relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.
civil: pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.-subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.-performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.-having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.-pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.-relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.
civilian: one skilled in the civil law.-a student of the civil law at a university or college.-one whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.
civilization: the act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.-rendering a criminal process civil.
civilize: to reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.-to admit as suitable to a civilized state.
civilized: of civilize-reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.
civillty: the state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization.-a civil office, or a civil process-courtesy; politeness; kind attention; good breeding; a polite act or expression.
civily: in a civil manner; as regards civil rights and privileges; politely; courteously; in a well bred manner.
clabber: milk curdled so as to become thick.-to become clabber; to lopper.
clack: to make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.-to utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.-to cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.-to utter rapidly and inconsiderately.-a sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.-anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.-continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.
clacker: one who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.-a claqueur. see claqueur.
clad: to clothe.-imp. & p. p. of clothe.-of clothe
cladophyll: a special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (myrsiphillum).
claggy: adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.
claik: see clake.-the bernicle goose; -- called also clack goose.
claim: to ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.-to proclaim.-to call or name.-to assert; to maintain.-to be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.-a demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.-a right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.-the thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.-a loud call.
claimant: one who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.
clairvoyance: a power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.
clairvoyant: pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.-one who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern objects not present to the senses.
clam: a bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (spisula solidissima), and other species of the united states. the name is said to have been given originally to the tridacna gigas, a huge east indian bivalve.-strong pinchers or forceps.-a kind of vise, usually of wood.-to clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.-to be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.-claminess; moisture.-a crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.-to produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
clamatores: a division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.
clambake: the backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.
clamber: to climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively.-the act of clambering.-to ascend by climbing with difficulty.
clammy: having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.
clamor: a great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.-any loud and continued noise.-a continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.-to salute loudly.-to stun with noise.-to utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout.-to utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to complain; to make importunate demands.
clamorous: speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent.
clamp: something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.-an instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.-a piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.-one of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.-a thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.-a mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.-a mollusk. see clam.-to fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.-to cover, as vegetables, with earth.-a heavy footstep; a tramp.-to tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
clamper: an instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper.
clan: a tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of macdonald.-a clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
clandestine: conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage.
clang: to strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.-to give out a clang; to resound.-a loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together.-quality of tone.
clank: a sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.-to cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.-to sound with a clank.
clannish: of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan.
clanship: a state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.
clap: to strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.-to thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.-to manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.-to express contempt or derision.-to knock, as at a door.-to strike the hands together in applause.-to come together suddenly with noise.-to enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.-to talk noisily; to chatter loudly.-a loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.-a burst of sound; a sudden explosion.-a single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.-a striking of hands to express approbation.-noisy talk; chatter.-the nether part of the beak of a hawk.-gonorrhea.
clapboard: a narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.-a stave for a cask.-to cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house.
clapper: a person who claps.-that which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. see illust. of bell.-a rabbit burrow.
clapperclaw: to fight and scratch.-to abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.
claptrap: a contrivance for clapping in theaters.-a trick or device to gain applause; humbug.-contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.
clarence: a close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver.
clarendon: a style of type having a narrow and heave face. it is made in all sizes.
claret: the name first given in england to the red wines of medoc, in france, and afterwards extended to all the red bordeaux wines. the name is also given to similar wines made in the united states.
clarichord: a musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord.
clarification: the act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.-the act of freeing from obscurities.
clarifier: that which clarifies.-a vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works.
clarify: to make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.-to make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.-to glorify.-to grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.-to grow clear or bright; to clear up.
clarinet: a wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. it is the leading instrument in a military band.
clary: to make a loud or shrill noise.-a plant (salvia sclarea) of the sage family, used in flavoring soups.
clash: to make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.-to meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.-to strike noisily against or together.-a loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.-opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.
clasp: to shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).-to inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.-to surround and cling to; to entwine about.-an adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.-a close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.
clasper: one who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.-one of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the crustacea.-one of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. see illust. of chimaera.
class: a group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.-a number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.-a comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.-a set; a kind or description, species or variety.-one of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.-to arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.-to divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.-to grouped or classed.
classic: alt. of classical-a work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of greek and latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.-one learned in the literature of greece and rome, or a student of classical literature.